Pardon My Take - Triple H, Final Four Recap And The Best Game Ever

Episode Date: April 5, 2021

Saturday night had one of the best Final Four games ever. We recap Gonzaga/UCLA and how awesome it was and preview Monday's nights Championship Game (2:34 - 32:07). Who's back of the week including Paul Pierce owning the Internet and Billy is back in War Mode (32:07 - 49:53). Triple H joins the show to talk about Wrestlemania this week, putting on the biggest show in sports entertainment, Vince McMahon squatting 1,000 pounds and more (49:53 - 81:51). Segments include way to stay relevant baseball with Shohei Ohtani and rule changes with Dan Haren. Kings Stay Kings Skip Bayless, Stay Woke Pro Days, Hurt or Injured an MMA fighter lost his finger and Lincoln Riley sucks at Brisket.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

Hey, pardon my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, we're talking Final Four, awesome game on Saturday, I said game on purpose because the other one's stunk. We have Triple H, WrestleMania is this week, WrestleMania is Sunday, they got stuff all week long though, Triple H is on the show. We're going to talk a little who's back of the week, we also have some segments, a great

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Fort Worth, Texas, okay, let's go! Welcome to part of my take presented by Coors Light and Coors Seltzer, make sure if you're looking to chill, you're doing it with a Coors Light or Coors Seltzer, today is Monday, April 5th, hello friends, I was gonna say in sports rule, yeah, kind of jump me there, sorry they do, hello friends is Wednesday, it's this is sports rule because we have the national championship tonight in the final four on Saturday and one of the best basketball games, tournament games, we've watched in the history of the tournament, I'm fine with maybe being a little hyperbolic with that statement, that game fucking ruled sports rule, the game owned

from start to finish, like every single part, even the beginning of it, when it felt like okay at some point Gonzaga's gonna turn it on, I feel bad for UCLA because UCLA played the best game that they could possibly play, everything right happened for UCLA and it just wasn't enough at the end, it could have gone either way, they could have easily, very easily won that game, but it was a life affirming moment in sports where it's like I'm glad that I sat through like a few click clunkers of games, some stinkers, I'm glad that I lost a responsible amount of money in Detroit gambling on these games, it's all worth it because that game kicks so much ass.

It ruled and yes, it was the Houston Baylor game was not fun, it was a blowout, I mean it was fun if you're a Baylor fan, Baylor kicked the shit out of Houston, kind of, listen, Houston nice run, gets to the final four, but kind of what we always thought in terms of the elite teams that Houston wasn't on that level and that's no shame to Houston, then we had a hour long Miley Cyrus concert which also ruled, but there was so much time in between the games and then we get to the Gonzaga UCLA game and Gonzaga's 14 and a half point favorites, you think to yourself okay, this team has won 29 out of the 30 games by double digits, there's no way this is gonna be close and you're right, UCLA deserves so

much credit, Mick Cronin's a fucking hell of a coach, Johnny Juzang is just a fun name to say and also the blue bloods keep on losing because if you're a Kentucky fan you're like wow, Cal couldn't have played Johnny Juzang just a little bit more and he transfers from Kentucky to back home to UCLA, but that game was awesome, the whole time I was sitting there being like well when's the Gonzaga run gonna happen, when are they going to do what they do to every single team where it's like stop, transition, easy bucket, three, stop, transition, easy bucket, seven point run, time out, boom, they've got this, but UCLA just hung around and they just played their balls off and it was fucking awesome. After the first half I

knew that UCLA was gonna stick around for the full game because they were running with Gonzaga, they were able to keep that pace up, which I didn't think that they would, if you had told me that in the first half that it was gonna be that high scoring and that UCLA was gonna be able to like keep pace with them, I was like no chance in hell, the formula was like Mick Cronin is gonna do Mick Cronin things, slow the game down, win ugly, but no, Mick Cronin was like we're going to we're gonna execute a game playing that nobody sees coming, which is we're going to turn into UCLA or we're gonna turn into Gonzaga basically and then really the only lucky parts that UCLA ended up having in the second half when they start hitting like some of those desperation

mid-range jump shots down the stretch, that's when it was like okay, everything is going right for UCLA right now, they felt it felt like a team of Destiny. Well it was, yeah, I mean their defense was good because, but they also just were hitting insane shots, like there was as much as that it's game plan and Mick Cronin is an unbelievable coach, they also were just hitting so many shots, what were they shooting, Jake what did they end up shooting from like there was a point when they were shooting like 57% from the field and it was like Gonzaga was shooting 61% I think in the first half. Yeah UCLA shot 62% twos. They were just, the shot making was off the charts and it was, we deserved that game because we had the lead eight kind of stunk, you know just being honest

it kind of stunk, there wasn't a you know a super close exciting game, it felt like we hadn't had that game since UCLA in Alabama and I'll say this, so UCLA is not going to win the tournament obviously, they're out, but they won the tournament in terms of they gave us the best stories, like the Alabama game was an all-timer, this game was an all-timer, Alabama was a different all-timer, that was more of like an all-timer tournament game in that the quality of play wasn't great, but the drama was off the charts, this game had it both, it had the drama and it was fucking like highly you know played basketball games, so UCLA they go six games because they played in the first four, they make this run. First team to ever win six games and to win their last six

games of the season and not win the NCAA tournament after a qualifier. Five games, they won five. They won, that was their sixth game. What did they win? They lost in the Oregon State. Okay yeah my mistake first team, that's why they ended up being in 11 seasons because they lost their last four games of the season. Yeah, first team to win five games in the NCAA tournament not win. I'm not going to well actually. VCU. VCU 2011. God damn it. Sorry. The first year of the first four. Sorry that was the whole story. That was the whole storyline that UCLA was the first time to do it since VCU. Well I agree with the sentiment that UCLA won this tournament. Yes, there we go. They're the champions of this tournament and it was, you know what it came down to, we were,

we even started out, we're guilty of this too, we made this about X's and O's not Jimmy's and Joe's. Turns out that UCLA had the Jimmy's and the Joe's. And the Johnny's. And the Johnny's, they were just, and the Jews, they were just as athletic as Gonzaga was and they were able to play, they were, I mean they played the game of their lives and watching Bill Walton react to it was, that was another life-affirming moment because he like, he didn't even have a moment of silence or sadness. He was just like, he saw the shot go in and he started clapping. He was like basketball man, life is beautiful. He was, he was Kyle from SNL and, and good, what is it, good neighbors who just has the sports on the side of it. Yeah. He, he just stood up like sports baby,

sports, sports. There's nothing else you can do about it. That was just sports. What were you going to say? I was going to say shout out to you big guy for mushing the buzzer beater into existence. Unbelievable. So yeah, in the bars, like, and I, I created this bet. Like I, obviously this bet, you can find other places, but we, we like, we had a whole thing where if you, if there were multiple buzzer beaters, it was basically a lightning round where you doubled your money, quadrupled your money. So this bet came from my brain. What was the bet? So it was, you could bet buzzer beaters for the tournament and it was under two seconds, a shot that's under two seconds game winning. You could bet it for the whole tournament or you could bet it round by round. I bet it

every single round and then on Saturday I'm driving to Philly. I saw it plus 1200 and I was like, no, fuck it. Like Gonzaga is going to kill UCLA. Baylor is going to kill Houston. There's no reason to do this. And the one time I didn't bet it, just fucking class. Thank you for not betting it. Yes. On behalf of the rest of America. Um, PFT, I want to go back to your point though. So, uh, Miley Cyrus, no, uh, Charles Barkley, who, who, how would you rate your due in hindsight? Do you think you were too horny on Twitter or not horny enough? People are overreacting to your horny. Listen, listen, I am an appreciator of art, Hank. I'm an appreciator of good musicianship and I am, I am as simp as fuck for Miley Cyrus. If there's a scale of like one to

infinity for my simp level for how many concerts you've been to of hers? Uh, I've watched because I've been to one. I've watched several of them. I went to the one where she did the tour and she had a bunch of, uh, it was like, it was like almost like a mini circus that she brought out onto the she's the greatest entertainer of all time. It was awesome. Yeah. For the record, PFT tweeted a picture of Miley and just said, if this was dog, the bounty hunter, I would move to Hawaii and get arrested every single day. I appreciate her music. I actually, so no, same. I mean, like, listen, 90% of this is about the musical performance she put on and her song selection. That's a life hack is just if you're like, uh, an eight list artist, just cover other people's

kick ass songs. And if you're a good singer, it's going to sound awesome. Plus when you come out there looking like dog, the bounty hunter mixed with Freddie Mercury mixed with Pamela Anderson from barbed wire, you're going to have my attention for at least 30 minutes after you're done performing. Like for the first five minutes of the game, my brain was still only thinking about Miley Cyrus. Also, the horny police are turning into like the old takes expose. No, they're the worst. If you mentioned one thing, that's like semi horny. I retweeted police, horny police, horny police, sorry for being a red blooded American male. I retweeted a, uh, like, uh, girl from real housewives and everyone's like horny police like, dude, what? Yeah,

shut up. You're horny police. They're, they're the horny ones because all they can think about is sex. You know what? Get your mind out of the gutter. You got a sex addiction. You addicted to sex. I think, I think we need to normalize being horny. So if people stop being horny, then all the people who are horny police would not even exist. So, um, my Miley Cyrus stories, I went to a concert in United center in 2014, I want to say, and our friend Dante had backstage passes. So I was so excited. A war shirt Miley shirt rocked out dawn life. He was like, I think we can, I think we can get a chance for you to meet her. And I was like, fuck, yes, this is going to be amazing. And I waited in the bowels of United center for two and a half hours. And then I

finally asked the security guard outside the like locker room, the dressing room. And I was like, Hey, do you think Miley's coming out soon? And he was like, dude, she literally went from the stage to the bus. She's been gone for two and a half hours. And I was like, okay, so I probably needed the horny police there. I would do. I would wait in Miley's bowels for much longer than that. That's that's too much. Miley, respect her, fucking show me with my own guitar, respect your music. Where's part of the horny police is the bonk with the doge. Yeah, I got, I got, I know, I got bonked like a million times. But you know what, at the time was like, what if Miley just hit me with something that would feel good too. Don't send me to horny jail. But what I was going

