Pardon My Take - Ryan Whitney, Game 7 Of The SCF, Hank Is Part Of Joe Mazzulla's Family Now And Mt Rushmore Of People Who Can't Win The Big One

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

Hank had the greatest day of his life on Friday and is now a member of Joe Mazzulla's family after riding a duckboat in the championship parade (00:00:00-00:12:57). The Oilers force a Game 7 (00:12:57-00:13:59). Protestors tried to stop Scottie Scheffler and the Hawk Tuah girl has taken over the internet (00:13:59-00:28:41) . Who's back of the week including Klutch going after MJ's stats and the Oilers girl has found more fame (00:28:41-00:45:33). Ryan Whitney joins the show to talk about the Stanley Cup Final, how the Oilers have come all the way back, what he expects Monday night and more (00:45:33-01:22:30). We finish with the return of Mt Rushmore season and the Mt Rushmore of people who can't win the big one, with some bonus case race recap (01:22:30-01:45:32).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

Hey, pardon my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. On today's pardon my take we have maybe I think he actually leads the PMT in most guest appearances. It is Ryan Whitney getting us ready for game seven of the Stanley Cup final, how we got there, what we're expecting for Monday night gets us pumped up. We're going to recap the weekend. Hank is now a member of Joe Mazzullo's family. We have who's back of the week and we have Mount Rushmore season officially kicking off. We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of can't win the big one. So, uh, maybe there'll be someone who's playing on Monday night in that. And it's going to be me versus Max versus PFT versus Hank solos this year. We'll have to think of a punishment too. We'll have to discuss that. Yeah. Great show for you to kick off

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Get that big fight feel only on DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Today is Monday, June 24th, and Hank, the summer of Hank has arrived. Oh, we're going to start with game seven. I don't know That's two words. We're gonna talk to Whitney for 30 minutes about game seven. We will talk about game six, but Hank you had the greatest day of your life on Friday. You're a part of Joe Mazzulli's family now the brotherhood I think we I think we got a we got to hear what what transpired if anyone missed it I can't imagine anyone did but Hank was on Joe Missoula's duck boat for the Boston Celtics parade and

He was fucking buckled and live in his best life I saw a Sports Center and it was Joe Missoula pouring a beer on Hank's head as the recap of the Celtics Championship parade I was like, what the fuck? There's no way there's's absolutely no way it looked like you had the best time ever Hank so again I'm reluctantly happy for you. It was it was definitely the best day of my life I can honestly say that I've been riding the high all weekend Just just running it back and thinking about how insanely ridiculous it was I had Absolutely no business being on that boat The fact that I got invited is a testament to you guys in the show that it somehow ever even happened

Thank you. Did you crash the boat? Did not crash the boat that I did take I was take that take that he said Basically, he got him on that boat. I was on the boat pretty much. Yeah, I did take a couple branches to the face I was standing up. We got hit with some branches, but karma we We got there. We got there early. Got there like nine o'clock. I woke up. We got to Boston around like two. I couldn't sleep. I was excited. So I didn't have the best night of sleep. I was a little bit running late so I didn't, I didn't eat. I didn't have any sunscreen. Was that my fault? No, no, no, no. It was, it was my fault, but I was probably not great time management showed up and I, you know, I was feeling it out. Cause I told you guys before I was like, I

don't know how to act. I have no business being on this boat. I didn't win the championship. I don't know what the vibe is gonna be like. And right when I got there, Missoula's team was like, you guys didn't bring any beers? I was like, oh, and I didn't know the vibe. They're like, oh no, we're gonna get after it.

It was his whole family. They were all absolutely incredible. His whole team, his brother, his brother his sons his wife everyone and and one of his best friends he grew up with and you and me that was it that was it sorry and I was like still feeling it out his wife before we even the duck boat took off she took out a huge bottle tequila Evan started taking shots and then from there it was just off people were at like throwing beers throwing nips and McGill Cuddies I probably had like 10 or 15 of those to the point where I was like, I might puke. I was just taking them,

chugging them, grabbing beers, stone-coaling them on people. People were bringing out ace of spade bottles. We were spraying the crowd with champagne. You were the front duck boat. We were the first duck boat. So how did that work when you were driving down the street and you see people on the side of the road and they're like cheering for your float. At first, are you like intimidated to wave back at them because you think to yourself like they're not waving at me, they're waving at coach.

Well, it was just the whole time I kept thinking how crazy it was that if I wasn't on the boat, I was just looking out at a sea of myself. Like looking out at my people, people from Boston. I was like, if I wasn't on this boat I would be in that crowd and they were all just so excited like the energy was so high Missoula was the first person they saw and so when they saw and they started going nuts So it was just like getting the crowd, you know pumped up for the rest of the parade Which was super easy people were people were so excited. There was so many people I could not believe I

Kept thinking like it's got to be over soon We just kept going and it just got the crowds got bigger and bigger and bigger. People were just going insane. It was it was it was the greatest. It was something I'll never I can't even put into words how how lucky I was to be able to do you got to experience what being a champion at the highest level of sports is like that's what you got to experience on Friday biggest biggest parade in NBA championship history. Like that's what you got to experience on Friday. Biggest biggest parade in NBA championship history. Is that a fact?

1.5 million people. I love parade math. Yeah, parade math. That's my favorite where they have a helicopter that flies over there like that's 1.1 million. And they just show the heat picture. Yeah. Mazula's the best. He's the absolute I mean he's he's couldn't be cooler. We hung out with him for like 45

minutes before we started. The funniest there was a very funny moment like right after the parade route ended They kind of turned to the side they were stopped and then you know They get back on the freeway to go back to the garden So everyone has to sit down and and everyone's buckled at this point to and Missoula, you know huddles everyone around Like I said, it's literally his direct family and you know his personal team and then me and he gives you are But yeah are one of his best friends and he goes on in that group He's like every single person here you all played a part in this championship Except Hank and then I was already laughing. Yeah, so it was so

That's good So max you were in charge of cutting up social stuff and having your eyes on the internet for Hank content of which there was A whole lot. What was your favorite Hank clip? So I looked awkward yeah, he's what is it? What was it look? Oh, you were so salty You're like yeah, I'll say it Hank looks awkward up there. You did you look you looked awkward as fuck You didn't know anyone on the boat you were the odd. I didn't know I Became like I and everyone on that boat Now they'll always have that moment together, and you know it

You know you're awkward up there. He it's a very guy I don't think you looked awkward the only time you look awkward was when the flag bodied him. Yeah Yeah, that was bad. Yes, that's my answer. That's my answer That's my favorite that was when I that's when I realized I had to stop drinking and the only way to do that Physically because I kept catching beers And then you know you want to pump the crowd up and just chug it or throw it down so I get two hands on a flag and just wave it. The flag dominated you. I mean I was yeah there's a couple couple moments where the flag got caught up and I didn't know

what was going on. You're double fist pumping the flag you did a lot of double fist pumps almost every clip that I saw was Hankson sitting the two fists out there just a classic move. Max was mad that people were bringing up Embiid. No, I wasn't. I actually was ecstatic to see that. The fact that it's their championship parade and they still can't stop talking about Embiid, that's a great sign.

That's great. That was a great thing for you that they did. I was so happy to see that sign. Rent free. So yeah, it was a very cool situation. Hank, I think that most people would be awkward put in that situation But I know you get along pretty well with anybody in situations like that. It's a good vibes. You're a good vibe guy

Well and his whole family on the show there there. You know they're from there from what I wanted it felt it felt very natural I was I was definitely a little worried But then literally his wife like before we even took off was like alright everyone's doing shots I was like alright. I'm gonna fit in just fine here There's gotta be a word for that to describe a guy like Hank who is just real dickhead to everybody that he actually cares Yeah, and then if you're a stranger. He's the biggest ray of sunshine of all yeah Outside the podcast brought more vibes on that duck boat than he has on the show and forever that is a fact yeah Yes, maybe we need to start throwing them nips. I'm just happy this is the last day of Hank's suck fest. Just wait like I mean Hanks on a roll right now. I understand

people are upset about the Hank sucks mess but our fucking producer and very good friend like was on a duck boat with the coach of the NBA champions. That's how can we not lead the show with that? I just want the people that are complaining to know that their voice is heard Okay, all right. I will be I will be that person for your service Max Just know that if you're in that camp you you are a max Yeah, good and and max if a Philly team ever won we wouldn't do the same for you We would yeah, but that's different. Oh, okay. That's different cuz it'd be you we would definitely do the same for well Yeah, I mean it's whatever yeah

Okay Who was who's the drunkest at the at the speech? They did the speech beforehand smart Porzingis Porzingis was late which honestly was great for me because everyone was in the tunnel waiting because they all came out as a team to the court and did the speech before the parade went off and so everyone was just waiting around for poor Zingas because he I almost happened to me to where he basically tried to get off and then you know that the road was blocked off so he couldn't get across.

So it was like there was probably 30 minutes where we got to just mingle with the players because they were just waiting for poor Zingas. That's awesome. Terrick White did you like your hair. Love the hair. He came in, said, what up? Uh, Sam Houser was, was drunk. He was also the man though, him and his whole family, poor Zingas, his brother, Joey Howser, poor Zingas. Yeah. You went up for people who don't know Hank told a gas, I'm going to go take a picture of poor Zingas. And then it was just a picture of Hank standing next to Joey Howser.

It was like six, eight. Yeah. He was told why. He was wearing this he was wearing the hat the same way I mean, that's the I was I was very drunk at that point who got the bigger pop Tatum or brown I was in front of them. So I don't know Yeah, that'd be interesting. I did see that Jalen Brown lost his ring Yeah, he had like a nice fancy ring that he brought with him to the parade. Some people were saying that Hank stole it He also said that he brought to the parade. Some people were saying that Hank stole it. He also said that he was, there's like a cash prize if someone finds it. Why wouldn't the cash, can't you just buy a new one? It must be sentimental. I thought that too. It must be, it's probably a sentimental ring. Yeah. It was Putin there? Nazi Putin. Oh, okay.

You must've missed them. Um, okay. So great, great weekend. It was, yeah, it was, it was the greatest day of my life. I have a question. Yes. What did you what what did the night look like? Well, he took a nap there was yeah, so there was an after party at Cisco like with just the the organization That was blocked off to the public till like five o'clock and then once the public you know They open the doors to the public people kind of filtered out because you know people were turning to a shit show So I went back to the hotel meet Gaz was checking into the hotel I said I'm gonna go up to my room for a second I texted him at like 445 and said let me know when you're ready

I'll be down and then I woke up at 715 so I took a little nap But then yeah, I went I went out in Southie and had a great time So you didn't go out with any anyone on the team at night? Not at night All right. No, I I was just curious Max that wasn't that wasn't that wasn't a dig. I was I was curious I said, I it's a big dig. I'm well I'm one to admit when it when it is a dig that was not a dig that was I was actually just curious So Hank you just went out with your friends at night party. Yeah Which could be Joe Missoula now? Say you're going out with your friends. night party. Yeah, which could be Joe bazula now

Say you're going out with your friends. You have his number now. I do have his number He I mean he invited me to his house He was like trying he was like you sure you don't want to come back like I was like I appreciate it But uh, I'm gonna nap on his couch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, could have choked him out could have could have punched a hole in his drywall And that would have been good for him his house Okay, so incredible weekend for Hank. We do have a game seven Stanley Cup final game seven Monday night tonight. The Oilers back from the dead have absolutely dominated the Panthers. We're going to talk

with Whitney for 30 minutes about the game, but this is, this has chance to be just an all time, all time game seven. This would be, I think the most iconic moment in Stanley cup finals history. If they're able to pull it off. If McDavid does. I think yeah. And then if the Panthers do it, it kind of becomes a footnote and at the same time becomes another tally in the check mark box of McDavid can't win the big one.

