Ryan Whitney, Someone Peed At The Masters, Luka’s Return + Fyre Fest Of The Week

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On today's part of my take, we have our good friend, number one recurring guest in terms of times on the show, Ryan Whitney in studio.

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Speaker 1 Stats compiler. Awesome hour talking with Wit about hockey, golf, going back to school.
He might go back to college. Really, really fun interview.
Always great interview with him.

Speaker 1 We're going to talk a little masters first round. Luca going back to Dallas.
And then we'll finish with Fire Fest of the week.

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Speaker 1 Today is Friday, April 11th, and the Masters have been canceled.

Speaker 3 Hello, friends. The Masters have been canceled.
Somebody has peed in Ray's Creek. Yes.

Speaker 1 Jose Luis Ballister

Speaker 1 has completely desecrated this tournament. He's an amateur.
He wore an upside-down hat.

Speaker 3 Arizona State. Arizona State.
Which is, I mean, it's perfect that an Arizona State person would do that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then he peed. He peed under the bridge in hole 13, and I, for one, am disgusted.

Speaker 3 Ray's Creek. Now, I think the problem, I think people have a problem with this because he admitted it.
Yeah. My guess is that this is like swimmers peeing in the pool.

Speaker 3 I think everybody pees in Ray's Creek. We just don't talk about peeing in Ray's Creek.

Speaker 1 So I don't know if he admitted it because

Speaker 1 everyone saw it. He got a round of applause when he finished.
Yeah. So he said it was his biggest round of applause all day.

Speaker 1 But I just love that this is the prevailing story from the first round at the Masters: this young whipper-snapper amateur just causing havoc because he was golfing in Scotty Scheffler's group, peeing in rivers, wearing an upside-down hat, which I actually think the peeing I have zero problem with, obviously.

Speaker 1 I kind of do, I kind of agree with people who are like the upside-down hat at Augusta's bullshit.

Speaker 3 It's beneath Augusta? Yeah. In his defense, he was probably hammered.

Speaker 3 If you're an Arizona state golfer and you play at the map, I assume that you're just taking full advantage of the cart girl. Just being like, keep the rounds coming.
Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 3 If you're a guy that maybe might not get back to Augusta, then I say go ahead and pee in that.

Speaker 1 Just be yourself.

Speaker 3 Be yourself. Pee yourself.
The one thing is, you probably shouldn't say pee. That's probably one of those words that Augusta won't let you say.

Speaker 3 They probably are like the golfer eliminated to Ray's Creek. Mixturate.
Yeah, mixturate.

Speaker 1 That's a Latin word for it.

Speaker 5 I'm pretty sure after that hole, the next T-box, like the route to the next T-box, is completely isolated and in the woods.

Speaker 1 and there's also port-a-potties right next to every t-box oh i didn't know that yeah no he said that well he said he look he realized that afterwards like oh yeah there are port-a-potties yeah but here's the thing most people just play golf so that they can pee outside yeah it's just a good excuse to take a leak on a tree peeing into a river is awesome yeah like that's a fun thing to do but the hat do you agree with me The hat, I think, is too much.

Speaker 3 So I have to defend the hat because

Speaker 3 I think that's been DiNucci's company. So I'm compromised on that.

Speaker 1 It's not.

Speaker 3 Let's say it's not. Let's say it's a quarterback.

Speaker 1 Look at a lot of copycats. Yeah, it's a copycat.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 No, he invented writing letters upside down. Yeah.

Speaker 3 But if it wasn't his company, I would say

Speaker 3 I'm shocked that Augusta didn't confiscate it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I just,

Speaker 1 this might be where I feel like an old man, but I saw the hat and I was like, this is disgusting. Yeah.
You can't do this to Augusta.

Speaker 3 I think that's worse than wearing a hat backwards.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'd agree. What are you going to say, Max? 47 would never.

Speaker 3 47 would never. We spell our words right side up.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, so first round. Scotty's still really good at golf.
Yep. Justin Rose in first, seven under.
Someone was, I think Trent, so Trent is here, our good friend from Foreplay.

Speaker 1 He was saying that, like, statistically speaking, you basically have to be top six after the first round. Like, anyone past that is not eliminated, but almost.

Speaker 3 So right now that would include Bryson Ludwig, you'd be in there. Rory would be in that group as well.
Rory played really well.

Speaker 3 Max was up and down today.

Speaker 3 He started off, I think he was 200 through

Speaker 1 four holes. I think we'll take credit for that, for the podcast bump.
And if we want to have any blame passed around, we probably should have called him at the turn. Yep.

Speaker 1 We should have called him at the turn. We should have talked to him.
Then, yeah, he had one bad hole.

Speaker 3 I think SVP's booth is set up on the second nine. Yeah.
And so he got into the SVP zone and was like, oh, I wish I was talking to the PMT guys. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's a fact.

Speaker 1 I just want Max to make the cut. Let's focus on making the cut.
Yep. Let's find a way to make the cut.

Speaker 3 Let's have a weekend house

Speaker 5 for us. It's right there.

Speaker 1 It's right there.

Speaker 1 Hank,

Speaker 1 how are your bets doing? Because you're a live head.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I'm heavy on live. I need 10 live guys, basically everyone except for Bubba.

Speaker 3 And what is his name?

Speaker 3 Is he one of the four Aces? This is really good.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I need 10 live guys to finish top 20.

Speaker 5 And right now I have four. Neiman, Garcia, Brooks.
They're kind of lingering, so they have a shot. I'm in an okay spot.
Okay.

Speaker 3 What's Brooks at right now?

Speaker 5 Brooks is 38.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 What's his score?

Speaker 5 But he's plus one.

Speaker 5 He's plus one. If he was minus one, he'd be 11.

Speaker 1 38 is crazy. 38.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but I mean, the scores are so closely grouped together. Plus one.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Plus one. Did you see Freddie Couples Eagle? That was sick.

Speaker 3 I feel like Freddy Couples has one of these rounds every Masters where it's like, oh, shit. Yeah, Freddie Couples, still a pleasure to watch him swing.
Did he play with a neon ball? Of course.

Speaker 1 I love it. Yeah, the swing is just, it's the best.
I don't care. I want Freddy out there every single year just with that sweet, sweet swing.

Speaker 1 The starters, they obviously started like the ceremonial start. Those guys just hit one shot.
Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 I would want to play my shot. It would be very, yeah, I would absolutely want to play my shot.
You should always think about that.

Speaker 3 I would probably take a provisional if I missed it.

Speaker 1 If you pipe one down the middle, can you just finish out the hole?

Speaker 3 I'd finish out the round. Yeah.
I think I'm locked into that.

Speaker 1 Like, I might win this thing. Yeah.
Because there is no age limit. Obviously, it's a courtesy thing that you don't want to play if you physically can't get through it.

Speaker 1 But imagine if that was just how every single Masters started, where it's like, if you pipe that first drive, it's like, all right, I'm actually playing this shit.

Speaker 3 It's still your box. I'm in there.

Speaker 1 I'm in there. Any other, anything else of note?

Speaker 3 Patrick Reed also won under. He's one of your guys, Hank?

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 3 I like it. I like it when Patrick Reed wins the Masters because it makes everybody so mad.

Speaker 1 It's a very specific thing.

Speaker 3 I know, but everybody, like, you know, Patrick Reed has a lot of haters. He's only one once, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 He's got a lot of haters. You could call them haters or you could call them,

Speaker 3 I guess, plaintiffs in some circumstances. Teammates? Yeah, teammates.
But I like how angry he makes golf people. Yes.
So I don't like him, but I do enjoy watching the chaos when he does well.

Speaker 1 I'd agree with that.

Speaker 1 I'm just happy that... It seems like we got some big names to start.

Speaker 5 And some weather.

Speaker 1 When's the weather coming? Tomorrow. What time?

Speaker 1 Look it up. Look it up, Hank.

Speaker 3 Figure out the weather.

Speaker 3 How's Wu-Tang Clan doing?

Speaker 1 I saw you had an awful lot of shot from behind a tree right onto the green.

Speaker 3 Oh, he's one under two.

Speaker 1 All right, Max got the weather faster than Hank,

Speaker 1 significantly faster. Weather looks perfect.

Speaker 3 That does look good.

Speaker 1 17 mile-an-hour winds? Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 3 Hank probably uses a specific golf app for the weather that has the weather inside of it somewhere.

Speaker 1 Overnight, it's going to rain, which is good. Soft green.
So, Hank, when you said the weather, uh, that might have been an earlier in the week forecast.

Speaker 5 Hmm.

Speaker 1 It feels like you're not locked into the masters.

Speaker 5 I'm locked into our masters. Okay.
Mini golf.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's that's fine. But maybe get earlier in the week.

Speaker 5 It said there was going to be you know storms on Friday, but that's not the case.

Speaker 1 Let's get you locked into the master.

Speaker 5 I know. Tomorrow.
Tomorrow I'm all in.

Speaker 1 All in. All in.

Speaker 5 All the covers. Six, six TVs.

Speaker 3 All in my ass.

Speaker 1 Six TVs?

Speaker 5 I'll be in the cave, just mastered up.

Speaker 1 I love that. I love that for you.

Speaker 1 Okay, I had a couple other things to talk about before we get to Whitney, which was a great interview.

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Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Other things. Luca, back to Dallas.

Speaker 3 Tribute video.

Speaker 1 Cried.

Speaker 3 Cried.

Speaker 3 Has tribute video culture gone too far, big cat?

Speaker 1 Do you think he did not deserve a tribute video?

Speaker 3 Well, that's the thing. It's like, who deserves a tribute video? Yeah.
Like, when did the tribute video?

Speaker 1 No, I'm asking.

Speaker 3 I'm saying

Speaker 3 in the modern era, when we're talking about tribute videos, of course, Luca does deserve a tribute video. I just don't know when the whole tribute video thing started, when that became a thing.

Speaker 1 I think this was, yeah, I mean, I don't think it happens that often.

Speaker 3 There's a lot of discourse about the tribute video, though.

Speaker 1 Okay, so tell me.

Speaker 3 Well, I remember, was it Isaiah Thomas Jr.?

Speaker 1 That one was probably.

Speaker 3 I think he's still waiting for his tribute video. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think a lot of... He deserved a tribute video.
Yeah, I think there's not a... I think if you win a championship or you're the face of the franchise, tribute video.

Speaker 3 Okay, so here are my two thoughts about the actual tribute video. One, it was really well done.
Luca got emotional. He cried.

Speaker 3 I'm surprised that he played as well as he did after getting so emotional in the pregame because it feels feels like that was that was a heavy moment for him So credit to him for playing well and then second

Speaker 3 The video editor the whole time they were making the tribute video had to just be like why the fuck did we trade this guy?

Speaker 1 Right. Like what look at all these awesome highlights.

Speaker 3 I'm cutting together. He's young as shit.
Why am I making this video? He should have had Nico should have made the tribute video. Yeah.

Speaker 1 In fact

Speaker 3 any GM Here's what you should if you ever think that maybe you should trade a great player what you should be forced to do is sit down and make a tribute video for him.

Speaker 3 And then after you're done making the video, then you think about it and you decide if you still want to trade him after you made the video.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I agree. Don't ever go to the grocery store hungry.
That's exactly the same thing.

Speaker 3 I do go to the grocery store hungry all the time. I just eat while I'm grocery shopping.
And you buy a shitload of cookies and everything.

Speaker 1 Yes, it's the best. Yeah, he had 45, 8 and 6, absolutely dominated the Mavs.
I was happy for Luca

Speaker 1 because that was probably very cathartic for him. I was happy for the fans because they got to watch Luca beat the team they now hate because of what Nico Harrison did.

Speaker 1 And I also was made aware that Nico Harrison has not sat in his real seats since the trade. You fucking coward, go back and sit in your seats.

Speaker 3 Is he doing the thing where he's trying to get sympathy because he's like, it's not safe for me to sit in my seat?

Speaker 1 I don't know what he's doing because the fans are sick. You better fucking sit in those seats, buddy.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I saw that they were handing out clown noses, Nico clown noses, to the fans to wear before the game.

Speaker 1 I was actually shocked they did the tribute video because it's like from everything I've seen and read, they're trying to suppress the fans.

Speaker 1 There was a guy who had like fire Nico that got taken off the jumbotron. There was a woman who was sitting in the front row who they didn't kick her out, but they thought about kicking her out.

Speaker 1 I was shocked they played that because it basically was an entire like indictment on Nico Harrison as a human being.

Speaker 1 Get back in the seats, buddy.

Speaker 1 The Mavs fans don't do anything physical, but you deserve. The Mavs fans deserve someone to yell at.
I agree.

Speaker 3 He's a coward for nothing.

Speaker 1 You can't make that trade and then be like, oh, I don't sit in my seats anymore.

Speaker 3 Yeah, especially he should have been forced to watch the tribute video. Yep.
Look what you did. Look what you took away from these people.
That's a completely fair thing to do.

Speaker 3 If you're going to make a trade like that, you have to be able to face the music afterwards. Yeah.
And then I thought JJ had some pretty cool things to say afterwards.

Speaker 3 Like, he seems like he'd be a good guy to play for.

Speaker 1 Oh. J.J.

Speaker 3 Reddick. Oh.
TJ, what?

Speaker 1 Peace.

Speaker 3 Is he going to get traded?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 3 There's some discussion about it.

Speaker 1 It was funny because our colleague and friend, Jersey Jerry, he's on vacation right now, but I just saw a tweet from him. Oh, my God, not like this or something like that.

Speaker 1 And I immediately was like, TJ Watt, something bad happened. But yeah, he posted a cryptic Instagram post that just had the peace sign.

Speaker 1 So I don't know what's peaceful. Please know

Speaker 1 what he wrote. I immediately knew it was TJ Watt-related.

Speaker 3 Jerry posted the Peace Sign. Please know.
TJ Watt did not post a picture of the Peace Sign.

Speaker 1 What did P. T.
J. Watt posted? Did he? Yeah, T.J.
Watt did it.

Speaker 1 TJ Watt posted an Instagram story of him going peace.

Speaker 3 Given a piece of...

Speaker 3 Cryptic.

Speaker 1 There wasn't any words or anything. And then Jerry said, please know.

Speaker 3 He might be out on a little drug trip with Aaron Rodgers. And just maybe the peaceful vibe of the universe.

Speaker 1 Click the Jerry tweet.

Speaker 1 That is what TJ Watt posted on Instagram story. Click that.
Okay. That's TJ Watt's Instagram story.

Speaker 3 So that's what started. So now people are freaking out.

Speaker 1 All the rumors and everyone freaking out that he might be gone. Yeah.

Speaker 3 That's fair freak out.

Speaker 1 Fair freak out.

Speaker 3 I'd be freaking out, too. We also had,

Speaker 1 you know, since we're on the AFC North, Deshaun Watson said that he's going to prove all his doubters wrong. He believes that he's going to prove them all wrong and he believes in himself.

Speaker 1 I would like to be front of the line doubter.

Speaker 3 He said he's going to use you as comeback fuel.

