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Mel Kuyper might have had the greatest meltdown of all time, and I'm worried about Mel. I think he'll be okay.
He was very passionate about chador he was disappointed to see every team team after team after team passing on chador yes but i did look up mel kuyper's grades oh yeah draft uh cleveland browns a plus a plus only a plus given out because they got chador what a steal you got you got second overall value in what what round was it it was the fourth round yeah incredible value by the browns to pick up chador there it turns out chador might not have been good enough to get drafted in the first round because i think no matter what the character things were any any hesitancy teams had if he can play football he would have been drafted early yeah it was a it was a wild draft because of Shador Sanders and watching the slide, which in retrospect, I think we were, we didn't think he was, we talked to McShay, we talked to Daniel Jeremiah. I don't think we thought he was going to be a first rounder.
We didn't think he was going to be a fourth rounder. I think if you had asked me in November, I would have said, yeah.
Yeah. And hand up.
The reason why is because Dion has been very vocal about his son being a first round pick, even going far as to say like if i got drafted by the browns i would pull an eli manning yeah play for the team unfortunate tweet on his part that was from 2018 has he deleted it yet i didn't i don't know that was from 2018 so that's that that's kind of bullshit people were pulling that up i'll say this we're obviously biased uh bias is is out in the open with Dion. Spin zone for Dion and the Sanders family.
Dion Sanders actually father of the year because he got his fourth round son mocked as a first rounder. Yeah.
That's pretty crazy. You don't usually have that happen where a guy ends up going pick 144 is mocked in a lot of mocks as a first rounder.
So credit to Deion. Oh, fifth round.
Sorry. Fifth round.
Why? Once it gets past the fourth round, I just I kind of all the numbers blend together. 144 fifth round to the Cleveland Browns, who, by the way, had an incredible logo that looked like testicles from the right angle all weekend.
That was bizarre. It was bizarre.
It was the dog bone that was bouncing up and down. But but when you cut off the top of it just looked like the draft pick was getting teabag yeah just all weekend long but yeah so it was uh it was crazy so we had obviously cam ward i feel bad for cam ward because his his being number one overall got completely hijacked yeah by by the shador sanders uh draft jack walker from a couple years ago yeah nobody about him.
Yeah. Jackson Dart obviously went to the Giants with the 25th pick.
Tyler Shaw. I can never pronounce his name because everyone pronounces it differently.
Shad. McShay was pronouncing it Shuck.
Shuck. I'm going to go with McShay.
Tyler Shuck went to the Saints with the 40th pick. And then we all kind of were like, hey, this is probably going to happen at some point.
and then Jalen Milrow went to the Saints with the 40th pick. And then we all kind of were like, hey,

this is probably going to happen at some point.

And then Jalen Milrow went to the Seahawks with the 92nd pick.

Shout out Jalen Milrow.

He said after the draft that the Seahawks told him

that he was the best quarterback in the draft

as official meeting with the Seahawks.

And then John Schneider in his press conference, a reporter asked him, he's like, no, I didn't say that. I don't think that actually.
So shout out John Schneider, very awkward moment. Also shout out John Schneider because we got to get him on at some point.
We met him at the combine a few years ago. Seems like a very cool dude.
I don't know if you saw this. I think it was maybe after the first round, a reporter asked how he he'd handle an owner meddling in the draft and he said well i worked for the washington redskins for a year yep so he he's he's been he was very honest about that he's like i've i've been there i would roll over and i would take it yeah because he's the owner and he signs the checks yeah so so uh jaylen milro goes 90 seconds to seahawks jaylen Milrow is an incredible athlete.
You could be like, hey, the upside makes sense. Jalen Milrow struggles to throw the football at times, and that's what a quarterback should do.
Then Dylan Gabriel goes 94 to the Cleveland Browns. We got to actually – I wonder what Tony Grassi said, because remember he's the Browns.
He's a Cleveland sports radio host who I'm quoting him. So it's not me saying it.
I'm quoting him. Uh, when they got Baker Mayfield, he said, we've got a fucking midget.
Uh, Dylan Gabriel is shorter than, than Baker Mayfield. So he probably was pissed.
He was punching air. Uh, and then, so we're like, what the hell's going on? Friday night ends.
mel kiper continues to have a meltdown and then shador sanders goes to 144 to the browns who already drafted dylan gabriel and now the browns have a qb room of kenny pickett joe flacco deshaun watson dylan gabriel and shador sand i love that quarterback room i do and i think that flacco might start week one oh absolutely and flacco is a big underdog to do that too i think he was like plus 750 last i checked yeah so i i like the quarterback room i like the strategy if you don't have a quarterback just accumulate all the quarterbacks and let it's like highlander there should be one that emerges yeah from that group and then you know you can go from there for it uh i was i gotta i gotta admit something okay The most viral video of the weekend was the Shador Sanders prank call. Yes.
I cannot bring myself to watch it because it just seems like the most cringy, awkward video. I know what happens in the video.
I know what it's about. I know who did the prank call.
I know who received the prank call. I cannot bring myself to click play on it because that is the kind of shit that i do not want to see i feel you there's a video out there i feel the exact same way about is it when you put the hole in tiffany's wall nope no it's a video that came out this weekend too oh what video is that no just keep talking about no no oh okay all right yeah maybe they'll come up and who's back uh i know what he's talking about.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
I watched it. I watched it for both of us.
It was. It was definitely cringeworthy, apparently.
So we find out later on for people who are maybe living under rocks. Someone called.
How it works is all these guys have their numbers in a database with the NFL. Shador Sanders got a new phone just for this situation.
So all the, all the teams have all the phone numbers for, so they can call all these prospects per Matt LaFleur per Matt LaFleur. So the, the database is there.
Shador Sanders gets a new phone. So it's not even his regular phone.
He has a draft phone. He's got a draft phone.
He gets prank called. Someone says, Hey, I'm Mickey Loomis from the Saints.
I know you've been waiting a long time. And then Shadour's like, thank you so much.
I can't wait for this. And then the kid goes, you're going to have to wait a little longer.
And then hangs up. And pranks him.
I'm glad I didn't watch it. Yeah.
We find out today that it was Jeff Ulbrich. Yeah.
Point to memes. This is memes, former head coach.
He's a falcon. He's memes, former head coach.
Jeff Ulbrich's son was the prank caller. Jax.
Jax Ulbrich, because apparently he found the database on his dad's iPad and then took the number and then was stupid enough to be in a video right of them prank calling so he wasn't the one that was on the phone no he was the one that was in the background sitting next to managing the database correct so he but he but he got the number and they also prank called tyler warren correct they think it was the same same kid who could prank called tyler warren when tyler warren uh they prank called him at seven uh saying the jets were gonna pick and i heard they somebody prank called cooper to gene last year yes someone called prank called cooper to gene last year uh listen jeff olbrick i i it was a terrible thing to do uh jacks olbrick that i do not want i don't know i don't wish to be him right now no jeff olich is going to raise hell. Well, so he issued an apology, and the internet was split on the apology.
Half the internet thought it was a very classy move, well done, good kid, made a mistake, he's going to learn from it. The other half of the internet thought this kid should be run over with a steamroller.
Yeah. So embrace debate.
I actually thought it was a decent apology, really dumb move. He should have listed kuyper in the apology that's the only issue i had with it if you're going to apologize to shador and his family and his friends you should also say and to mel kuyper i apologize this was a very mean thing i did to you memes i have a question for you do you think there's a chance that jacks olbrick and brick johnson have ever been in a room together because I would love to see that duo.
Yeah, for sure. And they've definitely made some GM moves and they've definitely been in a group chat with Diana Rossini just leaking information.
Oh, okay. You think Brick is leaking information? Yeah.
Bricks don't leak, buddy. Baby Brick leaks.
No. Baby Brick leaks? I think there's a good chance that Jax and Brick have been in the same Madden lobby together online.
And the transcript of that might be something interesting to take a look at. I think Jax is from New Jersey.
So I think that Brick and Jax have probably been together. I would love to see those two minds going at it.
Yeah, I would love to see that. But that's the Atlanta Falcons problem now.
Yeah. It does kind of suck for Jeff Ulbrich right now.
Yeah. But credit to him for however this went down, being like, yeah, it was my son.
Well, I don't know if it was, I don't know if he turned in his son. His son was literally on the video.
Yeah. And it was almost instant that everyone's like, hey, that's Jeff Olbrich's son.
That's Jax. That's Jax.
Jax Olbrich, who plays, I think, D3 football running back in, so it wasn't even Ole Miss. Ole Miss got dragged through it.
Yeah. Everyone's like, oh, Ole Miss frat bros.
Yeah. So Jax, I think at minimum, he should apologize to Mel, and he should also get in the ring with Shador.
I'd agree. Three minutes in the ring with Shador, and then they can move on.
I'd agree. We would never prank call anyone.
Never. Ever.
Never. Definitely not Lenny Dykstra.
Nope.

Definitely not Darren Revell.

Nope.

And if we did, we would never apologize for it. Yep.

Or post it.

Or post it online.

Or we wouldn't post it.

Yeah.

Should we call Darren?

It's pretty late.

Should we draft Darren?

Max, as someone who's maybe been prank called recently, how does it feel?

Bad.

Okay.

So there's your statement.

You actually just put, how does it feel bad? then say max delente chido or sanders both of them feel bad uh okay so can we actually play the mel kiper just crash out the 15 seconds this was so good i loved watching mel he was he was visibly upset yeah i've never seen reese davis crack reese davis crack and be like, dude, shut up. Yeah.
Reese Davis's job is to stone face, be a traffic cop, move it along. And he was like, Mel, come on.
Come on, buddy. Hold it together.
Yeah. I said, Max, I sent you the 15 second clip.
I DM'd it to you. There you go.
It's that one. It's 15 seconds of Mel just, he's just in a bad spot.
Look how angry he looks. NFL has been clueless for 50 years when it comes to evaluating quarterback.
Clueless. They have no idea what they're doing in terms of evaluating quarterback.
That's proof. There's proof of that.
When they say we know exactly what we're talking about with quarterback, they don't. And it was very awkward.
You know who does know is Mel Kuyper. Mel Kuyper.
Jimmy Clawson is just about to break through. I would agree that there have been some misses, but there have also been a shitload of hits.
Yeah. If you look at who's drafted in the first round overall, they're usually pretty good quarterbacks.
It was such a great, it was such great entertainment because it was Mel Kuyper just not accepting the fact that Shador Sanders probably wasn't good enough to be a first rounder. And then as soon as the slide happens, then all the other stuff comes into play.
Because I am a big believer, especially in the NFL, if you're enough people will teams will draft whoever as long as it helps them win so mel got it wrong that he was a first rounder i think once he slipped out of the first round teams were like well if he's going to be a backup we don't probably want to have everything that comes with this yeah so so looking back on it at the time i would say definitely last year during college football season i thought thought that Shador would be a first-round pick.

Yeah.

Besides Deion, was anybody else saying that?

Well, I mean, the mock drafters.

The mock drafters. Were they going off of any talent evaluators besides just them watching on the screen?

I think Mel Piper.

Anybody in the biz?

Because I know Deion said that he would be a top-five pick last year.

Yeah, he did.

But he meant rounds.

He meant rounds.

So Deion was correct again.

Yeah.

But yeah, I think it's going to end up where if he's good he's gonna play and if he's great he'll end up making money just like anybody they're not they're not gonna give a shit that he's deon sanders son and they're not gonna hold that against him if he's good enough he'll be their quarterback it probably will be a good thing for him in terms of humble pie yeah because some of the reports I mean, the pro day where it was like, I think they spent $100,000 on the pro day in terms of like a red carpet and like a VIP section. Retired his number.
Yeah, retired his number. So I do think that this might help humble and it could be good for Shador Sanders in the long run.
Silver lining of all this. Did you want him to go back to college? So Florio came from the clouds with some great fan fiction that actually turned out to be kind of true.
Florio wrote an article on Friday and essentially was like, he should pull out of the draft, go back to college, make more money now. Now that he's in these third, fourth third fourth fifth rounds he would have made more money in nil this year in college than probably his entire rookie contract because it falls off a cliff in terms of guaranteed money all that stuff and he florio basically was like it it's never been done because if you go to the combine usually you're not able to get back into college football.
But where NCAA is now is the antitrust laws and everything that's going on. They would be able to sue and probably win that lawsuit.
The only problem with that is would you accept making more money to go back and have to go to school? I don't think they're going to school. You don't think Deion makes him go to school? Well, that that was the other part of Florida's thing.
He said he should transfer somewhere else. Oh, I love that coach and get coached by someone else.
And prove it to the world. And prove to the world.
Okay. Cause there was the other Quinn.
Yours was the other one where Quinn years had a choice. He was offered.
I, the report was, you know, six, $7 million NIL offer, I think from a big 10 school. Uh, and he decided to go to the draft and he got drafted what seventh round seventh round did that you think it had anything to do with the crazy room he was sitting in the entire draft who uh quinn ewers oh where he had dude that's just hunting i think he had like 50 dead animals behind him just full bodies it was a lovely room of death um real quick embrace debate you guys saw the the thing going around the internet.
A hundred people taking down a gorilla. That was going to be in my who's back.
All right, let's save it. Let's save it.
All right, let's save it. I should be back first.
Let's save it. He did say dibs for PFT.
All right, if it gets to you, you can have it. Okay, I appreciate that.
You're a nice guy. I think that the real star of the whole Shadur saga actually ended up being Shiloh.
Yeah. Shiloh's a good dude.
Yeah. Shiloh's a great hype man, just there with his boy the whole time, trying to put a smile on his face.
Yeah. And probably the most stressful weekend of his life.
There could have been times where he could have gotten real negative, started being woe is me. Shiloh was just an all-time vibes guy.
I love the fact that the Bucks got him. That's good.
But yeah, I didn't really know that much about Shiloh until now. Turns out I love the guy.
Yeah. So I don't know what the Browns are going to do.
It's very Browns. Someday we'll probably get one of those athletic reports where they say, hey, here's what happened in the 2025 Browns war room.
And I'm just taking a guess guess here but I think that maybe they drafted Dylan Gabriel so that Jimmy Haslam couldn't be like hey you have to draft Shador Sanders and then when it got to the fifth round Jimmy Haslam still was like hey no you still have to draft Shador Sanders because Dylan Gabriel one was kind of out of left field and in the clip that I saw uh Jim and head coach didn't look exactly pumped. And we're Stefanski guys.
We're Stefanski guys. Yeah.
But that would be one of the franchises he would look at and be like, that is an owner pick. Yeah.
Yeah. So we'll see what happens.
But I think if I had to guess, it feels like it's going to be a competition between. It's going to be Tebow mania.
Well, it's going to be In the same situation, he's just not going to play,

but it's going to be all anyone talks about. I think it won't

be as bad as Tebow Mania just because it will

be... So, I'm guessing here.

I think they'll have Joe Flacco and

Kenny Pickett in a QB

competition for QB1.

I think whoever loses that competition

will get traded to a team that needs a QB

because of injuries or whatever

during training camp. I think Dylan Gabriel will be the second quarterback, and I think Shador will be the emergency third string.
So it's hard to be a lot of the hype. But what if he plays better in camp? But if he's not even dressing, I think that does diminish a little of the hype.
It does, but then there will be questions about why isn't this guy dressing. Yeah, probably.
Preseason is everything. Preseason will be everything.
Like if he throws a nice touchdown pass in preseason, they're fucked. Well, let me ask you this.
Who would you rather have as your emergency third-string quarterback? Shador or DTR? That's easy, Shador. DTR is not.
Yeah, so I feel like they've upgraded. Eagles.
There's Dylan Gabriel. Dylan Gabriel,riel i feel like is going to be like one of those uh career backup well actually he's our guy right didn't dino jeremiah give it to us is he mr pmt he's mr pmt so we got to root for him let's go dill yeah i think he's i mean he's he's a good quarterback he's just short and doesn't have like the strongest arm did you see this fun fact about what the bucks did so they drafted tez johnson from oregon small guy one of the smallest in nfl history 154 pounds brother bonix's brother no he is tez johnson is yeah he's he bonix's family uh adopted him oh that's cool yeah all right very cool so he's 154 pounds one of the lightest in nfl history and then as an undrafted free agent they signed des watson from florida who weighs 464 pounds i like the heaviest player in nfl history i like that the difference between those two guys 310 pounds i like that difference in weight i'm rooting for des watson he's a big boy He had me ever since he had that they gave him a carry in the bowl game and he had one yard rushing yeah 464 dude falling forward for a yard uh i hope he does well because he's talking about how he needs to like play his way into shape he's got a food kind of addiction that he's trying to get over i think i hope that they can they can help him out with that because i want to see big des playing in the NFL.
The other one I want to see along those same lines. Wait, wait.
Desmond Watson went to the Bucs, you're saying? Yeah, yeah. They both went to.
Next to Vito Vey. Yeah.
That will be incredible. That would be an incredible line.
That is like a goal line stop package. You want to know how to stop the tush push? Yeah.
I think the Bucs just did. They just did.
he's so awesome when it whenever i would see him on florida he would just he just leans on people yeah his numbers get erased because his jersey just scrunches up he's awesome my other favorite story was after the draft uh abdul carter he hit up lt yeah and he asked lt for permission to wear number 56 and lt said no yep you may not wear number 56 you can make your own way in your own number i'm on lt's side here absolutely lt maybe the greatest defensive player of all time it's like him reggie white uh but for for somebody to ask who hasn't played it down in the nfl can i have the most important number in your franchise's history please yep no you got to stand you gotta stand stand your ground. Say no to that shit.
Yep. Maybe if you make like six all pro teams in a row, I'll consider it.
Yeah. No, I agree.
You don't give up your number. No.
It's retired. What are you going to say, Max? He wore 11 at Penn State.
You could look at it that way, that he's already done this before and worn a legacy number and and lived up to it so like maybe he doesn't everyone wear 11 at penn state though i mean every every player no but like micah parsons lavar errington yeah it's like the dallas cowboys 88 but it's all yeah it's all retired yeah no but i'm just yeah he's already proven it yeah you can't be a legacy vampire go make your own own way. Also, speaking of numbers, I was worried about Matthew Golden, the Packers first round pick, but he picked number 22 for a wide receiver.
Yuck. Yeah, that's tough.
So bad. That is so slow for a wide receiver.
That is so bad. That's maybe the worst you could pick for a wide receiver.
They got to put the numbers back to old school. I don't like this this shit 22 is terrible 28 real bad 29 28 it's a running back yeah well so it's 22 yeah it's crazy but 22 is not even a good running back 28 is at least a good running 25 is a good running back yeah but 22 is a nothing 23 i don't even got that jordan so it's okay yeah to embrace debate i meant to.
I meant to bring this up on Friday, but this was from Ryan Fitzpatrick's Twitter replies after Zach Wilson signed with the Dolphins for number zero. He said, it might be silly perception.
This was like in the replies. He said, it might be silly, but perception matters in this business, and a QB trying to resurrect his career wearing number zero doesn't scream serious QB.
I agree. Absolutely true.
It screams. No debate to him being brief me it screams like you're just fucking around young punk yeah it's a young punk number no one believes in me not even you no jason tatum wears zero uh different basketball's so different uh also what were you gonna say max you you like the number zero no i was just itching itching my itching yourching your nose.
Yeah. By the way, the booth smells bad.
It does. I don't know what they're doing in there.
We got problems. Memes dress like Luka today.
I don't know what's going on. Luka, Luka.
Other stories I liked. Did you guys see that Lions six-round draft pick Ahmad Hassanine on the phone with Dan Campbell said, I will die on the field for you coach I think that's the one guy you can't say that to because he'll just be like okay great now I have now I have my week one motivational speech who was the guy that the the Cardinals drafted the linebacker like three years ago and on on the call that he made he was like let's fucking kill everybody yeah I'm gonna kill everyone I i'm gonna die on the field i think i think dan campbell respects that but he's gonna make them do it dan campbell might force people like if you get a call from me on draft day that means i'm about to pick you if the the code word is i will die on the field for you also too soon because i think the only person who's ever died on an nfl team was that lions player in like thes.
I was going to say prayers for tomorrow. Yeah, prayers for tomorrow.
But I'm pretty sure that was a don't fact check. Well, fact check me.
Lions player died on the field. I'm almost positive.
That was the only death on the field in the NFL. So too soon, bro.
How could you do that? We also did you guys see Jackson Dart said that out of anyone he wants to train with, it's Jameis Winston. This was before he was drafted.
You said he'd be a great teammate. That's awesome.
That's synergy. Is he going to be able to beat Jameis out with that mentality though? I don't know.
This is extremely – this is an extreme peak behind the curtain of a non-football guy, but the clip of Gruden and Jackson Dart was going extremely viral. And I didn't – it seemed like people were making fun of Jackson Dart.
Yeah, because he doesn't have – But I didn't fully understand why. Like, it didn't seem like that bad of a clip.
We don't teach the kids hard counts anymore. Oh, yeah, the clap.
Yeah, so his snap count in college was just this. You want to play the clip, Max? Clap that hand.
That's just up-tempo offense.

It's rinky-dink offense.

By the way, I was right.

It was Chuck Hayes in 1971 died on an NFL team.

On an NFL field for the Detroit Lions.

So officially too soon.

We're done clapping.

I see this guy.

Go ahead.

You ready?

Yeah.

