Pardon My Take - NHL Playoffs With Keith Yandle, Lakers/Warriors G1 Delivers, Sixers Up 1-0 And Hank Is Down Bad + Guys On Chicks

Episode Date: May 3, 2023

Game 1 of Warriors/Lakers was incredible and we talk Knicks and Scott Foster (00:00:00-00:26:25). Max vs Hank round 1 goes to Max as James Harden and the Sixers win in the Garden and both guys have so...me thoughts (00:26:25-00:48:12). Jokic is the best and Chris Paul is hurt again (00:48:12-00:52:34). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Dillon Brooks and shorts (00:52:34-01:09:16). Keith Yandle joins the show to talk about his career in the NHL, being the iron man, the creation of the word Sonk, and playoff hockey (01:09:16-02:04:35). We finish with Guys on Chicks and the lottery ball (02:04:35-02:22:44).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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, pardon my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. On today's pardon my take, we have Keith Yandle on the show, former NHL Iron Man. We're still giving him the Iron Man. Very cool guy, awesome talk. He gives us some insight into playoff hockey.
Starting point is 00:00:26 He tells us some funny stories about his career, the creation of the word song, which is a very funny story. Great, great interview. We also are going to talk some NBA Game One of Warriors Lakers delivered. We had the Knicks basically get Scott Foster on their side for a win against the Heat. Max versus Hank, Game One goes to the Sixers. We're going to get to that.
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Starting point is 00:02:44 Welcome to part of my take today is Wednesday, May 3rd. And the Warriors and Lakers Game 1 delivers so much hype for this series. So much hype surrounding Steph vs. LeBron. And we had, it ended up being Anthony Davis with an all time performance and Jordan Poole being like, everyone get out of the way. I got this. Let me jack up a shot. Try to tie the game late.
Starting point is 00:03:14 It was awesome though, PFT. It was a great, great game. Yeah, it was great. I think what we're seeing is LeBron might be better as a Robin than he is as a Batman. They've got a true number one option finally on the Lakers and AD who looks healthier than we had predicted. AD is the healthiest man alive right now. I don't think that you can make an argument against that.
Starting point is 00:03:34 He was fantastic. And like going into this series, a lot of people smarter than us were basically like this series kind of goes with Anthony Davis because the Warriors will shoot threes. The Warriors will be able to maybe get out and transition. The Lakers have the size mismatch and the Lakers go to the free throw line. And Anthony Davis asserted his size mismatch was awesome on the boards scoring. He kind of ran out of gas a little bit on the end, but he played the entire second half. He ended up playing 44 minutes and you had like everything.
Starting point is 00:04:10 It was Anthony Davis early. The Warriors making a late run. And then like I said, Jordan Poole, I got to give, I like Jordan Poole just because, well, I would not like him if I was a Warriors fan because he would drive you insane. But I, I respect the hot of a guy who not only will do a heat check, but he does like the quickest heat checks ever. If he makes one shot, he's like heat check time. He had one in, I think the second quarter where he made, he might have made two threes in a row.
Starting point is 00:04:40 And the next possession down, he launched like a 40 footer. He's like, I just got to see if I'm never going to miss again. And he did. And also the fact that he's doing these quick heat checks when he has Steph Curry and Clay Thompson on his team too. He's like, nobody has ever anointed themself as the third splash brother quicker than Jordan Poole has. He's like, yeah, the three, the three of us, I think we're probably the three best three point shooters in the history of the NBA. The last possession that the Warriors had, they're down three, there's like 14 seconds left.
Starting point is 00:05:11 Steph gets double teamed at half court because they were like, we're not going to let Steph shoot. So he smokes the ball off to Jordan Poole, but you have 14 seconds left. So the, the idea there is you can now run a little bit off and Steph can run through some screens. Maybe Clay gets open, but no, no, no, no, no. Jordan Poole was like, my time. I, he, he passed it to me for a reason. It's my turn to shoot. He hit a three earlier in the fourth quarter that was Steph Curry like.
Starting point is 00:05:40 So I think he thought that he had become Steph Curry, the little runner that he did. That looked like a shot that you would put up at the end of a quarter. He absolutely nutted on that one and he started doing his like little threes out to the side on the way back. So yeah, he was feeling himself. So I, I, I do respect his confidence. I respect his confidence. I might not respect his ability to close out games, but I will respect his ability to believe that he will be able to close out games. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:06 And yeah, you're right. It would have been perfect. That, that's exactly the time where you want Dremont to set up one of his patented like moving screens with an elbow to the ribs, get Steph Curry open. And that's why you have Dremont on your team. Like make the refs call you for a, for a moving screen at that point. Just get Steph open and let him shoot a shot and hope that you can tie it up that way. Dremont, Dremont also did get moving screened himself by, was it AD that got him? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:32 And flipped out. We had a classic Dremont green moment where he started screaming at every ref. He started mimicking the calls of the referees. He started reenacting the fouls to the refs. And you knew that once he, once Dremont starts making that walk over to the scores table, you know, everybody that's watched basketball knows that walk from Dremont where he looks like he's got like toilet paper stuck between his butt cheeks. And he just kind of waddles over to the scores table. You knew he was about to get technical. It also is like, it's funny too, because Dremont like for as he gets calls that are reputation calls where he will get, you know, suspended or whatever.
Starting point is 00:07:08 He also kind of gets away with a lot because he does yell at the refs constantly. And they're like, you know what, we'll, we'll end up probably teeing you up later. Let's just save this. So not to overreact to game one. My, but I'm going to my fear of LeBron and the Lakers making a championship run has elevated to another rung. So I do think this is going to be a great series. I obviously, you know, like game one, especially the Warriors coming off of game seven, I don't know how they're going to solve for the fact that the Lakers are just taller than them. Like they're taller and they can score in the paint and the Warriors don't really want to play in the paint.
Starting point is 00:07:49 I'm a little nervous about that part because I think being tall in basketball is pretty important. Yeah, I guess some would say that my high school coach would definitely agree with you on that one. But I think also at the same time, the Warriors have been going up against that as long as they've been in this iteration of the Warriors. Correct. Like that's, that's how the Warriors broke the NBA. Every team was much bigger than them. And they used to have the ability to use that to their advantage. But a counterpoint would be they had Kevin Durant who's a seven footer.
Starting point is 00:08:22 No, even before that, before that, before they got. Yeah. Well, but before that, Dremont Green was not an offensive liability. And, you know, they were all younger and maybe could play more minutes. So that's, that's the difference because like, you're right, because Dremont had the ball in the fourth quarter several times where Anthony Davis gave him about 15 feet of room on the perimeter. And Dremont didn't even turn and face the basket. He just caught the ball and then just started looking to pass immediately. That's, that's exactly the difference.
Starting point is 00:08:52 But still, if Clay and Steph have a game where they're both at the top of the game together, they're going to win that game every time. I put this loss on the fans and the city, the city of Golden State, because somebody mixed up the colors tonight. Big time. All the fans, it was a yellow out. They're all wearing yellow on the night that the Lakers were wearing yellow. That can't happen in the playoffs. You're the Warriors. You've been there before.
Starting point is 00:09:17 Get your shit together, Golden State. I also don't like, I am, I'm a traditionalist here. I'll probably be an old man yelling at clouds. I said it on Monday night. Hank's agreeing with me. When you're in the playoffs, you wear your jerseys. You wear your classic jerseys. You wear your home.
Starting point is 00:09:32 You wear your road. Like don't fuck it up. Don't like the Celtics not wearing white at home. Like that was a, like the green and the red matchup was stupid. This one's stupid. Like it's the playoffs. There should only be two jerseys in the playoffs. I don't want your city connect.
Starting point is 00:09:49 I don't want your 17th Nike jersey. Again, I do sound like an old man right now, but I want your classic jersey playing in the playoffs because here's the thing. When we look back at these games and their classic games and you remember these moments, I want to remember the classic jerseys. I don't want to see the Warriors in black or the Celtics playing in green versus the Philly playing in red where it's like one team should be wearing white. I don't get it.
Starting point is 00:10:17 Yeah. The Warriors had a flower on their jersey. I want to see a bridge. I want to see a fucking bridge on the Golden State Warriors uniforms. Too many jerseys. There's too many jerseys in the NBA. It's Nike's fault. It's really actually, you know what?
Starting point is 00:10:31 That's also kind of proves how great these playoffs have been that the only complaint I have is there's too many jerseys. That's it because they've been that great. I just want to know where the miscommunication was because you can't have the fans all wearing yellow, whether Lakers are wearing yellow on your home court. That can't happen. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:51 It's going to be great. I think it's because I think Nike picks the jerseys for the teams and I'm guessing that the arena is not in full like they don't know necessarily. So they just say we're going to do a yellow out assuming that it's going to be normal jerseys. Well, they got to get on the same page for game two because that's a must win for the crowd. You got to have matching uniforms for the players and for the crowd in game two or else this
Starting point is 00:11:17 whole series is done. I just, they should never deviate from just you got two jerseys, bring two jerseys. That's it for the whole playoffs. That's what I want. But yeah, this, I mean, the series is going to be great. I don't know. Like if Anthony Davis plays like this every single night, it's going to be hard to beat Lakers because he is, the Warriors don't really have an answer for him.
Starting point is 00:11:36 And then like you said, I mean, the Warriors can obviously go insane from three at any moment and there will be one of those games where they probably win it by 20 because they hit all their threes. It's, it's a very interesting series because it's like two very different teams and how they want to play. And like, I don't know who's like, can you win playing in the post? Can you win hitting threes? We'll find out.
Starting point is 00:12:00 Yeah. I had a thought when I was watching the, the end of this game when Draymond was getting teed up because I wanted to know so badly exactly what he was saying because they showed people in the crowd that were laughing at what Draymond was saying to the refs. I think Draymond should mic himself up. He should do a personal mic'd up and then just record an entire podcast during the game of him running around talking to people and like slide it like he'll, he'll defend against LeBron in the post and be like, LeBron, you're a guest on my podcast right now.
Starting point is 00:12:28 And then just start talking to him as they're playing. Yeah. I'd, I mean, I'd listen while I watch already because I guess we're watching the YouTube version. It's already released, right? Yeah. New media. It's already, yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:41 It would be cool alternate feed and it would just have to be like that to put all the warnings in it beforehand. Yeah. You're going to, most of it, 90% is going to be grunts and then Draymond breathing hard. Draymond has to sign a contract before like or makes ESPN sign a contract before. Like I cannot be canceled for whatever I say because I'm going to say some shit or just put it out himself. That's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:13:06 Like, obviously they mic up some of the players. I forget who it was on the nicks that was mic'd up. That was awesome tonight. But Dray, if Draymond just like strapped a microphone, taped a microphone underneath his jersey to himself and then just record his own podcast during a game, that's what I want to hear. Okay. So other game that, I mean, this is, I know that like the games are on at 10 o'clock
Starting point is 00:13:28 at night and it sucks how late they start, but I won't miss a second. And I don't think anyone should. Like if you're a basketball fan, you cannot miss a second of this series. Other game. Nicks tied up 1-1 thanks to Scott Foster. So, and I like the heat loss, but they won because the Jimmy Butler didn't play and the missed call on the ball hitting the rim where the heat got an easy layup off of miss three and they call it a shot clock violation.
Starting point is 00:14:03 Like that did kind of change, like the flow and outcome of the game. Nick shouldn't apologize, but the heat have to walk away being like, we had no Jimmy, we have no hero, Max Drew's got hurt and we still almost won this game. Yeah. No moral victory for the heat. And Jimmy Butler was waving bye to the New York fans when he was leaving because, and that's not a move that you do if you're not going to play in game three. He knows he's going to play in game three and it's going to be different.
Starting point is 00:14:27 So if I'm a heat fan, I'm happy. If I'm a nicks fan, I'm, I'm also happy because you had to win this one. Oh, you're ahead of me. Go ahead, Hank. I don't want to. Crackin one. Yeah. Mm hmm.
Starting point is 00:14:40 Pavelski, dude. I wanted the, I wanted the Cinco. He had four goals. What a performance. Joe Pavelski from the you know, Wisconsin badger dude. What a game. Four, four goals. The Crackin are fucking we've got to get back to the next heat, but the Crackin every
Starting point is 00:15:00 time they're on the screen talking about jerseys, they have the, the like cleanest jerseys I've seen from an expansion team, usually when expansion team starts, they, it takes a while for your eyes to like be like, this is a real team I should take seriously. They look awesome. Yeah. It also Ryan Whitney's full of shit for saying the Crackin. We're going to win one game in the playoffs. Great sports town.
Starting point is 00:15:24 Hank's always said that Crackin Joe Pavelski, dude. Four goals and you can't win. How do you waste that? That's on real stuff. That's brutal. Um, yeah, the Crackin, I was thinking about it too, because you know, we had the discussion about, uh, the shocking factor of the Bruins loss versus the Bucks, the fact that the Crackin and then the Golden Knights, when they did a few years ago, the fact that an expansion
Starting point is 00:15:50 team can be like deep into the playoffs, the NHL tells you how volatile the NHL is. Like there's, remember whenever they would add a team to the NFL or MLB and they would just suck for a decade. The expansion draft is run a little bit different in hockey than it is in other sports. It's designed by its very nature to make the teams competitive right off the bat, which is smart because you want to establish a market because it's tough to grow. If it's a city that doesn't have an ice hockey team, it's tough to grow that organically through some bad years at the very beginning.
Starting point is 00:16:19 So it's smart what they do. The NFL just basically says, okay, you guys are going to show up and watch this shit because it's the NFL and you'll watch when we tell you to watch. Yeah, you get the first bit. They can get away with it. Yeah. Yeah. Here's David Carr.
Starting point is 00:16:31 But yeah, shout out to Kraken. What a fucking, I mean, they're up 1-0 in the second round. Damn. All right. Heat next. Yeah. The heat got screwed. I, what are you going to do?
Starting point is 00:16:44 And also Spolstra is the best coach in the league, I think. I think he's, I think he might take over the title. I think he might be, Pop has not been in the playoffs for a few years. I think Spoh is the best coach. Like the fact that he had that team almost winning at the garden, missing three guys and having the refs go against you, the shit he was doing. Like when he was just having them, he was having, Jaylen Brunson was running pick and roll and they were both dropping and it completely confused the Knicks for like a solid four
Starting point is 00:17:14 minute stretch where he had, Jaylen Brunson had no idea what was going on and they couldn't figure it out because both guys were dropping off their, off the pick and roll. Like he just makes adjustments that gives his team edges that I don't think anyone else is making right now. That's an interesting discussion is Spoh the best coach in the NBA right now. I mean, I, my, my theory is that, that Pop has been tanking intentionally to try to get women Yama, but he, but that he can't count if he's been tanking, like he's been a good job at it, but he's getting like the heat or not the most talented team.
Starting point is 00:17:47 I know the Knicks aren't either. I mean, but like it's incredible that they're in these games. Without Jimmy Butler, let me ask you this. If you were to replace Steve Kerr with Eric Spolstra, how much better are the Warriors? Now that's tough because I'm a big believer in NBA coaching X's and O's. Very important. Spoh does it better than I think anyone right now, but management of egos is also equally as important.
Starting point is 00:18:20 Kerr does that a great job with that. Like whenever people would say like, Oh, well, Phil Jackson had MJ and then he had Kobe and Shaq. It's like, dude, you have to get all these guys to buy in and, and fall in line. It's not that easy. If it was that easy, the, you know, other, other, all these coaches would have titles as they have the best players. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:38 Phil Jackson was managing Michael Jordan, Scotty Pippen, Shaq, Kobe, Dennis Rodman, and he was also banging the owner of the team too. I think he's pretty good at managing egos. So the answer, I guess, might be that Steve Kerr is number two right now. I mean, they're like, I just think what Spolstra's doing with this heat team, like they weren't supposed to beat the box. They, it feels like every year they're, they're getting farther than what they're expected. And tonight I was watching being like, I think we all sat down and thought that the next
Starting point is 00:19:15 would just kill the heat because the heat, one game, one Jimmy Butler's not playing. And they were in that game. It was, it was like one call goes the other way, two calls go the other way. They, they might win that game. I would say a Quinn Snyder also sneaky X's and O's guy for one of the best ones. And then Brad Stevens, he's a great X's and O's guy. He probably should be coaching the team right now. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Nice foreshadowing. Yeah. Nice foreshadow. Nick's R11. We shouldn't Nick's don't apologize for a win. I saw the parade outside. It does look fun every single time when they do the parade on seventh Ave. But if you're a Nick's fan, you also have to be in the back of your head, like, shit,
Starting point is 00:19:56 Jimmy Butler didn't play and we got a couple of very nice calls go our way. And we still like barely won. We had to have it. So again, like Big Head said, don't apologize for winning because you could not lose that game. I feel like Kevin loves outlet passes were, were a fun thing to watch the other night. Sneaky fun part about this Nick's game, having signs tip outs. Yes.
