Ryan Whitney, Game 7 Of The SCF, Hank Is Part Of Joe Mazzulla's Family Now And Mt Rushmore Of People Who Can't Win The Big One

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Hank is now a member of Joe Mazzula's family. We have who's back of the week.
And we have Mount Rushmore season officially kicking off. We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of can't win the big one.
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Start earning those rewards and booking those tee times barstool golf time app now today is monday june 24th and hank the summer of hank has arrived we're gonna start with game seven i don't know that's two words we're gonna talk to whitney for 30 minutes about game seven we will talk about uh game six but hank you had the greatest day of your life on friday you're a part of joe missoula's family now the brotherhood i think we i think we gotta we gotta hear what what transpired if anyone missed it i i can't imagine anyone did but hank was on joe missoula's duck boat for the boston celtics parade and he was fucking buckled and living his best life I saw a sports center and it was Joe Mazzulla pouring a beer on Hank's head as the recap of the Celtics championship parade I was like what the fuck there's no way there's absolutely no way it looked like you had the best time ever Hank so again I'm reluctantly happy for you it was it was definitely the best day of my life I can honestly say that I've riding the high all weekend, just running it back and thinking about how insanely ridiculous it was. I had absolutely no business being on that boat.
The fact that I got invited is a testament to you guys in the show that it somehow ever even happened. Oh, thank you.
Did you crash the boat? Did not crash the boat. I did take that.
Take that. He just said, he said basically we got him on that boat i was on the boat pretty much yeah i did take a couple branches to the face i was standing up we got hit with some branches but karma we got there we got there early got there like nine o'clock i i woke up we we got to boston around like two i couldn't sleep i was excited so i i didn't have the best night of sleep i was a little bit running late so i didn't i didn't eat i didn't have any sunscreen was that my fault no no no no it was it was my fault but i i was probably not great time management showed up and i you know i was feeling it out because i told you guys before i was like i don't know how to act i have no business being on this boat i didn't win a championship i don't know what the vibe is going to be like and uh right when i got there missoula's team was like you guys didn't you didn't bring any beers i was like oh and i didn't know the vibe like oh no we're we're gonna get after it uh it was his whole family they were all absolutely incredible his whole team his brother his sons his wife everyone uh and and one of his best friends he grew up with and you and me that was it that was it sorry and i was like still feeling it out his wife before even the duck boat took off she took out a huge bottle of tequila everyone started taking shots and then from there it was just off people were at like throwing beers throwing nips and mcgillicuddy's i probably had like 10 or 15 of those to the point where i was like i might puke like i was just taking them chugging them grabbing beers stone colding them on people people were bringing out ace of ace of uh spade bottles we were like spraying the crowd with champagne you were the front duck boat we were the first duck boat so how did that work when you were you were driving down the street and you see people on the side of the road and they're like cheering for your float at first are you like intimidated to wave back at them because you think to yourself like they're not waving at me they're waving at coach well it was just the whole time I kept thinking how crazy it was that if I wasn't on the boat I was just looking out at a sea of myself like I was looking out at you know my people people from Boston I was like if I wasn't on this boat I would be in that crowd and they were all just so excited like the energy was so high Missoula was the first person they saw and so when they saw them they started going nuts so just like getting the crowd, you know, pumped up for the rest of the parade, which was super easy.
People were, people were so excited. There was so many people.
Like I could not believe I kept thinking like it's got to be over soon. And we just kept going and it just got, the crowds got bigger and bigger and bigger.
People were just going insane. It was, it was, it was the greatest.
It was something I'll i'll never i can't even put into words how how lucky i was to be able to do you got to experience what being a champion at the highest level of sports is like that's what you got to experience on friday biggest biggest uh parade in nba championship history is that one point five million people i love parade math yeah it's my favorite where they have a helicopter that flies over they're like that's 1.1 million and they just show the heat picture yeah uh missoula's the best he's the absolute i mean he's he's couldn't be cooler we hung out with him for like 45 minutes before we started uh the funniest there was a very funny moment like right after the parade route ended they kind of turned to the side they were stopped and then you know they get back on the freeway to go back to the garden so everyone everyone has to sit down. And everyone's buckled at this point, too.
And Missoula huddles everyone around. Like I said, it's literally his direct family and his personal team.
And then me. And he gives us.
You are one of his best friends. Don't discount yourself in that group.
He's like, every single person here, you all played a part in this championship. Except Hank.
And then everyone started laughing. Yeah, it was so funny.
That's good. So, Max, you were in charge of cutting up social stuff and having your eyes on the internet for Hank content, of which there was a whole lot.
What was your favorite Hank clip? He said he looked awkward. Yeah, he did.
What was he? He did look awkward. You were so salty.
You were like, yeah, I'll say it. Hank looks awkward up there.
You did. You looked awkward as fuck.
You didn't know anyone on the boat. You were the odd man.
I did. No, I became lifelong friends with everyone on that boat.
No. They'll always have that moment together.
You were awkward, and you know it. You know you were awkward up there.
It's a very tough situation. I don't think I was.
I don't think you looked awkward. The only time you looked awkward was when the flag bodied him.
Yeah. Yep.
The flag was bad. Yes.
That's my answer. That's my answer.
That's my favorite video. That's when I realized I had to stop drinking, and the only way to do that physically, because I kept catching beers, and then you want to pump the crowd up and just chug it or throw it down.
So I was like, I got to get two hands on a flag and just wave it. And the flag dominated you.
I mean, yeah. There was a couple moments where the flag got caught up, and I didn't know what was going on.
You're double fist pumping the flag. You did a lot of double fist pumps.
Almost every clip that I saw was Hanks sending the two fists out there. Just a classic move.
Max was mad that people were bringing up Embiid. No, I wasn't.
I actually was ecstatic to see that. The fact that it's their championship parade and they still can't stop talking about Embiid, that's a great sign.
That's great. That was a great thing for you.
You live rent free. I was so happy to see that sign.
Rent free. So, yeah, it was a very cool situation, Hank.
I think that most people would be awkward put in that situation, but I know you get along pretty well with anybody in situations like that. Hank's a good vibes guy.
You're a good vibe guy. And his whole family.
Not on the show. They're from Rhode Island.
It felt very natural. I was definitely a little worried, but then literally his wife, before we even took off, was like, all right, everyone's doing shots.
I was like, all right, I'm going to fit in just fine here. There's got to be a word for that to describe a guy like Hank who is just a real dickhead to everybody that he actually cares about.
And then if you're a stranger, he's the biggest ray of sunshine of all time. Yeah, he brought more vibes on that.
Outside the podcast. He brought more vibes on that duck boat than he has on the show in forever.
That is a fact. Yeah.
Yes. Maybe we need to start throwing him nips.
I'm just happy this is the last day of Hank's Suckfest in the past two weeks. Just wait.
Hank's on a roll right now. He's done.
I understand people are upset about the Hank Suckfest, but our fucking producer and very good friend was on a duck boat with the coach of the NBA champions. How can we not lead the show with that? I just want the people that are complaining to know that their voice is heard.
Okay. All right.
Thank you, Max. I will be that person.
Thank you for your service, Max. Just know that if you're in that camp, you are a Max.
Yeah. Good.
And Max, if a Philly team ever won, we wouldn't do the same for you? We would. Yeah, but that's different.
Oh, okay. That's different.
Because it'd be you. We would definitely do the same for you.
Well, yeah. I mean, it's whatever.
Yeah. Okay.
Who was the drunkest at the speech? They did the speech beforehand. Smart.
Porzingis. Porzingis was late, which honestly was great for me because everyone was in the tunnel waiting because they all came out as a team to the court and did the speech before the parade went off.
And so everyone was just waiting around for Porzingis because it almost happened to me too where he basically tried to get off and then the road was blocked off so he couldn't get across across so it was like there was probably 30 minutes where we got to just mingle with the players because they were just waiting for poor zingas that's awesome uh terrick white did you like your hair love the hair he came in said what up uh sam hauser was was drunk he was also the man though him and his whole family aka poor zingas his brother uh joey hauser poor porzingis yeah you went up for people who don't know hank told uh gaz i'm gonna go take a picture of porzingis and then it was just a picture of hank standing next to joey hauser it was like six eight yeah he was tall he was wearing this he was wearing the hat the same way i mean that's yeah i was i was very drunk at that point who got the bigger pop tatum or brown i was in front of them so i don't know

good question yeah that'd be interesting i did see that jalen brown lost his ring yeah he had like a nice fancy ring that he brought with him to the parade some people were saying that hank stole it he also said that he was there's like a cash prize if someone finds it why wouldn't the can't you just buy a new one it must be i thought that too it must be it's Probably a sentimental ring.

Yeah.

Was Putin there?

Nazi Putin.

Oh, okay. can't can't just buy a new one it must be i thought that too it must be it's probably a sentimental ring yeah it was putin there i did not see putin oh okay you must have missed him um okay so great great weekend it was yeah it was the greatest day i have a question yes what did you what what did the night look like well he took a nap there was yeah so there was an after party uh at cisco like with just the the organization that was blocked off to the public till like five o'clock and then once the public you know they open the doors for the public people kind of filtered out because you know people were turning into a shit show so i went back to the hotel uh me gaz was checking into the hotel i said i'm gonna go up to my room for a second i texted him at like 4 45 and said let me know when you're ready.
I'll be down. And then I woke up at 7.15.
So I took a little nap. But then, yeah, I went out.
A little nappy. I went out in Southie and had a great time.
A little nappy. So you didn't go out with anyone on the team at night? Not at night, no.
No, I was just curious. Max thinks that's a dig.
That wasn't a dig. I was curious.
That was a dig. That's a big dig.
That was a dig. I'm one to admit when it is a dig, that was not a dig.
I was actually just curious. So Hank, you just went out with your friends at night and partied.
Which could be Joe Mazzulla now. Say you're going out with your friends.
Do you have his number now? I do have his number. He invited me to his house.
He was like, you sure you don't want to come back? I was like, I appreciate it, but I'm going to stay out. Could have napped on his couch.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Could have choked him out.
Could have punched a hole in his drywall, and that would have been good for him. Yeah.
His house. Okay.
So, incredible weekend for Hank. We do have a game seven.
Stanley Cup final game seven, Monday night, tonight. The Oilers, back from the dead, have absolutely dominated the the Panthers we're going to talk with Whitney for 30 minutes about the game but this is this has chance to be just an all-time all-time game seven this would be I think the most iconic moment in Stanley Cup finals history if they're able to pull if McDavid I think yeah and then if the Panthers do it it kind of becomes a footnote and at the same time becomes another tally in the checkmark box of mcdavid can't win the big one yes choke art but it has been an incredible series incredible like i i thought the series was absolutely over i thought it was going to be a sweep and then boom you look up i mean the games are it's you know like two nights in between three nights in between each game but Oilers have just kicked the shit out of the Panthers.
Did the Oilers figure out Bob?