to say is back to the Charles Barkley, the Jimmy's and Joe's and then Joe's and then Jimmy's. So the Baylor Gonzaga game, there are no Jimmy's and Joe's. There is a Joel though. Okay. So who do you think has the edge there? Joel. Well, no, Joe, Joel is a Joe that's holding an L. So I'm saying, so Gonzaga is going to lose. Yeah. That's what you're going to, that's your official production. So Baylor. Yeah. Yeah, you have to. Jared Butler's going to go off. Yeah. So God, the a couple other things from that game. Obviously Jalen Suggs, the, I mean, the play, the block, which wasn't a block, I get it, UCLA fans, you have reason to be upset about that. They also got a makeup call like 10 seconds later. But that wasn't a block. It was a foul. But the pass was incredible. And then

obviously the buzzer beater was insane. Like to have the presence of mind because I feel like most of the time a player will shoot that way too early in the shoot it like at half court. He was just nonchalant. Like this is exactly, I know my spot. I'm going to throw it up there. And I, I think the bank counts because I think that's exactly what he was trying to do. Well, yeah, you just try to get it up with the right amount of arc on it. And then, like you put it in the general vicinity of the basket and let God take care of the rest. It was in both those plays, I think they both took like exactly three seconds to get from one court, one into the court to the other. Like they, it was, it was one of the best shots. I'd say

maybe the best shot in NCAA tournament history. Embrace debate. Before people do it tomorrow, but people, because people are, I thought it was a foul as well, but people are saying that technically the rule is that the hand is considered part of the ball when it's in contact with the ball. It is not a foul if a defensive player makes normal contact with the player's hand when it is in contact with the ball. So people also were saying though he didn't establish himself in bounds as well. People were well actually in the play as like, dude, it's a cool fucking play. Relax. I did see that part. I didn't think that it was a foul on the block, but it looked like he took one step out of bounds, one step in bounds, then touched the

ball. At the end of the day, I think that there are a couple of strong feelings I have about these types of plays. If it was, if it took place in a basketball game or in a football game, if it's cool enough, it should not be a penalty or a foul. Secondly, I also think that if you are the type of person that's going to well actually a great play like that, you should have a great play taken away from you as well. Well, if you are the type of person, if you're a UCLA fan, you have permission to well actually. But if you're just a, I'm a well actually guy, go fuck yourself. Well, the end of the game, I also saw people saying that that was not a charge. It was a charge. It was, I, but I also believe that if you, you should not be able to get called for a charge if you dunk the ball

after you charge it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So I thought it was a charge because Juzang was out of control. Like he was out of control. You could tell he's out of control. Wait, who just said that was the best buzzer reader? I mean, Chris Jenkins is number one. He won the national title. Yeah. That one has to be number one. It's no matter what, it's number one. You win. It was a buzz reader to win the national title. So this over Christian Leightner shot. I still probably would, the pass was so sad. Yeah. And it like do Kentucky and just, I don't know, that one's in Christian Leightner, who he was and how hated he was and all that shit. And was that, that was the same game he stomped the guy, right? No, it might not have been. I think,

it might have been. I think that was a different game. But either way, Chris Jenkins is number one because you won the title. I heard our friend Rico Bosco was saying that Gordon Hayward should be in that discussion, even though he didn't make the shot. Because the shot should have gone in. Which I disagree with. I love, I love his passion. Same game. Same game. So yeah, that's the stomp to a buzzer beater. I think that, I think that's two, but I think this makes it three. I think it's number three. To Chris Jenkins, that was like a design play, right off an inbounds. No, it was, yeah, it was from, it was coast to coast. Yeah, it's close. It's close for me. I mean, you can't, you cannot top a buzzer beater to win the title.

The entire game was just so awesome. I'm still buzzing off of it. Yeah. No, I was, I couldn't fall asleep. I was, it was, it's just one of those affirming moments where like sports rule. This is why we watch a 51 49 Michigan UCLA game till midnight. Like this is why we sat there and watched Baylor kick the shit out of Houston. And I guess if we want to like go, oh, one other point I had about Gonzaga, Gonzaga drew Timmy on Gonzaga is so fucking good in the post, but he is testing. He is really testing like if I want to go full dad because when he does his flex and the mustache thing in a like one possession game when you're 14 point favorites and he did it multiple times, I really want to yell at a cloud. Like I really, my inner, I'm just like, dude, just get back,

fucking act like you've been there. You guys are the number one seed shut up, but I'm not, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it, but I want to. I'm going to buy a copy of the Charlotte observer tomorrow. See if we have any letters to the editor because that's where we would see it if it was. I think that you're onto something, just a slight suggestion for Timmy. You should not do that while the clock is running. You do it, do it at a break in the game. That's when it feels like you get to do the celebration. I'm going to touch my mustache thing. If well, if you're doing it while the clock is running, even if you're not in a place where you should be getting back on defense, I'm going to be like, that guy is reason for that next bucket because

he didn't get back on defense because he was touching his mustache. And also not COVID safe. Yeah. Now, well, I, and I love the emotion. So that's why I'm, I'm reserving. I'm not going to go full crazy on him, but it just, it struck me more in the situation that it's like, it's a one point game. Usually it's playing their balls off. You're a 14 point favorite. You're supposed to win this game. You're undefeated and maybe get back on defense. Again, I'm not going to do the full thing, but we just basically did it. I'm just saying either way. I love watching him play because his low post moves are insane. And you know, he's clearly, you know how we do the, not the best player, but the most important player. He's the most important player and he might even,

he's probably also the heart and soul. I would say, well, he might be, what if he's the best player and the most important player? He's not the best player in my mind on Gonzaga. I think Jaylen Suggs or Kispert are in that category, but he is the most important in that it's clear that he's like the emotional, everyone looks to him for the emotion. The problem I have is, maybe you have too many good players on Gonzaga. It's the just one ball there. They're so good and their passing is so good. And like, it's not like they played a bad game. It's not, it wasn't one of those almost upsets where it's like, Oh, the favorite was just off. Usually I just made all their shots and just fucking, you know, was toe to toe with them. So I'm, this, this game

tonight is going to be awesome. Some are saying it's the most anticipated game since UNC Illinois in 2005. John Rothstein is one of them, uh, one of our good friends. So I listen, if you're a hoop head like us, I would say it's up there. Like I don't think it's going to get the national number, you know, for all the ratings police that are going to try to shame us for watching a game that was lowly rated. We're going to get bonked by the way. I would say that, you know, anticipation ratings are a, you know, result of anticipation, but in terms of ratings are bad, but I get how high could the anticipation really have been? You're right. Nationally, I wouldn't be shocked, especially with the game starting at, I think 10, 15 Eastern time. Um, that's, I know it's

nine 20, but that's still ridiculous nine 20. Like that's full. That's dinner. That's sitting around. That's a snack after dinner. That's another, that's your late night snack. And then the game is going to tip off. It's going to be late, but it's going to make a 30 minute half. But it's Miley Cyrus. That's actually what they should do. If they want to ensure more people tune in, yeah, have her run it back. Do the exact same set list where the exact same outfits that she was wearing, would you do everything exactly one of those cubes by yourself? If given the opportunity, those people were, those were the real one guy that was with this girl. I didn't want to be there. They were so unnecessarily spaced out to, there was like 15 feet in between. They were like those

little gym mats that they give you in elementary school to be like, this is where you have to sit. It's like that's that it was, um, credit to them for being able to rock out an environment with like, you know, five other people attending. Agreed. But in terms of the game, okay, so I agree with you, Hank, the ratings are not going to be great in a national conscience. It's not going to be the most anticipated game. It's not going to be the even close to the most watched game. But if you follow college basketball and you love college basketball, this is one of the most anticipated finals in terms of it's a COVID year. The, these are the two best teams since the beginning. They were supposed to play COVID, uh, canceled that game. And now you have it where

it's okay. The two teams that have been head and shoulders above everyone else for the entire year because remember Baylor was undefeated, then they get COVID, then they lost to Kansas and they lost in the big 12 championship. Like if Baylor doesn't get COVID, they might be undefeated too. That's how good they've been. And Gonzaga going for the first perfect season since 1976. I'm fucking excited, guys. I'm sorry that I'm the lame guy who's like sports are cool, but God damn it, sports are fucking cool. So there's going to be high ratings in Indiana, I bet they're going to be watching this because yeah, birthplace. Obviously, well, not only is it the Mecca of college basketball, but it's also you get to see whether or not that Gonzaga is going to take your crown as being the

last undefeated because right now that's like what Indiana has as that's, that's their like bragging rights right now. It was like, nobody's done this since us. Uh, and then they've got actually this whole final four was very Indiana heavy. Well, yeah, Kelvin, Samson. Yeah. You had a lot of stuff that was like directly daggers twisting in Indiana's heart. Well, in 49 States, it's just, it's basketball, but in Indiana, it's something different. It's life. Yeah. It's like the SEC. It just means more. I like those things. Um, but yeah, this is, I'm just excited. I'm excited for this game. Who do you guys, so are you taking Baylor? Well, I mean, I don't know if I can say that I'm taking Baylor just because they got Gonzaga as a guy named Joel, but it makes a lot of sense. It makes a lot of

sense to me. It was funny though. So that, that Charles Barkley clip about the Jimmy's and Joe's X's and O's. Hank, can you play the clip? Can you put that in? The difference between Baylor and Gonzaga and these other teams. Houston got some Joe's. All these teams got some Joe's. These the only two guys got Jim's and Joe's. And that's what we're in game. A lot of teams got Jim's and Jim's. A lot of teams got some Joe's. Baylor, Gonzaga, the only team, the only two teams in the tournament got Jim's and Joe's. So I tweeted out that video and then I woke up this morning and I had like hundreds of people arguing in my mentions about the state of race relations in America and how that, how identity politics is either ruining

or bolstering the American electoral system. I was like, what the fuck is going on here? And then I realized that Charles Barkley had another political take they said earlier that looked exactly like what this video was. I don't care about the other one. I think that Charles Barkley's died tribe on Jimmy's and Joe's and X's and O's. It was great. It was incredible. Like the Sabre metrics he was pulling out of his ass there were unbelievable. So I think I got to go Joel or against Joel. I'm going against Joel. I'm going with Baylor. I'm going with our guy Jared. I love Joel. Yeah. He too. He's fucking good, man. He's so good. I'm taking Baylor. He's so good. Only one team has had a player that's come on the show in the past few weeks. Yep. I heard

