Pardon My Take - Imagine Dragons + The Caps Have Won The Stanley Cup

Episode Date: June 6, 2018

The Caps have won the Stanley Cup, they're an absolute wagon and Vegas is Dead (2:20 - 10:57). NBA Finals off day and Bachelor talk for guys that don't watch the Bachelor (10:57 - 16:17). Hot Seat/Cool Throne 69 jokes are dead and Gronk is very much back (16:17 - 31:14). Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds joins the show to talk about all his songs ending up on commercials, how much fun it is to live his dream, how he comes up with songs/lyrics, and the weirdest thing he's out on his show rider (31:14 - 61:26). Segments include Lebron Blames, Protect the Flag for Trump vs the Eagles, and Guys on ChicksYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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higher, oh, we're gonna rock down to electric revenue, and then we're taking fucking over. Done. Done. Over. Finished. No chat. They're not even gonna get a single more game.

It's gonna be, it's gonna be four to one. Okay. Caps in five. I'm gonna be in Vegas. Hey, Taffer. Taffer. If you already popped your champagne. Oh, I've got plenty more where that came from.

Okay. Little town called Vegas has a few bottles of Dom Perignon. The question I had to ask for you. You went to game four. Did you feel the strength? Did the strength. Did you feel the power? Did you feel the power?

The power of the capitals is unmatched. Six. So strong. Six to two. Six to two. And so real quick, a little hockey talk. At the start of the game. Sure.

I was scared. I was worried. Now, overall, I was not worried, but I was a little bit worried in the moment at the start of the game. In the first five minutes, they had a lot of pucks on net. Holtby was getting credit for saves that the post was making. It was, it was a bad start to the game for the capitals. But they didn't score.

They didn't score after that first like three to five minutes went past. It reminded me a lot of what happened to the capitals against the penguins at home in game seven last year. When they lost, they had a lot of opportunities. You all remember that. Then the air just gets taken out of a team if they can't convert those easy ones. And then the caps, the wagon came downhill. The strength.

The strength. Tom Wilson. Strength. Lighten people up. It was a fun game to watch the end of too because there's a lot of frustration going on out there. So some chippiness to be expected in game five. Game four.

Oh, in game five. To be expected. Yeah. The Knights did the thing where, okay, we're losing six to two. But maybe if we get into some fights, then we got the mo. Do you know what I was a little worried about? I was not worried at all during the game because I think Hank, you can agree with me. Being a capitals fan is like the easiest thing I've ever done in my life.

I don't know why. I don't use three nothing. Yeah. I don't know why PFT you've been complaining all these years. Like this has been like a fucking cakewalk all spring. But the only time I was a little worried with the Knights scored two goals and I thought it was going to be a statement loss for the Knights because they got the mo back. They did.

And they were like, yo, we learned, we cracked the code even though we lost four or two. But then the cap's like, uh-uh, we're not letting you leave this building with a statement loss. We're going to give you a real loss. Boom. Have it. And listen, right when they got that second goal, I was a little bit worried too because that third goal comes and then it's tight butthole time.

Then everyone just clenches up. Now the bad memories are coming back up. That's 20,000 people with buttholes. Do we have tighter than a pinhead? The bad memories of being a caps fan, like when we were down 2-0 against the blue jackets. That's the worst memory I can think of. And what everyone's talking about right now is a Vechkin. If he gets the Stanley Cup, which would be his third Stanley Cup in this playoffs, you

got to say, is he the goat? He might be. Goat Vechkin. He's better. It's either him or Gretzky. Matches Sid's Stanley Cups in this era. No, it's either him. Well, he's very clearly the best player of his era.

Sidney Crosby has never defeated Las Vegas in the Stanley Cup finals. Do you know what I'm excited for as a caps fan? I'm excited for the caps to win in five and then tweet out OV holding the bag because he's going to go golfing, but he's going to go golfing with the Stanley Cup. Pretty fucking cool. The club should be out of the cup. That's his golf bag this summer. Boom.

T-shirt idea. Damn. He should sell that fucking T-shirt. When OV wins, he should take the cup golfing and then redo that picture. Yes. Yes. That would be incredible. I'm ready for the next one.

Yeah. I'm ready to establish that dynasty right now. Are we looking good in the cap? No, not really. Because we've got a couple of... You know what? That's it. All chips in here.

Flags fly forever. Yeah. It doesn't matter. You know what? We've got the glory hole right now. The window might be closing. Maybe next year we do the... Actually, you know what?

If OV wins the Stanley Cup, I'm predicting the biggest championship hangover of all time in any sport. We're not even making the playoffs next year. No. OV is going to score five goals next year because he's going to spend the entire summer like on a yacht in the Caspian Sea just having hookers and blow just delivered to him by Putin. We'll take the under on Caps wins this year.

We'll take all of our 15-to-1 winnings and put it on the under. That's why I'm celebrating every win this post-season. Yes. Oh, you are. You're right. The champagne came out after game three. And I just want to say, and I think a lot of our listeners would agree with me, you got...

You know, we're all big Caps fans on this podcast. Huge. You guys have what? 16... 1600 bucks on the line? Yeah, 15-to-1. My life savings. 1500 bucks each.

Yeah, 1600. We would get paid out. Wouldn't it be great if you would kind of share that wealth with a lot of the people who are the Caps fans out there that are the listeners who are all Caps fans? You already got us covered on the wash-up. Why not just divvy that up? No. You guys are going to be that selfish with your $500 each.

Okay, but you have a ticket too. I do have a ticket. So you're going to do that? Yes. Okay, perfect. Here's what I do. Problem solved. You're going to do it.

We'll divvy it up with each other and you divvy it up with the other Caps fans. Listen, my ticket is worth substantially less than yours because shout-out Spencer Haas, who got it for me in Vegas. I think I get like 350 bucks if they win. I mean, that's, you could probably give like maybe one tenth of the award-winning listeners a quarter of a penny. I will give away $5. Yeah, that's very nice.

Whatever 350 divided by 5. Wow. And like Hank said, we will also divvy it up between Caps fans. Me, Bubba, and Hank will divvy it up between the three of us. That's really sad. You guys are being that selfish with your winnings. That's fine. I feel very, very sad.

I expected more from you. The question now is- I might just put it back on the Caps from next year though. Listen, you guys know as Caps fans, it's all about believing in each other, helping each other up when you get knocked down. True. You're not really exemplifying the spirit of Washington, DC. We are.

We are going to help each other by giving each other the money. It's actually a bailout to my bookie, so that's exactly what the embodiment of Washington, DC is. Yes, you're right. It's like taking like a little, it's like taking a teaspoon to the Titanic when it's full of water for me. Your bookie is like a big bank. So yeah, bail him out.

The only question we have left, are you going to eat poop at the parade? To be determined. I've already, you know what, I've already eaten enough poop I think for one last time. The mood might set, you know, you might be like, man, the mood is right in DC. Well, I mean, now once you have it, you know, you say that you have to put down a dog that bites a human and eats some of the flesh because it gets a taste for it. I might have a taste for horseshit. They say that?

Yeah. Fuck. So if you don't, I don't think they say that. No, they say that. That's fucked up, man. Or like if a human sometimes eats another human. Yeah, I don't understand about putting down a cannibal. Yeah, put down a cannibal.

Yeah, that makes sense. Probably John Wayne Gacy probably needed to be put down. Is oral sex cannibalism? Embrace debate. Hmm. Didn't they ban it into something like, I think, I think it was like Nigeria. The president of Nigeria was like, the mouth is not for fucking. Not for fucking.

Actually, some states still have that on the books. I know lots of other states. Blue laws. Yeah. Yeah. Blue laws. Yeah. I love blue laws.

I love blue laws. You just can't give one. You can't walk your pet raccoon on the third Sunday of May. Yeah. Can't do it. All right. We should do the... Well, Vechkin, by the way, has never lost a game in the month of June.

True. How about that? Facts. Vech June. Is he Mr. June? Yes. Yeah, we're calling him Mr. June. Mr. June.

We should... The NBA Finals are off. I don't know when they're coming back, but who even... I mean, how's they're going to win game three? I'm going to say it right now. I did that thing where I woke up this morning excited for an NBA game tonight. Nope. Because I just...

I got the taste for watching championship-level athletics, and I was disappointed to learn that they have a day off. Nope. What are they doing on their day off? They're... Well... Jared Smith. We know what Jared Smith's doing.