I did. look up i mean the games are it's you know like two nights in between three nights in between each game but oilers have just kicked the shit out of the panthers did the oilers figure out bob i did i think they figured everything out i think they figured bob right out they figured out just in time yeah and it's gonna be awesome we also have uh i think we have double championships on monday night because tennessee and texas a&m play for the college world series yeah the vols vols battled-O Shot Challenge.
Let's talk about the Jell-O Shot Challenge because I always thought that it was like a cool thing that the College World Series had. Did you read the same tweet as me that ruined it? No, no.
I've been thinking this since last week, so you can tell me what ruined it for me. But the Jell-O Shot Challenge is at every College World Series in Omaha, you go there and every team has a list for their their fans and it updates the tally based on how many jello shots at that bar certain fan bases have purchased in the past it's been kind of fun because it's just like people that go into the bar and happen to order the jello shots now we've got people drone striking in jello shot orders from out of town right and is it does it go to charity at all or is it just the bar because if it's if it's just the bar, they're geniuses.
I think it's just the bar. And there might be some charity element.
What ruined it for me was someone said that they have them pre-packaged and yeah, people show up and just buy a bunch and then like walk away. Yeah.
And like, that's not in the spirit of the rules. Or you can call in.
You should have to take the jello-O shot for it to count. Yes.
I feel like we're in the live ball era. Let's get back to just the basics.
Drunk people, fans, taking the Jell-O shot right in front of you. Organically.
You can order them for your table. That's cool.
We'll have a couple for your table. They all have to be taken by your fan base.
Yeah, but walking in and saying, like, I'd like 10,000 Jell-O shots. Right.
And then that doesn't tell me anything about your fan base. It just says that you have someone rich who could buy a bunch of Jell-O shots.
Yeah, you should have to drink them. Yeah, 100%.
And it shouldn't count. Drink them or eat them.
Eat them, slash drink them. You take them.
Take them. But it also wouldn't count.
Like if we walked in and I were a Tennessee fan and you were wearing like NC State stuff and I bought two Jell-O shots and you took one, that shouldn't count for two for Tennessee. That's NC State.
Right. They should just do the breathalyzer challenge.
Breathalyze every person wearing a jersey that walks out and then do an average at the end of the week yeah that'd be good do you want to talk about the hawk to a girl uh apparently she's signing merchandise now good for her making hats good for her gotta take advantage i like the hawk to a girl just because who is the hawk to a girl well there was a man on the street video was nashville i don't know where it was i think it was nashville and uh do you want to play the video can you play the video for us spit on that thing yeah spit on that thing so um i liked how simple this meme is because i saw it going around and we had a busy week last week and i i kind of missed it at the beginning and then i caught up and i was like oh that's as simple of a meme as it can get yeah there's no other thing to it I like those yeah all right go ahead play the video what's one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time oh you gotta give him that hawk too and spit on that thing so yeah that's it it's as simple as possible how many girl talking about spitting on a cock how many tagliavola jerseys are just gonna be labeled hawk on the back of them next year oh yeah oh yeah that's good that i mean i think we can already say that's the number one fancy football team name for 2024 yes yes to uh yeah she uh she's she's a star she's an absolute star a legend she's a complete star yeah what do you think about her form hack to i like the. I like the message.
I like the message she was sending. One Hawk Tua guy to another.
Hawk Tua. Hank Tua.
Shane Hawk Tua is his own cock. Yeah.
But it's crazy because he doesn't eat anything else. Shane didn't have his first sandwich until last week.
He had his first sandwich. Yeah, no.
she's a star in the making. It feels like we're on a really good run right now with the Edmonton Oilers fan, talk to a girl.
We're just getting back to the basics, the basics of the internet. Yes.
Attractive female does something, and we're like, yes, she rules. Well, I mean, it boils down to blowjob or tits.
Yeah, right. turns out those things do well damn she's a star if the protesters at the uh at the travelers the fifth major if they just had tits that were just poking out there i think their cause would be celebrated a little bit more yeah so those guys uh so sky sheffler won again all he does is win although only won one major this year can't't win the big one.
He won one big one. He won one big one.
But, yeah, we had protesters on. Was it the 18th? It was the 18th hole.
Yeah. They're coming up.
And the one guy had, what, like a seven-foot putt? Yeah. Tom Kim.
They should, like, protester justice is never. Because a guy, remember they were doing it the Timberwolves games they were they were gluing themselves to the floor I don't think that if you protest something at a sporting event you shouldn't just be like okay now I go to jail pay a thousand dollar fine whatever it is it should your punishment should just be directly related to this sport they should have to go stand at the tee box and Scotty Scheffler and Tom Kim get the tee one right at them.

That's what it should be.

Or you just get handcuffed to a tree.

Yeah.

And you have to just live on the golf course.

Yeah, or if you glue yourself to a basketball floor,

they should just re-glue you to center court

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Yeah, you got Rudy Gobert landing on you. You don't have to then go to jail, but if you do it at a sporting event, you should have to get your punishment immediately at that sporting event.
Yeah, so they were stop big oil people, right? Okay. And I think that the Edmonton Oilers fan did so much that was pro big oil yeah it completely overshadows any counter protester yeah just if you if you're going to do a protest and you want people who are watching sports to pay attention just have your boobs out yeah and yeah people people be like you know what i'll i'll look at some of their literature yeah the cops won't tackle you as hard yeah that was it was funny watching the cops being like, this is our big moment.
It is. There was like four or five of them running everywhere.
It's what you train for. Yeah.
If you're a security guard and you're working at it, it's either you either get to arrest Scotty Scheffler or you get to arrest somebody that's threatening Scotty Scheffler. Yeah.
And they were dumping stuff all over the green. I don't know what they were dumping.
It just looked like cocaine. It might have just been cocaine.
There's like a red flare, I think, as well. Yeah.
Shout out Scotty keeping his composure. Yeah.
Because he probably thought they were coming for him. His hair looked great.
Did it? Scotty's hair, yeah. I didn't see.
It grew right in. It grew all the way in.
So it looks pretty good right now. And then right after it was over, like the second he stepped off the green, his wife just hands him the baby.
He's like, here, you look after the baby now. Well, it's also for the pictures.
It's for the pictures. The pictures, the baby picture after a win is, I mean, Jason Tatum, we talked about his whole aura, but the video of him with Deuce is you can't not like that.
Yeah. You have to have the coldest heart in the world to not like that.
If you throw a kid into a champion's arms, it's instant. This is awesome.
Yeah. But then if he loses, I want to see that baby face the music afterwards.
And the baby should have to answer the tough ones.

Did Jason Tatum, did he have aura at the parade?

So much aura.

Really?

What did that look like?

He was carrying around the trophy, said what ups.

That sounds like the trophy has aura.

Yeah.

A prop.

I mean, just the pictures and videos.

He looked like the greatest champion in the world.

The beautiful part about winning a championship is that-

Who is he plagiarizing when he's yelling this time? When you win a championship, you can just reply with the picture of him holding the trophy. It's a tough argument.
It is. I'm not arguing that he's not a champion.
He's definitely a champion. A star player holding a trophy in front of 1.5 million people.
Yeah, that was a cool picture. I saw that, but that was the sun going off of it.
But that's aura. Well, no, it's more the sun and the trophy.
The sun and the trophy. The sun has aura.
Yeah. The sun has a lot of aura.
That's just... You can ask Neil deGrasse Tyson about that.
Yeah. The sun's just radiating aura all over the place.
Okay, what other sports or any other things we have from the weekend? Did you win the 50-50 raffle? I didn't, no. I spent, I think, 300 bucks on 50-50 raffle, and the guy just sat down next to me.
He's like, thank you so much for doing this. I was like, do people not normally get that much? And I was looking at it.
I was like, I've never wanted anything more in my life than to win the 50-50 raffle. That might have been the end of part of my take.
I thought about it when I saw the picture. I was like, if he wins, this will ruin me.
Do you even get a number? What do you mean? Did you get the first number? I usually don't even get the first number. That's when it sucks.
None of them were correct. You have to buy them every inning.
I bought them all at once, and then when they make the announcement after the game's over, I go to the website, and I looked at it, and I had to refresh it because I was like, this must be a different 50-50 raffle because the first number is different from all my tickets. Yeah.
But yeah, no, I mean, the bleachers at Wrigley Field are incredible. Got to take the tarps off out there.
Friday afternoon, nothing better. Beer snakes going.
A lot of Edmonton Oilers fans in full kits out there in the heat. Wow.
Really brave in the sun. And, yeah, also you got to drink beers out of a bat.
They got the bat beers out there. Yep.
Yep. So now I just have that in my kitchen now that I just pour every drink into.
I'm drinking it out of a bat. There's nothing better.
Yeah, you had a perfect Chicago weekend and Max moved. Mm-hmm.
That was fun, too, though, probably. I went to the Sphere.
It was sick. Max, you moved.
Yeah, I drove like 40 hours in two days. We all of us.
You had incredible weekends. Yeah.
Yeah. No, that was the Max parade.
Yeah. I had a good weekend.
I had a good dinner. And I drove a lot.
Okay, nice. A lot of driving.
Yeah. Anyone who is thinking about going to the Sphere, do it.
Yeah, it does look incredible. It was mind-blowing you know who else had a great weekend was Travis like a part of me thinks my mind would get permanently blown there was a point of like there was a couple never returning there was a cut there was a especially a moment on Saturday night and I'll be fully honest I had had a lot of mushrooms both Friday and Saturday but I did have that thought of like, will I ever be able to go back to real life? Because it was that cool.
Yeah, I would want to just live in the sphere. It was, like I said, the expectations were high and they blew them out of the water.
Incredible. Yeah.
Shout out James Dolan. One good thing he's done in his life.
And his kazoo band. Yeah.
Do you think his kazoo band is ever going to play at the sphere? I'd go see it. I would go.
I would go. I'd be front row.
Yeah. I didn't know if it was the mushrooms or the sphere, and then I just realized, why not both? Yeah.
And it was both. It was definitely both.
But yeah, Travis Kelsey had a great weekend, too, mostly because he just missed Spear Olympics. Yeah.
So he's probably very happy that he's hanging out overseas instead of having to go to nashville and we have a new war dave grohl versus swifties yes we do i saw that i stay with dave grohl um i do too what do you do he dissed her he said that uh they're doing the errors tour because they play their music live foo fighters are unlike unlike taylor swift who's not playing live she's just lip-syncing that's what his claim was saying yeah but it's also like why can't there just what is he thinking why can't there what is he thinking talk why can't Swifties just do shit talk that's what they do no they don't they don't let you they don't they don't anyone who says anything mean about Taylor Swift ever they fucking go to Defcon a even know if that's DEFCON. Yeah, but it should be like sports.
You should be able to take the shit talk, fire back in kind, without trying to take away his entire career. I'm sure Dave- A bunch of mean girls.
Dave Grohl will be fine. I did see a meme that Swifties don't hawk to them.
I don't know if that's true. I don't know if that's true.
I saw the meme. I'm just reporting what I've seen.
We're journalists. I'm reporting it.
There's not a lot of crossover between like Reagan voters and Taylor Swift fans probably. Hawk Tua.
Yeah. It's so good.
I love that for a while all we had was the uh the gluck gluck 3000 yeah and we've been waiting for a worthy successor i think hawk to it does it it's finally been released what do you think your dad's saying right now um that's my girl yeah yeah like that was good work yeah nice you you you you asserted yourself well in that interview. Yeah.
Hak tua. Okay, anything else from the weekend? Trying to think.
Oh, we did have the first ever walk-off pitch clock violation. Yeah, that was electric.
Yep. Happened to the Rockies, right? Yeah, it happened to the Nationals.
Yeah. Yeah.
Rockies won, I believe. And yeah, we finally got it.
We were waiting for it. We needed it.
Thank God. We also had another rematch of the fever in the sky, and then nothing really happened.
It was just like a normal good basketball game. Are they just like the Washington Generals and the Globetrotters? Yeah.
They play every game. They seem to play a lot.
How mad are they? They're playing every other night. How mad are people that there wasn't a hard foul on Kaelin Clark? Very mad.
Because there's a shitload of people who only watch the game for hard fouls on Caitlin Clark. Yeah, like a hawk.
They're watching and they're just rewinding every frame. That seemed like an unnecessary shoulder.
There was some shit talking, but it was just normal sports. Right.
Which is, I think, what it's going to turn into. Yeah.
Now, if I was a player on the Fever, what I would do, if I'm into the rotation type player, I would just become her enforcer.

