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We didn't talk about Jameis to the Giants on Sunday. That's hand up, accountability.
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The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, March 26th.
And, boys, I feel like my brain is back. Had a night of sleep.
We are post-March Madness for opening round, ready to catch up on everything. Got hammock people mad at me? Post-Madness clarity.
Post-Madness clarity i feel like i'm uh on the right side of history with a hammock take i went out had a nice little sit on the hammock yesterday morning got some direct sunlight in my eyes like you're supposed to start that's my morning routine chill on the hammock get the uv rays i did do some research though into how dangerous hammocks a lot of people die i think that this is a product of the media this is big mattress this is big mattress trying to steer you away from hammocks they put out all this stuff relative to what anytime somebody dies in a hammock it becomes a big news story like a shark attack hammocks are more afraid of you than you are them tom fornelli our good friend said that it's uh actually safer less less people die from bear attacks than sleeping on hammocks in a year so it's less it's actually safer to sleep on a bear than sleeping on a hammock. My take is that some of us aren't pussies and it's extreme sports.
It's like extreme sleeping. Listen, I said it when I said it.
I knew it was a controversial take. I wish I could be a dainty little boy like you and be able to get into a hammock.
It would be nice a modicum of coordination where you could sit down and stand. More people die from obesity every year than sitting in a hammock.
So maybe it'll be so fat that you can get in one and you'd be fine. That's a good point.
Also, you were so wrong on all your furniture takes, but that's fine. No, I mean, that's your spin zoning.
This is classic Big Cat 101. No, it's not.
I did get people mad. And I think my words were, again, misconstrued by Big Cat about outdoor furniture.
My dad was very mad at me. I had a few people reach out.
Oh, so this is my fault? Yeah, kind of. Okay.
I like outdoor furniture. I do.
I just love hammocks. Yeah, hammocks are great.
You said that you don't like outdoor furniture. Yeah, you said it multiple times.
Yes, you did. And he also didn't understand how it works.
No, that's... You're getting Big Cat 101 to get Hank.
I know. The argument was about hammocks.
He's moved it to now you're wrong about outdoor furniture. Also, the original argument...
Which you are. Hank is wrong about outdoor furniture.
Yeah. But you're also correct about hammocks.
The original argument was just hammocks are overrated, which I stand by. I think they are overrated.
I think they are rated in a way that is like they're the peak of comfort i don't see that i did go deep into hammock twitter and hammock internet yesterday and there are a lot of hammock message boards and people just like rate my hammock setup i've been sleeping in a hammock for five years now i'm trying to get my girlfriend to sleep in a hammock too any recommendations for how i can get her to that's kind of weird yeah there's a lot of weirdos out there uh all right so uh outside of that some of the some of the stories we may as well we should update uh we have more drama from yukon because the after their loss to florida and danny hurley yelling about the refs it turns out that the SID for UConn told the reporter who took that video, I will ruin your life if you don't delete it. And he did that in front of a bunch of journalists.
Bad move. Bad move.
Did he include them on a group text? I don't know. But here's the thing.
Dan Hurley, I'm fine with Dan Hurley. Because if you have a problem with Dan Hurley, then you have a problem with college basketball.
And winning. Because if you go back throughout the years, you've got great coaches who are always, they're on that line.
They can be kind of assholes sometimes, especially if they lose. He wins.
He can be intense. He can be an asshole.
That's who he is. Good for the sport.
Also, the SID probably shouldn't threaten somebody's career for taking a video in a public place. The SID fell into the trap where it's like, you're not that guy, bro.
Like Dan Hurley doing that, I kind of find it would be kind of funny. Yeah, the SID is trying to basically become a duplicate of Dan Hurley.
You actually have to be the opposite of Dan Hurley and be overly nice to people and clean up him yelling, not just go even more Dan Hurley and be like, I'm going to ruin your life. You've got to go good cut, bad cut.
Right. Your job is just to be the most likable person ever.
Right. Even if you don't like the journalist, you've got to be like, hey, I know you're a great guy.
My job could be in trouble if that gets out. Would you mind taking that down? Listen, you want some front row seats? Yeah.
You want get Rico Bosco's phone number? So yeah, the Dan Hurley thing, because there was a lot of people crashing out about this on both sides, and I not shocking, I agreed with our original take that we don't care. I especially don't understand.
So fans are one thing. If you hate UConn, yes, you're going to say Dan Hurley's a baby and pick at that point because they've won especially if you're a Big East team no problem with that you could be like I don't like Dan Hurley that's fine with me that's that's part of sports that's what makes it fun uh fans of UConn you got to defend your guy so those two sides like great great spot I don't understand when media people are mad about Dan Hurley winning and losing the right way when it's like he makes sports more interesting.
That's been our original point. If your job is to talk about sports, I want more Dan Hurley's.
I don't want people giving cliche answers. I want more Mick Cronin's.
I want guys who have good or bad some type of personality that is not just we're going to do our best out there, we're going to try our best, and if we don't win, we're going to shake their hands and go on to the next one. Bobby Knight.
Bobby Knight was an asshole. He was also a great coach.
Jim Boeheim. Jim Boeheim, dickhead.
Also a great coach. I think Dan Hurley, if you look at the last year of Dan Hurley, through the last tournament, he was the story.
He gave people in the media a lot of stuff to talk about. When he was deciding if he's going to be the coach of the Lakers or whatever, that whole span, he was leading all the news broadcasts.
He was leading every single sports show in America. What will Dan Hurley do? He makes your job so much easier if you're in the media.
You should want guys like this around. I think that Dan Hurley goes over the line, but that's why you have an SID, to pull that back and to apologize.
And say, I'm going to ruin your life. Not to draw more attention to it and be like, fuck you.
Right. There also was this idea that Dan Hurley has, because he won, he is now acting more bombastic.
That's just someone who doesn't know that Dan Hurley's been this guy for the whole time he was a high school coach and doing this he was screaming at people at brian or no uh wagner at rhode island like this is who he is and that's why he's good at his job but he plays on that edge to reiterate what you said if you're a fan of a competing team oh yeah this is you should hate dan hurley like yes he's a prick look out at how he's treating everybody lean all the way into that Saying he's a dickhead i'm not going to disagree with yeah saying he's like bad for the sport that's just stupid and interesting like the sportsmanship stops at little league that's really what it is like when people like oh you got to win class you got to do that that shit is not for high level college basketball high level pro sports i care. I want bad losers.
I want people who crash out when they lose. Show me a good loser.
I'll show you a loser. You know what I mean? That's the thing.
Guys like me and Big Cat are good losers, and there's a reason why we've never won a championship. I'm a bad loser, and I still haven't won a championship.
And then I did see Jay Billis, our good friend, great friend, agreed to disagree with him on many things, said that, I think he said on the Dan Patrick show that Coach K never, like, was a bad loser like this. this is this was I got this a few times being like you would have criticized Coach K for this there's a difference between Dan Hurley and Coach K and that in Coach K would never do this publicly

because Coach K pretended this there's a difference between Dan Hurley and Coach K and that Coach K would never do this publicly

because Coach K pretended

this sheen of

I am the classiest guy in the world

Coach K was also a psycho addicted

to winning that's probably why he's the best

coach of all time in college basketball yeah I said

that and that's also why I hated

him because I knew deep down he was Dan

Hurley he just did it in a different way

and he had the media all

sucking him off and being like man he's so

classy when he when Coach K goes to Dylan Brooks in a handshake line and says you're better than that, that's him very upset. When Coach K goes into an opposing team's locker room after a game to talk to the players, that is being such a good loser that you are the worst loser yes that is that is him as as upset and as bad of a loser as possible it just looks different and he does it in a way where then he gets in front of everyone says i've just you know that was a moment where i had to teach the other kids dan hurley just does it in a bombastic way and he wears it all on his sleeve he is he is heart-like, I'm just going to yell and scream

and do all these things.

And if you're saying that this is ruining college basketball,

and we did, there's been a lot of hand-wringing.

I think we took part in a little bit of hand-wringing on Monday

talking about is NIL ruining the tournament

from the Cinderella aspect.

The ratings just came out, Big Cat.

Oh, yeah?

And?

The best viewership since 1993.

Wow.

Averaging 9.4 million viewers throughout the second round i want to i said on sunday i would like to see more of a sample size before i say that all cinderella's cinderellas will never have a chance again yeah i know that this tournament has not had cinderellas but we've had in you know obviously nil is very new but uh you know last year jack

kolke beating kentucky the nil era was going on then so i i want to see it a couple more years

before i say that college basketball is dead and uh i you know yeah would you like more you know

games are a little bit closer of course but i think we're gonna get some good games on sweet

16 weekend yeah so sunday in particular was up 13%.

So people are still watching.

It's Dan Hurley effect.

It's Dan Hurley.

Also maybe Duke.

Duke Baylor was a big one.

Kentucky being in.

Kentucky,

Illinois.

Yeah.

Kentucky,

Tennessee is going to be a huge brands.

Yes.

It is funny.

You mentioned it,

but on Sunday,

Arkansas is the last Cinderella.

Yeah.

Coach Cal crazy, right? Coach Cal is probably it's. Yeah.
Coach Cal crazy right. Coach Cal is probably it's yeah.
Oh by the way hand up Arkansas is a basketball school. Had a lot of people ask say that that we got that one wrong.
I think that's fair. They say obviously they care a lot about football but they have more tradition in basketball and they throw a lot of money at basketball so my bad arkansas fans i think that if arkansas they want to be a football school but i think they're okay with being a basketball they're finally being a basketball school but if they got really fucking good at football oh yeah and they would just be like full sec yeah what are you gonna say stance on the mormons what do you mean they're still mormons okay they're mormons yeah no the mormons the mormons were they weren't on one side.
Okay. We had them rated correctly.
Listen, I'm going to be a Mormon on Thursday because I'm brooding for them to beat Bama. I don't know what you want me to say.
So, yeah, they're still Mormons. Unless they don't.
I'll tell you what. If BYU fans, if you want to be put into a different category, you have to disavow Mormonism.
And then we'll take you out. because otherwise it's idolatry right otherwise you're worshiping something besides the lord so yeah you're still mormons you had mormons getting mad at you max is that oh yeah mormons are mad well it's actually a compliment we're saying that you put your faith first right some of them were happy they were like oh this must be this must mean that we're both football and basketball.
No, you're Mormons. No, you're Mormons.
Yeah. You're 27 years old, and you're in school, and you look great because you've never touched alcohol.
I'm starting to think. I'm honestly envious of Mormons.
Are BYU fans not going to class? That was as straightforward as it could be. BYU Mormons.
That's what you guys are. That's not good or bad.
That's nothing. That's just we're putting you in a camp Mormons.
In solidarity with Mormon people, I will live my life as a Mormon on Thursday. If that's what it takes to have them beat Alabama.
Do you know what that entails? I will do it after 930. I'm going to soak so hard on Thursday.
No, you can't have coffee. I'm not going to have coffee.
I am. I am.
I'm not going to drink alcohol. I'm going to soak.
What else? You can't fuck? I'll get married twice. You can't be in a room with a woman? I don't think.
I think you can. We're digging ourselves back into the Mormon hate.
The Mormon's going to be even more angry at us now. But again, the point remains.
We are rooting for you guys on Thursday.

I can't drink coffee, but I think I can do that thing where you go,

you make your own drink out of, like, Dr. Pepper, heavy cream, coffee creamer.

The dirty sodas.

Yeah, I'll make my own dirty soda in a Stanley.

We should do those for the game on Thursday.

It's just 100% sugar.

Although, but it can't have caffeine. We have to get caffeine-free sodas.
I think some can. I think I'll go diet Mormon.
I think some are allowed to have caffeine. It is kind of bullshit.
I don't think any of them are. I think they're all caffeine-free sodas.
I think it depends on what the head guy does. Whatever the Mormon of the month is that's running the religion at the time, they get to dictate.
Yeah, Kier. Kier, praise Kier.
That's a severance recap uh okay uh by the way opening day is thursday and we're gonna have jeff passing on friday to talk baseball did you we want to do quick who's gonna win just predictions that we cannot remember unless one of us gets it how we obviously do this every single year i i assume people are not new to pmt we're listening right now but we basically just say who's going to win it all and then if one of us is even remotely close we're like hey memes can you get that clip for me yeah and then everyone else just ignores whatever our bad predictions yep so yeah that's i'm gonna my prediction is dodgers win the world series and they win 125 games. Yeah, I mean, that's...
You like that? Their roster is incredible. You like that? I think it's going to be Pods, Red Sox.
I'm excited for Alex Bregman. Podres, Red Sox? Okay.
Probably the most excited for a Red Sox season I've been in years. Sox.
Okay. Okay.
I mean, I want to take the Dodgers, too's very chalky but if you look at you can't copy me but you you just you purposely said it first so that nobody else can say it you can the dodgers are going to win the world series that's just it that's it fast forward to october congrats to the dodgers you won again magic johnson one of the best owners in sports um i'm going to say Dodgers in five games over is very important.

They're going to beat the Red Sox.

I guess I didn't say an AL team.

I'm going to say Dodgers over Rangers.

Classic.

And Dodgers win 125.

Actually, no.

Dodgers over Phillies.

Well, Hank doesn't respect Shohei.

That's clear.