Yes. Choke artist. But it has been an incredible series. Incredible. Like I, I thought the series was absolutely over I thought it was gonna be a sweep and then boom you look up I mean the games are it's you know, like two nights in between three nights in between each game But hey Oilers have just kicked the shit out of the Panthers. Did the Oilers figure out Bob?

I did I think they figured everything out. I think they figured Bob right out figured out just in time Yeah, and it's gonna be awesome We also have uh, I think we have double championships on Monday night because Tennessee and Texas A&M play for the College World Series Yeah, the Vols Vols battled back. Yeah, the jello shot challenge Let's talk about the jello shot challenge because I always thought that it was like a cool thing that the College World Series had Did you read the same tweet as me that ruined it? No, no, I've been thinking this since last week, so you can tell me what ruined it for me. But the Jell-O-Shot Challenge is every college world series in Omaha, you go there and every team has a list for their fans and it updates the tally based on how many Jell-O-Shots at that bar certain fan bases have purchased. In the past, it's been kind of fun because it's just like people that go into the bar and happen to order the jello shots. Now we've got people drone striking

in jello shot orders from out of town. And is it, does it go to charity at all? Or is it just the barkers? If it's just the bar, they're geniuses. I think it's just the bar and there might be some charity element. What ruined it for me was someone said that they have them pre packagedaged and yeah people show up and just buy a bunch and then like walk away Yeah, and like that's not in the spirit of the rules or you can call in you should have to take the jello shot. Yes For its account. Yes. I feel like we're in a the live ball era. Let's get back to just the basics Yeah, so you're on people fans taking the jello shot right in front of you organically. I want, I want, you can order them for your table. That's cool. Yeah.

Couple for your table. They all have to be done. They all have to be taken by your fan base. Yeah. But walking in and saying like, I'd like 10,000 jello shots. Right. And then just having, and then that doesn't tell me anything about your family. It just says that you have someone rich who could buy a bunch of jello shins yeah you should have to drink them yeah 100% you're and it should it shouldn't count like a good marietta eat them take them take them take them but you all it also wouldn't count like if we walked if we walked in and I were a Tennessee fan and you were wearing like NC State stuff and I bought two jello shots and you took one.

That shouldn't count for two for Tennessee. That's NC State. Right. They should just do the breathalyzer challenge. Breathalyze every person wearing a jersey that walks out and then do an average at the end of the week. Yeah, that'd be good. Do you wanna talk about the Hawk Toa girl?

Apparently she's signing merchandise now. Good for her. She's making hats. Good for her. She's making hats. Good for her. Gotta take advantage. I like the Hawk to a Girl just because... Who is the Hawk to a Girl? Well, there was a man on the street video, was it Nashville?

I don't know where it was. I think it was Nashville. Do you want to play the video? Can you play the video for us? Spit on that thing. Yeah, spit on that thing. So I liked how simple this meme is because I saw it going around and we had a busy week last week And I kind of missed it at the beginning and then I caught up and I was like, oh, that's as simple of a meme

As it can get yeah, there's no other thing to it. I like those. Yeah, go ahead play the video What's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time? Oh, you gotta give him that hawk two and spit on that thing. So that's it. It's as simple as possible. How many girls talking about spitting on a cock? How many Tagliavola jerseys are just going to be labeled hawk on the back of them next year?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, I think we can already say that's the number one fancy football team name for 2024, right? Yes. Hawk two-a? Yeah. She's a star. She's team name for 2024. Yes. Yes. Yeah.

She's a star. She's an absolute star. Legend. She's a complete star. Yeah. What do you think about her form, Hank? I like the message. I like the message she was sending.

One Hawk Toa guy to another? Just Hawk Toa. Hank Toa? Shane Hawk Toa is his own cock. Yeah. But it's crazy because he doesn't eat anything else. Like Shane didn't have his first sandwich until last week. He had his first sandwich.

Yeah, no, she's a star in the making. It feels like we're on a really good run right now of, you know, with Edmunds and Oylers fan Hawk to a girl. We're just getting back to the basics. The basics of the internet. Yes. Attractive female does something and we're like, yes, she rules. Well, I mean, it boils down to like blowjob or tits.

Yeah, right. Turns out those things do well. Damn, she's a star. If the protesters at the Travelers, the fifth major, if they just had tits that were just poking out there, I think their cause would be celebrated a little bit more. Yeah. So those guys, so Sky Sheffler won again. All he does is win. Although only won one major this year. Can't win the big one.

He won one big one. He won one big one. But yeah, we had protesters on what was it the 18th? His 18th. Yeah, they're coming up and the one guy had what like a seven foot putt. Yeah. Yeah, Tom Kim. They should uh, like I Protester justice is never because because a guy remember when they were doing it the Timberlose games They were they were gluing themselves to the floor. I Don't think that if you protest something at a sporting event you shouldn't just be like, okay Now I go to jail pay a thousand dollar fine. Whatever it is

It should your punishment should just be directly related to this sport They should have to go stand at the tee box and Scottie Shepard and Tom Kim get to t1 like right at them That's what it should be. Are you just get handcuffed to a tree? Yeah, and you have to just live on the golf course Yeah, or like when you if you if you glueuffed to a tree. Yeah. And you have to just live on the golf course. Yeah, or like when you, if you, if you glue yourself to a basketball floor, you should have to then, they should just re-glue you to center court and you have to just be trampled on for the entire, entirety of the game. Glue you down right underneath the basket and you get dunked on. Yeah, right, like that. You got, yeah, you got Rudy Gobert landing on you.

You don't have to then go to jail, but if you do it at a sporting event, you should have to get your punishment immediately at that sporting event. Yeah, so they were stop big oil people, right? And I think that the Edmonton Oilers fan did so much that was pro big oil, it completely overshadows any counter protester. If you're going to do a protest and you want people who are watching sports to pay attention Just have your boobs out. Yeah, and yeah people people be like, you know what? I'll look at some of their literature Yeah, the cops won't tackle you as hard

Yeah, that was it was funny watching the cops being like this is our big moment It is there was like four or five of them running everywhere It's what you train for. Yeah, if you're a security guard and you're working at it's either you either get to arrest Scotty Scheffler Or you get to arrest somebody That's threatening Scottie Scheffler. Yeah, and they were dumping stuff all over the green. I don't know what they were dumping It just looked like cocaine. It might have just been cocaine. There's like a red flare. I think as well Yeah, shout out Scottie keeping his composure. Yeah, they probably thought they were coming for him. His hair looked great Did it Scottie's hair? Yeah, see it grew it grew right in all the way

It looks pretty good right now And then right after it was over like the second he stepped off the green his wife just hands him the baby's like here You look after the baby now. Well, it's also for the pictures It's for the pictures the pictures the baby picture after a win is I mean Jason's hate him We talked about his whole aura, but the the the video of him with Deuce is you can't not like that Yeah, you have to have the coldest heart in the world to not like that. If you throw a kid into a champion's arms, yeah, it's instant. This is awesome. Yeah. But then if he loses, I want to see that baby face the music afterwards and the baby should answer the tough ones. Did Jason Tatum, did he have aura at the parade? So

much aura. Really? What did that look like? He was carrying around the trophy. So what ups? That sounds like the trophy has aura Yeah, prop. I mean just the pictures and videos He looked like the sounds the greatest champion in the world the beautiful beautiful part about what was he plagiarized at? Uh this time when you know you want a championship You can just reply with the picture of him holding the trophy and it's tough. It's a tough argument It is oh, I'm not arguing that he's not a champion. He's definitely a champion a Player your star player holding a trophy in front of a 1.5 million. Yeah, that was a cool picture

I thought that was that's all going off of it, but that's aura I know it's more the Sun in the trophy there in the row you have the Sun has aura Yeah, Sun has a lot of that's just that's you can ask Neil deGrasse Tyson about that Yeah, Sun's just radiating aura all over the place Okay, what up? What other sports or any any other things we have from the week? Did you win the 50-50 raffle? I didn't know I was I spent I think 300 bucks on 50-50 raffle and the guy just sat down next to me He's like, thank you so much for doing this. I was like do people not normally They don't buy that much get that so much for doing this. I was like, do people not normally, they don't buy that much, get that much. And I was looking at, I was like,

I've never wanted anything more in my life than, than to win the 50, 50 raffle. That might've been the end of part of my take. And actually I thought about it when I saw the picture, I was like, if he wins, I, this will ruin me. Yeah. You even get a number. What do you mean? Like, did you get the first number? Oh, yeah. That's, that's, that's when it sucks. Yeah. All right. it. None of them were correct. Yeah, you have to buy them every inning. Yeah, I bought them all at once and then when they make the announcement after the game's over, I go to the website and I looked at it and I had to like refresh it because I was like this must be a different 50-50 raffle because the first number is different from all my tickets. Yeah. But yeah, no, I mean the bleachers at Wrigley Field are incredible. Got to take the tarps off out there. Friday afternoon, nothing better.

Beer Snakes, going a lot of Edmonton Oilers fans and full kits out there in the heat. Really brave in the sun. And yeah, you also, you got to drink beers out of a bat. They got the bat beers out there. Yep. Yep. So now I just have that in my kitchen

now that I just pour every drink into. I'm drinking out of a bat. There's nothing better. Yeah, you had a perfect Chicago weekend and Max moved. Mm-hmm. That was fun, too, though, probably I went to the sphere It was sick Max you moved. Yeah, I drove like 40 hours in two days We all of us you had a ride incredible weekend. Yeah. Yeah. No, that was the max parade. Yeah, I had a good weekend I did good dinner. It's not drove a lot. Okay, nice a lot of driving. Yeah. Yeah. No, that was the max parade. Yeah, I had a good weekend. I had a good dinner Not a drove a lot. Okay, nice a lot of driving. Yeah, anyone who is thinking about going to the sphere do it

Yeah, it does look incredible. It was Mind-blowing you know who else had a great weekend was trapped it like a Part of me thinks my mind would get permanently blown. There was a point of like there was a couple of of moments, there was a, there was a, especially a moment on Saturday night. And I'll be fully honest, I had had a lot of mushrooms both Friday and Saturday, but I did have that thought of like, will I ever go be able to go back to real life? Because it was that cool. Yeah, I just want, I would want to just live in the sphere. It was, it was like I said, the expectations were high and they blew them out of the water. Incredible. Yeah. Um, child James Dolan, one good thing he's done in his life and his kazoo band. Yeah. Do you think his kazoo bands ever going to play it? I'd

go see. I would go, I would go. I'd be front row. Yeah. I, I didn't know if it was the mushrooms or the sphere. And then I just realized why not both? Yeah. And it was both. It was definitely both. But yeah, Travis Kelsey had a great weekend too, mostly because he just missed Spear Olympics. So he's probably very happy that he's hanging out overseas instead of having to go to Nashville. And we have a new war, Dave Grohl versus Swifties.

