Pardon My Take - Ja Morant, Stu Feiner, Suns In 4 And Joey Chestnut Is The Goat

Episode Date: July 7, 2021

Suns in 4 is back on, we pause to give the Bucks some credit because they got overshadowed by July 4th (00:02:24-00:12:55). The Match happened and it was extremely awkward (00:12:55-00:21:31). Talking Soccer (00:21:31-00:29:34). Who's back of the week with guest producers Jake and Youngstown Bob (00:29:34-00:45:29). Ja Morant joins the show to talk about his new documentary, mastering the floater, and his dad being his number 1 hater (00:45:29-01:04:44). Stu Feiner joins the show live from his basement and we get the full Stu Feiner experience as well as an explanation on the backstory of Steve Michalik (01:04:44-01:46:13). We finish the show with Hot Seat/Cool Throne and some love for Shohei Ohtani (01:46:13-02:12:12).You 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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sure that you are set up for those curve balls that come your way at any given time. Okay, let's go. It's part of my take presented by Faw Stool Sports. Welcome to part of my take presented by MoneyLion. Go download it right now in the App Store for Life's Curve Balls. MoneyLion is there for you today is Wednesday, July 7th. Suns and 4. Suns and 4. Suns and 4. Actually, Suns and 3 now. It's going to happen. Suns and 3 more. Yeah, it's going to happen. My analysis of the game comes down to this. Giannis was not as injured as we were told that he was because just from the start he went out there and he was the most athletic player on the court. Well, I actually am totally fine with Giannis being put into the Adrian Peterson club of the

people that just don't have knee ligaments or regular bodies that are anything like the human body because he was so injured and then he wasn't. And I don't know what happened in between, but it's just Giannis because he's a freak. I do actually want to do one thing though, PFT, because we've got to talk about the Suns and 4. But because of the way the schedule broke, I feel a little bad for Bucks fans because Saturday they clinch their first NBA finals in, I don't know, it's like 40 years or something like that. July 4th is Sunday. Monday is July 5th. No one's really working July 5th either. And then you get thrown into the valley and you lose game one. You had no time to enjoy the fact that you're going to the NBA finals. You had no time for

people to digest the Eastern Conference finals. So I want to do that for the Bucks for one moment before we talk about how the Suns are going to win this series in four. Chris Middleton was incredible in game six. Drew Holiday was incredible in game six. I'm proud of the Bucks for basically handling business when I thought maybe the Hawks. I didn't think Trey. Trey Young was too injured to play like he was, he gutted it out, but he was, he clearly wasn't himself. But the Bucks deserve all the credit for getting to the, you know, NBA finals, going through the Eastern Conference final. I know there's been injuries along the way, but we don't apologize for those when you're a fan of a team. So credit to the Bucks, credit to the Bucks fans. Here's your moment. If we had a show

on Monday, unfortunately, we're already talking about the fact that the Suns are going to beat you in four. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I'll pretend like we didn't have a show. And you're right. They didn't get a chance to tune in to get it up and hear Mike Greenberg talk about how great the Bucks were and how impressive that performance was. That's the best part of your team advancing in any sport is like we've said before, you get to read the articles, you get, you, those Bucks fans should be allowed to go to work. If you don't live in Milwaukee, you should be allowed to go into work and just stand next to a water cooler and pretend that game one hasn't happened yet and just berate the Hawks fan that, you know, are like a Mavericks fan or a Clippers fan and be like, huh, you guys

going golfing early, huh? That's a shame. Like you need, you need that chance to bust your co-workers balls a little bit. So I will, I will allow our listeners, if they're in that position, a one day pass. Yeah. It's, it really is. It really sucks how it broke out for them because this never happens because the NBA finals are never in July. And the fact, like, guess what, July 4th, everyone's talking about America. They're not talking about the Bucks. So you missed all of Sunday and Monday was a total wash as well. So Bucks fans feel proud for yourself. You should get your moment in, in the sun. This is your moment. We're, we're saying it right now. I really do, I was like legitimately very impressed with how they finished that series because they always say,

you know, closing out a series is, is the mark of a good team, not letting teams linger around, not letting it go to seven games. Chris Middleton, that legacy quarter you had, he's had a lot of legacy quarters, but he was incredible. So I, Bucks fans, there's your moment. I feel bad that, and you know, this is a long series. I'm not going to overreact to game one, but sons and four is just really fun to say. And when the sons win game one, guess what? Sons and four leads the show. I will overreact the cat. I'll take that bait. I'll say sons, sons and four, sons and three from right now. It was, if Chris Paul plays like that, there's nothing you can do. The only thing I was thinking, like, if I were trying to devise

a defense to stop Chris Paul, the only thing I can think of is what I hear smart people say when they talk about basketball, which is they either are or are not switching enough on screens. So whatever they did in this game, you need to do the opposite of switching on screens of what you did tonight. And that should shut Chris Paul down. So that's my analysis of the game. Dude, I Bobby Porter is bowl for life, but holy shit. He had that stretch where Chris Paul cooked him like four times in a row. And I, I want to give Bobby Porter some credit because he did the thing that you have to do when you're in the middle of getting fried on national television. Or if you're playing in a pickup game, the same exact thing that has to happen, you then go down

and take a really bad shot, just hoping that you'll make it. So everyone will be like, well, now it's Chris Paul versus Bobby Portis. They're going back and forth. He missed the shot. It was a bad shot, but I respect the fact that he had to take that shot because everyone knows when you get burned multiple times, you have to shoot the next possession. You have to try to even the score. So in your head, you can be like, all right, he's got six, but I got two like where it's not as bad as it looks. But Bobby Portis that it was actually criminal that he was left out on an island with Chris Paul in those moments. Like I felt very bad for him. If he had made that shot, then you know, Mike Breen's like a couple of alpha males going at right at each other.

Larry. Yeah. Right. Oh man. We watched two greats battle it out. There's another way to get out of that. And that's just fake an injury if you're Bobby Portis. I think I probably would have gone for the fake an injury route after the time where Chris Paul, he did the Josh Allen thing where he mashed all the buttons. Yes. With the ball, but he went between both legs behind the back, I think with both hands, threw in a couple crossovers. It is absolutely roasted at that point. Like he's a witch. This guy's doing witchcraft right now. I can't be expected to defend against that. I'm just going to fake. Oh, I got a hamstring. That's a shame. Happens to all of us. And Chris Paul was obviously incredible and

you like the sons though, they had all their big three playing pretty much their peak performances. The only thing you could say is Devon Booker was like not great from three, but Chris Paul had 32. Devon Booker had 27 and then Deandre Aiton threw in a 22 and 19. Like he was all over the place. So I don't, you can't beat them if all three of those guys are playing that way. And so that's, that's where we land. Sons and four because of that. Big four. Big cat campaign played pretty well tonight. Also Frank Kaminsky had four minutes. Didn't record a stat, but he had four minutes. Hey, guess what? You know what? Everyone who's making fun of Frank Kaminsky for not beating up Pat Beverly, even though that's what I saw.

If Frank Kaminsky had fought Pat Beverly there, he wouldn't be able to play those four minutes tonight. He would have been suspended. And so wait, so he had four points, right? No, he had four minutes. Four minutes. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. Who knows what would happen? Those are big minutes. What was his plus minus? Zero. Okay. Perfect. So he actually tread water for a little bit. Yeah. He had a four trillion. Okay. I love it. But the most important thing big cat is that he was out there for his teammates tonight. Yes, exactly. The only other thing I had for this game, I, the sun's crowd, that is the coolest crowd of all time. Like that's what I'm saying. They, that is a party that I, one would never get invited to,

but if I did get invited to everyone would be like, look at that cop over there and I'd feel extra fat. Like I'd walk in and all of a sudden I walk through the door and my shirt, it feels way tighter and my tits are bigger because that crowd, like half of the crowd, I don't even know if they know a basketball game's on. They're just partying so fucking hard and having such a great time. I just love it. Like they all look like they just been toasting in the sun, maybe a little bit of ecstasy and then just ball out with the boys. You're right. With the sun's crowd, they seem awesome. They seem like the greatest group of fellas to ever watch a game with. And I, they just remind me kind of a Los Angeles crowd. If like all the Laker bros were really into BMX

and dirt bike racing and there were just not enough good tracks in LA and they liked to do designer drugs a little bit more, then they move out to the desert and those are fun guys to party with. And it's definitely the look of a crowd that is just thankful to be in air conditioning. You can tell that like more than anything, if you get 30,000 people from the Phoenix area in a building that has a moderate climate, they're just going to go nuts because they're comfortable. It's actually a great point because the like going from the summer heat all day into air conditioning is actually the greatest drug ever created. It really does change your entire like mind, or whatever, what is it, your mind psychology. That's not the right words. It's

late. By the way, check in. It's almost midnight. So my brain's not working, but it is the greatest drug ever. So you're exactly right. And then on top of it, they're probably doing drugs. I don't know my LA like towns very well. So probably people will roast me for this, but it's like if the Lakers played all their games at Long Beach, I think I nailed that. I think I nailed that. I'm going to say it's as if everybody from Bakersfield lived in Kauai. Kauai? Is that the island? The island of Kauai. Oh, the island of Kauai. Okay. Okay. I like how that might be, might be difficult to comprehend because there is a player named Kauai. Yeah. Yeah. And he does like living in his mind would probably be the

absence of thought. Yeah. You would just feel like you're in the matrix at that point. Right. Last thing on this game, we did get LeBron's tweet after the game, one down, three to go, CP3. I'm just at this point, I'm excited to see what LeBron's Instagram post is going to be like after the Suns win the championship. I'll just say it right now. If the Suns win, LeBron should get a ring. Absolutely should get a ring. Absolutely. CP3's best friend. LeBron is putting this team on his back, big cat. He is willing the Suns to be a championship. I wouldn't be shocked if LeBron gets on one of the floats. Yeah. Like just to be there. Yeah. He'll basically like he shares enough business connect. He's basically Chris Paul's manager.

So you usually invite like your managers or your reps or PR guys. They get to hang out during the parades. Absolutely LeBron should be there. He should get to drive one of the funny little cars. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. All right. So other things we're going to get to the match. It happened. It was, it was bad. It was good, but it was bad. Like it's actually a good, I like the idea. I, they shouldn't have done it. I don't know if they, how, how far out they scheduled these, but doing it on the night of the NBA finals, like I watched the first six or seven holes is like, okay, now there's a real like sporting event going on, the NBA finals. I also, I watched long enough though to realize that Bryson came with like all these jokes and he ran out of them

like in the second hole and Phil Mickelson just had to carry the whole crew. Cause Aaron Rodgers was a little surly. Tom Brady, like I think he's kind of, he's got some jokes, but then he runs out as well. Phil Mickelson is all, it was, he's the guy. He is the guy who makes the match go and he gets all the credit in my mind for being just like fun to be around. He even did the, he tried to do a bet with Bryson and Bryson like couldn't understand the concept of it, which was very funny. And also my favorite moment was when Brady was like deep in a sand trap and Phil Mickelson was like, yeah, it's pretty straightforward. You're just going to like hit it out of this. It's like, Phil, you're one of the greatest like sand trap players of all time.

