Pardon My Take - Ryan Whitney Talking Stanley Cup Final, Thunder Tie It Up 1-1, We Had The Match Of The Year In The French Open + Who's Back Of The Week

Episode Date: June 9, 2025

The Thunder tie it up 1-1 after whomping the Pacers and it feels like the series is back to lopsided unless the Pacers can find some more magic. the NBA listened to us and did something to make the Finals feel special even though it was a digital image (00:00:00-00:15:03). We talk Match of the Year in the French Open (00:15:03-00:26:37). James Dolan looks like he's getting involved again and thats bad for the Knicks (00:26:37-00:33:23). Who's back of the week including Marlins Man, US Open and Swamp Ass (00:33:23-00:49:28). Ryan Whitney joins the show to talk about the incredible start to the Stanley Cup Final including an all timer on Friday night, how much he hates us for rooting against the Oilers, Connor McDavid, US Open and the time he played Oakmant and tons more (00:49:28-01:36:59). We finish with a Monday Reading and an update on Zac being pub stomped (01:36:59-01:49:52).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/pardon-my-take

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 our good friend Ryan Whitney on the show, talking some Stanley Cup final. What a two games there, Ben Friday night was incredible. We're also going to talk a little US Open with him. He played Oakmont, no big deal. We have the Thunder Pacers, game two. The Thunder are back. They are tying up the series. We have Who's Back of the Week. We

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on DraftKings, the crown is yours. Today is Monday, June 9th, and the Oklahoma City Thunder are back, PFT. An absolute whomping in game two, which we kind of expected. And the Oklahoma City Thunder are back, PFT, an absolute Whomping in game two, which we kind of expected. So back the hungrier team Is going to probably show up for game two after the Pacers rip their heart out game one this feels uh I don't want to say the Pacers are in trouble, but

For whatever. Yeah, I mean for, for whatever it's been 94 minutes of this series have been firmly in the thunder's side. And tonight, uh, they, they got their game. Listen, the Pacers have, they, they won one on the road. Pacers are winning this series one one right now. Yeah, that's a fact. But I will say, I do think they're probably in trouble, but the Pacers also have that ability to just make everybody look like idiots all the time. So they might go ahead and do that. I don't think we mentioned this on Friday's show because we did it right in the aftermath

of the game and the buzzer beater. We did talk about how the Pacers only led for 0.3 seconds of that game. I think that's the lowest amount of time that any winning team has ever led in the history of the playoffs Yes, which is Chris So it would not surprise me if they figure out a way to do the the rabbit out of the hat thing again

But tonight it was just it was dominance well And it felt like there was moments where it felt like the Pacers kept on fighting back the difference I feel like tonight was you had not only Chet Holmgren and Jdub chip in but it was Alex Crusoe and Aaron Wiggins. That was the big thing. Aaron Wiggins felt like he hit a big three every time the Pacers were kind of creeping back. And it's crazy to say,

because when you watch the Indiana Pacers play basketball, when I say creeping back, I mean like cutting it to 13. When they cut it to 13, I'd sit up in my seat and be like, uh-oh, here they come. Even though that's still a big lead to come overcome if the Pacers cut it to 13 in like the third quarter I've just reached a point where I accept that they'll probably end up winning that game Yeah, but yeah the Thunder the I don't want to even say role players because Chet Holmgren's I wouldn't call him like a role player

That's really yeah, Aaron Wiggins and Caruso come off the bench, but yeah, but yeah Caruso is these elevated role play. Yeah, he's like a featured cameo It's been my point with the Thunder all playoffs like they're an incredible team There are times when SGA is expected to do everything and you need those second and third guys to step up and they did tonight and then the the the bench stepped up as well and SGA still had his 34 and it was like Tyrese Halliburton, what do you have? I think you had 12 points in the fourth quarter, but he had five going into the fourth quarter and it just felt like

one of those a little bit passive Tyrese Halliburton games where that's the next step for him being into that next level where he doesn't have an incredible game followed by a game where you're like, wait, where is this guy? He's got to be basically running the show here. So it was SGA, and he got his 3,000th point on the season, if you include the regular season and the postseason. There's 12 guys that have ever done that. I'll just say, Will Chamberlain is one of the 12. He did it five times. And then everybody else on the list

has done it once, except for the last guy Michael Jordan who did it ten times ten times He did it twice as much as wilt and wilt did it five times as much as anybody else. That's crazy So who else is on the list? So we got Luca. He did it. Yeah before he got fat shout out by the way Donnie Don Nelson. Did you see that? Yes conference? That was great. He's like, I'm wearing my Lucas Just want to just want to throw out there that that was an abomination of a trade We should actually say because the playoffs are still going on fuck Nico Harrison I would like every press conference regardless of if it's sports if it's politics like just start out with your

Declaration on your stance on the Luka trade. Yeah, and also like what shoes you wear? Yeah, just give us that right who else? Alright, so James Harden did it once Kevin Durant did it once Kobe did it once Shaq did it once Bob McAdoo did it once Kareem Abdul Jabbar did it once Rick Barry did it Once Elgin Baylor did it once Michael Jordan did it ten times crazy and shade obviously just did it once but Michael Jordan did That shit ten times ten times so Shays Shays now in the club this does I Max you want to ear muff it although. I don't even know how old you were You're like five years old. I talk about AI. Yeah. I was yeah, I was the month video exact feeling today That's exactly what that's what watching this game

I was like oh This is and I think that the paces are better than those six years is sick those six years were literally just Alan Iverson But like when the game won in a heroic fashion and then the better teams like hey And I think that the Pacers are better than those Sixers. Those Sixers were literally just Allen Iverson. But like, win the game one in a heroic fashion, and then the better teams like, hey, we're here to win the championship. Yeah. I hope I'm wrong.

I hope it's a long series. Hank, you think it's over. Yeah, Pop Games. You're already calling it over. I think the Pacers can win one at home. Yeah. I'm not going to sleep on the Pacers at home. I'm not going to do it.

I think it's Thunder and Six. I'm not going to do it. I'm going to say the Pacers are going to win one at home. They're going to win on the Pacers at home. I'm not going to do it. I think it's Thunder and Six. I'm not going to do it. I'm going to say the Pacers are going to win one at home. They're going to win one of game three or four. And if I'm wrong, who cares? Also Lou Dort played well tonight. By the way, great defense. Did you see your quote went viral on Pacer Twitter?

Which one? That the Pacers, if they played only the first 45 minutes of game, they'd be a lottery team. Oh, were people mad? There were people who were getting very mad. the Pacers if they only played the first 45 minutes of the game they'd be a lottery team. Oh did it? Were people mad? There were people who were getting very mad. So Pacers fans are, their defense has been up all playoffs which I understand because national media has not been very kind to them.

They've been an afterthought and they're in the NBA finals but I did see it was very funny there was a guy who had Hal Burton photoshopped his Osama bin Laden who came to your defense and I retweeted him. He was like hey just a heads up the PMT guys are joking and they've actually given the Pacers a lot of love. Yeah I actually meant that as a compliment to the Pacers. Yeah. Like the fact that they're able to I and also if you're a Pacers fan yeah please like yeah roast me on it I understand you have to like your swords are out big time. You're fighting everybody in the national media right now So I will accept I will accept the memes. I'll accept the the shit talking, but I did mean it as a compliment

Yeah, yeah, all right, so the other big story Yeah, it was this one if NBA games were 45 minutes along the Pacers would be a lottery team notice the mm-hmm the retweets Yeah, 1.9 million views yeah yeah that's what you know 554 retweets 34,000 likes that's what you know like yeah I'd say something's happened here good ratio I'd say like those retweets are probably quote tweets being like this motherfucker doesn't watch basketball it's very funny watching our our graphics team does a great job memes and Shane they do a great job putting those out there but like when you

See the numbers tick up and it gets past like I'd say 75 retweets You know that it's officially gone from like the AWLs retweeting. Yeah, it was a funny thing We broke our statement. Everyone's just really fucking pissed at us Oh, by the way credit to Alex Caruso big, big time in your face to all the haters that thought that these finals weren't going to do numbers. 2.4 billion people watch game one, 2.4 billion watch game one. Yeah. That's crazy. I know it's nuts. A third of the earth. I saw it online. Quarter of the earth. That's like, that's more than the world cup. Holy shit. So I feel good about watching. I think the NBA is back. Yeah, the NBA is back

Speaking of the NBA being back Thank you to Adam Silver for trying so they put in the fake Larry O'Brien The graphic that was just for TV and they also did the NBA final script YouTube TV found their way in there as well It's not perfect Obviously it looked a little silly, but I'm happy they tried something because it's a great testament to Complaining enough on Twitter can solve the world's problem. Yeah bullying works. Yeah, it usually works. Actually, I didn't like I The trophy was there, but it wasn't a good trophy. No it wasn't. It was like a blurry trophy. It was like a PlayStation 2 trophy. It was basically, if

that was what it was game one I would have roasted it. The fact that they did it because we bullied and I'm not obviously taking credit for it was the whole, it was all the internet bullied them. I'm gonna say like at least you tried and listened to us. And I saw Adam Silver actually had a press conference where he said, we're going to look into this and we're going to try to fix this. It's, it's, it's still insane that it took the internet bullying Adam Silver to realize, Hey, your premier championship series should feel a little more special. And maybe this is good for the league when it does feel a little more. We're trying to help him. Right. We're trying to help Adam Silver do a better job of doing his job. Grow the game.

Grow the game. Make it feel important. Even if the games are blowouts, if the Larry O'Brien trophy is on the court somewhere, then I feel like I owe it to the league to watch it. Yeah. And I think it's a good point that when you look back on it, if you're watching a replay of a game, then you have that moment where it's like, oh yeah, this wasn't just a regular season game. It's basically when you look back on it and they show like the behind the scenes and it's whatever star that's in the NBA finals coming out on the court, uh, like five hours before taking, taking like a thousand free throws and the NBA finals logos there and that's like oh, yeah I feel it. I think I see it

I think sometimes leagues get too smart and they forget the fact that as sports fans the people that watch the product We're very dumb and our brains aren't really that different from dinosaurs So if you just show us something that we recognize it's gonna make us feel good in that lizard part of our brain And I'll be like oh this game is awesome I'm getting goosebumps in the moment because it happened while there was a picture of the trophy on the court Not only that it just like hey, I want to feel special every now and then yeah Make me feel special make me feel like it's my birthday. It's my it's our moment to it Yeah, right watching this like it's sad to say but yeah

And little things like they matter when it comes to feeling special and speaking of little things that make us feel better, uh, we got a bang tonight. It was a delayed bag. It was a, it was a post bang. Also bullying works. Bullying works. Mike Brian did not bang on a, on Halliburton's game winning shot on Thursday night. And so was it his first three, he should be able to do whatever he wants. Well, alright so- That's not, out of that pulling- No, I wanna bang. I wanna bang and the problem was I think he should've immediately just been like, hey, hand up, didn't bang. Should've banged, didn't bang, everyone's expecting me to bang.

