Derrick White, Adam Thielen, Hank Shaves His Head And Gets An Incredible Offer From A Special Call In

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Speaker 1 On today's part in my take,

Speaker 1 Hank shaves his head.

Speaker 4 Lockwood always pays his debts.

Speaker 1 Lockwood always pays his debts. We have Derek White,

Speaker 1 Boston Celtic champion, on the podcast because he was the original person who

Speaker 1 we did the bet with. So he shows, he comes on the show.
We talk to him about

Speaker 1 what was it, Monday night? Yeah, Monday night, what it's been like after the parade coming up.

Speaker 1 We also have very special guest Adam Thielen from the Carolina Panthers. Great interview with him.
We're going to talk about J.J. Reddick to the Lakers.
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Today is Friday, June 21st, and Hank is going to shave his head.

Speaker 5 Let's go, Hank. Let's do it.

Speaker 1 Hank.

Speaker 4 I think you're going to look good, Hank.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So if you're watching the show,

Speaker 1 he's shaving it right now live on air.

Speaker 1 He's going to look good. I feel good about this.
Hank, walk us through what you're thinking about. Then we're going to talk some other sports.

Speaker 9 I think, you know,

Speaker 9 I'm a man of my word. This show is built on being a man of your word.
I said I was going to do something, and I'm doing it. So,

Speaker 9 you know,

Speaker 9 someone here has to be accountable.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 It seems like you should just celebrate what you're doing right now instead of trying to make a pointed reference.

Speaker 9 Well, I don't want to do it. Like, you know, some people, when they don't want to do it, they just kind of avoid it or say, blame other people and say they can't do it.

Speaker 4 No, it's memes' fault.

Speaker 9 I don't really want to be doing this. You can appreciate it.

Speaker 8 But I said I would do it as a man

Speaker 4 that knows how tough memes can be to work with. Memes ruin the scheduling of the perm.

Speaker 8 But this isn't about my perm, Hank. This is about I didn't, I didn't bring up your perm.

Speaker 1 This is about you looking he didn't bring it up. No, he didn't.
No, he didn't.

Speaker 10 You look great.

Speaker 4 I think this is a good look for you. You might even just be a bald guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, memes said when you, when we went down to just this, so you got it obviously buzzed first. Now you're getting it fully shaved.

Speaker 1 Memes said if you just added some muscle, you'd just be every dude from Long Island.

Speaker 9 Yeah. I mean, the eyebrows through the eyebrows, I think it really exposes how, I don't know, I got to do something with them.
We can clean them up.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We can clean them up.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 9 It makes me look, I just look like a

Speaker 1 scary. You want to shout out your barber? Yeah.

Speaker 9 Joel Fresh cuts. Shout out to my guy.
Pulls up to the office. Great golfer.
Great dude. Follow him on Instagram.
Golfer.

Speaker 4 I think every.

Speaker 1 Wait, you guys have golfed together? A couple times. A couple times.
A couple times.

Speaker 4 Everybody Hank knows has played golf with him at some point. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Who doesn't golf with their barber? I love it.

Speaker 1 Hank, no, you have his best score.

Speaker 10 Hank, you do look good.

Speaker 4 There is like a slight prison vibe going on. Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Be honest with me. You look clear.

Speaker 1 No, you do.

Speaker 9 I don't need to hear that shit. I know I look like a psychopath.

Speaker 5 Shank Lockwood.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Like, I feel like if I see this guy, he's wearing a Celtic jersey, probably has a knife in his belt. But I do think you look good.

Speaker 4 And the way that you can tell that you actually look good is because right when you start to get shaved, memes goes, oh, fuck, he actually looks good.

Speaker 4 And memes was rooting for you so badly to just look like a giant penis, and it turns out that you look okay.

Speaker 9 Yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you, again, when Derek White and Pritcher were here, if you told me right then that the Celtics would win the championship, I'd just have to shave my head.

Speaker 9 I'm making that bet 10 times out of 10. I'm going to the parade today should be a good time.

Speaker 9 So, you know what? Fuck it.

Speaker 1 You're ready to go. It's all about confidence.
You're ready to go.

Speaker 1 All right, so we'll update once you get fully shaved.

Speaker 1 We do have news. We have J.J.
Reddick is now the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Oh, memes, are we ready for my surprise?

Speaker 9 I don't like this at all.

Speaker 1 Memes, are we ready for my surprise? Not yet. All right, so just let me know when I have a surprise for Hank.

Speaker 1 But yeah, J.J. Reddick, coach of the Lakers.

Speaker 1 Huge. So the news broke during the Derek White interview, so we mentioned it quickly.
But my first thought was

Speaker 1 it's huge for the podcast community. It is.
Us podcasters can do anything.

Speaker 4 It's important to have representation in the the media.

Speaker 4 Growing up, if you're a kid out there with a podcast, you can look at J.J. Reddick and say, I, too, one day can coach the Lakers.
Yes.

Speaker 4 And, I mean, a little behind the scenes here, but this kind of means that Tommy Alter is the secret advisor to the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 4 So I think that that makes us very powerful, too.

Speaker 1 It does.

Speaker 4 We have the ear of the man with the ear.

Speaker 1 Do you think JJ will continue to come on this show now that he's the Los Angeles Lakers head coach? No. You think he's going to pretend that we never existed? Yes.
Probably.

Speaker 4 I think that's a safe bet.

Speaker 1 I think he'll still throw us a bone once in a while.

Speaker 4 I think maybe

Speaker 1 if he wants to be a champion. If he wants to be a champion.
Yeah, that's a good one. That's true.

Speaker 9 Precedent's been set.

Speaker 4 It's a good point, but also at the same time, there might be a guy on the team that probably doesn't want him to come on to part of my team.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but he already was doing a podcast with said guy.

Speaker 1 Oh, are you talking about LeBron? Yeah, actually, that's our true representation. We could be LeBron as well.
We could, well, yeah.

Speaker 1 You could be LeBron. I'll be JJ.

Speaker 4 LeBron gives me visibility because you can be a podcaster that that loves to drink. Yeah.
And now I'm like, okay, I could also be a multiple-time NBA champion.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. So I mean, good for JJ.
Congrats to JJ. I think we all thought this was going that way.
It is a very weird story on the surface level. Like, JJ, I think, is going to be a good coach.

Speaker 1 So I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve the shot here. But if you had said 15 years ago that there'll be these things called podcasts and

Speaker 1 J.J. Reddick will end up being the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers

Speaker 1 partly because he had a podcast with LeBron James.

Speaker 1 What are you fucking talking about right now?

Speaker 4 Do you think they're going to keep the podcast going?

Speaker 1 I think they have to.

Speaker 4 And then maybe this was just, this might have been a play by both of them just to increase the podcast numbers. True.
Like, LeBron was probably going to retire.

Speaker 4 J.J.'s like, I don't want to be a head coach. Oh, well, you know what's a great way to get the YouTube account up? How about we just work together for the Lakers?

Speaker 1 That's a great fucking point, PFT. And I want it on the record that we've always done this podcast natural.

Speaker 1 We've never dated Taylor Swift. We've never became the Lakers' head coach.
It's the juice ball. It is.
It's crazy. Everyone's got all these tricks and bits.
Trying to get all their numbers up.

Speaker 1 We just show up and we run the ball every day.

Speaker 4 That's all we do. And we do the podcast because we do the podcast.

Speaker 1 Yeah, while Hank gets his head shaved.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we're not about gimmicks.

Speaker 1 No, fuck that. It is bullshit.
We're competing against the juice ball of the podcasting.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we need to figure out. We were talking about maybe Hank dating Beyonce, stealing away from Jay-Z as a possibility.

Speaker 4 Maybe Max hooking up with Sexy Red. Maybe Memes getting Cardi B pregnant.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just thumbs up that.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I think we got to step it up. I think we really have to figure out a real solid play here.
Actually, Jake, he left part of my take to go

Speaker 4 marry Jill Biden. So Jill is divorcing Joe.

Speaker 1 Dr. Jill?

Speaker 4 Yeah, Dr. Jill is now

Speaker 4 Dr. Jill Marsh.

Speaker 1 I could see Jake,

Speaker 1 I could see Jake being the first,

Speaker 1 what would be the,

Speaker 1 what would he, his wife would be the president.

Speaker 4 Yeah, the first dude.

Speaker 1 First dude of America. Yeah, first dude.
I could see that happening. Very cool, Jake.
Yeah, very cool.

Speaker 4 It was very nice to see all the love and support that Jake got.

Speaker 4 We appreciate that from the AWS. Jake appreciates it a lot.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was one of those moments. We've been doing this for a long time, and we're now faced against the juiced ball podcast era.

Speaker 1 But we have, I think, through the years, built a community and fans that will ride with us no matter what. And we love you guys so much for that.
And

Speaker 1 it showed through when Jake made his announcement on Wednesday's show. And it's just a reminder how lucky we are to have fans like everyone who listens to this show.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we appreciate that. And Jake, I talked to him earlier.
He really, really appreciates everybody and their kind words. So thank you guys for that.
Yes.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 What else we got? Oh, Oh, the Pistons fired their coach.

Speaker 4 I think that this makes the job opening in Detroit way more attractive. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Because you can go there for a year, get fired, and still get paid for the remaining four or five years that you have on your contract. Yeah.
That's a destination I want a part of.

