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Good friends, Ryan Whitney and Keith Yandel on the show together in person. We did a bonus Mount Rushmore with them. I completely forgot we did that. Great. We also have the Mount Rushmore of guys. You'd want to punch in the face. Uh,

We're going to talk some NBA draft. We're going to talk a little things we missed. We have been a little out of pocket, so it's going to be free flowing. Maybe not a lot of facts in this episode. I'm just going to get us set for that. That is a fact. That is a fact, but it could also not be a fact. Fact check, true. And then we're going to finish with Fyre Fest and send everyone on...

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Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by DraftKings. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now. Use code TAKE, that's code TAKE, for new customers to get $150 in bonus bets instantly when you bet just $5 only on DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Friday, June 27th. And Hank, we did it. It's Friday. Let's go, boys. You got there. We're here. Two Fridays in one week. Hank, two Fridays in one week. Hank made a great point, though. He was like, I get it mixed up because, you know, it's like show days.

Yeah. So like today would be Hank Sunday. Right. And we're doing a show now. Yeah, it is. It is Thursday as we're taping this, but it's Friday as people are listening. So that counts. We had the NBA draft just as a disclaimer. I said at the beginning of the show, we have been playing golf for the last two days, taping a lot of content.

Very out of pocket. This is going to be a low-fax show. Low-fax show, but a lot of takes. I think we should substitute the facts for takes. Well, let's start with this. Credit to us, because we were right about Cooper Flag three years ago, almost to the day. Yep. I found the clip when we basically predicted it, and we said Cooper Flag will be the first white American that will get drafted to the NBA.

in the one one overall in the nba uh three years ago so we were first to have it yeah i think what really settled it was finding out his name was cooper flag yeah and that he was from maine yes that's the guy that we need to be back also in the clip you did say pft you called your shot for grady dick so we'll just keep that part out what's grady dick up to uh he's in the league

Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, yeah, we're not, we're not far off. No, we weren't far off. Uh, but yeah, Cooper flag goes one, one overall, uh, which we all knew was going to happen. There was some awesome fire Nico chance going on. Also, Nico Harrison, it just continues to confirm that he's a shithead and maybe an idiot.

because when he was talking about getting Cooper flag one, one overall, he said, uh, fortune favors the bold. Yeah. It's a bold move. I don't know. I, that's just, that's just not how that quote works. He didn't, didn't, I guess he did do something bold, but that didn't, that's not why he got the number one pick. Maybe it's talking about the lottery.

I guess. Like he was rewarded in the lottery because he was bold enough to trade Luka. Right. Fortune favors the bold, but I did enjoy the fire Nico chance. That was great. Yeah. I mean, congrats to the Mavericks fans. I know nothing's going to replace having Luka, but this is a pretty good consolation prize, right? Really good. Worked out pretty well for you. Now, this morning, I tuned in to get up. Did you get to watch get up at all? I did not watch get up this morning. Well, you missed out because one of the first topics, should the Mavericks be favored in

to be the team that gives Oklahoma City a run for its money out of the West next season. Oh, wow. Cooper Flagg, AD, Kyrie. Think about it. It seems like they're the next one up. Is Kyrie... He tours ACL, right? So he's going to be out for at least a little bit. He'll be out for a little bit, yeah. But it's fun to think about. We're already shitting on the Thunder. Yes, yes. Oh, you got to do it instantly. Yeah. It was disappointing they took it to seven.

Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was. I'm disappointed. By the way, did you see Tyrese Halliburton? Poor guy. I mean, his post was very like, it sucked, like him having to write that all out. But then he also had what was clearly a scheduled WWE tweet ad that he had to post.

That was sad. That is sad. How long ago do you think he scheduled that? I don't know. Well, not that because he did use like what's happening today. He said, on the upside, my character is now available in WWE 2K25. That's good. Go cop the Duncan Destruction Pack today.

today. That's a good way to actually make it have more interaction is to just toss something about the injury. Yeah, right. Yeah. But that did that did that was kind of said I have I have one scheduled tweet that I put in like two years ago, because I scheduled the tweets of part of my take to go out at 7am every morning that a show comes out. I accidentally did one for Mark Titus when he was on the show like two years ago. And I think I scheduled it for three years in advance. So

So like next year, some random day, I'm going to post a link to part of my take featuring Mark Titus. I love that. When he's not on the show. I love that. Cooper Flagg, by the way, the ESPN broadcast had some difficulties. They had, I think it was Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey where they were doing a pan up for their shoes. And they're like, and there's Cooper Flagg, very much not Cooper Flagg. Well, for a second, I thought you were wrong about that take. Yeah. It was like, wait, no, Big Cat said white American. Yeah. But I did see this. Cooper Flagg,

And this obviously has to be everything that he's scheduled to be one, one overall. He's supposed to be really, really good. Uh, if everything goes well for him and he signs all of his extensions and everything, cause I like to just be like, Hey, this guy's going to be incredible. He could make close to a billion dollars in the NBA by age 32. How does that work out? He has a $62 million rookie deal. Uh, and then this is all off of just like the cap right now. So the cap, if the cap goes up even more, uh,

Then you get the 30% supermax, which should be $359 million. And then he would get the 35% supermax, which would be $509 million. No state income tax either. No state income tax. So that would be pretty cool. That was cool. What else did you like about the draft last night? My favorite moment was Colin Murray Boyles.

Yeah. When he got drafted by the Raptors and he was just immediately like, fuck. And then I don't know how you react to that if you're the Raptors, like the front office. Do you like sit them down? You're like, do you hate us? Yeah. Well, at least they could maybe work through that. Yeah.

ace bailey like he hates utah that's the funniest possible outcome for ace bailey he was pissed yeah he's like i'm not gonna work out for any of these teams i want to go to a great city i'm gonna have a great time in and then utah is like buddy we got a seat for you right here hank there was some smoke utah trying to trade for jalen brown yeah there's a lot of rumors going around there was some smoke you want ace bailey

I mean, we got to get some cap, some cap room. Yeah. Ace Bailey said, going to Utah, I can control what I can control. They feel how they feel. But my team and me, me focusing on basketball and them doing what they're doing so it happens. Yeah. That doesn't feel great. Get ready to learn Swig, buddy. Yeah. He's not – I don't think he wants to be in Utah. No. I mean –

No, he definitely does not. What teams did he want to go to? I think it was Wizards. He was trying to engineer himself to go to the Wizards, maybe? The Wizards and the Nets and maybe Philly? No, it was the Wizards, Nets, and Pelicans. Wizards. By the way, Pelicans. Oh, boy. Yep. That was the worst trade ever. They traded from 23 up to 13, and they gave away their unprotected first round pick next year. Actually, worse than that.

They gave, they have the bucks pick as well. Yeah. The Pelicans, they gave whichever one is, is better. It's higher. Yeah. And if the bucks trade Giannis, that could literally just be two shots at getting the one pick. Can you, can you do that in other sports? I don't think the NFL has that ability, right. To say like, whichever pick is higher, you get that one. I think, I think you have to declare you might have to where it's coming from. Yeah. Yeah. And the NBA, it's like, there's so many things that you have to know about NBA transactions that,

to become knowledgeable at all about what these teams are doing, like the different exemptions, different trade packages. It's hard to keep up with, but I am a fan of any time a team gets fleeced. Yeah, it was a fleecing. This one makes no sense. Joe Dumar is now running the Pelicans. I don't know what he was thinking. Is he convinced himself the Pelicans are going to be good next year? I don't know. Because it's not even like he went up to –

a top five pick. He went from 23 to 13. Yeah. The Hawks, great credit to the Hawks there. I mean, the Hawks might be good at some point. I have a take about the NBA draft. There's too many players in attendance.

Too many players in attendance. You're setting yourself up for the bad moment where the camera's on you and you're so pissed off about everything. I felt like there were 10 guys that were waiting to be drafted last night. There were too many players in attendance. There were way too many tears. So many tears. Everyone was crying. I kind of liked the tears because they were mostly happy tears. I need at least a couple guys to not cry. Ace Bailey cried because he was going to Utah. Yeah. Yeah.

And then also, the fact that they do it two nights is insane. Yeah. The second round being its own standalone night is nuts. Who was the one player that was there as a fan? Like, I think he might have even bought a ticket. He wasn't predicted to go in the first round. Was it the Chinese player? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, he's the highest drafted Chinese player since...

Not Yao, but the guy after Yao that went to the Bucs. Yi Jinping? Yeah, I think that's Yi Jinping. Yeah, so he's the highest-drafted Chinese player to go that high. He's, what, 7'2"? Yeah. He's a monster. But I don't think that he was there expecting to get drafted last night. He just showed up, and he was like the little sass. He was like, me? Yeah. He picked me? He was mocked to be like the 35th pick, I think. I think.

Or Guy Russillo maybe had him going. He was like, he's one of the guys he loves. He watches ball. He watches ball. We also had... Oh, we should say, shout out the two college basketball powerhouses of Duke and Rutgers. Rutgers. Four out of the first five picks were Duke and Rutgers players. Huge night for Rutgers. I feel like...

That would drive me nuts if I was a Rutgers fan. I know that you can spin it and say, well, it's a great night for Rutgers. You see that you can go Rutgers to the draft. If you have two of the top five picks and you didn't make the NCAA tournament, that would devastate me. Yeah, where did they finish in the big last year? 10th. Yeah, it's bad. It's bad. How is that possible? They just didn't have anyone else.

Like they didn't have anyone else. Yeah, that would drive me nuts too. I liked a few things last night. Vijay Edgecombe, good pick by the Sixers, I think. Guy loves to jam it. I love the Wizards pick. I love Trey Johnson. Best shooter in college basketball. Maybe him and Knipple. But I feel like... I was thinking about the Wizards last night because I said that... I made that comment about how it sucks the life out of you to play for the Wizards.

They need to change their name so bad. They got to go back to the bullets. I agree. I think you go back to the bullets. Day one, culture change, different mentality. I'd agree. You're shooters again. Why can't they just be the bullets and it'd be a train instead of bullets? That's great. Or a blender. Yeah. Yeah. You have no idea. Or a whiskey.

Isn't there a bullet whiskey or something? Yes, there is. Yeah. Bourbon. Yeah. Yeah. Just keep it. Keep it ambiguous. Yeah. So much cooler if it's the bullets. But yeah, I love Trey Johnson. I think that was a great pick. What did you guys think about? So the Bulls picked Noah Essengay from France. That's just our Wemby bait for a couple of years from now. Very smart move. What do you think, though? He left his team who's currently in the playoffs. Don't love that. I feel like he's got to get ready for the play in, though, this year.

He's got to be a playing guy with the Bulls. What's the format like in France? I don't know. I think they're up to EuroLeague championship. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Oh, it's the EuroLeague championship? I think so, yeah. I don't love that. Yeah. It's a very French thing to do. Yeah.

I don't really care. If he's good, he's good. If he's bad, he's bad. I think we're still had him pretty high up to. Yeah, that's that's my entire take. If he's good, he's good. If he's bad, he's bad. And if he's good, and if he's good, that's good for you. Yeah, he was to steal the draft according to my mock draft, which was me just basically pulling up my phone right right before the Bulls pick seeing it and being like steal the draft. Yeah, fleeced. Also, one other data point about Trey Johnson, the outfit that he wore.

Love it. What was the outfit? Shorts. Oh. He wore a suit. Was it shorts or was it capris? No, it was shorts. It was full shorts. It was like Angus Young. He's like an ACDC guy, I'm pretty sure. But it was a great look. Loved the fashion at the draft last night. I also wrote down, I'm pretty sure the Nets just picked the same player over and over. They picked a bunch of...

like wings that can't shoot yep so that that was smart and we had the clip of joe sai standing in the middle of the nets war room looking for a high five and no one even thinking about giving him a high five it was great you can't have that as an owner you have to sorry governor as a governor you have to have an established i'm going to you for a high five guy

Either that or just be comfortable not getting a high five. Yeah, keep your hands in your pockets. Yeah, be in the corner sitting down with like a cigar in your hand looking like a governor, looking like an owner, and just look around the room and be like, good job, good job, good job, everybody. Thumbs up. But yeah, to be standing in the middle of the room like looking for a friend, that doesn't speak highly of them. I also wrote down that...

I think the future of Duke hate is just rest in the canipple family because seeing all the brothers lined up, I was like, when these guys, when we get to the third canipple at Duke, it's going to be on. Yeah. Did you see the, the highlight package they put together? It is going to be on. Of all the canipple, like the dads and the uncles. Yeah. Playing basketball back in the 90s. Yeah, the flying canipples. Yeah. They, they looked like a Duke basketball team. Yeah. It was crazy. But yes, you're right. Like,

It's very valuable to have generations and siblings that come one right after the other. So you continue that same hate you had for the first guy for up to a decade. It's wonderful. Right. So they hold the future of the whole Duke hate in their hands. I think they can do it. What were you going to say, Mavis?

All their names start with K. Oh, yeah. And you said the third one would. Oh. Would start all the hate. That was worth the laugh that I didn't deserve the laugh, but the laugh was warranted. Yeah, they have five brothers. Once again, when they do K, K, and then they get to the third K, then the hate's going to go crazy. Yeah, it's going to be nuts. Yeah.