Yes, we do, I saw that. I stand with Dave Grohl. I do too. What do you do, disdur? He said that they're doing the errors tour because they play their music live Foo Fighters are unlike on unlike Taylor Swift who's not playing live she's just lip-syncing that's what his claim was saying yeah but it's also like why can't they're just what is he

thinking why can't they talk why can't Swifties just do shit talk? That's what they do. No, they don't. They don't let... They don't... Anyone who says anything mean about Taylor Swift ever, they fucking go to Defcon a million. I don't even know if that's Defcon. Yeah, but it should be like sports.

You should be able to take the shit talk, fire back, in kind, without trying to take away his entire career. I'm sure. It's a mean girl. Dave Grohl will be fine. I did see a meme that, uh, Swifties don't hock to a, I don't know if there's a lot of Swift. I don't know if that's true. I saw the meme.

I'm just reporting what I've seen or journalists. I'm reporting it. There's not a lot of crossover between like Reagan voters and Taylor Swift fans probably. Yeah. So good. It's so good. I love that for a while all we had was the the Gluck Gluck 3000. Yeah. And we've been waiting for a worthy successor. I think Hawk to it does it. It's finally been released. What do you think your dad's saying right now? That's my girl yeah Yeah, like that was good work. Yeah, nice you you you you you asserted yourself well in that interview Yeah, Hawk to uh, okay anything else from the weekend trying to think oh We did have the first ever walk-off pitch clock violation. Yeah, those electric. Yep. Happened to the Rockies, right? Yeah, right. Happened to the Nationals. Yeah. Yeah. Rockies won, I believe. And yeah, we finally got it. We

were waiting for it. We needed it. Thank God. We also had another rematch of the fever in the sky and then nothing really happened. It was just like a normal good basketball game. They just like the Washingtonals and the Globetrotters. Yes, play every game They seem to play a lot how madder they're playing every other night How mad are people that there wasn't a hard foul on Caitlin Clark very there's a shitload of people who only watch the game for? Hard fouls on Cue. Yeah, like a hawk. They're watching and they're just like rewinding every frame that seemed like an unnecessary shoulder There was like some shit talking but it was just normal sports right which is I think what it's gonna turn into yeah now if I was a player on the fever what I would do if I'm like

into the rotation type player I would just become her enforcer just get out there and wreck some people's face if they touch Caitlin Clark yeah and then you just develop an enormous fan base based off that yeah just become the the Caitlin Clark stopper yeah by physically, just become the Caitlin Clark stopper. Yeah. By physically assaulting her. Or the Caitlin Clark stopper stopper. No, I'm saying her teammate.

Oh, her teammate. Oh, her, the protector. Yeah, she'd get real violent. Yes, the protector. Really violent. Yes. OK, let's do who's back of the week. Max, are you going to start doing who's backs of the week?

Should he? That's not my choice. I think we should try it and see how it goes. Yeah, it probably would go poorly. Do you have one? Yup. Okay, Who's Back of the Week is brought to you by Chores Light, the perfect summer playlist. May be elusive, but one thing is for sure, it gets better when it's enjoyed with a cold

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no. What was he doing? Bad stuff. He had some of the grimace shake on his on his wrist. He was hot to and into the ball. So I'll just say my added inspiration to dunk, that was the only thing I didn't really mention, was uh... How's it been going, this bender you've been on? It's been, I've been trying to do as much as I can, but after spending the day and basically being invited as a quasi-member of the Missoula family, I feel like it's my responsibility to live up to the high expectations

and standard that he sets. And I feel more motivated than ever to just put in the extra work and make it happen because that's just, that's what he would do. Missoula's would do. So earlier in the episode, you said that this was probably the best day of your life. You just hung out with Tom Brady like six days ago. Oh my God. I forgot. Hank has been on such a streak that I forgot about that So this was better than chilling with Tom Brady Yeah, I mean it though the one before it was the first

Patriots Super Bowl when they won and we got invited to the hotel. It was random. Like we weren't expecting it We were just at a bar got a text Ended up at the team hotel after party and got to party with the team when it was like, you know Maybe a hundred people there that was previously the greatest out of my life this one this one tops it I think Brady's probably top four Geez, so you had two of the greatest nights of your life in the same week. I Wish you hadn't said that there will be down completely forgot it there will be downfall. Yeah, the downfall is football or a real shame in a boat Yeah

real shame trying to dunk real shame if if you pop your Achilles trying to Pft it would be I would I would I understand why bad bad boy hate on me. That was a bad boy deserves it after I was gonna say ACL he knows bad boy I didn't I didn't deserve to be on that boat but it's one of those things where when you're in that situation you have to just enjoy it yeah I know it as much as I could even though it was nobody but pft is right like the the world evens out but not for Hank yeah I'm just gonna enjoy it. You know people are gonna try and

take me down to his bald head does that's fine. I'd show the bald head how the sun tan get. I got a. Oh yeah. The. His his one of his assistants and his wife like you have to put on sunscreen you have to put on sunscreen. We brought it. Don't worry. And then as we're taking off they started putting on me he beats's like, hey, I said no sunscreen. And thankfully, they overruled them. He's got to put some on. Yeah. But you didn't at the start.

And I was going to say that the two biggest pieces of advice you should have gotten, or at least tried to follow up on, going to the parade would be put sunscreen on your head and eat something for breakfast. Right. That's why when I was on the way there, I was like, oops. You wanted to blame me so bad. No.

Yeah, you did. Anytime you don't eat. Looks good. Thank you. It looks good. I don't know how it looks good, but this is... Hanks just on the heater, man. Let's hope no shames happen.

Okay, PFT, you're who's back this week. My who's back is the USA, baby. US, Dos Acero. What did we do? We beat the Dastardly Bolivians oh fuck yeah we crushed them into Bolivia and it was a it was a great game for Christian Pulitzer and he scored uh in like the first three minutes and then had a great assist later on team looked good we should group stage group stage what do we get if we win our real we get uh

the honor of beating immortality we own all of America's because it's a Copa America. So we get We get rights to South America, too That's a group United States of America Panama. They stink and then Uruguay, he's always good in these tournaments. Is there any is there a weird Country in this member. It wasn't wasn't guitar. It's our was in it last time. Yeah, they were honorary America's do we have any of those we are the weird country in it? Okay, so we're not supposed to be in it We're not in it every single time, but we're hosting the entire tournament, which is major cuck move Yeah, but we're using it to I get guess get things tuned up for the World Cup when we host it

But team look good. The lads look good. It's still burr halter out. It's always Burr halter out. But yeah, dosa zero. I'm excited for some soccer. Yeah, your way is gonna be a good game. They're good. They're very good. Yes. Is Luis Suarez still playing? I don't know. I don't know. I love that. I don't know if he's playing this tournament or not. Just biting everybody. Yeah, I love that guy. Okay, my who's back in the week is LeBron and Clutch being salty. I don't know if you guys have followed this. It's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. I guess Clutch has hired a bunch of people to go and look up old MJ stats and try to rip down MJ and it's the most transparent move ever knowing that LeBron might not win another title. So now they're going to try to find other ways to progress the goat conversation. But I know obviously

I'm biased. I can't, I don't understand how you can look at this and not be like, this is the pettiest saddest thing possible. So what are they doing? They went back to the 1988 season and when MJ won defensive player of the year and like looked up games where he had, uh, an inordinate amount of steals. And then they went and looked and like saw the crediting of it, which happens in every arena. Like the home road splits always happened. It was really bad in the seventies, eighties, and I think early nineties. You can't even go back and watch some of those games.

Right. And now we're in a war where like now LeBron's old plays are getting posted. It's just I don't know. I don't understand what the end goal was. Why would you try to tear down and if you have to try to tear down MJ to elevate LeBron, you've already lost in my opinion. Correct. Yeah. Like if you have to go back in time and trying to nitpick stats, you're essentially admitting that you've lost. Also no one really cares about that much. And also in the, in the, in the quote, in the story, Bob Ryan, uh, basically said, he's

like, I, you, I, I don't use stats for all my voting. I use the eye test and he was the best defender in the league. Like what, what does it matter? He was the best in the league at the time compared to other players that he was playing. Right. But yeah, there's a lot of like the John Stockton assist numbers, home and away splits. It happens all the time. It happens all the time and every player that was in that era dealt with it. And you know what would be a real shame? You know what would be a real shame? If anyone finally did a story about LeBron and PEDs? I'd be real sh- That would be a shame. I'm not saying there's anything there, but you're now opening the

box to ask questions. So he had- We're gonna go back and do stats. He actually had his guys from his management team go back and look at MJ stats. I don't know if it was- That just bears him. I mean, listen, it was Tom Haberstra who I like, but I don't, I don't like his work in this. Nick Wright, who we do like as a friend, he, he, I don't know if he was joking, but he was

saying he had a piece in the, in the working of this. Of course he did. Clutch media or clutch. They, they do like, they have media members that are in their back pocket. So it wouldn't shock me if this is what happened. Yeah. They're like, Hey, go look at all these stats. I think I don't think Nick, right? You would even have to pay him for that because every, every little bit that you can make Michael Jordan appear worse makes him appear more right. Right. And I like Nick, but like, it's just a very pathetic thing to go back in time and try to nitpick every stat. And what's happening now is people are digging up LeBron's stats and

game film and there's, you could do it for every single player ever. Yeah. How many times did he travel? Right. How about we take a look at that? How many, how many carries did he get? I watched one today where he got credited with an assist. It was an outlet pass and the, and the guy he passed to caught it a half court and took like 15 dribbles. Yeah. It's the, it's the home finger. Right. Which happens, but it's pathetic.

And again, I don't want it to get to a point where we start asking PED questions. That would be a shame. Yeah, also just because I don't think LeBron did PEDs, but some people might think that. The fact is that he's played a crazy long amount of time without significant injuries. Also, I don't really get like

the LeBron MJ thing is gonna just be an age thing at this point. It's going to be if you're 30 years or younger you're you would think LeBron's the go-to. If you're 30 years or older you think that what you're not gonna change really anyone's opinion who's on whichever side they're on. Just let it play out and then there's gonna be another player that we're going to do this for. That's how sports debates work. But you can also look at the two years that he didn't play and then say, what would MJ have done

if he had played those years? Couple titles. But it's just, I think it's been decided in the fact that there's the camps and the camps will have their thoughts. But to go back and watch game film and try to tear down MJ's. So again, I think it admits that you're desperate.

Well, it definitely admits that you're playing from behind. It's loser behavior for sure. I could see myself doing it to somebody that I hated. Yeah. But I don't think I would ever do that to somebody that I was just like trying to prove that my favorite player was slightly better than. Right. Right.