Speaker 1 How much money has Monty Williams made in the last few years to not coach? A lot.

Speaker 4 Not as much as what I, yeah. I mean, I would.
I think he's a great coach, and I think that somebody's probably going to hire him for a decent job in the near future.

Speaker 4 But getting paid money not to work is the American dream.

Speaker 4 And so that's ultimately the best thing that you want to be looking for when you're a head coach, which is why I would want to coach the Pistons. Yeah.
Get fired.

Speaker 1 Six years, $78.5 million is a contract he signed last year. Was it six years? I don't know.
It was $78.5 million. I don't know how many years it was, but

Speaker 1 yeah, six years, $78.5 million.

Speaker 4 I was right. Yeah, so they're like, here's $60 million to not work and you can move out of Detroit.
And that is the best deal ever.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no longer have to coach a 14-win team.

Speaker 4 That's so good.

Speaker 1 The Pistons are, I do feel a little bit bad for the Pistons, just in the fact that we talked about it when they did the lottery.

Speaker 1 They've had just the worst lottery luck possible because they've been the worst team in the NBA for three years running, and they keep getting the fifth pick.

Speaker 4 Yeah, they should just let, like, have a Twitter account or a Twitch stream with polls on it.

Speaker 4 They should just have that run the Detroit Pistons and make all the personnel decisions, all the rotation adjustments. Just have it be done by committee of Pistons fans.

Speaker 1 I like that a lot. I like that a lot.
But yeah, he's living the dream.

Speaker 1 He's able to do nothing and get paid millions and millions of dollars. My hair is fucked up right now.
Damn. Same.
Yeah. Oh, no, but mine's way more fucked up.
Oh,

Speaker 1 get the look.

Speaker 9 We're going to.

Speaker 9 Scary. I look fucking scary.

Speaker 1 Go back.

Speaker 4 Hank, you look good.

Speaker 4 You got to get a little tan on it, but that'll happen. But don't get burned.

Speaker 1 Yeah, what what are you going to do about golf? Are you going to wear a hat? Because you can't wear a hat now as a bald man. Oh, I'm wearing hats all summer.

Speaker 1 But then every time you take it off, you're going to look crazy. You're going to look like Stuart Sink.
I hope it just grows back. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It will, but it's going to be at least a month or two. Eyebrows are a problem.

Speaker 1 We'll clean them up.

Speaker 4 How long till the hair grows back to what it was before you shaved it?

Speaker 9 I think two months, Joel.

Speaker 1 Yeah, two months. Okay, yeah, that's not bad at all.

Speaker 11 It might be a month and a half.

Speaker 1 His hair grows pretty fast. Yeah, he is.
He's got that testosterone bumping through him. Summer of Hank.
Summer of Hank. Other stories I have.

Speaker 9 I'm going to get some toupees.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yep.

Speaker 4 Finally. Do some experimentation.

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 4 You got the golf visor that's got the funny spiky hair poking through.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 The yellow hair. Yeah.
White hair.

Speaker 4 That'd be a good look on you.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see the NCAAs trying to screw up the tournament again? Yeah.

Speaker 4 72 to 76 teams.

Speaker 1 Oh, we got our special guests. Hank, put on your headphones.
We got our special guests. Surprise.
Surprise.

Speaker 1 I told Hank to just trust me. It's a good surprise.
He's grunting. He's grunting.
He's very upset.

Speaker 4 I wonder who it could be.

Speaker 1 All right, let him in.

Speaker 1 It is.

Speaker 1 Here he is.

Speaker 1 It's Coach Joe.

Speaker 1 Do you see him? Look at his hair. It's looking good.

Speaker 11 Hank, you look like you're ready, man.

Speaker 1 I'm ready.

Speaker 9 Anything for the team, Coach? Yes.

Speaker 1 Coach wanted to say something to you though hank

Speaker 11 yeah hank i forgot to uh tell you this the other day but i i uh saved a seat for you on the duck boat with me tomorrow let's go on the coach's duck boat you serious yeah he can't wear a hat right no cannot wear a hat

Speaker 1 that's no problem or a sunscreen or a sunscreen you can't wear sunscreen

Speaker 9 whatever you need whatever you need

Speaker 1 coach you're the best

Speaker 11 i'd love to have you uh spend the day with us so i appreciate it that's be there thank you it's incredible.

Speaker 1 You're the best, coach. Thank you so much for hopping back on to offer that.
And take care of our boy. He now, the odds for Drunkis

Speaker 1 at the parade have changed drastically because Hank is now going to be on a duck boat with you.

Speaker 11 We'll see if we can get some moonshine for you.

Speaker 1 Let's go, Hank.

Speaker 1 What a day. What a day.
Summer of Hank, right, Coach?

Speaker 1 All right. Coach, thank you so much.
Nice, coach. See you tomorrow.
The best. The absolute best.

Speaker 1 and then we had another special guest. Yes, you're going on Coach Missoula's duck boat tomorrow.

Speaker 9 That's insane.

Speaker 1 He texted me yesterday. He's like, hey, I want, he's like, do you think Hank can get there by 9.30 in the morning? I was like, yes.
I mean,

Speaker 9 it's going to be tough to beat the make-a-wish allegations.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 So, Hank, do you have a strategy in terms of how you're going to pace out your drinking? No.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 4 That's a bad strategy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You just got to go for it.
The other special guest we had was

Speaker 1 our good friend Max. I wanted to see what his take was on that.
I had him join the Zoom as well.

Speaker 1 Max?

Speaker 1 Max? Are you there? Did you see that? Did you see Coach Joe Missoula invite Hank on a duck boat for the parade? He's going to be on a duck boat with the coach of the Boston Celtics. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 For their parade? Is he here? Max?

Speaker 4 I think Max is refusing to join.

Speaker 1 Oh, come on.

Speaker 4 This is the equivalent of when he takes off his headphones and just sits back. He doesn't want to.

Speaker 1 Give the people what they want, Max.

Speaker 1 You know, he's not in it, right? Why? Where is he? He just,

Speaker 4 like, 10 minutes ago, he said, I'll be in in five minutes and just hasn't joined.

Speaker 1 I see his name on the map. Oh, his name is right there, memes.
No, this is this one. He controls it.
Oh, that's tricky.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 1 Join now. All right.
Damn, that sucks. I had told him to join.
All right, well, we'll get our thoughts for Max.

Speaker 4 He might have joined and then left.

Speaker 1 What can we do with the eye?

Speaker 1 Thread him up, Hank.

Speaker 4 Are you you thinking they look too bushy?

Speaker 9 I think I just look ugly, but that is what it is.

Speaker 4 No, you're just not used to it.

Speaker 9 It's fine. It's all about.
I mean, I don't really give a fuck. I'm going to be on the duck boat.

Speaker 1 I coach Joe Missoula.

Speaker 9 I really just don't.

Speaker 1 I mean, that means you're going to be on the duck boat with the trophy at some point.

Speaker 4 Yeah. You're going to touch the.

Speaker 1 And then you also are going to, like, the duck boat goes to the, like, wherever they're going to give speeches. You're going to be standing on the stage.

Speaker 1 And then, Hank,

Speaker 1 you're good. Like.

Speaker 9 I'm going to meet everyone. You're going to.
You're not probably like the coaches.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then, Hank, you're also going to, like, if you play your cards right, you'll just go with the team wherever they go after the break.
Yeah. If you're a cool Hang, yeah.
If you're a cool Hang.

Speaker 4 Do you have any, like, any thoughts in the off chance that this is

Speaker 1 crazy?

Speaker 4 Hank, go say a word on the microphone.

Speaker 9 This is crazy. No, I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to be respectful. I mean, I'm coach's guest.
I can't, I got to be somewhat, somewhat in control, but

Speaker 5 good luck. Who knows?

Speaker 1 I mean, this might be the biggest day of your life.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean, it'll be up there. The first time we got to party with the Patriots was incredible, but this

Speaker 9 could be better. Sounds like it probably will be.

Speaker 12 This is every kid.

Speaker 1 I mean, I can't believe that. You're going to be.

Speaker 9 I actually can't believe that.

Speaker 1 They're going to be cheering for you in a parade, in a championship. God damn it.
This guy. Bro thinks he's on the team.

Speaker 1 I should have told Joe that we had an interview on Friday. He can't make it.
Oh,

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 4 would be, that would be fucked. But Hank, you're going to be great.
You're going to be great on this boat.

Speaker 1 I love Hank too much that when he said it, I was actually pumped for him.

Speaker 9 Yeah. Well, there was some confusion.
There was a lot of confusion the past two days. Yeah.
Because I, I, someone had, Dave, like, I think sent the wrong text to someone.

Speaker 9 It was like, he's all set with Missoula.

Speaker 9 And then

Speaker 9 people were asking me, like, oh, you're on a duck boat. I was like, I haven't heard anything.
So no. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I also,

Speaker 1 I had Caitlin Walker book a couple flights to make sure you get there at 9.30, and she accidentally sent it to your email.

Speaker 9 Well, I had already booked the flight.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know, but I didn't know if you had flights that got you there at 9.30.