Starting point is 00:20:19 He's just, he's just a deflection and tip out machine. I know he doesn't get credit for rebounds on all of them, but he just, he creates chaos when the ball's in the air and he's actually very fun to watch rebounding. That was the other one. He was, he was all over the place. There was a, there was a play where Josh Hart pushed him over and then they called the foul Scott Foster called the foul on bam and I was just like, what are we watching? He's the greatest ever do it.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Guess what? It's, I want all these series to go seven because it's a great second except maybe Nug's sons, which we'll talk about in a second, but yeah, like, give me Nick's heat. Give me the, give me the Mecca game seven. Why not? Yeah, that'd be fun. And again, Scott Foster is fun when there's one Scott Foster because he's the guy that you can laugh at and make these jokes about.
Starting point is 00:21:05 But when the league has multiple Scott Fosters, then it's just officiating socks. Yes. Yes. All right. Last thing before we kick it to ourselves, we got a lot to talk about. We're going to talk about Max versus Hank. We've got Keith Yandle, great show, uh, rest of the show, congratulations to Joel and beat.
Starting point is 00:21:22 So Max, you're now up to 0 on the Celtics. Uh, yeah, I'm happy for him. Uh, the video, no, the video was nice. He had obviously meant a lot to him. It was good to see the camaraderie of the team, but, uh, I'm not really looking for personal trophies. I want championships. A quick question, big cat.
Starting point is 00:21:45 Uh, do you know anything about the recent history of, uh, of people who win the MVP in that translating to playoff success? Hmm. So let me see off the top of my head, Yoke just won the last two and the Nuggets going far, not have any titles. Nope. That's true. Okay.
Starting point is 00:22:07 They do not have any titles. Uh, who won it before? Yannis. I, Yannis did win it before he won a title. Uh, he won two in a row. So I guess maybe next year, uh, the Sixers will win. And then before that, who hardened in Westbrook, they don't have any titles. Staff would be the last one I would think.
Starting point is 00:22:26 Interesting. Okay. I just didn't know. I don't have a story into the game. So I figured I'd ask you that question. Yeah. Yeah. Good question.
Starting point is 00:22:35 I will say the, uh, like I like Embiid because he's, it's a great story in the tweet from 2014 when he tweeted, uh, he made a Photoshop of the like MVP rankings in the future and he put himself on top and everyone was shitting on him. This was 2014. He, I don't think he had not played or just got drafted and everyone was like, you're like, you're trolling. I can't believe you're trolling. I had on the court and stopped tweeting and stuff and it's like, no, he became MVP.
Starting point is 00:23:02 Yeah. I thought that was disrespectful to Kobe because he had Kobe, what third? I think it was him, then LeBron, then Kobe. The top replies in 2014 was like, Kobe's not going to be breathing then everyone today was like, what the fuck dude? It's crazy. It was like, it was like the top reply from 2014. Is that Laker Dan?
Starting point is 00:23:21 Uh, yeah. No, Joe Embiid is like one of the most likeable stars in the league. I, I don't know outside of Hank. Oh, actually we'll get to that. Let's just, we'll save all the six or Celtic stock because Hank might actually like Joe Embiid. Uh, Jake, go ahead. You had your hand raised.
Starting point is 00:23:40 Yeah. Going back to heat culture. I had to throw it in there. I have a heat culture stat of the day. The heat had 74 points by undrafted players tonight, most by any team in a playoff game in the modern era. That is he culture. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:53 And that's Spoe. Like that's, that's crazy to think about. Yeah. So tough game. 74 points. Tough, tough calls, but who was that? So is that Caleb Martin, Max Truce? Who else is undrafted?
Starting point is 00:24:06 Um, Caleb Martin. Caleb Martin might have undrafted. He drafted. Oh, Gabe Vincent, probably. Yeah. Gabe, Gabe Vincent had a great game. Yeah. Hey, what?
Starting point is 00:24:15 Highsmith maybe. That's crazy. Yeah. That is a crazy stat. Yeah. So that's great. And then, uh, Caleb Martin was undrafted and then also the Panthers one. Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:28 Congrats to the Panthers. Panthers look fucking sick. 1-0 over the Leafs. Yeah. Long series. Long series. Barowski. Also.
Starting point is 00:24:39 The Rangers. The first game won victory since 1997. Really? Yeah. It's 1996. It's 1996. They won a game. In any series?
Starting point is 00:24:49 Yeah. Uh, Florida Panthers have won a game in the second round. Sorry. Game one. They won a game in the second round for the first time since 96. Oh, shit. That's pretty crazy. Crazy.
Starting point is 00:25:01 Yeah. They've won. Yeah. 97 for the free game one. Crazy. Title town. Title town. Who knew?
Starting point is 00:25:09 Like, wouldn't that be perfect? If Max says he's title town and Hank's like, no, I'm title town. And then Jake just sneaks in and becomes title town. Out of nowhere without even thinking. Yeah. I mean, the way we're talking about it on the show, the six or Celtic series might as well be the NBA finals. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:27 That's true. Good point, Jake. It's ours. It's our NBA finals. You also said you're going to have all the popcorn. Yeah. Yeah. You contributed to the hype around that series, though.
Starting point is 00:25:38 I just want to let you know. No. You're absolutely correct. You're absolutely correct. Did you eat? Did you eat a bag last night? Yeah. You can see the picture?
Starting point is 00:25:46 No. I missed it. I took a selfie. Twitter has just, I don't know what, I get tweets from like 70 days ago. There's nothing I can do about it. Did you eat the full bag? Because you distinctly said, you're going to have all the popcorn. And I can do about it.
Starting point is 00:26:03 Did you eat the full bag? Because you distinctly said that your prediction for this series was all of the popcorn. Cattle corn. Yeah. Did you eat the whole bag? Yes. That seems so correct. Are you lying?
Starting point is 00:26:19 No. Yeah. It's a little bit. Yeah. I'm not like 85% of it. I'm disappointed. Yeah. Because it's cattle corn.
Starting point is 00:26:28 You couldn't finish it. Exactly. Exactly. Okay. Let's kick into ourselves back in studio for everything we got going on. Okay. Before we get back to ourselves in studio, quick word from our friends. It's sport clips.
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Starting point is 00:29:08 Lifelock.com slash PMT for 25% off. Okay, let's do what everyone is probably listening for. The NBA schedule is a little weird. Monday night had sixer Celtics. I was wishing so badly we had a podcast directly after that game. Good news is next week we will have podcasts directly after those games. So, the Philadelphia 76ers are up 1-0. So much for the sweep like consternation that Max had just been walking around.
Starting point is 00:29:42 I don't know, sweet God, no sweep. You're good. Sixers up 1-0. No Joelle Embiid. James Harden with an all time, maybe his best playoff performance. 45 points. B-Ball Paul with some big free throws. I guess to the Victor Go The Spoils, Max should get the chime in first, right?
Starting point is 00:30:00 Yeah, Max, what was your favorite part about beating the Celtics last night? No, last night it was nice to win one, as Kevin Malone would say. James Harden was a player that I've always wanted to see since he's been on the Sixers. He really came through that step back three. I really blacked out. I kind of lost all control of my mind and just let my body just kind of freak out. It was sad sitting next to my good friend Hank. You didn't seem sad.
Starting point is 00:30:38 No, no, there was these pictures. Yeah, you got your finger, your butthole fingered. Yeah, and I actually got banned from TikTok because it was sexual exploitation. So much sex. It was just oozing sex. From Max's butthole. It was the most disgusting video ever taken of me and I couldn't have cared less. That's how happy I was to see that shot go down.
Starting point is 00:30:58 That sounds like it was an awesome time for you, Max. Oh, it was fun. It was fun. Now, Max, I would also like to say congrats on beating the Celtics and advancing to the E-circle. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But I mean, you won without him beating. We won without him beating. You didn't beat the back.
Starting point is 00:31:12 It's a sweep. Yeah, can you see? I was going to get to this. I will not apologize. No, no one's asking you to apologize. No. We're asking to show more faith. Yeah, we're asking you to accept the victor of this season.
Starting point is 00:31:24 No. The destiny. No. No. Hank should just shave right now. I will not apologize. You just said it's nice to win one, like Kevin Malone. It was nice.
Starting point is 00:31:32 I won a game. I won a big. I mean, that was a very emotional. This pro thinks he's on the team. Yeah, you're not getting no win to this series. No, I'm not getting swept. And I mean, that dictated the series. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:49 Losing, winning that game without Embiid on the road kind of sets it up for, OK, this is going to be a battle. Because if you lose that, if you get smoked last night, then all of it's lost, sweeps it, sweeps in play. Harden probably, if he doesn't play a good game, it's like, all right, here we go again. It's a Celtic Sixers once again. But now it's, there's a different feeling in the air.
Starting point is 00:32:12 And you know, I'm thinking it's like. It's hard to get words out. Yep. It's just I'm ready for like a battle. Rather than if we got smoked last night, I would have just been down in the dumps. Same old Sixers Celtics. Really, what do you want to say?
Starting point is 00:32:25 For those at home, what's the implications of this to the Soul Patch bit? What's still possible? It means that Max, Hank, the sweep is still on the table for Hank, where he'd have to have the Soul Patch for two non-consecutive months. Yeah, Max is that. Or 4-1, 4-1 is also in play for Hank.
Starting point is 00:32:39 That's true, that's true. Because he agreed to the updated term. So Hank doesn't have that many games to play with right now. Max, I knew the game was over. One, because I know ball, but two, because James Harden wore the clutch jeans on his entrance to the stadium. He did.
Starting point is 00:32:54 He's bringing Jinko's back. It's been a long time. We've been squatting on that take. Jinko's are looked at needs to come back in the 2020s. Max, would you like to see him wear the Jinkos again? Or is this one time it worked? Let's move on to the next thing. No, I just want to see him come out
Starting point is 00:33:09 with the craziest outfits for every game. Yeah, folks from the outfits. I did say that, that was another thing that Big Cat and I were arguing before the game. You said Prime James Harden. I said, Prime James Harden, you don't want Prime James Harden. You want the James Harden you've never seen before. No, Prime James Harden is still, like,
Starting point is 00:33:27 you can still be in your prime in the regular season. Like, I'm talking about like he was coming out and playing the best James Harden game that James Harden could play. You wanted Michael Jordan Harden. Yeah, and then you said Michael Jordan Harden. Yeah, and you got him. You got him.
Starting point is 00:33:40 There's Prime James Harden, then there's Prime Ribb James Harden. And you wanted the latter. I also think that, like, just watching the game, I think B-Ball Paul might have either done something at one of James Harden's favorite strip clubs or something because he was icing him out to start the game. Just no pass, but B-Ball Paul, what a game.
Starting point is 00:33:57 I mean, and then you kept saying that, and then when the game is on the line, who did James Harden go to? Who did James Harden go to? Yeah, he did. He did. I'd like to award, these are all great performances from all these players.
Starting point is 00:34:08 No doubt about it. My personal MVP for this game is PJ Tucker. Oh, yeah. PJ Tucker had 37 minutes. Zero field goals attempted. Zero free throws attempted. That's the most ever in terms of minutes for no shots attempted at all during the course of the game.
Starting point is 00:34:25 But he sets the best fucking screens. He's so good at setting picks. His body was designed in the lab to give James Harden just two feet of separation to hit a three. And he touched a penis. And he touched a penis, too. Which we have a penis touching problem in the NBA. PJ Tucker, by the way, the Philadelphia 76ers
Starting point is 00:34:44 are 17 and 6 this year when he scores zero points. Yeah. Yeah. So that's the recipe. He knows his role. The recipe to success is make sure PJ Tucker doesn't score. But he's on the court the entire time. Yeah, no, he is.
Starting point is 00:34:56 He's very vital. He is really, really good at setting screens. He had maybe the best screen game that I've ever seen at the NBA level last night. So Hank, let's go to your side. Congrats again, Max, on winning this series. Won a game. OK.
Starting point is 00:35:12 Thank you for the game. Yeah. I actually think the Sixers should sit and beat and Harden next game. They're going to lose by 20 next game. Yeah. Harden's all I said, like, that watching Harden, like he was fantastic.
Starting point is 00:35:25 Because he has a history of not showing up at the big moments. That was a, like, true. James Harden willed that team to victory 45 points. All I was saying after Maxine attested this, when we were walking out of the gambling cave, James Harden's got to be so tired. Like, he's just going to be so tired for, like, a week.
Starting point is 00:35:41 Yeah. Yeah. Before we kick it to Hank, because I know we want to get his thoughts, I just sidebar a big cat. Yeah. Hank's got his phone out. I think he has a statement that's prepared. Oh.
Starting point is 00:35:50 Just an FYI. Oh, OK. It looked like you were getting ready to. I mean, again, like, I'm right here. You could just let me speak and find out if I did or not. And we found out I didn't. But OK. Well, you were looking at your phone like you were.
Starting point is 00:35:59 Great. No, I mean, I had to have some stats. All right, go ahead. Got your stats. And then I have. No, no, start off. Yeah, give us the stats. I mean, again, I can't even speak for, like, one sentence.
Starting point is 00:36:08 No, stop me up. I would like to. I have some thoughts. So this one, they shot 59% from the field, 40% from three, 94% from the line, lost. Yep. That's upsetting. Yes.
Starting point is 00:36:23 I went home. I was mad. And then the post-game press conference, Missoula, coach, first year coach, basically came out and said, yeah, that's on me. I didn't call up any good plays. I didn't put us in a good position to win. Which it's not the regular season.
Starting point is 00:36:40 Like, you've got to coach. You've got to be confident and have some plays in the playoffs. Like, coming out and saying that in the regular season, that's one thing. Coming out in the playoffs and being like, yeah, shitty job by me as the coach. Like, that was upsetting to hear. And it made me wonder.
Starting point is 00:36:58 And this might have been when I was just mad, and it was like 1 AM, I couldn't sleep. Brad Stevens, like Missoula said, he had no play calls. He had bad play calls. Didn't do a good job. Brad Stevens, for all intents and purposes, one of the best X's and O's guys ever. When he was coaching, he was probably top of the league.
Starting point is 00:37:16 He's still in the organization. Why don't they just put him on the bench and just have him call the plays at the end of the game? I don't know. Was it like a Pat Riley situation? Yeah, like, you have a coach that came out and admitted he was not prepared in that type of situation to call plays that they needed to call to win the game,
Starting point is 00:37:36 put the guys in the position to win. Yeah, so what was he doing? I don't know. I don't know. He called the play for Marcus Smart at the end of the game. You have Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. Jalen Brown took three shots after the first quarter or something.
Starting point is 00:37:48 Yeah, Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum, I think their last points were with 11 minutes left, or maybe not. But it felt like they only shot a couple of times down the stretch. It was the same as game five of the Hawks series, where they weren't up 20. They were up maybe six, seven, eight, with four or five minutes
Starting point is 00:38:04 left. And every offensive possession, it looked like they were just killing clock. They were playing like, let's run the clock out. But there was plenty of time and plenty of possessions for the Sixers to get back in it, which they did. But I spent a lot of time last night not sleeping and just wondering, what can Brad Stevens do
Starting point is 00:38:22 to help this team as a coach? Because seeing those quotes from Missoula was just like, it was borderline infuriating. And he said, he needs to get choked out again in the day off. He needs to work on his throat game. Yeah, Jiu-Jitsu. So Jason Tatum, I just looked up. His last field goal was 11 minutes left.
