Pardon My Take - Paul Bissonnette, Sixers Whomp The Celtics, Are The Lakers Going To Win The Title? And Great Listener FAQ's

Episode Date: May 10, 2023

The Sixers killed the Celtics in Boston and Hank is being a big baby about everything. We talk about the game and Hank freezes out PFT (00:00:00-00:22:16). Lakers beat the Warriors and the dark thoughts about a title run are entering everyone's head (00:22:16-00:32:10). Julius Randle sucks and we play choose your own adventure with Nuggets/Suns (00:32:10-00:39:10). Hot Seat/Cool Throne (00:39:10-01:07:52). Paul Bissonnette joins the show to talk about NHL Playoffs, TNT, Conor Bedard and more (01:07:52-01:58:15). We finish with listener FAQ's and Billy talks about Chicago plus Lottery ball (01:58:15-02:20:12).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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being in a hotel room, working crazy hours at TNT, some funny stories from that. We are gonna talk Sixers Celtics Game Five, which was somewhat shocking. And as Sixers blow out, we're gonna talk Lakers, Warriors, NHL Playoffs, Hot Seat Cool Throne, and we have some great FAQs, some big time questions from the listeners.

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Today is Wednesday, May 10th. Wait, hold on. We gotta restart. Hank, you dropped your pacifier right there. It's on the floor. Oh, shit. What are you talking about? You dropped your pacifier.

He called you a baby. Hey, last time... Pick up your pacifier so you can suck on it with your binky. Last time I checked that. You had to win four games to win a series. Oh, he's doing positive. Hank, now. So the Celtics or the Sixers kicked the shit out of the Celtics.

In Boston, Game 5 wasn't really ever in doubt. Probably the best the Sixers have looked this playoffs. Probably the worst the Celtics have looked this playoffs. And we now have a 3-2 Philly lead going back to Philadelphia for Game 6. And PFT, I've never seen someone more dejected, more down, more baby than Hank. He didn't speak for the entire second half. He is in a bad, bad spot. I actually have seen somebody more down and dejected than Hank.

And that's Hank the last time that they lost. Hank just... This is what he does. He goes into his shell. He gets in turtle mode. And he pretends... It's funny because Hank and Max are kind of the same guy when it comes to rooting for the respective teams. They both put on this shell of Uber confidence going into games.

But it's just to mask deep down a massive, massive fear of losing. And so once that gets a little bit punctured, Hank just retreats into his shell and just pretends that he didn't say any of the things that he said before the game started. And so now he's trying to regroup and try to figure out how he can spin this. I think he's more comfortable actually coming off a loss going into the next game because he can't even pretend that they're going to stop the shit out of him. Hank's backs against the wall right now. Billy, stop playing with the ball.

That's what Max is telling you. He's picking up on the mic. Hank. Yes? You just listened to what PFT said. I don't even know if you're listening to anything because you're zoned out and you're not even on Earth. I'm right here. I'm on focus. I'm locked in. Do you think that you're in a better spot?

Coming off a loss mentally that you can scratch and claw your way back? Yeah. I mean, backs against the wall. This team is tough. This team has been there before. Just got to win. And then you got a home court advantage for game seven. I love where we're at. None of what he's saying is what he believes. He was so doom and gloom.

Again, didn't speak for the entirety of the fourth quarter. I was waiting for them to get it close. They did not get it close. They didn't get it close. All right, so let's talk about the actual game. Then I want to hear from Max because Max does deserve a little shine here. He doesn't. Okay, Max, why don't you get your shine after Hank just did that?

No, no, no. Hank's right. It's a four game series. This seven game series. You need to win four games to win a series. But this one felt good. Like, I'm going to go to sleep tonight happy. Like, I'm not celebrating, but you know, you got to enjoy, enjoy victories. No, enjoy victories.

Wake up tomorrow morning. We're on to game six. We need to close out a series. Okay. But tonight was really, tonight was great. Yeah, I mean, come on. Just, you know, let it, let it loose. I mean, everybody showed up today.

Everybody showed up today. Tyrese Maxie was phenomenal. Joellen Bede has been an absolute beast ever, ever since he told me that he wasn't honest. Yeah, yeah, you're right. I got my face. Like, Hardin didn't, he did his job tonight. He didn't need to go for 45 and that's fine. That's when this team is at their best,

when everyone is showing up to buy his Harris, also played great. I mean, it was a really, really, really nice game to watch. After almost having a heart attack in the last one, it was nice, you know, it was fun. We were with the fellas. We were playing lottery ball. Everyone was hanging out.

Jake was eating a bunch of popcorn. Sixers were dominating. Hank was crying. It was a great night. Yeah, yeah. Now, Max, I'm curious from your point of view, how much do you think Hank's wearing of the insult shirt going into the game played a factor? Does that give you any more motivation?

I don't give a fuck about that shirt. Hank, can you show her the shirt? I mean, look at Hank's face. Like, if you're watching, you should watch on the YouTube right now. Yeah. Because Hank's face is so, uh, it is, I know you Philly Sickos

are waiting to look at this face. And boy, and like in person, it is so much, it's so nice to see. Hey, Hank, I got a question for you as an ambassador for the Celtics fans. What do you think about your fans booing the Celtics was in the third quarter, booing the home team? Uh, you got to use some, you know,

you got to get under their skin, get the boys riled up. They did go on a mini sort of tiny run after that. Uh, so I had no problem with it. So, I have a couple of questions for Hank. Um, first question, and I don't think this series is over because, you know,

Celtics could show up on Thursday night and beat the Sixers, and then it's just everything that happened tonight is washed away. So Max, even though he doesn't really mean it, because I think he's going to go to bed like jerking off as he falls asleep in his girlfriend's roommate's bed. I, I, I, like, he's so happy.

He's like, it's over. I, nothing is ever over. I didn't, I said the opposite. I know what you're feeling. Just like Nick is smiling and we know he's dead inside. You're doing cartwheels inside little Max. No, I mean, it is, there are two more games left. There are two more games left.

So let's say they're going to lose game six. They could. Every, everything's on the table right now. Let's say the Celtics. That's the four right now. So I pointed this out to Hank at half time because a lot of the talk going into this series is like, this is the finale of sorts of the process.

James Harden, you don't know what he's going to do next year. Like if the Sixers can't get to at least the finals, it's going to be big time questions going on in Philly and what this team is underrated. It's kind of the same for the Celtics because Jalen Brown is looming out there and there's been talk about him leaving and find out if he's first team MB or he's going to be third team MBA on Wednesday to get the Super Max.

The Celtics, Hank, as it stands right this second, again, they could win the series, whatever, but let's say they lose in six. It feels like a team that they don't like each other. The way they play is like something's off and it's not, they are so talented and then you watch that and you're like, what is that? Yeah, you know, I think they just missed some shots.

They had a lot of good, good looks. Give us the honors. Free throws are free. You're dishonest. No, what is it, big guy? You're yelling at me all stream. You're not positive. Well, yeah, you weren't talking.

You weren't talking. And now I'm talking, I'm trying to be positive. Give us the honest opinion. Listen, we got two games left. Make your free throws if they make their free throws. This is worse. It's a completely different game. They had a lot of open shots in the first half

that they just missed, make or miss league. Now give us the other side. How bad it is if they lose this series. Come on, Hank. Give me the, give me, I know you're trying to spin it positive. I understand. I appreciate you trying to be positive, but just give me some of like the real what's going through your head.

I'm thinking about a soul patch in the summer in Chicago. I'm thinking about, and I shouldn't be thinking about this. I really should just be saying I'm focused on game six. Still got two games left. And I hate that this was even a thought that crept into my mind before the game, but watching the Lakers game last night and them going up three, one while the Celtics easily could have been up three, one.

They could have won the series for no for all the first, you know, games, games one and four were very winnable. And so the fact that the Lakers are up three, one in winnable games that they could have lost and the Celtics were tied going into a crucial game, five didn't have me feeling good. And now I feel even worse. What do you think about my comment that maybe they don't like each other?

Cause it does feel, it's weird seeing a team like that, that good in a game five at home. It's just fortunate when you had a, the same team last year and a coach who in these moments really, really brought them together and was, you know, he fired them up and kind of yelled at them when they needed to be yelled at. And it just seemed like, seems like that's not happening this year. And you have enough.

It's having a two first year coaches in a row sucks. I will bank, I will back-hank on one point. I do think Eme Udoka would, would they, this team would be playing different because it does feel like their defensive ability and intensity is different. And Eme Udoka got the most out of that, but man, were they bad? They were so bad PFT. Al Horford had zero points. Oh, for seven from three.

But, you know, again, the free throws, a couple of those shots fall, completely different game, very winnable. We lost PFT. Oh, damn. Okay. Hank actually just left the room because he had to take a poop and we were waiting for PFT to rejoin. So why don't we just have a talk without him here?

That, that was a shockingly bad performance from the Celtics tonight PFT. It was a dismantling. And I don't know, I feel like this is going to swing back though. I think it's going to be sixers next and then game seven, anything can happen. I actually, I had a question for you, Big Cat and Max. Don't listen to this because this is about you and Hank. But objectively speaking, who do you think would be funnier with a soul patch? Hank or Max?

Because I keep going back and forth. I think Max would be funny because he give off a vibe that's like the logo of a pizza joint slash tire replacement service. Yeah. That would be very funny. And his like round, cherubic face with the soul patch be very, very funny. And then Hank would give off more of like a meth dealer guy. Yeah.

Like with a, like with a big spoiler on the back of his Honda Civic, the guy that you definitely don't want picking up your daughter on a date. That's the vibe I would get from Hank with a soul patch. But I think all things being equal. I think Max would be funnier just because he's, he's definitely a beard guy. Hank's beard is just like his face. I think Max, I think big hairy guy. Yeah.

I mean, you're, he's fat. I didn't say that. Yeah. But that's okay. It would be, it's going to, it would be so many chins. He, so Max would be funnier. It would hurt Hank far more, far, far more. Yeah.

And that's funny though. Yeah. Exactly. So like in terms of like Max can bounce back from it. I don't think Hank, Hank might not be able to, there was a moment on the stream where Hank was lashing out at me and calling me fat. And I was like, dude, you don't think I've seen all the pictures of me being fat. It's just like, it completely rolls off my back at this point.

You and a soul patch is a fresh new pot of memes that you won't be able to escape. And he settled in his brain. He was like, Oh God. You know what he's got to do? He's got to go Jalen Brown, just wear a face mask. Yeah. Yeah. He, he was, it was an all time.

And I, I actually do agree with you. I liked, I don't think by any means this series is over because I still think the Celtics have the talent to, to win game six and then it's, you know, all bets are off for game seven. Hank's performance tonight was the biggest baby performance I've ever seen. He did not talk for the entire second half. It was shocking. He just, he turtled.

He actually got like mad at us in a moment. Go ahead, Max. Yeah. I mean, game three was a joke. So, so there was a moment during the stream where Max got mad at me specifically because I was, I was rooting for the Celtics to get closer. And then I was like, Max, I'm literally just rooting for the over. Cause I knew that like if the, if the, if the lead stayed at like 20 that they would just

not play the last five minutes. And then it dawned on him. He's like, all right, that's fair. And then he got mad at Jake for being positive for Hank. Well, I actually texted Jake in the middle of the third quarter to be overly, overly like Jake. I was like, be the most Jake you've ever been and tell Hank like every dunk, like, yeah, they cut it to 12.

So weird. I was throwing everything at him. But yeah, it was, uh, he just turtled. He completely turtled. I do think like deep down, he knows that this could be like the sounds could have some big questions going forward. And it does feel like they might've made a mistake with the coach and you could squander what's a wide open playoffs.

Again, Thursday could be different, but that was it. That was, that's a bad, bad loss. Yeah. It's tough. And Hank, Hank has gotten less mature as the show has gone on. He's, his maturity is aging in reverse. Yeah. He's like a like Benjamin Button, except of his ego.

It's been, it's been a sight to see. Uh, I, I, I like, you're right. You're right. The Celtics, if they end up losing the series, there's some tough questions, some things that they have to address. And it does feel like a wasted year and there's no worse feeling in sports than a wasted year where you know that you've got what it takes and you could win a championship and you just burn out in spectacular fashion.

That's, that's a pretty bad feeling. I hate that feeling. Cause I mean, Hank has been fortunate up to see how many parades. How many does that last all have on the sign? Like 14 parades since he's been, been alive. He's been fortunate to see a lot of success, but I do think that having a team and he cares about the Celtics, then he does any other team, having a team that could and should win the championship and then just losing it to Max's 76ers, that will be one that sticks with him

for a while. Hank is back. We, we had a little conversation while you were gone. Nothing really about you, more about the game. We'll talk some X's and O's on the game. I tell when you make this little baby face. We weren't talking about you. We weren't talking about you.

We were just talking about the game. I actually, well, I did say you were the biggest baby ever, but I said that to your face. How am I? Big Ad, you haven't been in it. You literally just, You don't know what it's like. I don't need to listen to PFT. I know what he's going to say.

That's it. I finally got it out of him. This is what I want. I want you lashing out. I just don't like what the fuck would you have done if you were watching that game? I would have gotten mad. I would have tried to change up the momentum. I would have used better body language.

How? Just fucking fire him up. I tried. He did try. He did try because there's a rumor on the street that we did the stream from in here tonight because Hank thought it would change the juju and it actually reversed it. Yeah. It's a fact.

I tried. I've had a bad experience in the gambling game. Your headphones on, Hank. He doesn't want to. He's icing out PFT right now. No. Hank's not being a baby at all. Hank, you're actually handling this.

Do you want me to let him know? No, it's fine, Jake. I know what he's trying to do. He's completely icing out PFT. That's fine. That's fine. Hank can't hang with it. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen, Hank.

I will say this for you, Hank. Hank's a baby-backed bitch. Oh, that was mean. Do you want to borrow your headphones? No. It's almost over. Being as big of a baby as you were tonight is a play. You care a lot.

I know you care a lot about yourself. They never were close. I was literally waiting like, all right, they're going to get it back. They're going to get it back. They're going to get it back. I don't think they probably didn't lead the game maybe in the first three or four minutes. 13-10 was the last time. 10-10 was the last time it was tied.