No, I want to hear the snap count yeah really every time every time do you have like a dummy clap or anything yeah we call it purple what's that for three years you've been clapping i think i could do that let me hear it no I ain't doing it he likes a hard count I like how their dummy club has just clapped twice yeah why do you need a caller for it what else for the draft oh I wanted to say we give this speech every year but the draft grades are so funny because you can go depending on your team you can go and find a great draft grade for your team or a bad draft grade for your team uh we always bring up the 2012 seahawks draft class from uh bleach report graded a d that was the draft class that got bruce ervin oh they gave it an f oh they give it f bobby wagner russell wilson robert turbin and jeremy lane uh and they gave it an f i also found a very funny uh tweet that basically sums up the entire trying to grade how the draft went for your team this is from zwk football based on the consensus value of the picks they made atlanta had one of the best drafts and the la rams had one of the, including value gained slash loss from trades. The Rams had one of the best drafts and Atlanta had one of the worst.
Okay. So, so there you go.
What I do love though, about the draft grades is that the draft grades are issued by people evaluating teams on how they picked according to what the person who's writing the draft grades has said that they would have done. Even if it's like it's saying how smart are you as smart as i am right perfectly as smart as i am right then i will give you an a and even if it's someone grading grading the drafts that didn't have a mock draft themselves they're just grading it on what other people thought the draft was gonna happen how other people thought the draft was gonna right um but yeah i i don't know know.
Did you guys like your draft? I thought the Bears probably should have gotten a running back, got sniped a few times. Maybe should have gotten more defensive line, but I do like Luther Burden.
I was a little bit confused with the commander's draft class. I liked the first pick that we had.
Yeah. Guy from Oregon.
He's big. That's my analysis.
He's very athletic. Good feet.
Used to play running back. I forgot to tell you uh Nate Tice our friend who we're gonna have on in football season his dad Mike Tice he had his dad uh grade all the offensive linemen for his podcast and Mike Tice did have your guys his favorite uh outside uh you know tackle I love that yeah I love that a lot I also like Trey Amos.
Mincy texted me, said great player. Okay.
So that's my analysis of that one. And then we got a really fast wide receiver.
We got what I've heard to be a great value running back. He didn't play last year because he was transferring.
There was a whole thing about whether or not he used up his red shirt because when he was a freshman, there was a controversy about some other player taking his jersey number and then playing in games using his jersey so those stats got wrongly attributed to the wrong guy was it juco uh no this was at i think it was an hbcu i think it was in the swag but then so they ruled that he couldn't play last year and there's a bunch of people who are like balls deep in the draft that are saying that this could be one of the best uh running back selections that you can make we got him in the six so okay people are saying trayvon henderson was the steal the draft yeah that was the that the if you saw a lot of bears fans were mad at me i got a lot of people being like the fuck you the bears should have gotten a running back they didn't uh well they did late they got the kid Rutgers. But you could see how it fell.
They got sniped like three different times where there was a run on running backs right before their pick. So that part sucked.
But the part that confused me was that we didn't get an edge rusher at all. That was kind of the same with the Bears.
It was kind of puzzling because we lost a lot of production. And we thought that we would fill it with either a free agent or at the very least in the draft but i'm just going to trust dan quinn yeah i love i love the patriots draft i would die for mike variable i'm so excited for this year you got all all the way into the draft uh i just just people telling me that trayvon he was the steal of the draft and then we drafted a wide receiver and they had a highlight of him just burning travis hunter who was number two pick in the draft.
There you go. Change of the game.
How did you guys like your draft? How he did it again. Oh, nice.
That's just a thing that every time the Eagles would pick, you just go on Twitter and everyone just says, how he did it again, and that's awesome. What about you, Memes? I liked our draft.
There was one questionable pick. See, this is what we're saying.
Everyone likes our draft. Didn't drafted defensive tackle, though.
Yeah. So not not great because people are saying this was like a generational defensive line, defensive tackle draft.
That's kind of how I feel with the running backs in the Bears. Like, how do we not draft players that ended in in B? We did.
We got we got the fastest linebacker ever from Maryland. Actually, our good friend Tom Franelli thinks that maybe we drafted him to be the running back.
Gotcha. Even though he doesn't play running back because he's so fast.
I thought we got the fastest linebacker in the draft. Maybe.
Maybe we both did. Fast linebackers.
Yeah. We got the most athletic linebacker.
I think we did. Is he as fast? Ruben Hippolyte Jr.
I mean, we definitely got the most athletic linebacker.

Second.

I don't know if that's true.

Jihad Campbell definitely was.

Oh, we're not talking about first round.

But he's a linebacker.

Okay.

Well, that's cheating.

I also think we were going to draft Shadur.

You think so?

I like how you say Shadur.

Shadur.

Shadur.

Yeah, they asked Howie Roseman after the draft if he was –

because the Browns picked him – the Eagles were the very next pick.

And they asked him after if he was going to draft Shadur with the next pick.

Then he was like, we're not talking about people we didn't draft.

We're only worried about the people that we did.

Ooh.

But he didn't answer the question.

How fast was your guy's linebacker?

I just read that he was the fastest in the draft. What was his 40 time? I don't have it in front of me.
My linebacker was 4.42. So maybe not the fastest, but that's pretty fucking fast.
Okay. I think ours was 4.5.
Ooh. This guy was a six-year senior and team captain.
Oh, you better be if you're a six-year senior. You've been there long enough internet's also gone soft because uh patriots drafted kobe minor with oh so funny and tweeted a minor yep and they had they deleted it deleting it that's great tweet great why would you delete it you know how you know once once the higher- are calling me like, what is this? Yeah.
One person.

I don't understand how this works.

Uh, all right.

Well,

you look up your guy's speed.

What's your,

what's your guy's name?

Uh,

kind Medrano.

Kane.

He sounds fast.

Kane Medrano.

He sounds fast.

UCLA big.

He sounds really fast.

Let's see.

Washington commanders.

Four,

four,

four,

four,

six is what I'm looking at right now.

That is not as fast as my guy. Sorry.
Looks like I got the fastest. It said fastest linebacker in the draft.
4-4-6. But my guy went 4-4-2.
So AI's lying. I'm seeing game speed right now.
I got my guy catching a guy who runs a 4-4 from behind. This is some good fucking linebacker talk.
Here we go. There's a YouTube video.
Washington gets athletic freak in all caps. So our good friend Tom Fernelli, there's a site called Relative Athletic Score where it has you ranked in your position group.
So you see this right here, PFT?

So this is him as a linebacker, and then this is him as a running back.

He would basically be like a freak in all of the running back.

I'm seeing an article right now.

Medrano ran a 4.46 second 40-yard dash,

making him the fastest linebacker at this year's combine.

I mean, I'm seeing that Ruben Hippolyte II ran a 4.42.

Was that at the

combine or a pro day what's your guy's relative athletic score on your guys it's not great on the linebacker but it's great if he was a running back well my guy's 9.88 on the relative athletic score he comps out as saquon barkley if he was a running back it's pretty good oh uh all right well i mean yeah it might be it might might have been his pro day i got a 9.83 relative athletic score what was yours max 9.88 sorry about it yeah 9. uh what what was your yeah but you spent a 40 yard dash was what 9.1 i'm just saying his score his score was a 9.88.
Mine was a 9. Oh, no.
It's bad, actually. Well, it's 8.22, but it's a 9.2 as a running back.
This all started because I said that I think that the Bears might have drafted a linebacker that's going to be a running back per Tom Ford. He ran a 4.42 at his pro day.
Okay. Shorter hash marks.
Well, you had the fastest at the combine. All right.
Any other draft things? They're all the draft grades. I basically came to the conclusion this weekend, too.
The only way that you can have a steal of the draft is you just have to draft a guy who's got problems. Like Mike Green to the Ravens.
Everyone's like, steal the draft. It's like, well, he's been accused from some shit accused from some shit so that's why he was the steal the draft oh there was another big moment on thursday i don't think we could talk about on the show but we had foretold it they did the draft they did the nfl schedule release date release yes yes so on thursday they unveiled it the nfl schedule will be released on wednesday may 14th so we have an official date on that yet i i love i just love the release date release date pageantry of it all it feels great it feels great uh oh i had two last things one i loved the saints pick of quincy riley because they had his superlatives up there and it was twitchy will gamble excellent competitiveness so it sounds like basically me every sunday when i drink too much coffee just ready to gamble and then here's one that want to feel old pft uh this came from uh at mikey sandra sandra strill i don't think it's actually the right one yeah i saw that uh want to feel old tyler shuck will officially be the last person drafted to the nfl born in the 1990s okay that me feel old.
Yeah. Now, I don't know if that could be official because I'm sure there's an old...
Like, what about me? Yeah, there's an old player in college football right now that could maybe have like an incredible eighth year and get drafted. But as of right now...
What if I just like get in the gym hard, develop the leg, just work on my kicking game, and also maybe enter the Make-A-Wish program. And then at some point, maybe I'll be drafted in the seventh round, and I will be the last one drafted.
Yeah. You know what the real want to feel old moment's going to be? When Cromartie Jr.
retires. That is going to make me feel old as fuck.
Yeah. Or Asante Samuel Jr.
Yeah. Or Frank Gore Jr.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, there's going to be some of those.
Yeah, when you've seen their whole... When the juniors start to go.
When you see their whole career and their dad's whole career. Yeah, overall, good draft, though.
Shador made everything interesting all the way till Saturday. He did.
Like, I know I was watching on Saturday, but I'm like, this has to happen eventually. I'm never going to watch that prank call.
In the one... Actually, no, I don't know if they might have gotten...
The original version was very glitchy, because it was ripped from a Twitch stream that was glitchy, so that made it not as bad. But then I think they got a cleaner version that was bad.
It was tough to watch. Very tough to watch.
He'll be okay. He'll be fine.
fine and if he's not he'll still be fine yeah he's good if he's not good in the nfl he'll still be fine he's gonna be okay he'll be fine uh the the the draft party room with the legendary and everything that in retrospect was that the worst draft party ever that was the worst draft party that was Well, except for shiloh it was shiloh didn't really have a draft party he just was at shador yeah but he made it so much more fun than it would have been yeah it was funny when he said yeah i kind of fired my dad as my agent because he hasn't been doing a good job so hired an agent yeah yeah um yeah he did have a good sense of humor that quote when he said yeah he's like if they're gonna make him wait what are they gonna do to me yeah oh we gotta we gotta mention the jaguars gm which we mentioned on thursday night but then he did he doubled down yeah the press conference an all-time just chill out man uh here oh i disagree i he's crazy i i liked it though yeah this he did a great job of just just gassing up his guy. But here's the problem.
James Gladstone seems like a really nice guy. He's 34 years old.
You don't. It does feel like he's trying a little too hard to be something that he maybe isn't yet.
But I'm thinking maybe he is. Maybe he is this visionary.
All right. Here's James Gladstone.
the Jaguars GM, talking about Travis Hunter's introductory press conference. So as we sit here, Travis Hunter is a Jacksonville Jaguar.
And really what comes to mind for me, right, thinking about the sport of football. I don't like how this is right.
Really the power of the game itself, right? It's capacity to ignite belief, right? Belief in ourselves, belief in others, right? Belief in achieving- Yeah, there's too many rights. I didn't hear the rights earlier.
...game impossible. Travis Hunter, he embodies belief, right? He's a rare person.
He's a rare player, but he's also a reminder that the boundaries of the game of football were built to be challenged. I kind of like it.
And so the decision to select him was actually a statement, a statement for how we plan to move. No pressure on Travis.
This isn't just a draft pick. We want him to be nothing more than him because when he is, he elevates the space around.
No, no right so no no that ending max that was kamala speaking no no when he elevates forward no to move what he's saying about travis is like but we didn't know that humans were capable of doing this travis has heard his whole life this is impossible to do and he's like i don't give a fuck i like everything about this speech except for the rights when he throws in all those rights and he nods his head, that's a trick. He's doing a trick on you.
I think bro just took a little too much Vyvanse. That's all.
I think this is good. I loved it.
That had me ready to believe in the Jags. This isn't about football anymore.
It's not. It's bigger than football.
It's about life. This is about the universe.
The belief in people. This is about the possibilities that humans have inside them if you don't listen to the voice telling you no.
Play back the last 10 seconds. Tell me that's a Kamala Harris campaign slogan.
This sounds like a politician. It was actually a statement.
A statement for how we plan to move who we are. And we want him to be nothing more than him.
Because when he is, he elevates the space around. That makes sense to me.
I got to admit, that makes sense to me. I agree.
You could just be like, he's really fucking good at football. What he's saying is like, we're losers.
But with this guy around, he has the potential to make us not. That was an awesome deliverer.
Yeah. His timing was flawless.
I'm in on this guy.

If I ever have to get introduced at any big occasion, I want this guy next to me grabbing the mic and being like, before PFT gets out here, I just want to say a few things about him. This guy is the ultimate, ultimate bro.
Like this guy. Yeah.
Right? Right? Right. The right stuff does feel a little slimy.
Right. Right.
It's like corporate speak. Also, he could just be simply being like a perfect shield for Liam Cohn.

Because... Right.
The right stuff does feel a little slight. Right.
Right. It's like corporate speak.
Also, he could just be simply being like a perfect shield for Liam Cohn. Because when he starts going, you're like, that other guy seems fine now.
I was waiting for him to try Duvall. Yeah.
Oh, man. Yeah.
I mean, Travis Hunter is that good. So maybe he's right on it.
All right. Any other draft things? Draft is complete.
That means football's getting close. Feels good.
May 14th is our next football where we get to football schedules. I do like when they show the behind-the-scenes phone calls, and most of them are just pretty boring.
It's like the GM being like, we'd really like you, man. How would you like to be an Oakland Raider? And then the player being like, yeah, I'd like very much thanks coach and then it's like goosebumps as the title for it's pretty pretty normal call yeah but you can also it's it also there is an awkwardness when they uh when they'll pass it to like six different people yeah like all right we're gonna get you on now with your with the the president of football ops all right now it's the gm now we got your position coaches.
Yeah. Team owner wants to talk to you.
The owner, yeah. You're just passing the phone along.
Mm-hmm. Like everyone's just like, hey, man, you ready to get going? You ready to get out here? Yeah, I'd really like to get back to my party, crack a beer, and get my dick sucked.
That's okay. You ready to get going? Okay.
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Playoffs, boys. Let me just say this.
I know there's a certain sect of the internet, our audience, that might be like NBA boring. These NBA playoffs have been incredible.
Outside of the Cavs heat and the Thunder Grizzlies, every series has had a moment. And every series has had some bad blood and felt awesome to watch.
We had a great weekend of playoff basketball. Where do we want to start let's start on saturday yeah let's start on saturday let's you know what let's just get uh no let's not start start on saturday why because the celtics lost on friday oh sorry it's sunday dude oh i mean you can't i forgot about friday pft come on you're kind of don't bring me into this like i'm a hank hater you see that you see what i do right here, Hank? It's Sunday.
It's all about the most recent game. I hated that that game was on Friday.
I hated that that game was on Friday. It's game three.
The mighty Celtics do not look like the mighty Celtics. They look very very...
The Magic are good team, and I said before the series that they matched up bad for the Celtics. This does hurt your under two and a half losses.
Correct. But the problem, Max, is that they...
Incorrect. So much time has passed that they managed to erase that with a win today.
Say it again? So much time has passed that they managed to erase that with a win today. Yeah.
Still, like, a tight game. It's the playoffs.
The Magic are good. I never overlooked this Magic team.
They got some good players. They can't shoot threes.
You said two and a half total losses. What do you mean you never overlooked this Magic team? They're both to the Magic.
Yeah. Hank's not wrong yet.
If the Magic can get some shooters, they could win the Eastern Conference in the future. Yeah.
Paolo and Franz are awesome. They can't shoot.
Yeah.

It's actually like I thank my lucky stars every game just being like, well, if the ball's not in Paolo or his hands,

they're not going to score.

So are you at all nervous about the future?

The Magic, you're up 3-1.

You're going to win game five.

We're banged up.

The Celtics are banged up.

The Magic have been mucking it up, as they've said.

They will bang you up more.

Brown dislocated his finger. Got a hurt knee.
Tatumames got a hurt wrist drew all these i'm playing why is drew holiday not playing he's been he was injured at the end of the year too oh hamstring chris steps has a vagina on his forehead so we're banged up uh but i feel i feel good okay uh if if we can we'll get to sunday but if like well let's do pmt time caps they just do the thing where they just give the games to other teams like we might be in trouble let's go back in time real quick all the way back to friday night how did you feel on friday night friday night it was it was we were missing our threes not playing well a couple missed calls here's and there but it's a game we should have won i i didn't feel great about it okay so there max are you good with that friday night yeah that's fine i do when you when we do when there is a friday sunday game and i i feel like the sunday game is yeah you are you erased your sadness you're back yeah uh the thunder grizzlies was just credit to us we said we're not going to talk about the thunder until the next round and we don't have to because they are in the next round their first team to switch their ticket to the next round also calves heat that's just over just get it out of my face let's move on there was one in each one in the eastern conference one in the Western Conference just don't even care just fucking go to the next was the one seats uh the nuggets clippers game on saturday this series is so good and this is where this is kind of where i i my opening statement if you're not watching this series you just are saying you have a preconceived notion about the nba that you're not going to move off of because this has been one of the most entertaining series. We're only four games in this game had a 22 point comeback.
And the only reason the comeback wasn't completed was the closest buzzer beater you could possibly ever have by Aaron Gordon, who dunked in Jokic's airball. They didn't even have an angle on it on the broadcast for forever.
So they had the one that they tried to stop frame by frame. And the frame by frame was all off.
The frames were too long. You could probably talk on that, Hank, about like frames.
It was at 60 frames per second or whatever, but it wasn't enough frames. They played this one in super slow-mo, but they never even paused that one to see it was just like playing all the way through it was as close as humanly possible i recorded it on my tv with my phone and my phone set on slow-mo and then i stopped it and i still wasn't sure about it because it turns out the bottom corner of the basket lights up slightly before the rest of the basket and uh they had to go to

like hawkeye technology bottom line is whatever they called on the court that was probably going to end up standing because it can't possibly get closer yep but i have i have a question for you and hank and i were discussing this a little bit before how is it possible that the aaron gordon dunk at the end was a buzzer beater and also a game winner because the clock stops when the basket is scored, correct? I think it's when the ball hits the ground. I don't think it's when it touches the ground because I tried to look this up and I could not find a definitive statement on when exactly the clock stops.
I think it's when it... I don't think it's when it hits the ground.
So then when is it? I don't know. It could be when it goes through the cylinder, the entirety of the ball goes through the cylinder, or when the entirety of the ball goes through the bottom of the net.
But remember DeAndre Ayton's The Valley Oop? If you watch that one back, the ball, like, there was... They maybe could have even even put a point one second left but i think it's when the ball hit the ground because it was there was still time left on the clock when it went through the hoop but this is yeah but i i think that was a little bit different why because this was a dunk to end the game no that wasn't a dunk this this was the first this was the first dunk that was a uh buzzer a true buzzer beater dunk since 1998.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure DeAndre Ayton dunked that.

Did he not?

That's a dunk.

That was a dunk.

It said that this was the first buzzer beater dunk since 1998.

Yeah, whoever said that, they might have forgotten the value.

We got to respect the value. ESPN.com?.com yeah i mean how is this not a dunk the value was a dunk am i am i going crazy i'm looking at it that's a that's a dunk yeah that looks like a dunk yeah and so what i'm saying is though if i if it is when the ball goes through the cylinder, then it should be impossible for that to be a made basket and also for time to be completely off the clock at that point.
I don't really understand what you're saying. Because the ball has to leave your hands, right? If it's still touching any part of your finger, then it's no good if the buzzer sounded, if the light went on.
The second the ball leaves his finger.

Right.

That's like when it goes in the net on a dunk, it's like simultaneous.

Right.

Like the basket has been scored when it leaves your hand.

Right.

So it should be impossible for that to be the very at the very least there should be like .0000.

There should be more than zero seconds left on the clock at that point. I'm not following.
It's Schrodinger's cat. I'm not following.
You get it right. I'm not following what you guys are talking about.
Yes, I am following. It depends on the ruling of the hoop.
But technically, yeah, if you're saying it's a buzzer beater, then it also shouldn't what i don't follow any of this okay are you guys trying to get it so that my bet doesn't count no no i did i did laugh though when i was telling hank i would be like that would be the worst way to lose it feels like you guys are having a private conversation to get i it i promise you gave us it had nothing it had nothing to do with your bet will there be about there if there's time so they're saying there was time on the clock when the ball left his hands, correct?

Yeah.

Okay.

So then if at that same time is when the basket counts, then there should be time to throw an inbounds pass, try to get a foul with no time left on the clock, essentially.

I still don't understand.

I know that if there's less than 0.1, the game's over.

You can't inbound it.