Good job, Meeves. They also had Cedric Coward got drafted last night. Yeah. And they called him Colin Coward on the broadcast. That was fun. That was very fun. This is some high-level draft talk we're doing. Yeah. Hank, what do you got for us? Nothing. Zach, what do you got for us?

I just think no matter where you get drafted, it's an insane position to be in to be like, oh, I don't want to go there. Yeah. Like, oh, I hate getting drafted in the NBA draft. Yeah. What a problem to have. To be bummed out on draft night. Oh, no. Generational wealth for me and my family sucks. Yeah, I agree. Also, Jay Billis might be addicted to saying 3 and D. Yeah. Addicted to it. It was a problem last night. That's very disingenuous of you. I counted eight times that he said 3 and D within the span of 45 minutes. Yeah. Jay Billis.

What a great interview. What a great interview. Is he a better analyst than he is a person? Oh. That's a close one. That is close. I don't know. I'll say toss up. We'll figure it out later. Maybe we'll have him back on. All right. Any other draft stuff? That's about it for me. That's about it. I pretty much emptied the clip. Also, I don't like the way they do trades.

Yeah, they don't let you wear the hat. Yeah, the way they do the trades, it doesn't make any sense at all because Adam Silver takes like 30 minutes to go up and tell us about a trade that we already knew about. You got guys wearing the wrong hat on stage on draft night. It was just, I don't know. I felt like it was beneath the NBA to have that. Yeah. Oh, Cooper Flagg did say he can't wait to face Jason Tatum. Does he not know? Yep, he will. But does he not know about this year?

Okay. Okay. But this year, no. Cooper Flagg also said that Jason Taylor was his favorite player growing up, which... Oh, my God. I want to feel old.

Jason Tatum is like 27 years old. That's crazy. He's 18. 18. I think he's one day younger than when LeBron got drafted. He reclassified. It was Malawok, right, that wore the Rockets hat? Or no, he was 10 days older. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's going to be a picture that you're going to look back on for the rest of his career. Draft night, and people are going to be like, what the fuck? It's like first episode of Sopranos where they had Satriales name something different in the pilot. Yeah.

uh the the other ant viv yeah from uh the first season of fresh prince right yeah we just switched on we switched hangout three seasons in they did yeah and that's fucked up you just pretend like everything's the same yeah good fact check you know for sure it's three seasons two or three yeah oh

It was after. It was like they established Ant Viv. Zach is furious. I just came into a new season. He's like, this is your new Ant Viv. What the hell? I'm going to say three. Okay, we'll talk some other stuff before we do that. Mountain Dew, you see it right here.

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Dude, way to go. Thanks. Nice work, Hank. That was fucking huge. It's like they replaced Joe Biden with a new guy after one year. Yeah. Years were different. His years were way different. Way different. We replaced Hank after two episodes. With a new Hank. Okay, what else we got going on in the world? Some baseball news. Yeah. We got a new, maybe potential face of the league. Okay. New pitcher.

Mizorowski. Oh, yeah, for the Brewers. For the Brewers. Yeah, he's sick. He faced off against Skeens. He threw 19 pitches that were over 100 miles per hour. Skeens threw one. Not a great look for Skeens. Old man Skeens. Old man Skeens, yeah.

Okay, that was good. That's it. I like that update. That was a fucking good update. That's a name that we should know, though. Oh, I got a baseball trivia thing that I just saw randomly. I think it's a week old, but it's pretty cool. Did you know that the Tampa Bay Rays, it was last week, they finally reached the same amount of intentional walks as Barry Bonds? That's crazy. As an organization. I know we've been tracking that. Yeah. Yeah.

That is insane to think about. Yeah. Barry Bonds also getting a statue in San Francisco, which he deserves. How big is the head going to be? It's got to be enormous. It should just be his head. It should be like the Citi Field Apple. Yes. Every time they hit a home run, he comes out. Yeah. Oh, that would be awesome. Just a big Balco bottle. That would rock. Pops up and down. Yeah. I've got a Colorado Rockies update. Oh, yeah. I saw this. So the Colorado, we've given a lot of shit to their owner, Dick Monfort. Mm hmm.

Piece of shit. But it sounds like maybe he's been listening to us. Okay. And he's determined to turn the team around, make good decisions, take some matters out of his own hands.

And he promoted his oldest son to be chief operating officer. That guy will be good at it, right? Yeah, so that guy's going to be good. Yeah. Yeah, so they've listened to you. They're not content to mire away in the slums of mediocrity. They're going to fix it out by just having his son do all the things he was going to do. We've heard you.

We were disappointed as well. And now my son, my failed son, is going to be running the show. We're the worst team in Major League Baseball history. I know what can cure this. Big dose of nepotism. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So fuck the Monforts. Fuck Dick Monfort.

They suck. I had... Oh, Deontay Johnson, this was just a funny quote. He said that he did ask out of that game. Remember that game? Yeah. Where he didn't go back in because he was ice cold. Yep. It was 41 degrees. Yep. And now he plays in Cleveland. He had the weirdest career of anybody. Maybe it... Still going. ...in the history of the NFL. Still going.

Still going. Without a doubt, I think the weirdest season last year. Yes, that was a very weird season. All right, so the last thing I had before we can get to our Mount Rushmore and an awesome interview with Jans and Whitney, they told some very, very funny stories. I had an Embrace debate that our good friend Tom Fornelli texted me. I think he found this online, but...

Do you think Tiger Woods' career would be the same if he was named Panther Irons? Panther Irons. I think he would have gotten caught for the sex stuff way earlier. I do too. If he was Panther Irons. That's a sex pest name. Yes, it is. What do you think, Zach? Yeah, I don't think he has the same career. Yeah. No. I think...

What if he gets caught for it early on? And then he's like, Hey, you got me guys. Yeah. I'm a sexual deviant. I'm going to be, I'm going to let my freak flag fly and I'm just going to go and keep being awesome at golf. I think that there's a chance that Panther irons that, that almost sounds so over the top that it could come around the other side and be a Mormon guy's name. True. Right. Like he might be abstinent. Stay on the sex, uh,

deviant thing what if he just so if Tiger Woods gets outed or sorry if Panther Irons gets outed as a sex deviant very early in his career is there a chance Panther Irons just is like now that everyone knows I'm just gonna lean into just being a guy who sucks and fucks all the time and I'm not gonna try to cosplay as a Navy SEAL and then his back doesn't get hurt there's a chance yeah for sure this is a big time sliding doors moment

I think if he's Panther Irons, I still think he gets one. I think he gets one. He gets one major. I think he gets a couple. He doesn't get the amount. Not the Panther Slam. No. No. Panther Irons, though. That's pretty good. The Panther Fist Bump. What if his name was Cheetah Driver? Yes. Oh, yeah. That's the Cheetah Slam. The Cheetah Slam would for sure happen. In a heartbeat. Lion Putter. Lion Putter.

Lion Putter, yeah, I think he might be better, actually. I saw, oh, I did see, I know we talked about it on Wednesday's show, but Taylor Swift doing a full private concert at TU was crazy. Insane. Yeah. And we would have probably been, PFT probably would have been playing guitar with her. We would have done Freebird. I just wish we had had the opportunity to just...

Be told, no, you're not allowed. I think they would have been so funny. They were like, yeah, here's a ticket in the very back row. Yeah. No access anywhere else. Yeah. Please don't look at the stage. I think they were like, listen, we can't bring the PMT guys around. She's going to fall in love with Max. Yeah. We can't have that. Strong Italian boy. The Philly connection. That's facts. That's facts. I've got a soccer update.

Oh, this will be interesting. Mbappe is suing PSG. Still 19? Paris Saint-Germain. Yeah, actually, Mbappe was probably Cooper Flagg's favorite soccer player growing up. That's true. So Mbappe is suing them, I think, for $60 million in unpaid wages. And he also claims that PSG lofted him. Do you know what lofting means? No. So it's a word... Just trying to get the ball higher. Yeah, there you go. It's a word that's used in France...

To describe a practice. Way to go, Hank. That involves isolating or leaving a player out from the main squad for sporting, administrative, or disciplinary reasons. Sounds like his teammates. Just a bad hang. His teammates just ditched him. Wait, is Lofting just, it's a doghouse. Yeah, he was in the doghouse. He's in the doghouse. But also from his teammates. So it sounds like Hank might be right. He might be a bad hang. He might be suing PSG for being a loser. Yeah. Yeah.

Wait, this is so lofting. So you can do that? Just ice them out. I would have made so much money in middle school. Yeah, just getting iced out and just be like, I'm suing you for not talking to me? Yeah. That rules. Yeah.

Lofty. That was talking soccer. You don't like it, Hank? It's crazy to sue for being bullied. If I were him, I would not want to make that public record. No, yeah, you're basically like, I'm a loser and no one likes me. I'm suing for it. But that also would be such a loser move to do.

His lawsuit actually should be thrown out immediately because if you sue for lofting, you're actually immediately saying this is why I got lofted because I'm a guy who sues for lofting. Exhibit A is the lawsuit. Correct. Yeah, that's the test. So, yeah, he failed it. Do you have anything, Zach, Sports World? Anything on your mind? I got nothing that comes to mind for the second. I apologize for that. No, no, that's fine. You don't have to apologize. Why would you apologize?

Fair. Yeah. Okay. Good, good, uh, good talk there. Uh,

Oh, Kawhi also ran a simulated NBA finals run, which I feel like is just going to get him hurt. What is that? He kept on training like he was still in the playoffs all the way through the NBA finals so he could see if his body could hold up. Got it. I feel like that was so stupid. He was playing games on game nights? He must have been playing games or simulating the physical toll of that full NBA finals run. Was it on 2K or in real life? I don't know, but that...

that doesn't seem like a good idea for a guy who gets hurt all the time. No, it doesn't at all. Also we have, it's like, um, the first, the first leaf falls. And it's like the sign of, uh, falls here. The master's commercial is a sign of spring. Uh, we have the first sign of summer, uh,

and it's Ben Simmons in a wide-open gym hitting threes. He looked good. He looked so good. He looked good. He hit like four in a row. That literally means Summer is here. I think he's fixed. Yeah. I saw somebody say if you get the hat trick of Ben Simmons shooting in a gym with nobody guarding him, Zion working out, and then Luka working out, all on Instagram on the same day. I don't even think you need Luka working out. I think you need Luka just having a picture. He doesn't look fat. Or Luka.

It's just a skinny picture of Luka. A report. Luka Doncic has been in a gym. Yeah, one skinny picture of Luka and those other two. Yeah, Ben Simmons, it is like clockwork. He does this all the time, and we fall for it. Yeah, well, I'm not falling for it. I'm just more like, hey, nice, summer's here. I'm falling for it. He's going to be good, Max. I am watching it again right now, and I am kind of falling for it.

No, you're not. No, dude, this video is 45 seconds in. He has not missed a shot. You would want him on the Wizards? Fixed. He's fixed. Would I want him on the Wizards? I think that culture fit would be perfect for Ben Simmons, actually. I'd want him on the Bulls. It would be interesting to talk about it and make fun of him. I would want him on the Wizards for like a week. He hasn't been interesting in forever. No, but I would make fun of him.

Like, no one even... Like, he wasn't talked about on the clip right now. We're making fun of him right now. I guess. I would want him on the Wizards just for practice. If this were any of this. Like, if we had... There's just nothing to talk about, so we got to talk about Ben Simmons shooting. Like... Well, it's summer starting, dude. I know, but that's just what I'm saying. Don't give Ben Simmons the credit of being notable. Ben Simmons, bad guy. Yeah.

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Okay, Mount Rushmore time. We're doing the Mount Rushmore of guys you want to punch in the face. Standings, Hank and PFD won the first one. Nice work, Hank. Memes and Max second. Zach and I in third. We got to get better, Zach.

It's time to rally. We're good. It's time to rally. I also just want to say, Lisa Ann, Rochelle Ryan, I apologize you weren't seen by one Max Delente who hates MILFs. We're going to move on. But those women are not actually mothers. They play mothers. But they're not actually mothers. But they play mothers. We feel they should be seen. And we want them to be seen. The ruling was the ruling. Zach, were you expecting first place?

Were you confident? No, we fell off at the end. Magic was a bad pick. Monday Night Football, huge miss. Yeah. You can never expect things, but I felt like we came with a strong Mount Rushmore. But as far as the MILF debacle, I just want to let it be known that you guys have no respect for MILFs. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. It's a long season. It's a long season. We whiffed at the end. We petered out. We came out strong, then we petered out. MILFs kind of fucked us up. We were just thinking about MILFs the whole time. I think we did a fist pound in my office when we were like, MILFs.

Yeah, there was. Okay. All right. Who's up first? We're up first. I'm in the pilot seat today. Yep. I'm co-pilot. 1-1. We're going to go with guy who cuts you in line. Okay. Line cutters. Good pick. Nothing will get the rage, your blood boiling quicker than standing in line, which you already don't want to be doing.