Just get out there and wreck some people's face if they touch Caitlin Clark.

Yeah.

And then you just develop an enormous fan base based off that.

Yeah.

Just become the Caitlin Clark stopper.

Yeah.

By physically assaulting her.

Or the Caitlin Clark stopper.

No, I'm saying her teammate.

Oh, her teammate.

Oh, the protector.

Yeah, she'd get real violent. Yes, the protector.
Oh, the protector. Yeah, she'd get real violent.

Yes, the protector.

Really violent.

Yes.

Okay, let's do Who's Back of the Week.

Max, are you going to start doing Who's Back of the Week?

Should he?

That's not my choice.

I think we should try it and see how it goes.

Yeah, it probably would go poorly.

Do you have one?

Yep. Okay.
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Coors Brewing Company, Golden, Colorado. Hank, who's back of the week? Both of mine just got taken.
It was going to be the protesters. Then it was going to be Travis Kelsey.
It was going to be Hock Tua. Oh, a Mets pitcher just got kicked out for cheating memes.
Oh, no. What was he doing? Bad stuff.
He had some of the grimace shake on his wrist. He was Hock Tua-ing into the ball.
So I'll just say my added inspiration to dunk, that was the only thing I didn't really mention, was... How's it been going, this bender you've been on? It's been...
I've been trying to do as much as I can, but after spending the day and basically being invited

as a quasi-member of the Missoula family,

I feel like it's my responsibility to live up to the high expectations

and standard that he sets, and I feel more motivated than ever

to just put in the extra work and make it happen

because that's what he would do.

That's what Missoula's would do.

So earlier in this episode, you said that this was probably the best day of your life. You just hung out with Tom Brady like six days ago.
Oh, my God. I forgot.
Hank has been on such a streak that I forgot about that. So this was better than chilling with Tom Brady.
Yeah. I mean, the one before was the first Patriots Super Bowl when they won and we got invited to the hotel.

It was random.

We weren't expecting it.

We were just at a bar, got a text, ended up at the team hotel after party and got to party with the team when it was maybe 100 people there.

That was previously the greatest night of my life.

This one tops it.

I think Brady's probably top four.

Jeez. So you had two of the greatest nights of your life in the same week.
I wish you hadn't said that. There will be downfall.
I completely forgot about it. There will be downfall.
Yeah, the downfall is... Football.
Or real shame in a boat. Yeah.
Or real shame trying to dunk. Real shame if you popped your Achilles trying to dunk pft it would be a real shame i just i understand i would i would i understand why people hate on me that was a bad boy he deserves it after i was gonna say acl he deserves a bad boy i didn't i didn't deserve to be on that boat but it's one of those things where when you're in that situation you have to just enjoy it yeah i enjoyed it as much as i could even though it was no but but pft's right like the the world evens out but not for hank yeah i'm just going to enjoy it you know people are going to try and take me down tear me down bald head doesn't look bad show the bald head how'd the suntan get i got a oh you're already back the uh his his one of his assistants and his wife like you have to put on sunscreen you have to put on sunscreen we brought it don't worry and then as we're taking off they started putting it on me he's like hey i said no sunscreen and they thankfully they overruled them like he's got to put some on yeah yeah but you didn't at the start and i was going to say that the two biggest pieces of advice you should have gotten, or at least tried to follow up on, going to the parade would be put sunscreen on your head and eat something for breakfast.
Right. That's why when I was on the way there, I was like, oops.
You wanted to blame me so bad. No.
Yeah, you did. No.
Anytime you don't eat. Looks good.
Thank you. It looks good.
Yeah. I don't know how it looks good, but this is...
Hank's just on a heater, man.

I just hope no shames happen.

Okay, PFT, you're who's back of the week.

My who's back is the USA, baby.

US.

Dos Acero.

What did we do?

We beat the dastardly Bolivians.

Oh, fuck yes. We crushed them into Bolivia.

And it was a great game for Christian Pulisic.

And he scored the first three minutes and then had a great assist later on.

Team looked good.

Group stage?

Group stage.

What do we get if we win?

We get the honor of beating.

Immortality.

We own all of America's because it's a Copa America.

So we get rights to South America, too.

Who else in our group?

That just becomes South of the United States of America.

Panama, they stink. And then Uruguay, who's always good in these tournaments.
Is there a weird country in this? Remember, wasn't Qatar in it? Qatar was in it last time. Yeah, they were honorary Americans.
Yeah. Do we have any of those? We are the weird country in it.
Okay. So we're not supposed to be in it.
We're not in it every single time, but we're hosting the entire tournament, which is a major cuck move. Yeah.
But we're using it to, I guess, get things tuned up for the World Cup when we host it. But team look good.
The lads look good. It's still Berhalter out.
It's always Berhalter out. But, yeah, dos a zero.
I'm excited for some soccer. Yeah.
Uruguay is going to be a good game. They're good.
They're very good, yes. Is Luis Suarez still playing? I don't know.'t know I don't know I love that I don't know if he's playing in this tournament or not just biting everybody yeah I love that guy um okay my who's back of the week is uh LeBron and Clutch being salty I don't know if you guys have followed this it's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen uh I guess Clutch has hired a bunch of people to go and look up old MJ stats and try to rip down MJ, and it's the most transparent move ever, knowing that LeBron might not win another title.
So now they're going to try to find other ways to progress the GOAT conversation. But I know, obviously, I'm biased.
I don't understand how you can look at this and not be like,

this is the pettiest,

saddest thing possible.

So what are they doing?

They went back to the 1988,

uh,

deep,

uh,

season.

And when MJ won a defensive player of the year and like looked up games

where he had,

uh,

an inordinate amount of steals.

And then they went and looked and like saw the crediting of it, which happens in every arena. Like the home road splits always happen.
It was really bad in the 70s, 80s, and I think early 90s. You can't even go back and watch some of those games.
Right. And now we're in a war where like now LeBron's old plays are getting posted.
It's just, I don't know. I don't understand what the end goal was.
Why would you try to tear down MJ? If you have to try to tear down MJ to elevate LeBron, you've already lost, in my opinion. Correct? Yeah.
Like, if you have to go back in time in trying to nitpick stats, you're essentially admitting that you've lost. Also, no one really cares about Stephens that much.
And also, in the quote, in the story, Bob Ryan basically said, he's like, I don't use stats for all my voting. I use the eye test, and he was the best defender in the league.
Like, what does it matter? He was the best in the league at the time compared to other players that he was playing. Right.
But yeah, there's a lot of, like the John Stockton assist numbers, home and away splits. It happens all the time.
It happens all the time, and every player that was in that era dealt with it. And you know what would be a real shame? You know what would be a real shame? If anyone finally did a story about LeBron and PEDs.
That would be a shame. I'm not saying there's anything there, but you're now opening the box to ask questions.
We're going to go back and do stats. He actually had his guys from his management team go back and look at MJ's stats.
I don't know if it was... Listen, it was Tom Haberstraw who I like, but I don't like his work in this.
Nick Wright, who we do like as a friend, I don't know if he was joking, but he was saying he had a piece in the working of this. Of course he did.
Clutch Media, they have media members that are in their back pocket, so it wouldn't shock me if this is what happened. Yeah.
They're like, hey, go look at all these stats. I don't think Nick Wright, you would even have to pay him for that, because every little bit that you can make Michael Jordan appear worse makes him appear more right.
Right. And I like Nick, but it's just a very pathetic thing to go back in time and try to nitpick every stat.
And what's happening now is people are digging up LeBron stats and game film and you could do it for every single player ever. Yeah.
How many times did he travel? Right. How about we take a look at that? How many carries did he get get i watched one today where he got credited with an assist it was an outlet pass and the guy he passed to caught it at half court and took like 15 dribbles yes it's the home finger right which happens but it's pathetic um and again i don't want it to get to a point where we start asking ped questions that would be a shame yeah also just because I don't think LeBron did PEDs, but some people might think that.
The fact is that he's played a crazy long amount of time without significant injuries. Also, I don't really get, like, the LeBron-MJ thing is going to just be an age thing at this point.
It's going to be, if you're 30 years or younger, you would think LeBron's the go-to's the goat if you're 30 years or older you think what you're not going to change really anyone's opinion who's on whichever side they're on just let it play out and then there's going to be another player that we're going to do this for you can that's how sports debates work but you can also look at the two years that he didn't play and then say what would mj have done if he had played those another couple titles yeah But it's just, I think it's been decided in the fact that there's the camps, and the camps will have their thoughts. But to go back and watch game film and try to tear down MJ is so, again, I think it admits that you're desperate.
Well, it definitely admits that you're playing from behind. It's loser behavior, for sure.
I could see myself doing it to somebody that I hated. Yeah.
But I don't think I would ever do that to somebody that I was just, like, trying to prove that my favorite player was slightly better than. Right.
Right. You saw this, Hank.
But if I hated that player, I would definitely do it. 100%.
Desperate. Desperate.
Desperate. Desperate.
Okay. What? What were you going to say? No, go ahead.
Say it. Positive vibes.
I'm good vibes. Say it.
What were you going to say? I'm vibes i'm good vibes say it i'm good vibe no say it no i'm good say no what are you gonna say it is the same playbook as you and coach k uh no i've actually had all facts what are you talking about that's what they're saying no no i didn't go back in you're trying to get lost his credited to him no no what he he left. No, no, no.
I didn't go back. You were trying to get losses credited to him.
No, no. What? He left the team, a bad team, because of an injury.
That's just a fact. I didn't have to look anything up.
But you think those losses should be on his record. Well, I think Pete Gaudette should get an apology more than anything.
It's not that Big Cat hates Coach K. He's just a massive Pete Gaudette fan.
Yeah, and there's also not, I'm not trying to elevate, I'm not doing it on behalf of anyone else. That's true.
So it's not like, this is my goat, I'm trying to take down Coach K. I just hate Coach K.
That's why I didn't say it. And I also, all the things that I did, I didn't go and watch film and try to take away wins from him.
You were in the lab, though. I mean, I know my Coach K history very well.
Yeah, no, that's why I didn't say but i who am i propping up that's true and there's no one i'm propping up on the other side piquet yeah piquet dead i guess but who else would i be propping up it's not like a goat debate i i know that people say coach k is the goat i just don't like him but there's not like another person i say oh he's actually better true that's what i didn't say i wish you had stayed positive but that's what i didn't i really i did i did i did i did say positive i didn't say it i didn't that's what that's what makes the whole lebron versus mj thing so so annoying is that people that are massive lebron james fans i think they still like michael jordan i think they acknowledge that michael jordan was great player, but because they have to do tricks on it, they

have to give him the hock tour, and they have

to go back and then try to tear down somebody else

who they also likes accomplishments

to make their guys seem a little

bit better. I admit that Coach K,

if you make the argument, is probably the best college

coach. I hate his guts.

