Pardon My Take - Orlando Magic's Paolo Banchero, Yankees Have Life And Their Fans Are Grabbing Balls, College Football Talk + Listener Submitted FAQ's

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Starting point is 00:02:36 DraftKings Pick Six. The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, October 30th and the New York Yankees have life. Thanks to two scumbag fans that took over the internet. Then we tried to get on this show, but holy shit. The cap of Bianco brothers stole the show and the Yankees bats finally woke up and the Bronx is burning.

Starting point is 00:03:00 It was awesome. Good for those guys. I mean, you go to that game and I saw people clowning them online saying you spent $5,000 for front row seats just to get kicked out. No, that's that's maybe the most well spent $5,000 of all time for those guys. Yeah, they're heroes. Yankees. Yeah, he's turned this around and win the World Series. I don't know what the new regime is going to do. George Steinbrenner would put them in Monument Park. He would just like encase their bodies still alive in bronze and then put them out in the outfield. That's the best use of $5,000.

Starting point is 00:03:34 And it's funny because, you know, of course you shouldn't interfere with the ball in play. But at the same time, the fact that these two guys were straight out of central casting in terms of like scumbag Yankee fans. Yes. It's like reaching into Mookie Betts glove, trying to pry it off, reaching and taking the ball out and then like holding their hands up like we we're doing we didn't do nothing. The the when I say scumbag I mean in like a loving term because that's what they are and I think they would be like yeah of course we are. They if for people who missed it it, it was one of the funniest things. Uh, I know, again, you shouldn't reach into state of the stands and I didn't like when they grab

Starting point is 00:04:09 Mookie's arm. That was a little too far, but my, there was a couple of moments that were laugh out loud, funny. One, obviously just trying to grab the ball out. Like the hump isn't standing right there and the, and there's not a million replays to one of the capital Bianco brothers, uh, did like an invisible line where where the where the wall is as almost as if Mookie Betts is not allowed to put his glove past that line.

Starting point is 00:04:35 This is our house. This is our territory. You're not allowed to do to make a play here. Like it was going to actually the the the ump was going to be like, oh yeah, you know what? You're right. That's not a good call boys. He crossed the cross the threshold. It's like you're in the backseat of a car and your brother comes across the center line. You get to hit him. He was on my side. That's what they did with the Milky

Starting point is 00:04:55 Bats. It's like, I can reach into that glove. They tried to crack it open. It looked like they were trying to crack open a crab to pick the lungs and lead out. It was just like two hands on the gloves separating it. And then the one dude with, I mean, who wears sunglasses at night, like a real piece of shit like that. Yeah. But, uh, he reached over and he had a sliding mid on. Yeah, he had a sliding mid on and he it's listen again, don't do that. But the Yankees were desperate. They needed something.

Starting point is 00:05:24 Those guys sparked the Yankees. I believe that those guys are responsible for this win and those bats waking up. Because basically all the Yankee fans sitting in Yankee Stadium tonight were like, do something. And the Capo Bianco brothers were like, you know what? We'll do something. We're going to take matters into our own hands. We also, PFT, you mentioned the seats and how expensive they are. So obviously the, the, the, uh, paper had their name and they were posted everywhere. Uh, they do follow us. So shout out these guys and probably AWLs. Uh, the, the, one of them has in his bio work way too hard, but I'm blessed with season tickets to the best team in the world because of it. And New York Yankees let's go. And then the quote in the paper,

Starting point is 00:06:08 cause they got, they, they were, I think they got fined a thousand dollars a piece or no, they got, I, they got ejected. I don't know if they got fined. The tickets were a thousand dollars a piece. Uh, Darren capital Bianco, uh, when he was, when the athletic reached out for comment, he said, I just see the ball kind of, I don't, I don't want to say go up for grabs if that makes sense. And then Mookie was swearing at us. Not good. Yeah. Mookie swear at me after, after I tried to punch his arm off the ball. Not good. Listen,

Starting point is 00:06:40 again, that's, it's the best use of money that you could have as a fan. I, I a hundred percent believe that. You turned around the vibes of a World Series game. That's as good as you can get for those tickets. So congratulations to them. And then also, I guess a little bit of credit to Volpe too, because he played his dick off tonight. If Aaron Judge showed half the resolve and fight that the Capo Bianco brothers did, this

Starting point is 00:07:03 series would be over. It would have been a sweep tonight. Aaron Judge is getting so, now he did have a hit tonight. He had a hit in an RBI and I think he had a walk as well. But it's getting so sad for Aaron Judge. He was up in the eighth or seventh, one of the later innings and John Smoltz was like, you can see he's a lot less jumpy at the plate.

Starting point is 00:07:22 That's what we're, that's basically where Aaron Judge is at, he looks a little less jumpy at the plate. That's what we're, that's basically where Aaron judges at. It was like, he, he, he looks a little more than he immediately flyed out, but it is, I'm just happy we get more world series. This was supposed to be an all time world series. It looked like it was going to be a sweep. The Dodgers are so goddamn good. Freddie Freeman has homered in six straight world series games. It's insane. Uh, and I do think the Dodgers are going to win this series, but at least we get, at least we get a little fight out of the Yankees by their fans, by the, by the stands, uh, and Ashanti great national anthem. Shout out, biz.

Starting point is 00:07:54 And when they, they, they had a Shanti, uh, dead earlier this morning in a podcast clip, but they, they, they got a confused Aliyah. Those guys are the best. And so I bet, I bet the Yankees say, cause I was like Shanti game have to do it. And the Yankees have life. Yeah, good. I I'm glad more baseball, more Equinox. Good for everybody. Yes. So, uh, I do. I mean, Hey, guess what? Listen, Garrett Cole is going tonight. Like the Yankees aren't dead. If Garrett Cole's on the mound, that's why you pay him so much money. He's supposed to be the guy that goes out there and shoves. So Max, do you have any comment about, uh, the, uh, heritage of the capo Bianco brothers?

Starting point is 00:08:39 What Italians? Yeah. Passionate guys. Also doesn't car code. Bianco doesn't mean like head Bianco. They're like the top Biancos. The are good. Oh, Bianco might mean white. They're the top whites. Yeah. Definitely checks out. Those are the whitest guys in America right now. Our good friend Tom Frinelli texted me cause he when we were trying to get these guys on which we I mean maybe we'll still get them on if they want to come on on Thursday I hope they go to the stream in New York City at Barcel HQ because I that's my next goal like I we were trying to get them on the window was small now that they couldn't come on tonight I want them sitting next to Tommy Smokes and hubs and Marty I want to I want them on

Starting point is 00:09:24 stream just screaming because I don't think they're allowed back in Yankee stadium, but our good friend Tom for Nellie text me. He's like, if you do get them on, please ask them how they ended up with the name Austin capital Bianco, because that does feel like a miss. That was, they went like Jenzie Nate first name and capital Bianco that that he need, they need to be Salvatore and Tony Joey. Yeah, something like that. But the capo Bianco brothers, they, they deserve a statue if they win this, if they win the world series. Yeah. Literally put them in Monument Park. It's easy if you're the

Starting point is 00:09:58 Yankees and have them in the ticker tape parade going down the canyon of champions or whatever the fuck they call it. Yeah. I listen, I don't like the Yankees. I it's hard to root for the Yankees, right? I think we can all agree on that. But Hank, do you have any advice to the Yankees on how to battle back from being down three zero in a baseball series? You got to have great pitching and you got to have a loose, a loose team. You got to have your stars playing well. Garra Cole. I think they're screwed. pitching and you got to have a loose, a loose team. You got to have your stars playing well.

Starting point is 00:10:26 Garret Cole. I think they're screwed. So there's good on the bump. Then we got Garret Cole on the bump. I'm rooting for the Dodgers, but I was rooting for the Yankees tonight. Not just cause I bet them, but because I wanted more baseball, I wanted more world series. And as soon as the capital Bianco brothers came out,

Starting point is 00:10:42 it's like, you have to win for them. You have to win for them. Yeah. I mean, he swore at them, it's like, you have to win for them. You have to win for them. Yeah. He swore to him, not good. And also he went into their space. It's like, it's like, they call it the Bronx zoo, right? So you're at the Bronx zoo. If you, you don't stick your hand into the tiger cage and think that you're not going

Starting point is 00:10:58 to get bit. Yeah. There also was some fake reports going around that they were yelling, uh, with those fake, right? Yeah. That was a fake reports going around that they were yelling, uh, with those fake, right? Yeah, that was a fake fake report. The fake account. Yeah. Cause there was some fake accounts making up some stories about them. Um, listen, I, we don't know them, but, uh, as far as we know, those were fake. The stories that were were being tweeted about them and, uh, yeah,

Starting point is 00:11:20 not good. Whatever problematic statements they've made in the past, I want to go ahead and pre disavow before they come out But we don't know if they've actually said anything bad, but if they have Just know that we do not on part of my take condone that part of their bad behavior We do get on the bad behavior along the right field line. Well, Mookie Betts word not good true I love that he said I don't want to say but anytime somebody starts a sentence by saying I don't want to say It's about to be a fucking banger that sentence about to go triple platinum. I want to read the whole quote again

Starting point is 00:11:56 I just see the ball kind of I don't want to say up for grabs if that makes sense And then Mookie was swearing at us. Not good. Kicked him out too. Yeah. Yeah. Video of the guy wearing like the full Italian silk suit with a non-existent Don Mattingly sideburns and the flat top kick in the mountain. That was awesome. Man, they did. I think the other brother said they, when they was reached for comedy, he's like, we're just trying to enjoy the game good like like they were watching the game somewhere They probably got a hero's welcome at Billy's Tavern or whatever it's called

Starting point is 00:12:32 So alright other quick things before we kick it back to ourselves and talk some football and have Paulo Bencaro Joe Flacco is back officially Anthony Richardson has been benched. This is a move that is a, I don't know. I keep struggling with it because again, we've, we've talked about this. I feel like every single week, if you draft Anthony Richardson in four, you got to play him because you got to see what he is, but it feels like the Colts might've just said, Hey, we have a chance to maybe make the playoffs. If we win a couple of games here, Joe Flacco can win a couple of games.

Starting point is 00:13:08 And thank you to the Colts because they play on Sunday night football this week. And that would have sucked if it was Anthony Richardson. And they're like, Hey, let's put Joe Flacco in and give America a little treat. This might be our last Flacco in primetime game. Just know that. So, so make sure to tune in, tell everybody. Tell a friend to tune in and watch

Starting point is 00:13:28 Saturday football because like we say, you gotta cherish every single Joe Flacco start that you get. And I'm gonna make sure to do that. As far as the Anthony Richardson thing goes, it's the fact that they kept losing every game within one score, like all their losses within one score. That's what did it. If you're getting blown out, then you can probably still say, we're going to start Anthony Richardson and see if we can work with them developing. But the fact that you're so close in all these games, if you're the head coach, if you're a strange Stike and you have to start them because you're

Starting point is 00:13:59 wasting what could be a, a, a playoff season. And, you also risk losing the locker room and all the other guys are dependent on the quarterback for the salary, they're not getting the ball, the offense isn't moving. All those other guys then are like, Hey, dude, what the fuck? I'm playing really hard. And, and you're absolutely tanking my chances at future contracts here. So I get what I get why it had to be done. But at the same time, I also think that like this is, it's, it's not good. Uh, and you're, you're essentially giving up on a very, very high draft pick from just last year. And this is, I mean, this is how the NFL works now. It's the teams. I feel like the leash

Starting point is 00:14:38 for a quarterback is, I mean, I, I'm trying to think to think, Josh Rosen probably was the first one, but it's, it's, it feels like if you don't, if you don't show anything for whatever's 10 games a season, I answer, Richard has played less than 10 games because he was injured last year, but Bryce Young's the other one. I, and I don't totally disagree with it. And the fact that if you think it's never going to work, you to work, it's better to move on quickly than to compound the mistake and just keep trying to do it even though you know it's not going to work. Yeah, no, I agree. And I think that we've seen a lot of plays from Anthony Richardson where it's like that is not a play that a good quarterback makes. Yeah, hopefully he figures it out on the bench and learns

Starting point is 00:15:25 from Joe Flacco and he has another chance because I would like to see him get another chance. The other news was Stefan Diggs is out for the season for the Texans, which the Texans are a little snake bitten right now. They need Nico Collins back real bad. But that was, that's tough for Stefan Diggs to be out for the year. And now they're down to, I mean, Tink tells the guy right now. And I don't know. I don't know that often looks not great all season. I mean, look, okay. When Nico was playing, but it has looked clunky a lot of times and they lose a

Starting point is 00:15:59 big weapon and Stefan digs, I don't know. I mean, the AFC feels like it maybe got a little bit easier. Mixing playing helps though. Yeah, it definitely helps the offense. And Tank Del is a very, very good player. And their defense is still very, very good. Yeah, their defensive line is elite and they'll still be in games

Starting point is 00:16:17 and C.J. Schraue will figure it out. It's just like, if your goal was to win a Super Bowl, Stefan Diggs being out might hurt that goal. Yo, yeah, for sure. And I think Diggs is on a one-year contract, too. So he's going to be a free agent again this offseason. All I know is I am thinking about laying a hammer down on the Jets.

Starting point is 00:16:37 Yeah, no. Hell no. I'm thinking about doing it. You saw their uniforms. Yeah, we're going to talk about them in a second. I don't know, PFT. That feels like the biggest trap ever, because the Jets are just going to be the team that all season

Starting point is 00:16:52 were like, well, this is the game. They'll prove it. Yep. And then they just won't. And we'll just keep doing it and saying, this will be the game. I mean, it's Aaron Rodgers' derangement syndrome. I am the leading case of it in America. My theory is that they will not get any lower than they are right now. Like everyone's shitting on the jets. Everyone is shitting on the jets. Aaron Rodgers is

Starting point is 00:17:14 drinking water with cayenne pepper in it. I think it's turned around. It's been pretty low. Okay, we have anything else? Was there anything else that happened between when we recorded this afternoon and now? There's one piece of news. Oh, snubbed again. Part of my take. Oh, yeah. For the eighth year in a row, we did not win People Awards Sexiest Podcast Award.

Starting point is 00:17:38 And I just want to say that they got it right. I think maybe for our 10th year, which we got to start thinking about boys really were what 15 months away from from the 10 year anniversary, 16 months away. That's pretty crazy to think about. Yeah, we are Hank. Are we not? No, we are. It's crazy to think about. Yeah. 16 months away. I think we I think the boys just go fucking crazy on some plastic surgery and try to win this award one year Listen, just just butcher our faces just look like completely different human I'll do a lot of things

Starting point is 00:18:13 I don't think I'm ever going to take a surgical option to make my appearance improve at all It would be great if we could do plastic surgery temporary plastic surgery Yeah, like we just have like a month where we just looked like completely different human beings. What Botox? I don't know. I ain't doing that shit. I put a needle in my face. I'm down for Ozempic. What? Oh, Zach, we don't get on Ozempic. Yeah, we just get super hot, super jacked. Yeah, get, uh, I don't even know what, what other Botox, I don't know. Lip filler. I already have full lips. I don't

Starting point is 00:18:51 know what I have to do. Lip filler would rock. Maybe raising your ears, the facelift, tummy tuck. Yeah. I could use the chin. Oh, I could get the shin lengthening surgery. Yeah. Like six inches added. That would rock. I can get a breast reduction. Maybe I'll do a, I'll just get my entire face change and I'll say it's because I had a broken nose and I was snoring too much at night so I had to get nose surgery and no, it's not plastic surgery, but then come out of it looking like a totally different human being. Yeah, we should do it.