I wanted to bang. Yeah, clearly you were ready to bang. I was DTB. The problem was his initial reaction was I saved my bangs for threes and it's like but that's just not true You've banged you've banged plenty of two. Yeah, I've banged a lot of twos, right? I've banged a lot of twos banged a lot of threes You gotta be able to bang both and there's not really that much of a difference. No bangin's bangin So Mike Breen, yeah, I wish he had just I wish he had gone, I wish he'd just been like hand up, should have banged.

Yeah, so again, I got pizza instead and played Xbox, should have banged. It was a classic example of bullying working again. Yeah. Because he heard it from enough people. So I appreciate the effort that he made, but it was like, you know, you ever get banged and you can tell that they didn't really want to bang,

but they kind of wanted you, they're like, Oh, it's, you know, a special occasion for you. So we can bang real quick. Yeah. After it's like, Hey, I had a crush on you too, but you didn't make a move. Yeah. So like, I appreciate the offer that he offered to bang. Um, but it's not like in the moment I want him to want to bang as much as I want to correct, correct. Because otherwise we're just going through the motions. Yeah. Do you think bullying works or does bullying work with the NBA? Because I think it is a very NBA thing to be bullied into everything. Yeah, Roger Goodell doesn't give a fuck.

No, he won't let you bully him. But the NBA, like, they'll, they'll, you just say something, you get enough retweets and they're like, we're looking into it. I guarantee you that Adam Silver has a burner. Oh, for sure. We need to find what Adam Silver's burner is for sure So yeah, we did get a bang tonight The series feels pacer Wednesday night, I hate that we have to wait all the way to Wednesday night Was weird not having a game Saturday night. Yeah

Schedules all kind of fucked up hockey like needed a hockey game I like on Saturdays insane is NBA finals and NHL finals. Yeah, Angel Reese Angel Reese. Yeah baddie she made she made her That was the most Obvious thing that ever happened for people miss it There's a group of guys who are gambling on Angel Reese to miss her first shot And I think they were I think they won five out of six. She made her first shot of the first game. And then the next five, she missed her first shot. And it went viral. And I was like, there's just no way that she's gonna make her first shot. And she did. Now you can hop back in. Now it's gonna get hot

again. Yeah, now it's gonna get hot again. Okay. Should we talk? Well, we're gonna talk extended Stanley Cup final with Ryan Whitney great interview Should talk about the other big sporting event this weekend. Oh RBC, which we I would like to hear your thoughts on RBC heritage, but oh We had one of the best tennis matches of all time Alcara's verse sinner for the French Open five hours and 29 minutes. Oh, oh.

And one of the craziest, like, if you didn't watch it, I'm not a big tennis guy, but I was, I was glued to parts of it. It was also like, it went on so long that I, I like went out, came back, went out again, came back, still going. But the, the moment that was insane was center was up five, three in the fourth set, uh, and up 40 love basically three. So he had three championship points and Alcares came back. He was the undertaker gift. He came back from dead and, uh, won that game, won that set, won the match. I think I nailed all those. A game, set, match, championship.

Yup. S'il vous plait. It was awesome. S'il vous plait. It was, it was, and I, uh, uh. S'il vous plait. I might, I might have to be an Alcares guy. I mean Alcares is awesome. He's, he's fun.

The goat? He's fun to watch. Well he's not the goat yet. No, he's on track. Yeah, no, he's on track. We're on goat watch. He's won his, uh, I think he won this he's at the same spot as Rafa He just won his fifth, but he does it on on other surfaces. He does it on all the surface

So Yannick Center, this is about my tennis knowledge in terms of like the modern game is Fucking awesome, but he sucks against Alcara. Correct. Well and also does does steroids. And does steroids, allegedly, but then gets that... Well, you got a three-months ban. And then there was some other stuff that went on behind... Just a big steroid guy. He was 91 and 3 against everyone else. And since it started 2024, he's 0 and 5 against Alcares. You got an Alcares problem, bro.

Oh! Oh! S'il vous plaît. Oh! Oh! Yeah, I knew that... I knew that Sinner was gonna lose when I saw what he was wearing That's not it. That's not a Roland Garros championship fit. He was wearing today. Can I can I craft was loving it? Can I say something? I mean, uh, he was like sitting behind skinner. Oh, he was getting hyped. He's loving those sounds behind her Center. Yeah center. Uh Can I say something that's actually in in?

Can I say something that's actually in pro Rafa? I know this is the French Open, but in my head, I'm like, this is the Spanish Open. Because he wanted so many times. That's the craziest. It's really dumb. When they had the Olympics and they were lighting the torch for the Olympics in France, they brought Rafa Nadal out to light the torch and he's not even French. He just dominated. It's the most cucking, I was was gonna say the most cucked France has ever been by another country That would just be historically wildly incorrect. Mm-hmm. But yeah, we're like a trend. It's a trend

Yeah, once every like 40 years Franches sits in the cuck chair. Yeah, but Alcara is a Spanish too. So yeah It's like it's the Spanish open. I like that and I think red I think Spain Yeah, I don't know why probably the bullfighting maybe the flag. It's got some red on there. Yeah, I'm just like hey red Spain Clay red Rafa Spain so that the match was so long Was it five and a half hours five twenty nine imagine doing anything for five and a half I tweeted that I can't even fathom exercising for five hours at a time and then somebody replied and said I can't sleep for five hours at a time yeah and they were playing tennis without getting like waking up at least once and being

exhausted yeah you wake up from sleeping that that short amount of time yeah in France there's somebody in France that probably took a lunch break and by the time their lunch break was over The tennis match had just ended. No, I five and a half hours. I went I Watched the the beginning of it went to the park with my kids came back did lunch took a little bit of a nap Hung out outside came back in March the end. Yeah, it was a whole day in this match. I ordered food to my house and it got there in the fourth set right around the time that they had that it was center that was up. I think it was right before they broke the championship points. Yeah. It was

right before the turnaround the match. The food got there in the fourth set and then I just wouldn't leave from upstairs to go pick my food up from the front door until the match was over and it was like an hour and a half later it was all set yeah I was finally able to eat it was awesome it's one of the things where you're watching it and even if you're not a tennis fan you know that this is something special that you're watching I'm gonna say it right now match of the year yeah I'm gonna say match of the year I know we're only halfway through the year we still got three three of the four. Yeah. I'm gonna say match of the year. I know we're only halfway through the year. We still got three, three of the four left. Oh, oh, I believe I wibbled in Australian US Open. Oh, but this is match of the year. And not only that, boys, I think

tennis is in good hands. Yeah, it's in really good hands. These guys are going to go at it. Year it year after year after year. We got our new, we were like, hey, what are we gonna do as huge tennis guys? What are we gonna do that we lost Federer and Nadal and Djokovic is getting old? Guess what? We got Alcárez in center. Wait, am I right? No, Australian Open already happened. Fuck! Oh yeah, the weird like middle of of the night and I am a big tennis guy I was saying that I one of the beauties of doing this job how we do this job is that

We can we can joke or we can be stupid and they look the same. Mm-hmm. We are the fools and I said I like the fifth game is the is the And I said I Like the fifth game is the is the best two words in tennis and everyone's like dude It's set and then a lot of people were like no, dude. He's obviously joking. I wasn't joking in that moment I definitely thought it was fifth game. It was a bit I I not a bit and I fucked up so then I had to do I had to repeat it So everyone's like haha, he is doing a bit, but I'm an idiot at Wimbledon

Didn't they used to do a fifth set tiebreaker that would just go on for forever? Yeah, I think they changed it because it was too much. Oh not for me not for not for a yellow head like me oh Fuzz head green fuzz it for yellow This is a real tennis also shout out Cocoa Golf not a sandwich USA we got it. We did it. We got it.

I had two dumb thoughts when I was watching the finals at Roland Garros. Here's the two thoughts I had about tennis being played on different surfaces, which I like. I like that Wimbledon's on grass, the French Open's on clay. Has anybody ever built a court that's half grass, half clay? I'm sure some rich dude is really bored has done it.

Yeah. Has to have. I would like to watch that match. And then I think we talked about this a few years ago. ice tennis would be cool as shit. Yeah, if you're on skates. Yeah, somebody should make that happen. That would be I would watch ice tennis. That would be very cool. Hey, there was a golf tournament. Yeah, RBC Canada.

Did you watch it? It's a Canadian open. Canadian open Mike Weir. Not Mike Weir We're Ryan Fox the 51st major Pillow fight went into went into extras pillow fight. They had five playoff holes. They were just laying up every time Oh are why would why are they start changing the holes? Yeah, just they kept tying. Oh After the second time they like stopped everything Put the hole in different place no shit yeah because it was too easy just to mix it up I guess I don't know why they're playing the same hole yeah got it why would they do the same okay all right that makes every tournament

has different yeah different playoff rules like I wish they would do more 18 hole 18 hole playoffs yeah they don't even do that anymore for do they do that anymore I guess so they might have just the US Open. I think they changed it. Really? Yeah after Rocco, Mediat and Tiger. Can we Google that? No because I remember when Dustin Johnson choked and Spieth won Dustin Johnson just had to like two putt for a playoff and they would have played 18. I don't know that they do an 18 hole playoff anymore though Yeah, I know they used to 2008 that was that set the record for the least amount of work being true on a Monday Two whole aggregate now in the US open. Yeah, see like getting to take an extra a bonus day of major golf is really what we all want Oh

But it's two whole aggregate. So it's not so it's not over after the first one. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, we didn't didn't Bryson play in one last year. No that wasn't it I You know, this is the part of year where my brain kind of starts to slowly fade a little bit where it's like You're not as sharp. Well, no, you know remember things It's the second that tiny tiny bits of NFL news start to leak out Yeah You push all the other stuff out of your brain because you start to get distracted by the next season and I think also Like I'm not I'm not built as a human being to be able to watch

Television shows and keep all sports in my head at the same time and this is my prime TV show watching time of the year shout out crime TV show watching Time of the Year. Shout out the boys Shane Gillis, Francis, and Fiedelberg. Yeah, and Tyres. Awesome. Also watching on Netflix. But yeah, I can't keep all the like everything. I'm basically the world's worst juggler.

Yeah. I throw one ball up, and the minute the second ball goes up, I just drop the other ball. Our brains are really meant to mix reality, which is sports, and fiction. So I can watch documentaries at the same time that I'm watching sports, but I can't do a scripted show. Correct.

I am dipping back into The Sopranos, though. I can't wait for the part where Tony kills Christopher. Oh. Where he holds his nose. Christopher. All right. Other news? Nick Chubb on the Texans? Yeah. Cool. I guess I'm rooting for him. Yeah, I'm rooting for him. He seems like a good

guy. Fuck yeah. Why wouldn't we root for him? He's a good guy. Great runner. We'd root for him. Also, I had UFC 316. Sean O'Malley didn't jerk off for 10 months and then lost in the third round. Not a good choice. You got it. Who do you lose to? Good question. Hey, Mareb. I think.