Speaker 1 Great.

Speaker 1 Right here, Deshaun.

Speaker 1 You're not going to do shit. He shouldn't be allowed to call it that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he should not be allowed to call it that. Yeah.
Doubter,

Speaker 1 I want first in line. If you want to make a list, put me at the top.
Doubter, you stink, dude.

Speaker 3 And you're a bad guy. But he's also the guy that

Speaker 3 made room for all the doubters. I don't think he has any doubters that are wildly inaccurate with doubting him.

Speaker 1 Five years ago, I was not a doubter.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's a completely reasonable thing to doubt Deshaun Watson. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But I just want it on the record.

Speaker 1 because if he's looking for him i want it everyone anyone else you get in line would anyone else like to be yeah proclaim themselves a doubter yeah i'm like i'm a doubter okay max doubter

Speaker 1 yep memes oh no memes doubter doubter are you sure doubter because you

Speaker 1 like what if he was on the jets

Speaker 1 no doubter doubter memes Speaking of the Jets, did you see Justin Field's quote?

Speaker 3 No, what did he say?

Speaker 1 He said, I don't. Someone asked him about the possibility of the Jets drafting a quarterback this year, and he said, I don't really like to answer rhetorical questions.

Speaker 1 I'm willing to teach, but I'm not really interested in rhetorical questions. That's not a rhetorical question.

Speaker 3 That's a hypothetical question. Hypothetical question.
Yeah. Big difference.

Speaker 1 Big difference.

Speaker 3 They might draft a quarterback. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Steelers might too.

Speaker 3 So that'd be. Do you think that's why Aaron Rodgers is taking his time? Absolutely.
Because he wants to wait for the draft and be like,

Speaker 3 I don't want to put myself in a Kirk Cousins situation.

Speaker 1 I was on Pittsburgh Radio with our good friends

Speaker 1 at W DVE this morning, and we were talking about it, and it made me realize that

Speaker 1 they are essentially being held hostage by Aaron Rodgers. He's not even a Steeler.
This is what he does. Yeah.
He's not even a Steeler. And everyone in Pittsburgh is just waiting, like, is it?

Speaker 1 Is it not? Is it?

Speaker 3 So at some point during the six-hour meeting that Aaron Rodgers had with the Steelers Brass,

Speaker 3 he definitely asked, like, are you guys planning on drafting quarterback, right? If you're six hours, I assume the topic came up once.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he doesn't, he probably is like, I got to wait and see. But also,

Speaker 3 he's so old. Like, what is it?

Speaker 1 How many more years is he going to be? Exactly. Teach someone.
But we don't deal in rhetorical. How old is he? He's 40, 41.

Speaker 3 That's old as fuck.

Speaker 1 Too old, right, Hank? Yeah.

Speaker 1 40 is

Speaker 1 washed. Really old.
Whoa, washed.

Speaker 1 Aaron Rodgers is 41 years old.

Speaker 3 So, yeah,

Speaker 3 I think that would be fair for the Steelers to, even if they signed Aaron Rodgers, to be like, hey, we're also going to draft Shador Sanders. Right.
Or we're going to draft somebody else. Right.

Speaker 1 So, what else? Oh, the Nuggets whole thing. I know we talked about it on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 Jokic just came out and basically said exactly what we thought. Like, he was like, yeah, I'm okay with it.
I wasn't discussed. They didn't discuss it with me before, but it is what it is.

Speaker 3 Well, then, Wendy had a report earlier today. Did you hear that? No.
So, Wendy's report was kind of what we we said about the Memphis Grizzlies situation, which is they didn't like their coach.

Speaker 3 They wanted to fire him after the season. And what they didn't want is for him to

Speaker 3 get hot in the playoffs, and then they can't fire him after.

Speaker 3 I think that's very different from the Grizz situation because Malone won an NBA title. He won you your first championship.

Speaker 3 If he then comes back and wins a second NBA championship in three years and your team's never won one before,

Speaker 3 That is a good thing. Yeah.
No matter what concerns you have about

Speaker 3 his coaching style or whether it's built for long-term success, if he wins two in three years, you cannot fire him. Right.

Speaker 1 I mean, it goes to the whole Nuggets ownership, too.

Speaker 1 Like, when you have the best player in basketball in his prime, you should be willing to go over the luxury tax and spend a lot of money to try to get more championships, not just have one and be like, that was good.

Speaker 3 Well, there was one clip where I, this was from like two weeks ago, three weeks ago, where Michael Malone was talking about his players and he said something along the lines of, yeah, you know, we have to go back and we'll look at the film.

Speaker 3 We'll have to show the players the film because they don't watch film, but we'll show it to them. He went out of his way.
That seemed like there's something wrong. Yeah.

Speaker 3 There's something going on behind the scenes that we don't know about, but I don't know. He won you guys a championship.
I feel like don't fire him before the playoffs. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I also think Jokic deserves more credit. I saw this story from Tom Haberstraw.

Speaker 1 He wrote a whole story about how basically like Jokic, it's insane how little help he's had, and it would be totally reasonable for him to ask for a trade because it happens all the time, but Jokic has never, he's been just a good soldier.

Speaker 1 Do you know that, tell me how many MVPs, or sorry, how many all-star... All-stars Jokic has played for on the nugget played with on the Nuggets.

Speaker 1 Not guys who got an all-star and then came to the Nuggets, but the guy who was on an all-star team while being on the Nuggets with Jokic.

Speaker 3 Jamal Murray?

Speaker 1 Nope.

Speaker 1 Never made one? Nope. Okay.

Speaker 3 I don't think Michael Porter.

Speaker 1 Nope.

Speaker 3 I don't think he's played with anything.

Speaker 1 The answer is zero.

Speaker 3 Pretty crazy. That is, yeah, that's wild.

Speaker 1 It's pretty, pretty crazy.

Speaker 3 Jamal Murray probably should have made one, though.

Speaker 1 Well, he's had years where he's been hurt. Yeah.
And I don't know if he's, I mean, there's, it's hard to make all-star games. I know if it's hard to make all-star games.

Speaker 1 Let me pull up the article, though, because it's zero. And then there's, there's even more that were just like crazy.
He's never played with an all-defensive player.

Speaker 3 I don't know that it's fair, though, to say that he has not had help.

Speaker 1 He's had help because I'm saying Jamal Murray's a good player.

Speaker 3 Michael Porjr is a good player. KCP was a very good player for him.

Speaker 1 Of course, but he has not. Every single MVP since 1984 has played with a guy who made an all-star game.
Jokic is the only one who has it.

Speaker 1 That's pretty crazy. Like when I saw it, I was like, holy shit,

Speaker 1 this is not normal. The answer is zero.
Yeah. Never played with an all-star teammate in his seven trips to the all-star.
He's gone seven times. He's been on the Nuggets for 10 years.

Speaker 1 You have to admit, like, that's.

Speaker 3 That is, that's a crazy stat. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Know all NBA members, know all defense awardees,

Speaker 1 10 years. And if you looked at it, it was like

Speaker 1 Magic Johnson had like a million, like 35. If you count all all three of those, like Larry Bird had 32, like all these teammates, Steph, 27, zero for Jokic.

Speaker 3 Max is highlighting Bruce Brown.

Speaker 1 Bruce Brown. Memes was telling me that he...

Speaker 1 Bruce Brown made an all-star game? Memes thought that he won six-man of the year. They had to have six-man of the year.
I didn't say six-man of the year, but I don't know if he did.

Speaker 1 I don't know if he did.

Speaker 1 I don't think he did. I don't think he did.
I don't think he could play one year in Denver and Average.

Speaker 3 I don't think you could say like the Nuggets in this era. It's not like they have Scrubs on the team, and then Jokic is just

Speaker 3 everybody but yeah that is crazy it's it was shocking they have no robin correct it was shocking just because

Speaker 1 jokic you never hear jokic say like his coach just got fired two days ago right before the playoffs started he's never had uh a true number two

Speaker 1 you've also never heard jokic really complain yeah

Speaker 1 so that was the part that was was kind of shocking

Speaker 1 Anything else that we have?

Speaker 1 Foul ball guys.

Speaker 3 Oh, did he get banned? I think that might have been fake news. I thought it was fake.

Speaker 1 I saw John Boyd tweeted it, and it was.

Speaker 5 Does he not rob the home run?

Speaker 1 Oh, he robbed the home run.

Speaker 1 But, oh, there was a fake news going around that he got banned from all

Speaker 1 MLB stadiums this year.

Speaker 5 No, I was just talking more. He robbed the home run and then was like taking selfies of himself.

Speaker 3 Now, how are you sure that that's Zach Campbell?

Speaker 5 On the Jumbo Drive.

Speaker 1 Also,

Speaker 3 he was wearing a shirt that said Zach Campbell on it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 If I could be in position to rob a home run, I'd rob a home run. He also didn't rob it.
It was over the wall.

Speaker 1 He kept his glove on the right side of the wall.

Speaker 3 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Watch it. He didn't reach over the wall.

Speaker 5 That was against the Cubs.

Speaker 1 He would be furious. Of course.
But I also would know that Zach Hamps the GOAT.

Speaker 1 He is. He did not.
Did he go over the wall?

Speaker 1 It looks like his hand is right there on the wall.

Speaker 3 That's very, very close. That's no Jeffrey Mayer.
I don't think he reached out.

Speaker 1 If anything, this Ray's guy is trying to steal it from him. Yeah, exactly.
Thank you, Max. Listen, I know Zach Hample's a very controversial.
Actually, he's not controversial. Everyone just hates him.

Speaker 1 He's the best to ever do it.

Speaker 3 He is the best at what he does.

Speaker 1 When do we stop respecting greatness?

Speaker 3 See, so here's an article from one of our bloggers.

Speaker 3 It said, Zach Hampel continues to be the worst to ever do it. You can't say that.
That's it.

Speaker 1 You can't say that. That's incorrect.

Speaker 3 You can say he continues to be the worst. Yeah.
But you can't say the worst to ever do it.

Speaker 1 It's literally the best to ever do.

Speaker 3 What he does, he is the best of all time at. And it's not even close.

Speaker 1 Who's this bogger? It's

Speaker 1 Rico Bosco. Got it.
I didn't see.

Speaker 3 Max, you had to scroll down. Got it.

Speaker 1 Got it. Got it.

Speaker 1 All right. Do we have anything else?

Speaker 3 That's about it.

Speaker 1 Great interview with Whitney. I love having it.

Speaker 1 I need so badly for, we'll talk, you'll hear it at the end, but I need so badly for this content to happen that we propose between Hank and Whitney. So.

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Speaker 3 And now here's Ryan Whitney.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on our very, very, very good friend. Actually, he's number one, I think, on the leaderboard.
I thought I lost it. I thought I ended up getting passed.
We got to find it.

Speaker 1 Can someone look up? I haven't been on it quite a while. Yeah, you were.

Speaker 1 I was angry. We've had a couple of reasons

Speaker 1 since you left. No, it was obviously with your last year.
I think it was also during

Speaker 1 the year. Biz and I came on together.
Yeah, when your third child was born, and there was like some scheduling stuff. Yes, yes.
Yes, because I remember playoffs. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 So, but it's Ryan Whitney, and I think if you're not one, you're two.

Speaker 1 We've got to get you back. This won't be the last time we have you on during playoffs.
We're going to have you back on, so you'll get back on.

Speaker 1 And hockey season only started two months ago for you guys. Well, pre-season.
So, no, it's starting next week.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Preseason. Yeah.
It's preseason until April 19th.

Speaker 3 It started the day after the Four Nations ended.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just Best All Nations wasn't even season for you guys.

Speaker 3 Best All-Star game ever. No, it was an all-star game.

Speaker 1 You agree it was an all-star game.

Speaker 1 I agreed it was one of the most amazing exhibitions I've ever seen. Exhibition.
I'm not calling it an all-star game.

Speaker 3 It was an all-star game.

Speaker 1 It was a warm-up to the Olympics. Yeah.
But it was an exhibition. So, like, if you're a Canadian and you're saying, oh, man, we beat you guys, like, okay, in an exhibition.

Speaker 1 So that's what I kind of was trying to hold on to. But after my celebration of the Saturday night win in Montreal, I couldn't lean on that anymore.

Speaker 1 That's kind of what went to say exactly what we're doing. We do that all the time with USA hockey.
The worst part about Four Nations and the Olympics next year, do you guys know? No.

Speaker 1 It's no Russia.

Speaker 1 So nothing is really that legit because

Speaker 1 best on best hockey, like, you need Russia involved. It's just, you know what I mean? Would their team be that good? Their team's goalies and forwards are probably the best.
Oh. Their D's not great.

Speaker 3 So you're saying double exhibition. It's complete Nikki Mouse because Russia wasn't.

Speaker 1 That's a valid point. Double exhibition.
Can we get one of their goalies to be a U.S. citizen? No, that's not going to happen.
I don't think Putin will go for that one. He's reasonable.

Speaker 1 Well, no, what if it's like

Speaker 1 Cuban baseball? Remember Cuban baseball players? Like 20 years ago, they'd do a tournament in the U.S. and just stay?

Speaker 1 But they were like 45 years old, you know,

Speaker 1 saying they were 26.

Speaker 3 Also, if a Russian were to defect, Putin would just probably say, hey, I got your family.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I got all you.

Speaker 1 I got everyone.

Speaker 1 I mean, the most amazing thing about the OV goal chase is, and this is totally not possible. It could not be true.
He could be like 46 years old.

Speaker 1 You never know with Russians. So the fact that he could be a little older is even crazier.
Do you know that when

Speaker 1 he was drafted in 04, I believe? And

Speaker 1 prior to the draft, the GM of the Panthers at the time was just onslaughting the league with a technicality that he should should be able to be drafted that year because of leap years. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Technically, he was 18 if we counted leap years. I love that.
And I respect the hell out of that. Like, just trying your hardest, knowing how good he'd be.
It's a great play.

Speaker 3 Imagine if they had said yes.

Speaker 1 You're right. Like, oh, yeah, you're right.
Exactly.

Speaker 3 Like, that guy would have been the GM of the century.

Speaker 1 Ever. Yeah.
Ever. So, I mean, they gave it their best shot and then he changed Washington.

Speaker 3 Do you think the fact that there was no Russia in the Four Nations actually helped Ovie because he got a nice little break in the middle of it?

Speaker 1 And not, you know, not one Caps player was on any of the teams. Right.
Yeah. So it's a big break where you see McDavid get injured, the Kachucks get injured.

Speaker 1 There were several other guys, too, that I can't think of right now. That, yeah, I mean, you're trying to win a cup and all of a sudden you're going to war in an exhibition for a week.

Speaker 1 Definitely affects you. I kind of love that that hockey is like down for that.
I don't know if the owners are willingly down for it. Well, I mean,

Speaker 1 I think I originally first bashed basketball on your show years, years ago. I'm talking 2017.

Speaker 1 And that night was the greatest thing in the world for the hockey basketball conversation.