And then some asshole just takes it upon themselves to just cut you or like, clearly they weren't there and they go stand up with one of their friends and there's in front of you. Anybody here speak up guy?

When you see a line cutter, I'm more of like a try and get the person behind me to speak up. Or like if someone else says something, it's like, can you believe this? I know. I'll either try to get somebody else to speak up or I'll make like a very sarcastic, loud comment. Like I'm talking to somebody else. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And then hope that they get the idea. They usually stay in the line, but I hope that they feel worse about it. It's a, it's almost worse. I feel like I haven't had a line cutter in a long time. I feel like, I feel like,

Maybe this is going to... You know what? I'm not going to say it. I think there's women that do it a lot more and they think they can just get away with it. I feel like I've been cut by women more and it's just like they know that nothing's going to happen. Nothing should happen, but they should not cut. And it's hypothetical they should get punched in the face. You're punching a woman? No. Hypothetical. Guys who want to punch in the face. I hold the door for women. I let them in first. They don't have to cut around me. Absolutely. Okay. Good pick. Thank you. Great pick. Great pick.

Thank you. All right. Memes? Memes? Max? No, we were second last time. Last time. Oh, so you guys weren't first? No, we were first. We're second. You're second. You're second. We're third. All right, Zach. Time for us to go. What should we do? Do you think we go 1-1? Yeah, I mean, I don't know how this is going to play because people are going to be like, oh, well, he's not alive anymore. But yeah, let's do it. We would love...

To punch Hitler in the face. We would fucking love to punch Hitler in the face. He probably deserved. He's probably a guy who, if he got punched in the face, like got a good beating when he was like 15 years old. Maybe he would have just not been a dick. I would rather punch Hitler's art teacher in the face. That too. Give him a better grade. Yeah. The world would be a better place. I'd like to punch Hitler in the face. I'd like to shoot him in the face. Zach, you would also like to punch him in the face. I second that. Hitler should have got a punch in his face. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Could have saved a lot of people. He also didn't kill Hitler though. Yeah, that's true.

All right. 1-1 is going to be people. 1-3. 1-3. Our 1-1, 1-3. People who are rude to service workers. Oh, we had it on the list. Good pick. Good pick. Good pick. And then follow that up. Recurring guest.

Martin Shkreli. Oh, yeah, we had him too. Good one. Good pick. Good pick. We also had him. That was our next pick. We also had him. That's a good pick. I love how we could pick anybody in the world and all of us had Martin Shkreli. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Is he on site? Like if we as a podcast run into Martin Shkreli, I know that we can like do suit or whatever. We'd have to. We'd have to go to jail. We'd have to. I think we have to punch him. Yeah. All right, Zach, I'm going to go with 10 here. I think this is a good one.

You like that one? Penn is strong. Yeah, strong. All right, we're going to go with adult autograph seekers that cut in front of children. They need to be punched in the face, like, badly. Those are the type of guys. And they probably would sue you because they feel like those type of people. That's their dream. Yeah, they'd be like, oh, I'm suing. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Yeah, business plan number one is to try to get, like, Joe Montana to autograph a football for him. Yep. Backup business plan is get punched in the face by somebody who has money. Yep. Agreed.

And if it's Joe Montana, that's actually the best case scenario. Absolutely. Okay, you guys are up? We're up. Kind of a recurring guest, not technically officially. I know who this is. Well, yeah, it's pretty. There's only a few people that fit in that category. Would be fun. Darren Revell. Yep. Does he fit into that same category? He would also, yes, Sue.

Yeah. He would sue for sure. Uh-huh. He'd love it. Absolutely sue. Pips, you tried to fight him in Ruffer Out, didn't you? Yeah, that's true. I did. I'm still anytime, anywhere with Darren Ravelle. But he wanted a million dollars guaranteed. Yeah.

uh and then our next pick we're gonna go with the limu emu yeah fuck that limu emu i like that the emu sucks limu emu does suck most annoying commercial of all time it comes on you're like i wish this fucking emu was in my living room i could just punch it in the face needs to stand up for himself yeah doug gets dragged yeah he does um okay uh where do you want to go here zach i think uh

I think going with that last one or the second last one I actually sent you, which is a personal one, but I think would play for this room. I think we'd all like to do that. I think we can go there. All right, yeah. I wouldn't mind punching John Skipper in the face. He did some shit to us. Kind of just skirted away from that. It wouldn't be the first bloody nose he ever got. That's facts. That's facts. That's facts. So, yeah, that's our third pick. It's a very respectable pick, and I hope you get the chance one day. Yeah.

For our third pick, we are going to go with people who drive on the median in traffic. Okay. Good pick. Okay. Good pick. Not the shoulder, the median. So when you see Francis, do you go up and thank him for his service? Yes. No, he said median. Yeah, he said median.

I mean, this is a semantics game, but okay. Okay, I'll let you guys have shoulder. Shoulder? But it's not up to me. It's up to everybody else. I mean, I think, yeah, you said median, but... Yeah, I mean, I would give it to you if I could. Obviously, we meant shoulder, but that's fine. I would give it to you if I could, but it's up to everybody. So it's not up to me. I'm like Ron Burgundy. It was written out as median in traffic. Oh, okay. Who wrote it? So it's the median? Yeah.

You wrote me. I wrote it. I wrote it. Is it median? The shoulder you wrote? The median is the median is like the middle of the median middle. The shoulder is what is what everyone in this room knew what we were talking about. No, I thought I thought we can go meet. We can we can do the semantics route. I was ready to give it to you. But then when Meme says it's written as median, you guys meant media. I can't help that you guys don't know words.

Sure. Well, this is how this season of Mount Rushmore is going to go. This is how we're going to do it. Who's vetoing? How did the vetoing vote start? You were also the first person that brought up that MILFs are moms. I just was the one who fought it. MILFs are moms. I just think that I would expect Max to know the word that starts with meaty. Decide this for us.

What does the median of a road mean? That just is not the question. Oh, you asked the question. That's just not... Ask the question. If you were to say that you don't like people that drive in the median, would you assume that they misspoke and they were talking about people who drive on the shoulder? Talking to Mike. In traffic? Yes. Thank you. Okay. All right. Well, there's the ruling. All right. We're coming down to dinner in a minute. We're just wrapping up. That was good. Brian Whitney. You'll hear him in a second.

All right, last pick. Someone who FaceTimes or talks on speakerphone on the train. Okay, good one. That's bad. Good one. All right, I think our last pick, I'll tell a story behind it, Zach. This is where I think Zach and I hopefully will be strong as a team because I'm old. He's a little younger. And what was the first, I think the first person I said to you was, do you remember what I said? I was like, who is that YouTuber?

Doherty. Yeah, so Jack Doherty's our pick. That guy needs to get punched so fucking bad. I don't really consume his work. I just see him on Twitter and I hate him. Yeah. There's no good cartoon. Yeah. Yeah, and he goes around with his bodyguards fucking with people and then his bodyguards step in for him. He needs to be punched in the face. We had it on the list. Yeah. We had it on... He's...

As far as internet people go, he's one one. Yeah, and I said it to Zach, and I was just like, yeah, who's that YouTuber? He instantly was like, Jack Doherty. That guy's bodyguards, they do a bad service for bodyguards. Yeah. You should not work for him as a bodyguard. Yeah. Our last pick, we're going to go...

Kind of similar to Ravel, just it'd be fun to hear the sound and see the reaction, although you'd probably get sued as well. Elon Musk. Ooh, okay. That'd be a good punch. It'd be fun, just the sound. And Hank has been anti-Elon since like 2017. I didn't know you guys were libcucks. In 2017.

That's when he was a lib. Is that true? Yeah. I've never had too strong an opinion on Elon. Yeah. No, you called him a dork a few times. You just said he was the fourth most person you would want to punch. It would be fun to punch him. Yeah, he's on your Mount Rushmore. Yeah. All right, what did we miss? It would be fun to punch him. Well, I guess I should have tried. It was contentious.

It was already too contentious, so it just would have gotten more contentious. But what if I said Casey Anthony? That would have been an interesting one. We did have some bad people on the list. We had Osama bin Laden. Flo from Progressive. Yeah, hater.

When you said the emu, that's what came to my head. Wait, is Flo the one? No, that's the AT&T girl. Yeah, no. No, no. You're talking about Lily. Lily from AT&T. Nothing worse than her. So when we did this list, Hank very helpfully sends out a notes document. It's a definition of just...

That we can both share. Just getting a snowball going. So Hank sent out the notes document and it's labeled guys you want to beat up and it only had three people on it. And it had three people on it for probably about two hours.

Because I was uploading my ideas to it. And all Hank had was Hitler, school principal, and Darth Vader. I love it. School principal, I think that's a good pick. Just get it going. Who likes their school principal? Listen, we got ours going. And Zach's, a couple of his first ones were guy who talks too loud at movies. That was a good one. Guys who drive slingshots.

Oh, yeah. I don't like the slingshot. And then Joe Biden and Bill Clinton. Yeah, Bill Clinton probably should get punched in the face. Yeah, he should. Yeah, yeah, he should. There's always one guy that shows up at training camp on the slingshot for NFL season. It's like, what are you doing, man? Also, Zach, my favorite one that I think was pretty niche. Do you want to say it? I assume that's a Call of Duty thing. Oh, yeah. Guys who use Aimbot. Fuck all those guys. Fuck.

I'll say it. That's a good pick. He said it to me and I was like, I don't know what this is, but I'm putting it on the honorable mentions. I don't stand on a lot, but I'll stand on that. Yeah. We had honorable mentions. Kanye. We had Kanye as well. Okay. Yeah. We had Kanye on there. Jaden Smith. Yeah. Aaron Boone. Okay. I think everybody, even Yankees fans, would put him on that list. Keith Olbermann. Okay. Yeah. Good one. Jackson Mahomes. Okay. James Corden. Yeah. MGK.

Carson Wentz. I kind of like MGK. I like him too, but he'd be fun to punch. Originally, there was one point it was guys, I think the wording was guys you want to beat up, so I had Khabib on there. If you could beat him up. It'd be awesome to say you could beat up Khabib, but I don't necessarily want to punch him in the face. Some of the other guys that we had, we had Goodell, Sandusky. Goodell's a good one. Osama Bin Laden, Putin, King Joffrey.

Love to punch him. I think I had Draco Malfoy. Yeah, we had, let's see. Oh, Blooper. Love to punch Blooper. Blooper's a great one. Brandon Walker. Good Dallas and Big Miss. Brandon Walker, we go. Why are we squabbling? Jose Canseco, I put on the list, but Billy already did that for us. Took care of it. Yeah. Also, Hardo Bicelis.

Like the guys who like don't follow the rule, like they're dressed like Lance Armstrong. They don't follow the stop sign rules. They don't follow like traffic light and then they get mad at you. Yeah, they yell at you as they're going through the intersection. Yeah, those guys. I mean, remember Sean Avery used to do videos in New York City where he would just like get in fights with every bicyclist who would put their bike in the middle of the sidewalk and I just loved those videos.

You know what I realized, though? A lot of that, we're used to seeing that from the car's point of view. Yeah. But when bicyclists put videos out of pedestrians walking into the bike lane, I feel the same way about pedestrians as I do about bicyclists when I'm in a car. Yeah. I'm like, those fucking idiots. Yeah, that's a fact. That's absolutely a fact. What else? Any others? We had, well, me and Max's brains weren't really working, so I threw out Stephen Hawking. Oh.

That's a great pick. I like that. That's a great. I do like that. Talk about people I've hated for a long time. You could probably kill him with a punch. That's a fucking phenomenal pick. People forget that Stephen Hawking left his wife when he was a vegetable. Yeah. He's like a huge piece of shit. He cheated on his wife as a vegetable. He was a sexual deviant. And you could just tee off on him. He also died seven years ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they had Hitler. Remember, didn't Jerry Sandusky, not Jerry Sandusky. I didn't know who he was. Jeffrey Epstein built a special submarine for Stephen Hawking.

Did he? Yeah. No, wait. Jeffrey Epstein did? Yeah, they were boys. Oh, well, yeah, we have Jeffrey Epstein on there. Jeffrey Epstein is a probably good guess. What do you guys think about Zuckerberg?

Punch him too. Yeah, it'd be kind of fun. I actually thought about the dude that played Zuckerberg in the movie. He's a good actor. He's a good actor, but he just always... Not Michael Cera? Eisenberg. Eisenberg. Great actor. No personal beef with him. I think he's good. He's a great actor. He's got a punchable face. Are we at Tony Romo? I think it's more just probably the characters he plays too. But he'd have to be doing it in the middle of a, ooh, I don't know, jib boom. Because I don't really hate him otherwise. Also, the guy who replaced Adam Richman on Man Vs. Food.

Oh, yeah. That came up on the TV yesterday. I had no idea that happened. He hasn't stopped talking about it. Literally since it came up, he's been talking about how he hates the guy. Yeah, no, if you take a man versus student and you get not Richmond, you're pissed off. No.