And you're just like, yeah, dude, just, you know, just swing the club and it will go towards the hole and then we'll, we'll put it and we'll be going on to the next hole. Yeah. Bryson definitely rolled up with like a, a Google doc just, just filled with everything he wanted to get off his chest. And at the end, he did save one. He saved one thing for the very end, which was he wanted to make a San Antonio joke to Charles Barkley. And he was able to squeeze that and he almost forgot because he was approaching the last hole. And, and you could tell that like, okay, if they make this putter going to win, he was like, I need to get this one in under the wire, because this was the one piece of gold I want to save. But yeah, he was ready to go with like,

he had his little, his knee slappers. And I was rooting for the course personally. I don't know about you. It was a beautiful course. I was just, I was hoping that Bryson was going to get eaten by a bear on live television. I mean, I thought like no joke. I'm not even kidding. If Bryson DeShambo had been killed and eaten by a grizzly bear during the match, that would have been the funniest thing that's ever been played on television. And Aaron Rodgers wouldn't have tried to save him because they were not like friends and they were not really friendly at all. And I, the other great moment was Gronk calling in and in perfect Gronk fashion. He like didn't realize that when he called in, everyone could hear what he was saying. And he made like a comment about Aaron

Rodgers retiring. And then Aaron Rodgers like, what was that Gronk? And he's like, Oh, I didn't know you were on the line. It was like, of course Gronk doesn't understand this concept. But overall, I, you know, it was good. I just wish they should have played it in the middle of the day on Monday when there was stupid Rob Manford didn't have any baseball games going on. And everyone's like, Hey, there's no sports on play that. That's when like, it's a great concept. It just needs to be played when it's not up against any other real sport, because I just won't pick the match over a real sport. Well, they, they definitely scheduled it a long time ago, because this in their minds was going to be when there was, you know, you get a little break from sports for a couple of weeks

in mid July. So they, they thought they had that scheduled out perfectly, but turns out that because of COVID and all that stuff, everything got mixed around. But yeah, it was, it was fun. It's like fun hearing Phil Mickelson talk shit, because he's like, so naturally good at it. You can tell that like he all this stuff is just like how he normally acts, even when microphones aren't on or maybe he's not dropping as many C bombs as he normally does. But it's definitely stuff like this is how Phil acts just all the time. That's why they call him fig jam. The fuck I'm good. Just ask me. That's his actual personality, like 100% to a T. I back to the course just real quick, because the mountains in the background, you could, I realized you can put mountains behind any sporting event,

and it makes it so much cooler to watch like when they play that Thursday night game or something out in Utah during football season, and you get a glimpse of some mountains, mountains in the background of anything. I mean, shit, the last two seasons of Yellowstone sucked, but I watched every single episode of it because it might be shitty dialogue, but you're in front of like the most beautiful scenery in the entire world. So I probably watched the match longer than I normally would have if it was being played at that like last course in Florida or South Carolina or whatever it was. I like, I like sporting events with mountains next to them. Yeah. No, I mean, it's, it's why the Rose Bowl, those little mountains, they're like

foothills, but they're still are, you know, mountains and that's part of the allure of it. So you're, you're absolutely right that Aaron Rodgers looked like he was very happy in Montana. I treated out during the match, but I think speaking as a football fan, if Aaron Rodgers decided that was his last competitive event in the history of his life, I think us as fans, would applaud him and he doesn't owe us anything more and next stop Canton. So I just want to get that out there. Incredible career. What a way to finish it too as a win on a win. People don't finish their careers on wins. They, they, they hang on too long. Aaron Rodgers is walking off a winner right now. So congrats to him on a great career. I was going to say, like you got Peyton

Manning winning Super Bowl, riding off into the sunset, John Elway doing the same, I think, and then Aaron Rodgers winning the match and no longer playing football after that. Where do you, there's nowhere to go, but down at this point. And really you upstage Brady, like Brady can't retire a winner right now. If Brady wanted to retire, sure he won the Super Bowl or whatever that was, but he lost the match. Right. Right. Exactly. All right. I have a question for you, PFT. It's the row back question because I forgot to do it in the interview. So I'm going to do it right now. The row back question. Use code PFT on rowback.com for 20% off your first purchase. That's R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com with code PFT. They make the best performance polls and hoodies,

and they just dropped new fourth of July gear for you. So go check it out right now. My question is, do you, are you feeling a little bit, Bryson's weird? That's actually the question. Bryson's weird. And I actually stand by what I said on Friday show that there's 5% of me, which won't come out often. Like you saw, I made jokes at his expense today and I will continue to do so, but 5% of me will deep down feel a little weird for him or bad for him because he doesn't know how to converse. Like when they were busting his balls, he, you could see it on his face. He just didn't know, he wasn't computing with him. He didn't understand it. So that's where the, I feel bad for him. So my question is, do you understand a little bit more what I was saying? My answer to

you is yes, Bryson is weird. Good question. He's weird. He's a weird guy. I don't, I will, I don't think I'll ever feel bad for him. I just think he's so, because the personality that he puts out there. Yeah. And everything that he's tried to turn himself into is in the image of a guy that does not give a shit what anyone thinks of him. So if you're going to put that image out, if you're going to gain like 30 pounds of totally legal muscle and act like you're like the big tough guy in golf and I hit bombs on the big swing and nuts on the golf course, I'm going to, I'm going to have zero remorse when it comes to telling you that your hat sucks. So no, I'm not, I will never feel, I will not apologize big guy, I will not apologize for making fun of Bryson DeShambo ever.

I'm not asking you to, I'm just saying hurt people, hurt people. So when I see Bryson, he's hurt and that's why he hurts people by being a weirdo all the time. I don't think, I don't think he's hurt because bears can smell weakness and if he was actually hurt, a bear would have killed him on the course. I would have laughed, but then probably felt bad about him being mauled to death. So I take back what I said earlier. I will feel bad for Bryson if he dies via the paw of the grizzly bear on television. I also have no problem people calling me soft for that take, but it's the truth. I just, again, I'm going to keep making fun of him. 95% is a lot. That's the 95% that's going to keep making fun of him. The 5% is just deep down every

now and then. I might just pump the brakes on it and be like, okay, I'm not going to make fun of him this time. 5% of the time. Should we talk a little soccer? It is coming home, even though this might be a terrible jinx because England does play against the team of Destiny today, but that Spain, Italy game was electric. The Euros are just electric. I just love watching soccer in the middle of the day. It's the perfect like warmup for other sports at night. Yeah. No, Italy looked really good today and that dude Kayser, my guy Kayser, he's the next goat. Like we might be seeing a torch event happen in the next year or two years where Messi passes that torch. Kayser's a beast, had an awesome shot, awesome score. I just love the Italians because

they look so Italian. Everybody on the Italian national team, when they cut to him, you could be wearing a neon yellow shirt and I'd be like, that motherfucker is Italian. They all hit that like real juicy prime spot that I'm looking for. And so it's fun to watch. That sounded weird. The second that I said it sounded weird about the juicy prime spot, but I'm going to continue with my thought that I actually do love the look of really Italian Italian people, almost like looking at a cartoon. It's like I'm watching the Sopranos on a soccer field, but I think it is coming home. I think England is going to win. I think they're going to dominate Denmark. And I think that Italy versus England on what Saturday this week? Saturday. That's up in the air. I heard somebody say it's

coming Rome if Italy wins. So it's coming home versus it's coming Rome. Basically what you can say you watch is the most heartbreaking possible exit for Italy. Excuse me, the most heartbreaking possible exit for England will happen. And so now I think that that would be losing in the finals to Italy. I don't think that they're going to have any problem with Denmark because the guy, they're not really team of destiny. The guy's alive. So thankfully, thankful he's alive. But they're playing. They're not bringing him out until the finals. He's going to be in the stadium surrounded by EMTs in the finals. They should do that in the semis. No, that's a carrot for them to get to the finals. They can't let him down now. He might die. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

I don't see it happening with Denmark. Although the players from Denmark, when they talk, it always reminds me of Morton Anderson with that like crazy cool accent that you never hear. Yes. Denmark accent is very underrated. Yeah. No, they are. They do have team of destiny vibes. I don't know. I just like I'm also rooting for extra time in all these games because it really does just bridge the gap. You're just you're watching a game at three o'clock. You're like, you don't be sweet if this game lasted till like 545 and then there'd be more games coming on. So just more of that in the sports calendar needs to happen where we just have games just stacked up on games. So you never really have to like Monday was the worst because there were no games and you just sat there

being like, well, what do I do now? One thing I really enjoy about the European soccer too is all the all the coaches dressed up in their like finest suits and most stylish like skinny ties and stuff. You will. You'll never see an American football coach wearing clothes that fit them. And every single European football, I think all managers, they all look like they came directly from the tailor out onto the field. They're they're they're either Bond villains or like like 80 year old guys that look like they should probably have died a long time ago. And then you then if you like tweet their name, we're like, oh, you don't know about him. He had the golazo of 1964. And they'll like tweet that at you and be like, how could you not know this?

So yeah, they're in the Italy. I think the Italy manager was wearing jeans, which I fucking love that. Yeah, no, you're right. It's like usually a really old former player of the team that has like one last chance to secure his legacy as a coach. Right. Or else people are gonna be like, you ran the national team into the ground. So he's always really nervous about that last one. But I have a question for you about England, because we've been saying it's coming home, which I still firmly believe it. It could be coming home. When did England become so likeable as a country? Oh, probably troops. Yeah. He saved England. He saved England. Yeah. So actually no, Barstool saved England because we hired troops. All right, congratulations.

We say so World War One saved your asses. World War Two saved your asses. Megan and Harry left Barstool came in. We saved your asses. Yeah. I think also the crown that show on Netflix, people got really obsessed with that shit. It's also because they lost a lot and they lost very politely. They hit almost a fast forward button on becoming lovable losers. They became like English soccer fans became Bill's mafia. Yeah. Just by being so polite over the course of the years where they had these heartbreaking defeats that now you want to see them redeem themselves. I also think that it's like a fan base that can never get tan. You kind of feel bad for them because they'll never get to like their peak hotness. You know what I mean? Like, you know

when you, what you look like in December or January, when you're looking ghostly and it's like, oh, you see a picture like, oh, that's gross. I need to get tan. Like you, you have a peak level of your hotness and that is in the middle of the summer when you get a nice tan. Whereas England's like, none of those people can get tan. So they just are per, you know, they're always at this level of, whoa, are you like, can I put my hand through you? Like you look like a ghost. I'll take it one step further. I think if you live in England, you're never going to be truly happy for anything. The entire island, you can be, you can have like some good stuff happen to you at work, but at the end of the day, like your job probably sucks. It's gray outside all the time.

You're not ever going to be like really psyched in every facet of your life if you live in England. So why not, why not throw these guys, throw the lads of bone every now and again, and let them win a Euro. Think about it. You drink warm beer and eat beans every day. Right. Like life can't be good. Life can't be good. If you can't get tan, you drink warm beer and you eat beans. That's not a great, like that, that your peak is not peaking that high. No. The thing you get most excited about in the world is like watching your frumpy old mascot drag her corgis around on like asphalt sidewalk in the middle of downtown London, and then everyone has to pretend to be happy about it. This is, this is a country filled with people who are generally polite regarding

most things. They're understated, but it's because they know that like, Hey, there's really nothing for me to be that pumped up about. So I'm just going to be quietly polite all my life. And hopefully one or two good sports things will happen. And that's really the most that you can hope for out of any life. And their accents are cool. Cause like whenever an English person says anything, they could, it could be the least funny thing said, but it's still funny. So they have that. Like it's, it basically is the perfect mix where everything's shit for them, but every word they say seems funny. So it seems like they're really cool. Like go with the flow. Hey, at least I have my sense of humor about me type of people. And that's a good person to be around. Absolutely.

And I really want to see some English shows put all their cast and characters together to whip up a video super fast in the next like three or four days. Like I want to see the Peaky Blinders meeting down at their pub and like raising a pint to the British national team before the game on Saturday, before they suffer a heartbreak. I want to see like all the British stars come out with, you know, how they sometimes do that. You rally around a national team on an occasion like this. Give me the Peaky fucking blinders like threatening to slice Italian's eyeballs out with their hats before Saturday. That's what I want to say. Isn't that like season four? Yeah, that's, well, that's every season. They had some of them have horses with Adrian

Brody, right? That's right. Yeah. Yeah. That is season four. They should just play season four. I may not be season four, but whatever season has Adrian Brody, they just should play that last episode and be like, this is what we're going to do. Yep. Um, all right. So we're rooting for England. Uh, let's do who's back of the week. Then we have John Morant, Stu finder. Then we're going to finish the show with a hot seat, cool throne and a quick guys on chicks. So who's back of the week is brought to you by our friends at cash app. The stock market is back investing through cash app buying and selling Bitcoin. And of course, when you download the cash app and enter the referral code barstool, you receive $10, $10 for free, $10 to the ASPCA download the cash app

now and, uh, do it right now from the app store, Google play store today. The cash app is back. Okay. What also is back is vacation is back. Hank, Liam, Jake, Billy, all on vacation, a much deserved vacation in their, uh, place. We have guest producers, which is, this is exciting because we've never had guest producers here. So we have Jake Lasofsky and Youngstown Bob, also known as Tongstown Bob, because he eats a shitload of, uh, pussy, right, Bob? No, he's shaking his head. Okay. So we're, he, he doesn't like that. He likes it, but he doesn't like it. You know what I mean? It's one of those things, but, uh, he, he, I heard different. I heard, he likes it. I heard you like, you like, Tungstown Bunk. Oh, no. And also you might know Youngstown

Bob. So Jake produces, uh, a lot of stuff here, but he does produce Jake Marshes and Rico and Marty's college basketball podcast called, uh, the B-mocracy. No. No. Incorrect. The B-mob's. What is it called? Barstool Bench-Mob. Barstool Bench-Mob. Are you sure? Yeah. That's the only podcast that does college basketball here. Okay. All right. All right. I agree to disagree. And then Youngstown Bob, you might know, uh, from, uh, being my burner person. So I have access to his Twitter account and I tweet from his account whenever, actually, did you get suspended for that tweet I sent? Uh, not yet, I guess. Okay. I said, I think I said that I wanted the whistler from Vanderbilt to get a disease where he loses his

tongue and his lips and, uh, can't whistle, but he has to stay alive and then dies. And I tweeted that from Youngstown Bob's account. So it wasn't from me. It was from Bob. Bob, that's a really fucked up thing to say about a person. Well, you're really talking about HPV right now. So the same thing that got, what's his name? Michael Douglas. That's, that's what you want to happen in Tongstown. Bob, you might be able to give us the good pointers. I think that was a good use of the burner account. By the way, I just, I just started up a brand new burner account. Because I just, I had to do a different one. I got sick of using the one that I had, uh, and too many people started to follow it. So it becomes not a burner account.