Starting point is 00:38:38 Do you think, so Marcus Smart, I don't understand the drawing up play for Marcus Smart, because he's maybe your fifth best offensive option, right? Would you say? You'd rather have Tatum, Brown, Brogdon, White, Terrick White. So six, yeah, best option to take a shot there. Do you think Tatum doesn't have enough dog in him?
Starting point is 00:39:02 No, I do think he has all the dog in him. Why didn't he take over that game? He's like 24 years old. OK, but I'm just saying, he is an exceptional. He's going to be first team all the NBA. He's an exceptional, exceptional player. It feels like that last thing is that killer instinct of, like, this is my game I'm taking over.
Starting point is 00:39:20 He is the best player on that court. The problem was, like I said, it was the end of the game. They rounded it, too. It was passive. They were playing super, super passively. That would be what I'm saying. That's exactly what I'm saying. But that might have been a coaching strategy.
Starting point is 00:39:34 I don't know what. I don't know. They played the same way they did it at Lana Game 5. Hopefully going forward when they get leads, they'll just. It's like they changed their game plan. Jimmy Butler's heart in Jason Tatum's body is the best player in the NBA. I was about to say, let's have a dog off real quick.
Starting point is 00:39:47 Yeah, but there's not as good a Jason Tatum. What did I just say? I said, Jimmy Butler's heart in Jason Tatum's body. Jason Tatum at. What happened at the end of that? He came to get. Jason Tatum was a fucking monster. When they tried to draw up a play that was not going to Jimmy
Starting point is 00:40:00 Butler, and Jimmy Butler said to his coach, no, I'm a dog. I'm a dog. They need to have a dog transplant. I don't think so. I think that's an overreaction, skip Bayless. No, I'm just skip Bayless. I'm simply asking questions. I'm not even making a take.
Starting point is 00:40:14 I asked, do you think Jason Tatum has enough dog in him? OK, I might disagree with him. He's been through Eastern Conference Finals in the finals. He's 24 years old. You sound like Max right now. No, I'm just saying like loser talk. Well, when did MJ get his first championship? How old was he?
Starting point is 00:40:32 He was probably in his late 20s. So did he not have that dog in him? He played in college. He won a champion. Actually, no, he was 18 because he won a championship in college and he hit the game winning shot. OK, but that would be dog. Jason Tatum went and where'd he go to college again?
Starting point is 00:40:47 So he must have won a championship. No, he didn't. Oh. I think they lost to South Carolina in the second round that year. Oh, that's a double bag. Brutal. In the little check, 27, 29.
Starting point is 00:40:58 I was talking about that in Frank Martin. That has nothing to do with anything. I think what we can definitely say is Marcus Smart has more of a dog in him than Jason Tatum does. No, Marcus Smart has like an unleashed pit bull in him. Again, it's like, but Jason Tatum is a better dog. You guys are, you guys are, you know. I was asking James a golden retriever.
Starting point is 00:41:17 No, the fact that you're so like, listen, I was asking a simple question. And I answered. Not the dog. He's got enough dog. Really, you answered by accusing us of being stupid. No, I said yes. Jimmy Butler's better than Jason Tatum.
Starting point is 00:41:32 Yeah. Or Jason Tatum is better than Jimmy Butler. OK. But does he have the dog? Had they played head to head recently in the playoffs? This season, no. What about last year? This year.
Starting point is 00:41:45 I didn't. What about last year? I mean, yeah. What? Who won? The Celtics. So that was Jason. I'm just asking a question.
Starting point is 00:41:52 Don't like, listen. I believe if I remember correctly, is the end of the game. I think it was Jimmy Butler was guarding Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum was a one on one. Had a step back jumper in his face to ice the game. OK, good. That's dog.
Starting point is 00:42:05 Listen, Jason Tatum, like that was a game, though. Or is like, where's Jason Tatum in this fourth quarter? It's also totally valid to be like, you guys are being prisoners of the moment right now. Of course. Yeah, obviously, because that's what we are. We're dumb. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:16 So we saw that game. I think the Celts are going to kill them tonight. So now everything that we saw for that game last night means the world to us right now until the next game happens where we'll overreact the other way. I also think Embiid, I hope Embiid comes back. You think they're worse with Embiid? I think that Embiid coming back at not 100%
Starting point is 00:42:32 will discombobulate them. I think it helps. I think similar thing with Murray was out for the Hawks. Trey Young, it's like he knows he has to be the guy. He knows everything that's going through him. He has 100% confidence. There's no last shot, only one ball. It happens to the Celtics sometimes too.
Starting point is 00:42:47 Jason Brown and Jalen Tatum, that is a confirmed thing that happens where it gets weird when. You don't know who's the alpha? When one, but if Jalen Brown has 35 points and Jason Tatum only has 20, you probably should be running it through him, but it gets weird at the end of games. I think if Embiid comes back, it's
Starting point is 00:43:03 going to discombobulate them enough for the Celtics to win. So Max, what's your take on that? Are the Sixers better off without Joel Embiid? They are 15 and six this year without Joel Embiid. They also had a million when that game last time was disgusting. They had 100 layups. The Sixers didn't play defense. No, the first half was a layup line.
Starting point is 00:43:18 The Celtics is not like they are a worse team than last year, and the only difference is the coach. The Celtics didn't play bad last night. They did not play good defense. Hank had insult stats to himself. Yeah, the Sixers just played better. They did not play good defense. And James Harden was the best player on the court.
Starting point is 00:43:36 We should mention Tyrese Max, he was awesome. I know that Brogdon threw him the ball, which was crazy, but that was a shot clock violation. They were playing great defense there, and that was kind of the game right there. Max, he stole the ball. It was a great call. Yeah, it was.
Starting point is 00:43:51 Was it Kevin Harlan? Yeah, I believe so, yeah. Maxi does take a lot of shots, a lot of threes off the dribble, where it seems like his momentum just carries him as he's shooting, and he hits. He misses back iron a lot when he's coming around the edge. He's also always smiling. He always has an inside joke in his head.
Starting point is 00:44:09 I kind of like that out of a player. So, Hank, how are you feeling for Wednesday night? We will be in Florida, so we won't be streaming. We'll be doing social clips. I do think the Celtics are going to kill them, because I think there's just a natural let down. You won one in Boston. You didn't need a bead.
Starting point is 00:44:33 The Celtics now have to give their best effort. It feels like a Celtics blowout. I alluded to this on Sunday, but the Bruins losing has really ruined my entire just vibe. I don't feel, I am, we're down in the series, let's just tie it up, and then we'll go game three, and then we'll go game four. Anything can happen.
Starting point is 00:44:56 You actually, you took the Bruins a lot harder than I thought, because someone was like, why didn't you, I wanted you to make him cry. I was like, no, no, you can't make Hank cry about the Bruins. You got to wait for the Celtics, then he'll cry. Yeah, it was more, it's more, you know, Boston and the city as a whole, and just being the best team in NHL history, and losing in the first round is something
Starting point is 00:45:17 that's never going to go away, and that sucks. And that being probably the last season of Bergeron, like Bergeron, again, I'm not a diehard Bruins fan, but I am in the playoffs. Every playoffs the last 20 years, Bergeron's been the guy. Chara was the guy, they're both gone. It's like, fuck. And they lost in the first round in a game seven
Starting point is 00:45:35 when they were up 3-1. Also your Bruins, the loss around them had to do with the fact that you also see that loss as just being, oh shit, now I only have the Celtics. Right. That's all that's left. Right. But maybe it's like, you could be watching the Bruins tonight. We should be, that's what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:45:49 It's just sad, it's sad in the group chats. My group chats are mostly hockey fans and less basketball fans, so it's like, that's, things have gotten dark and sad. So let's play, whose line is it anyway? Game two, 8 p.m., Celtics Sixers, Celtics at home again. I wanna say Celtics minus, well, we don't know if it beats playing again. I'd say 10, again.
Starting point is 00:46:14 Nine and a half. Nine and a half, yeah. Would you say it's must win? Uh, yeah. Go ahead Hank. No. You go down to 0-2. Oh my God, no.
Starting point is 00:46:25 I, yeah. Max just gotta win off you right there. Well Hank just pointed out to me last night that you guys have lost what, three straight home games? I think it's four. Four straight home games. I wanna say what? That's four sound?
Starting point is 00:46:37 No, three is you only lost two. Hawks, but the Bruins lost. Oh, okay. Bruins lost Celtics. Oh, I didn't know you, when you said that to me, I thought you were talking about the Celtics. I didn't know you were doing cross four. No, the garden, the TD garden is cursed.
Starting point is 00:46:49 That's not. Oh, and four, yeah. It's not good. No. What are you gonna say, Max? Saying that Joel and Bede not playing as better for the Celtics is absolutely insane when you saw the amount of wide open layups
Starting point is 00:47:04 that the Celtics had. I don't know, we always play layups. Because there is nobody in the team. We always beat the Sixers when Bede plays. It was a layup line. But James Harden, not a rim protecting. You shot 90% in the first half because there was nobody at the rim and you still lost.
Starting point is 00:47:16 Like that. Factor fiction, we usually win when in Bede plays. That doesn't mean anything. This is a different Sixers team. He asked you back for a pitch shot. You have to answer back. Okay. Fact that usually plays for us.
Starting point is 00:47:26 This is a different team, which was shown last night. Okay. Because Bede wasn't playing. So you want in Bede? I want in Bede. Yeah. You guys both want in Bede.
Starting point is 00:47:35 You guys both want in Bede equally as bad. Someone's very wrong right now. Yeah. This would be great. Someone's gonna look like an idiot. It really is everything I've ever wanted in a series where I have nothing to, like I have no really interest. I can just, I was saying it's a PFT earlier.
Starting point is 00:47:47 Like whoever loses, we can just make fun of. And then if it flips the next game, we just go and make it for that person. I think it's gonna be a great series. Like I don't, like, the Celtics are very, they're so good at losing, but in different ways. Like I love Smarmy pissed off Hank right now. We're like, he's throwing everything back in her faces.
Starting point is 00:48:04 And he's just being a sour pus. But then I also love when Max loses because he just, he gets, he ties himself up into a little red knot. Yeah. And he starts to. And he just talks to himself. Everything's fine. Everything's fine.
Starting point is 00:48:16 Well, yeah. Obviously I wish that we had had better cleats. No, no, no. No. We didn't get no hit. All right. Other game, stop me if you heard this before, but Chris Paul got hurt.
Starting point is 00:48:29 Yeah, it's tough. Bad night to be a groin. Yeah. I watched, so I watched the whole game. Like the Yoke is just so fucking good. He is so good. He is a cheat code for like anytime they need any, anything to happen,
Starting point is 00:48:43 whether it be him passing pick and roll or just scoring in the post. Like he is a cheat code for we need a basket right now. Denver though, their defense was awesome in the fourth quarter. They basically stepped it up. And I don't think the, I don't think the sun scored for like five minutes to start the third, fourth quarter.
Starting point is 00:49:01 I just, the suns just don't have, they don't have enough guys. Yeah. Aten can't stop Yokech. They, and when they try to single, when they put just Aten on him, he can get around him in so many different ways. And I feel like Yokech has taken over,
Starting point is 00:49:14 you remember Dirk Novitski used to score the most unathletic looking baskets of all time? Yeah. Like he'd be falling down. He'd always end up on the floor with a weird look on his face. Yokech makes all sorts of uncoordinated shots. They look super uncoordinated when he does it,
Starting point is 00:49:28 but it takes a tremendous amount of athleticism to pull off these moves cause he's a fucking giant. He doesn't really jump when he's shooting. Like if he's shooting close, he won't jump. And it will, and his touch is so good where it's just, you get it on the rim, it will roll in. I just,
Starting point is 00:49:42 the nuggets are just very, there's so much better than the suns. And I know that again, this could all turn cause it's playoff basketball, recently buys everything, but just watching the game and watching the suns, they have to basically have Kevin Durant and Devin Booker both have like career nights to have a chance.
Starting point is 00:49:58 Which they could do. They could. I think that they'll get a couple. I still, I'm staying my prediction nugs and six. I think that Katie and Booker are gonna have a couple of those games where they just go nuclear on everybody. I think it's nugs and five.
Starting point is 00:50:10 It might be. It might be nugs and five. They just, they don't, just watching the game. Like the nuggets have so many more answers and the suns just, they can't, they have to play perfect.
Starting point is 00:50:20 And they, they, they haven't played even close to perfect. They were even leading this game for the majority of the game. And then Chris Paul again, like we said, I mean, we, I do kind of feel bad cause you'd want to see guys play, but it's also like this is his age. This is his, this is his history.
Starting point is 00:50:35 Yeah. You see, Rosalos kind of, he's starting to step off the Chris Paul bandwagon, but he's doing it in a very smart way of being like, you know what, if the nuggets win this series, it just means that people that don't pay attention to basketball as much as I do will finally start to realize how great Yokech is at the sport.
Starting point is 00:50:51 So it's like, he's turning this into a win for the game of basketball by having Chris Paul losing the series. So correct to Ryan, Ryan's learned how to, after all these years of depending on Chris Paul, he's finally learned how to spin zone a little bit off of a take. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:03 And he keeps saying, he also is like, yeah, well, when he was good, he knows, he knows it's over. Yeah, he knows it's over. I do think, Hank, you might be able to help out on this, but given your, your deep ties to Taco Bell,
Starting point is 00:51:16 I think that Taco Bell should bring back to Quesarito if Yokech wins the chip. Agreed. Can we agree on that? It was an elite menu item. And the old story about him getting drafted during a Taco Bell commercial, the big Quesarito Yokech,
Starting point is 00:51:29 I would like to see that menu item come back. Can we make that happen, Hank? Let's see what I can do. Make some calls, please. Make a call. I learned something else fun about Yokech last night. Did you know that he's obsessed with horses and he used to be a jockey?
Starting point is 00:51:43 That's the funniest jockey ever. Jockey's supposed to be short? Yeah, yeah. Not supposed to be, they are. Yeah, he used to be a jockey, which that poor horse, but then he had to stop being a jockey because obviously he's a giant, but that horse must have been just sick of his life
Starting point is 00:51:58 having Yokech try to ride him. But then when you switch up to a real jockey after Yokech, it's like a lead batting donut. Yeah. Where you're like, this is easy. Yeah, this is, I can go a million miles an hour. Yeah, the nuggets have impressed me greatly. They're fucking really, really good.
Starting point is 00:52:13 And Yokech is just so much fun to watch. The NBA playoffs in general have been awesome. It's been so much fun. And there was a stat, they did the ratings for the Warriors Kings game seven. It was the most watched first or second round game in 22 years. More people watched that game than watched five out of six
Starting point is 00:52:32 games in last year's finals. Oh, I mean, yeah, the Warriors Lakers could be a rating. I think that's gonna break. This record's gonna last for one day, two days. This is probably the best second round series basketball history. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:44 Yeah. I'd say best second round all across the board. Four series, yeah. Okay, let's do Hot Sea Cool Throne. Then we got Keith Yandel on the show. Awesome, awesome guest talking some hockey with him. Hot Sea Cool Throne is brought to you by our friends at Coors Light.
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Starting point is 00:54:00 Hank, I had TV on the hot seat too. It was my cool throne. Oh, embrace debate. So the TV writers Guild Union of America, I believe it's called, are going on strike. They won a 2% raise and they're not being given it so they're gonna go on strike. I learned today, I read a few articles about what,
Starting point is 00:54:22 because this happened in 2007. How many articles did you read today? I read one article and some tweets. But it was talking about the other shows that were affected and movies that were affected in 2007. Heroes, I don't know if you guys remember that show on NBC. One of my favorite shows of all time, first season's unbelievable and the reason season two sucked
Starting point is 00:54:43 is because it got written during the writer's strike and so it wasn't the real writers that wrote it. And that makes, that made so much sense for so long. I was like, what, how did this show, like this show sucked after season one. Season one's unbelievable. I think the same thing happened with Friday Night Lights, right?