It would be brutal. And it was like one of those marathons, and we were working, and it just kept coming on. And he was getting angrier and angrier. Yeah. Like the next day at breakfast, he would be like, how about that fucking guy who thinks he could be at Richmond? I think I would like to punch Howie Mandel in the face, too. Yeah. No real reason. Yeah. Bluntman's godfather. Yeah. No real reason. Listen, we're just throwing these out there. Do you think about maybe putting Mr. Bing Bong on there? Not Jerry O'Connell.

But Mr. Bing Bong, who broke your eardrums. Yeah, I would have loved to stand up and fucking punch him in the face in that moment. That would have been fantastic. What about co-workers? Oh, yeah, Hank had his... Or Memes had his boss. Uh, Nicky Smokes. You're his boss. No, I'm his boss. You're his boss. Um... Memes had Hank? I might promote you to his boss. Hank would have played on the graphic. Stephen Chay from time to time. Yeah, but he...

I don't think he'd get that upset. No, he'd be like, what did I do? Cool punch, buddy. What did I do? I did something. Yeah. Do you guys have any other coworkers? Sometimes, Hank, but usually not. Shane. Memes has Shane. I just wanted to put Shane in there. Memes has all of us on his office. Correct. Well, he's just not saying it. No, no, no. I like you guys. I like you guys. We've had arguments before where you've had your fist balled.

You were the Arthur meme. The Jets lost to the Patriots, and you came in with a gun. Other than Zach, you wanted to punch every single one of us. Jack McCarthy, for sure. For sure. I like Jack. Oh, Nicky Smokes. We had that on. Yeah, I just said him. I was thinking of man versus food guy. Guy who gives an unsolicited lock just out of nowhere. Like hands you an envelope. Yeah. When it hits, it's okay. But when it loses, it's very mean.

What else do we have, Zach? Do you have any others? Oh, fantasy football guy when you're rooting for your bats. Yeah. That's also become a player prop guy too. Yeah. When Jerry has a 10-leg parlay and he's going crazy and you're like, my team's playing. We had the dynamic duo, Deshaun Watson, Justin Tucker. Yep. That's good. Jim Cramer, the mad money guy.

Yeah. That guy sucks. Yeah. Piers Morgan. That guy sucks too. Piers Morgan was a good pick. Ray Rice. Ray Rice. Yep. Like for all women. Yep. You take the stairs, bitch. Yeah. Boom.

uh any others zach uh the guys who sell crypto courses on instagram oh yeah okay yeah it sounds personal that sounds like you've gotten got have you have you have you dabbled no no not at all was there ever a time you were thinking about dabbling i'm not that good at math okay no all right yeah zach's uh initial spellings were so bad he is he is like one one bad speller he might be worse than you

We were brainstorming. It wasn't like... Urine. That's a hard title to have. I don't spell too well, but I think there's a lot of people out there who aren't the best at spelling. He spelled Darren Revell D-A-R-I-N-R-I-V-E-L.

Darren Rivel. He spelled Joel Embiid. I-M-B-E-E-D. Yeah. Roger, you want to hear a peep? I have team phonetic spelling. You guys want Goodell? You will never hear a peep from me. Do you want Goodell? Goodell is great. I'm team phonetics. How do you guys think he spelled Goodell? G-U-D-A-L. Nope, you're wrong. G-A-D-E-L. Okay, Goodell. Yeah. Goodell. Goodell.

I like that. All right. Good Mount Rushmore, boys. All right. We're going to hop into Witt and Yandel. But before we do, it's brought to you by Mountain Dew. Hanging with your friends this summer. Crack open a nice cold Mountain Dew. Go out on the golf course. Bring a Mountain Dew with you. Going out for a park day. Park season's heating up.

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very very very very very very very very special guests because they're our best friends it is keith yandel ryan whitney from the spit and chiclets podcast our co-workers and uh we just want to have you guys on to hang out sure first question um

is it can or is it will Connor McDavid ever win the big one? Can Connor McDavid win the big one? Should he? Should he win the big one? Can he win the big one? Yes, he can. He can. He win the big one. There's no such thing as should in sports. Can he win the big one? Yes. Wait, no, that was a question for Yans. Okay. What do you think? I think yes, not in Edmonton. Oh, okay. I like that. That's a good take.

Yeah, that take is interesting to me because everyone's like, they can't win it. They can't win it. Like they've been to the finals two years in a row, game seven, game six against one of the best teams. I mean, I don't know, 97 Red Wings. Like I'm talking like who's going to beat Florida? They're better. The past year has been better than everyone but one team. So to think that Edmonton needs to completely change everything is crazy to me.

Okay. Maybe not everything. Maybe he just needs to go somewhere else. Maybe he needs to go to Florida. Oh, ring chase. Is he in the ring? Yeah. Merle said he's going to Tampa. I don't need him in Tampa. All right. So how are you feeling after? Because, I mean, we joke, but he can't win the big one as of right now.

He's still young. How old is he? 28. Okay, he is still young. He's got a lot of time. He's the big one. Yeah, he's got a lot of time. That was worse than last year because everyone was like, all right. It was the whole, I came on and talked about Crosby beating the Wings, Gretzky beating the Islanders. It just made, it was all lining up to be exactly as the other two legends had done it. And it wasn't even close. I mean, Florida...

Listen, like they got Kachuk got injured. So then they had all that money that that's how they got Jones. That's how they got Marshawn. So that works out perfect. And then it turns out at the end of the series, Edmonton's being investigated by the league for like abusing the LTIR rule, which is insane.

Evander Kane was out. Apparently, he could have come back sooner than he did. Oh, no. Well, Matthew was actually hurt. Like, he shouldn't even probably have been playing the first series. Yeah, no, for sure. But Kane was hurt. Yeah, no. I'm not dogging the Panthers. Are you saying the Oilers cheated and still didn't win?

Apparently, according to the league, even though everyone's been doing this for, I don't know, five, six, seven years. Longer than that, yeah. And now all of a sudden, like, you know, kick a man when he's down. Edmonton's being looked at as possibly, I don't know what the punishment would be, a fine or a draft pick or something. I don't know if anything's come out. But I don't,

picture this guy retiring without a Stanley Cup maybe it's not Edmonton I don't know but Edmonton's not nearly as like lost or or in that bad of a spot the way people make them sound to be you know is it is it malpractice on the GM for the goalie situation

Yeah, that's a problem. After I was like – I said on Chicklets, like, they don't have a goalie that you can win the Stanley Cup with. Now, once again, they were one game, a 2-1 game away from winning the Cup with them and then a final strip again, but –

If your starting goalie is getting pulled and losing his job in back-to-back playoffs, I don't think you have a Stanley Cup goalie. No. And Bob. I mean, yeah. They have Bob. Bob was like, he's going to turn it on. He's going to start shutting the door on him. I think, to his point, with the goalie situation and everything, it shows how good Connor is, what he's done for that team, bringing him to back-to-back finals. That's a good spin zone. I think he is the main... Obviously, he's got Leon, too, as Batman Robin, but he is...

So fucking elite. It's insane. But we were talking the other day. How many goalies in the NHL would you trust right now to beat Bob in a seven-game series? We brought up Vasilevsky, and he beat him this year in five. Probably zero. And he wasn't even at his top at what he was playing at. Bob shaved his head. Maybe who's the blues guy?

No. Yeah, I mean, he's good in big games. He's a gamer. He's good in big games. That's a good one. But there's no person in hockey choosing him over Bob. No. No.

Bob, like I just met, he shaved his head like two days after the cup and at the press conference said, yeah, new haircut, new year. I'm starting to get prepared. Yeah, no. As the Panthers were like trashing the Oilers and celebrating their dicks off, Bob even said, he's like, yeah, I don't really do this. Like I'm more just appreciative of the moment. And I'm ready for like the next season. He's a psycho. Now here's the problem for the rest of the league. Like,

It's been discussed the past two years, but for all those years Florida was bad, it was a sleeping giant because it was like at some point when they get the right ownership and they get a good team, every single guy is going to want to go there. And it's completely happened now. This sounds like an NBA problem. It's a state tax problem. So Panthers fans get mad at this too. But Biz and I have been – Biz has been on it more than anyone.

Biz counting everyone. There needs to be something done. They got Biz to learn tax law. Yeah, exactly. No, he's good with money law. That's something right up his alley. But it's not like the Panthers are the only team in the league that has that, right? No, no. It's Vegas, Nashville, Dallas, Tampa, Florida. Tampa, Florida are the only two in the Eastern Conference. Utah? Is Utah low? I don't know if Utah is a no-state tax state. Kraken?

Is Washington? No, Washington. No, I don't think so. But the cap being what it was, right? Maybe it wasn't that big of a deal. And this is not taking away from the Cups. It really isn't. But as the cap goes up and up, and we're talking like in five years, the cap could be $150 million a year.

Dude, you're talking about saving, you know, $20 million. I got a question. No state income tax in Washington. Oh, wow. Okay, so Seattle. Seattle. I got a question. Why doesn't... It's not warm and nice all year, though. That's true. Why doesn't Canada just make a law that no hockey players ever have to pay any taxes?

That's a great question. If I were running for prime minister of Canada, I'd be like, first thing I do, not a single NHL player pays a single cent of tax. Yeah. Let's fucking win some cups. I think...

I think all those taxes are similar to New York. They're not good. Yeah, they got to get rid of them. So Canada, to get a cup again, forget not wanting to be a part of the media circus. You're then mentioning, oh, you're going to save money too? It's like, who is going to sign in Canada? Free room and board too. Throw it all in. Yeah, everything. The government will pay the players. So if the cap goes up, it's going to become something where this is a legit...

Okay. In my opinion. All right. Bettman stuffed Biz in a locker room saying no. He did. What about, though, when we had Biz on, we had questions from a first grader, and one of the first graders asked, should Conor McDavid just try to score more? Because did he only have one goal in the Stanley Cup final? Yeah, he was. Yeah, I mean, it's Florida. It's Florida, man. They're so good.

do you think you should try to score more i think he's trying to start just i think but like i think you gotta shoot more maybe like i don't know like listen to the guys sitting in the nosebleeds and say shoot the puck every single time no never listen to those guys no never lucy's the obvious choice for a true nicotine pouch connoisseurs that's why their official nicotine pouch partner barstool sports they go up to 12 milligrams in strength and have unique shape that feels great

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in my like, you know, sicko, I want to see what failed back of my brain. I enjoyed, I enjoyed this tweet from you. You said, I'm quietly singing pink pony club and eating apple pie with vanilla ice cream, trying not to cry. That was mid game. That was mid game. Oh, that was during the game. And we would have gone to game seven. So that's the other thing. Now, can I get a little credit?

I bought a plane ticket out there. You were going too? I bought a plane ticket out there, and I really wanted to go, but I couldn't. I thought you were getting a plane. Because there wasn't a game. Because there wasn't a game. Yeah, I know. Now, Dan, I didn't think it would happen, but he had lined up a jet. I was flying to Chicago. We were jetting there. We were going. Oh.

All the Chiclets guys, Max was coming. Here's the thing. I wasn't. They would have lost that game. Yes. And it would have been worse. And I would have been so mad at you. It would have been even worse. So mad at you. Because you would have bet what the plane cost. Everything on Edmonton. Yep. That's true. Because I would have been like, I have to make the biggest bet of my life on Edmonton. Yep. So actually, you did save me money.

What happened over the course of like the next two days after the cup? How deep was the hole you were in? You didn't tweet for like a week. It was brutal. Yeah, I'm done. It's season ended. I'm done. But I was just... Keith doesn't even have Twitter. I was more depressed, not about the loss, but about like, I don't think Florida's going anywhere. Like, realistically, they could play again. Yeah. And I don't know how... If they get Marshawn and Bennett back...

I think if they lose Ekblad, I still think they'll be fine. If Marshawn and Bennett come back, they're probably going to win two more. I heard that Marshawn was going to the Leafs. What? I saw Marshawn going to the Leafs maybe. That's Biz. Well, Biz said that. Yeah. Oh, I saw a really convincing photo shot. Biz...

tweeted out a text message. So he, you know, he edited it. So you couldn't see the name. It said Marshawn to Toronto, four years, 9 million a year. It's done. And, and I said, well, who was that? And he's like, some guy, some guy himself. Yeah. Okay. All right. So I have a, a real question, hockey question, because obviously it was talked about with McDavid's press conference after he's got one year left. Yes. Do you think there's any chance they trade him? Because like, if you're, if you think he's going to walk,

You have to trade him, right? Have to. You can't. I think the only way Oilers fans would ever have a right, maybe I'm not worded, the only way an Oilers fan could tell me they hated Connor McDavid is if he doesn't tell them, listen, I'm not resigning, so they get nothing for him. John Tavares. I get that. I get that. You've got to at least put them in a position to get something. Toronto's getting nothing from Mitch Marner. That's crippling.

If he were to tell them that and move on, like I would, as an Oilers fan, I get it. And maybe it's because I played. I'm like, this guy gave you everything. 10 years. And it'll be 11. I mean, he gave you everything he had. He was like, I, I, I, that's probably a huge disconnect with former and current athletes and fans. But to me, it's like, dude, he got drafted. He went there. He was incredible. They went to two Stanley Cup finals. He wanted to leave.