So it's, I'm just whack-a-mole right now on the internet. I'm, if I do it too often, am I going to get my main account shut down? No, they can't do that. I don't think so. I'll start my, my own. Okay. Um, all right. So let's do it. Who's back of the week? Jake, lead us off because that's usually Hank leading us off. Jake, lead us off. Oh, he didn't hit the mic. That's okay. Mike is on. By the way, I just wanted to say a little shout out to both Jake and Youngstown Bob for being here because they stepped up and we really appreciate it. And also, shout out your own Twitter accounts. Let's get some, let's get some followers up, right? Yeah. All right. So Jake, the Italians are back. Obviously, big week for them, big win yesterday

over Spain. Uh, late last week, the trailer for many sinks of Newark dropped. Oh, soprano's pretty cool. And then also this weekend, a big return for a Italian that we know here, hanging his jersey in the rafters for the third time. Yes. Rico Bosco returning to DJs. So just an all-round big week for Italian. I love it. I love it. Italian or Italians having a moment? Dan Patrick's, I mean, uh, not Dan Patrick. What's his name? Uh, Danilo Gallinari? No, no. Mike Turrico is getting ready for the Olympics right now. So that's, yeah, there it is. That's big. There it is. Uh, yeah, Italian. I think Italians aren't having a moment. It would be funny to think about what would, what would happen if you were like going

into audition for the role of James Gandolfini's son in the minis, in some Newark, and then you see like the other person that's auditioning it for the role, uh, is his actual son. Right. Yeah. I'm kind of, I think I'm kind of fucked on this one. Yeah. Give it a, give it a old college try. Um, all right. Good job, Jake. Jake will also have a hot seat, cool throne. So get excited for that. Youngstown Bob, which by the way, this is the first time we've had a cleave, a true blue Cleveland Browns fan in, uh, on PMT, like producing PMT. So that feels good. You want to give us, before you give us your who's back, give us a record prediction. I'm thinking 11 wins regular season, nothing crazy. Okay. Um, I have too many friends that think we're going to like win like

14. They're insane. Okay. Okay. But I like that. I like that. You realize you said 11 wins, nothing crazy for the Cleveland Browns, but 17 games. Yep. Fact 11, 11 in, uh, six, six, six. There it is. 11, five and one, 11 and six. And all our, okay. So, uh, Bob, give us your who's back. Uh, who's back is a vacation Hank? Oh, we're not supposed to make those jokes. It's not a joke. He's on vacation. That's true. That's not a joke. That is Hank deserves a vacation. He's on vacation. That's a good point. Um, do you guys, did you guys take a vacation this weekend? No, I went home to Cleveland for about like four days. Hell yeah. Right to move. Jake had to move. That's not a vacation. Not a vacation. Did you go to, uh,

put in bay? I did not, but I saw Eddie the day before he went. Yeah. That's a fucking scene. Yeah. I've never been. Oh, fuck. All right. We got to get you there. Um, all right. PFT. Who's your who's back? Uh, my who's back of the week is the reefer. The reefer's back. She carry Richardson. She was going to set the world on fire. She was going to dominate and track and field, got busted for smoking the reefer. Uh, so she is not eligible. She's ineligible to compete at the Olympics. And I think she was also today officially left off the four by 100 meter relay team. So she can't run the hundred. She can't do the four by 100. It's, it's stu. It's so stupid. It's funny how, uh, the world anti-doping association considers marijuana to be a

performance enhancing drug. Like that is, that's beating, that's beating the final boss on advanced level. Like once the, once Madden gets too hard and you finally have that like 17 and 0 season on all Madden mode, that's what she's trying to do just by smoking a little pot and then trying to run fast. That to me is like the most impressive athletic feat of them all potentially. The, um, it's been, uh, so many days since we had a show, we missed some things, but Emmanuel Acho's tweet needs to be at least thrown out there for the takies are coming up, but he said, legalizing weed and track and field competition is all good. If you're running in a straight line, legalizing weed and track and field competition is terribly dangerous. If you throw the javelin,

where do we draw the line? So he not only like, he came across as a narc, uh, a loser, and just really bad thinking all in one tweet. And he's definitely never smoked because I don't know, like, I don't think anyone smoked been like, let me start throwing this javelin at people. Does he think weed is like heroin? Yeah, no, no, he thinks weed is LSD. So this is, it's a common trait of the mind of somebody that's never actually smoked weed is that you think that if you get high, you see what you like, if you're watching television, you see somebody having an acid trip with the kaleidoscope eyes, you see the world is basically an animated Beatles cartoon if you take a hit of marijuana. And so it's very clear that was it Emmanuel Acho? Yeah. Or was it

sent? So Emmanuel, he's the guy that's doing the bachelor, right? No, he's doing, um, he has a show with, um, who the fuck does he have a show with? I think I think he was doing the bachelor. Marcellus Wiley, I think. Okay. Well, yeah, he's never smoked weed. Somebody give Emmanuel Acho a joint and then see if he can like actually show up on television to complete a sentence. I want to see it happen. I get that it's a rule that you're not allowed to smoke weed and then compete in Olympic events. So obviously she shouldn't have done that. And she's like, she even owned up to it. She was like, yeah, I fucked up. I made a big time mistake. But I just want to say like, if you're actually high competing in an event, it's awesome. It's not, it's the coolest thing you can do. Yeah.

It's incredible. It's incredible that you were able to do that to, to make the Olympic team while high. So yeah, I don't, I mean, just send her that. Why don't we have a high Olympics? Oh my God. Yes. Absolutely. 100%. I would love to have a high Olympics. It would be hilarious. You can get Shikari Richardson in an equestrian event riding American Spirit. Yeah. And people would just be like, we'd have, you know what we do is we get people just running out into the field and throw javelins at them. Yeah. That'd be fun. That sounds amazing. What you're describing right now is American Gladiators, which I also think that they should have in the Olympics. Yes. All right. My who's back in the week is the one and only Joey Chestnut, the greatest

athlete of all time. I, I think some people think I'm being facetious when I tweet this average live fourth, but I really do think pound for pound, he is the greatest athlete of all time. Maybe you could say secretariat, but I don't, yeah. No, I think I, Joey Chestnut has won 14 titles now. 14. No one has ever won that many titles at anything. They showed it. Rafael Nadal has won 13 French Opens, which is cheating because it's Clay. Joey Chestnut, just the 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes. The only time Joey Chestnut got beat was cause his fucking fiance broke up with him a week before the competition. He is the greatest athlete of all time. And I thank God every day that I am alive on this earth at the same time as Joey Chestnut. Like that's how incredible he is.

I think it goes one secretariat, two cousin, June bug, three Joey Chestnut and then four, the disc golf guy that hit that shot the other week that I already forgot his name. But that, that guy is the fourth best athlete of all time. You're right. It's amazing. Every year after year it's death taxes. Joey Chestnut. Yeah. He is, he's a marvel. Like I, and when he retires, 20 more championships down the line, I don't think we'll ever see another guy like Joey Chestnut. Like I don't think that he beats everyone. Do you see that? I don't know if you watched, but there was this fucking guy who was talking all this shit and he got beat by like 25 hot dogs. It was incredible. Like it's not even in the same realm. You're not even in Joey Chestnut.

You're not on his block. You're not in his city. You're not in his state. You're not in his country. You're not on his fucking earth. He is one of one, one of a billion trillion. Joey Chestnut's the greatest of all time. I bet Emmanuel Acho would be like, if you just let me smoke a little weed, I could go out there and eat a hundred hot dogs because of the munchies, man. Yeah. Yeah. Joey Chestnut is absolutely, he's a monster. You don't tug on Superman's cape. I don't know why somebody would choose to talk shit to Joey Chestnut on the day that he goes out there every single year and does stuff that even he thought was impossible the previous year. Yeah. The only, only other guy who is close, as close to as impressive as, I think it's Badlands

Booker, who drank, who chugged a gallon of lemonade in like 35 seconds and then competed in the hot dog competition. And it was just, it was a total, it was the perfect combo of like Dude's Rock and America Rocks. Like what are we even doing here? I don't know, but it rules. Yeah. It's a great celebration of Americana. Did I ever tell you about the time I ran into Badlands and Joey Chestnut at a strip club? No, I think so, but tell it again. That's basically the entire story is I ran into them at a strip club. And then I hung out, I hung out with them for a couple hours and drank some beers. Actually, they, at the time I was there, they ordered something like 10 or 11 beers each. And then the next morning, they were both competing

in a corned beef and cabbage eating contest in Savannah, Georgia on St. Patrick's Day. And so they did that, having gone out the night before and gotten absolutely mangled, which even makes me respect them more as competitor. They're like Lawrence Taylor doing that. Dude, Joey Chestnut, like parties. He, I remember when I competed against him, which I will be saying that will probably be the first line in my obituary. And I, I will also be very upset if you know how people make the videos like MJ competed against plumbers. If they put me and like Joey Chestnut competing against plumbers and it was me, but he, after we competed, we were backstage and he's like, you're going to come to the bar with us. I was like, what are you talking

about, dude? I ate 12 hot dogs. I'm not going anywhere for the next week. Like I feel like absolute shit. And he's like, no, you go back, you take a quick nap. And then the best part about it is you can drink so much tonight because you have that base. And I was like, you're not human. You are not a human being. So Joey Chestnut, he is the goat. I just need people to respect him more. He quite literally is built different. When people say that word gets tossed around a lot. Joey Chestnut is built different, plain simple. And people always say hang it in the Louvre, hang this or that in the Louvre. We should hang Joey Chestnut in the Louvre. Yes, his intent as a person, as a person. Yes. Yeah. Like the bodies exhibit that you see

where they like take out the digest, they should have his entire digestive tract from teeth to butthole just nailed to a wall in the Louvre for the, for the rest of time. So we can all take our kids there and marvel at it. Oh man, I love it. All right. Let's get to our interviews. We have John Moran up first. We also speaking to John Moran, I think, are we doing a, are we doing a card rip? Are we ripping cards? We're going to rip a pack, buddy. We're going to we're going to rip some serious packs. We have a new sponsor alert. Wait, I want to hear what Youngstown Bob's new sponsor alert sound is going to be. Here we go, Bob. I don't know what that means. Do you just, when we have a new sponsor, do a sound Hank, do a sound. Oh yeah. Oh hell yeah.

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on this summer? Because I know that's a big thing that everyone says. He's got to work on this, got to work on that. What's the, what's the John Morant 2.0, 3.0 for year three? I'm here to, you know, work on everything, you know, in the weight room and on the court. Love it. I like it. One thing I think that we as journalists need to do a better job of maybe just the NBA in general, their statisticians is keeping correct track of your statistics because I feel like you get hosed sometimes. I know that you've talked about this before, but my favorite part of your game is when you like you throw up a lob pass and they accidentally count it as a shot, but it's actually really just a pass. Are you like throw it off the backboard? That goes against

your field goal percentage. And I feel like we need to figure out a way where you can let people know that, hey, I'm passing this ball. I'm not shooting it. So you can get credit for a few more assists here and there. Have you thought about that? Definitely. Obviously, you know, I can't control that. But me and my teammates, you know, my bigs have that connection to know when I'm, you know, doing that. Obviously, it's just having the ball drop right in front of the rim form to, you know, be able to finish it. Yeah, I think maybe if you say, like as you're passing it, if you say dime, as you're putting it up there, we can go back, we can review the film and make sure you get credit for that because every assist counts. Yeah, I need

all my assists and my field goal percentage higher. You actually need our friend Kirk Goldsbury has a stat. You have your team scores the most when you miss in the paint of any other team. 11% of the time when you miss in the paint, your team scores off that rebound. So that's your count as an assist too. Should count as two if we've been honest. Okay. Yeah, now we got, all right, this is a good way where we're juicing up the stats. You will win every single award because you'll have like 30 assists a game. What are you, would you consider yourself part of the float goat revolution in the NBA? All these guys, young guys with unbelievable floaters? Of course. I feel like, you know, it's something I've been working on something,

you know, that allows me to, you know, not absorb, you know, a lot of contact, you know, just stopping, you know, right before the defender and just shooting the floater. I feel like, you know, I shoot and make floaters at a high level. So I should be, you know, in that category. I like it because it does feel, you know, basketball has evolved over the years and obviously the last five years, people taking bombing three pointers and efficiency and, you know, you got to either shoot it at the Ram or you got to shoot a three pointer, but I think the floater might be the answer to like the lost art of the mid-range jumper. The floater is the new two pointer that's most efficient. I feel like both, you know, just analytics and numbers,

you know, say, you know, those shots aren't efficient, but as you can see, it's a lot of people, you know, in this league who, you know, use floaters or, you know, pull up tools and, you know, make them at a high level. So how much do you listen to guys on the analytics staff or people who put numbers in front of you? How much is it like finding the balance of, hey, I'm just going to go play basketball versus, oh, this is actually good knowledge. I got to try to implement this in my game. I actually don't listen to them at all. There we go. Really just go out there and play in my game. Perfect. That's a perfect answer. I appreciate that a lot. I feel like that's something that it could be useful. Like the coaching staff could figure out ways to put

you in good positions, but you don't want your players like, I don't want any basketball player thinking about a number while they have the ball in their hands. You know, like I want it to be, it should be second nature. You should, a good shot is one that goes in. That's what I always say. That's the only thing that matters. Yeah, layup counts as two. You had a quote. We love this quote. You said your dad was your first hater. Is he still, is he still a hater of you? 100%. I don't, I don't, I think when I run rookie of the year, his message afterwards, good job. You still suck. I mean, it ain't too much I can do, you know, to, you know, make him say something positive. So yeah, is there, has there ever been a time when you've done

something he's surprised you? He's been like, son, I'm really proud that you just accomplished that. Yeah. Like just my two seasons, you know, right after this season, he was like, you know, I don't do this, but I'm proud of you. And then start laughing. That's, so is he, I would imagine he's also featured a lot in the docu series, which again is out now promised land. You can, you can check it out on crackle. Is he a featured player in the docu series in your relationship with him? Yeah. We got, you know, parts that, you know, just shows our relationship shows, you know, how he played a, you know, part in, you know, my basketball career.