a little birdie in my ear said that Corey Kispert might be an AWL. So we'll see if that, if that works out. I'm going to take Gonzaga. I think they're going to win. I think it's going to be an awesome game and I'm hoping for another buzzer beater because I still have over one and a half buzzer beaters for the tournament. There you go. Over. Yeah. Over's Club. Who would ever fucking. Oh yeah. Over's Club tonight too. If you live in a state where we have the Barstool Sportsbook, we have the Over's Club jacket, which is awesome. We're opening up. It's like the La Cosa Nostra when they open up membership. We only open it up like three times a year. So if you want to be part of the Over's Club, you got to do that. Yeah. I'm just excited for this game. Jake,

do you have any updated one shining moments from this week? I mean, no, just the Suggs shot and the Suggs block and pass sequence. Okay, both those. Maybe some Baylor threes from against Houston, but it was a block out. Maybe some Houston tears. Yeah, Clinton Grimes. It was so weird because Houston. What about the Arizona girls coach? Oh, yeah. That was from my who's back. Yeah. So the, sorry, Jake, Houston have others. That game was so weird because the first like minute and a half Houston did the thing where they just got like four offensive rebounds and then scored and you're like, Oh man, this is going to be tough for Baylor. And then from that point on it was all pain. Did you see the tool that they use in Houston's practice,

the basket, the bubble that they use, they just put like a bubble that's got five different bubbles on top of the rim. And then so you can't make a shot and it makes the rebounds unpredictable. Right. And then Tracy Wolfson was like, this is why Houston might win tonight because they're used to offensive rebounding. And at the time it made a lot of sense. And I was like, fuck, she's right. Houston's going to be way better because they use this weird thing. Turns out that there's more to the game of basketball. I would say seeing the ball go through the hoop is also important. So it's important to be able to make shot. That's the other side of the coin that she didn't bring up. They literally put a seal over the rim and practice. Yeah, she had me totally convinced

that the fact that they were able to grab their own misses more effectively made them a better team. It's like, well, maybe Baylor isn't as good at offensive rebounding because they don't miss as many shots. Yes. And shut up that Baylor walk on who came in and hit the over with trying just way too hard in a 24 game. Actually, you know what, Jake, put this in your calendar reminder. I want to do a first team walk on like national walk on team of the year for all just guys. I believe that player got put on scholarship the night before the game. Oh, wow. That's incredible. So I want to next year, like everyone does, like, you know, all Americans, I want to have a spread covering walk on all American team. Got it. So we'll just have guys

who cover spread because they always it's it's the best part about college basketball is like guys who come in with two minutes left, and they shouldn't be playing in a game. And they are just trying way way too hard. And you get moments like that, you could tell that he wanted to make one of those shots. Yeah, at the end, he stepped up to the line. He started like patting his chest. He's like, you got he was following through on a shot on a free throw. You rarely see that somebody hold the hand up and wait for the shot to go in. It was electric. Where do we stand on the court? Ah, the the the splattered paint. The Jackson little bit weird. It did look like there was a massive spill. It looked like the court got you cocky before the game started. It was it's a

little distracting. I'm one of the guys that when you see like a final four, I just want it to look normal. Yeah, as normal as you can make a court. That is the perfect final four court. It reminds me of there's a great writer in Chicago, Rick Tealander, who he's been a sports writer forever for the sometimes. And he like, I think it was probably about 10 years ago, you know how they have the graphic on the baseline in the NBA. He thought that it was actually coming out of the ground. And he wrote an article or made him in a tweet, being like, this is a hazard to the players. They could trip over. I like it. And it was like, no, dude, that's actually just like painted on there. Yeah, it's like when you when you watch a professional like EPL, sometimes they'll have

the fake 3D graphics on the screen, right, like in the middle of the field. But he like somebody should get that big triangular pad that says fly emeritus off the field. Someone's going to get hurt. But Rick was ahead of his time because I actually agree with him. Yeah, like some they get too funky with the baseline. And it fucks you up. I agree. Like he was criticized. Then he should be lauded now be like the technology on the baseline. Just keep it simple. Yes, I want a court that looks exactly like the courts did the minute they introduced Hickory Highline. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't even yeah, I don't even want anything there. I just want it to be old wood look. Don't you think it though? It's like it's like the Super Bowl logos. Like it's better when

they have more personality. Like when they show clips of the old tournaments, and they're playing on the random floors or the different colored floors, like it's better than when they just turned everything into generic. Put it at mid court. Boom, done. They actually do different Final Four logos every year. It's just the paint splatter did fuck me up a little bit. Yeah, because it was thought there was every one confetti on the ground or something. Whose job was it? I want that guy's job to just like go around and drop cans of paint on the baseline on the sidelines. We had a lot more to work with because they're like we have no fans. So you have all this extra space. Yeah, yeah, it looked like the court looked like I had been standing on it watching

Miley Cyrus perform. All right, bonk. Don't act like she didn't put on the best performance on television they've ever seen. I've loved Miley forever. I fucking love Miley. Yeah, I'm out on Cardi B. I got new friend Miley Cyrus. Yeah, Miley's fucking awesome. She's a great singer. That's where I respect her as a singer. Anything else from the Final Four? Anything else? Well, we had also the Women's Championship tonight. Arizona won. No, Stanford won. Arizona covered. So Arizona won in my mind. Yukon though. Sad Friday night. Pagie buckets. Awesome games though. Like the Baylor Yukon game was up there with any of the other tournament games. I'm not just saying this. I'm sure people will be like, Oh, you're just saying I fucking I watched the from I think

the sweet 16 on it was great. The Stanford Air is our Stanford, South Carolina game on Friday night was one of the best games basketball I've ever seen like the second half of that last 10 seconds. Last 10 seconds was crazy. You saw like there was a putback shot that hit off the back room from Boston. And then she started crying. I've never seen somebody cry more tears as fast as she did right when that happened. Like you have to be very sad to have your entire face covered in tears within a half a second of something bad happening. Yeah, yeah, just you felt bad. It was one of those water. I was like, yes, because I bet on Stanford. And then I was like, well, now I feel bad. But yeah, the last I think the last like five women's games that I've watched

have all been incredible. Yes, yes. And yeah, shout out to Arizona for covering. All right, let's do who's back of the week. And then we will get to Triple H. Who's back in the week is brought to you by our friends at cash app. Cash app is back. Cash app is back of the week because you can buy Bitcoin, you can buy stocks, you can do everything with the cash app linked directly to your bank account. Super easy to use. And if you put in the promo code take or sorry, barstool, you'll get $10 for free and $10 goes to the ASPCA download the cash app from the app store Google Play Store today. And of course, thank you again to our friends at the cash app. Go do it, download the cash app. It's a great app and use that code barstool. You get $10 for

free and $10 to ASPCA. Henry, who's back of the week? My guy, Paul Pierce, the truth. Yes. Went on Instagram live Friday night had like, saw 300 people watching him. I think I don't know if he you know, he's the guy that tweeted a picture of the rocket emoji instead of the actual emoji. You know, there's the picture of him with the two phones. Who knows if he knew that he was actually on Instagram live or if he was internet literate. No, no. Yeah. So he went on Instagram live yet a bunch of strippers at his house. He was dancers. Okay, we don't know if they showed up in that in their underwear or if they took off other clothes to get into their underwear. The duality of PFT. He's going to talk about ramming stuff down Miley Cyrus's orifices. Well, no,

no, no, I was talking about her doing that to me. Please, dancers, not strippers. Yeah. But he was smoking a blunts hanging out with the dancers ship based. And it was just a hilarious thing. You have like 300 people watching and then obviously, someone screen recorded it. People took the screenshots, put him on Twitter, had like a bajillion views. Everyone was talking about it. And then he tweeted like at like seven o'clock last night, like good morning. The greatest one of the greatest tweets, like if you don't have the context, you would not understand what's going on. But it's in the middle of the Gonzaga UCLA game. And he just pops on for a good morning because you know, after being basically the conversation, you know, everyone's like, there's

always a main character on Twitter every single day. And like, you never want to be you. He was the main character on Twitter for the entire morning and like lead up to the Gonzaga. It was impressive that he was able to log off and stay offline for that long. He actually just woke up. But yeah, like most people would have tried to put together like some sort of PR statement or like an apology and notes app, maybe, but not Paul. He was just like, you know what, I'm going to wait until the middle of the most exciting basketball game possible. And that's what I'm going to come. It was actually a brilliant move on his part. It makes it so much better knowing that there were probably people at ESPN and Disney freaking out and like his agent was calling him

and everyone was like, dude, what are you doing? Like you're trending. Good morning. Like what are you going to do? You know, he's up now. My favorite was when he was he was like talking to the phone. It must have been a bizarre thing to see if you were in the room, because Paul Pierce was just holding his phone up in front of his face, talking into his phone while he had women stripping behind him dancing, dancing, throwing chips. And he was like, he was like, where are you from? Oh, in Stan Bulls. Yeah, I like turkeys. Yeah, like I've been to turkeys. Man, what I mean, it's awesome, hilarious move. And Paul Pierce like an athlete just essentially saying, I have all this money. I have a ring. I'm just going to have fun. And what are you going to do

about it? The truth? The best, the best. Is that an eight? Yeah. And I also had every franchise in the history of Warner Brothers. Oh, yeah, Space Jam. Space Jam commercial came out in every franchise in the history of Warner Brothers was made of Cameo. Cameo Throne, Clockwork Orange, Brahm making a new super team. You guys see that? Hear about that? Yeah. That was funny. Lola Bunny. Yeah, everyone. Shout out. Shout out our guy B Dub Carlin being like this movies for kids. Like if you don't like, I was like, dude, guess what? It's LeBron. I don't care that it's for kids. I'm still going to bash it. Like, of course I am. That's right. I'm going to watch it. Yeah, no, I'm going to watch it. And if I like it, which I probably will, I won't say it. Yeah. What was

his line? What in the matrix hell? Yeah, as he's like going into the server and then he looks sick. Yeah, it does. It honestly looks like it's going to be in the head. Yes. No, it looks like it's going to be a good movie. We would watch something like that. That's what I'm thinking. My who's back in the week is Jordan Spieth. Yeah, Jordan Spieth won. And it's very funny to see the people who were like, this is the best storyline. This is the best thing that we could have for golf because Jordan Spieth won again. We've all been rooting for Jordan Spieth to finally make a comeback. And I've never really understood. Like, I guess Jordan Spieth is okay, but he's like, he's like Billy's little brother. Well, he was supposed to be the next one. Yeah, but I don't understand why

people are like, this is so awesome that Jordan Spieth is why is he the most rootable golf person out there? Everyone anointed him as like the next great thing. He was awesome to start his career. And if you watch him, he is the biggest head case of all time. So I think everyone feels bad for him because like he'll do that. He'll do that thing in the T-Box where he'll like have like a nervous tick with his like club and his hand and his towel and all that stuff. Okay. So he reminds them of himself sometimes. Yeah, he's had meltdowns. He's had just very public like failures. So I think it's just like anything in America where we build people up just to tear them down. And when they're at their absolute lowest, we root them on and be like, we were with them from day one.