Phillies are – both of those teams are. Oh, yeah.
Phillies. Yeah, yeah.
Dodgers over Phillies. Well, Hank doesn't respect Shohei.
That's clear. Phillies are...
Both of those teams are... Oh, yeah.
Phillies. Yeah.
Dodgers over Rangers. What I said.
Dodgers over Phillies in the NLCS. There you go.
Dodgers over Rangers in the World Series. I think the Washington Nationals are going to sneaky compete for a wild card spot.
Ooh. Sneaky.
That's my wild prediction. They won't be out of it in September.

The NL is pretty loaded.

Nats are going to be good, though.

They got good young guys.

Okay, what's your prediction, Max?

I'm going to go Phillies over the A's.

Oh, the A's could be good.

The A's are going to make a run.

I know, which will be so disappointing that it happens in September.

There's no chance, but it's fun.

It is fun.

That was very fun.

Mims, who you got?

Mets over the Tigers. Whoa.
What do you mean, whoa? Tigers, yeah. Tigers.
Scouble. Scouble.
Cy Young. Praise Scouble.
You pumped about Soto? Yeah, fired up. Memes, what happened with the Islanders last night? I saw you tweet about it.
I really wanted to have access to the part of my tape Twitter in that moment to tweet some memes about you.

It was probably the worst call in NHL history.

Oh.

They called goalie interference, even though the goalie reestablished himself.

Islanders scored with nine seconds left.

Wood got two points over the Columbus Blue Jackets,

both fighting for a wild card spot to play the Capitals.

And we got absolutely hose,

ended up losing in a shootout and lost one point.

I was heartbroken, Memes.

I'm heartbroken just listening to that.

I saw the replay.

It didn't even look like he was in the crease.

His body might have been in the crease,

but his skates looked like they were outside, right?

Yeah.

I mean, he was in for a second, but the goalie was able to reestablish reestablish himself it just didn't make any sense brutal so now are you guys you guys are fighting for the last playoff spot yeah we're fighting fighting hard fighting real hard i can't wait for playoffs me too very excited if you uh agree with big cat and pft about the dodgers you could bet any or most regular season wins by any team over 106.5 or plus 150. I think they'll get there.
Already 2-0. Yeah.
Yeah, it's basically kind of a gut check, heart check. Dodgers, you want it? You want it enough? You have the talent.
You want it enough? Go get it. Okay, so we did miss Jameis to the Giants.
That rocks. I don't know if he will be QB1.
I think they're still shopping. I think they're still shopping and looking around.
If they draft a quarterback, then I think Jameis would probably be QB1 going into the season. Yeah.
We got to figure out what we're doing with the song. Yeah.
Jameis, I have two options that I've thought about standing on a corner Jameis Winston in Hoboken standing on the corner Jameis Winston down in Soho Soho flows a little bit better but they play in Jersey I know they practice They practice in Jersey. This is big.

James.

James.

What about some Sopranos?

Satriales.

Satriales.

Down in the meadowlands.

Yeah, there you go.

James Winston in the meadowlands.

I don't know.

I like where your head's at. Yeah.
No wrong answer. We'll think about it.
Mall of America? No, or what is it called? What's that mall? Oh, the one that has like the water slides and the ski thing? Yeah. Right across from the stadium.
It's something amazing. Isn't it Mall of America? No, that's Minnesota.
I don't know what it is. Oh, American Dream? Yeah.
Yeah. American Dream.
That mall's crazy. So, yeah, it looks like right now we have musical chairs going on.
Aaron Rodgers spent Friday at the Pittsburgh facility. He is going to also go visit the Giants.
There was a report out there, which is very funny, that Aaron Rodgers, I think Albert Breer had this, he said that, I've heard Rodgers is looking for a culture such as the one in Green Bay. Which is so funny.
Spends two years with the Jets, and he immediately was like, damn, I didn't know what I had. He's looking for Green Bay.
He wants to go, He's like, I fucked up. I want to go.
Yeah. Take me back, please.
Yeah. There's no other culture like Green Bay in the NFL.
Steelers would be closest in terms of consistently in the picture, history, all that stuff. I tweeted this out on Friday, but I firmly believe it.
This is a good window into Aaron Rodgers and the kind of guy that he is yeah he spent six hours he took up six hours of ncaa tournament friday meeting with the other coaches on the pittsburgh sealers like the entire head of the coaching staff the big guys that's a selfish move yeah that of all days tells me aaron rogers only cares about himself yeah uh there there is also a very funny article on pro football talk which is talking i think it's in reference to a different article here but basically there was a an article in pittsburgh about uh the fan backlash to aaron rogers and whether or not the fans will appreciate aaron rogers in pittsburgh and it was just kind of letters and emails from steelers fans okay this is a good one my 81 year old father said that if aaron rogers comes to the steelers he will ruin the heart and soul of the team and it will never be the same again whoa maybe that's a bit dramatic but he's talking about the honor a player should feel for the privilege of donning a steeler uniform and representing a team that has a history that is intertwined with the citizens of Pittsburgh. Whoa.
I don't necessarily disagree. Yeah.
Ruin it forever. It will never be the same.
He could. It might not ever be the same after having Aaron Rodgers for one year.
Yeah, I don't totally disagree either. Because Aaron Rodgers will become the Pittsburgh Aaron Rodgers, not the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Yeah. I still think he's going to go to Pittsburgh, though.
I do, too. If we get to the draft, and Aaron Rodgers still hasn't made up his mind, and then he calls the Vikings, and he says, I've thought about it.
I'd like to come play in Minnesota. Do you think they...
No. Do they take that call? I don't think so.
I think they're in on J.J. McCarthy.
And then we have Kirk Cousins, who also, he could be a Steeler. He could be a a Brown he's waiting because he doesn't want to go somewhere and then have the team draft a uh quarterback in the first round and then just repeat what just happened this past yeah learned his lesson the hard way so he has a no trade clause uh and so I the reports are he might wait until after the draft to fully make sure because I do think that that if he gets traded before the draft, it will just happen again.
So I actually don't hate the fit for Jameis in New York. No.
He's going to throw a million deep balls to Malik Nabors. It's going to be fun.
Yeah. And, yeah, I mean, the Jets, are you a little jealous, memes? Extremely jealous.
Yeah. Jameis in New York is going to be a good time.
I actually also think giants are going to be sneaky team next year they have like some they have some good players and aren't that far away from being not a bad team that james might take him over the top yeah i i am devastated that he's in my division devastated yeah that does suck you have to watch that watch have so much fun. Yeah.
Okay moves breaking moves if you're watching the youtube right now you can see that we're no longer sitting in studio next to each other uh we're all at home hanks in his car and it's 6 45 p.m and Russell is officially a giant. And Stefan Diggs is officially a patriot.
Bang, bang. Was eating dinner with my family.
And the news came down. We'll start with Russ.
I'm bummed for Jameis. And I also think this might be if NFL films can figure out a way, I need a full documentary on this entire season because the Giants QB room now is Russell Wilson, Jameis Winston, and Tommy DeVito.
And I have to watch that. It's great.
Yeah. But what offseason? I guess we should say like what offseason to the offseason? It broke.
Everyone thought that it was going to happen days ago that we get some news about Russell or or about uh or about digs turns out they happen within like 10 minutes of each other russell wilson to the giants to me feels like a wife move do you agree was it sierra sierra was like hey i i want i lived in pittsburgh i went to denver for you let's do something for me it's my turn now listen i know that russell wilson statistically is probably a better quarterback than Jameis Winston. If you're the Giants, Jameis has a ceiling.
Russell Wilson does not. He has, Russell might have a higher floor.
He might not throw as many picks, but that's part of the problem with Russ. He doesn't take any risks.
He doesn't throw the ball except for checkdowns and down the field along the sideline. I would be bummed if Russell Wilson gets the QB1 job coming out of camp just from a, like, if you're enjoying football sense.
And I also think that if Russell Wilson plays the whole year, the Giants are destined for six wins. And if Jameis Winston plays the whole year, the Giants are destined for four to 12.
So-12. It's interesting because with those two quarterbacks, they couldn't be any more dissimilar.
I think that's the right word. If Russ was a starting job, he's going to go out there.
He's going to bum you out. But the thing is, after two weeks of Russ bumming you out, you're going to want Jameis playing quarterback.
So what they should do is give the starting job to Jameis and say it's his to lose. And then they bring Russ in.
He kind of stables things. He makes things nice and quiet.
And then after maybe like three or four weeks, he starts to bum you out. Then you go back to Jameis.
That's the prescription for the season. Sprinkle in some Tommy DeVito.
Some Tommy DeVito. Yeah.
Yeah. Like, actually actually the guy that is unlimited in this situation is Jameis they should honestly do if you're Brian Dable you're going to get fired no matter what probably right like it's probably it's probably going to happen this year it's probably not gonna be a great year I I do think the Giants are better than uh people realize but why wouldn't you just do – like if I were Brian Dable,

I would quite literally just ride the hot hand series to series.

If it's a punt or a turnover, next guy up.

Touchdown, he stays in.

I understand the sentiment. I think that Jameis going through training camp,

the boys are going to be fired up to have Jameis playing quarterback week one don't don't get it twisted Jameis should be the starting quarterback week one it might not go well it's not gonna happen though it's gonna be Russ they're paying him more money I know but it should be Jameis that way you can go to Russ go to the safe guy bring in the stepdad have him come in mellow things out and then you switch back to Jameis but I could yeah just go to the hot hand whatever Brian Dable I think if you look at these quarterbacks that they have the three QBs have gotten that room that is a pre-fired head coach 100% like if that if those three guys are your plan I was thinking maybe they get Jameis and then they draft someone and then they bring that guy along slowly then Dable could do the thing where he's like okay we're gonna start him after week seven he shows some promise keep me around so that i can develop this guy in the future i don't know if that's gonna happen anymore it feels like they're not gonna go quarterback they still might who knows weird things have happened yeah the way that it looks right now brian dable uh you're gonna be a great offensive coordinator somewhere i am also excited for i was, we, we were putting this in the middle of the show because we already taped and we talked about Jameis being QB one. So people probably listen to that part and they're like, Hey, wait a second.
Russ just signed. So here we are talking about Russ.
I'm excited for Russell Wilson to get absolutely killed by the New York media and watch him try to handle that because he will handle it the way he handles everything. He'll just be like, God is great and positive thinking and the guys in the locker room have my back.
But that will be part of the show. That is the one part.
If we can't get Jameis to full season, at least Russ versus the New York media will be fun. Yeah.
Did you notice, did you watch any of the hard knocks knocks the in-season stuff last year with Russ Wilson on the Steelers yeah he he sometimes talks like Jameis like the words are the same but he doesn't believe him the difference is Jameis believes the Jameis words Russ is just like an AI transcript like a voiceover of a Jameis Winston sound clip and it's going to be a very very weird quarterback weird quarterback room. Yeah.
All right. And then the other one, Stefan Diggs to the Patriots.
Hank, you wanted this, right? Yeah, it's exciting. We obviously – we definitely needed to help a wide receiver.
He's a super talented wide receiver. Kind of a head case, but even in the 10 minutes I had to process this, it's good reps for Drake May.
You're a second-year QB. You've got a Diva wide receiver.
That's something every quarterback has to go through. I don't think people are expecting two.
I think a playoffs would be a successful season for the Patriots, and I think Stephon Diggs can help you get there. I don't think he's a long-term solution.
I don't think he's going to be like a New England legend forever, but he's talented. We needed help at wide receiver, and so I'm excited.
I like that take, though, that it's providing him with mental reps of dealing with a problem wide receiver that he's going to have to deal with in the future at some point. Yeah.
But that's true, right? Like if you're going to be a great team, you've got to have a stud slash kind of a diva wide receiver. The real thing is it's someone he can throw to, which you need someone who can catch the ball.
And that actually is like – that's good for a young quarterback. But, yeah, I do like that spin as well, being like more than someone who can catch the ball, he's going to get a Ph.D.
in dealing with a diva wide receiver. Yeah.
He's going to – man, he's going to fall in love with Joe Milton's arm. He's going to be like, this reminds me of Josh.
All right. And then, I mean, Roger's going to be a Steeler, right? That's what it feels like at this point.
Right. Steeler, Brown.
Not a Brown. I don't think he's going to be a Brown.

He wants some place that's like the culture of Green Bay, weather-wise.

I don't think he's going to be a Brown.

I'd be shocked.

If he was a Brown, it would be funny.

But, yeah, I think he's going to be a Steeler.

I think Kirk Cousins might be a Brown.

Maybe.

But, yeah, it feels like the QB carousel is slowing down,

and then Titans take Cam Moore. Did you guys see Cam Moore throw the ball like 300 yards? That was sick.
That was so sick. There was that takeaway from Pro Day, and then there was the Alex Restrepo 40-yard dash time from Miami's Pro Day.
Did you see what he ran? Yeah, he tweaked something. Yeah, he ran a 4.8.
He said he tweaked something. He ran a 4.8, and speed isn't everything.

I guess they're going to look at the tape.

Our good friend Arian Foster ran like a 4.75 at his pro day,

and he had like a tweaked hamstring.

He was pretty good when he put the pads on.

Yeah, yeah.

So, I mean, I hope there's no more news coming tonight.

I mean, let's just say it.