They started to score in the fourth quarter and they gave up possession. They gave up scores every single time on defense. They didn't get any stops. Please stop banging on the table. It's really bad for the audio. Well, he doesn't have the headphones. I know. I know.

That's why I wanted to tell him. But every time he bangs on the table, it's really bad for the audio. Oh, Max, is this what you wanted? You feel good? No, that little lash out did make me feel good. That's all I wanted. I wanted one little lash out. Oh, he's doing the baby face.

He's doing a silent boo boo boo boo boo. He's saying the words. He is. I will say egg on my face because Joe Ohm beat has been fantastic. And I did say Joe Ohm beats, not Yanis. And we did say that to Max that came three was a must win. They could maybe win the series after losing game three. Still yet to be decided, but he Max might might have one on all of us.

A big cat permission to do this real quick. Yeah, I think I think we should do another lottery ball to try to cheer Hank up. Okay. Numbers 17. Oh, 18. That's a false start. Oh, no.

Hank, I said numbers. You couldn't hear it because you don't have your headphones on. I don't know how I know it's a false start. How'd you know it's a false start? Because Big Head didn't say numbers. 17. 17. 18.

16. He beat us. One. Six. 21. Wait, does this count? Yeah, it counts. It counts.

Also self-report violation. I guess me and Billy technically had false starts too. Okay. 76. All right. So Billy, I said numbers on that one. I took it upon myself. I had no question permission to say numbers so that Hank couldn't hear.

Yeah. He called. All right. Yeah. That counts. Anyone can say numbers. We'll do it. No, no.

We'll do it again. No. No. No. It's chaos. It's chaos. It's chaos. It's chaos.

We will do another lottery ball before Hot Sea Cool Throw. Okay. No. This is. Yeah, we will. We will. We will. For Hank.

What? We will do another lottery ball. You know what? You know what? Bad idea. I said 17. Bad idea on my part. I no longer think we should do another lottery ball.

Okay. All right. Numbers. I don't want to do another one. All right. Hank has 17. 18. 20.

18. Okay. Hank. Jake got 18. 16. Are your headphones on? One. Imagine if they lose at Thursdays.

It'd be like 10 times worse. I'll do six. PFC, what'd you guess? 16. This is official? Yeah, this is official. Come on, Hank. Come on, Hank.

Come on, Hank. Oh, 84. Still a loser. Still a loser. For what it's worth, Big Cat was definitely rooting for you there. I was. I was rooting for you. That might have been the first time.

That might have been the first time he was actually rooting for you. Because that would have been all-time part of my take moment. Just put your headphones back on. He won't do it. This is great. All right. Yeah, Joel and Pete's been fantastic. Tyrese Max, he was incredible as well.

And it remains true that P.J. Tucker, like if you look at the box score, P.J. Tucker never looks like he does much. But if you watch the game, it's crazy how hard he crashes the glass and how he's like in every single play. Yeah. And I also think that Celtics defenders,

they're always thinking about them. Right. Even when he's not setting a screen, they're all in the back of their head. They're like, what if P.J. is Pesabi right now? And that does affect you. It's weird that you can't leave him. He can hit the corner of three.

So you can't leave him fully alone for that. But you also can't leave him alone because if you lose him in rotation, like he will go crash the boards and get a rebound. Yeah. Yeah. And Joel and Pete had a couple of really nice defensive plays. I wasn't able to watch the game with you guys, unfortunately, tonight, but every time he does something cool on defense,

I just think to myself, how loud is Max screaming? Get that shit out of here. So loud. So he was like, this guy's incredible. Did you see it? Like the way he hopped and then he did it. He was, yeah, he was very excited about that. Okay.

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Okay. I think the Lakers might win the NBA title PFT. I mean, it's tough to stop Lonnie Walker. Lonnie Walker is a fucking monster. What a fourth quarter by him. 15 points. 15 points in the fourth quarter. These games are tough to stay up for.

And then you have a Lonnie Walker fourth quarter. And like as much as I don't like LeBron, Lonnie Walker's story is an amazing story. And like you have to root for a guy like that who got, he was, you know, started at the beginning of the season, got injured, fell out of the full rotation. And then it has a moment like that.

Like could not, it became a Steph Curry verse Lonnie Walker showdown in the fourth quarter. And it feels like the Lakers with Anthony Davis, if he's playing at his best, LeBron doesn't have to be the best player. And then they have like a bunch of really good role players that can all step up in big moments.

They've had Austin Reeves, Lonnie Walker, Rory Hachimura, like D'Angelo Russell. They just, they're just tough. And I, I'm officially on scared that LeBron might win another title watch. Yeah. So it's tough to stop all those guys and Kobe at the same time. Cause I don't know if you saw RG threes tweet recapping the

entire ordeal, but RG three said Lonnie Walker's performance in the fourth quarter was out of this world. The last Lakers player to score 15 or more points off the bench in the fourth quarter of a playoff game was Kobe Bryant 26 years ago in 1997. Lonnie is 24 years old. We know it was you being, we miss you.

So, and then, and then if that wasn't evidence enough, the fact that it was Lonnie's 24 years old, same numbers, Kobe, he also did 1997. He broke that down. One plus nine plus nine plus seven equals 26. Two plus six equals eight,

which is Kobe's other number. Two minus six equals negative four, which is Lonnie Walker, the fourth's number. That doesn't make sense. RG three and then 24, Kobe's number and Lonnie Walker's age at the same time. So I think we can all agree that Kobe Bryant actually won that game for the Lakers, not Lonnie Walker.

Yeah. He was inside of Lonnie Walker's body and he, that was, that was Kobe Bryant out there. Yeah. But it was fun to watch Lonnie Walker do that at fourth. Like it seems like the Lakers do have guys that just come out of nowhere and all the Warriors need just maybe Jordan pool could not suck occasionally.

So he sucks. And it sucks for him. I'm having major stomach issues. Hank's having major stomach issues. Go ahead. When you come back, will you promise to put on your headphones again? Actually, he has not replied to me.

Big cat. Well, well, Hank's going out. I would like Max to take that spot. Max, you want to sit in the next spot? No, he's shaking his head. He's got to work the sound board. He wants to make sure. So he's shaking him off too.

I'm getting shake offs everywhere. So PFT, Jordan pool sucks and it sucks for Jordan pool to suck. Follow me along here. It sucks for Jordan pool to suck because every time he sucks, people just bring up the fact that Draymond Green knocked him out. They're like, oh, this probably wasn't good for for chemistry, team chemistry. So it's like one thing to suck,

but then also to suck so bad that everyone's like, hey, remember that time you got knocked out? That's extra suck. Yeah, at least Steve Kerr bounced back after Michael Jordan punched him in the face. And people are like, yes, we respect Steve Kerr now because he fought back from getting emasculated by his own teammate. But yeah, Jordan pool, he just all he has to do is just not suck.

Yeah. If Jordan pool can figure out a way to not suck, then the Warriors win the series, but unfortunately he sucks. I mean, last year in their like, I think the first round and also in the in the title against the Celtics like that, he was, remember, you'd have those spurts where you just be on fire. And that's what the Warriors are badly missing. I mean, they're playing Moses Moody and Gary Payton Jr.

Like that, like Jordan pool can't even get on the court and it's, it's crazy to watch. And as good as Steph was, he has triple double, I think scoring like 37 points. We do have to like say that that end sequence when he missed two shots in a row and then Draymond like Draymond was concussed. He actually was concussed. He hit his head so fucking hard in the second quarter, but Draymond

just driving the lane and then just throwing it to no one. And then you get a jump ball and Steph grabs the ball and throws it out of bounds with two seconds left. We would make fun of anyone else for doing that. So we have to say that Steph Curry, that was pretty, pretty bad, like late game execution by the Warriors where they felt like they had that game and they completely blew it. He had a time out too, right?

Yeah, they had a time out. The Warriors had a time out. Steph Curry got the ball, fell down on the ground. They won the jump ball, which is crazy. Or at least Steph grabbed the jump ball after Anthony Davis tipped it. So they had the ball, they had an opportunity to score. And then he just forgot the situation.

Didn't call time out. Draymond had a couple of those possessions where he gets, he gets ahead of steam going down the court and you can tell that he's out of control by the time he hits half court and that he's just going to drive it directly at the baseline. Now this was, this looked like it was a setup play at the end of the game where they were trying to get the ball to Draymond who was then supposed to do something besides whatever the fuck

he did with it. I can't imagine that was the design play that they were trying to run. But he sometimes gets the ball going at the baseline and just, you know, he's not going to stop. He's going to keep running full steam ahead. You know what it is, I think he has a little bit of Ben Simmons not wanting to go to the foul line in them where late in the game, he's like, he'll drive and you know, he's not shooting because he

doesn't want to get fouled and go to the line. So he kind of runs out of options because the defense knows that. And they can, they, you know, like they're able to close all the passing lanes in those moments being like, he's probably not going to shoot because he doesn't want to get fouled and he doesn't want to go to the line and it makes it that much harder for the Warriors to execute late. Yeah, he ends up playing chicken with the baseline. Right.

And the baseline usually wins that matchup. Yeah. So I do expect the Warriors to win game five. Yeah, five game five on Wednesday night. I think I actually might make it my game of the month, but I just don't know like they are at the point now where they need Steph to do a triple double and then he clay, they need like clay to, to somehow be old clay where he hits, you know, five threes in a quarter

or something like that to have a fighting chance in the series because it doesn't feel like they're getting much from anyone else. I saw an insult stat that I think ESPN threw out there yesterday about Steph Curry. He's over 12 on go ahead shots with 45 seconds or left 45 seconds or less left in the fourth quarter and overtime. Damn. So he's, he's never hit a shot like that. And that does go back to the Kevin Love, Anthony Davis, big man putting

the clamps on you on the outside. I suspect that they chose that stat because he probably has several go ahead shots with like 46 and 47 seconds left in the fourth quarter. Right. But still, he's never been a buzzer beater guy for whatever reason. But again, that Steph Curry is not the reason why they're losing these games. Yeah. No, definitely not.

Hank, we're talking about the Lakers you want to chime in. I don't think LeBron's even the fourth best player on that team. I've talked about it on this show before, but as much as I love watching my teams, I love rooting against LeBron even more. And I've had some bad experiences doing that. And last night it, it just is bad. Like, because I hate the Warriors and I hate how the Celtics were in close games versus the Warriors and the finals and couldn't close them out.

And I'm watching this game last night and it's like, this is the Warriors, like they're going to win. And then they miss all the shots that are making it to South Extreme on Green was making. I mean, that was the worst end of possession I've ever seen. And I don't think they're going to beat the Nuggets though. Okay. Okay.

So you're holding onto the Nuggets. If it's the Suns. Who knows? Yeah. Okay. Oh, PFT took off his headphones. I didn't, I didn't hear any of that. I have to just assume Hank was going, Oh, my, my ego is so tied into Boston

Sports success that when they crumbled in front of my face, I don't know what else to do. Is that what you said? Was I close? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I'm enjoying this show very much, very, very much. Okay.

Nick's heat, Julius Randall is so bad. He really is like, he's so bad. He's so, there were so many times where he was like either he'd be like fade away three or just like lackadaisical pass. And then after the game, he said, maybe the heat just want it more, which I don't think that's going to go over well in the New York crowd. Probably not. I can't figure out what Julius Randall does well.

He's the kind of player that when he plays poorly, you're like, Oh yeah, that makes sense. He doesn't look like he's very good at basketball. But then when he goes off, which he does from time to time, you're like, how the fuck did that happen? But he goes off enough to the point where it's confusing. But when I watch him play and he's not playing well, it's like, well, yeah, no shit. I don't think that he's very good. He just, he's a really streaky player, I guess.

He's injured. He's a little injured, which you got to give him. I mean, who knows how injured, but yeah, you're right. He's streaky. And I would say he has a nice spin move when it's working. And he can, when he wants to guard, he can guard multiple positions. But he, like talking about bad body language, like, I think Tibbs just left him out there to foul out.

Like he had his fifth foul with, it was like felt like nine minutes left. He's like, nah, I just, just fucking end this. Go foul out. Like we'll move on. Put a nobie topping. Yeah. That was his punishment is making him play more. Yeah.

That's what Tibbs is going for there. Actually, Mike Greenberg had an interesting take. He said that the heat were beating the Knicks because Miami's too hot. Ooh. And that, that only affects the Knicks for some reason. They go down there and it's, it's hot. And I actually kind of understand what he's saying because we were just down in Miami and we know how Miami is where it does kind of suck to be outside.

But Greeny was saying that, that that's the reason why the Knicks are losing the series just because, just because of the sun. Sun is too hot in Miami. And the heat, I mean, they're just good, Jake. Yeah. They're solid and Jimmy didn't even go off by Jimmy standards. But I'm complete. Yeah.

Hit me. Stay tuned. Store up our sports.com little teaser for later in the show. But yeah, I mean, I do agree with Julius Randall. The heat did not win that game. The Knicks lost it. Yeah. And they were just awful down the stretch.

Yeah. They're not, turns out they're probably not a very good team and they beat a worse team. But the series is not over. Back to the garden tonight. See what happens. Yeah, I guess. Also, Jalen Brunson is hurt too.

Yeah. We should mention that. No, they're not playing at 100%. So is Tyler Hero. Yeah. So is Tyler Hero. And so is Jimmy Butler. And I mean, what was it?

It was something like seven offensive rebounds in the fourth quarter for the heat. It was just. Yeah. They had a bunch. They just want, they did want it more. Like Julie, I guess Julius Randall should get credit. Yeah. No, he's not wrong.

You just never, you just never hear a player say that. Hank is physically in pain right now. My stomach is shambles. I know how you're feeling. This is Lamar Jackson. That's the worst. This is, you, it's just the Celtics have just ruined you. I'm sorry for making fun of you, Hank.

No, I'm not. All right. You didn't fall for that. Max is ready to jump on that. Be like, stop that. I was just also going to apologize for, for gloating. There you go. That was nice.

Yeah. Hank, I'd like to apologize too. Thanks. I was going to call you Marcus. I was going to call you Marcus shark, but I didn't. The fact that I thought about it. Nailed it. He doesn't have his headphones in.