Yeah. It would suck, but it would be his right. Right. Because you couldn't do it. Now, are you prepared for if he asks for a trade, when he gets trade from Edmonton for us to become the biggest Conor McDavid fans? On whatever trade we go to. I wouldn't really get that. Yeah, but he can too. No, he'll stay it, but then we'll just be like, oh, we always love him. That would be one of your worst looks.

wow, this is what they live for. That would be like a true, like, wow, they're like real losers. No, but I mean, we'd be appreciating your greatness. Yeah, we're totally fine being losers. It's about appreciating greatness. Right. You've been trying to educate us about Conor McDavid for the last five years. Yeah, no. And now we're finally starting to come around on it. Yeah, we're starting to tell you. And you're starting to sound like you're a hater. But if you're coming around on it, then why would you not like him in Edmonton? We did like him this year. Are you a McDavid fan or an Oilers fan? I,

I love the McDavid fan. They're not here because I'm tens of all of them. I'm a McDavid fan. They're rooting against me. Right, so but if McDavid... And then I saw how the Oilers treat the guy. But I actually don't mind it because as I said in Chicago, like, I now have...

My Sundays are like, who's playing the Bears and who's playing the Redskins? And being able to root against two different teams is so great for me. And like you said, hoping that one of your teams get to the Super Bowl and then like, oh my God, if they lose this one, it's even better. The Bears are never getting to the Super Bowl.

You should do a boosted DraftKings parlay every week that's just a fade. Yeah. Fuck these guys parlay. Commanders and fade the wares. Would it be better or worse if he got traded to the Kings? What's the worst place to get traded? If he ends up on the Maple Leaf somehow. Oh my god. That's like the end of the plot. I didn't even think about that either. You would actually have to break up with Piz.

You would have to be like a marriage counselor. Yeah, I know. I don't think, I don't know if he wants that madness, but he might. No, he wants it. He wants that madness. Dude, don't even put that in the universe. And if David signs a short extension, which like, that's like rumored, like he maybe signs a two year extension. So he's three years left on the Oilers. Yeah.

Then if Oilers fans still are mad when he leaves if they don't win, it's like, dude, that's 13 years he gave you. What was all that about him wanting to talk to his agent afterwards? I got to talk to my agent before I make a statement. There was a quote that we played on Chicklets that was a little like, somebody asked him about basically the core there and how everyone's young and there's still time. And he was like, yeah. He was kind of like, yeah, I guess. Something that was like, uh...

it doesn't necessarily scream like, yeah, I can't wait to come back with this group. So now you, you like read so far into that. It was probably everyone's reading so far. There's never been a, I mean, there's never been a player like this. That's, you know, Sid was always boom. He signed with Pittsburgh the minute he could Ovi boom signs with Washington the minute he could, like there's never been a player that's like coming up upon free agency and, and, and isn't locked in. Is he the biggest free agent ever?

ever if he gets there ever oh yeah for sure i don't even close what super what what what what generational players ever he did like that whole like touring going around yeah we're not talking nba yeah wait you think that hockey is not even close he's number one yeah no i mean including nba no because lebron was right okay so respect for lebron yeah i mean well he's more famous right if we're going in the u.s who's more talented mcdavid or lebron

I don't know enough about basketball. I'd have to ask. I would say with LeBron, he's 6'8", 250 pounds. He's physically dominant. If Conor McDavid walked in here right now, you'd be like, hey, you wouldn't think he was who he is. So I think for what he has, he's...

got more out of he's a better more skilled more skill like if mcdavid was the size of tom wilson and this good it would be like well he's but he's he's not he's like i don't know what six one or buck 90 yeah he's six one he's pretty taller than you think yeah he's taller than you think could you kick his ass no i can't kick anyone's ass literally wait yans did you ever have an off season where you you said you had to talk to your agent first

I think the whole play when you say I'm talking to my agent is not. If I'm the GM of that team, I'm like, oh boy. Yeah. Because usually, I don't know. I mean, he's such a different level. You just don't know, right? My thing the whole time has been that Dreisaitl re-signed last summer. So with one year to go, you're allowed to re-sign. And I was like, all right, Connor's coming back. Right. Because why would Leon have signed up if Connor was like, yeah, I'm not sure yet.

Now, Grinelli's argument is like, well, he knows that he's so good as well that if McDavid leaves, he'll be like, trade me too. Right, right. So what about the rest of the East? Let's say Marchand doesn't resign. Where would he go?

Fuck, I don't know. I actually could see him going to Toronto. Yeah, they paid him. The way he bids actually might be right. No, that's bad. Well, I'm trying to think of all the teams. I don't know. My thing with Marchand is I think he was so shocked to get traded and not be a Bruin for life. Then he goes to Florida and wins. He's probably like, I'll just stay here. And then I did two teams, but I got a cup with both. Right. I don't see him. Everyone's like he's been underpaid his whole career, which is true by a lot, but he still made $60,000.

Right. So it's like, yeah, it's not like he's still eating well. What about, uh, did you guys see the 500 K bill at 11 from the Panthers? Beautiful. That was on our podcast. Oh, you guys broke that news. Who told you that? Matthew Kachuk. How,

who we do spitting chiclets i said that it was calm it was calm they said we had they said we had a call he was like march he went to go back in to pay which if you're going back in to pay you haven't been underpaid yeah yeah but he has he has and but it's he was going back in and matthew goes yeah i think he forgot that we had a five hundred thousand dollar comp oh my god was it itemized

That's incredible. I never saw the... It looked like a CVS receipt. Bruins had the legendary one of the receipt of like $110. Why didn't you go to 11? You were a Panther. I was already. I was up here for the summer. So you guys met when you guys were both on the Panthers, right? Who? Me and... Yeah. We met when I was like... Six. Yeah, but then you guys... No, we weren't on the Panthers together. I thought you were for like a week. No. No. No. He came... He signed...

Two years after? Yeah. You guys were never on an NHL team together. No. Never got to play together. But we both got to play with Biz, so that's the real win right there. Yeah, that's true. We trained together every summer.

Did they talk about which days on the Panthers? Like when you got there? It was legendary days. Yeah, it's kind of like you walk in, you see the mural, you understand. But he downplays it. He played for the team. He could well take him as a fan. Yeah. If he wants to come over, he wore that jersey. Biz never wore the Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. He's lighting candles on national TV. We will take wit. Wait, you were on the Coyotes with Biz? Yeah. When you first met Biz, what were you like? Who is this guy?

what's wrong with this guy i called whit he's like he's like oh you guys just picked up biz whatever he's like mark my words you're gonna hate his guts the first three days and then you guys will be boys and he hit it on the head like we almost fought uh really first practice why dude you guys don't get biz at that age like he was a psycho idiot i remember he was like he was he is he smarter now his name was biz idiot no like

Like, the loudest person in the locker room. Mario Lemieux's walking around. Mark Reckie's walking around. Yo, yo, yo, Mario, you want to grab lunch, dude? Like, he was an idiot. And he's not even, like... They could just cut him any moment. Oh, dude. But then, like, somebody would be like, dude, that's Mario. Like, you don't really, like... And he'd be like, whoa, whoa, man. You know, just trying to see if he wants to have lunch. Like, he doesn't even get, like, how...

So our captain in Phoenix, Shane Doan, like the biggest warrior ever. The guy was a fucking animal. Animal. Like the trainers used to have to beg him to come on the table and get some work done. So he never would go in the trainer's room. He was just like a fucking Thor bread. So he's on the table. Like Biz's first day, like he like did something to his hip or whatever. And he walks in and he's on the table. And Biz's first day, he's like, oh, Donor on the table again. Yeah.

So the trainers are like, no, like don't say that Doner gets up. He's usually the, like Doner's usually the last guy on the ice. He was the first guy on the ice waiting, like skating around. He's like, I'm going to fucking kill this kid. And then I almost fought him that first day. Why? Because I saw what happened with Doner. Doner was my guy. He took care of me. So I like, whatever, something happened. Then I like kind of like speared him or whatever. And he's like, let's go, let's go. Drops his gloves. I go. In practice. In practice. He's about, he's like shaking his gloves. I go, bro, you drop those gloves. The stick's going over your noodle.

Does that happen a lot? Are there fights in practice a lot? When you're struggling. Do they let them just fight? Yeah, the legendary one was when the Blues were in last place. They had a fight between Bertuzzo and the kid from Mass. Zach Sanford. Zach Sanford, and Bertuzzo tuned him up, but something clicked. Now, whether it was that or not, I don't know, but the team just caught fire. There needed to be some...

in practice. But they happen. Not crazy common. I just love the story of Biz going into the training room. And it's probably this guy's nightmare to be made fun of for being in the training room. That's why he didn't go in. All his worst fears come true when Biz walks in. This is when Biz was selling his clothes. I remember he was like the first NHLer to get like a million Instagram followers. Twitter. Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. He was selling his clothes. He'd like offer guys deals on like t-shirts and shit. He was...

Wait, so when did it click that you became friends with this? Three days after. What happened?

so i used to i'd never drove to the rank i'd always get rides i just hate driving so i'm there and like the guy that drove me he was like hey i gotta bounce find another ride last guy there biz i'm like oh god i get in the back he's got like a toyota camry and it's like there's a a hockey stick in between like the the handles in the back with all of his clothes hanging i'm like hey dude you ever think you need to like back up it didn't have like a backup camera so i'm like oh my god he drops me off he like sees the house he's like

you mind if I crash here for a couple of weeks? I'm like, absolutely not, dude. I got a wife and kids. Like, absolutely not. No, I didn't have kids at that time. I see the extra bedroom. But a good practice fight story. This guy, Josh Gratton, that I played with was a,

Mutant nail gun. Tough as shit. Crazy tough. I love that phrase, nail gun. So in our best defenseman at the time, his name was Ed Jovanowski, who was crazy tough too, but he was our best D-man making like the most money. They get into a fight in practice and Gratz just like grabbed him and just took like 10 punches to the face. We're in the locker room after. I'm like, why didn't you swing back? He goes, I hit him. I go to the minors.

He just took 10 punches in the face. I'm like, oh my. Yeah, but this kid couldn't get cut. Yeah. His skin was like double this thick as a normal person. Jesus. Okay, we're going to get back to Ryan Whitney and Keith Yandel in a second, but we want to talk to you guys about game time. There's nothing like getting to a baseball game, especially last minute.

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That's crazy. He was so tough. Yeah, biz. Biz back in Pittsburgh. Oh, my God. It was... So you got drafted, then he came, what, a year later? He actually got drafted the year after me, but then he was pro before me because I stayed in college for a couple years. Right. And then the first time I ever...

I walked into Mellon Arena, 7.45 in the morning. I was the second session skating. No, yeah, I showed up at like, say, 8, 7.45. I was skating at 9.30. And he is middle of the ice, squaring off with Dan Carcillo, fighting like maybe the earliest fight in pro hockey history. And they were boys. And I'm like, who is this guy? And then he came off. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Biz, I'm Biz. Biz Nasty. Yeah.

I'm like, I hate this kid. And I just started loving him. Once you get to know him, he's the best. What's the draft process like in the NHL? Did you have a party at your house? I went to the draft. Okay. Yeah, because you were a high pick. Yeah, I was a first-round pick. A lot of guys, I don't know if it's the same, would go to the draft. Even if you were projected third round, they'd go. See your friends. It's not like the NFL where you see the –

There's cameras on you. It's like, oh, this guy's so sad that he hasn't been drafted yet. No, yeah. My draft, there was a guy that was supposed to go first overall for like three years and he didn't. And they'd pick a guy, put him on camera, and then they just panned this kid in the crowd. I remember being like, oh, Jay Bomeister. He ended up doing pretty good. Yeah. Wait, so you went to your draft. You didn't go to yours, right? No, mine. We had a party for kids. Yeah, we had a party at my house. That was fun, actually. Mine was the lockout year, so only like the top.

10 whatever it was guys went it was in like a conference room that was Sid's draft year and yeah we didn't go we had a party at my house like my parents had to go out buy a computer and then I got like a phone call and they're like hey Wayne Gretzky wants to talk to you I'm like why would Wayne Gretzky want to talk to me

I didn't know he was the coach of Arizona. I'm like, hey, what's up? And he's like, welcome to the team. I'm like, oh, my God. And then it was just like a crazy world. I mean, that's pretty incredible that you got drafted by Wayne Gretzky. Yeah. That's like an all-time moment. Did you think you were going to go when you went or did you think you were going to go earlier?

You were supposed to go a little earlier. I was supposed to go second round. I got in a little trouble off ice and then fell a little bit. Yeah, you dropped. Keith was a little crazy. Wait, what pick were you? Fifth. That's crazy. Weak draft. No, come on. Weak draft. Dude, fuck off. 2003 draft after me was Biz's draft. That's the best draft of all time. What did Biz get picked? Second round, like 45th. Oh, wow. Pretty high. Yeah.