If Rodgers is a stealer, they might be okay. We can be the first to report it.
If Rodgers is a Steeler, they might be okay.

We can be the first to report it.

Aaron Rodgers is a Steeler.

I think he'll be better than Russ Wilson.

Should I text him and ask him just Steeler's question mark?

Yeah.

Every text that I have ever texted him has felt like the last text ever that he'll –

well, he doesn't respond to basically any of them.

So, all right. I've sent it.
Steelers question mark. What do you think his response is? I feel like it might be emphasized.
No. The only, the last time he responded was July 9th when we were interviewing him at Tahoe.
And I just said, we're set up at the clubhouse. He said, I'll be over soon okay all right and then there's just the there's just nothing there's just nothing so um maybe I mean now that we have the JFK assassination stuff maybe we'll we'll have a conversation with him this I feel like he's probably booked up for the next six months reviewing those documents that's true that true.
Okay. Let's kick it back to ourselves.

Good job.

Good live.

We haven't done a live break in in a while.

Feels good to be back on this.

So what were you guys doing?

What was the routine when the news broke?

I was,

I was making hot dogs for my kids dinner and then it happened.

And yeah,

that was about it.

Hank,

what were you doing?

You know,

I like to keep my private life

private outside of the show

and I would appreciate it if you guys

would respect my privacy.

What's that in your back seat?

That's my gym bag.

Oh, that's your gym bag.

There's a lot of trees. Are you out in the forest somewhere?

Yeah, that's my gym bag.

That's your gym bag. Okay.
Yeah, there are a lot of trees. Are you out in the forest somewhere? Yeah, that's my gym bag.
That's your gym bag. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah, there are a lot of trees where you are.
Yeah, you know, I like to get out and get some nature under my feet. Some nature under your feet.
Ground yourself. That's a really nice jacket.
Exercise. I was exercising.
I was exercising in nature. The ball marker's still on your hat.
If you must know.

If you must know.

Hey, your ball marker's still on your hat.

Again, like, you know what?

Work ends and it's like, I don't judge or criticize you for what you do outside of work.

I was here.

We said we're going to record and I'm here.

That was really funny, though.

If you criticize Big Cat for making dinner for his family.

Yeah.

And Hank, credit to you, you're like, I'm ready to go.

Yeah. I left the eighth tee box tee box oh you were golfing again private life private like i would i would respect some privacy but that's fine if you guys must must know okay okay um all right let's kick it back to ourselves keep going with the show um okay any other stories oh? Oh.
Juju. Juju.
Juju Watkins. Tour ACL.
That sucked. Did suck.
She's awesome. We're talking women's college hoopsink.
She's the best player. Her and Paige.
They play ball too. They got next.
She is. She's like Carmelo.
She's woman Carmelo. So she gets gets hurt and then i think the odds drop from what seven to one eight to one for usc now they're like 25 to one maybe ewing theory maybe juju theory i don't know it does suck though she's so much fun to watch jujuish conspiracy maybe she maybe now it's time to bet on the trojans yeah this is the jane daniels mom Hex? Oh.
That's me and Hank. Oh, wow.
I didn't even think about that.

Well, I guess. maybe she maybe now it's time to bet on the trojans yeah this is the jane daniels mom hex oh that's me and hank oh wow i didn't think about that well i got concerned we never talked about this i saw i asked pft to do some research i don't know if you you got to the bottom of it i did do some research there's rumors that they're cousins it might be cousins that their families are close it might be cousins actually in the literal term um but there was a picture that went viral of uh jayden daniels sitting next to juju watkins on the sidelines at the ncaa tournament and they look to be having a good time and then a later picture came out i assume that jayden's mom saw him sitting next to a girl which violates the core no girl philosophy that they have and she came and sat in between them chaperoning them on a date i don't know if they're're cousins don't know if they're more than cousins i don't know what's going on i just know that uh if the two of them were to ever procreate i would like to immediately draft that baby okay into whatever sport but but she was hanging out and then tore acl hanging out tore the acl are you put it's it sounds like you're wishing an injury on Jaden right now.
No, I'm just wondering, like, at what point, you know, does the mom let the son just live his life? Yeah. No girls.
You got to have girls at some point. No girls.
I don't know, Hank. I don't know.
That might be her niece. Like, it's getting a little weird, no? PFT was showing everyone the picture.
Like, it was like, he's like, look at this. Well, I showed Big Cat.
This is gonna happen. I showed Big Cat.
But then the mom came and just ruined it. Yeah, I didn't see the mom thing till after.
It was, you know, the video of Rihanna and I forget who the actor was at MSG and it's Rihanna, the actor's son, and then the actor. And then, you know, they cut to the camera 20 minutes later and the actor switched seats with his son and was like macking on rihanna yeah that's what it was like reverse except jane daniel's mom there's a big italian mom move yeah no girls you gotta let him have some girls no girls crazy no girls that's crazy i'm sure that they have a good hank all you're going off of is like a second and a half clip and.
And it sounds to me like you're wishing a severe injury on Jaden Daniels. I'm not.
I'm asking questions. It has nothing to do with the injury.
I'm just asking. You said Jaden's, is it the Jaden Daniels mom hex? Yeah.
Well, it's like she clearly does not like her if she's trying to sit in between them and not let them live her life. Maybe.
Maybe she knows something you don't know. Maybe, uh okay any other stories that we missed we are in that uh kind of dull waiting for nba and nhl playoffs what that's who it was ethan hawk and rihanna ethan hawk um do we have any other oh is jason titum okay yeah he he rolled his ankle he's before.
Okay. I was just wondering.
He'll be good. It's a bonus.
That was kind of dirty by him. Very dirty.
Yeah. Not jumping under him, but getting in his landing spot.
He knows what he's doing. Bulls just keep winning, and I don't know.
They're just going to get in the playing game. They're doing the Jerry Rines rough.
They're making sure they get to exactly 38 wins. Yeah.
And Kobe White has been awesome, and Buzalas is a good draft pick, but it's just such a – he's got you right where – he's just got us again, right where we want him, right where he wants us, in that they're competing for a play-in game at the end of March, early April. That's exactly what he wants.
And it's going to ruin everything yeah i mean at this point it's too far that they they couldn't even if they lost out it's like their draft pick wouldn't be bad so it's like i guess just root for the young guys but then when you say i guess just root for the young guys and they are playing a lot of fun they're shooting a lot of threes josh your boy josh giddy's having a time he's good he but they're playing fun basketball but he got us again because you Because you're like, I found myself watching and being like, man, they're fun to watch. That's exactly what he wants.
What are you pulling up? Oh, watching the number one pick. Draft lottery simulator.
Yeah. Big man Cooper Flagg.
Love that. Big man.
I mean, the Celtics know how to take care of a big man with an ankle injury. Jason Taylor.
He'll bounce back. All right, Sim it 10 times.

That was a bad lottery for me.

Miami just won the lottery Sim.

So that's one time.

Sim it 10 times.

Let's see how many times Washington's going to get it.

There's Washington number two.

Nice.

I like that.

That's huge.

Miami again. It feels like Miami.

We can't get the eight.

Focus on the top pick.

We don't care.

Yeah.

Wow.

Sixers.

And the Bulls, too.

Yeah.

Wow.

All right.

That's a good looking lotto right there.

Brooklyn.

Damn it.

For you.

Utah.

Hank, can you please focus?

We're doing the draft.

Utah again.

Utah again.

Mormon Magic. I know you don't care, but you should care.
We're doing the draft. Utah again.
Utah again. Mormon Magic.

I know you don't care, but you should care.

Miami.

I don't care.

I'm also not keeping track of how many times we've done this.

No, I haven't either.

This feels like, but yeah.

There you go.

I'll take that.

BFD.

You'll take second?

I'll take that.

Oh, wow.

Are you a handshake deal?

I'll handshake that right now.

Me too.

That's huge.

Who do you want?

One of the Ruckgers guys. Ace Bailey.
Washington again. Warhol Harper.
Miami. This is the last and final one, though.
We saw a lot of Miami. Last and final one.
Miami, I feel like, was every time. Yeah.
Toronto. That was bad for both.
This is bad for all of us. Zero percent, it goes to Toronto.
Yeah. Zero percent.
Yeah. Okay.
Zero. I feel like it's going to be Miami now.
Yeah. That was a lot of Miami.
They just reloaded. A lot of Miami.
Okay. Should we do? Let's do, quickly, we have to do a pick for Thursday and Friday together as a team.
We haven't been doing well. We've got to pick a winner here.
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All right, Thursday.

Thursday, Thursday, Thursday.

We can't bet against Maryland because we're about to talk to SVP.

Agreed. I want to bet on Maryland.

You want to bet on Maryland?

Okay.

With the points.

Maryland plus six and a half.

I also would like to bet the over in BYU-Alabama.

I know it's very high, but that should be fun.

Although Alabama can't hit threes.

I want to bet on BYU. Okay, so then let's do BYU-Alabama.
I know it's very high, but that should be fun. Although Alabama can't hit threes.
I want to bet on BYU. Okay, so then let's do BYU, Maryland, and then let's take the over in Arizona Duke.
Okay. Instead, Caleb Love, just go off.
I like it. I like that a lot.
He wanted Duke. The way that he played at the end of that game.
Did you see the clip of where he almost, can you try to find it after the game?

Caleb Love, great job by him

because he wanted to talk some real shit about Duke

in a bulletin board moment,

and you could see him catch himself in real time

being like, why don't I not do this?

Yeah, it's good.

Can you find that, Max?

Max, he's pulling it up.

Caleb Love postgame.

Okay, on Friday night, there it is.

That's the clip right there.

Watch this clip.

Play it from the beginning.

16 against a very familiar foe that you played earlier this year.

They beat you in Tucson, and you know them very well

from your time in North Carolina. duke how do you beat them hey he was just thinking there for a second like i want to say so much shit right now he like he yelled at himself he goes hey hey that's the sound that i make when when blake is about.
Hey, hey, hey. He did that to himself.
That's a very good moment for him. That's great.
Good recognition, Caleb. Great recognition.
Yeah, it'd be so fun if he just went off. I think Duke's going to win it all, though.
Yeah. I'm pretty set in that thought.
I mean, winning a second round game by the way they did against Baylor, just not competitive.

All right, the Friday games.

What are we thinking?

Two big-time March coaches in Izzo versus Chris Beard.

I actually have a stat for it from our friend Chris Felica.

He had some nuggets, and here it is.

So I think Michigan State's favored by two-and-a a half right now on DraftKings. Let's see.
Let me see this. Since 2018, there have been five instances of a two seed favored by three points or fewer in the Sweet 16.
Two seeds have lost four of those five games. But here's the crazy part.
Two of those four wins for the lower seed or the higher seed were Chris Beard. So Chris Beard has taken down two two seeds in this exact situation of being favored or underdog of three or less.
Izzo's also a very good coach. Izzo's also a very good coach.
And also Michigan State. I think Michigan State

is a team reading everything from them.

They might refuse

to leave the floor if they lose this game.

They want to win so bad. Yeah.

Okay, we can pass

on this game. I like Ole Miss.

You like Ole Miss?

Okay. I don't have a good read

on it. I like Tennessee.

Minus four and a half. Okay.
They've lost

twice to Kentucky this year in their favorite.

SEC. Chaz Lanier has been

I'm Tennessee. Minus four and a half.
Okay. They've lost twice to Kentucky this year in their favorite.
SEC. Chaz Lanier has been playing so good in this tournament.
I kind of wish that this game had happened sooner for Tennessee. If this game was scheduled for Monday, I feel like Tennessee rolls.
But I don't know. He's been so hot.
I like Tennessee too. Fuck it.
Okay. And then I like Michigan.
I like Michigan. Nine and a half is a lot of points.
I love Houston. I think Houston's going to dominate Purdue.
I said something nice about Purdue Sunday. This might say something mean about Purdue.
You're going to get your fucking ass kicked. All right.
So let me switch Ole Miss to Houston. I like that more.
Okay. All right.
So Tennessee, Michigan, Houston. That's good.
Two favorites and a dog. Yeah.
I'm excited for the college basketball to get back. It was a tough Monday night.
Just watching White Lotus. Ew.
Ew. Ew.
That's our White Lotus recap. They say it ties with kissing your sister.
Ew. Okay.
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Henry, hot seat, cool throw. My hot seat is Steph Curry.
Yes. This is bad.
It makes – I mean, it was too good to be true. It always is.
There was a viral video a few nights ago. It was during...
Over the weekend, I think. Steph Curry, it was beyond a full court shot.
He was basically in the tunnel. Yeah.
And he turned around, threw it to the other end of the court, and the ball went in. There was multiple angles.
He celebrated. It was going super viral.
He did the sh he celebrated super viral everyone celebrated it looked like the lebron uh powerade commercial from back in the day when he's just taking step backs and step backs and step backs clearly fake but this one you could see the ball the whole time and in my head i was like i know this is fake but i can't see where but everyone you know was talking about like it was real comes out monday the video is fake he did not make it in it basically it wasn't a fake video i don't know because the video that's the video that they showed showing it wasn't real they haven't showed the fans celebrating everyone celebrated like it was real yeah because so he he shot it from such a long distance away and it looked like it went in they celebrated because they thought that it went in we only saw that angle it was a polar switch then the new yeah parallax angle then the new camera angle came out and he missed it short it hit the net yeah but it didn't go in so if you're at the other end you think it went in they showed that to us we were lied to so it was a real video he just never made the basket never made it. You thought it was like a planned video.
I still think it might be. Jury's not out.
You think beforehand they're like, hey, let's plan this video out and hope no one takes the video of him actually missing. So then you think the video from the closer angle is also fake.
I think it's just he did this. And if you're looking from this angle from behind him, it looks like he hit it.