Speaker 9 Yeah, no, I had to. And I found that.
I had booked a flight for 9.45 tonight in case we lost a dozen

Speaker 4 for 6 a.m.

Speaker 1 I double booked those. I booked those again because I didn't know because I didn't want to tell you.
Yeah. Because Missoula was like, let me surprise him.
I was like, absolutely.

Speaker 1 Well, you're going to be.

Speaker 4 I'm very jealous of you, Hank. I think that this is going to be the best day ever.

Speaker 4 It's going to be surreal.

Speaker 9 The whole thing is surreal. My life is.

Speaker 1 Oh, here we go. We got the extra special guest.
All right. Max.

Speaker 1 Here he is. He's getting let in.

Speaker 1 It's too bad he missed that, but we can explain it to him.

Speaker 1 Max, are you there?

Speaker 9 Max is on such a sick vacation too.

Speaker 1 Max.

Speaker 1 Hey. Hey, Max.

Speaker 1 Where are you?

Speaker 1 Where are you?

Speaker 11 I'm having a sick vacation right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, what are you doing?

Speaker 13 Best vacation ever.

Speaker 13 driving across the country and moving that sounds fun oh that sounds fun well at least you only have to drive one way yeah no gotta drive both ways what you just cut my ass off it's 98 degrees in new york city right now i smell like

Speaker 1 i smell like absolute right now i'm taking this from from my car and hanks looks like an alien yeah well all right thank you at least someone's honest uh max um what you missed because you were uh in the middle of moving in the middle of summer um and what you're driving all the way from New York to Chicago this weekend?

Speaker 10 No, I just drove from.

Speaker 11 Wait, yes, Saturday.

Speaker 1 Okay, Saturday. So will you be, what are you doing tomorrow?

Speaker 11 Tomorrow,

Speaker 1 I'm doing nothing tomorrow. Oh, perfect.
All right. So we need, yeah, we need you for something.
So we need you to get clips for the social account, for the pardon my take, social account, because

Speaker 1 Joe Missoula just joined the show and he asked Hank to be his personal guest on his duckboat.

Speaker 5 Wait, what?

Speaker 1 The join the parade. Hank's going to be on Missoula's duck boat on the boat with Coach.

Speaker 11 What am I supposed to do?

Speaker 1 You have to watch every second of it and get every clip of Hank.

Speaker 4 There's going to be some great clips of Hank tomorrow.

Speaker 11 So I just wait a minute.

Speaker 11 Something just happened here.

Speaker 1 What happened? Can you hear me? Yeah, we can hear you is it worse now no you're fine okay it's never good um

Speaker 11 wait so i just have to watch hank on the duckboat yeah you got to make sure you get every clip

Speaker 11 What does that even mean? He's going to be, he's doing his own clip.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 The media footage.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the TV footage. Like, he'll probably be on Sports Center.
He'll probably, you know, all of us.

Speaker 11 I'm going to be all over that for sure. Okay.
I got you. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 So just make sure you're there.

Speaker 11 I'm just going to be watching anyway.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And any of the clips that people post on social where they tag you in it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 If you see any good, if you're at the parade and you get a good video of Hank, tag Philly Mays to make sure that he can see it and then he can repost it from all our socials.

Speaker 11 Yep. Yeah.
He's really excited. That sounds great.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So are you pumped for Hank?

Speaker 11 Uh, no, yeah, I'm really, I mean, I'm really happy that he looks like shit. Like, he looks terrible.

Speaker 11 But this is the last time we'll see Hank without a hat for the next four months.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but he, well, no, Missoula said he can't wear a hat tomorrow.

Speaker 11 Okay, so tomorrow will be the last time that we see Hank without a hat for the next four months.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, and you'll see a lot of them tomorrow because you're going to get all the clips, right?

Speaker 9 It's a good trade, though, you know?

Speaker 11 Yeah, yes.

Speaker 11 I don't even know what that means, get all the clips.

Speaker 1 It means you have to just watch the entire parade.

Speaker 4 Whenever Hank does something.

Speaker 1 I'm going to watch the whole parade.

Speaker 11 I'm definitely going to do that 100%.

Speaker 9 I'm really excited for it. I'm definitely going to do that.

Speaker 4 Because Hank's going to be doing a lot of awesome stuff that winners do. Chugging beers.
And he's going going to be so happy. So, we want to make sure that people see that for visibility.

Speaker 11 Yeah, no, I'm excited to do that.

Speaker 1 Okay. I'm happy for him.
Yeah. It sounds like you are.

Speaker 1 You'll maybe get invited to a parade someday.

Speaker 11 Almost. Almost dead.

Speaker 1 When?

Speaker 11 Well, the Eagles lost in the Super Bowl. Do you remember that?

Speaker 1 Yeah, were you going to get invited to the parade?

Speaker 4 Oh, not the parade, but was Sirianni going to have you next to him?

Speaker 11 No.

Speaker 11 Sirianni probably doesn't like me.

Speaker 4 Big Dom does, though.

Speaker 11 Big Dom, yeah, Big Dom. Maybe Big Dom.

Speaker 11 Big Dom is the best.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, listen, that's the thing. Like, Hank just won a title, and he's going to be on a duckboat with the coach of the Boston Celtics, but at least you text with Big Dom.

Speaker 11 Wait, so you're going to be like on the boat?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 He's going.

Speaker 4 This is why we need all the clips here.

Speaker 1 Max Missoula is such a personal guest. He's literally on a duckboat with Missoula.

Speaker 11 I thought you were on a DraftKings boat.

Speaker 1 No, no, he's on

Speaker 1 Missoula's boat.

Speaker 4 He's on the boat with the coach of the Boston Celtics that just won an NBA championship

Speaker 4 with multiple former Sixers players.

Speaker 1 The trophy will probably be in Hank's hands as he raises it and people cheer at some point tomorrow. And you have to be there to get the clip.

Speaker 1 Setting in. It's slowly setting in.

Speaker 1 Slowly setting in.

Speaker 4 There's going to be so many clips of Hank with Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. Hank might even give a speech, so you need to be diligent.

Speaker 11 I'm going to do an excellent job of this. It's going to be the best work I've ever done for this show.

Speaker 1 Okay, good. All right, good.
That's good.

Speaker 1 All right. That's great.
All right. Hey,

Speaker 11 there's a 0% chance I do this.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 we kind of need you to. We really need you to.

Speaker 1 big for socials yeah this is I mean bonuses come into play when it comes to like socials this Friday right is Friday is Friday a weekday or a weekend yeah hank Hank is Friday a weekday or a weekend it's a weekday it's a workday okay it's a workday he's got to be working about that yeah

Speaker 1 true true it's a good point yeah so yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna be all over it all right we don't want to put you on a pip

Speaker 1 I'm gonna be all over it okay great good good love to hear that it'd be a real shame if we had to put you on a pip just because Hank got to be on the duck boat with Joe Missoula.

Speaker 11 Oh, Max. At least, well, that was a nice clip of that was a nice camera cut by memes right there.
That was really good stuff.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah. There was a second there when it all sunk in for Max where I actually thought you were crying.

Speaker 11 For what? I mean,

Speaker 11 it's whatever. I already, I didn't know he was going to be on the duck boat.
I knew he was going to be on the side.

Speaker 1 No, he's on this duck boat. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Well, good luck with the move, Max.

Speaker 1 That sounds fun, too.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I'm jealous. Honestly, as fun as my day sounds, I'd rather kind of be.

Speaker 4 If I could switch with you, I would. Yeah, moving, driving, yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Thanks, Max.
All right.

Speaker 16 See you, Max. Have a good one.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Great.

Speaker 1 It's so bad.

Speaker 1 His brain, he's in the middle of moving. So his brain is not working correctly.
Yeah. And it's slowly dawning on him what we're asking him to do.

Speaker 1 And then having it set in, and you're on the boat.

Speaker 4 It's the bus meme where one guy on one side is Max, and he's in the dark, gloomy side of the bus, and he's driving across the country in 95-degree weather, sweating, moving.

Speaker 4 And then on the other side, it's literally Hank Lockwood on the champions duckboat. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Man.

Speaker 9 I don't even know what to say.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 So Hank, maybe one thing. Summer of Hank.

Speaker 4 One thing maybe you can investigate for me, boots on the ground during the parade. How do duckboats work? How can you drive a car into the river and then it just works as a boat?

Speaker 9 I'll investigate. I mean, it's just put wheels on a boat, basically, and you just pull the wheels up.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but what about the engine?

Speaker 4 Doesn't the engine get in the water?

Speaker 9 Put the engine up high. Okay.
You can have engines in

Speaker 1 boats.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but yeah, so this is all things that I need to know about the duckboat.

Speaker 1 There's engines in boats.

Speaker 4 I'm very curious about how it works.

Speaker 1 Aren't there like some cars that can do that?

Speaker 9 Yep. Planes.

Speaker 4 Some planes. Some plan on the water.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Get us the full detail.

Speaker 4 I want to know more about the duckboat experience.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 We were talking about the NCAA tournament. The NCAA is trying to move the tournament to an expanded field.
This is going to suck.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so 72 to 76 team tournament plans is what they're trying to do.

Speaker 1 Yeah, by eight, they're planning on changing it by four or eight teams.

Speaker 4 64 teams is perfect.