Actually, funny you ask, we will get to it in our segments because we have a LeBron Blames. It has been a while since LeBron Blames. We'll get to that. Real quick, before we get into hot seat cool through, and I got some analytics slash sabre metrics for the Washington Capitals, I'm not worried, but I do want to point out... Not worried. The Washington Capitals have lost five series when they're up 3-1.

The most such losses by a franchise and Stanley Cup playoff history. Shout out Sports Center. That was so long ago. Yeah. You're right. It was a while ago. I actually don't remember when the last... As Mike Dickas says, the pass is for cowards and losers.

That's a good point. Also, don't let the fact that the Washington Capitals have lost five series after blowing a 3-1 lead distract you from the fact that the Golden State Warriors blew 3-1. Nice. Little meme there. That's a little verbal. Spoken out. That one's going to go viral.

I think. It's huge. I think I said to distract you from five times. Yeah. Got it. All right. Let's do Bachelor Talk for guys who don't watch The Bachelor. So, we had the new episode of The Bachelor on Monday night.

Most of us were watching hockey. Hank might have sat on the remote, he said. He sat on the remote and accidentally went to The Bachelor. Yeah. It was such a shit bump, you know. I was flicking around and then my remote lost battery had happened to me on The Bachelor. Yeah. Shit.

Damn. It was crazy though. So, Bachelor Talk for guys who don't watch The Bachelor read by a guy who accidentally watches The Bachelor every Monday night no matter what. As a prank. Little John took Becca and Blake on a date. Actual Little John? I didn't see this part, but yes.

Actual Little John. What part? Guys everywhere. So, is he a contestant? No. He's just part of the promotion. Okay. Little John just wanted to date.

Okay. Fair. All right. There's also a chance that Little John could be someone else. What do you mean? I don't know. That's just what my notes say from Trent. Between Little John and someone else that would be very spot on for Bachelor fans to

not know who Little John is. I'd imagine that most people, it was actually Treloans. It's like David Allen Greer. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. Lincoln cried after Connor through a picture of Lincoln and Becca in the pool. Classic Lincoln.

Wait. They already have a picture of each other together? Jesus Christ, dude. Wait. Who threw the picture? Connor. Connor did you a favor, Lincoln? You're dating a chick for one week with 15 other dudes.

You don't need a picture with her yet. Lincoln, of all people, should know that a house divided cannot stand. Yeah. How do you get a picture? Who prints a picture? It's romantic. You got to set yourself apart on the Bachelor. Jesus Christ.

Who has a printer anymore? You could pay me $500 and I wouldn't take a printer. Yeah. I'd be like, no. I don't want this big shoebox thing in my house. They should really do a Bachelor where it's just like a bunch of guys who, it's a competition who could give less of a fuck and just see who could like, I don't really care. I'm not, actually, I want to play my Xbox and I don't want to have sex.

You just described a sports bar. Yeah. So we should do that. Bachelor for regular dudes. And then Jordan, who's, he's a catalyst to this show. Ooh. Wow. Hank.

He's like a... The goat? Jeff Van Gundy. What kind of word is that, Jeff Van Gundy? A little more... Is there a LeBron in this show? Blame Boy and Pat McAfee is how I would describe him. Yeah.

He showed up to the cocktail party in his underwear to establish dominance over the other guys. That actually is perfect because Pat would show up in his shorts and he just went one more and took his shorts off. Yeah. The guys were very mad. You know, it's a cocktail party and they were upset with the like respect of the sanctity of cocktails. As long as you wear a black tie, it doesn't matter what else you wear.

True. You could put the black tie on your dick. Mm. That's classy. Elegant. Referring. Is that it? That's it.

All right. What was the girl's name again? Becca. Becca. Well, she won the battle to Becca's by getting asked to, getting proposed to, and then getting that taken back. Yeah. So wait.

So that's a win. Yeah. So there's some, there, we might need, well, the bachelor this year instead of a ring might need a therapist. We always like to predict who the next breakout star from each bachelorette or bachelor's is. What's the guy's name that wore the underwear? Jordan.

That guy's getting a reality show. Or Lincoln. Because Lincoln, the picture move is psycho and then crying is even, you know, not saying that you shouldn't express your emotions, but come on, Lincoln. But don't express your emotions. Right. Spot him up. He could be big for Lincoln, a little spin off Lincoln, the crier.

All right. Let's do hot seat. Cool. All right. My hot seat. My first one. Hey, can I go ahead? Yeah.

I'm going to go. Yeah. Go for it. Okay. Go ahead. You know what? I'm just going to do one since it's hot seat. Cool.

Throw it. ESPN is on the hot seat. They're in a big dispute with the Yankees because they are the Yankees. They're making them play their July eighth game in Toronto as a night game, even though the Yankees have to play a makeup doubleheader in Baltimore the next day. Love this. So the Yankees are protesting by saying, we're not going to have any players appear in any shows, no post game interviews, no pregame interviews, unless you change the game.

Because for many reasons, including the integrity of the sport, playing three games in two days just takes away from the integrity. Do the Yankees realize that the two games the next day are against the Orioles, though? Those aren't really games. Yeah, you should. Those are triple A games. So I think they'll be okay. I like this.

I like a good scheduling beef. It's also a power move because you know Aaron Boone knows the inside deal of ESPN, so he knows the leverage he has. If this was pop, Aaron Judge would be staying at home. He would not be bringing his passport with him. I just want to say, I'm taking. I would pitch Aaron Judge. I'm taking ESPN side on this because you only get one or two dozen Yankees prime time games

a year. There's only so many Sundays in the calendar. So let's give them their bottle. My cool throne is Mean Girls. Ooh. Everyone's favorite movie from the early 2000s has a broadway. It's a fetch. It's fetch.

Stop making fetch happen. Your fetch. Has a Broadway play out on Broadway right now, which all business Pete that fucking nerd went to. So it was good. Classic. He said it was ABP approved. Ugh.

Okay. So take that for what it's worth. Yup. And also the embassy of Israel. So Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted, tweeted their stance on a. You got this. This is going to be good. Israel.

Wait, wait. The Ayatollah Khamenei tweeted their stance on Israel, which is what? What does Iran think about? Before the show, Hank was like. My stance against Israel is the same stance we've always taken. Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated. It's possible it will happen.

That seems harsh. Just want to be clear. That's Iran's position. Yeah. That wasn't Hank's position. Yeah. That is Ayatollah Khamenei's position. Not my position.

When the show started, Hank was like, does Israel and Iran have beef? And I was like, yeah, I guess if like Iran wanting to wipe every Jewish person off the planet is beef. If that's how you classify. I usually classify beef as just exposing your illegitimate child that you're not paying child support with. That's my beef. Does Iran have a disc track?

No. No, they have a better. Connie should call off the Iran Israel beef. I like that. Fuck. They had a much better and more appropriate response. They used a gift from Mean Girls, from the girl that says, why are you so obsessed with me?

Oh my God. That's actually fucking awesome. I know not with what weapons World War three will be fought, but World War four will be fought with memes. Oh my God. That's fucking awesome. That's a big time on Twitter. Yeah.

Yeah. You got to. If you're this side of Israel. If you're a neutral observer who has no dog in this fight, I think you got to go with Israel. Hey, Ayatollah, delete your account, bro. I guess that Iran treaty deal didn't work out if they sell the Twitter account, huh? Yeah.

All right, Pifty, what you got? My hot seat, my first one is charity. It's hot seat, not seats. Putting hot seat or putting charity on the hot seat. We first heard about Clay Matthews getting hit in the face with that softball earlier this week at a charity event, which he would not have gotten injured if he wasn't committing charity. The second was Chris Long recently got put on the hot seat because he donated a lot of

money to charity, but turns out he only donated like 95% of that money to charity because the 5% he can write off on his taxes. So you tell me it's actually him making money off charity 5% or losing less money. So charity. Shout out, Wooder Boys. Shout out, Wooder Boys. I'm going to go as far as say, does the NFL have a charity problem? Might be.

Might be. Let's look into that. Yeah. Whatever happened to Tom Brady's charity or the one where he says all his kids to private school? Yeah. Yeah. That's it.

My other hot seat. Ain't just shot too. What? My other hot seat is Bryce Harper. So Bryce Harper is on the hot seat in D.C. He was wearing a Golden Knights jersey. Yeah. He's a lifelong Golden Knights fan. He wore it to the game four and everybody in the stadium booed him.