Imagine not jacking off just to get your ass kicked. You have to, if you, if you come out and say, Hey, I'm not jerking off. You have to, you have to, you have to win. You have to win. Who do you lose to? Let's find out. The second you lose... We gotta... whose Google is it going on right now?

Diashev? Who's Googling right now? Is it Max? Or is it... This is Zach. These are Zach fingers. Max, we can't hear you. How am I supposed to spell this? Just say Sean O'Malley. Just write in Sean O'Malley. Or just UFC. D'Valjvle. I thought you were talking about the other guy. Murab. Yeah, I was right. Sean oh my are just UFC vols will Marab yeah, I was right Marab. Yeah, fuck. Yeah, I nailed that see next up. Hey, give me some credit. Oh, that's a funny picture He also he's having sex though Right. Oh, yeah, he's just not jerking off which I don't I think that like negates the whole

Depends on how much sex you're having he's probably having a fair amount of sex But isn't the point of not jerking off your you know building it up keep the testosterone inside of you So it's like if you're having sex it's coming out. Is that why his right hand was so much weaker? I don't know. I would never do this because I'm scared of just how much of a beast I'd become so me I got red sir hands lethal weapon yeah I don't want I don't want to go I'm afraid that like I'll be the Hulk and we don't want that you wouldn't like me when I'm horny or I have no willpower also I had another story I had two more stories I want to throw out there memes Tom Dibbido we're getting a little bit of some interesting stories coming

out of his firing. Are you nervous that it seems like this is a James Dolan piece? James Dolan did all the exit interviews, which is very weird for, I think, an owner to do the exit interviews with the players. And the story I read, I think it was Vincent Goodwell wrote a story about basically it was he and Leon Rose in the exit interviews and James Dolan was asking all the questions being like the lead of the exit interviews and he's the one who came up with the decision that he didn't like Tibbs and fired him. Tibbs being fired aside, this would make me nervous as a Knicks fan because James Dolan, their little run here where they've gotten back

to being a good team, feels like James Dolan took a step back, now he's maybe taking a step back forward and he's a shithead owner that will ruin something. Yes, so I saw Nick Wright say this. James Dolan, in the past five years, has been occupied with the sphere, building the sphere. Yep.

Did a great job. Great job. So Leon Rose is focusing on building the team properly, which he did, and now the sphere is built. You need another sphere. Yeah, we need like a mega sphere somewhere, so he just goes and builds that. Build one in Chicago. That'd be so awesome.

That'd be so sick. Oh, you won't. So sick. You won't, James. James, you won't, dude won't James James you won't dude Who you guys can get Jason kid? Jay, right? I Don't know if James if James don't involve then Jason kid

But if it's Leon Rose, it'll be a thorough process and maybe Jay, right? Maybe maybe Jay, right? Yeah Yeah, I heard Jay right is considering it That is wrong. Well Max informed the Knicks that he max not interested in the job have you ever have you ever bought a car? Have you ever yeah, he informed said Davis wrong Seth Davis reported that he informed have you ever informed the Knicks I? Heard a podcast he's in yeah, have you? Max have you ever bought a car? Yeah, have you nix max have you ever bought a car? Yeah, I did zero negotiating. Oh, okay. Yeah, well yeah, I can tell cuz when you buy a car

If you come and do it for me actually yeah, I'll do it Yeah, cuz when you buy a car you can you can usually get a really good price by saying hey, you know what I'm good I don't want this car anymore and walk out just like Jay writes like hey, I don't want to coach this team It's called having a walk away presence. This is Just like Jay Wright's like, hey, I don't want to coach this team. It's called having a walk away presence. This is sad. Insane, expert negotiations. This is sad what you're doing to the listeners. That was a great point, big head.

Thank you, memes. Max, have you read Art of the Deal? I haven't read anything. I actually started reading Wright Thompson's book. Whether I finish it, probably no. You told me you promised me you were going to read a book this summer. I know, and I'm trying. I'm me you were going to read a book this time. I know, and I'm trying. I'm trying hard. I got you that bookmark.

Yeah, that's true. I'm trying hard. Oh, where the fuck's my pope? Oh, yeah, yeah, wait. Okay, I was supposed to tell you this. I think last Wednesday. What? I came in the studio? The Pope was shattered What why the Pope was shadows a gift from Shane? somebody broke the Pope I Put there there you I found it. I saw the Pope. I was the last person to see the Pope Hank

You not me Hank does sit in my seat a lot He loves to sit my seat and be like, I'm the big boss, man. Look at me. He takes, he moves my shit, plugs in his shit, unplugs my computer, it's dead. Do I even have my broken Pope? I put it somewhere. We got to send Shane back to Italy. I was saving the evidence, but I forget where I put it.

Oh my God. That's got to be bad luck if you break the pope. Oh wait no. John Lithgow, he did that. What's, when was it? I wanna say it was before we did last Wednesday. It was either last Tuesday or last Thursday. You can tell how much this pope

meant to me. Yeah, what happened to the hula bobblehead? She's right here. Oh okay. She's up, yeah. She's still intact? You can tell how much this broken pope mattered to me that it took me six days to figure it out But I'm heartbroken. Oh shit penguin throughout the first pitch the white socks. Yeah, just kind of walk

It walk to the mouth and then and then it's handler through the pitch. That's sick. Yeah, it's cool. Hell. Yeah, you guys and Taylor's Wait, no one was worse than way. Did you see the Zebra? The Zebra getting airlifted? Oh, that was me on Monday reading. Okay. I was going to talk about that, so let's save that. The Zebra airlift. I want to talk about that.

All-time clip. Yeah. AI. AI, yeah, for sure. All right, so Tom Dibbido. So we feel not... James Dolan's going to be involved, and that's a problem. That's a big problem for the Knicks.

New York has a owner's problem, getting involved. Yes. It's bad. That's going to be a big, big problem for the next New York has a owners problem getting involved. Yes, it's bad. That's gonna be a big big problem And then my other one was Michael Beasley who who I don't know if you guys saw the one-on-one he did with land Stevenson and some of those clips of him talking shit before were insane, but I Think I knew this but then memory hold it But during the broadcast Kyrie Irving said he was like, I will never play Michael Beasley one on one. And like all the stories that come out about Michael Beasley,

like beating LeBron one on one, he's like the greatest one on one player of all time. Did you see this? Did you see this clip of him talking shit? Yeah, I did. Yeah, play it. It's great. It's it's it scared me the way he started talking Lance Stevenson I'm a do it to you real. I'm gonna do it to real nice and slow. It's I'm go to you sexy I'm gonna make them people love you tonight I'm a you shake it ass

I'm gonna make you dance man. I'm gonna make you dance Lance, we gonna get straight to it nigga. I'm gonna bring my dancing shoes and I'm gonna tap all over that court, you understand? You better know that I ain't gonna be shaking ass. No. Nobody in the world ever did that. Hello everybody, nobody at your service. Nobody? I love that. Did you see what they put on Instagram?

No. So Lance just said great game bro and then tagged him and then Michael Beasley, he screenshotted it, reposted the story and said, I love you to the moon and back. Now grab a cigarette and a towel. We made a sex tape Kim K would envy. He was nasty. Have you guys seen Beasley's tattoo on his back no oh so that he's pulled that shit up super cool bees oh is that is that what it is I think I have seen it I think it says super cool

bees that's back this is gonna take oh he got it yeah there it is with the angel wings yeah super cool bees Michael Beasley. What a guy. Bucket. Bucket. Couldn't stay off the weed. But he is a bucket. All right. Should we do Who's Back of the Week? Let's do it. And we'll get to Ryan Whitney. Hank, can you pull up game time? Let's find a game. Game time. Football is back. The 2025 NFL schedule is out. The only place you should be getting your tickets is game time. The official ticketing partner of Barstool Sports. I'm already planning my fall schedule and circling the games we want to go to with killer last minute deals all in prices, views from your seat, and their lowest price guarantee. Game Time takes the guesswork out of buying NFL tickets. Game Time makes scoring NFL tickets faster and easier. They have exclusive discounts and you can find seats for as low as $100. The game time guarantee means you can trust you get 100% authentic NFL tickets

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No, no one with class bro crashed out the first time yeah, no crash out this time. No. He's the goat That's what people say. He's the goat. He is he Statistically he's the best ever do it. Yeah. Yeah. Good for him. So good. Good ending for the week for him. How's your weekend? Hey, I had a good weekend at the friends in town. Nice. Yeah. Saw Billy strings. Nice. Nice. Couple trulies. Nice. How many times you see Billy? Just once. Oh, really? You didn't see him twice? So on Friday, you didn't see him with widespread panic on Thursday? No, we did the show Oh, yeah, that's right. It's damnedest thing. I've ever seen. Yeah. Yeah seemed like a sick show. How'd you golf? Uh

Not great Wait, like a scramble yesterday. It was pretty casual. Yeah casual with the boys. Yeah, it's just cash couple truly Yeah, which is your best shot? I Don't know. I don't know that I had one. Oh, that's tough. There's nothing. Nothing's really popping off. Damn I think Hanks devoting so much of his golf mental energy Towards being a CEO. Yeah, this is a big week for this is a big week that maybe your physical Like golfing ability might take a hit in the short term. Yeah, and tomorrow we got a we got the pause Short-term. Yeah, and tomorrow we got a we got the yeah, would you have to golf pause? Yeah today? Yeah today

Yeah, gotta do it hands are tied God. I mean For charity for yeah for charity. Yeah for the dog every hole you don't play dog dies. Yep He's gonna play all 18. Mm-hmm. All right, pity. Who's your who's back? Was that was that a hang? I had the course to we kind of talked about with Whitney, but she was open week Yep, so I I had the course too. We kind of talked about with Whitney, but it's us open week Yeah, so I want the course All week Monday Tuesday Wednesday's gonna be a lot of course talk a lot of rough talk a lot of stem talk What's stem? Is that the green thing? That's the green speed green stem meter

How do you how do you measure how fast a green is? I? Don't even want to answer that cuz I don't really know just roll on I'm pretty sure the stem thing is the thing that you roll it on. Okay. So it has a universal speed and so they drop it from the same point and depending on how fast it goes that's how they determine it. Got it. This is definitely- Stemp meter.