Yeah, exactly. Where you get the story. Watching somebody overcome a situation that you've put them in. Exactly. That's why that saw guy did so many kidnappings and murders. Yes. He enjoyed the story of watching them escape. But it was weird like seeing they acted like he was like like he battled back from having like a severe back injury or like he was paralyzed and now he's learned to walk again and he can win or like a coach that got into a vehicular manslaughter situation and then they came back like they were acting like there's a feel good story like that. Not just like a guy that was good. Then he was bad. Now he's good again. Yeah. Okay. And he's also balding. But okay. That also adds into the whole thing where it's like, hey, that sucks. You're

like 24 and you've lost your hair. Yeah. It's not 24 anymore, but he was losing his hair when he was like 24. Yeah. That one shot that they'd always have of him at the end of any round on the 18th green taking the hat off. You see the giant white line on his forehead. And if you can get the bald community behind you, I mean, you got like, SRP, Dickie V. Brasillo. Brasillo. Not really balding. That's more by choice. The Rock. Larry David. Howie Mandel. Billy. Billy. You got someone. M.J. Bezos Lebron. Charlie Villanueva. Come on. Kevin Durant. Come on, Billy. You can't win one bald person. Who?

Rogan. Joe Rogan. Oh, there we go. Okay. Okay. Good job, Billy. He's searching bald people. You're bald people. Yeah. Mr. Clean. Tell me what comes up. The Night King. The Night King. Good one, Hank. Costanza. Johnny Sins. Oh, yeah. Go the porn route. Carl Ravage. It's the horniest episode ever. Carl Ravage. Yes, Bill Self. The bald guys. All right. My Who's Back of the Week is War Mode. War Mode is back. So I was driving into work, you know, a couple hours ago, and I was pulling from 29th Street to 7th, and I see a young Billy football crossing the street. So I thought, hey, this would be funny. I turn towards him, and I lay on my horn, and to say that I saw War Mode, boys, he didn't know it was me. He clenched his

fist and started screaming so loud at my car. I was actually nervous that he was going to, like, try to just strangle me through the window. I saw War Mode. I saw it. Like, now I know why Jose Canseco took a dive. Wearing his Sunday best for Easter too. Dude, I was crazy. And then when he... Wearing a nice little V-neck sweater. When I pulled down the window, I was like, hey, Billy, it's me. He was so, like, ashamed because I saw a rage, and I saw the weapons. The weapons came out. I was going to say, if he, like, punched your car, he could have destroyed it. It was fucking nuts, dude. He went full berserker mode, zero to 60. No, no, no. It wasn't zero to 60. I got beeped so I'm in the crosswalk. I get beeped at once,

and I'm like, oh, fuck, is the light red? Am I the asshole? Look, I saw green light, and then in my mind, it's like, okay. And then I was like, oh, maybe the guy... My brain moves pretty fast. Maybe the guy, that's an understatement. Maybe the guy didn't know that. How he knows the guy. Well, whoever was beeping at me. So anyway, the guy in my way, don't know who it is yet, lays on the horn again after that, and then I was like, this motherfucker. And he went, he's a rageaholic. I think you're a rageaholic. No, no, no. Do you remember when he was doing the burner thing and you saw the veins pop? Is that the mode you saw? Yes, sir. I'm scared. Like, I actually, you know what,

my shoulder started to hurt right away, and I was like, I'll just take my million dollars and lay down in the corner of the ring. I'm not on steroids, I swear. I think Billy just walks around. Everyone was accused of me of Royd Ridge. Everyone was. Everyone's still doing it. What? No. Okay. No, seriously. Billy, are you I think most people right now, listening to this objectively are like, Billy's definitely not on steroids because he just set it out of the blue. Guys, I'm also, I was one on the record. I'm not on steroids. I'm not on steroids as well. Same. Billy. I mean, I will take a piss. I could look at you and be like, I know you're not on

steroids, but people can't see that. Yeah. Jake, are you shooting up with anything? Jake hasn't said anything. Billy slipped me some. Oh, Mickey. My other who's back is Brooks Kepka because he's going to play in the Masters. He's going to give it a go. I think he's still injured. He actually had an Instagram story where it was, I think it was the kid from Little Giants. He's got to pay for that engagement ring. Yeah. All like bundled up in Styrofoam. So he's going to do it. He's a warrior. It's a, it was a questionable move on his part to get engaged on April Fool's Day. That seems like a very tricky day to be able to pull off something that's sincere.

Yes. Oh, also John Rom, I think just had a kid and that's like the best like betting advice you'll ever get in your entire life is after a guy in the, on the PGA has a kid, they always win. Yep. Because they always have the baby that shows up to greet him at the end. Yeah. Yeah. Max Homo plus 5,000. Does he have a kid to make the cut? To win. Max, Max should just like adopt a kid last minute. That was mean of me. Maybe we'll have him on on Wednesday. Max, if you want to adopt Billy, so that you can be like, I also have a new son. Yes. Get a little bit of that magic going. He's not on steroids. No. All right, Billy. My who's back of the week is Catoce. I think it's time,

guys. I've been, you know, thinking a lot about your guys's health recently. We've been through a couple of health scares, kidney stones, whatnot. And, you know, big cat has been on a diet recently. So I thought, let's take it seriously this time. And we're going to get you guys meal prep, which is great. And we're just going to go for it because I read this study that when your brain runs on ketones, it's neuroprotective. So like it wards off stuff like Alzheimer's or like, you know, like, do you think we have dementia? Do you think we're fine? How does an inquisitive mind like yours go about finding studies? I live on a weird part of the internet, but it's fine. But I think it's actually really cool. And I'll do it too this time. All right, here's my only problem is

last time you put us on ketosis, the rules changed like every bite we're having. This time I'm going to get the plan made out by a little meal prep type stuff. And it's going to be awesome. I've also heard that ketosis cannot be a great idea if you have any sort of like kidney issue. Is that true? Haven't looked into that. No, liver issue. Liver issue. Well, it might have that too. Yeah. So, uh, well, you want to look great at the beach? I heard you want to six pack summer. Yeah, yeah, we'll actually get it. We'll get to it. It'll be sick. I'm actually not going to get a six pack. There's things that I have the goals that I have in mind to achieve a six pack. It's just a list of six goals. And I call that a six pack. True. I changed my

mind about having a six pack the second it left my lips. No, but we're actually going to do it. I want to make Jake do it too. It's going to be great. All right. Billy's got a scheme, but that's besides somebody's paying Billy to put us he's got a scheme. I don't have a scheme. You have a how can I get food scheme? Yeah. Yeah, Billy, you just want free protein. He told me the scheme. I mean, it's not easy. He didn't tell me that as a scheme. He told me that it's like, here's the plan and actually he's a good plan. It's legitimately a good plan. But now that I've thought about it more, it's really just Billy wants, he was like, we could get a meal company or we could get like someone to give us a bunch of meat and we'll cook it. Got it.

Now I'm realizing and now that you're saying it out loud in on the show, it's like, you're just figuring out a way to get meat all summer. Respect. Yeah. No, dude, I'm cool with that. Yeah. You get me in shape. You get free meat. Boom. Done. That's fair. No, but we're actually going to do it. But you need to do the shape. You need to get me in shape. No, I will. Just get the free meat. So it's basically like wheatosis. What's that? It's like this new diet I read a study on. You just smoke weed? I have a question for you, Billy, as our nutritionist. Do you think like, I always think like, could I just like do like a cereal diet or like a PB and J diet? Something that's not that hard. Like just like only eat peanut butter and jelly. I probably work.

All right. So maybe we'll do that. You should use me as your test tube. Tim Brown used to do the cereal diet, right? Did he? I think so. I think his thing was like, people would be like, how are you in such a great shape all the time showing up for training camps? He'd be like, I literally eat cereal for every meal. That would be awesome. But like I want, but I also like the problem is I say it, but it's all just going to be sugar cereal. Well, you also get, you get protein from the shrimp. Yeah. No, but true. I want to see what my brain's like on ketones because like they say that you get so much more energy and like people drink less like one guy was like, I don't have to drink coffee anymore. Sounds like you just want to use

cocaine. Yeah. I don't want to stop drinking. Your brain on ketosis might be like being on cocaine all the time. I'm in. I'm in. I'm in Billy. I'm in. Boom. Billy makes this podcast, Joe Rogan's show. Uh, that will happen this summer. All right, Jake, do you have a who's back? Skip Bayless not being nice. Wait, that's a segment. King's day. Oh, are you stealing that because tanks? No, it was unintentional. Scratch it. Um, my who's back is languages. Okay. They get on his feet here. No, I actually got it. Okay. I like this. Uh, they released the Russia and the Hispanic final call is pretty cool. I saw that. It was like rate this versus that. Well, how do you know that they're not cussing in those languages, Jake?