Donate your brain to science. All right. So Thursday night we are going to, oh, you're, you're really, he's really lashing out now. Yeah. Go shit somewhere, poop boy. All right. So Thursday night we will stay up for all the games. We've been up a lot.

Uh, we're going to do a little choose your own adventure for nuggets sons. The nuggets right now it's in the second quarter. They're up eight. Uh, PFT, you want to start what means? Did he fart on the way out? Did he crop dust? Oh no. What a piece of shit.

He's the worst. I think the nuggets are going to win by five. Okay. I think they're going to win by 12. I think it's going to get really late. I don't think Devin Booker can keep up the pace that he's been on. So it's going to, it's going to be gross. Booker might even get in foul trouble.

The sons have no bench and they're fucked when he's out. So I like nuggets by 12. Boom. Okay. I also think Michael Porter is going to go off for 30. He's got 14 right now. He's got 14 right now. So it's a little bit of cheating 30.

But yeah, we will, we will be, uh, potting late on Thursday night. Um, for any, any games that could decide a series, uh, anything else. We have to, we talk all hockey with, uh, biz. So we could just, we could leave that. Uh, should we do one more lottery ball now that Hank has left? Yeah, sure. Okay. Hank, you ever gotten this?

Oh, he's not here. He's pooping his brains out. Uh, all right. Numbers. 17. Oh, Max got 17. 18. Is this official?

Yeah, this is official. Yeah. Number two for Hank. Okay. I'll do six because that's probably what he would have guessed if he didn't get it. 17. I'll go 99. This is official.

So count this as Hank's not getting this. I hope, I hope 17 pops up here. Let me call him and see if he wants to do a number because that would actually be funnier if he got it when he wasn't even here. Hey, this has been a great show. Hey, what, what number do you want? Uh, 17 already got taken. Are you there, Hank?

Hank, he's going to put the phone up to 40. Okay. Good guess. All right. You want to stay on the line for it? Sure. All right. I'm actually rooting for him to get this.

54. Damn, Hank. 54. That's tough. Damn. All right. How many minutes a day do you think Hank, Hank spends actually just thinking about numbers every day?

Every day. All right. Oh, shout out Alex Caruso. Yeah. First team all defense NBA first. How does he say this? He's the first Italian American to win that award in like 40 years. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We have a great rest of the show. PFC is back in studio for hot seat, cool throne for biz and we got some big time FAQs from the listeners. So let's kick it back to ourselves. Okay.

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Okay. Hot seat cool throne. Henry. My hot seat is Will Leviss, unfortunately. It's not really, he's not on the hot seat, but it's more just insult to injury, post draft. There's been a lot of articles and reports. People have talked to owners and it's basically come out. The cold said they would have taken him if Richardson wasn't available.

Ouch. The Titans said they would have taken him at 11 if Skoranski wasn't there. The Ravens probably would have taken him at 22 if they hadn't had Lamar. And the Panthers asked, we thought, he said, you thought highly of all three QBs. And he said, no, we thought highly of all four QBs. Shit. I kind of like that though. If you're an NFL team and you can always just throw out there like we wanted to take this

kind of draft night, nobody will remember that if he ends up stinking in like three years. And the chance that he's good, you can always point back and be like, we actually had him. We were going to take him at number 11. The board just went different. Yeah. That's what a lot of people did with Lamar, even though Lamar fell like real far, like Sean Payton every couple of months would be like, you know, I stood on the table for Lamar. I mean, we had Bruce Arians on the couch and he was like, I want Patrick Mahomes.

We're going to get Patrick Mahomes. Right. Yeah. Just get it out right away. That way everyone can look back. And when they do the Google, you know, search, they're like, oh, yeah, they actually said they wanted them right after the draft. Yeah.

And for me, it's real because every quarterback, I just want a new quarterback every year because it's fun. It's like a shiny new toy. Yeah. Exactly. So every year I'm like, I wanted that guy. Like I won Will Levis and Hinden Hooker this year. Last year, I think I also said I won Malik Willis, but nobody really remembers that.

So we're just going to pretend that never existed. Never, never, never said that. Never said that. Never happened. But it's fun. It's fun to want a quarterback and to say that you want a quarterback and with, you know, having no real consequences when you don't get that. Yes.

So I actually, for Will Levis, it kind of sucks to hear this, but also kind of, you know, maybe softens it a little bit to be like, Hey, they weren't just passing on me because I put mayo in my coffee. Yeah. But the money side of it puts a little fire in your belly. And you can also, I mean, we're spin zone masters on this show. He's second round pick now. He will get to his free agency year faster and he could get paid more money.

If he has a really good long career, Jalen Hertz just got paid big, big bucks. So that, you know, spin it that way. No state income tax either. Then my cool throne are Darling Jake, Barstool Sports, Broadcasting Future. Jake and the four play guys are going to be broadcasting a corn fairy tour in June. Hell yeah. Congrats. July 27th.

July 30th. Very excited. Just outside of Chicago. I think you guys might be involved too. I'm sure Hank will be. Yeah. Definitely Hank will be there. What's the qualifying setup for the corn fairy?

I'm going to dive into that. Are you thinking that you can make the corn fairy tour, Hank? You never know. How sick with that? Well, based on my limited experience playing PGA Tour 2K, it's not easy. Yeah. You're going to have to at least test out the course. Oh yeah.

I plan on testing it out too. Okay. Jake, do you have your like silent, you know, whisper, gym dance whisper ready? Yeah. I mean, we did the mini golf broadcast in February. Maybe that was good practice, but I can't get excited for this. Okay. Unless there's a hole in one.

If there's a hole in one, you should be able to go crazy. Yeah. The tournament is presented by Old National Bank, which is, which I just thought was cool. Yeah. That's good. That's a strong name. A strong name for it. Like the old, the old national.

That was George Washington's bank. That bank will never go broke. Yup. They would punch SPF in the face if you walked in the door. Yes. Bill, you want to say something? Get your amps out of here. What's the corn fairy tour?

It's the tour below the PGA Tour. Okay. So like guys playing the corn fairy. It's like the G League. Yeah. And if they, certain guys get promoted, they get their PGA card after playing. Yeah. If someone wins this, maybe they can get elevated.

Those are the best stories. Yeah. If you get what, five wins on the corn fairy tour, then you get your card. There's so many ways to play tournaments in the PGA. It's very cool. Like the qualifying system, it's not like other sports where it's like, you just have to go up a certain rank. There's so many different ways to possibly qualify to play on the PGA Tour.

Sounds like you're getting some ideas. I mean, I'm thinking about it. You can stick with the corn fairy. I'm all about the live. I'm just going to make it to the PGA Tour. It's a live or die for me. It's going to be great. Yeah.

It's going to be awesome. Prep starts now. Okay. Hold on to part five. Yeah. What's the distance? Handicap is a seven. It's one of the longest holes on the course.

Depends. But you can reach it in two if you're a longer hitter. If you're not a pussy. What course is it? Oh. Glenview. It's in Glenview. Okay.

Okay. Actually speak the devil here. The Glen Club. Okay. You know who runs PR for the corn fairy tour? It's Tad from the Jaguars. Remember him? He was a PR guy.

He just hit me up. He said, let's get this broadcast handshake. Nice. He's excited. Let's get it. That was like a private conversation. I don't think anyone who's listening know who Tad is. No.

Tad. People around the league know Tad. Trust me. This is a podcast. The people listening. When you said that, I was like, what famous person runs the PR? Yeah. Tad is.

Tad. That's a great name. He's the best Tad that you'll ever meet. Yeah. No. He's a great dude. Didn't he get us in the pool? Yeah.

He got us in the pool. Loved it. So there you go. Tad. Is that short for Tadworth? I don't think so. I think it's Tad, you'll. Taderick.

Yeah. Tad. Tadly. Tad. But I was actually thinking about this. I know we just talked about the playoffs and everything, but Lonnie should be Lonald. Yeah. It should.

Lonnie should be Lonald. That should be his name. I was thinking Lonathan. Lonathan's good too. I think it's Tadwick. Tadwick. No, that's Chadwick. Tadly.

Tadathan. It's probably like Theodore. Taddison. What is Tad? I think. Is it Tad? No. No, it can't be.

That would be. Theodore. Tad is a male given a name or shortened version of Thaddeus or Thomas. And then there's also one that's, this looks Irish, T-A-D-H-G. Who the fuck knows how to say that? Thag. Be real pronounceable. Careful.

Yeah. That was not Mike Tyson on the show. That was just me saying that. Yeah. Okay. Hot seat, cool drum, PFT. My hot seat is Max. Oh.

Max is on the hot seat because you know what's going on this week. What? The Westminster Kittle Club show. Oh no. The dog show here in New York where you remember who won last year? Yeah. All-time winner last year. Which just remind me just as a bulldog, wasn't it?

No. It was Trumpet the Bloodhound. Oh yeah. It was a great, great Bloodhound. First Bloodhound to ever win. I wish that they would let the dogs defend their titles. Yeah. They should come back.

You just have to beat the dog to be the dog. Yeah. So yeah, Trumpet's out this year but they're out at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Yeah, we got. So it should be like outside this year. Yeah, we got invited and I was like, oh, for like, you know, credentials so we can go behind. They're like, no, they just wanted to give you tickets. I was like, no, thanks.

Yeah, no. It's a far way to go to see a dog. I think we also got invited for credentials and stuff like that too. No, I asked. They said no. Oh, I got. You got credentials? I saw different.

What do you got? I saw different. I got it for you. I saw different. I hooked it up. And all the hookups? No, I saw different. I thought that we were invited to go out there as, because remember that's where Hank and

I got arrested back in 2017. At MSG. At MSG. Yeah. So they're out at Arthur Ashe Stadium right now. They had the agility drills last night, which are always fun to watch when you see the kids go through the little sticks. Yep.

Doing the two pause, two pause, two pause. I want to see just a full dog combine. I also like when they just take a shit. That's funny. Yeah. When dogs like, I got to go right now. Yep. That's like throwing a pick six.

Or when the judge just like gets right up in them, like a little too close. Yeah. And the judge is enjoying it a little too much. Yeah. You know, there's some freaks that are dog show judges, some absolute freaks. Yes. Okay. And your cool throne?

My cool throne is Jim Ursay. Oh. He's taking some matters into his own hands. There was a report that came out two days ago that the commanders last year contacted every quarterback in the league, including Patrick Mahomes, to see if they could get them on the commanders. And they allegedly also reached out either to Andrew Luck or to somebody with the Colts to see if Andrew Luck would want to come back.

Jim Ursay read this or somebody told him about it on ESPN.com. And then Jim Ursay tweeted out that this would be clear tampering violation and that he wants the NFL to look into allegations of tampering. Probably just to fuck Dan Snyder over one more time on his way out the door. Yeah. Which I'm all in favor of. I think they should probably look into arresting him and putting him in jail for that, if that happened.

The Washington football team, like that actually was a good thing they were doing. Yeah. Why not reach out to every single quarterback? Yeah. I don't mind it at all. It's good. Like, yeah. Everyone, you should call Andrew Luck every off season.

Just be like, hey, you feel like playing football? Yeah. Make them hang out. Are you done with architecture? That's how deals get done. But what's the punishment for tampering if it's like a player? I mean, the dolphin's got a pick taken away. Yeah.

So it could be severe. It's usually a fine and a pick. The Cardinals did too, right? Yeah. So with Max's guy? You don't want to pick. I don't want that. So just we'll reach compromise, just arrest Dan Snyder.

Okay. And I think that would be fine. I think that would satisfy all parties. That's perfect. All right. My hot seat is our friend Bob Huggins. Yeah. He shouldn't have said that.

Yeah. He shouldn't have said that. He wouldn't. He shouldn't have said that. He went on. Why'd he say that? He said it twice too. He did say it twice.

He said it twice. He shouldn't have said that. He shouldn't have said it, Bob. Come on. We love you, Huggie Bear. You can't use that word. No. That's also like, you couldn't use that word for a very long time.

No. That's not like, we're not on like a word transition time. Yeah. Where it's like, well, you know, he's an old guy. Like, no, that word's not good for a long time. I don't know if Bob can even play the PC card. Like, oh, the world's gone crazy. No.

I can't even go on the radio. I think he actually like, he released an apology immediately, which I respect that because it is good to like, just say like, I really fucked up here because you really can't say much more. Mm-hmm. I hope this doesn't get him fired. But you can't say that. Yeah.

On the radio or in life. Yeah. When does Castellanos play again? Yeah. That's what you're going to say, Billy. I mean, you are. Well, some guys just get the grandpa card. No, I don't think so.

I don't think Huggins. Yeah. The grandpa card, I think could have been played maybe in the late 90s, early 2000s on that one. Yeah. I don't think this, this is, this one works. Unless Bob Huggins was like, you know what? I'm gay.

Yeah. I can say it. That's true. In that case, that might play. Yeah. If he kisses a man. Yeah. Yeah.

He's just the office now. Yeah. Yeah. I don't say that. If he makes out with Mick Cronin at the center circle, I think we can put that in the past and move forward. Also, the radio hosts, like, they're like, isn't Bob Huggins the best right after it?

It's like, what? Like, it's just a very bizarre thing all around. If you have Bob Huggins on the air after 11.30 a.m., you might, you have to be prepared for something like this to potentially happen. Yeah. So I wish he hadn't said that, not good. I don't say that.

I do. I'm not big into, like, this guy should lose his job. But the whole thing sucks. Yeah. He should have said that. Since it's West Virginia, they might not care as much. Yeah. They might say and do all the right things for now.

And then they'll be like, we've put Bob through. He did the old, like, when Riley Cooper went to go to seek treatment for saying what he said. Right. For saying slurs. Yes. All right. My cool throne is a Chicago Blackhawks.

We're going to talk about it with Biz as well. But they won the lottery. Hank won the lottery. He predicted the Blackhawks would win the lottery. Connor Bedard from everything that I've heard is next up. I got a little swept away in the moment. I watched a highlight video. There's like a 20 minute highlight video I was watching.

And I did buy season tickets. So I hope everyone here likes to go to hockey games because we're going to go to a lot of hockey games. I love hockey. I got swept up. I mean, he looks, I know there's a lot of pressure on him, but he does feel like a can't miss guy. I've got a trade proposition for you.