Starting point is 00:54:58 Friday Night Lights. Season two where when Landry killed a guy. Office season four was shorter, lost. That all fell apart, I guess, during the writer's strike. James Bond movie, basically Daniel Craig. They have people that rewrite and, you know, write, like work on the script on set and, you know, touch it up and make it good.
Starting point is 00:55:19 They had a rough draft of a script before the writer's strike and then they had to go shoot it with no writers there and Daniel Craig had to be like the writer. So he basically wrote the movie and it sucked and then afterwards he was like, yeah, well, I had to fucking write it. That's why it sucked. It kept tank-shrinking.
Starting point is 00:55:34 Quantum of Solis. Solis, yeah. It kept tank-shrater alive in a breaking bed. Yeah, that's true. Also, the script writers for the NFL that year, that's when they might have turned in their best storyline though, because that was a 16-0 Patriots that ended up losing
Starting point is 00:55:50 in the final game in the Super Bowl. Yeah. That was, they went off on that one. Those scabs were good. Yeah, TV's about to suck soon. When is that gonna be in like a year? I don't wanna see you down this bad. The thing is crazy is like,
Starting point is 00:56:04 you were right that the hockey has stuck with me more than even I thought it would. Even watching other hockey, like I don't... You just can't, the flowers don't smell as sweet. No, and I, again, will watch any playoff hockey game. I love playoff hockey. I don't really care about the regular season, but last night I was watching these games
Starting point is 00:56:19 being like, this is kinda miserable. Yeah. It's sad. I'm sorry, I'm going through this. I agree with Hank. It is tough being a Boston sports fan. Yeah, people like, it's been over a thousand days since we won a championship.
Starting point is 00:56:30 Oh my God. What? God damn. How long has it been since you had a parade? Over a thousand days. Like 2019? Oh my God, that's forever. Pre-COVID.
Starting point is 00:56:41 Pre-COVID. Basically a new world. COVID ruined Boston sports. Some people are saying. You're cool thrown. My cool thrown is shorts. Oh, nice, nice. They're back.
Starting point is 00:56:53 We're going to Miami this week. It's gonna be hot. Gonna pack some shorts, maybe some row back shorts. Shorts are back at that time of year. I'm not gonna eat dinner tonight. My backpack is just filled with shorts right now. Yeah. I'm not gonna eat dinner.
Starting point is 00:57:07 I'm worried. This will be so hot. All right, your hot seat cool throw. So my hot seat was gonna be television for that same reason. So I'll just put, I'll put fashion on the hot seat. Oh yeah. The Met Gala was last night.
Starting point is 00:57:18 And again, we have no idea what happens inside the Met Gala. Nope. The best that we can figure out is that they do a lot of drugs and then they look at pictures that were taken of them walking into the Met Gala. And then they talk about their pictures in themselves.
Starting point is 00:57:32 And they check out, there's a lot of Instagram happening inside the Met Gala. I asked this on the stream last night, PFT, do you think that there was one single person in the Met Gala that had the Rangers game or Celtic Sixers game on their phone watching? Yeah, I think Jared Leto, I think he's a massive, he had a massive cat suit.
Starting point is 00:57:49 He had it on the, like on the front of where his eyes would be. He was just watching that and walking around. Yeah. Probably Pete Davidson. He's a big New York sports guy. Yeah, oh is he there? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:59 Was he there? I think he was. Is he a sports guy or does he just go to sports games? Oh, wow. Casual. Calling him out. That's a genuine question. That's most New York sports guys, yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:09 Not you though, Billy. No, no, like I only like going to the Knicks games and then when they go to the playoffs because it sucks every other time. And then you don't even like Yankees games anymore because it's too short. Well, I still go. The Met Gala is just a great reminder
Starting point is 00:58:20 of how old you get every single year. Like I think I was at, I was batting about 10% of celebrities that are recognized on the timeline. Yeah. This woman is in episode three of this new cable TV show that I have never heard of. Yeah, Sydney Sweeney though.
Starting point is 00:58:36 Giselle looked great though, didn't she? She was wearing like a bird outfit. She was a bird. Jared Leto probably tried to kill her and eat her. Respectfully she did. She looked great. And a cockroach broke in. Yeah, that was funny.
Starting point is 00:58:48 I was like, what is that? I thought that was Pete Davidson. Cockroach. My cool throne. Hank, you like this. Bouncing back. Cool throne, Bill Belichick. Belichick's on the cool throne.
Starting point is 00:59:00 He's added again, up to his old tricks. I don't know if you've seen the fallout from the draft and what people speculate that the Patriots did in the first round. So they traded. They drafted. They did draft, but they had, I think the 14th pick. Correct.
Starting point is 00:59:13 And they traded it to the Steelers. They were picking right in front of the Jets. The Patriots traded that draft pick to the Steelers because they knew that the Jets wanted to take Broderick Jones out of Georgia, the offensive lineman. They knew that they want to take him to protect probably Zach Wilson a couple of years, right, Billy? But they knew that their offensive line needed to get better.
Starting point is 00:59:35 The Patriots knew that the Jets wanted them. They traded it to the Steelers so they could take Broderick Jones because the Patriots then had like three cornerbacks that they loved that were still available knowing that at 17, they'd be able to pick whatever guy that they wanted. They even got less than they should have gotten
Starting point is 00:59:52 from the Steelers because they wanted to move that pick so badly. They should have gotten like a third round pick or a third round pick this year and then another pick in a later year. Instead, all they got from the Steelers was a fourth round pick specifically so they could fuck the New York Jets.
Starting point is 01:00:07 That's brilliant. Look at you. That's brilliant. Belichick's back. Belichick is all the way back. By the way, speaking of trading up and down, I saw a stat, I gotta try to find it. Do you know that the Saints,
Starting point is 01:00:17 I think it was the last 20 years. It's like they've traded. They've never traded back. Yeah, they've always traded up. They've literally never traded back. That doesn't seem possible. Like it broke my brain. I was like, wait, but where did all the picks go?
Starting point is 01:00:32 Yeah. Like he just always trade up. You trade up and then you make the guy feel better because you can tell him we traded up to get you. Right. Right. The little boost of the ego. Never ever, Mickey Loomis.
Starting point is 01:00:42 He's just always, always trading up, never ever, ever trading back. I also love that Belichick did that move and sent a great offensive lineman to a rival AFC team because that's how much he hates the Jets. Yeah. Here's the stat.
Starting point is 01:00:56 Dating back to 2007, the Saints have traded up 24 times without ever trading down. That doesn't make sense. It doesn't. It doesn't. All right. My hot seats is Dylan Brooks.
Starting point is 01:01:07 So free agent Dylan Brooks, the Grizzlies released a statement saying they've informed pending free agent Dylan Brooks that he will not be brought back under any circumstances. That feels extra. The under any circumstances was like any circumstances. Any circumstances. Any circumstances.
Starting point is 01:01:24 The whole team decides to retire. John Morant shoots all of his teammates. That's, I mean, he, on any circumstances. I would, that, never say never. And you know what I'm, now I'm hoping for some like nightmare scenario where they have to bring Dylan Brooks back. That's a crazy statement under any circumstances.
Starting point is 01:01:43 I mean, you know, no one's really had a, I really do think he might have played himself like out of the NBA. He talked himself. He talked himself out of the NBA. Well, I end also the lack of play. Yeah. Out of the NBA, but holy shit under any circumstances.
Starting point is 01:01:58 I have a question for you, big cat. Yeah. He's Canadian, right? I believe so. Dylan Brooks, is he the biggest asshole Canadian of all time? Cause there's not a lot to choose from. Yeah, he's from Canada.
Starting point is 01:02:10 Pretty much you have, I guess you could say Don Cherry is an asshole. Yeah. The geese, the geese are assholes. I'm trying to think. I'm going to go Canada geese, number one. Canada geese, easy, number one. Easy, number one.
Starting point is 01:02:23 And then I'm going to go Dylan Brooks, number two. Yeah. Biggest assholes from Canada. Yeah. I mean, he's got to be. Canadians are always nice. Yep. I just looked up top 10 Canadians. Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, William Shatner, Robin Thicke,
Starting point is 01:02:40 Snake Rhymes, Justin Bieber, Rob Ford. I mean, Justin Bieber, I get Justin Bieber for a moment. You say Rob Ford's on that list. It's disgusting. No, top 10 Canadians. Top 10, like best Canadians. Just the best. Okay. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:02:52 Okay. Good. Yeah. Justin Bieber for that little spell. Yeah. Where he was being a dick. He's like pissing in plants and restaurants. But he also like, Justin Bieber is a classic case of the guy, the kid was fucking famous when he was like 14 years old.
Starting point is 01:03:06 I actually think he's adjusted pretty well. Yeah. We're actually the assholes in this situation. Right. My cool drone was going to be the Met Gala. So I will pass. My cool drone shorts. Nice. Shorts.
Starting point is 01:03:17 Roback.com. Go get some shorts. Shorts. Billy. My hot seat is Antonio Brown. So he owned an AFL team, the Albany Empire, and he had 95% ownership. And since he owned it,
Starting point is 01:03:33 none of the players or coaches have been paid. He's definitely just forgot that he owns it. Yeah. Yeah. But is that a real team? Albany, what? Albany Empire. The Albany Empire. I don't know why he just doesn't pay all of them
Starting point is 01:03:48 and uses a tax write-off. Is that how it works? I think that's why most people own teams, right? Because you get paid team owners? No, you own teams because you make a fuckload of money because you get to sell jerseys and you get to sell tickets to games. Well, no, you're missing the big one.
Starting point is 01:04:01 You get to sell the team. Yeah, later you get to sell the team. For five billion dollars. Even if you run it into the ground and take a leak all over its ashes, then you get like 700% of what you paid for it. Yeah. Okay, so Antonio Brown,
Starting point is 01:04:14 if you're listening to this right now, and noted AWL, please remember to open your mail. And also come on the podcast, yeah, in person. My cool throne is Black Mirror. Not only it's coming back, but if you guys watch the episode Metalhead, that's actually happening in real life. Which one's that?
Starting point is 01:04:30 The one where they have the Boston Dynamics dog chasing people because they just put chatGBTAI into a Boston Dynamics robot. ChatGBT? Ch-P-T. Ch-P-T? Yes. 3-G-P-T.
Starting point is 01:04:45 ChatGBT. Billy's ongoing battle against- They gave Boston Dynamics robots brains. And now they can do whatever they want, think for themselves. They gave them AI. I still think that we got less than a year left. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:58 Yeah, we're done. We're cooked. It's all gonna go south. I think actually the writers strike like there's a clause in there about future AI scripts. Yeah. They wanna defend against it. There is, yeah, because that's coming too.
Starting point is 01:05:09 The Boston Dynamics thing, and we've definitely talked about it on the show, and it's definitely a little bit sensationalist to me, but since Boston Dynamics has existed every time they put out a video, everyone's like, this is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea.
Starting point is 01:05:23 We've been all over it. This is a bad idea. And they also will throw- And they just keep going and getting better and better and better, and eventually they're gonna kill us all and be like, that was a bad idea. That was a bad idea.
Starting point is 01:05:33 Yeah, they also, they'll do like the random ones. Remember that dog that slipped out a banana peel? Yeah. Like, hey, look. A banana peel can take down a robot. Well, did you see the NYPD one? No. Yeah. They had the NYPD Boston Dynamics robot dog.
Starting point is 01:05:46 Yeah, well, the good news is maybe Boston Dynamics is off, like everyone expects them to just take over and run the table and everybody, maybe Boston Dynamics will choke right now and they won't be able to take over and dominate as is recent history. He's down bad. Are you a cool throwin'?
Starting point is 01:06:02 That was a cool throwin'. That wasn't a cool throwin'. I see a cool throwin'. He's down bad. He's down, he needs himself to win by like 50. Not even. Right in Max's face. No, I'm not gonna be fingering buttholes after one win.
Starting point is 01:06:15 But Hank, if you win by one point tonight, you're gonna be happy? Yeah. One game at a time. The reason why Hank is down so bad too is he's never in his brain even envisioned a scenario where the Sixers could win this series. That's a fact.
Starting point is 01:06:30 Yep. Yeah, that's a fact. That's a fact. You have never even like, it's never even popped in your head randomly like, oh, what if this goes, you're like Sixers dead? I also don't really even care about the Soul Patch as much as like, I just fucking hate Philly fans. So much.
Starting point is 01:06:47 They're so insufferable. I cannot let them have this over me. And they will really have it over me. Oh, I mean, I like, you know. You can't even read your DMs right now. Yeah. Well, you can't read. It's heinous.
Starting point is 01:07:00 Let's see how this goes. It's heinous. Yeah. It's heinous. It's heinous. Okay. Instantaneous heinous. The second the game ends.
Starting point is 01:07:09 Jake. My hot seat is being Tiger's catty. He and his catty, Joe Lecava have split. Oh no. He moved on to Patrick Cantlay. So he's not retiring. Tiger's not retiring, but. Well, yeah, I mean, he catties twice a year.
Starting point is 01:07:23 I would assume he's probably like, can I work? Can I work? Charlie. So much longer. You know what? He's holding over until he moves to Charlie. Tiger needs to bring back Fluff.
Starting point is 01:07:32 Yeah. You remember Fluff? He's the best catty of all time. He used to smoke cigarettes on the course and he would use the smoke to determine which way the wind was blowing. Yeah, this does mean Tiger's basically done. Said he's not retiring.
Starting point is 01:07:43 Yeah, but if you say you're catty, you're basically like, hey, catty, I can't pay you because we're not gonna play. Go catty someone else. Yeah, I mean, having your catty leave you to then be like, I'd rather spend my time working with Patrick Cantlay. Oh, where is it?
Starting point is 01:07:59 If your wife left you and she's like, you know what, I'm gonna cheat on you with Magic Johnson. That's kind of what that would equate to. Are you a cool throne? My cool throne's football fans. So all of us, College Football Playoff announced today, 2024 and 2025, College Football Playoff semifinals will be played on Thursday and Friday
Starting point is 01:08:18 of Super Wild Card Weekend. I love that. No, no, no. One game Thursday. No, no. One game Friday. Thursday. Super Wild Card Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Starting point is 01:08:28 Are you listening to me saying? Five straight days of playoff football. Okay, that's great. I love that. That's awesome. Starting 2024, not this. A playoff game on a Thursday. Yes.
Starting point is 01:08:37 That rules, five straight days of playoffs and we still have the bowl games. That's awesome. So they're not gonna be back to back anymore. It's gonna have one game each day. That's awesome, PFT. You're gonna, when we get to that moment, put a note in when PFT's like 2024.
Starting point is 01:08:51 Yeah, when he's like, holy shit, this is the fucking best five days in a row. Be like, remember that time you said no? Oh, no, no, no. What I'm talking about, like for me, for us, this is gonna be incredible. It's gonna be amazing. But a lot of people have to wake up
Starting point is 01:09:03 and go to work on Friday. That sucks for them. Yeah, but then there's a game on Friday night. That's awesome. That is good. It's on Saturday and games on Sunday. And Monday. And they're all playoffs.
Starting point is 01:09:13 A lot of people are gonna be upset about that. No, no, everyone loves it. Everyone on Twitter loves it. What about the championship game? Put the note in. It's still Monday night. Yeah, I will. Okay, let's get to an awesome interview
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Starting point is 01:11:44 Get that thousand dollar bonus. And now, here's Keith Yandle. Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He's hockey's Iron Man. I think we can still call you Iron Man, right? Like even though- No. Well, let's get into it, but it is Keith Yandle.
Starting point is 01:12:01 Long time NHL pro, great guy. Retired on Spittin' Chiklitz last year. So very good friend of Barstool and the Spittin' Chiklitz guys. So fine, let's start there. I think you're still hockey's Iron Man. Why can't we call you that? Maybe ex-Iron Man?
Starting point is 01:12:17 I don't know. It's when Phil passed it up, and I think he gets it now. And definitely so. And honestly, it was, because I don't know if you remember, remember Andrew Cogliano had the record gone for a long time.