Yes.

Because the net moved.

Yeah.

Wouldn't that be an easy explanation?

No, because there was a second angle.

I'm trying to find it.

There was a second angle.

What am I missing here?

Yeah, no, this is exactly what happened.

Yeah, Memes is raising his hand.

Yes, Memes?

Sorry, the original video was cut cut short you hear the celebration and then it makes it seem like he made it but there's another video where he knows he missed it and goes it was this close oh so okay all right okay so the original viral post made it seem like he made it stay woke hank i like that you always got your guard up oh god you have to but he does he does like a little shimmy right he kind of celebrates it he does like a little pose but then he does the just so close the so close yeah either way steph curry has a cannon yeah yeah so far you do that shot all the time uh when we finish late, full court. Yeah.
And our ceilings are low. So sometimes I hit the ceiling.
But that's at least. You don't even get it to the rim like half the time.
60 yards farther. Well, yeah.
You have to deal with a low ceiling. But still, it's not even a full.
It's like a high school gym. And you still don't even get it.
Well, no, I do. I just hit the ceiling.
I could get it there easily. Well, I mean, I've seen a lot of times where you don't even get it there because i have to deal with the ceiling oh but it doesn't get there right because of the scene when you throw you try to throw the ball 70 feet and you don't get it there a lot of the time 84 feet and you don't get it there a lot of the time i can get it there whenever i want yeah yeah you sure yeah how many shots do you think it would take you to make this shot go get it there right now right this second yeah go get it there right now i'll film you yeah well he'll film you and put it into the thing this is a lot of there's a lot of pressure it's gonna be we'll filibuster all right so you go get it there here's what's gonna happen he's the ceiling because he's going to be so juiced up.
In some way, he's going to fail and then have a crazy excuse of why we're the assholes. I'm going to get it there.
Big Cat's talking all this shit. He doesn't think I'm strong.
I'm going to be so strong. I'm going to get it there.
It's going to break a light. You're getting there.
That's my call, actually. Broken light.
Yeah. Oh, broken light would be great.
Speaking of broken light, so the Caps just re-signed Chikrin to an eight-year deal. Okay.
He is an anti-light bulb guy. What does that mean? He doesn't have light bulbs in his house.
Is he Polish? He can't even know how to put them in? He thinks that light bulbs are bad for you. So he's got just beeswax candles all around his house.
So he's just waiting, and I don't want this to happen. I'm just saying he's just waiting to burn down his house yeah it's that's gonna happen it's a mistake waiting to happen but yeah he's he's one of the anti-uv guys i didn't know those guys existed anti-light bulbs that's that's the guy from uh uh better call saw yeah it was just yeah the tin foil everywhere tin foil and the uh yeah puts everything inside a box outside anti-light bulbs That's a new one that is kind of crazy right i aaron rogers might become an anti-light bulb guy yeah and then everyone might become an anti-light yeah just crystals i just have crystals and candles in my house anti-light i've heard a lot of anti like everything i saw someone the other day was like cheetos shouldn't exist that's bad that's like what the fuck man he the fuck, man? He's one of those guys that's like, if it's not found, if that color isn't found in nature, it shouldn't be on my food.
Yeah. All the neon colors are delicious on food.
How about also you can just, everyone can do what they want. Yeah.
Cheetos. You don't have to eat Cheetos.
Yeah. Other people can.
Did you make it? I almost. Oh, almost? He gave the Steph Curry close.
He gave the Steph Curry?

You almost made it?

What is Hank doing?

Max is getting some sort of...

What did he just give you?

Oh, he gave you a sandwich.

He gave you a sandwich with nothing.

You went out to take a shot, and then you got an egg sandwich when you came back?

What just happened?

Max was like, wait, hold on.

Let me give you this sandwich right now. Well, you said you were hungry.
You were like, I need that right now. Okay.
What happened with the shot? The first one he did not make it there. The second one.
Wait, I want to see the video. Put it up there.
I made it there. It was just for the left.
Sounds like you didn't make it. No, I absolutely made it there.
Why did you give me this fucking egg sandwich? what am i what am i gonna do with this fact or fiction did you say i need that so bad yeah but like i don't i i i want to eat it that is a wild move i can't hand him a sandwich it was in a competitor's packaging and i didn't want the competitor's packaging and that's fair no free ads i like that That sandwich is from the ringer.

Take a bite of the sandwich.

Take a bite.

You want to take a bite.

If you're not going to eat that sandwich, I'm going to eat that sandwich.

Let me get a bite of that sandwich.

Thank you.

Fuck right.

Did you miss short? You want a whack of it?

Yeah, I'll take a whack of it.

I also accidentally, I did a first order, sent it to my apartment. We've all been there, huh? Boys just eating sandwiches together.
Oh, no. There's egg on the couch.
I missed it short to the left. All right, do you have the video? I got distracted.
There was one thing you had to do how do you get distracted

we started talking about the food

yeah food got involved and max's priorities shifted

food got involved and max was like

i have to get involved in this conversation

kind of well i was part of the conversation

i was

hank what happened there

outside you were short

no i was just to the left on the first one

and then the second one hit the

so you can get it there anytime you want

Thank you. Oh, Hank, what happened there? Outside? You were short? No, I was just to the left on the first one, and then the second one hit the...
So you can get it there anytime you want? Yeah, the second one hit the square. So do you say you have the same arm strength as Steph Curry? No, because that video is probably twice the length.
Yeah. That was my takeaway from the video is he has an absolute cannon.
Cannons. Pelosi.
Cannons. Okay.
Well, Max. It says sending.
I don't know. On my phone, it says sending.
So it hasn't sent yet. Okay.
Oh, there it is. We got it.
All right. Here it is.
Hank's first attempt. He throws it.
Did not get it there. Did not get it there.
Yes, it did. You cannot get it there anytime you want.
Two things. One, it didn't get there.
Two, Hank is probably 15 yards closer than Steph Curry was. You cannot get it there anytime you want.
That was the entire beginning of this point. I never said it was the same length.
But you can't get it there. Because I know he's like twice as long.
You can back up to where he was. Yeah.
It confirms you cannot get it there anytime you want.

I got it there.

You did not get it there.

Look where it landed.

It just landed at the loose end zone.

Did you hear that noise he just made?

That was a great noise you made.

That was close.

The second time you actually got it there.

First time, did not get it there.

All right.

What's your cool throne?

I know.

So me.

What's the button still on you?

My cool throne was Jane Daniels mom.

We talked about that.

So I'll go with Ashton Hall.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So let's get into this because I was going to be.

I love this guy. My hot seat.
Memes, you've been tasked with this. Explain a meme to us.
I've DM Max every single video. Okay.
So so what are you doing? Let's switch seats. Oh, look at this quick little story.
So So this guy, Ashen Hall, went viral on Twitter over the weekend. Someone posted his morning routine video.
Maybe the most viral video I've ever seen on Twitter. Right now it's 765 million views.
Holy shit. It was getting posted over and over and over again.
765 million views. Obviously, everyone's posting it.
The morning routine. Stu Feiner texted me last night.
Yeah. Just said, check this out.
Yeah. And it was the video.
Love that. Which is the most, like, it's everywhere.
Oh, yeah. He said that to me, too.
Does he? Do his texts go to everyone? I don't know. Because he normally texts in all caps for his picks.
Yeah. And so I assume that goes to everyone at the same time.
But the last five times he's texted me something else that's been in lowercase, you guys have gotten the same text at the same time. Yeah.
Yeah. He sent.
Check this out. Check this out.
P.M. last night.
All right, memes. Go ahead.
So he's a lifestyle coach. Okay.
Already bullshit. Already bullshit.
He has a two hour morning routine. That's pretty much it.
He's just a lifestyle coach. Okay, well, he's a two hour morning routine that's pretty much it he's just a lifestyle he's a former college running back he averaged six attempts on eight yards the funny part about these videos is he does a morning routine video and he absolutely does nothing he is up at the gym he's up at 4 a.m writing stuff onto a piece of paper he's going to the gym he's eating bananas rubbing banana peels on his face and he still hasn't done any work like 905 comes around and he's he's not even doing work he's just dunking his face into to water he doesn't do anything he's been six hours in the morning uh journaling doing uv uh light therapy or no that's the ir sauna right he's in like the infrared sauna yeah he goes to the gym he's he jumps into the gym for four minutes yep uh and then the funniest part is when he's at his computer and he just goes yeah i'm gonna need 10 000 right and then it just cuts the next one 10 000 of what we don't know he also uh the the reason i like this guy is that he's not in on the joke because he did a video i think monday being like hey i see everyone making similar videos like i want to say i appreciate it that was a video from february that was already out oh that was already out.
But it still stands. He says that there's been a lot of people that copied him and copied what he- Mocked him.
No, copied him. And they do similar things to his ASMR workouts.
Yeah. And so people copy that.
You're right, making fun of him. He doesn't realize that they're making fun of him.
And then he had a moment of clarity where he thought to himself, you what a lot of people followed jesus too and and mimicked him so if he's good enough to allow people to mimic him then i can be good enough to allow people to mimic me yeah it's very christ-like okay yeah so he made that video back in february but the guy there's an original guy from about two years ago who made one of these videos who went viral and he clapped back at him saying uh something forgot i got talked about for two months straight and ain't say a word so he's going back at hall for this for what so ashton hall copied this guy oh yeah he's this this is the. What's his name? Morning routine.

Drew Walls.

And can you read that tweet again?

Something forget I got talked about for two months straight and it'd say a word.

So it's essentially at what point do you think we're going to reach like critical mass of influencers where there's some everyone's an influencer that we don't have enough people to be influenced? Yeah many chiefs not enough guardians right i feel like we're there yeah probably this guy's doing nothing and yes we're making fun of him but he also thinks he's kind of killing it right i think he kind of is killing it 765 million i guess he's killing it you're right and also the guy is jacked up so whatever his routine is he has an insane amount of dedication to it the banana peel facial that everybody was talking about rubbing a banana peel on your face if you don't remember our good friend uncle chaps did that like four years ago and he got potassium poisoning inside of his eye because he rubbed a banana peel on his face one time and he had to basically have his eyelid lanced open and had surgery done on his eye and still kind of fucked up to this day yeah so don't don't rub banana peels on your face bananas are for eating i'll also say the ashton hall at least like you know he is super jacked he's kind of and he like you know has designer bags he wears like super expensive bags and bracelets to go to the gym makes no sense but he's got like the the weird incel alpha male energy thing going. This guy, Drew Walls, literally just goes to Target.
Oh, but that's more relatable. He literally makes an entire video about buying groceries.
I love that guy, too. Yeah, I'm not going to make any judgments on Ashton Hall.
I'm just going to guess he might in like some credit card debt with the with the things that he owns and doesn't seem to be doing a lot of actual business you know what did you hear him he's like i'm gonna need 10 000 he's gonna be 10 000 or something yeah so i like i like both these guys i like the guy that goes to target that just because it's so funny you set a camera up on a tripod and then you you wheel the shopping cart into the frame you get something off the shelf wheel the shopping cart out then you go and you pick up your tripod and you if you move on to the next right it's like i am in love with the i want somebody to film him filming himself yeah that would be a great video that would be behind the scenes i uh like there's an entertainment value though where it's like you there's a non-zero chance there's satire involved with Ashton Hall.

What?

He has rules. would be behind the scenes i uh like there's an entertainment value though where it's like you there's a non-zero chance there's satire involved with ashen hall like he has rolls royce's i know way not with him i think he has rolls royce's following him running yeah those are least they have to be a rented what does he do does he have a business life coach okay life coach yeah my my get morning routine would literally just be me sitting on the toilet trying to take a shit yeah like all right now i'm ready to go mine would be uh telling blake to not wake me up yet three times and then trying to start the el camino then letting blake outside then trying to start the el camino again then having a cup of coffee trying to start the el camino putting blake in his crate and getting in my other car and driving to work.
That's what my morning routine is. It's pretty good.
Yeah. Yeah, mine would just be, yeah, trying to take a shit and then yelling at my kids to please put on their shoes.
And then I go to work. Job gets done.
The morning routine. What's yours, Hank? Wake up, coffee, come to work.
You should do a video of your morning. I'm not a morning guy.
Yeah. Oh, really? We're familiar.
What? Wake up, get angry at something. No.
How do you handle that if there's nobody in your apartment when you wake up and you're angry? Who do you get that out on? I know I need 30 minutes. Literally, it takes me 30 minutes to be a human being.
Yeah. Yeah, but that's a good question.
PFTS, do you get angry at the thought of us? Because I would assume a lot of times... How do I get angry? A lot of times when you come in, it's like the first thing you have to do is something with us.
So are you like, these guys are the reason why I'm coming in this time. Fuck them.
If I don't sleep enough and I wake up super late and have to be here within those 30 minutes, then yes.'re just you're just raging against us the whole way in not against you i'm just in a bad machine i'm just in a bad mood you're a big cat or the machine the man gotta go to work for the man i love that i love that we we're we literally get you out of bed in the morning of course our existence is what is what gets you out of bed. Not willingly.
No. Memes, what's your morning routine?