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Starting point is 00:20:39 Can't believe that I ever doubted Mike Tomlin again after coming to the conclusion that Mike Tomlin is a top five coach in the NFL. I know he hasn't won a playoff game in a very long time, but all he does is run a great locker room and have a competitive team every year. But Mike Tomlin, my apologies, putting in Russell Wilson was the right move. That's a crazy ballsy move that he made too. Yeah. And so for all the hate that he gets being mediocre Mike. And also, I think there's like two things about Mike Tomlin that are true always every year. One, people call mediocre Mike. Two, people also say like, this might be Mike Tomlin's best coaching job. They

Starting point is 00:21:15 say that every single year about Mike Tomlin. But this was a ballsy move that he made. It was a very ballsy move. And if you've watched the Steelers the last two weeks, and we don't know, like prime time games, I've learned that this year, I'm trying to absorb that into my into every core fiber of my body that just because a game happens in prime time doesn't mean that it means anything more well it does but it's at night yeah it's at night and the terrible towels are going and renegades playing and it's a whole thing and they've won 22 straight on Monday night football at home uh they did lose a Monday afternoon game in 2020 on Wednesday. No, it was a Wednesday. No, it was a Monday. It was a, I think,

Starting point is 00:21:49 no, that might've been a different game. Uh, they lost to the commanders in 2020. I think it was supposed to be a Sunday game. It got postponed to Monday afternoon at 5 P.M. Oh, that was the Monday. But they also had a Wednesday football game. And I think that was the Ravens maybe. maybe okay It was that they definitely had both. Yeah COVID fucked everything up and then and then Monday. Yes, but when it's Monday night football games They don't after 501 p.m On Monday night. They just don't win that might be the craziest record in sport the craziest streak in sports. Well, there's a crazier one

Starting point is 00:22:22 Daniel Jones is now one in 15 in primetime games. Yeah, that is quite something. By the way, the, the other part of the Mike Tomlin, uh, switching to Russell Wilson, which is nuts. I know they gave the job to Russell Wilson before the season and then he got hurt and you can do the whole thing. You know, you never lose your job to injuries, but still they were foreign too. And you're making a switch at quarterback. I thought it was crazy It turns out I'm the crazy one Mike Tomlin's a smart one because here's the other thing that happened They got one of the best free agent picks or trade deadline pickups and George Pickens Because he looks like he actually cares. This is what has completely unlocked with Russell Wilson

Starting point is 00:22:59 This is what's awesome about George Pickens because you have you have him doing hilarious He's the James Winston of wide receivers Correct is what he is. So he'll make spectacular catches He'll just like get one foot down. He'll make a spectacular catch He'll get hit and then I'll get up and throw one of his six mouthpieces at the corner back He'll try to drop off somebody on the top rope like he did yesterday Yep, which was just an insane play. Yeah, the turnaround was so great too. Yeah, he's like if you gave it if you gave a six-year-old Exceptional athleticism. That's how he acts on them like a six-year-old

Starting point is 00:23:29 That's on a sugar rush from drinking like too much sugary drinks and then you put them on a football field Yeah, she's gonna start skipping halfway through his route sometimes, but this was George Pickens two weeks ago We were watching tape of him not even trying Yeah And now Russell Wilson is throwing moon balls to him and he's completely unlocked and the Steelers are and here's the other thing. That was just a classic TJ Watt game where he is the closer for that team where if you get it, if the Steelers can get the game script going where they're up late in the fourth quarter, TJ Watt will just end the game. And unfortunately for the Giants right tackle Jermaine Elman Elman or

Starting point is 00:24:05 sure not say his last name Elman or all-time bad quote because during the week he said he wanted to be left on an island against TJ watt maybe just meant like Jersey Jerry wants to be left on an island just hanging out that's a lot of a log cabin yeah or some place up in up in the Rocky Mountains should the Giants sell now I think they should because Mr. Mara has already said and I actually believe him that they're not gonna make any changes to the front office and coaching staff So if you are the front office and you're not gonna get fired Why wouldn't you try to trade anything you can for draft picks and then extend your stay because you're like, well, we have draft picks and we got to see how they turn out.

Starting point is 00:24:47 So I would believe Mr. Mara, but the last two times he did that, he went back on it. Yeah. So he did that to Joe Judge. I think it was in November of Joe Judge's last year. He said he's our coach. We're not making a change. And then three weeks later, he made a change. Yeah, he did that. Was it McAdoo? He told the press, like, McAdoo is our coach. We're not going to make a change. We're not firing him. And then like two weeks later after that, they fired him. So like the last two times he's said that about a coach. Now Brian's better than both those guys. And again, like I've said that they should keep him. Yeah, I, they should not keep Daniel Jones. I don't really know how Daniel Jones is like,

Starting point is 00:25:25 we're going to look back and be like, this guy started in the NFL for six years. Yeah, it's pretty remarkable because it's just, he has not changed. It feels like at all. He had that one year that the first year with Brian Dable that he was kind of unlocked. But yeah, it's every game feels like the same one in 15 in prime time games He needs to Daniel Jones actually might be a good quarterback for like the Carolina Panthers or the Jacksonville Jaguars who don't play prime time Games. Yeah, like he got the worst marriage and being on the New York Giants who are guaranteed Five prime time games a year and the guy can't win in prime time Yeah, it was sad after the game because I think table was saying in his postgame interview But I really liked the emotion.

Starting point is 00:26:05 That was good progress that we saw from, from Daniel Jones showing emotion during this game. It's like that's, if that's the highlight that you have talking about your quarterback who's been your starter for six years saying, I like that he's starting to show emotion out there. That's bad. And then, but maybe he was saying he was angry this weekend. They're going to Germany. Wait, no, I thought that next weekend commanders this weekend. Oh, that's right. Commanders and then Germany

Starting point is 00:26:27 and Germany is going to be next up against the Panthers. That might be Brian Dable. That might be Daniel Jones. Best game of the season. Yeah. The most like the least prime time game possible. Yeah. The least prime time game, especially against the Panthers. Uh, yeah, I think the Giants should sell and I don't know if you're a Giants fan going with like Daniel Jones has to just, it has to drive you nuts. Yeah. It has to like, it just, the same week, week to week it's exactly the same. I did the RAV4 Todd Bowles the other day. I saw another one, a Giants fan, Big Mac Meal versus Daniel Jones.

Starting point is 00:27:00 Big Mac Meal is $12.69. Can't play football, can't read a defense, people happy Daniel Jones is 160 million dollars can't play football Can't read a defense makes people mad. Yeah, so take the Big Mac meal Big Mac's got that special sauce Shout out G G men galaxy. I think that the I think the Steelers are actually very good though Yeah, I think what Russell Wilson's done the offense. It's a combination of not having Matt Canada and now having a quarterback that can throw the ball to the middle of the field and that can actually trust his receivers to go make a play. I think that the Steelers are one of the best teams in the AFC.

Starting point is 00:27:35 Does Russell Wilson, because I was wrong, I thought Russell Wilson was cooked. Is it Russell Wilson got a little humble pie or not to kick a man when he's down? But it just further proves that Nathaniel Hackett might have been So so so so bad. That's also It's like you can look at I think you you you kind of felt the same way where it's like Russell Wilson is cooked Like he's he's old. He's he hasn't been good in a couple years, but now he and it's not like he's prime Russell Wilson I'm not gonna get ahead of myself, but he clearly has something left in the tank and he clearly adds elements to the Steelers offense that was missing in George Pickett. I also think that Sean Payton and Russell Wilson was a marriage that's never going to

Starting point is 00:28:14 work. Yeah. I didn't even count that year because that was like a million years. That was also a forced marriage. They didn't, they didn't want each other. Never in a million years was that going to, was he going to look halfway decent working for Sean Payton? Like Sean Payton hated everything about Russell Wilson. Yeah. Basically Sean Payton's year one job was to just alienate Russell Wilson as much as possible and treat him like shit. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So other things, I dealt with

Starting point is 00:28:39 a very bad day on Monday. Here was, here's how my Monday went PFT. I'm sure you had a great day because you got to watch all the highlights. I thought I was over the Hail Mary and then I took my two oldest kids out to dinner last night and getting into the car, I was strapping them into their car seats, a guy parked a couple spots away from me, was like, hey, what's up, big cat?

Starting point is 00:29:02 And then we spent probably 10 minutes in the parking lot talking about the Hail Mary and how much that sucked And then it was it was basically my whole life of suck all in one because then at the end I didn't catch this guy's name, but he was like yeah, my son is actually the highest rated quarterback in Illinois right now He's committed to Oregon. And then I spent another five minutes trying to flip him to Wisconsin via Stella Blue deals. So it was, I don't know why God just put that man there to have that conversation. It didn't work. Oregon has a little bit, Phil Knight has a little more money than Stella Blue coffee.

Starting point is 00:29:38 Probably the uniform. Yeah. But it was, it was like, God, I got in the car and my kids were just like, daddy, let's go, let's go, let's go. Let's go. It's like, hold on one sec. We're trying to get a quarterback here. Try to close the deal out here. But it was like everything summed up in one 10 minute random exchange with a stranger being like, holy shit, did that suck?

Starting point is 00:29:55 If your kids just knew how much happier daddy would be if that guy's son went to Wisconsin, they would be like, no, take your time. Yeah, right. Yeah. I should have just been like, Bucky, like Bucky we'll come to your birthday party but I uh now that we've gone so yesterday sucked today is getting a little better because uh this might have been a silver lining in the fact that uh it seems like the Bears players are finally turning on Matt Eberfluss which has not happened until this moment and they are we had Jalen Johnson come out and he's like, if Tyreek Stevenson had been doing his job,

Starting point is 00:30:28 there's a 0% chance that, because Tyreek Stevenson was supposed to be on Noah Brown, there's 0% chance that works. He also said that they should have called the time out because it was chaotic. That's something the head coach should work, or should figure out. Kevin Byard was asked about the play before

Starting point is 00:30:44 where Matty Perflusius gave up 14 yards for free. He was like, yeah, I don't know why we were doing that. should figure out. Kevin Byard was asked about the play before where Matt Iberfluss just gave up 14 yards for free. He was like, yeah, I don't know why we were doing that. We did sideline defense at the end of the first half. I don't know why we didn't do it at the end of the game. And then Cole Comet talked about self-discipline and guys holding each other accountable. And basically all of this adds up to Matt Iberfluss is to blame for this, which I came to that conclusion on Sunday night, but it's good to hear the players back it up, and then on top of all of that,

Starting point is 00:31:11 we had a report just a couple hours ago that apparently Ben Johnson was interested in the Bears' job last year, and that was, people are saying that's the one he wanted. So pack your bags, Matt Eberfluss. So you PFT, you got the guy out of town. So, so I heard I heard about Ben Johnson. I also heard that Ben Johnson wanted like 15 million dollars a year.

Starting point is 00:31:33 Done with cell blue, which if you're most franchises, I think if you're an owner that really wants to win, says that they want to win. You're like, OK, that's a lot of money. However, I think Ben Johnson might be the real deal. And if you're getting a rookie quarterback, that's the thing about bringing Caleb in and not switching up anything, head coaching staff. And we said this, I've said this many times about, about the bears, you double fucked yourself. You got double fucked because number one, you, you didn't bring in a new guy with your new

Starting point is 00:32:01 quarterback, meaning that there's a good chance that he'll have to experience two coaching staffs in his first two years and also double fucked is you weren't able to attract a great offensive coordinator because any offensive coordinator that would take that job would say hey if we don't do exceptionally well this first year then that's gonna be one-year gig for me as an offensive coordinator. The good news is PFT it's it's the Bears are just learning that they double fucked themselves it's, it's the bears are just learning that they double fucked themselves. It's not like they've ever done this before.

Starting point is 00:32:27 Yeah. Oh wait, they literally did the exact same thing when they drafted Mr. risky with John Fox and then had Matt Nagy come in on year two and then did the exact same thing with Justin Fields. When they drafted Justin Fields with Matt Nagy and had Matt Eberfuss come in year two. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:32:41 They just keep doing it. It's a pattern. If you're going to bring in a new quarterback that's highly drafted, it's probably a good idea. I would say an exception to that could be the Giants. Yeah. Because I think that Dable is a good offensive coach. But it's just, so as much as yesterday sucked because it was literally everyone wanted to talk about it and you could see it on someone's face when they saw me. I walked in the office at like 9 30 in the morning and Fasoli, I think he had been sitting there since like midnight with the camera

Starting point is 00:33:06 ready to go so it was just one of those torturous torturous days but the silver lining is it feels like they're finally realizing this is the first time that there has been players calling out Matt Eberfluss and players being like hey that was a winnable game that we completely fucked up at the end. What is the path to getting him gone the quickest? I think anything besides an NFC championship run is probably gone. But you think he's going to be the whole season? I think he's going to be, the Bears don't fight, they've never in the history.

Starting point is 00:33:41 They don't do that. Greeny was going off. They wouldn't fire him in the middle of the sea. Did you see the greenie clip? No, well what's it was some of that? I saw Rex he did the language I've ever heard him say by the way, right the dumbest thing I've ever seen it was doing my We had all the time we had timeouts to spare we had we gave up 15 yards for free to play before the play before the Hail Mary was just dumb. And his explanation afterwards was even dumber.

Starting point is 00:34:07 He was like, I don't really see much of a difference between throwing the ball 65 yards in the air and having him try to throw the ball 80 yards in the air. It's like, that's a pretty big difference. And that's where this feels like it's a significant shift in the narrative because Matt Eberfluss is a guy who will get up in front of the

Starting point is 00:34:26 Microphone after game and just never take blame for anything and just be like we got to look at the positives Having the players say hey, there were some negatives there Which was very obvious to literally everyone with eyes and a brain in their skull Finally feels like okay It's not he's kind of losing it here and And it feels and it feels like the Bears locker room is sitting there being like we're we're talented enough to be a six and one team. You know, the blowing that game at the end with the Hail Mary the Colts game, and yet we're sitting here four and

Starting point is 00:34:58 three wondering what the fuck has happened. I I'm excited that maybe this is they're going to make the right choice. But again, it's the Bears, so they probably won't. So Rex Ryan has made it very clear that he's willing to coach again. He's doing that. Rex is doing that big time. He's putting his name on a lot of people's desks. He would coach the Jets, he said.

Starting point is 00:35:17 He would coach the Bears. Yeah, the play before the play was very bad. That was, I'm going gonna use the word malpractice Yeah, he was coaching malpractice and then the players after I think it was either Yesterday, maybe maybe this morning. Some of the players are saying like we want to be coached harder. Yeah, it's okay That's basically what Cole Comet said. It's okay if you coach us harder because we need that I don't know what they're gonna do with with the cornerback situation because I That would that would be a good cut. That would be a good Stevenson's good though. That's I know I know I know what they're going to do with with the cornerback situation because I that would that would be a good cut

Starting point is 00:35:46 That would be a good stevenson's good though. That's I know I know I know but like a real football guy coach Would just be like don't even don't even comment. I don't think you can cut him But uh, especially because we have some injuries there, but I he he's a good player He made a very very bad mistake I think all the other players are going to hold him accountable The problem is I don't think matt Eberfuss is holding him accountable And that's that's where the divide comes from so and it is Like them talking about after Jalen Johnson said he's like yeah his responsibility was Noah Brown

Starting point is 00:36:14 And that's why that happened and he instead ran into the scrum and hit the ball in the air So it's just it's crazy because do you think that was a good throw or a bad throw that Jaden had on the Hail Mary? I think it was a good throw okay a bad throw that Jayden had on the Hail Mary? I think it was a good throw. Okay, interesting. Why? Max and I had a deep conversation about that and there was an unfortunate clip that got resurfaced. So, during Sunday night show, Max made the point like any quarterback in the NFL can

Starting point is 00:36:36 make that throw. And it just so happens there was a quarterback that tried to make that throw in the Super Bowl on the very last play of the game and I believe you threw the ball about 46 yards in the air that Stepped on his foot that quarterback was was Jalen hurt. It was a good throw It was short, but it was a good throw a good spiral. Yeah spiral if I have a question for you If if Jane what Hail Mary isn't lucky. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's but you're saying that like it's like a Hey, I agree with this. I agree with this like there's it's not like you can be a great Hail Mary quarterback I mean some are a little Aaron Rodgers

Starting point is 00:37:10 Maybe some are a little bit better than others, but a Hail Mary is a very lucky play But that entire drive that led up to the Hail Mary. I made he made a few big passes that way there No, that was only one pass on that drive. I think there were two one that was wide open I think there were two. Yeah, I mean that wasn't, I don't want to get it back in the weeds, but that I'm pretty sure that they literally let him down the whole Matt Eberfluss thing. They let him throw it. He had one throw to start the drive. He threw it on his fucking feet. I thought that he had two completions on that drive before the Hail Mary. I think he did. I mean, he might have, but one of them was literally one of them. Matt Eberfluss is a

Starting point is 00:37:42 fucking moron. Yes. And I'm not saying that that means that Jayden's awesome quarterback is that he threw a Hail Mary. Every quarterback can try to throw the ball that far. And a lot of them, you know, like it's a crap shoot at the end. It was still a good play. Everything that happened on that play before he made the throw, scrambling around the pocket and getting himself in good, into a good position. Yeah, we should have rushed more. It was stupid. Yeah. That's a, I mean, he, he did what he had to do and it was a great play, but I'm not saying that's the metric of him.