Starting point is 01:12:30 Then he got a one game suspension and then I kind of jumped into that one seed. So for me, it was kind of, it never really felt like it was mine because Cogs did so much and played so hard. And then for me, I had it for what? Like six months and then Phil breaks it. So glad another American guy could do it
Starting point is 01:12:48 and Phil, one of the best guys to ever lace him up. So happy for him. And yeah, obviously I was happy to have it for as little as I did, but it was definitely something I took pride in. I think we should still call you Iron Man. It's like being president. You're still called Mr. President,
Starting point is 01:13:05 even after you're out of office. If you hold the title at one point and you are the Iron Man. Big Cat brought it up a second ago. You're good friends with Biz. You played with Biz for a while in Arizona. Did you play with Witt as well overseas? No, I never played overseas.
Starting point is 01:13:20 So Witt and my brother grew up playing on the same team from when they were like nine years old on. So I've known Witt since I was a kid, since he came over, clogging houses. The little known fact, he's clogged every single one of our friends toilets. The worst, just a crumpler. He'd take about five yards of toilet paper
Starting point is 01:13:41 and just go to work on himself. But yeah, so I've known Witt since that. And yeah, it's been a great friendship and never played with him, but played against him for a long time in the NHL. And one of those guys to a, I don't know how much he knows this, but he was a big influence of mine,
Starting point is 01:14:01 just seeing a guy from our area of Massachusetts that could make it and be drafted as high as they did. And Witt was, even though he's such a goofball now, like he was a true professional when he played, always working out hard in the summer. I tried to emulate him by working out with him in the summer. So he helped me out a ton. Well, you answered my question,
Starting point is 01:14:21 because I was gonna say who would be the better roommate to stay with if you were going on a road trip. It sounds like biz then by a mile. Yeah, not even close. Cause last thing you wanted is you tore the clogged on the road, like a four day road trip. And so, but so biz used to, biz was never my roommate,
Starting point is 01:14:36 but we used to have late nights in my room and biz would come in and he might take a sleeping pill or two and fall asleep at the edge of my bed. And we would roll him up in a cocoon and bring him out into the hallway. And he'd be butt naked and be three in the morning. We'd just hear him banging on the door cause he didn't have a room key or anything.
Starting point is 01:14:56 So it was always fun messing with him and having our sleepovers together. He did that on this couch one time actually, just passed out. Yeah, too many streams. He's a narcoleptor. Yeah. Well, I think he did like two streams
Starting point is 01:15:08 over the course of four days and a podcast. So you can imagine that that takes it out of you. Oh yeah. Yeah, I love calling someone a crumpler. Yeah. That's a great, That is a crumpler. What is actually like two ply.
Starting point is 01:15:20 Yeah. But in the true sense of the term. He's a crumpler. Yeah, go ahead. I was going to say like my family grown up, we were a one ply family. We couldn't afford the good stuff and he was still clogging it with that.
Starting point is 01:15:32 That's hard to do. That takes a lot of like work. That's a real crumpler. So speaking of those guys and you yourself, like we always have found interviewing hockey guys like for some reason they are probably the best on the mic, best in interviews compared to other sports, not that other sports aren't great,
Starting point is 01:15:49 but like what is it about hockey guys? Because you guys don't get paid like as much as some of the other sports. Like what is it? Like it does feel like whenever, you know, like even saying wit there, how you looked up to him, we all think of him as that goofball
Starting point is 01:16:05 and he was a really good athlete who got drafted really high and played in the NHL for a long time. Yeah. I think the big thing about hockey players is none of us, I'd say 98% of us don't take ourselves too serious. So it's, you can shit on each other. You can take it because one of the best advice I got early in my career was if you can't take a joke,
Starting point is 01:16:26 you become a joke. So I took that for, I didn't take that for granted. So it was always, because you know how locker rooms are, it's like you guys, you're shitting on each other all day, every day, it might get old, it might wear on you some days if you're having a bad day, but at the end of the day in hockey, even though you might not think we're getting paid enough,
Starting point is 01:16:45 but I'll show you my bank account. We still have fun. I think you guys should get paid more. I'm just saying it is like, like we have baseball players sometimes are not the best interviews. They get paid, like, I don't know what it is, just hockey guys for some reason,
Starting point is 01:16:58 it feels like you can connect with them more than, you know, maybe other athletes. I would say the majority of hockey guys, even though it's an expensive sport growing up and it's a lot of blue collar guys, guys that, you know, parents are working two jobs to get you to, get you to the ranks and afford your equipment and afford travel team.
Starting point is 01:17:20 And you get a lot of small town Canadian kids too that, you know, you come from nothing, they're from farmlands and it really is too like, if you're gonna make it to the NHL at about 16, 17 years old, like you're out on your own, like whether it's you're going to prep school or you're going to junior. So you got to grow up quickly.
Starting point is 01:17:40 And, you know, I just think for us is just being humble. You know, I always say that the NHL is the best league in the world for meeting people and some of my closest friends in this world, pretty much everyone that I'm friends with, I've met through hockey, whether it was growing up playing or playing in the NHL. And yeah, I really just think that the way guys grew up
Starting point is 01:18:02 and it's obviously that team, like you can't win in hockey if you're not a good team. You see it in basketball, two guys can win your championship, but hockey, everyone has to be together. And I think that that doesn't create too many big egos. How does that work if a guy comes in from overseas and let's say they're from Russia,
Starting point is 01:18:19 they don't speak English. They get put on the team and they have to learn how to bust balls and how to joke with the guys in a language that they don't speak. Is there ever that language barrier where you try to like fuck around with a guy just as a friend?
Starting point is 01:18:31 And it's not just, it's not getting through to them? Oh yeah, all the time. Especially with the Russians, because they're a little harsher. I think the way that they grew up is a little harsher than maybe we did. They're pretty serious all the time. Yeah, there have definitely been some jokes
Starting point is 01:18:46 that have said, and guys are not really too fond of it. I can think of one example of this guy, a guy played with unbelievable players, he's still playing dad and obby players in Dallas. And we would do the lineup sheet and he'd kind of had that haircut, like Caesar from Planet of the Apes. So I was calling him Caesar and he was like,
Starting point is 01:19:08 and then he grabbed me on the bus one day, he's like, why you call me Caesar, I don't like this. So it's kind of one of those things I had to explain it to him. But like you said, when you have to explain a joke, it's not that funny. Yeah, so when you retired, there was a story that was written that basically was like,
Starting point is 01:19:24 Keith, you're no best teammate ever. And like, what did you consciously, like I pride myself on being a great teammate or like all these stories about how funny you were in the locker room and making guys feel at ease, was that something you actually thought about or was it just, that's a natural, that's your personality, that's who you've been.
Starting point is 01:19:44 Yeah, well, that article took me a while to write too, so. There it is, good teammate. Yeah, for me, it was kind of, I don't know, it's my dad is a guy, he's got a million friends, treats everybody unbelievable, everyone has amazing things to say about him. My mom's probably the most loyal person you never meet.
Starting point is 01:20:07 My brother and sister, my brother's got a million friends, my sister the same way. So it's kind of like, I grew up that way of just kind of involving everyone. Even when I was in school, I wasn't the guy that just hung out with one group of people, I was hanging out with everybody in every circle. So I think for me, it was just kind of,
Starting point is 01:20:24 I love bringing people together, even to this day, it's just having get-togethers, I was having people around you, it's just a fun thing for me. But yeah, I would say everybody at like, there are guys in the NHL that, any guy could, you could say that about, every guy's a good teammate that I've ever played with.
Starting point is 01:20:42 Maybe one or two guys that aren't great, but those guys don't stick around. And I knew for me sticking around, obviously when you're not the best player in the world, you got to have some other intangibles. And I knew for me is being a good teammate, being a guy that people can trust, just being there for guys, no matter what.
Starting point is 01:20:59 And I think a lot of it came to, when I was young in the league, I had some of the best mentors, mentors going, and they weren't, it was kind of during that era where young guys didn't play too much and older guys would kind of not take care of them. But I had guys like Shane Dorn, Adrienne Acoyne, Derek Morris, Ed Jovenosky,
Starting point is 01:21:17 just guys that really took care of me, showed me the ropes and yeah, I just tried to do the same. Yeah, I mean, the story is, it must be awesome reading the article that was written where every, like they pulled like everyone in the NHL and they're like, yeah, Keith Yantl's the best guy ever. I never read it. Shut up.
Starting point is 01:21:34 I swear to God, yeah, no, I didn't even know about that. Like I'll have to check it out now that I'm retired. I'll check that out. Okay, yeah, yeah, you got to read it. It's an oral history of your teammates. Yeah, like even Biz said, the first word that comes to mind is levity.
Starting point is 01:21:49 There's no way Biz knows that word. No, absolutely not. I don't even know what that means. But the fact it was an oral history, like yes, of course they'd ask Biz. They wouldn't be like, hey, Biz, can you write something for us? Yeah, right, he had just heard that word levity
Starting point is 01:22:01 like a minute before he got interviewed. It was like, yeah, that sounds good. That sounds like a good word. Can we talk a little current hockey playoffs? Absolutely, yeah. So we had the debate on Monday after the Bruins choke. First of all, do you call it a choke? Was it a choke knowing how volatile the hockey playoffs are?
Starting point is 01:22:24 I don't think it was a choke as much as people are saying. Obviously when you, if the Bruins didn't break every record that they had and it was just the one verse eight and you have to play Florida, like you look at Florida's team, they're loaded. They got superstar players, they got guys that are playing amazing this year
Starting point is 01:22:41 and just carrying the team. So I don't think it's one of those things where it's big of an upset to me because I've been watching Florida, living in Florida, watching them all the time. You see how good they are. So I think for me, it wasn't as big as the surprise. All my meathead buddies back home
Starting point is 01:23:00 who thought the Bruins were gonna win every series and four were probably a little bit shocked, but I think for me, it wasn't too big of a shock just cause knowing, cause also to the Panthers have been playing playoff hockey for the last month, trying to get into the playoffs, fighting and clawing. And the Bruins really hadn't been tested pretty much all year. I mean, would they have 10 losses, whatever it was.
Starting point is 01:23:23 So it's one of those things when a team's playing playoff hockey going into the playoffs, they're definitely a tough out. So now that they're out, is it wide open now? It honestly is and I think everybody had had Boston go into the finals now. It's like, okay, who do you take? Yeah, you guys still in the, in the Canadian. I think everybody had had Boston go into the finals.
Starting point is 01:23:45 Now it's like, okay, who do you take? Yeah, you guys still in the, in the Canadian that's on the Toronto on the Leafs. I'm on the Leafs. I'm on the Oilers. Yeah, we're so, he's believing in me, Jesus. You guys want to hold Canada final. Yeah, I'm a believer that this is the Leafs year
Starting point is 01:23:58 in the memory of Rob Ford. He's like their Harambe this year. Yeah. Yeah. I know I'm on a, if McDavid is as good as everyone says, prove it, you gotta win a ring. Yeah. Yeah, I would love to see him win a ring,
Starting point is 01:24:10 but there's also storylines too. Like the Toronto team where, you know, they haven't got out of the first round in 19 years. They got superstar guy. They probably have more superstars than Edmonton does just up and down their lineup. So I don't think that's going to be an easy series for them. I think Florida is going to beat them in that series.
Starting point is 01:24:28 I would love to see Toronto move on up, but just not against my cats. Yeah, so I think it is pretty much wide open. If I saw Jersey in the finals versus, I mean, Vegas is an awesome team, but if I saw Vegas versus Jersey, it would be not surprising to me. As an American, do you have any pride
Starting point is 01:24:48 in keeping the cup on this side of the wall? 100%. You know, because they, especially working up there this year, I did some broadcasting in Toronto for sports net and, you know, they have, I think they haven't won it since 93, Montreal. Is that correct?
Starting point is 01:25:04 Yeah, it's crazy. You know, as much as that country takes pride in their hockey and not having won it since 93, I think it would just be amazing to keep it in the US for as long as we have. But that also being said, I'd love to see McDavid get a cup. I'd love to see Austin Matthews get a cup,
Starting point is 01:25:26 but it is nice having that on the Canadian guys, just knowing that the cup hasn't been on Canadian soil in 30 years. Yeah. So talking about McDavid, he is that much better than everyone else watching it. What is it specifically that is that much more elite? Is it speed?
Starting point is 01:25:43 Is it like, I mean, it is crazy watching him on the ice because you're like, this guy's moving at just a different level than everyone else. I honestly don't think he even gets tired. Like he, well, he comes off the ice all the time. If he didn't get tired, he would play 60 minutes. That's true.
Starting point is 01:25:59 I wonder, honestly, how long he could play and be effective without coming off the ice. But he's got the hands, he's got the speed, he's got the vision. And in the beginning of the year, beginning of his career, he didn't shoot the puck as much, but now he's shooting it.
Starting point is 01:26:15 I think he's been, I don't want to say called out, but he's been challenged by some of his teammates to shoot the puck more. And he did this year and he was scoring basically at will. So it's in, you know, if you're looking at basketball and you look at a guy like Giannis or something like that,
Starting point is 01:26:33 who's seven foot and can run and jump, like McDavid's probably six, one hundred and 85 pounds, maybe in a physical sport too. And he's just, he can get away with whatever he wants because he's so fast and just the dual thread of being one of the best passers in the league and now having the ability to score kind of whenever you want is just taking his game through the roof.
Starting point is 01:26:57 And he also, he doesn't cheat it either. He's not a guy who's cheating for the offense and looking to go on breakaways every shift. He's committed to his D zone and committed to winning. And that, you know, that's kind of one of the only reasons I'd like to see a Canadian team win. So if he was playing, if there were, let's say 20 Conor McDavid's on a team,
Starting point is 01:27:17 he had to play every position, including goaltender. Do they win a Stanley Cup? Yeah, not even close. Oh, Whit disagrees with you. 20 of them? Yeah, yeah, but their goalies too, and they play defense. Also, so every position on the ice is Conor McDavid. Also remember the locker room,
Starting point is 01:27:34 there's no Keith Yandel in the locker room to lighten it up. It's only Conor McDavid's. Maybe you got to bring in a good coach, bring in a coach like Biz or something like that. No, no, Conor McDavid's a coach too. Easy coach. Oh, he's a coach. Yeah, he's a coach.
Starting point is 01:27:45 There's just one. They don't win. Yeah, there might be some jealousy on there. It's like, oh, I want to take more shots. No, I want to take more shots. When watching playoff hockey, there's two things that are just painstaking if you're a fan.
Starting point is 01:27:58 One is we talked about the overtime loss for the Bruins or the Avalanche didn't go to overtime. But overtime hockey, game seven, there's nothing like it. The other one is when a team can't get the puck out of their own zone for what feels like forever. So you obviously playing defense, like what goes through your head when you're at like minute two, minute three,
Starting point is 01:28:21 minute like, holy shit. What like, are you guys trying different things? What like, walk us through what's happening on the ice when something like that happens? Either it's dependent on turn playoffs. You're trying not to take a penalty. If it's regular season, you might even just like knock the net off and risk taking a penalty
Starting point is 01:28:41 because you're so tight. You literally, you have no oxygen in your brain. Everything shuts down. Guys look like they're going a million miles an hour. Whenever there was, I was at the end of a shift like that and there was guys buzzing around. I would just yell, too many men, too many men to see if the ref would blow the whistle,
Starting point is 01:28:58 but it never really worked. And, but it honestly feels like there's too many men on the ice. And it's a funny story. We played in Dallas and Dallas's, where you go into the locker room is in the zone. It's not through the bench, you know what I mean? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:29:14 So I got hit with a puck and the shift kept going and my leg was completely done. I couldn't even like put any weight on it. I was trying to get off the gate and there was a cop standing at the door. He's like, I can't open the gate, dude. Like, what are you thinking right now in the middle of the gate?