Stemp meter. Stemp. Is that just a tool that they made for golf? Like it has no other use but to determine like how fast a green is it sounds like something you would get Implanted like if you can't get your dick hard. Yeah, you're like a stimp meter. I got a stimp inserted. Yeah That what's going on here? Oh, it's just just a blue. It's literally a piece of plastic and that's the stimp meter Looks like a car stick Hank Wow next car stick could have that functionality in it Yeah, they really reinvented the wheel in this one stimp meter doesn't also matter if the greens level

Well, I'm sure they have to do it on a level surface. I think did you say shot Phil hit? Yeah, I live per pure genius He's an artist out there class. Yeah, he's an artist and he the golf course is his paintbrush There's payers canvas The club is his look at this. Oh Over his head backwards in To finish seventh at the live golf, Virginia and not win it for the smash So just it's how far it's how far the ball goes I love the scoreboard the scoreboard the scoreboard literally looks like dude

perfect yeah dude perfect doing an f1 race yeah if it rolls 11 feet it's an 11 if it's 13 feet so they're saying it's gonna be 15 oh I don't care about that really that that they they made like, like sound so much more scientific than just a piece of plastic. How far does it roll? We roll a ball. And then you say, Damn, that went far. Oh, man, we're rolling it a 16 today. Holy shit. I'm excited to see the videos that are going to come out as the players do their practice rounds. Yeah, you let the media on the course throwing the ball in the green. Yeah, they're off

Yeah, you drop the ball in the green and you like tap it and it goes like 60 feet. That's gonna be fun to see I love it. The course is back. All right, your who's back. My first who's back is Gronk. Oh Cuz it's 6 9 today. Oh, yeah, so happy holidays Gronk Is there I don't think I've ever seen a hockey player wear number 69 I was thinking about that because like Gronk back into hockey numbers and then we get there or player numbers and then we forget someone Gronk had said that he wished that he could wear 69 On the football field which would have been a treat for everybody, but I don't think I've ever that's one sport where I can't recall 69 There's recall. 69.

There's definitely been 69. It's just as there been like a famous 69. I don't know. Something to look into. So they're back also Wimby. Wimby is back. Dejardin or 69. Oh, he did. Yeah. Did you see what happened with Wimby? No, what happened with Wimby? W, no, what happened with Wimby? Wimby has been training to be a monk this off season. Oh, he was in a temple in Shaolin.

He was at a Shaolin temple in China and he shaved his head and he's living life as a monk. Wow. I feel like this is this we're about to see unlock Wimby. Look at that picture of him. Like he's on his this is kind of some Kareem Abdul-Jabbar type shit. Wow. We're either gonna see the least focused Wimby possible, where he's just gotten too much

perspective, and he's just like, you know, realizing that basketball is inconsequential to our lives spent on this tiny pebble hurdling through space, or he's gonna come back focused as fuck and just kill everybody. Oh. I think he might just come back focus as fuck. He's got it. Like what are the monks thinking when he shows up? That's gotta be the tallest guy that cuz a lot of them don't go anywhere. Yeah, they don't see like We're are there some monks that like never seen a chick. Yeah, and like they when becomes That's got a blow their fucking my like is are you two monks? That's like that's like I'm going to the sphere Yeah, it's just them seeing someone that tall. Yeah, when we probably taught them more than they taught him Yeah, well shit. They make him that there's like a jar that they've been trying to get down for the last 15 years

Yeah, I got a ball that got stuck up on the roof. Yeah Smart dog in the ceiling. Yeah, now he's a god to them Yeah, but yeah, so I do feel like this is going to be Wimby fucks everybody up next season because he's figured out like secret ancient martial arts. I agree. All right, my who's back. I got two. One is college football 26 because it's coming and I saw the new there's like people who

get the beta and the graphics look awesome. And so does the score score bug. I'm just excited for it I just like kind of forgot like we work so hard to get it back. Mm-hmm And now it's like oh, yeah, we get an updated one every single year Yeah, we have to continue to play it because don't let them take it away from us. Yeah, exactly Okay, so my other who's back is Marlins man because we're gonna talk about this with Whitney, but he is Going to the games. He invited us to the games

And he's going to the games Nikki smokes. Mm-. He invited us to the games and he's going to the games with Nicky Smokes. He invited us to the game and I was like, hey, Marlin's man, we can't make it. We got work to do. Nicky Smokes is going to go down. He's a Panthers fan. He's from South Florida. He said that he would take Nicky Smokes, but he had stipulations. You want to hear his stipulations? I do. All right. One was Nicky Smokes has to wear a barstool hat. Okay, we can make that happen. Two, he has to take any pictures fans want of me.

Talking about Marlins Man. Three days before game three on podcast, he invites all barstool followers to come up and take photos with us. I guess we're doing that right now. They're sitting on the glass, so go take photos. How are they going to know if it's if Marlins man's there? That's a really good question. Probably be the guy with a huge, huge line waiting to take pictures of them. That is also the huge, huge line that Nikki Smokes will have in the bathroom with Nikki. Nikki Smokes has to he has to take all the

pictures. Yeah, he's a line guy. He is a line guy whale tails what they call him He they are in section 133. Okay, so go say hi to Nikki smokes Marlins man Oh smokes will take your picture winning photo gets to go with them and sit with him for the game for I don't even understand The winning that's my favorite part the winning photo. Yeah, there's a contest winning photo And then five can we make a blow up doll. Don't say this one. Can we make a blow up doll. Don't say this one.

We're not saying this one. A bleep mom to sit with us or should I just get an inflatable sex doll and. I think I got to fight Marlin's man. With a sign around her neck saying I fuck. Okay. All right. All right. It was a bleep. We don't know who that was. All right. I got it. I got a rough and I think you do. I think you he just held his marlins

man. He just takes so many. It's fade on site. Yeah. Yeah. You'd have to. Yeah. I saw that text. I did tell pft this text beforehand because I was like this is crazy. 68 years old. I'm not ashamed to beat up a 68 year old man it's just crazy man he's crazy I'll fight you in rough-and-rally Marlins man balls in your court oh so yeah check out the dynamic duo of Nikki smokes and Marlins man at the game I don't know what I don't know what's gonna happen out of that all right Zach you got a who's back I do have who a who's back for you, sir. Okay. And also, for Monday reading, I want an up,

we're gonna do an update on the pub stomping. People were wondering. We'll do that at the end of the show. I can do that for you as well. Okay, all right. Who's back? Who's back? My who's back of the week would be with the,

you know, Chicago summers, finally here. Very hot outside, very humid. My who's back is a baby powder. We're getting head chafing, we're getting out in front of it. I thought he was gonna say shorts for a second and we're going we're going extra strength green bottle we can't have no no chub rub no chafe at all whatsoever this summer we're gonna go baby powder who's back can't wait okay rub is that what we call it chafing chafing chubber yeah

there's a couple different names we can toss it in and out But but just know we're powdering up Are you do powder every day before you get out of the house pre powder most days and what's your powder routine? Do you powder in your underwear? Do you powder on your grundle? I'm in the drawers guy. You just go drawers. You don't go Grunt like I'll sometimes I know it's me a swampy day. I'll just I'll go straight powder on skin I don't have the kind of range of motion. Oh, you can't get your hand back there Well, you can also it's a squeeze bottle so you can go underneath and then squeeze up some if it's a full bottle Then we're sweeping up. It's a whole thing. Yeah, but I like to tip Yeah, I like that protip on the powder. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you go underneath and then you just squeeze up

It's like LeBron a pregame liberal amount nothing crazy. Nothing nuts? No. But that's a smart that's a good call because I actually I have not I don't I do I'm a big reaction reactive guy when it comes to this not proactive like I'll wait till I have a really bad day where it's swamp ass then I'll go buy it you got to get ahead of it. Got to stay ahead at all costs. Yeah. I wish I could go back in time and experience the powder for the first time ever. Oh, what a feeling what a feeling Yeah, yeah, your day is so awesome. Have you put that on? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah that and my icy hot first icy hot Yeah, but you don't want to come down your balls I'm saying like I see out on your like on a on a like an ankle or it's bad feeling if you get the icy hot

On the boys. Yeah, no'm not I'm not asking for that I'm not crazy. Yeah, good call good call bringing the powder back. That's really good call. There we go. Yeah Yeah, so how many how many how many bottles of powder would you go through in Florida? I Just you just keep one of the big ones on you go to hit the Sam's Club Yeah, but would you go through it in like a couple weeks? No, no, no throughout the summer. Oh, okay. I'm crazy Yeah, that's why you stay ahead of it. Oh, okay. All right. That's crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why you stay ahead of it.

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Okay, we now welcome on our best friend. He's a very, very, very, very special guest. Number one in Pardon My Take history is Ryan Whitney, spitting chiclets podcast coming off. I'm going to say it the best, one of the best, if not best Stanley cup final games I've ever seen. It was incredible Friday night. Also like the, the series just in general, two overtime games, incredible, incredible wit. Let's start with that Friday night. Uh, have you, have you recovered and was that one of the best Stanley Cup final games you ever seen? I don't remember the start of a Stanley Cup final ever being this, not only entertaining, but just back and forth. And the biggest thing being there's so much better than every other 30 teams in the league.

It's quite obvious that these two teams are just at another level. After seeing game one, I figured there'd be a little feeling out process and boom, not at all. They just flying around. Both teams, I think had five and six days off before game one, but knowing it was in Edmonton, that place, I got to experience a finals, two finals games there last year. They lost three, but then won four.

So I knew the madness. The city was insane after they won game four last year. You would have thought they went up three one. No, it was just to stay alive. It was crazy. So I'm like, oh, my God, it's starting there this year. And it is not disappointed. I mean, like the weight, how hard these guys are playing, how good these teams are defensively. Like you watch at times Florida, I said on Chiclet it looks like they have six guys on the ice.

I'm like there has to be too many men on the ice because they're just everywhere. There's three guys around the puck. And then when Edmonton gets going like offensively, they're just flying around their own the offensive zone. It's just been incredible hockey. I mean, I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great thing.

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deal and now I mean how do you see this not going seven it's just it's incredible and I wanted to go seven I most all those fans say no we'll win in five we don't care we're winning four if we could no I need to see seven games that's how good this hockey is and if you don't like hockey I think even there are some people probably tuning in like what are we watching? Yeah. Like this is like being on crack. I wouldn't know that but I mean what McDavid did I actually have a question about that and this is not me being a hater but it was an incredible. No you're the biggest hater. I'm not. No I'm not. I have a question about that because I did see this. Not what I'm saying. Other people are saying the Barkov

might be injured. I don't. I don't, when, when he does that to guys, you can't do the end. He does it to everyone. He might be injured because of that play. He literally crossed him up. He, he broke his ankles. He broke his ankles and then, and then who was the next guy? Echblad. Yeah. At least Barkov stayed on his feet. Echblad was swimming around on his back by the end of that. And then when he gets it, right, and he's kind of going at Barkov, he has those cut moves he has. It's like Barry Sanders on skates, it's crazy.

And then Ekblad comes flying, he backhand toe-drags him, but the craziest thing to me is, in the middle of the toe-drag, he's already looking over and like the end of the move is just sliding it across the dry-side. That's when I, I think I I like I started running around the room. I was with a buddy whose brother works for the Panthers. So he's really rooting for the Panthers.

And I'm running around greatest hockey player of all time. I just started tweeting that. Like, it's just it's incredible to watch him. And even though they lost game two, I just the way he looks right now and the others, I can't see him losing this series. It's going to be the worst thing ever. If somehow this ends on the wrong side with the Panthers winning. But I don't think McDavid's going to let it happen. Yeah. I don't think he will either. I think this is his time and there was one play in particular

where Sam Bennett he he kicked a kick the stick away. He like kicked it over the blue line, got it out of there, then ended up filtering back towards the goal. I think he scored on that play too actually. But is there such a thing as like an unwritten rule in hockey, and if so, did he break one? I would say no. I don't, at this point in the season, there is just, this is prison rules.