Speaker 1 It's well, I like the 68. We had this debate, but the six.
Yeah, they just don't need to add more bubble teams.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we don't need that at all. Also, you know what's good for the tournament is having debates about bubble teams.
Correct. Yes, we were pissed off.

Speaker 4 There were some teams that got left out last year.

Speaker 1 So you never remember them. I remember St.

Speaker 4 John's. I remember St.

Speaker 1 John's. Just because they were reading out.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but I feel like in a weird, sick way, having those teams, when they do a bad job with like one or two teams, it's good for the overall brand because more people are talking about the tournament.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 So now

Speaker 4 if they do this perfectly, then it gets less buzz. And I don't like the idea of 72, 78.
I like 64. I agree.

Speaker 1 Slash 68.

Speaker 1 The only thing that I would be okay with is the idea that we have that if you have a certain allotment of bubble teams, if you want to expand it to eight teams, all eight of those teams should have to play right after the bracket's announced.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I like that. Maybe they do.

Speaker 4 um like almost a second conference tournament except it's just for bubble teams that's the part that's the bubble conference everyone has a chance to get in yes what the it's the perfect system system.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you're like giving an extra conference tournament to teams. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Do we have anything else

Speaker 1 before we get to our interviews?

Speaker 1 Are the Yankees and the Orioles done

Speaker 1 beating each other? I don't know. Pegging each other?

Speaker 4 I don't know. I think they're pegging each other pretty hard right now.

Speaker 1 They are doing a lot of pegging.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I don't know if they're done with that or not, but it seems like Aaron Judge is fine. So the fact that he's back in the lineup, maybe the pegging will stop.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'd agree with that. Oh, I did have one more thing.

Speaker 1 This is to bring it maybe Hank down a second.

Speaker 1 Well, what was your Fire Fest? Was it anything that happened on Twitter?

Speaker 1 Okay, so I don't know if you saw this PFT, but Hank and the boys.

Speaker 1 Okay, we'll save it. We'll save it.
All right.

Speaker 9 I mean, it's not even a Fire Fest.

Speaker 1 No, but it's a very funny thing that you went mega viral without realizing it this week. Yes.
Okay. I did see that.
Yeah. Yeah, we'll talk about talk about it.
We'll talk about the fire festival.

Speaker 1 Okay, quick 60-second rant. We finished recording this afternoon because PFT was in the dozen finale.

Speaker 1 I got in my car to leave the office and I see that the Bulls have traded Alex Crusoe for Josh Giddy.

Speaker 1 I am mad. I continue to be mad at this franchise.
They fucking suck Jerry Reinsdorf. All he wants to do is win 40 games.
Let's throw aside.

Speaker 1 Stella's just going to bark in my back room. Stella.

Speaker 1 Everyone gets Stella in this, too.

Speaker 1 Stop.

Speaker 1 It's giving day. Everyone should be giving to pause.
Hold on. Keep this in, but I'm gonna kick her out.
Come on, go.

Speaker 1 Go.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Giddy. Caruso.
I love Caruso. He's a friend of the show.
I love Caruso.

Speaker 1 This comes down to you traded a winning player in Alex Caruso for a losing player in Josh Giddy, who I'll admit, Josh Giddy is young. That's not a joke, but you get it.
Josh Giddy is young,

Speaker 1 could develop into something bigger. Here's the problem, though.
Here's the fucking problem.

Speaker 1 Oklahoma City has a thousand draft picks. The Chicago Bulls have no direction.

Speaker 1 They're happy to win 40 games every single year and flirt with going to the playoffs, never actually be competitive, never actually spend money, never actually be a winning franchise.

Speaker 1 They just want to fill the entire United Center through the end of the season. So we'd be like, oh, maybe we're going to go to the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Oh, we'll get bounced in the fucking play-in game every single year.

Speaker 1 How you do a trade with Oklahoma City and don't get at least one draft pick is fucking insane. I swear to God, Oklahoma City, you can get a contact draft pick, a contact high from them.

Speaker 1 You just stand next to them for long enough and they'll just give you a draft pick because they have so many fucking draft picks and they can't use all the draft picks.

Speaker 1 And now we got no draft pick when we could have traded Caruso, who I did want to trade, but could have traded him at the trade deadline for draft picks.

Speaker 1 So you basically got a player that's not going to make you better. It got you younger, but it's not going to make you better.

Speaker 1 And there's also still no future in terms of, oh, maybe we could rebuild or tank or something. They're going to win 40 games, maybe 41 without Alex Caruso.

Speaker 1 And Alex Caruso is going to be awesome for the Thunder. The Thunder are going to be fucking awesome defensively.

Speaker 1 They're going to win 40 games, 41 games, and then be like, damn, I wish things had gone different. Maybe next year, if we roll back, the same thing will happen again.
Oh,

Speaker 1 let's trade a draft pick this in this. That's what the Bulls will do.
That's what the Bulls will do. They'll do two things.

Speaker 1 One, they're probably going to trade Zach Levine with a draft pick to get rid of him. And then they're also going to probably trade in a historically bad draft.

Speaker 1 They're probably going to trade up. They're probably going to trade a draft pick and trade up to like the seventh pick from 11.
I fucking hate this franchise. They drive me insane.

Speaker 1 Jerry Reinsdorf, sell the goddamn team. You're a joke.
You're a fucking fucking joke of a guy.

Speaker 1 And I'm going to miss Caruso. Okay, now let's get to the interview.
I'm sorry that I had to do that. I had to rant.
So we have Derek White, Adam Thielen, and then we'll end with Firefest of the week.

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Speaker 1 Okay, here he is. NBA champion Derek White.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a friend of the program, very, very, very special guest because he just won. an NBA title.
It is Derek White. He's back with us.

Speaker 1 And if you hear that buzzing in the background, Hank is getting his head. He's starting the process of getting his head shaved.

Speaker 1 Let's start there because we want to talk about the game and the championship and everything.

Speaker 1 But did you see the clip of Coach Bazoula telling Hank that he has to have his head shaved by Friday afternoon?

Speaker 15 Yeah, I saw it. I knew when Joe put the pressure on him, it was going to get done.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 4 he had no choice.

Speaker 4 I got a question for you just about anatomy, really. Do you consider the face part of your head?

Speaker 15 Uh, it's gotta

Speaker 1 so.

Speaker 4 When Hank said that he was gonna shave his head, does that mean the beard too?

Speaker 12 Oh,

Speaker 1 you still want to fucking

Speaker 1 keep a beard.

Speaker 11 I got it, still, yeah, yeah, I'll let you keep it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, all right. So, Derek, do you have any tips for Hank once he goes full? Because, Hank, have you ever been fully shaven bicked? No, never.
He's never.

Speaker 1 So, is there anything that you need to tell him tips-wise?

Speaker 15 Um, probably put some sunscreen on your head, you don't want to get a sunburn on the head,

Speaker 1 That or

Speaker 6 I don't know. Enjoy it.

Speaker 5 Enjoy the process.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Does he have to put like moisturizer, lotion, anything like that? Any special care?

Speaker 9 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 15 Moisturize it, lotion. You know, you don't want to be looking ashy on the top of your head.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we can't have that. It's just probably how it looks.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's going to look good. So, so, Derek, you look good.
I just saw that big smile. You got your tooth fixed?

Speaker 15 Yeah, I got it fixed this morning.

Speaker 4 Okay, because we were wondering if you were going to have that

Speaker 4 chipped tooth still for the parade.

Speaker 4 Because during the game, when it happened, and you came out, you had that big smile on your face. It looked like you were kind of enjoying it.
You were like, yeah, you know what?

Speaker 4 This is a battle scar that I've got right now.

Speaker 15 I mean, at first, I thought my whole tooth was gone. And I'm like, my tooth is gone.
They're like, oh, no, it's just chipped. I'm like, oh, let's go.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 15 And then like, there was like a couple of seconds I was like trying to hide it. And then I'm like,

Speaker 15 the moment I open my mouth, like everybody's going to see it. So I just got to embrace it.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It becomes an iconic photo. Now, this is maybe a really dumb thought that I had in the moment, but you win a title.
It's the peak of your professional career. You probably can't be happier.

Speaker 1 Was there a small part of you that was like, God damn it, I wish my tooth wasn't fucked up for this?

Speaker 15 Yeah.

Speaker 15 After like everybody's doing pictures and everything, I didn't smile at one picture. I just had my mouth closed like the entire time.
And like,

Speaker 15 for that moment, I was like, yeah, I wish my tooth wasn't shipped right right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 How was Miami with the guys?

Speaker 15 It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 15 It was just great to go out there and enjoy the heat. And we had a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 What was the environment like in the locker room afterwards? Who was celebrating the hardest?

Speaker 15 I don't know. It was just a zoo of people coming in and out.

Speaker 15 I mean, Brizzy, it's Brizzy's birthday today. Happy birthday.
And

Speaker 15 he was celebrating pretty hard.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, it was an incredible season.
You guys accomplished so much. And you especially played out of your mind, it felt like for the entirety of the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Did you feel like this was the best basketball you've ever played personally where everything seems to be clicking at the right time with this team?

Speaker 15 Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I felt confident going into the playoffs.
And I was excited to... to play playoff basketball.
I mean, there's nothing like it. And so

Speaker 15 I felt confident going in and just wanting to just do whatever it takes to help us win.