I mean, what is it? It's like 0.4. You can't inbound it and grab the ball.
But you could get a foul. I still don't understand.
Do you guys understand? Am I the only one who's dumb, or do you guys understand what they're saying? It's basically just fractional seconds. Fractional seconds.
But they don't do fractional seconds. It's like if it was racing.
You guys have found a way to ruin the the coolest moment ever i don't even understand what's going on no it's just embracing that play was so awesome it was just a question it was it was awesome it was great to watch i didn't think about it until about two hours later yeah and then i was like wait so they're saying that the ball left his hands and simultaneously scored when there was time on the clock but now there's not time on the clock anymore. Yeah, how...
Okay. Like a buzzer beater...
A buzzer beater is different because there's a shot that's already left his hand. Right.
So the clock expires when the ball is in the air before it goes through. No, but that doesn't...
No, it just has to leave their hand before... Yeah.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But it could also...
Buzzers sound, so there's no time on the clock to inbound it after. But there's been buzzer beaters where the ball is going through when the buzzer count when the buzzer goes off right but if it goes through and then the buzzer goes off afterwards then the clock is stopped when the shot is made they review it yeah i think i think it comes down to like there was 0.00001 second left on the clock and they were just like no game over but it was awesome it was incredible game and whatever an incredible game.
And whatever you say. I think if a ball is going through the basket with .1 before it hit the ground, they would end the game.
Right. Watch the value.
Watch the. He literally dunked it and there was, I don't know, .1 second left when it goes through.
Find the actual play like play of it not not a replay not that um just google it max google value and you'll be able to see the highlight uh also this game was yokich just reminding everyone that he's the best player in the world because he was if he had his teammates stink now aaron gordon was incredible with that with that this. Ready? He dunks it.
There was still, the ball was all the way through, and there was still like a point one left, and it was game over. It might not be until it hits the ground.
Right. All right.
Case closed. Yeah, because I think that's, I mean, I remember that play very well.
Oh, there's our guy, Pat Pev. Because that was why I was confused.
I saw the stat about the dunk, and I was like, the value definitely happened. Yeah, so that stat, it turns out originally the NBA said it was the first game-winning buzzer-beating dunk in the playoffs since the play-by-play era began in 1997.
Maybe it's not technically a dunk because it was an inbound pass? I don't fucking know. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know., yeah, this game was Jokic being like, I'm the best player in the world. He had 36-21-8, which is just insane.
And everyone around him watched. Ready? And see? Did they put time back on? No, they didn't.
That was the end of the game. That was the last play of the game, if you look at the box score.
Like, Jamal Murray was 5 for 17. Christian Brown was 8 for 19.
I wonder if Jokic had guys who could shoot around him, he would have so many more assists. Yeah, I mean, there have been times in the last couple years where he has guys that can get hot on the outside.
Yeah. And Porter is capable of porter has played better uh but it's just it's like yokich had to basically carry his team and then obviously the clippers with like norman powell and and and kawaii and james harden everyone's playing like 22 point comeback to have it and like that what it's an insane series it's insane game insane series i i goes seven.
It's so much fun to watch. I love it when Jokic gets the ball and the shot clock is about to expire and he just does like three different pivot foots and then ends up jumping backwards and he throws like a soccer inbounds pass over his head and just swishes.
You can't do anything about it. And the series got a little chippy.
It's been fun. Yeah.
We had the James Harden step back push. Harden looked like he was ready to square up, too.
Balled up the fists. Initially, when he pushed, who did he push? Aaron Gordon? Or was it? I think he pushed Aaron Gordon.
He stepped back very quickly. And I was like, oh, that's kind of a pussy move.
But then as the clip goes on, he did square up the entire Nuggets team. Yeah.
He was ready to go. Which is very funny.
And we also have this series has given us peak Ballmer, which every fucking owner should act like Ballmer. He lives and dies with every single possession.
That's how I want my owner reacting. I agree.
And in this game, it was an insane game. It was insane.
Sover when they had 35 points to 17 in the third quarter against the clippers and then in the fourth quarter the clippers outscored the nuggets 34 to 16 yeah like leads 22 point they were down 22 points there are no leads to to start the fourth quarter and they just kept on chipping away um but yeah this has been incredible and i did hit that 31 which was

stephen shea shout out stephen shea he needs his the guy is the dumbest person i know but hitting a 30 to 1 on the closest buzzer beater possible is something i'll remember for the rest of my life uh saturday night warriors rockets steph curry steph curry is just he just reminds Here's what Steph Curry's doing right now.

Jimmy Butler's out.

He's playing with a bunch of guys who are – there's no disrespect to him. But, like, this game basically came down to Gary Payton being able to run a perfect pick and roll with Steph Curry for the entire fourth quarter.
And Gary Payton deserves a lot of credit because, like, the way he was his attacking the hoop he needed they needed one guy who could who could do that with Steph Curry because they couldn't score in the first half and Steph had two points through a quarter and a half and he ended up with 36 this is what Steph Curry's doing though he's 37 years old Steph Curry broke and demolished the Rockets, the James Harden Rockets,

the Chris Paul, Clint Capella, those Rockets.

And I think 2015 he beat them on his way to his first title.

And then, of course, in the famous seven-game series, what was that?

I think it was 2018 or 2017, whatever year that was, when it went seven

and the Rockets, remember, they shot like two for 30 from three? Yep. He demolished the Houston Rockets.
The Rockets then bottomed out. Three years in a row, they averaged 19 wins.
They have rebuilt themselves into a very talented young team that should be good in the West for a long time. And guess who still there demolishing these new rockets steph curry yes that's so brutal very frustrating that's so fucking brutal they literally went through an entire rebuild and the guy who who who tore them down the first time is still standing there tearing them down this time also you know who's going to be the happiest guy in the world when lebron retires is steph curry yeah because then you'd be like thank god now i can retire yeah i'm i'm 30 was he's 36 37 37 37 still doing this he can't retire right now because everyone's like lebron's still playing what's your excuse yeah second lebron's gone steph's gonna be like yep okay time to rest these ankles i know it's very simplistic and it sounds it's not like it's a no duh thing.
But when you watch Steph play, it's not even his shots, which are so incredible. By the way, one of the coolest things in all of sports is when Steph hits one of his dagger threes and he knows it's good and he starts running back before it goes through.
He did that with like three minutes left when they were up six and he just turned around. And that's to have that confidence and know that it's going to happen is so awesome but like Steph and and the amount of the amount of of like eyeballs on him and how much energy they have to take to defend him and the gravity he pulls on the court just makes everything else so much easier you just you watch it even when he's not scoring there's a reason why there's a guy cutting free to the basket it's because steph curry's out there and they can't leave him alone for a second yeah you know that it's about to be the turnaround shot when he does the thing where he like spreads his like legs out a little bit in midair as he's hitting it yeah turns his body so he knows it the instant it leaves his hand yeah and then he just he takes a he takes a mouthpiece, chews on it, steps back, smiles.
He knew it was in. You knew it was in.
You're dead. It was awesome.
So, yeah. And shout out Gary Payton because he was very, very good.
And that pick and roll was deadly. And it's like without Jimmy Butler, they need someone to step up.
And this series still has a lot left. So, it's not like the Warriors have won it.
But I do feel like Steph, because we don't know how much longer he's going to play.

You have to enjoy those.

Like Saturday night was one of those.

Holy shit.

We get to watch Steph Curry play basketball.

This is so much fun.

The Rockets also look too young.

Like if this game goes six or seven, they don't have what it takes.

This is what the NBA is.

You have to go through the wars to climb the mountain.

And guess what? Fred Van Vliet shouldn't be shooting the ball 14 times or whatever he did. And they lost their cool little after you see Draymond and Jalen Green go at it.
Yeah, it looked like Jalen Green actually wants to kill Draymond. Yeah, which that is a win for Draymond.
And I'm not defending Draymond because he's done some very questionable things. But if you are at a point after the game that you're so mad at Draymond that you're jawing with him and you look like you're that upset, Draymond is walking back to the locker room and literally saying to everyone, hey, we got him.
Yeah. Also, I would say that with Draymond, if he can take Jalen Green out of a game while also him getting out of the game, that's a win for the Warriors.

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

Okay.

Sunday.

Knicks Pistons.

Carl Anthony Towns.

Good for him. He's the difference.

Just bombing it from downtown.

And I say he's the difference.

Cade Cunningham is phenomenal.

Cade Cunningham had a triple-double. Jalen Brunson is phenomenal.
He had 32 and 11 assists. The Pistons don't have a Carl Anthony Towns, the Knicks do.
Like, he is the next. When you have another guy, that's why they traded for him.
His last two minutes where he hit a three, he hit a fadeaway on the baseline where he was basically out of bounds, and then another three that's the difference in this series that they have a carl anthony towns because kade and jalen are just so great and this game was fun to watch from the start it the announcer said it a couple times i agree it was watching a 90s basketball playoff game they didn't call shit they didn't call shit there were so many fouls it seems like every layup some guy was getting hammered on his arms, getting bodied into the ground.

No foul.

Get up.

Get back down the court.

They didn't call shit the entire game.

The very last shot of the game, I will say, was a foul.

Yeah.

They missed that.

The NBA said it. Yeah, the NBA said it after the foul.

Yeah.

That's insane.

It was pretty.

They should.

I don't even know what they should have to do, but that's sickening.

It's meaner that they said we missed it afterwards.

Absolutely.

Yes.

They should just say, no, it wasn't a foul. I mean, if they had said, hey, we didn't call any fouls all day, that's why we didn't call that, that would have been a better response by the NBA because I was like, when it happened in real time, I was like, well, yeah, of course they didn't call it.
They literally haven't called fouls. But yeah, you should be pissed if you're a Pistons fan, and rightfully so, because that was a foul.
It was clearly a foul. It was full body contact, altered the shot.
It wasn't even like the guy didn't foul bait him into doing it. He might have not tried to jump out of the way and avoid it, but it was very clearly a foul.
So I do feel bad for Pistons fans. That's a tough break.
If you commit a crime and get away with it, but then admit later that you did it, you can still get charged with it, right? Depends on what crime. Statue of limitations.
Damn, I was going to say. Why what crime were you about to admit to? No, start it back up.
Start the game back up. Yeah.
And this has nothing to do with you just wanting the Pistons or the Knicks to play more games. No, like imagine if this happened to the Bulls or the Wizards.
Yeah. I was at Capitals.
I was at Capitals. No, it'd be bullshit.
Pistons fans have every right to be bullshit.

As I was watching it, I guess I probably phrased it wrong when I treated right after the game,

but I wasn't surprised just because they didn't call anything all game.

Like, they were consistently, we're not calling fouls.

They turned fouls off, which was crazy.

But, yeah, no, Pistons fans have every right to be upset because it was bullshit.

Yeah, those refs should be fired if they don't want to do their job. Fired.
They did their job. Would you feel this passionately if this was a Western Conference game? Yeah, absolutely.
I think the fact that, like, I would – them admitting that it was a foul is so much worse to me. I agree.
That was driving me insane. Again, I had no skin in the game, but that's infuriating.
Yeah. Just don't say anything or be like, oh, you know, there was incidental contact, not enough to call a foul.
Just lie. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm just happy for Cat.
He almost got in a fight. I would need to see that zestiest fight possible.
Yeah. I do like watching Cat play offense.
Yeah. And you know what? He what? He's contributing a lot more on defense now, too.
He's trying hard. Yeah.
But this is why dare I say it, I actually think, because we'll talk about the Lakers Timberwolves, I think it might have been one of those trades where both teams kind of did better off because Julius Randle adds a a toughness and a bully ball aspect that uh the Wolves can use when Anthony Edwards needs help and Cat can disappear at moments but the Knicks needed another offensive weapon that could be like hey I can take this yeah so it's not just Jalen Brunson going to ISO right like try to drive into everyone's face and I'm gonna I credit to I I said after game two that Jalen Brunson when he foul baits uh is hard to watch he I feel like it has not been as egregious recently and he's passed the ball a lot better like you can see that they did not they did not go just straight ISO like they did in game two and when he's playing like that he was phenomenal I mean he's an incredible player and he he took over as well yeah that cat turnaround on the baseline uh where he was he was basically out of bounds when he when he hit that that was an insane insane play uh are you at all worried about the knicks no okay that's good ping pong are you worried about ping pong i'm worried about the rest i'm worried about the NBA. I'm worried about what's going on there.
Oh, okay.

Got it.

So you're thinking that this is rigged.

That game is clearly rigged.

And so what will they do to you?

It was bullshit.

My concern levels are much higher for that than the actual Knicks or fucking Jerry O'Connell.

Okay.

Wow.

Fucking Jerry O'Connell. Damn.
Wow. Fucking Jerry O'Connell.

Damn. The Lakers are in trouble.
I think that this is going to go the distance, though. You do? I think so.
Anthony Edwards was so good, and he's like, his decision-making has gotten so much better. What did he end up with? 43? It was over 40.
Yeah. I think he had 43.
and listen

that game was fun at the end because

LeBron uh it was over 40 yeah i think he had 43 uh and listen that game was fun at the end because lebron uh couldn't get the ball in bounds then fouled anthony onwards which i don't know if the lakers got screwed or maybe jj reddick screwed that up but the way it worked was the lakers called the timeout to get the ball to uh half court yep uh and the timberwolves called the challenge within 30 seconds of the timeout won the challenge and then the lakers lose their timeout yeah i don't know i don't understand yeah that well that's what's what's what happened yeah so it was like i don't know if i don't know if the if jj should have waited to see if they were going to challenge before using his timeout well jj was also he was upset after the game and he said that the refs missed a call on luka he says that luka luka donchich doesn't just fall down yeah i don't know if you've seen luka donchich play before well he also was sick on friday but then on saturday he slept all day all day all day all day shams had a report yep he was like

here's what luca did all day and i i clicked the video to be like what did luca do all day he slept he literally was like he slept all day all day on saturday he hibernated on saturday it was the weirdest report ever can you find the clip max because it was i i clicked on it being like Luka Doncic found some cryo chamber alternative medicine and was cured of the flu in some miraculous way. Shams literally just had a report that he slept all day.
Play it. He's feeling much better.
And outside of a team meeting and individual treatment, I'm told Luka Doncic spent all of Saturday sleeping in his bed, which is something he could not do on Thursday and Friday when he was dealing with a viral bug. But he played through it Friday night.
He couldn't do it on Thursday and Friday. He's feeling a lot stronger.
He is ready to go for game four today after spending all of Saturday pretty much sleeping and bedridden in his bed. Okay.
All right. Thanks.
Appreciate that. That's a long time to sleep.
Yeah. That would mess me up for the next day.
All day. He couldn't do that Thursday and Friday.
No. Couldn't sleep.
Saturday, all day in his bed. Good for him.
Yeah. Good for him.
I have a problem with the Lakers. You can't have two masked guys.
Yeah, they do. One's got to go.
Yeah. You can only have one masked guy per team during the playoffs i also this is like a the

lakers just don't have they don't have a full team well no they played their entire lineup it's crazy it was crazy also we might be late to this but lebron james definitely dies his beard yeah yeah like you can see the outside peeking through the the gray is coming out he's like that ryan day shit yeah ryan whitney shit whoa whoa what whoa is this going after breaking news no i'm just kidding the bronze stat line also was very funny because he scored 27 points how many field goals do you think he hit oh not he shot a lot of foul shots 12 he hit five shots he went five for nine for 27 points he went 15 for 18 at the free throw line yeah he was good from the line tonight he's very good from the line i mean he was still i mean that block he had was incredible that was like old school lebron um i mean he's still he's he still can do everything it's just they don't have they don't have enough guys they really don't they don't have the Wolves. No subs.
No subs. It's crazy when one's a guy who spent all day in bed and the other guy's 40.
And you played on Friday. Right.
Right. That's insane.
Insane. So I think, yeah, the Wolves hit the AWU because the Wolves are a problem.
Do you hate JJ, Hank? Do you hate JJ, Hank? No. Okay, good.
You don't hate JJ? I love JJ. Okay, you love JJ.
Julius Randle, though, you guys agree. It is weird because both him and Kat seem to be playing harder on defense.
Right. But they switch just to different teams.
And Julius Randle has a little bit of that shit to him where he can be like, yeah, you know what? I'm just going to be a bully for a little bit here. Cat maybe wouldn't do that as much.
Yeah. Julius Randle is always a bully.
Yeah, right. But that was kind of what they were missing.
Cat's a better offensive player than Julius Randle. But the way Julius Randle could be like, no, you know what? Fuck this.
I'm going to take this. The Wolves kind of need that a little bit.
I agree. And Nas Reed hit some big threes.
Yeah, the Wolves are... Anthony Edwards, he's just gone up another level.
We've got some more face of the league discussion going on right now with Anthony Edwards. I do like how he's not afraid to do anything.
Dude, he goes at everyone. And he talks shit to them.
And he makes... I feel like his decision making is better than it was last year too.
He's more in control. Right.
He's more in control. Knows when to pass.
Super explosive. Knows how to read defenses.
But yeah, the last possession where they called the review, which this is the other thing that I feel like the Lakers might have gotten a little screwed on. Because the original review, the announcer said, or the ref said was for ball out of bounds and then they reviewed it and saw that he lebron fouled that was another one where they brought hawkeye in yeah that's a camera and it was incredible i've never seen before they just said okay you know what we're gonna bust this out i know it's gonna look weird on your tv but uh yeah we can see something we were unable to see before yes because i was watching the review and i thought well that's clearly out of bounds on Anthony Edwards.
Very clearly. And then they're like, nope.
From the drone camera angle that we have above, we can zoom in on LeBron's hand and it clearly hits Jimmy Butler's half-brother's hand. So yeah, it's going to be foul.
Sorry, LeBron. Yeah.
The Hawkeye was crazy there. But yeah, that play was like Dante DiVincenzo, who also had some big moments uh driving the lane and then anthony edwards just basically driving it with him and him just handing him the ball and then lebron did the foul so uh you think it's gonna go seven i think so okay hey look i'll respect the call i think i'll say that might be halfway into me wanting it to go seven.
I'll say this. I think the Lakers are like,

I would maybe even game of the year.

Lakers in game five.

Yeah.

That's probably what I'm getting at is I feel like it's definitely going to

go six.

Right.

And then I think that this is an Adam Silver situation.

Oh,

LeBron game seven.

Well,

that's that basically will decide who's the face of the league.

That's true.

Because Adam Silver wouldn't do it for if it goes seven. That means that LeBron is still the face of the league.
Still the face, or Luka is. Or possibly Luka.
Yeah. All right.
What other... Oh, the Celtics, do you feel we can...
How'd the game go today? It's good. It's a hard-fought game.
The Magic are a tough team. Okay.
We battled. We won.
Closed out, what, Tuesday, Wednesday? Yeah. And then the Bucs are done.
Yeah. The game, I think, towards Achilles.
Sucks. Yep.
The Pacers are just better. Yep.
The Pacers are a fun team. They play with pace.
I said it last week. I think the Pacers Cavs is going to be a more competitive series than people think.
So I put a lot of respect on the Pacers. But the Bucs, Dame tearing his Achilles is like, it already was nightmare time for the Bucs.
Now it's like, where is Giannis going? I mean, it just sucks that Dame, he comes back from blood clots and you're like, yeah, go out there, play the full game twice in a row. Yeah.
Pops now he's done yeah i just feel i feel bad i feel really bad i feel really bad um because it feels like that also sucked a lot of the bad blood out of this series yeah although hal burton was going after bobby portis which seems like a mistake hal burton strikes me and he's a very good player and i respect the fuck out of the pacers hal burton i feel like he talks a lot of shit only when they're winning yeah i don't know if he's i don't know if i've seen him do that when they're like struggling or trying to like fire up the team and that's type of situation you know i mean he's a little goofy a little little goofy with the with the shit talking uh but yeah the pacers are good i i like all their starters are in we're in double figures tonight again feels like they have just guys every everyone can contribute i'm excited for the pacers cav series uh i want to talk some puck pft i got to hear everything about friday night i mean friday was a long time ago we can talk about today's no but you were there i'm not i wasn't saying that because of a loss i'm saying that because i need to hear about you and Oldie in Montreal. I cannot wait for this video.
All right. So a couple of things.
One, that is the loudest building I've ever been in my life. That's louder than Death Valley, LSU, on a Saturday night.
It was their first home game. First home playoff game in eight years, I think.
Eight or nine years. Because they went to the Stanley Cup final in the COVID year.
Yeah. So they haven't had't had a home crowd there obviously it's a huge hockey town like they care very deeply about the canadians there and it is the loudest stadium i've ever been in in my life i was amazed from from the time i walked in till the time that i left like they're pissed off they're loud they're super knowledgeable it's crazy so immediately the game starts the entire crowd starts chanting thompson at our goalie and then later on in the game thompson got hurt got taken off the ice five seconds later guy they yeah by stromer unfortunately but um they started chanting the name of the backup goalie just as loud they knew they knew the backup goalie's name and were prepared with a chant for him right immediately anytime there was like a turnover or just a good pass the crowd would erupt and go nuts to the point that i thought it was a penalty that had been called it's like no they're just cheering on a good like a small good play right for their team um but yeah they were they were just an incredible crowd incredible sports town i don't want to go back up there like i want to close the series out yeah at home now because like that is a legitimately terrifying place to play hockey.
How was, uh, how was it being with oldie?

So old, go back up there like i want to close the series out yeah at home now because like that is a legitimately terrifying place to play hockey how was uh how was it being with oldie so oldie is the best obviously uh he's the best guy ever he showed us around took us out for some poutine and i don't understand why poutine is not a bigger thing in the united states so poutine is like the dish up in que. It's French fries.
It's gravy.

It's cheese curds. And then they'll put like some meat on it or whatever.

It's all the things that Americans love.

Fried gravy, meat, cheese.

That's like all of our food.

What hang?

Sounds like a part of my cheesesteak meal.

We should do it.

We should do a poutine.

Poutine has the.

Isn't that what we like have basically?