Starting point is 00:38:08 He made two completions. One was the one that they were, or he had one in completion, one, then he completed one to Zach Hertz, then the one that was just given to you. Yeah, so he had two completions and then the Hail Mary on that drive. A good quarterback puts their team in a spot where they can get lucky. Right. Jalen Hurts's throw, there was no chance. Jason Kelsey stepped on his foot.

Starting point is 00:38:28 Just saying. That's part of moving around in the pocket. 350 yards and 3 touchdowns against Patrick Mahomes and the Super Bowl in that game. How is that not putting him in a good situation to win? He threw an absolute dime on the drive before to tie the game up, and then fucking Juju Smith Schuster gets away with a stupid fucking holding call That's putting yourself in a position to win Hank Max is right. I didn't say pretty I said give them the Hail Mary

Starting point is 00:38:55 Situational way no give them a chance give them a chance to make the get lucky Max's right Jalen hurts had a great game except for that fumble, and he had a great season that year I'm not saying that Jaden is on that level that Jaylen played that year I'm just saying like let's not take away better back higher level. No, I'm not saying that yet Let's not take away from the fact he had a good drive to get them into position and then he had a good great I know where he scrambled He scrambled around the pocket and then threw a great ball for a Hail Mary Let's not take any way anything away from this young man, Max. You're the one who brought this up.

Starting point is 00:39:25 Well because you brought it up on Sunday. Yes. I have a question for you. If Jayden Daniels throws an interception on that Hail Mary, are you claiming that? It's a crapshoot. Yeah. That plays a crapshoot. Yeah. That interception doesn't count. At the end of the season, I will make sure to go back and tell everyone he actually had one less interception than you think he did.

Starting point is 00:39:42 I just, I hated that game. That game sucked because it was also it was just the the bears are have I've watched that game a million times the Bears are in an offensive slog and can't do anything and then Cale Williams got him out of it and it was a game they should never have won that they were going to somehow win and yeah sucked. I also after watching it again Dan Quinn tried to give that game away, too Dan Quinn tried very very hard with not going forward on like fourth and inches Yeah, I'm giving the Bears the ball back and then just absolutely killing whatever time we had left I would much rather the Bears scored with with two minutes two and a half minutes left on the clock Yeah, they went 25 seconds and who cares if you give the ball up in your own territory at that point

Starting point is 00:40:23 Yeah, this sucked I'm whatever it's the Bears have to win against the Cardinals That's the thing is they have no margin of error anymore And and I'm just again, I'm the silver lining in all of this is Matt Eberfluss is being exposed for what we all knew But the vibes were high enough that no one was gonna speak out against him in the Bears locker room And now that you have a loss like that that is so inexcusable with how it went down. He's getting exposed. And that's I think a good thing.

Starting point is 00:40:51 Did you see the think a good thing? It was Ben Johnson hit me up. Was it nine nine at halftime last night? Two great offenses going at it. Football. Yeah. Kick and field goals. Yeah, it was fantastic.

Starting point is 00:41:02 Yeah. The Giants and Steelers known for their office. Great offenses. Yeah. Moving the ball. Yeah, the Giants and Steelers, known for their offense. Great offenses. Yeah. Moving the ball. Yeah, moving the ball. Between the 20s. Kick and field goals.

Starting point is 00:41:10 It's the way to go. All right, memes real quick. I have two things for memes. I like the Jets fan that retired. Did you guys see this? This was from Igor2AHL, depressed Jets fan. He said, due to recent struggles and constant pain suffered from the New York Jets,

Starting point is 00:41:28 I've ultimately decided that I'm gonna step away from the game I have once loved. I'm not sure when I'll be back, but I can no longer endure the constant torture and pain the New York Jets give me. Spend more time with the family. Yeah, he did a for real retirement. And he did this on Monday.

Starting point is 00:41:43 I think he should have waited a day because I don't know if you guys saw, but the Jets have their solution to fix the season. Changing their uniforms again. Oh, I like that. They're going the All Blacks for Halloween. So memes, you're kind of back. I don't think we're back. I think we're going to get smoked on Thursday and then everybody's going to get traded on Friday.

Starting point is 00:42:02 Everyone's going to get traded? Yeah. Who's going to get traded?. Everyone's gonna get traded? Yeah. Who's gonna get traded? Devante? Everyone. Everyone? Everyone. Literally? Literally everyone. Literally every person. Every player. I was thinking about the the whole don't rent an old quarterback to try to make your team good and put Super Bowl aspirations on them. I was thinking about that. The stats actually show that maybe you should try to

Starting point is 00:42:25 rent an old ass quarterback. If you don't have like a, if you don't have a top two quarterback of all time, like Patrick Mahomes or Tom Brady with the Patriots, if you look back at the last 10 years, it's happened three times. Peyton Manning, Tom Brady with the, with the bucks and Matt Stafford. Peyton Manning is a little bit of a different one just because he won the Super Bowl no longer being Peyton Manning, but yes. His best season was before the Super Bowl season. Yeah, the defense won that Super Bowl.

Starting point is 00:42:54 Yeah, yeah, I mean, the last piece. The Jets would have been happy having their great defense that they had and then Aaron Rodgers playing like average to slightly above. Correct. That was the plan. Yeah, so it's actually not...

Starting point is 00:43:05 His Achilles blew up. Yeah, it's actually not that stupid of an idea, but when it doesn't work, it looks really, really dumb. It looks, yeah, if it doesn't work, it's Cam Newton on the Patriots or Matt Ryan on the Colts. Yeah. Memes. You care to explain this meme that you just posted? I saw you pull it up when you were scrolling Twitter over there, there telling my kids this is Big Cat Max and PFT and it's a AJ

Starting point is 00:43:30 Big and the Rizzo. I love it. So which who's who? I think it's an order right? Yep. Left or right. So I'm I'm I'm a I'm Big Justice. Max is AJ and then PFT would be the wrist. I'm the Rizzo Alright, I mean you make out like a bandit there PFC. Why are you? The best is your the Rizzo the Rizzo is the best I feel like the whole squad won when they went on Fallon. He's just Rizzo's got the he just got all the swag I actually I dress pretty similar to the Rizzo. Why why isn't that one on the main? I think you have those shoes. I think I why isn't that one on the main? I think you have those shoes I think I do too post that one on the main. All right

Starting point is 00:44:08 That's a great mean. I also I've come all the way around on those guys. Yeah, how can you do? Here's the thing the Rizlers they just they just do it like yeah They've just beat you in a submission with her in video and then eventually you're like, all right the song is gonna be the same video Yep. Yep, just a couple of different characters. The Rizzler is going to do the thing where he does his chin like it's. Yeah, it's there. They're the best. I've I've been a Costco guy from day one. That's bad.

Starting point is 00:44:37 Was it bad? What was it bad? You got to be like mad. OK, you got to kind of furrow your brow. You got to furrow your brow a little yeah That's a very funny picture a very funny Yeah, the boys that was a team win having the having those guys on foul and the Rizzo likes the chicken bakes The Rizzo's not as much of a Costco guy is he's just in the cinematic universe, but he also is kind of the star Got it. He does a he does a trick on his bike. No hands

Starting point is 00:45:06 I can't do that. Yeah, he just he actually just lifts him up for like a split second. It's fucking awesome I have a question about the Jets. Yeah Memes sparked my attention when he talked about being a seller Has there in any sport has there ever been a team that was the biggest buyer and the biggest seller in the same season? Mmm, I'm sure it's happened. Yeah, the Jets are basically giving Within the trade deadline period. Yeah the Jets are giving the Dream team Eagles the Steve Nash Dwight Howard Lakers

Starting point is 00:45:39 That's the vibes that they're like, you know, no one's gonna stop them and then the Padres kind of do that Yeah, the Padres did that. Yeah where it's like on paper. This is the greatest team ever assembled and then they started playing games like whoops Trying to think who else could have done in the NBA people in the net This is gonna be one of those things that tomorrow morning people. Yeah, if I had 10 minutes to think about it. Yeah I don't know. I don't know about the NFL though Because in season Devante Adams is definitely the biggest buy move of the year. It's a big buy-in move Yeah, so with the Eagles dream team was that was all before yeah It was before the season Vince Young said that as the backup quarterback before the season even started

Starting point is 00:46:18 There's really there's just not a lot. There's not teams that load up in the NFL Like yeah, it's hard to load in the NBA and MLB teams will get stacked teams yeah the NFL they'll pick up one yeah like one big signing what teams are known big trade for winning the offseason Super Bowl now this is gonna be fun that was the title of the Lakers Sports Illustrated yeah Sports Illustrated it was fun. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's hard I mean, I don't know if the Jets are gonna be full sellers. Are they I mean they do have a shitload of holes What if they win on Thursday if I mean if they win on Thursday then?

Starting point is 00:46:55 That's the biggest track and away. It's the biggest trap line of all time, but Stefan Diggs and Nico are out Yeah, but Joe makes is gonna run for 200 yards. Oh, yeah, I forgot about Joe mixin But what if Aaron Rodgers does something crazy? That would be sick. Yeah, I mean I don't think no I mean, let me see the uniforms We night could be back depending on what uniforms these are All black on how black are they forms these are all black on how black are they? We wear the stealth black neon night. I like stealth black. Ah, you might be back there off the radar. You might be back. This

Starting point is 00:47:32 is like Aaron Rodgers is wearing a darkness retreat. Oh, you might be back. And who do you have next after you get a mini by after playing Thursday Night Football, and then the Cardinals? Wait, wait, memes. And then the Colts memes. Stay on that picture right there because they're showing the difference between the old black uniforms and the new black uniforms. They're the same. Same. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, We're not talking about the peak Jets on paper. They might run the table. We gotta win Thursday. Look at these, they're the same uniform. They're not.

Starting point is 00:48:08 They're not. The Jets love doing this. They're just fixing everything with uniforms. Now this on Halloween, I could see the Jets winning this game. I fuck around with this, yeah. Should we talk a little college football? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:48:20 Let's talk a little college football. It's different. So we're getting into November. We have some awesome stories of undefeated teams. Maybe one of the best stories is BYU and BYU-JU, their quarterback. When he decided to commit, did he have like different colored yarmulkes on the table? I don't know. It's a crazy, there's three Jewish students at BYU and he's one of them.

Starting point is 00:48:44 That's awesome. It's crazy. But yeah, the BYU story is incredible. We got some teams lurking that were dead, like Clemson, you know, off the week. Clemson and Texas A&M are the two biggest like, hey, this is a long season because what Texas A&M did to LSU in the second half on Saturday night was incredible. They had Nussmeier seeing straight up ghosts. He looked like he was going to cry. That's what you get at A&M. You're always going to have a great defensive line. You're going to have guys that can get after the quarterback. And then making the quarterback switch was a ballsy call too. And it's definitely the right call for A&M.

Starting point is 00:49:22 I don't know if it's going to be a full switch. You don't think so? No. Who's their offense coordinator again? Well, I don't think it's gonna be a full switch because I think they should do, if A&M is smart, they do literally a two quarterback situation, which can work in college football.

Starting point is 00:49:41 Like they're playing South Carolina next week, or this week. South Carolina has one of the best defensive lines in college football. Like they're playing South Carolina next week, or this week. South Carolina has one of the best defensive lines in college football. South Carolina could probably bottle up Reed. South Carolina's secondary is not the best. So Wegman could probably carve them up. Like it could be a situation that they do two quarterbacks

Starting point is 00:49:59 and it works. That's right, it's Colin Klein. Yeah. I knew that. So Colin Klein. K-State. I think he likes and says for guys that remind him of his skillset. Yeah. But I actually think they might, and I could be way wrong. We could, we could, you know, Saturday comes around and it's just like they have one starter and that's it. But

Starting point is 00:50:17 I think there's a chance they might go game to game, drive to drive with both their quarterbacks because what Marcel Reed did in the second half was incredible. He's not like an incredible passer. And then so when you play teams that don't have great secondaries, you just switch it up. Yeah. So after the game, Mike Elko, I loved his comments. Oh yeah. The game. So now we're playing a big guessing game on who he was talking about because it's like a litmus test. Which way did you see this go when he said about the culture at A&M? This is a real program. It's not fake. It's not a politician running this program. Brian Kelly.

Starting point is 00:50:50 I thought then I thought Brian Kelly Jimbo. I thought Brian Kelly immediately. He did he did the double. I think not a politician running this program is Brian Kelly. Yeah. And then talking fast and being a BSing everybody is Jimbo. Yeah, because Brian Kelly is not a fast talker. No, but he is a politician talking. Jimbo is BSing everybody is Jimbo Yeah, cuz Brian Kelly's not a fast talker No, but he is a politician talking Jimbo was BSing everybody isn't Brian Kelly's dad like a congressperson Yeah, yeah So I thought that was at Brian Kelly to be asking everybody they had to come out and clarify that he wasn't talking about anybody He was just talking about his program

Starting point is 00:51:20 It's a great reminder though for text A&M who did the let's get Jimbo Fisher and pay him a million 100 million dollars and that will solve everything Sometimes in college football Mike Elko was not the sexy hire. He was a Duke. He was he's just a very good competent like Nuts and bolts football solid beat cups. That's what he does He's gonna he's gonna make sure that your team is playing at a level that doesn't dip and it's not talking about Recruiting class and all that and it's a great reminder that sometimes just fire hire the best football coach Yeah, Mike Elko is a fucking great football coach and Texas A&M after their week one loss and everyone's like, oh man This is gonna work out our undefeated in the SEC schedule now

Starting point is 00:52:01 They do have again this this South Carolina game is not, like, people will look at it and say, Texas A&M ranked, South Carolina not ranked, ooh, they'll kill them. South Carolina's not to be looked past, and then they also finish the season with Texas, but they're in the driver's seat where they control their own destiny

Starting point is 00:52:17 not only to go to the SEC championship game, but the college football playoff, and so is Notre Dame, which Notre Dame is now benefiting from Texas A&M being awesome yeah because their win week one looks even better yeah so it also goes to show you what a great thing it is to have a bunch of people who are absurdly wealth because they struck it rich in a particular industry controlling your program because they the the Texas oil people use their money to be able to afford Jimbo Fisher's what 70 million70 million buyout. Yeah. No other university would do that.

Starting point is 00:52:46 But Texas A&M they're like, we got fuck you money. We might as well say fuck you to somebody. Yeah. That's the point of having it if you're not going to use it. Yeah. And so they, they were able to buy them out. It goes to show you that if, if the nerds that graduate from Stanford, they got really rich on crypto. If they cared 1% about football, they don't, which they don, Stanford would be a powerhouse. Yeah. Just put all your money into just having a good football team. That's what you should be

Starting point is 00:53:11 doing with that money. Bring Harbaugh back. Yeah. It turns out a great firing if you can afford it. And Elko, I like Elko, I don't know if he's playing the game of saying something and then being like, oh, shucks, I didn't mean what you guys all thought that, because it felt pointed at the time. Oh, it definitely did. I was thinking about Brian Kelly trying to recruit Wegman in the transfer portal and trying to figure out what accent

Starting point is 00:53:33 he should use to talk to him. Yeah, no, it was definitely a direct shot, but Mike Elko's a good football coach who has his team playing good football, and it was, it's just, it goes back to this season being a lot of fun because you have it feels like more parody And then the other teams I was gonna mention is Indiana just keeps rolling everyone. They just that was They that scene in Bloomington is just on fire

Starting point is 00:53:57 They had game day this week and like I don't know if you guys saw the pick six It was one of the coolest camera shots I've ever seen where the the cameraman Zoomed out at the perfect time and so like cuz they had a pick six early in the game where the cornerback Intercepted it and it was so clear that there was no one close So as he's running like across the 30 the cameraman zoomed out and it was just this packed crowd that looks just absolutely on fire It was like this is why college football rocks. But Indiana, they, I mean, Michigan State's going to be not, it's not a cakewalk going to East Lansing because they've been frisky this year.