And he was a pretty good basketball player too. He played with Ray Allen, right? Yeah. He was, I'ma call him trash though, since he called me trash. Yeah. I mean, you should just, every time he calls you trash, you should just play him one on one and wipe the floor with him. Yeah. He won't play me no more. You know, I beat him last time we had this, you know, kids versus adult game and I hit the game, went on him and he won't play me no more. Do you remember the very first time that you beat your dad in one on one? Nah, he, once I, you know, got a little taller and, you know, more athletic. He would never play me one on one. But when I was younger, he would, but he just

post me up and we just laying the ball up. So I couldn't do too much. Yeah. So he just decided he would quit. He would stop playing rather than have you whip his ass every time. Yeah. He ran from the smoke. Talking about another hater, you probably don't remember him, but we have a coworker, Marty Mush, who you actually said, appreciate the extra motivation after you won Rookie of the Year. He said, if you watched that game, I think this is talking about a game in the bubble. If you watch that game, you can't tell me that John Morant is good, doesn't look for teammates late in the game and can't hit the big shots. Sad that people can't tell the truth.

He said you would never win Rookie of the Year. He's a big Duke fan. So does it, like, do you actually get motivation from random people online? Yeah, I get motivation from Goofy. Let's say some crazy stuff. He is a goofy guy. He's very goofy. And he actually had to shave his head because he won Rookie of the Year, but he didn't even shave his head right. That's how goofy he is. Yeah. He can't use a pair of clippers.

He should have just shaved it right now in the middle. Yeah. I mean, just continue being the Goofy guy. I mean, so how much of that also, and I would imagine you get into it in the docu-series, but how much of being a guy who was overlooked by the major programs, like fuels everything that you've accomplished right now in the NBA? Like, do you still have that chip on your shoulder? Like, why didn't all these big-time programs come calling? Yeah, I still have that underdog mentality. You know where I'm from.

It's the reason I play with this chip on my shoulder and not receiving any recognition and being overlooked, obviously, just added more to it. So I still take that in this league and play like that underdog. Were there any teams like big programs who hit you up and was like, hey, you could walk on or, hey, well, you can play for us, but you can't get a scholarship? Like, anyone who is truly, like, how could you do this? Like, I'm clearly good enough to play at Division I and higher. Nah, I feel like if they did that anyway, I probably wouldn't have responded if I had offers.

And you got time to, you had the funds to pay for no college. Why do you think that was, that you didn't get recruited by those schools? It seems stupid in retrospect, doesn't it? I know you probably had the confidence in yourself all along, but was there, was there something about your game that took longer to develop than maybe other players at your same age? Nah, I just, honestly, if we've been honest, I just felt like, you know, everybody was just, you know, riding the same wave.

So if it was a player that had been talked about, everybody was just focused on them. Because it was times where I played against, you know, top players who had almost every D1 offer and would have like 30 and win the game. And, you know, they wouldn't do nothing and still no offer. So honestly, I don't know what it was. Maybe they just didn't like me, but I'm glad, you know, Murray State, you know, offered me that scholarship and, you know, helped me get to this point. Maybe your dad talked to the coach and was like, Hey, my son sucks.

Don't worry about it. He cannot play at all. Probably so. You played with Zion for one year at AAU, right? So what was the worst you guys beat a team? I would imagine it was pretty easy. Man, it was, you know, plenty of times where we would win by 40, 50. And it wasn't many times, you know, we would lose a game either. So that tells you that.

I would imagine like being playing AAU with Zion and throwing him lobs was pretty goddamn fun. Pretty easy too. He made me, you know, look good. All you gotta do is, you know, throw the ball by the rim and, you know, he go get it and, you know, do what he do. Did you guys ever break a backboard? No, I don't think so. Bend a rim, something like that. We missed that about the old NBA.

We missed the age where you could just tear a rim off a backboard. Yeah. No, I don't think we ever broke a rim, but I'm pretty sure it was times where a couple of those rims was mad at Zion for sure. Do you feel like at this point in your career, especially the last few months, it felt like on any given night you could go out there and be like, you know what, I feel like, I feel like getting 40 tonight and you could just go out and grab, you know, 35, 40 points. Do you feel like if you're like, if you're in the right headspace,

you have the ability to do that on any given night? Yeah, of course, you know, I have that confidence. I, you know, I know I'm capable of it, but, you know, I'm just a, you know, a team player. You know, I put myself as, you know, a real point guard. You know, I pass first, you know, make sure I get everybody involved, but it's also, you know, you have to, you know, read the defense. So if you're trying to, you know, take my teammates away, then I know I have to score more. Has Grayson Allen ever accidentally tripped you in practice?

No. But ever come close? Like, if you ever looked at him like, Hey dude, that was close. Like, I know what you're thinking. You wanted to trip me. No, no. I don't, I mean, I don't look at, you know, Grayson as, you know, one of those players, but if it happens to, you know, anybody, um, I'm right with him.

Okay. That's a good teammate. That's a great team. Has he tried to get you to slap the floor on defense? If he tell me to, I will. You have a lot of Duke guys on your team, right? Like there's, uh, isn't three. Yeah.

Ty Jones on the team. Like I, oh, Justice Winslow. Yeah. Yeah. I hate all of them. So we have those, you know, battles, but, uh, you know, we've got some two Michigan State, two Gonzaga, you got Oregon UCLA. So, and Murray State.

Yeah. Murray State. I love that. Yeah. But yeah, we all know Murray State would have beat all of them. So, yeah. Absolutely. What was that like when you were in college and like you really, that your last year there, it was just insane.

The, um, the numbers you put up, you were like, everybody knew like John Morant was going to come out and he was going to take over the game. They had to throw some pretty crazy exotic defenses at you. Like box and one or triangle and two. Did you ever, what was the, what was the weirdest defense that they ever tried to break out to stop you in college? I have to say Alabama, um, you know, as soon as I crossed half, they just ran two people at me to trap me to get the ball out of my hand.

They'll end up with 38. So it ain't worked too much. I love it. One more question about the, um, the docuseries. What made you want to do it? Because it feels like some people would be like, Hey, you're, you're only year two. Um, are you going to redo it again? You know, in five years when you went to MVP, like what,

what made you want to do it right now? Um, really just, uh, you know, be able to tell my story, you know, go deeper into my journey. Obviously it was, you know, um, many years before, um, you know, I got to the league that, you know, plays a part, uh, in this documentary. So, uh, being able to just tell, you know, how I went from, you know, a small town kid to, you know, the number two pig to, you know, winning rookie of the year.

Uh, you couldn't dunk until your senior year of, uh, high school was that, do you remember your first dunk being like, Holy shit, let's go. I'm ready. Yeah. It was, uh, my 11th grade summer going into my 12th grade, uh, year, my senior year. And, uh, we used to have like, you know, some runs at my high school. And, uh, my whole 11th grade year, you know, I was just trying to dunk,

but I couldn't. And, um, and then, you know, got to that summer, um, I, you know, threw a lob to myself one time and then got me a little rim graze of dunk in and I'm then on it, you know, just got even worse. You feel like it was a lob to yourself was your first dunk. That's pretty badass. Yeah. You know how you just, you know, throw it up, let the ball bounce.

Yeah. Yeah. I had to make sure the lot was perfect, like right by the rim. So I can just put it right over. Yeah. I speak it right over. Yeah. Did you, did you feel like a changed man when you hit the ground after that?

Yeah. You know, I let off a scream, like finally. Then, you know, you, you get a lot of confidence after that and I tried to dunk again a couple of times after that and they didn't work out too good. So I just had to hang it up. I'm curious to know about, um, maybe one of the best landmarks in America, one of my favorites, certainly the, uh, the Bass Pro Shop pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee. Have you had a chance to go there?

It, it, it looks like the most magical place on earth. Uh, nah, honestly, I haven't had a chance to, you know, go there. It's kind of tough for me. Um, I just can't, you know, live a regular life and just go out in public like that. They should roll out the red carpet for you though. They should, they should put you on your own little boat. They have a lake inside that thing. It's crazy.

I might have to check it out then. Highly recommend. Um, I can't swim though. So I need a life jacket. Is the beef, uh, officially squashed between you and Andrea Guadala? Uh, I don't beef with nobody, man. I mean, you guys were beefing. Somebody beef with me.

They beefing by themselves. You just, you just happened, like you definitely helped out with the, I mean, it was a story. What was it a couple of years or was it last year? Um, when he sat out, you know, and then everyone goes crazy on Twitter. I, I mean, it's fun. It's entertainment for everyone who's watching. You know, everyone who's an NBA fan.

I feel like also as a fan of NBA Twitter and, and, and, you know, guys being a little more outspoken. Do you not care when people come back at you and stuff like that? Like I love the outspokenness. Nah, I don't at all. And then I'm, you know, speak my mind as well. So, um, I mean, if you say something, then I, you know, I say something back and you tell you how you want.

You just let me know, you know, what you want. Okay. So, so no more, no beef right now with Andrea Gordala, but also kind of beef. Nah, I ain't beefing with him. What if, what if he said like I'm currently in a beef with John Morant, would you reciprocate the beef or would you just be like, you know what, you can beef me all you want. I'm over here.

I'm going to beef myself. Uh, he'll be, you know, just beefing by himself. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, I had one last question. So the Memphis throwback jerseys love them. The, the old Vancouver Grizzly jerseys.

Do you guys play better in those jerseys? Cause I really think you have to, right? Yeah, those jerseys, you know, are kind of tough. So, you know, you walk in the locker room and you see those jerseys in there. You know, you get hype. Me, I feel like, you know, look better, you play better. Yeah. I really do think that's true.

I mean, it's, it's obviously not like it doesn't change that much. But if it's a little bit like a percentage wise, you know, 1%, 2% playing better, just in looking in those jerseys, those jerseys, you should wear them all the time because I am convinced you guys play better in those jerseys. Yeah, for sure. We got, we got a couple of tough jerseys and, you know, in the collection. Yeah. My last, last question for you.

Just curious, like, so you got, you've accomplished a lot, right? You've got your docuseries coming out. You've got rookie of the year. You've, you know, checked off a lot of boxes. What is, what are your goals for the next three years? Do you have a plan like this is what I want to accomplish? Really just, you know, win a championship. I feel like, you know, if I do that, you know, everything else will, you know, fall in place.

You think if you win a championship, your dad will be like, hey, no offense, but I love you. Yeah, he probably would. You know, he's, he, I love you part. You know, he, he says that, but it's the on court stuff. Like, proud of you, you know, all that. He probably would be hype and then it'd be like, you still suck, but congrats. Yeah. I want to see you win a title just to see how your dad can spend on that.

Your dad would be like one of those burner accounts online. They'll be like, that's a Mickey Mouse championship. Yeah. Too many guys got injured. Like one of the worst championship teams of all time. Asterisk beside it. I love it. I love it.

Well, Joc, thank you, man. We really appreciate it. And good luck with everything. Everyone go check out the docuseries. It's out now. It's promised land. It's called promised land. It's on crackle.

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A living legend. A living legend. He is a living legend. It is Stu Finer. It has been four years since we've been out at Casa de Finer, the compound. We're back out here for a PMT field trip day. I don't know when we're going to run this, but I wanted to start, Stu. Just to get in the mind of Stu Finer.

Because there's people that probably don't really know you from the PMT audience, because it's been that long. But how did you start your day? Give me the exact, because we walked in here at 11 o'clock, and the first thing you said is, you want to rip a bowl. So how did you start your entire day? What time do you wake up? Woke up at 5.30 p.m., went back to sleep.