Okay. I put on your GM hat because I'm assuming that the wizards are going to get Wimbanyama, even though they only have like a 6% chance. But let's just say for this hypothetical, they get him. Yeah. I would trade you Wimbanyama for Connor Bedard. No.

Do you accept or no? No. You don't take that trade. Here's why. Because Jerry Reinsdorf is a piece of shit and he getting Wimbanyana would suck. Like he would ruin it. He would find a way to ruin it.

I want him to sell the team. Not once Dan Snyder officially sells a team. We're going to move on to Jerry Reinsdorf for all of our efforts on selling teams. No. I mean, I, I'm very, like it was, it was the combo of watching it happen. Obviously people thought it was rigged because there was a

little bit of a weird thing that happened where they just eliminated the blue jackets before showing the blue jackets. And then the Oilers, I was watching the Oilers national anthem and the pregame and everything. And I got very swept up in it. And I was like, I'm buying season tickets. Fuck it. Good.

Yeah. And we're going to go to a bunch of gates. I mean, right when it went to commercial break and going into that break, I think it was Kevin Weeks. Yeah. That said, and the blue jackets are the first team to move down a spot as the Blackhawks move up. I was like, wait, I didn't, I didn't see that.

It was very bizarre. Where did that come from? And then we came back and then, then they did the drawing. So I don't need, did they get to show the blue jackets logo? They did after the commercial. After they came back and then the Blackhawks moved up. And I was like, wait, I thought we already taught what's going on right now.

At that moment, I was like, this is, this is good for the NHL to have him in Chicago. Yeah. Like I actually think I'm happy that you got him because having the Blackhawks be good while we're in Chicago is going to be awesome. It's going to be fun to watch. But we also got to see an all time moment together where like

20 years from now, we're going to look back on this night. It's going to be part of the lore around Connor Bedard, which is like the NHL rigged the draft for Chicago, which I'm fine with. I mean, don't apologize for, for, for getting the winning side of this. Yeah. The Ducks.

Really? We're going to have him go be Mike Trout Jr. Come on. In Anaheim. Come on. No, no, this is a good thing for the NHL, but it's also fun to just be there in a moment in time and know that looking back on it, we're going to be like, I'm going to tell my kids one day.

Yeah. I'm going to sit Chris down and be like, you know why the Blackhawks just won their fifth in a row is because they rigged it for Chicago. Yeah. Also because the woke NHL wanted to ruin Columbus day. Yes. Yes.

I mean, the bulls have like a 2% chance, I think, but that would be because now it's two, two for two last two drafts. Number one pick. Mm-hmm. So I've been giving this some, some, a lot of thought just because the move is happening next month and it's different in New York because they're rivals rivals of Boston teams. I'm going to be a Blackhawks fan, a Cubs fan bears.

Like I'll be rooting for all those teams to be successful. Yeah. I'm going to be more fun when they are. People can call me a fake fan, but it's more fun. I've said it about New York a bunch too, even though they're rivals, it's more fun living in a city when the sports teams are really good. You also are buying stock at the absolute lowest.

Yeah. The Chicago sports cannot be worse. They are now back to back number one picks. That means you're a really bad team. The White Sox are an absolute disaster. The Cubs are like, they're hanging around. They might make the wild card, but every team is as bad as it possibly can be.

So the only way to go is up. Turn it around. Or maybe worse. It could get worse. It's always weird to me that Chicago is in the West. I always have to remind myself about that. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, remember Detroit was in the West until a few years ago. I thought Chicago was Cowboys, NFC East. Yeah. Yeah. Arizona used to be in the NFC East. The Tampa Bay Bucks used to be in the NFC Central, which is the North.

Yeah. No, I'm very much looking forward to the Blackhawks potentially being good. He looks so good. And you guys are going to have to go to a bunch of games. So I'm not like burning tickets like why did I do this? I'm ready. OK.

All right. Good. Billy. Also, wait real quick. If you're the NHL, you should absolutely rig the draft. Duh. This is entertainment. Yes.

Listen, you're a multi-billion dollar corporation. Do you want your best players to be playing for teams that nobody cares about? Yeah. No, you don't. You want them in Chicago. Yeah. And like people were saying the NHL doesn't rig the draft.

That's why McDavid went to Edmonton. No, you want Canadian teams to be good too. Yeah. That's a historically great franchise. Pretty much the only two teams you don't want to be good or don't care about are the Columbus Blue Jackets to Anaheim Docks. Yeah. I would say the Yachts are probably on that list too.

The Coyotes. But they're building a new stadium. They are. So that does count for something. And they got Biz loitering around too. Yeah. But Biz will tell us how good Conor Bedard is because everyone says he's incredible.

I think Columbus could be kind of a hockey town. It could, but we're just saying in terms of the NHL, they don't. True. But it's very clear that the original six is what the NHL, like if they had a dream playoff run, that's what they want. Yeah. Columbus, it's a sneaky big city. Yeah.

There are a lot of people there. No, I'm not shitting on Columbus. I'm saying the NHL is. And I'm sure that they like their Blue Jackets in Columbus. It's like a sports town. So of course they care about their sports teams. But from the business standpoint of the NHL, you should definitely be rigging the draft.

And if you did rig the draft, you would make sure that your generational talent goes to Chicago and not to Anaheim. Yes. Yes. Billy. My hot seat is everyone in the Northeast and Midwest. Oh, we had a very mild winter. That's a lot.

That's a lot. You're talking about the Megalopolis. Yeah. No, no, not down south. OK. There was a mile. What about west? What about California?

Probably to the Mississippi. OK. Got it. Some parts of the southeast. OK. We had a very mild winter. There's a lot of ticks. Tick-borne diseases are no joke.

You say tick-borne? Tick-borne. It's tick-borne. You said tick-borne? Tick-borne diseases. Have you been watching tick-borne? You did just say tick-borne and tick-borne. You just stick your whole head in there and tick-borne.

Yeah. There's this new one, babbiosis. Sometimes you might get bit by a tick and just start breaking out in hives every time you eat red meat. But just be careful out there. Do tick checks. Get a buddy. Get naked.

Check each other for ticks. Because it's no joke. Now this is tick-borne. It's not worth it again. Yeah. You just described tick-borne. Yeah. It's like.

It's pretty bad. I feel like I've been out in the woods. Yeah, me too. Some type of primal, like monkey-borne aspect of that, that is kind of right up your alley too. Yeah. Pick ticks off your friends and eat them like monkeys. What do ticks do other than be motherfuckers?

Well, I mean, it's all about the wolves, man. We killed all the wolves. The deer population exploded. And then the tick population exploded. But what do they do? Because I know that if you. They're parasites. Yeah, but.

I think birds eat them. Right. Whenever you say, like, let's get rid of this. Everyone's like, well, if you got rid of this, then the whales would die. And this would fucking, you know, the climate would change. What do ticks do? I'll tell you what they do, big cat,

is they keep Billy's fertility in check. Because if it wasn't for ticks and all the weird diseases and rashes he's gotten, there could be untold numbers of Billy football is running around. Can we just like. That's good for the environment. The ticks. What is this?

Well, I might be wearing a frontline collar this year just because of last season the ticks won. It's like the concussion thing. All right. Here we go. Ticks are our favorite food source for chickens, turkeys, and other ground birds like grouse, a strong and important link in the food chain.

See, that's, they always say the food chain and it's always bullshit. Because there's no way a chicken, if you gave a chicken chicken or a tick, they would eat the chicken. Yeah. They're cannibals. Or a corn.

If you've made the chicken nice. Yeah. Right. So ticks. Do you want to be eating chicken that was raised eating ticks? I don't. No.

I want to eat the chicken that ate chicken. Yeah. Double protein. Right. It's turducken. Yeah. Yeah. But it's, they always just say the food chain.

Fuck the food chain. Yeah. I'm anti-tick. I think as a podcast we are all anti-tick, right? Huge anti-tick. Max? No. Because ticks kill dogs.

Anti-tick. Yeah. I'm done with the dog thing. Are you actually mad about the dog thing, Max? I actually, last night, I was dog-stating a dog. It was nice. Did it survive? Yeah.

It was cuddling with the dog all night. I'm a great dog guy. I have pictures to prove. Okay. What type of dog was it? This is, is this like I have a black friend? Is this what you're doing right now? That does kind of sound like that.

You just happen to be with a dog last night that you have pictures with? That happened. Look at me hanging out with my cool dog. Yeah. This is awesome. Max, you should go to Westminster Kennel Club. Yeah.

And just so we're clear, Max, you may be done with the dog thing. We are not. Okay. Yeah. I mean, that's just a fact. Yeah. I mean, there's video evidence. Yeah.

Well, I have evidence too. It's not, well, you have pictures. We're talking about motion pictures, moving pictures. Right. A video of you ignoring a dog. But I have, I mean, enough pictures make motion pictures. Those could be out of context. We don't know.

Video could be out of, what? Video is not out of context. Seconds before you strangle the dog. You know what, Max? Wrong. Not this weekend, but next weekend, if you babysit my dog. No, don't do this, Max. No.

No, no. Then it proves you like dogs. Max, there are a lot of pictures of John Wayne Gacy being a funny clown around kids. That's true. It doesn't show the end of it. All right. Now I'm John Wayne Gacy. Of dogs.

Of dogs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You won't dog sit my dog. No. Billy's just wanting something for free.

All right. Yeah. There's been 200 pages of exculpatory evidence that's been released. That's kind of cleared his name. So yeah, it's the whole story is fucking bullshit. The whole thing's crazy. Don't go into the details, but, you know, he got tore down pretty bad. Don't want to another Sean Oakman situation.

Hopefully he gets his career back on track. I think I think some team will probably punt God. Yeah. Yeah. He is the punt God. Yeah. It's it's pretty fucked up. So hopefully he does.

He is on a roster. Jake. My hot seat is bad football teams. Because I just noticed your shirt, by the way. Yeah. That was my cool throw in the Barstool store. Okay. But I'm wearing the Hemi shirt.

Hang trying Celtics. That might be the official death of the Hemi. Yeah. Hemi. Wait, was it? Was it? He was wearing a war up there. I mean, it's funny.

It's funny, but it's also like, ah. Was it? Was it from the sports center account last year that said like, who's more him? Yeah. I thought it was over then. No. Hemi. Yeah.

Hemi. Jake rocking the Hemi. I'm just promoting. We've got Brickwall Bob. Why not go Jimmy Himmler? Oh wait. No. This isn't the best promotion of our of our own merch.

The Panthers. The Panthers. You've done better. And no, I agree. We've done better. Dude's Timothy McVeigh. White hot playoff. You guys want to describe?

And Jimmy Beach for us. Yeah. Yeah. Hanks rocking an awesome shirt. It looks like it's Lucky the Leprechaun. Just dunking on Ben Franklin. That's pretty cool. And then anti-American.

But that's okay. Max has feared the beard. Some great playoff shirts. I have stored up arstelsports.com. The Hemi might be growing on me. It's funny. It is funny. Three one.

It's one of those shirts that here's the pitch here. Here's how we'll do it Max. That Hemi is a shirt you got to buy now because it's going to be a relic in like 20 years. Like what was that? Someone's going to be like, why do you have a shirt that says Hemi? Yeah. And then you'll be like, well, you got to understand what 2023 was right. Yeah.

Everyone was him. Okay. Yeah. I might be using last minute game time tickets. And if I do, I might have to rock this to the garden. You got to rock Hemi. Yeah. Yeah.

Let him know. Exactly. When the heat wins the series, in the next round, when, come on, Jake. Come on, Jake. When they win the series, you should have to wear that shirt all series long next series. Okay. Not change it. How's the kettle corn going?

I'm a little behind. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Sounds like it's not the best to eat. No, it is. Oh. Well, then you should have. The kettle corn.

Yeah. Sounds like you haven't eaten all the kettle corn. I have not eaten all of it. Okay. So what was your hot seat? My hot seat is bad football teams because the NFL announced the announcement to the schedule and not all teams are guaranteed prime time games. So next episode we'll have the schedule.

Yes. And I'm very excited because so not all teams will have prime time games. There's going to be teams can have two Thursday night games and there's no Fox CBS. So it's just like NFC being Fox CBS being a C doesn't exist. They spengles could be on Fox. Yeah. They messed around a little bit with that last year. There were a couple of games where I was like, why are I don't know the Broncos and

the Raiders playing on Fox? This makes no sense to me. So it's going to take some getting used to when you see that happen all the time, but at least we've dipped our toes in it. So it's not going to be a total shock. I like the Black Friday game too because I know that people will make the argument like the Sunday slate will be weak because there will, you know, there'll be three games on Thursday, one game on Friday, you're taking away a bunch of games.

I kind of like that. It's like the cool down for a long Thanksgiving football, like having only a few games you have to watch on that Sunday is nice. It's nice because that's also a big travel day. Yeah. So a lot of people be able to travel without worrying about missing their game. Also it's 500 IQ play by Jeff Bezos and the NFL. Make sure people stay home as much as possible on Black Friday.

Yeah. Do their shopping online. That's what you're going for. That might be my one, one pick of the year, a week of the year as Thanksgiving week because like not only the football, but college basketball feast week and the food, there's so much. Yeah. I don't really like food. What do you mean?

The turkey? I'm not a pig eater. World Cup and Qatar has happened at least one time before on that week too. Yeah. True. It's a great spreadsheet. Friday we can break down our schedules. Okay.

Yeah. We're going to break down our schedules. There's an A plus for the design. Yeah. I like the system. Well, maybe draft which weeks. Yeah. Oh yeah.

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We thought, let's get this guy on because he's on your TV every single night working marathon shifts, which we want to talk about, but Biz, we should start with you telling me how good Conor Bedard is because obviously that was big news on Monday night, the Black Ox going from third to one franchise altering. I saw people tweeting at you like, he's already better than Conor McDavid. Yeah. Well, I might have asked that question. I also got a little.

You've got some real bag liquors that follow you on social media. You say jump, they'll say, how are you, Mr. Big Cat? I watched a highlight video of him. It was like 10 minutes long and then I immediately bought season tickets. No, that was just game tape from one game. Yeah. So I'm in. I bought season tickets.