You saw this Hank. But if I hated that player player I would definitely do it a hundred percent desperate desperate desperate desperate okay what what were you gonna say no go ahead say I was the vibes I'm good vibes say I'm good vibe no say it no I'm good say no we're gonna say it is the same playbook as you and coach K. No, I've actually had all facts. What are you talking about? That's what they're saying. No, no, no. I didn't go back in your, your training on losses credited to him. No, no. What? He, he left the team, a bad team because of an injury. That's just a fact. I didn't look anything up, but you think those losses should be on his record. Well, I think Pete Goddard should get an apology more than anything

It's not that big cat hates coach K. He's just a massive Pete Goddard fan. Yeah, and there's also not I'm not trying to elevate I'm not doing it on behalf of anyone else. That's true. So it's not like this is my goat I'm trying to take down coach K. I just hate coach K. That's why I didn't say and I also All the things that I did I didn't go and watch film and try to take away Wins from him you were in the lab though. I mean I I know my coach K history very well That's why I didn't say him, but I was who am I propping up? That's true, and there's no one I'm propping up on the other side. He got it. Yeah, Pete got dead I guess but who else would I be propping up? It's not like a goat debate. I, I know

that people say coach K is the goat. I just don't like him. But there's not like another person I say, Oh, he's actually better. True. That's why I didn't say I wish you had stayed positive. But that's what I didn't I really wish I did. I did. I did say positive. I didn't say I didn't. That's what that's what makes the whole LeBron versus MJ thing so so annoying is that people that are massive LeBron James fans, I think they still like Michael Jordan. I think they acknowledge that Michael Jordan was a great player,

but because they have to do tricks on it, they have to give them the hoctua, and they have to go back and then try to tear down somebody else who they also likes accomplishments to make their guys seem a little bit better. I admit that Coach K, if you make the the argument is probably the best college coach I hate his guts. Roy Williams had more success in North Carolina. God damn it I wish I know the Achilles wouldn't be the worst. No no it would be it would be a real shame. It wouldn't be the worst. You can't just have... Positive vibes. I'm positive. That's why I didn't say it. Hank Hank waving the guy

I can think of another guy that waved a flag on television that then had a Massive Achilles problem that could be Hank Hank. You're not gonna like this when when when my homes fans start doing this to Brady You're gonna be very upset They are going to come and do that They're gonna be like all, Oh, Brady's defense is carry. I, I, they're going to do that. I just don't, I don't pay as much mind, I guess, to like the debate. It's like who, but this was like a real article that was that article was crazy. That is clutch and they're, they're basically like being there.

They came out of the report being like if you draft brownie it doesn't mean the bronze coming back right Lakers right which just you know opens the door trying to hold everyone hostage the if this were just memes online I would not have paid any attention to it it was an actual article like journalists doing work trying to tear down MJ For what what yeah for what? Okay, max you ready. Yeah, you ready you who's back of the week who's back the week is playboy Why? Oilers girl is posed for playboy and She look good. Okay, is it still a magazine steak? I

And she looked good. Okay, this is still a magazine steak I just read this it is actually only fans ask now what? Yeah, playboy has like an only fans ask site that you have to like pay for like a subscription based service So they don't even have the articles anymore. I think they also have that but this is this is what falling off They've fallen so far well now they're back They basically invented porn Yeah well now they're back. They basically invented porn Yeah, now they're back Because oilers girl did it well. I think she just did that photo shoot for the Instagram. Yeah, they were basically the original Instagram algorithm

Playboy I Got a question for you guys. I mean they were just pictures of hot chicks. Yeah Yeah, I got a question for you guys I talked about algorithm I don't know why but I saw the video of the Russian guy getting shot in the head like a hundred times today I didn't see that but you know what I actually that was too much I don't know why that was just on my in my algorithm I just said this to Max a second ago I was watching a video and sometimes like the next video just auto plays

Yeah on Twitter X with X videos and the next one that I saw Which is a guy in the middle of the street getting hit by a car going like a hundred miles all that too We're doing snuff films. What the fuck we're watching where I saw that as well as at 140 miles an hour Yeah, I hope he's okay. Yeah, I think he is when he lands. What's going on? You guys didn't see the yeah, the rush one was wild Yeah, I think he is when he lands what's going on you guys didn't see the yeah, the Russian one was wild I Mean Twitter's just the way Twitter you can't there's no if you go in the replies, it's just all spam Yeah, I don't know either of these these things you're talking about. It's just a guy getting hit by car. Mine was just a like three Russian soldiers like running in like an open field and then a drone hits one of them and Then he's like badly injured and he tells his

Buddy behind him shoot me in the head and he shoots him in the head. Yeah I didn't need to see this those drone and I saw it way too much. Those drone videos are everywhere. They're terrifying terrifying terrifying Okay. Yeah, that was a nice who's back with what you don't you don't like boobs anymore. No, no, no I I took it to a bad place. I'm putting my hand up We went to boobs that I just it had been bothering me how much I had seen that one guy die all day Also playboy just completely lost the business model here. We've seen her boobs You get playboy to see boobs of girls Whose boobs you haven't seen yet? You could kind of see your boobs again though kind of but the boobs were way better in in the original video

Yeah, we said we said at the time boobs in the wild there are the hottest boobs boobs. You don't expect Yeah, yeah, but it's always good to see other angles of boobs. That's true. You do need your research Yeah, but they were covered it wasn't I don't know it felt like a step back for her actually I Do I do stand by her about take I do stand by her take on? The haters need to shut up. She's right. Fuck the haters. Fuck the haters.

Ben Affleck, Oilers girl. Fuck the haters. Fuck the haters. Okay, let's get to our interview with Ryan Whitney. We're going to talk about game seven, get real hype for game seven. Before we do that, PFT, you got a couple of ads. Then we're going to do Mount Rushmore. Part of my take is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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It is Ryan Whitney, and I cannot believe we are talking to him before a game seven of the Stanley Cup final. The Edmonton Oilers have come back from 3-0 to force a game seven on Monday night, tonight, as you're listening to this. They dragged the Panthers back to Florida. Yes. Drag them back to Berda, baby. So, Witt, let's start with this.

How the hell has this happened? What has occurred in the last three games that have gone from a team that looked like they were absolutely dead to now look like they are the better team on the ice? I would say many things, but I kind of lean towards what you guys trolled me and trolled PKSooBandwith and have trolled forever, non-stop, about Conor McDavid and him being the greatest athlete in the world right now.

Better at his sport than any other person is at their sport. And you made jokes about the ice time and jokes about the lack of titles, and now he's one game away, and everything changed in game four. He had four points, game five, he had another four points.

First player in the history of the league to get back to back four point games in the Stanley Cup final. It's been insane to watch. This team, just thinking about tonight, and thinking about this game. It gives me goosebumps. And obviously I'm an Oilers fan, but I think all hockey fans even feel that way because we're kind of witnessing history.

It's happened once before. 1942 PFT's boy Hitler was alive when it fucking happened. And always I know he's not your boy, but you have made many a joke. But it's just something that this team has figured out each series how to play against their opponent as the series has gone on. First round, not necessarily the case. They made easy work of LA. They were a lot better team than them.

But then the second round, right? They're down 3-2 to Vancouver. They come back and win that. He made a goaltending change. Stuart Skinner's been incredible since. But he ended up putting in Calvin Picard and started him a couple games in that series. And the team figured it out and they were able to come back and win that thing. And then against Dallas, they won game one, all of a sudden they're down and then they boom,

they rip off three straight in that series as well. So it's been figuring out your opponent, somehow changing the lines the way Chris Knobloch has. He's had a master class in coaching. What this guy's done, it's incredible. He's had numerous guys in and out of the lineup, guys up and down the lineup, different lines, changing up pairings on the defense. It's been wild to see, and then it all came together

with that offside challenge in game six, which was just the biggest turning point I've ever seen. Florida makes it two one 10 seconds after Edmonton makes it to nothing. They challenge it, it was offsides by the slightest margin. I actually didn't think it was, but then a picture came out after

and showed that it really was just barely. But everything that this coach has touched has turned to gold from him coming in when they were in last place or second to last place like in middle of November to now where they one went away from winning the Stanley Cup. It's an incredible story not only in hockey but in all of sport and I think it's going to be just a wild night. I think it's going to overtime which I didn't think it ever happened. Somebody told me it did. It might have been in the 20s or 30s for all I know. But game seven overtime for the Stanley Cup.

I feel like this season's been so crazy that it might happen tonight. I'm pumped. You just pumped me up. I'm very excited. It's been an awesome series to see how it shifted around. With McDavid, do you think that there's any chance, he heard the haters out there saying,

you're never gonna win the big one. If you're so great, how come you haven't accomplished this? Do you think that he's hurting you that? I don't know, he seems like one of those ultra focused, super serious guys, I'm not in the room, I guess guys love him, and he seems like one of the dudes when he's in the room, but with media, he's always been, I don't really wanna say standoffish,

but almost just like I have no interest in doing media, he's not somebody that's looking to get his brand out there or anything like that. I think his whole singular focus his entire life has been on winning the Stanley Cup. He's a child prodigy, he's been the greatest player since he first started skating. He's one of those stories that for everyone who says,

yeah, the best player at eight is never the best player at 12, and the best player at 12 is never the best player at 12, and the best player at 12 is never the best player at 16. He's the anomaly. Him and Crosby and Gretzky and Lemieux, there's a few guys that are just born in every sport to be the greatest, and that's been him since a very young age. His dream's been to win the Stanley Cup. Now he's leading a team that has had a lot of, I would say, dark days. I mean, when I was there, it was called the decade of darkness.

It certainly hasn't been the case since he arrived, but they still have had some devastating playoff losses. And to me, it's like you've lost the last two years to the Stanley Cup champs. They got swept in the conference finals by Colorado in 2022. Last year, they lose to Vegas in the second round, and they go on to win. And now it seems like it's his time. It didn't seem this way a week ago or whatever it was when it

was 3-0 and it looked like it was gonna be a drumming but something has happened and and I think for him it's like nothing matters until I get that cup and he could go on and he's breaking records that people thought were never even gonna be sniffed. I mean he's touching Gretzky point per game levels in the playoffs. He grabbed a hundred assists this year, which Kucherov from Tampa Bay did as well. They were the fourth and fifth player to ever do it after Gretzky, Lemieux and Bobby Orr. So he's done things along the way that have proved that he is the greatest

player in the league and in the world. But nothing matters without the cup and all the great ones, they end up getting a Stanley Cup. No disrespect to Joe Thornton or Jerome again, like Connor McDavid's different than these guys. So without the cup, it's, it, there's this emptiness there and now he's this close. That's why I, I, it's one game momentum. I don't believe carries over and game to game in, in, in the Stanley cup playoffs. It's just like a new game within itself. But when you have a guy like this, I just, I can't imagine he doesn't take over.

Well, he has those plays. I think it was, it was a game five when he had that assist to Corey Perry that was just, he basically just took on the entire Panthers team and then at the last second dumped it to Corey Perry for a perfect one timer with an open goal. It's like, those are the type of plays that no one else can make and he's making them at the highest level at the highest stage. He has the assist record. Yeah. I mean, it's been awesome to watch. It's been incredible to watch. You always want to watch greatness. So in terms of the game to game adjustments, cause that it's a great point and it's one of my favorite things about watching seven game series, just whether you're talking

about, you know, hockey, baseball, basketball, but the game to game adjustments that teams make to get to figure out their opponent and like finding that special sauce. Like that was even when the Blackhawks are making their runs. Quindle was always like, we were down a couple of times in the Stanley cup or the series and just be like, find those adjustments. So those adjustments have been found. What do the Panthers do back? Cause it feels like they're on their heels right now. That's what I don't know. For the Panthers, I think their fans right now are most panicked

about the power play and Edmonton's power play has carried them for years. It's been, I've called it on chicklets, the greatest power play in the history of hockey, which people laugh at, but then you look at some of the numbers and they snap it around and create so many opportunities, even if they don't score, it's like momentum switched in the game because of their power play. But the Panthers, they have nothing going.