Then I woke up at quarter to seven and took my blood, which was, every day, I pricked my finger to take my blood because my diabetes, type two. I didn't know you were diabetic. Totally out of control. My numbers are between 280 to 400 a day. But you swing back and forth though, because there are times where I've seen all your posts when you're training for a marathon or doing some heavy cardio, and you look like you're rail thin, unbelievably skinny.

Well, I have the ability to lose 50 pounds and go cold turkey, but now that marijuana is legal, I have failed. All right, so you wake up, you take your blood. I would love to see you. I take my blood, I take my blood. Do you have, do I have a crash? I would, I don't even know. No, never.

Okay, yeah, I was going to say, what would that look like? I eat sugar. I eat, like, I eat, like, I'm not a diabetic, you know, I am a diabetic, and I take medicine like I'm a diabetic, and I know I'm a diabetic, but I don't acknowledge it. So I live in a- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I just want to follow, I want to follow you through the garden of your own brain on this.

So you just said you have died. I'm going to die, and I want to be died eating what I want. Fuck the world, fuck the doctors, and fuck my medicine. Okay, that's fair. And where does 15, 15, 30 come in? Like, what is the first, when do you start? Well, I mean, specific, or where does that come in meaning what? Today, did I eat my wife's ass down?

All right, yeah, I mean, I was, I mean, I'm curious. When you were asking the question, with evolution of it, or how did it happen, or what? Well, yeah, let's go macro on it. Like, when did you decide that 15, 15, 30, the 15 minutes eating ass, 15 minutes licking clit, 30 minutes fucking, when did you decide that that was going to be like a part of everyday life for Stu Feiner? Well, when I, you know, gods stopped my growth in seventh grade,

and I ended up having a six-inch dick claiming to have a 10-inch dick. Bam bam, you were bam bam. I was bam bam. Surreal strength. Surreal strength. Surreal strength. But the six-inch dick can stay hard and come on command. Okay.

Wait, on command. On command. Not now, but, you know, in my 30s and 40s, yes, 20s, yes. The surreal strength. I actually have that as one of the things I wanted to bring up. Yes. Should we do it now? Yes.

Can you tell the whole Steve Mahalek story, the entire story, because it was one of the funniest clips of all time, and I want like the whole backstory. How'd you meet him? How'd he die? He died in your backyard? No, he didn't die in my backyard. So, working at the 7-Eleven right here in 10th grade.

Which is what year? 1977. Okay. And less than a quarter mile away, he has a gym called Mr. America's, which is right there. Like if you fucking had a, if you were able to just go through walls and through people and bathrooms and sewer holes and everything,

you could go right to his Mr. America's gym. So like it was about 10,000 square feet in Farmingdale on Hempstead Turnpike. And it was one of the top gyms in the country at the time. And it was around probably since 1974. And steroids. And just mass bodybuilding. Yeah, Luford. No, on a Schwarzenegger.

Everybody. Everybody was there. Everybody was there. And they would just bench and shoot massive amount of weights and just walk around like mean and angry and work out like 20 hours out of a 24 hour day, throw people through plate glass windows. So anyway, we've got a job working there in this nice hot,

very mellow environment. So my job was to stack the refrigerator with juices and then in the bathroom, pick up the syringes and throw them in the garbage. How many syringes do you think you would clean out on like an average day? 60. Okay. So none of this, by the way, is hyperbole, just so everyone knows.

So anyway. We worked out in his gym. You were never allowed to talk to Steve or to the people that work there. I read a story that Steve Mahalek. There's like legendary. No, no, you could not. He wants beat a guy up because he thought the guy was stealing his strength by looking at him.

No, I saw a fight step. It was really like disturbing. Like, thank God I worked for the place that was dishing out the fights. Otherwise, I would never come back to it for the rest of my life. You know what I mean? It was murder. You know, like people die. There's no way you get hit in the head with barbells,

kicked in the face, 10 people, you know, multiple times, thrown through plate glass windows, left for dead on the concrete, car coming, putting a body in a car. Five times. I've seen that 76, 7, 8, 9. No, this is 70s, babies. So what was it like? Was the protocol when there would be a fight inside the gym?

Everybody looks down. And understanding, let the two of them handle it? No, no, Steve. No, it was always Steve Mahalek and his crew beating someone up mercilessly for no reason. Just because they were roided out. And did you lift? Yeah. So Steve got you on a program?

Well, not Steve. Never talked to me. Never. You know, no, never. But someone who brought me to the gym did, yeah. And did you do steroids? No, never. They didn't even talk about steroids with us.

Never. Okay. No one was ever sticking a needle in there. A bot on then, you know, unless you were their age, you know, they were decade, they were 10 years old in us. So how did, like, what, did you know Steve later on in life? So what happened was fast forward to 1989 and I buy this house. And when I bought it, it was 7.8 acres.

I still am on 2.5 acres. I had a 1.8 acres side field and I had 3.2 acres in the back. 3.2 acres in the back was zoned for 70 by 100 housing units, 70 by 100. You could fit 11 with sewers and roads to code. And that's what I built. And I got the map approved named after my oldest son. So I got show Michael caught 11 houses in the backyard. One of the houses boarded her house and there was a flood every time it rained.

So one day she caught me in the backyard and she went right at me like, she goes to knows she was up. No, she was Italian. Thomas, she was Italian. Got it. And she was raging right at me. She yelling, you know, yelling surface illicit. I got a map approved and I sold it to that builder and then she handled it with him.

But her, but she said, my husband wants to talk to you. My ex-husband wants to talk to you. So about a week later, I'm in the backyard, hanging out, watching them build the houses. And he again makes a beeline for me same exact. They're fucking as if they planned it out. And as he was coming at me, I went Steve and I was smiling. And then he froze again. He goes, how do you know me?

I go work for you. And he immediately just was destroyed. He was like, oh, I'm so sorry. I was a real asshole back then. You know, did I do anything to you? And I said, no, you never hit me. Where do you think he goes? Oh, thank God.

And then he goes, listen, my ex-wife's giving me a hard time. What the fuck's going on? I said, we'll fix the problem. I said, what are you doing? He says, I'm training personal people. Training soul cats in the New York Mets, the owner of the Mets. I said, fuck, train me. He goes, yeah.

And then we just became best friends for about 15 years. Wow. And I'm talking about, I was his best friend and he taught me everything he knew about everything. And that's why when I say knew all religions, we had years of him explaining in depth, every religion down to its core and stating how Scientology, not really a religion, Scientology made much more sense. And to me, it made, and to me, it made, and to me, even Mahalek showed you the light of Scientology.

Listen, listen. Scientology is a way to answer questions. Religion is a way of answering questions. Before any of them start extorting you for money and then they all become frauds, Scientology makes the most sense. Which part about Scientology makes the most sense? Like the UFOs that drop eggs into a volcano? In other words, when I saw the movie, I was humiliated because that's not what.

You're like, Steve lied to me. That's like level nine. Steve never told me any of this stuff because I would have thrown him out of my house. So Steve, I would have been afraid to leave him alone. Steve's right. I think like the basic levels of Scientology are not that much different from other religions. But my point with religions is he took parts of Scientology, parts of Judaism, parts of Catholicism, parts of Hinduism, and squished them together.

He made his own super religion? He knew all religion. He knew all religion. Mahalekism? That's incredible. He basically did. He did when you go again. I'm sharing with my train of gut level my life.

Right. So we need answers. Where do the answers come from? You. Steve Mahalek. You know, you, you know. Steve Mahalek. So Steve Mahalek essentially is like when you do the suicide at the.

That's a terrible terrible word to use there. Terrible use to worry. Follow me when you do when you go to the soda fountain and you hit every single one and he did that with every religion. He's like, here's a little bit of. Sprite. On a palm of doing that commercial Times 4. Yeah.

On a palm is doing the commercial Times 4. Here's a little Sprite Buddhism. Here's a little. Coke. But, but truth be told, like in other words, I shared gut level. Asking for answers and he provided the answers. Wow. Like in other words, anything I was insecure about, he had an answer for and helped me.

Any problem I have with Sandy, he had an answer for and helped me. Any problem I had dealing with a circumstance or inadequacy or insecurity or fear, he had an answer that absolutely helped me. Not just a maybe I'll use it. I implemented it and it solved the problem. What was the best piece of advice he ever gave you? Don't do steroids. The two sayings that I live and die by disagree set free.

The way out is the way through. So like for example, when he would make me do 300 reps of something that he started off going, give me 25 and then go, give me another 25. Now he'd be like, and I'd be like, Steve, I can't do it. He goes, no, you don't want to do it, but you can do it and I'm making you do it. Disagree set free. Stewart, disagree set free. Give me another 10.

Give me another 10. Give me another six. The way out is the way through. Stewart, Stewart, come on. Give me another 60. And those two sayings. I love it. It means embrace debate, essentially.

Well, now I feel sad that Steve Mahalek is no longer with us. Listen, I think he's very much with us. Can I explain something? I think he's with us through the teachings of people. Steve Fine. That the second he walks in a room, like, you know, like meeting Mick Jagger, I met Mick Bono, I met, you know, Clinton, I met, you know, when the second they walk in. You're around on a private plane?

No, but I've had sloppy seconds. It's amazing. No. But in other words, when he walks in a room, you just gravitate to him. Yeah. And he's so smart, like, you know, like, like listening to Buddha almost. He was he was disturbed. He had a very dark part of his life.

The steroids robbed him of his greatness. It was a shortcut to enduring another decade of being at almost a high level. Like world level, world class level. But again, paid the price for his body broke down. And he had to take his life. I'm curious to know. But in this gym, right? That's so true.

We're all right now. The gym is right here. You know, tell everyone. The gym is like 10 feet away, 20 feet away. We were in that gym for three times a week for 10 years. Damn. See, I kind of agree with his take that religion doesn't have to be like deciding whether or not to go to an Italian place or a steakhouse.

Religion should be more like a golden corral buffet where you show up and it's got you and you can pick and choose what goes on your plate. And whatever makes you happy at the end of the day. I think that's really the key to what really what religion should be. Making everybody happy, confident, content with themselves, and then get along with everybody else. Everything else just gets in the way. You know, rules just get in the way of things.

So R.I.P.C. Mahal. Like truly. I didn't we didn't know the story. I mean, obviously that. Listen, he was he was so what happened was this where Arnold Schwarzenegger catapulted stardom as a bodybuilder and then as a movie star as an American icon. Steve Mahalek was the one that Arnold Schwarzenegger was chasing. And he got in a horrific car accident.

Steve did and took him out of bodybuilding for five years. They thought he was going to be dead. They there was no way he was ever walking. He did competing. He did winning again. You know, Mr. Universe level contest. He did. So that hurt him.

Yeah, that was horrible. Because Arnold then went. He won the contest and then shot. Right. So he's like your favorite bodybuilders, favorite bodybuilder. No, we're sure about it. I'm sure what's they could call them the phantom. Oh, that's cool.

Because out of the blue all of a sudden where they he started competing and winning and winning and winning and winning and then he was there. Just imagine Arnold calling you the phantom in that cool voice of his. No better compliment. So, Stu, the last five years, what has it been like? Because I know that our relationship started four years ago. I knew about you forever. But it's been kind of a whirlwind.

I love working with you. I love that you have a part in Barstool Sports. Has it just been? I mean, the thing I really appreciate about you, Stu, is that you love people. You love being around people. You love people stopping you. Has it been like a reinvigoration of your entire career? 100 percent, especially because of the island of podcast.

You know, this new live stream has just blown through the roof. But yeah, for the last, let's say three years, you know, can't go to a met game or a jet game or a knit game or any game without or a concert without people on me in the bathroom, even wanting to take a snap, wanting to take a picture. You know, like at the on the games, it's crazy. If you go in with me tonight, you know, if I scream, let's fucking go. There'll be it. It's like lighting a match.

There'll be a thousand and you truly look like you love people. I live for it. You live like when we came when I told you we were coming over here. The only thing I would like is that people shouldn't like drunk people that are twice my size because I am only a seventh grade. Bam, bam. Yeah. They hurt me. They grabbed me around the neck like and then they put a phone in my face and go,

don't tell my grandma the wrong pussy smells. And like, I'm like, I'm locked into this larger individual and I want to, you know, like so. Oh, man. Can you, can you walk me through how Stu Finer became Stu Finer? Because I don't know if we've ever actually gotten to talk seriously about, you know, what the start of your career was like doing sports advisors, making, you know, being like the nation's first over the top gambling tout. Like, how did you go from working in a gym, like cleaning up syringes to decide, you know what,

I'm going to, I'm going to try to do the sports gambling thing and see where it goes. Well, I mean, exactly the date was when the Eagles played the Oakland Raiders in the Super in 1980 and it was Dick Vermeel's team and they were a four point favorite. And on Friday night, this guy, Professor Picks, Ed Horowitz, he owned a tax firm in Hicksville, Long Island and he created a short form tax form made a million bucks. He took his money put into computers to pick winners on sports gambling and he had like a hundred people work for him and he had a system and it came on TV and said the Eagles were going to beat the Raiders and like there was no prayer of that ever happening.