Wake up. you out of bed in the morning of course our existence is what is what gets you out of bed not willingly no memes what's your morning routine uh wake up just go on go on twitter for a couple hours you should do a video oh i miss that so much because i used that used to be like when we first started doing this show i just wake up and lay in bed for two hours before kids just being like you know like on mondays after football sundays i just lay there for two hours just hanging out what are other people talking about today yeah and then coffee shower and then come come in here that.
Max, what's yours? Eat a meatball. Max, do you have bedside meatballs like people have water? No, I do not have bedside meatballs.
He dunks his face into a bowl of meatballs? Bedside meatballs. Max wakes.
He rolls over and just sticks a meatball in his mouth. No, I normally wake up.
Actually, Max, you should remake the video in the mouth tape. Instead of the mouth tape, it's just you wake up, you roll over, and you spit out the meatball.
You've been resting in your cheek all night. Max has to sleep with a meatball in his mouth.
That's fucked up. Yeah, it's a ball gag, except it's just veal.
It's just in there. What's your morning routine, Max? I just wake up, listen to my dog cry, and then ask my girlfriend to take her out.
She normally does it. And then I lay in bed until I have to go.
And then I'll normally, my girlfriend will ask me to do something, and I'll be like, I have to go for work. And she's like, what have you been doing the past hour and a half?

That sounds very relatable.

That's basically how it goes.

Yep.

That's very relatable.

Like, yeah, I have to go.

I'm rushing now.

You can't actually go until you absolutely have to go.

Correct.

And then she'll ask me to do one thing on my way out.

And I always get yelled at because she, yeah.

Yeah. You're like, fuck, I have to go.
I'm going to be late. Okay.
Where are we? PFT's hot seat. That was a cool throne, right? My hot seat is the media.
Media's on the hot seat, and I guess we can include ourselves in the media. We were put there by Doc Rivers because Doc Rivers says, no one tells the real story, and I'm fine with that.
It it's unfair in some ways i don't get enough credit for getting the three wins in the playoffs i get credit for losing i always say what if we had lost to houston in six no one cares one of the things i'm proud of is we've never been swept all the coaches have been swept in the playoffs my teams achieve a lot of them of them overachieve, and I'm very proud of that.

Wow.

So it's on us for not telling the full story about Doc Rivers.

He has won three games in the playoffs many times in a series.

So he's just basically changed the entire narrative to, like,

I haven't been swept?

Yeah.

We have to bet on him to get swept this year.

You think so?

Yeah.

Well, you're discounting the fact that when he loses the 3-1 leads, he's won three games. He's won three games.
That should be worth something. Like, if you get up 28-3 against the Patriots in the Super Bowl, that should be worth something.
Who would the Bucs play? Like, the Celtics could sweep them in the second round. It would be the Cavs.
I might have to bet on a sweep. You think the Cav the box i know i'm just i think the box beat the calves oh really yeah you hate the calves you do you think the calves stink you you absolutely think the calves stink be honest they lost four of their last five but you yeah so they they stink no they're number one in the east i couldn't say that but you're not worried how can you make that argument because they you think that they'll get swept in the playoffs.
No, I didn't say swept. I just think the Bucs could beat them in a series.
But are you saying that because you're kind of a little deep down scared of the Cavs? No, I would love a Cavs-Celtics-Eastern Conference playoffs. You'd be rooting for the Cavs against the Bucs? No.
Who would you be rooting for? Bucs. Because you're scared of the Cavs.

Yeah, that makes no sense.

You guys don't have experience in the playoffs and being a championship contender.

Do you want to play the team that's a better matchup for you?

You want the worst teams to win.

I'm not afraid of the Cavs.

I would welcome a matchup versus the Cavs, but would I rather play the Bucs?

Yes.

Do I think the Bucs can beat the Cavs?

Yes. Do I know the Celtics can beat both of those teams? Yes.
Who would you rather play? The Bucs. Okay.
Scared of the Cavs. Scared of the Cavs, exactly.
Yeah, that's my case. You said, no, no, you guys are twisting my words, and then you said, no, I'd like to play the team that's the better matchup, meaning the team that you're not afraid of.
Right. I'm not afraid of any team.
But if given a choice you would not you would prefer not to play the calves that does not mean afraid but yeah correct yeah you're afraid afraid it's okay you're scared say you're scared i'm not scared okay so then give me the calves okay there we go now you're not scared i agree but you are scared of the bucks sure you're scared of yannis yeah yeah wherever you beat him before we'll beat him again okay uh my cool throne is fifa oh fifa's on the cool throne because uh former fifa president sep bladder was cleared of all corruption charges by a swiss court tuesday so two and a half years after the original hearing they were once uh he was once the most powerful figure in global football, and now he's been cleared of fraud. So he was at the Extraordinary Appeals Chamber of the Swiss Criminal Court, which is a crazy name for an appeals chamber.
So anyone that was pointing a finger at Sepp Blatter and saying that FIFA is corrupt, Sepp Blatter is corrupt, guess what? You're wrong. He's's been officially cleared he's done nothing wrong okay so he's he's a good guy good guy never did anything wrong fifa it turns out plot twist not corrupt everything's above board in fifa oh so why did we ever think that fifa was doing anything wrong because we're getting billions of dollars to give the world cup to qatar and saudi arabia which that again no proof of anything under the table happening there right so move on move the fuck on i do like the fact that fifa will just they will always be corrupt that's what they are yeah very corrupt thing they're so corrupt that they get cleared of corruption charges right i feel like that's just in their bylaws yes to be corrupt yeah also you can't even be mad at them when they do what everyone expects them to do people are asking me to comment on the u.s national team losing uh here's my comment who'd we lose to i think we would lose to uh panama oh that's we're automatically in who cares that's my comment who cares that's but panama sticks who cares don't they who cares we're We have a charity invite to the World Cup.

We're hosting.

Oh, we lost to Canada?

That ain't good.

Well, so did our hockey team.

That was an all-star game.

Yeah, true.

Well, this tournament didn't mean anything. This was a tournament?

It was a tournament.

Was it the Nations League?

The storied Nations League finals?

God damn it.

None of these tournaments mean anything.

I think you got to lose.

Who cares?

You got to lose before you win. We keep losing in these tournaments, man these tournaments that's our new coach everyone thought that our new coach would be great i think he still will be great i think he intentionally lost these games to light a fire into the boys well it's our new coach combined with our golden generation golden generation again just give just make messy a united states citizen just do that I agree that.
I'm 100% in on that. The coach is Argentinian.
Yeah. Okay, my hot seat is...
Hey, PFT, can you explain this text thing that happened in Washington real quick? I think it's... My hot seat is that I guess there's a guy in the Trump administration named Dan Katz.
Yes, I saw that. And so his name was listed in it.
And my hot seat is me because I was like, oh, shit. Did they mention me? Because it was the date was when I was 16 and 0.
And I was like, are they talking about 16 and 0? Really dumb thought. They might have been.
He's actually a real person. They might have been.
I got tagged in a bunch. People are like, it was like direct.
I think it's like treasury's like treasury director so someone made the joke like do you think they were thinking that 16 0 was gonna solve the economy i was like maybe and then i had to take a step back and be like dude shut the fuck up this is an insane thought the federal reserve should just be based on big cats bets yeah i i don't i think it's still developing right now but are you on signal i'm not if you were on signal signal, you might have been added to that group chat. I'm on.
No, I have a telegram. Okay.
If you were on signal, they might have accidentally added you to the group chat. Okay.
Oh, JOC's on signal. Remember he said he was going to send Adam Schefter some fucked up shit? That's right.
Yeah. I wonder if he, yeah, he might've got the invite.
So apparently there's a group chat when you're getting ready to bomb a place. Okay.
And they're like, what we're gonna do here are our concerns here's how we're gonna bomb it they accidentally added the editor-in-chief of the atlantic to the group chat wait they text before they're gonna bomb apparently that's crazy i wonder what the picture is in the group chat yeah you know how every group chat has that one image what do they say bombs away yeah just just an f-18 so apparently they were planning on the bombing and then they added probably the last guy in the world they would want to add which is a guy that already hates them that runs the atlantic got it he got added to the group chat and then he released the logs part of them from the group chat and was like hey here's how they plan to bomb uh the houthis in in yemen okay and then it happened and then he left the group chat by the way if you get added to a group chat where the boys are planning war yeah how do you leave that group you gotta stay in that group chat they were given the details about what kind of planes and bombs and shit you gotta stay and rip off a joke and then get kicked out yeah you you gotta make a joke about something or send a picture of your balls yeah that's what i would have done yeah send a picture of your balls to the group chat then log out and be like hey whose balls are those so we accidentally add send coordinates to your rival's address yeah see if they'll just add one so apparently that's what happened there's a group chat for planning war damn okay i would like to be in that group chat i would just like just because i want to know about the different planes they're going to use just see it uh all right then my cool throne i should have mentioned this on monday uh i did watch the whole game but we were talking basketball on monday uh the wisconsin badgers women's hockey team won another national title four out of six years eight total dominant and they had a a uh shootout goal with 18 seconds left to bring it to overtime and then beat the Buckeyes, the Puckeyes, the Lady Puckeyes. Did the puck go backwards on the shootout or on the penalty shot? No.
They reviewed it. They reviewed if she stopped her forward motion.
She did not. She just made a great a great play and yeah dynasty there were there was like an hour on sunday where no matter what tv you were looking at there was a review going on yes it could have been in hockey there were a couple of those it could have been in any number of basketball games basketball is like 30 reviews now yeah we needed no review game we just need a night a week no reviews just let it fly.
I wanted to see a fight in that Badgers-Buckeyes game. Yeah.
Do they fight? I don't think so, but they do play every single year. It's the Sunday of the first round, and the Badgers play the Buckeyes in the national championship.
And we got their number now. Dynasty.
They got us last year. We got them this year.
Four out of six. That's a dynasty.
Dynasty. That's a dynasty.
Okay, let's get to our good friend Scott Van Pelt and talk some hoops and Maryland hoops. They're a queen, and we'll finish up with guys on chicks.
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Scott, first of all, congrats. That was an awesome game.
Walk us through your range of emotions, knowing that you maybe root for the Maryland Terrapins harder than anyone roots for any team. Did you really just say walk us through your emotions? Yes, walk us through your emotions, because your emotions are crazy in a Terps game.
Yeah, if you have like two steps or maybe three steps that you went through. Yeah.
Oh, wait. No, I did not.
Oh, wow. I didn't even think about that.
I did not do that on purpose. BFT picked up on it before I picked up on it.
I'm a team no travel guy. What are we doing with this? Fanta nailed it the other night like this tournament has largely lacked it's largely lacked those moments that make the tournament the tournament then we get one but because we live in this space now where we can't exist unless we're pissed at everything oh he walks yeah okay well Steratore said he didn't I could show you a video of a Colorado state guy doing the exact same thing oh that happened earlier in the game well they got two points and no one gave a

shit because it's that's just basketball in the modern era anyway the emotions were insane i am

look i thought as i got older i'd grow away from this that's not been the case i i really really

like maryland basketball i have a lot of fun with it this team's been fun queen was a kid that