He looked miserable. Yeah. And there was a picture of him after the game. It looked like Drake when Kentucky lost. He looked very, very uncomfortable. Yeah. He also had those like librarian glasses on with the clear frames. Yeah.

So he got hipster Harper. Can I ask you a question? Yeah. D.C. booed Bryce Harper. Correct. Is he going to be a free agent this year? They cheered Max Scherzer and Ryan Zimmerman. Hmm.

So trouble and paradise between that two. I'll tell you what. I'm going to personally say that Bryce, if you want to root for the Vegas Knights when they play against the Blackhawks, Chicago will not boo you. That is not true. Yeah. I just said it. I just declared it.

Chicago sports fans notoriously. I just declared it. You might have booed Mr. Biskie whatever. Yeah. Just a little bit. So my cool thrones. My first one, I'm putting haters and losers on the cool throne. Nice.

There has been a court ruling that Donald Trump cannot block people who disagree with him on Twitter. Shut the fuck up. So, yeah. It's against the Constitution for Donald Trump to block people on Twitter. So he has to go through his list and unblock people who disagree with him. The fact that a court spent time ruling on this, who is the one who brought this case forward?

Was it Keith Olbrin? It was probably Keith. Yeah. Keith Olbrin and Jamie O'Grady in the collab. His collab joint. Which is, sir. Sir, unblock me, sir. Sir, sir.

It's freedom of speech. You need to read my tweets, even though you don't read any tweets. Have you? But I'm going to respond within five seconds of your tweets. Have you? No discretion, sir. Yeah. Resign, sir.

I have a Rick Riley joke about it. Do you want to hear it? Yeah. Actually, I wrote this down. Okay. Ready? So, did you guys hear about how the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump can't block people who disagree with him on Twitter?

It's just another case of true patriots not being able to block Chris Long. It's a stretch. It's a stretch. Because we went from blocking on Twitter to the Super Bowl. Right. Can't, because he had the sack fumble. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm going to say like 0.75. Okay. I thought it was better than that. It was okay. It was okay. It was okay. It was just like, you know, like it would have been long to type out. It was a little wordy.

Yeah. It was wordy. Right. Rick is a true master of the craft. Yes. He would have sparse that down. So, my other cool throne is class. Okay.

Class is on the cool throne because the Bears gave Zack Miller. Big time class. Yeah. It gave Zack Miller a one year deal. Yep. Even though he's not going to be able to play. He's still recovering. His leg is still healing from that clear drop.

Touchdown. That clear drop that he had. That clear drop that he had. Yes. I'm still waiting for the apology from the NFL. Actually, if he gets another year and he hangs on to the ball for an entire season, that should be long enough for the refs to be like, okay, that looks like it catches me. It actually was a classy move because like the NFL doesn't usually take care of players.

Right. Well, so it's just the absence of not being classy. Right. They do the right thing. They do the right thing for once. So, it's like, oh, okay. Very classy. But that's the only adjective that you can use to describe that move is classy.

I can't wait till like something happens in the Bears season and then Steve Rosenbloom's like, what about that $400,000 to pay to Zack Miller? Could have used another offensive lineman. Yeah. It counts towards a cap, right? Yes, it does. Yeah. It's definitely going to be that hot take home at some point.

It's all fun and games until the injury bug bites. Yeah. Exactly. All right. I got two hot seats. The first is 69 jokes. So, we are officially in trouble, boys, because Ravel has caught on. Ravel went to Delaware Downs.

He placed Dover Downs, sorry, in Delaware. He placed the first legal, his first legal bet, probably of his life because he's never, ever placed a bet because he's a fucking narc. And he did it on the Browns to win the Super Bowl, $6.90. And, and get this, the ticket writer laughed no less than three times. Okay. No more either. But no less than three times.

Oh my God. Well, Ravel doesn't realize he was laughing about the Browns, not the 16. Yes, correct. Yeah. That guy absolutely did not understand Ravel's joke. He should have done 69 cents on the Browns if he wanted to really make it funny. This is like when your parents figure out how to text emojis and bitmojis and stuff. It just kind of all loses its luster.

It's all, it's a luster. We had a good run. Yeah. 69 jokes. 69 jokes, 2009 to 2018, RIP. Yes. Yeah. It sucks.

But I think we actually predicted this maybe a year or two ago. We were doing PR 101 for someone and we said the best way to kill a joke. Oh, it was off for a Golden State Warriors, blew a 3-1 meme thing. Yes. No one ever uses that joke anymore. Yeah. The best way to kill that would be to have Darren Ravel just hop all over. Yeah.

And then everybody just, so it's dead. It's dead. Unless, I think the only way it comes back is if in like some kind of John Claude Van Damme played by Rob Gronkowski, he's 69s, Ravel to death. Just face fuck some to death. Yeah. And that way we can bring back 69 jokes. We should write that movie.

They both, it's a murder suicide because they just choke on each other's dicks. Yeah. We should bring, yeah. And then it's like immemorium and it's a, it's a eternal flame of just 69 at Rob Gronkowski's. That would be a really good remake of Romeo and Juliet. Yes. Where instead of like the poison and the sword and the dagger, they just die. It's two dudes.

Or it could be two girls and they just like snorkel each other to death. But write that down. That's a new movie idea. So, yeah. Plot twist for boner dog. Yeah. The other hot seat is Miss America and dudes who love chicks and bikinis and don't know that porn is free.

So Miss America has canceled the bikini portion of Miss America. Now, to be honest, how will I ever know what a hot chick looks like in a swimsuit? Okay. So like it is ridiculous. It's equally ridiculous for people to be upset about it being like, man, I really wanted to see these chicks and bikinis because again, porn is free. But it's also ridiculous that a beauty pageant is no longer being judged on beauty. That's where we're at.

Well, you can still tell if they're beauty. Yeah. Do you laugh at my jokes? Yeah. Well, interview. Yeah. She's a cool chick. She laughs at my jokes.

Boom. You're Miss America. Do you tell me how strong I am all the time? And how do you tell me? Can you tell me that? That should be the competition. Can like how nicely the contestants can ask you to open a pickle jar like, ah, my hands are so weak.

I can't open this. Wow. She's got inner beauty. That's it. Don't you think? I mean, my grandfather's going to be very upset if he was still alive. Yeah. That's the next thing you know they're going to take away Sports Illustrated's swimsuit

edition. I haven't forbid. That's our last spot. That's like our last hill. We all have to gather our guns and get to the hill. First they came for my football phone and I said nothing. Yeah. That's really what it is.

They came for my beauty pageants and I said nothing because I was not a beauty pageant contestant. The Sports Illustrated's swimsuit edition is the bridge in Save and Private Ryan. Everyone get to the bridge, no matter what. We must hold this bridge. Hold this fucking bridge. Don't take that away from us. Rick Riley will do a great job of that.

My favorite recurring, it was like a yearly column that Rick would do would be talking about taking his son to the Sports Illustrated swimsuit team. Behind the scenes. Yeah. And there was one year where he was like, my son finally got it this year. Yeah. Where he got a boner. My son was finally horny.

I saw my son have a boner. I was like son, I'm proud of you. Just like your old man. My cool throne, speaking of Gronk, my cool throne is Gronk and everyone's saying Rob Gronkowski is going to retire because we had this nugget from OTAs. Is Rob Gronkowski, a reporter asks, is Rob Gronkowski going to be able to take Gronk the horse for a ride? Let's do a guess.

What do you think Gronk's response was? I know. Okay. It was, hopefully, I like taking things for a ride. So anyone who thought Gronk was going to retire or be done, you were very wrong. Gronk is so back. So fucking back. I could just see it to him, just like, he definitely goes home and he's like, do you

remember that time I said I was going to like taking things for a ride? He's fucking best. I love it. I love Gronk so much. All right. My other cool throne is Millennials. Oh, good. So the MLB draft was on Monday night, all 75 rounds of it.

We are now, because we're in 2018 and we're getting kids who were born after the Millennium, which I guess they're not Millennials, right? They're whatever the next one is. We got a lot of millennial names. So we had a Tristan with an I, a Bryce with an I, a Jordan with a Y, a Grayson, a Cole, and a Carter, and he ready for this, a Seth Beer, a JT Gin, and this is the best name by far, the Pirates Drafted, Travis Swaggerty. That's pretty good.

Swaggerty. Bomb name, Swaggerty. Did you see the Yankees too at a Nick Swisher come out to announce their guy and his name was Bro, like B-R-E-A-U-X? Shut up. Dude. That's great. This is, sports in like 2040 is going to look so awesome.