Speaker 11 And, um,

Speaker 15 I mean, it was just a special ride.

Speaker 1 Yeah, is there, I would imagine not because you just won a championship, but do you think there'll be a moment in the next couple of days where you're like, man, I wish we had a game?

Speaker 1 Yeah, uh, nope, okay, all right, all right. So, that was a dumb thought.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 1 You guys were so good, and you were dominating everyone that, like, it had to have been so much fun these last two months.

Speaker 15 Yeah, no, but like, being around with the guys and like just

Speaker 15 the the team that we had it was just a lot of fun so i won't miss that part of it but um i'm really gonna enjoy this championship uh can't wait for the parade tomorrow it's gonna be crazy it's gonna

Speaker 15 hopefully not get too lit oh no

Speaker 1 get too lit hank will make sure that it gets lit yeah get get all the way lit come on you have to you you never know

Speaker 4 You guys feel like you're a good enough team where you might get back here again, but you never know. So you have to celebrate it like it's your last time.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 15 Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, definitely gonna enjoy this one, yeah.

Speaker 4 So, during the finals, uh, you guys are obviously already such an accomplished team with such good players.

Speaker 4 Uh, I don't know how much like a pregame speech matters, or if coaches even bother giving pregame pump-up speeches and delivering certain messages, or if it's just like you know, your assignment, we've worked on this, go out there and let's execute.

Speaker 4 But, did coach give a pump-up speech before the last game?

Speaker 15 Uh, we had Nick Lavery come in and talk to us, uh, and he's talked to us throughout the whole year.

Speaker 15 Super badass.

Speaker 15 Green Beret,

Speaker 15 amputee, like went to war. He's a crazy story.

Speaker 15 But he came in and talked to us and was just like, I'm looking at some soldiers right here. And he kind of just got us all in the right mindset.
And

Speaker 15 we knew we were going to win at that time.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you could feel it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What was the vibe like on Friday night after you guys lost in Dallas? Was there any wavering? Any like, that was pretty crazy. We got our asses kicked.
You're like, listen, one game's one game.

Speaker 1 We're the better team.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 15 I mean, honestly, I think like before the game, everything's like, just like, you're like, oh, it's almost over. Like, you can, like, just see it.

Speaker 15 And then, like, you just get your ass kicked and you're just like, what just happened? But,

Speaker 15 I mean, I was like, hey, we're still up 3-1. Like,

Speaker 15 I got nothing to worry about. I remember like going to talk to my family and friends.
I was like, come on, let's have some more energy here. Like, it's still 3-1.

Speaker 15 Like, we get to go back home and try to close it at home.

Speaker 1 Like, let's do it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I wonder, like, is that a human nature loss in a way in game four where it's like, you, you all say the right things, you think the right things, but it's pretty, it's, I would imagine it's impossible not to have a creep in the back of your head where you're like, we could win a title tonight.

Speaker 1 And having like the planning in the back of your head and then having that reset probably helped.

Speaker 15 Yeah. Yeah.
I mean.

Speaker 15 Like, especially because we know, I mean, outside of Drew, we'd have won before. And so, like, you just kind of like, you kind of look ahead.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 15 It's still a really good team and um that's what happens when you don't you're not really focus on what we needed to focus on yeah are you uh are you aware of how good peyton pritchard is with 0.5 seconds left in every quarter yeah he's unreal um that's like my one thing like i i missed about because like he subbed in for me and i like walk straight to the

Speaker 15 my teeth fixed and I just hear like I'm in the tunnel.

Speaker 11 I just hear the guard interrupt and I'm like, what happened?

Speaker 15 And someone's just like, Peyton. I'm like, oh, he's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Is there a small small part of you that's like, man, how come he's better than me in the last

Speaker 4 second of every quarter? What is it about that? Is it, I know it's something that you guys practice, right? It's like, this is Peyton time.

Speaker 15 Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, like, he hit that one earlier in the finals, but he's been doing it all season long. And like, everybody knows like end of the quarter, like, you get the ball to Peyton.

Speaker 15 He's just going to make the shot, obviously. And like, it's unbelievable.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 There's two things he's really good at, making those shots and also shooting free throws blindfolded.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 15 Tough loss for us still to this day. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, that was probably the biggest loss the Celtics took all year.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we're actually NBA champions. Yeah.

Speaker 15 Well done. Congrats.
You guys

Speaker 1 I do have a little bit of a bone to pick with you though, because when you came in in February and I told the story how I was in an elevator with you in October, yeah, it was October, and I awkwardly was like, oh, yeah, our producer's a big Celtics fan.

Speaker 1 You're like, I know who you guys are.

Speaker 1 Why didn't you tell me then that you guys were going to win it all? That would have been nice. A little heads up.

Speaker 15 Hey, I had a good feeling then, too.

Speaker 1 Okay, you should have shared it with me. Been like, got a really good feeling.

Speaker 4 I feel like you had a good feeling about us, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, I thought you guys were the best team.

Speaker 1 I did think the Nuggets were the only team that would have given you guys a series, but I still, even if the Nuggets had made it, I think you guys would have won because you proved it out all year long.

Speaker 1 So it was, it was pretty like, there's, there's very few titles that you can really look at.

Speaker 1 And I know that people will say, oh, the East is easy, but losing three games in the playoffs is like, that says it all right there. It's crazy.
You guys went, what, 10 games in a row that you won?

Speaker 1 Like, that, that, that doesn't happen.

Speaker 11 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 15 I don't know. It's been a fun year.
Like, we never really had like a drought. Like, we were just consistently

Speaker 15 that team. And, I mean, just to be able to win a championship is, is unreal.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Do you think about that? Like, comparing yourself and this title run that you went on to other title teams in the past and just how you would stack up to other teams?

Speaker 4 are you just focused on enjoying how good it feels to win a championship

Speaker 15 yeah i mean you you think about it you're like i mean we're one of the all-time teams um obviously i'm biased and so i'm gonna say but uh just you you think about it like you are just enjoying it like it didn't matter we lost three games like as long as we get 16 wins in the playoffs like it doesn't matter and so um But I do think like we are one of those teams and it's a special run.

Speaker 8 Yeah, one of the best ones ever.

Speaker 4 So there was a report that came out, I think it was last weekend. I don't know if it's been updated yet, but apparently you're under a consideration for the Olympic team

Speaker 4 to fill in for Kawhi if you can't make it. Is that something that you're thinking about? And is that

Speaker 4 any like, has that progressed at all since last weekend?

Speaker 15 That's funny because when that report came out, like that was when I found out about it too. So I'm just like, oh, really? Like,

Speaker 15 I haven't heard anything.

Speaker 15 So, but if I do get an opportunity to play, for sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah. yeah, by the way, JJ Reddick was just named Lakers head coach.
Oh, okay. Official.

Speaker 1 Shout out, JJ. Shout out, JJ.
You're a fan?

Speaker 15 I'm a fan of JJ. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's good for, let's just say this right now. It's good for the podcast community.
That means that we could probably get a job as a head coach. That's true.

Speaker 4 Representation matters. Right.
Yes.

Speaker 1 I can now see myself in a job as a head coach in the NBA.

Speaker 15 There we go. Yeah.
Chicago Bear.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right.

Speaker 11 Yeah, but you can do the NFL.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't think I i could do i could do the i could do the nba you just be like hey guys hustle rebound more just roll the ball out there here you go

Speaker 4 right what just make some threes yeah just hit hey it's a make-or-miss league got to make your shots that's all i say before before every game to the guys here's how i would coach the lakers i'd say all right lebron um we're drafting your son so you're happy now problem solved also uh anthony davis you're not actually hurt get back in the game right that's what i would say to him and then boom we just upped our efficiency by like 30 right there.

Speaker 15 Yeah, I don't know if you're getting the job. Probably not.

Speaker 1 Probably not. They don't want me.
All right.

Speaker 1 I got a question that's, I don't want to jinx anything, but I just another human nature question.

Speaker 1 You're up for an extension and a lot of money. Have you let yourself think about it at all? I mean, it's pretty cool, and you deserve it, and I'm very happy for you.

Speaker 1 But has your mind wandered a little? I know there's negotiations that have to happen.

Speaker 1 I'm sure you want to stay in Boston, but have you at least like had that moment where like I've been playing so good that this is now on the table for me.

Speaker 15 Yeah. Um, I mean, I, I thought about signing an extension before the season started.
And, um, and when that like deadline passed, I hadn't really thought about it too much. But

Speaker 15 I know my agent and uh, the team are going to talk. And I mean, I'd love to stay in bosses for as long as I can.
And

Speaker 15 I'm hopeful everything's going to work out exciting. And, uh, but yeah, at the moment, I'm just going to join a championship and we'll worry about that later.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, I have a, I heard your kids screaming in the background.
I have a dad-to-dad question.

Speaker 1 Have you had that moment where you like had to get back into dad life and like take care of like clean a diaper or something? You're like, God damn it, I'm a world champion.

Speaker 15 Yeah, this morning I had a chance, a poopy diaper. I'm like, is there nobody else around here that

Speaker 1 I still got to do this? Yeah, yeah. It's like,

Speaker 1 I would definitely, if I want a championship, like, at least get a week. Yeah.
Like, let me get someone to help me out here. I just want a ring.