Like none, I don't even know how they made him an underdog because they were better. They were mean. They were better. You know, they were great. You know, and John Madden won in 76. Tom Flores took over the team. Madden's only, you know, Super. Flores took over.

He was brilliant. You know, and they murdered him. So I said if this expert could go on national TV, which at the time was a big deal. There wasn't never had, they might have been the first handicapped besides Jimmy the Greek to ever get national recognition because, you know, they did his story short form tax from a millionaire accountant, brought his money into sports gambling. You know, his bozo humiliated himself. So I said, pop, if this guy could be so wrong, you know, about something that's

that's so simple, like there was, there was no way I could ever see the Eagles, you know, winning that game. They couldn't and they didn't and it was a routes like 32, 14 wasn't even that close. And so I said, let's go into the business. So my father lent me $1,500 and this other guy that was 23 years older than me got $1,500 and we opened two desks against each other and we bought lists from sports, like magazines, sports illustrated and we started calling people on the phone and just randomly calling them and saying, Hey, we have picks.

We pick winners. We have information, you know, and that's how it started in 1982. Then in 1984, it was the first commercial, first nationwide commercial with my company called profit, PRO, P H E T line sports. I advertise right now. I advertise in the NBA playoffs and we were in the ESPN guide. We have the inside front cover. It was like a $40,000 buy and that was the last fucking time any national commercial

ever went across ESPN because we, you know, they got so many complaints and this and that and you know, people were against gambling, you know, right? Didn't you go up against the dog or was it a goldfish? In, no, no. In 1990, sports illustrated did like an expose on my industry, paid for games and they also, because I was the most boisterous. I was the biggest. I was the one making the most money.

I had, you know, it was like millions of dollars a year to extremely young age, mid-20s. So they were going to get me. I had a big mouth, you know, like, and they didn't, they didn't like, right. Then I was aggressive with advertising. You know, I might have embellished it, you know, in the 80s, you know, in the 80s, it was whatever you do, whatever you want. Right. Exactly.

It was like, so it was late, late 80s. I just got married. So 1989. So it was right when Magic Johnson, like it was the sports illustrator that no one ever read. Like you would never read it. It was the Magic Johnson cover with AIDS, like their biggest seller ever, Times 10. So inside they do an expose on my business and I hit like 39%. But they put a dog with two bowls, you know, a favorite underdog and a little girl

became a whore. And then, you know, she had to pick which, you know, A, B, and the dog died very young cancer. And are they beating me? They get high. You should have hired them. Did you, did you consider a higher city? You should have hired the dog and the girl.

20% listen, I get 20% to six months. They caught me at like 39%, which I, which I said to them, hey, listen, I've been worse. You have been worse. Of course. You remember when you started this NFL season on sports? If I was like, Oh, and I'm best bet. Oh, and I hit until I hit that three. It was all like incredible.

What's the, that was the pull out of my career. Yeah, that was actually very strong. Right. What's the hottest thing that you've ever been like? What's the hottest streaks do fighters ever been on? Shit. Listen, when I reinvented myself in 2015, 16, when I just started, when I was on part of my take with you and I posted my games like six months before on the Internet for free, giving free picks.

I was like 59% for like seven months. But you admit like you could never figure out gambling. No one can. Right. Gambling is for the rich to have fun, totally enjoy it, totally love it and lose your money. Right. Gambling and winning were never together. They all, it, it, the, the country, the world sold the big lie that gambling,

you have an opportunity to win, which you have none. No, no, like none. And the day I listened, remember when the first time I was on part of my take, you said, how many games should I bet a week? I said one and you almost died. And that was when I was winning for you guys. Remember, I was hot. You were betting my games.

And then Butler happened. Remember Butler? No, but that was two years later. But yeah, but Butler was bad. No, I don't think Butler was that big. I just wanted to get Gabe's attention because he didn't acknowledge that I was. No, you're texting all of us. I was like all of us in a row.

You're texting all of us. I mean, I loved it. Remember the Tampa Bay box versus the New Orleans Saints on Sunday football? Yes. But you said put your life on the line. Remember the Bucks over the Chiefs in the Super Bowl? No, you said you said you said if there's one game I'll give you for my entire life, it's the Tampa Bay Bucks.

They lost like 40 to seven. Can we honestly say something when I give out a game? It doesn't matter if it's a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. It doesn't matter if it's Super Bowl or just one game on the card. I lung it. I'm all in for that game. This is just like you say I lung it completely out of nowhere. L-U-N-G.

It puts your long reach on the line. It's a long, a long move. Most recent text I have from Stu was Monday's Islander's Lightning game. He said Islander's plus 160. I think I'll say nothing. Did you get away with the games before that? I gave you winners. Did you get mad?

Wait, I gave you a four and one. Did you get mad when I drew down your picks? You did. Oh, so why selectively imagine me on my own podcast? It's just, it's- I'm all in one service point. Yes, and you're looking humiliating. You're sure that you did mad when I-

You know something? People think that you're the nasty one, but he is. The- I gave you a four. Didn't I give you the Padra? You did, but you know- You know what? And I went for one.

You know what I'm really bitter about? Yes. The fact that I seem to be getting only like 25% of your picks. Oh, you got to confirm. No, no. I stopped giving them to everyone. Yeah, well, I just stopped giving them to me. Because no one was listening to them and they only-

And I got on a losing streak and then they pissed on me and then they weren't around for the winners and- Were you mad at me when I- When I- No, never. That was- I waited until the games were over. No, listen.

I'm never mad at anything you do. It just happened to go- I'm- Listen, you could take a shit on my face on YouTube. Besides touching my wife, you can do anything you want. It was- It was bad because I didn't mean to- It didn't matter.

It was about how funny it was- I did go to- Listen, I did go to that because people then started following me and then I got hot at the right time and then they saw me win for like six days around and they paid me off of you putting out my losers, got their attention. A lot of losers.

Listen, I'm going to lose six out of every 10 days. I mean, excuse me, four out of every 10 days. Best I'm going to do is 60%. So I mean, I'm going to lose four out of every 10 days. You catch me in those four days. I lost. Do you remember the best day of gambling that you've ever had? Um, well, this prior Super Bowl was amazing.

I caught Grinkowski, you know, first score. I caught, you know, Tampa Bay, the under a parlay. You know, I had the running back as the MVP, which is right there, the whole game, great action. That was a big day. It was my birthday, you know, weekend, that weekend. Yeah, it was big. That was very real.

Which is your birthday again? January 31st, right? January 31st. Yes. Two and I have the same birthday. Yes. Birthday we look alike. I mean, you know, this was exactly how you PFT all the time.

This was the text. Stu sent me talking about his dad. They got all the cancer, insane, great results, exact opposite of what he prepared me for and thought woohoo. And I wasn't even able to respond. I responded maybe 10 seconds later, saying so happy for you and your family before I could respond. You said NBA 25 K best bet on Nets minus three and a half,

10 K best bet on Raptors minus two, Diamondbacks plus, and all of them went like 0 and 6. But that's what I love about you. Keep shooting. See, listen, I'm not afraid of it. Oh, listen, I can lose 20 days in a row. I'm still betting anybody. I got to put my record up to 365 days a year.

I'm betting anybody. What was the score of that Bucks Saints Monday night game? Sunday night game. Oh, shit. It was like 34. Nothing. Yeah, it was it was insane. The loser.

Yeah, that was a bad. That was an all white Saints game, too. Right. They're wearing those uniforms. That was the last Saints shining moment. And that was Korea, matter of fact. Yes, that was the last. Looking back on that was his last shining moment.

Yeah. So what do you think about this upcoming NFL season? Give us a look. I mean, I mean, it's like Florida when they kept the whole team and, you know, they kept the coach and, you know, that whole team and they won their second championship. How are you going to be Tampa Bay? Are you looking at any of the team over unders?

I didn't I didn't actually see the numbers yet because I have to see actually the signings. But they're weird because it's 17 games. It's very confusing. Oh, it's going to be different. Right, right, right. Yeah. You shouldn't have told him that.

He wouldn't have known. I know if I die in my sleep tonight. I'm leaving you with a 1000 unit game of my career. Tampa Bay box minus four by 40. And they lost by 31. Yeah. And I responded. I said, are you still alive?

It's like a 71 point loser. But I love it. I fucking love it. How do you feel now, baby? It happens. And you're right. We are we are cherry picking like some of the worst. Listen, I'm going to say some I'm going to say some nice things

about you, Stu. I actually genuinely love you as a person. Thank you. You are very, very kind. People don't know this, but like you are so, so kind with your money, with your time. You love people. You bought you bought my son who was a year old year old

Stu bottom of PS five. PS five. I'm sorry. PS five. He's like, he's the greatest gift ever. He's like, I got this gift for your son. It's a fucking PS five. And this is like when it was impossible to get PS.

That's no joke. That is two finer. You do put you put a smile on everybody's face. I just like Stu days in the office. You can notice on a Wednesday when Stu's just around. People are just happier to each other. I think I honestly do think that it starts out. If you can see somebody at the very beginning of your day

that's genuinely happy to see you, it makes you happier to see everybody else that you run into that day. I think that's the gift that you give to people, which is actually like a very special thing that not a lot of people have. Well, I mean, like I'm, I'm, I'm honored to be treated as like Pierce with all your superstars there.

Like you guys are superstars and you treat me like you're a living legend. Well, I am. I am, but you might not have to see it like that. You know what I'm saying? And you're so friendly and you're so kind and you're so talented. And then the energy is raised when I walk in that building because I have to bring my A plus plus game.

I want to make sure everybody's on their A plus plus game. And, you know, right when I walk right through Pat's screaming, I'm screaming. I jumped in. Let's go fucking large. Let's go, Willie. And it's just, I love it. No, no, I love, I'm honored.

I love it. Do you think? I'm the biggest people pleaser ever. I want people to be happy. Yeah, it's true. In spite of anything. Yeah. My health, you know.

Do you think, do you think Dave likes you? Do I actually think? I think he loves me. No issue about it. You sure? No two ways about it. Well, remember, I've grown into a role now by pissing him off is our best comedy.

Yeah. So that I'm in an adversarial role with him. I'm not being his asshole buddy. I'm not kissing his ass. I'm doing direct opposite. I mean, you do kiss his ass a lot. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I give him the accolades he deserves.

Right? Right. Right. I mean, he's the hottest human in America right now. Like, I mean, like Matthew McConaughey. Don't kiss his ass. No, no, Matthew McConaughey is nothing on Dave Portnoy. Right.

You know, right. I mean, in reality now, you know. If you could trade lives with anyone in the world, it'd be Dave Portnoy right now. Uh, I ain't spitting down anybody's throat and putting a chain on. No, no, no, never. And I'm not wearing tight pants.

And I'm not wearing tight pants. You just committed a federal crime. You just, you just admitted a federal crime. Bullsack. I don't get it. Federal crime. I don't get the fucking. I don't get the tight pants.

Dave, you watch that video. You're a federal crime. We know you got the dick. No, that's a different one. We know you got pussy. No, that's a different sex tape that they put out. You know, I mean, relax. We're a pair of sweatpants, Dave.

And let everybody fucking just breathe a little bit around you. You know, you scan shit around Portnoy. So I'd rather attack than like be a patsy. You're bam-bam. Right. You know, I want to look at it. So real strength. Let me ask you this.

When I am waiting for him to die, because I think I could take his role. I could do the pizza reviews. I could do all the mad money. I could do everything. No, I besides fit into his clothes. I mean, it's not happening. That's not happening.

That'd be awesome. Unless I'm allowed to do eight balls every day, twice on Sunday. Like, what'd you do? What'd you eat today? I don't know, four apples. That's all I did. That's all I do. Well, you weigh 140 pounds while I did four apples.

Sue, can you walk me through the clip? It's my favorite clip of all time where you're on TV and the guy touches your arm. And you just immediately say, don't touch me. Yeah. His name. Is that Ron Bash? Was he?

Did you actually not like him? No, he's one of my best friends ever. He did all the videos when my children were five, six, seven, eight, and they played football and baseball and basketball. I used to spend like 6,000 and make 50 videos. Give them two to each friend. It to everybody on the team of the teams. And we've filmed the whole year and he would edit it

and put music and voice. He did all the high school sports Jimmy Cavallo. His father, his father was one of six people that took Mystic Ice Tea public. And he owned a beautiful house in Vermont. We skied. He took my whole family there. Crazy.

So anyway, I have no idea how much of this is true and how much is this. It's just crazy. Oh, no, no, no, no. Every time he has these stories, he folks to die. It's some company that's children. That made a lot of money. No, no, no.

Don't do that. This is for data. It's always like, hold on, hold on. It's always like the perfect, like it's a company that you know made a lot of money. But like, how would anyone know the fifth guy at Mystic Ice Tea? He's the vice president of finance for Mondo.

What would be my point? Well, that's not a dick drop. What I just said, it's a basic story. Why are you guys so sad? I just love the details. You're ruining the podcast. You're ruining the podcast. I'm sorry.