We're going to, yeah, like we're going to have players in 18 years that are named after Donald Trump. That'll be a really interesting one. A bunch of Lebrons. Yeah. They co-exist on the same team together. Tons of Lebrons. A lot of Delies.

A lot of, tons of Delies. Tons of Delies. Yeah. The millennial names are going to be great. All right. Let's get to our interview. We have Imagine Dragons on the show. Really fun interview.

Like I said at the top of the show, a little different than our usual interview, but he was, Dan Reynolds was a really cool guy. I think we're a big Imagine Dragons fans now. Huge. Huge. Don't bash Imagine Dragons around us. It's awesome Patrick Reed carrying the flag. Yeah.

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Here he is. Imagine Dragons. All right. We now welcome on a very, very special guest. It is Imagine Dragons. That's his name. Mr. Dragons. Mr. Dragons.

No, it's actually Dan. Mr. Dragon. Dan Reynolds. He is the lead singer and guitarist for Imagine Dragons. You play the guitar? No. No, I don't play the guitar. He beats that big-ass drum.

You don't play the guitar? No. I mean, I play the guitar, but I don't play on stage. Okay. You're the lead singer. You are Mr. Dragons. You are gracious enough to join us after PFT got in a little Twitter fight with you over the Stanley Cup finals, so let's start there.

Are we beefing right now? Are we going to beef? Yeah, we're beefing. We're beefing hard. I got to say I was really upset to see that you're actually a likeable person because I really didn't want to like you, but then I watched your pop punk video and I was like, damn it. Just damn it.

Yeah. Damn it. That's a great quote for a pop punk video. Well, get to know him a little longer. Can we just not? I'm not. I'm not very likeable. Can we just cut out that part?

Because I like to seem like I'm a badass, but when you called me Post Malone, that was pretty good. I had to take my hat off. I'm like Post Malone without the face tattoos. I'm Primalone is what I am. Yeah. I mean, I really think that's a compliment. The ladies seem to really like it.

Yes. I think it's a good thing. Certain type of lady. Yeah. I had a question to start because you're from Vegas. Lady of the night. Yeah. You're from Vegas and that's besides Chris Bryant, Bryce Harper, who Bryce Harper Future

Cup, everyone from Vegas is a weirdo. How are you? You're a weirdo, right? Yeah. I'm pretty mad weird. I mean, I named my band Imagine Dragon, so you tell me. Now, is that a command or is that just like a writing prompt when you say Imagine Dragons? I don't know.

It's kind of whatever you want to make it. To be honest, I had a different name for the band and then I was like, ah, that band sounds kind of shitty. So then I scrambled up the letters and made an anagram out of it. That's how Imagine Dragons came about, which was even a shittier name, but it kind of worked out. So it's all good. I actually, I heard that you guys like did an anagram thing, but you won't tell anybody

what the original name was. Was it, was it Gassing Radio Men? I mean, I can't confirm. I can't confirm or deny it. That might, that might be it. Are you anti-journalist? Ooh. That's what it sounds like to me.

I mean, you know, I've actually heard that one before, but typically people think that it's Ragged Insomnia. I've heard that one a lot. Yeah. That's pretty good. That's not it. In fact, I will tell you right now that neither of those are it. Okay.

Wow. Do you, do you ever actually Imagine Dragons yourself? Not even, to be honest, I don't like Dragons that much. That's kind of weird. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I like Dungeons and Dragons a lot. So maybe I do actually.

I'm not exactly sure. I'm on offense about it. I liked them until they became like so mainstream in, in the geek, you know, like Game of Thrones and so I don't know. It's hard for me to, I'll go with I'm medium like Dragons. Okay. Five out of 10 like Dragons. You're indifferent about Dragons.

I got it. Okay. I like the Dragon in a, in a, like, I have, I envision to try you as the Dragon that I want. Like a nice, soft kind of big dog Dragon. Okay. This is a sports show. So we don't know what you're talking about.

Hey, have you ever heard this one? Well, if you like Imagine Dragons so much, Imagine Dragon D's nuts in the face. Dragon in my balls. Yeah. Yeah. That was pretty good. I liked that one pretty, that one's pretty solid. All right.

Oh, I got it. It's Snor, Snormad Gag. But I, there's a couple of letters. Snormad Gag, R.A. You have like a, are you, are you on Google? Like anagram finder. Yeah. I'll do it right now.

Let's get some serious, serious questions going here. All right. So you obviously, you guys have had some, some huge success. What is it, is it weird to both be super, super successful in the music industry and also be like, you're in a ton of commercials. So, you know, people kind of take shots at you guys there. Is that kind of weird going back and forth? Like the music community might look at you like, look at these guys.

They're kind of sellouts because they're in all these commercials, but money's money. You guys have had, you know, incredible year. Past year has been insane for you guys. Yeah. You know, it's kind of like, to be honest, how I was, I was raised, I listened to a lot of hip hop, like 90s hip hop and grew up on a lot of urban music. And so for me, I've always viewed music with the eye of like, get like, look at me making money.

You know what I mean? And like laughing and kind of throwing up like kind of like that, that whole thing that exists in the urban world that's kind of like, yeah. Yeah. I'm in this commercial and it's dope and it's taking care of my family and I'm taking care of my little girls. And then I'm also doing music, which I love. So for me, I guess I just don't come from the mentality is like, I know in the rock

world and we've been called, we're like put as a rock band, which is cool. Like, cool. I'm down to like rule the rock charts as like a secret pop urban band that gets put in the alternative sphere. But, but yeah, I just have never understood the mentality, I guess, or grasped it of like, hey, it's like sell out to you to make money. Or like, and I'd rather be like a hip, I'd rather be like a cool hipster that like is not making money for my family.

So I don't know. I just, I guess I more identify with the hip hop culture that's like, yeah, I'm in this rad commercial and like selling these like shoes and like making the money. And I wish, yeah, I guess that's kind of the world, the mentality that I have. So long story short, is it weird for me? No, it's more like, cool. I'm like, you know, like haters are going to hate. And that's just, it's, I get it because I understand a rock band is not supposed to

like do certain things, but I'm just on the same note. I'm kind of like, that's not how I, that's not what other reviewed Imagine Dragons does or music for me. Like what, I don't know if that makes sense. But yeah, I don't know. No, it does. I mean, Aerosmith was in Gap commercials for like 20 years. It's not like it's a new thing to like to sell songs to commercials.

I think most people that get upset and call other band sellouts are just not talented enough to sell out. It's like, I would love to sell out at some point. I would love to just get like an Arby's or a Exxon tattoo on my back and walk around shirtless all the time and get paid a shitload of money. I'll say this. I'll say this. I think that if, if you're doing something that compromises your value, then I'm like,

okay, yeah, that's, that's lame and that's selling out. But if you're like, hey, this commercial, you know, for like whatever, this beer or something like that is going to use my song or like some NFL thing or something. You know what I mean? I'm kind of like, cool, rad. Okay, cool. Are more people going to listen to my music? Okay, cool.

Yeah, that's a no brainer. But if I was like, if someone hit me up and they were like, hey, I want to use your song to like sell children to slavery. And I was like, hey, what's the money in that? Then I'd be like, okay, that's, that sounds maybe like slightly crossing over. What about the critics who say that radioactive encourages nuclear proliferation? That's good. I've never heard that before.

Just ending the world. Wow. Great, great journalistic like verbiage. Yeah. That's good. I think I pronounced that correctly too and everything that was good. Now, when you write the songs though, do you, uh, when you finish a song, you're like, all right, this one is going to be great for like the Clemson, South Carolina rivalry

game in late November. Or this one. Cause I was actually going through all your songs today. And the craziest part is you guys have like all these full college football and NFL songs. And then you had the soccer, like the world cup theme song. So you guys can do everything. Yeah. We do a lot of that in the sports realm.

You know, I wish that I could tell you that I've, that I'm that strategic. Honestly, like I, I would tell you a hundred percent if I was like, you know, one of the things I do when I do my song writing process is like pull up like tag lines for like, like big teams, you know what I mean? It'd be like, that's, I want to get like, I love the calves. Like let me get there. Like whatever it takes thing. But you know, I really, um, I just don't, I just, I'm, I'm more of like, I'm stuck in

a 14 year old's mentality when it comes to how like my men, like I've, that's when I started dealing with depression when I was in middle school and I wrote from this place of like over the top angst. Like I know that imagined, I'm aware that imagine dragons is very over the top angsty kind of thing and I just can't help it. It just is, it's the only thing that comes out of me. So it's like, for better or for worse, when I'm with these guys and I'm writing music, it just, that's what comes out and that's the only thing that's real that I can get

on stage and actually get behind and do. So it, like for better or for worse and for some people it's for worse and some for better. It just, it just is a product of whatever, you know, being raised Mormon and, and being like an angsty, prepubescent kid and just being stuck in that. I don't know. I don't know. So you were raised Mormon in Las Vegas. Are you originally from Vegas?