This is like whatever it takes. And Sam Bennett, I've said many times, I would do anything if he was on the oilers, but I hate his guts when he's, when he's him being on the other team. Like this guy, he is mastered the, whoops, did I do that? Like the accidental on purpose where any sort of contact in front of the goalie He goes down in a way that you really can't like He got a penalty on the one which he probably didn't deserve

But I do think he deserved it because I think he knows exactly what he's doing and it's insane that he's scoring this much Too. I think what do you get his 13th 12 or 13th goal? They're all in the road It's like the guy's just a serial killer sociopath, but that play no That's just right now you do anything it takes anything just win just win So we just win with the two overtime games you split them or do you think that the Oilers are happy with this result? Yes, I do I do I mean you want to hold you want want to hold serve and now they lost home ice. I actually said to somebody the night before game two, if they win tonight, I think they'll lose both in Florida and if they lose tonight, I think they'll split in Florida. Like just setting

this thing up for seven. But the way they played, they got to be pretty happy. I think that the second period, both games was kind of a disaster. The first game, I mean, they took the first game, the third period in overtime. That was like, that's when I really felt they're going to win this series. Like they, they looked so much better, faster, quicker than the Panthers. I started thinking I thought back to when Tampa was going for their third straight cup, they, they kind of ran through the Eastern Conference and then they got to the finals and it was just like Colorado just overwhelmed and they had nothing left.

And that game won with Edmonton Florida. I said, oh, maybe Florida actually like third year in a row there. Maybe it's kind of like they just don't have what it takes and Edmonton's this hungry. But of course they answer the bell in game two. Your question's a good one because I think they would. I think they would. You're a great question. I don't know. What is that jacket? Why are you guys wearing those jackets? It's Edmunds. You guys are scumbags. You guys are scumbags. Let me tell you, I didn't even notice them. Wait, I just told you it's, it's McDavid's year. Hank, you're a dickhead. You have it on.

Hank's wearing it too. I didn't want to wear it. I'm rooting for the Panthers, but the oilers made us fan ambassadors. No, you guys, you guys are. We have to, we're pretty much a part of the team. You guys look at it. To have the platform that you guys do to openly root again. Like I got no problem if you, if you But you're you're solely doing this so McDavid doesn't win and your big names in sports media. It's actually pathetic You guys it's so weird to think that this is all because of you know

To a game it's friendship you went to a game. It's friendship. You went to a game. I know. He texted me. Oh my god You're right. You were like wait where you're so smart. This guy's the best He is he is and then you're still like you want him to lose in overtime. I don't I don't really well No, I do because of you. That's friendship. Okay, so fine And I'm I get that friendship rooting against each other part of being friends I will root for the against the Bears Easiest thing ever for you like you're gonna win I took it off. I took it off before you said anything. I took it off. Don't you want to see the greats? Some of the greatest talent I've ever witnessed win a Stanley Cup. I do.

That's why you guys hate me that much. No, I love you that much. It's actually the reverse. I love you. You'd be rooting for the reverse. I love you that much. Why? You'd be rooting for the Knicks for your boy Jerry O'Connell if they were in the finals. No, probably not. Yeah, you would be. No, I wouldn't. I would root for Bing Bong to have the exact same like a seven game devastation.

Okay, fine. Well, you know what? I'm going to be just buying your QB voodoo dolls next football season. And that's what we're going to do. And now this win would mean that much more. Yeah, I know. I've actually thought about it. Like if they do, if the Oilers win, we will obviously have you on right away and you will just get to shit down our throats for the entire time. Yeah. And you guys will be like, Oh no, no, I knew he was good. I knew he was good. Oh no. Big cat's line. I bet him though. I want money. I want to establish right now. I did not bet

him. There you go. Appreciate it. It's established. Yeah. Dave did, which is a big much. All right. I got a question about the Panthers. Yep. Uh, Marshawn, how the hell is he doing it? 37 years old and it felt like watching that overtime. He had the most gas out of anyone on the ice and he obviously scores the game winner. By the way, before the game winner, which I want you to talk about, did you, were you, when he went through Skinner's legs and it hit the post, were you like team of destiny? Cause at that point I was like, there's nothing going to stop the oilers here. The fact that puck didn't go in was so fucking insane. I was like, it's

just, it's just their year. But then obviously he scores the overtime goal winner in, in the second overtime. Were you like, how is he doing this? He's 37. Yeah. He's just so skilled and I actually went back to team of destiny when Perry tied it up I'm like, yeah, oh my god, like they're gonna win this game too and and Perry's 40 and he looks phenomenal too, but Marshawn Little hockey term like his edge work is crazy I actually think he's a guy who he's a guy who is like better because he's smaller He gets like underneath guys almost and his edges on his skates, they're just incredible.

And I remember skating with him during the lockout, like the 2012 lockout, whatever, 2013, whatever it was. And I'm like, oh my, you can't get the puck from him. And every time you go in to kind of 50-50, get there at the same time, he just somehow gets the puck, whether he's lifting your stick, whether he's giving you a little butt end, he's just a genius out there when he plays. And when he really struggled at the beginning of this season when he was playing, he had

three surgeries last summer. Like at 25 years old, it's going to be hard to feel normal and play well after three off season surgeries. He's 37 and does it. Then he goes to four nations. Looks good. And then the fact that the Panthers got him, that's what's disgusting. And I, I watched that all go down.

It was like the last minute of the deadline, like, Oh, breaking news. Uh, we have Marshawn's been traded to the Panthers. I'm like, what the fuck did the Panthers get this guy? The Bruins should have never let that happen. And for a second round of it, I think now turned into a first cause of how far Florida's made it, how many games he's played. But this is exactly how I thought it would go down with him in Florida.

It's the perfect team for him. He's got Bennett, he's got Kachuk, and you thought he might play with Barkov or Kachuk. No, he's playing with Lusterinan and Lundell, these Finnish monsters on this incredible third line. And that's probably been their best line overall in the playoffs. That goal he got, man, he comes down and Leon Dreissel had a hell of a back check on him. And I thought that Dreissel did a good enough job where Marshawn couldn't get it to his backhand and that Skinner just let in a horrible goal. It wasn't a good goal, but once I saw it somehow Marshawn got his backhand on it.

Like no quit in his game. He'd already scored a shorthander earlier in the game. He's just a machine. It's not surprising to me, based on kind of knowing him and how driven he is, but it sucks to watch. It really does. Rooting, playing against the Panthers,

because you know I'm playing in this cup finals. Yeah, you are, you are. They're the worst. Like they are so good. They're always in your face. They always answer the bell. They go down, they tie it up. They're just animals and they're champions for a reason. And now you're going to try to beat these guys. It's hard and it's, it's stressful as shit. Are you so Skinner has actually looked good. I know there's been a ton of goals, but he's looked good and he's, he's made some insane saves. Are you so Skinner has actually looked good. I know there's been a ton of goals, but he's looked good and he's, he's made some insane saves. Are you worried though at all about Bob like locking in? Because that would be like, yeah. And texting me during the game

cause he gave us the under on Friday night, which was a terrible pick, terrible pick. And he's not on Twitter. So I just was getting all the shit for him. Everyone was like, Hey, where's Yann's like, I was like, I was just getting all of it. And so he texted me though in, I think it was the second period when it was, I can't remember the score. I think he gave, I was when, when, uh, when they gave up, or yeah, it was the start of the second period. He's like, Bob's not going to give up another one. And until 17 seconds left in the third period, he was right. And I was like, Holy shit. So like it did feel like Bob kind of locked back in. Are you worried though that we're going to get one of those games from him where it's like, he just sees everything and he shuts the door. Yes. And going into

the series, I said, I wasn't worried as much about the Panthers being animals and just dirty and in your face. It's so hard to play against as much as I was worried about Bob. You got to figure he's gonna steal a game last year it was game one the Oilers dominated and it was the Bob show and Then he kind of fell apart in four or five and six like there was it was a disaster, right? They almost blew that series, but now he hasn't done that yet and he's going home So yes, I mean I'm worried about a bunch of different things But Bob's the number one on that list based on the fact that that he just gets in these like grooves and whether it's the entire game or like even game two for

35 minutes on the game clock he just seems like you can't be beat but I have noticed they're going at his glove and They've they feed him beneath his glove. They beat him above it. So down low you can't score on him That's like the scouting report. Everyone knows he's just so flexible and quick He takes away everything down low But if you could keep attacking his glove and and getting traffic in front we might have a we might have a chance here But it's it's just it's it's almost stress. It's almost like do you even want your team in the finals? Sounds stupid You need to win the cup but But watching these games, dude,

I'm biting my nails, I'm freaking out. It's double overtime, I'm making coffee. It's just, nothing beats it, which is what's so nice about knowing that neither one of you will ever see your team play in a Super Bowl. You won't even get to experience this. With the voodoo dolls.

Maybe that's a good doll. We don't have to worry about it, yeah. No, you're absolutely right. When it comes to play, I thought you like, I've loved watching these games. And it's been, all facets of the game have been incredible. Including the goaltending has been really good, even though there's been a lot of goals scored.

So I'm having a lot of fun watching, but also as not a fan of either one of these teams, when it goes into overtime, I'm just like, yes, this is even better now. But if you're a fan of that team, overtime is the absolute worst thing to happen to you in the playoffs. Are you a little bit concerned as a fan, as a member of the team of the Edmonton Oilers

that you have to take on not just Marlins Band, but also Nicky Smokes? Yeah. I could care less about Nicky Smokes. He's a legit nobody. Like, Nicky Smokes, like, who is this guy? He's a legit nobody like what were like Nikki smokes Like who is this guy? He's on a month-to-month contract at Barstool. Yeah, I think Marlins man I put them 28 days by the you know, you know cycle. Yeah, I

I like them I linked Marlins man and Nikki smokes together today and I said it must be what Oppenheimer felt like cuz like this could this could End the world like the two of them The like they're more likely to end up in prison and do anything that's gonna hurt the Oilers like two scumbags I I don't even know if Nicky Smuts walked hockey before last year like now now You know what your team wins you have all the right to talk all the shit, but like he tweets at me I read it. It's just like I do it's like other troll coming at me on Twitter. Like he's a nobody. He, he, they're on the glass. He's on the bar. Sorry. He's on the barstool summer house.

He is on the summer house. Do you know they're on the glass for game three? Are they? Yes. Yes. Marlins man has four tickets on the glass. I mean, Nicky will take his shirt off, like show his abs off. He's legit that guy. Yeah. Well, I mean, we, we, we paid him to get in shape pretty much. He would just work out from nine to five every day. It's like, he keeps posting these like anyone could do it. It's like not anyone, dude. You have a gym in your office and you just, you work out during the day. What do you do for work? I work out and I whack girls that I work with. Oh, it's a sweet job. All right. So what, what is the plan? You're going down the Chicklets crew is going to be in Miami.