Roy Williams had more success

in North Carolina. God damn it.

I wish I... No, the Achilles wouldn't be the worst.

No, no, it would be.

It would be a real shame.

It wouldn't be the worst.

You can't just have –

Positive vibes.

I'm positive vibes.

One thing.

That's why I didn't say it.

Hank waving the –

I can think of another guy that waved a flag on television

that then had a massive Achilles problem.

That could be Hank. Hank, you're not going to like this when Mahomes fans start doing this to Brady.
You're going to be very upset. They are going to come do that.
They're going to be like, oh, Brady's defense is carrying. They're going to do that.
I just don't pay as much mind, I guess, to the debate. It's like who Tom Brady's who but this was like a real article that was written the article was crazy that is clutch and they're they're basically like being there they came out the report being like if you draft brawny it doesn't mean lebron's coming back lakers right which just you know opens the door they're just trying to hold everyone hostage the if this were just memes online i would not have paid any attention to it it was an actual article like journalists

doing work trying to tear down mj for what what yeah for what uh okay max you ready yeah your

debut who's back the week uh who's back the week is playboy why uh oilers girl is posed

Thank you. Yeah.
Your debut? Who's back of the week? Who's back of the week is Playboy. Why? Oilers Girl is posed for Playboy, and she looked good.
Okay, this might be. Is it still a magazine? Steak.
I just read this. It is actually OnlyFans-esque now.
What? Yeah, Playboy has an OnlyFans-esque site that you have to pay for a like a subscription-based service so they don't even have the articles anymore i think they also have that but this is this is what falling off the font so far well now they're back they basically invented porn yeah now they're back because oilers girl did i think she just did that photo shoot for the instagram but yeah they were basically the original instagram Instagram algorithm. Playboy? I got a question for you guys.
I mean, they were just pictures of hot chicks. Yeah.
Yeah. I got a question for you guys.
Talk about algorithm. I don't know why, but I saw the video of the Russian guy getting shot in the head like a hundred times today.
I didn't see that, know what i actually that was too much i don't know why that was just on my in my algorithm i just said this to max a second ago i was watching a video and sometimes like the next video just auto plays yeah on twitter x x videos and the next one that i saw was just a guy in the middle of the street getting hit by a car going like a hundred miles saw that too we're doing snuff films what the fuck we're watching i saw that as well it's like 140 miles an hour yeah i hope he's okay yeah i think he is when he lands what's going on you guys didn't see the yeah the russian one was wild i mean twitter's just the way twitter you can't there's no if you go in the replies it's just all spam yeah i don't know either of these these things you're talking about. It's just a guy getting hit by a car.
Mine was just like three Russian soldiers running in an open field, and then a drone hits one of them, and then he's badly injured, and he tells his buddy behind him, shoot me in the head, and he shoots him in the head. I'm like, I didn't need to see this.
Those drone videos. But I saw it way too much.
Those drone videos are everywhere. Terrifying.
Terrifying. Terrifying terrifying um okay yeah that was a nice uh who's back with that what you don't you don't like boobs anymore no no no i i took it to a bad place i'm putting my hand up we went to boobs to that i just it had been bothering me how much i had seen that one guy die all day also playboy just completely lost the business model here we've seen her boobs You get Playboy to see boobs of girls whose boobs you haven't seen yet.

You can kind of see her boobs again, though.

Kind of, but the boobs were way better in the original video.

Yeah, we said at the time, boobs in the wild are the hottest boobs.

Boobs you don't expect.

Yeah.

Yeah, but it's always good to see other angles of boobs. That's true.

You do need to do your research.

Yeah.

But they were covered. It wasn't, I don't know.
It felt like a step back for her, actually. I do stand by her.
That's not a bad take. I do stand by her take on the haters need to shut up.
She's right. Fuck the haters.
Fuck the haters. Fuck the haters.
Fuck the haters. Ben Affleck, Oilers girl.
Fuck the haters. Fuck the haters.
Okay, let's get to our interview with Ryan Whitney. We're going to to talk about game seven get real hype for game seven before we do that pft you got a couple ads then we're gonna do mount rushmore part of my take is sponsored by better help when life goes so fast it's important to take a moment to celebrate your wins and make adjustments for the rest of the year therapy can help you take stock of your progress and set achievable goals for the next six months if If you're thinking of starting therapy, give BetterHelp a try.
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Okay, we now welcome on one of our favorite guests in the entire world. It is Ryan Whitney, and I cannot believe we are talking to him before a Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final.
The Edmonton Oilers have come back from 3-0 to force a game seven on Monday night tonight as you're listening to this. They dragged the Panthers back to Florida.
Yes. Drag them back to Burda, baby.
So, Whit, let's start with this. How the hell has this is, what has occurred in the last three games that have gone from a team that looked like they were absolutely dead to now look like they are the better team on the ice? I would say many things, but I, I kind of lean towards what you guys trolled me and trolled PKC bandwidth and have trolled forever, nonstop about Connor McDavid and him being the greatest athlete in the world right now.
Better at his sport than any other person is at their sport. And you made jokes about the ice time and jokes about the lack of titles.
And now he's one game away. And everything changed in game four.
He had four points. Game five, he had another four points.
First player in the history of the league to get back-to-back four-point games in the Stanley Cup final. It's been insane to watch.
This team, just thinking about tonight and thinking about this game, it gives me goosebumps. And obviously, I'm an Oilers fan, but I think all hockey fans even feel that way because we're kind of witnessing history.
It's happened once before, 1942. PFT's boy Hitler was alive when it fucking happened.
I know he's not your boy, but you have made many a joke. But it's just something that this team has figured out each series how to play against their opponent as the series has gone on.
First round, not necessarily the case. They made easy work of L.A.
They're a lot better team than them. But then the second round, right, they're down 3-2 to Vancouver.
They come back and win that. He made a goaltending change.
Stuart Skinner's been incredible since, but he ended up putting in Calvin Picard and started him a couple games in that series. And the team figured it out and they were able to come back and win that thing.
And then against Dallas, they won game one. All of a sudden they're down and then they boom, they rip off three straight in that series as well.
So it's been figuring out your opponent, somehow changing the lines the way Chris Knobloch has. He's had a masterclass in coaching that what this guy's done.
It's incredible. He's had numerous guys in and out of the lineup, guys up and down the lineup, different lines, changing up pairings on the defense.
It's been wild to see. And then it all came together with that offside challenge in game six, which was just the biggest turning point I've ever seen.
Florida makes it 2-1 10 seconds after Edmonton makes it 2-0. They challenge it.
It was offsides by the slightest margin. I actually didn't think it was, but then a picture came out after and showed that it really was just barely.
But everything that this coach has touched has turned to gold from him coming in when they were in last place or second to last place, like in middle of November to now where they one went away from winning the Stanley cup. It's an incredible story, not only in hockey, but in all of sport.
And I think it's going to be just a wild night. I think it's going to overtime, which I didn't think it ever happened.
Somebody told me it did. It might have been in the 20s or 30s for all I know.
But Game 7 overtime for the Stanley Cup, I feel like this season's been so crazy that it might happen tonight. I'm pumped.
You just pumped me up. I'm very excited.
It's been an awesome series to see how it shifted around with McDavid. Do you think that there's any chance he heard the haters out there saying you're never going to win the big one if you're so great.
How come you haven't accomplished this? Do you think that he's heard any of that? I don't know. He seems like one of those ultra focused, super serious guys.
That's that's I'm not in the room. I guess guys love and, and he seems like one of the dudes when he's in the room, but with media, he's always been, I don't really want to say standoffish, but almost just like, I have no interest in doing media.
He's not somebody that's looking to get his brand out there or anything like that. I think his whole singular focus, his entire life has been on winning the Stanley cup.
He's a, he's a child prodigy. He's been the greatest player since he first started skating.
He's one of those stories that for everyone who says, yeah, like, you know, the best player at eight is never the best player at 12 and the best player at 12 is never the best player at 16. He's the anomaly.
He's him and Crosby and Gretzky and Lemieux. There's a few guys that are just born in every sport to be the greatest.
And that's been him since a very young age. His dream's been to win the Stanley Cup.
Now he's leading a team that has had a lot of, I would say, dark days. I mean, when I was there, it was called the decade of darkness.
It certainly hasn't been the case since he arrived, but they still have had some devastating playoff losses. And to me, it's like you've lost the last two years to the Stanley Cup champs.
They got swept in the conference finals by Colorado in 2022. Last year, they lose to Vegas in the second round and they go on to win.
And it's now it seems like it's his time. It didn't seem this way a week ago or whatever it was when it was 3-0 and it looked like it was going to be a drumming.
But something has happened. And I think for him, it's like, nothing matters until I get that cup.
And he could go on and he's breaking records that people thought were never even going to be sniffed. I mean, he's touching Gretzky point per game levels in the playoffs.
He grabbed 100 assists this year, which Kucherov from Tampa Bay did as well. They were the fourth and fifth player to ever do it after Gretzky, Lemieux, and Bobby Orr.
So he's done things along the way that have proved that he is the greatest player in the league and in the world. But nothing matters without the cup.
And all the great ones, they end up getting a Stanley Cup. No disrespect to Joe Thornton or Jerome McGinley.
Like, Connor McDavid's different than these guys. So without the cup, there's this emptiness there.
And now he's this close. That's why it's one game.
Momentum, I don't believe, carries over in game to game in the Stanley Cup playoffs. It's just like a new game within itself.
But when you have a guy like this, I can't imagine he doesn't take over. Well, he has those plays.
I think it was a game five when he had that assist to Corey Corey Perry that was just he basically just took on the entire Panthers team and then at the last second dumped it to Corey Perry for a perfect one-timer with an open goal it's like those are the type of plays that no one else can make and he's making them at the highest level at the highest stage he has the assist record yeah I mean it's been awesome to watch it's to watch. You always want to watch greatness.
So in terms of the game-to-game adjustments, because it's a great point, and it's one of my favorite things about watching seven-game series, just whether you're talking about hockey, baseball, basketball, but the game-to-game adjustments that teams make to figure out their opponent and finding that special sauce. That was even when the Blackhawks were making their runs Quinville was always like we were down a couple times in the Stanley Cup or the series and just be like find those adjustments so those adjustments been found what do the Panthers do back because it feels like they're on their heels right now I that's what I don't know for the panthers i think their fans right now are most panicked about the power play and and edmonton's power play has carried them for years it's been it's been i've called it on chiclets the the greatest power play in the history of hockey which people laugh at but then you look at some of the numbers and they snap it around and create so many opportunities even if they don't score it's like momentum switched in the game because of their power play.
But the Panthers, they have nothing going. Now, credit has to be given to the Oilers PK.
When Woodcroft was fired in November and Knobloch came in, he's talked about that he had no idea. He had never really ran a penalty kill and he wasn't ready to do it at the time so he he had mark stewart who had been coaching there prior and stayed on the staff when when woodcroft was let go he played in the nhl a long time i played with him in junior um he was a hard-nosed defenseman played on the penalty kill knew what he was doing he gave it to him and their pk has been outstanding since i think they've killed off 44 of the last 45 in the playoffs.
It's clipping at like 94%. It's just unstoppable what they've done.
They ended up taking McDavid and Dreisaitl off the PK and just giving guys really like significant roles on the penalty kill. And they had pairings for the forwards.
So the same two forwards are out each time, one after another. And they've like had this cohesiveness where they have so much trust in each other that every other team's power play becomes really bad against the Oilers.
For Florida, there's so much skill there, but they're standing still. And Edmonton pressures.
They're not moving the puck around. They're not getting into their set.
So they're carrying into the zone. Edmonton's pressuring, and all of a sudden, they're never able able to get set up so much so that Edmonton's getting breakaways shorthanded they're scoring shorthanded goals they're getting chances when they're down a man when it's one of those things where you need to like at least get two three four shots on net on the power play and nobody can do it against Edmonton so if I'm the Panthers going to the game I guess this morning at practice, they were working on the power play a lot.
They're throwing Tarasenko onto the top unit for tonight's game seven. He hasn't been there.
Brandon Montour, who's a really good offensive defenseman, struggled in the playoffs, even kind of struggled this whole season. He's now off as the number one guy running that power play.
It's now Oliver Ekman Larson. They've moved him there.
So they're just looking for answers. It's a great question, Big Cat, because they had everything wrapped up.
It was done. It was done.
And I was actually in Edmonton for games three and four. It was such a bummer.
I think they got three goals in about six minutes in game three. All of a sudden, Edmonton mounts this comeback at the end.
They're unable to tie it. It's like, oh, series is over.
And all these lunatic Oilers fans are like, Oilers in seven, Oilers in seven. I was playing golf with a guy, and he's like, no, they're going to seven.
I'm like, do you believe that? Are you just saying that as a fan? He's like, no. They figure teams out throughout the series.
Just win game four at home, steal one at five. We ain't losing in six, and then it's a coin flip.
They all described it to perfection, and they blew him out in game four. I think Florida really needs Bobrovsky to show up, too.
Is he hurt? Is he hurt? I don't know. Apparently, he didn't practice Sunday either, which is very rare for him.
Obviously, at this point, you're not getting any news. You're not getting any updates from anyone, so he could be hurt.
I mean, he's looked like he's struggling. All of a sudden now they've kind of figured out on these breakaways.
They're going to their backhand. You saw Connor Brown score a goal like that.
Somebody else scored a goal like that. I'm just drawing a blank.
But Florida just needs to get that first goal, too. And like I said, going into game six, I was like, everyone's picking the only ones.
I don't like this. I'm kind of panicking because everyone's saying no chance they lose at home.
Edmonton scores first. It ends up 5-1.
But if Florida can get that first one tonight and then the crowd gets going, what happened in game five? I wasn't down there, but Biz and Grinelli, all the guys were there. And they mentioned like the crowd just went silent when Edmonton went up.
Scared. You know what? Yeah, they get scared.
That was game three in Edmonton that these fans, they went in nervous. It's nervous energy.
They're loud, but boom. All of a sudden, it's like, fuck.
It feels like two in a game seven that every shift is like overtime almost. Right.
Can you decline a penalty? They should. I wonder if you can.
I mean, talk about a coach getting fired immediately after the game if they lost, if he's declining penalties. But it's one thing that, yeah, like, Dan, they're getting more chances down a man than they are giving up.
I said that during the Caps Rangers series. I think Big Cat called me an idiot.
I'm like, no, but I think it does work. There's something to it where you're just so pressed on these power plays and you don't even think about defending um it would be awesome if it worked though if a coach did it and uh and it worked out for him that'd be and then they scored that shift five on five yeah yeah that'd be great damn you're really holding on to me calling you an idiot well no it was a lot of people called me an idiot yeah uh so i forgot this one no no i remember i was an i was an idiot for a second i am still.
It's a bad take. Don't get me wrong.
But yeah. So, hey, I got a question, though.
Important question about Biz. Did he just jinx the Oilers? With the champagne? With the champagne spraying.
He doesn't count for anything. He's not a real human being.
He picked the Panthers. He picked the Panthers.
He's picked the Panthers in the series. the series he's playing champagne he picked him every game but he's on so many different substances that are ripping through his body that he might have thought he was at like a pwhl game like he doesn't even know what's going on he's just walking around in biz land with belly button cut off shirts just living his life like i i don't think i saw the champagne and it was discussed and it was more about the fact that that was the last Oilers possible game of the year so all he was in a suite I don't know whose suite they were in so all the suites were given champagne to celebrate a season as a season ticket holder and a suite owner so that's why the champagne was there and the city Edmonton knows the job is far from.
That's just what's so scary about this is you have this legendary comeback and you force this game seven. I know.
Nothing matters if they can't get it done. Yeah, I did spray champagne, I think, after game two of the Stanley Cup.
So I don't necessarily believe in those jinxes. And you guys won.
And we won. But Biz doing it when he's actually picking against that team, it was just very confusing to me.
I didn't know who he jinxing but Nicky smokes he's so confusing he's so confusing Nicky smokes has been the greatest move I mean that's like the one thing that should make you should make you feel comfortable is that Dave has another million dollar bet on the Oilers and it seems like all he can do right now is win I don't know if he pulls this one off it's like he should retire for life because it's insane. This one off and then he hit Scheffler today, I think, for like another 340 grand profit.
It's like, what the fuck is going on with this guy right now? So, yeah, having him in the corner with all his million dollars winners, that's a great thing. And then, as I mentioned, McDavid in 2010, the Olympics in Vancouver, I was on the team.
I wasn't playing really at all. I was sitting on the bench, tied it up, going into OT.
We're in Canada. And you're just thinking like Crosby scoring this goal, right? Like these are the people that are born to do these things that I brought up.
That's why it's like more than Dave's million dollars and more than mush Nikki smokes and more than anything else in this series. I think Connor McDavid is born to end up like winning this game.
Like that'll be his legacy. Not only did he get his first cup in Edmonton, the first cup in Canada since 1993, but he did it coming back from an 0-3 deficit against the best team in the league all year pretty much.
Yeah, it'd be incredible. So who had a better weekend, McDavid or RA? Because I heard that RA and the Oilers lady, are they engaged now? I have no idea.
Apparently RA was representing her and she was talking about OnlyFans and then we brought her on the show in easily the most awkward, bizarre, attended interview that Chickleth has ever been a part of because she got on and I think it just hit her. Like, am i doing right now so ra is telling us that you know she's got only fans and he's reaching out on her behalf i'm like what what world am i living in then she comes on she's like no i don't even want any of this it was like this is bizarre we look like absolute creeps now she's signed with playboy apparently she was at the game i saw her chest bumping with ra and biz once i i'm at home i got the newborn we got cal we got rider wyatt we're just hanging out i'm like what is my show doing what are these guys doing they're with tits piggie they're with biz has a belly shirt on ra's crippled nikki smokes is crying in corner.
What the fuck is happening to the NHL season?