Speaker 4 Yeah, don't take the trash out anymore.

Speaker 8 It's like that 50 cent tweet.

Speaker 4 Like, fuck this. I'm too famous for going home.

Speaker 1 That's probably good to

Speaker 1 bring you back to like level. Like, oh, yeah, I'm still a dad.

Speaker 15 Yeah, the kids change their perspective. And like, when you need it the most, that's what they're here for.

Speaker 1 Yeah, wait, how old is your oldest?

Speaker 4 Two.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 So you got to win some more so they can have, you know, clearer memories. That's your motivation now.

Speaker 15 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 11 My oldest was at the game.

Speaker 15 And then my youngest is seven months and he wasn't at the game. So I'm like,

Speaker 15 now I got to get another one for you, Dax. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Dax a fair weather fan. I don't know.
Like he was, he's not that picture. Did you make sure to get a picture with your oldest though, like right after the game on the court with the confetti?

Speaker 15 Yeah, yeah. Like I got a bunch of pictures and like he was there when I was doing the interview and everything.
So that's gonna be pretty cool to look back on.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. That's really cool.

Speaker 4 I got some advice for you during the parade. So there's always, it feels like there's always one player on a team right after they win a championship.

Speaker 4 They might be in the middle of a contract negotiation like you are.

Speaker 4 They get too lit, as you would say, and then they get up to the podium and then they just say something their agent wants to kill them for. It's like, I don't care.
I'm sticking around, whatever.

Speaker 4 Just don't say that. Just don't say that.
Just be like, I love Boston. Just stick with like, I love Boston.
Be like, I'll take a pay cut. Let's run it back.

Speaker 4 Because then that sets you up in a weird space and your agent will actually want you dead at that point.

Speaker 15 Yeah, I just told my boy that like earlier today, I was like, Every parade, there's always one lie at least going out there. I'm not trying to be a part of that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You could also do, you could do a little bait and switch where you're like, like Steve Kerr did it

Speaker 1 in the, I think it was 97. You should be like, listen, I know that everyone was debating who should be the finals MVP, and I'm okay that I didn't win it, even though I should have.

Speaker 1 Something like that. So everyone's like, oh, he's going to talk about Jalen and Jason.
They get them. They get him like that.

Speaker 15 That's an all-time. I don't know.
I got to think of something pretty creative to top that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That one.
I'll start him now. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 So with the injury that was that happened at KP, we were talking about it before game, was it game four, game three? We didn't think that he was going to be able to play on that at all.

Speaker 4 And he's still out there running around. Did you get a sense for how bad that injury was? And was it something that you were surprised that he came back from?

Speaker 15 Yeah, I still don't know really what it was

Speaker 15 and what it is.

Speaker 15 And so you could just tell he like really wanted to play in like game game three, like he was out, but like game four, like they said he was active, but like, I'm like, I don't know how well you're moving right now in shooting around.

Speaker 15 Uh, but with KP, you never really know. Like, before game one, he wasn't moving too great, and then he has a crazy first half.

Speaker 15 And I'm so like, I was like, I he's Christophe Brzingis, like, he'll figure it out. So, any chance you can get on the court, and he'll help us out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you talked to Blake Griffin at all? I really wish he had taken up Joe Missoula's offer and come back just so he'd have a ring but have you have you spoken with him since you won

Speaker 15 no I haven't spoken to him yet but I know it would be great that if Blake was on our team and he could have a ring for his great career but um I know he has

Speaker 4 what I said I told you guys he should have a ring you said no I think he should have a ring yeah I think Blake deserves a lifetime achievement ring yeah

Speaker 4 hey if I'm sure that we could send him one yeah let's make it happen Blake a ring so right right now Hank is still waiting to get his hair shaved right now,

Speaker 4 he just looks good. I think Hank just got a good haircut and a beard trim, and then he sent the barber on his way and said, okay, your service is no longer required.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he looks awesome right now. This is the last year going to look awesome.

Speaker 9 I'm excited. I'm excited for tomorrow.

Speaker 1 Derek, was there a moment when you went full shave where you're like, oh, shit, this was a mistake? Because Hank's going to have that for a couple days.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you guys, I didn't really have a choice.

Speaker 1 Well, no, Coach Missoula told you that it wouldn't,

Speaker 1 you have to get your head shaved. Yeah.
But was there a moment, Derek, where you're like, oh, man this was a mistake

Speaker 15 huh i mean just at first like moment when like they just go straight over they like i was like damn this is really happening but

Speaker 1 i mean i i'm cool with this so i think hank's gonna be great with us yeah good good showers are gonna be so easy now hank you don't you don't have to worry about shampoo conditioner you just get in rinse get out true yeah you might also find like a whole community of women that love bald men for a whole summer summer hank back on might get hired as the decoordinator for pete carroll yeah all these things could happen could happen yeah help you dunk too oh streamline less he's making progress i don't know if you saw but he tried to dunk in front of danny ainge and uh he's making progress there we go there we go

Speaker 1 we're gonna get it not really but i'm trying to keep positive for him because he's having a big week we're gonna get there yeah

Speaker 4 yeah i believe in hank i think that he's made a lot of progress in the last couple months what like six inches, four inches of vertical?

Speaker 4 Sex.

Speaker 4 So you're tracking to be able to dunk. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Speaking of the executive side of things,

Speaker 4 did Brad Stevens, did he show up in the locker room? Was he getting torn up after the game?

Speaker 15 Yeah, he was there at the beginning.

Speaker 15 And then, like, we had media. I didn't see him again.
So

Speaker 15 he might have snuck out the back somewhere.

Speaker 4 I think if there's one person I want to see absolutely hammered at the parade, it's Brad Stevens. Yeah, that would be fun.
That would be very funny.

Speaker 1 That would be fun.

Speaker 4 So you'd probably get a cop would probably come up and ID him. Yeah.
Be like, sir, are you over 21?

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
Proceed.

Speaker 1 How does it work with Brad Stevens? Because he obviously

Speaker 1 picked you out and traded for you and saw in you like what you've become as a player.

Speaker 1 Is there a special bond with him where he's like, you know, obviously there's other guys that believed in you, but he specifically was like, Derek White is a perfect piece for this team.

Speaker 15 Yeah, yeah, I know. It's been amazing.
I mean, he's a great basketball mind. Like you could tell just when he was a coach, but

Speaker 15 now that he's doing what he's doing now, like, everything

Speaker 15 he sees and everything he like brings to our team has been unbelievable. So, um, he's always supported me.
He's always believed in me.

Speaker 15 Um, even from like my first year in Boston, when, when I didn't feel like I played that great, uh, he always believed in me and saw something in me. So, I'm always thankful for that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Well, Derek, this has been awesome.
We really appreciate you taking some time, especially with the busy week. I got one last question.

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Speaker 15 So, my dad said, He's like, I just seen a Reddit post, and I was one of the top vote getters.

Speaker 1 Okay. Are you going to be up there?

Speaker 15 I was like, I mean, I could see that. So, yeah, probably I'll probably be up there.

Speaker 15 I mean, O'Shea is just his birthday, so I'm going to go back with him.

Speaker 11 Yep. SV.

Speaker 15 And I can see Sam Hauser as the sneaky drunkest one. Sam Hauser.
that's my dark horse.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Wisconsin guy, yeah. He can drink, yeah.

Speaker 15 JT, probably too.

Speaker 4 Yeah, JT, yeah. Uh, KP, I mean, like, Eastern Europeans can really put him back.

Speaker 4 Yeah, they got a high tolerance, so, so they're probably not, he's not going to be the drunkest, but he might have the most to drink.

Speaker 15 Yeah, yeah, just will look normal, yeah.

Speaker 1 He's the most likely for me to like crowd surf or like, you know, a clip of someone throwing him a beer or something like that.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Gronk style, smashing on the boat, yeah.

Speaker 1 KP and Boston are like it's crazy it's crazy something and him yeah yeah all right well derek have an awesome time at the parade i'll send you a picture when hank goes full bald um just no spoilers because we're gonna we're gonna post this all tomorrow's show he's gonna get he's gonna get shaved at the beginning of the show um so people can watch this and uh yeah thanks for everything man appreciate you uh being a fan of the show and congrats again it's it was an awesome season and uh hopefully you get really paid and maybe you remember your friends at Pardon My Take when you do get paid.

Speaker 15 I got you guys.

Speaker 1 Appreciate it. Okay, that's legally binding.
That was legally binding.

Speaker 15 That is the first lie of the parade.

Speaker 1 It was legally binding. Yeah, there you go.
Yeah. All right.
Thanks, Derek. See you, man.

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Speaker 4 And now here's Adam Thielen.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is Carolina Panthers wide receiver Adam Thielen.

Speaker 1 And we're also, Adam Thielen is about to get ready to play in the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in Tahoe, which we will be there. So let's start there.

Speaker 1 We got some football questions, but let's start with golf. What are we thinking going into this? Are we thinking you're going to win it?

Speaker 1 I'd love a guarantee right now, but how is your golf game shaping up for this tournament?

Speaker 11 Well, unfortunately,

Speaker 11 I can't give a guarantee. You know, three young kids at the house makes it a little difficult to give a guarantee.