Are we? So anyway, so he does a part-time gig with me being the host of Sportsvisors. And we did a show right afterwards where I sold a show for like, I was making $20,000 a week just selling the show, me doing the show with three guys on it. And he was also on that show. So Brett just out of the blue, he touched my hand

and it just came to me. It was not premeditated. It just went. It was beautiful. It's my favorite. And you do hate Ron Bash, right? No, I love him. But I shred him in public.

I'm pretty sure you hate him. No, I shred him in public. So we're in public right now. I hate him. He's the worst. No, he really isn't. But he was a pompous ass, very smart, an excellent basketball coach, but he took two division three teams to the final four.

Yeah. But his ad was, I took two teams to the final four. Sounds like it was like division one. Right. So people hated him for that. Jeremy Schapp came to where we filmed the show once with a whole crew to expose him. And Ron Bash got the limo in the back and spun out.

So I came out and I said, Jeremy, you want to interview me? They're like, no. Do you have any real life beef with anybody? In reality? Yeah. Like who's God? You got a problem with God? Yeah.

Listen, truth be told, God is my witness. I walk out the street. All people want to do is take my picture. Tell me they love me. Tell me I helped them with their sex life. Tell me their spouse loves me and wants to fuck me. And all my friends are like, we've all been rooting for you your whole life.

So there's only love. God's a scumbag. Why did he make me five foot, four and three quarters? No, no, no. Truth be told, if I was two inches short, it'd be perfectly round. Do you think that's funny? That's not funny.

Not as funny. I would rather be perfectly. So I was six inch dick in fourth grade. I was doing porn. I still have a six inch dick. That's not fair. So I have a beef with God. That's pretty good though.

Four and what? I'm five, four and three quarters. Three quarters. Those three quarters matter though. Yes, they do. Yeah, you got to she said it did. Are you or have you lost any weight? I mean, height.

You got to be like, you're getting older. Five. You sure? Exactly. No, every time I get on the scale every time. No, I measure myself. I measure myself. I'm very sensitive.

I'm a hobbit. It's not funny. Are you going to get back in shape? Yeah, I'm running the marathon. October 11th, the Boston Marathon. And I'm two months behind on training and 20 pounds overweight what I should weigh right now. So it's going to be a daunting task.

But I'm superhuman. I'm going to listen in seventh grade, 1974, Long Island. It was Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Stu Fine. I mean, that's how it went down. And not really in that order, not really in that order. We had two podcast guests say that they're superhuman, Jose Gensako and Stu Fine. And I believe you so much more than Jose Gensako.

You are superhuman. Listen, he was superhuman. I watched him hit Hobbers. They were fucking jokes. I mean, it was scary. And then just because Billy showed that he's over the hill, does it negate? No, no, it doesn't negate that Jose Gensako was a legend.

Billy just enjoyed a legend. He went, listen, I don't care that he got hurt. Jose Gensako, before that fight, you see him, I was scared. Like I knew Billy would win, but I was still scared. Were you scared that you could get caught with a shot? Right or wrong? It had to be. He's a legend.

But he went in war mode. No, but I'm saying, but Jose Gensako is Jose Gensako. Fuck him. Really? I saw him in his prime. I was a big fan. I actually think that he used to fuck everything that walked. I wanted, I want.

Not Madonna. Listen, I wanted the pussy that he, I would have fucked Madonna. Yeah, I know you wouldn't. Jose didn't, though. Jose really, he said that she wasn't hot enough for him. God, imagine being that hot. Do you think you have too much testosterone? Do I?

Yeah. Well, I still take a shot every two weeks to make, so that I can get hard and I come regularly. You know, I could roll balls in my last class a week and fight my wife twice a week. Do you have to, you have to go to like? No, I don't think so. No, but I think your sons ever say like, hey, dad,

they humiliated. Yeah, exactly. They want to change their name. Yeah. Do you have to go to like the T clinic to get the shot? Or do you? No, I go, I go to a urologist. Okay.

Nurse walks in says, hi. And then they thank me. They say, thank you for your penis. I'm like, thank you. You know, thank God. I feel like your days are just filled with disappointments. Really? Yeah.

Like doctors? Yeah, sir. Just like, oh, I got to go here and you have a great life though. Like I'm not saying it's a bet. Fabulous. And then you just get the food and no matter what, it's a 10 out of 10. You just were at the hospital with your father yesterday

and you were saying that the hospital food was the greatest meal you've ever had in your life. It is. Well, you know, you don't appreciate life until you have an amazing life and then you fall off a cliff and you really got to struggle for a decade on the balls of your ass, beg-barring, stealing, humiliating yourself, shaming yourself, being friends with people you would never

even talk to, you know, having to be in circumstances that when you pop out of it, my God, you never look back. I love that. I love that. Every second of every day is beautiful. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, you went off.

If all you know is good, you know, big deal. Yeah. You got to crash. Yeah. What would your neighbors say about living next to you? Do you think they like you? Two neighbors here, I graduated high school with his, the wife, me and Sandy.

So she's known me forever. She knows what to expect. Yes. On the other side, they're moving next week. Matter of fact, their daughter's getting married this Saturday. They're the Mead brothers, the Meads, and they were the houseband at the boardy bond since 1984. Got it.

Okay. So they were rowdy. Remember I've invited you to come to the Meads, the houses, the band. Yeah. So they're partiers. So wait, are you nervous about who moves in? No, he's like 70 years old and he's already been,

they Googled me and he thought I was funny. He's looking forward to meet me. Yeah. I don't know. So I'm in 815 where I'm screaming, let's fucking eat ass like Clint. You know, I mean, he's cool. Okay.

I might help with sex life. There we go. I'm a positive influence in anything I touch. What happens when you go? I touch your girl's clitoris. No. It's going to be my girl. No.

What happens when you go to like the DMV and you have to wait in a line where it's like a traditionally quiet environment. In between the snaps, I do it. I used to find it. Come on. No one's talking to each other and you know, people just like snap. They're like, I used to.

What is Dave? I love his pizza. So you haven't like, you haven't like stood in a line quietly for years now. Decades. Decades. You've done nothing quietly. You love people.

Yeah. I love people. All right, Stu. Appreciate you coming on the pod. We still got a lot of fun we're going to do today. Oh, no. It's a make some videos, make some memories. Yes.

Thank you for hospitality. I'm booking a one night show at Westbury. It's going to be a one night show. I don't know if you saw Seven Sundays with Billy Crystal. It's like a three hour show. He tells his life. You're going to do that. 3,000 tickets.

I might need you to come because I'm going to say special guest. I'm going to lie and say you're going to come. Yeah. Even if you don't come. Where is it? Okay, good. It's going to be, I haven't booked it yet. I have to pay for it.

It's like 28,000 just to book the place. Now I got to sell tickets. You're just doing it for yourself? Yeah. Because my ego's through the roof. And evening was too fine or Christmas and life's too funny. I just like the moment I book it, I want to just want to kill every enemy I've ever had.

They're just going to die. They're going to die. People are just going to be like, I can't believe I'm going to kill themselves. We need to make it a whole special on Barstool. Done. Yeah. Okay.

So I can do that? Yeah. I can call it stew finder and friends. Yeah. No, I'm saying we need to get cameras out there. So we can put it out and take it. I'll pay for it. I'm not worried about that.

Can we set up like a bar on stage and just sit quietly to the side and just watch you do your monologue? People are going to want to see you guys, not me. I'm just going to want to see you do your monologue. I want to see stew finder. Evening with stew finder presented by stew finder. So I'm going to do it from when I was two years old up until now. You remember when you're two?

Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. Because my mother and father fought. It was nothing to do sexually. Okay. Fought and when your parents fight, they add effects to child and they remember those things.

Yeah. I went into therapy to re-bring them out in the wounds. And so I have it. So unfortunately, I have a great memory about a lot of negative things that key off a lot of good things. All right. Beautiful. All right.

We'll stew. Thank you. We love you and appreciate you. I love you. Thank you. God bless you. May God be with you. Okay.

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All right, hot sea cool throne and then we're going to finish with guys on chicks. Are you boys ready to go? And Jake and Young Sound Bob will be here on Friday as well. PFT will be back in studio. We'll all be here. We'll watch Game 2. So it's a week long thing.

Maybe we'll sign them to a 10 day contract and be like Liam and Hank. Actually, no, Hank will be like, fine, I won't come back. I'm fine. So maybe we won't now that I'm thinking about it. What's a two way contract? Let's do that. Yeah, yeah, like the G League.

Yeah, we can call them up and down whenever we want. Yep, I'm in. All right, perfect. That was it. Thing I love about Young Sound Bob, he's a great negotiator. Oh, yeah. All right, Jake, hot sea cool throne. All right, I got two, actually.

First one, announcers calling Royals Reds games and giving emotional monologues. Nicholas Castellano did it again. The Royals announcer was giving a eulogy of someone who passed away on Saturday. Can you put this clip in? Yes. Fuck yes.

This is George Gorman who passed away at the age of 96. He served our country in World War II. He went to the University of Kansas and so did his son, Pat Gorman, who's been working for the Royals in the clubhouse for 26 years. And that was Pat's father. But that's a great life, 96 years.

And Pat, just like his dad, went to KU. He also went to Bishop Ward High School. There's a drive into deep left center field and there's never a great time to eulogize someone during the broadcast. Do you know what the best part was? Someone also unearthed, Nicholas Castellanos. I like to really, really get that out there.

His first home run as a major league player or it was in the minor leagues, but as a professional baseball player was the night that we killed Osama Bin Laden. So okay with that eulogy being interrupted. Yes. But yeah, it is perfect. There was also another thing Koli tweeted out.

I don't have it in front of me, but somebody pointed him to a famous international soccer player that scored, I think 70 career goals and of those 70 goals that he scored, something like 40 of them happened on the same day that a celebrity had died. So like a shockingly large amount. Well, it's kind of like our, well, we won't say his name.

I was gonna say, it's like the oil spill. Yeah, who has moves come out and oil spilled. We won't say his name. But yes. We won't say his name, but his name's R Schneider. Yeah. But yeah, it was laugh out loud funny. He is, Nick Castellanos,

he is the funniest person on planet earth. I don't care that he's not doing it intentionally. This is the highest form of comedy that there is. Yes. All right, good hot seat. You got another one. Yeah, I was just gonna do a Kawhi Leonard and specifically his knees as Yannis came back after.

Yeah. Everyone thought his knee was shredded and. This is, but Jake actually makes a good point here because this is what happens when you have the, the like freak of natures like Adrian Peterson, which I mentioned at the beginning of the show. Now everyone compares it. So remember after Adrian Peterson came back from an ACL

in like eight months, every ACL for the next two years, everyone's like, well, Adrian Peterson came back in eight months. Every knee injury. Everyone's like, well, Yannis came back in like a week and a half. Why can't they? Well, because they're not a freaking nature like Yannis and Adrian Peterson, but I kind of like it. Kawhi was quite soft.

I don't know if he was soft, but I do. I like the fact that we have to bring up that take. I think it's a great, I don't necessarily agree with it, but I love the fact that we're having a discussion. Yeah. And I do, I do remember when Greg Kittle injured his knee, I think it was two years ago. And they were like, yeah, this is a six week injury.

He was like, I'm going to be back in two. And everybody was like, okay, Greg. And then sure enough, like by the powers of, you know, the common person's body, he came back in like four weeks, which is freakishly fast. But he was like disappointed that he wasn't able to just simply will away his, his rupture to MCL. It doesn't always work like that.

It turns out. Yeah. And it's, uh, it takes her like a game of UNO, where now we have the take of Yannis. Like if, if you say, well, Kawhi's hurt, here's my card, we'll just throw down Yannis. Yannis came back and boom, now you're fucked. Now you got to draw five, four, whatever it is in UNO.

I haven't played UNO in a long time. All right. Cool throne. Cool throne. Sports writers and headline writers covering the Olympics because Bruce Springsteen's daughter, Jessica, was named to the equestrian team for the Olympics, U.S. team. And there's nothing sports writers like talking more about

than the boss. Dude, Jake is fucking nailing this right now. There was actually, there were some articles today, born to ride. Oh man. That one's easy. Yep. Oh fuck.

I'm sure there'll be plenty more throughout the next month. Damn. Did you have this BFT as your hot seat? I had it as my hot seat. Yeah. And you're absolutely correct. Like sports writers, this is a dream assignment form because first of all, they get to go to the horse event

and then that's, you know, they can just chill out in the stands and fall asleep and nobody'll ever catch them there. Unlimited Diet Cokes at the track. And then they also get to talk about Bruce Springsteen and work in so many different lines from his songs. So I was reading this to it, but the thought occurred to me like, why, why are we giving the people who ride on the horses medals?

Like shouldn't these medals go to the horses? Yeah. The equestrian events, like you happen to be on the back of a horse that can jump super high. How come, how come the horse doesn't get that medal? Well, they should at least give them a medal in like hay or carrots or something. I assume they give them something extra, right?