I'm in. Like he's, he, is he going to be as famous saying, yeah, you buy low sell high and it's as low as it can get for the Chicago Blackhawks. But just buddy, the way they're talking about him, it's like getting a Conor McDavid. Like, I mean, who was the guy before him? Sidney Crosby, Patrick King. Crosby. Yeah.

It's not like they spoke about Ovechkin, but like they're in Russia, right? So you just like really never know, but I actually played under 18 against Ovechkin. And I think that he was a year younger than me. And you're like, this guy's a 35 year old man, right? Just running around here, shooting the puck harder than I've ever seen. So I was like, this guy's going to come over and light it. But as far as they're talking about him, yeah, it should be another Conor McDavid. Did you hear the story about how his shot came to be?

No. Whit was the one who dug it up. I guess he like broke his hand in a certain spot at a certain age, where the doctor said, hey, this is, you don't move this, like don't get antsy about like stick handling pucks. Like you can't move your hand because this could like stunt your growth and become a problematic area for you. So he literally, like he's like a hockey psycho. So when the doctor told him that, he was like, he didn't move his arm, but what he did do

was he was shooting pucks and he learned how to shoot with just his top hand. Oh, I love that. So he was like using his leg leverage. So he, but he just like developed strength and a flick of the wrist with his top hand that is just like, it's like Popeye like, and it's actually not a bad thing that your bottom hand is very loose and up and down the shaft very lightly, right? Like just, ah, you know, and your bottom hand should always cradle. And that's where the stick handling comes from.

And the top hand does all the load in the heaviness. So he has this like shot that, you know, all the big boys who have skated with them because all the hockey nerds always get together in the lab and they travel around, skate on the same training rinks in the summer. So they have the upper hand and they stay there. Kind of like the, you know, when Jordan used to get the games going and they say his shot is like the best they've ever seen. Like it's, it's, it's like insane how he's, what he's able to do and how he's

able to quickly elevate the puck and he's just, he has a lethal shot. So, so, so it's, it's cool. He's a phenom. So what, what other part, like what would, how do you describe his game? Like his, his attributes or maybe what is, what is he going to have to work on to, to be impactful? Cause he's going to play right away, I would assume. Yeah.

So I would say that he's like highly skillful, like great hockey sense, like good hockey brain, good playmaking ability too. So he's a good passer, but you, you just always question whether a guy that size, and I would say that I think that he's, he's fairly quick, but you never know how it transfers to when you get to like NHL speed. Cause he's only played junior. Right. Uh, so you always just question, like, well, he had that jump in the NHL, which

when you lose that, those passing lanes closed down a little bit more. And you know, your shots, no, your shot is, is heavy for junior and beating goalies like crazy like that. But now you got to beat NHL goalies who are way better than junior goalies. So you just never know if it transfers over. And then the last aspect would be size. He's like five nine. So it's fucking.

Did you say nice? No, he's perfectly average size, but in today's NHL, you can get away with that. Yeah. I would say that you buddy, if you're going to be a first line center in the national hockey league, you usually want to be five, 11, six foot around that minimum. Okay. First of all, don't buddy me. Second of all, you got the skates on that get, that gets you right up to six feet.

You're an idiot. They all get, they all get the three inches, buddy. That's a good point. His skates are a little bit, he's five 10. He's listed at five 10. But wouldn't you say it is fair to say he's like, he's like a PFT. He goes on his tippy toes for those measuring jobs. But in, in, in, he's wearing the three layers of socks.

No, it's the, the Nike 270. That's my secret. He's smaller. Yes. But like similar to the NFL with quarterbacks, like the game has changed where it's a lot more speed and it's not as much like big dudes. 100%. So the, the counter argument back is saying the league is, is, is built, built

now and heading in a direction where it benefits player of his skill set. I would compare him to like a messy where it's like, let's see if he could be a little messy out there when he's just doing all these fucking fun little things. And he's just lethal and he's like dipping and diving. But Mitch Marner, who on my Toronto Maple Leafs, it doesn't always transfer to playoff hockey as well. So you can have as much regular season success when he's like a hundred point guy and when push comes to shove, the size always becomes a factor at some point.

So how does that work in the NHL when you have a top tier talent that's expected to come in, contribute almost immediately? Like, is there, is there any conversation they're going to have of like, let's not move this guy up until it's time for him. And maybe we'll start him elsewhere and then bring him in during the season. I don't know. I just feel like he's such a hockey psycho because you could tell he's just fully all the time dialed in a hockey.

So that's how these other greats, like you talk about McDavid and Crosby. So I would say that you don't put the reins on someone like that. What Chicago needs to do is they need to go up and get a few crafty free agents who he can play with. So he's not like the Crosby when he came in, I feel like they got enough guys early where they loaded him up where he could learn and play with players that could make plays. So you don't want to put him on an island to where if he's not playing

one of these skillful players, it's going to be a lot harder for him to step in and like continue to gain that confidence because confidence is a big part of it too, right? You want to these kids are he doesn't he doesn't want to have an OK first season. He wants to win the Calder. Right. You know, that's how that's how he's tapped. So you got to make sure you surround him for success and make sure that you allow the reins to come off and and and let him go early.

So because you don't want to like a guy like so, for instance, like the Rangers always like, oh, we got this Lafreniere first overall. But it's like, yeah, but they weren't talking about Lafreniere like they're talking about Badard. So what about both? Sorry, what about some of the other guys around him? Because I understand what you're saying with that one. But the penguins also brought in some goons when they got Crosby to protect him a little bit. Do you think the Blackhawks, should they be looking in the

Goon department? Well, 100 percent go go like, I don't know if Reeves is up, buddy, go pay him two million a year for for two years to give him a two year deal, maybe even a three year deal. And you just say, Revo, we're going to give you and if the team's not that great, he's going to get to play a little bit. If anyone goes, if anyone breathes on him, Revo goes up and just I would sign the two tough disguise. I'd have to I go after Deloria to just put a Goon line

on the fourth line and nobody's going to go near him. And like that, and there's still a little bit of that in the NHL. And I feel like the pendulum has swung back in that direction. Like how do you feel like the playoffs have been a little bit more extra violent? Yeah, I like awesome. Mostly get Wi-Fi on the team. What's his name? What's the guy's real name? I could Wi-Fi. That's all I know.

Wi-Fi on my last question about Badard in the lottery. Is the lottery here? I'll give him a double risk there for you. Let me get the lotion out. I'm asking questions. He's not, there's going to be a plenty of time for me to go crazy for him. I was thinking about naming my unborn son Connor, but I was like, that's a lot of pressure to put on Badard if he's not good. But what is the draft lottery?

You don't need the jock sniffer's phone. You know, Twitter going after him and his family because he didn't leave up to the hype. So now your son has to live in shame. Yeah. Yeah. That was, it was a fleeting thought this morning. What is, is the draft lottery rigged? We, uh, God, we, so we interviewed Charles Barkley today and we were joking around about it. I would just say having Connor Badard in Chicago is very good for business.

Yep. Um, and you know, they were supposed to draft in the third spot and I just think it's convenient. I think it's, I think it's convenient last year that Montreal got the first pick, you know, and it was in Montreal draft, you know, let's get the, let's get them really ex and that's like a, that's the mecca of hockey. Like when Montreal's good, it's really good for the league. And as Charles said, he goes when he goes, man, look how good it is for the

NBA right now. The Knicks are relevant. The Lakers are relevant. Yeah. Who are the other big name teams that are still in it? Yeah. Philly, Colton state. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, it's good. It's, it's the league's thriving. And yeah, I mean, you don't want Chicago to be bad, but no, I don't think it's rigged. No, I don't think that, no.

But did you see, did you see what happened? The star thing? Yeah. The bluejack. How they saw that star thing is, is put on a team like or the number where somebody has jumped up. Okay. So the thing about the draft this year is if, if, let's say Coyotes would have jumped off, if a team would have jumped up in odds, there would have been a star associated to the next pick.

So it just so happened that every single team up into that point had been drafted exactly where they were slotted. Yeah. It is funny to think that there's nobody knows change like behind the scenes that's putting a star on there. It's like, remember guys, this is rigged for Chicago. Like that guy would never be hired. They would never have that person in the graphics department making sure to show to highlight what was being rigged.

It was just funny how it went to commercial and before they went to commercial, they said, okay, and the bluejackets are out of it. Go fuck off, Columbus. And then like in the video, it looked like the Chicago people were already celebrating in the video. And it was, it's like, you're on cue and go. Yeah. Listen, I, I don't think it's rigged, but it is convenient. And then to add in the fact that you had the star thing and also the Columbus

being eliminated before we even saw it, it was weird. It was, they didn't pull it off very well. And if you look at any of the draft parties, like Columbus's was at a bar. There was the most people, it was so authentic. There was probably 500, there might even been a thousand people at it. Like there was pictures of it online and they didn't even get to see their card turned over. They just got kind of like pigeon tossed.

Yeah. I feel, but Columbus is an unbelievable market. I was hoping that if any of those three teams would have got it, it would have been Columbus because then Johnny Goudreau there and Patrick Lionet is there. So all of a sudden, they might have been a playoff team for like this, like underdog market where it's like, yeah, they got a fucking like generational player. It would have been cool. I love how you say Montreal, by the way, too. Like last night, I think Weeks was saying it, Montreal, Montreal.

It's really nice. What do you call it? Montreal. Well, I'm French. I say, Marial. Oh, yeah. That's good. Oh, yeah. You want to fucking one up me, bitch? Yeah. I said Montreal.

Say it again. Say it again. Marial. So, so, Bizz, before we talk about that, tell me that's not beautiful. Oh, it's beautiful. It was beautiful. Before we get to that's why I can barely say English. I was born French, Canadian, right? And then I switched over in grade seven. And then I was I so I kind of suck at both now. I can't even say I can't say long, thoughtful sentences in either language.

I'm kind of 50 50. But you're bilingual. The only time it really pays off is when I go to Montreal on a four day heater with my buddies and like I'm trying to whisper sweet nothing in a fucking stripper's ear. It would be awesome, though, if when you spoke in French, you were just a genius. That would be awesome. Yeah. Yeah, like Beethoven.

Yeah. Yeah. So we said, oh, it's so bad like just like make me girls just so soaking wet. So it'd be like it'd be like a Fabio novel. You have like I'd have like chicks right me like I was in prison. Like just absolute off the chart. John, like kind of like big cat fans, like that's that level of psycho fandom. You got his fans, too.

You so you've been working crazy hours. You do have a little chaotic energy right now, which I love. Are you like not sleeping? We're looking at your you've been in a hotel. I just I drank a Coke. I drank a Coke, so I'm a bit of a sugar high. OK, well, but but we just interviewed Charles for two. We sat down with Charles Barkley for two hours and like, dude,

all right, he used to go watch him play like with like which is posted a photo. It was an awesome conversation. We touched it all. He was telling stories about how like the dream team like they were when they all these like gambling's on the flights, like how like I was like, so you guys were just like, like, was it like an IOU system? And he's like, no, like every guy was carrying at least a hundred grand cash on him, like just, you know, surreal shit.

It was cool. Two hours with Charles Barkley. So I'm on a natural high right now. I like it. I like it. So you so you have been in Atlanta. You've been in a hotel room. Are you like do you get to hang out with those guys at all? Because you're at the TNT sets. You're working crazy hours.

Do you get to like do you have a relationship with Charles and Shaq and Kenny and all these guys? Yeah, I say what's up. Yeah, they've been they've been super kind. You try to give them their space because they're probably like I'm a pigeon compared to those guys. You try to be like, you know, be respectful, but they take over when they're in studio, they have the main room and we get we kind of get the sofa room. But yeah, we usually try to like let them focus on what they're doing

and what they're watching because like sometimes you're doing four games in a night or two games in a night. So you're trying to like siphon all that information and stuff like that. But other than that, yeah, we we interact with them a little bit. And Charles comes over and wants to josh about the hockey side of it because he thinks playoff basketball, even to some degree, is pretty boring. So yeah, how he said it on one of the broadcasts. Yeah, he was like, I'm watching this game.

I turned on the hockey. Yeah, he said, don't watch the first round of the playoffs on TNT. That was great. How big is Shaq like the first time that you that you meet Shaq because he's enormous every now and again, those pictures go viral. It's like Shaq, Charles Barkley and the rock and the rock looks like an ant compared to Shaq. He's enormous and like he's a he's a funny guy.

Like whenever he comes in the hockey room, he'll come in and he'll act like he's skating. So he does this like hockey shuffle. And he just like they're just like they're like next level funny, like the banter. So usually we just shut up when they're in the room so we can have some chuckles and like Shaq will go to like the far toilet in the makeup room and like drop one and he'll come out and be like, don't nobody go to the back of the room for five minutes and he like smokes, smokes a sound of the makeup room, basically, or you can't use the bag.

So he's just I couldn't even imagine how big they must be coming out of that massive human. Like I don't even know how it gets down down, but they're just like they're just funny, they're funny guys, man. It's it's it's a cool interaction. It's cool watching the the pros go at it. And and it's been fun. Like the hockey broadcasts have been awesome and the whole TNT family's

awesome and it's been great. We actually heard the other day we had Yandall on the show and he was talking about how Whitney clogs every toilet that he uses because he just he's a crumpler. He's a crumpler. Yeah. So he's got a real issue. If you had to pick one guy to let take a shit in your toilet, would it be Ryan Whitney or will be Shaq? That's a bizarre question.

Yeah. Who's going to clog it? I I I would I would probably trust Shaq as he's probably not a crumpler like Whit. But Whit says he's changed his ways on the crumpling. He used to be a crumpler. You can evolve from that. Was he fooled now? Well, I think he learned his lesson. He used to do it a lot as a kid.

And yeah, I think I think I think that was the I only saw a clip of it on the internet. I didn't see the full conversation. And who was it? I think it was on it was on game notes. I wasn't even on the show. Yeah, basically, Yandall said that that Ryan Whitney uses so much toilet paper every time he takes a shit that every toilet that he uses gets clogged up. I mean, I just have never really been sharing a toilet toilet with Ryan

Whitney. So I have to ask her to still crumple it up for you. Crumple it up. All right. So hockey, let's start with your Leafs. Do they count as getting to the second round if they don't win a single game? Oh, man, I think it's I think everybody's getting can. And I think it would it would it's almost worse that they got past the first round and then took a massive dump like this. I think it feels like they came in underestimating the the Florida Panthers.