Starting point is 01:29:29 And they're just snapping it around. They end up scoring thankfully. So I got to go to the locker room. Yeah, but it is, it is crazy to watch when you, I mean, it's great when your team is like that in the zone where you're like, something's gonna happen because there is a breaking point where it's like, if you can keep the pressure on that long,
Starting point is 01:29:44 there will be a goal and you can feel it coming. It's gotta be just maddening to have that happen against you. Yeah, it is. But like one that comes to mind too is the Bruins when they won it in 11, they were hemmed in their zone for it seemed like five minutes and Gregory Campbell blocked like five shots in the,
Starting point is 01:30:02 it was at home, the crowd was going insane. He ended up breaking his leg, I think, on one of the eight that he blocked. And so you can get momentum that way if you're able to keep it out of your neck because your whole bench is going insane because you know how tough it is on the ice and guys are just selling out to try to block it
Starting point is 01:30:22 to keep it out of your net. And if you can kill something off like that, it brings the crowd into it, it brings your team into it even more and you get the momentum swing on that on that end but coming to the bench after a shift like that is you're just searching for some oxygen. As a defenseman, what goes through your head
Starting point is 01:30:42 when you're, you know that you're about to have to block a shot because that's the craziest thing that you guys do. It's honestly insane to watch it. You lay your body down on the ice and you're just like, okay, I've accepted the fact that I'm going to be an excruciating pain in about half a second. Yeah, that's why I never really did it
Starting point is 01:30:58 and probably the reason why I was able to be the Ironman because my theory was I never asked the goalies to go play power play for me. So why should I have to block it for them? And they're making a lot of money, they're wearing a lot more padding than I am. So I used to let them handle it, but no, it's awful. Especially the ones that you don't see,
Starting point is 01:31:21 like when they hit you in the ankle, when you're not looking, when there's like this much room of no padding above your ankle. And if it hits you there in between the skate and your shin pad, it's the worst. And putting on your skate for the next couple of weeks is not fun. So speaking of that, like we said at the beginning,
Starting point is 01:31:38 Ironman, we're still calling you Ironman because like PFT said, Mr. President, that still stands. Over a thousand games consecutively, what, how did you do it? And what was the worst injury you played with? Because I mean, that's insane. Just even talking about getting hit in the leg, like going out and playing the next day.
Starting point is 01:31:56 The worst one was when I got hit in the mouth, I broke my upper jaw, I lost nine teeth on upper and lower. That was, I wouldn't say that, that was just the worst, like everyday pain. I had a knee injury, I got hit from behind in Vancouver and went into the boards and had a bad, like not a real bad knee injury, but that one was awful just cause every stride it hurt.
Starting point is 01:32:25 But the face one was more of just like the everyday pain and looking in the mirror every day and feeling that pain. So, and you have to wear the full mask when you break your jaw like that. So it was awful for about eight weeks. Like Kanye West. And it was right before Thanksgiving too, so I couldn't enjoy my favorite holiday.
Starting point is 01:32:44 Yeah, so what were you eating? Were you just drinking smoothies? Gravy. And did you never thought about coming out? Like you, like even with the knee injury, you weren't like, hey, maybe I'm not a hundred percent. Like maybe I should sit out a couple and get healthy. So that one actually,
Starting point is 01:33:00 cause I wasn't really aware of my streak then. And I had a, my coach in Arizona at the time, Dave Tippet, he had a streak himself, I think of like 600 games. And he was the one who came into the locker room and he was like, hey, I didn't play in a game. I didn't feel a hundred percent and I regret it to this day. So I was like, all right, done.
Starting point is 01:33:21 I was like, and he knows I'm not going to be a hundred percent. I might be obviously a limited ice time, might have played power play and sparingly here and there. But yeah, I was able to gut it out. And the trainers too, the trainers in the NHL take such good care of us there. Like I had a bad, I broke like the, the heel bone of my foot.
Starting point is 01:33:41 I got hit with a puck and the trainers weren't, we had a back to back game in Boston and then in Philly. And the trainers were in my room to like four in the morning working on my foot, just a regular season game, just working on my foot to keep it loose. And so I could wake up in the morning and get it in the boot and play in the game.
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Starting point is 01:35:01 whenever something nice happened. And you invented the word song. As far as I know, maybe you heard it from somebody else, but maybe you could walk us through the word song and any of our listeners who might not know about the legend of song. So remember everyone used to say psych back in the day? Yeah, mm-hmm.
Starting point is 01:35:20 Yeah, you guys do that too. So we kind of just took it. It was me and Chris Bork, Ray Bork's son. We kind of one day would just, someone said, yeah, psych. And then someone just said, yeah, sunk. And then it just stuck from there on. So it's basically just, when I would do it,
Starting point is 01:35:36 during the game, I would fake a pass and just basically psych somebody or sunk them. And they would go the other way and it would just, it would crack me up. And it got caught on the mics on the net one game. And our video coach called me in after the game. He's like, what the fuck did you say on the ice? And I was like,
Starting point is 01:35:56 because you could hear me laughing in the video because I sunk them and like he bit on it hard, right? So I'm dying laughing behind the net sitting there. And I'd just go, yeah, I sunk you. And he's like, what the fuck is wrong with you? And I'm like, I don't know, man. But it's just a little thing. Like during the 82 game season,
Starting point is 01:36:14 like you get, there are some games where you just gotta entertain yourself and find some ways to have some laughs on the ice. So would you just, you would say it every time you sunk someone, you just say it on the ice to no one? Yeah, towards the end of my career, it would, everyone on the bench would yell it.
Starting point is 01:36:33 Guys that I did it to that knew about it, they would be like, fuck, you sunk me. You know what I'm saying? It kind of grew into, and then guys would be standing in front of the net. They'd be like, you're not gonna sunk me, you're not gonna sunk. But so it turned into a fun little thing.
Starting point is 01:36:47 And even, and obviously a lot of this has to do with the spit and chicklets guys, but you'd hear it in the crowd if I did it, like the crowd yelling it. So it was a lot of fun. That's awesome. That also goes both ways. So if somebody soaks you, did they let you know?
Starting point is 01:37:01 Would they say sunk to you? Yeah, you can't sunk the sunk master though. I wouldn't get sunked. But it was also too, it was like in the defensive zone, when I had the puck behind the net, you know during like a control breakout, there's a guy standing in front of the net,
Starting point is 01:37:16 I would fake a pass to the left or right and he would just bite on it. So I was never really in that position to get sunk or I probably would have gotten sunked. Yeah, that's, I mean, it just rolls off the tongue. I wouldn't say it for anything too. That's, it's a very versatile word. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:37:32 All right, so who do you have winning the Stanley Cup? Now that we're one round through, which it's crazy, Bruins out, Aves out, like there's been some pretty crazy upsets and teams that we, Rangers, Rangers are just choke artists. It feels like you played for the Rangers for a little. I mean, something's wrong with that franchise. Yeah, I don't know.
Starting point is 01:37:55 I thought that this year, loading up, I thought they had had what it takes, especially having one of the best goalies in the league is, you know, that's going to be a tough one for them to swallow. But I think it's up in the air this year. In the beginning of before playoffs, I had Dallas and Boston in the finals. I think Dallas has the best goalie with Jake Ottinger.
Starting point is 01:38:14 He's a stud, a young kid. He was unbelievable in the playoffs last year against Calgary this year. I think it took him two or three games to kind of find where he is. And he's been lights out since. They took care of business in five games. So I think Dallas, now I want to go Dallas, Florida
Starting point is 01:38:33 in the finals. Oh, wow. So like when you're playing defense in your goalie, would your goalie ever tell you like, hey, I'm not seeing it tonight. Like I need extra help here. Like I need you to help me out. Would they tell you that kind of stuff?
Starting point is 01:38:45 Is it game to game that goalies, like they're seeing the puck or they're not seeing the puck? I think it's, I don't think a goalie would ever really admit it. It's kind of something on the bench you see where if a guy's not tracking, usually you can tell in warm-ups if the goalie's not tracking it well, if he's,
Starting point is 01:39:01 and then sometimes he plays unbelievable after not making a save in warm-ups. But yeah, never really a goalie would really come out and say that about himself. It was more, you'd see it from the bench. It'd be like, all right, so-and-so is not feeling it tonight. We got to block shots or make sure they're not getting second opportunities.
Starting point is 01:39:20 But like I said, it's just a team game. You recognize things like that. Some guys pick each other up and, because offensively some guys aren't there. Some games you got to help them out. So it's helping each other out all the time. This is a dumb question, but in, you know, anyone who's ever gone to a hockey game,
Starting point is 01:39:37 there's always the one guy in the crowd who's yelling shoot the puck at all times. All times. Has a coach ever though, like maybe the, you guys aren't scoring, not a lot of opportunities. Has he ever been like, hey guys, maybe just shoot the puck? Because there is, there are times just like, just shoot it more and maybe good things will happen.
Starting point is 01:39:56 Yeah, it is. Because it is, and I agree with that too. Well, sometimes you need to simplify it when you're looking for, especially in the power play, if you're looking for scene passes after scene pass. And nowadays, every team scouts so well that they, you know, they know what you're looking for, the majority of the time.
Starting point is 01:40:14 So I do agree with sometimes shooting the puck is the easier option. But there's also four other guys in the lanes or, you know, trying to break up a pass. But Quenville, Quenville was definitely one of those guys, he'd be like, just fucking shoot the puck. So yeah, he, but he was an old school simple, like wanted to simplify things.
Starting point is 01:40:37 If I was, if I was a power play coach, I would let guys kind of do what they wanted. But I think it's more of the fans that get frustrated than anyone else. And I don't understand why it drives me insane. But you just got to shoot it. Yeah. And it sounds like the fans sometimes are right.
Starting point is 01:40:52 They just got to shoot the fucking puck. They might be right sometimes, but I don't know. Guys, the people, we don't go to their jobs and yell them to type faster, you know? It's kind of, it's kind of a thing. You just, just enjoy the game. Yeah. You were talking about goalies being able to see the puck.
Starting point is 01:41:09 I feel like goalies are the weirdest people on the planet. I remember hearing a story about how Braden Hopi would sit down before games and he'd take like a grease board and put five dots on it and then just dart his eyes back and forth to the dots in a specific order. Are goalies as weird as we think they are? Yeah, they are.
Starting point is 01:41:26 They really are. And it's kind of the, so usually the starting goalie is just out of control. Like you don't talk to them, don't go near them on game day. And then the backup goalie is usually the biggest beauty on the team, rallying guys to go. Cause they know they're not playing that much. And the funnest guys, but those starting goalies, man,
Starting point is 01:41:46 I think it's from a young age on where you're in the crease, you got no one to talk to, you're not on the bench, you probably feel like you're on an island out there. So I wouldn't wish being a goalie on anyone, but there are some guys that handle it really well. I played with a few guys, mostly backups that are unbelievable guys that you're hanging out
Starting point is 01:42:05 with all the time, but the majority of the goalies, they're doing room service night before game. They're not going out, they're not checking out the town. They're just kind of in their zone from the night before till puck drops. You gotta be a psycho to be a goalie. Definitely. What's the best city to go to on the road?
Starting point is 01:42:22 So you used to, I always said Chicago is my favorite, not just trying to pump big cats tires. I wouldn't say that maybe as of late. You know, you have Vegas, Arizona's awesome to go visit, Florida's amazing, but I always loved Chicago. It was always great food. People are super nice, great shopping. Vancouver, the Roxy flu.
Starting point is 01:42:47 You ever have the Roxy flu? I've had the Roxy flu before, but played through it. Actually, that's probably why I got hurt in Vancouver. It wasn't well rested. That'd be funny if your Ironman streak ended with the Roxy flu and they listed it. Everyone would know it too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:43:04 All right, so to bring up bad memories because you brought up Chicago, I have two questions. One, the biggest scumbag of all time, Rafi Torres, you actually, do you take a little blame for that hit? Because I think you hit the puck out of Hossa. Like Hossa had the puck, you swiped it from him. And then Rafi Torres, like 50 seconds later, decided to take his head off.
Starting point is 01:43:28 You could admit like that was too much. Was it really though? I mean. Yeah, it was. It was too much. He didn't have the puck. He fucking elbowed him in the face. That guy was a complete savage.
Starting point is 01:43:41 Didn't care who, because Ironman, we played, yeah, probably that was definitely the wrong thing, especially against a legend like Hossa. It's really, you feel bad for him. But we won the series. Obviously, you don't want to win it with a guy that's out, but we won the series and that was a huge stepping stone for us, but definitely Tico, he played on the line
Starting point is 01:44:02 of being a complete savage. But one of those guys you want on your team, like he's just complete gamer. We'll put his face through the wall. He'll hit you from behind. He'll do anything to win. But yeah, that might have been a little dirty. I would assume you need at least one guy on every roster
Starting point is 01:44:21 that has that, you know, maybe playing a little bit over the line sometimes just to set some tone and stuff. Like that you guys in all the locker rooms, you knew who that was, I would assume. Oh yeah. And it used to be beginning my career. There was maybe two or three guys on every team that you're like, all right, we're gonna get ran
Starting point is 01:44:40 from behind 16 times tonight. Just the respect factor wasn't there for some guys cause a lot of it was fourth line guys trying to make it, trying to stay in the lineup and just doing anything it took to be in the NHL, which you got to respect, but it was never fun playing against those guys. I think it's kind of tapered down a little bit now.
Starting point is 01:45:00 There might be one on every team, maybe if that, but I think the respect factor throughout the league is at a all time high right now and guys aren't taking too big of liberties on guys. So one other thing, I think it was from the same series. My memory has completely like started to fade here, but Mike Smith flopped. 100%.
Starting point is 01:45:23 Okay, thank you. All right, yes, he flopped. That was a flop. So Smithy's probably the best athlete in this, and he's a goalie, right? They usually not great athletes. He's probably the best athlete I ever played with. Like, could hit a baseball 400 feet.
Starting point is 01:45:39 He's a great golfer. He can throw a football. Most Canadian guys can't throw a football. Like he's slinging it out there. And he's probably six, four, two, 20, maybe six, five and completely shredded, but he just loved to flop. And he would get us some power plays,
Starting point is 01:45:59 but he would also start some scrums sometimes where he would flop and then there'd be a big draw. And it's like, Jesus, Smithy, can you just stay in your crease? But he was so good at playing the pocket. It was like having a third D back there. Yeah, he was, I'm showing PFT right now is that Andrew Shaw came around and like,
Starting point is 01:46:16 he looked like he got like a windmill, windmill like power punch. It's a great flop. I was so, I hated him so much in that stupid Wiley Coyote helmet. I hated him so much. I will say he was good. He was very good at flopping.
Starting point is 01:46:31 Yeah, I mean, if you're... He could go play in the MLS. If you're an athlete, like that's an athletic flop. You did like a gymnastics move on that. That's the best part about playoff hockey is you just remember these moments where you're like, I fucking hate Rafi Tours and Mike Smith for life. Like I fucking hate these guys.
Starting point is 01:46:46 It's just one step. But if you hung with them, you would love them. Oh, I'm sure, because every hockey guy's cool. They're beauties. Yeah, exactly. I got a question because as a Capitals fan, I've been lucky enough to watch OV play for these last 18, 19 years.
Starting point is 01:46:59 And he's been awesome to watch, but it also does seem like he's been scoring the same goals for 18, 19 years, especially on the power play. I mean, he's great in the open ice too, but he sets up shop and you know where he's gonna be and you know when he's gonna hit that one timer, when they cycle it around on the power play
Starting point is 01:47:15 and no team has figured out a way to truly stop OV to be able to do that. Have you tried to figure out different ways to defend that? Or maybe there's just no way to stop it. Everybody tries. There is, I remember when we played you guys in the Eastern Conference, or was it the Eastern? Whenever we played those to go to the Eastern Conference
Starting point is 01:47:35 finals, I think Dan Girardi just stood right in front of him, didn't move. Was just like, all right, we're just gonna keep the guy right in front of you. That worked out, we won the series, but it's one of those things. He shoots it so hard and he's got that big banana hook so goalies can't see where it's coming from.