Well, that's cheese, not gravy. Cheese cheese fries but you can make gravy right anyways yeah we definitely should try to do that but the other thing about oldie is oldie is pretty much a hypnotist because the crowd you could compare them to like an eagles fan you know environment where they're they're hostile towards outsiders right not like i ever felt like i was in danger or anything but there would be people that would come up like aggressively being like fuck you fuck you and oldie has an ability to take anyone that's getting in his face because he was rocking a capitalist jersey yeah he's a good guy um he has the ability to within about a half second take a guy that wants to punch him in the face to the guy's now smiling and putting his arms around him being like let me buy you a beer.
A half second. I'm not even kidding.
This happened probably two dozen times over the course of the night. I thought Oldie was about to get into an altercation.
Not from his own fault. Right.
Somebody else that looked pissed off. And the next thing I know, they're like slapping each other's backs and high five and taking a picture together.
I love it. It's crazy.
Oldie is the absolute best. So I had a great time hanging out with him, hanging out pug montreal is a great city i'd like to go back it feels very very european yeah it does like it's uh it feels like you're in you're in paris a little bit did you go to a strip club did not go to a strip club they're known for their strip pug was like please can we go to a strip club i'd love to go to a strip club i was like down boy down down no pug no super sex pug was like the nearu massage let's go, no pug.
We can't do that. We're on the clock right now.
Yeah. One of their most famous strip clubs is just called super sex.
So I heard about that place. I also heard it got shut down.
I don't know if that's true. Somebody told me it got shut down there.
Oh, no. Not super sex.
It's such a. Hey, how obvious can we make this? Super sex.
Super sex. That sounds like a translation.
like a french person was like we need to sell sex yeah yeah but no it's such a cool city first thing we did oh it's abandoned it's an abandoned sex yeah it is sex is spelled with the extra e on the end so oh now it's called sex appeal that's that's not as that's not as direct no super sex that could be anything super sex is it yeah it was great first thing we did we went out for poutine and then right after that we went on a walk up to the top of this mountain that overlooks the city of montreal and if you go on a walk for like 20 minutes then you're like okay i can do whatever i want yeah of course because like i got my exercise and saw a beaver felt real canadian cool beaver out in the wild that was great uh yeah just hung out with oldie the video is gonna be coming out me pug oldie had a had a great time uh i do not want to go back though so it would do when i say it's loud you've never experienced a sports environment like we've been in some very loud yeah yeah this was fucking crazy yeah canadian hockey just doesn't even count when you do like loudest yeah it's like it's already already established that that's the loudest. So today you win.
That was a little nervous game because going 2-2 would have been like, I still think the Caps are going to win the series, but 2-2 is a different ballgame, right? Yeah, on Friday it was a crazy game, and we never felt like we were going to win that game because they outshot us. There was so much energy on the ice.
And that fight between Tom Wilson and I think Anderson at the end of the second period was all time. Into the bench.
They go into the Caps bench when the coach, Spencer Carberry, was trying to leave. And he said after the game, he was like, yeah, I was trying to just get out and go back to the locker room.
But I saw two large individuals coming through, so I figured I can't get out there so then uh there was it was just a crazy game 200 goalies it was nuts and then today's game it felt like the canadians had the upper hand and then tom wilson pretty much changed hockey changed the sport much like uh travis hunter changed football tom wilson changed the sport of hockey with one hit on in the open ice that led to a goal and He took that guy's soul. Yeah.
That's Tom Wilson, baby. I love the fact that he's a capital.
I would hate him if he wasn't, and I love him because he is. Are people debating it? I saw some debate of it, but I defer to all things Paul Bissonette when it comes to any of these takes.
Because you will see people playing the screenshot game. Of course.
That's when you when you know the stanley cup playoffs are here is uh tom wilson slow-mo hit yeah so you can let's debate it you can do it that way uh or you could listen to paul bissonette and let me find his take i want to get i want to get the verbiage right if you think the wilson hit was dirty you're a fucking clown and stop watching playoff hockey. Paul Bissonnette.
Love it. He's played.
Yeah. I think he has several playoff games.
All right. Other hockey.
We have some really good series. Outside of the Carolina series where they're up 3-1.
And the Leafs, although the Senators did win in overtime, which is good because I wanted the Senators. When it Canadian versus Canadian it's like you gotta you gotta let them have one yeah well the other thing about being up in Montreal was during they would play songs during breaks in the action and most of the songs had a pause in them and in that pause everybody in the stadium would just say fuck the Leafs oh I love that there's still there it is like you're everything you've described is just an SEC game on ice yeah yeah uh so yeah the leafs lose in overtime to the senators by the way we are going to have some hockey this week whether it be biz yandel or whitney uh just so that we can get a full full picture because we're not a hockey experts the avalanche tied it to to which that landis god goal i don't know if you guys saw it yeah his smile after that goal was just like sports rule it was because he's whitney told us the story that he's basically been out for three years uh and he's their heartbeat their captain everything like that he comes back he scores and the relief and smile on his face and there was like people there was there was like a couple literally making out right after the goal with the landis cog jersey on yeah it's like this is this is this sports rule it was a super cool moment let me ask you a question that series is going to be uh it's 2-2 right now and it feels like because we've already had two overtime games in that series let me ask you a question about the leaf though.
Yeah. What would you root for if I gave you these three options? Them to blow the 3-0.
Leafs win the Stanley Cup. Yeah.
Leafs get swept in the second round. Or Leafs blow a 3-0 series lead against the Senators and get bounced.
3-0. I think that's what I would take, too.
I don't think they're going to blow this lead. But if you're a Leafs fan, losing in the...
You're thinking about it. Yeah.
And I think Whitney had a stat that it's been like 25 years since the Leafs swept an opponent, which was the Senators, I think, in like 2001. And they were that close.
They were in overtime. But yeah, when you lose in overtime, you're like, oh, shit, here comes the doubts.
Yeah. I would also be happy if they won the Stanley Cup, as long as they don't beat the Capitals to get there.
Yeah. Like, it would be a cool story.
I'd feel happy for Rob Ford's ghost and everybody in Toronto. It's funny.
But it's also if they blow a 3-0 lead to another Canadian team. As a fan of comedy, that hits the sweet spot.
I feel like are our American shows because I agree with everything you just said by the way uh I would be like it'd be a cool story for the Leafs to win the Stanley Cup if you talk to any Canadian who's not a Leafs fan they're like fuck you guys why would you ever say that you're basically rooting for the Yankees and Cowboys combined yeah uh which I understand I. I get it.
Yeah, I get it. I get it.

But it would be a cool story.

Yeah, also Oldie's a Leafs fan, so I got to support my guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're going to get Oldie here for a live stream.

We have to.

And then the Jets and Blues.

The Blues fucking killed the Jets today.

And the Jets are the one seed, right?

Yeah. Winnipeg, they win the President's trophy.
Right. Yeah.
That's a 2-2 series. Yeah.
And it feels like, what's going on here? There's some questions about some of the goaltending. Yeah, that was like- And the logo.
That was in the logo. That's kind of like the Knights Wild series.
The Knights, I think, were heavy favorites. They had to win in overtime to tie that series 2-2.
two well their goalie is one of the best goalies in the regular season but he's consistently been one of the worst in the playoffs yeah so we gotta he might not be able to win the big one it's hellebuck right yep yeah this is the isn't isn't the hellebuck bennington hellebuck's our goalie right yeah this is the four nations uh exhibition game all-star game final yep that's what the matchup is yep uh yeah oh that should be because he got pulled today uh-oh he's not been good oh the blues if the blues i mean binnington would be if the blues go on a deep run like because when they won that year what it it was, was it like six or seven years ago? When they were basically dead in the water in January? Yeah. This would be an all-time run.
Either way, the hockey playoffs have been awesome. Awesome, awesome.
That game you were at on Friday night had everything. Dude, it was crazy.
It was an absolutely insane game. I missed the OV goal, though, which was the only only thing i'll say the only thing i'll say about that is uh that stadium again i'm i'll admit i am afraid of a building i'm terror i don't want to go back in that building as an opposing fan anymore um the bathroom situation they i feel like they got like two bathrooms in the entire stadium and so you had to be you had to be stuck in a big line of pissers for about 30 to 40 minutes.
Yeah. And so I was unable to make the Ovi goal when I got back.
But that's okay. That's okay.
We'll move forward from there. But again, like overall the people up there were very nice.
There was a lot of shit talking, but it was like friendly shit talking. I'm just talking about the sheer volume of that barn was insane.
the uh it was that game and then the night game king's oilers which they're playing right now and the uh oilers are in deep deep trouble because they're down to one in the series and they're down three two in the game as we're watching it but you so i watched your game pft had everything goals fights electric barn all that and then the oilers game later on that night uh the oilers uh were down and they had us they had i think it was i want to say it was four three they scored and then scored almost immediately off the face off to go up five four which was like the like the place felt like the roof was going to come off because they scored that quickly, two goals. And it was like, damn, hockey fucking rocks.
So, yeah, it's been great hockey. It's been fun to watch.
Also, is the hurricane series over? No, it's 3-1, I believe. 3-1.
It does feel like that series is over. Yeah, it's kind of like the NBA where there's a couple series that are not great.
You'd say the Leafs and the Senators and that one. I know the Panthers, they're like a game behind.
So the Lightning did win a game, which was good. That series should be competitive.
But every other series has been awesome. Yeah.
And even though the caps are up three to one, I don't think the series is over. No, and the games have been great.
Yeah. Yeah.
Very exciting. Okay.
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That got 180 million views. Holy shit.
This past weekend. Also kind of crazy since it's got.
Yeah, read the tweet. I think 100 people could be.
I saw a different tweet. That's not the tweet.
That's the tweet that got 180 million views. Yep.
Read the one that got 180 million views. I cannot read the one that got 180 million views i cannot read the one that got 180 million views i will paraphrase it uh with some alternate words okay the hard one i think a hundred friends could be one gorilla everybody just got to be dedicated to the shit and that sparked a debate across the internet with people saying whether or not 100 people could or could not defeat one gorilla in a fight i am firmly of the belief that 100 people could easily be easily okay all right i think i think 10 guys that could really hold their own that knew what they were doing like 10 u UFC fighters.
But the key part of this. 10.
Is everyone's got to be about the shit. Yeah.
You got to be about the shit. Because the first guy who goes in is going to get his head ripped off by the gorilla.
And then everyone else has to be like, but hold on. We got to still do this together.
It's got to be like the Nazi meth soldiers. Well, if by one no well no i know but like someone's getting there someone's dying like the the advantage that we have as human beings is that we can do a battle plan put that together we're not going to go after this guy like like bad guys go after steven seagal where it's like okay i'm gonna run at him then he's gonna step to the side touch me then i'll have a heart attack and die then you go at him no you gotta just if you're about the shit you gotta i think you could do a 10 if they're heavyweights you just surround you grab limbs and you just start breaking bones yeah you just start breaking bones one person how does one break a bone i just i would honestly just grab his windpipe and snap it done i think you get two guys that just go for the eyes yeah take the eyes out if you get the eyes then you can beat the fuck out of anything Also do gorillas have balls

I'd assume they do just fucking hammer his balls

I was thinking that too

They got balls they got tiny dicks

The problem though is what happens when the gorilla

Gets a hold of one person

And rips his head off and then everyone's like

Or just starts swinging him around like a Donkey Kong

Right

Is everyone still about that shit

You have to stay about the shit

If you ain't ready to die sign up

Thank you. Everyone's like, fuck.
Or just start swinging them around like a Donkey Kong. Right.
Right. Is everyone still about that shit? You have to stay about the shit.
If you ain't ready to die, sign up. Warning sign.
Don't sign up. Warning sign like, if you ain't ready to die, don't sign up.
Mm-hmm. Okay.
All right. But let's say it's every male in this office.
We're getting killed. Yeah.
Not us. We're not about the shit.
I am not about the shit. No, for real i the whole thing with the animal hypotheticals is well actually no i am about you are i would take it what are you talking about yeah you're right i was being i was being i was honestly being humble i think i could do it just me and max two of us two guys like us we could do it After a case race.
No problem. Max? Memes has gone insane.

What does he say?

He's on. Eyes like us, we could do it after a case race.

No problem.

Max?

Memes is going insane.

What does he say?

Memes has been so weird this whole episode. I'm just imagining one of you guys running at it and just rips you in half.

He's been crying laughing since we started this conversation.

He gets goofy when he dresses up as Luke.

It's a funny scenario.

It's weird.

What I would do, personally, I would try to tear it. Get him on the ground.
It's a funny scenario. It's weird.
What I would do, personally, I would try to tear his ACL. Get him on the ground.
It's simple octagon thinking. I would cheap shot him.
Ground and pound. I would simply cheap shot him.
I'd take out his ACL. I'd break the code.
I also don't know. How does that even work mathematically? Like 100 people with one gorilla? There's not enough surface area.
What? No, Max, I know what what you're saying like obviously all 100 people aren't going to jump on that's what yeah that's what i'm saying because you just be jumping on your bros no but you have to take into account some of them are blue some of them are going to get wiped out yeah yeah it's body blue dude honestly hank's not wrong i think bonnie blue could take down a grill yeah cause she would just start sucking his dick and the gorilla just put it's hands behind it and said be like oh this is awesome and then she'd come up for air boom right in the nose knock him out I feel like yeah this would be easy I think I think a hundred's way too many knows. But every guy, like, I guess you're counting on the people being about the shit.
Oh, you got to be about the shit. What was the tweet, Max? If you ain't about the shit, don't sign up.
You just got to be dedicated. Warning sign, like, if you ain't ready to die, don't sign up.
That's a fact. Memes, you think you take it what if the what if i die what if the gorilla was italian we have a nice meal then die we gotta shoot him in the head wait there's no kids no family the big question is is the gorilla dedicated to the shit right because i don't think it would be yeah maybe it mightillas probably just stay dedicated.
Yeah, if the gorilla was dedicated to the shit, then we'd be in some shit. Yeah.
But I do think that... If you take a gorilla's baby and then go after it.
I'm not kidnapping. Yeah, listen.
This is our thing. We kill a gorilla.
No family. Can't get them involved.
No pipe bombs. No car bombs.
We know what we're signing up for. We're competitors.
This is our thing. Yeah.
This is between the gorilla and 99 of my friends. We do murder classy here.
Gorilla murders classy. I kind of want to see this now.
Why can't like Bezos or someone do this? Yeah. I agree.
Set it up. Be like, Mr.
Beast. Mr.
Beast was literally invented for this. Mr.
Beast, you give everyone $10 million can compete in the 100 versus Gorilla Challenge. If you die, you don't get the money.
That's it. That's it.
Those people wouldn't be about the shit. Yeah, that actually would.
People would be running away from it. Yeah.
I do think the first three, even if you. I'm saying that I think you could do it with 10 of like big strong fighters uh the first three would be almost immediately dead and it would be ugly it would like it would be a gruesome death that's where you find out if people are about the shit yeah those guys aren't going in after that right well i can't be i can't be held accountable for if my guys pussy out on me because they'd said that they were dedicated i believe them i trust my guys yeah Alright who right who's your who's back pft i mean that was my who's back of the week so i'll just say my who's back of the week is uh warren zivon warren zivon got elected to the rock oh hell yes finally and also what why did you think warren zivon was back because the wolves no i saw a cover from stagecoach that was awesome of a warren zivon song oh who played it zach brown was it good what song was it was really good where was london no it was not lawyers come to money uh it was lawyers come to money that's another good one yeah that song rocks warren zivon might be my favorite songwriter of all time and he's he's deserved being in the rock and roll hall of fame for a while it's crazy he wasn't it's insane so he finally got in and then uh also outcast got

in oh which is awesome yeah they should have been in a while ago too big boy and dre hell yeah yeah i think i may have been shooting this shit with eddie vetter on friday what that's okay that's what that's what mook said i i'm not a big music guy i didn't you're such a piece of shit i didn't I didn't know.

You're such a piece of shit.

I was into that.

You're such a piece of shit. I didn't know.
You're such a piece of shit. I was in the 19th century.
You're such a piece of shit thing to say. What? Were you like hanging out with him? I was sitting in front of him.
Why is everyone laughing? I was sitting in front of this guy. Yeah, I was shooting the shit with Eddie Vedder.
I'm not a music guy. But first, Pearl Jam.
You don't fucking know who Eddie Vedder is, dude? Not really. I don't really know who it is.
What were you guys chopping it up about? It was just like ballgame banter. There was a guy sitting behind me that I was getting really pissed off about the Phillies.
And then people behind me were like, are you a Phillies fan the way you're talking about the Phillies? And then, you know, just like little, little, little, you would get into Frank. Yes.
Right. Yeah.
Yes. It was like, I don't understand why you're not a real, you're not even a fan.
You hate this team. Right.
And then, you know, it's just like ballgame banter. And then after the game, Mook was like, I'm pretty sure that was Eddie Vedder that was sitting behind us because apparently he's a big Cubs fan.
Yes. And we were sitting in, we were sitting in the 1914 club, so it wouldn't make sense that he was there.
Oh, the free oil. But I don't know.
I have no idea. I got to meet Eddie Vedder once.
He was a very cool guy. Didn't spell the best, but that doesn't matter because he's Eddie Vedder.
And also it was after the Cubs clinched, beat the Dodgers to go to the World Series. Oh! Oh, wow.
The Oilers just scored. So I think he also was like drenched in champagne for hours in cigars.
That was crazy. The Oilers just- How much time's left? Just 28 seconds left.
Holy shit. One other crazy- They just tied it with the empty netter.
Another crazy part montreal is before the third period started there were still people that were coming into the arena that's crazy like i don't think they were even checking tickets at that point they were just like anybody that's outside that wants to come in get in here if you're gonna yell we need you to that's that's like i feel like 1980s shit yeah could you have a picture of who's sitting in front of you this is pissing me off that you were just hanging out with Eddie Vedder and you didn't say anything. That was so funny.
It very well could not. I have no idea.
I have no idea. This is going off of what somebody else said.
Was he cool? Yeah. I mean, it was just ballgame banter.
You start talking to the people that sit around you. You're probably friends with him now because that's what someone that famous and that talented is looking for is ballgame banter, not, hey, Eddie Vedder.
I will say nobody came up to him to ask for a picture, so maybe it wasn't. Or he described what he looked like.
I looked up a picture that looked, it did kind of look like one of the guys that was behind us. Okay.
I don't know. I don't know what else.
What was Mook basing it off of? I have no idea. Mook texted me after the game was like, I think that was Eddie Vedder that was sitting behind us.
Oh, so we're going. Okay.
All right. But I don't know because I would have, in a million years, I would have never guessed what he looked like.
Okay. Either way.
It was just chill. Yeah, it was just chill.
Just fake Eddie Vedder, real Eddie Vedder. All right.
My who's back of the week is Bill Belichick. Why? Can I go to the bathroom now? He's got.
You can if you want. He's got a new book out and he was on CBS Good Morning America.
What is it? Yeah, the softball series. What is it? Just lighthearted.
Yeah. CBS Morning Time.
And the interview was very funny, curmudgeon-y Bill Belichick. The shirt he was wearing was- So funny.
Incredible shirt. He knew he was going to be doing an interview for television yeah and his shirt i feel like it's been in in like a cardboard box with a family of moths for about 25 years yeah uh but yeah he looked good he pulled it off yeah and then uh his girlfriend who we love yeah jordan philosopher hudson she's a delight uh we have nothing but positive things to say about her co-worker friend lover right she's the best uh might have interrupted the interview uh and was like we're not talking about that when asked uh how they met well we already know how they met they met on an airplane on an airplane.
Yeah. And then there's theories that CBS left that in because that wasn't the only time she had interrupted.
But we don't buy that theory. It's bullshit.
Yeah, listen. Do we all agree? It's bullshit.
It's bullshit. I think that they're making Coach look bad because they know that this will be interpreted in a certain kind of way.
The real deal is, and we're going to talk to Shrager about this in a little bit, but she is a smart cookie. Yeah.
And this moment was all over the internet promoting his book today. Yeah.
He's going to sell a ton of books because of the way that she comported herself during this interview. She's an incredible marketer.
I think she's the brains in that relationship. Yeah.
It's crazy. I mean, that's's a catch for uh bill belichick yeah and also they're trying to ask him some gotcha questions like uh what about this picture of you guys doing yoga on the beach right like it wasn't a normal picture that they were taking it just felt it felt very it felt designed to make bill and his lovely girlfriend jordan Jordan, look like there was something wrong with them.

When maybe the problem is with us.

Right.

For being so cold hearted that we can't appreciate a healthy relationship. And people are like, oh, he's whipped or something.
No, it's not. That's a healthy relationship.
They're both very highly successful people in a relationship together. Love is love.
Independently successful. And everyone leave it alone.
Hank what are your thoughts on how PFT and I just handled that in trying to get Belichick on PMT in the future? Did we do a better job? Yeah. Okay, good.
What did you think? Have you watched it? I watched the interruption clip and then I saw the eight minute interview and I started to watch it and I got like 10 seconds in. I was like, I can't do this.
Here's what I'll say, Jordan. If you can land us Bill Belichick on PMT, you can interrupt as many times as you want, and we will cut or not cut whatever you want.
You could just sit here. You could be on the pod.
We're a pro-girlfriend podcast. We're a pro-Bill Belichick's girlfriend podcast.
That's a fact. Whatever that looks like.
Yeah, that was a crazy clip. Crazy clip.
We have to say this because we want to get Belichick. I get the vibe that Bill didn't really want to be doing an interview.
I don't think he did. I got the vibe Jordan didn't want to do the interview either.
I don't think Belichick knows he's on social media. Yeah.
I would say so. I'd say that's- His reaction to that clip was like, how'd you get this picture? Yeah.
Wait, what are you talking about the yoga? That was private. It looks like this CBS guy just broke into his house, set up a camera, and surprised him in the kitchen.
Like, Bill, we're going to talk now. Oh, man.
So yeah, we're pro Jordan. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. I thought- You think that went well, Hank? We'll just make the clip of us just saying the good part and leave out the part where we say we just have said all this because we want to get Belichick on and pretty much it's been clear that you have to say nice things about his girlfriend to get him on.
I will not... So, leave that out and then put in the other stuff.
We will ask how you guys met that's that question is that's a gotcha question yeah we would not do a gotcha question that's gotcha gotcha question journalism that's fucked up we would not do that to ask someone how he met his significant other is just too far in my book i agree something should be private like you might why don't you and no questions about anything that you post publicly to your millions of followers on instagram why don't you just ask him a question about spygate while you're at it yeah or about aaron hernandez i bet you that's the exact same type of question as saying how did you guys meet that fake news fucking reporter probably went into this interview was like i know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna get

him with this fucking picture that he doesn't even know exists that's out there on the internet that got retweeted and posted a billion times tell me about this picture i feel bad for the reporter a little bit i feel bad for bill watching do you i think bill's having fun I think Bill's doing just fine

just don't clip that part

Bill's having fun. I think Bill's doing just fine.
Just don't clip that part. Bill's doing great.
Is he? Is it? How do conservatives? I was going to say, it's a British fear situation. It feels like reverse.
It might be. No, it's not reverse.
It's what's happening. You're the older person with the younger person? Well, no, I'm saying you get a little older and you can't take care of yourself, and then someone comes and takes care of you and then also takes everything.
He hasn't updated his will, has he? I hope not. Keep an eye on that.
I think we're going to get him. I think we're going to get him on PMT, guys.
I think we did a good job. Did we do a good job, Max? This is up to you.
You love love. I mean, I do love love.
You love love more than anybody. You love love.
I love love. This podcast loves love.
I want to say that if Bill is, if he's happy, if he's having mind-blowing sex and he's doing great and loves college life, good him good for far be it for me good for him far be it for me if he found his soulmate good for him for him hank i love love yes but you're not in love with love but maybe there's a world where we can still get him on and this isn't an issue that's all i'm saying yeah that would be that that would be great all right well you know what maybe we could all laugh about it how ridiculous this whole thing is and it's like who cares you could date whoever you want to date cbs, we're going to make a couple jokes, but the best way to know that it doesn't bother you, Jordan, is to let Bill Belichick come on the show. Yeah.
And it's like, you're not controlling anything. Because we made a couple jokes here and there.
Love, love. Love, love.
That's really what it all comes down to is we love, love on this show, no matter how it looks, how it sounds, how many times you interrupt an interview. We love, love.
Well, that's where it gets tricky is that, you know, she's also responsible for a lot of the social media stuff. Correct.
So she has to be in the room. It's literally her job to be in the room.
So what do you want? You don't think that women can have jobs? Is that what you're saying? Here's the problem. That she shouldn't be allowed in the room? Here's the problem.
A lot of people in today's day and age don't respect a strong, powerful woman. That's the problem here.
They think they see a strong, powerful woman, and they just start throwing around the B word or the C word, and that's bullshit see her doing her job making sure that hot button issues aren't brought up yeah on what should be a fluffy interview and your thought is automatically why isn't she just making him a sandwich in the kitchen yeah i think that's fucked up yeah i think she's doing her job and she's doing it exceedingly well correct women can be bosses too so if you don't love, then you're a misogynist and you also hate love. Hank, how are we doing? Are we falling apart? I think we absolutely nailed this.
Things got to be said. I don't know what to say.
I don't know. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Put that on a quotient card. Things got to be said.
I don't know what to say. Wait wait which things have to be said just things things do have to have we said wait have we said any of the things that have to be said like we're not getting belichick on the podcast we said great things about jordan in this i said i love love i said This is exactly what I'm saying.
It is what it is.