It's been awesome.

Are you going Monday night?

Yeah, it was funny.

We have to go to Vegas for the awards and the draft.

So I had a flight like Tuesday evening.

And, you know, things are crazy around the house right now.

And she's like, are you going to the game?

I was like, no, because I got to go to Vegas Tuesday. And I knew I'd already be away for four or five nights.
She's like, you have to go to that game. Oh, hell yeah.
She knew she's like, you have to. And to be in the building with a chance at like hockey history on the team that I root for, it's going to be something special.
I just can't wait for the vibe of like the game, because like I said before, it's it's every shift is like, just it's just and i think that this i think it's going to do amazing ratings wise because people kind of were dogging on the fact that it wasn't on saturday or sunday it couldn't be saturday with game six friday maybe they do sunday but they've given the teams two days off in between the travel because it's about 9 000 miles away from each other so monday night nothing else on else on TV, and boom, here we go, game seven. Yeah, this has got to be the most mileage that the Cup has ever put on it, right? Because the Cup's in the building when it's a clinching game.
So ever since game four, the Cup's just been going back and forth. Yeah, exactly.
I think that – oh, yeah, I see what you're saying because Boston and Vancouver, I don't know if that was technically further than Florida-Edmonton. But that was 2-2.
So it wasn't going to Game 5. You're right.
The cup is just gas. Apparently, Game 4, which is like a...
I don't know if it's newer. But now when teams have the chance to clinch at the away teams arena, they fly in family, friends, everyone's coming in.
So Florida flew everyone in. They flew in like the morning of the game and then they flew right back out.
I guess on the way back out, like there was a couple like people passing out on the plane from the turbulence, from the dehydration. Then there was a doctor helping people on the plane and the, the, the, the overhead compartment open in a bag, buried him in the head.
If I had known that before game five, I would have known the Oilers were winning because the Florida trip back home for the family members was such a disaster. So then they, they lose that game five.
I guess then the Florida GM's like, nobody's going back there for game six. We're getting the job done.
No, they get smoked. Now they're coming back.
So it's just been crazy to see the switching in what's happened for each team. Because after game three, we were talking about what Florida had done to Edmonton.
And in fairness, Edmonton played unreal in game one. Yeah, they did.
There's a new thing. I guess it's in every sport in every sport but with hockey it's somewhat new i've seen is like the deserve a win meter all these advanced stats like edmonton was like 99 deserve a win meter but bobrovsky stole the show then he gets the shutout in game two where where florida played really well and then game three i already mentioned they just bang bang bang four one.
And that game's over. So even though they were down three, Oh, I was like, Edmonton has played way better than three.
Oh shows, but it's three. Oh, it's done.
They need one more. Holy shit.
We got to seven. It's crazy.
It's awesome. I just did the math real quick.
The cup has traveled. I believe 10,000 miles.
Damn. Damn.
That's a lot of miles. That guy, Phil Pritchard, the keeper of the cup, he's got to be hurting right now.
It's air. Does the cup get frequent flyer miles or does that go to the league? How does that work out? I think the cup could be on a private jet.
I would hope the cup's with league members on a PJ. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Because you got to keep the cup safe back and forth forth.
Whit, moving away from hockey for a quick second, do you have anything to say to Joe Mazzulla's first cousin, Henry Lockwood? Summer of Hank, baby. Poor Maxie's over there crying in his Cheerios, just hating life because Hank keeps on winning.
The man even had to shave his head and looks pretty frigging good, I'd say. Yeah, thanks for it.
I saw a couple pictures of him at Loco, which my friend actually owns. Great spot in South Boston.
And Hank just looked wrecked. He looked crippled.
I said, Summer of Hank, baby. Yeah, he's crushing it.
He thought he saw Kristaps Porzingis, but it turns out. That's what I wanted to ask.
I thought it looked like him, Hank, but were you just so smothered?

You had no idea.

I mean, that guy's probably eight inches shorter than Kristaps.

Yeah, well, it's Sam Hauser's brother, and he's like 6'8".

Joey Hauser, yeah.

He's still, yeah, five or six inches smaller than Porzingis.

But he was like a tall white guy wearing the same hat.

But did you just go up and you're like, hey, Kristaps, can I get a picture?

I said it to Gaz, and he's like, that's not Porzingis.

I was like, oh, shit.