Speaker 1 They were squaring off at center ice in an exhibition, and basketball was like throwing balls through a hula hoop with cars on the floor.

Speaker 1 By the way, we found it. It didn't go well because I watched as Max tried to, he had to, at one point, Google how to spell appearance.

Speaker 1 But I think you're. I was spelling it right, by the way.
I think you

Speaker 1 tied. Tied, so I don't know when this was last updated.
When was this last updated?

Speaker 1 Yesterday. Oh, okay.
So there we go. So you're now number one.
You are number one, all-time leader,

Speaker 1 best guest. Thank you, guys.
Thank you, guys. In terms of appearances, this amazing news right there.
I mean, Mike Portnoy, the list, the names on that list. We got to get Mr.
Portnoy back on.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 Why would you stop having him on just because his son is mean to him? Yeah. Randy Moss is on that list?

Speaker 3 The white one?

Speaker 1 Yeah, the white one.

Speaker 1 Have you ever had the black Randy Moss on that? No, we have not. He He said no? No, we've never asked.

Speaker 1 I'm sure he's such a no-brainer for you.

Speaker 3 I think we have tried to have him on in the past, but it wasn't, it wasn't like he said no. I think the schedule just never lined up.

Speaker 1 We will have him on. Why no Jaden Daniels? Oh, we have him on.
He's been on? Yeah, not since. Because I knew you had on KM.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we had Jaden Daniels on right after he won the Heisman, and then we were going to try to get him on Super Bowl week, but it was Super Bowl week's weird because it's like every interview,

Speaker 1 you either have your, yeah, you either have your friends that you know will come down and sit with you, or you have people who are selling something, which no disrespect to them, because why not go make money pitching a product?

Speaker 1 And then we realize we're going to do grit week in that area, so it's like we'd rather talk to him when he's

Speaker 1 more like chill.

Speaker 1 Yeah, when he's not going from interview to interview of Super Bowl week.

Speaker 3 Plus, if we were to have him on that week, it would be us interviewing him, but also like four other shows putting out their Jaden Davis interview. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And then they're saying the same thing on every show.

Speaker 3 I just love talking about Jiffy Lube, their car service, second to none, Skittles.

Speaker 1 And my mom is watching every girl I'm with like a hawk. Yeah, I'm okay with that.
No girls. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 I feel some tension between the two of you. Yeah, there's no tension.
He told me last night that I have a beef with you. I said, about what sport? Now,

Speaker 1 friendship. Yeah, about the sport of friendship.
Sport of friendship. That's serious.

Speaker 3 And I've heard through the grapevine from two separate sources that Wit has been on edge about this.

Speaker 1 Well, I'm wondering.

Speaker 1 Like, all of a sudden, I got a guy that, like, because you're a guy that I don't know, like, super well, you and I, that's coming up to me with a dead serious face, walking out, going, I'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 1 I said,

Speaker 1 does anyone know what that's about?

Speaker 1 Everyone's telling me no. So, obviously, I thought it was Ovi.
I mean, immediately I was like, I mean,

Speaker 1 I'm coming on a show knowing that the host of the show has a beef with me. I'm curious.

Speaker 3 Well, we've known each other for how long?

Speaker 1 We've known each other for about seven, eight, eight years.

Speaker 3 Eight years, eight years. I've considered you a friend.
We've always been friendly. We haven't spent a lot of time together.

Speaker 1 That's why I say we're friendly. We're not friends, but we're friendly.
I don't have your number.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I would agree with that.

Speaker 3 So what's interesting is I was going on your Twitter the other day because I want to see what's Whitney posting about. I want to be able to have a good interview.
What's he fired up about?

Speaker 3 You don't follow me on Twitter.

Speaker 1 I do.

Speaker 3 You don't follow me on Twitter, Wit.

Speaker 1 That's one of those things that... You know, you end up on somebody's page and you press it by accident.
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 I know for a fact at one point I followed you, and there was no point in time where I went, I'm going to go unfollow PFT Commenter.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so that's what concerned me. I was like, Wit, we used to follow each other.

Speaker 1 I'm going to do it right again. So, hold on.

Speaker 1 You truthfully thought, as a listener of this show, the number one most occurring guest. Yep.
You think I went and unfollowed you?

Speaker 3 That's what made me so concerned. I actually didn't think that.

Speaker 3 I figured out what happened, I think. You remember when I locked down my Twitter account with 999,999 followers?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 3 I think you might have unfollowed and tried to refollow just to see, like, oh, is it really locked down?

Speaker 3 And then I think I told you at the time, like, no, if you opted out, I'm not letting you back in until I open it up. And then you just never came in.
So the whole time you knew what happened.

Speaker 3 No, I thought about it more overnight, and I was like, I'm pretty sure that's it.

Speaker 3 I just wanted you to stew in the beef a little bit longer.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm like, last night, I'm like talking to Francis. I'm like, I don't know what the fuck fuck I did to PFT commenter.

Speaker 1 I'm asking Big Cat, what did I do? Big Cat's like, I don't know anything. And I'm like, this man's lied to me.
No, but I didn't. And I'm like, no, I don't believe him.

Speaker 1 What did I say to you last night? I said, you said you weren't. I don't know what you're mad at him.
I said, I don't think I've ever seen PFT genuinely mad at anyone, so I wouldn't worry that much.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's not true. I've been mad at Max before.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, I got to be honest. I was disgusted by Max.

Speaker 1 Disgusted. I texted Dan.
Yeah. Did you see me? No.
The April 1st 1st thing. Oh, we don't have to.

Speaker 1 We don't have to. So hold on.
I was very

Speaker 1 listening.

Speaker 1 Hold on, Max. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 So, Max. It's always about.

Speaker 1 I'm listening. I was on a flight home.
What was it? It was last week, right? I was like, it was April.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I texted Dan in the middle of listening. I'm like, who is on the phone? Like, who is playing Big Dom?

Speaker 1 And then as I kept listening, I'm like, oh my gosh, Jerry O'Connell. Very funny.
Very funny clip. Yes.

Speaker 1 Then it comes out of you like telling that kid you're going to fire him. I was like, you were that mad?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was mad. I was fired up.
I was fired up.

Speaker 1 But I was like, oh, he's not that mad. I was like, I was actually

Speaker 1 going to fire him.

Speaker 1 No, but you were like, I almost hit him. I got you.
He's going to slap him. So, like, growing up, were you like,

Speaker 1 you could not take a joke? No,

Speaker 1 the joke is I've taken many a joke on this on this very program right here. Yeah, but you've become like a household name, enormous part of the show.

Speaker 1 Enormous. It's gone from like, you came on, like, who's this guy? And now it's like, Max is like a storyline every episode.
And then you're telling a guy you're going to fire him?

Speaker 1 I was like, holy shit.

Speaker 1 That was crazy. I was embarrassed.

Speaker 1 I should have known Big Dom's voice. And that's what I was ashamed of myself.
I was ashamed of myself.

Speaker 1 No, I said it. I thought

Speaker 1 obviously I didn't know it wasn't him, or else I wouldn't have reacted that way.

Speaker 3 What day was this on?

Speaker 1 This was on April 1st. Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so, my thing is, I said April.
My thing is, when you saw the,

Speaker 1 how did you guys release it, like, for mature audiences only? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The PMTV.
Were you like,

Speaker 1 oh my god, I'm so embarrassed how I look here? Or were you still like, no, fuck them?

Speaker 1 Some of both.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, those were all, those were fake closed captions.
No, no. I think it's just funny.
I was, I never thought you were mad. I was like, oh, no, I was mad.

Speaker 1 He was mad. I started breaking.
This was like a April Fool's Brain.

Speaker 1 He broke his little finger skateboard. Where he was.

Speaker 1 I have it in my hand right now.

Speaker 1 At first,

Speaker 3 he was mad at us. And then after, I'd say even after like 10, 15 minutes, you gradually became mad at yourself.
Yes. And then you got mad at yourself for being so mad.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 3 And being like, I'm going to look stupid.

Speaker 1 He was was mad at the situation. And then, little did you know, like, how stupid you were going to look.

Speaker 1 As a Max guy, I was like, oh my God. I have like a lip.
Like, I was afraid. Like, I'm afraid to ever mess with him.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 he's an Italian. He just is an Italian through his dream.
He's just excuse that excuse. No, but you.
Italian. Don't make a joke with it.

Speaker 1 No, there's some Italians that's like, all right, they're not like, you know, they're Italian, but that's just part of their personality. Like, if you had to describe Max, it's Italian.

Speaker 1 That's what he, that's how he, his emotions. He had a piece of pizza with him.
I can tell.

Speaker 1 His emotions,

Speaker 1 all of his emotions are just like ramped up. Yeah, just good, bad, happy, sad.
But the Eagle stuff, I get that. Like, you know, your show's built on people being die-hard fans.

Speaker 1 And it's like on April Fool's prank. I've never seen somebody that mad.

Speaker 1 I have a litmus test for like when I think something we've done is like really funny. And it's when Wit and Yans text me being like, oh my God.
Yans texted me first. I got a text from both of them.

Speaker 1 And I was like, like, see, this guy fucking Max, he's snapping.

Speaker 1 Two very funny guys. And when they text, I'm like, oh, this was good.
Like, we hit it. We got something.
Oh, man. Yeah, I should have.
I overreacted. I may have overreacted.
I may have overreacted.

Speaker 1 No, it's very, very, very good content, though. Max.
Unfortunately, at your expense this time, but

Speaker 1 you've been on the right side of things lately, right? Yeah, no, the Eagles won the Super Bowl. And then, did I hear there's a chance you're going to the White House? Yes.

Speaker 1 I don't think that's that. I think that might end up happening.

Speaker 1 He's been in talks with Big Dom about it. Like Big Dom felt so bad.
Big Dom texted me right away. He was like, that's like, I just listened so funny.
We can't let my Paisan go down like that.

Speaker 1 We're going to try to get him into the White House. I don't think it's.

Speaker 1 Which is more than fine. Which is more than fine.

Speaker 1 But it would be great. We were joking that, like, imagine if he snaps on Donald Trump.
Yeah, or like

Speaker 1 Big Dom hires him as security and then like one of the Eagles players gets like accosted by like a a protester and it's like who was on that who's on that detail? Oh, it's Max

Speaker 1 Make sure no Hamas tweets. Oh no Hamas

Speaker 1 the Sal Palantonio is really the one that I look back at

Speaker 1 and I'm like how the fuck did I we got something that Sal Palantonio started listing Italians I know I know that that was see there was moments where I would just go I'd be like oh I'm starting to do it right now where I just think about like how are you that stupid?

Speaker 1 And just being so. I was mostly mad at myself.
I was mostly mad at myself. No, no, no.
South Pound. Wicked to.
Wicked to tell.

Speaker 3 Bam Margero.

Speaker 1 Max. So, so, Wit, let's talk a little hockey.
Spit and chicklets. Everyone should listen.
It's the best. You guys, especially when we get to like playoff time, it's so awesome.

Speaker 1 It seems like every year we have something big in playoffs with us. Yeah.
So I'm kind of hoping again this year like something happens. Is there any bet going?

Speaker 1 I mean, I know that Biz doesn't do his bets.

Speaker 1 So you don't make bets with him anymore. Right.
It's the same. Who was I just talking about?

Speaker 1 There was a guy that used to work at Barstool that made a bet he'd jump in the Hudson River if the Rangers lost. He never did.
It's like, all right, well,

Speaker 1 we don't make bets with you anymore. Is that Avery?

Speaker 3 Avery. Do you know what Avery's doing? No.
Avery is producing a podcast. I'll give you one guess, and I'll give you.

Speaker 1 I actually know who. Okay.
I forgot. Yeah, Hawktua.
Jake. Oh, I thought he was working for Jake Paul.

Speaker 3 No, he was producing the Talk Tua podcast.

Speaker 1 When she did the meme drama? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm so perfect. I'm so serious.
so that was what he was doing

Speaker 1 i thought he worked for jake paul i think he does now i think it's his production company yeah yes yeah yeah jake paul whatever but he was that was that was his his baby

Speaker 1 oh talked to her which was a great show by the way and then she disappeared yeah so hockey this year um

Speaker 1 so many storylines i think the number one for me is that this is the best chance the leafs have ever had to win the cup and this and and biz won't make it you won't make a bet with biz because he

Speaker 1 i don't even even think he

Speaker 1 really is. He's so into it.
It's almost one of those, I don't need to bet it. Right.
You know, because I have so much riding on it anyways. Right.
But there's

Speaker 1 just some crazy, like,

Speaker 1 what would be the word? Like, coincidences or things that are kind of happening that lead back to the last Maple Leaf Stanley Cup. Team of Destiny? Yes,

Speaker 1 if you want to look at it that way. For a team who's had just no success, 1967.

Speaker 1 The first is that, well, the most recent one I heard is the last time both the Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins didn't make the Stanley Cup was 1967. Nothing crazy, but like kind of

Speaker 1 nuts that those two teams didn't make it the last time they won. Well, they're both out.

Speaker 1 There was the last time

Speaker 1 there was a member of the Maple Leafs with the nickname Chief, 1967. Their coach is now nicknamed Chief.
It's his first year. Okay.

Speaker 1 There were some other things that are kind of

Speaker 1 I'm missing off the top of my head right now.

Speaker 1 There was one amazing one. It'll come back to me, but basically, it's like you have all these storylines of the Leafs.
You have their best player or one of them coming up as a free agent.

Speaker 1 So Mitch Martin, Mitch Marner, nobody has any clue.

Speaker 1 Basically, Biz is describing it as if he lights it up and we go on a run, even if we don't win the cup, we have to resign him. If he doesn't play good, we don't resign him.

Speaker 1 So it's like, well, you're really going to rely just on this one singular playoff to determine his fate and future as a Maple Leafs. So that's kind of crazy storyline there.

Speaker 3 Here's another one right here.

Speaker 3 Bruebe, he coached the Blues. He snapped a 52-year championship.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes.

Speaker 3 And then this would be 52 years since 1967.

Speaker 1 It's wild. And not to mention, like, forget the other things.
And I wish I had all the other ones in my head.

Speaker 3 You can see the graphic that they're going to put up on the screen.

Speaker 1 I could see. Yeah, and we had a guy on named Hockey Illuminati on Chiclets, who's a die-hard Leafs fan.
Hasn't missed the game in years. And he was listing us off like different stats.

Speaker 1 And unfortunately, it was a while ago. I don't remember, but they are very good, too.
So, like,

Speaker 1 I don't know. Like, I actually feel like this could be the year.
They're not probably not going to have to play a Florida team in the first round. Whereas if it sticks out, they win the division.

Speaker 1 They get Ottawa, which is actually better for hockey as a whole, because then you get the Battle of Ontario and you get the Battle of Florida with Tampa and the Panthers, who played this incredible series, I think, three years ago.

Speaker 1 And for Toronto, it's like, all right, well, this Ottawa hasn't been in the playoffs for, I don't know, 10 years, nine years. So, like, we should be able to get by them.
Right.