Things have to be said.

Right.

Answer me this, Hank.

What was the goal of this interview?

Of the Belichick interview?

Yes.

To promote his new book.

Did the book get promoted?

Yep.

Did she do a great job?

I haven't seen a lot of online discourse about the book.

Well, it's promoting the book.

I've seen some.

Really? Yeah. In an interview for bill belichick's new book his young girlfriend interrupted several times but they've got the part about the book in there she is young girlfriend interrupted his young girlfriend who is age appropriate uh interrupted several times but really she was just interrupting with her love sorry for her love they can't stand to be apart we fucking crushed yeah we're gonna get him on we're gonna get him on i love love bill all right send this straight to her uh all right we're gonna let's do our she's already heard it with peter schrager and then we got stavros in studio, which was very, very funny.
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Okay, we now welcome on our very good friend, recurring guest. He's now part of ESPN.

Congratulations on that. It's Peter Schrager.
He was at the draft. He's fresh home from Green Bay.
So we wanted to have you on to basically get you to dump your brain to us on what occurred the last three days. And I think we should start, obviously, with the biggest story, Shador Sanders.
I heard your take earlier in the week. I thought it was pretty apt and it then turned out to be true but what did you hear and what exactly occurred because I think from my perspective I didn't think he was going to be a first rounder I knew that going in I thought he was going to go in the second then when it went Dylan Gabriel and Jalen Millrall I think everyone's like what the hell is going on so what happened and what's kind of of the takeaway from the whole thing all right so what i said uh on simmons's podcast last week was that i don't think

he's going to go in the first round and yet you're not going to hear that being vocalized like it's

just not worth it the juice is not worth the squeeze and what i meant was look we we don't

know that so it's safer to put any quarterback in the first round when they're being rumored as a

first round quarterback even if you're hearing you don't have a team necessarily and in the case of

Thank you. We don't know that.
So it's safer to put any quarterback in the first round when they're being rumored as a first round quarterback, even if you're hearing you don't have a team necessarily. And in the case of Shador, I think a lot of people were pulling for him to go in the first round in the media.
And I'm not speaking on behalf of anybody else. I just know Dion has been an icon for all of us growing up.
He's also been a colleague of many of the people in the media. He worked at NFL network for 15 years.
He also has been with CBS. He's worked with ESPN.
He's got a documentary on Amazon. He does stuff.
He does his own show with to be, he does a lot of interviews. So it's like, what's the win? Barstool sports.
He does barstool. Of course he did.
We're very biased. No joke.
I've totally forgot about that, the college stuff that you guys did with him. So it's like you start thinking about it and you're like, all right, so he's a borderline first round pick.
And I do a mock draft. I put him 21 to the Steelers.
I do one mock draft. And you would have thought I had put him going in the seventh round, the response.
And it wasn't from Dion. But the media started believing that, all right, he'll go somewhere in the first round.
But my job is different than Louis Riddick or Mel Kriper or Daniel Jeremiah. My job is to get on the phones and get things from the teams.
And I did not have a single team who was like, if Shador falls to us, we're taking him. Right.
So I went through the different teams that needed quarterbacks. I put them to the Steelers on a hope and a prayer.
And I went on get up on Thursday morning and said, guys, I literally put a blindfold on and pointed to the Steelers and said, if any coach can unilaterally say like, he's my guy, I'm taking him. It's Tomlin.
They needed a quarterback. And I know his meeting went really well with them two weeks ago.
Like I know it. He went there Friday.
He was there for five hours. They loved him.
And Arthur Smith liked him. Tomlin liked him.
So I'm like, it makes sense. But in the same breath on that episode of get up guys, I was like, or he's not getting drafted in the first round.
And, And then it starts. Now, that's all good.
I never, never thought he would slip to day three. But in the aftermath of it, you start doing it out and you're like, all right, if a guy comes in, he's like every interview saying, I'm going to change your franchise.
I'm going to change your culture. And I've got all this stuff that comes with it.
As a starter, like, yeah, let's go. But now you're talking about backup.
It's almost less easy to find a spot to be a backup than it is to be a starter. And my last thing on Shador, and we can get into all the aftermath of the prank call and everything, was such an unorthodox, untraditional, unprecedented prospect in the fact that he played for his dad in high school, played for his dad at Jackson State, played for his dad at Colorado.
You go up to Boulder, everyone tells you Dion has that thing dialed in, but it's unlike any other program. Bruce Feldman had a quote where he was explaining, you go in there, Dion just runs it all.
Who could talk to the kid? Who could talk to this? And it's a party, but it's also a very unorthodox situation up there with how Dion was running it. Then he accepts an invite to the East-West Shrine game.
And then the NFL sends out a memo. It's like, you have to practice and decides not to practice or play in the game.
Goes to the combine, interviews with teams, and then doesn't work out, which a lot of people have not done, but doesn't do it. And also declined an opportunity to go to the senior bowl, declined the big 12 workout.
So you have this unorthodox prospect and you wouldn't do all that stuff unless you're a first round pick. Like Caleb Williams can do that stuff or Andrew Luck can do that stuff.
If you're not a surefire top pick, usually you want to throw and you want to work out and you want to do all this stuff. So it was just an unorthodox thing, but I don't think anyone saw it sliding down to the fifth round.
And when he finally was drafted, I think it was a relief for everyone because A, it sucks for the kid. B, it sucks for all the people who are watching it.
And C, it sucked for the media who all said to the viewers that he was going to be a first-round pick. Yeah.
I don't feel bad for the media. Yeah.
Well, I don't feel bad for the media at all because he was the best thing for the media because the ratings were huge on Saturday. Yeah.
Like everybody was watching the draft to see where he was going to go. And usually it's funny, like having a quarterback that's a coach's son, that's usually a checkmark in like the good column for people.
Not coaches are dion obviously and things get run a little bit differently like you said um so there was a report that the interview with the giants went really really poorly i don't know if you talked to anybody in the giants i don't know how an interview can go that bad because it made it seem like the interview from hell like you walked in double birds dx walked out like how how did that interview go? So I've heard that multiple places. And I was listening to Rissolo and McShay last night on McShay's podcast.
I got back from the draft and I'm like, I need to like unwind. So what am I going to do? I'm going to listen to more draft talk.
And they were recapping it all. And I heard Todd listing out what he heard.
And then that was secondhand. And I think a lot of people said they heard that story too.
I talked to the Giants daily and I, and I'll tell you, I have not heard that. If what I have heard is that they love Jackson Dart since January.
So like this thing, like Dable, like that was his guy. So he loved neighbors last year in the draft and was basically like, that's my guy.
And as much as Joe Shane and the staff was with Shador and all that stuff, Like Dable's dude was dark. I did not hear anything of an altercation.

And I don't know if it was with Deion or Shador, but as someone who's covering it objectively, and look, I'm not saying there wasn't something because everyone's got different sources, but my contact with the Giants, my conversation with the Giants, that was no such thing, and they actually liked Shador a lot. It just wasn't even a debate.
It was was Shador or Dart and it was Dart from pretty much January and Dable's eyes yeah it's it's kind of a crazy story just because I think if he's he he's a good quarterback not a great quarterback if he was a great quarterback everyone will put up with whatever comes with it and it's very funny because the media was complicit in building him up and then when it's wrong you could see the media complicit in tearing him down where like I think I saw it uh maybe it was NFL Network they were like oh the Rico case just came out on Shador and it was like a four minute segment about how awful he was in every interview and this all comes out you know after Friday where everyone's trying to cover their ass being like well this is why we had him as a first rounder and he's not going in the first round so the whole thing becomes like a clusterfuck you know yeah and i will say this tom pellicero who's a very good reporter there in nfl network came out with his annual column where it's here's 12 000 words on everything and he had the anonymous quote on wednesday or tuesday where it was like it was the worst formal interview I've ever seen. It was anonymous.
And everyone's reaction was, F this anonymous scout and why would Tom post this? And then afterwards it was like, oh, well they tried sullying and bringing him down. But I don't know if Tom's report was then justified because he went in the fifth round or if you really think like Tom's report was so damaging to Shador that I assure you this,

a team was not planning on drafting Shador Sanders in the first round and

then read a Tom Pellicero column on NFL.com and said,

now wait a second.

If a random assistant coach who,

who doesn't have his name on this says that it was a bad interview,

well then we can't take them.

So I almost,

I understand where people get very sensitive about that stuff.

Thank you. coach who who doesn't have his name on this says that it was a bad interview well then we can't take him so i almost i understand where people get very sensitive about that stuff tom it was on his decision to post to actually use it not use it he did he went for it and then the guy went in the fifth round and a lot of people said it was because of the interviews and and what you said at the beginning is exactly i think what happened is that listen we're we're friends with dion I think there's a lot of people who are friends with Deion.
If Shador goes in the first round and you are someone who's like, he's not a first-round quarterback, the backlash is going to be strong. So it's easier to just be like, I think he might be a first-round quarterback.
We do that too. My hand is up.
I'm biased. So that plays into it.
My first week at ESPN was April and I walked into Get Up and, you know, the topics on Get Up, which is their morning show in the production meeting is like, should Shador go second to the Browns or third to the Giants? And I like, I'm like, all right, I'm like, this is my new job and these people are awesome. And I am trying to, and like, I kind of go for it.
And I'm like, guys, I don't think he necessarily goes in the top 20. And they're like, well, he'll certainly go at least to the Saints.
And I'm like, guys, and then Greenberg's looking at me like, really? And I'm like, yeah, this is April 1st. I'm like, I don't know.
I don't have a team. And I didn't have a team the following week.
And I didn't have a team the following week. And then I eventually am like, I think Jackson Dart might go before him.
And then it was like, what? So it's this awkward thing where you're like, the rest of the media wasn't going with it just quite yet. And I'm sure there were others.
I think McShay was early on it. This is not going the same way.
Yeah. But it's not comfortable because we don't want to be negative.
But when you see everyone else and the consensus saying, oh, he's a second quarterback off the board, if Cam Ward is the first, you start questioning your sources. But I have sources in 32 buildings, and I did not have a first-round team for Shador up until the draft.
I also think that even if the interviews went really, really poorly, like if Dion was there sitting behind him the whole time, like Belichick's girlfriend being like, we're not answering that question. If Shadour was good enough, a team would have taken him the first or second round.
Right. The talent is, I mean, you see it all the time.
There's character concerns with a lot of guys who get picked. And it's just like, it doesn't matter.
No doubt. And I almost think it's not like, you know, the big question is, did Dion cause him to slide? dion did not cause him to slide this is that if you draft him you're drafting a player that if he's your starting quarterback like you said and you're going all in like but as a backup it's a totally different conversation so i don't think anyone they didn't he didn't have the electric speed or the huge arm or the winds or the anything to necessarily be a first round pick.
And then once you're not a first round pick, then it's like, wait, but there's all that that comes with it. Is he definitely dedicated to being a backup? Because you never want to get into that thing.
But it's like, I remember covering when the Eagles brought in Tebow as like the third string, and it couldn't last because cameras, whether it's Tebow's fault or not cameras,

weren't dealing with Sam Bradford and Mark Sanchez.

It was like,

let's go right to Tebow.

It's just an uncomfortable situation.

I don't think it'll be the case in Cleveland.

Maybe it will,

but like it,

it's a,

it did.

It's an easier spot to draft someone with that celebrity at first round.

I will say this about Belichick's interview.

Did you guys watch it?

Yeah,

I just saw the clip. Yeah.
I thought that was just a regular girlfriend. Yeah, like people's girlfriends do that all the time.
They're always involved in stuff. I work in television.
You guys work in media. CBS Sunday Morning is the nicest, most pleasant.
This is not 60 Minutes. This is not real sports.
It's bullshit. They left it in.
I would say the opposite. My thought is this.
I think you hate love. Yeah.
No, no, no, no. My thought is this.
I'm on this show. I'm a romantic.
Yeah. If that's the version that CBS Sunday Morning did while they're promoting a book for him, what was left on the cutting room floor? Oh, that's really negative of you, Peter.
Also, Peter, you're getting Belichick weighed. He's having his Belichick weigh with you because what's he doing? He's promoting a book, right? That clip got so many more impressions.
It did. So much more recognition for his book.
So smart's gonna sell a shit load of books so smart

yeah i would say that interviewer tony from cbs that was that was as hard-hitting or as like straight on and direct an interview i've ever seen with like everyone in nfl media where i'm at it's always like timidly going around belichick and then you laugh at like his snap face thing even though you don't really think it's funny this guy is just like so let's talk about jordan i'm like Good journalism.

Here we go.

All right.

So, Peter, back to the draft.

Sorry.

Sorry. even though you don't really think it's funny.
This guy is just like, so let's talk about Jordan. I'm like, yeah, good journalism.
Here we go. All right, so Peter, back to the draft.
Sorry, sorry. We always laugh at the draft grades.
You don't know. Everyone loves their draft class.
Everyone thinks they did a great job. Is there, though, a team or two that you can point to and be like, they really, like what they were able to do filled a lot of holes and they're going to be able to build off this.
The giants have had the roughest reputational year that a team can imagine with what happened. And it was Saquon.
It was hard knocks. It was also Xavier McKinney going on to have about 10 picks and being the best safety in football.
And in the matter of three days, Joe Shane and Brian Dable have completely changed a conversation around this team where like every Giants fan is like back on board. They're like, let's go.
And they did it by getting maybe the best player in this draft in Carter, trading back up and smartly trading back up to where they had to get 24, where if you had done it at 16, you might've had to give up too much. Like they played the game of chicken perfectly with whoever else might've traded up.
And then to get Scadaboo and Marcus Bowe and to get Alexander, like every single position of need that they had, they checked the box. And I'm telling you, it reputationally, it's the first ray of light since that hard knock stuff aired last summer.
And Joe Shane has been a punchline in a lot of places. I think today, like Giants fans and we're doing this Sunday night are like, you know what? Shane did a pretty good job.
Now, look, they could go three and 14 and that's that. And we laugh about this, but like at the very least, they got impact players at better values than anyone expected.
Yeah. And I think the Giants, like the strategy of like before you can be good at everything, you got to be great at one thing.
And they're going to be very, very difficult to block up front. Like that, that, that defensive line is going to be a problem.
And it's like, you can, if you can build off one great unit, you can start playing competitive football. What other team would you say? You know, I, I actually think the 49ers did a really nice job getting back to their basics.
This is a team that always prided themselves on defensive line. And over the years, because of attrition, they've lost Armstead.
Bosa wasn't what he was last year as he was in recent years. And then they were just like, we're going to beef up on defensive line.
They get, you know, Williams in the 11th pick, but then they add another defensive lineman. They add another defensive lineman.
And then if you know that defense, it's like Chris Kocerik is their defensive line coach. He's the one who's always barking.
And it's like, that is where it all starts for them. So I don't know if any of these guys are going to go on to be all pros, but at the very least, Salah and Kocerik, they can get back to basics.
They've got this fleet of defensive linemen that they can put around Nick Bosa. And then their last pick, they got this kid, Nathan Rourke, the quarterback, who is whatever.
He's a story that if he followed it during the combine, it's one of these long shot stories. He won't play this year, but that's a guy that I trust Kyle Shanahan took a guy in the late rounds at quarterback.
I would bank on that other than more than any other coach in the NFL. So they must have seen something in him.
Is there a certain pick that you absolutely loved? Maybe a guy that fell further than you thought they would and it's great value? What's your steal of the draft? That's a great question. I think, yeah, I'm not trying to butter up the guy that we're sitting here with, but like, I was the biggest Colston Loveland fan in the entire NFL draft process.
And I thought he might have gone seven to the Jets, might have gone eight to the Panthers. Everyone thought it was a reach that he went before Warren.
I spoke with Bears people the night of the draft and they were like, it's not like we had Loveland like one and then a huge gap and two.

It's like,

it's like, it's not like we had Loveland like one and then a huge gap and two. It was one and 1A and we didn't know if either one of them would be there.
And then at the end of the day, they're like, what we do is speed and what we need in this offense. This is the guy.
He's six foot six guys. He is.
And he's awesome. Two years ago when they actually had a quarterback and JJ McCarthy was throwing, he was all over the field.
Last year he was injured and then there was no quarterback play. The fact he goes before Warren raised a lot of eyes, but I find it impossible with the hiring of Ben Johnson, with a new offensive line, with bringing in Joe Tooney, with then bringing in this kid, and then also having Luther Burden on the outside,

who if you saw Ben Johnson's press conference,

he was Jamison Williams' high school teammate.

And Jamo was like to Ben Johnson, like, oh, this guy's just like me.

He's a dog.

He's a nut.

He's nuts.

He's going to be the leader in the locker room.

So they have all these new weapons.

And I think Colston Loveland, I don't know if he's a fantasy guy or not,

but I think he makes this Bears offense even scarier. So Dan, I credit this is a good one what about a late round pick somebody that was taking fifth round or later that that you you expect to do better than you might yeah you know you could get i can give you like a random skill position player and be like i love the the pick of this guy i was shocked that quinn ewers went as late as he went to the Dolphins.
And like, I don't know if he's, because you got Zach Wilson as the backup and you got Tua as the starter, but to get him in the seventh round, like that was straight up bizarre. But the kid that the Rams, okay, so I'm obviously tied in with the Rams and I know those guys really well.
And the kid that they were talking about for like days and days with me, and I know they had a Zoom with him the day before or the Wednesday before was the running back at Auburn, Jarquez Hunter is his name. And he's one of these guys that like McVay fell in love with.
Les Snead went to Auburn. He's an Auburn guy and he's not going to replace Karen Williams, but this is the battering Ram that goes with Karen Williams.
And like, when I tell you they acted as if they'd gotten a first round pick on day three when they got this guy. So just knowing my connection to the Rams, I would assure you that Jarquez Hunter is a, it's going to play a role and he's a fourth round pick.
Uh, and they were literally doing flips over adding him as a running back to this team. That sounds like a guy I'm going to pick up in fantasy after he scores three touchdowns and then never score again.
Yeah. Yeah, like he gets a good one.
Yeah, week two, like Williams has a sprained ankle. He gets three goal-line carries, converts all of them.
And then, yeah, he has the alarm clock issue graded for the Patriots and nothing else. That was great.
So, yeah, he sounds like a very interesting pick. I want to talk real quick about your new colleague, Mel Kuyper, just to make sure he's okay.
Yeah. Is he? Is Mel okay? Because he looked like he was going to cry a little bit.
He said that the NFL has been clueless for 50 years when it comes to evaluating quarterbacks. First of all, is he doing okay? He is.
First time I've ever worked with Mel Kiper. I had met him before briefly and obviously grew up watching him.
We don't do the same thing. I'm always the one who's like, here's what an NFL team told me.
And he's like, here's what I think of a player. I don't think, and for the amazing luck of him, I don't think Mel lives online or on Twitter.
I don't think he saw any of this. I agree with that.
Yeah. So that interaction.
Yeah. You wouldn't have kept doing it if you had seen any of it.
I don't, and I don't, and I actually think it's really compelling content as much as you guys want to throw a shoe at me. Like it felt like the one thing the internet all agreed on was that like he was in the wrong, but I'm sitting there on the broadcast and I'm at the edge of my seat.
And I'm like, this guy's really passionate about this. And I actually love that because I worked with Daniel Jeremiah for years.
I think he's the best and the best guy. And you guys know he's amazing.
And I've this year working with Mel and with Field Yates and like Louis Riddick

and these guys do the work. Those guys, I've never seen them actually be upset about a draft pick.