They could be. They could be. Yeah. The only word I recognize is when they say the name. Yeah. You should learn more languages and then you could be like a one stop shop for all the calls. Okay. That would be kind of cool, right? Yeah. Do you speak Hebrew? Shalom. There it is. You should do the Hebrew calls. You did a good job with your call. Oh, thank you. It kind of got washed out because everyone was screaming, but yeah, but that's, you know, that's fucked up by that. That's sports, baby. Yeah. I mean, that's just the moment swept us all away. It happens. Hank aptly said he saw me just sink into the couches because I didn't bet plus 12. Well, yeah, it happened. I was like, buzzer beater. I was like, all right,

can we see this reaction? Big cat's going to be going nuts. And then everyone stood up and started screaming and big cat like sunk on the couch. I was like, oh, oh, oh, oh, on where my emotions on my sleeve. Maybe I'll learn. You should either do Hebrew or the Canadian call. Do all be very funny. Do all do like 12 languages in the final call. Yes. All right. I'll try my best. Let's, let's have it ready for, for Tuesday's show. Have the winning like last 10 seconds. Yeah. In every language. That would be great. You got it. Okay. Awesome. Love it, Jake. All right. Let's get to our interview. We got triple H on the show. Before we do that, it's March Madness time and we're

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to interview him last time. It is EVP of Global Talent Strategy and Development for WWE. It's Triple H. We have the NXT Takeover coming up April 7th, Simulcast on USA Network in Peacock, April 8th live on Peacock, WrestleMania coming up that weekend, April 10th and April 11th live from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on Peacock. So Triple H. I think we'd only ask you this question because we're not with you right now, but we have had other people who are streaming on Peacock on the show and we have to ask, what's it like being on the cock? So far, I've loved it. Yeah. I didn't think it would be something I would say, but yeah, so far it's been great. Some people complain about it, but so far it's been good. I think people are enjoying

the Peacock. Yeah. Okay. So in a real question here, people were complaining about it. So what do you do when you guys have been so successful for so long? Is there a part of you when you hear fans be like, hey, this is the wrong direction or we're mad about this? So in today's world, does anything happen that people don't initially complain about? No. Oh, like, yeah, tweeting about bacon or something. Yeah. Dessert and bacon. Even that, I guarantee you that people still bitch about bacon. They have some kind of complaint about it right away. Bacon's cooked too much. There's really no complaint about that. I'm of the opinion that no matter what you do, people are going to in their initial take on it, their initial thought is to

question or criticize. Nothing is perfect in its first iteration. And there'll be a lot of changes that are made. We're aware of a lot of the things they had to get through. The transition was fast. They have to migrate a ton of content. People don't understand how much content there actually is on the WWE network that needs to migrate over to Peacock. And that's happening now. So it's a work in progress. It's great that people like the WWE network so much that they're concerned about where it's going. But I think that in short order, we'll get there. I think people will be excited. And I think this is going to be a great thing for people long term, for the same as what you were paying before you getting a lot more content and a lot more alternative stuff. And I

think it'll be a good thing long term for everybody. So if you're listening at home and you're not watching this, Triple H right now is sitting in front of a giant bookcase. You've got, it looks to be like maybe 100 books behind you. Have you read all those books? One. I was going to say, I like to imagine that they're all just really heavy things that look like books, just in case you need to beat the shit out of somebody. Yeah, there's a lot of that. Actually, there's some of those are like books that stuff that people send us over time from things that we were in or stuff like that. Probably not looked at any of them. I just, oh, I was in that put on the shelf. Never really looked at it.

Looks like you've got one anthology up there. Anthologies are always a nice look in the background. Yeah, that's always makes you seem important. You know, towards the bottom, I don't know if you can see it towards the bottom. There's like some ZZ Top stuff and some album stuff. For my 50th birthday, my wife had Billy Gibbons played at my birthday party with I'm blanking right now that the singer from Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fogarty. Fogarty, sorry. Fogarty played and so it's all stuff from that. That's awesome. So I don't know, I'm sure you saw because you probably lived with him, but I saw a video of Vince, your father in law, deadlifting over almost a thousand pounds. He's 75 years old. Are you worried that he's going

to kick your ass? So you saw a video of him deadlifting a thousand pounds? Oh no, so it's squatting. It was squatting. Sorry, he's squatting. Sorry. It was a weird squatting machine. Yeah, yeah. It's a pit shark. It's called. No, look, Vince is incredible and you can say that. It's almost on like every level. He's 75 plus. His work ethic is greater than anybody I've ever seen. He's still to this day. You know what I mean? He's in the office first thing in the day. He's there all day. He's meeting with writers till one in the morning, two in the morning. Then he goes downstairs and he trains. You know, his trainer's there, like ungodly hours. They go downstairs at 2 a.m. and I mean, he just gets after it and he doesn't

sleep that much. Still trains like that. Still, you know, eats very particular about his food. He's just a machine. He's just a very disciplined person and his work ethic is second to none. It's most people that work in this company, I think long term, it's just a burnout factor. It's hard to hang with him for a long period of time. If you're on the same schedule he's on, man, it's 24 seven. Yeah, I'm watching the video right now. You've got ACDC blaring in the background. I have to imagine just walking through the hallways of WWE. There's just always ACDC coming from every single room. If Vince is there, yes. Yeah, that's like his go-to music, especially for training. He listens to the same stuff every

time when he trains. He's a creature of habit, but he's also, he's just insane when it comes to that stuff. He will wrap up raw on a Monday night. It's 11. He's got to travel somewhere and then you'll get where you're going and he'll go, yeah, no, Mike's feeding me. I'm going to gym right now. He's either found a gym that's open 24 hours before he's had somebody preemptively go in there and talk to the gym owner and he's got them going in there and opening it up for him at one in the morning or whatever time it is so he can go in there and train and he's just the machine with that stuff. Yeah, it's a great thing. If you like to work out, it's a great thing having a meathead for a boss in a way because you're going to have a first

class gym. We're in the process of talking about moving some things and office spaces and all that. The first thing he's like, well, where's the gym going to go? That's his first question. It's what keeps him moving. Yeah, so I'm pumped for WrestleMania. It's in Tampa. I have a prediction. I'm just going to judge your eyes if you don't answer yes or no. Rob Gronkowski is going to make a return to WrestleMania this year. Yes or no? It's a possibility. I know that's been discussed. I mean, of the opinion that as the first opportunity with Gronk was happening and we were meeting with him and around the Super Bowl and everything else, you don't know what Gronk's going to do until Gronk does what he's going to do. You can have a lot of conversations,

but until he actually shows up somewhere, I don't know that it's actually going to happen. There's been conversations around that, but there's going to be a lot of, as always, celebrity influence. I know as you guys know, Bad Bunny is heavily involved in this year's WrestleMania. We'll be actually be wrestling the Miz on night one of WrestleMania and that's incredible. And it's funny to me. Let's tell you this because I think a lot of people look at somebody like Bad Bunny and they go like, what is he doing? WWE? I wish he wouldn't do that or whatever. I haven't seen, this is one of the guys that from a celebrity standpoint, he's been a huge fan and I've met him a few times and I knew he was at that level of

fandom. But when I say dedicated himself to the idea that he was going to do something with WWE, like picked himself up, rented a house in Orlando, moved to Orlando and has been at the PC every day. I mean, go and add it. I see people online going, wait, first time he takes a bump in the ring, he'll be done with it. Dude, that was a long time ago. He is tearing it up in the ring every day. So when people say, oh, he's taken up a spot, he's earned my respect and he's spot that he has. He doesn't need to be doing this. It's a dream for him. He's like a little kid that's getting the opportunity to do what he's dreamed of his whole life. But he's not just saying, oh, they're giving me the spot because I'm an international music star or whatever. He's earned

every second of it. So one of my favorite parts about WrestleMania is the Hall of Fame. And Kane got is getting inducted this year. One of my favorite wrestlers of all time. How does the Hall of Fame voting process work? Cause we like to make fun of like baseball Hall of Fame. They're all just old writers who are, you know, stuck up their own ass. How does, who decides the wrestling Hall of Fame? How does that go down? So there's a lot of people that put in suggestion on it from within the company. So writing teams, you have people in television production. So across the board, there's a lot of people putting input into it. And then it gets whittled down by different departments until we get to a base of more people than we need. And then Vince makes the final call

on where it's going to go from there. I love that. So he gets to decide. It's like whoever will get the highest ratings. Right. Vince is going to put those guys. Are you ever love this? Yeah. To a degree, I think it's, it's a little bit of that, you know, Vince looks at Hall of Fame as, you know, or WWE looks at Hall of Fame as a moment of entertainment as well. So it's not just about who's going to go in in that moment. It's, it's, it's a part of a show. And what he believes in as part of that is so that somebody like Kane is going to get an opportunity to go on a stage. This year will be different because of the way it is. But, but, you know, in years past, you're going to get an opportunity to go and relive your career one more time in a show

and sort of be a part of that and have an entertainment value to that. And you want to kind of make that a show across the board, not just be some, you know, stodgy show that's, you know, you're an hour and 45 minutes in it and you regret watching because everybody's been saying the same thing and it's boring. You want it to have kind of ups and downs and be entertainment. Then he really believes in that. So that's a lot of what goes into it. I think the, the sort of the who deserves to be in is talked about a lot from everybody else. And then he kind of takes that list of who deserves and then kind of goes through it and figures out how the entertainment component of it can work and say like, well, this guy is going to be really dry. This guy will be

dry too. Let's wait and put this dry guy in next year because we're going to put this dry guy in already this year. So, you know, balance it out. But all hall of fame should be like this. That's what I was kind of getting at. Like they're, if you're the, if you're the commissioner, if you're the president, if you're the owner, you should just get, you basically become God. Vince McMahon gets to be God and he's like, all right, you're in, you're out. That's how it should be. Not writers, none of this other stuff. It's just be one person deciding all of it. You know, it's a funny thing for me is whenever I see stuff like that and I watch people go, well, well, who decides this and why is it decided that way? And it's so biased. It's terrible.

But if anybody that decides it, if you let one person decide it, it's always biased. Right. Because at that point it's just opinions, music hall of fame. What's good music? It's opinion. Yeah. You know, so, so all those things become opinion, who should be and who shouldn't be. And it's all opinion, I guess to your point at the end of the day, if you, if you're, you're gig, you get to have the opinion. Yeah. Exactly. I also read online that your friends with Ben Rottlesberger, is that true? I am. So what are the odds of Ben ever getting into the ring? You think, you think Ben could handle a few bumps? He's Ben's tough, dude. And he, he's one of those guys that's played some seasons pretty banged up and, and, and, you know, just keeps rolling.