Thank you. I'd grow away from this.
That's not been the case. I really, really like Maryland basketball.
I have a lot of fun with it. This team's been fun.
Queen was a kid that they hoped they'd keep in, you know, in Maryland. And he stayed.
He could have gone anywhere. Five-star guy, a lottery guy.
And then he has an incredible moment. I talked about this with Stanford Steve on our pod.
And Big Ken, I look forward to the days when you're telling me this version of your story. I'm out with my youngest kid and he's very, very zen.
He's very stoic. He's like, we're good.
We're going to take it home. Colorado State makes it three.
He's like, dad, I don't think we're going to win. And I said, buddy, you got to stay in the fight, man.
And then they make it and it's just absolute chaos. The family jumping around.
It was unreal. I mean it was unreal.
I mean, like Maryland's lost a lot of heartbreaking games this year at the buzzer. I thought it was going to be another one.
And then it wasn't. Yeah.
Yeah. It really did feel like that.
I told you, I was like, I felt like Colorado state had somehow just, they were, they were going to be the team of Desi. They were going to be the big story going into the sweet 16 of, you know, who's now in Minnesota, and these guys playing incredible ball, and you snatched it.
And I just loved Derek Queen being the guy who's like, I want the ball. It was a big boy move, too.
Maybe it wasn't the most aesthetically pleasing buzzer beater, not a step back three. Don't care.
That move rocked. Well, I mean, old school off glass and i mean in real time it's like it's like happening in slow motion and i'm like oh that's so far off and then it's no it's actually not it's perfect off glass and um yeah i mean it was it's like you know it's a hoosiers moment i'll make it jimmy chitwood and you know i did an interview with the bal the Baltimore Sun last week and the legend goes when he was you know coming up in Baltimore they called him black baby Jokic and you know he's he's not he's not like the most fast twitch you know uh put your elbow above the square dude and he's he's not like muscle bound but like Jokic has changed the entire the entire paradigm of what you're supposed to look like right i mean you can look like whatever if you've got high iq and a ton of ton of talent big balls and and derrick's got all that i feel like yokich could also learn from wearing the long sleeve shirt underneath the jersey that might you know diminish some of the the razor barbed cuts that he gets on his arms right game if for no other reason for the than the back of his triceps or where his triceps would be if he had them to look like they've been ginsued i mean like every year it's like what happened to this dude man it's crazy you're right i think the long sleeves is the play yeah so uh scott we've talked to a few friends of yours over the years that have gave you know given their side of things for what it's like to watch a terps game with Scott Van Pelt.
What are you like during Terps games? Do you entertain outsiders or is it Maryland fans or nothing? There'll be none of that. I really prefer not to watch with anyone.
I mean, we're in Florida and there's like an outside setup with a TV here and the inside setup was bad, so I just left and came outside. And my youngest came out to hang with me because he's allowed.
He's good. Yeah.
Family. But short of that, I mean, it's a very small list.
I mean, like, this isn't a joke. If I was at work, I'd show you.
They literally made a sign for me that says panic room. And I would watch in this room by myself at work because I was so insufferable to be around that they just said look we're gonna give you a panic room you can watch the games in there and the rest of us can operate in peace so I get it I'm not the most um I'm not the calmest dude but I mean the other night I don't know my my little guy kept me calm.
He was good. Everything was good until the last minute when he abandoned ship and told me we weren't going to win.
But I don't know. Like I said, PFT, I thought I'd outgrow it.
I thought I'd be more mature or whatever. It's the one thing I still really care about and love.
And I make no apologies for that. Yeah, I love that you just are open about it, too.
Like, it would be one thing if you said, you know, I'm actually not that big of a psycho about it. You know, like, that would kind of suck if you're like, oh, no, I don't care that much.
No, you care a lot. You want it to happen.
But, you know, the thing that was, like, if you're going to sit in the front row of the Michigan State game and scream like an unhinged lunatic, and then Trey Holloman's going to drop a 65 footer on your noggin, then you got to eat it. And like that night I had to work.
And so we, you know, we start the show with like the best sort of piece of video, best thing I saw today. And there I got to work and our producers like, well, we could do this or that.
I'm like, fuck that. The guy made an incredible shot.
That's like, I wasn't my favorite thing, but it was the best thing I saw. So you win a game that was that intense like that.
That's where you start. And so everyone knows where I'm from, fellas.
You guys obviously do too. Everyone knows the flag I wave.
And so the fun thing is that people are like genuinely happy for me as if I did something the other night. I did nothing.
And on the other side of Florida, on Thursday, everyone's coming for me to be like, you know, hey, Van Pelt, suck it, you're out. Now, what can I do? Like, you just got to wear it.
Do you think people, are they rooting for you to win it all? Do you think people would be happy for you if you got a championship? Are they, because this happens to us. They want us to achieve a little bit of success, but then the real sickos want to watch us lose in a big spot.
That's a great question. I think that, I think that more people want to see you be an abject misery, you know, like, I mean, big cat, the shot of you final four on the ground will live forever.
You know, I mean, it'll, it's until until until that magical moment when the committee doesn't screw you and make you play in denver against byu thank you um and you get there and you cut down nets when that happens then that will that will kill that meme of you but only that will kill that meme of you so i think people i think they like it they like to know that you're happy for a little while and they're like oh that's cool but then ultimately they root for you to die an agonizing death yeah so so max finally got over that hump in the super bowl which was one it was awesome i i think i and i think people are genuinely happy for the dude because they know that he lives it right like this is that performance art like he's in it man and so as long as people know like if they feel like you're truly about it then i think they are like oh that's pretty cool because they get it yeah i i think two things are true at least for me uh one i i was happy for max i was glad to see him win one and two i i miss just being able to call him a loser yeah that was a lot of fun for me so it took away a little bit of personal joy but i still am happy for it yeah but here's the thing pft it it makes you better you're gonna have to grow you're gonna have to find another way you're gonna have to find another avenue to to stick that needle in it's gonna be harder but it's just gonna make you a better a better podcaster well maybe max instead of being a loser and i would love for your thoughts on this maybe Max is a coach stealer. Has there been that? Have you had that? We probably should have that discussion right now.
The Kevin Willard thing is weird. It is.
And I have to, on some level, I have to recuse myself from things because you reach a place where you know the people that are involved in a way where you're trying to help facilitate conversation and then step away like i'm not sitting at the table nor should i but i mean look he just went on with like my best friend in dc on his radio show and said i'm you're like as of now i'm staying i mean it's like well if you're staying you're staying You know, it's really it's really weird. I mean, it's like, well, if you're staying, you're staying.

You know, it's really weird.

I know Maryland's trying to move heaven and earth and give him the things he's asking for. And by the way, I'm on his side that if you're at a basketball school, you should have the resources to be a basketball school.
And so I'm all about that. But I'm also, if the offer of the things you've asked for is made, and then you choose to go somewhere else, then that just means you wanted to go somewhere else.
And I don't mean he's going to, I'm just mean, it's like that, that happens in coaching all the time. So I don't know, it's a really odd space that we're living in right now where, you know, we don't know.
And then there's this huge game on Thursday night. So I'll let the adults in the room be the adults in the room.
And I've made it clear. I'm a big fan of Kevin.
I want him to get what he wants. And if Maryland offers it and he stays, then fantastic.
And if he doesn't, then I guess he wanted to go someplace else. So I don't know.
My promise to you, Scott, is that if Villanova steals Kevin Willard from you, we will beat the fuck out of Max. It might take like four or five of us, but we will beat the fuck out of him.
I might come get a kick in once he's been subdued. He wanted both these coaches.
He wanted Golden and he wanted Willard. Yeah, he threw Golden.
So it's like whoever loses this game, whoever loses this game, that's the guy that Max wants. Wow.
I don't know that you're going to get Golden. I think he's in a pretty good spot man like that it's been it that's a that's a passionate fan base you know florida had it cooking so great in the mid what are the what are they the aughts or whatever i don't know what the hell we call yeah that that whenever the time was that football and basketball just won a ton of titles there's there they've been starving for this and they're great so i don't think anybody's getting golden looking forward to this game, massive game.
I think a lot of people like Florida in it. You're going to be an underdog.
What are your keys to the game? We're big formula guys. What are the SVPs to the game? I think we need Clayton to sprain his ankle.
Okay. Not badly.
I'm not rooting for an injury. That guy's got such big balls.
He takes so many big-time shots and hits so many big-time shots. They're deep.
They have so much depth. The depth of the frontcourt and the backcourt, you're going to need to play them physically the way UConn did.
You've got to make them uncomfortable the way UConn did, and it still wasn't enough. Like that was impressive as hell the way they won that game because it,

it took everything to knock out the two-time champion.

Maryland just, they're going to have to make a shit ton of threes.

They're going to have to rebound.

They've gotten crushed on the glass by a couple of teams and Colorado State

got them on the glass.

Florida's enormous.

If Florida gets, you know, 25 offensive rebounds,

then it's going to be a name your score final. So you gotta, you don't have to be perfect, but Maryland needs to play its best, the best, be the best version of itself.
And I think they can win the game. Yeah, I agree.
All right. So in terms of the overall tournament, first of all, how did you do this first weekend? Bad.
I mean, that's not terrible. I took a flyer on Missouri and Drake beat him.
But I was pretty chalky I had ones and twos in like I had I have Florida over Duke which is one over one and the reason like sometimes you could try too hard to be clever right and look for the upsets and whatever but then once you miss that one early one that goes deep then you're fucked and I just thought the ones are great and Florida Florida and Duke both looked apart first weekend. So that's who I had making it.
And I had Michigan State and Tennessee with the others. So, I mean, I'm alive, but it's not like I'm out on a limb with anybody that I have.
Yeah. And what about the talk about the tournament? You know, not enough Cinderella's March Madness is dying.
Are you buying into that? Or are you kind of measured like us? We're like, hey, it could be a thing, but we're going to need a couple more sample size. We're going to need a couple more tournaments before we just say it's all over and no one's ever going to win again.
Everyone just says NIL portal, and it's not new that the schools on a certain level were getting poached by higher levels. That's been going on for years.
But it's certainly NIL and the portal has completely accelerated it, right? I mean, like, look at Drake. Their point guard is going, Sturtz is awesome, is going with McCollum to Iowa.
Well, of course he is. And so it makes it a whole lot more difficult for like a Missouri Valley level team.
If you're a Bradley or you're Southern Illinois or Drake or whatever, if you've got a guy that's a guy, well, then someone's just going to come and say, what's the number? And so that's part of it. And that's a whole other conversation.
Something has to happen. I'm pro players getting money.
I'm anti-free agency every single year because that's just stupid. It doesn't exist in any other sport.
So, I don't know, there's a lot that's going on,

but I'm not, like, the ratings were awesome.

And you know what, like, Cowherd had this point years ago,

and he's right.

Everyone loves an upset until it's the next game,

and, like, Kansas is out.

You're like, you know what would have been cool?

Watching Kansas play today.

But they got beat, you know what I mean?

So, it's going to be super chalky on Thursday and Friday and through the weekend,

and I think people are going to love these games.

I don't think they're going to be sad.

It's just more fun when there's the threat of the upset. And we really didn't have many of those this first round.
So it doesn't bother me. I think it's just kind of the new reality.
Yeah, well, we do have the Cinderella in Arkansas, right? Coach Cal. He is the Cinderella.
Underdog Cinderella, 10 seed. That meager little Tyson chicken NIL budget that has no bottom.
What an underdog story, man. But I will say this.
They were toast. They were 0-5 in the conference, and they weren't going to be in the tournament.
So that was a cool storyline. Cal and Patino, you guys covered it all, the layers of the stories and whatever.
But it is funny that it's the little engine that could from Arkansas and Cal. Okay.
Yeah. Hank brought up a good point.
I think it was Hank, and I didn't have a good answer to it. It was about Maryland basketball and just Maryland sports in general.
Do you know why they're the Terrapins and not the Crabs? Because, well, the crab thing is sort of just – the flag and the crab are relatively new deals like i don't know why we're turtles i mean as when i was a kid it used to bum me out and then i was like actually it's kind of cool because there's a million tigers but there's only one turtle um but the whole the whole thing about we love the flag and then slapping the flag on the crab it feels like something that's just happened the last 10-15 years pft you're from this area like when we were when we were younger it wasn't like there were crabs on t-shirts who would wear that well now it's like yeah slap a crab on and off we go so i don't know the origin story but i kind of like the turtle because again it's one of one i agree i like i do like it was like crabs that's what you eat if you wore a t-shirt with a crab on it that was like something that your grandfather would wear it's It's like, oh, that's kind of one. I agree.
I do like it. It was like crabs.
That's what you eat. If you wore a t-shirt with a crab on it, that was something that your grandfather would wear.
It's like, ugh. That's kind of a corny shirt.
When he cracked open his schlitz and put down the Washington Post on a picnic table and picked crabs all day. That's what we did.
Yeah, exactly. I think crabs would be a bad name for a team just because it's very minor league baseball and also you eat crabs.
You don't want to have your mascot be something – you don't want to be the Maryland Steaks. That would suck.
Also, it's an STD. That's true.
That's a good point. That's true.
That's a very good point. All right, Scott, while we still have you, I have a couple other questions.
One is, who do you think the MVP is in the NBA right now,

and should we bet it?

Shea Gilgis-Alexander has played at an incredible level.

I think Jokic is the best player in basketball.

I just think Shea Gilgis-Alexander, say again?

I was fucking with you because I saw your rant about how stupid the MVP conversation is every year, and I agree with you.

Only as it relates to the betting odds. I just don't care about the betting odds.
I don't want to hear about who's the favorite. I really don't.
Yeah. I agree with that.
Are you big MVP guys? Because it doesn't move. No.
We're husband guys. I was trying to be polite and answer the question.
No. I think MVP discussion is very boring.
I just don't – I want to know who's going to win the title.

That's what I care about.

I think the MVP – like, yeah, I guess if your guy wins the MVP, it's fun.

It doesn't matter for the rest of the league.

You know, it just doesn't matter.

I'm with you.

Yeah.