Speaker 1 Then they get to play the Florida team that was beat up by the other Florida team who lost. So it's kind of all setting up.
And hockey would be very, very well off to have the Leafs go on a run.

Speaker 1 The hockey-related revenue would be through the roof.

Speaker 1 And the East, I think.

Speaker 1 Now, PFT may be mad. I think there's two, maybe three teams that could win the cup.
I don't know if I consider Washington one of them. Can I ask a question about that? Washington, yeah,

Speaker 1 they're the best team because I was looking at the odds.

Speaker 1 By the end of this episode, I want you to give me a pick that I can ride. But, like,

Speaker 1 they have the most points, and they're, I don't know, like third or fourth in the East in odds. Why? They've scored the most goals, too.
Why?

Speaker 1 I'll just say goaltending.

Speaker 3 They got some goaltending questions. They got two goalies, and they thought they knew which direction they were going to go earlier in the season.

Speaker 3 And neither one has, like, they get on hot streaks sometimes, but neither one has done anything to separate themselves to take the job. That's our guy.

Speaker 1 And then, when you're going into the playoffs, like, if you don't, if you have a 1A and a 1B, do you have a number one?

Speaker 1 Like, it's kind of like, I don't know, the league's changed where you now have goalies really split time and play, I don't know, 45 and 38 games, whatever it may be.

Speaker 1 But once you get in the playoffs, it seems like every year the winning team has a go-to guy in net. Yeah.
Now, I think that to me is the other thing. Also,

Speaker 1 it's been like this magical run of the goal chase and it's been such a cool storyline but like when you get down to matchups and then you're playing a team four out of seven like i don't know like i i think dylan strom's an awesome player and like but if he's going up against like barkov or matthews and it's like some of these other centermen it's like i don't know can he can can he hold up his end of the bargain like he could no doubt but it's more just looking at the whole team but it's been a wild ride they also have kind of struggled lately now granted i think they've been on like a bender every time Ovi scores.

Speaker 1 It's like, we tied it up. We got to go out.
We broke the record. We got to go out.
And yeah, I don't know. I think that they're going to get Montreal in the first round.

Speaker 1 That's like this crazy storyline nobody saw coming. The last time they played in the playoffs was when Washington won the president's trophy, lost in the first round to them

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 kind of a shocking upset, kind of similar there.

Speaker 1 Now, if Washington were to get to the conference finals, I don't think anyone would be surprised, but it's more like not everyone's just picking it to happen. Right.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Based on the record. How do you feel?

Speaker 1 Are you super confident? I'm not super.

Speaker 3 I think that we can go on a run for sure. I think that I disagree with you.
I think that Dylan Strome can play with anybody. I love watching him play.
He's a great player.

Speaker 1 He's a great player.

Speaker 3 He's good at setting his teammates up. Always where he needs to be.
I think Tom Wilson is playing one of the best seasons of his career. And Ovie is certainly like at the top of his game right now.

Speaker 3 The difference between this team and the team that you were talking about that lost to Montreal back in whatever year that was.

Speaker 1 2010, I think.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So they had a hot goalie, very hot goalie in Montreal.

Speaker 3 Yeah, halak. I fucking hate that guy.

Speaker 3 Our offense was a shitload of Mike Green firing in like long-distance, low-percentage shots. And so he was getting a bunch of saves.

Speaker 3 We would outshoot them by like 20 shots a game.

Speaker 1 But they weren't like grade A.

Speaker 3 But they weren't grade A shots. And this team has more of a cohesive offense, I think, than that team did at times.
Like we play prettier hockey at times than that team did.

Speaker 1 So we interviewed Dylan Strome recently and kind of asked him, like, what did Carberry say before this year? Because they made a lot of moves in the offseason, right?

Speaker 1 They brought in like Jacob Chikrin.

Speaker 1 They ended up bringing in guys. This Protoss guy is unbelievable.
He's a Belarusian monster. The Capitals also drafted his brother, who's another, like, I'm talking 6'6 monsters.

Speaker 1 I guess Carberry told them, like, my biggest thing is we need to score more. Last year, they were strategy.
Yeah, like one of the best coaches in the league. Yeah, more of a great move.

Speaker 1 Say, we got to score goals.

Speaker 1 They led the league in goals.

Speaker 1 And even Dylan Strom is like, I don't think anyone saw this coming. But obviously, like Protoss and Ovi and yeah, Strom.
And I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think that

Speaker 1 when I say like why I don't think they're going to win it, if you're a Caps fan and say, this guy's an idiot. He hasn't given really one reason.
It's kind of just like a gut feeling.

Speaker 1 I think last year they were so bad. And I know it's a different team.
I'm like, how would this team be that good the next year? But so far, I've looked like an idiot.

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't think one guy on Chicklett's picked him to make the playoffs. Wow.
That's crazy. Listen, Listen,

Speaker 3 I don't have the same confidence that I had back in even 2017 or 2018 when they made the playoffs.

Speaker 3 But I do think that there's something very cool about this team. And they've been a joy to watch the entire season.

Speaker 1 From the first game.

Speaker 3 They've been pretty consistent.

Speaker 3 And I thought that there might be a little bit of letdown after Ovi got the record because this season has been so much about getting the right, as it probably should be.

Speaker 3 It's a crazy, crazy achievement.

Speaker 1 And part of me was that maybe when that happens, it's like, oh, the balloon kind of bursts.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 then playoffs come.

Speaker 3 I like the fact that we're playing against the Hurricanes tonight.

Speaker 1 I was just going to bring that up.

Speaker 3 That we got in that line brawl with at the end of the last game because that's going to be a physical game.

Speaker 3 I think that's enough to shock you out of any sort of goal record hangover that you might have.

Speaker 1 I was going to say, I almost wish this was like tomorrow morning because by the sounds of it, there's going to be fireworks tonight.

Speaker 1 And that's where Washington, at least against a team like Carolina, like...

Speaker 1 They don't really have anyone like the way Washington has a Tom Wilson, you know?

Speaker 1 When they played last week, uh, turned into a really dirty game, Aho slash Tom Wilson, and then Tom Wilson's skating around and he's saying, Who's gonna protect you?

Speaker 1 You could read, who's gonna protect you? Like, basically, like, I'll kill anyone, right? And now they're playing again quickly.

Speaker 1 And even in that game, Carberry was over, kind of whispering in Tom Wilson's ear. And Biz and I were saying, like, what do you think he's saying to him? Like, please kind of like calm down, calm down.

Speaker 1 It was more like he might take a 25-game suspension right now. Yeah, I can't believe that I stopped.

Speaker 1 So, they, yeah, that is last night as you're listening on Friday. And And I think we're going to see some fireworks.

Speaker 1 And I think Tom Wilson will be one of those looking at the bench, like, who's going to do anything? Right. You have nobody here that I won't pump.
Right. And this is also coming from Jalen Chatfield.

Speaker 1 He, did you see that movie? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He flipped him.
Yeah, he kind of like figure four leg lock, like slew-footed him. Yeah.
No helmet on. Pretty dangerous.
It sounds like. Maybe a little

Speaker 1 exaggeration, but like he could have died. Like if that guy lands on his head, dude, he's

Speaker 1 not what you do in a fight, right? Isn't it in hockey? Like, you're not supposed to, like, you can obviously punch, but you're not supposed to, like, intentionally try to

Speaker 1 bring someone to the ground in a move like that. No, I think you actually can.

Speaker 1 Like, I think if you're squared off and you grab each other's shoulders and you want to slam them down, which ironically is what Tom Wilson did to Panarin.

Speaker 3 That was different. He was wearing, he jumped on, like, a backpack.

Speaker 1 But, like, whipping him around like that.

Speaker 1 It was more of getting your leg behind his leg. And then, you know, if you take a guy and slam him down, it's like, buddy, I'm bigger, I'm stronger, I'm meaner than you.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But to use your leg, it was just, I don't know. And then Rod Brindemore, he called me a moron.
It was not directly, he said, media, you're all morons. I'm a media guy now.
Yeah, you are.

Speaker 1 And I was the one that was saying, like, I think he should have got like a three or four game suspension, but they didn't suspend him.

Speaker 1 So now it's kind of like, who's, what's to stop the next guy from figure four leg sweeping again? Right, right. All right.
So

Speaker 1 the Leafs?

Speaker 1 Leafs are the same. You're going to use three teams.
Three teams in the East.

Speaker 1 I give you these three teams. One of these three teams has to make it to the cup, otherwise you lose all your credibility.
Okay. Holy shit.
Yeah, that was big.

Speaker 3 There's a lot of credibility.

Speaker 1 And this means something because we always, we have a lot of credibility on this one. Florida, Tampa, Toronto.
I'm taking all three Atlantics. Okay.

Speaker 1 I think that the only thing that'll stop that is whoever of those three makes the conference finals might just be beat to shit. Out of gas.
Right.

Speaker 1 And I think Carolina has a pretty nice route based on the fact that Jersey doesn't have a lot of their players healthy, Jack Hughes being the biggest one. Wait, wait, the Devils are in the playoffs?

Speaker 1 Devils are in. If you follow Frank the Tank on Twitter, you would never imagine

Speaker 1 the team folded. No, legit.
I think he was talking like they were winning the draft lottery. They're in the playoffs.
Oh, that's so funny. And, you know,

Speaker 1 without Jack Hughes, it's like, oh, and Carolina kind of comes hard. The last time they played after New Jersey beat the Rangers in seven, two years ago, when Avery didn't jump in the Hudson,

Speaker 1 The Hurricanes just whooped on him. Now it's two years later, but no Jack Hughes.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 the problem would be of the three Atlantic teams to get to the conference final, they could face a team that hasn't dealt with like two rounds of just kicking the shit out of each other on the other end.

Speaker 1 All right, so what about the West? Is there one team that's better than everyone?

Speaker 3 Real quick, Witt, I wanted to just throw this stat at you. I know that the Panthers are a great team, Stanley Cup champions.

Speaker 3 Do you know offhand the Caps record against the Panthers this year and the total goals?

Speaker 1 No, but based on you bringing it up, I'm going to guess that the Caps are three or four and all.

Speaker 3 They're 3-0 against the Panthers, and the total cumulative score is 16 to 7.

Speaker 1 This is why Caps fans really reached the 30s.

Speaker 3 4-1-6-3-6-3.

Speaker 1 And I think I've been tweeted, like, buddy, you don't know what you're talking about. We've crushed the Panthers all year.

Speaker 1 I have nothing to say. It's more just like, it's kind of an eye test for me.
And what's funny is you bring up the West.

Speaker 1 the same exact thing can be said for winnipeg winnipeg and washington this year i think both both teams the expectations weren't that crazy high going into the year they're the number one and two team and i'm still like same thing with washington like i don't really buy winnipeg now based on last year they played colorado in the first round it was a shit kicking like hellebuck was not hellebuck and colorado's offense was just humming and winnipeg looked horrible and now you know they're not going to have to face Colorado in the first round because they're going to win the division and maybe get a wounded Minnesota team.

Speaker 1 But still, I'm like, the next round, that means they have Dallas or Colorado. Right.
I actually like Colorado the best. Because

Speaker 1 Colorado won the Stanley Cup, what, two years ago? No, three years ago. They won it

Speaker 1 three. Three years ago.

Speaker 1 It went Colorado, then Vegas, then Florida. But that team is still the team that there's a lot of the same guys from the Stanley Cup year.
Well, yeah, mainly McCarran McKinnon.

Speaker 1 And they have this crazy emotional storyline coming through of Gabriel Landiskog. And do you remember like him and his captain of the avalanche? His last NHL game was the game they won the cup.

Speaker 1 I think they won in five that year, or maybe six against the Lightning. Yep.
And Lightning, they were going for the third straight. They had nothing left in the tank.

Speaker 1 And Landiskog raised the cup, and then it came out after he had played the entire playoffs on just a crippled knee. Like his knee was a mess.
He had been cut cut by a skate.

Speaker 1 That, that, that, you know, they fixed that, and then it, they realized that it wasn't just a cut. Something else had happened.
Realized he didn't have cartilage where there needed to be cartilage.

Speaker 1 So he hasn't played hockey in three, coming up on three years. Wow.
And he's now back. He's going down to the AHL as of yesterday.
Wow.

Speaker 1 So that way he can go play three games in the AHL, not have to be put on the cap for the avalanche, which would cause them issues trying to get him back in the lineup.

Speaker 1 So, no, we'll go send him to the minors for three games. And then, when the caps canceled and there's no caps starting game one of the playoffs, he's back.
Yep.

Speaker 1 Their captain's back three years playing. People get so mad when this happens, but it's so funny.

Speaker 1 Every year it happens where a guy will get injured. I know.
And they can use him later in the year, and it doesn't come to the cap. And it's like,

Speaker 1 it's such an advantage.

Speaker 1 It's such an infuriating thing for other fan bases. And for myself, last year,

Speaker 1 Vegas got hurtle, and Mark Stone was put on LTIR again. And I'm like,

Speaker 1 it was like the breaking bad. Like, he can't keep keep getting away with this.
And now it's different with Landiskog to me because, like,

Speaker 1 I don't know. I just have so much respect for him.
We interviewed him recently. He had a documentary made about his comeback.
He talks a lot about how many nights he's like, I'm done.

Speaker 1 Like, the thought of, like, this is over, and that he's able to come back healthy enough and give it a chance. So, hopefully, everything's okay in the minors in the three games he's playing.

Speaker 1 And then we get to see, you know, for them, they get their captain back while also having made, I think, like five or six huge deals. They switched up their entire lineup throughout the year.

Speaker 1 They brought in two new goalies, which is like, you never see that. And then they traded for Charlie Coyle from Boston.
They traded for Brock Nelson from the Islanders.

Speaker 1 They made all these deals where, like, their team's awesome.

Speaker 1 They traded Ron Tonen in this huge deal to Carolina. Got Jack Drury, Martin Naches, who's been sick with McKinnon.
So Colorado to me is they're the best team in the West. Okay, sorry, that might be my

Speaker 1 future. And if they play Dallas, which I think they will in the first round, one of those

Speaker 1 kind of unfair, like either team could win the cup and somebody's losing fifty. That happened last year with the Knights and the Stars, right? Like those two teams were incredible.
So

Speaker 1 Bettman's been very open with loving this system of having the three division winners, you know, two and three play each other in both, and then one from each division plays the two wildcards.

Speaker 1 I get it builds these rivalries, but it also every year knocks out a true cup contender in the first round. Yeah, that seems kind of bullshit.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 Now, most of the time, if you look at if you did one through eight old school way, I think like

Speaker 1 it always kind of ends up being the same anyway. So like the argument, it's kind of a moot point.
But I don't know. It just sucks for a Dallas Stars fan or an Avs fan that one of them's going home.

Speaker 1 And the reason I'm really kind of hell-bent on Colorado being able to get by them is one of the best defensemen in the league is a Finnish guy, Miro Heskinen, for Dallas. He's out.
Okay.

Speaker 1 And I don't think he's coming back for the first round. And without him, I think it's going to be tough for them to beat him.
Okay.