Yeah. So I'm born and raised Las Vegas from a big Mormon family, eight boys, one girl and went on a Mormon mission and did that whole thing and now I'm more of a free spirit. But I think I still identify with. Nice. Yeah. But I still, I still identify with, with, it's like Mormonism is like a culture. It's like you can't, you can't just leave.

It's like being, it's like being Jewish or something. It's like your culture. You know what I mean? You can't really leave. It's always going to be a part of you. Yeah. Did you know Bryce Harper or his family growing up? Is that like a close knit Mormon community out there?

I did. I, there is a close knit community, but he was too cool. And I think like Hansen or something. We weren't in the same circles, but he, he definitely has, but, but no, I'm like, I'm I'm really stoked on what he's doing. And I've met him now since then, you know, cause we did like a, we did a show for Vegas after the shooting and things like that to raise money. And he's been awesome for like putting Vegas on the map in that way.

And obviously he's an amazing athlete. So that's, that's cool too. How do you feel about being kind of the bad boys of DC radio right now? I don't know if you're aware, but your, your songs have been banned from a couple of DC radio stations because of this whole caps golden nights thing. Yeah. I saw that. And for me, I was like, Oh damn, but on the same note, I don't know if I would want to

hear my voice either. If I was in DC and it was like, I don't know. I mean, how do I feel about it? I mean, we're still killing the radio. So I'm not too mad about it. You're still being played in literally every sports arena in America simultaneously. So that's the one place I can go to not hear Imagine Dragons. Going back to the Mormon, you went to BYU.

Is soaking real? Soaking. I have heard that for a second. I was going to ask you that, but that was, but I think I know what that is. You soak bro. You play guitar. Be honest. If I want to be honest, I don't know if it's real.

I, I, I really, like I'm being completely honest with you. I know that people say that they do that thing, but I'm not sure that that is a, I feel like that it would be such a tease for me. I just, Oh, I would just come if I soaked. Yeah. I just, it's hard for me to believe that actually happened. The people abide by it.

And they're like, this is our thing. Okay. We did, we did that. Now we're done. I just, I don't know. Nobody moved. No one moved. No one moved.

We're laying there. Totally staying. Oh, you dare moving it. Doesn't this feel great? Yes. Um, do you regret rocking the ice so hard at the Golden Knights pregame that some of it melted and it made it really chunky ice and let the capitals win? Oh, I haven't heard that.

Damn. People are talking about a curse. Actually. Oh, he just called you out. I've seen the curse thing. Yeah. I think that's, I, it actually sounds like a really rad curse. There's like a sad, like small part of me that's like, Hey, the Imagine Dragons

curse does sound like your, especially cause the Knights is with it. It's kind of, it all works together in a really cool way. But no, I really, I mean, I obviously want the Knights to win. I'm not, to be honest with you, I'm not the most sports literate guy. I really don't watch sports that much, but I really love what the Knights stand for, for Vegas. It's like a coming together of a city that, that has had a really shitty couple years and has never really had a culture there, which was like the community, like,

there's never been a community since there. So this is the first time that Vegas is getting to experience that. So in that aspect, I'm, man, like, I would love for the Knights to win. But as far as like, if you were to be like, Hey, give me stats and stuff. Like, I really, I couldn't give you anything. I'd be lying to you to say otherwise. Yeah. Like, honestly, I'm a big caps fan, so I'm pulling very hard for him, but I can't

hate Las Vegas. Like it's a fun city and all the fans have been like really, really cool, very nice. Like the hockey game stuff and like everything that's wrapped around the hockey game is just awesome. It's so much fun to watch. Yeah. Vegas is just super over the top and eccentric. And so it's cool because they can get away with being cheesy and corny and like, and

then it's kind of like, Oh, but it's Vegas. You know what I mean? So I love that because I'm always looking for an excuse to be able to get away with being corny. Yes. Absolutely. Nice. Yeah.

What's your favorite lyric from Thunder? Probably lightning. I was lightning before this. Nice. Yeah. I knew that. I knew that you were going to say that. Yeah.

That's pretty clutch. That's really sweet. When you like, it's pretty deep too. When you actually think about it, I was lightning before. Yeah, man. Super deep. Wow. Super deep.

No, it's scientifically accurate too. Really? Because the speed of sound. So you're like implying sound waves even in that one lyric. It's like very, very, very subtle stuff. Damn. You guys don't get credit for being as deep as you are. Yeah.

Yeah, come on. Oh, man. Come on, man. How did it feel hearing Nick Faldo read your lyrics when Patrick Reed was winning the Masters? Yeah, I didn't get to see that. I heard about it for sure. And I thought it was awesome because our song sales went up a bunch. Good.

I'm glad. Finally, you guys get to play. Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't even know what he looks like. But he probably looks something like me, like generic white guy kind of thing. So I can envision it in my mind to something great. He just kept saying, welcome to the new age.

Welcome to the new age. And then Jim Nance was like, welcome to the new age, friends. And I was behind him at my house just like with the whole $1 bills. Yes. Yes. You just cash register was going off every single time they said it. Yeah. What about video game home screens?

You guys write good songs for those too. Yeah. Honestly, I love video games. I'm a big gamer. So I'm always stoked on that. I'm always stoked on that. I think the first thing we got was assassins creed with radioactive. Yup.

Really a geeky moment for me because I love assassins creed. And that's how radioactive really took off was really from that trailer. Like I hold like high regard for the assassins creed people. Who is it? They're like, who's the game maker behind that? I'm just going to guess Blizzard. That's not Blizzard. No, it's not Blizzard.

Not Blizzard. I don't think it's electronic art. It's definitely not Naughty Dog. I don't know who it is to be honest, but they do a great job. You guys have like breaking the code to like how to just print money like that. Now I was making a joke about how like Madden and all these sports games probably have it. And then you're like, yeah, assassins creed did radioactive. You guys are just everywhere.

It's insane. Yeah. I don't know. I think it's just really accessible. Yeah. It's like it works somehow and that's fear and people read it. And I think it's divisive, which is actually a good thing because it's like, I hate this or I love this.

Like for me, the last thing I want when someone hears a magic dragon be like, I'm very neutral to this. I really like, I genuinely want someone to be like, damn, this dude screams on my radio one more time. I'm like going to throw my radio out the car or to be like, damn, I really feel emotional to hear this person. And so someone in the middle is like, that's a danger zone for me. That's like a place that I'm not comfortable with.

I'd rather be like, I don't know. I'd rather be, I definitely don't want indifference. You know what your music is really, really good for back when I used to run on occasion before I got fat. I would, I would do not your, your, my culture is not your Joe before. Okay. Before I got out of shape. Before I lost cardiovascular.

You just called yourself. Shout out. Well, I'm, I'm overweight. I'm overweight. Dan, you don't realize what he just did. He's not overweight whatsoever. I'm a little bit overweight. And I struggle with my weight all the time.

But what I, what I'm getting at is before I got out of shape, I'll put it that way. I used to listen to your music while I ran. And it's awesome because you do, you feel like you're the protagonist in a video game when you're listening to Imagine Dragons and, and you're on a quest. Yeah, man. That's the goal. Yeah. I see like little squirrels run across the road.

I'm like, oh, that squirrel's got a side quest riddle for me to solve. And just like, it keeps you going. It keeps you going. So it's really good for that too. I love, you know, the truth is I really love sci-fi and, and I'm from Vegas. So I obviously love stuff to be over the top. And so I think that has been for better or for worse. That's like the bane and the greatest strength of the Magic Dragons, which is just, it's

just like, go for it. You know what I mean? At the end of the day, it's like when I'm writing a song, I'm like, do I do a chord change and then scream this like chorus a little bit louder? Yeah. Of course I do. Why wouldn't I? You know what I mean?