It's usually here's what this guy brings. Here's what this guy does.
I'll tell you about his game

against Ohio state two years ago. And here this guy's story when he went to Iowa and had to

transfer like, and they're amazing at it. And Field Yates is like an encyclopedia.
I worked

with him this week. I'm like, this guy's amazing.
Mel Kuyper is passionate and defensive of the players. And I think that's a dying breed.
So to me, is he okay? I think he's fine. I actually think it actually brought a lot to the broadcast.
Now, whether you thought they focused too much on it, that's another question. But I love the fact that he was actually passionate.
And if you he was he was wrong that's a different story but like gosh that added a lot more entertainment value than just hearing all right here's what i like about this sixth round pick here's what i love about this seventh round pick they all can't be superstars and yet you listen to the most of us in the draft thing we're like this guy's great this guy's great this guy's great mel kiper's like what about chador yeah well I mean, you're right, but I should give some context to the listeners.

Schrager is a stoolie.

He's a Barstool fan, and one of his favorite people to watch is when Frank the Tank watches

Mets games.

Schrager will text me live updates.

So similar to Frank the Tank watching the Mets game, that's what Mel Kuyper was doing.

He was having a complete meltdown live on air, and I agree it was compelling I was glued to it I know a lot of people were glued to it so credit to Mel I don't know if he did that on purpose but I was very entertained I'll add this I think he's so in the film and so into like his evaluations that like I I don't think he, I don't think he's considering like the fact that Shador has a, as a crew filming him and that, you know, might rub some people wrong or that Shador, you know, at an interview, like that stuff doesn't, he's a film guy. So whether it's, and he's like, I've watched every snap of Shador Sanders' career.
Like, this guy is amazing. This guy is awesome.
So like the fact that he was outraged by it and you saw him listing off the quarterbacks, I freaking loved it. And I hope, I hope he brings that passion back next year.
And I know I sound like, I would have said that if I was an NFL network, I would have said that if I'm Peter Schrager, an peter schrager uh working in a law office somewhere or peter schrager a garbage man i love that i thought it was entertaining and if we don't have that it's all right a lot of us say it's like you know okay well what's what's going on with shador well i want to you know mel brought the fire i loved it yeah we don't want to see guys reading names off a spreadsheet you're're right. And if you're right or if you're wrong, it made it interesting.
Absolutely. And you're right.
The good comparison would be Frank the Tank. Yeah.
It's like, oh, another team that's going to regret passing on Shadr. If he had glasses, he would have eaten them.
Yeah, he would have. I think he did have glasses.
He did have glasses. He should have eaten them.
Yeah, someone should check up on that. Peter, I know we're not critical of teams as much, or at least you don't have a lot of relationships but what was the draft where you're like that was kind of weird i don't really understand their strategy all right so if you if you look if you talk to me like whatever and said the jaguars are going to trade up to two and the browns are going to trade down to five i'm not piling on the browns at all i i they collected all these picks what's crazy is if you look at the entire Jaguars draft class, you say, okay, they got Travis Hunter and they sacrificed and they gave up a draft pick and that's fine.
If you look at the entire Browns draft class, they absolutely crushed it. The only oddity is the two quarterbacks.
So that steals the headlines and everyone's like, well, the Browns, what are they thinking? They got Dylan Gabriel, then two rounds later, they draft Shador. But they added starters at like every position and they picked up a first round pick.
So I think the head scratcher, of course, is the two quarterbacks. But talking to them yesterday in real time and then this morning, it's like at 144 and it's the quarterback position and the value is the most important position like all right we'll take them but like if you just ignore the shock and awe of drafting two quarterbacks in you know rounds like that they actually did really well so to me my answer is not dodging a bullet it's just like I think a lot of people scratch their heads at why would you take another quarterback but the truth of the matter is it's kind of a luxury pick they already did clean up and get a lot of important players yeah no i kind of agree that if you don't have a quarterback why not just draft a bunch of quarterbacks yeah and see if one one pans out your team did it you had rg3 right and then in the fourth round you took cousins worked out yeah yeah rg3 was great the first year and then cousins was great for the next couple you know yeah and with the vikings yeah but no but you're, you took Cousins.
Worked out great for us. RG3 was great the first year, and then Cousins was great for the next couple.
Yeah, and with the Vikings, yeah. But you're right.
I do see the logic behind it, especially if you don't have one. Speaking of Kirk, he was a name that was tossed around a little bit before the draft.
Is he going to be traded? Is some team going to make a move, trading some picks over? No move happened. Were there actual calls going out? Was that a possibility leading up to the draft? There wasn't any real trades.
There was a Sam Howell trade which Schefter broke, but there wasn't any of those trades. And we had a whole list of names that were going to be traded.
I don't think the Steelers are going to make any moves for a bit until they have clarity on Rodgers, obviously. I would imagine if Rodgers says no, they might be a team that might be in the Kirk Cousins sweepstakes.
But I can't imagine the Falcons week one paying Kirk Cousins that salary and having Michael Penix be the starter. I just don't know where he goes and when.
But if you're the Falcons, you can't have that guy with that salary as much as they say it.

And this is just me talking.

I know the NFL well enough where like that guy's that guy can't be on the right.

He's a great teammate and the whole thing.

And he showed up to spring camp, but you can't be paying him that number to be a backup.

Yeah, I would agree with that.

There was a report that came out earlier today that Roger Goodell says that he wants 16

international games a year soon.

Have you heard anything about that?

And have you communicated to Roger Goodell that we do not want the Super Bowl in London? Okay, Phil, let's go through that. So I think it's not going to all be at once.
They're going to build, but they've already established UK can do it. They established Germany can do it.
They established Brazil can do it. What he said, which was wild, is he's like, you know, we're thinking about going to Asia.
And now I'm like, okay. And what they do is they show up in the city and then it's like, it's a two week event and it's, there's flag football.
There's all these things. Like, it's almost like a traveling road show.
I do think he means it. And that was a real report.
And he said it that, 16 games is not off the table and that they figure it out scheduling-wise.

And as for London, I can't imagine there's going to be a Super Bowl there, but guess what?

If they have 16 games internationally and London becomes a market where there's multiple games a year, it's certainly going to be in the conversation, especially with the popularity in the stadiums.

And right now, I don't see it happening in the next two to three, four Super Bowl assignments, but it could happen. Absolutely.
I didn't think there would ever be more than three international games. They're talking about a full schedule now.
And here's what's interesting with that. I worked on Fox's pregame show for years.
And it was like, we'd have crazy ratings at our little kickoff show, which was before the big one. Now it's from 11 to 12 Eastern.
But when they would have these international games, nobody watched. You'd rather watch any game than a pregame show talking about the other games.
So you'd go over to ESPN or NFL Network, wherever it was. And those games start at 930 Eastern.
It's usually in the fourth quarter when the pregame shows are going on if you have 16 games does that my question is does that single handedly cripple the the idea of a sunday pregame show like wouldn't you i feel like most fans but even if it's jaguars titans or it's saints like most fans you watch the game over hearing what the guys have to say about the games coming up so i I wonder about the windows, the time windows, because if you do a 16 game international schedule, the thought process would be, that's another package you can sell. You could sell that to Netflix.
Hey, here's a full season. You could sell it to Amazon and it's the 9.30 AM early window, uh, Eastern.
And then it goes games at 9.30 to one games from one to four and then games from four to to seven and then your game at seven and it's just all day and it it's kind of cool but you know I'm a I'm a sentimental guy I would hope to think that those pregame shows still exist even if there's games in that window well what happens if it's in Asia with the time zones because that's that's the other way around right so if you're talking like Hong Kong, that's exactly 12 hours off where we are right now.

They'd have to figure it out.

You play like a Monday morning game

and just have it broadcast Monday night in America?

I don't know.

Yeah, yeah, they'd figure it out.

I'm sure they're not going to just drop it

into whatever time slot.

They'd figure it out and we'd work around it.

But like, you know,

there's going to be three Christmas games moving forward.

There were no Christmas games two years ago like that's that's what they do and it's it's what they're gonna be doing and the schedule is coming out may 14th i'm curious to see some of these windows some of these games where who gets the international like i i'm a geek with this stuff. I think schedule release day is,

I know we all roll our eyes and social media teams do it.

I find the science behind the schedule

and I know the guys who are working on it,

this guy Mike North,

this other woman Charlotte Carey,

Ani Bose, these guys,

once the season ends,

this is their full-time job.

They are working on every permutation

to make sense so that no team feels screwed, but also you get the most maximum eyeballs when possible. So as little as like, does Travis Hunter give the Jaguars more than one primetime game? Like, I love that shit.
So that's going to be May 14th, and that's really the next milestone. But the international games, we're going to find out when, where, who, and like the matchups coming up.
Well, Aaron Rodgers is holding that up. We were talking to Matt LaFleur last week.
He did not know when the Packers would be playing, that they might play in Ireland against the Steelers. But we think that the NFL is waiting to schedule that game until they know who the quarterback of the Steelers is going to be.
So when are we going to find out? I don't know if Aaron Rodgers has talked to anybody about what he's doing besides what we've heard on McAfee, where he does like 20 minutes and doesn't really say anything.

Yeah.

But it has to happen soon, right?

Well, I'll tell you this.

He did his tour and met with or spoke with the Giants, spoke with the Steelers.

He told the Giants, said, hey, look, I'm going to be completely transparent with you. I have no timetable.
I don't know when I'm going to know. And I don't know if I'm going to come back.
And if that doesn't work with you, totally cool. Move on.
No resentment here. I just have to be completely straight up and honest.
And he and Dable got along really well. And Dable went back and him and Shane were like, we can't wait on him.
They signed Jameis. They signed Russell Wilson.
They drafted a quarterback. They're on their way.
The Steelers approach was the same exact thing. He had an awesome meeting with them.
They hit it off. It was great.
And they left it as like, okay. And they didn't sign another player.
And they drafted Will Howard in the draft. And now it's Mason Rudolph and Will Howard and they're waiting.
But he was transparent with them all along and I could tell you as of Sunday night when we're recording this, he has not given them any word whether he's coming or not yet. That's fascinating.
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So, give us one more team where you talk to them and it's like, okay, I understand everyone's excited about their draft, but they really feel like they did it. Because I like getting excited for different teams for different teams you're like oh they feel like i think the cardinals did really well give me a team give me another team that you think you know who are fine okay i'm gonna think about like a fired up coach that i can get okay you know who i'll tell you who's fired up and i would have to even google like and you guys can bring it up i spoke with both guys in minnesota today and i know they They were the timberwolves lakers game but like the minnesota vikings were really fired up about their draft and i can't even tell i think they took donovan jackson in the first round an offensive lineman do you have the minnesota draft class i would love to go through it because i literally cannot recall who they got in other rounds and yet both of them were like fired they got ty felton from maryland yeah donovan jackson was their first i mean they've really done a good job with their uh with their offensive line in the offseason like i feel like that's what they maybe that's what it was right if you're a vikings fan like they didn't they didn't go timidly into this thing they they had their interests what they wanted and talking to quacy talking to o'connell like fired up and like we did very well this week they traded for sam howell right uh yeah they did say how's that's a veteran quarterback i don't think that's what's got them doing no i know but it's nice to have it's nice to have someone especially with you know the coach that they have with kevin no doubt tampa bay was fired up tampa bay uh spoke to those guys they didn't think that they were going to get a chance to get a buka there and there he lies there at that end and then let me give you a name of a guy that they were in you could tell steven shea this they were fired up about hold on i'll get you the name here shiloh sanders no david walker let's do a little david walker deep dive here folks i don't know i don't know what position he plays i don't know anything I'm just checking the text here.
David Walker. Let's do a little David Walker deep dive here, folks.
I don't know what position he plays. I don't know anything.
I'm just checking the text here. David Walker, Buccaneers.
And this is not embarrassing to me. This is what it is.
Okay, fourth round outside linebacker, David Walker. All right, former, that's it.
This is good radio and good podcasting. David Walker, that's the guy.
Buccaneers fired up, Bell. I like that.
I need a name. What about one undrafted free agent where you're like, oh, how did that guy not get picked? Restrepo.
Yeah. He lost a lot of Miami.
I don't understand. Would he run like a 5-2-40? Maybe.
But like that guy, it's a classic case of like, I watch college football. That guy makes a play every single time they throw it to him.
Cam Ward loves him. And he's to the Titans.
I love that. Watch.
Restrepo's going to be like the number three receiver and he'll have 60 catches and he'll be a great NFL player. But like, how does he not get drafted? I don't get it.
I know it's a slow 40. Big deal.
That guy made plays all season long. It was the number one guy for that quarterback.
So I'm a big Isaiah Restrepo fan. I like that.
I'd like to see that. Yeah.
I want to see like a slow guy really succeed in the NFL. That'd be awesome.
Bring back slow guys. Hold on.
I said Isaiah Restrepo. It's Xavier Restrepo.
We didn't correct you in real time. Sorry, Xavier.
Hopefully you guys knew. I was so intimidated listening to McShay and Rusillo because they're watching it in real time and they know everything.
I'm like, I cover the NFL from a different angle. I don't watch a ton of college football, so I was like, felt so emasculated listening to them being like, oh, Neil, they're running back out of Kansas.
Remember what he did? I'm like, that's a different world. I do the draft.
That's what I do. But the stories behind the draft, you do very well and we appreciate it.
Sorry for keeping you up late. You have get up in the morning.
Congrats on the new. Tell Greeny.
I say hello, please. Is there a relationship? Do you guys know each other? We're just great friends.
We're just great friends. Yeah.
Tell him PFT said hello. Yeah.
Do, do that. I actually know you will do that.
PFT sends his regards. Yeah, I will do that.
I'll tell you a quick story. We're driving over to the, uh, to the, to the draft yesterday, Saturday morning.
And I did say to Mel Kuyper, I'm like, you know, Mel, I don't know you that well. I'm like, every time you do an interview, it's like you bring the same energy and the same juice.
Even when it's like local, like Jacksonville ESPN, every time I hear you, like you always bring it. I'm like, you're so good.
He goes, ah, I love doing it. I feel like such an honor still 42 years in.
And I'm like, I vaguely remember you doing one with, with PMT. Like, I love those guys.
Do you, do you remember it? He goes, is that big cat? I go, yes, that's big cat. He goes, he goes, yeah, yeah.
Those guys are great. Those guys are great.
Big cat. I love the big cat.
Big cat. And I'm like, all right, there you go.
So he, he, I don't know what year was that? He that he's a character yeah i know because we asked him all the questions about the mashed potato on the pizza that was like 2017 i think 2018 that was the first thing he thought of like if he had it well we'll invite him back on we'll see how it goes after he listens to today's episode well i just hope he's okay yeah i hope he's okay and and you're right it did make for compelling television yeah and i i i don't think he even knows that like the internet even was commenting which i love even better afterwards

he took a car back to the hotel and i saw him walking around the lobby and i'm like all right

he's fine yeah he's doing fine uh all right shrieks thank you so much uh and we'll hopefully see you

and talk to you maybe this summer when we get closer to uh training camp it's football football's

back it's back dude i want to get back on the bus. Let's go.
Yes, let's do it. All right, thanks, guys.
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That's betterhelp.com slash PMT. Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest, good friend of the show, great friend of the show.
It's Savros Halkius. He is on tour.
He's in Chicago, live in studio. Hell yeah.
All the boys saw you last night at the Chicago Theater. So you're on a nationwide tour.
When did you start the tour? February, end of February. And you have a bus, like a John Madden bus? Bro, I'm on Madden mode.
It's fucking awesome. So how sick is that? It's the best.
Dude, it's like you're living like the fanciest train car hobo of all time. It's just me and my boys.
And you guys, Eldis is my best friend. He's my producer on my podcast and my tour manager.
So it's just like I brought my friend Straight George to be the nutrition liaison. Is that the gay guy? He's actually straight.
Okay. He appears gay.
So that's where you make it really straight. Straight George.
He's just got it. Straight George.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I brought my friend to be the nutritionist.
His only qualification was he was really fat in college and he's not fat anymore. That's good enough.
Yeah, so. That's huge.
Wait, now when he got, what was the transition from really fat to skinny was it like overnight was it quick he just i don't know something snapped in his head we were like freshman year we met we were both big boys we both crushed we both like bonded over yeah when you get an unlimited meal plan as a fat kid yeah did that happen to you in wisconsin oh yeah like because you know i was poor and fat as hell so i had there were like monetary limits to how much I could eat. Right.
But when you get that, you swipe it and then they're not kicking you out of the soft serve. Dude, I had soft serve with cereal in it for dessert every meal.
I would put tricks in the vanilla soft serve or Captain Crunch every meal. And then if they had like an interesting pie or an interesting cake, I'm a little bit of that also yeah you know what i mean you would do like uh i i remember being like uh lunch would be like 15 chicken fingers and then dinner be like oh they got burgers or and there'd be like steak night or a lot weirdly lobster night or some shit and you'd get that and but you'd also just get whatever the fuck like a meatball sub if it.
And you wouldn't, like, I know that I didn't go to class a lot.

Like, I would read the book.

That was a trick to college.

Either you read the book or you go to class.

So I'd pick.

Respect.

I'd be like, some of them I'd go to class.

Some of them I just would never go and read the book.

So there'd be days where I would just, I'd like go down, eat my meals, go back up to

my dorm room, and then wait like four hours and then just go back down.

Yeah, when it resets. You got to wait until they refresh the buffet.
You didn't do anything in between. Well, you probably played some Halo, FIFA.
I watched PTI. Yeah.
I was like, oh man, I really worked up an appetite. Yeah.
Was your shit truly unlimited or was it like, did they make you think it was unlimited? Truly. There was a, you could start that way.
Yeah. And eventually you figured out you you were wasting some kind of credit or something.
But bro, just in the beginning to do the damage, I got so insanely fat. When you take the governor of poverty off of what a fat 19-year-old can do to himself, it's ugly.
Wait. So straight George, I had a question about it.
Yes, yes, yes. He got skinny.
Did he do the dickhead thing where he got skinny and started taking off his shirt all the time? No. So is he still like a fat guy in his brain? Because that's always, like everyone knows that guy who was fat, gets skinny, and then all of a sudden he's got his shirt off.
Like he takes his shirt off at weddings, takes his shirt off. Like if it's 55 degrees, he's like, oh man, I got to have my shirt off.
It's like, dude, shut the fuck up. Of course.
You were wearing sweatshirts when it was 90 degrees three years ago. I remember this.
Three years ago. You were a shirt in the pool guy.
Yeah, right. Like, as of this, in this presidential term.
Right. Don't act like, you know, you're brand new right now.
Yeah. No, he's a gentleman.
He still, I think he just pointed his eating disorder in the right direction. Got it.
Like, he hasn't cured himself and stuff like that He still is a little trapped You can't ever truly escape being a fat kid in your head You can do really well I feel like I've burst through it pretty good But it's always there on some level You do look good You look. You look very good.
You look awesome. When you were on stage last night, I was like, holy shit, Stavi.
Thank you. You're getting hot on us.
I appreciate it. That's how you got to set the bar so low that weighing 290 and being 5'7", people are like, Jesus Christ, what are you fucking...
You get surgery? You do look good, though. Thank you.
I appreciate it. Do you have any...
Is there any fear deep in your brain that's like, if I get super skinny, I'm not going to be funny? Well, I'll never be super skinny. I mean, that's ridiculous.
I'm never going Al Sharpton, Pez dispenser head mode. You know what I mean? When that weird shit happens, I'm never going that way.
I have always said big arms, little titties is the goal. That's not no titties.
That's little gentleman's titties. You know what I mean? And, like, get some big buys, big tries.
That's all I want is, like, bouncer physique. Like, I...
It's Tony Soprano. Dude, season one Tony Soprano is the hottest man that's ever lived, dude.
And that's all I want. The girls that wanted to fuck him, that's who I want to fuck me.
That's how I live my life. I'll never...
Being skinny is also not... What am I going to be? A balding, 42-year a balding 42 year old skinny guy right that's despicable right now's the time to be fat as shit yeah i'm gonna peak in my 40s that's it also like the pendulum's gonna swing back to to like the power of tony soprano like that's i think that that actually like you know we're kind of getting more alpha as a country that might just be the new thing i do think do think there is a...
I don't know about the trends overall, but in my age, as a single man in his mid-30s, now is the time where people are getting fat, they are getting bald, and they don't know how to deal with it. Right.
They are scared. You've been there.
I've been here. I'm Bane and they're fucking Batman.
You know what I mean? I'm breaking their back back. Don't worry about the end of that movie.
Just the middle. The third three quarters part of it.
When Bane was sick. Wait, do you remember? Because my problem is I've always had large breasts.
Do you remember the moment when you were a kid when you realized that you were overweight? Because I remember. Oh, wow.
You have a crystallized moment. I remember going to my friend's pool and my friends asked me.
I took my shirt off. My friends asked me if I could put my hands together, and I did that, and my breasts popped.
Oh, shit. And they laughed, and I looked down.
I was like, what are those? And it seared in my brain. I was like, I didn't know I had tits.
And from that moment on, it was like, because, you know, when you're like seven years old,

you don't fucking know.

Of course.

And then that moment happened.

You're blissfully unaware.

And the shame happened.

I was like, God damn it.

A true loss of innocence for little big cat.

That's the Joker.

He's looking at my tits.

It's not Bane.

That's Joker.

Put your arms together.

I'm like, oh, no.

And somebody taught him that.

Somebody's perpetuating fat phobia right there.

Yeah.

They were juicy, too.

They were nice.

Oh, so nice. I'm not built like that.
I'm not a fat a fat guy with tits honestly i'm a fat guy with a big ass belly i keep it pretty that's really what it's the huge spare tire never have i had big ass titties um i grew up with people i went to high school with people that had the kind of tits that like he would fuck with people and like take videos of his tits like soapy in gym class and he was like this like light skinned guy They just looked people and, like, take videos of his tits, like, soapy in gym class.

And he was, like, this, like, light-skinned guy.

And they just looked, like, awesome, like, Puerto Rican girls' titties.

And then you zoom out and it's, I won't say his name, but it was, like, this Arab kid with fat tits.

It was so fucking funny.

What a great joke to do in high school.