I felt like they it looks like they felt because they got past the first round, all of a sudden it would just be easy where like it's like, no, it gets a lot more challenging and you got to go even more to the harder areas. And it's just like they're the big boys have I don't think either of the core four guys have scored a goal so far in the series after three games. Like, I don't know. I, you know, I get playing OK or playing all right. But even the last game, their backs are against the wall.

They're down 0-2 and they didn't really play that good for the first 40 minutes. Like it's they they laid an egg. And even even going back to game two, they had they had a two nothing lead. And then the second period, they took a massive shit where the best players just made these stupid gaffes of like giving the puck up on their own end when like really they didn't need to and boom, boom. And all of a sudden they're down 0-2. So just overall, just I think I think if they get swept,

every single guy is getting gassed and maybe one of the big guys getting traded. So complete and complete implosion. So who would you trade? I haven't like I as a fan of the team, I'm kind of like, I don't really want to go there. I don't want to dive too deep into that yet, because like there is a slim glimmer of hope that they come back and win. I think that they I think that they have a better group. They just have to now go on an insane run.

Only four teams in the history of the NHL have came back from 0-3. The Leafs in like the fucking 20s or 40s, but it was in the Cup final. They were down 0-3 and they won the Cup. They won four straight. The Islanders did it in 75, where they were down 0-3 at one point in the playoffs. Who is the other one? The Flyers did it to the Bruins. Yeah. Who did it?

Was it the Flyers? The Flyers did it to the Bruins like maybe a decade ago. And then in the first round, L.A. did it to San Jose and then they end up going to win the Cup in 2014. I don't know if you guys remember that. They were down 0-3 in the first round of the San Jose Sharks and they just rifled it off. And they'd won the Cup two years prior. So it was just this insane fucking thing that they did.

So who knows? Maybe they're the fifth team to do it and maybe it's just this bizarre run because I don't even think they should have won the first round against Tampa. If Vasilevsky would have played like Vasilevsky, the Leafs would have been fucking done in six games. So I think that if they get swept, everybody's gone. And who knows if they go on this improbable run. So we'll talk about who I'm trading after after the series is over. All right.

There was another team that went down three nothing the other day on Sunday in the game. The Devil's Hurricanes game. Devils went up three nothing. You said game over. Don't even bother playing the rest of the game. Game over. I'll go one up. I say don't even bother playing the rest of the series. I think the Devils are going to come back to me at all.

How about that? You got into a little like back and forth with talking on that one. Because I think that he obviously he has a respect for Rod Brynda Moore and the Carolina Hurricanes and so do I, but you could just tell after the way the game started and then the way that it was going through the first 15 minutes, I'm like, ah, New Jersey has their legs and in Carolina's timings off. Carolina is so good at pressuring the puck. And then they do so as like a group, whereas like the first guy is getting

pressure and sometimes when you pass the next guy, the next guy is like a little bit of breathing room, but they do it so well in unison that it feels like they're constantly breathing down your neck. They're one of the best defensive teams and they're so disciplined. They're penalty kill. It finally, uh, New Jersey had scored their first power play goal against them. They have this whole season and playoffs against New Jersey. New Jersey's had like 22 or 23 power plays.

They finally got their first one and Carolina's scored seven shorthand or goals against them. They're even fucking better than them that when they're shorthanded, that's how good they pressure. But it just, it, they felt like they were off. They didn't have their jump and New Jersey did. And I said, they're going to run a track meet and they got that Luke Hughes in there making plays and they just felt in rhythm.

I felt the game was over the minute the first period was over. Yeah, I was truly confident saying that. And then they went on to route them eight four. Yeah. So I finally got a hot take. Right. So what you're saying is you, you'll know within the first like 10 minutes of their next game, who's going to win? No, no, no, I felt that in that game, just, it felt right in that game, just seeing what I'd seen.

If, if Carolina was all over them and there were a couple of fluke goals and you're like, okay, yeah. But it's just like, like even defensively Carolina felt off. And the problem with Carolina is right now, if Carolina goes on to win the Stanley Cup, Rod Brindemore should have a statue built in front of the arena of him because he wanted as a player there as a leader, but also the fact that he's gotten every dude that wanted to buy in and they've lost three of their

top six forwards and they need offense, but yeah, they, they got past the Islanders, they won the first two game against New Jersey and put on a defensive clinic. Whereas in games where they're off defensively, they just don't have the firepower to keep up with New Jersey. Yeah, they don't, they don't have the firepower. And then when you're down three, nothing boys, you have to take, you start out, especially for a team like that, you start to

have taking some, a few risks offensively. And that's when they start to open things up. And that's when a team like New Jersey starts to eat you alive. Yeah. They can't open things up. They can't play that game. So Carolina out game them at home in the first two games where like New Jersey couldn't breathe.

Yeah. What about, what about the Oilers and the Knights? So they, I mean, it's been a crazy series. Obviously the Golden Knights killed them on Monday night. Do you think this is going to be one of those series? It just goes back and forth like this and we'll get to like seven? Or have you, from watching it, been like, no, Vegas is that much better than Edmonton?

Um, I, I, I know I, the Jans was busting my balls. So was Wic. Cause I kept, I brought the little nugget. We sometimes bring nuggets to the podcast. Vegas was the least penalized team during the regular season. Yeah. So overall, they play a discipline game because they, you know, they, they stay in structure.

Like they, they, they play, play the game the right way. They got the right pieces. Um, and then the first couple of games, they like were dummies and they were in the box, especially in game two, like, and this, this Edmonton power play is the best power play like the leagues ever seen. It's, it's incredible. So in game three, they stayed out of the box and, and they really took it to Edmonton five on five and Edmonton laid an egg at home.

Um, I think game four is going to tell us a lot, but I feel like Edmonton is going to need, need at least three, four power plays and their bottom six is going to have to end up playing better than normal and scoring some goals in order to help them get past Vegas. Yeah. The one thing though for Vegas now is though, is they have this Aiden Hill and net where Swah was doing such a good job and net and last game and this guy's had two hip surgeries.

You saw him push over trying to make a cross crease, uh, save and it looks like he blew out his hip again, but they got Jonathan quick. The guy who was in LA who won two cups and want to con smite is their third string. So now he's going to be the backup and then they got this young kid, Aiden Hill, Aiden Hill used to play in Phoenix. I trust him. I like him.

He's like six, five huge wingspan. He doesn't get too busy. So if he's just holding his angle and they're getting the team defense, there's not a lot of net to shoot at. So if he can hold the fort for them and they can get consistent goal-tending, man, the Knights could knock off the Oilers. And if, but I'll never count, count out. Connor McDavid and Leon Drysidle.

Every time they've had maybe like a so, so bad game, they've responded. Like they lost game one. And then dryside had four goals in game one of the series. And then like he had to bring it again because they had to win game two because they lost game one in a four goal effort. And he had like, I think he had two goals and assist or a goal and two assists and McDavid had two and one McDavid had a shorthand of goal. Like those two guys, when they put their will to it, they'll just take over

the whole game. Yeah. Yeah. I say, he's Pippen and Jordan. I say the best duo since Pippen and Jordan. Wow. They're going, I think they're going to win, win a championship. So at that point, you can say that.

Is he going to be this year? They'd have to win six, but yeah. They, they have a, they've had a very, very difficult path. Like LA was no joke. LA was better than them five and five in that series. Their power play saved them in the first series. Like Leon and Connor, if they're going to, if they get out of this series, man, it's going to beat them up a few more.

And then the next series ain't going to be easy either. They have a hard path. If they can do it, if the, if McDavid and dry saddle can drag these guys up there and get it done in that fucking battle. What a show. I think, I think that would be so good for hockey. I, I'm not giving up on the Leafs, but if they don't win it, I would happy if wit wit and you got to celebrate big cat.

If they go to the finals, big cat, we want you guys coming to Edmonton to see how crazy these fans are. I bet I mean, I bet they're nuts. Yeah. Would you, would you guys come up there? Yeah. If it works for our schedule, I mean, I have that future ticket. I mean, I have a future ticket.

Hanks, give me a face. If, if I could get there, I'm not going to say yes. Hank has just given me doubt that I have to have, which I actually appreciate what he just did. Um, a maybe, it's a maybe. Okay. Yeah. International travel is kind of tough.

Got a kid on the way. Yeah. We're going to bring it through Pearson. We're going to give you the full Ryan Whitney experience. Yeah. So, so what happens now? What are the exact terms of the bet in this Maple Leafs Panthers series? You, is it, you have to go to Daytona Beach?

No, I think, uh, Jans try to bet that with wit and wit back out quick because he didn't, because he didn't trust Toronto. I bet Jans 500 bucks, which you guys are going to scoff at. I'm not a big gambler. I don't put the big units. Like, I mean, do you, do you gamble like a big cat? Do you put the heavy, heavy beat downs? I've been putting down some pretty significant amounts of money recently,

but it's not in the like, I, I think my biggest ticket this year, I put eight grand on the Eagles to win the Super Bowl out of solidarity, out of solidarity, out of friendship. Yeah. That's a heavy tag. Yeah, it is. It was a heavy loss. Um, and the doink bet and the doink.

Oh yeah, the doink bet was big too. I lost a money, a lot of money on that. The Kraken. Let's talk Seattle real quick because all the, all the prognosticators and the experts by which I think we meant, we mean like two people that we talk to about the Kraken, everyone counted them out. Nobody thought the Kraken was even going to win. You know, I think Whitney said they might win one game against the Avalanche.

Right. So they win the first round. They're up right now against the Stars. Are they flukes or are they for real? No, they're for real. Nice. They, they just, so I, I didn't trust them against the champs either, but the champs, I thought they were going to get Landeskog back.

Maybe he was ruled out. Then they lost the Chushkin, which was a massive power forward for them. They didn't have cadre from last year. They just really only had their top line, but still they were the champs. The big three for Colorado did everything they could to get him out of that round. But Seattle is just such a disciplined team. They don't really get out of structure. They have all these castaway type players.

What best way to describe it is they have four second lines, which, yeah, they don't have those top beasts, but every night they have these like constant waves just coming at you. So they never really slow the pace of the game down, which that sucks if you're an opposing team, because you never feel like you can just like maybe dust it off and transition and slow the pace of the game down. They don't take a ton of penalties. They don't give up a lot of odd man rushes.

So you're never really getting those high end scoring danger opportunities against them. And they've been getting great goal tending. Grubauer looks awesome right now, because they're not giving up a crazy ton of chances. And then also when they are, he's making the big ones. And then Hank came on the broadcast because he jumps on and off with TNT. And he described it as like a lot of these young, like new school goalies, they drop too fast.

And Wayne Gretzky loses his fucking mind about it, because I think Grant fear, like he would stand up and he would more react to the shot where these guys are used to playing this butterfly style. So he stands up more. He's a little bit more reactive and calm before he drops down. And Hank thinks it's just because of the way the team allows the shots to come in and the fact that he's not overreacting and dropping every time and allowing a lot upstairs.

So along with the goal tending play, the discipline and the fact that they just have all these worker bees, they just, they just get, they can outpace you and out will you. And then they, when they smell blood, they strike. All right. So you said something interesting there that I wanted to follow up on because I love like the inside hockey stuff that, you know, people like us might not see. You said the shots they allow in.

So on the scouting report before a game, are they saying like, Hey, these are the shots we're okay with letting go through. And these are the shots that we're not going to let go through. And that way it gives our goalie a leg up to know, like, Hey, you don't have to worry about this type of shot. Yeah. Or in even some cases getting through and like talk at Brock brought it up on the broadcast and how when like a player on the power play is coming down a

certain way, if you're the defenseman in front of the net, you want to make sure you're blocking the far side of the net. One, because you don't want the goalie to like see the puck and then lose track of it behind your back to go back to the, to the far side. Right. And then as the goalie, you only have to worry about covering half of the near side net where some of these goalies being six, five, even if you do drop in that position and you're out enough and you have your angle, it's just going to

hit you and there's nowhere to shoot at. Right. So yeah, like certain teams, they play defense well enough and they understand how they need to defend in order to, where they're willing to allow the danger, quote unquote, danger shots to come from. So that's why like it's fun coming on to talk about this stuff. Cause like in hockey, it's not like basketball where a few guys can get it done. Like you truly have to get it done as a group and like it's each team that's

still in playoff kind of has their unique way of getting the wins done in the way their team does it. Like for instance, Edmonton, how lethal their skill and power play is. Like they, they set an NHL record 56% in the first round execution on their power play. It was the most in one playoff series ever. So that's why I said like it carried them through the first round where they had a hard opponent where Seattle is just like, they're just so disciplined.

It's like they're a bunch of monks or something. Like they're in like a cult. Yeah. All for the team, March to the ice. They got that little nightclub on the way out. Is there and then Bowie, the mascots, they are trolls. Maybe they're just off of the team. It's like a gnome voice that you're doing.

I like it. Is there anything to the rest versus rust debate that we have in basketball all the time where it's like, Oh, you would rather, you know, you want to get it done for games, sweep them, get some time off, go out to Vegas, do whatever you want, then come back, you're refreshed for the next round. Or is there something to a team like being battle tested in hockey during the playoffs? It's funny you bring that up because I always, I had a couple of buddies that played on that LA Kings team the first cup they won.

And I think the, the, I think they won every round. They only might lost three games, all playoffs. So they're finishing so fast. So they'd have a week off to the next game and they got the eight seed. So there was no expectations and they were going out like three nights in a row after that, just fucking getting buckled. And they just had this awesome run where they kept partying and like, so when you want to say get in rest and like maybe having a little bit of fun,

I always think that having days off is important during playoffs to rest your body, take the edge off. But like that, that was kind of an old school way of doing it. I don't, I don't know if like, for instance, at the Panther sweep, they're going to be going to get banged up for, for three, four days. The game has changed where it's more the protein shake. And I don't even think like half the guys drink in the league anymore for crying out loud, but like, that's the, that's the age old argument

for Florida right now. If they sweep, like they would have, if the other series goes seven, I believe they would have nine days off. You, there, there's a certain thing about keeping your rhythm because they're clearly peaking at the right time. Florida was a team that barely got in and they caught wind just after the all-star break and they went on this crazy run. They got goaltending from this like no-name kid who got them to where

they were. And then now Babrowski, the old two-time Vesna winners, playing like the Vesna winner again. So they've just been on this like, it's like when a team's feeling it, they're feeling it, they, they look like they're feeling it. Like when Washington won that cup, like, didn't you feel like after watching them for a round and a half, you're like, oh, I got that feeling. It was when they came back from, they were down to nothing to Columbus, I think. And then they won game three and overtime.