And it's a funny thing. I met Ben years ago. A bunch of the offensive line came to a bunch of shows in Pittsburgh and then they, they did something with us at a raw television with DX actually, and, and Rottlesberger was in the ring and they did some things. It's a funny thing. I'm not a huge football fan. So I'll go to the Super Bowl, but I don't know enough about it to sit there and debate it or talk about, you know, Sean Michaels makes fun of me all the time. Like I'll make the joke about, I don't even know what inning it is. And so Ben and I kind of hit it off, but more based on just outside life. And, and we never like, I've been to some of his games, but we hardly ever talk about football. He's come to the wrestling, but he doesn't really

ever, he doesn't follow it that closely. But at a time in his life where he was trying to figure out how to stop being big Ben, I think, and, and get down to real life and not have to be this image anymore and, and, you know, get married and have kids and change who he was and all that. We, we kind of bonded around a lot of that stuff. So we have a cool relationship. We don't talk all the time, but every now and then, you know, we get on the phone together. So you might not be able to answer this, but I'm very curious. The WrestleMania, it's such a great spectacle. It's awesome to watch on TV, watch it on the Peacock. It'll be on the Peacock streaming on Saturday and Sunday night, NXT takeover Wednesday and Thursday. What's the funniest or most ridiculous

line item in the WrestleMania budget? Like I would imagine when you look at the pyrotechnic techniques budget, you're like, whoa, we spent $15 million on fireworks. You're like, what's the one that you look at? You're like, whoa, you've driven some crazy cars into WrestleMania that I'm sure cost a lot. What's the one thing that pops out? And you're like, whoa, we could, there's a lot of money for this. Yeah. That's tough to say. I think I've been blown away sometimes by, and I'll give you this one. I don't know how much it costs, but years ago, you know, my interest in music is done by Motorhead, and quite a few, they played me to the ring at one of the WrestleMania's. And I remember walking into the dressing room at Lem, we were talking,

I remember walking in there and like it looked like we were in a liquor store. Yeah, there was so much booze in there and like, and then like a little like tray with like some ham and some carrots on it or something, you know, like, yeah. And just like every booze imaginable in like shelves and piles. And I remember just thinking like, wow, that's the rider for them. Like, how can you look like this? Like, you know, three of them, like in plus some crew, how much booze can they drink? Apparently, you know, and I would get to know much better after that, but a lot. And so it always just baffled me out of sometimes the things that like, when celebrities come in that they require, they're one celebrity, one time that came in where we had to have a bus form on set.

Even though we had locker rooms and dressing rooms and everything else, there had to be a bus and the thread count had to be like 5000 thread count sheets that we had to have special order. And then he never even went on the bus. Yeah, but that's, he just wanted to know that he could do it. Yeah, that's a power move. Yeah, that's how he trusted us is like, he just walked on the bus, looked like there's 5000 thread count sheets. These guys are quality people. Yeah, I love this. We're going to get back to Triple H in a second before we do want to talk to you guys about Simply Safe. If you have 33 minutes, you never have to worry about a break in at home ever again. That's how quick and easy it is to set up a security system from Simply Safe.

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take us three minutes to get the snakes out. How intricate do you get with the timing to know how long each match is going to last and what goes into that? So it's funny that you, when it comes to the individual stuff, you're sort of, we've been doing this for so long, you have a handle on, these items are going to take this long. This entrance, we've done it enough by then where we've done the rehearsals. We know about what the entrance is going to take. We know what the layout of that. When it comes to the matches, our talent for the most part have been doing this for so long that they almost have like this internal clock inside of them that plays through. So as you're laying stuff out, it's not

always accurate. It's why some matches, you might lay something out for 20 minutes. You end up going 27 on Mania where time is of a premium or even more so on live TV where you got to hit, you got to go off the air at 11 and it's just going to go off the air. So if the finish doesn't happen, it doesn't make the air. You got to be pretty accurate with it. You learn to do that over time. It's tough. There's a constant dialogue of the performers talking about things like, so that aftermath there with the run-in and this feels like it's about two and a half. So let's budget that for three. So that means we need to go here and have the finish take place here because we need three minutes on the end that just constant dialogue going of you're

trying to figure those things out. And then as the production is coming through, time cues are happening and you're trying to be as accurate to it as possible. But it's a process. And I can tell you from our standpoint, we sit up there and do all this stuff. But if you've never been in it and you were to come up to what we call guerrilla position where everybody goes up, we sort of control everything. If you're not used to that, the amount of information that's happening and how fast it's happening and how quickly people are talking and changing things is mind boggling. Toss is just kind of what we're doing and it's just happening. But I think if you weren't used to that, you'd be like, oh my God, how do they ever possibly do this show and

have it work because it's all over the place. So NXT is kind of your baby. Wednesday and Thursday, we have the takeover. What should we expect from that? Because I think a lot of people are excited and you've done a great job. You now see the kind of minor leagues, I don't want to call it minor leagues, but you've seen the transition where some of the people you have signed are now wrestling and WrestleMania. But what can we expect on Wednesday and Thursday night? Yeah. So I think over the years, NXT has grown from being just kind of exactly that, only a developmental product where you saw these new talent come in and then they made their way up and they kind of either thrived or fell off as they made it to Rod Smackdown. And you see that from everybody from

Roman Reigns to Drew McIntyre to Big E even was in NXT and was champion there. I think NXT now has morphed into becoming sort of its own brand and we will have two nights of what I think tends to be, this will sound bad because I don't want it to sound like a knock, but sometimes I will hear people describe NXT as a bit more passionate in that it's sort of like college football where you're still playing for the love of the game. It hasn't become about just money yet or just position yet or questioning if a guy's going to stay in there because he might be slightly injured so he's going to pull himself out of it. Whereas I think in NXT that passion comes across harder. They're still trying to prove a point. They're still trying to

make a name for themselves and still trying to prove to the world that they are among the best in the world. And so I think when you get to that level and you get to night one you're going to see people that are some new people like Raquel Gonzalez is going to be there to try to show the world that she's one of the best women in the world. Io Shirai who's been considered that is going to make sure that everybody knows that her spot is well received and then the next night you're going to have the same thing with Balor and guys like Balor and Adam Cole that have been there for a long time or been in the business for a long time continuing to show their dominance but yet guys like Tyler Riley carrying across trying to show hey I'm that next generation and

I'm taking this spot. So I think you see that passion a bit more. The in-ring product is intense. When it comes to like NFT stuff Big Cat and I are both pretty dumb but I think we understand what NFTs are. We don't get them but I feel like WWE is like tailor made for NFTs like if you if I could buy like Mick Foley jumping off of a cage or Stone Cold spraying the beer hose down here or like driving the beer truck out that actually that to me makes more sense to like buy those moments than like a random NBA block. So is that something that you guys have been exploring at all? Yeah I think those are things as technology changes as those opportunities become available. It's always things that we're looking at. You know Vince has a big philosophy of not wanting to be the

first person to jump in the pool. You also don't want to be the last person to jump in the pool. You want to you want to kind of let one or two people jump in there make sure it's safe then you jump in and that's I think where we are but we look at all those options and I do agree with you. I think in some ways we're tailor made for that rather like you said rather than some random dunk or something like that in the NBA our moments are iconic. It's what we do. We create iconic moments you know Andre slamming Hogan or whatever that is those iconic moments that live forever in people's minds. I think those are the things that lead themselves to that and look I'm to be honest with you I'm like you I don't necessarily fully understand that stuff but it's something we

look at and have a lot of people in our company that are a lot smarter than me of those things looking at them constantly. Quick headline grab CM Punk you remember maybe maybe give him a call when was the last time you talked to him? The last time I talked to him a year and a half a year and three quarters ago you know it's a funny thing that people constantly will say you know when his return is or but but in in some way I don't know whether he does or not but that has to be what he wants right when people talk about they go I'll make the call what what says if we make the call he wants to answer what says if we make the call he doesn't go like yeah I'm not interested in doing that anymore

you know maybe he's just done with it. I think that those are our conversations that only those people can can directly answer and and think if he wants to do it either either we would get word and we would have those conversations or he would make a call or you know anything like that but but there has to be desire there to do something like that this business is too all in to to just go like yeah all right I'll do it. I think it comes back to like as a wrestling fan myself you always when guys are gone you always just expect that dramatic return like undertakers retired right I still expect them to show up like I just you always expect the the guys that you loved watching to pop up when you don't expect it and be like an unbelievable pop so I'm going to

pretend that that was the core answer and you've talked to them and it's just around the corner yeah no that's what people do they pretend whatever they want to believe and then they get to the they get to the answer they were looking for in the first place so um yeah people can believe what they want they can read into it they can read into the conspiracy theories they can read into all that stuff it's part of the beauty of what we do I think it's part of what resonates about WWE is there's always that possibility of the what if right and you know it's funny we did a thing a bit ago here where Shawn Michaels came out on NXT and pulled a ladder out from under the ring to make a ladder match for a match between Santos Escobar and Jordan