Starting point is 01:47:53 They can't like, you know, read where it, like if it's gonna go glove or blocker. And I don't think honestly he knows where it's going. I'm sure he does, but he just rips it as hard as he can. Doesn't care if it's high. Doesn't care if it's going at someone's face. He just rips it to score,
Starting point is 01:48:09 which you gotta respect out of them. But he, when someone's been doing it that long, it's not a fluke. There's a reason why he's got nine million goals from the same spot. A lot of people don't wanna go out and block it. Even the goalie's like, he's putting it right here. Like if you get hit right here by a pocket,
Starting point is 01:48:26 even with the equipment on, that's hurt in the goalie. So it's a tough job to try to stop him, but you gotta really just be impressed with what he's done from that spot for so long. There's so many goals that he scores that dude, they go right past the goalie's head. And you can see the goalie react after the pucks past them. Like they didn't even see it,
Starting point is 01:48:46 but they heard it go past their ear. Yeah. Yeah, you can hear the whiz. Like if you're in front of the net and he rips it one time, or even if it's five feet away from you, you hear the just flying by your ear. And it's just, you can smell the rubber from it.
Starting point is 01:49:01 It's just, it's vicious when he shoots the pocket. All right, so I got a Hank submitted question. Hank's being a creep, he's on the Zoom, but he's hidden on the Zoom. So he wanted to ask this. Why is, what is it that Patrice Bergeron does that makes him so elite at face offs? And what is the skill that face offs,
Starting point is 01:49:23 like some guys are just that much better? Because it feels like it should be 50-50. Well, honestly, the older you get in the respect that he has throughout the league, he probably gets away with a little bit more than, you know, maybe a younger guy might, whether it's having your feet a little bit too far ahead or being low and not letting the other guy get in.
Starting point is 01:49:48 But obviously it's a skill that he's worked on. He knows what he's doing. You also got to give the wingers a lot of credit. Like March, he's a guy that jumps off the line faster than, I'd say Chris Crider might be the only one faster than him to get off the line to help retrieve Pocs. So you do got to give credit to his wingers, but he's a guy, he's just, he's so crafty.
Starting point is 01:50:11 He's not the strongest guy, I'd say, in the NHL. He's not the biggest guy, but he's just so good with his stick. He's such a veteran. He's probably practices face offs 500 times a day, whatever it is. So a guy that works on his craft and yeah, he's, it's actually impressive what he can do in the face off duck is you might not notice it,
Starting point is 01:50:32 but they have so many face off plays where it's kind of the only time in a hockey game, you can truly set up a play like in basketball or football where you can pretty much have routes and they score a lot of goals off of face off plays. And that's cause he's cleaning people out in the draws. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, was it Whitney that told us that if you start losing
Starting point is 01:50:53 a bunch of face, face offs, did you say like hit the rice bucket, pal? Yeah, hit the rice bucket. Right afterwards, get those forearms. Yeah. I actually, I did a bad job earlier because I gave you the option of biz and wit who you'd rather room with. I'm going to throw RA into the mix.
Starting point is 01:51:05 Oh yeah. What about RA? Biz, wit or RA? I wouldn't sleep in the same state as RA. I wouldn't sleep in the same state as RA. You get a contact high. Well, you probably wouldn't have to sleep. That's a good thing.
Starting point is 01:51:17 Yeah, that's true. There would be no sleeping with him. So me and bit, me and wit have a bet in the Florida, Toronto series that if Florida wins, wit has to spend a weekend at Pearson airport in Toronto. Obviously. And if I lose, I got to go to Daytona beach with RA for a weekend.
Starting point is 01:51:41 Oh my God. What a bet. What a bet. That's pretty good. Holy shit. I had a couple of last questions, the Oilers. So they have, we talked about Conor McDavid. They also have, I think it's historical,
Starting point is 01:51:55 how good their power play is. Is it? 56%. I mean, it's insane. Is that just, they have the best guys? Or like what makes, from a defensive perspective, when you're playing against a power play, what are the elite power plays?
Starting point is 01:52:09 What are they doing that's different than everyone else? So they're just so unpredictable. They're giving you looks that you mostly don't, like pretty much everyone kind of has the same power play. We have one guy up top of one time around the flank, a guy coming down downhill, front guy, pretty much everyone does that same setup, but they just have guys move in the entire time.
Starting point is 01:52:32 McDavid doesn't stop moving. And him and Leon just create so much off of each other. They're so good. I think cause their bolts so elite that they can just kind of see what just them to see. And the other three guys on the ice are just like, all right, we're not going to get in the way here. So I just think the looks that they give you
Starting point is 01:52:51 are so unpredictable that they're coming at you from the, they could be behind the net. They could be up top. They could be passing. They can be shooting. They're just so unpredictable. I mean, to have a playoff series at 56%, and it's actually insane.
Starting point is 01:53:10 Like to, I mean, Billy, that's over half of the time they score goals. And their regular season was insane too. It was like in the thirties. Yeah. I mean, power plays are up a little bit. The percent used to be, if you could be 20% on the power play and 80% on the penalty kill, you had a good year,
Starting point is 01:53:28 but now teams are like 30. I think they were at 32% during the season or- 32.4%. Yeah. It's insane. It just the, and it's those two guys, I think they get to play pretty much the whole two minutes, which is always a nice perk, but they deserve it.
Starting point is 01:53:45 And do I, even if they shut them down on the power play, because Biz was saying last night that Vegas was the least penalized team all year. So even if they can stay out of the box, then the series could go a little different. What about that perspective? If you're going into the box, is there, do you hear what the opposing fans
Starting point is 01:54:06 are yelling at you when you're just sitting there for two minutes waiting to get back on the ice? Do you listen to it, or do you just try to block it all out? Usually some people will put their face, like there's usually a little crack, and some people will put their mouth through and yell at you.
Starting point is 01:54:18 Some people are hilarious. I think it was Vancouver used to have like guys dancing in front of you, like dancing next to you. Those guys are pretty funny. But it's also an opportunity, if someone opens their mouth, I've seen some fans get absolutely shriveled by guys in the box,
Starting point is 01:54:36 where if your partner with you isn't up to standards for some people, like you're going to get ricochet shots at your friend next to you or your girlfriend, so it can be pretty nasty. If you go out of guy, I've seen some guys get absolutely shriveled from the players in the box.
Starting point is 01:54:54 Is it the best feeling in the world when you're in the box and your team gets to kill? Like, you have to be sitting there, like this is all on me. Yeah, especially when it's late in the game or an overtime, you're sick to your stomach the whole time. There's not a worse feeling. And then if they do score
Starting point is 01:55:13 and you have to do the walk of shame across it, it's the worst. There's not a worse feeling. The best penalty box moment of all time, Ty Domey, when that guy, he squirted water over the glass onto the guy. The guy tried to come at Ty Domey, who's probably the last guy
Starting point is 01:55:29 that I would ever want to fight in the NHL. And he just pulled him into the box and beat the fuck out of him inside the penalty box. That was great. It's amazing. I think that's probably deterred some people from trying to climb in the box or put your head over the glass,
Starting point is 01:55:44 because once someone's on our territory, it's kind of game on. You can do whatever you want, especially back then, you could do whatever you want. You had Mike Milbury going in the stands and beating up people. So it's a little bit different now
Starting point is 01:55:56 with the way the world is. But if someone falls into that box and you're in there, it wouldn't be a fun day to be in there. No, definitely not. What happened to that kid in Cincinnati in the zoo? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:56:10 RIP. RIP. Harambe. When you're on the ice and a ref is like, they're getting together, trying to figure out who the penalty's on. Have you ever socked a ref and just like skated off the ice?
Starting point is 01:56:22 So I used to, because I didn't PK. So anytime a guy that would PK, if they got a penalty, I would try to go to the boxes if I did it. So that guy could penalty kill because I knew I wasn't getting out there on the PK. Sometimes it worked.
Starting point is 01:56:39 I'd say, there's a handful of times where it works. Now I think they might, I saw last night they reviewed something where a guy, I think it was the Rangers game. They reviewed who the player was and I think it was Miller or something like that.
Starting point is 01:56:52 But during regular season, they don't really check for that. So if there's kind of something going on, I would just skate to the box and a lot of the times they're not going to question it. You'll do the bid for them. Yeah, you're like, stand up guy.
Starting point is 01:57:03 He's a guy on succession that offered to take jail time. Oh, was it Tom? Yeah, yeah, it was Tom. Yeah, Tom's like, yeah, I'll do the bid for it. Yeah, I'll do it. Good guy. Best teammate. Yeah, best teammate by far.
Starting point is 01:57:13 All right. So I had one last question. This has been awesome. We got to have you back on because we get tired of just talking to wit and biz the whole time. I can imagine. Roback question.
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Starting point is 01:57:40 that are still alive, what is the one player or team that isn't getting talked about that you either love watching them play or watch out for them because if they get the right things going, they could win the cup. So I think, obviously,
Starting point is 01:57:57 they're getting talked about a little bit more now after they beat the Bruins, but Matthew Kachuk, what he did for that team, putting that team on his shoulders, even from the end of the year on till now, what he's done for that team and for hockey down here has been amazing. Sasha Barkov, who's probably one of the top five
Starting point is 01:58:17 best players in the league, he didn't have a great series last series against Boston, but I could see if he even plays to half of his ability and you never know, he could be hurt. Something could be going on with him. If he plays just a little bit better, which I mean, he brings, he's one of the best defensive players, amazing offensively.
Starting point is 01:58:38 He was really good defensively, but if he comes in offensively and puts up some numbers, like he can, they're gonna be a scary team to play. So about that Panthers Bruins series, it felt like the Panthers, their forecheck was all over the place. Is forechecking similar to like, maybe not rebounding or like loose ball,
Starting point is 01:58:56 but is it a lot of it is effort because it does feel game to game, whether a team is like really putting in that effort and if it's working, it can completely change the complexity of the game because you put the pressure on them for the entire sheet of ice. Yeah, and a lot of it too.
Starting point is 01:59:12 It's probably like in football, like in the trenches, like on the line, just kind of whether you can get momentum going forward or who's kind of winning that line battle. But a lot of dump forechecking, it comes from a good dump. And if you're dumping the puck in, I know it sounds ridiculous
Starting point is 01:59:30 to have a good dump or a bad dump, but if you're dumping it in and the goalie can come out and stop it and pass it over your D, then you're getting out of the zone easy. But if you can put it in areas where the goalie can't get it and the D are struggling to get it, whether that's a hard rim, high on the glass or a soft chip where you have pressure coming in on guys,
Starting point is 01:59:50 there's just so many variables because now you can't hold up, you can't have your defensive partner hold up. So as a D, when someone puts it back there, they're coming full speed. Usually you're pivoting, you're not really going as fast as you can. So it's one verse one and they're coming full speed.
Starting point is 02:00:09 Never a fun thing breaking a puck out, especially in playoffs when everybody's hitting everybody. So I would say a lot of it comes with good dumps and not crumpling the toilet paper. Yeah, I was gonna say it's very funny, you just feel like you gotta get a good dump. I would assume that guys just sit there and practice dumps in practice, right?
Starting point is 02:00:29 It's as sick as it sounds, you actually do. It's, cause the little things in whether it's, they always say chip it in, chip it out. If you get the puck five feet inside your blue line of five feet inside their blue line, you're usually winning the game if you can have good execution at those areas. So yeah, there's a lot of practices
Starting point is 02:00:50 where you're trying to chip pucks in where you're getting in on the forecheck because a lot of it's timing too, whether if the left wing's standing still and he's holding on to it and chips it in, he's gotta wait for the center to get across to make sure he's full speed ahead, getting in on the forecheck.
Starting point is 02:01:06 And so a lot goes into it that you don't just, you're not just dumping it in, just to dump it in, you're dumping it in with a purpose. Yeah, yeah, it's interesting talking about defense because I have to assume maybe I'm wrong because I didn't grow up playing hockey, but when you grow up, do you always, when you're practicing, when you're a kid,
Starting point is 02:01:23 I feel like you would want to be, you'd want to be playing offense, right? You'd want to be trying to score goals, try to be a center. At what point do you start to fall in love with defense or do you just get put at defense because you're good at other stuff? That's a good question.
Starting point is 02:01:39 I was actually, I was a goalie until I was 12. I would play, I'd play the first half goalie and then I'd change on the bench. I'd have my dad and the other coach would take my pads off and put my shim pads on and then I'd go out and play D the rest of the game. But I think as a D, I always liked it because usually as a kid, you have four D on a team
Starting point is 02:02:00 and the NHL, there's six. So you're playing a little bit less, but as a kid, there's usually four D. So you're pretty much out there every other shift. So I always enjoyed that part of just always being out there and being on the ice. And as a forward, when there's three lines, it can kind of, you know,
Starting point is 02:02:16 when you're a kid there's usually three lines. So it kind of gets where you're sitting on the bench a little bit more. Yeah, I don't know. That's actually a really good question. I'd have to ask my brother that he's more into the kids hockey and positioning kids and getting them the best out of them. Cause he's actually, he's switched a couple of my nephews.
Starting point is 02:02:34 They started out as forward and then he switched them to D, which I think has helped cause the way the game is now D are so offensive. So it should help them out. They're actually called periods in hockey, not halves. Just thought I'd educate you a little bit on that. It's kind of a finer point of the game. Did I say half?
Starting point is 02:02:52 Yeah, no, it's okay. It happens to a lot of casuals. I said half way through. I think you said it half after the first time. It's okay, it doesn't matter. But next time you're on a hockey podcast, they're going to eat you alive if you say that. So just a little tip.
Starting point is 02:03:05 Do you remember your first fight? First fight in the NHL? Just in hockey. As a kid, we used to fight a lot as kids. I remember getting into a fight in the NHL. There was a kid that scored. He had long hair like yours. And he just scored a nice goal.
Starting point is 02:03:23 And I was getting yelled at by my coach. I'm like, all right, I'm going to fight this guy off the face off. You just scored a nice goal. He's got to be a skilled player. And I asked him at the face off. And as I'm dropping my gloves, I just hear everybody on our bench yelling, no.
Starting point is 02:03:37 And he got the best of me for sure. Yeah, so that was, but my first NHL one, I'm not sure, maybe it might have been Cal Clutterbuck in Minnesota at the time. I remember fighting him. I was pretty young. Yeah, that might have been my first one. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:03:56 All right, well, Keith, thank you so much, man. This has been awesome. We really appreciate it. And we definitely got to have you back on again. Looks like you're living, are you living in Arizona? Florida. Oh, Florida. Look at you.
Starting point is 02:04:08 His business or his wit, just trying to like stay at your house all the time to play golf. He's, he's came down. He's came down a couple of times this year for a golf trip. Yeah. I don't, I don't let him shit in my house though. Biz spent, Biz spent the weekend with us a couple of weeks ago.
Starting point is 02:04:24 So he's a tree. You can't, you can't even, I got two kids and he's like swearing at dinner. I'm like, dude, my kids are 12 and 10. Like you can't just be swearing in front of them. You know what I mean? Talking about his butthole. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:04:40 All right. Well, thanks so much, man. And we'll definitely have you back on. Yeah, I would love that guys. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Keith Yandel was brought to you by the black tux, not to get all parental, but it's time we had the talk. You know, the one about that three letter word
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Starting point is 02:06:36 Hank? Hank? Hank? Are you ready for guys on chicks? He's typing something, he's probably saying, yeah, we got to fire that guy, pack your bags, sucker. Well, how would you, if you fired us, how would you fire us? They have you fired someone?
Starting point is 02:06:52 I wouldn't tell you and I would just tweet out a public statement so that was the first way you guys found out. That would be kind of sick. Yeah, I mean, I'd rather, yeah, have us just not be able to get to y'all. I'd leak it to like Schefter or like Shams. Oh, Schefter, that would, Schefter like being like
Starting point is 02:07:08 Barstool Sports and Big Cat with Parted Ways would, and that's how I read it. Whew, I would leak it to Ravel if I fired you. Whew, well, you can't fire Hank. I don't know. I said if I did fire him, I would leak it to Ravel. Yeah. Hey, y'all, I overheard my husband talking to his brother
Starting point is 02:07:24 about staying in hotels by himself. My husband told him every time he goes on a business trip in his hotel room, his two beds, he always jerks off onto the bed that he isn't going to sleep in and slightly messes up the sheets to see if the cleaning crew actually changed the bedding. My brother-in-law is dumbfounded, but my husband claims that his normal guy behavior.