Are we worried about the gout with biz? I haven't talked to him a little while. I assume he's off the red meat. Um, no, I don't think that the goat without drink. Yeah, not drinking. Like you would think there'd be some alcohol wine involved in the goat. But to tell us that he was eating 20 ounces of steak every day for a couple weeks. Like that is crazy. We're excited to get down there. I mean, it's a pain in the ass getting to that arena. It's it's in what is it sunrise sunriserise? Sunrise, yeah. But I'll say, when I was there, the team was brutal. I was there for seven games. I was

a plug, but the crowd wasn't great. Now, with these teams they have, that building's electric. It's not at all, Rogers, in Edmonton, but it's good. And so getting there will be very special and then Monday or tonight, we'll be at the game of flying down early, flying down early. And then Tuesday we're doing our pod live from the elbow room. Oh, very cool. So we'll be going over the first three games of the series. We'll have some special guests in great spot to sit there. I mean, murals, this is murals dream come true. The guys been talking about going back to the elbow room since game seven ended last year. So we're back. Wait, and then what happens? Are you guys going to go to, to, to five or seven in Edmonton? Is there any plans for that? So I'm going to a game seven in Edmonton. If it gets there,

which I believe it will be. Um, I didn't go to games one and two, had a bunch of stuff going on here. So going to three and four, we'll shoot home and then get ready for a game seven. If it happens, I'll be on a plane probably to Denver then to Calgary with a stallion get to Edmonton 12 hour travel day, get to the arena, start drinking and just maybe paint my face. I like that. Are you bringing clubs to Florida? No, I'm not. Because I actually texted the group I said, can we

play golf? And then I got the, I got the itinerary. We got the show and interviews after Tuesday. We have three interviews Wednesday and then Thursday's game for don't know if, if maybe time in the morning of game four, I could play some golf, but I want to lug the clubs down and then not play. So if we do play, I'll be doing the rentals, you know, the rental game. Yep. So asterix on the scorecard. If you don't shoot well, I wouldn't even post it.

You got to get ready. You got to. You got some high level golf coming up. I know. Believe me, guys. You know what, though? I played in a member guest this weekend. Boston Golf Club champions, myself and my buddy. So that's a nice little thing.

Win a tournament leading. And that's why when we won it, I said the Oilers are winning the cup. I just want I just want something. Yeah, I never win anything. Everything's coming up, Whitney. Yeah, everything's coming up, Whitney. Well, now I got to hang out with Nicky Smokes. He'll be sitting at the elbow room in my ear.

See that girl? I banged her. It's a great thing, though, because if if Nikki Smokes is representing the Panthers, even some Panthers fans will be like fuck this I'm rooting for the Wailers now. Yeah exactly. He'll turn anyone. Yeah. We'll get back to Whitney in a second but first he's brought to you by our great friends, our great great friends over at Proper 12, Proper 12 Irish Whiskey. Delicious, smooth, and it's me making my Irish entrance here. Proper number 12 Irish Whiskey, the Irish entrance, the best thing you can do. It's just starting with a shot of Proper

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Experience a game seven for the cup final in the craziest arena in the world if it happens We should have been on your show. I've been on your show close to 30 times. Tell me right now Okay, wait, you know what today? It's Friday 19th No, it's June 20th Friday June 20th. Come on guys. My son's birthday is June 19th. I'm not gonna miss that you understand I'm flying the morning the 20th Guys maybe Thursday's June 19th. I'm not going to miss that. You understand that. So fine. The morning, the 20th, I'm not guys, guys, guys. I got a baby. I'm a guy that we can all go Whitney. Oh man. How are there direct flights from Chicago? There actually might be, I bet. Oh man. Oh, it's Friday, June 20th. Yeah. If I could find it guys guys guys all the shit we've talked us sitting together you boys the boys talking shit. Yeah guys guys I've done a lot

for you. I'm actually gonna look at it. That's the nicest thing I could do because usually I just say no to anyone asking me anything. anything. I'm actually going to look at it if I could get a flight that is like gets me there and back with like in like 20 hours total. I would leave that morning, get there, go to the game, leave the next morning. I'll be doing the same thing. Yeah. Do they have a red eye? They might. I'm going to look at it. That's a big deal. Me looking at it. I mean, have either one of you guys ever big deal. Me looking at it. I mean, have either one of you guys ever been to a game seven of anything? I went to game seven black Hawks, red wings. What year was that? I went to for the no, I'm talking to seven

for a title. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, but that was a sick game. I went to game seven socks, red socks, Yankees when they came back when they being down 3-0. When they blew them out? Yeah. Oh, that's pretty sweet. Yeah, it was cool. And you weren't even, were you living in New York then? No, no. This was when I was in college. I was just a fan. I was a fan of the story. I got caught up. I want to see history. Well, what a story. This should be seeing the greatest hockey player of all time raise a stand.

Hey guys, did you know a couple stats though? You know, I'm sure you talked about the Gretzky Crosby, how Gretzky. Yep. Shannon, you're the one who, well, PFT had it, but you also said it on the live stream that... There was another one that came out that I don't know, it's six or seven times a team's been in the cup final after losing the first two games of the first round. Oh, they've all won the cup. Oh, and Edmonton lost the first two games of the first round this year. Oh, that's interesting. That's another one. That's another big one. History. It's a team of destiny.

Now losing game two. It was so funny because going into game two, I was so confident. My third. They got game one last year. They go down on three. Boom. We're great. We lose game two. And like any fan knows immediately. You're like, I don't know if we're gonna win I don't think we can win. We're fucked. We're going back there now So it's the highs and lows are just something else. But you know what my body's sore I've been grinding since the first game against LA. I Mean I'm on the East Coast guys these games they were 10 10 30 10 50 starts first

I was thinking of you in the second overtime I was like I don't know how much more wits got in the tank because it was just going like you know it crossed into Saturday I was like this guy's got to be I was I and I teed off at like 7 10 Saturday What a warrior no one works harder I got a hockey question for you, and this is gonna sound stupid, and you're gonna tell me it's stupid but it's actually a Connor McDavid compliment. Do you think I could score a goal on Connor McDavid's line. Yes I actually think any person could. I do too like that dry side was unbelievable but some of the passes that he gives dry side

all when dry cells on that like right side and it's just he just breaks the whole defense down and they're all everywhere and then it's like obviously dry cells incredible but like it's just right there and he just puts it right in. He buries it. Yeah. If you if you started July 1st skating with like a skating instructor skills coach two to three times per week. Okay. So for July, August, you go to camp mid September and then you were in camp and then you played on his line by the every shift he was out there. You play with them by game 10. You're scoring. The problem is offsides cause I would want to cherry pick, but I would just, no, I mean the line would

probably the problem is like you'd be fucking eating ice cream like during the meetings and like miss the start of warm-ups But that's how good Connor McDavid is like I I really do think he's just that special that he He like he makes everyone so much better. And yes, I would and you guys host pardon my take and you root against him So we do not know I'm a Ryan Whitney fan ambassador. I'm gonna get a Ryan Whitney jacket because I believe in you Wait, I believe I got I I had a three different Whitney Oilers jerseys in the crowd sent to me the other day Imagine imagine if you told those people when they were booing me out of town that years and years later

That you'd be wearing a wit Jersey to the Oilers in the Cup final based on my love and passion for the team. Now, granted, I did quit being a fan last year for about 14 days, but that doesn't matter anymore. I think I remember the spaces when he did it. It was like an emergency. They lost to San Jose. Yeah. And you kicked me out of the spaces because I wanted to talk NBA. Do you want to talk NBA at all? I mean, the game one was incredible. Yeah, I actually, I was rattled because I put it on, whatever was going, I was watching something and then I realized there was like 10 minutes left and they were probably what, down like 12 or 13 with 10 minutes left?

Yeah, they were down 15 with like nine and a half minutes left. And I just like shut it off. And then all of a sudden I, I on Twitter, I saw it was going crazy. I'm like, what the fuck? And I checked the app. I was like, oh my God, that's what they do in that game. So that they seem a little team of destiny too. I couldn't give a shit about that series. I mean, that has to be one of the worst matchups for like TV. Now this is coming from somebody where Edmonton, Florida isn't, I don't think ripping in the rank the ratings for the NHL but NBA is a disgrace. But we don't I mean we don't care about the rate we're firmly don't care about the ratings podcast because we've said it before. There's never been a game an incredible game I've

watched and been like man I wish more people were watching this like afterwards being like game five. I agree Friday night being like that was the best Stanley Cup final game I've watched and then seeing the ratings on Saturday and being like actually it wasn't that good. You guys are coming to game seven guys. You guys have you know what I think all your listeners everyone listening who love these guys please get on them. So you've got to go with wit to game seven. I'm sorry so I'm such an oilers believer that I don't think it's going to get to seven. Oh, you think they're going to win. Now I'm like, you might have actually found a way for us to root for the oilers. If they get a series lead, I'm going to be rooting for them to close it out. So I don't have to go

to Edmund. Yup. I actually think though, like I want it for the content and hanging out and be credible, but I think it would be like one of the coolest sporting experiences. You're like, not just being game seven for the cup. Like you have to see this arena and what these people are like. They're maniacs. They're completely crippled four hours before the puck drops. I love that. And then they're lunatics in the rink the whole time. Imagine if I won the 50-50.

It was eight point nine million the other day. Eight point9 million. Oh my god between that barn and in Montreal because I loved I loved going to the Canadians Stadium that was incredible. What a great environment up there. Yeah, we were talking about that Whenever I was with you last but it was It much else building is just a lot like kind of tighter and smaller. So it's it's it's incredible I actually think that that's one and two in the league and you could flip-flop who's one and who's two But it's very very similar just on a larger scale if that makes any sense I just look by the way, there are no direct flights

Well, you know what buddy? I'm coming from fucking Boston. Yeah but there's no. What I'll do is what we'll meet in Denver and I think there's direct from Denver and Dan I'm not going to say what the tickets you've sent me of how much you bet. Get a private jet for us. Chicago will shoot up that shoot home. That could be a possibility. That could be a possibility. I'll split it with you and by split I mean not pay. Now we're talking. Well Dave will pay for it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Let's be honest. Fair enough. Dave's there. That would be a nice a nice tight trip too. I feel like we could make that happen and we could legit I can fly into Chicago the night before we leave in the morning game seven right after

the game we leave. Yeah. Unless the Oilers win we like go to McDavid's house. Well, do you think he'd let us in? He won't let me in. So we're definitely not going. Do you want to talk a little US open real quick? Have you ever played Oakmont? I played Oakmont three years ago. The thing was the night before it rained like three inches and the guy who was hosting us, we showed up. He's like, this isn't the guy who was hosting us we showed up he's like This isn't the oak. It's oak. What's all about the speed of the greens like I think this week They said they're gonna be rolling at like a 15 on the step meter which for non golf people is just Chinese but basically 15 is like almost unplayable for a lot of people and they have the slope and they all the course was incredible