Because Biz was like the greatest. He's a defenseman then. Yeah, but he was the greatest youth hockey player of all time, right? No. I think he was this size. I think he was. No. I thought he was. No, he definitely wasn't. I don't know who told you that, but they lied to you. I think it might have been Biz. It might have been Zach. Wait, so what round was Biz in? Second. Was Biz a bust? Is he a bust?

For that draft? Yeah. But he's probably the most famous out of the draft. Let's see who was drafted after him. Business done pretty well. He's a beauty. Corey Perry, I think, was drafted. A great friend. But I'd say if I'm being objective as a journalist, I'm looking at that draft. Good question.

Like if we did the redraft, where would we be? So Biz almost made the team at 18 in Pittsburgh as a D-man. Oh, no, no, no. He was a fourth rounder. He was a fourth rounder. All right, all right. He was a fourth rounder. I don't know why I thought he was a second rounder. Bust proof. He was good. I retract. Let's see if any of us... You can be a bust. No, he's not a bust. Yeah, yeah. Not a bust at all. He made the NHL. Yeah, he played over, what? No, he's actually a success story. 200 games, right? Yeah, he's... Yeah. He is a... They're going to do a 30 for 30 on him. On Biz? Yeah.

So last night we were hanging out.

Whitney, you have a prediction that there's going to be a guy in the next 20 years in the NHL who's just as good with his right as he is his left. Yeah, I was thinking about that this morning. It might be 30 years. 30? But I think we're going to get the Shohei Otani amidextrous NHL player. That would rock. And he'll have to have a straight curve. Like Sidney Crosby, just straight stick? Yeah, yeah. You'd have the straight stick, and then you'd drive wide and be unreal righty, and you'd drive wide and be unreal lefty, and...

I mean, like defending, you could switch your top hand here and there. I don't know. I just think that at some point, you're going to see things that you never thought imaginable in every sport. Yeah.

Or maybe a goalie with two gloves. Oh, no stick, though. No stick, yeah. You just forgot that a goalie had a stick for a second? I did, yeah. It's off-season. Some of us had a couple substances last night when we were talking about this prospect. Yeah, true. I came up with the invention of the double curve stick that looks like an S, so you've got two curves in it. And then I thought about saying, what about a goalie with no stick? And then I realized that's probably not going to work out. No, it's bad. What about a goalie with two sticks? Illegal. Illegal. Okay.

Illegal right there. This might be a dumb question. Do they actually measure the goalies' pads before every game? Yeah. Like before every single game? I don't know. Because that's a really good way to cheat. So every goalie, if you look at their pads, the inside, like the top, has a signature on it. It's like J whatever. And it's the guy who has to sign off on those. Okay. It's like random though. No, it's every pad. But you could maybe one game, a big game, Game 7 Stanley Cup,

break out the big pads. I know, but imagine if you won and then you got busted after. Imagine if that happened to the Oilers. What would they do? If you had a moment where you were so happy and then they're like, nope, taking it away. You have to replay the game. The greatest day of our lives. We have to fly back in the jet for game eight. Turn around. You said you'd come to game eight, man. Game eight. Wait, did you guys ever play in a game with an e-bug?

No, I had never had never that where they played. Oh, but had him on the bench. Oh, this was like an e-bug for like real players. Yeah, it was just a bug. Do we? We had a kid in New York. Our goalie left and like our assistant GM called me. He's like, hey, do you know any goalies around? And our buddy Bunzo was living in New York at the time. I'm like, find some goalie pads. You're a backup tonight.

Trying to get him. He ended up calling me back. He's like, they found a kid. So you get to the rink at what? Five o'clock? Yeah, 4.30. 4.30. He was fully dressed at 4.30. This kid just ready for warm up. Just ready. I'm like, guy, we got three hours. It is the coolest thing in sports. Imagine if any other sport had that. Some people argue it makes hockey look like. No. I think it's great. That's my favorite of all the Maple Leafs embarrassing stats.

the no cups in 67, the no conference finals. Like it's that there's Zamboni driver beat them in an NHL game. That is the best thing I've ever heard. Oh, imagine if all the other sports had it. Like if they were just like, sure. Yeah. Like a basketball players, like everyone, any fan could show up in full gear and like, you could just get called on. You,

You just get in. But Biz said that as a player. He's like, they should have e-bug players. Like, if a guy gets hurt, I'm like, guy, you don't think a guy in, like, the local union 108, like, sees Brad Marchand up there playing against New York? He's going to two-hand him in the face. Yeah, right. Like, a goalie doesn't really have, like, an impact. Well, my big idea is we pitched it to some of the starting pitchers we've talked to is I think the first pitch in baseball games should count.

So, like, 50 Cent goes up and he has to pitch to, like, show his ball. He would be on the mound. He would be on the mound every time. Just every single time. Did you think Joe Burrow was joking around on those? We spin-zoned it because we're friends with Joe Burrow. I think he got – I think that whole fucking Fanatics thing was just, like, they basically listed, like, all right, what's going to go viral? Let's make a fake viral thing here, here. And they were like, Joe Burrow, we're going to pay you, like, $2 million. Suck at throwing baseballs.

Oh, really? That's the only way I can stomach it. But he was throwing it like a football. I know. But they were like, you can do this and we'll pay you a shitload of money and it will go viral. I think it might be just misdirection. He doesn't want people to think he's got a good arm. So he's going to throw a bad pitch. Make your enemies think that you're weak when you're strong.

They know he's got a cannon of an arm. Yeah, but when you see that pitch... He's been in the league for like four years. You think to yourself, like, maybe Joe Burrow sucks now. What are your realistic expectations individually of your teams this year? You're talking about football? Cautiously optimistic. Like over 500? Cautiously optimistic. No, like seriously. I think they have a tough schedule. I think they should win... He's a 6 out of 10. Not...

Nine games, ten games maybe. Oh, I'll take the under. And if he's as bad this year as he was last year. Oh, yeah. No, all right. So here's the only thing. It's over. Here's the best part about this year. I think Caleb Williams is really good.

They have set up everything with the coach, with the offensive line, with the weapons. If he sucks this year, it's over. We'll find out right away. You know what I mean? Like, if he's bad, there's not going to be like, oh, well, they don't have an offensive line. Which is actually good because you want to find out. And if you could switch it, you would take his guy, right? Right now. I'm not going to say that yet.

Really? Yeah, of course. Oh, I think that's so obvious. Look how happy he is. You have a good quarterback. We grew up with the Brady era of being New England fans. You have a good quarterback. Deep down, you know. I can't say. Every fast in my life. No comment. Every minute, every second, every activity that I do is better because I have Jayden Daniels. My days are brighter when I wake up in the morning and I'm like, let's get this conversation back to Conor McDavid. No. No.

What's your expectations? No, season's over. Like Super Bowl? Yeah, you're thinking Super Bowl. I'm not thinking Super Bowl yet because we do have a very tough schedule. We had an easy schedule last year. This year's schedule is way, way harder. There usually is some sort of regression in the second year if a quarterback comes out like that and lights the world on fire. So I would like to make the playoffs again. I think if we don't make the playoffs, big disappointment. And then once we get there, yeah, I want to go to the Super Bowl. But I'm not thinking like...

This year right now is the start. It's not your window. No, it is. This is the start of the Super Bowl window. And what is that year? Five years? Yeah, pretty much. As long as you have Jaden. As long as we have him under that first contract. Yeah. So I said after like maybe 10 or 12 weeks last year, like we're not going to make the Super Bowl this year, but this is the start of the window where everything that we do,

should be done with the understanding that this team can win a Super Bowl. So like contracts, stuff like that. How long are the entry-level deals for quarterbacks? You get four years and then a five-year extension on it. So the team can pick up a five-year option. And any time in that five years, you're really underpaying your quarterback. So you can overpay for other guys. But as like a first or whatever he was, isn't it? What's he making? 10, 20? No, it's less. The second year is like...

Yeah, but their signing bonus is like $80 million. It's like they make like $25 or $30. I'll look it up. But they could sign him right now to an eight-year extension. No, it's after the third year. Yeah, you become that. But you're not canceling the other years. No, correct. It kicks in after. Correct. That's how Mahomes won his first two. I'm pretty sure it was his first two while he was still...

Is that right? So why would you sign... It's basically, if you look at the NFL, and I've had this argument with people because they're like, well, what about this? Outside of Tom Brady, who took less money, like...

Pretty much every year, the Super Bowl has a team that has a quarterback who's on a rookie deal. Wow. It's pretty consistently. It might not be like they win, but like Joe Burrow, obviously those Bengals teams, you can go back and it's just... Was Jalen Hurts still? No, he signed an extension. But did it kick in? I'm not sure. I don't think it kicked in. So yeah, he was still getting paid like the Eagles this year. Yeah.

Like Brock Purdy last year. They don't even need a quarterback. Eagles don't need a quarterback. You just got to. Oh, wow. Realistically, no. The Eagles max. Like the Eagles. You guys could win games without a guy. Like he's not your best player. He's not your Tom Brady. Where would you rank him? Where would you rank Jalen Hurts? As a quarterback in the league. By the way, Jay Daniels is making $2.5 million this year.

Like, that's what he is. But he's really good for what he does, right? Like, what he's doing is winning, and it's like, whatever. Max? Like, I'd take Dak Prescott over. What do you have, Max? Like, top five? He said Dak Prescott, so I'm not participating in this conversation. He blacked out. Yeah, that's fair.

Yeah, I think it's kind of hard. Jalen Hurts' contract did kick in. I'm sorry. It's kind of hard to definitively say that Dak Prescott couldn't do what Jalen Hurts is doing. If he had that offensive line, that running back, that receiver is going in a bad direction. I'll say it.

That's for sure. I think there's enough body of evidence out there with Dak Prescott. I think we can. He's the 17th best quarterback in the NFL, but he's never had a team like that Eagles team. That's also true. Yeah. So I'm looking up right now. Mahomes in 2019, they won the Super Bowl. He was making $2 million.

In 2022, when they won the Super Bowl, he was making $30 million, which is still so cheap for him. Then this 2023, he was making $60 million. So, obviously, Mahomes, they'll still be in it, but that window of when you're paying your quarterback not $50 million, $60 million is so fucking huge. But you getting Daniels, it's crazy how it works. Sometimes you're better getting the second pick because you don't have to make the decision. I had him first. I had him ranked first. Well, I mean, unless it's like Ryan Leaf.

No, no. Oh, there's probably more times where it's worse. But there's times where it's like... Yeah, you get the decision made for you. Yeah. That was mean what you did to Max. You want to apologize? He won. Dak Prescott is the 17th best quarterback.

Really? That's where we rank them. Max and Yanz are the only people who've won shit in this fucking room. No, Mac, I'm not chirping. I think any... Dak Prescott's never had an elite offensive line and great weapons around him, right? No, he has had. Yeah, that's true. You're right. I'm more thinking the D. I'm more thinking the D. The defense was nasty. Their D, yeah, they did not have that. That was before... Who won the Eagles this Super Bowl? The D or the offense if you had to give up...

I think they both played pretty good. Yeah, their offensive line was the best running back. The Eagles are fucking awesome. Are the Eagles in a spot where they could get like this? Are they in like a... Yeah. Dynasty? They could easily win it again this year? It's a big disappointment if they don't. A lot of work to be done, but yeah, they're in a good spot. They lost a lot of guys, but...

You know, we next man up. Yes. Yeah. Howie. Yeah. Georgia. Yeah. Georgia guys go fast. Yeah. Are you guys want to do a bonus Mount Rushmore? Yeah. Should we do Mount Rushmore hockey players?

Yeah. All right. It seems kind of like hockey players. Lay up. Yeah. The best hockey players. Mount Rushmore of the best hockey players. Okay. Okay. We'll go all the time. You know, you two start. Okay. I'll go first. Wayne Gretzky. Okay. I'll go second. Connor McDavid. Okay. I can't take someone you guys already took. That's how Mount Rushmore works. I'll take Sid. Bobby Orr. And I get to go again. Mario Lemieux. I already won. Yeah. This is nice.

I'll take Ray Bork. I'll take Yager. Good pick. Good pick. I got McDavid and Yager. I'll take Alexander Ovechkin. And then I will take... That's a good pick, PFT. That's a really good pick. Run out of hockey players. Can you get two more? No, I can't. Yeah. I was going to say Marty McSorley. Fuck it. I'm going to take Paul Bissonnette. I'll take Brodeur.

I need a goalie. Goalie? I'll take Paddy Waugh. There we go. That's a good one. What was his line when he's like, I can't hear you with all the rings in my ears? Who do you say that to? Roenick. Yeah. With all the rings in my hairs. These are going to get put up and voted on. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so I'll take Dominic Hasik. Okay. So I got Lemieux or Hasik. Oh, that's good. So I'll end my team with... Holy shit.

Where do I go? D or forward? You know who I want to take, Keith. Lidstrom. Yeah, but... Mark Messier. Oh, that's good. That's a hell of a team. That's a hell of a team. That's a good pick. I got toughness.