Who knows? I would just like to see them get the accolades for it, like they do in horse racing. Like the jockeys, yeah, they're mentioned after the fact, but I need a podium with horses on it. I need to see which horses turn away from the flag when the national anthem is playing for their country. I need more horse, horse centric content at the Olympic.

I agree. I totally agree. All right. Young Sam Bob, your hot seat cool throne. All right. My hot seat is barstool employees taking the week off during our week off. Wait, this is, oh, okay.

Go ahead. Because Dave was just on the live stream, just reaming everyone out for going on vacation on the day, on the week that we have a vacation. Yes. It was very funny. But yeah, it is like the office is closed, but we were here watching the game and he just roasted everyone.

And I don't know, it's always funny. Some people got it bad. Yeah. Some people got it bad, but also I've always just thought that like when Dave, if Dave mentions you, that means that he likes you in a weird way. If he doesn't even know who you are, that's when you're in trouble.

If it's, yeah, it was a test this entire time. We're going to give you a week off and see who actually takes it. And the ones that take it, they don't deserve to be here in the first place. That's not. So I know it did. People were probably like, what the fuck? We could take a week.

Did the game one stream came together very last minute because we have a meeting tomorrow and it was like, I was like, yeah, I'm going to be doing PMTs. Like, all right, well, Overs Club, I'll come in. And yeah, but it really sucks if you're. Marty Mush came all the way from New Jersey. I don't know if you saw that PFT. He's, he's, he watched the first half and then he got in an Uber

and showed up at the second half and being like, Hey, I didn't know you guys were going to be here. It was very well played. That's awesome. Good for Marty. All right. Your cool throne, Bob. All right.

I have two of them. I have the Overs Club now three in three. Yup. I hit today. Yup. Barstil Sportsbook. Yup. And I also have, I think the local TV commercials

are going to be great in the future because I think all these local athletes, like D1 athletes, there's going to be some like cringy, funny, comical commercials. Yes. That's a good, yes. I think those are going to be coming back. We need to make some. We need to make some for them.

But yes, that absolutely like the, like the entire offensive line of Notre Dame doing like a South Bend Ford dealership. That would be very funny. Like there will be that where guys are just cashing a check. I didn't even think about that, but I like that, Bob. PFT, you like that? Oh, I love that. I love that idea a lot.

I think we should do that with, we should do that with Alex O'Connell with like, hey, I'm AOC here for the car stick store and we'll just like do a pop-up shop of car sticks and have them advertise that for us. Yes. But yeah, the local businesses in general, not just like car dealerships, like mom and pop restaurants, you know what they should, it should be like an entire offensive line at whatever the local buffet is and just have them like in front of a massive tables.

And just like the fattest guys that you can find on the team, just go into town on some burgers. That's always one of the best events of the years. The Outback Bowl when they do like the meat eating contest between the two teams is like this team, 900 pounds of meat and this teammate, 950. And that's who you bet on. I'm also interested to see how Nick Saban handles like players doing ads for various businesses in the local towns.

So like, I don't know, like you can't obviously do business with a gambling company or there were a couple others like adult entertainment, alcohol, tobacco or some, but you know that there are some places that Nick and Miss Terry don't like to go. Maybe they haven't gotten great service in the past. And if he finds out that one of his players is going to a place that he personally left a one-star Yelp review on, he might get mad at that player for endorsing it. Yeah.

Yeah, it will be, I'm excited to see how all the NIL breaks out. I've also thrown out the offer that if there are any potential five-star recruits, basketball or football that want to attend the University of Wisconsin, I will buy all their shirts. So just, that's just, that's just out there. Okay. So I'm just going to throw that out there. Let it, let it land wherever it does.

Your hot seat, cool throw on PFT. Oh, you had hot seat. Yeah. My hot seat was going to be nepotism because Jessica Springsteen qualified on her own without her daddy's help for the equestrian events in the Olympics. My second, my second fast of the nepotism was going to be that the Washington football team report was issued on Friday. And because Tanya Snyder has taken command of the team from her husband dance,

that happens to be her husband, Dan Snyder. There will be no significant punishments levy towards the team in terms of draft picks. And I love the fact that, did you see that it was, first of all, you can set your watch to it from the NFL standpoint, that there will be a news dump that comes out either the Thursday or Friday in the afternoon before the fourth of July, long holiday weekend. It's every year. They time whatever their worst study is, or their worst report is, it's going to come out on that day.

They're geniuses when it comes to scheduling that up. But they also didn't actually issue a report. It was an oral report that was given. So it's like Snapchat the report. There's no record of the report ever happening. It was just somebody told Roger Goodell what the report found. And then Goodell was like, okay, here's my punishment. No paper trail.

And honestly, I think it might be the smartest thing that Roger Goodell has ever done. He's like, why are we, why are we writing things down and uploading them into a cloud? I don't, I don't have to do that. There's no freedom of information act when it comes to the NFL. Just tell me the bad stuff that happened. Then I'll make my draconian punishment. So in this case, he knew that, you know, it's impossible to screenshot an oral report and then, you know, tweet it out and get 5000 retweets on it.

So Goodell, another tip of the cap to you, the PR master. You handle this one in a way that really you probably should have been handling everything in the past. Yeah, chess, chess, not checkers. Your cool throne. My cool throne is Baker Mayfield contract debates. This is off to a early start, early start. You can tell when you're getting through, get into like some, a couple of really slow

news days when it comes to sports. It started two weeks ago and I first noticed it. They started debating whether or not Baker Mayfield should get a contract extension right now and how much that extension should be worth. He, he has like another full year, probably like year and couple months before they want to decide if they want to give him an extension before they get into the final season of the deal. Like there's absolutely no reason why he would be getting a contract extension right now. But this is the start of the is, does Baker Mayfield deserve to get paid like an elite

quarterback discussion that we're going to be having all year long and well into next year too. What you're starting to see is just like the, the beginning of a germination of a seed that we planted a few months. Actually, we planted the seed back into Joe Flacco days of like, is Joe Flacco elite? Does he deserve to get paid as an elite quarterback? That is happening before our very eyes with Baker Mayfield. So you're going to see that discussion take place throughout the entire next season. It's like, it's way too early.

When you look at the calendar of when you should be talking about certain players getting it, getting extensions, we're at least the calendar. You're too early for Baker Mayfield for this discourse. But the powers that be have gone together and decided that now's the time. I've seen it pop up here, there, here, there. It's going to just, it's going to explode in the next six months. I'm telling you right now. So PFT lightning hit his house or right outside his house as he was in the middle of that.

And when you went away for a second, young sound, Bob said that he actually was having this conversation on the golf course this weekend as a Browns fan. So it's happening. It's happening. And Bob, let's get your take. I don't think it's, it's time to like, like lock him down now. I was the most anti Baker guy two years ago, but I mean, he proved he could win. He, uh, I don't know, he's our, he's our quarterback.

Yeah. Yeah. But it is, it is time to start talking about that though. Just as, as a Browns fan, it's got to be thrilling to you to get to have that conversation right now. Like you're, there's a reason why you're having it way too early. It's because this is the first quarterback that you've had in a long, long time that has even been worthy of this discussion.

So you've actually been like anticipating talking about whether or not Baker Mayfield deserves an extension for like three and a half years. Oh yeah. The guy, the guy, uh, I was paired up with three of them guys at golf the other day. They had a golf, uh, a Browns golf bag and I was like, oh, I'm going to chop it up with these guys. And sure enough, first question was, are you a Browns fan? I'm like, yep.

And they're like, all right, we're going to have a fun round. Then we just chopped it up about Baker and, uh, yeah, 11 wins. This is great. The, the, uh, what's happened on the streets, we need this from young sound Bob. That's what's, that's what people are talking about. Um, all right. So we're going to skip guys on chicks because PFT's, uh, block got hit by lightning and we'll do it on Friday.

So we have the question to do it on Friday. I'll do my hot seat cool through and then we'll guess some numbers. My hot seat is simply the water dogs. Uh, they fucking suck. I'm so sick of this team. They're terrible. I, I, I watch every game. At least they shop more.

Also we need a, we need an enforcer because our guy Drew Snyder got fucking jacked up. Um, so we need an enforcer and Paul Rable did not, deserve to get fined for his skirmish. He didn't deserve to get fined. That's my take on that. Well, I think that if you're going to fight, you got to fight harder. I was just pointing that Paul Rable didn't do enough to get fined. It's more, it's like a Frank Kaminsky thing, you know, like I would have liked,

I would have liked to see Paul Rable step up to defend his teammates to the same level that Frank did. Um, but you know, like he, he is the face of lacrosse. So I'm sure that he has those thoughts like, okay, I'm the face of the league. I can't be biting some guy's finger off out there. Yeah. But, uh, the water dogs get, the water dogs need to win. It's, it's now, it's now or never.

We're the second to worst team. I'm so sick of watching them suck. So get your fucking shit together, guys. Like this is it. This is the last call. Otherwise I'm firing everyone. I don't think I have that authority. Um, but if I do, I will fire everyone, everyone.

I think it's simple, big guy. When we do move the team, if they lose this weekend, we're moving the team. You know what we do? We make them the water cats. Mmm. I like that. Yeah. Um, okay.

And then my cool throne is baseball. We give baseball a lot of shit, but I am legitimately very, very excited for the all star, uh, break in all star game because of Shohei Otani. Shohei Otani was the first ever to get, uh, voted into the all star game as a pitcher and a batter and he's doing it all. So he's in the home run derby on Monday night, then he's going to pitch in the all star game and he's going to DH in the all star game. And this guy, like this is what baseball needs.

They need a guy like this. It's fucking awesome. He has what he has, uh, 31 home runs, 83 strikeouts that he's given other people, not for himself. He is electric. Every fucking home run he hits though too, like he pisses on the baseball. He fucking, it's violent what he does to baseballs. So I'm pumped for Shohei Otani to be the next Babe Ruth and for everyone to get

jacked about this and for MLB all star break to, uh, be awesome. Is Christian y'all in the, uh, home under wreaking? I don't think so. I haven't seen anything about that. Oh, interesting. Oh, yeah. I'm going to, I'm going to guess no, but that would be incredible if they brought him out as like a surprise guest, like how they do, uh, like the masked singers

essentially or somebody step up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The glass breaks and Christian yellow just sprints out of the dugout. Next thing I know, I got to go buy a dental dam. I think I love, I love Shohei Otani in the all star game. I want to know the answer to the question, could Shohei Otani strike out himself?

I would say no. He had a streak, uh, this last week where he had seven, all seven of his hits like in a row consecutive hits, they weren't like he had outs in between them, but they were seven home runs. So when he hit the baseball, it was a home run. Like that was just the result that happened when Shohei Otani hit the baseball and got it recorded a hit. It was a home run.

Yeah. What he's doing right now in baseball is honestly something that I never, like it blows my mind every time I see him either strike somebody out or hit a home run, knowing this guy can do both of these things. It's something I never thought that I would see in the game ever. It's, it's bizarre. It's like the, uh, ambidextrous picture that we had. Yeah.

10 years ago that was going to change the sport. That was, that's like the one last mountain to climb in baseball. Now that we have a picture that is maybe the best picture or one of the top, you know, handful of guys pitching in the game and the best hitter in the game. The last mountain really is to have the ambidextrous picture that can throw a hundred on the black with either hand. But besides that, it's like this, it's incredible shit that he's doing. It's, it really is.

So, uh, I'm excited. Good job baseball. I mean, you didn't do anything, but good job baseball. They didn't fuck this up. Yeah. Yeah. They didn't fuck this up. I, I would just like to say Rob Manfred, do not piss test.

Shohei Otani, whatever you do, I don't care what he's on right now. The only way you could fuck this up is if you stuck a little test strip into a stream of urine and then you just, you were just a big bummer for America. Don't, we're doing okay as a country right now. Okay. Don't harsh everyone's mellow. We're trying to come together. Let's just, just let us have some fun with Shohei Otani.

Agreed. Or the sticky stuff. Don't, if he wants to use sticky stuff, let him use sticky stuff. Fuck that. Yeah. No, no discipline on Shohei Otani. Yeah. All right.

Let's do numbers. So Friday, I think we have the return of our good friend, Ryan Racillo. So that will be fun. We'll talk some NBA finals with them. PFT will be back. We'll do guys on chicks and firefests then. We'll be taping after the, the game. So we'll have a recap there.

But yeah, good show boys. Good job, Jake. Good job, Bob. Love having you boys here. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. You guys are now on a two-way contract, which Bob signed almost immediately.

All right. Numbers, guess them, Jake. Now, if one of you gets this, I think you get promoted. I think you get promoted and we relegate Billy. So. Agreed. PFT, your number? Eight.

And yeah, we should relegate Billy. Billy has to produce Jake's podcast. Yeah. Yes. Which was, it's called the big man on camp. Barcel Benchmark. Barcel Benchmark. Yes.

I got it, I got it confused. All right. Number, Jake? 25. Bob. 10. All right. 99 for me.

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