Speaker 3 I want to be an Avs guy. What do we think about Bettman? Where are we at with me? Because I feel like on this show, we've got a pretty good narrative going around Adam Silver.

Speaker 3 We've got a good one going around Manfred in baseball. Yep.
And we know a lot about Roger Goodell. All I know is that hockey fans tend to not like him, but I don't know why.

Speaker 3 I want to hate him because I want to hate every commissioner because it's easy to be like, that guy fucking sucks.

Speaker 3 Why should I hate him?

Speaker 1 I have no reason why you could hate him. Do you have his phone number? I do not have his phone number.
Does Biz have his phone number? Yes.

Speaker 1 Biz has compromised.

Speaker 1 Biz Biz has shown me messages where

Speaker 3 every hockey guy, I'm like, I see him. They're like, that guy's a clown.
No, but I,

Speaker 1 yeah, everyone says that, and everyone booz him when his name's announced. And I don't think 90% of the people booing would have a reason why they're booing.

Speaker 3 It's just funny.

Speaker 1 It's just like, oh, we're booing Gary Bettman. But what the game's done, I mean, I don't know.
I think he's coming up 25 years, roughly. If you could look that up, maybe Hank or Max.

Speaker 1 I don't want to make you mad, Hanks. Max, this isn't a prank, but just see how long he's been the commissioner.
and

Speaker 1 the league's been pretty outstanding in all that time. I feel like hockey's in a great place right now.
He's grown the game enough. I mean, not just him, but he's obviously done a good job.
How long?

Speaker 1 93. Holy shit.
Yeah. Wait, that's 30 years? Crazy.
31 years. Crazy.
And I think he's already starting to make it clear. He's kind of figuring out an exit path.

Speaker 1 But I don't know. I guess one complaint would be he was kind of at the helm.

Speaker 1 Now, granted, because of the owners of like getting rid of best on best, you know, it had been since 2014 until we got our exhibition all-star game this year. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But now he's back and he's brought it back where we're getting something every two years with the Olympic World Cup. I don't really know why Bettman gets booted.

Speaker 1 It's probably residual from the lockout and what it was. 06.

Speaker 1 Remember when the NHL was on like OAN?

Speaker 1 OLN. O-LN.
Outdoor Life Network. Yeah, yeah.
That was my rookie year. That was so brutal.
Nobody could watch it. You couldn't watch hockey.

Speaker 1 You had Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin as rookies and you're looking for the outdoor life network.

Speaker 3 Yeah, wasn't the Stanley Cup finals were on Spike TV?

Speaker 1 Yes, like that. It was.
I'm pretty sure it was John Taffer leading into the Stanley Cup finals. Yeah.
Shut it down.

Speaker 1 No, I think that

Speaker 1 you're right. That's what it is.
It's been, there was a half-shortened season. That was at the end of my career.
I think that was my second to last year.

Speaker 1 And then my first year pro, I was in the minors all year, which I might have been anyway because the whole season was canceled. So that's probably the issue.

Speaker 1 But like any commissioner, it's like, hate the owners. They're literally doing exactly what the owners tell them to do.
Yeah. You know, right.

Speaker 1 And in hunger. They're there to take the bullets.
Like, that's our whole thing with Cadell. As much as you can blame Cadell for a lot of stuff, and he is an asshole.

Speaker 1 He's just doing what Jerry Jones is doing. And they're paid handsomely.
Yeah. $40 million.
It's like, okay, I'll take that job in a heartbeat. In a second.

Speaker 1 Yeah, what else? What else? Yeah, Bettman, I don't know. I mean, he's the game, but hockey is in such a great place right now.
It really is. That's why I hope the playoffs is kind of legendary.

Speaker 1 And it's also one of the reasons he likes the playoff format.

Speaker 1 Even though you might lose two cup contenders in the first round, the first round is so watched and anticipated that you know you're going to get some incredible storylines.

Speaker 1 And he almost looks at it, like at least with our podcast last year, we were doing, we were doing, we do twice a week in the playoffs and we were doing live shows for at least one of the days a week.

Speaker 1 And we noticed as the playoffs went on and you got to conference finals, which is end of May and cup finals in June, viewership was kind of dropping because I think as the weather changes, like, yeah, unless your team's going, I think a lot of people are kind of like, dude, hockey started 10 months ago.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

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Speaker 1 The other thing with hockey, and I know that NBA still has higher ratings, but the NBA first round versus hockey first round

Speaker 1 is such an opposite. Like hockey first round, you can always have those upsets.
All the series feel competitive. NBA is just like, all right, let's get to this.
It's over.

Speaker 1 Right. Let's just get on.

Speaker 1 Two sweeps and a couple and five. Right.
Where hockey, it's like,

Speaker 1 you know, I think that the record might be seven of eight went to game seven.

Speaker 1 I might have been six, but this year, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see four or five game sevens, which is the best thing in the world.

Speaker 1 The first round, and you just get all these eyeballs on the sport. So Bettman's done a good job.
I mean, the league's better than it was when he came in. Yeah.
I got a question for you.

Speaker 1 I heard you say this. You've never had Ovion.
Do you ever think you could get Ovion? We were talking about this the other day. Like, we have no in whatsoever.
Not one guy that you played with?

Speaker 1 Well, like, Oshi, I'm very friendly with. And, like, maybe I could be like, hey, can you ask him? But someone even want to ask Oshi to ask him.
That's true.

Speaker 1 Biz and I have kind of like a, not a theory, but a hope that a lot of these guys, when they retire, like Brad Marchand, for example, he's like, I'd love to come on when I retire. Right.

Speaker 1 Drew Doughty, I'd love to come on when I retire. Now, most of these guys say I'll do a sandbagger right now, but for a long-term sit-down interview, I'll do it when I retire.
Maybe we get Ovi.

Speaker 1 Now, there's a chance Ovi's back in Russia. Like, I think he's mentioned before he'd like to play one last year in the KHL.
He's only ever played for Dynamo, Moscow, and the Washington Capitals.

Speaker 1 And it would be pretty sick, like, for his, you know, for Russia if he went back and just did, like, a fun year in playing for them. But if he does that, like, he's probably gone.

Speaker 1 He's never coming back. He's never coming back.
You know, his wife's Russian, and

Speaker 1 he's a god there. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 3 I have tried to get Ovie on part of my take before, and I've been in touch with the Caps PR.

Speaker 1 When you were running by by him?

Speaker 3 Yeah, when I was running by him. That was maybe one of the coolest moments of my life.
I saw that clip.

Speaker 1 Because you recognized his wife.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. So I was out for a jog.
This was like probably 10 years ago. I was out for a jog in my parents' old neighborhood.
I was running around this big lake that they had.

Speaker 3 And so I get to the other side of it, and I knew that's where Ovie's house was. But I'm out for this jog, and then I see this dude in a hoodie on like a BMX bike, like a dirt bike.

Speaker 3 Just he's a monster. Just riding up this hill right past me, coming straight towards me on the road.
I jogged past him, and I was like, okay, that guy's like a machine on this bike.

Speaker 3 But I didn't think it was Ovie. I had no idea.
Then I see his wife. I'm like, oh, shit, that's Ovie's wife.
Look back at Ovie. He just gets to the top, walks his bike down the hill, bikes it up again.

Speaker 3 He was doing rehab for his MCL. He had a torn MCL, and his whole thing was, I just go ride bike.

Speaker 1 And I'm guessing his trainers were like, hey, no, we got the STEM machine. And he's like, no, no, Russia.
We ride bike uphill. Ride bike uphill, walk bike down, ride bike uphill.

Speaker 3 And yeah, he did that. I was probably out for about 35 minutes and he did that the entire time.
I just stopped and watched.

Speaker 1 And then how, what was your approach to asking him for part of my take?

Speaker 3 Oh, that wasn't, I wasn't doing part of my take at the time.

Speaker 1 Oh, oh, no, no, okay. I was just a fan.

Speaker 3 But I've reached out to their PR people for the caps before, trying to set up other guys on the team for an interview. And I ask about Ovie and they're always just like, ha.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's like, oh, like, you're really at, like, they don't even like

Speaker 1 a real ass.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I do think that the language barrier is a real thing with Ovie. He speaks English, but it's, you know, I don't know if he could do a full interview.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he might not want to sit here and then just be doing the translations in his head, and then like YouTube would be fucking with him, too. So then he's got to deal with that.

Speaker 1 He wouldn't know you're fucking with him. Right.
You know, it's like that's a guy, though, that would just be so incredible to sit down and talk to. Like, the fact that he broke that record,

Speaker 1 I said on Spit and Chiclets, and I was like, you guys are going to make fun of me. But, like, I was like emotional watching it.
I was sitting there with

Speaker 1 two of my boys, and my wife was there, and she she doesn't care or know about hockey, but for a month, I'd been kind of like telling the boys, like, he scored again. Like, eight left, eight left.

Speaker 1 And then, and then it was perfect because my son had two hockey games that Sunday, but it was, it was a 12:30 start. It was right in the middle of the games.
I was like, great.

Speaker 1 And I'm sitting there and I'm watching, and like, the way Gretzky spoke and had the Gordy Howe pin. And I was just like...

Speaker 1 misty-eyed. I'm like, I can't believe I got to, I said, I can't believe I got to play against this guy.
Like, my whole life, like, hockey's all I cared about. And, like, Wayne Gretzky's record.

Speaker 1 Nobody will ever beat it. And then, like, I played against this guy who just broke this record that nobody thought would, would be ever touched.
It's just like crazy to me.

Speaker 1 Even now, like, thinking about it, like, that, like, that record was untouchable. Right.
There's those moments in sports where you're like, I'm lucky to see you. I'll never forget.

Speaker 1 I'll see this, and I'll never, and there'll never probably be someone who breaks his record. So it's like, I saw that.
So that, that was what I kind of said on Chicklett's when I was telling the guys.

Speaker 1 Like, I was sitting there just like,

Speaker 1 you know, emotional about it in a way. And then I had responses on Twitter that's like, well, nobody fucking said that Gretzy's to be broken.
I'm like, that's kind of a valid point.

Speaker 1 Like, maybe there, but there was a stat I saw on Twitter that, you know, if there's a, if there's a 12-year-old phenom out there right now, and like, he's going to be in the NHL in six years, he needs to average 45 a year for 20 years.

Speaker 1 Right. And a lot of things have to go right.
Yeah. For it to help.
To even be close. Right.
Which is why Ovie.

Speaker 1 Now, my dad doesn't like Ovi. Like, I don't really know why.

Speaker 1 He

Speaker 1 cheats defensively. Like, you know, how

Speaker 1 dad's just

Speaker 1 cherry picker. Yeah, yeah.
It's like, I'm like, dad,

Speaker 1 he plays so physical. Like, yeah, he occasionally cheats offensively.
And if you score that much, it's like coaches, like, we got to deal with it. He's been running guys for 20 years.

Speaker 1 You know, like, it's one thing if he was perimeter and never hit. It's like, I don't know how he wasn't injured.

Speaker 1 And I love that he, like, it's not like a Tom Brady or like a LeBron where they're, they're saying, you know, there's an article every summer.

Speaker 1 It's like they put $10 million into their body in the training. No, he looks horrible.
He's just fucking gassing beers like two minutes after. Have you seen, there's a clip years ago.

Speaker 1 He's playing like... Beach volleyball.
That, and he's playing in a Russian soccer league. Yeah.
And he just looks like a tank over there.

Speaker 1 Did you see the,

Speaker 1 I'm sure, PFT, you saw like the April 6th, the day he broke it, like all the other April. Like, it's just wild.
Yeah. Just crazy stuff.

Speaker 1 The way it all came down.

Speaker 1 then I kind of wanted him to get the hat trick at home, but then it was almost better that he was in this away building in Long Island.

Speaker 1 It was half caps fans, and the tickets were going for a thousand bucks. Nobody would pay to watch the Islanders, and he does it there.

Speaker 1 Just the coolest, the coolest story of the season, and we've had a bunch of them.

Speaker 3 Now, the Islanders are charging, I think, 50 bucks to print out the physical ticket from that game if you went to that game.

Speaker 1 Isn't that wild about like 20 years ago?

Speaker 3 You have to pay them because they pay $50 to print out a ticket.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 3 Because everyone had it on their phone, yeah.

Speaker 1 Like the ticket stuff that you can, like, frame. Yeah, because you can't get an actual ticket anywhere.

Speaker 1 I would frame my phone's digital picture before I paid the islanders $50 to get a picture. The QR code?

Speaker 3 I was there. Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 Do we want to talk about what happened with the Bruins this year?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't mind. I'm not a Bruins fan, and Don Sweeney had kind of come at us.
I think we had talked about it when Biz and I were in here recently.

Speaker 1 Nobody saw this coming. I mean, I didn't expect him to be that good.
Actually, the coolest story of the Bruins season is Postronach. He has 100 points.
The next guy is 55 points.

Speaker 1 It's actually one of the, he should be like probably top five in MVP for what he's done because he has nobody. And yet, it all ended so quick.

Speaker 1 And, you know, they, they, they kind of lowballed Brad Marchand, which I get. And, you know, Boston people are like, well, that's what Belichick did.
You depreciating assets.

Speaker 1 It's like, well, the Patriots were winning every year. The Bruins won one cup since 1972.
Right. It's kind of like, I understand, and their ticket prices keep rising.

Speaker 1 And now, for the Bruins fans, it's kind of an ugly, ugly future.

Speaker 1 Like, they don't, in the trades they made with Coyle and they traded Trent Frederick, they got a really high-scoring kid that's in the USHL now and could end up being a pretty good NHLer.

Speaker 1 But other than that, like, it's not like Chicago, they got some big-time prospects. Yeah, the defense is looking good.
San Jose, like, they got some studs where Boston is.

Speaker 1 And they're going to be top of the draft. And they get another one.
Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 Now, Boston, they actually somehow, it worked out in their favor where when they traded Marshawn and Coyle and Frederick and all these guys, they truly tanked the correct way.

Speaker 1 Where I think right now they'd get the fourth overall pick. Oh, wow.
So that's actually probably what they need. It just, it's probably going to be three years of them picking pretty high.

Speaker 1 And Bruins fans are not used to that. I mean, as much as I chirp them for getting the one cup since 72,

Speaker 1 they've been to like two other finals. And every year since about 2008, they were a contender.
So they had a good run.

Speaker 1 Is there a guy in this draft or the next couple of drafts that everyone's got like pegged? Is the next? Next draft. Next draft.
This draft upcoming.

Speaker 1 It seems there's a defenseman, this kid Matthew Schaefer, very highly rated. He's been injured all year, but it's apparently just a complete stud.

Speaker 1 There's a kid, James Haggins, that played at Boston College this year, but it's one of those prospects coming up the year after that in every sport you hear about, like wait till he's drafted.

Speaker 1 It's a kid, Gavin McKenna.