He literally made people, like, he would, like, make you horny and then be like,

Ha ha ha, you're fucking gay, dude. Which is, like, I don't know who's really losing there, but it was funny to make someone momentarily covet a man's breast.
You were talking about Costanza last night in your routine. And I saw there was some episode that came on the other day and Costanza took his shirt off.
And I looked at him, I was like, dude, not fat at all. He looks like a pretty powerful dude.
But the whole butt of the joke in that show was like, look at this fat piece of shit. He's such a fat piece of shit.
And now there is Newman who's even fatter. Yeah.
And also the shortness, I think, is also. Shortness, bald, loser.
You know what I mean? They kind of like, he does like, I'm a loser combo. He hits the multiplier.
But yes, he is still fat. He's he's not considered not fat and he just was like a regular guy that episode where he like takes his shirt off and it's like kramer's taking the pictures of him and he's like it's so funny that this guy would have his shirt off it's like i would true like if i got that size i would be worried yeah like that like to me that's not a fat guy right but he also has that he's kind of have has a fatter he has body.
Yeah. If you go back and watch anything from the 90s, everybody just went bald, and they'd have the real crown of hair around.
I'm actually a little upset that I have... Obviously, I'm not a man who hides his...
But I do kind of want to go straight horseshoe someday. So hopefully, I keep losing my hair.
So no going to Turkey.

We had a bunch of dudes from the office who went to Turkey.

I saw some videos.

Yeah, they took fans.

I think we're doing a second version this summer where we're going to find the baldest dude we can possibly find.

That's pretty fun, but I think you got to just take what the Lord gives you, man.

I got my shit done last October.

How's it feel?

Last September.

I only did it because I wanted to keep the long hair. Right.
And there's no worse looking. My hair goes down past that.
See, you know we disagree, though. Philosophically, I'm trying to get the bald ponytail.
Dude, I'm really trying to. I was in something, and they made me cut my hair, and I was so pissed because I was like, fuck, dude.
I don't want to have short hair, but I'm growing it back. I want to be a bald pony guy.
You also should. I've always dreamed of like if i ever got like fully bald especially the horseshoe i would just rock a horrendous toupee and just dare people to say shit i look dude absolutely there's phases i've planned out for baldness where it's like bald pony i gotta achieve right and the clock's ticking because you want to have weird fucked up front hair too you know like and pft who are you kidding you would look sick a skull i know i i think that it like i think you would look sick with a skull i think it my face i can't grow a beard either like i can't get a kid i got a fucked up but you know you know what it was i was standing in in the tsa line behind a guy who was about my height and about my build and he had long hair like me down to like you know the middle of his back and he was like i don't know probably two three years past where i was at that point and everybody in the tsi a-line was staring at this dude yeah and he had no idea that people were looking at him being like this guy looks terrible but that's how i was like i resolved at that moment i'm either i'm either cutting it all off sure or i'm going to keep it long and try to do i i kind of wish i just shaved it all off because like it sucks having long hair sometimes i don't know it is i love the look i know what you mean like it could have been an opportunity for you to kind of go drastic yeah something else but i just think you're you're committed to this bald bald long hair bald like gambling prognosticator yeah bald pony you know what i mean the way you dress like come on dude it's all this could have been the next the next phase of PFT.
You get into, like, you know, plaid suits and, like, really looking like a fucking down-and-out gambling horse track. Yeah.
You got to think about, like, right now I'm with you. In 10 years, you're going to wish you had a bald ponytail.
Yeah, 50 years old. Yeah, it might go again.
I don't know. I've been very diligent about taking my medicine.
You see a guy with a bald, who's bald ponytail, and it's like, that guy has had something catastrophic happen in his life. Like, it's like, oh, you know, he was a professor at Princeton until something horrendous happened.
Yes. He lost all his money in stocks or, you know, horse racing.
It's powerful one way or the other. Yeah.
Because it's like- He's got a story. That energy, yes.
He's got a story. That energy, everyone, all eyes on you, brother.
And it's like, are you man enough to handle that? It's like, I made it through something. That guy with that look has never been a boring person.
Exactly. You just sit down and you're like, hey, what happened? They'll just tell you everything.
Either it's the worst shit that's ever happened to him, or he doesn't even realize. He thinks he's fucking so sexy.
Yeah, right, right. What I want to be, Danny DeVito in Twins, rewatch that movie, dude.

He's so awesome.

He's like four foot tall bald pony slaying hole.

My man is just getting pussy left and right.

And the whole thing is like he's a pussy hound that mistreats women.

And Arnold Schwarzenegger is like his perfect brother that respects women.

It's a great movie.

But anyway, that's who i want to be one day

yeah toupee i would love to do at some point balding blonde skullet at some point you know what i mean like really get the like trash going i have a lot of designs for my horrible hair so so you said when we sat down that you've been walking 20 000 steps a day yeah is that should Should we credit Frank?

Ooh.

Is that Frank Walks?

Are you a Frank Walks?

I like my...

Successful. thousand steps a day yeah is that should we should we credit frank oh is that frank walks are you a frank walks uh i like great success story i'm i you know what i i won't i won't hate on yeah put me under there why not let's throw let's another success story yeah yeah yeah i do like that but it i think we got to uh to that idea when you're just in so fucking fat and your body is useless.
What happened to me is I kept trying to work out and I would every time just get hurt. And I was like, all right, man, let me just walk so fucking far.
I'm too fat to even do tricep pulled out. I would just blow something out in my elbow and you try and lift everything.
You're like, if I max out on bench, maybe I will wake up not fat tomorrow yeah right like once you're in the gym but dead lifts are the key to the perfect exactly just keep throwing out my back just fucking walking hunched over and so yeah I just and I'm on the road too and sometimes it's hard to find a gym or do some research bro I just wake up walk long as fuck for like to start my day and that's pretty good. It's also an awesome way to see a city.
Exactly. To just be like, I'm just going to walk in a direction and then come back.
That's exactly what I do. We've been going to a thrift store or an antique store and try and find interesting DVDs.
You know what I mean? We're still looking for Goldmember. We got the other two Austin Powers.
We're crushing that on the bus. We just got Doubleplay, Dennis Rodman and Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Do you know how sad that is that what you just said? What's that? Like how old we're getting. You're like, I'm going to an antique store to find a DVD.
What the fuck, dude? The youth is going to hate this episode. This is about losing your hair and going for nice low impact cardio to find outdated forms of media.
DVDs were just shit. Oh, man.
I was talking with someone the other day. Remember the six months that LaserDiscs had a run where it was just huge DVDs? Yeah, I caught the fairy tale.
It was like, this is the future. Yeah, I only watched Star Wars with that, and I was like, this is...
And I also thought because it was space that it was connected, that it was futuristic, and then I never saw them again. In my head, it was like, oh, that's how Star Wars...
I used to say Star Wars. They just made them smaller.
They sat us down in the library one day. I was in fourth grade, and the librarian was like, this is your future, children.
Everything that you're going to ever watch is going to fit on this tiny, thin little. It was the size of a record.
Right. Yeah.
A metallic record. They're like, we use the entire school budget on this one machine.
Six months later is gone. Then there was the milk pouches.
Did you guys ever get the milk pouches? Never got milk pouches. No.
Our cafeteria ladies one day, they were actually in PE class. They're like, okay, we have a video to show you guys because the way that you drink milk in this country is about to change forever.
And then they passed around these little bags of milk. Bags? Yeah.
Capri Sun style? Capri Sun style, but like- Less structured. Less structured.
You couldn't stand it up on an end. It was like a plastic pouch of milk.
Okay. And they're like, we're not going to do cartons anymore.
You're never going to drink out of a carton ever again. It's going to be these bags of milk here's how you stab into it they showed us so whatever you do after you're done drinking it do not blow the pouch back up and then pop it and that didn't really work out uh in fact we popped it so much i think every kid across america that they tried to teach the bag milk procedure to just start popping it of course it's like that we're going back to cartons but in canada they they just drink out of bags all the time.
That's like their style of milk. Like Franzia? Yeah.
Slap in the bag. Slap in the bag with some whole milk, bro.
Canadian kids slapping the bag. You could chuck one of those so far, too.
You're actually the best. Ooh, that's like a- They gave you a water balloon full of milk.
Yes. That's insane.
That's crazy. Surely the children will care about their health.
Yeah. Wait, so what's the best city you've been to oh dude i don't know i mean i love i like i had a great time in madison uh your alma mater obviously i really love dude i love minneapolis minneapolis is a very good city and i caught it with some great weather yep they have incredible food uh you know we got um we got insane sushi this place billy's sushi is incredible there's lakes right there the lake's great the mississippi river's there which actually fucked with me because i'm like that's too far north little buddy yeah get the fuck down yeah why are you up here but it's i love a nice i truly am a fucking old man dude i love a nice on the water walk yeah like it just soothes my brain and i'm just fucking strolling but yeah i loved it the food was great i got at a hotel with a sauna and like an outdoor heated pool oh hell yes you just fucking roasting i mean truly old european man activities but i loved it yeah the dreamboat tour dreamboat tour yep the show in mindiapolis was great too so are you you're not taking any flights bro i've take i'm doing like 50 cities i've been on a four times.
I'll be on a plane four times total. So what was the longest drive you've done? We did like from Vancouver to like fucking somewhere in Southern California.
I don't remember. Fresno or some shit.
Which sucked dick, by the way. One of the worst places of all time.
I got sick. Fresno sucked so much dick, dude.
I was working out. I go to the gym, and there's a guy just clipping his toenails just outside, just like on a bench, bro.
It was not like there's people going to squash courts, and the guy's just staring you dead in the eye, not embarrassed whatsoever. And it seemed like guys who were not quite homeless, but not homeless.
You know what I mean? These are guys that kind of get access to a house maybe 12 days out of the month. And they were taking up their time at a gym in Fresno.
But I think I got low-grade, some kind of flu just working out there. But that city sucks dick.
Bakersfield also kind of sucks dick, but was fun. Fun shows there.
Well, you know I mean, the inland California, like, you never hear anything about it. Yeah.
It's like, hey, what's going on over there? They would rather you not know. Yeah.
But yeah, just that image of that fucking possibly displaced man clipping his toenails by a fucking lat pull-down machine will stick with me. Wait, so- But yeah, it was like 18-hour drive.
What was was the decision because most like comedians i feel like when they do a big tour like this they go home during the week and then they go back out and you're like i just want to be out so you're how many how many months are you going to be away from home uh like two and a half total wow yeah it's a lot i mean it's a lot but i also like i kind of just wanted first of all madden style you know what i mean like dvd player i got my snacks you know what i'm saying like i'm trying to be healthy i got the bed in the back got the bed we got no i sleep in a little cubby no way i love the cubby i don't have the star i'm a man of the people there's no cubby is actually nice you feel like you feel like a little bit like when you're a baby and your parents would take you to the car to make you fall asleep that's what it feels like i sleep great on there but it's me and my best friends it's basically a rolling slumber party and all of them have like families that they're like away from and for me i'm like isn't this great guys can't we just live like this forever you know what i mean like but it's fun as shit and and yeah i don't it cost i think it just costs a lot of money but dude i just wanted to be fun like i'm just trying to have a good time and i'm also trying to be less fat like if i every other tour i would gain maybe 40 pounds and i was like if i if that happens again i'm going to die like fast like it's gonna be like a matter of like five years if i keep gaining weight so that's why i was like we're getting the bus i literally like i bought a hot plate and i was legitimately cooking like chicken like a fucking like divorced man on like a like camp burner on the bus in new Orleans. It was raining and I was legitimately cooking chicken like a fucking divorced man on a camp burner on the bus in New Orleans.
It was raining. And I was like, if I leave, it stopped raining.
And then my friends were like, let's go out for a walk. I was like, if I leave, I'm getting four po'boys.
So I'm staying in the bus cooking the saddest chicken, like divorced dad, chicken and beans from a can. and just like eating it on like a, you know a hugely successful like a 50 city tour of like 2500 seat theaters i'm fucking eating like a divorced guy but you have tv on there brother we got we got the setup is awesome because it's a bus right and it's like you it's like a bench on one side bench on the other side like passenger and driver side facing each other you look You have a TV on either side.
Yep. So we're standing like this.
We're both watching TV. You watch the TV together.
I'm looking at my boy look at Chuck Norris take down David Carradine. You know what I mean? While we're just...
It's the best, dude. I'm drinking zero sugar root beers.
I've gotten very into regional diet sodas. Yeah.
Shout out to Grapeco. Strange soda that tastes like syrup.
You are Frank. Is he a diet soda guy? Well, you know, he's a soda like reviewer.
Oh, fuck. He'll, if you give him a meal.
I gotta get in here with Frank because I'm peripherally, I love what I see from Frank. I love how pissed off he gets at things that should not really affect a grown man that much.

I love to see that kind of passion, and I love him walking.

I didn't know he was a soda.

He's a Somali-a.

You could give him a food, and he'll pair it with a soda.

Oh, my God.

Is he a diet guy now that he's healthier?

He doesn't.

He likes sugar.

I think it's just more or less, because I think there was a time when he was 15 a day a day. God damn.
I think so, yeah. No, maybe I could be Diet Frank, dude.
Yeah. I could be the diet because I love.
Listen, how much time you guys got? 7-Up's got a new tropical that they're doing. Really good.
Really, you should check it out. But yeah, I'm drinking my diet sodas, protein bars, all that kind of shit.
What are your favorite diet sodas? Because I think the diet root beers are pretty good. Diet root beer is great.
There's a Dr. Brown's cream soda that's a diet that's very good.
Very good stuff. Everyone's going to hate this episode.
This is a diet soda. What's that? And I'm not stopping, by the way.
There's a Cherry 7-Up they just came out with that I really enjoy. So yeah, Wild Cherry Pepsi.
Classic. Yes.
I remember that. Oh, my favorite.
That's back, baby. And they got a cream version, which I don't like as much.
But yeah, I'm telling you, brother. That's my only vice left.
Because I've been sober half the time. Dude, I'm having some diet sodas for sure.
Wait, what do you mean sober half the time?

It's so hard not to smoke weed, dude.

Dude, you're not sober.

You literally, we were going to do this show at 6,

and you texted me like, hey, can I come at 7?

I got high, and I got to watch Rush Hour.

Dude, it came on to me.

Literally, I was about to put my shoes on,

and Rush Hour came on, and I was like, fuck, I just had some lamb. I'm pretty high.
I don't want to get up. And I texted you.
I was like, dude, I got to watch Rush Hour. And I own it on two other streamers, but I watched it on Tubi with the commercial.
When it comes on naturally, there's nothing better. It feels so good, dude.
It feels incredible. Catch a good feeling.
Your is natural? Oh, it's the the best. You're half Frank and half Mintz.
Yeah. Yeah.
Mintz is sober is what we call him. Oh, yeah.
Good clean living. Oh, dude.
I, yeah, I'm trying to stay away from Kush. Kush will make you snack.
But when you're like, when you do a show and it's like late as fuck and you're like amped up. Yeah.
It's like so unnatural for people to be like cheering for you when you're like you've done nothing you feel like you haven't accomplished anything and then 2 000 people are like and you gotta go to bed and then you gotta go to bed it's like come on smoke a little cush not the end of the world what do you what do you do right after a show um not nothing crazy like dude i'm not i used to go out i used to like you know maybe go to a bar or something or get like a crazy go to a cool like diner or something like i'm boring this tour because i'm trying to stay alive so i'm just like in the green room the stay alive it really is i'm trying to stay alive so bad dude uh see yeah let's see it let's see our 70s the tour um let's make it to at least 71 the tour but uh i don't do shit dude i out I have a yogurt maybe a protein shake I get my steps backstage I'll fucking walk back and forth if I haven't finished my steps and then we go back and we watch a movie we hang out that's pretty much it dude it's not glamorous but that's also it's being 36 that's the reality like when we go and we do like grit week or we go Super Bowl week and everyone's like you guys must party the whole time It's not glamorous. But that's also...
It's being 36. That's the reality.
Like, when we go and we do, like, Grit Week or we go Super Bowl Week and everyone's like, you guys must party the whole time. It's like, not really.
Yeah. Because, like, if I did, we wouldn't be able to do our job.
Of course. Yeah.
We'd be dead. I know.
Like, maybe the first, like, the first, the tour, we started a casino and we were, like, gambling all night. And I just got, and, you know, I just got sick within, like, four days.
Right. Yeah, your body just yeah your body just stops and so then i realized like fuck i at a certain point you have to put on a show be like you have to do a good job people came uh that's the other thing with theaters like i feel like oh fuck people like made a plan to be here this isn't like a shitty comedy club this is a date night it's like class yeah statues and shit i know dude it's so funny there's chandeliers the end of the tour though like the end of super bowl week we'll go out Like you're going to go out at the end of shit.
I know, dude. It's so funny.
There's chandeliers. The end of the tour, though.

Like, the end of Super Bowl week, we'll go out.

Like, you're going to go out at the end of the tour.

Yeah, probably.

Well, it wraps up.

Well, dude, we actually end the tour on, like, a three casino run.

Oh, yeah.

And then Mother's Day in D.C.

Oh, yeah.

So I'm going to just be so wildly hungover for that show.

Yeah.

And my mom's probably going to be there. But, yeah, we're ending with, like, with like some shitty like eastern seaboard casinos where we are gonna go fucking crazy i do love the idea of somebody buying their mom tickets to stop your show for mother's day you're gonna love this mom if it's a very specific type of mother i'm interested if we have a precocious seven-year-old who's trying to get his mother tickets to my show.
Hit the DMs with her most recent headshots. Are you watching any of the NBA playoffs? I'm barely watching.
That's been the hardest part of this tour, actually, is that you plan these things a year out in advance. And I didn't get to really enjoy Duke choking.
You know what I mean? It was great. Do you have any questions about it? I can tell you everything.
Dude, it you everything dude it was all i mean i was kind of i like i've done that so much where i like catch games right after i'm like oh fuck this game's going on because you're i've just been performing every cool sporting event so i'm really i'm just started kind of paying attention again a little bit i'm obviously rooting for the knicks the bucks i'm a little you know they're in such a fucking tough yeah tough spot i mean a fucking tough spot. I mean, because I love Milwaukee, but I have no true loyalties to it, I'm kind of in let's get Giannis out of there mode.
You know what I mean? Let's get him to the Knicks. Let's collude.
Come on. Come on.
Come on. We got to go Stern style.
You know what I mean? Enough with the some fucking strings. Get the stars to the big cities.
Get Giannis to fucking the Knicks. Let's go.
I mean, Milwaukee had a couple of good years where Stavi was a big fan. You were supportive.
I am still supportive. And listen.
But now you're like, I'm still supportive. But also now's the time when we got to cut the loyalty to the team off and do what's best for you, Giannis.
Do what's best for you. That's for you to play for my favorite team.
Exactly. Somewhere where I, a city I live.
Yeah, Greek loyalty for sure, first and foremost. But yeah, I mean, I respect it because I love when you try something cool even though it seems kind of dumb.
Dame and Giannis was awesome. That's a great thought experiment.
Try it. I mean, the Raven, people were kind of saying that about when we signed henry where they're like this is one of those on paper moves he's an over 30 running back and it's like can you just shut the fuck up and let cool shit happen right hopefully right and we so i feel like i went one for two in my life for those things and i can't be too fucking yeah you know i can't be too picky um you did a you did a reunion with come town with adam and nick uh what i mean it was it was hilarious having you guys back together were you was it too like what what how'd it come about how did it come about that you guys were doing because you guys only broke up three years ago yeah so was it too soon no it wasn't i mean it was awesome to nobody thought see the thing, we didn't really think of it as a reunion.
Just like the show, we've never thought about this. Right.
It was just that when it first happened, I think it was good for everybody to kind of do their own thing and whatever. And we've been on great terms for almost the whole time.
When it first ended, it was a little weird, but like we've been friends and then it was literally a scheduling thing where we kept saying like, I'd love for you guys to come do the show or like you want to do... And then it just, before the tour, I had to fucking do a bunch of episodes.
And also I think, you know, I think Nick, once Nick decided he wanted to do his own thing and it was like officially all three of us were going to be separate, it kind of felt like, okay, now it's like let's- Yeah, it's not them two doing something. Because Adam wanted to do his own thing.
So even though he's still keeping the Adam Friedland show, it's really his now. Right.
It's not like a collaboration. And so we just decided like let's get together because now the Patreon is a pure, it's just like, what do you call it, like an archive.
Right. So no one really, we split that and we were just like, well, if we're going to do that, we should like have one last.
We were going to get together and record a five minute message for the fans, but you get on the mics with the fellas and it feels like old times. Yeah.
And you just keep it going. And then we recorded a little surprise farewell podcast.
And then right after we just did my podcast because it felt good. Right.
You know what I mean? So it was just fun. It was just a good time.
Yeah, you guys should do a podcast together. Yeah.
You'd be really good. People were remarking.
We have pretty good chemistry. Yeah.
I do like Adam's show. Do you watch Adam's show? I've seen it.
Yeah, yeah. At the beginning, I didn't watch it that much because, again, I didn't want to steal anything from my old partners.
But, yeah, it's very good. and when they, I love seeing, I didn't, at the beginning, I didn't watch it that much because again, I didn't want to like steal anything from my old, my old like partners, but yeah, it's very good.
And when they, I love seeing, they, they do a really good job of getting very specific people in a very weird context. Yes.
And you get great shit out of that. Yeah.
Yeah. It's very funny.
Wait, so, uh, so you did it. Were you, I mean the, the reaction probably, I know that you weren't surprised, but it had to feel good.

Yeah.

Because it's a time and place for a lot of people who love that show.

Definitely.

I count myself in that.

Of course.

And I get that.

I mean, even with a little distance, I mean, I always loved the show.

And it's like, you really remember, like, damn, we had some great bits.

Right.

We really, it's funny.