Devlin at takeover WrestleMania week and after that when he was leaving he ran into Adam Cole backstage and they just had a moment together and then they Shawn walked off and the internet blew up of people saying oh my god the what if what a tease that's the ultimate match to want and what they don't know is that three minutes prior to that when Shawn's music hit and he was walked down the stage his left knee gave out and he started to dance and do his music because he almost fell off the stage because his left knee is so bad that he had buckled on him while he was walking down the ramp like yeah that that isn't going to happen but but in your mind it's the always the what if right and and those are the that that's kind of the magic of what we do any

moment taker can come back any moment maybe Kane can come back whether when it's done you are glad you saw it is another question but it's there's always that that what if that was such a smart way for you to just be like Adam Cole and and Shawn Michaels are never gonna be in the ring together that was smart by you that was a good cover up good job yeah triple eight you're good at what you do but I could just be making that up totally to throw you off yeah that's what I was gonna say when that match is made I was gonna I was gonna say like why would you have gone to those links to tell me that story right there you're reading off of something behind you this is not the first time you've done press exactly exactly what way to see him which is like it's the same

thing it's why you wear glasses yep so I don't know when you're lying during these interviews the entire time everything that I don't believe a word that I say honestly uh the the so the CM Punk stuff it sounds to me like it's just a case of like a couple and you you're waiting for the other person to make the call like show me that you want this he's probably on the other end being like I'll I'll take the call anytime they want to call me but so maybe we can say for the record you're saying that if CM Punk were to call you you would take that call you would be interested to speak with him look I think at any point in time if somebody in this business a funny thing like people say would you take the call I don't know that I can't think of anybody in the

business that if they called me I wouldn't take their phone call whether in the business or whatever right I would answer the phone I think we would have a conversation about it but again um you know CM Punk worked with us on on the Fox show uh what a year ago um and there was opportunities there there were people around each other at all times um you know I again I'll never say never but the desire needs to be there on all sides to make things happen what about you when's the next time we're going to get you in the right course I could be just saying that you know what I'm saying yeah yeah I hear you yeah exactly what about you Triple H when are we going to see you in the ring again cool I hope not for a while uh you know it's um WWE is a fast moving uh company and and this

last year especially with COVID and all the challenges that it's taken us you know people forget what it's like to try to put on a live event still in in this environment and we're on a weekly basis you know it's live talent and live performances and uh we're still in the middle of a pandemic and don't have fans and it's challenging and and it's gotten busier and busier and busier and as as we got closer to WrestleMania this year there were a lot of people that came up to me and and said hey you know what are you thinking about WrestleMania this year what do you think about me and you AJ Styles being one was very vocal about it he kept calling me out of the internet doing all this thing and you know we talked about it at TV and I was like AJ it's not

going to happen dude like I you can I know you think you're just baiting me into this somehow and that I'm I'm playing Koi and I want you to come out but it's not going to happen like I just don't have the time or the bandwidth to be able to do it so you know of course that could also be my story right yeah well I mean what would happen at WrestleMania if somebody just walked up to you any wrestler just walked up to you and just slapped you in the face on camera and then said come meet me in the ring you'd have to go meet that person in the ring right I suppose I would yeah but it's a long walk and I might change my mind partway down you know Raymond James stadium a big stadium so the ramp is steep by the time you get halfway there I don't know you your anger goes

away you know I'd be angry at for by the time I get halfway there I'd be like I don't know maybe I'd just go back and get some catering or something yes yes well good cheese cake yeah yeah uh well Triple H has been awesome we appreciate it everyone go watch WrestleMania uh on next or so it's two weekends from now it's April 10th and 11th from Raymond James stadium and April 7th and 8th is the NXT takeover the Wednesday night is going to be on USA Network and Peacock April 8th Thursday night will be on Peacock go check it out it's going to be great there's nothing better than WrestleMania week we love it it's uh it's a Super Bowl for wrestling so appreciate it and uh good luck thank you very much you guys should come on down let's have a ball yes I mean in I think you still

owe us a date at the uh we're going to become refs you're going to put us in the referee training program yeah for NXT we'll do it I feel like that's what we were meant to do let's do it let's do it so come down Wednesday Thursday watch the show Friday we'll train for reps uh Saturday Sunday WrestleMania perfect perfect all right well thank you so much Triple H appreciate it appreciate it guys thank you very much Triple H is brought to you by Viori new sponsor alert Viori it means mountain but to us it represents the view from the summit the expansive clarity that it can provide an awe-inspiring experience that it brings Viori is a new perspective on performance apparel it's perfect if you're sick and tired of the traditional old workout gear everything is designed to work

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he throws one on one in the first inning and then he hits a fucking bomb in the second or sorry bottom of the first uh first pitch he's he's like the modern day baby this is it's the plot of the natural if you've ever seen that movie yeah this is awesome this makes baseball so much fun yeah you know i feel bad for mike trout because more people are going to be able to recognize otani than mike probably already in the world yes and the only weakness in otani's game is he's being able so like if you were if you really wanted to do it you could just be an otani what four or five times a game yes really take away their best offensive and uh defensive player yeah why would you got being the guy that could literally just be right back yeah that's a good point he could be in everybody

yeah well then that's that's fun you want he throws one oh he throws faster than what you can be in he can't be in all of us yeah he could yeah i guess he probably could yeah so people forget that mike trout is 30 years old and has never won a playoff series oh never been no he's been never won never won i don't know if he's been is he like never been his mike is saying no i don't think he has no i don't think he's been i think he's the ryan fits patrick of baseball i don't think he's been brandon marshal i don't think he's been has he been the last time they were in the playoffs was a 2014 they got swept in the al ds was he on that team zero wins yeah never won a playoff okay so he's been to the playoff have you really been though if you've never won right yeah he got

swept yeah i don't think his debut was 2011 okay so he's been but he is not it was also tim kerchin probably had a uh just like an hour long orgasm because i was looking it up about otani the last time a al team uh didn't have a or had the pitcher dh was actually joe madden incorrectly filling out the lineup card in 2009 we had two third baseman funny so then they had to cancel one third baseman in the pitcher had to hit how many uh baseball fantasy league managers are getting emails from everybody in their league trying to figure out how to score otani's performances they did change the rules right jake you were saying something about it i my question about roster numbers my question this might be a very stupid question but if he comes out of the game as a

pitcher but stays in the game as a dh can he come back in the game as a pitcher because he never came out of the game as a closer or whatever that'd be sick also what what were you saying no why did come out of the game no but he didn't he's still in the game your d if you're a pitcher and you go and you come out of the game but you go to first base you could then come back in pitch could you not well no what i don't think that you could what what would happen if you got put in the game as a first baseman there's no shot that you can be removed as a pitcher and come back as a pitcher because they don't stay in his hitters because it's never happened before right i don't i don't think it's i think it's defensive and offensive i think it's different i think it's the same as

hitters like you can't you couldn't be a dh get taken off as dh and then become the pitcher and come back as well but it's little league rules so it doesn't count as long as he remains active in the game he could re-enter as a pitcher this is from quora no shot is that literally no that no it's the q u uh or a where it's like oh yeah that crowd that web sensors yeah yeah that person it's usually like one guy who's the president of an uh a strange app company in silicon valley that answers all the questions what they should do is they should have him like come out of the lineup when there's going to be left-handed batters for that inning and then come back to next inning right they should treat him just like yeah he's going to break the rules of baseball okay i'm on

a message board called baseball fever that has this this is a thread from 2008 uh can a pitcher come on to pitch then after he's done get switched to play another position and then come back to pitch that's the question um uh it's illegal and literally two inches below uh yes players may switch positions anytime during the game with the following rule being the only restriction of the pitching position rule 303 comment a pitcher may change to another position only once during the same inning for example the pitcher will not be allowed to assume a position other than a pitcher more than once in the same inning what does that make sense to that i don't know but i i'm on the bodybuilding.com forums because they have answers to everything the best they say

as we all know there are several different positions in baseball one common strain between all the positions of speed speed is an important role in all positions in this workout we're going to be doing we're going to focus on explosive behavior there we go you know what maybe should we try to call dan heron i don't i think you can do this hank i think this is possible i just want to call dan heron because he's going to be like what are you guys doing why are you calling me i don't think i've ever facetime him i don't know no he would he would never pick up the face the pugs the facetime god i don't know if you have pugs i think that's what you use them for right that's true what's the point yeah we'll cut this if he doesn't pick up

and also really hurt my feelings i haven't talked to him in a year when was the last time i had him on it was about a year ago i think this is gonna hurt my feelings he's probably mad that billy didn't put together he's staying here in front of the hall of fame i yes he probably yeah he's probably excommunicated everyone treats dan heron say why didn't you pick up uh i think you can do it hank based on bodybuilding.com baseball fever.com and ask jeez yeah i think that there's i think we found a loophole i don't know why they would do it that's that's probably the more there's gotta be like i'm trying to think of a scenario well if you had like a lefty come up and you're like hey we're gonna do a lefty specialist for one at bat and then bring him back in but you can't do a one

at bat lefty specialist right that's right that's right that's right all right well baseball should let that happen just so the angels could do it just so tim kurchin could get like reach nirvana i'm also loving tony larusa in this game right now because you know that you know that tony has had a few pops he's got a nip underneath that mask for sure yes like andy reads barbecue rib he's just got like a uh uh was it the the airplane bottle of jack daniel's yeah strapped in there oh yeah look at that mask is huge she's he's got a camel back of absolute absolute fucking do you think he has like a race simulator in the dugout just so he can you know simulate getting behind the wheel oh i thought you were going in a different direction with the race simulator thing uh i do

think he's got a tanning bed and a hair dye guy back there because he pulled a major collin cowards skip balus he came back in the league you're like you're gonna say that i'm old well guess what i'm gonna come back with sandy blonde hair yes not the same larusa so speaking of skip we'll go to our king state kings after that game on saturday night which was incredible skip balus king state kings says no idea how you can call that an all-time great college basketball game when it was won by a lucky shot unreal he really is the best at being like what is everyone like let me go the opposite well because he thinks that if he likes what everybody likes then he's a casual like skip skip has figured out the key to having a long successful career as being skip balus and that is

he is fully a hundred percent comfortable with every single person in the world except for earnestine hating him and as long as he's got earnestine at the end of the day as long as you got a nice warm bed with earnestine in the adjacent bedroom unless it's a saturday night he is the happiest person on earth he actually skip baluses brain should be studied just because he truly does not care that everyone hates him yeah and i think he might be the only person no shirt that actually feels that way yes no no shame whatsoever i uh i know that giving him attention is the wrong thing to do but i just said at like one in the morning i just tweeted fuck you skip balus it's just sometimes fun to just say fuck you and and and one of our listeners

responded which i should have gone with this one how about you go microwave your dick skip that was good so that was good yeah did you see the most recent post that he put up on instagram where he was shirtless so the rules the rules in skip balus's house are uh it's bonk wait what me yeah yeah you're right i'll take that bonk he comes home did you see shirtless skip balus he comes home and he says the rules in my house are earnestine makes me strip the second i walk into the door so she can put all my clothes in the wash and dry just a picture of nude skip balus and he's got a chain around his neck and his chain says skip oh god he's actually the more i talk about him he's got it all figured out yeah he does um all right we have a uh stay woke for