Speaker 1 Good hockey name. Great hockey name.
Ironically, Connor Bedard's cousin. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 Not through blood, I believe through marriage, which kind of matters to me a little bit because if it was through blood, I'd be like, what the fuck? Yeah, these freaks. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, who are these parents? But

Speaker 1 he is what looks to be one of those McDavid-type prospects.

Speaker 1 He had,

Speaker 1 I think, the record for points in the WHL or maybe the CHL draft plus one a year, where he's two years away. I think had five points a game in the first round of the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Like, you know, a true, possibly game-breaking, you know, generational talent that now next year, whoever gets first overall will get. Wow.
Okay. What's his game like?

Speaker 1 Just a playmaking, like fast scoring center. Just like it sounds like McDavid, which I kind of hate doing because Bedard got unfairly.

Speaker 1 ranked that way, which his numbers are so incredible, but the expectations of Bedard were a little unfair.

Speaker 1 and maybe this is now happening to this kid and you know you end up blaming people like me who are talking about 16 year olds like they're going to change the game but from everything i've heard this this kid's the real deal and now what's interesting is you used to have to if you played in the chl in the ontario quebec or western league you couldn't go to college they changed the rule you could now play nca after you play junior it's really going to screw over american kids and I didn't think of that and had people reaching out when I was like, this is a good thing.

Speaker 1 It's going to make college hockey so good, which it will.

Speaker 1 but American kids are going to get shafted scholarship-wise because now you're getting the best Canadian kids and they can't go and play in the Canadian league. You can.
Oh, you can.

Speaker 1 You can, but a lot of them won't. Yeah, I mean, well, now kids might because then you can go to college.

Speaker 1 And before you wouldn't go because you couldn't go to college, but what happens is that now the best Canadian kids will play in those leagues at 17 and 18, and then they'll go to college, and then they'll get a payday to go to college.

Speaker 1 Right. So,

Speaker 1 a lot of American kids are probably going to lose scholarships to some great Canadian players that couldn't otherwise come years before.

Speaker 1 So people are saying now, Gavin McKenna, like

Speaker 1 you,

Speaker 1 you can't go back to Junior. You just made the biggest mockery of it.
Go to Michigan. Right.
Go to Michigan. Is that what he's doing? No.
Like, people are kind of saying it's a rumor, right?

Speaker 1 But that's a thing as a BU hockey fan, which they're in the frozen for this afternoon or this evening. We don't have a football program.

Speaker 1 Every Big Ten school, your guys at Wisconsin can turn really back into powerhouse because they're going to have huge dough. I heard a rumor that Michigan has $700,000 a year to give to hockey players.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 Dave

Speaker 1 having Larry Ellison just fall into his lap and being paying for quarterbacks. And he was like, well,

Speaker 1 Larry Ellison isn't going to pay for basketball or hockey. And I was like, but Dave, if Larry Ellison is paying for football, there's just more money you could spread to other places.
And

Speaker 1 Larry Ellison, or

Speaker 1 maybe he would be so specific with his money, like this is going to football. Yeah, but that means more money.
Yeah, he just might give them 10 million and then they decide.

Speaker 1 So what they're going to do is they're going to change it so that schools can pay directly to players. So it's everybody.
I've heard that. We're going to become employees.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're going to get like $20 million. NIL still will exist.
But my point

Speaker 1 to have a Larry Ellison, he's going to still go get the number one football recruit. And you don't have to dip into your $20 million and you can use $700,000 for hockey.
Exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So it's almost like I don't understand.

Speaker 1 I actually love the fact that college kids are getting paid because forever it's like they're bringing in so much money to the school. I get it.

Speaker 1 But my problem is the transfer portal and in all these sports and now I'm more specific to hockey, but like give them one transfer, no doubt.

Speaker 1 You know, freshman year, you don't love this situation, but you can't be transferring every year.

Speaker 1 I think it's ridiculous. I think being a coach of a college team now is harder than a pro because not only are you recruiting, you're also like, oh, I got to figure out a way to keep guys.

Speaker 1 It's free agency every year. It's free agency every year.

Speaker 1 And it's just kind of, I don't know, for hockey, at least me, it's like, and the other thing, at least hockey-wise, like you find out who's on the portal list before the NCAA.

Speaker 1 So then it's like, well, I don't want to play this kid. He's leaving.

Speaker 1 That's the same as basketball. Basketball too.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, there was some Penn State.
You can coaches find out. Yeah.
A Penn State, the Penn State backup quarterback went into the portal before Penn State played in the college football playoff.

Speaker 1 It was a kid who actually played in games. Like he had a package for him, Bo Perbula.
And then they didn't play him, I'm guessing. No, he left.
He just left the school. Oh, wow.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 With them going to compete for an extra.

Speaker 1 it sucks. It's stupid.
It's just, it's just, and I love how guys are getting paid, but it's just, it's kind of just too crazy for me. Maybe I sound like a boomer.
No, no, I get it.

Speaker 3 But also, in that case, with the quarterback at Penn State, it's the system. So it was

Speaker 3 the calendar was set up where he's right. He had to go in the portal right before the playoffs started because that's when teams make moves in the portal.

Speaker 3 So he has to put his name in there and then it fucks up his team. It's bad.
It's just bad already.

Speaker 1 Why would they not make that list go public after the bowl?

Speaker 3 Because of the semesters in colleges, right? Which

Speaker 1 Paul

Speaker 1 is going to school. Yeah, the fact that they are like, oh, we can't enroll someone on January 25th as opposed to January 15th.
Give me a fucking break. What was the Cardell Jones quote?

Speaker 1 I'm not here to play school. You didn't come here to play school.
I mean, the fact that I don't think he was kidding makes it even funnier. Oh, he's dead serious.
He's dead serious.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I didn't come here to play school.

Speaker 1 All right, I got one left. MPU.

Speaker 1 How many classes did you go to? I actually

Speaker 1 never was ineligible. ineligible.
Yeah, but the problem was I left after my junior year. And then, you know, like my wife now is like, oh, you just have a year left.
You got to go back and graduate.

Speaker 1 I'm like, no, I'm through sophomore year. Oh, my God.
Oh, only sophomore year? Yeah. So I was like, imagine the content.
I know. What goes back to school? School's hard.
Yeah, I mean, you said that.

Speaker 1 It was like a year ago you wrote your first blog, and you said afterwards, you're like, I got a headache. It's hard.

Speaker 1 Or like studying. Like, I don't know if I could do that.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I feel bad. I promised promised my parents when I left school, they've said, promise me you'll go back and graduate.

Speaker 1 And my wife's brought it up, and I'm like, oh my God, like, I want to do it, like, deep down, but I'm like, I don't think I got it. It would be incredible.
You got it? Yeah. No, you don't got it.

Speaker 1 No, I don't. I just got it.

Speaker 1 So that was the other problem: I was, I was in the College of Arts and Sciences. I was a sociology major, like one of those, like, hey, what's the easiest major?

Speaker 1 But at BU in that school, you had to pass Spanish four. Oh,

Speaker 1 yeah. And

Speaker 1 I failed to barely drop. I dropped Spanish two three different times.
I'm like, how am I going to get through four? I couldn't even make it through two.

Speaker 1 Let's start with English one. And also, yeah.

Speaker 1 Also, like, come on, like, you're telling me to get a degree, you have to pass Spanish four.

Speaker 1 That's doing nothing for you. So dumb.

Speaker 1 Did you graduate on time? Yeah, I did. But

Speaker 1 I did well in college, but like, I think about taking tests, and there's no way my brain has that ability anymore. You know what I mean? Yeah, to sit there for two hours.

Speaker 1 Like that kind of focus and reading, you just lose it. You just don't even have anything.
Max, did you graduate? I did, but we're no way. Graduated from Villanova, great school.
Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Max is a smart guy.

Speaker 1 But I am talking to Hank back here about getting him back into school. You never want to do it together? Fuck no.
I'd have to go for like three years. I'd have to be here for three and a half years.

Speaker 1 I thought he was going to be like, fuck yeah, with my boy Will. But I know, me too.
Someday you're going to have kids. And then, like, my kids, I know, are like, dad, did you ever graduate college?

Speaker 1 Like, I got to do it. You do, too.
I don't think kids.

Speaker 1 Yeah, kids. 2013.
Barstool you. But hold on.
No, no. Yeah, I was taking out my whole wall

Speaker 1 timeout, too.

Speaker 1 This is a little different. Like, when Hank has kids someday and they say, Dad, you ever...
graduate college? He's like, no. That's one thing.
When your kids say, Dad, you ever graduate college?

Speaker 1 You say, no, I went to the league. That's pretty fucking cool.
No, I know, I know. It's way cooler than I went to bar stool you.

Speaker 1 I went and got duct taped to a wall in Built Massachusetts. I made up a lie that I know how to edit videos, and I really moved off through that school of hard knocks.

Speaker 5 Well, it's actually Boston University-accredited school, so we're kind of all alone.

Speaker 1 So, let's go back together. The other cool thing about BU is that, so I was given a full scholarship.
That still to this day is honored.

Speaker 1 Oh, so if you want to go back to school, it's freaking free, too, which makes it free. You got it, I know.
I know.

Speaker 1 You could find a couple classes.

Speaker 3 Maybe play club hockey there.

Speaker 1 I do not think I could make the team. So, So, did you guys know about club hockey and what it's turned into? Feidelberg?

Speaker 1 It's club hockey team. It's enormous.
Yeah. I'm talking Georgia just built a Penn State.
Wasn't Penn State?

Speaker 1 Penn State's in the Frozen 4, which we're taping right before, but they were a club hockey team, what, six years ago? No, I think they've been D1 like, I think, like over 10 years. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 But it started that UNLV club team beat Denver this year.

Speaker 1 Most of these schools, like I'm talking Georgia, Tennessee, UNLV, they have three teams. They have 120 kids come to tryouts, and then it's competitive to now.
It's gone to the point where

Speaker 1 hockey players that are leaving high school, no matter what, unless you are one of these, you know, possibly NHL future studs, you have to play junior for two, if not three years.

Speaker 1 To play D3 hockey, D3, you got to go play junior for two years.

Speaker 1 Yeah, crazy. So now what it's turning into is like kids like, I don't really want to go play in the North American League or the British Columbia Hockey League, be a 21-year-old freshman.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go play club hockey. And it's turned into something where, I mean, there are 5,000 people watching Georgia club hockey.
Do you think we'll get to that? Students don't know. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you think we'll get a club hockey to NHL guy at some point? Because that would be the most, that's the story that we had to put it on our map.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What it would be is a club hockey kid takes the step to a varsity team. Yeah.
You know what I mean? It wouldn't be like a pro deal out of club hockey.

Speaker 3 What about a guy that gets kicked off of his varsity team, has some issues? He's like, fuck it, I'll just play club. He was already a guy that they had their eyes on, and then he goes to the league.

Speaker 1 Possibly, possibly.

Speaker 1 That's a great

Speaker 1 because you know, if we're talking about Ovie breaking records and his record being broken, there's going to be some club hockey player who plays in the NHL.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's some kid who was you know decent in high school, but then maybe got bigger or stronger or faster, played club hockey, and everyone's like, Holy shit, who is this kid? A guy I know at home.

Speaker 1 Um, his son was you know a good high school hockey player, and but didn't want to do the grind of junior hockey.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so he went out and they visited Oklahoma State, and there was

Speaker 1 500 person line to get out into the arena three hours before the game. That's incredible.

Speaker 1 And it's like, that is so sick because not only is it, you get to enjoy college a little more, because it's not like that serious, it's still serious. Right.

Speaker 1 There's still people watching. Still people watching, and you still have your teammates.

Speaker 1 And I think like I've talked to some club, the Georgia Club Club hockey team, I ran into at my brother's bachelor party, which was at a Georgia game. And they were like, the girls think we're like

Speaker 1 fucking BU. Like, they don't know.
Like, there's 4,000 people at the game. Like,

Speaker 1 these guys are pro-occupied.

Speaker 3 Has there ever been an emergency backup goalie that got a contract?

Speaker 1 No, no, because it's always like, I mean, that's an all-time Leafs thing right there. Their backup goalie beat them.
Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 1 I'm sorry, their Zamboni driver beat them. Yeah.
Yeah. For the hurricanes.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 But no, yeah, the third string goalie thing is still a funny story because there's a lot of people who want it banned where you're allowed. Why? I know.
It's the coolest story. It's the story.

Speaker 1 It happens once a year, maybe. And it's for that week you get to talk about it.

Speaker 1 And it can only happen in hockey because you couldn't have it in like the NBA where it's like, oh, yeah, we got a backup guy who's got to go in and run around. You got masks.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 Like hockey's because it's goalie is the only thing that you could possibly do it in. Yeah.
All right. I got one last question.

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Speaker 1 Code audio at checkout. Always great having Wit on.
Go tune into Spittin' Chiclets all throughout the playoffs.

Speaker 1 They do live streams as well.

Speaker 1 We might have to get our boy Oldie on one of the live streams. I know.
Maybe get him just for a period. He's giving you oldie.

Speaker 3 Dude, he's my favorite guy.

Speaker 1 And it was funny because when you came out with the video or whatever it was, we need a Canadian. Keith sent us right away to the chicklets chat.
He's like, I have the perfect human being for them.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then it was exactly how he described us.
Do you know he texts texts me, like, maybe, like, probably once every like three days, just like a morning, like, pumping-me-up text.

Speaker 1 And he's on a garbage truck, yeah. Yeah, like, he, like, yesterday when we started the mini golf, he's like, you got this, like, you're a champion.
I was like, no,

Speaker 1 no, I'm not. I also love the fact, and I don't know Rick Nash super well, but like, you know, friendly with him, and he's so quiet and calm, and they're best friends.

Speaker 1 I'm like, dude, this, how, like, how are you two best friends? He was FaceTiming with Nash when he did the first stream with us, like, in the in-between periods.

Speaker 1 And I, and he was like, say hi to Nash. And so I started talking to him.
And Nash said that he had more texts that night than the night that he won the gold medal. He was like, this is fucking crazy.

Speaker 1 Everyone knows Oldie. Yan said,

Speaker 1 what did he say? Oh, he doesn't. Yan doesn't have Twitter.
And I'm like, dude, Oldie gets numbers. Yeah.
He's like, what do you mean? I'm like, dude, he has like over a thousand likes on him.

Speaker 1 He knows. He goes, he's electric.
Yeah, I know. We're signing him.
Are you? Yeah. I love it.

Speaker 1 I mean, he's not going to move here but he's gonna get paid to to do stuff and then come here every now and then because like i don't want him to just do it for free so it's like yeah we're signing him and he's the exact same way when he's not here like when he's texting us he's the same dude there's no act there's no act at all he's just high energy have you did you know about his pouch before he came on with us no i think i sent you the pouch though right yes i only knew about like Keith meeting him with he was dancing in front of the Rangers when his son was due or his daughter was due that day.

Speaker 1 He's got to go. Hey, gotta go.

Speaker 1 He's gotta go. What are you gonna say, Max? So he stayed up for Hank and I's Barcelona after dark the other night.
Yes. 4 a.m.
We finished.