We, like, you guys, we all, there was like a handful of people that launched like right in that same time and there is like a weird kinship between yeah everybody like we all got too successful undeservedly like we're right we're good but yeah none of us deserve what's happened no it's like you know what i mean like right time yeah and then pft and i are like the uh you know in in the uh town where everyone starts breaking up, and we're like, we're still good, right? Like, Desi and Mero break up. Yeah, you're right.
It all happened pretty quick. Yeah, and we're just like, but we're good.
You're the married couple that still fucks inexplicably? Yeah, and everyone's like, fuck these guys. Two times a week.
I thought Alex and Sophia were going to make it. But it's true.
That 2016, 17, that range. When did you guys start Comptown? Right around.
2015 maybe? 15. That was right before everyone had a podcast.
Yes. And it was the last time.
Podcasts obviously started well before that. Joe Rogan, Bill Simmons, all these guys.
So it's not like we invented podcasting but I think that that was yeah I mean KFC had a you know I was on KFC radio for four years before that KFC was the one who was like podcasting is the future and he was like dumb idea but like that yeah that 2015 16 17 range where it's like that was kind of the last time where you could break through unless you have like multiple super bowls or you know yeah played a sport or done something you're right we were like yeah we're like it's like when the nfl would draft a guy out of the fucking mines yeah that was us yeah you know we were just like oh yeah i saw a strong guy yeah pulling you know like working on a farm let's make him our lineman yeah we were just guys yeah's a really good plumber yeah yeah but yeah like i don't think that you could i i think like i say that always because i i hate when people have success and they just completely just oh my god they're like luck had nothing to do with it it's like dude luck had so much to do with it there's so many people in other generations that are more talented than all of us yeah that just no one will ever hear of right and they will die doubting themselves and they just were unlucky and we were lucky yeah you were right you said you were right to believe in yourself yeah sorry yeah but yeah that was the last time where i feel like you could break through as just like idiots that didn't have a ton of talent exactly it could kind of learn on the fly. The wild thing about Comptown was, you know how people say like Tropic Thunder, that movie, could never get made today? They say that shit.
So with Comptown, it's like you guys are the podcast that would actually do better today. I feel like you guys did your shit in the worst times.
Yeah, absolutely. People did not like it, man.
Not at all. You're right.
I think it actually probably... But you know what? hard in the worst times absolutely people did not like it man not at all yeah um you're right i think it actually probably but but you know what that was the magic of it yeah it's true counterculture people now are doing it in a way that's so pathetic and like it's like people just trying to be like just trying to be pure trolls right whereas like the our show is like when you're with your boys and it it's that feeling of like no one's listening Let's say the most fucked up thing that makes us laugh right we were just stupid enough and had nothing going on in our lives we're like let's just put it on a microphone who gives a fuck right we're fucking poor nick had ringworm i was living in a windowless room we had nothing we had nothing you could take from us so we were like fuck it we'll say the most fucked up shit um yeah no it was awesome and and the response was great dude i mean it was like um i because there's so much weird shit where people think we're not friends or like they just don't understand that you just have you just do different creative stuff like also come down couldn't last forever it's like you don't want you don't want a fact like the aging we just spent the first part of this podcast talking about like slow cardio, diet sodas, and how to deal, how to manage male pattern baldness.
That's where we are in our lives. You don't want this guy saying fucked up shit.
When you're like old as shit and trying to be a troll, that's sad. Look, that's for a new generation of people to do it.
You know what I mean? Like there's probably olds 24 year olds that are doing the come town of today i don't know what it is because i'm fucking old you know what i mean but that's good but i'll also say that you you have stayed young at heart and i i think that like people who try to shame that always is so funny to me like i'll get it a lot where people be like 40 year old father of three like grow up It's like, no, dude. I don't have to grow up.
Yeah. That's the best part of this job.
That's the thing. I can literally just be an idiot for the rest of my life.
Yeah. I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
Like, I feel like I went pro at hanging out. Yeah, right.
That's what my job is. We have a very similar time.
You know what I mean? It's awesome. You guys do guys yeah yeah it's just like nobody tapped into like you know how most sports guys just like hanging out yeah that's why your show's fun you know for athletes let's put on a tie and talk about sports yeah that's what i know that's so funny dude so funny that nerds that nerds fucking controlled that but yeah and like what does it mean for society it's like how about like, we just want to like, this last week.
The color I cheered for as a baby has to beat the color I hated when I was a baby or I'm going to be pissed. That's what it is, man.
That's what sports actually is. We did it last week.
And then if somebody on the team that you cheered for when they were a baby, they're like a really bad guy. Yeah you just find out all the legal reasons why technically they're not that bad of a guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's still okay for me to like this.
All sports fans have had to become legal experts at some point. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Just because someone got into hot water. We were laughing last week.
We decided Arch Manning can't win the big one. And Texas fans were getting so mad at us.
So fun. This is what you do with your friends.
Yeah. Just like troll your friend.
Totally. Yeah.
Yeah. Your guy sucks.
Just mock a child. Like a strong child.
But still like a 20 year old child who could kick our ass. Of course.
Of course. I feel like as a Manning though.
Manning. I don't have to respect the child aspect.
You're right. Because like he's already royalty.
So you're right. Yeah.
You're a choker. A 14 year old Manning.
A 14 year old Manning is like a 50 year old with a 401k mortgage. For sure.
You're right. He's set royalty.
So it's like, yeah, you're a choker. A 14-year-old Manning is like a 50-year-old with a 401k mortgage for sure.

You're right.

He said.

That motherfucker said even if he blows it for sure.

And he can.

I've heard actually from sources he can't win the big one.

Yeah, the media.

I actually have some sources at UT, and they were telling me they're really scared.

They're looking at the transfer portal for a quarterback.

You can quote me on that. Inside sources from the mothership in Austin so uh so yeah the the NBA playoffs going on right now I know that I used to listen to the pipecast yes which was very funny I miss I miss your sports take thanks dude yeah I dude what breaks my heart is that and you know I've always been a hoops like you know even when we were first friends, I was a hoops fanatic.
And I watched the Ravens, but I didn't care that much. I hate that with age, the NFL is inevitable.
It's one day a week, and they know that. And where they might fuck up is overstretching themselves.
I really believe that. But I love hoops more I used to like get fucked, you know, I would go to a show, I would be a comedian in New York trying to make it.
I'd have shitty shows to like 11 or 12. I'd come back and catch League Pass.
Every night I would watch the West Coast games on the East Coast. Every single night I would get something fucked up from a deli and watch like the Kings play the Thunder or something, right? And when I was watching, and I would wake up every morning and look at the highlights of the game the games i didn't want i was like clued into everything but now that i like have shit to do and responsibilities like the nba needs to be half the games yeah and they need to pick like you know wednesday or thursday and sunday or something like yes oh wednesday of the week yeah own one day of the week and that's what's so like and i love football that's what's so funny.
And I love football. Obviously, I love the Ravens.
But it's like, you can't beat that feeling of like, ah, don't even fucking bother me. I'm going to fucking grill something and I'm going to eat it throughout the day.
I'm going to pick it up at an eight pound pork shoulder from 10 a.m. to fucking 1130.
And that's going to be my day. Don't bother me.
And I wish I could do that with hoops. I would love like Christmas, MLK Day.
I love those days, dude, where you could just like sit on the couch. They have like a bunch of – and that's why I am looking forward to – I have a couple off days on this run.
It's just brutal because I have like every single day a different city. But on an off day, I'm going to watch some playoffs.
But yeah, it breaks my heart that basketball is just hard to follow when you have responsibility. And every – I mean, the NFL is just every game matters.
True. It really – like the NBA, I love NBA basketball.
I love basketball. I just can't – the regular season, I can't like just let me know when the playoffs start and I'll be tuned into every game.
Yeah. But it's just – in the's just in the NFL.
If it was 50 games, every game would matter. Every game would actually matter in the standings.
It would have a little juice. And I'm one of those guys that I loved the bubble.
I thought the quality of basketball was good. I thought that it was, like, that it was tournament style.
They were, like, better rested. Like, I think they didn't go far enough with the in-season tournament.
I'm like, put them somewhere for a month. I like those games.
And it felt like it kind of fake recreated them. It wasn't March Madness, but it kind of gives you enough of that placebo of March Madness.
But I don't know. I am worried about just my – you're right my just your ability to follow the nba and how meaningless a middle middle of the you know year yeah what if they did it like the the reverse where they put every team in a bubble like maybe on disneyland and then if you want to leave the bubble you got to win oh and so and if you lose i don't know what the punishment would be but you have to stick around the bubble for like an extra month.
Okay. There's just like, you know, big titted women just like out right outside the bubble.
Oh, they got a gate that's set up. And they have just like a line of escorts.
Yeah. Like when you're shooting free throws, you could like peer into the outside or just groupies.
Delicious food trucks. The only problem with that is we just end up having to watch like 50 Hornets Wizards games.
LeBron's out of there fast. I feel like Jokic's gone after day two.
We're like, fuck. Jordan Poole, I think, would actually be very motivated to get out.
That's true. That is true.
Yeah. No, I love that idea.
Play for freedom. All right.
Wait. Wait.
So when we did do the can't win the big one. Yeah.
Don't say. Don't even you fucking motherfuckers.
His name was put out. Come on, man.
Fuck you guys. I mean, he can't.
He's going to do. He's fine.
I'm worried. See, I'm not.
I like Lamar Jackson. I like Lamar Jackson.
You can hear it in my voice. I really believe it.
He's fine. I'm not worried.
I'm not worried at all. I'm fine.
I had this thought the other day. You'll never get me on record, you motherfuckers.
He's fine. Fuck you guys.
Josh Allen Lamar Jackson. He couldn't win it either.
What about him? Is he on the list? No, he wasn't. Oh, well, fuck you.
He's on the list. No well, fuck you.
He's on the list. He's friends of ours.
No, the refs fuck. I don't care.
Be a fucking journalist. No, we don't do that.
Listen, we keep you off of lists because we're friends with you. No, but I was thinking about this the other day and it was kind of a depressing thought because I like Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow.
I like all three of those guys. They're so much fun to watch.
One or two of them is not going to win a Super Bowl. Whether they play for the fucking Bengals, how about we start there? Such a dumbass dogshit organization.
Kent doesn't know how to fucking sign a wide receiver. These fucking idiots don't know the cap.
What's your job? Shouldn't there be a guy that knows the cap on the fucking Bengals? They do everything so fucking stupid. How about we start there? One guy plays for the fucking Bengals.
I'm just saying. So it's one guy's out already.
One guy made it to the Super Bowl. So it's a 50-50.
All right, fucking flu. And that's the most he'll ever fucking do.
Fuck him and fuck you too, Piffy. It just depressed me because those three guys are such good quarterbacks.
And it's like, Mahomes is going to win a few more. Maybe.
Hey, Yaba, maybe the fucking, you know, maybe it's over. Maybe second half Patrick Mahomes can't win the big one.
From starting today, Patrick Mahomes can't win the big one. Listen, in 2025, he has proven he can't win the big one.
That's what I'm saying, dude. That's what I'm saying.
But it's depressing because those guys are awesome. And it's like it's the Phillip Rivers where it's like that guy was awesome at being a quarterback.
And he never went to a Super Bowl. The thing about Lamar, the comp I keep making is just Peyton Manning.
He's cooler Peyton Manning. He's fucking electric in the regular season.
And as a fan, every game you want to see, he's going to do something incredible. And over time, just the joy he brings you.
And by the way, he's winning a Super Bowl. I'm not worried about it whatsoever.
He's going to win a Super Bowl. But it's like the value of every Sunday maybe seeing the coolest highlight you've ever seen in your life.
That's in play. And I think over the course of a career, it's equal.
It's not better but it's equal and he's gonna win one so don't fucking go to me you motherfuckers that's a philosophical point no i'm just trying to say what's up this all this rings culture and we gotta fucking win how about you enjoy your life go out and smell the fucking roses every once in a while and enjoy the you know the beauty and the majesty of a fucking incredible highlight you're basically doing the like i i wouldn't even want to win the lottery because your life would get dude it's hard you gotta get a lawyer nobody you know everybody's fucking out to get something from you i got a good life now i make a nice living no dude yeah i wouldn't even fuck i wouldn't even fuck her if she tried you know what i mean i do think i do think lamar's gonna one. I think the Ravens are a good enough organization where they just keep taking shots.
Exactly. And he's going to figure it out.
Has he been up to his standards? No, but the more cracks you get at it, the better you get at it. It's fine.
He should be worse in the regular season. He should figure out a way to be a little bit worse.
Great point. No, that's a good point.
Because then he could just be a little bit better in the postseason. Everyone's like, holy shit, team on his back.
Is he just tired in the playoffs? He's like, that was a long fucking season. Ooh, I hate to say this, but is he James Harden? He's not.
He's way better. He's not even fucking close.
He actually lost weight. Yeah, exactly.
And he was fucking electric this season. You know what I mean? When I saw him at the start of the season i was like what and he keeps talking about how he lost like what 15 20 pounds yeah i was like lamar from where also lamar was never fat right now but he was he did look faster yeah faster do you still like do you find yourself still wincing every time he gets hit like please don't let that be the big one i'm terrified of the big one of course i mean yeah boy's fucking skinny as fuck.
Yeah. But, I mean, Lamar has had some injuries, obviously, but I am a little scared.
I've gotten a little more scared, but I also think I don't think he should be afraid to just open it up a little bit. You know? I do think there is something to...
Whatever. We don't have to get into the playoffs again, but it's like, I would have liked to see a little morear running.
I mean, our running game was like legendary, and I do think, I don't know, I'm still fucking pissed. I felt bad that you had to do, because we kind of have made you our Ravens fan.
No, not for what we did. No, no, no, hold on, hold on.
I am not apologizing for having you on after the loss. Did Katie Nolan also used you as after?

Her first show.

And by the way, I felt bad for Katie because I didn't know you're not supposed to curse.

Or like they hadn't even talked it out.

And they were like, I guess they were assuming they weren't going to curse.

And then you can't have me on after the Ravens.

As a first guest, yeah.

And not warn me.

But no, that show was fun.

But yes, it was really.

You did double dip. I did have to double dip dip and I was expecting to be triumphant.
I thought I'm going to be fucking celebrating. We're winning a fucking Super Bowl.
What are you going to do? Yeah. Fucking tough, dude.
It could be worse. It could be way worse.
Like I said, I'm enjoying my life. It could be the Steelers.
It could be the Browns. Yeah.
It could have Deshaun Watson. Exactly.
Now you just have Justin Tucker. I don't know anything about that, PFT.
The man is a man of God. I haven't seen any police reports.
I've seen him at Mass. I've seen him.
That's where I've seen him. I don't even know what you're even talking about.
Listen, if there's a franchise that's equipped for Justin Tucker, it's the Ravens. You've got a fan base that has basically gotten their JD in Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs.
You're ready? And Ray Rice. You're just going to skip Ray Rice.
You guys have more law degrees than any fan base. Yeah.
And the fan base is mostly guys who have represented themselves in court. You know what I mean? They've represented themselves in their own domestic abuse.
It's a double whammy for Justin Tucker that he also started sucking this year. I mean, in hindsight, maybe it makes a little...
I think he was getting some emails around that time of year. Yeah, they're like, Justin, put your phone away.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it makes a little sense why the man was nervous, I guess.
Yeah. But yeah, that is a tough one.
And, you know, disavow. Yeah.
You know, I actually, whenever something bad happens, I will not pay attention until I have to. Yeah.
So that I have plausible deniability. Yeah.
So I really haven't seen anything. You I mean? At the start of the season, I will have to wait.
This is not me going on record. I'm not doing it now, like I said.
There'll be a time where you'll have to make a statement. I will have to make a statement, and it's going to hurt either way, no matter what it is, except I don't even know what I'm talking about.
I'll probably make a statement about how excited I am for the Ravens and what a great guy he is yeah i don't know anything else going on oh are you gonna take a vacation this summer like when the tour is over i think i'm gonna go to greece yeah oh hell yes greece is the best i'm gonna go to greece i'm gonna try and do some uk shows too while i'm over there have you become a celebrity a little bit in greece or no i don't think so i think comedy is still like a like we just started getting stand-up comedy in Greece like five years ago uh before there was a lot of like you know you know hitting hitting little people in the face with pies that was kind of the level of comedy going around uh but I don't think yet but you know who knows with I guess Netflix is international we got season two attires coming up oh yeah um that's gonna be fucking awesome congrats that It got renewed like the day it came out. It got renewed.
We got season two of Tires coming up. Oh, yeah.
That's going to be fucking awesome. Congrats.
That shit got renewed the day it came out, didn't it? It got renewed. I mean, I hope.
It was really funny. This season is fucking good, man.
And we had an actual budget this time. There's so many incredible guest stars.
Francis is in it. Francis is in it.
He was very funny. We were on the pilot.
We were in the same episode. He was great to work with.
But yeah, I it's i think it's gonna be so good i'm excited so hopefully yeah tires makes me a celebrity in greece yeah because i would think that would be like if you just go on vacation in greece and you're just having women just all over that'd be nice i don't think i i don't think i'm there why not i don't know dude that would be fucking awesome yeah sign me the fuck up. Yeah, I think any Greek name, if you start getting anything going,

they'll like they fucking celebrate Tom Hanks because his wife is sort of Greek you know what I mean like there's literally newspapers will like track where Tom Hanks vacations like just because his wife is like helped produce my big fat Greek wedding and so you know hopefully we I get one more mainstream credit I think maybe we'll get some free gyro and that kind of stuff. What is this about Greece where you don't have to pay your taxes? Just an easy going lifestyle man.
No tattle we're very against tattle very against snitchy Greece and Baltimore has that in common And Baltimore has that in common. So, you know, we're just hanging.
Who cares, man? Just chill out. We are a very hang-based society.
Greek people love. Like, they'll just go.
They'll get coffee for like four hours. Like, take a nap afterwards.
It's awesome, dude. It's the best.
Yeah. All right.
I got one last question. Rowback question.
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I guess this is the draft episode. So what do you think about the Ravens pick? Dude, that's how fucking bad.
That's how, like. No, no, you could just.
You literally could just be like, steal. Because the Ravens always do that mean like kyle hamilton you're right pro first of all yes yeah yeah steal of the draft we have the best like that's the thing that is part of it where i'm like i don't know like wiggins i didn't know him yeah love him yeah the guy's got two fucking mouthpieces on that's what i want i want a lunatic cornerback who thinks he's like the most the the strongest.
He's like, he's skinny as hell. I know he thinks he's the strongest man in the NFL.
You know what I mean? Like, I want kind of an insane cornerback. And whoever, you're right.
Whoever we get, always steal. Always steal.
EDC knows what the fuck he's doing. I feel, I mean, we have one of the, we have the best organization in the NFL.
We crushed the draft.

We're going to load up.

We're going to win the fucking championship this year.

It's going to be great.

Here's my official stance.

This kid's a steal.

He's going to contribute right away.

Love it.

It's good confidence.

Love it.

Appreciate it.

I hope you do like a, you guys pick like a, I hope you guys pick like a character concern guy so you have to answer for him and Justin Trump. Yeah, yeah.
We draft a kicker first round. Then the writing's on the wall.
Even if you get like some shithead, you're like, we got a great locker room. Great locker room.
Great locker room. It's fine.
Great locker room. And if it's not the locker room, you got the veterans.
Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs are going to come in and mentor. Absolutely.
Oh, yeah. Steve Smith.
Did you see the Steve Smith story? Which thing you just won? Oh, when he was just banging that chick in the Ravens band. He's the man for that one.
That's fucking awesome. I mean, that's hilarious.
She was, like, texting him, like. Getting your dick sucked by the tuba player and then calling her husband a nerd to his face.
That's awesome. She you rearranged my iud and he was like noted noted thank you i'll put that i'll put that under the file of pussy damage i've caused noted all right well stop you're the best we love having you on yeah please come see me at the dream the tail end of the dreamboat tour stavi.biz for tickets uh tire season two comes out i think june 5th some somewhere around there love it uh but yeah that's all for me guys it was a great show it was awesome nice stand-up comedy thank you i feel really good about it the crowd loved you are chapel roan for guys for guys that look like me i am chapel road yes fuck

okay let's wrap up long show great show a lot to talk about uh we got numbers we also got fucking gummy uh 17 shane is back from italy shane brought us gifts but he forgot him shane brought us gifts but he forgot him sh, we want the gifts on Wednesday's show. Is that okay? What? Sure.
What do you mean? I want you to give the gifts when we're taping Wednesday's show on Tuesday, and we'll get a recap of your Italy trip. Okay.
Does that work? Yeah. Okay.
He didn't get Max anything. Also, did you kill the Pope? I did not kill the Pope, no.
Were you in Italy when the Pope died? I was. I was on a train.
Oh, getting out of town? Yeah. I was actually going more towards the scene of the crime.
Oh, interesting. They always say, if the guy that did it, no one would expect that.
Hangs out around the scene. Yeah.
Yeah. All right.
Numbers. 77.

17.

That was one number off from getting the 50-50 rifle tonight.

77.

34.

You're never going to get it.

It's so much easier.

You have a 50-50 chance.

I'll do 36.

Jack, did you say a number?

We got to send the lottery.

Cooper flag finally declared. Jack, what did he say? 34.
15. 15.
Damn, two numbers off. 15.
Two numbers off. Three combined numbers off.
I'm getting hot. I'm getting hot.
Wizards got it. Sim it again.
Let's go. Let's sim it one more time.
One more time. Pelicans.
One more time. Jazz.
One more time. Jazz.
How many times do we have to sim it for the Bulls to get it? Blazers. Wizards.
Wizards. Spurs.
Charlotte. Charlotte.
Oh, you're cold, Max.

Have we seen the Sixers once?

Sixers.

There it is.

There it is.

All right.

The next sim is going to be the one that's actually guaranteed.

Oh, no.

Let's fuck that.

Forget that.

That doesn't count.

All right.