They took down thousands of trees. I think at one point it was kind of tree line. Now it's almost link style, but an incredible test. And I think based on what I've been reading and seeing on Twitter, like we might have like a over par winner for the I don't know. I love that. Yeah, that's what I love about the US. We have someone one of your stat guys, maybe look up the last time a major winner was over par. I know when Mickelson blew the US open at wing foot years

ago when Jeff Ogle V1, he finished over par. It was bro. I want that. I've worked at Shinnecock. He was over par for that one. I think it was plus one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, and and, and Shinnecock and Oakmont are two and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and

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and like where'd it go and then you're like golfers like they They really seem to complain and hate when it's really difficult. I love it all these weeks They're always you know 18 20 under to win a tournament like give the fans one week of watching them look like how we always Yeah, yeah, we root for the course in the US open I don't like watching like a golf tournament where it's like they get to a par five and like a birdie is a bad score. Like I want to see them struggle. I want to see them make better, like tough shots, difficult shots. You know, when like some of these tournaments, Scotty he's got a par five and it's like, it's almost guaranteed. He's going to hit an eagle. Yeah. Or a bird. Yeah. He'll have an eagle putt, right? You have an eagle putt

no matter what to make it. Right. Yeah. I Right. Yeah, I guess this year there's no first cut. So you got the fairway and then you got the rough. Well, usually there's a layer a little above the fairway that's less than the rough that a lot of times, if these guys miss by such small margins, it ends up in the first cut. Well, this just goes from fairway into whatever, five inch rough, whatever it is. So the fairways, you got to hit them. That's why, unfortunately, Scotty

may just walk away with this one too. Right. Because he just hits it so straight. But it's very exciting for me to watch at a course I've played and like a course that we know can kind of beat them up a little bit. So I'm excited for that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the fact that you played it, what did you shoot? Ah, God, 78, 79. I remember I played with Gustav Nyquist was in, we had eight guys and he came in and he shot even. He plays, where's he playing now? Minnesota? I don't even know. He's in the NHL. He, he, he's a great golfer. I was like, Jesus Christ, you shot even par out there. So amazing experience though. They're pro shops the size of the Chicago Barstool office. It was bananas. Does they have an ice cream machine?

No, but I mean, that'll be, that thing's going to be broken in what? Oh, what is that? It's working right now. What is that? It's all these slobs. You slobs just wearing that thing down. That's just as hurtful as me rooting against McDavid. Why do you think I said it? Fair point. Fair point.

We should get the boys doing keg stands out of the ice cream machine. You see how you waterboard yourself with ice cream? Oh, yeah. The cold headaches just killing people. Are you thinking about picking any of us for your Ryder Cup team? That's a great question. Wait, I might be good now. I saw you quit like 10 days ago. I did. I quit 10 days ago. But it quit me back. Yeah. I had a tough day at the Bev, but then you know, sometimes you get

a calling and Hank is turning my game around as we speak. So I got to do this. Is it, does everyone have obviously like a no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's no handicaps you just pick like how we did last time it's just 12 guys you pick six six guys a team and then you and then you can do the matchups but there's like some there's some players there's some really good guys and there's obviously like me and Jerry and I don't know PFT is better than me Hanks better than me but I'll probably have you should do like a one-on-one Will be match for YouTube and you'd be pretty sick. I bet he'll beat me but the last last

Last Ryder Cup member PFT and I had a match and we just concede we conceded the whole match We got a really airy and in trend Conceding we would we would tee off and hit bad tee shots be like we can see this hole is a part five It was yeah, you weren't even in it, right? You didn't play. No, I wasn't. I wasn't there that year. Yeah. We, we, we did a, we, we like stacked the matchups. We're like, all right, PFD and big cat will lose to Trent and area and it's fine. We can con like, we can lose this one. We, we, I think we tied them on the, we have them on the first hole and we're like, Holy shit, we're about to shock the world. I'm going

to beat them on the first. And then we, and then we just lost like nine holes in a row and just kept on conceding at we'd like hit a driver and be like alright concede. It's so funny. Let's have a drink. So it's funny you can you can look at my scorecard from Friday and you can see exactly when I cracked the first beer on the scorecard. Because you started playing better or worse. Way better. Yes. So I went triple, double, triple, and then par, par, par, par in a row. Just one beer. And that's the trick to golf, really.

You made four pars in a row? Yeah. And that's the trick to golf is you have to find the perfect amount of being inebriated to be loosened up, but not so much like the golden zone, the golden ratio. If you can just stay a little bit drunk for the entire round, then you can be great at golf. You can be like a pro. You're speaking my language right now. Yeah, it's amazing. You just got to find all of a sudden just your brain stops like thinking about your swing. Yeah, positions you got to be in and what you got gotta do to hit the ball straight. You just get up there You're having fun swing it all of a sudden your money and then you know after you're the next morning

You're like I'm way too hungover like I played golf. It's not like I went out. Yeah, right around golf Um, alright, I got one last question for you wit. This has been fun. We're gonna look at flights We're gonna look at flights row back question. Are you guys we have to know I'm now rooting for To win in six very badly at flights. Uh, row back question. You guys, we have to now I'm now rooting for to win in six very badly. Let's go row back.com pro whoever's up in the series. I'm going to start rooting for hard. So like if you win game three, it's going to be all oilers. If the Panthers wins can be all Panthers. I, I need to send in six and then, and then for the rest of my life, it can be like, I would have gone, uh, row back.com, promo code take

20% off your first purchase. QZips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, Roback.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, roback.com promo code take. Hank, do you have a golf question for wit? No, I mean, I'm trying to, I'm working with PFT. You obviously have a lot of experience dealing with sandbaggers. My goal with PFT for the internet invitational is, you know, for people to be mad at him sandbagging. What are, some like signs of a good sandbagger? Are you okay? He saw Billy strings this weekend weekend. He had the boys in town. He had a good time. How's your Saturday with? Sleep at night Jesus Christ

What listen we only get question we only get two and a half months of summer in Chicago. He's he's he's living it up. What's a sign of a say a sign of a sandbagger? Fuck, that's tough. I mean, sandbaggers are just like you could. I actually think I can tell a sandbagger when you tell me your handicap and then I watch you on the range. Really? Yeah, like unless you're the worst putter of all time and you're like three and four putt every hole. Yeah, like if you you could tell somebody oh, I'm a 13 handicap and then on the range you're like, ah, I don't know. He's hitting it like 260, 270. You know, he's taking divots with his irons.

260 270 you know he's taking divots with his irons there's different signs where you know but when you say you're like a seven handicap that's hard to tell because sevens actually can be very very good and then be very very bad have you ever gotten has anyone sandbagged you where you were like actually mad about it oh yeah for sure but like now like so like, so I have three boys now, so I don't play as much golf. So my handicap's gone up, because I'm not really good anymore, but I was good.

But it was funny, I got down to a scratch, but I was a bad scratch. But now I'm a 3.3, or 3.2, and I'm a pretty good 3.2. So I'm like, wow, this is, you know, you know what I mean by that? Yeah. Like I, I, I rarely ever played to a scratch, even though that was my handicap because I just post every score and the handicap works based on they take the eight best of your most recent 20 scores.

So it's like, all right, like I had eight good rounds in the last 20 rounds, but the other 12, I was fucking horrible. 20 scores. So it's like, all right, like I had eight good rounds in the last 20 rounds, but the other 12, I was fucking horrible. So my handicap is way better than I actually am. Right. So I think that when you do like, now I bet you there's like, I had a buddy is like, dude, you're a three now. It's like, well, buddy, I'm posting every score. I'm shooting 81 all the time. So I don't know what you want me to tell you. But then that day I shot 74. So right. It's, like calling someone a sandbagger, it's kind of, you don't want to be known as

that. Like that's an ugly, especially because I play in a lot of like big money matches. So you really like, you're just, you can't do that. Like you're a dirt bag. You know what I mean? How do you become a sandbagger? Is that if you go out? What people do is on purpose. Yes. Or what they'll do. They don't post scores, which now like our club, like if you don't post the score, like you're getting an email, like post your score, like just just to kind of combat this stuff. But then what happens is also all right, you'll be playing two on two against somebody, and your partner's in the hole.

Your partner has five feet for birdie, right? And you have 20 feet for par. Well, I'll just three-putt this one, because it doesn't matter, because my partner already has our score for this hole. Then I get a double on this hole, or a triple. So true sandbaggers, they're deranged, because every little move they make is based on how to make sure their handicap never goes down.

Is there a reverse sandbagger? I'm a 20, but I'm actually a 40. When I was a zero index, people were like, oh, he's a reverse bagger. Once again, it's like, I'm posting every score. I know I'm not a true scratch golfer. The reverse baggers, they're the water cooler guys. They want, Hey, you play golf. Yeah, I play golf. What's your handicap? I'm a one. Yeah, right. It's like, dude, but every reverse bagger, what happens? See,

reverse bagging is way better than sandbagging though, because you're going to lose money as a reverse bagger. Right. And so reverse baggers, it's like, you meet it, you know, a reverse bagger. And you're like, Hey, want to play a money match this week, bud? Next week. Hey, one of you cause you're and you just don't want them as your partner. I might become a reverse bagger. I might just start posting fake scores and have myself as a scratch golfer. You, you could post around every day of you shooting four under and you'd be a scratch in a week or a month. I'm really just like a tough 35. Your plus hand would love

to golf with me. No, I'm not. There's actually there's a good Twitter follow. I don't know his name, but it, cause it pops up on like the algorithm. He is hunting down the biggest sandbaggers in the awesome. Yeah. Is it Yip's trickler? Yeah. Yip's trickler. Dan. It's so funny. Like I'm going to help. And he gets the guy's pictures and then all of a sudden he's like, meet Greg. Greg is a 13.4 index and this week and his member gas shot 75 every round. Oh, that's amazing. I'm not going to do it in the sandbag. I am going to play more golf and just log as many rounds as I can. but like if I'm playing and

Obviously would be beneficial to me if my handicap was higher, but I'm not gonna fuck with them But just post every score and then your camera too We're gonna we're gonna film most of it so that people can go back and they can look Do I do I take gimmies if somebody concedes like a six foot putt do I just pick that up and I'm like, okay I guess that's good So in like certain matches if you have a putt that's going to show the guy putting for birdie on your team, a line like they'll give it to you. But that's kind of up to you.

A lot of reverse baggers, what they do is like they take every, you know, your score doesn't matter anymore. You got 10 feet. Hey dude, you're good. Like I would then putt it after because I want to know my real score. A lot of people pick those up and then they end up a one handicap. It's like, well dude, you, you, you picked up, you picked up five, 10 footers that round. Yeah, this is so funny. I'm following them right now. I just started following them. I was awesome. I watched it. It's going after everyone. He's finding them. I watched a great YouTube video the other day What's the name of that guy that wears like the glasses and the funny bucket hat all the time?

He's some like Australian guy But he basically teaches you how to break a hundred just by making every par four Actually a par five or five and every par five is really a par seven He's like if you just change these numbers around then you can break a hundred and then you watch that you like oh shit Yeah He's like, if you just change these numbers around, then you can break 100. And then you watch that, you're like, oh shit, yeah, it's actually easy to do. If you, if you don't three pot and you don't take penalty shots, so like don't hit it in the water. I do both of those things.