Starting point is 02:07:41 They're both AWL, so I know they're listening to this conversation, but I have to know if this is normal or if I'm married to a serial killer. It's hard to say what is and what isn't normal when it comes to hotel room behavior. I think the standard, at least what I do, is I like getting the second bed to put my clothes on. That's where the suitcase lives,
Starting point is 02:07:59 and then I take everything out and put it on the bed. That becomes my cabinet. Big question, which one do you use as the shelf? First one, closest to the door? Furthest away. Use furthest away. I go furthest away. That would like to be furthest away
Starting point is 02:08:13 so I can have a chance to fight any intruder. I like being closest to the door, so that also means that you're closest to the bathroom. Yeah, there's nothing better though than checking into a hotel in that first 30 minutes where you're like, this is awesome. This hotel room rules. Crank the AC.
Starting point is 02:08:31 Yeah, and you're like, yeah, jerk off with the lotion, and you're like, this is fucking sick. I've never been in a hotel like this. It's the same hotel, every hotel, and then if you have to stay multiple days by day two, you're like, get me out of here. Every hotel, when you walk into it for the first time,
Starting point is 02:08:45 you take two steps and you go, oh, this is pretty nice. Yeah, no, I do the real world when they would do the house reveal, and everyone just runs from it. I'll run from the bathroom to just the room, and then back to the bathroom and be like, wow, sick. I do a couple of things every time I'm in a hotel. One, you gotta crank the AC down,
Starting point is 02:09:04 drop it as low as it goes. Two, locate the remote, and if the remote has a sleep timer button on it, that's all I need. And I also like having an outlet that's close to the bed for my phone. And three, for me, I rip the sheets off. I hate the fully tucked in.
Starting point is 02:09:19 When you get into bed and you're fully tucked in, worse feeling, so I'll just give them a quick rip. Yeah, Billy, check if the waters are free. Oh, you know how the water bottles? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I gotcha. You usually can tell because it's usually like pulling springs free, voss not. Yeah, then they have some volcanic water
Starting point is 02:09:36 that's imported from Iceland that you have to pay $5 for. Yeah, okay, good question. So a consensus pick, I'd say not weird. I think when you're in a hotel, you can jerk off wherever you want. That's what you're paying for. Essentially as a guy,
Starting point is 02:09:49 if you get a hotel room on your own, you're just getting a private masturbation station. I also just realized that maybe this guy just jerks off onto the bed. Like he just doesn't do, like he will clean up with like a pillow or something or the sheets or something, cause that... He just nuts onto the bed.
Starting point is 02:10:06 Yeah, and just gets up and walks away. That's weird. But it's also a power move. And it's also fucked up for everyone else who's staying that bed. Which, I mean, listen, when you stay in a hotel... You just don't think about that. Yeah, you don't think about all the calm
Starting point is 02:10:17 and the blood and the hair and all that stuff that you're sleeping. Yeah, you're sleeping on basically the cover of Metallica's load album. That's what every hotel bed is like. Okay, next question. Hey, father of two cat, William Fraudball. Oh.
Starting point is 02:10:31 Pro football coming her. Oh. Our darling Jake. Oh, this guy. This girl. And Hank Guy. Definitely a chick. And Hank whatever he does for this podcast.
Starting point is 02:10:39 I produce it. Hank presses record. Produce it? And he also presses stop record. Executively. Fuck this person. Yeah. No, I like her.
Starting point is 02:10:48 No, I don't like him. Definitely a guy. I mean, definitely a girl. I've been seeing this guy since the turn of the new year and we started dating March 12th. Recently, he got so drunk he ended up cheating on me. But he seems genuinely upset when we've spoken many times
Starting point is 02:11:00 about the future we have together. He got so drunk that he cheated on me. And what may have caused us to come up. This guy is a master spin zone artist, by the way. If he's got you telling people that this is what happened. Oh, this is obviously, this guy cheated on a girl. Right. And said, I got too drunk.
Starting point is 02:11:16 Recently, he got so drunk he ended up cheating on me. But he seems genuinely upset. And we've spoken many times about the future we had together and what may have caused us to come up. So we got drunk. I have to ask, is cheating. It's probably your fault. Is cheating black and white,
Starting point is 02:11:30 or is it more complex than that? It's probably your fault for letting him get that drunk. That's on you. Is cheating black and white? I would say yes. Yeah, I'd say definitely. Cause you basically, like there will just always be a moment
Starting point is 02:11:43 in your- Is porn cheating? Is watching porn cheating? No. Thanks, fucking Mike Pence. There's a moment in every relationship. Like if you cheat on your significant other, that will always be there. That will always just like,
Starting point is 02:11:56 you could say you moved on, but there's no way you can move on. It's in the back here. Also, if you start a relationship because you cheated on the person with that person, then it's gonna be in the back of your head, wait, we got together because you cheated on somebody. What if this is a little toxic of me?
Starting point is 02:12:11 He was too drunk. This is toxic of me to even ask. Oh, it just occurred to me. The guy from that first question in the hotel room, Jackie, that's definitely Dan Orlowski. Yeah. And that's 100% Dan. It doesn't count if it's not the bed you sleep in.
Starting point is 02:12:22 What if your girlfriend takes your Instagram and looks at what you've searched and it's like all of her friends? That's not cheating. That's being a dog. Yeah, that's being a dude. What about liking other chicks? Also not cheating.
Starting point is 02:12:37 It's not cheating, but you're filing that away. You're adding to a case of evidence that you're building. And that might be one of the clues that maybe you need to dig into this further. I think liking tweets, Instagrams, that's just being a good participant in social media. Agreed. You have to do that.
Starting point is 02:12:54 Otherwise, what's the point of being on? Yeah. How else is your algorithm going to pop off? Right, exactly. How else is Miley going to know that she looked great in that Versace dress? Right. My boyfriend and I have been dating
Starting point is 02:13:05 for a little over two years. I recently noticed that ever since we started dating, he's always used the same toothbrush. It looks very gross and the bristles are a mess. I asked him why he doesn't just get a new one and he told me he's had this toothbrush for almost nine years since 2014. I told him this was absolutely disgusting.
Starting point is 02:13:23 He said he's never gotten this much mileage out of a toothbrush before and it's too good to run to stop now. It's not too good of a run. Please tell me you agree that this is gross and that I'm correct in asking him to throw it away. Do all guys cling onto toothbrushes for as long as they can?
Starting point is 02:13:38 How often do you replace toothbrushes? Pretty much you'd go on a trip, bring your toothbrush, leave it in a hotel, and then get a new one. Yeah, exactly. The biggest reason why guys get in relationships probably is just to have somebody around them to remind them to do things like,
Starting point is 02:13:51 hey, it's time to change the toothbrush. You can't fight when they say it's time to change the toothbrush. You say, yes, please, thank you for reminding me. I have two toothbrushes. I'm like, you can't roll out a starting pitcher every single day. I'll just switch it up back and forth.
Starting point is 02:14:06 Yeah. And then when I wanna switch, I'll switch one out and then rotate and I'm always rocking two. I would say I changed my toothbrush probably once. Yeah, if I lose it on a trip, but let's just say hypothetically, I don't lose any toothbrushes for an extended period of time.
Starting point is 02:14:22 I'd say six months is about the right time for it. I was gonna say, if I've tried it, I don't like it, because then you forget to plug it in. It runs out of batteries at one point and then you just throw it away. Right. I've done like four or five of them.
Starting point is 02:14:33 Come on. No, I swear to God. Not that hard. No, I swear to God. Or I'll lose the charger. What does that mean? No, I will get it. I have had.
Starting point is 02:14:40 It's like a universal charger. Right, and then I'll just throw it out. No, but also in New York, you got a problem because you deal with a lot of pedestics. You guys don't have a lot of space to keep your toothbrush. No, I had just motorized toothbrushes. This is before I used to just rip through them.
Starting point is 02:14:54 I do that with Razors, trimmers too. I probably have like, I probably ripped through like five different beard trimmers in the last like three years. Just lose the charger. You know the disposable mechanized ones that have batteries? Yeah.
Starting point is 02:15:09 Yeah. You just throw those out. I use those and then it runs out of batteries. Boom, throw it away. I have a, I have an electric one that I lost a charger for. So it's just a normal toothbrush now. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:15:21 It's still an electric toothbrush, but it just doesn't move. It's just a normal toothbrush. No, I had the same thing. Yeah, of course. That's a good thing. As much as I'm giving you, there was a case that came with it
Starting point is 02:15:33 that I thought was the charger. And I kept putting the case on. I'm like, why isn't it charging? And then I asked my mom and she was like, no, there's a, like you pop off this thing on the bottom and charge it. Well, you thought that the case, the part that goes over the bristles was the charger.
Starting point is 02:15:45 That was the charger. I was like, how the fuck do you charge this case? Like how the fuck do you charge this case? No, listen, I stand in solidarity with you. Those things suck. I thought it was like air pods. Like you put it in the case and then it charges. You have to be a real like,
Starting point is 02:16:00 you have to have your shit together to be an electric toothbrush person. They're different people. There's so much more elite though. All right. Hey lottery ball winners in Hank, fuck you. My boyfriend and I broke up a few months ago. Good.
Starting point is 02:16:12 And he blocked me on every social media. So I decided to make a fake LinkedIn account of a high level employee at a big company and I've been messaging for the last couple of weeks for a job at this company with a huge salary. Should I tell him I had been fucking with him or set up a Zoom interview call and let him see it? Do the Zoom, do the Zoom, do the Zoom reveal.
Starting point is 02:16:32 This is fucked up shit. Girls are psychoing go. You sound totally normal to me. Yeah. You're catfishing your ex-boyfriend because he ended the relationship and didn't want to talk to you. I hope that typing this out
Starting point is 02:16:46 and making you think through the words that you have to describe the situation clued you in a little bit onto how crazy you're being. No chance. No chance. Yeah. We broke up. There's no explanation for the breakup.
Starting point is 02:16:57 But I can't imagine what that could be. Yeah. Yeah. Do the Zoom reveal though. That rules. That part will be awesome. Send it to us. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:17:06 Actually he'll probably film it. Record it. He'll probably fall back in love with you. You should do that. Yeah. He'll be pumped like, hey, I got this huge salary offer. Actually this would be a great way to try to get back together.
Starting point is 02:17:16 Zoom reveal and you're just naked. Yeah, Billy? This is just disgusting stuff on TV right now. Yeah, I don't know what movie this is. Oh, this is classic TNT where you leave it on the NBA games and then you wake up in the morning and Charmed is on. Is this Charmed? Probably.
Starting point is 02:17:32 Every show is Charmed. They just had like some swastika go into this guy's heart. It's like a glorious Charmed. Glory. Yeah, now he's back alive. What the fuck? OK. Hey, PMT.
Starting point is 02:17:45 I'm a teacher at a high school. We are celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week this week. Part of that is playing a game every day called Lucky Duck. Every staff member gets to select a rubber ducky with a number on it. I know where this is going. I won. I won on the first day with my duck walking number 17.
Starting point is 02:18:05 Congratulations. Appreciate it. Good job. I love that you read that. That's pretty easy. It sounds like this game is something. Hey, fellas, my long-term boyfriend and I just broke up near a month ago, and less than a week
Starting point is 02:18:16 after we'd originally broken up, my friend found him on Tinder, meaning he had been active. Am I crazy for finding this disrespectful? I know everyone moves on differently, but I feel like less than a week after a long-term relationship is extremely disrespectful to me. You don't get to make those rules. Appreciate you.
Starting point is 02:18:30 You get back on the horse. You don't get to make those rules. You're broken up. You're broken up. If it was before, then, yeah, you could be upset. But if you're broken up, you're broken up. That's actually. Yeah, like it's a little bit disrespectful,
Starting point is 02:18:41 but it's also like you don't have any. Yeah, it's not your option to be disrespected. Right, yeah, that's the right move. You get back on Tinder. You get back in the game. And you want to be the first. Free agency starts at 12 AM. That's right.
Starting point is 02:18:52 Sounds like he's moving on well. There's no legal tampering period. It's cut and dry. You should catfish him, though, on Tinder. That would rule. All right, last one. Yeah. Oh, you always got to read ahead.
Starting point is 02:19:07 We, as a company, should always read ahead when we're reading on something. All right, third of the month, here we go. Hey there, guys. So my boyfriend is a super kind and loving guy, and we have a fantastic relationship, except this one thing. He doesn't use any pet names for me, like Babe, Sweetie,
Starting point is 02:19:25 et cetera. But that isn't a big deal. However, he uses all those terms for his truck. He'd be walking out in the morning and wishing his truck a good morning on the way to work. Is this a common thing, or should I just be jealous of a Tacoma? Yeah, this is a Morgan Wallin song. Oh, of his Chevy, you mean?
Starting point is 02:19:43 Yeah, the Chevy. The Silverado. Chevy, yeah. Yeah, dude, guys love trucks. It's always good. It does sound like a country song, or at least a bumper sticker that a country song will eventually be named after, but just like, I wish he treated me
Starting point is 02:19:55 like he treats his truck. Boom, there you go. If you're a female country singer, boom. Number one hit right there. Yeah, you know what you got to do is if you want to get him to change it, you need to just start calling the truck by the pet names as well, because then he will realize, like, if someone else says it, he'll
Starting point is 02:20:10 have an out-of-body experience being like, what am I doing? Yeah, or you need to get some sort of appliance or a tool that you start having a sexual relationship with. Sure, you can find something. Maybe your electric toothbrush. Yeah. OK. What's up, sweetie?
Starting point is 02:20:24 Let's get to work with that mouth to. Well, don't do the electric toothbrush, because it won't work after like a month. It's true. Not if you use Duracell batteries, big cat. That's true. That's true. OK.
Starting point is 02:20:35 Hank, you ever gotten this? Should we do our lucky duck of the day? What are you? Oh, nice. Nice, Jake. Same color. Fire up the duck bow tank. Nice.
Starting point is 02:20:44 What's the same color? The balls and rubber docks. No, false. That is false. That is absolutely false. They're a little darker. No, no, no, no. I'm the Panto master.
Starting point is 02:20:54 Two different colors. Well, if you're the Panto master, you failed. Yeah. You're basically lean. I'm on Jake's side. Those are orange, you let yellow. Yellow is different than orange. Duck is.
Starting point is 02:21:06 And those are orange. Those are just orange. Those are orange. Ducks are yellow. I've seen darker orange. OK, it's still orange. So look at the basketball. I've seen ping pong balls with the basketball color.
Starting point is 02:21:19 Wait, Jake. That's orange. We're talking about ducks. Yeah, I know. The colors are rubber duck. What couple of colors are rubber duck, yeah. Yellow. Yes.
Starting point is 02:21:26 What color are those? Light orange. Yes, different colors. It's more of an orange yellow. Those are different colors, right? Yes. Yes, it's not even close. They're similar.
Starting point is 02:21:35 I guess every color is similar. It's all spectrum. Colors are spectrum. It's similar, like, good point, Hank. It's like hockey puck is similar to a baseball in a way. It's like saying navy blue and black, but they're different colors. They are different colors.
Starting point is 02:21:49 That's much different than navy blue and black. It's even more egregious. All right. That's orange. So have you gotten the orange ducks before? I don't know what the fuck those are. It's a common menu at a Chinese restaurant? Yeah.
Starting point is 02:22:02 No. All right, you've never gotten a lottery ball? Nope. OK. Numbers. 17. Oh, he's back. He's back.
Starting point is 02:22:11 He's back. I lost up bet. That's why I do that. 99. Nice. So go 26. Never been hit before. Max?
Starting point is 02:22:27 I'll go 76. Oh, interesting. I'll switch mine to 20, then. I just saw 17. I just saw 76. Oh, that is 86. 86. So close.
Starting point is 02:22:51 86. So close. Four times. Not even close. Love you guys. Really? Tennis rackets used to be made with sheep intestine. Sort of violin strings.
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