Starting point is 00:54:35 And then you have a big date against Ohio State, who Ohio State looks very human with some of their injuries on the offensive line. They can't run. I mean, they lost their left tackle for the season, and they look, and I think his backup got hurt too during the game, they look mortal. I think Penn State. Yeah, well, Penn State has a quarterback contrary.

Starting point is 00:54:57 So Max, how'd you like Madison? Madison Rock, love the people of Wisconsin. I mean, it is. Do the people of Wisconsin like you? They're very friendly. Much friendlier than they should be. But I heard there were rumors that Max doesn't like Wisconsin. No.

Starting point is 00:55:13 No, he didn't like Jump Around because they didn't let him jump. No that's not true. I thought Jump Around was a little underwhelming. I was excited for Jump Around. Because they didn't let him jump. That's incorrect. Did you go on State Street? I don't know. I went State Street? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:55:26 I went on streets. I don't know. Where there's a lot of bars. There is a lot, yes. I went on a street that had a lot of bars. Oh, you've been to Madison before though. It is the perfect college town in terms of setup. Like the bars and everything and it's just,

Starting point is 00:55:39 it's all right there. There's a bunch of bars that are just like in parking lots, which is awesome. That's right by the stadium, yeah. I got a question. Why do they call it Camp Randall? It was a Civil War camp, I wanna believe, of bars that are just like in parking lots. That's right by the stadium. Yeah. I got a question. Why do they call it Camp Randall? What's the camp? It was a civil war camp, I want to believe, for-

Starting point is 00:55:50 The stadium was? I hope I have that right, but I'm pretty sure I do. Yeah, I believe it was a place where they trained people during the civil war. Yeah. The satellite camp. Nailed it. Was it satellite camp? Let's go. That would have been embarrassing, but I didn't get it. It was the stadium lies in the grounds of Camp Randall a Union Army training camp during the Civil War. Mm-hmm

Starting point is 00:56:09 Fuck yes, this brain still got it a little bit Yeah, that was gonna suck if I was just way off the monkey bars out there the ropes and the walls Yeah, there but it was uh, yeah the Penn State look I I was thinking we had a chance to Have an upset there and then that picks six. I really do think the Badgers Potentially could have just punted and played defense for the rest of the game then the pick six happened It was like that's it. It's over. There's just no way you can come back from that We're not an offense that can do that and that's all yeah That's also how every Penn State game goes is yeah, they go down big in the first half

Starting point is 00:56:42 And then the second half they just turn it on and then beat the shit out of teams in the second half. But Max, Max, am I crazy to think that that Penn State could beat Ohio State? They definitely can. I think it's only four point. Yeah, four points. Right? Yeah, I liked them in that game. Uh, Bo, are we going to start Bo Pribula?

Starting point is 00:57:00 I think Drew Aller is going to be a game time decision, which makes me think that he's probably gonna play but that's another one Why don't have some packages in yeah, it's not like I don't I'm not gonna be crazy be like Oh, Wisconsin wins that game with Drew Allerin But it was very clear that when Bo Prabula came in the defense wasn't ready for the type of quarterback He was that was different than Drew Aller Bo Prabula is exactly Trace McStorley. Yeah. They wear the same number, they look the same, he has the exact same game. He's very mobile, he's like a home run hitter and Drew Aller is like a pocket passer, like NFL style quarterback. Yeah. So they do have that sort of, like you said, yin and yang

Starting point is 00:57:42 of kind of... Bo Prabula will play a couple plays a game. Yeah. Um I liked what I saw. II was like this kid has got something. He's there's something about a college quarterback who's like you watch him and you're like he's probably not an NFL quarterback but he's a peak college quarterback. You know? Yeah. So II think that they'll they'll put Aller they'll play Aller but I think that though They'll put aller they'll play aller But I think but but we'll also we'll also get some packages in that game got it So that that's a big game and then we like SMU pit but pit is undefeated

Starting point is 00:58:15 SMU only has one loss against BYU. There's so many games that are it just there's there's a lot of teams It's all gonna shake out but we have this great parody We have a doomsday scenario that's loading in the SEC though. What's that and only if two things have to happen So I was looking at this calculator online like it's an SEC calculator for the championship game and The doomsday scenario it all hinges on LSUSU Alabama. Okay. If LSU beats Alabama, I think they're both coming off bars. If LSU beats the Tide and the good team stay good, Texas could then fuck things up if they beat A&M in their game.

Starting point is 00:58:58 If that happened, I think this is M. Red's college football SEC calculator that I looked on. If those two things happen, LSU wins against Alabama and Texas beats A&M, it would be LSU and Texas A&M in the SEC championship game. It would not be Texas, it would not be Georgia. Yeah, because they do, a lot of these tiebreakers are your strength of schedule. It has to do with strength of schedule and they try to do a round robin thing, but if you don't all play each other, it doesn't matter. And the SEC, cause it's so big now, they don't all play each other. And having in that event, it would be LSU in Texas and the SEC championship.

Starting point is 00:59:37 And then you would have Georgia playing a home game round one of the college football playoffs. There's another one like that in the Big Ten. It's essentially if Ohio State beats Penn State and Ohio State beats Indiana, I think that it would be Ohio State, Indiana, Penn State, and I guess Oregon would have to lose a game, but they would all have one loss and Oregon would not make it to the Big Ten Championship.

Starting point is 01:00:05 It would be like Ohio State and Penn State, even though Oregon beat Ohio State. I love doomsday scenarios. And 90% of the time they don't happen. They don't become close to happening. But I like looking at how chaotic could my future be? Yeah. Memes also knows another. There's another Big Ten scenario. Alright, give me a doomsday. Send me all your doomsday scenarios, by the way.

Starting point is 01:00:24 There's a possibility of Oregon, Indiana Indiana and Penn State going undefeated Penn State has to beat Ohio State by more than one and Indiana has beat Ohio State by more than one and then Indiana and Penn State would play each other in the big championship and Oregon would be left out. Why would Oregon be left out? Because... I think the tiebreaker is... ...dragged the schedule. Same opponents? Oh, is that the first tiebreaker? Yeah, it's all without the divisions anymore in any of these conferences.

Starting point is 01:00:54 It's crazy. And also every conference is different. The way that they write it up. But I'm excited for... You're right, none of these ever happen. So it's head to head, record against all common conference opponents which would be the same because they would all be undefeated and record against mutual conference opponents with best record we're all undefeated big ten winning

Starting point is 01:01:16 percentage of conference opponents so I don't know if Indiana would I think it would maybe be Oregon Penn State in that because I think Indiana's strength of schedule is not that great it's just put up to a fan vote I have a question yeah and this is this could be very off base because I fell down I don't know how I ended up in a Iowa State pro rabbit hole but it was it's very good it was a fair question how how does Notre Dame lose at home to NIU? Yeah, and they're ranked higher than Iowa State and then NIU uses loses to Ball State. Um Right. It's a fair like I again I could have been I was very in a very biased thread But out in my head I was like, yeah, that makes no sense. Yeah, it does it does losing an NIU at home mean nothing I think it's it's so I think a lot of it is the win against Texas A&M and then

Starting point is 01:02:05 they beat Navy who they killed that was I saw that one coming I had some Navy fans mad at me because I suggested that their defense wasn't very good and then it was 14 nothing with one second in the game yeah I mean they did turn the ball over a bunch but I think that probably has more to do with Texas A&M having their or sorry Notre Dame having their best win is a road win against Texas A&M and Iowa State's best win is at Iowa who I don't believe is ranked anymore. So Brian Kelly's out there still improving Notre Dame. I By the way, I'm on your side. Iowa State should be ranked higher You should I always think that At least in the power five schools if you're undefeated you should just be all the undefeated teams

Starting point is 01:02:49 Then the one lost team that you play the games for a reason especially if you're one loss. That's bad Well, that's the Florida State thing last year where it's like, yeah, if you win all your games, it should work out But yeah, Iowa State's very good and they hopefully will get into the playoff But the last thing we should talk about, does anyone know if a player in college football has won offensive and defensive player of the week in the same season? Is that even possible? You mean like all time? In the same season.

Starting point is 01:03:19 They've won offensive player of the week and then another week they won defensive player of the week. I'm going back. Charles Woodson was pretty good. He might have done it, but I mean, he was an outlier. He's the kind of guy that would win the highs. Yeah. Max. I think that guy from Colorado did it right. Oh, Travis Hunter. He won offensive player this week and he had won defensive player earlier this season. Oh, that's crazy. Wait, he won offensive player there? Yeah. Wait, offensive player of the week this week and defensive player of the week earlier in the season Conan

Starting point is 01:03:46 O'Brien mean Travis hunter you mean the cornerback. Yeah, I mean the wide receiver. Whoa, holy shit Yeah, we're back boys. We're all the way back We probably plays like he probably plays like defensive tackle and then he's probably you know full back as a fullback occasionally, right? No, he's a wide receiver and he had over 100 yards receiving and two touchdowns, then had four pass breakups, played 140 snaps. And he's also the best cornerback in college football. Oh my God. That's crazy.

Starting point is 01:04:11 And I'm not gonna do the negative campaign. We should talk more about that guy. Yeah, I'm not gonna do a negative campaign of trying to talk down. We're not doing negative campaigns against anyone else. Like I wouldn't- Every campaign says that. I wouldn't say like cam

Starting point is 01:04:25 ward played a hapless florida state team and was okay but not like you know eight touchdowns crying cam ward. I wouldn't I wouldn't go out there and say that you know ashen genti everyone keeps talking about Barry Sanders record. Look up how many games Barry Sanders played he played 11 ashen genti is about to play 13. You know, my crooked Ashton talking about 33.9 yards per carry Ashton against UNLV. I'm not doing negative campaigns. You're right. I had no idea. I had no idea. Max. That's crazy. I think, I think if you're just basing this off, who's the best football player, that's a criteria, right? Yeah. Who's the best football player in the country? Yeah. I don't think that it's up for debate. I do like a couple. I'll still get a couple ofLs being like you're only saying this cuz you bet on them

Starting point is 01:05:07 Shit, you know Since it's actually a campaign. Yeah, I bet you Travis Hunter would go on Joe Rogan Yeah, go on Joe get him on talk to Joe Joe would talk to you get the word out there Travis Hunter for Heisman and Colorado is I know people there's a lot of people out there didn't Deon and last year was probably a little too much too fast in terms of, you know, the hype and then them not being a good team. They are bowl eligible for the first time in forever. They're six and two and they have some winnable games down the stretch and they're a good football team. And people were bearing them early. Well, the Nebraska game, which doesn't look great in retrospect.

Starting point is 01:05:42 Things happen sometimes. Patrick Mah Rome should be upset at Dylan Ryle at this point well maybe that's why Patrick Mahomes is starting to throw more interceptions yeah maybe that's why Dylan Ryle is throwing interceptions because he sees he saw and he's just like my hero this is how you do that do we think the wheels are coming off at USC ah banning media from practice I think this is a story that only the media cares about yeah I don't know you can't really get rid of Lincoln Riley, but he is his name does rhyme with stinking. Yeah. And that's you can't just ignore that part. Yeah, stinking Riley. Next week, we have Maxion finally back. So excited. That's gonna be the that's the

Starting point is 01:06:21 big news next Tuesday night. Maxion's back. And we had this is maybe our last sports equinox night of the year. Yeah. I love equinoxes. They're the best. What? It's not. It's not. Well, we know football. No, there's football. There's conference. You're saying, dude. Oh, come on. Yeah. They've been playing on Tuesday nights.

Starting point is 01:06:41 I don't know. Every conference, USA game ever. All right. So who's the pick? Sam Houston. All right. Hank doesn't know. I've lost every conference. US game every single night, every single week. I don't know why I don't even why I'm betting on Kennesaw state and Sam Houston and Louisiana tech. They put it on TV and I watch it. Yeah. You don't even know. Come on. What are you laughing about, Max? The way you said that was funny. I just I do. And it's like, there's something extra just like sick and perverted about being

Starting point is 01:07:14 like what? Oh, why are you upset? I bet on Louisiana Tech. Can you name one player on that team? No. Oh, I bet Sam Houston State, the Bearcats. they they they it's a K instead of a C I was watching some of the bad beats from SVP last night some of the schools that they show How do they even get those tickets that are sending like who is watching? Like the Fordham game everywhere and there's some guys are everywhere those the shitty like Tuesday Thursday night games that you get sometimes Where the cameras are like on the moon? Basically like in zone camp they're taping them from a blimp as they float above these games but people are out there betting on America shout draft Kings are EBO our

Starting point is 01:07:52 guy EBO who people might not know but he's one of our colleagues here great dude Jamie sent me a JMU he sent me an FCS game on Saturday morning and I personally moved the line by two points. That's good. It also was the worst pick ever and he's a scumbag and I've been telling him all week because he's a scumbag because he specifically texted people saying this is my FCS today. He's texted all of us. And it wasn't even close.

Starting point is 01:08:15 He texted all of us. It wasn't even close. You can't even watch it. He's probably doing that trying to move the line so he can take the other side. He might have. He might have said that. He might have trapped me. I know. We said next time Big Cat isn't allowed to take it until everyone else does.

Starting point is 01:08:27 Yeah. Smart guy. Uh, all right. Let's do a hot seat, cool throne. Then we got Palo Ben Caro on the show in studio, hot seat, cool throne brought to you by our friends at Coors lights. So you might've heard the Coors light Coors light last call on Monday night in Pittsburgh. Coors light took that and ran with it, dropping these collectible commemorative cans and say Coors light Coors light on them. The Pittsburgh quarterback doing an audible with Coors light. We love it. So it's a double Coors light can. They are sweet and are perfect for any Pittsburgh fans.

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Starting point is 01:09:21 Get Coors Light again delivered straight to your door. Visit CoorsLight.com slash take or you can find it pretty much anywhere that sells beer that's Coors Light comm slash take Hank hot seat cool throw my hot seat is dock rivers oh yeah oh they lost last night to the Celtics they are one and three on the season 18 and 22 in the dock rivers era and Yannis was talking in the postgame and said right now we don't have an identity. How are we going to win the game? Are we going to defend for 48 minutes? Are we going to move the ball for 48 minutes? Are we going to attack? We've got to find

Starting point is 01:09:53 an identity. We don't have that right now. Ooh, no identities bad. No identities bad. That seems like that's a coaching thing. Yeah. And I saw the clip that you posted Hank with Doc Rivers like just bent over Assuming the the spike Lee half court position after it was Peyton Pritchard He had another again end of quarter three-pointer and Doc you could tell he's like we worked on this But he said it after the game is like I circled and Peyton Pritchard had like 28 points

Starting point is 01:10:18 Yeah, and he said after the game. He's like I had Peyton Pritchard circled like they were Keyed in on him before the game and he still went off probably need Pat Bepp bring him back yeah I don't know it seems like there's there's Dame Lillard and Giannis like that's not working never saw that coming I mean you see that block that that Derek White had that was is that an identity problem for the Milwaukee Bucks it's just Derek White if you're Giannis getting getting rejected at the rim on a by Derek white I mean Derek white defensive player of the year potentially

Starting point is 01:10:49 So what we have the Celtics record other for no now right for no so what's having a saying 74 and 8 I want 74 and 8 okay, so I forgot someone I think if they win the playing tournament though they can get an extra win what? That's an actual 83 games. I think so. Oh that was just I tweeted 74 and 8 and someone replied to me with that. So they win the playing tournament but they probably wouldn't. No not no no the the midseason tournament. Gotcha the NBA Cup. Yeah. That thing that we all care about. It's the NBA Cup I care very deeply about it. Yeah different courts. It's color rush. Yeah, okay

Starting point is 01:11:28 cool, so My cool throne is the AWWs Award-winning watchers award-winning watchers. Oh We have alluded to it the past few weeks You guys had the the great time. We all had a great time with Bobdo Sports guys that video is coming out Tuesday night it'll be out today when you're gonna send this. Oh nice awesome. And yeah if you if you don't like me and you enjoy you know seeing my misery and seeing

Starting point is 01:11:56 I forgot about this big cat relish in my misery you know make sure you tune in. It was a tough day. It was a great day I mean like that it is one of those things last nine holes for you were last few holes. Yeah, I mean I Something that you know, we've been looking forward to for a long time. I I love those guys Yeah, overthought it a lot and and couldn't been worse. I was down tremendously Tremendous tremendously and then all the hangers remind myself remind myself like who cares we're just playing golf with our friends, but That Monday night after was like it was tough

Starting point is 01:12:31 And I was I was like I talked to someone I was like I'm in a bad spot And then I kind of realized like what are we talking about? It's a golf video. Did you ever find out whose car you hit? It was your car. I have I have I'm putting the footage out because people have been coming up to me They that was Bob does sports. I want to blame memes, but I can't The explain them the clip they posted from the video the first video which is on their channel. I Had a bad tee shot it went in the road and then PFT hit a car Yeah, well we pulled up and they only posted they didn't show the whole clear in the whole clip We pulled up. There's a woman on the side has no idea who we are no idea. What's going on

Starting point is 01:13:11 She's like hey someone hit my car Pft without even thinking or blinking was like oh no I thought that was Hanks ball as if she was gonna make oh Hank all right I said I said it was that man right over there ma'am. That's that Was Hank's you definitely said it was that man right over there ma'am. That's that guy. I said that was Hank's you definitely said that was I mean I was pointing directly I immediately you did you did you do Your car you must be looking for Hank. Yeah, and then I'm gonna find out It was you to be fair Hank also hit a car on that tee shot. I didn't fall Well, you did it was very loud noise, but somewhere out there

Starting point is 01:13:44 There's a person driving around Chicago with a golf ball dent in their car. And $300 in their pocket. Yeah. Cause I, you gave them a hundred and I was like, you know what? She like kind of lingered after you gave her a hundred. I was like, here, take a couple more. I just had a hundred in my pocket and then big cat was like, yeah, take, take $300.