Now credit has to be given to the Oilers PK. When Woodcroft was fired in November and Knobloch came in, he's talked about that he had no idea, he had never really ran a penalty kill and he wasn't ready to do it at the time. So he had Mark Stewart, who had been coaching there prior and stayed on the staff when Woodcroft was let go. He played in the NHL a long time.

I played with him in junior. He was a hard-nosed defenseman, played on the penalty kill, knew time. I played with him in junior. He was a hard nosed defenseman, played on the penalty kill, knew what he was doing. He gave it to him. And their PK has been outstanding since. I think they've killed off 44 of the last 45 in the playoffs. It's clipping at like 94%. It's just unstoppable what they've done. They ended up taking McDavid and Dreisaitl off the PK and just giving guys really significant roles on the penalty kill. And they had pairings for the forward.

So the same two forwards are out each time, one after another. And they've had this cohesiveness where they have so much trust in each other that every other team's power play becomes really bad against the Oilers. For Florida, there's so much skill there, but they're like standing still. And Edmonton pressures, they're not moving the puck around, they're not getting into their set, so they're carrying into the zone.

Edmonton's pressuring and all of a sudden they're never able to get set up. So much so that Edmonton's getting breakaways shorthanded, they're scoring shorthanded goals, they're getting chances when they're down a man. It's one of those things where you need to like at least get two three four shots on net on the power play and nobody can do it against Edmonton. So if I'm the Panthers going into the game, I guess this morning or Sunday morning at practice, they were working on the power play a lot. They're throwing Tara Senko onto the top unit for tonight's game seven.

He hasn't been there. Brandon Montour, who's a really good offensive defenseman, struggled in the playoffs, even kind of struggled this whole season. He's now off as the number one guy running that power play. It's now Oliver Ekman-Larson. They've moved him there. So they're just looking for answers. It's a great question, Big Cat, because they had everything wrapped up.

It was done. It was done. And I was actually in Edmonton for games three and four. It was such a bummer. I think they got three goals in about six minutes in game three. All of a sudden Edmonton mounts this comeback at the end. They're unable to tie it. It's like, ah, series is over. And all these lunatic oilers fans like oilers and seven oilers at seven. I was playing golf with a guy and he's like, no, they're gonna, they're going to seven. I'm like, do you believe that? Are you just like saying that as a fan? He's like, no, they're going to, they're going to seven. I'm like, do you believe that? Are you just like saying that as a fair? He's like, no, they're, they figure teams out throughout

the series, just win game four at home, steal one at five. We ain't losing in six. And then it's a coin flip. They all, they all described it to perfection and they blew them out in game four. And I think, I think Florida really needs Bobrovsky to show up to, is he hurt? Is he hurt? Is he hurt? I don't know. Apparently he didn't practice Sunday either, which is very rare for him. Yeah. I don't, obviously at this point you're not getting any news.

You're not getting any updates from anyone. So he could be hurt. I mean, he's looked like he's struggling. All of a sudden now they've kind of figured out on these breakaways, they're going to their backhand. You saw Connor Brown score a goal like that. Somebody else scored a goal like that. I'm just drawing a blank.

But Florida just needs to get that first goal, too. And like I said, going into game six, I was like, everyone's picking the owners. I don't like this. I'm kind of panicking because everyone's saying no chance they lose at home. Edmonton scores first. It ends up five one. But if Florida can get that first one tonight and then the crowd gets going, what happened in game five? I wasn't down there, but Biz and and Grinnelli, all the guys were there and they mentioned like the crowd just went silent when Edmonton went up scared. You know what? Yeah. They get scared. That was game three in Edmonton that these fans, they went in nervous. It's nervous energy.

They're loud, but boom, all of a sudden it's like, fuck. It feels like two in a game seven that like every shifts like overtime almost. Right. Yeah. Right. Can you, can you decline a penalty? I wonder, I wonder if you can, I mean, talk about a coach getting fired immediately after the game, if they lost, if he's declining penalties, but it's one thing that yeah, like Dan, they're getting more chances down a man than they are giving up. I said that during the, uh, the caps ranger seriesaps Rangers series, I think Big Cat called me an idiot. I'm like, no, but I think it does work.

There's something to it where you're just so pressed on these power plays and you don't even think about defending. It would be awesome if it worked though. If a coach did it and it worked out for him, that'd be the biggest cause of all time. And they scored that shift five on five? Yeah, yeah, that'd be great. Damn, you really hold on to me calling you an idiot. Well no, it was a lot of people called me an idiot.

Yeah. So. I forgot this one. No, I remember I was an idiot for a second. I am still an idiot. It's a bad take, don't get me wrong. But yeah, so hey, I got a question though, important question about Biz. Did he just jinx the Oilers?

With the champagne? With the champagne spray. He doesn't count for anything. He's not a real human being. He picked the Panthers. He picked the Panthers. He's picked the Panthers in the series. He's picked them in every game. He picked them every game.

He's on so many different substances that are ripping through his body that he might have thought he was at like a PWHL game. He doesn't even know what's going on. He's just walking around in biz land with belly button cutoff shirts just living his life. I don't think, I saw the champagne and it was disgusting. It was more about the fact that that was the last Oilers possible game of the year.

So all, he was in a suite, I don't know whose suite they were in. So all the suites were given champagne to celebrate a season as a season ticket holder And a sweet owner, so that's why the champagne was there and the city Edmonton knows the job is far from done That's just what's so scary about this is you have this legendary comeback, and you force this game seven I know it nothing matters if they can't get it done. Yeah, I did spray champagne I think after game two of the Stanley Cup, so I don't necessarily believe in those jinxes. And you guys won!

And we won, but Biz doing it when he's actually like picking against that team, it was just very confusing to me. I didn't know who he was jinxing. But Nicky Smokes. Oh, he's so confusing. He's so confusing. Yeah. Nicky Smokes has been the greatest move.

I mean that's like, the one thing that should make you should make you feel comfortable is that Dave has another million dollar bet on the Oilers and it seems like all he can do right now is win. I don't know if he pulls this one off, it's like he should retire for life because it's insane. He pulls this one off and then he hits Scheffler today I think for like another 340 grand profit. It's like what the fuck is going on with this guy right now? So, yeah, having him in the corner with all his million dollars winners, that's a great thing. And then, as I mentioned, McDavid in 2010, the Olympics in Vancouver, I was on the team, I wasn't playing really at all.

I was sitting on the bench, tied it up, going into OT. We're in Canada. And you're just thinking like Crosby scoring this goal, right? Like these are the people that are born to do these things that I brought up That's why it's like more than Dave's million dollars and more than mush Nicky smokes and more than anything else in this series I think Connor McDavid is born to end up like winning this game like that'll be his legacy Not only did he get his first cup in Edmonton the first cup in Canada since 1993

But he did it coming back from an old three against the best team in the league all year, pretty much. Yeah, it'd be incredible. So who had a better weekend, McDavid or RA? Because I heard that RA and the Oilers lady, are they engaged now? I have no idea. Apparently, RA was representing her and she was talking about OnlyFans. And then we brought her on the show

in easily the most awkward, bizarre, tentative interview that Chicklet has ever been a part of, because she got on, and I think it just hit her, like, what am I doing right now? So R.A.'s telling us that she's got OnlyFans, and he's reaching out on her behalf. I'm like, what world am I living in? Then she comes on, she's like,

no, I don't even want any of this. It was like, this is bizarre. We look like absolute creeps. Now she's assigned with playboy. Apparently she was at the game. I saw her chest bumping with our rain biz. What's I'm at home. I got the newborn. We got Cal. We got Ryder, Wyatt. We're just hanging out. I'm like, what is my show doing? What are these guys doing? They're with Tits McGee, they're with Biz is a belly shirt on, R.A.'s crippled, Nikki Smokes is crying in the corner. What the fuck is happening to the NHL season?

It's been awesome. Yeah, it has been. Are you going Monday night? Yeah, it was funny. We have to go to Vegas for the awards and the draft. So I had a flight like Tuesday evening and, um, you know, things are crazy around the house right now. And she's like, are you going to the game? I was like, no, I guess I gotta go to Vegas Tuesday.

And I knew I'd already be away for four or five nights. She's like, you have to go to that game. Oh, hell yeah. She knew she's like, you have to. And I, and to be in the building with a chance at like hockey history on the team that I root for, it's going to be something special. I just can't wait for the vibe of like the game because like I said before, it's every shift is like OT. And I think it's going to do amazing ratings wise because people kind of were dogging on the fact that it wasn't on Saturday or Sunday.

It couldn't be Saturday with game six, Friday. Maybe they do Sunday, but they've given the teams two days off in between the travel because it's about 9,000 miles away from each other. So Monday night, nothing else on TV and boom, here we go, game seven. Yeah. This has got to be the most mileage that the cup has ever put on it, right? Because the cups in the building when it's a clinching game. So ever since game four,

the Cubs just been going back and forth. Yeah. Exactly, I think that, oh yeah, I see what you're saying, because Boston and Vancouver, I don't know if that was technically further than Florida, Edmonton, but that was two to two,

so it wasn't going to game five, you're right. Right. Yeah, the Cup is just gas. So apparently, game four which is like a I don't know if it's newer but now like when teams are have the chance to clinch at the away teams arena they fly in family friends. Everyone's coming in. So Florida flew everyone in. They flew in like the morning of the game and then they flew right back out I guess on the way back out like there was a couple like people passing out on the plane from the turbulence from the

dehydration then there was a doctor helping people on the plane and the Overhead compartment open in a bag buried him in the head If I'd known that before game five I would have known the Oilers were winning because the Florida trip back home for the family members was such a disaster. So then they they lose that game five. I guess then the Florida GM's like, nobody's going back there for game six. We're getting the job done. No, they get smoked. Now they're coming back. So it's just been crazy to see the switch in in what's happened for each team,

because after game three, we were talking about what Florida had done to Edmonton and in fairness Edmonton played Unreal in game one. Yeah There's there's a there's a new thing. I guess it's in every sport, but with hockey it's somewhat new I've seen is like the de Zervo wind meter All these advanced stats like Edmonton was like 99% de Zervo wind meter But Bobrovsky stole the show then he gets the shutout in

game two where where Florida played really well and then game three I already mentioned they just bang bang bang it's 4-1 and that games over so even though they were down 3-0 I was like Edmonton has played way better than 3-0 shows but it's 3-0 it's done they need one more holy shit we got to seven. It's crazy

It's awesome. I just did the math real quick. The cup has traveled I believe 10,000 miles. Damn Damn, that's a lot of miles. It's got a lot of that guy Phil Pritchard the keeper of the cup Yeah, I'd be hurting right now. Yeah air does the cup get frequent flyer miles or does that go to the league? How's that work out? I who I think the cup could be on a private jet I I would I would hope the cups with league members on a PJ. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because you got to keep the cup safe back and forth. Whit, moving away from hockey for a quick second, do you have anything to say to Joe

Missoula's first cousin, Henry Lockwood? Summer of Hank, baby. Poor Maxie's over there crying in his Cheerios, just hating life because Hank keeps on winning. The man even had to shave his head and looks pretty friggin' good, I'd say. Yeah, thanks, Whit. I saw a couple pictures of him at Loco, which my friend actually owns,

great spot, South Boston, and Hank just looked wrecked. He looked crippled. I said, Summer of Hank, Yeah. Yeah, he's crushing it He thought he saw Christophe's prosingus, but it's I that's what I wanted to ask is I I thought it looked like them Hank But you just so smothered you had no idea. I mean that guy's probably eight inches shorter than Christophe's Yeah, well it's Sam Howser's brother and he's he is he's like six eight. Joey house. He's still yeah five or six inches smaller than He's like 6'8". Joey Houser, yeah.