Speaker 1 And then he tweeted something three hours later from the job site. He's just built on it.
Yeah, what an animal. Like he was like

Speaker 1 paying to have his super chats read aloud

Speaker 1 to hype up me and Hank when we were just like, oldie, you can just text. Like, we have your number.
Yeah. You don't have to pay for it.

Speaker 1 I feel like Oldie, like, your work, you're on the truck in like two hours. Go to bed.
Yeah. No.
He's built different.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's just like, he's kind of just like natural cocaine. Was he boozing at the game at the stream of the Foundation? No, that's just.
No, he also said,

Speaker 1 he's like, I've never tried cocaine. I know that I'd run through like walls if I did it.
And I was like, yeah, you're probably right, oldie.

Speaker 1 Or he'd just like fall asleep. Yeah, yeah.
In reverse. Man.

Speaker 1 All right, my last question, though, is Masters. Do you have one or two golfers that you root for, like, that are your guys? Yeah, I root for Ludwig.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Ever since he's come on the scene, he's just kind of like, I don't know, like perfect golf swing, and I like him a lot.

Speaker 1 And then I've been so back and forth with Rory, which I feel like a lot of golf fans have been, based on, like, he's made comments that are like just kind of a clown comment, but then he comes out and like changes his tune.

Speaker 1 It's all live related. But as much as I sometimes say, like, oh, fuck Rory, if he had a one-shot lead on the 18th tee, like, I know I'd be rooting for him.
You'd be rooting for him?

Speaker 1 Even if he was playing with Ludwig. Like, for some reason.
And I think part of it is is like the history thing with Obi. Like, I think five guys have won the Grand Slam in golf.

Speaker 1 Like, I'd like to be able to say I watched that. Yeah.
And

Speaker 1 I don't know. I think Rory just.

Speaker 1 He's hot right now. He's 300 through 9.
Nice. And he just, I don't know.
It's like crazy. So do you know that when

Speaker 1 Tiger won the U.S. Open on the broken leg and then he didn't win another major after his life fell apart until the Masters in 19, Rory is at the same length of time between a major.
No way.

Speaker 1 That's crazy.

Speaker 3 That's crazy. The Tiger layoff felt a lot longer.

Speaker 1 And Rory's been healthy the whole time, and his wife didn't catch him cheating and beat him with a nine-iron. Like, it's almost like there was like excuses with Tiger.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And so to see if Rory could like do it again, it'd be a pretty amazing just sports story. But it's also really funny when he loses.
Yeah, because he blows

Speaker 1 his phone and he's like, but if he blows it, you're like, this guy can't do it anymore.

Speaker 1 I think I would, if he were...

Speaker 1 If he were like on the 18th, like about to put it in to win, I'd be like, that's pretty cool. But if there was any chance that he could blow it, I think I'd still be rooted against it.

Speaker 1 It's like you're rooting.

Speaker 3 You root against him, but then when he does it, it's like, yeah, what a tremendous story.

Speaker 1 Yeah, if he had a five-footer Sunday to win it, and if he misses it, he loses it. I think I'd root for it to win.
Which I guess doesn't make sense because if he made it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Or like, yeah, if he had a five-footer to win or he goes to a playoff. You're rooting for the playoffs.
I would not.

Speaker 1 So you don't like him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I guess I don't. You don't like him.
I don't have any reason not to like him. It's more just his reaction, like the driving off and stuff.
Like the speed of the. See, I don't hate the driving off.

Speaker 1 I don't have have any problem with it. It's that I want more of it.
Like, I want him to lose, so I get to keep seeing it. Is that fucked up? So far.

Speaker 3 The best part was the golf writers that were like, he sped off anything.

Speaker 1 Oh, those are losers.

Speaker 3 He spun out. Like, they get upset about it.
Like, we're not upset about it. We think that it's funny

Speaker 3 that the golf writers are getting upset about it. So we want more content like that.

Speaker 1 We had his back in that whole situation, but I would love to just keep replaying it. Yeah, where he just keeps speeding off.
I know.

Speaker 1 And then for some reason, like, I've actually chirped Bryson DeChambeau before on chiclets, but like, now I find myself rooting for him, too.

Speaker 1 I mean, YouTube just like changed his whole life.

Speaker 1 I think that

Speaker 1 it's been said at least like he legit hired a PR for yeah, absolutely. Which is so, to me, like,

Speaker 1 you know, like to be such a dickhead that you have to, like, hire someone to be like, make me not a dickhead. Like, make people like me? Yeah.
Like, make people like me.

Speaker 1 It's like, how kind of a weirdo are you?

Speaker 3 How can I check every select weeks to his make me not a dickhead beef? Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, like, oh, they like me now, but like, I didn't know what to do to make them like. You had to pay somebody.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you got to keep paying them in case, because if you get rid of them, then what happens if you slip up and you're like a rich kid at school, like paying kids to hang out with them.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I do have one last hockey question for you.

Speaker 3 You don't have an MVP vote, right?

Speaker 1 Last year I had a vote.

Speaker 3 Do you have one this year?

Speaker 1 He has not asked me again, but he didn't ask me last year until like two days before the regular season ended. So I might.

Speaker 3 Who should the MVP have been for this year?

Speaker 1 I'm an Oilers guy, and Leon Dreiseitel has just to me been the best player in the league, the most valuable player to the Oilers. McDavid's had this great year still, but not McDavid.

Speaker 1 And then he's leading the league in goals by a lot.

Speaker 1 You know, they recently had an enormous game against Calgary. McDavid's out.
He'd been out-injured. He comes back, two goals and an assist, including the game time, game-winning goal.

Speaker 1 It's like he's just, to me, the best player. But recently, Kucharov is now.

Speaker 1 I voted for kucharov last year instead of mckinnon mckinnon won um because kucharov last year became the fourth winger i think ever to have 100 assists or fourth player ever to have 100 assists and then mcdavid did it like a week later yeah um but i was like kucharov's just so dominating and now it's like you really can argue for mckinnon kucharov and dreiseitel it's it there's a right answer there on all of them but i'm leon my vote would be mcdavid i'm just a big mcdavid fan i assume i guess you're not as big

Speaker 1 he's the mvp Dude, he's always tortured.

Speaker 3 I've been told he's the best hockey player in the history of the game. Of all time.
But he's not even the MVP for this year.

Speaker 1 On his team. I was at the seven seven.
That's crazy. He was at game seven.
Wait, that's crazy. He was at game seven.
Who won? The Panthers. Oh.

Speaker 1 And I was sitting there, and all I was thinking about was YouTube. I literally, as the fucking national anthem was playing, I was like, those assholes, I'm going to have a tweet.

Speaker 1 I'm going to have a video. And I already knew he had the Con Smythe wrapped up.
And I was like, they have nothing on me anymore.

Speaker 1 And you were having do this whole episode, and you said nothing till the very end. You know, it's cute.

Speaker 1 It's kind of like the Rory thing. He won the exhibition.
I love watching Connor McDavid play hockey, but because of you, I have to be like, Yeah,

Speaker 1 what an asshole.

Speaker 1 You could be watching history. Yeah.
And instead, you're like,

Speaker 1 catch your rut, fall over.

Speaker 1 You get stuck. This happens with friends.
You get stuck in an argument and you're just like, I got my side. You got yours.

Speaker 1 You've forced me, based on how you've handled this McDavid situation, to hope that the the Bears, Caleb Williams,

Speaker 1 I didn't care about the Bears. That's true.
I hate them. That's true friendship.
And now it's

Speaker 1 a fucking asshole. I can't even see it.
So Connie McDavid is a good thing. McDavid is so easy.
I don't think he's good.

Speaker 3 He's the second most valuable player on his own team. Yeah, and he's, you know,

Speaker 1 almost one of the people.

Speaker 1 Gretzky didn't win the MVP every year. Yeah, I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 I would have voted for him every year. Gretzky won a cup, right? Gretzky won four.
Oh. But McDavid.
McDavid doesn't have one yet.

Speaker 1 He won the the exhibition.

Speaker 1 He didn't get it done this year either. It doesn't look like this is the year.

Speaker 3 All right, so Stanley Cup finals prediction. Teams and winner.

Speaker 1 Colorado, Toronto. Colorado beats him.

Speaker 3 That's some sick stuff.

Speaker 1 It'd be an awesome series. Yeah.
And that's if only I'm saying that is if

Speaker 1 Florida and Tampa play in the first round. Because I don't think Toronto can beat one of those teams unless they kick the shit out of each other first.

Speaker 3 Okay, that's interesting because I just.

Speaker 1 So I have a bunch of like side notes here. Got it.

Speaker 3 Because I just looked up Leafs versus Caps this year. Leafs won one game, lost two against the Caps.
I know.

Speaker 1 You have all that.

Speaker 3 I think that's interesting.

Speaker 1 You know what? When the Caps win it all, you can just call me and be like, follow me on Twitter, bitch.

Speaker 3 I just see Ryan Whitney has re-followed me on Twitter. There we go.
And you are now blocked.

Speaker 1 I never, ever purposely understood. I know.

Speaker 1 Florida, Toronto. Classic North-South battle.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Civil War. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Colorado, Southern Toronto. Sorry, Southern Toronto and Colorado.
Sorry. Two southern teams with business.

Speaker 1 All right. Thanks, Wit.
Thanks, guys.

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Speaker 1 All right, let's wrap up with some Fire Fest of the week. Hank, Fire Fest of the week.

Speaker 5 Nothing crazy this week. No real Fire Fest.
The Masters is on playing golf this weekend.

Speaker 5 My only real like Fire Fest in quotes would just be the, we had mini golf tournament here this week and just, you know, getting screamed at by.

Speaker 3 Everybody hates you?

Speaker 5 Everybody hating me. My boss, you know, telling me to suck my coworkers' cock.

Speaker 1 But that's kind of fun. I don't see that.

Speaker 5 I did not. That's good leadership.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, you are,

Speaker 1 whether you want to be or not, you are always at the center of this because you are in charge of mini golf. That's kind of like your thing, mini golf.

Speaker 3 You looked like you were in a bad, bad way yesterday, though. And actually, I didn't.

Speaker 1 Wait a second.

Speaker 3 Did you say that Kirk Minhan was your boss? No. Dave.

Speaker 1 Dave told Hank to suck Kirk's.

Speaker 3 Got it. Okay.
Got it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you predicted it. I mean, it was a match between me, Kirk, Whitney, and Dave.
and you're like, I was like, how are you feeling about mini golf?

Speaker 1 And you just said point blank, I'm dreading your match because you four are the worst. And I was like, I don't really disagree.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, and then it happened. But you handled it well.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I thought it all worked out. I mean, Dave hit the worst put of all time, but that's what I'm saying.
It's, I think some people kind of similar to the Max and me thing in this show.

Speaker 5 The show's probably prepared me for. being in nonstop arguments all the time, but it seems like it's contentious, but it's not, it doesn't feel that contentious.

Speaker 1 in the middle.

Speaker 5 It's just guys yelling at each other.

Speaker 3 In the moment, though,

Speaker 5 I was like yelling in Dave's face at one point. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I didn't realize that. There's a lot of like, I'm going to walk off, I quit, and it never happens.
We just keep playing. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I felt bad for you in the moment because you looked like you were going through it.

Speaker 5 Well, Devil wants me to pull out a magical rule book that doesn't exist.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 3 And half the people are going to hate you. Actually, everyone's going to hate you no matter what.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's all right.

Speaker 1 It is also, whenever we do.

Speaker 1 We'll see.

Speaker 5 We haven't done the final. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 This might be speaking way too soon.

Speaker 1 Whenever we do any barstool competition of any kind,

Speaker 1 you could spend

Speaker 1 a year,

Speaker 1 let's say, a year going through all the plans, the preparations, the rules, everything. Within one hour, one of us will find a loophole and be like, this is bullshit.
It's just, it's impossible.

Speaker 1 Like, you could have Gene Sterator creating airtight rules, and we'll find a scenario where there isn't actually a definition for the rule.

Speaker 1 And now we can figure out a way to try to, you know, capitalize. Nothing.

Speaker 3 The rulebook says, says a dog can't play basketball. Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's mini golf, but then people will be like, well, USGA.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 Well, it's mini golf. Right.

Speaker 5 Right. But it's fun.
Fun week.

Speaker 1 It has been fun. It's been great, great content.

Speaker 3 Great vibes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 PFT.

Speaker 3 I was at the gym this morning. This happened like two hours ago, two and a half hours ago.
And after the gym, I'm going to come into work. So what do you do after you work out?

Speaker 3 You sweat for a little bit. You go into the locker room and you take a shower.

Speaker 1 Right?

Speaker 3 I'm just making sure I'm not crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, that's. That's absolutely what you do.

Speaker 3 That's what you do, not always, but most times. We'll get Joey Swell in the case to ask him, but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to shower before you put your clothes on and go back to work.

Speaker 3 For sure, right?

Speaker 1 So I uh I go in the locker room.

Speaker 3 I've got my towel.

Speaker 1 I'm at my locker.

Speaker 3 There's uh two other people in the locker room. One guy is about, I'd say, 25, 30 feet away from me to my right.
The other guy's behind me, maybe like, I don't know, six or seven feet behind me.

Speaker 3 He's got headphones on. The other guy doesn't.
So I come in, take my clothes off, and when I take my clothes off and change in the gym, I'm locked in straight ahead.

Speaker 3 I'm not a guy that wanders. I don't put my leg up on anything.
Close off, towel on. Question.
Yep.

Speaker 1 You are, when you close off, are you doing like the towel on and then taking off your boxers? Are you nude at any point?

Speaker 3 Yeah, you take your boxers off and then you put the towel on.

Speaker 1 Right, I didn't know. Some people, you can wrap the towel around and then you just slip off your boxers.
But yeah, yes. No, I mean.

Speaker 1 There's a moment where you're nude where it's like you're facing your locker. Yeah.
Maybe a little of your ass is showing. Then you put the towel on, then then you go.
Exactly.

Speaker 3 I'm not, I'm not facing... All checks.

Speaker 3 I'm not turning around facing the center of the locker room. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I always face because you know old guys

Speaker 1 move to just they'll put the towel over their shoulder just so that they can flop their balls in your face.

Speaker 3 They'll have a conversation with you. They'll go up to the hair dryer, put their leg on the counter and blow dry their balls.

Speaker 1 I've seen that.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 clothes off, towel on. Then I hear this guy about 25 feet away from me.
He's a guy to my right. And he starts yelling.
And he's like, bro, what the fuck are you doing?

Speaker 3 And I'm just like straight ahead. I'm like, he's not talking to me.
I'm just minding my own business, getting ready to change or getting ready to shower. Bro, what the fuck are you doing?

Speaker 3 What the fuck is this gay shit?

Speaker 3 Bro, you going to shower? What the fuck?

Speaker 1 Put your clothes back on.

Speaker 3 This is some gay shit. And then after like, I don't know, five seconds, 10 seconds of him yelling, I finally look up.
I'm like, is he yelling at me? And he's staring at me.