Starting point is 01:13:59 And then I thought about that the other day. I was like, do you think it'd be a good racket to just hang out next to a golf course and say, excuse me, your ball struck my car. Cause she had the whole story. She was like, I just got it fixed. Uh, it's my birthday. She said it was her birthday. Like that. That's, I think when I added the 200, when she said it was her birthday, that would be a good gig, a good side gig to just hang out and say that your car got smashed by a golf ball. Yeah. Just wait for someone to hit a, hit a nasty hook and you just bang on the top of your car got smashed by a golf ball. Yeah, just wait for someone to hit a nasty hook

Starting point is 01:14:25 and you just bang on the top of your car. If somebody followed me around every time I played golf, they would probably make like $5,000 a month. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so tune into that. PFT, your hot seat, what's wrong? My hot seat is somebody in Georgia

Starting point is 01:14:40 is using my credit card right now. And I have a kid- To order food to the wrong address. Okay, thank you Hank. I did do that again. That was nice. I had a seven day streak of not ordering food to the wrong address and then last night

Starting point is 01:14:53 during Monday night football I ordered Korean food and it went to the office. I got, people were like, why didn't you change the address? You can change the address. I'm aware of that. I got the phone call as the person was outside the office again And then I was like you can just leave it there and then Pug will get it Pug got it PFT sound bad about this

Starting point is 01:15:10 I'm just sitting in the in the studio before we started taping. I was like why'd you just double-check? It's like I know Yeah, I mean that's the easiest thing. Yeah, why don't you just not do that? I know it's a problem and people are accusing me of doing it as a bit This it would be the worst bit of all time If I was just doing this yeah So I think I've now done it four times in the last three weeks It's not good. And so I think I just have to use different apps at work and different apps at home You could just double-check. Fuck. I did say that It is something that I I

Starting point is 01:15:43 Me I'm a double-check guy I'm not nothing about me is double-check, but then also on the financial side of things somebody in Georgia is using my credit card right now And I think I might just let it play out because they're being cool about it So I got the notification yesterday. They spent $22 at Pizza Hut Okay, and I'm like, okay, that's cool. Yeah, like enjoy your pizza. I'm going to actively monitor it and see what else they're buying. Don't get crazy. And don't get crazy. If it's you out there, like be cool. Like go out to Dave and

Starting point is 01:16:13 Buster's maybe have a good time. Yeah. If I see like a couple bar tabs here and there on a weekend. Just keep it reasonable. But is it your physical card? No, not I have my physical card on me. They've got my number. So I don't know. Maybe they ordered it online. They might have done it online. Just be cool. Just be cool, and we'll see if you can handle

Starting point is 01:16:32 the responsibility. This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why? Why? Whoever it is spends $22 a week on pizza in Georgia. I have a feeling it might go differently.'s a cool thief. Might go differently. Yeah, but eventually, he's probably testing the waters right now.

Starting point is 01:16:48 And then it'll be like fraud. But they already alerted you to potential fraud? I got alerted to potential fraud. So that's the thing, if they're establishing residency for you in Georgia. You have a squatter on your card. Yeah, I got a squatter on my card, but I'm being a cool, I'm not like all the other cardholders, I'm a cool cardholder. Yeah, you're setting yourself up. You I'm not like all the other card holders. I'm a cool card holder.

Starting point is 01:17:06 Yeah, you're setting yourself up. You just don't feel like going through the process of getting a new credit card. Correct. That's fair. Max is a million percent correct. That's fair. Although it is kind of a nice thing to just get rid of all your un-wanted subscriptions when they all go to autopay.

Starting point is 01:17:17 Yes. It's like that card doesn't exist anymore. Yes. That's a good thing. So Max is right about that. But if he does, whoever it is, it is here she if you start fucking around I feel like I'm a dad whose whose son is at college right now And I'm monitoring the statement if you fuck around and spend it on things that you shouldn't be spending it on

Starting point is 01:17:37 Then we're gonna have problems. Yeah, and if you do like get an emergency just put a note in it Yeah, like it was an emergency needed needed $3,000 worth of gas. Yeah CVS six orders of Plan B. All right. Listen better you spin it now then I'm gonna have to spend more later on you Yeah, I'm gonna Paying for this kids like education. Yeah, and then my cool throne is statues. Hmm statues are back Yeah way we fucked up on Sunday by not talking about this And then my cool throne is statues. Statues are back in a big way. Uh, we fucked up on Sunday by not talking about this. We were just talking about football the whole time, but, uh,

Starting point is 01:18:10 the Dwayne Wade statue got unveiled on Sunday down in Miami and it, it's an all time statue. Yeah. He looks like he's about 65 years old in it. He's doing a weird pose where he's like pointing down and they showed Dwayne the statue. They took the curtain off. And then the look on his face was just priceless because he was like trying to act like it was a cool statue trying to act like what an honor this is but at the same time he was looking at his buddies he's like what the fuck did they do to me? Yeah it was so bad.

Starting point is 01:18:38 Is this an insult statue that they made me? Like that's the best thing you could do to fuck with somebody that you didn't like is erect statues that look like utter shit of them. How is this keep happening? I don't understand it statue making might be harder than we think it is I guess but isn't there just can can there just be? One guy who's really good at statues How is how could they do it better in the like 1400s or even before that? I think there were more statue makers in the 1400s yeah now people don't I guess it yeah it's like cartoons too yeah people aren't growing up making statues we got a statue

Starting point is 01:19:14 problem we got to figure that out yeah or get 3d print them I liked his response oh he said it's an artistic representation true okay that's a easy yeah if bad art you can be like what's art I think the problem with statue artistic representation. True. Oh, okay. That's easy. If bad art, you can be like, what's art? I think the problem with statue makers is they don't let anybody see their statue until it's done. No, he saw it. Oh, no.

Starting point is 01:19:32 We saw it being made. Oh, yeah. There is, I think it was the artist or someone that works with the artist. We did pictures of him like in the warehouse looking at it long before. Oh, yeah. People are comparing it to the Cristiano Ronaldo statue. It's how was maybe the worst of all time That's a great one. Apparently they fixed that one. Yeah, they did. I don't like that. Yeah, they make AI bigger yet Oh, no Philly still has miniature statues that I mean that has nothing to do with AI

Starting point is 01:20:02 Yeah, you thought we're talking about computers No, I knew you're what thought we were talking about computers? No, I knew exactly what you were talking about. All of the statues that are going into the practice facility are that size. Miniatures, yeah. They made AI so small. I had your back on the rundown, Max.

Starting point is 01:20:16 They tried to bring up the AI statue and I was like, that's fake news. They're getting fake news right now because all their statues are like that. Thank you, thank you. All right, my hot seat is altitudeitude because Altitude might be making the boys gay. So this was Earl E. Lunch, Blimp Brisket on Twitter. Early lunch?

Starting point is 01:20:37 Early lunch. Blimp Brisket is his handle, sent this to us. It's from the Reddit, am I the asshole? And it says, am I the asshole? Uh, and it says, am I the asshole for not believing my boyfriend that suddenly became gay due to altitude difference? So she writes, I can hardly believe that I'm writing this or that it happened, but I am. And it did, sorry, but I am. And it did. So here we go.

Starting point is 01:20:59 I 20 years old female had been with my boyfriend, 29 year, uh, year old male for three years. Every now and then he has to go to Utah for a few days because his team has a customer service branch that operates out there. I got a text from one of his co-workers who has become a friend of ours and it said that on the trip my boyfriend cheated on me with some guy on the customer care team. By the way what a narc. I do not believe it at first because first of all my boyfriend has always identified as straight and second of all I just couldn't believe it at first because first of all my boyfriend has always identified as straight and second of all I just couldn't believe it when he got home

Starting point is 01:21:28 I asked him about it basically expecting him to confirm it was nonsense Instead he got a real quiet and had a sit-down and said he had to tell me something He said it was true. He did have a one-night stand with a guy. I couldn't believe it I asked him if he was telling me if he was gay or bisexual and regardless cheating is cheating He insisted he was not gay at all. But the strangest thing happened He said that when he was at dinner with his Utah co-workers, he suddenly became gay I was like what and he said what the fuck and he said he thinks it was due to the altitude. I Believe this guy what an all-time

Starting point is 01:22:03 Panic I got to think of something move. It's everyone's been in a spot where they got to panic and think of something altitude. You think altitude made me suck that guy's deck. You think he had this planned or you think that was just spur of the moment? Totally. No, totally spur of the moment. He had no this planned. He hit me and he cheated. He's probably bisexual. And then when he was called out on it, he's like, what the fuck do I do? Altitude. I'm never going to go to Utah and find out though. I also feel like a girlfriend saying my boyfriend's always identified as straight is not like

Starting point is 01:22:33 that's most ringing endorsement. It's like, my boyfriend's definitely straight. Yeah, not like, oh, he identifies as straight. My boyfriend has has told me in the past that he's straight. Yeah, like if you've had a conversation in the past, like if you're dating somebody, and you know, because you've asked them, Hey, are you straight? While you're getting that? Well, you're dating them. They might kind of have other inclinations, right? Yeah, you have to identify to you how they feel. I just I this guy. Listen, he he was in a scramble drill. And he's like, this is gonna work. So is he saying like lack of oxygen to the brain? Yeah, I guess, I, this guy, listen, he, he was in a scramble drill and he's like, this is going to work.

Starting point is 01:23:06 So was he saying like lack of oxygen to the brain? Yeah, I guess altitude. I mean, people get altitude sickness. Can you read that? I just became gay. Yeah. He says he was not gay at all, but was the strangest thing happened. He said that when he was at dinner with his Utah coworkers, he suddenly became gay.

Starting point is 01:23:21 Yeah. He just had a couple of drinks. Altitude. Yeah. He's experienced. All of a sudden I was gay. Yeah. He just had a couple of drinks. Altitude. Yeah. He's experiment. All of a sudden I was gay. Couple beers. Altitude. Bang. You're gay. Next thing you know. Gay. It's fucking crazy. Could happen to the best of us. I still think shout out our guy. He's not a segue because he's not gay but our shout out our guy Buddha Ben who got altitude sickness had to be driven out of Colorado remember that yeah yeah altitude sickness is real oh yeah like you can get that shit I was there for a bachelor party a couple years ago and just walking to the top of the stairs in

Starting point is 01:23:54 the townhouse it's like what what's going on next thing you know you're sucking a guy's dick yeah there was a naked dude up there I was like what's going on why am I up here I became gay so I became gay. Altitude sickness. Wow. Okay. No, like when he, when he the walking into the house. Yeah. What was altitude? That's a question we need to ask. Was a, was it the house of another man? Oh, in Montana? Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. That was altitude sickness. Russel's a big equinox guy too. Yeah, he was just looking for it. The altitude sickness. If anyone else has an experience of just being straight at sea level and gay at high altitude, let us know. Isn't that the plot of Brokeback Bouton? Kind

Starting point is 01:24:34 of, yeah. They just kept on going up and up. Yeah. I never saw that movie. I never did either but- Because I've always lived at sea level. I did see, I saw Max and Hank reenacted on a live stream one time That's true. Yeah, and then my cool thrown his love Good love Giselle is pregnant. Mm-hmm. That's nice with the karate instructor jujitsu Karate jujitsu same thing capoeira capoeira dance fighting yeah, uh

Starting point is 01:25:00 Henry thoughts I Feel I feel for my guy He posted a picture of the sunset last night with landslide playing what he went Fleetwood Mac He went landslide and I felt I felt like I just felt oh my god down bad landslide you only use for down it's it's that is a Holy shit, you play when you want to cry. Yeah for sure And he was crying when he sent that for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Oh

Starting point is 01:25:36 Yeah, so are they are they getting married? There's just like a training related injury that she's got I There's just like a training related injury that she's got I Don't know I just feel I my my take is I feel I feel for my guy Yeah, the landslide like I I got I almost cried listen You'd rather get divorced one year too early than one year too late, right? Yeah, so it's good that At least sequence events wasn't like pregnant then divorced. You know what Tom Brady should do to get back at Giselle? He should get this unborn child addicted to playing football. And then the unborn child becomes loves football more than his mom.

Starting point is 01:26:17 Dad cucks her? Yeah. Because I mean, that was kind of how the relationship, you know, Tom Brady was addicted to football. Should be like, you got it Max now? It's a jujitsu instructor. So you know that thing's going to be kicking in the womb. Yeah. Hi, yeah.

Starting point is 01:26:32 Yeah. All that shit. That's damn. I feel like you're down bad. I Yeah, I was. You should do the landslide because was team Hank. So you gotta be your gotta be team Thomas. Yeah. yeah you think he's gonna be team jujitsu hi yeah yes it's not good we should take a karate class for a video that would be fun you

Starting point is 01:26:57 want to just fight I'd like to see Max just in the Donnie does does jujitsu around here do break up Donnie yeah I don't know if I want to do jujitsu though because that's the one where you like Another man has your back and you're getting choked. Yeah I'll let him choke me out. I want to break a board mountains, but yeah breaking boards would be I'll let him choke me I don't see level. I don't care. Hell. Yes, Hank. Hell. Yes Well, I mean when you get choked, you're technically just turning into gay because you're getting less oxygen in your brain.

Starting point is 01:27:27 He's choking you off from straight to get every every dead person's actually gay. Yeah, you you when you when Joe Missoula is going to choke you out, you're going to wake up and you're just going to be gay. So it works. Fellas is a gay to get killed. It's suddenly became gay. Nice try, dude. Okay, let's get to Paolo Banquero in studio.

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Starting point is 01:29:05 Palo Bencaro. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest is Palo Bencaro. Fresh off 50 points. We actually Palo, first of all, thank you for coming to the office. We appreciate it. We were so it's obviously football season. So we're like, oh, this is gonna the office. We appreciate it. We were, so it's obviously football season, so we're like, oh, this is gonna be great. We're gonna have Palo in. We can save it for when we need an interview. And then you decided to drop 50 on Monday night. We're like, well, we have to run this right away

Starting point is 01:29:33 because, I mean, we'll start there. What was it like being in the zone? You were in the zone, 37 and a half? Yeah, yeah, I was in the zone, man. It was just one of those games where like, you make your first couple shots and you just get lost in it and then you just keep going. You're not even worried about how many points

Starting point is 01:29:53 you are scoring. You don't wanna stop, so it was fun, man. I've had a couple big games in the league, in playoffs, what not, but that was probably definitely the standalone game where it just, it was just like an avalanche. You're like kept going. Did you actually feel like everything you threw at the hoop was going in no

Starting point is 01:30:12 matter what? Yeah, for sure. That's awesome. And just when you get to that point, you know, it's like your instincts take over. And so you just start doing stuff that you worked on in the summer, you know, shots that, you know, you practice that maybe you wouldn't, you know, shoot every game, but like you're feeling good. So you're going to stuff that you worked on in the summer, you know shots that you know You practice that maybe you wouldn't you know shoot every game, but like you're feeling good So you're gonna let that one fly so it was fun, man Yeah, what does it feel like and and have you figured out like have you have you thought about how to recreate that feeling?