Speaker 11 But I will say, I'm never going into that tournament thinking I'm not going to try to go win it. So I'm going to do everything I can.
I got to simulate the house. I'm grinding away on that.

Speaker 11 I'm sneaking out a few rounds here and there to get prepared, but it's the best week of the year. I'm glad you guys are going.

Speaker 11 It's something special there in Tahoe. Not only is Tahoe special, obviously, but then you add it in the golf tournament.

Speaker 11 American Century does a great job just hosting a phenomenal event, not only for the celebrities, but for the fans. I mean, there's really no other fan experience like it, in my opinion.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're so pumped. This is one of those events that we've like circled for many years, being like, why aren't we out there? And finally, we're going to go out there.
So we're pumped.

Speaker 1 What's your handicap right now?

Speaker 11 So I'm a one right now. I started the season as a zero because I usually grind it down to about a zero going into Tahoe.
And then I play maybe one round after Tahoe.

Speaker 11 And then it's like, boom, training camp. Don't touch a club for six months.
And then I'm like, now I'm like grinding just to kind of bring it back to a zero.

Speaker 11 But yeah, I'm a one right now.

Speaker 4 So you actually could win this thing. Who would you say is your biggest competition?

Speaker 11 So there's like 10 guys, probably, maybe a few more that have legitimately have a chance to win it um you know i think every year it's pretty much marty fish

Speaker 11 um you know mark molder smolts um you know pavelski i mean there's there's there's more guys but those are the guys that kind of usually win it or are right there at the end i mean obviously curry won it last year he won't be there but um but he's always a guy that's that's in the top 10.

Speaker 11 so like i said there's about 10 to 15 guys or females you know annika uh that really have a legitimate chance to win it So it all depends on how hot of a start you get and then how consistent you can play.

Speaker 11 Do you have any holes in one? I have zero. Wild.
I've played a lot of golf in my life. Started when I was like three years old, zero hole in ones.

Speaker 11 My dad, who started playing when he's like 55 years old and really didn't start playing until he retired last year like a lot of golf, he already has like three hole in ones.

Speaker 11 So I'm like, what is going on?

Speaker 11 And he probably averages 100. 100 around.

Speaker 11 So it's crazy how that works out. But yeah, hopefully I'll get it on 17 in Tato this year.
And then I'll sprint in there. I'll dive into the into the lake, try to catch a football in the process.

Speaker 11 And then I probably won't finish.

Speaker 4 Do you think maybe your dad's lying to you? Maybe he's just jealous that you're so good at golf. So he just tells you that he gets all these holes in one.
So that way just, it pisses you off.

Speaker 11 Well, that's a good point because every time I play with him, he thinks like, you know, I my probably the strongest part of my game is I hit the ball a long ways.

Speaker 11 I always had since I was little, even when I was 150 pounds soaking wet in high school.

Speaker 11 And so my dad, whenever he plays with me, he thinks that he's going to like try to like hit it as far as me. And so he swings out of his shoes.
He's like basically falling over when he's swinging.

Speaker 11 So yeah, maybe that's a good point. Maybe he's just like, all right, well, this is what I got on you.

Speaker 11 So I'm going to, I'm going to make it up and say that I've got these holding ones just so I have something on you.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Dumb question.
It might not be a dumb question, but last year wasn't the best for the Panthers.

Speaker 1 How much did it suck?

Speaker 11 Yeah, it was brutal. It was brutal.

Speaker 11 You know, losing in any, you know, sport, obviously, or anything you do, losing is never fun, especially when you're a competitor.

Speaker 11 And especially when you put so much into it, right? Like we got these OCAs, we got all the offices of training that we do on our own.

Speaker 11 You know, you go through training camp and like the grind is only worth it if you like have like a good year, you know, and and so it's uh it was definitely tough.

Speaker 11 There was a lot of adversity throughout it, a lot of kind of stuff that people probably never know that happened. It's just uh, you know, that you can't make up.

Speaker 11 But at the end of the day, I believe not only was it probably the best thing that ever happened to to me, just learning how to deal with adversity, learning how to be a leader through major storms.

Speaker 11 Um, but I think for you know, Bryce, uh, a lot of the young guys, maybe some of the coaches that we still have around, like all of our defensive staff, I think it's probably the best thing that ever happened to us because it really teaches you a lot.

Speaker 11 When you, when you're winning and everything is great, you're not really learning a lot. You know, the most, you know,

Speaker 11 I think the most,

Speaker 11 you know,

Speaker 11 things that you get better at the most are when things aren't good. Yeah.
And so we were able to get a lot of that last year.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I, I, like, and I obviously kind of a jokey question, but I'm more like, because we're, we're obviously sports fans.
We're watching all the games.

Speaker 1 And when you have a team that's losing, the jokes get made.

Speaker 1 But I would imagine just like having to show up and do your job every day has to take a little bit of a mental toll in that season where it's like we're doing the process and then we're not getting the results.

Speaker 1 Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 11 And then on top of that, like,

Speaker 11 you know, you, to to be a good leader it's not it's not what you're doing when you're winning it's what you're doing when you're losing so every day it was kind of like a little bit of a pep talk as i'm going to the facility like hey like i don't really care what's going on in this season i got to put my put a smile on my face i got to have energy i got to have excitement to go to work every day and there's a lot of blessings in it you know through this year um for for my family outside of football and and and even in the building just like the the joy that i had coming to work every day was still there you know like obviously it's it like, like we've already talked about, it's stunk losing.

Speaker 11 It's, it's the worst as a team, you know, as coming together, it's the worst. But there was, there was a lot of joy for me.

Speaker 11 It realized, it made me realize how much I love the game, how much I love being around people, how much I love sacrificing things to try to have success. So there was a lot of blessings in it.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Is there something that you're working on this offseason? Because NBA players are always like, you know, I'm going to add this element, this wrinkle to my game.

Speaker 4 You've been in the league for a long time. You're a pretty good route runner already.

Speaker 11 But is there something that you're trying to work on to improve on, even at this stage in your career yeah for sure i'm i and people are probably gonna laugh at this i i just saw a thing that came out saying that i'm the oldest active wide receiver in the nfl which is wild but i don't feel that way but but in that being said i i want to be the fastest i've ever been so my goal is to lean out to be as fast as i've ever been top end speed change of direction and i truly i think i can do it i feel great right now I'm excited to go into training camp to kind of these next four or five weeks and really train and push push the tempo get in the best shape of my life, and

Speaker 11 just to be a complete receiver. You know, I think a lot of times as you get older as a receiver, like, oh, you got to put him in the slot, and he's slowing down.

Speaker 11 But I truly believe that where I'm best is being outside,

Speaker 11 playing against one-on-one coverage, beating man coverage, and going to make him play. So my goal is to be as fast and explosive as I possibly can.

Speaker 4 It's crazy to say that because it's not like you're 36, 37, you're 33, and that's going to be the oldest receiver in the NFL. That's kind of wild to think about.

Speaker 4 And when you came out of college, so you were undrafted

Speaker 4 and having to grind to make the Vikings. We've talked to our good friend Will Compton.

Speaker 4 He's kind of given us a peek behind the scenes about what it's like being an undrafted guy and having to prove yourself all the extra stuff you have to do, especially that first year.

Speaker 4 What was the process like of you trying out for the Vikings? And when did you realize I can do this? Like, I'm good enough to play in the NFL.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so it was, it's crazy being undrafted.

Speaker 11 Obviously, obviously now that i like look back at it it probably makes me more like anxious or anxiety or like uh nervous uh looking back at it than i was in the moment in the moment i was just like going to work playing football having fun not even really thinking about getting cut or what that looks like as an undrafted guy especially but um but yeah it's a it's a wild process i think for me i i got very little reps in preseason.

Speaker 11 I think I got like three reps my first preseason.

Speaker 11 I go back to training camp and like I felt like I was making plays and I'm like, you know, in rookie camp, obviously it was making plays because I was not even signed at the moment.

Speaker 11 And then, you know, after rookie camp, I was signed and given an opportunity to go to training camp and see what happened. But

Speaker 11 in preseason games, I was getting zero reps, zero. So it was hard to really prove myself to other teams.

Speaker 11 So I'm thinking like, man, if I get released and not on practice squad, like I'm probably, this is probably it.

Speaker 11 But thankfully, the Vikings saw something in me. put me on practice squad.

Speaker 11 And that's when I really knew that I could do this at a high level because during that pre that first year of being on practice squad, I was able to go against the starters every single day.

Speaker 11 And it was my goal to make them as mad as possible every single day. And so when I started beating the starters day in, day out, consistently, didn't matter if it was in the field or in the red zone.

Speaker 11 It didn't matter. Like I was going out there with a mission to show them like, I'm going to whoop you every single day and show that I can play at a high level.

Speaker 11 And when I started doing that on a consistent basis, I knew I could play at a high level. It was just now it's like, all right, like, how do I get an opportunity?

Speaker 11 Going into the next year, I go and same kind of type of deal. I'm like, you know, playing some special teams, like maybe the seventh, eighth receiver.

Speaker 11 Thankfully,

Speaker 11 got an opportunity to that, that, to make the active roster and basically just play special teams. And I, again, I made it my mission that I was going to dominate my role.