I, well, I know. And it's like, people say, don't do that. And you'll break a hundred. Your score will drop by crazy amounts. It's so much easier said than done, but three potting is nuts. And then if you want to get good at golf, number one I'd say is get good from 100 yards and in, because then all your bad drives,

all right, so if you could pretty much most of the time from 100 yards and in get in the hole in three shots, you know, like your scores are gonna get lower so much quicker. And then when you hit the bad drives, all right, I'll punch it out and then I'll hopefully hit it on and to putt. It's just golf's fucked though.

Golf's golf's the hardest sport in the world. It drives you insane. Just when you think you got it, you stink. Just when you think you'll never be good again, you're good again. It's just nuts. You drive it good. You can't putt, you putt it great. You can't drive it very rarely does it all come together. My mental game has gotten, I think, stronger. I used to get so mad. And now it's like I'm more enjoying just being out there because I'm not.

I used to play guys. I was playing. When I started playing golf, I was playing at least eight rounds a week. So one day would be 30. Yeah. What a legend. So one day Yeah Legend I was crying I was still playing I put I was playing for Anaheim So 2009 10 I started playing and I would I was like a 15 and I would play 36 one day if not two and every other day minimum 18 sometimes 27 and

For like nine years guys, I did that. That's incredible. And then would you have time to do that? Like in the league as an actor? Well, every I was I was never in the playoffs. And then and then I would just come. I'd be home by, you know, end of April and I'd leave for camp September 10th. And every day I had no kids, no wife. I was I was guys. I was obsessed, obsessed, like insanely obsessed with golf. It was crazy. I still am, but it's

just life's life's change, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Um, all right. Wait, you're the best who, uh, hopefully we'll see you at game seven, game seven. We'll see a Ryder cup either way. So game seven. No, no, no, no. I'll see you at game seven Yeah, so I need this to end in six. Bye guys. All right. See ya Ryan Whitney was brought to you by the league you're busy. We get it You don't need another app that feels like a second job in a time when everyone is endlessly scrolling Everyone's clamoring for attention the most precious irreplaceable asset isn't money It's time and we refuse to waste yours because in a world of too much, the rarest thing you can have is exactly what you want.

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Helicopter lifted he got air lifted out. Yeah, I don't so I Wish it Ed probably had the best week of his life. Yeah, I mean he was weak He was probably gone for a week. He's gone for six days. Oh, I'm pulling it up He's probably super confused when he was getting airlift. Yes Absolutely, cuz they had him sitting upright like he was in a chair. All right, so The search for a runaway pet zebra that had evaded capture for nearly a week in Rutherford County, Tennessee came to an end The Rutherford County Sheriff's Office which had been searching for the animal that residents named Ed Said in a statement on Sunday the zebra had been recaptured returned to its owner

So I guess He got the owner of the zebra whose identity has not been released got the animal on May 30th What he had it for less than a day before it escaped the next morning that guy wasn't ready to get a zebra I don't even think that counts as having a zebra No, you have for one day How does zebra escaped or why the man owned it was still not immediately clear but dispatchers received a report on May 31st that a zebra Had been spotted darting in traffic on interstate 24 This is the first zebra to escape in Rutherford County as far as I know in the 43 years I lived here a woman said a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office

That's awesome. What if it had gotten out and like run across the border to Kentucky and Seen like a thoroughbred Horse farm. Yeah, and just been like let's bang and then they made the fastest horse ever That would be I'm guessing the reason the zebra escaped I'm gonna go out on limb and say the zebra owner as a rookie zebra owner The fences were too short. Yeah, or maybe no fence maybe no fence cuz he if he escaped in a day It might not have been fences. Yeah, just put like a collar on him. Yeah this this guy Ed though I he should have been

What up? He had an oh shit there is running on the side of the highway. It's pretty cool. That is awesome. Oh Oh shit there he is running on the side of the highway. It's pretty cool. That is awesome. Oh No, oh, he's tripped. Oh Ed not good with your feet, bro Oh, he's just like he's just cruising through a neighborhood suburbs. That's awesome good for Ed Yeah, it had a great time let Ed back free let Ed just be the zebra of Tennessee free Ed Do you remember that story about the Ohio zookeeper that oh, yeah that offed himself? Oh, yeah, where he offed himself? Oh, yeah, we offed himself He let all of his animals out. Yeah, those those fucked up now. They killed all the animals They had to shoot all the animals. Yeah. All right. Well, we wanted to get back to being somewhere

Don't let him don't return him to this guy. Why did they put him in like why they airlift him? Why don't they just tranquilize him and put him in the back of a trailer? I think they rise like I think they probably met him and was like, Ed is a cool ass dude. We want to give him a nice ride. I think if you have a horse harness for a helicopter, you have to use it at some point. Yeah. So some guy already had that was like, we, we got to bust it out. Are you allowed to have a pet zebra? I don't see why not. Right. It's not like, uh, they're not endangered. Yeah. They just look cool. And they're, yeah, it's probably no different than having a horse except for the fact that they're zebras

Yeah, why can't you have a? They go 40 miles per hour good for zebras So horses are faster All right Fastest recorded zebra forty three point nine seven miles. I don't know that's fastest recorded horse But they've never they've never bred zebras to be fast. They're all trial fastest recorded zebra 43.97 miles. Oh no, that's fastest recorded horse. But they've never bred zebras to be fast. They're all wild.

Yeah, why can't zebras be like racehorses? That's what I'm saying, why can't we just have zebras chilling? Like zebras are doing all this not even knowing that they're supposed to race. Right. So if we bred them to be like thoroughbred horses. What a story that would be if a zebra was competing for the Triple Crown. That would be a great movie, the way that would be a great movie the the Triple Crown just is ruined I mean sovereignty winning the Belmont which

should have been him winning the Triple Crown and having it go again journalism for sovereignty it just sucked I was pissed I watched it I lost maybe if I had one money on it I would have been happier. Mm-hmm, but uh Yeah, they were in the Triple Crown. Yeah. All right before we do numbers Zack Pub stomping this weekend how to go The pubs on didn't go great man. So I started off a diamond two, which is like a decent in the rank Not GM yet diamond two. We're all the way back down and into plat losing about 20 points a game what's GM Grandmaster would be it's a second so

you have a you got bronze silver gold plat diamond Grandmaster celestial was like the ranking system so I started off decently and diamond now we're back in plat it's not going good yeah team ups are overpowered last night was playing my with my friend hunter We lost probably about six straight, and then he goes to play a game without me He wins just because of the sharknado so like Wait he had the sharknado on his side. He had it on his team. Yeah, so he's like becoming everything that he hates yeah Yeah, did you get did you get mad at him for winning with that? No?

I double tapped the message I was like glad to see you get a win at the end, but you don't want to win like that Yeah, right you want to beat him at their best and that's not right. It's cheating the game Have you heard from anybody at the at the video game company? Not at all. No nobody from the video game company I've heard from quite a few people letting me know they would smurf with me like some hitters some heavy hitters That just feels dirty. I but maybe just to feel it once Yeah, just a taste. Yeah, there are some letters let an AWL Smurf smurf for you. I just might I was I didn't do it, but I thought about it Yeah, they were sending some stats over as I go these guys come what you hate though. Yeah

Yeah, but what just for a taste exact I haven't done it. He's the devil on your shoulder hangs the angel. Don't do it I haven't done it yet. Okay, some of those stat lines look enticing though Like heroin someone hit you up was like do my numbers and they were cooked They were so I see and they were maybe not slow see what they were like that in Grandmaster Oh, they were like that so many boys. Yeah What about your mom is she did she listen on Friday? Thankfully, no, okay, so we're good alright, so that's that's good How much how much fast food you have this weekend?

Not that much fast food I did a pizza doesn't count no Agree takes a while Just snacks at the house on today, too. That was it so no fast food. No fast food Just are you saying wait would your mom might be be listening? Would you have for dinner Friday? No So I saw this pizza. I think was Friday and Saturday wrong No, it's Friday was leftover spaghetti and meatballs. Okay Saturday with sausage pizza

Saturday with sausage pizza and then today I just did like some lunchables and fast food a And then today I just did like some lunchables and fast food a corn dogs. Yeah, I did a lot of walking today So then I got home just ripped a lunchable and some corn dogs. Yeah, Zach told me I said did you go outside this week weekend? He said yeah, I did a little urban hiking and I was like, oh, where'd you go? He said to the target. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, my down my back not too bad. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That's nice We pick up ice cream cones Where then you walked a mile back with the ice cream cones, yeah We don't know when you got back no no no not at all But I will say walking with those uh wait no no you got the empty ice cream cones. There was no ice cream in it

Yeah, oh my bad. Yeah Empty ice cream cones. That's on me. Yeah, it's my fault. No. I was melting. I was sweating. It's my Alright good show boys. Wednesday we got Terrick Schubel. And maybe a mystery guest. Let's do... numbers three. I think I got that one.

I think that was Hank. Meebs! He's calling it for Meebs! Meebs, you have to give PFT and Hank numbers though Give him give him numbers. They can pick pick numbers for him because it was that close Now I think I got it. No no you got it. You got it, but just give give give Hank Give Hank and PFT numbers Hank will get 52

numbers Hank will get 52 mm-hmm PFT 69 okay all right love it would be tough yeah that would be real either of them gone he's also me the pressures turning up for memes because Zach getting it would ruin him or Jack not Jack I like I like Zach you get it yeah all right who else what we got? I'm gonna go... 43 Happy Pride Can we do a quote card of that? Memes saying... We do 88 Zack could get it

Yeah 99 posts Shows up wearing some of these 12 Homeboy's gonna get it That might be my favorite internet video of all time Homeboy's gonna get it Don't put it on it.

Six! Oh! Six! Beavs, did you get six last time? Yeah. Oh, no! That's my backup number. Oh, no! So like if Hank had gotten... That's what I went on to. Sweet, no. That's my backup number. Oh, no. Your backup? So like if Hank had gotten...

That's what I went on to. So wait, so yeah. If Hank had gotten three, you would have taken six. Would you have taken six? Yeah, probably. You would have taken six? Yeah. Oh, man.

Oh, no. I'm pretty sure I'd beat you, too. That's on pug. Oh, no. That's the only side deal you guys got going on. Backfired. That's brutal memes. The vibes just felt like memes got it. Yeah, but you realize that that ruling

He would have gotten it This is first choice right yeah, I know but if you had said Hank Which I think Hank actually did like when we listen back It's gonna probably show that Hank had his Mike spike And then if Hank gets it which would have been the correct call by you Pug Memes guesses six and the number six Wow would have got a moment that would have been oh man is your fault It's my bad dude my bad Two times two times my bug is two times go one more time means a pattern

Means you wanna go one more time. No, I'm not gonna get it. Yeah, you can get it right now numbers 44 And I have six she'll take 69 99 put 34 21 99 put 34 Come on 21 Oh 66

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