Starting point is 01:30:36 Yeah, for sure. That's all I that's all I ever think about is you know, how can I get in that zone as often as possible? And I think it's just, like I said, trusting your instincts when you go out there, being aggressive, having an aggressive mindset, but also not trying to press and force it. I don't think anything or any bucket I had in that game was forced or was a forced shot. I think I just let the game come to me.

Starting point is 01:31:01 Everything was happening so naturally, and it was flowing. So it was really fun though. What if that's just how good you are now? Yeah. If you go out tomorrow night and it's like another 50. Yeah, I mean that's kind of, that's like what I think in my head is like, you know, why can't I do it again?

Starting point is 01:31:15 Obviously, you're not going to put a 50 every night, but like just that mindset. But not with that mindset. No, I mean, what if you're still in the zone? Yeah, no. You could still be in the zone. Yeah, I'm very much still in the zone, for sure. It's only game four, you know, so. I felt like I got off to a great start in Miami,

Starting point is 01:31:31 and I was in that zone, and I felt like I left a lot of points on the board in that game. And so, the two after that was like, you know, I was chilling a little bit, wasn't as happy with my performance. And then, you know, that fourth game, like, I was like, oh, okay, so this is what it looks like if I kind of Put it all together, and I still left you know I miss bunch of free throws you know couple shots

Starting point is 01:31:52 I could have made so like Just makes it fun for me because I know there's more you know I don't feel like oh, man I gave everything I had I can't go any you know further than that. It's like no man I feel like I can you know go get 60 70 yeah love that's gotta be the best feeling ever you're gonna eat the same meal before before the game like do everything the same way no no I'm not that superstitious I would say you know what what I eat isn't is not necessarily most about what I eat but like the amount of calories I get like I just got to eat a shit ton of food before the game just so I have You know energy so I saw that online that you lose seven pounds of sweat. Is that true?

Starting point is 01:32:31 Game there was some it's like it got the way I got reported and when I was in college it was like a little walkie, okay, but uh Yeah, basically like there would be practices you weigh in before way out after after. And so I'd weigh in at a certain weight and then after practice I'd be seven, eight pounds lighter. And so they were all amazed by that. But I just sweat a ton. And so then I started cramping at the start of my freshman year, a couple games.

Starting point is 01:32:59 And they kind of made it a big deal. When really, honestly people don't really know, well I think I said it, but like at that time in my life I didn't really have an idea of like electrolytes and like the fact that you need them every single game. Because like I was just drinking water, a little Gatorade, but I wasn't drinking like electrolyte, like you know, Pedialyte or stuff like that.

Starting point is 01:33:20 So I was going into these games, like super high intensity game, like stuff that I've never felt before, and like my body was like just locking up. So I was like, you games like super high-intensity game like stuff I've never felt before and like my body was like just locking up So I was like, you know tripping at first but once I started drinking p.a light and electrolytes stuff like that I got I got right so what was there like I always am fascinated the jump of College to pros and then you you go from being a student and you know, you're you're in college you don't have millions of dollars and you're Pro and now you're spending money on your body and stuff Have you noticed that for your body where it's like the amount that you put in offseason?

Starting point is 01:33:53 Training just how to deal with it. Like you're just that much stronger and better. Yeah for sure. I think You don't really pay attention to what you eat or at least I didn't when I was a kid or teenager You know, I was kind of eating when I was a kid or teenager. I was kinda eating whatever. I was always in pretty good shape. But once you get older and start playing at a higher level, you realize that certain stuff makes you feel a certain ways. And for a game, I gotta load up on a bunch of stuff because I know I'm out there trying to go 100%

Starting point is 01:34:24 the whole game for 40 plus minutes if I have to. I know how much energy that takes out of me, especially me being my size and trying to move as much as I do. It takes a lot of energy. You realize that you got to eat, whether you're hungry or not sometimes. Sometimes I'm not even hungry, but I know I got to get these meals in the same way Yeah, you gotta eat. I think it's interesting that Duke doesn't provide adequate nutrition for their players And they also make you weigh in all the time. It's like it gives you bad body image there Yeah, it doesn't sound healthy mentally. Do you do you want to do the Duke stuff now? Yeah, let's get it out the way

Starting point is 01:35:00 Okay, so when you sat down I told you I was like hey look, I'm just so you know, I'm a very big. Yeah, so let me let me rewind a little bit on like, when I was talking about this podcast. Yeah. So they're like a boss to a big cat. Yeah. It's the it's the guy who's running it. And I was like, hold on. Like, why is that Nick? Or why does that username sound familiar? And I just remembered being in college, Coach K's last year, and I always saw like on Twitter, and by the way, going to Duke taught me to like stay off Twitter. Yeah, yeah, people, guys like me are on those streets.

Starting point is 01:35:35 It's not for you. Yeah, it made me realize like, you know, stay off Twitter during the season, like just focus. But anyway, my whole freshman season, every time we lose or have a bad game, it be Barstool and fucking Big Cat talking shit. And I'll be like, who runs this account though? I'm like, who is this dude?

Starting point is 01:35:53 He's shitting on us, Coach K, and it would piss me off. So kind of circled back and forth. That feels good, yeah, yeah. So I'll tell you my trauma real quick. I went to the University of Wisconsin I don't think they'll ever win a national championship in anything They were up at half against Duke in 2015 from that moment forward It was like I never I never liked Duke, but that was like I know see

Starting point is 01:36:16 They've a part of my soul is still in Lucas oil stadium in Indianapolis. You were there I was there a part of my soul's sitting there in the seats and it's just never coming back. So when Coach K said that he was gonna retire and he made sure that he let everyone know that he was gonna retire 12 months before he was gonna retire, and we all had to, you know, suck his dick for a year, I decided that I was making a personal mission

Starting point is 01:36:41 to just be on his ass the whole time. So you were actually, you kind of were like a casualty of war because it wasn't like a personal hatred towards you, it was Coach K, you just happened to be on the last Duke team with Coach K. So that last game in Cameron, that was awesome. Man, that was some bullshit. That's what that was.

Starting point is 01:37:02 That was, that was, that was. That was me. I feel like you guys were put in a bad spot from a player's, listen, I loved it. I loved every second of that game. But from a player's perspective, to be honest with you, the pomp and circumstance, and when they roll out like 90 dudes who went to Duke and were coach, the pressure that was on you guys was not fair, I feel like. Is that an accurate statement?

Starting point is 01:37:28 I wouldn't say it's not fair. I think that's why you go to Duke to play those type of games. The brotherhood? Yeah, I mean, Coach K told me, before I even got to Duke, that my year was gonna be his last year. So I came in already knowing that every game we played

Starting point is 01:37:42 was gonna be a big deal because of him. And it's his last game. And everyone knew that last game in Cameron was like, before the season even started, you knew that was gonna be the game. The game. Everyone was talking about it the whole season, like man, what's gonna happen? Who's gonna be there?

Starting point is 01:38:00 It was already being talked about the whole season. I wouldn't say it was unfair, because we knew was yeah But then what about when you get in the tournament and the pressure of the tournament knowing it's his last tournament It's that's got to be a lot I mean you guys are you know 18 19 year old kids you go to the final four you had a good tournament run I can't did you guys lose? Who'd you guys lose? You know, okay. I was there for that I was there. I remember that they lost to UNC in the last home game

Starting point is 01:38:25 They didn't lose UNC in the tournament. No. No, that was the last home game. So who do you guys lose? Same team Yeah, damn. Yeah, we know socks This is the beauty of our podcast by the way, just to like break character for a second You just put up 50 in an NBA game and you're like, you know a hundred million dollars one of the best players in the NBA and we're sitting here being like, ah, you lost the UNC. I mean, that's what, I get that all the time though. I mean, like I said, I have like that,

Starting point is 01:38:52 I loved my college career, like I thought it was awesome, but like that will forever be a stain, you know, is losing those two games to that school, obviously. Cause we were, it's hard, and I, Let it out, let it out. And they beat us twice, so credit to them, they beat us twice, two out of three times. They were the better team in those two games. But we were so much better than them, man.

Starting point is 01:39:13 Like, as a team, like we was so much better. We went in there, the first time we played them, we walked in the Dean Dome and beat them by 30. And like, and took their, like you could just tell we was just a better team. I feel like if that second game was. Once a team in college though, any team in any sport is playing hide and you can call a Cinderella run like that

Starting point is 01:39:35 it's, they're hard to beat so guys on their team made a lot of shots but it doesn't, it'll never, I'll never be convinced that we weren't just, had it done better than them. I just think when the moment was there when it was moment They had guys that stepped up in May plays in the moment So you gotta give them credit did you were you thinking about going anywhere else besides Duke were you thinking about maybe staying at? Washington our guys would have been happy. Yeah, you guys know space. Yeah, yeah

Starting point is 01:40:03 That's my big bro. He wants his golf clubs back. Yeah, oh yeah, they're in Seattle. He gotta text my dad about that. Yeah. Yeah, but no, yeah, I thought about going to a few different schools, man. Honestly, Duke wasn't even probably a top two or three until COVID hit, because I remember going,

Starting point is 01:40:22 I went on five official visits my junior year before COVID and everything. And so I went to Duke, UNC, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Gonzaga. And I had a blast on four out of five. And Duke was the one I actually had, you know, it was a great experience, you know, being around the campus, but like,

Starting point is 01:40:42 I didn't have a fun time, like it wasn't that fun. Yeah, yeah. And so I kind of had a, it was like, ah, not really feeling it. But once COVID hit and everything shut down, I just kind of started thinking about it even more and more. That's when Coach K, you would expect a guy like him,

Starting point is 01:41:02 the GOAT, to not be so anxious to talk to me every single day, but he was by far out of any coach, calling me the most, texting me the most throughout the pandemic. Sounds like a violation. No, no, no. If he was calling you and, I'll open up the file again.

Starting point is 01:41:18 So you didn't really want to go to Duke, and then when the country shut down all the investigative parts of the incident, they shut down. Well, he started being in touch with you, and then- the country shut down all the investigative parts of the incident shut down he started being in touch with Ian and then dropped the bag off. I was a 16 year old kid taking visits and I was caught up in oh I didn't have that much fun on this Duke visit. So they're not that high up on my list and then COVID kind of brought me back down on earth and I realized look I'm trying to go to the NBA. I'd be the number one pick. So I need to go to where I have the best opportunity.

Starting point is 01:41:46 Yeah, so obviously, listen, I don't like Coach K, I don't like Duke, but I can admit that he's the best college coach of all time. There we go. He won in every decade, it was crazy. All he did was win, it pissed me off. What was it about him though, like when you got there and you started getting into Coach K practices

Starting point is 01:42:05 that made him different or how he pushed you guys? Because I do respect the fact that he's a great coach. I don't like him otherwise, but I can say that much. Yeah, I mean, he's just really like probably the best motivator I ever been around. He just knows how to push your buttons and get the best out of you, no matter who it is. Like he's just so

Starting point is 01:42:26 You know, he's so good at knowing how to communicate with each and every person on the team You know, he communicates to everyone differently. And so I think for him with me it was like he saw how talented I was But he knew that I had to become more of a leader and more of a voice You know cuz I I used to you Because I was really one of those guys that just kind of let this play do the talking, lead by example type of guy. Like I wasn't very vocally active. And coming in as a freshman, he would let me know,

Starting point is 01:42:57 like man, it doesn't matter that you're a freshman. If you're the best player on the team, you gotta be a leader, you gotta be the vocal leader. Or the team's never gonna be what it should be if you're the best player on the team, you gotta be a leader, you gotta be the vocal leader. Or the team's never gonna be what it should be if you're not leading it. And so I struggled understanding that at times back then, but now, three years later when I'm in the NBA, I fully understand.

Starting point is 01:43:15 It's crazy, because everything he's ever told me, or everything he ever said was gonna happen if I did this or did that, it's happened. So when I look back and think about all the stuff he's ever told me or got on me about, it's all like true and all, it came to fruition. So it's crazy. That's pretty cool.

Starting point is 01:43:33 I read a story that he called your mom one time and he told your mom, I'm gonna read the quote here, Paolo's gonna call you tomorrow because I'm about to get in his ass. And then your mom said, I promise you, he's not gonna call this house. It's not a soft place to land. And Coach K said, I've been trying to talk to him

Starting point is 01:43:49 and I can tell he's mad, but I'm trying to be nice. And then your mom told Coach K that if you want him to get pissed, if you want him to do what you want him to do, ream his ass, then kick him out of practice. Don't kick him out where he can sit in the locker room. Kick him out of the building. So your mom was coaching coach K on how to coach

Starting point is 01:44:07 How crazy is that that sounds like my mom right there? Yeah, and she was an unbelievable basketball player herself, right? Yeah, she's a unbelievable player and she was a coach too for like the mic up till I was probably 13 14 She was a coach. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, did you never want to play football cuz your dad played football? She was a coach. Oh wow. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, did you never want to play football cuz your dad played football? No, I played football. Yeah, I was like my first love. Were you obviously an incredible football player too? Yeah, I was I was legit. Yeah, I was legit and then I would say I hit it I started hitting my growth spurt and you know, once you get to above like six six and football it gets kind of hard Yeah guys, you know, it's hard to get low, you know, but I love football man. I was like my first love my dad I remember him taking me out back to the backyard when I was like six years old working on hitting like I love football

Starting point is 01:44:52 I still watch football religiously study it follow it, you know college and NFL So my little brother plays receiver, you know, so where does he play? He plays he's a junior in high school Oh nice. Oh, okay. So you're trying to get him trying to get him to college. He should be he should be good though Okay, so you're a Seahawks fan. Yep. All right, that's you had a pretty good experience growing up then. Yes Golden age man. Yeah, that was like see it Prime Seattle. Yeah. Yeah, so Marshawn Lynch guy he was Marshawn Lynch Legion of Boom all that. Yeah Carol. Wait, Where do you land on the Anthony Edwards and play in the NFL? Yeah, someone else asked me about that. I said that I Think he would do it until he took a took a real hit and I think I think he want to go back play

Starting point is 01:45:37 Basketball yeah, yeah, I think that's fair. I say you go over the middle. It's like okay It was pretty nice making hundreds of million dollars guaranteed money in the NBA Exactly. That's a big thing. I also feel like you could just be a tight end on goal line packages Yeah, oh, yeah throw a jump ball up. They don't have to put you in where you're gonna get hit Yeah, not me. I could play receiver. Yeah. Yeah for sure. I would like to see that I would like to see another two sports this time basketball. Yeah and football. I think I'd be good for both sports another two sports at this time, basketball and football. I think it'd be good for both sports. So you said at one point that you're delusional,

Starting point is 01:46:08 that you don't think you have any weaknesses in your game. I like that. I like that a lot. And I can tell that you get, like even just talking about the UNC stuff and Duke, you have a chip on your shoulder. Where you're still pissed off about that and you carry that forward,

Starting point is 01:46:23 you probably use that to make you better. But if you think that that you're if you're like self-admitted delusional and you think that there are no weaknesses in your game How then do you figure out what you have to improve on? By just Realizing that I'm not perfect. I'm really never gonna be perfect So I think just doing whatever I can to chase perfection like they're strive it you know I think if you can strive for it you'll land somewhere close to it and so just whatever I can do I mean obviously like I'm only my third year so every year it's been something that I can improve on like nothing I feel is a weakness because I feel like I can do everything but there's

Starting point is 01:47:02 certain areas that you know I can get better at or that I can do everything, but there's certain areas that I can get better at or that I can improve on, especially coming into the NBA. It's a different game, better players, so you have to sharpen up on a lot of stuff that in high school and college, you can physically dominate guys. So I was so used to that. High school, it was really no challenges.