Can I take a guy I don't know that much about, but he is obviously, I'll take Mr. Hockey, Gordie Howe. Good one. That's a good pick. I want it on the graphic. I want it Ryan Whitney before his ankles betrayed him. Thank you. That's a good pick. That's a good fucking pick. Someone's got to pass the puck up. That's what I'm saying. I passed it off the glass and Sid grabbed it out of the air and went down. That's a Mount Rushmore guy. You never use the glass. I'm going to go Chelios.

Good pick. Did anyone take Bobby Holt? No. No. Way better hockey player than person. Bobby Holt, I've never met him. Way better hockey player than person. He's not alive anymore. Yeah, I know, but he was a way better hockey player than person. Okay. You guys don't agree? I disagree. You disagree? I don't know him. Agree with me on this. I do not know the man. Just agree that he's a way better hockey player. He was an unbelievable hockey player.

Oh, this is what you, who do you guys do this about? JJ. JJ Watt. He's a better football player. We're like, dude, you're a better football player. Because they always say like. There's going to be better people. Yeah. As good a football player he is, even better human being. No, that's not true. Yeah. He's not a .01% human being. I would say he's a top 1% human being, but he's not a top. Biz is a better person than he was a hockey player. Absolutely. Yeah. He's a better person than a hockey player. Yeah. He's still thanking people. Yeah.

He's down there just thanking. One of my favorite things, last night we were at dinner, and Biz was in the middle of a conversation with Sass and Arian, and they were talking, and Biz was just like chewing on his fingers, and Yance and I were just watching, and he was like, he's not listening to anything. He's just Raya slideshow going through his brain right now. How about when we go, Biz, how old's Sass? And he...

looked at the top of his head 28 he's the fucking best what is he a tree you can't count do you guys want to do way too early stanley cut predictions oh yeah i mean i think you know what you're getting from both yeah i mean how are you not supposed to pick florida we're gonna run it back should we do one from the east one from the west each hold on hey we got biz should i get him on yeah tell me come up here real quick what's up bro

I love the boys.

Hey, can I say your text message out loud, Biz? Ask him if he thinks he's a better person or a better player. If your PMP fans are listening, put a future on the Leafs next year. It's our year next year. And you know we were talking about it. Hey, dude, you know how they say people like, oh, he's a better person than he was football player? You know how people say that term? Yeah. Would you say you're a better person than you were a hockey player?

Like, you mean as in, like, a person, like, to, like, treat people? Yeah.

Just a person. Yeah, fuck, I don't show. Fuck, I was brutal. All right, we're finishing up. He's the best. I was fucking brutal. All right, yeah, Roback question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com, promo code TAKE. 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com, promo code TAKE. Showing you off. Big deal.

He's showing you. Every time he does it, I'm like, fucking Big Cat's got this memorized. It is impressive. It really is. Yeah, I mean. All right, let's do the predictions. I'm not picking the Panthers. Edmonton Oilers. I'll take the Oilers too. You got to take one from the East. East and West. Fuck, who's good in the East? The East has nobody besides the Panthers. Tampa. Because maybe McDavid will go there. I'll take Dallas, Florida. I'll take the Maple Leafs over the Oilers.

And then chicklets will cease to exist. All Canada finals. That would be torture for me. I would actually not even want that. Yeah, it would be torture. I got Golden Knights and Panthers.

Peace. Hey, by the way, do you guys have any NBA draft thoughts before we go? Because it's going on right now. Cooper flag. Yep. There you go. What do they make? A lot. Legit. Second overall is getting what? Forty? Lottery picks make a lot. Second round doesn't have guaranteed. Did they change it? Two rounds, right? Yeah, it's two rounds. And they made it two days. It's so stupid. What did you think about LeBron drafting Bronny last year?

I would do the same thing. 100%. My kid's going to probably podcast someday. No, you wouldn't. I want a better life for my kids. Yeah.

you're not touching a mic yeah they're gonna they're gonna podcast they're gonna have to just do imagine your kids imagine your kids like trying to become podcast and everyone's carving them you're not as good as your old man yeah you'll never be yeah no it's suck no i would kind of like that yeah that's why like yeah walk home every day yeah yeah yeah yeah now you know what i was going through that's how i got so good you don't know shit kid he's getting just crushed online

It is so funny just thinking like 15 years from now, like in the olden days where it's like, you know, you have kids and they work on the farm or they go to the factory and like with their old man, it's like I just show them a mic and I'm like, here you go. This is what you do. I was talking to a guy recently. He was like teaching his kids like basically like man stuff. Right. And I was like, Reggie.

I don't know. I know nothing like change a tire. That's all. I don't know. Yeah. Like how to tweet about the Oilers. Like I'm letting you down here. Yeah. Right. How do you want to sing coffee meme? You want to sing pink pony club over and over again? There's actually a YouTube video of like a guy. He's got a shitload of subscribers who just like,

He just shows dad stuff to kids, like how to tie a tie. He does tutorials. My brother-in-law wants to do a man camp where you can... He's the guy who can do...

I'm talking cars, electricity, plumbing, anything. And he's like, I think you could get guys to come. You have beers and I teach you how to do everything. And you can then, I'm like, fuck, man. Absolutely. I mean, you get those idiots who go to the fake Navy SEALs camps where they just get beat up and yelled at. Tiger Woods? Yeah, right. Tiger Woods. They just get beat up and yelled at and called like pussies. Yeah.

And, like, those guys pay a shitload of money for it. I would absolutely pay if I could show up and be like, here's how to use a fucking saw. Yeah, teach me how to just maybe, like, put in the screen on the window. Yeah, right. That's also...

It's so emasculating to sign up and pay that money. I would do it. But his argument was how much money are you saving in the end? Yes. Okay. Of not having a call of a task rabbit. Yeah, that's true. I get like a ping pong table and I call a task rabbit. Can you put this together? Oh, dude, the saddest thing, I shouldn't even say this, I allowed the task rabbit to build my firstborn's crib and I took a nap while the guy came and built it. You're like, yeah, you check that thing for safety. He's like, yeah, I got you, bud.

Like, Jesus Christ, you can't even provide for your kid? It was like $45. No, I can't do anything. TaskRabbit's amazing. Yeah. They should come on Chickaletta and PMT now as advertisers. Yes, they should. Yeah, and we'll interview someone, a handyman from TaskRabbit.

yeah what's the laziest thing you've ever had to do I get the guy Aaron he's like still wearing a mask I'm like dude oh you got a guy that you keep going back to yeah that's awesome so you're off app now you got his number you don't have a guy that went off app that's good not like that I need an Aaron it's a handy he's a straight up handy man Chunky just shows up does everything that's awesome oh yeah I remember he used to work for the Panthers yeah he works the visitors room yeah he's the best does everything and you just call him up one on one concierge what did you call him up for last

Probably change light bulbs. Are they like tall light bulbs? No, honestly, he might call him to plug in his golf cart in the garage. He does everything, guys, all the time. Best guy. He would do anything for anyone. He's like an oldie, but knows how to put on a bonfire. How about we were at the bonfire last night? Oldie's like, oh, I got this, boys. I'm a fireman. We didn't have any fire. We can never turn it on. Fireman can't put on a fire.

He was a fireman. I guess he's a good fireman. Yeah, he said, I put him out. That's the exact opposite of his job. Yeah. All right, boys. We love you. Have a good off season. Thanks, guys. Chicklets one time a week now? What days? Yeah. Tuesday. Sorry to spring that on you. Tuesday. I didn't mean to ask you that question. No, because we've been like so back and forth switching up the days. I think Tuesday. I think it's Tuesday. All right. You guys are the best. All right. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Love you. Bye. Bye.

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Okay, let's wrap up the show. We got Firefest of the Week. Also, reminder to everyone, next week we are on vacation, but we will still have shows. We have Monday, we're going to do Dungeons & Dragons. Great episode. Wednesday, we have our Dingers Only Draft.

We have Joey Chestnut. We have Zach Gallin and Merrill Kelly. And we'll also update anything we miss. So there will be a new show Wednesday. No show Friday on 4th of July. And then we'll be back. So we have two shows next week. I forget. Did we say for Dingers Only that the guys that we drafted, the home runs, did they count in between the draft? They did not. No. We're starting it when it's live on Dingers Only. I think it will be July 2nd. All right. Hank. Yeah. What's your Fyre Fest of the Week?

My, my fire fest is my, my Friday fest, my, my fry fest, fry fest of the week. Fryder fest? Yeah. That was really the only bad thing that happened to me this week. Tough, tough take. Didn't need to even speak up. Said it for no reason. Yeah, you really, I watched it back and it, like PFT and I were just kind of talking and you just out of nowhere was like, yeah. It was anti-Florio. Yeah. Yeah. He was trying to figure out a way to get at Florio.

yeah it's a big deal why you dropped it on a friday it was tuesday uh but you know it's july 4th the week coming up we just have been golfing for three days there's there's not not too much wrong going on in my life yeah it's great yeah that's great you didn't wear a hat this week no i didn't i didn't love the hats that we had for for the like it just didn't match my outfits i guess uh outfits guy now

No, I just, I don't know. I just, I went, I went no hat yesterday. I wore a hat today. Yeah. But when no one told me that there was a sticker on my hat, which I was upset about after the hat that you didn't wear. No, I wore a hat today. Oh, yeah. But I mean, yesterday it was sunny today. It was not, you did not wear a hat in the sun. Wait, trying to get blonde hair.

You are? We were thinking about doing sun in. Oh, you should bleach it. Well, just natural. Yeah. Put lemon in it. Ooh, lemon. Hank, you had a sticker on your hat all day yesterday and no one said anything. Today, you got lofted. I got lofted? Yeah. You got lofted. You should sue. Hank Loftwood. Will you be suing for your lofted? Yeah, I'd like to. Okay, so then you're a loser. Yeah, you just fell for that. That was dumb. Walked right into that one, Hank.

That is brutal, though. Actually, does that mean if we don't sue for being lofted, that means that we are entitled to money? Yeah, we are. Who's money? I'm just saying, like, if you do sue for being lofted, then that means that you should lose that lawsuit. So if you don't sue, then that means that you are entitled to money. But how do you get it without suing? Catch 22. By the way, that just made me think of an idea. We should do Mount Rushmore of, like, minor embarrassments.

That's a good one. Yeah, we'll do that at some point this summer. Because, yeah, that just sucks to walk around and just... I had a little... When you're in a corporate or professional setting and someone's like, your fly's down. It was one of you guys who were like, here. Well, don't burn them out Rushmore, dude. Yeah, okay. That was a 1-1 pick. Okay. I had the thing coming out of my hat, but someone told me right away. Was it Max? Yeah.

I think it was Tom lay actually shout out Tom lay guy. Yeah, huge I think also with you Hank when you wear a hat that has a sticker on it If I saw that I would think he's doing it on purpose. Yeah, I got a cool guy move It's a cool guy move that I don't know about so I better not say anything. I Don't like it means does all the time means doesn't I'm not gonna roast it But it makes no sense to me ever it bothers the fuck out of me. Yeah, you leave your stickers on your hats I do. Yeah, what's up with that?

I don't know. I think I heard one time it makes it inauthentic if you take them off. Are you reselling your hats? No, I don't know. I don't want it to lose value. I got this 1981 Jets hat. Wait, are you saying inauthentic like the resell of the hat or are you saying inauthentic like someone walks up to you, sees you in a Jets hat, looks to see if there's a sticker and there's no sticker and they're like, yeah, you're not a Jets fan. You're inauthentic. Yeah, kind of both. Yeah.

I was looking at, I was getting rid of some hats and I have some old PMT ones that just, I took the sticker off and just dust around them.

Around where the sticker was? Where the sticker was. I can't get rid of hats or shoes. It's got to be a problem. How many hats do you guys think you have? I probably have 60 hats. Oh, I got over 100. Probably over 150. I might be in like the 300 or 400s. It's insane. We should do a whole hat off. Just in my house. I know you have a bunch at the office. No, I'm saying just in my house I might have that. I need a hat room. I have a closet that's just hats, and I have another closet that's hats that I wear.

And are they hung up? I need to hang up my hats because that's my other problem is I actually, all my hats get ruined by other hats. It's just a weight of the other hats push them down. Yeah. I mean, if you are... I packed six hats for this trip. Six? Where do you put them? I didn't even wear one. Where do you want to put it? My backpack. They get all crumpled up in there. A little bit. You can combine them. No, can I tell you the trick? Where's my backpack? You got to do that one. I attach it to the strap. Yeah. Because if you put it in the bag, it's ruined.

But if you have two on there, it looks weird. That was the hat talk. Do you think this is an episode? If we look back, it's like we talked about the most inconsequential things. Yeah, I'd say so. But I mean, that's what this is for. This is actually it is the traditional Friday before the Fourth of July week news dump. Correct. Hank was just early on it. Right. But he's right that like when the NFL is bad news to release.

It is that day. It's always like somebody getting busted for some sort of drug, some team owner like siphoning money from everybody else. It's the lowest news cycle week of the year probably. Yeah. It's like this week, end of this week and next week are the lowest news cycle. News draft. What? You just did the NBA draft. Yeah, but that was inconsequential. Yeah, it was NBA draft. Yeah.