That's like, when you're talking about the Maple Leafs, if the Maple Leafs win two games in a row right now, I could definitely see them going on a run because like you've been saying, they've got all the talent in the world, but they look soft in the playoffs. They look like they don't have that edge to them. But once you start to like believe in your team and be like, oh, shit, we could mount a historic comeback right now, that could carry over to multiple rounds right there.

Oh, if they were to come back in this series, like there would be, I would put, I'm not a gambler. I'd, I'd match your eight K bet. I'd say there's no way they're not winning the cup now. I liked that. That would be so much mojo. I mean, who didn't, who didn't Boston did it against the Yankees? Remember, and they hadn't won the World Series in how long? And in that first run where they ended up cracking the long run, they were down 0-3 to the Yankees.

The Yankees, yeah. Yeah, there's something about playoffs, all playoffs, where like if you can get out of the depths of hell, you become, everything becomes a little bit easier. Right. And I believe that if like the Leafs would be the team to just like lay an egg in the first round, but get, get by based on skill and a few lucky bounces. Like people forget you go back to game, I believe it was game three. They, Lightning were up 3-2 and there was a goal that was just lying in the middle between the goalies pads and the whistle shouldn't have gone.

And the guy just went over and poked it in, but they'd blown the whistle. So they should have been up 4-2. So they should have lost that game. And, you know, they're lucky to be where they are. And then if they got lucky again and like all of a sudden rattled off four in a row to only four teams have done it because you got, you got it. You're going to have to get a lot of bounces along the way too, man. These games are tight.

So as our resident Canadian is, tell me how would Canada react to Edmonton winning a Stanley Cup in terms of like, would it, would it just be like Edmonton Oilers fans that are really pumped or would it go all across the country where, you know, Flames fans, Senors fans? I don't know if, I don't know if Flames fans would, would be as excited. I don't think hardcore ones. I think the rest of Canada would be excited. I think they'd be happy for McDavid too, because it's like the, the second

coming of Gretzky, right? Yeah. Yeah. No, if it's on the other shoe and the Leafs managed to pull it out and they win the Stanley Cup, I'm pretty sure all of Canada would be pissed off at them. Right. Pete, yeah, the Leafs are, are hated amongst a lot. It's like the, we joke around about the Yacht Club on the broadcast.

It's just like, you know, it's a lot of cake eaters in the bottom seats. Yeah. They're sniffing counters and, you know, eating their shrimp and caviar and their boxes. There's like somebody, I think it was Kobe Armstrong told me a story that they like created this VIP area for like during the games and they were charging like a $30,000 tag for the season and like they got like no buyers to it. And then so they got back to the round table about this proposal. And then one of the heads goes, make it a hundred grand sign up and everyone's

like, what? And they did it. And then they sold it out. Yeah, I love that. Because yeah, if you're buying for a hundred thousand, then boom, that's like a status symbol right there. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

So I don't know if he pulled that story out of his ass or maybe it wasn't even him who told me, but that's kind of how it is, how it rolls there. It still counts. All right, biz. This has been awesome. I got one last question. Roback question. RHOBACK.com use code.

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Take 20% off your first purchase. Shorts, I got shorts coming for the summer. OK, we love having you on this. I hope I did a good job of breaking down the whole league and what's going on. You did, you did. You always, we love having you on. You're the best because you, you, you talk to, you know, you talk the game, but in a way people can understand.

I think that's why you've been so successful on TNT. It's great to watch you every night. You like when I'm on the board? Yo, the board is awesome right over your shoulder. Yeah, it's fucking sick. More board. Yeah, more board. So who do you have with it all right now?

Because a lot of your fans just say all I see is titties when they get that angle. Yeah, there's a little bit. You could see it if you look hard enough, you could see it. What's the what's the question? Who do you have with it all now after we've been through a full round and a half pretty much? Um, who give us your give us your winner? Let's get behind the leaves, man.

Let's see if they can go on this. Come on, come on. They're dead. They're so dead, Biz. I bet on them too. They're so dead. I want them to win, but they're dead. Can Seattle win it all?

Yeah, I think Seattle could win it all. OK, OK, so we would have I would have my dark course right now being down to one to Carolina, but it would have been. I would have bet it New Jersey down to. I think New Jersey, I still see something in New Jersey. I might be dead wrong, but that's probably the dark course and best odds right now. Aside from that, I would I would say Edmonton. OK, Edmonton would be my safe money bet.

OK, follow up question is New Jersey. What part of the country is New Jersey in? It's in like, it's I guess you call it the Northeast. Yeah, I guess so. Kind of the South, though. Yeah. What about Seattle? Are you guys still hung up on me saying Colorado's in the southern state? So many people when I when I was talking about the Chicago Blackhawks being my favorite team in the West now, we're like, actually, they're in the South PFT.

I I had some people that were defending me and wasn't there a line that came out on this map that people agree with me because of where some river is? I know, but I'm the one who's got all the people in the mentions boosting me up. No, they were your fans. No, I know. I'm saying like they're biz fans. Oh, OK, well, they're they're our fans to hear that Denver's in in the South

and be like, yeah, biz is right. That's you got to drink the Kool-Aid. Next time you talk to Dion Sanders, ask him. Just say, what do you what do you think? He lives there now, doesn't he? Definitely not say it's the South. All right, well, then I'm going to just move from Mississippi. So I'm from Florida, played in Texas, was in Mississippi. Yeah, Atlanta. No, that's definitely tropical.

Yeah. Is Jake Marsh there? Yeah. Marsh is here. Yeah. How about that call, buddy? We were buzzing on the broad. A lot of fun. You got to do it again. Oh, my God. Oh, we better next year. Now, you guys watch the broadcast.

I did. I was there. I was part of I know he was there. I was asking the rest. I saw it. I saw I saw Jake refer to a shot as a snipe and you really jumped down his throat on that was wet. Oh, that was wet. Yeah, it was like I deserved it. I like that criticism.

What about biz? So watching that broadcast, like wouldn't it be cool? Like those guys are so skilled. But if you ever had like someone in in that game who you played with, that would be awesome because then you get a different type of like Intel. What do you mean? Like a guy you might have played like in the minors with or something. I did play with a guy. Oh, really?

Oh, you mentioned it on the broadcast. Fuck off. Really? You're saying I mentioned it that many times. How many times mean more than him? I was only like two or three times. Oh, Donahue, one of the best. I know. You know, you know, why is she? Marcy, this guy's trying to call me out.

How many times did I say I probably said it more than you? So it's stuck with me because he was so goddamn good. He was like their whole team captain in the game. He was our whole team. He went. Yeah, he was like the he was like LeBron. Just jump on, boys. Yeah. Oh, do you have anything on basketball playoffs? No. OK.

That was talking basketball. The only the only thing I will say is like some people are questioning whether like Tatum does Tatum have that dog in them? Some people are questioning. Yeah. At the end of the game, he turtles. Yeah. Passes the ball. So he does not have that dog in him. He does. Does he?

He's 25. Oh, OK. All right. So so I guess we're going to learn a lot in this this run, right? Are they up or down to the Sixers? It's 2-2. So 3-2 now. Oh, you want to know, either way, it is 3-2 now, Hank. It's 3-2. Yeah. But hey, do you want to say who's up 3-2?

Yeah, Tatum just went for 40. OK, so 3-2. OK. So he's got a little dog, a little dog. Some would say that Hank may have just jinxed the entire playoffs by putting on a shirt of having Lucky the Leprechaun dunking on Ben Franklin. Well, that's just a cool shirt. No, Bizz. It's not topical. Bizz, you could tell us who it is in hockey.

I my take with Tatum is he is a phenomenal, phenomenal player. And I think he is like he gets talked about as a top five player. He is he does take over games at times. I would like to see a little more aggression every now and then to be like, I am the best player on this court. This is my game. So who's that in hockey? Who you'd like to see just a little bit more like,

hey, you're the best out here. Like, go do it. Well, I mean, I think it's Marner and Matthews. Yeah, like I've defended them and I think they're incredible players. I think that they need to. Yeah, they need to find that next level. Right. And yeah, it's not. So it's not a knock that they're not exceptional players.

So it's more like, go find it. Yeah. And I don't think any of us want to be on the broadcast criticizing anyone, right? But at the end of the day, it's like, what went wrong? It's like, well, if the big dogs aren't being the big dogs and they're making all the money and they want to be paid like big dogs, it's like, well, who else do we blame? Yeah. Yeah.

So like, and keep in mind, like it's a hard cap league. And I think that if each of them were making nine and a half, as opposed to 11 and a half right now and they had that extra four million to go spend on some help, I think it would be a lot more enjoyable. Well, at least I would think so. Where that's like, you look at Crosby, you look at the Patrice Bourgerons, you look at some of these guys, they left money on the table because it's a hard cap league.

So if you want to be paid like the big dog, you've got to play like the big dog. Like it. All right. So we'll see you tonight on TNT. PFT. You got a bar. Oh, what's your what, what, what? Marcy, what's your bark? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, Max, what's your bark? You just kicked a dog.

I'm not. No. Punted it like in Come to speak of it, I saw him walking in Atlanta the other day who will Farrell. Oh really? Yeah, I didn't bug him I wanted to but I didn't Let's retell the story, but you saw will Farrell and you did bug him. What'd you say I? Would have said hey, okay, so that you guys might laugh I would have said this but we were doing the TNT broadcast and they kept putting them on and he had the la king's face paint So I would have just stopped them and say hey, I do the TNT broadcast

I said we're we're laughing about you in the face paint with the king stuff I think that I thought that that would have been a soft opening and I thought but buddy these people Could you imagine having to like like get bothered like that all the time? No, I just feel like the last thing he wants to do is get stopped right now I looked like he was going for a nice power walk that plays though because you're kind of sox up to his knees He was just he had a nice little flow going, but you're subtly letting him know like hey I'm not just like a random guy like I'm not a pigeon right Pump his tires. Yeah, so I on the broadcast. Hey, who knows maybe even like get him on for like a segment

Yeah, you know it'd be cool to get Snoop Dogg on for a segment or Like like the other night it was a blowout and Wayne was at the game in Vegas So like Wayne came he ended up jumping on it was like it's fun. You know you get to talk. What's what's he seeing? It's cool. It's cool to get the big boys on you know. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Well biz We've been enjoying the hell out of watching you on TNT. Everyone go check it out get some rest I don't want you to work too hard. Yeah, you I'm done. I got tomorrow off This is the last thing I had to do. I ate and I'd be lying if I didn't smoke a little before I came on boys I know it was a bit of a chatterbox, but hey

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NMLS 3029 all-loan subject to underwriting approval www.NMLS consumer access org Okay, let's wrap up the show with some FAQs facts One of Max or Hank are gonna be eliminated on Thursday night From recording this world. Yeah, is that true? Oh I guess maybe not necessarily It's gonna go seven. It's the best of three right? I want it to go seven Hey boys. Hey. Hey, what's the one piece of yard work? You're looking forward to doing now that you'll have a yard

PS this should be a Mount Rushmore. I don't think so Yard work. You're not a you don't like mowing the lawn. Heck. I don't know if there's 12 items of yard work Yes, yes for sure a lot of yard work seeding Edging I love edging. I like raking leaves and then making a big fucking pile and then jumping in the pile weeding Yeah, socks weeding, but it's so satisfying. Well, you need the little you need the little knee pad I like I like just mowing the lawn. Yeah, I've never experienced jumping in the leaves We're oh, yeah, you know, yeah, you have lizards that fall out trees that you can put in a pile and jump Yeah, iguanas. Yeah, I would say

I'm looking forward to being able to open a door and then I'm gonna have a dog and then I'm gonna be like go outside and use the yard Yeah, that's gonna be sick. Why are you shaking your head max? We didn't even bring up that you hate dogs I know but now it's just every time That's a you problem. Yeah, that's not that's a you. You made it a you problem. You probably you No, you were the one you've created this narrative factor fiction I wasn't the one who did not pet the dog factor fiction. I was petting Brody the whole night And there was one clip where I wasn't no underrated thing

Cleaning out the gutters because then when they like actually flow for real You're like, oh, we got a problem here and then you get it nothing better. Yeah, you unjam the jam gutters Yeah, clean out a gutter or even a Drain like in your if you have like a patio or something and you need to clean out a drain clean out drains fucking Rules the youtube video the guy that finds. Yes big the blog drains and undrains them as Electric yeah better than pimple popper md. Yes exterminating like

Like if there's like a raccoon den No, that doesn't sound fun. No, but it like when you get him out killing killing or like if there's like a Beehive killing there's like a beehive barn and bite you. Yeah, no those don't like a beehive on fire Not yard work. We're talking about yard work. Not becoming well. You got defender not becoming hitler to a bunch of raccoons. Okay. Okay. Hold on Come on. Come on. Come on, man. I was just talking about I was just trying I was just talking about killing a raccoon family. Didn't have to take it there. What are you? What's your favorite yard work? You know mowing the lawn Weeding

Murdering a bunch of animals the basics. Yeah leads us to the next one. What's up, dudes What's up, this might have been written by billy wanted to ask a question my friends and I always ask people when we're hammered What is the biggest animal that each of you could kill with your bare hands? Good question. Just an fyi kangaroos have been the most controversial answer. Love you guys. No one could kill kangaroo I can absolutely kill a kangaroo. Sub-adult black man. Oh my god You could choke out a kangaroo. Could absolutely. All right, so You could choke out a kangaroo. A kangaroo would just run away. You would have to like what about the legs I I've been criticized for this take, but I think I could take down a moose