But then I met them before, so I went up and talked to them. Hank looks to him but hank let me ask you a question let me ask you a question as a guy who's whose hair is like thinning and it's slowing down are you a little nervous like that it ain't gonna necessarily grow back to what it was i'm a little nervous for sure uh but i got good reviews on the bald so like worst case scenario can just kind of keep it short.
Yeah. That's true.
That's very true. He said that he got more gazes than Nate's, so that's good.
Well, that's because he had a goddamn hat on the whole time like that idiot sales guy. What do you think about Hank's nap? He took a big nap after the parade.
So that brought me back to Marathon Monday in college. In Boston, it's a very special day, and you rip it up hard.
And you go as hard as you can from about 8.30 a.m. till I'd say 3.30 to 4 in the afternoon.
Then you get a quick shutdown before the big night out. So I did not hate on that nap at all, Hank.
That's exactly what happened. Yeah.
The after party ended at like 4.30. I slept till like 7.30.
Had a great night night I'm a big sleep is death guy though there because like if I go if I if I go to sleep I'm just never getting back up but Dan that's that's us old yeah true at younger you you hop back up ready to go and the only other option would be to do some very illegal RA substances instead of napping and you don't want to be a part of that.

No Hank would not do that. No you don't want to do that at all.

It actually reminds me. No Hank you wouldn't do that right?

Absolutely not. Remember Hank when we went

to the final four in

Wisconsin beat Kentucky and then they played

Duke on Monday night. Sunday we had

this like client thing and I made

the clients give me

they're like we're going to show you the court

and like you're going to get to go see the whole

court and everything and I was like I have

to drink while we're on the court and they're like you can't

Thank you. the clients give me we they they're like we're gonna show you the court and like you're gonna get to go see the whole court and everything and i was like i have to drink while we're on the court they're like you can't i was like if you don't let me drink while we're on the court i'm done like i have yeah that's it i'm going i'm going to bed and i'm done and so they let me bring like a sprite and vodka as i walked around on the on the court i was like there's just no way once the seals open yeah you're I stop drinking, I'm going to be hung over and then I'm done.
One hour of not a drink and you're just like, I want to go home so bad. If you see, if I look at a couch, I'm done for the night.
Yeah, right. You sit down for too long.
That's too good. I sat down and not getting up.
Well, that's why the thing I've been thinking about was that was a crazy two days. Feels like Biz has been doing that for a week straight.
I don't know how him know. I don't know him and our air alive.
He's an animal. Did you guys see the did you see the clip on chiclet? So biz hadn't drank in about nine months, I think.
And I don't even know how he does that. It's crazy.
He's very he's very active in the weed game, I'd say, throughout that that process. But so we went to Edmonton.
You know, he went to Florida to start the he's been to every game. He'll have gone to every game, I think.
And he hadn't drank and he starts drinking. And then the first pod we did after he started drinking, he just started off.
He goes, boys, I forgot how awesome drinking was. He is so back in the mix.
And he's just hammering pints. He's crushing Pink Whitney.
He's just doing everything. And yeah, the biz bender.
And then the fact that we go

from this to Vegas. I know.

And then he goes to the Calgary

Stampede, which is an all-time

10-day rager

in Calgary. So who knows

when the hell. At the end of this thing,

we're going to see another nine-month

California sober biz. Yes, yes.

I mean, it is. Just watching R.A.
and going like, I don't know how either of them are alive and just listening also to spit and chiclets like RA's voice when he's like, it shows the show. It's great.
This is what people love though, because they want to see everyone get in the mix. You know, it's like you guys are, you're not covering it journalists you're covering it with tank tops and champagne we see our we see some friends of ours that are like legit journalists or legit on tv at these cup finals games and all of us just have beautiful buzzes on and they're just like you know they're they're going to have their beers when they're done when the game's over we're like ah they're like what is wrong with you guys like chiclets baby yeah biz has to be so happy that the cup's on uh espn and not not on tnt so he doesn't have to work afterwards right because i know he couldn't be doing half this stuff i think if he if he had to get on t maybe he could he is built different yeah who knows with that guy it's every other year so yeah next year there will not be the uh the run of the Cup Finals that we're seeing right now.

How much credit do you give yourself personally for the Oilers

having this type of resilience?

Because, I mean, going down 3-0 in Stanley Cup,

it's tough to battle back from.

But getting told that you stink and that you suck by Ryan Whitney

has got to be pretty demoralizing too.

So you sewered them multiple times this year.

I quit. I quit.

Yeah, you had to do your emergency press conferences. Yep, I quit when to the san jose sharks the worst team in the league and um yeah i would say i regret that one a little bit i've i've i've i've said how sorry i was and and i i gotta be honest i never stopped watching games and i knew i really couldn't quit them but i felt like i had to quit them and maybe that woke them up.
I would like to think it was me a little bit in the end. It might've been the coaching change and McDavid and dry Seidel and some amazing play from Evan Bouchard and many others.
But now that, now that they're at where they're at, it's like, well, thank God I did that. It did.
It did possibly get these guys going. Sure.
I can't wait to see i can't wait if they can get it done i'm gonna get down in the room i'm friends with the the equipment managers there and i i'm gonna sneak my way down there maybe get a picture with the cup and say hey guys you're welcome yeah they probably just gonna throw up or get your name on the cup yeah i get my name on the cup one way or the other yeah all right so last question rowback question, rollback question, R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com, promo code TAKE, 20% off your first purchase, Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Instead of a prediction, why don't you give me what it looks like for the Panthers? What do they have to do to win? And what do the Oilers have to do to win? Panthers to win need Bobrovsky to play great.
The Oilers have proven that they're going to be able to get their

chances and they're going to be able to have chances and opportunities to score. He's let in some weak goals, I'd say.
He's going to need to be great and they're going to need to score a power play goal. The Oilers, I don't think they really need to change much.
I think one thing that they made this third line, as I said before, they've switched up their lines constantly and all of a sudden they have this third line of yanmark henrik and connor brown connor brown was brought in this year he tore his acl last year couldn't play this year he comes in on a one-year deal and he's got the ability to play with mcdavid they played in junior together there's all this promise and he didn't score for about 65 games, whatever it was. Like, it was a nightmare for the guy.
And I said before the playoffs, like, it doesn't matter how bad you are in the regular season. You can change the entire discussion of your season based on a playoff performance.
He was this healthy scratch. I think the first four or five games of the playoffs and has been incredible since.
So that third line has been huge for them. If that third line can get a goal and then their power play can get a goal, Edmonton goes on and wins the Stanley Cup.
So I know I'm mentioning both power plays, but when they're that valuable in a game like this, you got to think that both teams get two to three. I think the refs hopefully will keep it pretty even and at least give a chance to one team if another team has a chance, you know, you can't really end up calling this game three power plays for one and none for the other, unless it's really dominating on that one team's aspect or ability to play the game.
But I just think it's goaltending in games like this. So Stuart Skinner is undefeated in games four through seven, this playoff.

Biz told us a story about Wayne Gretzky because Wayne Gretzky's brother

is in the Edmonton organization.

Said, Stuart Skinner, you might not think he's an elite goaltender,

but every step of the way he's won big games and he's shown up in big moments.

And he's like, that's the guy who at some point will win us a cup.

That's what, you know, Biz told us that story.

So, there is something for those big game goalies. That's a real thing.
Just show up when it matters. That guy's done that.
I guess he's the youngest of 10 kids, so you know he was just, as a youngster, just trying to get anything he could, just looking for food at dinner, just getting beat on by older siblings. And he seems like a super level-headed guy too like he does interviews after he plays bad he's like soft spoken very open about what he was bad with he's not trying to blame others just seems like a real level-headed guy and that I mean a personality trait like that only can help you though the higher the pressure he did an interview today I saw where he's like I've been dreaming about this my whole life and I can't wait for tomorrow so every guy's gonna say that and and I just can't wait to see how it plays out it's it's true drama and it's gonna be an amazing game because he's from Edmonton too yeah that's the other part it's like all the pressure to win a cup for the Oilers and I know that there's like, Canadians who probably hate the Oilers.
But overall, I would think that tonight the entire country or most of the country is rooting for them to get the cup back to Canada. It's the McDavid part.
McDavid kind of transcends that, I would imagine. I was thinking that I think that Toronto Maple Leafs fans probably aren't.
And I think that Montreal fans might not be rooting for them, too, so that they can say like, we're the last team to win it. Yeah, that's, that's possibly true.
I don't know about Toronto as much as Calgary fans definitely aren't. Calgary fans, the battle of Alberta, they're not fucking around.
They don't need Edmonton with a cup, especially as they head towards like a rebuild, but you know, and I know they beat Vancouver. So maybe those fans are.
But overall, I think some people in Canada that even though they have their favorite teams, they want to see the cup come back to where they think that the game originated from. It's coming home.
I guess it did. So this is it's interesting because going into this game seven, I feel like if Edmonton wins, this is the most iconic Stanley Cup finals in history, right? I think so, too.
Yeah, I think so. Being down three nothing, fighting back.
And McDavid's first. And McDavid's first cup.
Yeah. Going up against the Panthers.
Everything says bet on Edmonton in this game because it would be an all-time moment for the NHL. It would be an all-time moment for the league.
And then at the same time, Florida has this panic for fucking three straight games. and then if they can get it done it's like oh who gives a shit we won the cup like it just it's so crazy that that the difference in storylines depending on who wins this game because no matter what if edmonton loses like yeah amazing comeback but it did you could have just lost that fourth game at home like you lost the cup.
And yeah, 15 years ago, Sidney Crosby, who was the next great one and has turned in, who outperformed every single expectation that was laid before him. He won his first Stanley Cup in a game seven on the road in 2009.
And now the next greatest player since Sid has a chance on the road to get his first in 2024. So the storylines are just through the roof.
Paul Maurice, I believe he has the most wins in the history of the league without a Stanley Cup. He was this close up 3-0.
There's that coaching storyline. Knoblockch and him, I think it's the biggest margin or the

biggest difference between games coached

in the NHL and the history of the league going

up against each other in the cup finals.

There's just so many different things that

you can point towards to

this game decides

everything. You get the greatest player in

the game in the greatest game possible.

It's a dream scenario for the league.

Are we expecting on the officiating side, referees swallow their whistles in game seven? I would hope so. I think that they will.
I think like even those guys know, like let the players decide this thing. And I would be shocked if we don't have a really well-reffed game tonight because like looking at how the finals has gone, I know there have been a couple complaints from Panthers fans maybe a maybe a couple calls have gone towards the Oilers but overall I think it's been good and and and I know I'm biased but I think that if you're watching these games you know that the guys are letting the refs are letting the guys decide who's going to get this thing done so it should be no different tomorrow night a blatant penalty call it but it.
But little ticky tack stuff, you got to let that stuff go on both sides. Let the boys play.
Yeah, yeah. All right.
Well, Whit, have fun. Hopefully the Oilers bring it home and have fun in Vegas.
And thanks as always. We love having you on.
All right, guys. Hey, Big Cat, you going to Beer Olympics? We got kicked out.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Real shame. Real shame that we got kicked out.
What a bum a bummer such a bummer i really wanted to go and spend a full day in nashville and uh drink get my ass kicked by a bunch of offensive linemen and beer drinking pft what happened with the hair and the leaf blower yeah it was a tough little incident there uh all-time all-time moment so we were trying to look a little scared in that were wrecked, I guess. I was hammered.
So I was only competing for like, I feel like it was 30, 40 minutes. So I only drank, I think, seven or eight beers during those 40 minutes.
But I was drinking afterwards because you don't have anything to do except watch other people drink. So you're going to sit down and have some beers.
After it was over, we tried to get Dana Beers into a balloon by filling it up with hot air with a leaf blower, as one does.