A thing. The lottery is more consequential than the NBA draft. We don't know who's going to be good. The draft has been the Sixers' biggest day of the last decade. And look where it got them. Yeah. Process. You are a Wizards fan. Also, we crushed our NBA draft recap. I know, but I was just saying, this isn't like a nothing. There is something this week. I guarantee there's weeks that are less than the NBA draft.

Also, number one, Max, I'm not a Wizards fan. I'm Wizards curious. I'm experimenting with the Wizards. I experimented back in college. Now, as I get older, I'm like, maybe I should go back and check them out again. But for the Sixers, that is like the big thing that you guys built around. Correct. The whole process was focused on the NBA draft. So you should be excited about it. Yeah, I like the NBA draft. Yeah. Also, my dinner order last night was a disaster. Yeah.

Yeah, we should talk about that. Hank ate like a six-year-old last night. Yeah, I mean, it boils down to this. We had a good table. It was a lot of good banter. I didn't look at the menu, and then the guy came around and was like, what do you want? And I was just like, ah, pizza.

And everyone else got full meals and just came out with a big cheese pizza. A large cheese pizza sitting in front of him the entire night. And then I got wicked bad heartburn. I haven't had heartburn. Whenever you guys talk about it, I can't relate. And today I was like, oh, fuck. I also don't think I've ever heard you say wicked once. And it's like the first time we've ever recorded in Massachusetts. Yeah.

It was so funny, though, because like, yeah, it was I got like a chicken parm. I think Biz got a steak or some fish and you just had a large cheese pizza sitting right in front of you.

Yeah, it was tough. It was like it was your birthday party. It was tough sitting next to like. Your Chuck E. Cheese. Sitting next to Yandel and just chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp every two seconds. I was like, yeah, no, this is, it's tough to come back from this. Yeah. Oh, dude, Yance was in my head. He said that he's never been out ordered. So then I tried to tell the waiter to tell, I was like, get whatever he gets. And then he, his order was like 10 minutes long. And I was like, you don't want to just cancel it. And he ate like half of it. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you guys see Biz's chicken wings last night? Yeah, he eats them with a fork and a knife. Paul Bissonnette eats chicken wings with a fork and a knife. I've never been so disappointed, man. But then I looked at the chicken wings. They might have been a little undercooked. Oh, okay. But still, he went for it. His go-to move is fork, knife, chicken wing. That's crazy. Yeah. That's crazy. All right, PFD, your favorite fest? My favorite fest is that my back is fucked up. Bad back. Okay.

Bad back this week. That's on me. It might have something to do with my swing coach not giving me a warm-up regimen. Wait, is it your fault? It's partially. We went over a lot of practice technique, and we didn't create a physical stretching and training program, which is going to be implemented when we're back. There was a moment where someone asked PFT. I was sitting next to him. They're like, how'd you screw up your back?

Was it golf or something else? And he's like, no, I just woke up with this. I was like, PFT, you have been golfing like 700 shots a day. He's like, oh, yeah, that's probably golf. Yeah, it's golf related. I brought that to Hank's attention and we operate as a team. And Hank's an accountability guy. He goes, that's probably not far from the truth that I might have screwed that up. I'm not going to warm up. But it's yeah, the herniated disc.

And it's been tough to walk around. I think I have to cancel the vacation for next week because I don't think I'm going to be able to walk around Yellowstone. But that just means... Wait, seriously? That sucks. Yeah, because I can't sit down. And if I'm hiking, that's going to be bad. But spin zone, I get to just chill in Chicago and not do shit. Oh. And just take a lazy vacation. But are you going to golf? I was about to say, like...

I'm going to give myself a couple days off. You're going to golf and get hurt again. I'm going to take a couple days off golf. But I did. There's something magical about doing those stretches, and then you stand up and you immediately feel better. Yeah. You're like, oh, that's all I have to do? You're fixed. But then once your back gets better, then you forget to do the stretches because you feel good. Then your back gets hurt again. It's also whenever you get injured and you wake up in the morning and you're like, I feel incredible. Yeah. And then.

15 minutes goes by you're like oh nope the injury's still there yeah yeah but we got here and uh the the people at the club were they were awesome here yeah shout out to great horse great horse phenomenal phenomenal facilities people were great i got here and it was like at its worst i could barely move my legs and uh all the people were like are you okay are you okay and i was just trying to like tough it out and be fine and then throughout the course of the week

Everyone's coming up to me that works here being like, hey, are you feeling okay? Are you feeling better? You're like babying me as I'm walking. I'm like, yes, I'm good. I can walk. I can get around. But yeah, nothing will screw up your back or your week like a bad back. Yeah, no, absolutely nothing. So it does suck to not go to Yellowstone. The good news is Yellowstone is still going to be there. So I'll go back at some other point.

But I'm very much looking forward to having a vacation where I just sleep in. Yeah. And that's my vacation. Yeah. That's going to rock. This daycation. Yeah. Okay. My fire fest is a combined fire fest because I'm.

It's combined with Max. He can chime in. On Tuesday night when we finished the show, I got up to go back to our cabin, and then all of a sudden I feel a kick on my shin, a light kick on my shin, and it's Hank. And I look down. I'm like, what? And he just nods over. Memes and Max. Road games are awful for these guys. So I just want to say this. For all the AWLs, I know people are like, where's the show? Where's the show? It came out, I think, like 5 in the morning, 6 in the morning.

Road games, they basically have to work like twice as hard and it sucks for them. I don't think they've even slept. But there was a maybe hour and a half that we thought we had lost the entire recording of the show. I was thrilled. Including Hank's Friday moment. And it sucked. We were just sitting here like, well, what are we? I actually was going to say maybe we just don't even rerecord it because it would have been impossible to do. Yeah.

Yeah, I can't. You can't. I'm a one-take guy. Right. You can't produce gold like that twice. But, Max, how... Can you tell me? Because we didn't talk after. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10, it's gone. It's never coming back to 1. We're okay. Where... What was the... Where did it get, like, to the worst? I...

The worst for me it got was it didn't work on memes as computer. And I was like, sometimes cards are weird for certain computers. And then we tried it on my computer and it didn't work. And then I got really nervous. What was that at? Was that like a. Well, I never got too high because whenever something like this happens, it's just call Quigs. Call Quigs. And I called Quigs. And the first thing he asked was, can you see the size of the file?

And I was like, yes, it's like the file size makes complete sense. He was like, that's a great sign. If the file size was too small, then it would have been gone forever. But as soon as he said that, I felt pretty good. Memes was freaking out throughout the entirety of it. Was it your fault, memes? Or were you going to get the blame? It was nobody's fault. No, I know it was nobody's fault, but who was going to get the blame if it had been gone? It was tense. We were just sitting here like, and there's nothing I can do. I don't know shit about any of this.

I felt bad for you guys. I guess me? No, it would have... It was just the... We were working with faulty equipment that day, which... It's... On days like... So...

To put into perspective, we bring this road kit, which is completely different than what we have in our studio. It's very small so that we can travel and keep everything together. So we woke up at 5.30 that morning, took a flight, filmed a round of golf...

ate dinner and then immediately it's like, all right, you have to go. You have very little time to really test or do anything. So we went and we even tested, like we tested the card for like five minutes and everything was fine. And then we recorded and for some reason when we recorded the actual show, something got fucked up. I think I slept for an hour that night and memes I think slept for what? Two? Three? I got three.

hours three hours crazy and then we've just been up since 6 a.m. I saw you guys at like 7 o'clock I was like holy shit you guys didn't sleep yeah me so we're basically memes and I are just basically running on zero sleep right now boys so yeah I wanted to more defend you guys because I know obviously people we have the best fans ever but they they're like where's the show where's the show whenever we're on the road just know it might come out a little later because they also deal with Wi-Fi and getting the shows up we were the we

We also, we're always working with hotel wifi. That is like a quarter of the, of the speed that it is like in our normal studio. Yeah. When, when Max, when there's a delay putting the show out, when we're out of the studio, that's because Max is doing it intentionally to mess with the listeners, but we're on the road. He's actually getting it out as soon as he possibly can. What was the conversation like between you guys to try to figure out like how you would break the news in terms of whose fault it would be if it was lost?

Pete. Pete. Yeah. Normally when it's a something was fucked up with the I don't even know what happened. We still don't know what happened. I talked to Pete. He has no idea what happened. Well, it's also two projects. Yeah. It was very funny because Hank Spidey sense as a former producer, still producer, but former producer as well. He

He saw it before I saw it. He saw them just talking, and he's like, there's a problem. He knows what the hushed tones mean. Yeah, I mean, that's happened to me many times, and it's the worst. Yeah. So shout out to guys. Shout out to the boys behind the cameras. Shout out to Zach. Zach, Firefest. Big shout out to Maxim Eames. I do have a short one for you guys. Are you guys familiar with the liver king? Yes. Big steroids, fake abs, the whole thing. Eat raw liver, eat the raw steak. We're in the documentary.

Recurring guests? Yeah, he came on the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's huge. Did you guys see that he was arrested for being a terrorist and, well, not being a terrorist, terroristic threats? Yeah. Telling Joe Rogan that we're going to drive to the house, maybe two to the chest, one to the head, maybe a fist fight, altercation situation. Yes. Kind of soft. My fire fist goes to him. You know, bailed $20,000. Also, he can't be within 200 yards of the Rogan family. Also, cannot own any firearms. So, full mental breakdown. Wait. Don't eat raw meat. Is your...

Fire Fest, are you like a big liver king? I'm not a big liver king guy. I would just like to say don't eat raw meat because that's what can happen. You can have a psychotic break. This is why we need to eat more carbs and less protein. Yeah, that's actually a good point. It's kind of sad that we live in the era of the true philosopher king with Joe Rogan and Liver King, two of our brightest minds and biggest health advocates, and to see one of them go off the deep end like that, I don't take any pleasure in it, but I would like to see the fight happen.

Yeah. Right? Joe Rogan would fuck about. I think he takes them quick, yeah. You think so? Yeah, he's a black belt. Black belt jiu-jitsu. Well, the only thing I... Liver King smells so bad that Joe Rogan might get choked out by his odor. True.

I got to say, I did not see the downfall of Liver King happening. I thought that guy was really headed all together. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. I really thought he was just going to keep being the Liver King. In no way, when we interviewed him, was I like, oh, yeah. We are going to find out it was some weird deer parasite that only exists in elk that are found in southern Texas. This guy...

Zach is right. If you want to stay healthy, you got to eat carbs and anything that's been like highly manufactured. High fructose corn syrup, red 40. I keep your mind right. Yeah. I had dinner with the liver king. You had dinner with him? I went to his farm and had dinner. Like the gross dinners that he has. Wait, you had to eat raw meat? It wasn't raw meat. It wasn't raw meat. It was like...

It was just like very much paleo to the, to the nth degree of like, it tasted like, I feel bad because he has like a private chef that like made the meal, but it tasted terrible. It was when I was working for Caleb for Sunday, for Sunday conversation, we did, we interviewed him and then we ate dinner with him. And it was like one of the most bizarre things ever being liver King chef.

That doesn't involve a lot of work, does it? No. You're a butcher. He tried so hard to get us to eat the testicles and no one ate them. Good thing you didn't. You would have been maybe trying to be a terrorist towards Joe Rogan.

Yeah. So it could be a deer parasite, but based on one of the videos that he put out the other day, I'm going to go out on a limb and say maybe some methamphetamines. Yeah, his eyes were wonky. Anytime you got more than two wounds on your face, I automatically think you're doing biker crank. Yeah, you got some weird shit going on. All right, so yeah, eat more carbs. Eat more carbs. Stay healthy. Yeah. Okay, good show, boys. Let's finish with lottery ball back in the studio.

Okay, we're back in studio for Lottery Balls. Sending you off on Friday. Reminder, we have Dungeons & Dragons on Monday. And then we have Dingers Only, Zach Gallin, and Merrill Kelly, and Joey Chestnut on Wednesday. Numbers. Three. And so that's the schedule next week. We don't have a show on Friday. 99. Memes was late for that because he was showing me a face swap that he did of me. He was like, look at...

I'm going to go six. Oh, wait. Is that... Yeah, I had to put Florio's face on Windhorse. That makes sense. I didn't look at it too... It does kind of look like you. Yeah. I just assumed that all of those are me. Yeah. All right. What do you guys got in there? A11. Okay. I picked that before. Okay. I thought this was you. Well, I didn't. I said it briefly. It doesn't look like you at all. I looked at it briefly. I just... Whatever. Whatever.

That's on me. Zach? I'll go 19. Okay. Max? I forgot. I think I said 6. Did someone say 6? I said 6. Yeah, I said 6. Did someone say 9? Yeah, I said 9. Did someone say 3? Yes, someone said 3. How about 24? Okay. 44! I've been meaning to take 44, but I don't want to say 44. That was going to be my next pick, too. Zach, didn't you pick 44 last time? No, 44 hit. 44 hit. Yeah. Yeah.

Love you guys. Say it one more time. Love you guys. Love you too.

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