Send it. And there's like, I find a great joy in that. Like I feel like I would, I would just like, I love that I can just do whatever I want because it just, I get to just, I don't know, for better or for worse. That's just how it's always been for me. And that's what music is for me personally is like, it's, that's, like the rock and roll aesthetic for me has never been like necessarily drug sex and rock and roll. It's, it's, you just do you regardless of what anybody else thinks.

And that, that is all that it represented to me as like a Mormon kid when I was just like, wow, I'm in a box man. That's what it did for me. You guys are more like video games, commercials and soaking. Yeah. I said sex, drugs, rock and roll. For sure. Priority one.

But yeah, no. Yeah. But yeah, video games, I really don't, I wish I could play more video games now. I play League of Legends. For sure. I love that game. That's the only one that lives with me though. Like I'm now entering my 30s and it's like hard for me to find a game that I really can

get by. There's something like pirate ship game out that looks pretty good that I want to play. I can't remember what it's called. Like something at sea, captain's at sea or something. Well, it's funny because you guys, and I think what, what is disarming is. How funny you guys have been on Twitter and how you kind of let the people, anyone who wants to hate you guys. Like I know that watching you guys interact with other people on Twitter.

When they come at Imagine Dragons and make jokes about all Imagine Dragons lame. You're like, yeah, well, you know, okay, yeah, we're lame, but we're making money. We're having a great time. It's like, you know what? People like, people should enjoy what they do and you guys enjoy what you do. What's your, what's your favorite lyric for whatever it takes? Uh, you know, I really actually, whatever it takes, I will say is one of my like favorite lyrical songs on this record, just because it has a lot.

Like because it's so fast, it gave me more room to like speak my peace on that song. If I, I actually really like that song. There's a lyric in it that says I'm an apostrophe, a symbol to remind you that there's more to see. And for me, I feel like that, that like, I like that lyric because one, I just like how visual it is. And I also was like English lit in college, like I was a major. And so I, I appreciate like the English literature, like not, but I also think that

that's, that's for me is what Imagine Dragons is, is that it represents a, like a lot of our fans are people who have dealt with mental health issues to some degree. And I've, and I've been very vocal for many years about dealing with depression. So the middle school and it's been a big part of what turned me to music. And so I appreciate like at the end of the day, even going back to what your question was, which was like, you know, at the end of the day, there's going to be haters and all those things. I guess the only reason I would be, I would be bummed.

I think I would be bummed on people hating on my band if it wasn't for the fact that I just, I really believe in what it stands for. And I'm proud of what Imagine Dragons stands for and what it does as far as just creating space for people who feel lesser than to some degree to come together and be friends. And that for me is really bad. So to be a part of that, I'm like, cool. So at the end of the day, you know, like art is so subjective and somebody's going to love Nirvana and somebody's going to hate Nirvana and somebody's going to love like

Aerosmith and hate Aerosmith. You know what I mean? It's like, it's just at the end of the day, it's like, but do you love what you're doing and are you proud of it? And if you aren't, then that sucks. Yeah. Then you're definitely selling out. But if it's real for you, if like Justin Bieber is like, damn, this song I wrote is

making me cry and I'm so happy and proud of it. Like, cool. You know what I mean? Like that's, then he's living his truth and I can't hate on that, you know? Well, you know what it was for me and I'll tell you, I bet you there's a lot of people who have a similar experience. It was, I heard one of your songs on the radio. I was like, these guys are fucking awesome.

This sounds great. And then you guys were on a commercial. If you're like a hardcore sports fan, your songs get played for us nonstop because it's every commercial. So then you start to resent it, but it's no fault to you. Right. Exactly. It's almost like someone is sitting there pressing play over and over.

So the, any kind of hatred is not real hatred. It's more like that commercial is just playing too much. And honestly, like I can genuinely tell you, I like, if one of my songs comes on the radio, I genuinely want to turn it off because I, I hear these songs so much that I already have to play it on stage every night. Like I have to go out tomorrow night and sing all these songs and I'm going to have to do that 60 more times in the next two months. It goes for two and a half months.

And so for me, it's like, I totally understand that concept. But on the same note, I'm not going to say no and be like, yeah, let me not make the money on that commercial. Right. Right. Like showing LeBron James, like doing his cool thunk. Like, you know what I mean? Like, and I feel like I get that there's other rock musicians out there that would be like,

hell no, I'm not putting my song and like the playoff. Actually, I don't know if there are a lot to say no to it. It's the people that don't have that opportunity. They say like, hypothetically, I would not say no. Yeah. Right. My hit song, I would never let them play it for college football Saturday nights. I would never let them molest my.

My song out there for people to hear. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Did you listen to Volcanoes Tornados? I did actually. I honestly, to be honest, that was the first moment that I was like, damn, because that

came through and I was like, oh man, he's actually like funny and he's kind of clever. That sucks. Because I was like, this is going to be harder for me to like actually have this beach because I was really like, I don't know, I just saw bar stools and whatever bar stools and beer or something. Whatever these guys are, they don't sound like they're that clever. But then I saw that and I was like, oh. You're right.

Yeah, your initial reaction was actually better. So I don't know if you saw it, but the day after Volcanoes and Tornados debuted on Twitter.com, there was a tornado inside of Volcano in Hawaii. So do you believe that I had some conjuring? Wow. I didn't know that. That sounds heavy. So when you come to New York, what we have to do is me and Big Cat want to write a song

for you guys. We challenge you. Is that where you guys live, New York? Yeah, we're in New York. We challenge you to co-write a song with us that will be played before every Thursday night football game. Maybe not like on the actual show. I'm actually down.

We should do that. But we should also try to make it as absolutely epic as humanly possible sounding. Like Volcanoes. There needs to be like zombies maybe and throwing like definitely like a hurricane, like hurricane before. I want to start brainstorming. Okay. Let's work in an omelette somehow.

Omelettes are badass. Deceptor maybe? I don't know. I'll be thinking about it. Good. Yeah. All right. I got one last question.

It is the Seat Geek question put in promo code take and you can go to a sports event where you can listen to the Imagine Dragons get played on the Jumbotron or you can go see them. They're on tour right now. Put in promo code take $10 off. Where are you right now? Where are you exactly this second? I'm in Hartford, Connecticut right now rehearsing for tour. Okay.

And then our first show is tomorrow night in Hartford, Connecticut. And then we're touring the U.S. for like two and a half months. Boom. So put in promo code take and you go see Imagine Dragons. So my Seat Geek question is what is the weirdest thing you have on your rider? Man, I wish you'd asked me that earlier in our career because we really got weird with it. Now we're like boring and it's like oatmeal and stuff like that.

Actually, you know what? We do ask for a Hymone in Biraco, which is kind of a big, it's not weird, but it's actually it's a little bit of a diva request because you can't get that everywhere and it's kind of hard to get to actually get like good Hymone in Biraco. So, but we have asked for like, I mean, I mean, one time we asked for like we were just in jest like thinking, Hey, how much can we push this and we asked for a Butler monkey. That's exactly what we just put Butler monkey. And no joke, we got to the venue and a guy came in and had like a little tiny monkey

with a hat like a little hat on and I felt I actually felt really guilty. I was like, Damn, this monkey must have like the saddest life. This is like not cool at all. And then on top of it, we just paid for this like Butler monkey to come come hang out with us. And then I felt like we had to hang out with the Butler monkey all night. Yeah, I've been rude. So that was yeah, but apparently, so apparently there are Butler monkeys.

So, so on, on a, is it true? I think I some of some band in the 80s started where if you put like, you put one really random thing on a rider just to make sure that they're paying attention to make sure they see it. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I've heard that, but that just sounds like if you're having to do that, then you must not be that big of a deal to begin with. I'll be honest with you.

Yeah. Because the rider people really take their job serious and go out there and they put like a check mark next to everything and they're on it. So I think that they must have had a manager that was stealing from them or something like some business was going on with that band. What about what's the candy you put on your rider? Because that's what my rider would be just be like an endless amount of candy. We don't put any candy.

We put dark chocolate and that's it. I don't eat. So when I'm on the road, I don't, I don't eat a dairy sugar. What? Well, I do fruit. You just made like heroin. I don't do a, well, I do do heroin, but that's okay for your body. What the hell?

You don't get candy. Like they basically, it's a free candy. I know, I know, but it's, it's like this, this weird thing where you actually start to realize how bad for your body candy is. You live in Las Vegas. When does that happen? We, no, I actually, the only reason we don't is because I have, this is the one serious thing I'll say is that I have a autoimmune disease that's called

enclosing spondylitis and the main thing that triggers it is sugar. Oh, make it. Oh, God damn it. Now I'm the asshole. We'll start to go. Go find me for you. What's, what, what happens with the autoimmune disease? What, what, what happens?