Speaker 3 And this dude is fucking pissed off.

Speaker 1 Like, what?

Speaker 3 Huge scowl on his face. He looks like he's about to come kick my ass.

Speaker 1 Jacked?

Speaker 3 No, he's like a medium-sized guy. But

Speaker 1 you would have gotten your ass kicked just because you're naked. Or you immediately lose footing.

Speaker 3 Or if you're naked, a good strategy in this situation might be just like, take the towel off because nobody wants to fight a naked guy. Right.

Speaker 3 So the guy's just yelling at me. I'm looking around like, is this me? The other guy who's there, I look to him like, is this really happening? He's got his headphones on.

Speaker 3 He has no idea that any of this is happening. So the guy starts to walk towards me.
He's like, take that fucking gay shit out of here. That's gay as shit, bro.

Speaker 3 And he just walks out, but he looks like he's like stewing. He's like shaking.
He's so mad. Whoa.
So then he walks out.

Speaker 3 And then I'm thinking to myself, like, is this guy going to wait for me out in the gym?

Speaker 1 Are you still naked? And kick my ass. Cover up? I had a towel on.
Okay.

Speaker 3 Like, my ass wasn't out, but he was mad at me that I took my clothes off to shower after the gym.

Speaker 3 And for a second, in that situation, I'm like, am I doing something wrong?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 This is when I wish we could

Speaker 1 scour all the little podcasts out there and find this guy telling the other side of the story. He was like, this dude was just fucking balls out in my face.
No,

Speaker 1 he was honestly 25 feet away from me.

Speaker 3 No, that's crazy.

Speaker 1 And then, and so. How old was he?

Speaker 3 I'm going to guess like mid-20s. Oh.

Speaker 3 So I think he's going through some. So I had a couple theories on this guy.
One, he's probably gay. He's probably very, very closeted.

Speaker 3 Because, again, we're 25 feet away. I'm minding my own business.
This guy had to actively look at me while I was changing to get pissed off.

Speaker 3 If he didn't want to see anything, he could have gone like this.

Speaker 3 He turned his head five degrees. So then I got all in my head because I thought, am I doing something wrong? And then I thought, if this guy comes back in here and kicks my ass,

Speaker 3 then he's going to like, and gets caught, then he will file a police report being like, this fucking gay guy in the locker room was trying to come onto me.

Speaker 3 And I'm like going through all these weird scenarios in this guy's guy's mind.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 3 But it was weird. When I went out to the parking lot, I was like looking around for him.
I was like, is this guy waiting to kick my ass in the parking lot? That's crazy. So yeah,

Speaker 3 I really do. I love Joey Swole.
Love his content. He's the best.
Joey, I need you to weigh in on this.

Speaker 3 Am I out of line?

Speaker 3 Is it gay as shit to shower after you work out?

Speaker 1 Wow. That's insane.
Bizarre.

Speaker 3 Very bizarre. Very strange.
So

Speaker 3 I thought, one, either this guy is like very repressed in his homosexuality. Was I looking good?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was just saying, like, is that looking right? It's kind of like your fault for being so hot.

Speaker 3 Well, that, after about like 30 minutes, I thought about it. I was like, man, that guy wanted to fuck me.
That's, I guess that's better than him not wanting to fuck me.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And then I got to the office. I told Mook about it because I was like a little shaken up.
He's like, well, were you hanging dong? And I was like, no, no, man. I had a workout dick.

Speaker 3 I had like a very bad dick.

Speaker 1 Right, right, right.

Speaker 3 So I don't know what this guy was going through, but it shook me up a little bit this morning. I was like,

Speaker 3 rightfully so.

Speaker 3 Did I am I wrong to shower after using the gym? That's insane.

Speaker 3 Now

Speaker 3 I'm going to be scared to shower next time.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Wow.

Speaker 5 Does he look like a guy that's never played a sport in his life?

Speaker 3 No, he was relatively athletic.

Speaker 5 Because that's where it's like, how can you get to that age

Speaker 5 and experience a locker room?

Speaker 5 Like, imagine if you're on a team when there's 20 dudes doing the same thing.

Speaker 1 He would flip out. He's super gay.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What the hell is going on here?

Speaker 3 Gayest thing you can do is play sports.

Speaker 1 I've just never seen anyone else in the locker room. Yeah.
I think that's the first time that guy's ever been to a gym. Yeah.
Or locker room. Period.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 He looked like he was in decent shape, though. That's that, because I thought about that, Max.
Like, maybe there's a different environment for him.

Speaker 1 But that's wild. I don't know.
Yeah. That is wild.

Speaker 1 Maybe. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know. It's a bizarre, bizarre, bizarre thing.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think your ass just looks really good. I think it did.

Speaker 1 It was really the only thing that makes sense.

Speaker 3 I was squatting heavy this morning. So I might have been, as Hank would say, looking right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you were looking right. All right.
My Fire Fest, I've already talked about a couple of them, but when I went in San Antonio,

Speaker 1 for the first time ever, I got heat-induced vomit, which that was crazy. I just, we did a live show and I puked right after just because it was too hot, and then I was fine.

Speaker 1 But that had never happened to me in my life. And then also I took a shit in a bathroom, a women's bathroom in a hotel lobby for 15 minutes while watching the Cubs game.
That was also a mistake.

Speaker 3 Oh, that was an accident.

Speaker 1 I was locked in on the Cubs game. I was waiting for my hotel room.
I had to take a shit. So I had my head down watching the Cubs game, and I just walked to the bathroom, and I didn't look up.

Speaker 1 And then I took a shit, and I was in the stall for 15 minutes, got out of the stall, and was like, there's no urinals in here.

Speaker 3 And then realized I had just been in the women's bathroom for 15 minutes. It wasn't like a Creed Bratton moment where you're like, no.
This is the one weird thing I do.

Speaker 1 I do that here at this office. At this office.
I use the women's bathroom here at this office. Were there any other women in there at the time? I don't know.

Speaker 1 I I had my headphones in because I was listening to the game while I was watching it.

Speaker 1 But 15 minutes is a pretty long time. So I would imagine.
I did not see it. But when you came out,

Speaker 1 you're fine.

Speaker 1 That never happened. Yes.
That never happened.

Speaker 3 I imagine if there was a woman in there at the same time and they were going pee, they would know the sound. They'd be like, that is a man.
Yeah, that's a man.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah, those two things happen. And then my real firefest is just.

Speaker 1 Mini golf. Hank thinks that it's, you know,

Speaker 1 he's in torture having to deal with the rules. rules i'm in torture because i'm just a choke artist and i know i'm gonna choke we're taping this before

Speaker 1 i'm just i did it i hate this yeah don't say i hate that attitude you that's that's when you start to fuck up big cat we i'm a mental like you're a mental pussy you're a defeatist yesterday we had an engagement i know comeback you don't you're you can't you don't do that if you're a choke artist you have to ride off that high it's just i'm always like i i think it really comes out of the fact that i don't well i don't really perform well under pressure in general but also I don't golf enough.

Speaker 1 So I know mini golf is not real golf, but I don't really have like a putting routine, so I have nothing to fall back on. So the minute it goes bad once, it just stays bad.

Speaker 3 Why don't you just give yourself a routine?

Speaker 1 Yeah, what are you supposed to do for a putting routine?

Speaker 3 Take deep breaths in and out. Okay.
And then step up, give a little ass wiggle, put the putter behind the ball.

Speaker 3 Deep breath in, deep breath out, putt.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 5 Jack the Klaus, I was watching a video where he was talking about like he would feel nervous and then he would see the crowd and be like, these people are here having a great time.

Speaker 5 They're here to watch me.

Speaker 1 Let's give them something to roof. Okay.
What if we

Speaker 5 thousands are going to be watching tonight? They want to see you do that.

Speaker 1 Okay. What do you think about lying? What if we

Speaker 1 line up the ball every time? I like that.

Speaker 1 I need something. Max, shout out Max.
He was doing a great job as my caddy.

Speaker 1 This isn't like this mini golf tournament. This has happened in every mini golf tournament that we've done where

Speaker 1 I do well. And then as soon as it's time to make like a big putt, it's like, whoa, you're a mess.

Speaker 3 The funniest was watching the highlights from yesterday, and all the clips that were coming out. You could see how much pressure we felt in those moments.

Speaker 3 And then you look down, and it's like a two-foot putt on a mini golf course.

Speaker 1 Mini golf. You guys, mini golf.

Speaker 5 I was watching you guys from above, and I was like, I've never seen both of them. Like, they

Speaker 5 like this is a mini golf, and they're both like

Speaker 1 all business. Mini golf is the dumbest sport ever.
And I say that, I love playing it, but it's the most frustrating thing in the world because you,

Speaker 1 we take it very seriously.

Speaker 1 If you miss a shot in mini golf, it's almost always like an easy shot that everyone is watching.

Speaker 1 So not only is it a shot that everyone can say, I could have hit that, but then you look up and it's like a big fucking, you missed a shot because there's a big fucking statue of Ryan Whitney's head next to you.

Speaker 1 Like it just, the whole thing is so silly. And then we take it seriously.
So yeah, you know what? You're right, Max. I'm going to win today.
We're going to to play well.

Speaker 1 PFT and I are on the same team. PFT and I, I mean, that was a great comeback.
That was awesome.

Speaker 3 There is trusting each other. There's real pressure, though, when you're doing alternate shot because you don't want to let down your teammate.
You don't want to fuck your teammate over.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
It's like, I don't want to let my boy down. But we did have an incredible comeback.
We were down three with four to play. By the way,

Speaker 1 I think there's just a lot of people who don't understand how

Speaker 1 this style of play works because we were just getting accused left and right of having a crazy celebration for a tie.

Speaker 1 When you're down three with four to play and you somehow get a tie out of it, that's. And

Speaker 5 you hear tie, you guys got points on the board.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Which is like

Speaker 5 the team is trying to get to 12 and a half points. So contributing a half point is significant.

Speaker 3 And you're down three and four and you get a tie out of it. We won that tie.
That tie was a point.

Speaker 1 That's a choke by them. That was a massive

Speaker 1 huge choke by them. Huge, huge.
Yeah, it was great. PFT9 that we shocked the world.
I kept on.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's that's the other thing: is like we're playing mini golf, and I just kept on muttering to PFT, let's shock the world.

Speaker 1 The world is shocked. No one thinks you're hitting the ship.
No irony. No irony.

Speaker 1 Let's get crazy. That's a shock.

Speaker 1 Like, let's, yo, yo, let's shock the world. I honestly think, how long did that round take?

Speaker 3 Like, 40 minutes? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like an hour.

Speaker 3 So I think that was probably the least funny me and Big Cat have been together at any point in our entire lives. No jokes.
So serious. No jokes.

Speaker 1 It was the Olympics. We were just every time.
Good shot. Locked.
Stay locked in. Let's shock the world.

Speaker 1 I watched it back. I was like, you really did say let's shock the world in a mini golf match.

Speaker 3 Dead serious.

Speaker 1 Oh my God, but it's so fun. It is really fun because it's just,

Speaker 1 I think, I think the way when some people are like, you guys take this too seriously, I think that's the fun part. That's the fun thing.

Speaker 1 Like, if you don't care, and I care, if you don't care, it's not fun to watch. Yeah.
You want people to want to care about it that much to a like sick level.

Speaker 5 Especially when it's like two days and like you said, like you might not pick up a putter for a year, but then for two days, it's like every putt. It's the most important putt of my life.
Life. Yes.

Speaker 3 The personality that Big Cat and I showed in that is the complete and polar opposite of... everything we've ever done on camera ever.

Speaker 1 We literally, our entire existence is to make fun of everything and not take things seriously. Yeah, and take everything with a grain of salt.
And then we're, let's shock the world.

Speaker 1 Let's do something great. Let's do something they'll be talking about for years.

Speaker 1 Let's write our.

Speaker 1 I said it to Nick who's on the call. I threw my putter after you hit a huge putt to get us down one with two to play.
I threw my putter across the entire court.

Speaker 1 And Nick was like, what, what just happened? I was like, I kind of blacked out. And then I just said, I'm trying to rewrite my story.

Speaker 3 Let's write our names in the history books. Trying to rewrite my story.
Also, that putt that you're talking about, that you just said, like the huge putt. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was, I think, a foot and a half.

Speaker 3 I think it was a foot and a half long mini golf putt.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to rewrite the story about me. He's a putter.
There's tough foot and a half putts in there. Yeah, there are.

Speaker 3 I mean, I didn't get a full backswing. Yeah.
The wall was close.

Speaker 1 Oh, we're going to win. We're going to win.
Also, me and Hank did a little mini tournament before, and Hank absolutely choked. Oh, he did choke.
He absolutely choked.

Speaker 3 He choked. Is that true? What were you up?

Speaker 1 We were up like three.

Speaker 5 It might have been three with four to go or something. Oh, and then I just had, me and Max had like a 10-foot straight putt that one of us had to hit.
We both missed 20 times.

Speaker 5 So it's like I had every opportunity.

Speaker 1 But then I hit it. Yeah.
And he didn't.

Speaker 5 It's fine. It was fun.

Speaker 1 Who loves that?

Speaker 1 Out of you guys watching,

Speaker 1 who do you think golfs more? Me or Hank? Well, I thought Hank did, but then I saw you putt, and I was like, this guy fucking golfs. Yep.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 3 just by watching the little that I watched of that stream, I would say Max probably golfs like six times more than Hank.

Speaker 1 I think we actually probably have to put Max on a pip for how much he golfs. Wrong.
Hank actually golfs a lot and I never golf. That's right.
But Max, you have a membership to a country club.

Speaker 1 No, Hank has the membership to a country club. But what?

Speaker 3 You love mini golf so much that you set up this entire tournament to make the whole office play mini golf max.

Speaker 1 No, Hank set up this tournament.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. That's nuts.
But I won.

Speaker 1 Wait, so Hank set up the holes that you played on and you still beat him? That is correct. Oh,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 he was Hank Rockwood. He was switching the rocks around to benefit.
Hank Rockwood.

Speaker 1 The chat was saying Hank Rockwood. They were doing a great job.
That's great.

Speaker 5 I was chipping at one point.

Speaker 1 All right. Good show, buddy.
They were not happy with the chipping. They were not that happy.

Speaker 1 SCP Monday, Masters Recap.

Speaker 1 Let's finish off number two.

Speaker 5 Shout out to SVP and Max.

Speaker 1 Yeah, shout out to SCP and Max. That was the loudest memes has ever been on this show.
He wants three so bad. But sometimes you don't want 77.

Speaker 1 I was going to say 77. I'll go one.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go

Speaker 3 67.

Speaker 1 I'll go

Speaker 1 56.

Speaker 2 99 Pog.

Speaker 1 I hope Max won. 15.

Speaker 1 21. Hey,

Speaker 1 memes. They're not 77? 77.

Speaker 3 And Max Holma. Yeah, me too.

Speaker 1 Schwo,

Speaker 1 fucked up. Not even close, memes.

Speaker 3 Love you guys.