Scott, I watched you a couple weeks ago, and I want to compliment you

because I thought that your interview with Jokic after he had 20 assists was was really strong from your end and you went into the interview thinking maybe i'm going to get some emotion out of the guy maybe after this incredible evening he's going to sense some of the same joy that i'm sensing and we're sensing his fans and i think all of us were feeling the same way you were and then he kind of was just like yeah you yeah, you know, it's a basketball game. I look forward to the next one, you know, back to practice.
He did not give you anything, but you were trying very hard to drag it out of him. Did you think that you'd be able to do it? No.
I said it. I believe I started by saying, I know you're wildly unimpressed by yourself, but what you just did, no one's ever done.
And I thought that was an on-ramp to maybe invite the guy to think about it. Now, supposedly later in the locker room, I saw Malone said that he was, he was busting Westbrook's balls.
Like you never got a 30, 20, 20 game. Like he was like, he didn't know.
And I, the thing I wished I had done, if I was a real J journalist, what I would have done is I would have asked him this question what would you have to do for you to right now say holy shit I played quite a game like I don't know the answer to that because I don't I don't know that it's possible that he could do something where he would be like yeah that was pretty good it's it's an impossible task so you go into it knowing that and I tried to open the door he just didn't walk through it what's the guy what's the uh guy or girl uh interview that you do in that setting that you feel like you've you've broken through and you get the most out of that person because you do a great job but it's very hard right after a game to have someone you know collect their thoughts and talk about it but is there one person or one interview where you're like, yeah, I, you know what I've, I've broken through in this person. I actually like have a good rapport with.
I have talked to LeBron very few times, but when he came on after they beat the Clippers, I got a bunch of notes from people, just industry people, sports people. They're like, it's clear that you guys have this respect there's a way that an interview subject can show kind of an appreciation, if they call you if they just refer to you by name, because they know who you are, and then they give you a depth of an answer that's more than just the sort of obvious, yeah we played great great, you know, on to the next one.
And LeBron's always been really gracious in that way. We haven't done it a lot.
But from his camp to me, like just an appreciation for how I do my job. And there's kind of this goofy thing that goes back to the chair that I always bring up because we did a commercial 100 years ago ago um so I'd say him like I I appreciate the times that we talk where I think he gives you more than just the garden variety like guys like Jeter, Tiger, LeBron, people that you've known for 20 years they've been interviewed a billion times so when they seem like they're invested and actually present in a way that they're I don't want to say into it but that it that it isn't a chore.
That's, that's the best you can hope for if you're me. So I, I, that's a long winded answer, but I feel like LeBron's always been, always been really cool in that way.
That's a good answer. That's yeah.
That is, that is interesting. Have you ever had an interview where, uh, where somebody cried and you weren't expecting them to cry? Uh, I can't think of a, I can't think of anyone that wept know one time we talked we talked to dabo sweeney after they won the title and we weren't on the air but we were it was like in a commercial break like before we come on with you and you're like all right here we go and i saw him kind of put his head down and sort of shake his head he was sitting by himself and i said it and i saw him and i said it just hits you didn't it and he looked up and he shook his head he goes man he goes i said yeah you just beat alabama you're the national champs and he wasn't in tears but i saw a guy in real time feel that thing like holy shit we did it and that was really cool yeah yeah that's very cool i think we had that experience with uh with chris berman chris berman cried yeah didn't think that was possible the swamp cried he was just talking about football though yeah we just got him talking about football he started crying well uh look it's guys i standing on a corner in winslow arizona i don't know what i'm doing right now.
That was pretty good. No, that was good.
No, but what I love, you guys show him respect and love, which is cool. And the coolest thing about Boom is that he's a legend, but he appreciates people still caring.
You know what I'm saying? It's like you're Chris Berman, and always going to be Chris Berman like I don't know but I I love how much I love how much respect you I got a question we we have discussed this ad nauseum we are on one side it seems like the internet's on the other what are your thoughts on Danny Hurley and this recent you know exchange on on Sunday we're we're pro Danny. We love just...
We think that if you're in the sports media world especially, these are the guys that are interesting. I don't want boring guys.
I want assholes and yeah, could he tone it down a little? Sure, but I want assholes. I love how honest and vulnerable he is.
He know, he's talked openly with me about imposter syndrome, which imagine that you're the son of that guy and you're the brother of the other guy. It's a lot.
And he had this imposter syndrome. But now he's shared how his ego is, you know, it's hard to fight.
And he's talked about being an a-hole. Like I love all of that, but you also just have to be honest about the parts of that you don't love.
And if he's going to act like that and you're a Yukon fan, then you, you got to just say, well, yeah, that like, that could be better. Like two things can be true at once.
You can love the vulnerability. You can love that edge.
And you can also say that there's times that that goes too far and and you should correct that right there's there's there's an out of bounds and if you step on it then you're out of bounds and and if somebody says you're out of bounds they're not they're not being an asshole for saying you're out of bounds so i'm with you i used to be real anti-hurley like when he was at roadie i'm like this guy's out of his mind he should take a hike and then he's he evolved and became i think a better guy an incredible coach a thoughtful guy and this year is a lot for him so i don't know i mean i think he's on a journey and he's just sharing it i i appreciate the vulnerability more than any of it yeah he's a little rough around the edges what makes him sometimes a lot of line makes him great you You know? So I don't think – Well said. I agree.
I think that, you know, there is a line. There's always going to be a line of what, you know, verges into complete asshole territory, unlikable behavior.
He is unlikable at times, but in a weird way, I think that's why he – it's a great story, and he's a great character in college basketball. And with players bouncing around,

it's good to have those guys remain in one spot that kind of,

they write the storylines for college basketball.

Agreed.

And can't we, at least me, I can relate way more to that guy

because I know people like that.

Right.

I have friends like that.

I love them.

But then there's times that you just got to have somebody in your life that can sit you down and go, shut the fuck up. Right.
I don't mean him. I love them.
But then there's times that you just gotta have somebody in your life that can sit you down and go shut the fuck up. I don't mean him.
I mean me or my friend that you're like enough. Enough.
And you know whoever that person is with him I'm sure you know he'll find him. He already has him.
I have no problem if you say Danny Hurley's a dickhead I'm like yeah there's some things that that are – Sometimes. Yeah, there's dick.
But those people are way more interesting to me than the cliche answers that we get a lot of times in sports. Couldn't agree.
You were asking about that earlier, like when you interview somebody. Like if somebody will just give you something that's true and honest and real, then that's all you can ask for.
Right. Right.
Scott, while we have you here, it's almost Masters time. I feel like this weekend is when we hear the tinkling of the Ivories, the first commercial, the first, you know, hello, friends.
Hello, friends. I was worried about this.
Like, this is way out of character for us. Does this mean that post-Masters, when my house may or may not be on fire, am I allowed back in? Is that too close a revisit? No, you're still in.
yeah you're good we just had i mean the terps are in the sweet 16 we had to have this is going to be the only time this maybe ever happens in the history of the show so we'll have you on to discuss this like that he's actually mad at you he's mad at you i know i know that was there's a little hanging fruit i took it asshole move that was my Danny Hurley moment. Sometimes I cross the line.
I've learned from it. I'm going to move on.
You're not wrong. I mean, you're not wrong.
It's the first time in a long time. So I'm happy to come on anytime.
And if it's post-masters, I mean, I always just pencil it in mentally. I am rooting for you this weekend.
I would love to see nothing more than your Terps beat the Gators and move on.

I want to see you in the Final Four, Scott.

I really do.

But in terms of the Masters specifically, is there anybody, anyone that you're looking at to keep our eye on?

Maybe an underdog that's been playing really well that you think can handle Augusta.

I have absolutely no idea.

That's a good answer. How are you feeling about the cell phones my phone isn't isn't masters doing a different thing with the cell phones this year i don't know i always just had a sticker and i was allowed to have one on the low low so i don't know is there a new are you allowed to have i heard our guy beef was telling me about that the other day that there i think people are going to be allowed to have cell phones at augusta and take pictures i might have getting fed misinformation about this but that's what he told me i it would be shocking because it's that would be such a 180 but it who told you this someone named beef yeah our guy beef our guy beef oh beef your guy beef yeah yeah it's our guy i mean I mean, beef knows stuff, so it could be.
Yeah. Beef is a gem.
Hey, I got one for you.

Yeah. beef yeah our guy beef our guy beef oh beef your guy beef yeah yeah it's our guy beef i mean i mean beef beef knows stuff so it could be yeah beef is a gem hey i got one for you i i'm thinking i'm thinking i got a name he's not like way off the grid but no one's gonna say sep straka georgia bulldog i like taking take a nibble on sep okay all right i'm in that's all i needed You'll maybe cross pass with our guy Beef at some point.
He is a consummate pro in the fact that no matter where he is, he will take off his hat to shake your hand. So he'll do it not even on the golf course.
I saw that video. And Beef's from somewhere in the south, clearly.
No, he's actually right on the illinois wisconsin border is where he's from so yeah he's a club pro that's a very that's a very southern play hat off handshake yeah and just to clear up some misinformation i might have gotten some misinformation from beef because i researched it it said cell phones are not allowed at the 2025 masters tournament so bullet dodged i was very upset about that. Good that we got to the bottom of that so quickly.
Yeah. So on balance, beef, good on the hat, take off, very polite, bad on the info regarding Masters technology.
Yes, he might have gotten dunk-scentled. I'm thinking that, or ball-sacked.
He might have gotten ball-sacked. He got ball-sacked sport.
All right, Scott, I got one last question for you. Rollback question.
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First part is I just need confidence level going into Thursday. And at what point during the day are you going to be like, all hands on deck, everyone leave me alone? Okay.
uh confidence level is uh five because you it's i always say be optimistic because it costs the same i'm also realistic so five i don't think they haven't gotten crushed all year i don't think they'll get crushed but it's going to take a great game to beat a great team uh the problem with when will i figure like tell to leave me alone, my wife is a gator, and my children are in the crossfire. And at some point in the day, Big Cat, what I'll make them do is I'll make them make a life choice.
You're either riding with me or you're riding with mine. That's heavy.
You've got to put out all their clothes in the morning, you know, at choices have consequences choices have consequences you you gotta you gotta think about you gotta tooth fairy it you gotta have all their clothes out going go in their rooms at 2 a.m. and make sure their clothes for for thursday are all terps no it's it's funny our kids are all mortified i think they're taking it very seriously like this is, I either have to ride with mom or ride with dad.
They had Golden on last week. I asked him.
He gave an incredible answer. I'm like, what am I supposed to tell the kids? And he's like, you tell the kids you're here to be a great dad.
You support mom and you're thrilled to see the Gators do so well. He gave an amazing answer.
It was wrong because, again, the right answer is you better buckle up and ride with dad here. But, no, I don't.
I wish it were later. I got to go, and I know you do too.
But are you the guy like me where I just want to kick the can down the road as far as possible? I wish the game started at 10 so I had more time for it not to be happening. Yes.
Because the longer in the future it is, the better. is that weird it's first round you want it to happen earlier like first round i don't want you don't want to be the friday night game in the first round but if you make it to the second weekend you want to be a friday game so you just have a little more time to just enjoy the fact that you're in the second weekend right and the fact that this was a sunday game and then it's like they're playing on Thursday.
I'm like, what is this? I want another day of the, because the, the, the end is coming for, even if you win it all, like the end is coming. So the longer into the future, something is for some reason, I think I find it's better.
Like I think we agree, but I don't understand what that's, there's some psychology of that. I don't know what what it is i'm just odd i'm sure yeah no i i think that's completely relatable so you want another day you if it was on friday then you could spend all thursday watching the games and then also reading more articles about the terps and the terps magical run you get to watch more highlights without having that that sadness where it's like that was a great run i get to enjoy this day of celebration stress-free stress-free and it's somebody else's like honestly and this is true like watching wisconsin and of course it's not just you big cat it's andy north who's like a you know like a family member and i'm in agony watching that end because i'm like that sucks yeah and but i'm like well at least we don't have to deal with that for another day because we were the next day you know know what I mean? That's really what it comes down to.
Yeah, and college sports is – I know you get to go, but the college sports is so different than pros. I was explaining it like it's like a different type of – it's sadness in that I won't get to watch these specific guys ever again.
It's not a, oh, next year. It's like, that's it.
John Tonje will never wear a Badger uniform again, and I just wanted to watch one more game. So that's where it's ripped from you so quickly.
It's just all of a sudden you're like, oh, that's over. That sucks.
And the way the world works, it'll be – but Gardo, I was just giving guard credit for reinventing the team. They played a very fun style, and they got a bunch of dudes that changed the team in one year.
So they can do it again, but it'll be new team that's just that's the world we live in now like there's no very rare to have four-year guys so if you get some you enjoy them so yeah yeah um all right scott we're rooting for the turps we'll hope the kids make good choices and um we hope the family isn't just horribly irreparably fractured after thursday night if they told you dad we're actually going to going to root for the over, would that make you happy? Yeah, do that. Happier than anything in the whole world.
All right, Scott, you're the best. Thank you so much.
Good luck to the Terps for rooting for you. All right, fellas, I appreciate you.
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Okay, guys on chicks, I did just get tagged in two tweets that I wanted to bring up real quick. They're kind of on the opposite ends of the spectrum here.
So one is I was just made aware. I think you were tagging this as well, PFT.
There's a guy who has been tweeting for 2,654 days that Jesse James caught that ball. It's important to keep people posted about that.
Every single day. That guy deserves a shout-out.
That's insane. 2017 was that game.
He deserves a shout-out. That's grit.
And then there's a guy, AmericanMatt7 on Twitter. He's on day two of tagging both of us until we acknowledge New Mexico outplayed Michigan State and got hosed by the refs.
There's your acknowledgement. Day two.
You can now rest. Acknowledge without comment.
I like doing it. The Jesse James guy, though.
Yeah. Jesse James, he did catch that ball.
It's crazy. You remember that, Hank? Yeah.
Yeah. 2017.
Hank, do you think he got that ball?

No.

All right.

Well, now he's got to keep going. I do like, though, when someone gets on that.

I think there's a guy floating out there that's been tagging Max Homa every day for like a

thousand days to play golf with him.

Yep.

But I do like getting to someone like in the first two or three and just being like, all

right, cool.