Starting point is 01:47:21 College, it was challenges, but it was pretty pretty easy for the most part. UNC. Yeah but even UNC wasn't doing nothing. I had 20 and 10. They wasn't stopping nothing. But uh yeah I think every every level I think to be the best you can't just stop working or you can't ever you know stay in one place. I think you just have best you can't just stop working or you can't ever you know stay in one place I think you just have to always add something or sharpen something. Yeah, you I mean you were good right away In the NBA, but you were also a teenager to start in the NBA was there any moment where you're like, this is grown men like a Not a welcome to the NBA moments. I think you had a ferocious dunk like one of your first couple games

Starting point is 01:48:02 Yeah, but was there any moment where you're like, oh shit, like this is man strength versus, I gotta get my weight up. Yeah, my first, people always talk about like the first regular season game being like the thing, but like for me it was pre-season, because that's, I mean it's live action. Right. So we played at Memphis, my first ever NBA action

Starting point is 01:48:22 was at Memphis, and that was, they had a good unit that was when they had Jodd, Bane, Brooks, Steven Adams, Jaron Jackson and so yeah I was on Steven Adams a couple times and like I tried to free the line box out and I'm trying to box him out and he just like nudged me with one arm all the way under the hoop and it was just like nothing you could do yeah I didn't have a very good game and so I just remember being like yeah that And he just nudged me with one arm all the way under the hoop. And it was just like nothing you could do. I didn't have a very good game. And so I just remember being like, oh yeah, that was different. That was not college.

Starting point is 01:48:51 That was not anything. Like that was a different speed, different strength, like all over the floor. And so I think those preseason games helped me. So then when that first regular season came, you know, I was already kind of adjusted to it. But like my first taste of the NBA was like it was it was rough Like I don't think I scored more than eight, you know, seven eight points that game Yeah, so so when you get to the NBA, obviously your number one pick everyone knows your incredible basketball player But was there ever a moment where you get on the court with someone you watched and you had like a second?

Starting point is 01:49:22 We're like, oh shit. That's Kevin Durant. Oh damn. That's LeBron. We had to like, almost snap out of him and be like, wait, no, I'm Powell Bencaro. I got to play in this game. Yeah. I say every, every star that I've, or every superstar I say that I played against in my rookie year, I had a decent game except LeBron. Like Katie, you know, I played well, we battled. He had 40 on my head, but like, I had like 20 something. Like I felt like I played all right. Butron, like, KD, you know, I played well, we battled, he had 40 on my head, but like, I had like 20 something,

Starting point is 01:49:46 like I felt like I played all right. But like, Bron, I remember the first time we played Bron in Orlando, and I was just starstruck. In my rookie year, I had a terrible game, too. I had like two points fouled out, like, probably one of my worst games in the NBA. And I was just, but the whole time, it was like, I couldn't, I was like, damn couldn't, I was like damn, like Bron's out here

Starting point is 01:50:07 and I'm out here and I couldn't just, I couldn't get past it, I couldn't even think straight. Yeah, have you gotten like words of encouragement from somebody that you grew up like idolizing, somebody that you grew up as a fan of and they see you and they recognize you and they come over to you and like let you know like hey, you're gonna be great? Yeah, I mean it's happened a lot, you know, up to now,

Starting point is 01:50:24 but I would say like, you know, hearing hey, you're gonna be great. Yeah, I mean, it's happened a lot, you know, up to now, but I would say like, you know, hearing it from KD, Carmelo, those two right there, you know, I saw them in my rookie year All-Star break, and we were in an event, and I was in the same event, and they both pulled me to the side, and we were all having a conversation, and basically they were just telling me, you know, I'm one of those guys, I just gotta, you know, you know, I'm one of those guys.

Starting point is 01:50:46 I just got to, you know, stay hungry, stay in the gym. And so my rookie year hearing that from those two, it was like, that was all I needed to hear. I didn't need no other, you know, validation from anybody else. Like those are two of my, you know, probably top three, four favorite guys ever. So I would say that moment. Yeah, that's gotta be cool. That's gonna be awesome. One So I would say that moment. Yeah. That's gotta be cool.

Starting point is 01:51:06 That's gotta be awesome. One day you'll get a statue. Yeah. You want a statue like Dwayne? I mean there's a picture. Oh you talking about a statue of me? Yeah. I mean hell yeah.

Starting point is 01:51:15 Yeah. I just think a statue would be dope. Obviously I wanted to be a pretty good resemblance of me though I think I've been seeing a couple statues that have been a little, little.fy. You gotta be involved in the sculpting process the entire way.

Starting point is 01:51:29 You don't want it to be a surprise. Yeah, I approve it for sure. Yeah, you gotta see it. So this last year, you guys go to the playoffs. The Magic are a really young team, fun team. You go to the playoffs, you go to seven against the Cavs. Was it, could you feel the difference playing in playoff basketball, like the intensity?

Starting point is 01:51:44 And also was there ever a moment where you're like, damn, these games suck, because there were a couple games that were tough. Both sides. Yeah, I think definitely feel the difference. 100% you feel the difference just with everything, the atmosphere, the buildup, the refereeing. Everything is just different.

Starting point is 01:52:01 The trash talk, everything is just elevated in the playoffs. And then yeah, I think those first two games were like pretty shitty because it was our first two games ever in the playoffs as a team and I just remember Cleveland was talking so much shit like, you know telling us we wasn't ready for this and like They're beating us so we can't really talk and then I just remember winning those next two at home and like we all kind of felt like nah We we belong here, you know I'm saying and then we you know Game five is one that hurts for me because I was so sure that we was gonna win that game And so when we didn't I feel like that, you know that game if we win that game

Starting point is 01:52:39 I think we win the series in game six So when we lost that game, I think we lost by one or two at the last second. You know, that was tough. And then game six won that. That was a hell of a game in Orlando, just doing that in front of the fans, forcing game seven. That was like big for the city, I think.

Starting point is 01:52:54 Just doing that, you know, not going home, fighting another, live another day. And then game seven was tough too, man, because we were up, you know, 18, I think. And we just felt, you felt it for a second, like we're about to do this, like it felt like that for a second, and then that shit just went away in that second half.

Starting point is 01:53:11 But that's also the, kind of the beauty of the NBA is like, you never, young teams are so much fun, because they have to go through the pains, and they have to build up, so it's like, you guys kind of earned your stripes last year, do you feel that coming back this year, where it's like, we went to the playoffs? We went to a game seven Yeah, we didn't advance but we know what it takes to get back to that spot next year. It's gonna be different

Starting point is 01:53:33 Yeah, a hundred percent. I think that's just the attitude every everyone. I think the whole summer I think leaving leaving after that game seven loss I think that was just the whole vibe was like this is just the beginning like we're gonna be back here and it won't be the same result so I think that just motivated everyone on the team throughout the summer and you just saw guys working and getting better and you know we came back for training camp we had a pretty intense training camp probably the best or not probably definitely the best camp I've been a part of since being with the Magic and the NBA and I think you know everyone's kind of poised right now and just trying to stay steady throughout

Starting point is 01:54:08 this early season and realizing how important this early season is too, because that's what helped us last year was having such a good start. So I think everyone's just in a good mind frame. I feel like the NBA playoffs, we don't talk about how long it is enough and how many games you have to play sometimes. It's a hell of a it's a hell of a journey. Like I remember just thinking after game seven, like I'm spent right now mentally and physically like I couldn't imagine having to get it together.

Starting point is 01:54:34 Go play in two days at Boston and start a whole nother, you know series. Yeah, especially you got three more series after that. Exactly. And to be able to win a championship is like that does seem to me like we talked about hockey being so hard we talked about the NFL if you have to go on the road a few times playing one game a week but an NBA postseason you're adding on like an extra two and a half months of your season yeah no it's a full-blown second season yes what it feels like but what about the NBA Cup maybe third season how focused are you right now on the NBA Cup I think I think

Starting point is 01:55:04 the NBA Cups are good I think the NBA Cups a good I think I like it. We had a chance to make it last year We lost a tiebreaker or else we would have been you know in Vegas But I think it's dope for the league to like have something early in the year that fans can be drawn to and you know You can win some money and a trophy And it's also you know win some money and a trophy. And it's also, you know, certain bragging rights are a part of it I think as well,

Starting point is 01:55:27 where you got these pools with teams and you got the NBA Cup showdown in Las Vegas. I think it's all cool. Yeah. So thinking about going heavy on the Magic for the NBA Cup. To me, that's like how you guys learn how to win. Yeah, you gotta win. You win the NBA Cup.

Starting point is 01:55:41 That's basically a playoff series. Yeah, it can be, yeah. Yeah. We'll get back to Paulo Bencaro in a second. He's being brought to you by Hey Dude. Wendy and me in cup, that's basically a playoff series. Yeah, it can be, yeah. Yeah. We'll get back to Paolo Bencaro in a second. He's being brought to you by Hey Dude. Wendy and Wally are the original iconic styles that are the foundation of comfy at Hey Dude. They're beloved for the most cushioned insult ever.

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Starting point is 01:57:09 I was in the World Cup. Yeah, but so the next Olympics you're on team USA. So even if Italy drops a bag What if Italy's like Paulo? You're our guy 100 mil put a horse head in your bed 100 million? Yeah. I don't know if I could turn that down. Yeah, you can't turn that down. Yeah, I don't think I could turn that down.

Starting point is 01:57:30 What if it's guys like us playing on the team with you? I mean, I've seen their team. We played against them actually. When I played for USA, we played against Italy in the quarterfinals. And they were pretty good? No, we won by 40. We won by 40. But like, it was a fun game.

Starting point is 01:57:47 They were heckling me a little bit, so I felt like it was dope. It was dope having that international, they didn't really like me, but it was like, I embraced it, it was cool. And all the players and coaches showed love. It was the fans. So, that was a hell of a process, man. That was a hell of a process.

Starting point is 01:58:07 That whole, that was after my rookie year, like it was when I had to make the decision. And I had been talking to Illy for a while because they reached out to me when I was like 16 years old, reached out to my dad and I'm sure they saw my name and was like, who the hell is this kid? He's got an O on the end of his name with this Italian name. So At the time I had been trying out for USA's junior teams and I got cut so I wasn't really rocking with with like the whole USA thing because I was salty about getting cut and so I Committed to play for Italy and they were gonna put me right on to the national team as a

Starting point is 01:58:46 16-17 year old and You know, I was gonna play until kovat like if I if kovat never have if kovat never happened I would have played in 2020 you wouldn't have gone to Duke and you would have been an Italian hero I probably would still want to do you kind of said you didn't yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I would have said what to do Italian hero Yeah, I mean you're gonna, I assume the next Olympics your eyes are on Team USA and wanted to be in the Olympics. I mean you should be.

Starting point is 01:59:11 Yeah, I think that would be cool, especially being in LA. Yeah. But that's a long ways away. Yeah, that is a long ways away. But I'm gonna vote for you. I think it's a fan vote and I'll put you, I'll fan vote you in.

Starting point is 01:59:22 I appreciate that. Yeah, it was fun watching the Olympics this summer from, from I was back home. It was fun watching it. Yeah. Did you see our mutual friend, Donnie McGrath partying with the team after? No, I didn't. Oh, I'll show you that video after.

Starting point is 01:59:34 Yeah, I didn't see that. Yeah, yeah. Damn. Oh wait. You know what? He wasn't Paris during that time. Yeah, he was. Yeah. Donnie's a former teammate of mine. Yeah, sounds about right.

Starting point is 01:59:43 TBT. That's what Donnie, that's, Donnie, that's Donnie right there. He's the best, yeah, with Lyft. You guys are, they're crushing it. Yes, sir, they're doing great things right now. Yeah, they're the best. I feel like that would be a, it'd be an awesome honor to represent the United States

Starting point is 01:59:56 at the Olympics, but at the same time, you probably want a break from taking basketball, right? Like, give me my off season. Well, yeah, I mean, that was, yeah, I think definitely. Well, I don't think there's any international competitions leading up to it, so if that was to present itself, I think being a part of that is probably a dope experience. I was on the World Cup team, you know,

Starting point is 02:00:17 that was a little different, we didn't medal or anything, so that was like a shitty experience, but I think if you win gold though, it's worth it Yeah, yeah, but you lose though. It's like you should it's really no win. It's like the US you should win a basketball Yeah, what's the one thing? I feel like all sports culture has kind of gotten a little weird with fans We're idiots. We sit on the couch or like oh we could do that What's the one thing that fans think that like is easy in basketball? You're like, you have no idea because there are guys who like, yeah,

Starting point is 02:00:48 you know, who rip a NBA players. You don't understand even the NFL NBA debates. Yeah, you don't understand how good NBA players are. Even the last guy on the bench. Yeah, no, I think. I think I mean, fans, fans, I think are really emotional. Obviously act off emotion, so when you see someone have a bad game, you know, they suck automatically. But one, I think they don't realize for basketball players

Starting point is 02:01:12 how tough it is to play 82 games, or being in an 82 game season. You know, just with the traveling, you know, getting in late, 3, 4 a.m., having to wake up the next day and play, you know, and then fly out and play the next day. There's certain stretches of the season where it's gonna get to anybody.

Starting point is 02:01:31 And so, obviously fans wanna see their team win no matter what, but I think there's certain parts of the season where guys are starting to feel fatigued and mentally, physically. And then I think just on the court, probably just, man, it's hard to do, it's hard, the NBA's the hardest league in the world. It's hard to do anything in the NBA.

Starting point is 02:01:52 I think that's something that a lot of people, even like hoopers that aren't in the NBA, they say, oh, the NBA is so much space, it's so easy. It's only easy if you're good as fuck. Right, right. You have to be one of those guys, right you have you have to be like one of those guys And you have to like have a crazy work ethic Take care of your body like or just be the most talented guy in the world to even put up those type of numbers

Starting point is 02:02:13 So when you see guys like Luca making it look all easy or like me or whoever like yeah It looks easy on this on this you know Instagram real, but like Shit is hard. That's like JJ Reddick said it a couple of years ago, which I never really thought about until he mentioned he's like, everyone's like, oh, yeah, the NBA, they don't play defense like no. The offense is so goddamn good that even if you play perfect defense like Kevin Durant or Powell Bencaro, they're going to still score 25. Oh, yeah. No, it's just I mean, you into it, like the best players, you're not stopping certain guys

Starting point is 02:02:48 from getting 30, 25, 30 points. Yeah. You can make it hard and hopefully get a couple cut stops when you need to, but certain dudes, you're not stopping. Yeah. I do love the mentality though of the average hater online. Somebody that's that divorced from reality, that they're like, dude, you suck. So if you took the average hater online. Like somebody that's that divorced from reality that they're like, dude, you suck.

Starting point is 02:03:06 So if you took like the average hater online and you said lock them in a gym with you and they have two days to score one basket and only one of you can leave. Like if he scores the basket, you have to stay in that gym for the rest of your life. And vice versa. Do you think somebody could score on you in two days?

Starting point is 02:03:24 Hell no. Average in two days. Hell no Like no you talking about like the average person yeah, just one basket no At any time like if you fall asleep you can dribble up If it's two days straight, no rest Yes No, if I got it if I'm if I lose I gotta stay in the rest of my life I would never I would not yeah, you wouldn't sleep. No, I wouldn't. Yeah, just lock him down. Yeah, not even be able to throw it up You don't think you'd be able to throw one up when you're not just hound them. Yeah, I could score on you. I think And if you if you had 48 hours, yeah 48 hours, but I'm I would trick you you'd have to know

Starting point is 02:03:59 You'd have to check the ball up every time though. You can't just go throw it in the basket It has to be some type of. Yeah, check ball. Check ball. At the top. I would just start to dribble and just throw it behind my head and then hope that you didn't see me about to shoot it and one of those is gonna go in. One of them.

Starting point is 02:04:13 Yeah, no you probably swat that in the fourth run. It'd be a bad time. Last Duke question, are you in the brotherhood? Yeah. Okay, what do you have to do to be in the brotherhood? Like what do you have to say? Do you have meetings and stuff? What goes on? It's it's it's it can't it's it can't be explained, man. Yeah, you got to be there to

Starting point is 02:04:32 be a part of it. Does does when you are part of the brotherhood, does anyone ever bring up the name Pete Goddard? No. Okay. All right. Yeah, I figured that. That's the guy that when coach K faked an injury because he had a bad team, and he made Pete Goddard take all his losses that season Well, I don't even know. Yeah, I know I'll tell you I'll tell you all about it after you don't let Pete around. Yeah What about JJ's he's still in the brotherhood JJ?

Starting point is 02:04:59 Came to a few games When I was there with us with his sons, yes have a group chat Do we have a group chat? Oh yeah, is there a brotherhood group chat? No. Okay. No, I mean, we have a group chat with my team. With your guys.