the for the pro day that you had pft yeah i've been noticing that every single player is running faster than everyone thought that they would so like justin fields ran what like a four three five four four cowl pits i think also ran a four four were cowl pits guys on this podcast i think i think that the major programs out there are making a section of their practice fields where the hash marks are slightly closer together so the place where they have them run the 40-yard dashes at their own pro days it's actually slightly less than 40 yards which would make them time out better and then have pro scouts draft them higher which in turn would increase recruiting in the future billy's look at me like holy shit no just blew my mind what do you think billy are you in

on it or are you gonna say well actually is how they do we just gotta wait till the combine well there isn't there's not a count the combine should have taken place a month ago and it didn't so it's pretty much a this year thing because this year is the they're not doing a combine no this is the year this is the first year they really aren't doing a count one that i guess no last year they did the combine this is the first year they're not doing a combine so this would be the year to get away with it to get away with it but in the future you're gonna have players probably not go to the combine as much yeah be like you can come to my pro day check it out and honestly like it's a smart if they're not doing it they should be doing shame

on them shame on you for not standing up for your players i also think what they should do is they should take weights that say like 45 pounds on the side of them and make them like 35 pounds yeah and then just be able to like break all the records when it comes to the bench press well you know what the trick is you always max out with the old rusty plates because it's because they're like a little bit lighter oh yeah because of gravity yeah are you billy are you just are you sad because it just dawned on you right now that you actually didn't get an invite to this year's combine you were still waiting for the possibility i just thought that it would be yeah you were you were shocked that the combine hadn't happened already or was about wasn't i thought it'd be a bigger deal

if they canceled it yeah it was it was a pretty big deal it was a pretty big deal yeah you were busy at the time just didn't get it didn't come across your desk you're busy your chickens were dying probably way more important things you know that we should we should be rooting for jail and sucks because he was he's a football guy first he was yeah he was offered a scholarship by urban meyer so you know his character checks out and he's terrell's cousin mm-hmm is that true whoa yeah he's terrell's cousin oh that's awesome i didn't know that what it what about this the idea are you sure nep niece or nephew what probably not niece i don't yeah i'm going to guess nephew if it's one of the two yeah those are easy to confuse what um jimmy's and joe's more important

than x's and another x chromosome his his uh sucks father's larry sucks whose second cousins with former rapids okay so that's not they're relate the sucks is really he was he's a cousin of eddie jones that's bigger a first cousin of eddie jones maybe so his second cousin is nfl second cousin got it got it what do you think about this idea big cat yeah going along with the the gym that has the fake heavy weights mm-hmm what if you set up a gym that was strictly for influencers on instagram and then but it had like all these weights that were seriously like half as heavy as they said they were on the side and then you could show people working out on people like damn that dude's strong as hell look at all the weight that he's lifting and then you

just charge people money to go work out in this fake gym i feel like that that would be like we could make some serious yeah they do that all the time with fake weights on the instagram i don't know how this wasn't like isn't something that was in every broadcast like clain kershaw and matt stafford but as a youth football player he played center and offense in his quarterback was joe mower tarot sucks i knew that joe mower was like mr football in minnesota i didn't know that yeah that is crazy did you know that jail and sucks went to the same high school as page bucker did not know that yeah that's crazy they were friends crazy imagine if they got married had kids whoa that's crazy that kid would be a bucket yeah it would literally be a bucket yeah yeah exactly um

where are we i was just talking about my my pie in the sky idea for the gym i like your idea gym influencer yeah like people would pay a couple hundred bucks to be a member of that gym i had an idea i was driving back from philly uh last night like at one in the morning and i don't have any friends on the west coast besides or so so i was calling him to catch up with him titus oh titus he was in indiana so no not true spencer haas too fuck um but the idea is uh so you know how they have like camps for like the what'd you what was the camp you went to the manning passing academy no no joe name is football camp okay joe name is football camp i was pretty close uh we should we should create a uh crafty camp where we teach kids who are like clearly not going to be great athletes

how to do just enough to get by so it's like be able to shoot uh like a baseline like a bank shot from like the baseline extended be able to hit opposite field in baseball actually like given our network of people that we've had on this show i actually think that we would have the best possible roster of counselors for that crafty yeah top spin on a on a on a tennis shot so it's like we're not going to teach you how to serve you're not going to be able to you're you're not going to be able to like dunk but we can teach you how to do the few things that everyone be like oh that was kind of cool we need a knuckleball guy yeah that's really the knuckleball that's another one that we had but like mark slarith would be the head instructor for the football camp like here's how

you get away with holding on every single right yeah and also uh piss yourself before every play too right shit yourself if you have to teach like old man tricks on every sport to kids and it's it's basically the just a group of kids it's like we figured out that you'll never be really good at any of these sports but we can give you enough that when you're playing people like oh look at that like the guy who the the kid who uh is like a little pudgy and just runs through three point line to three point line and just is wet from three like and can't do anything else Matthew delvedova's charge taking station yeah there's like the little crafty things i think we could i think we could create a camp to do this because they don't have those camps they have a you know the

hassleback has a camp and manning joe neymeth camp and all these elite 11 and all this shit they always have the camps for the incredible athletes where's the camp for the average joe who just wants to be able to play a little rec sports in their mid 20s and have people respect their game yeah the the Blake Bortles handoff mastering academy yeah there's all these things that we could get people to like get to a certain point where it's like we're going to give you the tools that you won't embarrass yourself when you're playing intramural sports in college i actually think it's a pretty good idea yeah and if we incorporate the shorter together hash marks we could probably get some of those kids college scholarship yes exactly get their speed up yeah

i think we just solved all the problems um all right uh last up we had hurt or injured uh the mma fighter who lost his finger i'm gonna say hurt on this one i'm gonna say once you don't in the ring yeah yeah his finger came off fell into his own glove during fell off during a fight yeah but and they looked for the finger and they're like where's the finger you're missing it it's gotta be around or somewhere it got lodged in between his glove and his hand it was just the bone sticking out but then they reattached it and he tweeted out all good which that was an all-time tweet what if it was your thumb and you're like you're getting stretched out of the ring you're trying to give the thumbs up you're like oh shit this catch this side but what if if you're an mma

fighter because he tried to continue you can't first of all you can't break your finger anymore once it's been john bobbin in second you can't poke the other guy in the eye it's less of them to grab and if you had no fingers you'd just be wildly throwing punches and i worry about this yeah not worry about breaking anything really is our fighter i honestly if he you can fight without a thought i think he i think the fight ended once they found out he didn't have a did he want to keep fighting no yes he went out there and fought the second round yeah and and then they noticed in the second round the ref was like wait something's not adding up with this guy oh yeah i thought it was in between rounds i think he came out for the second round okay after he lost it in the first

round let the boys play yeah let him play crazy fucking crazy look at this Hank if the guy's willing to go out without a finger i'm good let me see it yeah it's gross whoa you see that it's fucking gross it looks like chubbs his hand oh that's a warrior right there that is a war mode yeah um you're actually soft oh i know like being like i would die but not saying like i'm willing to lose my hand all right here we go hey dan dan hey we're in the middle of taping pardon my take if if show if show hey oh am i saying his name right show show tony show hey oh tony came out of the game as a pitcher but stayed in as a dh could he go back in as a pitcher i don't think so why not see i think well i think if he gets removed from the game as the pitcher then you lose

the designated hitter what no no i yeah because well that yeah because then when say if he comes out of the game and a reliever comes in the reliever's got a hit right no because he's in the al just blew your mind yeah yes we couldn't find the answer on uh the various message boards we tried to find so we definitely know who's the guy i could find out though okay find out for us um just tell yeah just text me when you find out but yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna text i'm gonna text my god right now okay all right thank you dan hope you're well say you gotta come back on soon say hi to the pugs for me you're just saying i know no we we mean that say hi to the pugs say hi to the pugs i want to see your pugs again well one died oh what the i'm sorry

my dog died too all right thank you my dog has a huge thank you to him i'll talk to you later i do i do i just say pugs i said pugs i said you added the blur on there i knew you were playing with fire with that when you don't talk to someone who for like a while and you're like hey how are those pugs that's that's why we haven't reached out to him in a while because we wanted to give him some time oh man did he say it a guy you know he's got to probably rules guy you gotta have a guy i'm really sad about dan's pug so everyone if you tweeted it dan being like hey why didn't you pick up now please tweet it and being like sorry about your pug dude um i feel sad yeah i do too oh yeah also linkin riley's terrible at cooking uh brisket it was a very funny picture of linkin

riley's brisket it was insane it was medium rare plus plus plus plus there's really there's nothing better than people who post pictures of their food and they think they nailed it there are two things you should never post online well probably more than that uh but the the two that come to mind it's always your meat don't post any picture of meat and then don't post your thumb because your thumbs always look bad no one's thumb has ever looked good everyone's like dude what the fuck is wrong with your thumb it's always a picture of a guy with a normal thumb but it looks weird on camera uh with this one you know he should have done just if you're gonna post a picture fucked up thumbs now i got normal thumbs i got let me just get out of this i've choked thumbs yeah no just when

people see a thumb on picture it looks weird no matter whose thumb it is but uh if you're going to post a picture of something that you cooked like meat just post it in black and white and that everyone will get mad at you for that yes i can't tell if this is good or not and it's driving me insane because i want to judge you yes no you're right the the the thumb thing is actually spot on i don't think i have weird thumbs with oh thanks big cat what for texting us the picture well i didn't i didn't know if you want to put it in the show okay i'll put the picture in right here okay just dude i don't know just tell us you can put everything in there tell us if you think the guy with no finger has a weird thumb yeah yeah dude oh bro dude you're missing your

finger but let's talk about your thumb dude what the fuck is wrong with your hand all right all right that is our show all right uh eight i gotta put these back in 32 12 and 47 are out 99 18 32 only eight dogs can get vasectomies as an alternate treatment for neutering 23 all right see everyone Wednesday with you guys another first time i don't know what i'm gonna say i'm saying anyway the days are not the days to fly you shine it away so i'll be coming for your love okay shine it away so i'll be coming for your love okay take on me take me

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