No, definitely not a moose. I do I do no moose or fucking diesel Have you ever seen a moose? Have you seen a moose in person dead twice? Yeah, I'll jump on its back And just start fucking bashing its brains in you couldn't fit a moose in this room. They're so tall an animal I could probably kill it blue whale. Yep. Yeah, I could I could kill a blue whale It would just choke on me. Yep. Just dive right into his throat Dive into his blowhole name another animal Do you think you kill a black bear? No problem. Lion easy hippo Easy. No, you can kill a fucking hippo dude. Dude hippos. I was fucking hippo up

No, dude. The hippos came in to swim. I'd wrestle to the bottom of the ocean drown it I think single hornet No, definitely not the beauty of these is that you never have to actually prove it I think so I just say that I can kill every animal and people like billy get really upset the real answer It's the best hypothetical ever. I think I could kill any bird Name any bird. Yes, actually. Yeah. Yeah, you can snap a snack. Yeah. Yeah punch it in the face I mean, I agree. I could kill it. There's not an animal. I wouldn't know but literally I think I could kill any bird same Yeah, I could kill moose prehistoric birds. No, okay

I don't know what prehistoric giant prehistoric like predator birds Dude, if you go low on a moose, I think you could kill it. It does have wiry legs. It's got skinny ankles. Yeah No, it was fucking dude. No, but have you okay? So I'm I'm I know what big cat's doing, which is I like what he's doing Yeah, because it's pissing off billy. Yeah, I like that. It's really pissing me off. I like that It's literally nothing that you can do to improve it But the reality of the situation is if you if you look at a moose charging at you like it's a full back And you're a wiry corner back and you just dive at its legs You break one of those tiny little toothpick legs

And then we've got a horse racing situation under hands where that moose is going to end up step on its throat Yeah, I would just bring a tarp out and then Euthanized moose are the last mega fauna in north america. Okay. Well, if they ever come across me, they're fucking dead They're mega fucked. Yeah, I'd fuck a moose up So bad seriously though any bird I will I will kill gladly any bird What about uh, put a little cute bird on a moose two for one. There we go. What were the things they invaded? It was like we have 40 wild hogs invading

Oh, yeah, black hog down. Yeah that video where they're in the chopper just shooting them down. That's easy for you easy Yeah, I guess the question is do you get a gun too? They didn't specify in this Yeah, again, this is you say you would just beat a moose's head. Yeah, I would this is the easiest hypothetical ever because you can Just say it and then there's nothing that anyone could do Like dude, I would love I would love for a silverback gorilla to test me Oh, Jesus christ Billy's like they're probably listening right now. They're gonna be so mad Sub to bronies wanted to ask a quick question as we're getting into glizzy season

I wanted to ask how big cat got into the nathan's hot dog eating contest. Oh, yeah Was there any preparation? How'd you feel afterwards in the next day? Is billy going into the contest who would win in a glizzy eating contest among the pmt crew? so it was um The guys who run it really good guys. No, not nathan the shades the shades. Yeah You hooked me up with them. Yeah when I am sure. Yeah, great dude. Yeah, so there was a uh writer Who what was his name plimpton plimpton james plimpton? I want to say who would go and play

Like different sports and stuff. Maybe that's not his name plimpton is his name paper line Is that the guy who played for the detroit lines? Yeah, he yeah, he like played outfield in like a george plimpton So they were like we should have a george plimpton seat like someone from the media gets to be in it. Um Yeah, I trained by eating some hot dogs, but no, I was not you being in that contest like I was in awe. I I've said this before but I think joey chestin is the greatest athlete of all time I don't think anyone could ever touch what he does. It's so fucking hard to be He hasn't touched it right We need to see him head to head again. Whatever happened to that. We were going to get joey chestin kobi ashi to do

Yeah, uh rough and rowdy, but for hot dogs. Yeah, that would be sick. Joey said he's down. Let's do it But yeah, it was um, I 12 in 10 minutes and it was the most disgusted. I've ever felt my entire life I've I felt like a sausage that was you know, right before it gets popped for two days straight couldn't shit either So joey chestin that he drinks after those he that goes out. Well, they they they pull trig No, he doesn't haven't you seen the a thousand ways to die Well, there's there's the there's a time window right afterwards where you can and cannot So like we then I want to say 10 minutes after it's over If you throw up it's a reversal of fortune and you don't win anymore. They disqualify you

But then afterwards, I don't know. It's like whatever you want to do at that point I've been thinking about making the switch full time To being a brat guy. Hmm. Brats are so good. I think I'm I think I'm off hot dogs this summer I think I'm brats only Brats are so so good. They're so good. Italians are so good So pigs in a blanket, but I I love hot dogs. Hot dogs are the best I know that they like cause cancer and they make you it's like smoking a pack of cigarettes. I don't care I would rather live I would rather live a year less

with a million glizzies Than the alternative. I'd rather live on my feet than die on my knees. Yeah, I think, um Smoking a whole pack of cigarettes is cool. So That's not really an insult to eating a full eating a full hot dog. It's cool. Either way It was it was a very cool experience. I never would want to do it again because the other thing that that happened was Uh, you get swept up in the moment and everyone's like you got a dunk. You got a dunk eating mushed like wet buns Is the grossest texture ever. So again, Joey chestnut All-time athlete

I'm gonna revise my take because I realize it's grilling season. I love a good hot dog from the grill I don't like a pan hot dog. I don't like a boiled hot dog. I give me the grilled hot dog I love a filleted hot dog on the grill. Just give me I want grilled number one I want flame to have touched my hot dog pan can be good because you just put so much butter in it It's like a butter dog boiled far third. That's the fattest thing you've ever said. Yeah, not even close Actually, I said way fat like a boiled dog at a game though. No, I don't like it at a game. It's different It's gross, but like even that like I would rather like wash it down with the water Like a hot dog on the grill or on on the flat top at a game with onions and peppers

Oh, so good. They're good, but my favorite time to have a hot dog is at like a baseball Yeah, but they have non-boiled No, if you're sitting in your seat, yeah, but I'm talking about getting up. Okay. Yeah, they those are the best smell those onions god hot dogs out and uh In in in the bleachers at Wrigley fucking best hot dogs ever Hey boys, will the whole crew be heading to chicago office? I feel like the only ones who have been talking about moving slash finding a place have been big cat pft in hank Yeah, uh, so

I'm just gonna get out with it I will not be moving to chicago Uh, I kind of been in denial about it didn't really want to talk about on the show because it sucks to think about and I am pretty much in denial Um, did you write a statement? Uh, yeah, I did have a statement. Is it on notes app? Yeah, it's on notes app Uh, by the way, we had a verbal notes app. We've obviously known for a while. Billy was very much invited So it wasn't anything like that

But billy if you want to Do you want one of us to read the notes up? No, let me just make it easier. I didn't it definitely would make it easier for billy Yeah, why don't I read billy's when I read and to be fair to billy he has uh The only reason he hasn't been verbalizing is because he just like he said he's in denial And he doesn't want to admit it because when he admits it then it becomes real right so it's real now billy And we knew we uh billy It wasn't a huge problem that you didn't admit it out loud because we all kind of knew your how your brain works And you're like

maybe Like july will never actually happen billy would just use his last animal fact at the end of the last year to be like Um, some animals don't move to chargams Uh, yeah, let me just uh, do you want to swear you got it. All right. Try not to cry Oh, I believe in you billy. I am also trying not to cry. It's all right. I accomplish that It sucks to say there are various parts of my life that I keep private that impacted this decision I hope you guys respect the decision. Please just remember that I am the only one who can weigh all the factors that impact my life I will be hanging around on pmp detail july and we'll be blogging and on macro dosing

I ask people to please respect my privacy in regards to the situation. Look. I wish this was not the case But it's the reality of the situation And then I have another speech that I realized would be better for the last time i'm on the episode Oh, okay. Do you have any pictures in there? No, I like that you wrote the speech and added look Yes, look guys Billy we will we will miss you in chicago Uh, we got your back. I know that you have I don't think people are going to give you that much shit

So what it's it's a big boy decision. You made a decision I know you got you got other other things that you're working on and uh, it's everyone's decision. So don't stress Yeah, you're good I what I tell you though, and I think this is like something for everyone who's listening whatever decision you make in life Whatever it is There will be some regrets and some positives on any decision There's no anyone's like live with no regrets There's nothing that you can make if you have a big life decision

There will be small part of you that regrets some piece of it that will always be the case But you just keep moving forward I also think a lot of people that listen to this show sometimes will like to do you know backseat driving on other people's decisions And it's like no one knows what's best for you other than you and obviously you're making the decision That's yeah, you have to make and we fully support you. Yep. Like it was it's not you know, I don't think you should be ashamed I don't like anyone should give you shit Uh, I mean you guys are gonna do amazing out there and it's gonna provide so much more opportunities for you guys to like Not that you you guys aren't at a super high level

But you're gonna literally like take it to like space level space like you guys are just hovering you guys are flying right now But we're gonna go to space you're gonna go out or like literally go to outer space It's gonna be such a fertile environment for creating amazing content and I'm gonna get so much FOMO and I wish the best for you guys and Uh, I this now i'm dipping into my last episode. Oh, okay. Yeah, well, hold off. Let's just let's just this is the decision So you don't have I of course you'll have a little FOMO, but like I said, I mean every every decision There's there's pros and cons of every decision No one has ever made a decision in their life been like that was 100 percent the best thing ever without any like

Hey, what about that part? Oh, yeah, maybe I regret that I think especially with billy as someone who also started here super young. It's like People were exposed to billy when he was a kid basically And now he's an adult so it's like things a lot of things change in those Whatever six or seven years. It's not I don't think people should be like I don't I that's just something That I went through myself where it's like I don't want people to treat me the way they treated me when I was 19 Because I'm an older person making different decisions. Yep

Well said Hank very well so so billy people will still be able to see you on barstool. Yes, I'm not trolling I'll be around All right, we watch billy go through puberty It's a wonderful thing. I was pretty far past puberty, but I know I know That was joking Billy I'll say one thing about billy. He he does goodbyes As well as anybody I still remember when billy went to college the first time and then on our way out

It was like the last day that we recorded with billy in studio And he pulled each of us aside separately and gave us like a heartfelt speech about like good luck out there I can't I can't wait to see what you guys accomplished. It was it was very touching good I'm sure you'll have a great one for us at the end of your run here on PMT Yeah Well, thank I one of the jets went to Super Bowl. Well, also Remember those like Factors that only I could weigh. Yeah, I kind of would be in New York to watch Aaron Rodgers. Okay. Yeah, just one of the low

You're gonna be his total list. Yeah, it's on the list. I mean, it's not high up there Like we will never get to see Aaron Rodgers play football again in Chicago That's yeah, that's hard and yeah, probably not they have it on tv next year Yeah, oh, okay. No, but do you have the youtube sign up yet? No, that that was that was a little joke. I will be going to a lot of chess games So yeah, but it would be funny if they won the Super Bowl. Yeah, and I was here for it. Mm-hmm, but not on the show or in Vegas Or in Vegas. Oh, no

Oh, no, Hank wait. Well, no, I'm saying like if you were like being here for the Super Bowl Yeah, if you want to be you'd want to be in Las Vegas Oh for the Super Bowl If the jets which we will be there get to the Super Bowl No, that's not a real reason why I'm big. No, I know I know you're talking But we will miss you Billy and uh, I we we stand behind you for anyone who's giving you shit Which I think people will be cool about it. I actually do Hopefully any others

Uh, there was one quick story. This is funny. This is more not FAQ, but it was a funny story funny anecdote Last week my team was traveling from Toronto to a charity hockey tournament in Pennsylvania Raised 4.8 million dollars for cancer patients and families shout out to this hockey tournament Long story short being that air Canada is airline from hell Pearson airport as a whole is a shit show They wouldn't let us check our hockey bags because we didn't get to the airport three hours before the flight

After fighting with the entire air Canada staff saying if our team doesn't make it there for puck drop It's going to be a shit show and would fuck up six months of raising money and hard work Keep it short one guy on my team was like What if we just go and full equipment through security and on the plane and we don't have to check anything in So that's what they did and they sent a bunch of pictures Of they're they're just in full hockey that rocks are they wearing the skates? Are you allowed to wear hockey ice skates onto a plane? I don't think so. I can't imagine you can Can you bring hockey sticks? Uh, but the pictures are funny

I think you have to check the the hockey bag with the sticks in it. I don't think you can have a hockey stick on a plane Sounds like sounds like a yeah, you probably can how you can No, I don't think so. You like can't bring a bat on a plane. Can you it's a weapon you could use as a weapon You can bat you can bring exacto knives on planes again. Not really again. Yeah, they yeah Damn, they like reversed Actually, I might be lying about yeah, I feel like that I feel like that would be the last one that they would reverse Yeah, specifically that one. Yes, exactly. Yeah, okay um

To do the lottery ball Yeah Have you forgotten it? Yeah No, you haven't got a last night. Oh with the blackhawks. Yeah kind of yeah, except Those weren't you know No, that doesn't count TSA in the u.s. Allows knives with blades that are 2.36 inches or less in length and carry on baggage Wow, so that's so but think about how small exacto blades are number 17. I think they go up further 18 99

Do you want it? No, they're just has this system is illegal Why not? Because big cat controls. There's literally but I very rarely do it possible. No, you've been doing it every single time No, I haven't you guys have colluded so that I can't pick seven. That was not collusion. We're just talking I just you've been do I mean that's all right. I'll give it a beat. You could have 17. I'll give it a beat from now on fair All right, you said I could have 17. Thank you. Do you want it? Yeah, okay? That was stupid No What was you gonna guess? You have to tell me what you're gonna guess three. No, three's not in there. So so what were you gonna guess 101?

Yeah, you motherfucker. All right, I'll take six I'll take 20 I want to get 17 so bad Same his face What was your number 99? Nice pick Four you were so close to three You were so close. I would have I would have picked six times six Lonnie Walker. I know you would have picked six

You're on six or 17 There's another one. Oh There's a couple more. Yeah, you should keep you should keep jumping around Hank. Yeah That's smart More on It's work this far Love you guys Geese fly in a v-shaped formation because it reduces wind resistance

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