Acknowledged.

Yeah.

You're good.

The day ones are always the best.

If I see a day one of tagging PFT Cometor until something, I'm way more likely to respond to that. Yeah.
Just going to be like, all right, we're good. What do you got? Breaking news? No.
Breaking moves. Breaking moves.
St. Bonaventure has signed big man Frank Mitchell from Minnesota.
Well, Woj tweeted the bomb emoji, and then it got everyone excited, and then it was just a St. Bon event.
It's Frank Mitchell. I love that.
I love that from Woj. So many people still have Woj notifications on their phone, and now they're getting overloaded with St.
Bonny's news. Perfect job, Woj.
That's huge. Okay, Hank, guys on chicks.
My boyfriend and I have been having an ongoing discuss about pillows.

He thinks it's weird.

I sleep with my pillows perpendicular to the bed and he sleeps with them parallel.

He's been making fun of me nonstop.

So I told him to take a poll of all of our friends.

When he asked girls, nearly all of them said perpendicular and all the guys said parallel.

What?

There's no weird.

And why is he wrong for making fun of me?

I think you might just not know the difference between parallel and purpose.

Is she saying she sleeps with a pillow lengthwise?

Let's go. Is this weird, and why is he wrong for making fun of me? I think you might just not know the difference between parallel and purpose.
Is she saying she sleeps with a pillow lengthwise, like aligning with her body? I do have a body pillow, but I have a head pillow, too. Yeah, the head pillow, it always goes.
How many pillows are you guys? I'm three. I'm legs, body, head.
I'm two. Yeah, no, that's the correct answer.
I'm two. I go head, and then one between the knees.
Yeah, that's the... No, but he got a hug one, head.
I'm two. Yeah, no.
That's the correct answer. I'm two.
I go head and then one between the knees. Yeah, yeah.
No, but you got to hug one, too. Yeah, you got to have one to hug.
My hug one is smaller than the other two. Mine are all the same.
Yeah. I hug all.
Yeah. I'm four.
Four? But I really only use two. Well, then that's the question is how many you got? What do you mean? What do you use? What's in use? Two't i don't have a hug pillow or a leg pillow yeah you don't have a leg but i do have the the secondary pillow sometimes it's like that's my cooler like wake up and shift to the cold so you just got you just raw dog two under your head yeah they're pillows you got no you got nothing on in between your legs do you not have balls no i don't what do you mean That's why I need the leg pillow.
Because if you lay on your side with your knees touching, that's just squishing your balls. You got tiny balls? You got tiny balls.
I guess. You got tiny balls.
Damn. Big dick, tiny balls.
Henry Lockwood. I think it might also just be...
You could start using a leg pillow if somebody told you that made your golf swing better. That's true.
I can't do anything. It does help.
Does it? I actually do. I have three pillows now that I think about it.
One under the head, one between the knees, and then the third I take off the bed every day and I throw on the floor. Yeah.
I got one of those too. I should just go with two pillows, but I have three every day.
I also have a separation pillow in the middle of the bed to just divide the... Because I don't want my wife coming over to my side in the middle of the night i i sleep we sleep with separate blankets too because i am a i am a violent sleeper i am moving i get yelled at for stealing the blanket every single you got to go to blankets life-changing do that go to blankets it literally is life-changing because i know i'm a bad blanket guy i'm wrapped up i'm i wake up and my blankets and pillows are everywhere and it's like i've ran a marathon so need to put that memes memes could strike me as like a zero pillow memes might be a hammock guy yeah no he's a he's a i fall asleep on the recliner in front of my nine tvs or like by you have one of those inversion tables you just strap your your ankles in it sleep upside down like a bat.
What do you, how many pillows you got memes? I have three pillows. Uh, some,

some,

some,

some, You have one of those inversion tables. You just strap your ankles in it, sleep upside down like a bat.
How many pillows you got memes? I have three pillows. Sometimes I don't use any.
Yeah. Yeah.
You just go flat. I go flat.
You strike me as zero pillow guy. I don't know this question, though.
This question makes no sense. Perpendicular, horizontal.
Is this person saying they do not have a pillow under their head? No, they're saying that they put the pillow lengthwise, which is crazy to me. Oh, I see.
Yeah, it makes no sense. So they're sleeping on just a small portion? Yeah.
And I guess if you're smaller, like even me, I'm 5'10", basically. But if I lay in a bed and I go pillow lengthwise, I run out of bed at the bottom.
Yeah. If you're at the bottom of your lengthwise pillow.
Huh it's a small pillow it could be small it could be decorative the half size pillow could be decorative yeah but then it wouldn't matter then then yeah if it's square it's square square yeah if it's square it doesn't matter no it would have to go some of it would have to go up the headboard a little bit yeah yeah unless it's a true half pillow i still don't understand where that makes any sense yeah why would that be better yeah this girl's a freak and her friends respectfully freak hey guys love the show oh thank you my boyfriend likes to wrestle me like running tackle slams onto the bed flipping me upside down wwe type stuff yeah he says it's his way of showing love and i should appreciate it. It's just that he's so much bigger than me.

I don't know what to do back.

Do you have any suggestions?

Moves I don't know about?

Yeah.

The noogie.

Noogie is always a good one.

Nutshot.

Nutshot.

Fishhook.

Fishhook.

Fishhook is diabolical.

It's the equalizer.

No, I was going to say wet willy.

Oh.

Wet willy.

Dry willy.

Dry willy.

You put your finger in your own ear and then you put your finger in the other person's mouth that's diabolical i've done that a few times little finger up the butt ah yeah no you gotta let them just do it this is uh or you know what a real solution is just have kids because i like one of the best parts about being a dad is i am so much stronger

than my kids it's crazy i fucking can throw them around i can pick them up put them over my head i feel like a monster like when i'm when i'm just like grabbing them and throwing them because i just feel like the strongest man alive so it's a cool feeling it's i fucking i'm so much stronger than them five-year-oldold, no problem. Hey, six out of ten, big cat.
Oh. So true, PFT.
Oh. Hank, shout out, situate.
And don't trust the process, Max. I've been dating my 30-year-old boyfriend for two and a half years, and we've lived together for about one and a half years.
Lately, he won't stop putting his fingers up my nose. Several times a day, he'll just randomly shove shove his fingers up my nose when i try to swat his hands away or ask him why he's doing that he tells me to protect my holes is this normal guy behavior smart it's smart advice it's good advice on the whole um what is that like fifth base fingering somebody's nose yeah it's a weird Fourth base? Ears, nose, it depends where you rank them.
Yeah. I guess he's just hole curious.
Yeah, he just wants to find some holes. He wants to know every hole.
What holes is he doing again? Nose. Protect your holes.
That's kind of a funny, like, just put it up someone's nose. All the not all the time every now and then it could be funny does he just do it like a quick twist or does he try to go excavating is he like picking boogers out he won't stop putting his fingers up my nose so fingers too whoa double nose can't breathe that could you could kill you could kill her i went when uh When do you think, When do you think in popular culture, picking your nose became gross?

Because I pick my nose all the time.

Who doesn't pick their nose?

You have to pick your nose.

Yeah.

When we're on live streams, people will be like, oh, caught you picking your nose.

No duh, dude.

I'm picking my nose.

Yeah, because you might get caught on live stream with a booger in your nose.

Yeah.

I'd much rather pick my nose than have a booger flying out of my nose.

Yeah.

Max had one the other day, and I actually felt bad saying something.

You think it's weird to watch someone picking their nose or picking their ear?

Picking their ear is weird.

Yeah, doing that is weird.

You just got to clean out your holes.

But picking your nose is more frowned upon, I think.

Yeah, I know.

That doesn't make sense.

I think it's because it's implied that you might eat it. i don't eat my boogers just so everyone's clear never have and you pick ever will you flick it yeah hey guys so my boyfriend and i just moved in together we've been dating a little over a year and i'd say about once a week i catch him reverse cowgirl in the toilet he will be resting his arms on the tank while he scrolls.
He says this is because his arms get tired. Wait, what? He says it only works for peeing, but hopes to perfect the position for pooping also.
Is this normal? Is he doing something else? Please help. I feel like this might be written by a guy.
Yeah, there's no way. Because she's calling it reverse cowgirling the toilet.
Yeah, and also like you don't peeing takes two seconds there's your arms wouldn't fall asleep if you pee i would say don't do that if i i feel like if you did that shitting that would be just a lot of shit at like the front of your toilet and that'd be a problem there's a graphic that goes viral once every couple years it says did you know it's one of those things where they say you've been doing it wrong this whole time did you know that toilets are actually meant to be shit on facing the tank because you have a place to rest your book on top of it again i don't think that's true no i don't think because all the water's at the back yeah which is where the butthole is i think this guy might be trying to fuck his toilet.

Like, if you're sitting that way, you're probably dipping it in.

Dipping dong in the water.

You're dipping a little dong.

It's like you're going fishing.

Yeah, I can't think of a reason why you would do that.

Yeah, I think this is a guy who wrote it in. Or another freak.

Yeah.

How old were you when you discovered that this is the proper way to sit on the toilet?

That's a great post. That definitely gets people curious and doing stuff.
Yeah. It's a life hack.
All right. Last one.
My name is Kimmy and I had a question or really just asking for advice on what to do here in this situation. I love my boyfriend dearly, but for about six months now, he's been rating everything he eats on the boom meter.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
It was funny the first week or so, but now it's gone too far. far no it's to the point where he keeps a detailed notes list on his phone of different restaurants menus my cooking and now even my mom's cooking with a ranking scale of one to five booms yep i drew the line when after we finished eating my mom's favorite chicken enchiladas he pulled out his phone got the notes app out during dinner and you could hear him saying under his breath while typing, I give this 4.2 booms.
He loves this. I love him.
But don't. Oh, this is cut off.
He loves this. I love him, but don't know if it will stop now because I've asked him and it hasn't.
It's almost like a tick. What do I do? You just got to wait.
You got to wait for the next thing to come out and he'll move on to it. Stopping him.
Asking him to is the opposite of what you should be doing. Just ignore it.
But also this guy rocks and you got a real one. Get married to him right now.
Yeah, it might not work. But one thing you could do is just do the thing where you do it more than him.
And then he gets annoyed at you doing it. So then he stops.
Well, what you could do. But that might not work because he might love you doing it.
And you're just stuck in boomville yeah well what you could do is you could rate his ratings and rate and rate it on the doom scale so you could give him a doom for his rating of your mom's enchiladas being booms i was hoping that every single rating this guy had was gonna be five booms yeah they're all they're all good yeah that's gotta suck when you're when he throws Is that one boom. What is it? 4.2 booms? Yeah, I don't know if you can do .2 booms either.
No, you can't. It's pretty good.
It's binary. Boom, boom, boom, boom.
That's a boo. Yeah.
Yeah, this guy is awesome, though. I love this guy.
Yeah, you're right. You can't do decimals with the booms.
It's either a boom or it's not a half a boom yeah tell him that tell him play him this and be like hey we love this guy he rocks but his rating system's all fucked up so either he fixes that or he stops altogether i'd prefer him to fix it and keep going but he can't be doing 4.2s no no i could see whatever the new trend is that's going to happen in like six months he'll just incorporate that instead of boom then you'll have to get upset at him about that let guys have hobbies sounds like he's passionate about this i would encourage it also sounds like he's keeping a good log of like where you can go back to dinner yeah this is actually if you take out the boom and the costco guys from the equation he's being a good boyfriend right like oh, we want tie tonight. And he's like, actually, I had a, I had a four, we can't do 4.5, a five boom tide dinner, you know, a month ago.
Yeah. It says right here.
Yeah. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Fucking love those guys. When he's doing it, I wonder, does he, does he flex? Does he, does he do the whole deal? Maybe that's what you say.
You say, hey, uh, if you if you're gonna do the booms you don't have anywhere near the uh biceps of big justice like you like maybe maybe maybe you can the best thing that could happen out of this is you get him in the gym yeah and he still does it just to make the booms better yeah the booms yeahoms. Yeah.
Okay. Good show, boys.
Jeff Passett on Friday talking baseball. Numbers three.
Somebody on the back. Do you want three? No, it's okay.
Someone on the bachelor party said 22. That was their submission.
Okay. Just pick 22.
1. 63.

2.

60 what?

63.

99.

Oh, there's a ball in there.

29.

15.

What was your guess?

63.

Oh, it would have been 61.

Oh. Everyone got the numbers in? Two fans.
You have two? Two. 61.

Everyone got the numbers in?

Two fans.

You have two?

Two.

I think today's going to be the day three comes out.

Stop.

22.

22.

22.

It can't be three.

You're never going to get it. It can't be three.

It can't be three.

74.

You want to do one more memes? Yeah, let's do one more. All right.
Numbers. Two.
Three. 22.
63. 54.
Memes, you got to realize when we steal your numbers, it's just as much nervous for us

because if you end up getting it right on a stolen...

If you get 54 here, we're to blame.

Fair.

So it's a risk.

But you're also never going to get it.

99 per.

So Max has three.

I have 22.

54. 9-9 point so max has 3 I have 22 54 78

was that back to back?

no

74 and 78

and it was 76

last one

I'm pretty sure

wow

and 75 was stuck in there

yeah

love you guys

you're never gonna get it. Thank you.
Thank you.