He's still, yeah, five or six inches smaller than poor Zingus. But he was like a tall white guy wearing the same hat. Did you just go up and you're like, hey, Christophe, can I get a picture? I said it to Gaz and he's like, that's not poor Zingus. I was like, oh shit. But then I knew, I had met them before, so I went up and talked to them. Hank looks so drunk. Let me ask you a question.

Let me ask you a question. As a guy whose hair is thinning and it's slowing down, are you a little nervous that it ain't gonna necessarily grow back to what it was? I'm a little nervous for sure, but I got good reviews on the bald, so worst case scenario, I can just keep it short. Yeah, that's true.

That's very true. He said that he got more gasses than Nate's, so that's good. Well, that's because he had a goddamn hat on the whole time like that idiot sales guy. What do you think about Hank's nap? He took a big nap after the parade. So that brought me back to Marathon Monday in college in Boston.

It's a very special day and you rip it up hard and you go as hard as you can from about 8.30am till I'd say 3.30 3 30 to 4 in the afternoon then you get a quick shutdown before the big night out so I did not hate on that nap at all Hank that's exactly what happened yeah the after party ended at like 4 30 I slept till like 7 30 had a great night I'm a big sleep is death guy though there cuz like if I go if I if I go to sleep I'm just never getting back up but Dan that, that's us old. Yeah, true. At younger, you hop back up ready to go. And the only other option would be to do

some very illegal RA substances instead of napping, and you don't wanna be a part of that. No, Hank would not do that. No, you don't wanna do that. At all. It actually reminds me. No, Hank, you wouldn't do that, right? Absolutely not.

Remember Hank, when we went to the Final Four in Wisconsin beat Kentucky, and then they played Duke on Monday night. Sunday we had this client thing, and I made the clients give me, they're like, we're gonna show you the court, and you're gonna get to go see the whole court and everything, and I was like,

I have to drink while we're on the court. And they're like, you can't. I was like, if you don't let me drink while we're on the court, I'm done. Yeah, that's it. I'm going to bed, and I'm done. And so they let me bring a Sprite and vodka as I walked're on the court, I'm done. Like I have... Yeah, that's it. I'm going to bed and I'm done. And so they let me bring like a Sprite and vodka as I walked around on the court. I was like, there's just no way I can keep this going.

Once the seals open, you're like, if I stop drinking, I'm going to be hung over and then I'm done. One hour of not a drink and you're just like, I want to go home so bad. If you see, if I look at a couch, I'm done for the night. Yeah, right. You sit down for too long. It's too good. I sat down and not get up ever again. Well, that's why the thing I've been thinking about was that was a crazy two days. It feels like Biz has been doing that for a week straight.

Oh, yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Him and R.A. are alive. He's an animal. Did you guys see the, did you see the clip on Chicklet? So Biz hadn't drank in about nine months, I think. And I don't even know how he does that.

It's crazy. He's very, he's very active in the weed game, I'd say, throughout that process. So we went to Edmonton. He went to Florida to start the, he's been to every game. He'll have gone to every game, I think. And he hadn't drank and he started drinking

and then the first pod we did after he started drinking, he just started off. He goes, boys, I forgot how awesome drinking was. He is so back in the mix, and he's just hammering pints, he's crushing Pink Whitney, he's just doing everything, and yeah, the biz bender, and then the fact that we go from this to Vegas, I'm like, and then he goes to the Calgary Stampede, which is an all time, 10 day like rager in

Calgary. So who knows when the hell he's at the end of this thing. We're going to see another nine month California soul. But yes, yes. Yeah. I mean it is just watching RA and biz going like, I don't know how either of them are alive and just listening also to spitting chiclets like RA's voice when he's like it shows the show. It's great. This is what people love though because they want to see everyone get in the mix. You know it's like you guys are you're not covering it like journalists. You're covering it with tops and champagne. We see our we see some friends of ours that are like legit journalists or legit on TV at these cupals games and all of us just have

beautiful buzzes on and they're just like you know they're they're going to have their beers when they're done when the games over we're like ah they're like what is wrong with you guys like checklets baby yeah this has to be so happy that the cups on ESPN and not not on TNT so he doesn't have to work afterwards right cuz I know he couldn't be doing half this stuff I think if he if he had to get on to maybe he could he is built different. Yeah, who knows with that guy It's every other year. So yeah next year there will not be the Abyss run of the cup finals that we're seeing right now

How much credit do you give yourself personally for the Oilers having this type of resilience because I mean going down three nothing a Stanley Cup It's tough to battle back from But getting told that you stink and that you suck by Ryan Whitney is got to be pretty demoralizing too. So you, you suored them multiple times this year. I quit. Yeah. I quit. Yeah. Your emergency press conferences. Yep. I quit when they lost to the San Jose sharks, the worst team in the league. And um, yeah, I would say I regret that one a little bit. I've said how sorry I was, and I gotta be honest, I never stopped watching games, and I knew I really couldn't quit them,

but I felt like I had to quit them, and maybe that woke them up. I would like to think it was me a little bit. In the end, it might have been the coaching change, and McDavid, and Dreisaitl, and some amazing play from Evan Bouchard, and many others, But now that, now that they're, they're at where they're at, it's like, well, thank God I did that. It did. It did possibly get these guys going. I can't wait to see, I can't wait if they can get it done. I'm going to get down in the room. I'm friends

with the equipment managers there and I I'm going to sneak my way down there, maybe get a picture with the cop and say hey guys you're welcome Yeah, they probably just gonna throw up or get your name on the car. Yeah, I get my name on the cup one way Yeah, all right. So last question rollback question RHO BAC k.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase qzips polos hoodies joggers shorts instead of a prediction Why don't you give me what it looks like for the Panthers? What do they have to do to win and what do the Oilers have to do to win? Panthers to win need Bobrovsky to play great.

The Oilers have proven that they're going to be able to get their chances, and they're going to be able to have chances and opportunities to score. He's let in some weak goals, I'd say. He's going to need to be great, and they're going to need to score a power play goal. The Oilers, I don't think they really need to change much. I think one thing that they made this third line, as I said before, they've switched up their lines constantly and all of a sudden they have this third line of Jan Mark, Henrik and Connor Brown.

Connor Brown was brought in this year. He tore his ACL last year, couldn't play. This year he comes in on a one year deal and he's got the ability to play with McDavid. They played in junior together. There's all this promise and he didn't score for about 65 games, whatever it was. Like it was a nightmare for the guy. And I said before the playoffs, like it doesn't matter how bad you are in the regular season. You can change the entire discussion of your season based on a playoff performance. He was this healthy scratch,

I think the first four or five games of the playoffs and has been incredible since. So that third line has been huge for them. If that third line can get a goal and then their power play can get a goal, Edmonton goes on and wins the Stanley Cup. So I know I'm mentioning both power plays, but when they're that valuable in a game like this,

you gotta think that both teams get two to three. I think the refs hopefully will keep it pretty even and at least give a chance to one team if another team has a chance. You can't really end up calling this game three power plays for one and none for the other unless it's really dominating on that one team's aspect or ability to play the game. But I just think it's really dominating on that one team's aspect or ability to play

the game. But I just think it's goaltending in games like this. So Stuart Stuart Skinner is undefeated in games four through seven. This this playoff. This is the story about Wayne Gretzky because Wayne Gretzky's brothers in the Edmonton organization said Stuart Skinner you might not think he's an elite goaltender but every step of the way he's won big games and he's shown up in big moments. And he's like, that's the guy who at some point will win us a cup. That's what he, you know, biz told us that story. So there is something for those big, big, those big game goalies. Like that's, that's a real thing.

Just, just, just show up when it matters. That guy's done that. I guess he's the youngest of 10 kids. So, you know, he was just as a youngster just trying to get anything he could, just looking for food at dinner, just getting beat on by older siblings. And he seems like a super level-headed guy too. He does interviews after he plays bad. He's soft-spoken, very open about what he was bad with. He's not trying to blame others. Just seems like a real level headed guy. And that, I mean, a personality trait like that only can help you the higher the pressure. He did an interview today, I saw where he's like,

I've been dreaming about this my whole life and I can't wait for tomorrow. So every guy's gonna say that. And I just can't wait to see how it plays out. It's true drama and it's gonna be an amazing game. Yeah, cause he's from Edmonton too. Yeah, that's it plays out. It's true drama, and it's going to be an amazing game. Yeah, because he's from Edmonton, too. Yeah, that's the other part. It's fucking awesome.

All the pressure to win a cup for the Oilers. And I know that there's some Canadians who probably hate the Oilers. But overall, I would think that tonight, the entire country, or most of the country is rooting for them to get the cup back to Canada. It's the McDavid part. McDavid kind of transcends that I would imagine.

I was thinking that I think that Toronto Maple Leaf fans probably aren't and I think that Montreal fans might not be rooting for them too just so that they can say like we're the last team to win it. Yeah that's that's possibly true. I don't know about Toronto as much as Calgary fans definitely aren't. Yeah. Calgary fans the Battle of. They're not fucking around. They don't need Edmonton with a cup especially as they head towards like a rebuild. But you know and I know they beat Vancouver

so maybe those fans are. But overall I think some people in Canada that even though they have their favorite teams they want to see the cup come back to where they think that the game originated from. It's coming home. Yeah. I guess it did. Yeah, it did. So this is... It's interesting because going into this game seven, I feel like if Edmonton wins, this is the most iconic Stanley Cup finals in history, right? I think so too. Yeah. Being down 3-0, fighting back.

And McDavid's first. And McDavid's first cup. Yeah. Going up against the Panthers, like, everything says bet on Edmonton in this game because it would be an all time moment for the NHL. It would be an all time moment for the league and then like at the same time like Florida has this panic for fucking three straight games and then if they can get it done it's like oh who gives a shit we won the cup like it just it's so crazy that that the difference in storylines depending on who wins this game,

because no matter what, if Edmonton loses, like yeah, amazing comeback, but you could've just lost that fourth game at home. Like you lost the cup. And yeah, 15 years ago, Sidney Crosby, who was the next great one, and has turned in, who outperformed every single expectation

that was like laid before him. He won his first Stanley Cup in a game seven on the road in 2009, and now the next greatest player since Sid has a chance on the road to get his first in 2024. So the storylines are just through the roof. Paul Maurice, I believe he has the most wins in the history of the league without his Stanley Cup. He was this close up 3-0.

There's that coaching storyline. Knoblok and him, I think it's the biggest margin or the biggest difference between games coached in the NHL and the history of the league going up against each other in the cup finals. So there's just so many different things that you can can kind of point towards to like this game decides everything. You get the greatest player in the game in the greatest game possible. So it's a dream scenario for the league. Are we expecting like on the the officiating side referees swallow their whistles in game seven? I would hope so. I think that they will. I think like even those guys know, let the players decide this thing.