It's like, uh, basically I have an overactive immune system. So my body will, my immune system will attack my joints being like, oh, it must be a disease, but it's like, no, these are actually my joints don't attack that, but they do it. And so my body like inflames all over like back and knees, ankles. But if you don't have, if I, if I don't have sugar, then I can maintain it pretty good without having to like give myself a shot in the ass that suppresses my immune system.

But does that also mean that you like never get sick because your immune system's so good? Kind of. Yeah, it kind of does. But I typically will get like sick like once a year and that happens to be right now actually, which sucks because I'm on antibiotics. But I think by tomorrow I'll be good. Wait.

So you just get inflamed. So do I have that in my face? You have what in your face? The disease where you just, you're, you're, you get inflamed. Like it sounds like I have that. You don't get it in your face. No, my face doesn't inflame. You probably have it in your nipples, but get my nipples in my face.

I would need it in my day. Maybe in your nipples. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I think you might get inflamed in other parts of your body, but that's yeah, stomach, my chest and my face. We have very low T type of disease that you're talking about. Yeah.

And there are going to be a lot of people who have ankylosis, funnelitis, they're going to listen to this and be like, man, I really love this sensitive talk about talk about. Yeah, I guess that's on me. You know what? You know, credit to us. We just lay, we raised a lot of awareness. We would not only raise awareness, but we gave the people with

angles of a common enemy in me, right? Yeah, that's a great idea. That's a good way to put it. I actually do a lot. I do a lot of the AS community. I like to do these videos, people who have AS and they're actually a really rad community and not, they'll like, listen to this. No, I think it's funny.

And they'll actually be stoked cause they'll be like, Oh, people are talking about my disease and nobody can pronounce and no doctors. Know about that's rad. Yeah. So I don't want to call us heroes, but you know, you can basically just said we're heroes. Is there an award we get at the end of the year? Yeah.

Okay. Um, all right. Well, uh, Dan, thank you so much for joining us. Good luck on the tour. And, uh, we look forward to maybe seeing you when you're in New York. Yeah, man. Thanks for having me. And I just, for the record, I genuinely thought the pop punk video was, that

was really great. Like I, I, I genuinely was like, just need a lot of views. I think this is pretty good. Not enough that I'm going to post about it or anything. No, you don't, you don't have to post about it. Uh, what about just like an opening slot on your tour? We settle for that. Yeah.

Yeah. I'll have to think about that. It depends how many seats you're worth, like how many should be ashes you're worth, but I'm guessing that's probably like, what? Like a hundred or something like that. We, uh, we just sold out Irving Plaza. So you tell me. Damn, wait for, did you guys really just, yeah, close, close.

Well, by the time this airs, it'll be sold out. We have like a hundred tickets left out of, out of 1500. Hey, for the record, that's actually really commendable. That's really cool. And Irving Plaza is one of my favorite places that we played growing up. There you go. Well, I mean, he was growing up when you were growing up. Yeah.

When I was, when I was 17, when we were tiny, when we were very small, that and poor back in the day, when we were imagined lizards. And a reminder, you can buy tickets right now online. We have about 150 left for the punk show at Irving Plaza, July 12th. Get yours now. They're live nation. Check out live nation. That's Irving Plaza, July 12th.

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Hank, you start with your breaking moves. ESPN has bent the knee. They rescheduled their game against the Blue Jays to one. Wow, look at that. So they did all this because of a double header. No, because Hank said Hank's on the hot seat. Oh, OK, hadn't been released to the world yet. It just occurred to me like a double header.

That's a good nickname for sixty nineing. So is sixty nineing back? Mm hmm. I think so. OK, I think we're back. That was that quick. We just cleaned up all of our business in the beginning of the show.

All right, my breaking moves is breaking moves. I just want to hear the cow again. The cow's really funny. Just do it again. I want to hear the cow again. Breaking moves. All right, breaking moves. Not really breaking moves,

but Kendrick Perkins has issued a statement on Steph Currybeef. And finally, Kendrick Perkins is not someone to trifle with. So he said, I don't know why people keep wanting to pick battles this way. Might want to choose that shit wisely, man, rather than fucking with me. I don't think I'm the problem that they want, though might want to pick another battle.

Mm hmm. Spot the line. I don't think I'm the problem they want. That's a fucking badass quote. I did like the move that he pulled where he just didn't. He didn't move. Steph back to him. He's supposed to move.

He stood his ground. Yeah, it's not his fault. Last I checked, you have a right to maintain possession. Yeah, Steph was doing his little, you know, I'm just going to wiggle around and, you know, really, really cheese this one up. Was he the restricted area? Yeah, he was.

He was. He was on the sideline. Yeah, well, then, yeah, then well, then he should have to move if he's in the restricted area. No, he's no. Well, there's two restricted areas. There's a sideline restricted area where you're actually not allowed to move.

OK, that's right. You can't can't come on the court. If Kendrick had come on the court, then he would have been suspended. Correct. You can't lose Kendrick Perkins in this. In the series. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, I really hope that if I hope they suit him up

for whenever the elimination, like if the Cavs lose game three, if they suit up Kendrick Perkins for game four, why don't they? What do they have to lose besides the national championship? NBA Finals. Yes. The I don't know. I don't think anything. Yeah, just games. Yeah, just go and foul people.

Just make them earn it. LeBron James should force Kendrick Perkins into the game so that he wouldn't have to rescind an invitation to the White House. And there's also a 50-50 chance that Jermon Green just starts kicking people in the nuts at the site of Kendrick Perkins. And then now we're just reliving. I would. 16 again. Warriors blue with 3-1 lead.

Oh, people don't talk about that. No, they do not. All right, let's do segments. We actually have on the NBA Finals, LeBron Blames. So on Monday, the extended cut of the sideline after J.R. Smith forgot what the score was in the NBA Finals game. Yes, that's a real sentence. And LeBron sulked very hard, was not so happy, bad body language.

And then today he was getting criticized and someone asked him, a reporter asked him, you're getting criticized online for this, for not picking up your teammates. And he said, we're in the NBA Finals. That's not picking up my teammates enough. So LeBron Blames little shot at his teammates for sucking this entire playoffs, which I actually think that's a fair response by LeBron. Well, it also tells me that LeBron James has been cheating on Zero Dark 30

because he knew that people were making fun of him online and he had that response ready to go. Yeah, but he so the the extended cut to be totally like real here for a second. That that was shocking to me because I understand being really disappointed in the moment and you you get like a 30 seconds to sulk. Sure. But to never even look at your teammates in the eye and be like, hey, guys, we could still win this game. That was a little weird to me.

I think it was, yeah, I saw LeBron blaming himself for a little bit of that, too. So he's his own teammate as the GM. He's his own teammate because he could have called that time out. No, he can't. He can't. No, I stand corrected in this in the national championship with the ball or the coach. You can't call a time out in the national championship, right? Hank. Yeah. Yeah. So he couldn't call the time out.

But I just don't you feel like when they go hands in the middle, that's the moment where you're like, all right, guys, we could still win this game. It's so devastating. He left Cal Corvair to try to pump people up. Cal Corvair pumping people up is never going to work. Do they still do that? Hands in the middle? They did. Everybody in 2, 4, 6, 8. And he did the bad body language where he moved.

We will lose to Golden State. He didn't look any kind of like smooth his shoulders like, oh, fine. Like you guys have cooties. I don't want to touch you. Team 1, 3, 1, 2, 3. I mean, Tristan Thompson probably has cooties. By the way, should we? I know it's one of the odds on favorites for LeBron James.

But do you want to just get real risky with it and say LeBron James not going to the Houston Rockets? No, Chris Ball said that he's not taking anything less than the max. I'm not ready to make that claim yet. I'm not. You're thinking about it. I did the trailblazers. I might do the Rockets. I might do the Sixers. I might just get crazy. You're going to ruin our journalistic reputation.

Just to go fly too close to the Rockets. I circled the Rockets. I haven't in pencil. Next up, we have to protect the flag. So if you didn't know and you live under a rock, the Eagles were supposed to go to the White House on Tuesday. Israel lives under a rock. True. Get it? Yeah. Right there. Iraq? Yeah. That's 2.5.