Starting point is 02:05:13 Yeah, yeah. My team, the 22 team, yeah. Does it, I mean, when you get to the NBA, do people still care where you went to college? Do they still talk shit or no? Yeah. I mean, whenever I go to Charlotte, it's always funny cuz I got a bunch of people in there who are Duke and they're all Loving showing love and then there's always some UNC fans were giving me shit about losing. Yeah So whenever I go to Charlotte, I'm hearing that and then yeah different different places

Starting point is 02:05:38 There'll be a Duke fan or or sometimes someone let me know. Hey you guys lost to Carolina. I get that all the time. So yeah. Yeah, even when you're sitting doing a podcast. Exactly. One thing I love about the Magic is just their throwback uniforms. You ever push to be like, hey, can we wear the penny uniforms more?

Starting point is 02:05:55 Yeah, I was sick that they took them away this year. Those was like, that jersey is a staple, I think, just with the Magic and obviously the old-school new-school vibe Like I wish we could have kept wearing those. Yeah, they gotta bring that back when you when you move to Orlando Were you blown away by the majesty of the city? I? Was I was like yeah that that messed me up a little bit. I'm not gonna lie I hadn't been to Orlando before mm-hmm, so I I'm from Seattle so in my head I just thought Orlando's where Disney World is, Orlando Magic, like Orlando's

Starting point is 02:06:29 got to be a big city. And so when I got there, never been, and I was like, wow, this is super small. Like way smaller than Seattle. And so it was like weird at first, but now I'm like, I love it there now. Like it's paradise. It's always sunny, chill. It's like nice little dinner spots and stuff. first but now I'm like I love it there now like it's paradise yeah it's sunny yeah chill there's like nice little dinner spots and stuff medieval times yeah not too much going on yeah yeah what you mean they got a great medieval

Starting point is 02:06:53 times there have you have you been to the Chili's in the airport you haven't no I don't like the airport is the airport is rough though well not the Chili's Chili's is great you're getting rid of the chilies though. Yeah, there's an escalator that goes up to it. Stairway to heaven. I don't like eating in airports though, so. Nah, go to that chilies. Change your mind.

Starting point is 02:07:13 You kind of breeze by the medieval time. You never been to medieval times? No, you gotta tell me about that. Oh, it's dinner and you also get to watch a bunch of knights joust each other and fight each other with swords and shit. Yeah. Really. It's a great, great time. Maybe we should do a team dinner there or something.

Starting point is 02:07:26 Yeah, that would rock. Yeah. Yes. That would be awesome. If you do a team dinner at medieval times, you guys are definitely winning the NBA Cup. I can guarantee you that. Yeah, that's team chemistry. Yeah. That's like at the end, they're like, how'd you guys do it? It's like, well, we actually went to medieval times. Yeah. Like three months ago. And it was awesome. Yeah. I do. do I did find a couple weaknesses in your game Oh, I know you said that you're delusional and there's no weakness in your game But I get a couple one is you currently lead the league in interceptions this year. Mmm What you mean? There's a Patrick Mahomes question. Oh, yeah

Starting point is 02:07:59 That was that was a weird moment wasn't it? Yeah, that was yeah, that was like That was a weird moment, wasn't it? Yeah. That was, yeah, that was like a, that was like, that like introduced me to the world in a way, it was weird. It was so weird, man. Like, it was crazy, because I'm on the track, right? And at the time, I'm not even in the NBA yet.

Starting point is 02:08:17 It's the F1 race in Miami, yeah. It's the F1 race, and so I'm on the track, and I'm just taking it all in, I never, I actually love, I used to love NASCAR, so I always loved cars, racing and stuff, So the f1 thing was dope to be there And I just remember walking bro And I just kept hearing Patrick Patrick Patrick and I'm like man. No wonder who Patrick is like whoever is Patrick is someone needs to get Patrick

Starting point is 02:08:43 and then uh is like, whoever is Patrick, someone needs to get Patrick. And then, like I hear Patrick, and then someone hits me on the back, and I'm like, what? And I look and it's like this camera and this is in the Martin Brundle, and this is the cameras in my face, and I'm like, wait, huh? And so I'm not even realizing that this is like

Starting point is 02:08:59 a world broadcasted interview. I'm thinking this is like local channel, or I don't know what it is. I've never been to F1. So I'm like, you know interview. I'm thinking this is like local channel, or I don't know what it is. I've never been f1 So I'm like you know I'm lost and he's like Patrick You know what is what is it about being here? And so I just answered his question And I think he kind of realized like in the middle of the interview that I wasn't who he thought who I thought

Starting point is 02:09:19 Who he thought I was and so Like it was like a 45 second interview and he walked off, I walked off, and then like right after that, like my phone just started going nuts. Like everyone started blowing me like, yo, yo, you was just on TV, bro. He just thought you were Patrick Mahomes.

Starting point is 02:09:35 He just chased you. He just chased you for like a minute. You know, he thought you were Patrick Mahomes. And so that was like the running joke. And then the next year at F1, I actually hung out with Pat Mahomes a little bit. So we moved up.

Starting point is 02:09:47 It was cool. Yeah, that's perfect. All right, well, Palo, this has been awesome. I got one last question for you. It's a rollback question. R-H-O-B-E-C-K.com. Promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts.

Starting point is 02:10:00 Rollback.com. So rookie of the year, all star. Do we want, Rookie of the Year, All-Star. Do we wanna say that you're gonna win an MVP at some point? Be the first to report it. Can we be the first to report that Paulo Bencaro's gonna win the MVP one year? Yeah, I definitely think that. Okay, there it is.

Starting point is 02:10:17 Exclusive. Yes, exclusive, we got the exclusive inside scoop, Paulo Bencaro MVP at some point. Can I tell you a secret, Big Cat? At some point. I think it might be this year. Yeah? You thinking that? You might still be in the zone.

Starting point is 02:10:28 It's not impossible. It can happen. There's only game four, but I don't play anything past myself. Did the season end today? Would you be MVP? I think you would. I think you would.

Starting point is 02:10:40 Four games in. We fucked up season. Yeah, that would be a crazy season. Yeah. Well, we're gonna root for you now. I'll put the Duke aside. We're gonna be Palo guys through and through, so we got your back.

Starting point is 02:10:51 You just have to come on any time you're in Chicago. We're done. We're gonna join, and it's perfect because you obviously, I think you went on Rosillo's podcast. He's kind of borderline like obsessed with you in a weird way. Who? Ryan Rosillo. Yeah, I probably, I did.

Starting point is 02:11:07 Is he a magic? No, he's, Ryan Roussillo, he lives out in LA, The Ringer. He's a Ryan Roussillo podcast. He's a strong guy. Shaved head. Yeah. Strong guy. I think I know him.

Starting point is 02:11:21 But I've been on his show. Yeah, you've been on his show. He like... Have I been on his show? Yes. Yeah, you've been on his show he like have I been on show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you've been on a show He he would like die for you He he's a Palo writer though and so now we're gonna just go on to his block and we're gonna take it over So we'll be with him, but we're gonna we're gonna say we were there first. Okay. Yeah Beat the fuck out of it. Yeah, we don't want him to get his stink on you. Yeah

Starting point is 02:11:43 No, you I hear he gets obsessed with guys. Yeah, no, he loves you. He gets obsessed with guys sometimes. Yeah, and he's one of your guys. So it's good to have media people, there's a couple media people who have your back, I would assume. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you guys are the ones that reach everybody. People listen to what you guys say, man.

Starting point is 02:11:58 Yeah, it's just scary. That's a scary thing to think about. I'm already willing to go to war for you. Do you have any enemies out there? None that you gotta take care care of man. Are you let us know? Yeah. Yeah pops up. Let us know No, I will yeah, I will cuz I don't I mean I'll show you later what I made a little Card for all my coach K slander facts and I was handing them out in New Orleans so I can get to work for you I you give me the name. What did you make a video doing that? Yeah, I was just handing it out. I think I saw that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All those- That was crazy. I was handing it to like old ladies and they were just like,

Starting point is 02:12:29 whoa, I didn't know Coach K, Pete Godet. I didn't know that he did this. Yeah, I was opening minds. We're probably the best assholes that you can have in your corner online. I bullied a horse off Twitter one time. Yeah. Made his fat ass quit. Kentucky Derby- Nyquist. Nyquist. Winner? Yeah. That fat ass quit. Kentucky Derby winner? Yeah, that fat bitch won the Kentucky Derby, then he got fat and out of shape and did load management and didn't even compete in, is the pregness he bowed out of.

Starting point is 02:12:53 So he didn't have that dog in him. Yeah, gave him shit and then he logged offline. Yeah, gone. So yeah, if you need anybody to log off, you let us know. We're on it, we're on it. That's what y'all do, I got it. Well, Palo. Thanks so much, man. We really appreciate you coming by and anytime you're in in Chicago We'd love to have you on so again, so your recurring guests you actually have to legally

Starting point is 02:13:14 That's that's the deal. Yeah. No once you come on once you legally have to come on. I actually enjoyed this man Oh, okay. There we go. I love that. I can rock with this Yeah, if like Rossello asked you in the future like you've been on part of my take you guys say yeah I know those guys. Yeah, no, yeah, definitely definitely. I mean, this is like a whole thing right here So and we don't really ask normal questions. I would say for the most part because we're stupid. Mm-hmm So that's how this one that's how the these interviews very dumb. Yeah. Thank you so much man. Appreciate it. Appreciate you guys. Thank you Paolo is brought to you by simply safe if you're like me the safety of your home and loved ones isn't just a priority It's your everything the problem is old-school home security systems only take action once someone is already inside your home

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Starting point is 02:15:11 I know whenever an interviewee says great question whoever didn't ask echoes that statement cracks me every time I was curious why slash when you started doing that just boosting your boys. I don't know. Yeah, we're just listen We're just a team here great question That's a good question. Yeah, just boost, just lifting up our brothers. It's a hard game out here. I don't know what the first great question was. We should go back and try to find that out. Yeah, the origin of the great question.

Starting point is 02:15:36 What came first? Great question. Chicken or the egg? Great question. Great question. The chicken. Great question. What's up, boys?

Starting point is 02:15:43 You guys have been all over for various sporting events. What is your favorite city to go to for a big sport? New Orleans. New Orleans. I New Orleans is up there. I always throw indie in there. I mean the Vegas Superbowl was incredible. I would like to do, Vegas should have the Superbowl every year. Uh, yeah. Vegas should have the Superbowl every year. Vegas is good to go to when they have just any good big sporting event because it gives

Starting point is 02:16:08 you an excuse just to be in Vegas. It's the perfect, because you know you're going to have a ton of hotel rooms, you know you're going to have fun. It's the perfect. Tons of food, nightlife, clubs like that. Vegas Super Bowl we did. A bunch of interviews, went to the casino. Went to the club.

Starting point is 02:16:22 The Sphere. Went to dinner. The Sphere. they have it all uh f1 is there f1 yeah end of the month yeah and guess what it will rock because that's what vegas does it's the i think vegas might be back what did it ever leave i think it left for a little bit and now it's all the way back i missed the tunnel of chaos yeah the tunnel case is pretty good oh they should name i wonder if the f1 track has a tunnel in any of them making the name of the tunnel. Okay, let's go through the money. Yeah, Dana White's just on top of a bridge throwing buckets of cash on the drivers. Yeah, they the race is going through the strip. Oh, and it might be a championship race.

Starting point is 02:17:01 And it might be a championship race. Hell yeah. The season's coming to an end. So that might be the deciding race. If you're in Vegas, you could see either what is it, the? Daniel O'Carter. Constructor's championship. Yeah. Or the individual championship.

Starting point is 02:17:13 Yeah. Daniel O'Carter also retired. You never know. He could be there. You never know. Brett Farr. Danny Rick. Lando.

Starting point is 02:17:20 He's back. It's Lando's year. Yeah. Question not for PFT, but about PFT has the glimmer of possible competence through eight weeks for the commanders turned PFT to a completely delusional football fan. Yes. Let's look at the winds. Giants ass bangles ass Cardinals ass but frisky Browns with the Sean ass Panthers mega ass bears loser franchise are the commanders good or just an easy schedule it's not for me I can't answer this yes I think they're good you can answer it well

Starting point is 02:17:54 the question was has this commander's team turned PFT into a completely delusional football fan guess what the commander's also the rest of their schedules got a lot of ass on it too. There's a lot of ass in the NFL right now. Yeah. They have the giants, the Steelers, those are tough game or the Steelers would be a tough game. Eagles tough game. Then they play the Cowboys, Titans, Saints.

Starting point is 02:18:19 I mean, I see, I see the, and then they finish with the Eagles, Falcons, Cowboys. I see a bare minimum, another four wins, easy. Don't say bare minimum. Okay. I don't think I'm delusional. I know the question's not for me. I don't think I'm delusional. I just think that I know that you have a guy when you got a guy.

Starting point is 02:18:39 And I think that we got a guy. And I think that this guy, that's why I said, I'm not saying Super Bowl this season. I'm saying we could win a playoff game this season. I don't think we're a Superbowl team. I think that the Superbowl window is open because we have a guy and he's the guy and he's on his rookie contract. And we've got one of the, I don't know if we have the most cap space, but definitely top five caps in the NFL. And yeah. and then we're going to get a new stadium in the next like four years. So yeah, I think I don't think it's delusional to say that I am I'm existing inside of a Super Bowl window right now. Yeah, you're inside you are inside a

Starting point is 02:19:16 super I haven't jumped out yet next year, but the window but the window based on plans next year, but we should operate as if the window is open. Operate under the window being open. The window's cracked right now and I'm thinking about opening it up. There's a nice draft that's coming through. Sup boys, not an FAQ, but I am a disgruntled Giants fan reliving

Starting point is 02:19:37 the same torture season over and over again. Was thinking about this today as now the Jets collapse is official too. Do you think if the Jets and Giants combined rosters, they would win the super bowl? I like to think yes, but these franchises are so cursed. I don't know anymore. Whose helmets do they wear? Giants? Probably.

Starting point is 02:19:56 Yeah, maybe. Who's the quarterback? Rogers. Okay. Who's the coach? Rogers. Table. I mean, Dexter Lawrence on that defensive line would stop a lot of those run problems Malik neighbors Finally get the Jetson help at wide receiver. I think they could

Starting point is 02:20:15 Yeah, they go to the AFC it will they go the AFC and NFC championship game, I guess. Mm-hmm They could I mean add Notre Dame in there because Notre Dame has more touchdowns than the Jets and Giants in MetLife Stadium this year. I don't know if you guys saw that. I did not see insults that going around. Did you see that memes? You see that stat. I seen it. Yeah, I played many home games. Yeah, I think it was seven for Notre Dame I think it was five for the Jets. Yeah, Jets have five and Giants have one I think two two who owns the team in this scenario Yeah, just have five and Giants have one. I think to to who owns the team in this scenario Mr. Mara or mr. Mara has to be mr. Mara has to be mr. Johnson can't own this team. Yeah, I

Starting point is 02:20:56 Think I'll check to coach. They'd be pretty good. They'd be pretty good for half the game. Yeah, they'd be pretty good All right last anyone the last one If the Bears or commanders don't win a Super Bowl until after y'all have retired from the show Will we get a one night only live reaction pod? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'll do it guaranteed guaranteed I'll do it. Yeah, there should be a Super Bowl? I think we should do that too. Also that. Also that. Yeah, there will be a post-mortem. If the Bears or Commanders are in the Super Bowl, you'll get a podcast no matter how old

Starting point is 02:21:33 we are. Mm-hmm. That's fair. But you have to stay subscribed to part of my take. You never unsubscribe. Just pop it up. A ghost podcast. Yeah. Like, oh, I thought these guys were dead. Memes is saying something.

Starting point is 02:21:43 What are you saying, Memes? We need people to start subscribing again. There's a new thought these guys are dead. memes is saying something. What are you saying memes? We need people to start subscribing again. There's a new tab on Apple podcasts. That's like most subscribed shows and we're not in the top 100. Oh, okay. So let's subscribe. We need everybody to subscribe. Subscribe. Let's bring back roast for a little bit. Yeah, how about that? Next week? Right. Oh, subscribe. Leave a five star roast on the podcast. Yep. Our five star rating on the podcast in the comment for just roast the fuck out of us. Yeah. And we'll do the roast. Subscribe, leave a five star roast on the podcast. Yep. Or a five star rating on the podcast.

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