And I would be shocked if we don't have a really well-refred game tonight, because looking at how the Finals has gone, I know there have been a couple complaints from Panthers fans, maybe a couple calls have gone towards the Oilers, but overall I think it's been good, and I know I'm biased, but I think that

if you're watching these games, you know that the guys are letting the refs are letting the guys decide who's going to get this thing done. So it should be no different tomorrow night. A blatant penalty call it, but little tiki-tack stuff. You got to let that stuff go on boys play. Yeah. Yeah. Um, all right. Well, wit have fun. Hopefully the others bring it home and have fun in Vegas. And thanks as always. We love having you on Alright guys a big cat you going to our beer Olympics. We got kicked out. Oh, yeah Yeah, real shame real shame that we got kicked out. Are you going? What a bummer such a bummer?

I really wanted to go and spend a full day in Nashville and Drink get my ass kicked by a bunch of offensive linemen and beer drinking and drink, get my ass kicked by a bunch of offensive linemen and beer drinking. PFT, what happened with the hair and the leaf blower? Yeah, it was a tough little incident there. All-time moment. All-time moment, so we were trying to get... You looked a little scared in that video.

You were wrecked, I guess. I was hammered, so I was only competing for, like, I feel like it was 30, 40 minutes, so I only drank, I think, seven or eight beers during those 40 minutes. But I was drinking afterwards, because you don't have anything to do except watch other people drink so you're gonna sit down have some beers.

After it was over we tried to get Dana Beers into a balloon by filling it up with hot air with a leaf blower as one does and it wasn't really cooperating so I was bent over trying to lift this fucking balloon up and he's a he's a girthy man he's got legs and so I was trying to lift this thing up we've got the leaf blower in there on full speed and my hair gets sucked into the intake of it. And I just feel it jerk my head. And then because everyone's yelling and having a great time. No one can hear me saying stop, stop, stop the fucking leaf blower. Oh, this is serious. Yeah, it was. It felt like it was 20 seconds, probably not that long when it was actually turned on. But then I just have to get down on a knee and we're holding the leaf blower there so it doesn't pull out any more of my hair.

And I'm looking at Zach from The Bachelor and he's looking at me and I can see the fear in his eyes. The actual bachelor. Yeah. I can see the fear in his eyes and I know that it's bad because he's like he takes good care of himself and so when he's looking at hair that's caught somewhere you can tell when he's scared and then I feel Big Cat coming up behind me and I was just like don't let the most drunk person here do anything irreversible to my hair and Zach looks at me he's like it's going to be okay this is all that we have to do.

There's only one way to do this and then big cat comes and just snips off. Then I saw some videos later and it looks my hair, I had a great hairline, almost no hair loss whatsoever until they cut that thing out and now I'm going bald because they cut the hair thing out. So big cat made me bald. It was never going to happen. I tried to get the hair out of the thing without the scissors because I was like in my drunken stupor I deal with my daughter's hair all the time like ponytails and that shit And so like I've gotten a little bit better at it So I was like I got this like I've done this shit before I got it and I started to pull it out And it just was it was it was stuck a thousand different ways in that thing. Yeah, there's no way

I was like it's scissors time It was the right decision But in the moment you and you're hammered and you don't know what's gonna happen because if that thing. Yeah, there's no way. I was like, it's scissors time. It was the right decision. But in the moment and you're hammered and you're, you don't know what's going to happen. Cause if that thing turns back on, I feel like it's going to rip my scalp off. So yeah, it was a, it was a little scary, but I think we made the right call. Yeah. Hey, and of course it's summer of punk fashion. He goes bald, winning a championship and you go bald by a leaf blower in a case race. You see me not puke? I didn't puke. Yeah, very impressive. I'd be puking everywhere. Most people are kind of pussies and they'd be puking. I did not puke.

You would have puked if you tried actually getting the hair out of that leaf blower. That's why you used the scissors. All right, Whit. Maybe someday case race for you. Never. Come on. Never. Come on. Never. Come on, you have to admit it was fun. You have to admit it looked like a good time. It did look fun. We were just beating the fuck out of Brandon.

He texted me halfway through. He's like, I think I'm gonna quit. I was just beating him up. It was bad, yeah. But Brandon does a good job of being the hapless WWE ref that just gets shit on. And he's just crying the entire time. It was great.

Yeah. All right, man. All right. We'll have fun tomorrow night and we're rooting for the Oilers. All right, guys. Appreciate that. Have a great one. Ryan Whitney was brought to you by Chevy. As everyone knows, this is a Chevy truck podcast. The greatest trucks ever built and our good friends at Chevrolet have been a big part of the part of my take story. The Silverado helped us dig the biggest hole ever dug in Ohio during Grit Week. The Silverado partnered with us to give college fullbacks all the rightful recognition they deserve with the Lowman Award.

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Best pizza toppings. That'd be a good one. We've been doing it for eight years. This is our eighth year. So we've done a lot. Like I asked for submissions and a lot of people submitted things we'd already done. We could do some old, we could do some throwbacks, but we still have a bunch that we've never done. I would say that if we do throwbacks, they should be like 2016 or 2017.

Right, right, right. Where we don't even remember it. Also, shout out our guy Stu Finer who doesn't understand how Mount Rushmore season works. Because I asked for Mount Rushmore submissions and he said, lifetime body count, most women in a day, most donuts eaten, most cups of Stella Blue coffee, which I've drank 15 and 12 hours. I'll have more, but for now, how about that? That's a good start. Mount Rushmore of most women in a day. Most women in a day. I'll start one.

Are we talking 24 hours? Yeah, but- I think in one 20, yeah, it's one. One, okay. But yeah, it's one. Okay, but yeah, he doesn't really understand it. All right, so what are we gonna do for a punishment? So we're gonna do solos this year. Hank, Max, PFT and I are all gonna be on our own.

What should we do for punishment? I had an idea for, I don't know if this translates well, but we've all got a shitload of numbers in our phones right like we've accumulated them over the years. What about cell phone roulette where the loser has to have their phone scrolled through and then randomly they have to make ten phone calls to people who are in their phone friends that they've known from years past somebody whose number got put in their phone at like a networking event in 2011. Oh, that's dastardly.

And you have to try to have a conversation with everybody. Okay. You have to keep doing it until you have 10 minute long conversations. I think you get like Between more than a minute. One veto. Yeah, you gotta have a veto. You gotta have a veto. Yeah. you gotta have a veto. You gotta have a veto.

Yeah, you gotta have a veto. You get one veto, I like that. Like my skin's crawling just thinking about it. So if they don't pick up? I'm gonna lose this fucking thing. No you're not, just don't pick Jerome Bettis. I'm the least crea- If they don't pick up does account as a call, because I

think you can't get 10 calls. Like, I mean, you can't get 10. If we have to make it 10 answers, that could take forever. 10 minute long conversations. But I think it should be you have to do 10 calls. You have to have at least five answers or something. Well, because the punishment we did last year was the 24-hour stream, right? Yeah. Yeah. So that took a long time. Yeah. I just think that, yeah, I mean that... We could do it. 24-hour stream is better for the fans. We don't need to do a finalized one today. We don't, but we also could do that. We could do that idea and we could make it it we could edit it so that we get ten calls And put it on the podcast. Yes, because that would be interesting

Because like if you have if you have to call 20 people they don't pick up we can just edit out the people who don't Pick up. Mm-hmm and put it on the podcast. I like that one veto. Mm-hmm, but people could also potentially go through their phones ahead of time and take if it looks like you're gonna lose and Take out some real hot button names. I don't really have hot button names. I just have I think there's just a shitload of people I don't want to call. Yeah, I don't want to talk to anybody on that I don't really know who I don't want to call until their number came up Yeah, can you scroll it cuz I we used to do this in college when we were drunk We would do on the old flip phones. We'd do it where you just press down. Can

you, you can scroll, right? Yeah. You swipe it up and swipe up. So just scroll at random and then stop. All right. I do think that a lot of people just won't answer. Like how many times you answer a phone call from, although no, they might have your number too because you do know that they'll be like like why is this person calling me yeah and they'll be like hey I would just play it off like oh it must be that software thing where we both called each other crazy well you can't do I think you have to like try and make a conversation it could be bad I also don't think that we should. I'm doing a random swipe.

Wait you're doing it? Yeah, I'm doing a random swipe. It's gonna be completely random. Oh, yeah I just wanted to hang up on him so bad. I knew it was either Darren or Marlins Man. No. No, it was not. It was not Marlins Man. It was not Marlins was not Marlins man. It was not my husband Marlins man You'll see when we do the intern interviews Marlins man invited me to some things and then I was like I'm gonna be in Vegas and then he sent me

his top three strip clubs okay who wants to go first we got to do some sort of random drawing for this I like this punishment though I think it's I think it's the I think it's phone roulette at the end of the summer well Let's also see let's if you have a good idea. It's a good punch. Oh, Max can't talk Yeah, when he hates it you can't talk and we'll see some ideas. How about you just win? I'm not gonna win I'm no I'm gonna lose Maybe you what you're the only other person who could lose. It's you or me. No, these are going to be anonymous polls. It doesn't matter. We've split up the S-PAC.

We could also make it more fun this summer and have it be the same PFT's idea, but it could be last place has to do four, second place has to do three, second place has to do two, winner has to do one. Yeah. Winners be sure to do none. Yeah. Winners should do. But it would be fun. If you guys the point of winning the pressure of it. But that's what I'm saying. Like there wouldn't be the severity of the loss wouldn't hurt so bad. Severity of the law should be bad. Okay. I think it should be to 10 minutes you should feel the pressure Okay, all right. All right, so then we'll just keep it to 10 But if anyone has a good idea for a punishment, let us let us know we're open to everything. We let us know Okay, get a perm who wants I?

Thought we're gonna do a positive Mount Rushmore season that was on me I was slamming myself I know but Hank is gonna get mad I'm not mad I have the perm scheduled all right uh should we do closest to the number or something yeah yeah okay guess 48 80 I like my chances. Yeah, no you have the best number. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, 88. Let's go. 88. Max, what would you like the order to be? I'm gonna go second. I'm I'm gonna go Second I'm gonna go second. Well, let's keep it in the horse. You are let's keep it in a circle So who either PFT goes first or Hank goes first cuz we're gonna it's gonna rotate for the whole summer And this is how we always sit so to not fuck it up. Yeah, I mean, I'll let Hank go first

All right, so I'm going fourth. So then the next one I'll go first Yeah, yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right Hank I'm happy I got the first pick. I think it's an easy overall 1-1. Mm-hmm Cristiano Ronaldo. Oh Hey interesting. He has won some trophies, but the World Cup is the big it is the big one I like that is the biggest like biggest trophy in sports biggest event sports. I like it a lot never won I like that messy has correct. Yes Facts actually small trophy. I like that a lot. It's gonna get people It's crazy to considering how good Brazil has been over these years and he still hasn't sure managed to find a way to win

One of them true. Okay, max Second pick I'm gonna go Jim Kelly. Oh It seems mean but yeah Okay. Yeah, you can't win. Yeah, you can't win the big one. Okay, I can't believe this fell to me Yeah, Dan Marino. Yeah, that was good Dan Marino should be one was going between Jim Kelly and Dan Marino But Jim Kelly lost four big ones in a row. That's true. Definition of can't win the big one. You're right. Or big ones win the big one. Dan Marino could even barely make the big one. He made one of the big ones, but not as many as yeah. But he was really, really

good. Can't win the big one. Yeah, but yeah, I mean, Jim Kelly was there for time. I was between Jim Kelly and Dan Marino, but just being there four times, I mean Jim Kelly was there four times. I was between Jim Kelly and Dan Marino, but just being there four times I feel like is the definition of can't win it. That's an all time clip from Fox on CBS. I think it was Boomer Seiss and said, if he doesn't get his act together, talk about Peyton Manning.