And it wasn't really cooperating.

So I was bent over trying to lift this fucking balloon up.

And he's a he's a girthy man.

He's got legs.

And so it's trying to lift this thing up.

We've got the leaf blower in there on full speed. And my hair gets sucked into the intake of it.

And I just feel it jerk my head.

And then because everyone's yelling and having a great time, no one can hear me saying, stop, stop leaf blower oh this is serious yeah no it was serious so it was in there for i i don't even know how long it was and probably it felt like it was 20 seconds probably not that long uh when it was actually turned on uh but then i uh i just have to take get down on a knee and we're holding the leaf blower there so it doesn't pull out anymore my hair. And I'm looking at Zach from the bachelor and he's looking at me and I can see the fear in his actual bachelor.
Yeah. I can see the fear in his eyes.
And I know that it's bad because he's like, he's, he takes good care of himself. And so when he's looking at hair, that's caught somewhere, you can tell when he's scared.
And then I feel big cat coming up behind me. And I was just like, don't let the most drunk person here do anything irreversible to my hair and zach looks at me he's like it's going to be okay this is all that we have to do there's only one way to do this and then big cat comes and just snips off so that then i saw some videos later and it looks my hair i had a great hairline almost uh no hair loss whatsoever until they cut that thing out and now I'm going bald because they cut the hair thing out.

So big cat made me bald.

It was never going to happen.

I tried to get the hair out of the thing without the scissors

because I was like in my drunken stupor.

I deal with my daughter's hair all the time, like ponytails and that shit.

And so like I've gotten a little bit better at it.

So I was like, I got this.

Like I've done this shit before I got it. And I started to pull it out and it just was it was it was stuck a thousand different ways in that thing yeah there's no way i was like it's scissors time it was the right decision but in the moment you and you're hammered and you're you don't know what's going to happen because if that thing turns back on i feel like it's going to rip my scalp off so yeah it was, it was a little scary, but I think we made the right call.

Yeah.

And, of course, in summer of Hank fashion,

he goes bald winning a championship,

and you go bald by a leaf blower in a case race.

You see me not puke?

I didn't puke.

Yeah, very impressive.

I'd be puking everywhere.

Most people are kind of pussies, and they'd be puking.

I did not puke.

You would have puked if you tried actually getting the hair out of that leaf blow. That's why you used the scissors.
All right, Whit. Maybe someday case race for you.
Never. Come on.
Never. Come on.
You have to admit it was fun. I'll come announce it.
You have to admit it looked like a good time. It did look fun.
We were just beating the fuck out of Brandon. He texted me halfway through.
He's like, I think I'm going to quit.

We're just beating him up.

It was bad, yeah.

But Brandon does a good job of being the hapless WWE ref that just gets shit on,

and he's just crying the entire time.

It was great.

Yeah.

All right, man.

All right, we'll have fun tomorrow night, and we're rooting for the Oilers.

All right, guys.

Appreciate that.

Have a great one.

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Okay, Mount Rushmore season. Boys, so a couple things.
If you're new to this podcast, Mount Rushmore season starts right after the NBA finals goes till football comes back we will do Mount Rushmore's of everything anything and everything so please submit any that you'd like to hear maybe best pizza toppings best pizza toppings a good one we've been doing it for eight years or This is our eighth year, so we've done a lot. I asked for submissions, and a lot of people submitted things we'd already done.
We could do some throwbacks, but we still have a bunch that we've never done. I would say that if we do throwbacks, they should be like 2016 or 2017.
Right, right, right, where we don't even remember it. Also, shout out our guy, Stu Feiner,

who doesn't understand how Mount Rushmore season works because I asked for Mount Rushmore submissions,

and he said, lifetime body count, most women in a day,

most donuts eaten, most cups of Stella Blue coffee,

which I've drank 15 in 12 hours.

I'll have more, but for now, how about that?

That's a good start.

Mount Rushmore of most women in a day. women in a day i'll start one uh are we talking 24 hours yeah i think in 120 yeah it's one okay but yeah he doesn't really understand it all right so uh what are we gonna do for a punishment so we're gonna do solos this year.
Hank, Max, PFT, and I are all going to be on our own. What should we do for punishment? I had an idea.
I don't know if this translates well, but we've all got a shitload of numbers in our phones, right? Like we've accumulated them over the years. Okay.
What about cell phone roulette where the loser has to have their phone scrolled through and then randomly they have to make 10 phone calls to people who are in their phone friends that they've known from years past somebody whose number got put in their phone at like a a networking event in 2011 oh that's dastard and you have to try to have a conversation with Okay. You have to keep doing it until you have 10 minute long conversations.
I think you get more than a minute. One veto.
Yeah, you got to have a veto. You got to have a veto.
Yeah. You got to have a veto.
You get one veto. I like that.
But like my skin's crawling just thinking about it. What about, so if they don't pick up? I'm going to lose this fucking thing.
No, you're not. Just pick, don't pick Jerome Bettis.
I'm the least creative. If they don't pick up, does it count as a call? Because I think you can't get 10 calls.
Like, I mean, you can't get 10. If we have to make it 10 answers, that could take forever.
10-minute-long conversations. But I think it should be you have to do 10 calls.
You have to have at least five answers or something. Well, because the punishment we did last year was the 24-hour stream, right? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, so that took a long time.
Yeah. I just think, yeah, I mean, that.
We could do it. 24-hour stream better for the for the fans well you don't need to do a finalized one we don't but we also could do that we could do that idea and we could make it we could edit it so that we get 10 calls and put it on the podcast yes because that would be interesting because like if you have if you have called 20 people they don't pick up we could just out the people who don't pick up and put it on the podcast i like that one veto but people could also potentially go through their phones ahead of time and take if it looks like you're going to lose and take out some real hot button names i don't really have hot button names i just have i think there's just a shitload of people i don't want to call yeah i don't want to talk to anybody on the phone.
And I don't really know who I don't want have hot button names. I just have, I think there's just a shitload of people I don't want to call.

Yeah.

I don't want to talk to anybody on the phone.

And I don't really know who I don't want to call until their number came up.

Yeah.

Can you scroll?

Because we used to do this in college when we were drunk.

We would do, on the old flip phones, we'd do it, where you just press down.

You can scroll, right?

Yeah, you swipe it up and it scrolls.

Yeah, you can swipe up.

So just scroll at random and then stop.

All right. I do think that a lot of people just won't answer.
Like, how many times do you answer a phone call from, although, no. They might have your number, too.
You do know them. Because you do know them.
They'll be like, why is this person calling me? Yeah. And they'll be like, hey.
Yeah, right. I would just play it off like, oh, it must be that software thing where we both called each other.
Crazy. Well, you can't do it.
I think you have to try and make a conversation.

Oh, man.

This is good.

It could be bad.

All right. I'm doing a random swipe.

I also don't think that we should.

I'm doing a random swipe.

I'm going to come in last.

Wait.

You're doing it?

Yeah. I'm doing a random swipe.
It's going to be completely random. Oh.
Yeah. I just wanted to hang up on him so bad.
I it was either Darren or Marlinsman No No it was not Marlinsman It was not Marlinsman Marlinsman You'll see when we do the intern interviews Marlinsman invited me To some things And then I was like I'm going to in vegas and then he sent me his top three strip clubs uh okay who wants to go first we got to do uh some sort of random drawing for this i like this punishment though i think it's i think it's the i think it's phone roulette at the end of the summer well let's also see let's if you have some good ideas you know it's a good punishment when Max can't talk. Yeah, when he hates it.
He can't talk anymore. We'll see some ideas.
How about you just win? I'm not going to win. I know I'm going to lose.
Maybe you're the only other person who could lose. It's you or me.
No, these are going to be anonymous polls. It doesn't matter.
We've split up the SPOC. We could also make it more fun this summer and have it be the same PFT's idea, but it could be last place has to do four, second to last place has to do three, second place has to do two, winner has to do one.
Yeah. Winners should have to do none.
Yeah, winners should do none. But it would be fun.
What's the point of winning? What's the pressure? Yeah, but that's what I't be this the severity of the loss wouldn't hurt so bad severity of the loss should be bad okay it should be i think it should be two ten minutes you should feel the pressure okay all right all right so then we'll just keep it to 10 but if anyone has a good idea for a punishment let us us know. We're open to everything.
Let us know. Okay.

Get a perm.

Who wants... I thought we were going to do a positive Mount Rushmore season.

That was on...

I was slamming myself.

I know, but Hank is going to get mad.

I'm not mad.

I have the perm scheduled.

All right.

Should we do closest to the number or something?

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Guess.

40.

8.

80.

65.

I like my chances.

Yeah.

No, you have the best number.

I think you have no 8.

88. Let's go.
88. Max, what would you like the order to be? I'm going to go second.
I'm going to go second. Well, let's keep it in a circle.
So either PFT goes first or Hank goes first because it's going to rotate for the whole summer, and this is how we always sit. So to not fuck it up.
Yeah. You know what I mean? I'll let Hank go first.
All right. So I'm going fourth.
So then the next one I'll go first. Yes.
Yes. Okay.
All right. Hank.
I'm happy I got the first pick. I feel like it's an easy overall 1-1.

Cristiano Ronaldo.

Ooh.

Okay.

Interesting.

He has won some trophies.

But the World Cup is the big one.

It is the big one.

I like that. The World Cup is the biggest trophy in sports, biggest event in sports.

I like that a lot.

It's never won.

I like that.

Messi has.

Correct.

Yes.

Facts. It's actually a small trophy.
I like that a lot. It's going to get people pissed.
I know. Pissed.
It's crazy, too, considering how good Brazil has been over these years, and he still hasn't managed to find a way to win one with them. That's true.
Okay, Max. Big second pick.
I'm going to go Jim Kelly. Oh.
It seems mean, but yeah. Okay.
Yeah, he can't win the big one. Okay.
I can't believe this fell to me. Yeah.
Dan Marino. Yeah, that was going to be my pick.
Dan Marino should be one. I was going between Jim Kelly and Dan Marino, but Jim Kelly lost four big ones in a row.
That's true. That's the definition of not winning the big one.
He did win the big one. He did lose four big ones.
He can't win the big one. Dan Marino could even barely make the big one.
He made one of the big ones. But not as many as.
Yeah. Yeah, but he was really, really good.
can't win the big one. Dan Marino couldn't even barely make the big one.
He made one of the big ones. But not as many as...
Yeah. But he was really, really good.
Can't win the big one. Yeah, but yeah.
I mean, Jim Kelly was there four times. I was between Jim Kelly and Dan Marino, but just being there four times, I feel like, is the definition of can't win it.
That's an all-time clip from Fox on CBS. I think it was Boomer Sison said if he doesn't get his act together, they're talking about Peyton Manning.
Yeah. Peyton Manning doesn't win one.
Then he'll just always be known as, like, a Dan Marino-type guy that can't win the big one. Yeah.
And then Dan Marino's sitting right next to him. He's like, what? Why did you say that? Yeah.
Okay. Hmm.
I was going to go Dan Marino. Jim Kelly's a good pick.
I'll go with, as much as it hurts me to say, Charles Barkley.