Okay. Thanks. So the Eagles are supposed to go to the White House. They then were like said, well, actually it's only 15 of us, but the mascot's coming still. And then he was coming. He was planning on going. And then President Trump canceled the already kind of canceled party and made it about the flag, which I don't think it had anything to do with that. And it became a whole shit storm between broken brain

Trump people and crazy people who are tweeting out pictures of Eagles. I even saw one picture of Jason Peters kneeling in practice being like, well, if they hadn't done this, right? So it was broken brains on all sides. Just fighting each other on Twitter. Right. They took a knee at the end of the game. Yeah. I was disrespectful to really bad. Yeah. Really, really bad. Yeah.

I'm glad to see Donald Trump like standing up against these despicable, despicable people on the Eagles. But I'm really looking forward to watching to meet with Kim Jong-un. That's going to be nice. Yes, that will be nice. And the Warriors and the Cavs have already said, which was nice of the Cavs to even put themselves in the car. They kind of cobi did. They're like, neither, neither team, whoever wins this series

isn't going to the White House. Kobe, Kobe, we're one tweet away from Kobe being like, hey, if I win a sixth, I'm not going to the White House. As we said, we know that the caps are going to go. Yeah, it's over has a dossier right now. Like explaining this, your mission, should you choose to accept it is to win the Stanley Cup and then go bug President Trump's office.

I think baseball and hockey probably are going to Facebook first. Still college world series. I don't think they let them. I don't think college world series goes to the White House. They're going to take what they can get. They're going to be like, yeah, by the way, college lacrosse. The Yale to Yale win. Did you see the big news, though?

Because this was big news and everyone was eyes on will they, won't they go? Trump canceled it, you know, took his ball, went home, all that stuff subtly underneath all of that. Melania Trump made her first public appearance. We smoked her out. Interesting. But for some reason, I didn't see anything about it.

So they must have just they kind of did like the news dump. Like, hey, we're going to extend our coach, even though he coached terribly against Brad Stevens. Oh, and then our GM has five burner accounts. That kind of news trick. Also, I think Trump might have been a little intimidated having Nick Foles. True. Yeah, that you can't.

You can't have a guy like that storm into your oval office. Yeah, that's true, especially with Melania around now. That's he basically becomes the president. Melania, isn't that how the president works? Biggest dick in the White House? Yes, absolutely. That's how America works. I think that's how Bill Clinton got elected.

All right, we have a LBJ, definitely. Yes, LBJ got stuck in a bathtub. Yeah, because his dick was too big. He he climbed a little note back. He climbed into the bathtub and then got an erection. Yeah. And so it displaced all the water and filled him up and he couldn't get out. Nothing makes people more mad

when we do fake presidential facts. Ben Franklin stuck in a bathtub. Yeah, Alexander Hamilton, a great president, but he also got stuck in a bathtub. The dude wouldn't stop fucking rap, singing the entire time he was in the White House at Motherfucker. All right, let's wrap up with guys on checks. Sup, boys, my sister and I are fraternal twins.

I think it's sorority twins, if you're a chick. How do I tell if my boyfriend thinks my twin sister is hotter than I am? Has he ever tried to sleep with you by mistake? Eric quotes, because if he hasn't, then he thinks that she's hotter. I was going to say, you got to just let her let him fuck your sister and see how.

Whoops, doesn't happen that fast, usually. Yeah, kind of thing. Yeah, see who's also you're so pretty. Also usually doesn't happen this quickly. Sup, sup twins. Yeah, that's you know. If the discussion is being had, this is one of those situations.

I think fraternal twins, though, are twins that don't look alike. Oh, yeah, you're right. No, sorority twins, though. They all wear pearls and they have polo shirts and they pop the colors. And every now and then a Snapchat video comes out on a bus that's not good.

They sing along to all the words. Yes. I thought fraternal twins meant a guy and girl. What's that? That's just... Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy. Twins can either be monosidiotic, identical, meaning they develop from one zygote,

which splits and forms two embryos. That's definitely webbed feet. Or dizygotic, fraternal, meaning that each twin develops from a separate egg and each egg is fertilized by its own sperm cell. Okay, so... So they don't look alike? No, they don't, so they don't look alike.

So that's a weird question to ask. It's like you could just say, does my boyfriend think my sister's hotter than me? Yeah, and also... The answer is always yes, just wear yourself sick about it. It's kind of cool that we got zygotes. That's cool. That is cool.

You could also just phrase it with, I have an inferiority complex. I've been living with my entire life because my twin sister's hotter than me. Yes. Hey, boys, my boyfriend and I eat the same thing for every meal together. Shouldn't our farts smell the same?

I feel like mine are bearable, but his take the air out of the room. What the hell? That's a good question. Yeah. Your body process... Listen, when you process foods through your ovaries, sometimes it does a better job.

You have like a natural air filter in your body. Women just smell prettier than guys. I'll tell you what, we've had a lot of couple talk on guys on checks. This couple's going to make it. If they can just sit around studying each other's farts after they eat a big meal of Thai, that's a couple that they can hang.

What's a good sex-aversary gift? What's sex-aversary? Sex-aversary? So like the first time you had sex? It sounds like it's a hookup celebrating an anniversary. Yeah. Which means you're dating. No, it means that you think you're dating,

but you're not. Yeah, so I'd say nothing. It's definitely like a big long poem that you wrote for them, and that definitely won't creep them out. Yeah, in a driving way. Or yeah, just maybe it sounds like this person might have saved the condom. So give him back the condom.

Oh, I've got a good idea. How about some sex? Yeah, do that on your sex-aversary. What's up, tall cat? Does blood type affect period flow? Because I'm O-positive and have extremely heavy flow, but my girlfriend is O-negative and has her period for about a day. That's way above our pay grade.

What blood type are you guys? Mad dog. Yeah. Great. Ice. I just have ice in my veins. I've got sandpaper flowing through these suckers. We should actually figure that out

in case we ever need to have a blood transfusion. Wait, so what's the question again? The girl has a different blood type than her girlfriend, and one has a heavier flow than the other? The question is, does blood type affect period flow? Definitely. Because it's like motor oil. There's synthetic, and then there's diesel.

Yeah. Yeah, that's gas. But diesel. Yeah, but diesel and combustion and rotary grader. Yep. The cheap stuff, and then the expensive stuff. The car guys, you know. If you're a universal donor, that's like what the Jiffy Lube guy says.

Hey, this is the best kind, and your car's going to explode if you don't use it. And it's $200. Yeah. And then you buy it, and then you drive home, and then your boyfriend's like, why'd you spend $200 on oil? It just dawned on me that we know just as much about cars

as we do a woman's body. Yeah. They're very similar. Very similar. Just confusing, and we'll just pay whatever the price is. Mm-hmm. Well, here's a fun fact, though. The job of a male...objinn...

OBGYN. Is to... Is to mansplain... I can't script that shit. Oh, my God, Hank. Oh, it's OBGYN. OBGYN. I'm a nutrition gynecologist, yeah.

I mean, how the fuck are you supposed to, like, know that they didn't put any periods in between the letters or anything? When was the last time you got your pap smeared, Hank? Hey, confirmed Hank does not have a vagina. Anyway, the job of a very unhealthy one... OBGYN is to mansplain women's bodies to them. Therefore, their job is guys on chicks.

Big Cat and PFT are practically doctors. Ooh. Okay. Yeah, I'll take it. I'm an OBGYN. Yeah. Don't OBGYN defy me. It's like the old joke.

I shouldn't tell the joke. Tell the joke. What's this? I shouldn't have told the joke. Yeah. When is the drink-paint remix coming to Apple Music? Ooh, that's a good point. So anytime you have a good song, you have to remix it

and you double dip on it. Yep. Try to find an intern that knows how to use pro tools. So if there's any college kids out there with musical interests that want to come... We're already at remix? I feel like we got to let it be, like, the song of the summer for a little bit

and then do the remix. Yeah. Well, we got to work on it. Okay. All right. Listen to it on Spotify. Many times. Hint.

Many, many times. We might win something. That's it. Oh. Okay. Okay. Great segment. That is our show.

We will see you on Friday. Hopefully, a very long-time recurring guest will be joining us. It's been a long time. You can guess. Reply to the... Is it a long-time recurring guest or it's been a long time?

Long, both. So reply to the tweet saying what the... When we announce the episode, we'll put out the episode tonight with who you think it will be. Also, shout out John Taffer. I'm coming for that ass. Yeah.

See you in Vegas, bitch. It's not seen in your ass. Love you guys. It's part of my tape. Present. Thunder. Paw. Stools.

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