Peyton Manning doesn't win one, then he'll just always be known as a Dan Marino type guy that can't win the big one. And then Dan Marino's sitting right next to him and he's like, what? Why did you say that? Yeah. Okay. Uh, hmm. I was gonna go Dan Marino. Jim Kelly's a good pick. I'll go with as much as it hurts me to say Charles Barkley. It doesn't really hurt me but couldn't win the big one. Charles Barkley couldn't win the big one. Max since he's become the producer of PMT.

That's my second pick. I had Max Barkley and then Max since he's become the producer. I mean he literally, you want to talk about Jim Kelly, he can't win the big one. Yeah, can't do it. Can't win the big one. That's a good pick. Thank you. I thought he would be on the board later. Yeah, the fourth pick is tough cuz it's gonna be a long time till it gets back to me I feel good about my picks. All right, so I'm up again. Yes snake draft. Yes All right. Second pick is gonna be Chris Paul. Yeah, Chris Paul can't win the big one. Just can't do it He's never gonna win the big one never gonna win the big one. Absolutely not. Is anyone gonna do Connor McDavid? I think they're gonna win. Okay.

But as of right now, he can't win the big one. You're kinda saying that he has won the big one already. Yeah, you're calling it over. Well, yeah, by the time people, some people might listen to this podcast Tuesday then you're like a fool Okay, is there gonna be like Hawk Tuesday? Yeah. All right, Max you're up. I'm gonna go James Harden. Oh How much of that was James how much of it was the city of Philadelphia well that he's done it ever 166 career playoff games. Whoa, that's a lot. Can't win the big one. Okay. I will go with hmm. I don't know if I want to stay with two sports here. Barry Bonds. Okay. I had him on my list, but it's always tough with baseball. But yes, he could not

win the greatest. Yeah, the great. No, he couldn't win the big one You're right. Oh shit. Yeah, you don't get that discourse as much with baseball a rod had it for a while He did. Yeah, you never get it with like Mike trout. No. Well, he's got to make the playoffs Yeah, now we'll do another one. That's the play out the wild card is his yeah Okay Joel and bead. Oh Yeah Very good pick. He can't even win the one before the big one. Any playoff game's a big one.

But the second round is his big one, and he has a minimal one win that. He had to go ring chasing to sign up for Team USA. That's how desperate he is to win a big one. Yeah. What do you think about that pick, Max? I'm happy that it was picked before me. Okay, cuz you were gonna take them No, I was not gonna take them, but I'm just I'm happy. Okay Because that's a bad pick and somebody else has it. Um, I'm gonna go with Randy Moss. Ooh

Everyone now we're fighting here. I was that was on my list, but yeah, I had on my Yeah, couldn't win the big one good pick. Okay I'm gonna go Kyle Shanahan. Ah good one recent addition to the list good one, but it's it's a bubbling narrative friend of the show Sorry Kyle. Um, um, yeah, no, he can't win the big one I mean, he's just had a couple big ones that he should have won can't win the big one and he didn't um I'm gonna do a pick that will probably get me last place But I don't care because if we're trying to get the most interaction which I think we all know what good Caitlin Clark yeah win the big one. I can't win the big one. He has not been able to win the

That's a good pick had her on my list That might be a winner. That might be a winner. They're gonna get so bad. She cannot win the big one. Factor fiction. She lost. Angel Reese can win the big one. Yeah, she's a better winner. Okay. I have one more pick. Karl Malone could never win the big one. I mean, he literally, he couldn't win the big one with the jazz, went to the Lakers trying to win the big one. Chased the big one. And lost to, I know he got hurt that year, but lost to the Pistons, so can't win the

big one. Usually he chases little ones, not big ones, but he that when he was in LA. Alright, last pick. That would have been funny if it was like when Kendrick was doing his pop-up show if it had been like 20 years ago and he had all the Lakers out. What's interesting you said Kendrick right there big cat. Oh because my pick was gonna be Drake. Oh can't win the big one. He lost the big one. He did lose the big one. He lost it on the big. He lost a couple big ones. Has he not? He keeps losing the big ones. Yeah. He won against Meek though. Oh yeah but he's from Philly so. Was that a big one? Yeah that doesn't count. Okay Max. Yeah Drake. good pick. I'm gonna go

Alright now I'm gonna go Henry clonquist. Oh Good one the king without a ring. Yeah, that's a great pick Max. That's a great pick. All right, Hank Finishes off and we got a bunch of honorable mentions There's some good ones still left out there Go Barry Sanders. Oh, yeah, I feel bad wasn't in contention. Oh, yeah, he was never close That was one that I thought about but alright. Yeah, Caitlin Clark was gonna be my my home run anchor pick. So yeah Yeah, I took her she can't win. I didn't want to do more baseball. All right. What else we got? I have a Ken Griffey Jr. Yeah. Baseball is tough though. You're right.

I didn't want to do baseball because it's so much harder to be like one guy who couldn't win it. Right. Basketball and football, it's like on you. Ty Cobb. Ty Cobb couldn't win the big one. We can't do teams, but US men's national team can't win the big one. Can't win the big one. Um, we can't do teams, but US men's national team can't win the big one. Can't win the big one. They literally cannot win the big one. We could do the state of Minnesota. Yeah. I had the Bills as a whole.

Gene Kelly's good though. Yeah. Elgin Baylor. Oh, eight finals appearances lost every one. Yeah. That's tough. Mark Few? Yep.

Can't win the big one. Yep. Cannot win the big one. You need to make a final four. Yep. I had Peyton Manning on my list because I still feel like we should say Peyton can't win the big one. Yeah cannot win the big one to make a final four Yep I had I had Peyton Manning on my list because I still feel like we should say Peyton can't win the big one Do you know I have on my list that you could make the argument is one a big one? But you could also make the argument has not oh Kevin Durant. Yeah, not when the big wasn't the big one He can't win the big one not on his own. That's one those big ones I had Gordon Bombay, the player.

Yup. Choke Artist. That's a good one. The... Dak. Dak can't win the big one. OJ. OJ couldn't win the big one.

Well, his taste was pretty big. That's the biggest one. That was the biggest one. His one is Freedom. Yeah. Is Greg Norman? He's 2-0 in knife fights. Yeah.

Greg Norman, Tony Finau? Yep. Unfortunately, I love Tony Finau. Greg Norman's a good one, yeah. Alan Iverson? Yep. Can't win the big one. He had the worst team of all time around him. Okay. Reggie Miller? Reggie Miller couldn't win the big one. Big Time couldn't win the big one. Germany? Patrick Ewing. Patrick Ewing couldn't win the big one. Me and Super Bowl Futures? Can't win the big one me and Super Bowl futures Can't win the big one Hillary swank for million dollar, baby. Did she lose? I think she lost. Oh, she got paralyzed, right? I don't know I never saw that movie. Yeah That's too bad England

England couldn't win the big just in lots of stuff in a lot of stuff. Yeah. Yeah Who's the is there an actor who hasn't been able to win the big one Leo for a while yeah and but then he won the big one it was Scorsese too right for for best picture because I don't think Goodfell is one best picture he got he got hosed on that one but then I think the departed finally that got him over the hump Bob Odenkirk he's not been able to win the big one. It gets robbed every year. Shit. I think Damn, there's some of the best can't win the big ones. Yeah, Peyton Manning was was one of the best can't win the big one Debates. Yeah, I'll always I'll never be able to forgive him for winning a Super Bowl for taking that away from us

Phil was a great can't win the big one Sergio. Yeah, those were those those rocked. Mm-hmm She can't win the big one Connor McDavid if he doesn't win tonight mm-hmm yeah he's definitely on that list get hard in the can't win the big one yeah Caitlin Clark is definitely already on that list yeah I mean she's her she literally college cannot win the big one and like I don't know what else you could say about it that's gonna get people real mad. Ah you Could make the argument Taylor Swift hasn't won the big one cuz no one's proposed to her. That's the ultimate one

No rings we're talking about Can I met my last pick and make it Taylor Swift? Oh, all right. Anything else? It's good show, boys. Good show. It's good to be back in the studio with the boys. We've got a great show on Wednesday. Such a shame. Such a shame. That whatever the fuck, what do they call it now? Beer games? Yeah, the beer games. The beer games.

After the case race, you wanna do two minutes case race recap? I think I'm not drinking beer ever again. People were wondering, I was so out of it. I don't ever wanna drink. Like when Missoula invited me, I told you after, I was like, none of that really processed in my mind because I was just deathly hungover. Yeah, if if you haven't watched it PFT and Hank joined us

for the Yak case race on Friday was a Royal Rumble case race we're all dressed as wrestlers I had to cut PFT's hair out of a leaf blower it was Hank you started the first fight Hank I was so violently hungover it reminded reminded me why I'm just, I'm washed as a human being. Yeah, we had to come into work at 9 a.m. the next day. And it was interesting. It was very, very tough for me. Brains were dead. Yeah, but that was one of those moments that I woke up on Thursday and I was like, if you

had told me we had done that cage race and then we had to be in Vegas for The beer Olympics I would have I would have probably quit. No, I quit drinking. I'm never drinking beer again No, I didn't on at the sphere. Yeah, I didn't I was like, I'm not drinking neither Doing drugs, but I'm not drinking. Yeah, California sober way better way to go mincy sober. Yeah, I I Finger fuck Stephen Chase face. Yeah, you did on his g-spot. Yep squirted Yep, the clip Stephen Shea was was in the bathroom puking and there was someone was filming him from in the bathroom And he's like literally going oh Yeah, crying about how bad he felt and then he must have been on his phone. He goes Kelsey Plum only has three And then he had another clip where he was crumpled in the bathroom

That was like an hour later and he stood up and he just started telling himself. He's like I'm neo I'm in the matrix and then came out and just looked so bad. It was just so chaotic It's crazy. I mean we have people that can drink a lot of beer I'm not one of them so like we had guys drinking 15 beers being like come on keep drinking I was like I drank nine beers in an hour. I'm done if I keep I keep drinking a puke. Yeah, and I did I didn't thank God Held it in ah Shane. I might have said something about you earlier Just so you know you want to put the headphones on Shane is our great behind-the-scenes guy who we've I don't know why it started, but we've just started well

He's a weird guy, but we've also started just making up stuff about him well no it's not made up it's real yeah you you haven't had a sandwich until last week right I might have said that the Hawk to a girl oh you did oh yeah and but you agree you do hawk to your own dick yeah that's a yes yeah that's a yes that was a yes that's weird dude that's fucking weird you'll self suck no he did not even sudden he's just spitting on his own dick and then jerking off yeah it's crazy he's moving himself up okay numbers eight twenty three forty four fifty six 99 poke 21 I

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