It doesn't really hurt me, but couldn't win the big one.

Charles Barkley.

Couldn't win the big one.

Max, since he's become the producer of PMT.

That's my second pick.

I had Max. Charles Barkley, and then Max, since he's become the producer.
I mean, he literally, you want to talk about Jim Kelly, he can't win the big one. Yeah, can't do it.
Can't win the big one. That's a good pick.
Thank you. I thought he would be on the board later.
Yeah, the fourth pick is tough because it's going to be a long time until it gets back to me, but I feel good about my picks. All right, so I'm up again? Yes.
Snake draft. Yes.
All right, second pick is going to be Chris Paul. Yep.
Chris Paul can't win the big one. Just can't do it.
He's never going to win the big one. Never going to win the big one.
Absolutely not. Is anyone going to do Connor McDavid? I think they're going to win.
Okay. But as of right now, he can't win the big one.
You're kind of saying that he has won the big one already. Yeah, you're calling it over.
Well, yeah, by the time people – some people might listen to this podcast Tuesday and you sound like a fool. Okay.
Is there going to be a, like, Hawk Tuesday? Yeah. All right, Max, you're up.
I'm going to go James Harden. Oh, good pick.
Good pick. Good pick.
How much of that was James and how much of it was the city of Philadelphia? Well, he's done it everywhere. 166 career playoff games.
Whoa. That's a lot.
Can't win the big one. Okay.
I will go with, hmm, I don't know if I want to stay with two sports here. Barry Bonds.
Okay. I had him on my list, but it's always tough with baseball.
But, yes, he could not win the big one. Yeah, the greatest.
Yeah, no, he couldn't win the big one. You're right.
Oh, shit. Yeah, you don't get that discourse as much with baseball.
A-Rod had it for a while. He did.
Yeah. You never get it with, like, Mike Trout.
No. Well, he's got to make make the playoffs.
We'll do another one. Make the playoffs.
The wild card is his big one. Okay.
Joel Embiid. Oh, good pick.
Very good pick. He can't even win the one before the big one.
Any playoff game is a big one. But the second round is his big one and and he hasn't been able to win that you had to go ring chasing to sign up for team usa yeah that's how desperate he is to win a big one yeah what do you think about that pick max uh i'm happy that it was picked before me okay because you were gonna take him no i was not gonna take him but i'm just i'm i'm happy okay because a bad pick, and somebody else has it.
I'm going to go with Randy Moss. Ooh.
Now we're fighting here. That was on my list, but I couldn't win myself to say it.
Yeah, couldn't win the big one. Good pick.
Okay. I'm going to go Kyle Shanahan.
Ah, good one. Recent addition to the list.
Good one. But it's a bubbling narrative.
Friend of the show. Sorry, Kyle.
Yeah, no, he can't win the big one. But, I mean, he's just had a couple big ones that he should have won.
Can't win the big one. And he didn't.
I'm going to do a pick that will probably get me last place, but I don't care because if we're trying to get the most interaction, which I think we all agree. Oh, no.
What? Go ahead. Caitlin Clark can't win the big one i had to can't win the big one she has not been able to win the big one that's a good pick that's a good pick had her on my list that's gonna be no i think that's a good one that might be a winner that might be a winner oh they're gonna get so bad she cannot win the big one Fact or fiction.
She lost. Angel Reese can win the big one.
Yeah, she's a better winner.

Oh. They're going to get so bad.
She cannot win the big one. Fact or fiction.
She lost. Angel Reese can win the big one.
Yeah, she's a better winner. Okay.
I have one more pick. Karl Malone could never win the big one.
I mean, he literally couldn't win the big one with the Jazz, went to the Lakers trying to win the big one. Chased the big one.
And lost to, I know he got hurt that year, but lost to the Pistons, so can't win the big one. That's right.
Usually he chases little ones, not big ones, but he did that when he went away. All right.
Last pick. That would have been funny if it was like when Kendrick was doing his pop-up show,

if it had been like 20 years ago, and he had all the Lakers out.

What's interesting, you said Kendrick right there, Big Cat.

Oh.

Because my pick was going to be Drake.

Oh.

Can't win the big one.

He lost the big one.

He did lose the big one.

He lost a couple big ones. Has he not?

He keeps losing the big ones. Yeah.
He won against Meek, though. Oh.
But he's from Philly. Was that a big one.
He did lose the big one. He lost a couple big ones.
Has he not? He keeps losing the big ones.

Yeah.

He won against Meek, though.

Oh.

But he's from Philly.

Was that a big one?

Yeah, that doesn't count.

Okay, Max.

Yeah, Drake.

Good pick.

I'm going to go...

All right, now.

I'm going to go Henrik Lundqvist.

Oh, good one.

The king without a ring. Yep.
That's a great pick, Max. That's a great pick.
All right, now I'm going to go Henry Klumquist. Oh, good one.
The king without a ring. Yep.
That's a great pick, Max. That's a great pick.
All right, Hank, finish us off. Then we got a bunch of honorable mentions.
There's some good ones still left out there. Go Barry Sanders.
Oh, yeah. I feel bad.
He wasn't in contention. Yeah, he was he was never close.
That was one that I thought about. Kalen Clark was going to be my home run anchor pick.
Yeah. Yeah.
I took her. She can't win.
I didn't want to do more baseball. All right.
What else we got? I have Ken Griffey Jr. Yep.
Baseball is tough, though. You're right.
I didn't want to do baseball because it's much harder To be like one guy who couldn't win it Basketball and football, it's like on you Ty Cobb Ty Cobb couldn't win the big one We can't do teams, but US Men's National Team Can't win the big one They literally cannot win the big one We could do the state of Minnesota I had the Bills as a whole, Jim Kelly's good though yeah elgin baylor oh eight finals appearances lost everyone yeah that's tough mark few yep can't win the big one yep cannot win the big one even make a final four yep i had i had peyton manning on my list because i still feel like we should say peyton can't win the big one do you know i have on my list that you could make the argument has won a big one but you could also make the argument has not? Who? Kevin Durant. Yeah.
He can't win the big one. It wasn't the big one.
He can't win the big one. Not on his own.
Steph won those big ones. I had Gordon Bombay, the player.
Yep. Choke artist.
That's a good one. Dak.
Dak can't win the big one. OJ.
OJ couldn't win the big one. Well, his case was pretty big.
That's the biggest one. That was the biggest one.
He won his freedom. Yeah.
Greg Norman. He's 2-0 in knife fights.
Yeah. Greg Norman, Tony Finau.
Yeah. Unfortunately, I love Tony Finau.
Greg Norman's a good one, yeah. Allen Iverson.
Yeah. Can't win the big one.
He had the worst team of all time around him.

Okay.

Reggie Miller.

Reggie Miller couldn't win the big one.

Big time couldn't win the big one.

Germany.

Patrick Ewing.

Patrick Ewing couldn't win the big one.

Me and Super Bowl Futures.

Can't win the big one.

Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby.

Did she lose?

I think she lost.

She got paralyzed, right?

I don't know. I never saw that movie yeah that's too bad england england couldn't win the big just in lots of stuff in a lot of stuff yeah yeah who's the is there an actor who hasn't been able to win the big one it was leo for a while yeah and but then he won the big one it was scorsese too right for for best picture because i don don't think Goodfellas won best picture.
He got hosed on that one. But then I think the departed finally.
That got him over the hump. Bob Odenkirk.
He's not been able to win the big one? He gets robbed every year. Shit.
I think. Damn.
Some of the best can't win the big ones. Yeah, Peyton Manning was one of the best can't win the big one debates.
Yeah, I'll never be able to forgive him for winning a Super Bowl, for taking that away from us. Phil was a great can't win the big one.
Sergio. Yep.
Those rocked. Just can't win the big one.
Connor McDavid, if he doesn't win tonight. Yeah, he's definitely on that list.
He'll be hard in the can't win the big one. Yeah, Kaitlin Clark is definitely already on that list.
Yeah, I mean, she literally cannot win the big one.

And I don't know what else you could say about it.

That's going to get people mad.

Real mad.

You could make the argument Taylor Swift hasn't won the big one because no one's proposed to her.

That's the ultimate one.

No rings. We're talking about rings.
Can I amend my last pick and make it Taylor Swift? All right. Anything else? It's a good show, boys.
Good show. It's good to be back in the studio with the boys.

We've got a great show on Wednesday.

Such a shame.

Such a shame that whatever the fuck.

What do they call it now?

Beer games?

Yeah, the beer games.

The beer games.

After the case race.

You want to do a two-minute case race recap?

I think I'm not drinking beer ever again. People were wondering.
I was so out of it. I don't ever want to drink.
When Missoula invited me, I told you after. I was like, none of that really processed in my mind because I was just definitely hungover.
Yeah, if you haven't watched it, PFT and Hank joined us for the Yak case race on Friday. It was a Royal Rumble case race.
We were all dressed as wrestlers. I had to cut PFT's hair out of a leaf blower.
It was, Hank, you started the first fight, Hank. Yeah.
I was so violently hung over. It reminded me why I'm washed as a human being.
Yeah, we had to come into work at 9am next day, and it was interesting. It was very, very tough.

Brains were dead.

Yeah, but that was one of those moments that I woke up on Thursday, and I was like,

if you had told me we had done that case race, and then we had to be in Vegas for the Beer Olympics,

I would have probably quit.

No, I quit drinking.

I'm never drinking beer again.

No, I didn't at the Sphere.

I was like, I'm not drinking.

Me neither.

I'm doing drugs, but I'm not drinking. Yeah.
California's sober.'t at the Sphere. I was like, I'm not drinking.
Me neither. I'm doing drugs, but I'm not drinking.

Yeah.

California sober.

Way better way to go.

Mincy sober.

Yeah.

I finger fucked Stephen Shea's face.

Yeah, you did.

Found his G spot.

Yep.

Squirted.

Yep.

The clip Stephen Shea was in the bathroom puking, and someone was filming him from in

the bathroom, and he's literally going, oh, crying about how bad he felt. And then he must have been on his phone he goes kelsey plum only has three rebounds and then he had another clip where he was crumpled in the bathroom that was like an hour later and he stood up and he just started telling himself he's like i'm neo i'm in the matrix and then came out and just looked so bad it was just so chaotic it's crazy i mean we have

people that can drink a lot of beer i'm not one of them so like we had guys drinking 15 beers

being like come on keep drinking i was like i drink nine beers in an hour i'm i'm i'm done if

i keep drinking i'm gonna puke yeah and i did i didn't thank god held it in uh shane i might

have said something about you earlier just so you know you want to put the headphones on

Thank you. Held it in.
Shane, I might have said something about you earlier. Just so you know.
You want to put the headphones on? Shane is our great behind-the-scenes guy who we've, I don't know why it started, but we've just started. Well, he's a weird guy, but we've also started just making up stuff about him.
Well, no, it's not made up. It's real.
Yeah. You haven't had a sandwich until last week, right? I might that the hawk to a girl oh you did oh yeah and but you agree you do hawk to a your own dick yeah that's a yes yeah that's a yes that was a yes that's weird dude that's fucking weird the old self-suck no he didn't not even sucking he's just spitting on his own dick and then jerking off It's crazy Lubing himself off Okay numbers 8 20 3 44 56 99 pug 21 on.
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