Speaker 11 I was going to go out there and every single time I stepped on that field, I was going to be noticed on tape.

Speaker 11 And I kind of kept doing that, doing that until I got an opportunity to play a receiver and made the most of it in the rest of history. Yeah.

Speaker 1 i mean it's an incredible story i i also love the fact that you weren't invited to the combine and then you did the regional combine and you finished with like top 20 times that had to feel good and being like hey i you ran a 4-4-5 which i don't know how you're going to get faster than that that's a crazy statement i maybe you will but that had to feel at least a moment where like i belong here you guys didn't invite me to the combine and i went and i showed out and if i had been invited to the combine i would have been a top 20 guy in terms of metrics Yeah, it's it's it's wild because I don't think people even know that those are my times right and like some of the numbers that stack up against the guys that were in the draft.

Speaker 11 Um, and so at the time when I, when I got those results back, I'm like, oh, heck, like, I might get, I might get drafted like late, late rounds. Like, there was never a question about my tape.

Speaker 11 Like, could I run routes? Could I catch the football? Like, there was never a question about that. It was more like, oh, he's a D2 guy.
Like, can he run?

Speaker 11 You know, competition wasn't great, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 11 So when I started putting those numbers up, I'm like, well they don't really have anything to say that i i can't do and and uh obviously that's not how they think about it uh they didn't i don't think a lot of people still even knew who i was um i still remember the day that i went to that that super regional combine in dallas and at the at the stadium there and um

Speaker 11 i i kind of you know like i said i put those numbers up so you're getting some scouts coming up to you talking to you and And so I'm like, man, like this is a real opportunity to get drafted here.

Speaker 11 And before that, I'm like, there's no way I'll get drafted. I just need an opportunity.

Speaker 11 But yeah, it's crazy that still didn't really get any interest at all after that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I want to go back to like halfway through your career for the Vikings when Teddy Bridgewater was the quarterback and he gets injured. Did you throw up?

Speaker 11 Well, I was, I didn't throw up, but man, I have a vivid memory of that. I was as close to Teddy as you possibly.
could be.

Speaker 11 I wasn't in on the play, but I was like right behind where the quarterback stands on that play. I believe, if I remember right, I believe it was just like a jog through.

Speaker 11 We were like going into week one. We were just finished up all of our preseason games.
And so it was kind of like a jog through practice right before they make all the cuts going into week one.

Speaker 11 And he just was taking a three-quarter speed drop and stumbled and tripped a little bit and stepped wrong. And I will never forget what that looked like.
And then just the panic.

Speaker 11 And what just happened ensued after that with no one really, everybody in shock, But I mean, unbelievable job by the training staff and those guys, the medical staff to really save Teddy and give him another chance at, you know, save his leg and give him another chance at playing at a high level.

Speaker 11 And going into that game, it's kind of wild because we just had played a preseason game, I believe it was against the Chargers at home.

Speaker 11 And going into that, we were like, going into that week one, we're like, man, like, this is our year. Like, Teddy's.
lights out right now.

Speaker 11 He's taking this like crazy leadership role and just flourishing in that, like so confident.

Speaker 11 And if any, if any of you guys have been around Teddy, like he is one of the most fun people to be around because he has this really cool ability to relate to everybody and have fun and, but also be serious at the same time.

Speaker 11 So like there was a lot of, there was a lot of expectations there. And when that happened, everybody was just kind of like in shock and didn't know how to feel.

Speaker 1 So so we were in a Vegas airport. on a flight to Minnesota to come to your facility to interview Teddy and Zimmer and like everyone.

Speaker 1 And we were literally sitting waiting for our flight when we saw the news. We still came, but the Vikings stashed us in like a basement and like didn't, it was, it was crazy.

Speaker 1 We showed up the next day and the facility, like we saw it firsthand, everyone in shock.

Speaker 1 So we're always linked to Teddy Bridgewater being like, man, we were this close to interviewing all the guys and that happened. Did someone throw up?

Speaker 11 Oh, man, that's, I can't, I can't confirm or deny that.

Speaker 1 Okay, someone did. Yeah.
Yeah, someone did. Probably.

Speaker 11 I mean honestly I'm no like I'm telling you I'm still like like I'm in shock from that moment like still to this day like it was just you can't explain it you can't explain the the feeling you can't explain anything because everyone was like

Speaker 11 no one knew what to do and um no one knew what was gonna happen no one knew what was going on with Teddy like it was it was crazy and uh something that I'll never forget obviously yeah it must have been a wild day um also it went during your tenure with the Vikings this is 2015

Speaker 4 a very important contract dispute went down. I'm curious to hear kind of like what happened behind the scenes, if you guys had any strong thoughts about it.

Speaker 4 Your unofficial mascot, Ragnar the Viking, you remember Ragnar? Used to drive the motorcycle out onto the field?

Speaker 4 This is where I think the Vikings really took a big misstep here. He held out and he demanded a 10-year contract for $1.6 million.

Speaker 4 And the Vikings said, no, we don't need you to drive the motorcycle on the field anymore this negotiation is over and they kind of washed their hands of Ragnar

Speaker 4 were you trying to support Ragnar behind the scenes like we were did you advocate like hey you got to pay your best guys you know let's get Ragnar paid here so we can keep the good vibes going or were you were you in favor of of the the team line at that point and say you know what that's money that could be used on facilities well i'll say this i i have a different perspective because i grew up going to vikings camps as a kid and seeing it and one of the coolest things, you're in the metro dome, like loud environment, the noises are echoing in there.

Speaker 11 And then you got the Regnar and the motorcycle ramping it up, brings him out of the tunnel. Like, one of the coolest things ever, in my opinion.

Speaker 11 And, and then, like, for that to happen, obviously, I'm a big Regnar fan. I'd love to have him back.
In fact, I think, why not bring him back now? I think, you know, get him out.

Speaker 11 I think, I think he's like a high school principal, or he was at the time. That was a story.
And

Speaker 4 he demanded the raise and they they said no so tough tough negotiations there but but i think they bring him back i think that's a reasonable request 1.6 million dollars eight home games a season 10 years he wanted to be a viking for life he wanted to be locked up at that point you got to lock up you got to take care of your guys you got to pay ragnar yeah uh lock a guy up like that yeah just a big-time vibes guy was that hard for you since you know you you grew up in minnesota you're a vikings fan you play football in college at minnesota you go to the vikings was it was it hard for you to leave?

Speaker 4 Did you, would you ever see a world where you're like, yeah, I am going to test free agency. Yeah, I'll go play somewhere else.
Or, or how did that process go down?

Speaker 11 Well, I was about to say, you know, Ragnar wanted to be a Viking for life. So did I.
And it didn't work out for either of us. So,

Speaker 11 yeah, no, it was tough. It was tough.
It was a weird thing.

Speaker 11 You know, once you get into like year 10 with the team, you're kind of thinking, like, man, like. Getting close to the end, like, hopefully, you can just finish it out.
And obviously,

Speaker 11 what a story. Like, grew up a Vikings fan,

Speaker 11 never left the state of Minnesota, high school, college, and then the NFL,

Speaker 11 you know, was able to be a part of some awesome teams. And I'm like, man, this is like storybook ending, right?

Speaker 11 Like, I got to watch Chad Greenway come out of the tunnel the last time, like, knew he was retiring. One of the coolest moments, like, chills down your body.
I always thought that would be me someday.

Speaker 11 And then for that to kind of end the way it did was a real bummer, obviously. But at the end of the day, it's a business.

Speaker 11 And like, if I put myself in their shoes, I probably would have felt like doing the same thing.

Speaker 11 You know, like old, old receiver, you know, coming out of his prime, you know, they got some young guys coming up.

Speaker 11 I totally understand where they were coming from. And at the same time, I felt like, hey, like, I could still play at a high level

Speaker 11 and I don't want to retire yet. So

Speaker 11 yeah, I get it. I got no hard feelings.
I love the Minnesota Vikings organization. I love everybody in that building.

Speaker 11 I still have such a great connection with so many people in that building. So that probably makes it even harder because I'm like, man, I'm in Minnesota right now for a little month break.

Speaker 11 I just want to go over to the building and say what's up to everybody.

Speaker 11 But it's just a little bit different. But when I'm done playing and stuff, obviously I'll be back there and

Speaker 11 can't wait to be able to reunite with a lot of those guys.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. So the beef was squashed with the Vikings.
What about your beef with Belichick?

Speaker 1 Still going on? That's not squashed.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Tell your side of the story.

Speaker 11 At the roast with Tom Brady, so I could, you know, roast Belichick.

Speaker 11 But no, no,

Speaker 11 there's no hard feels. There's obviously so much respect for that guy.
Man, playing against his defenses.

Speaker 11 Wow, that was not fun, especially when you were making plays and stuff. He's just going to take you out of the game anyway possible.

Speaker 11 But yeah, I was a little frustrated at the time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so what exactly happened? It was an injury that he then was able to use to challenge a play, and then afterwards he he did a blow by on the handshakes.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so I didn't, I felt like there was a little bit of,

Speaker 11 I don't want to say cheating, but there was a little bit of like stretching the rules.

Speaker 11 And we were like losing at the at the time. I was frustrated.
They were double teaming me. I wasn't getting to be able to do my thing.

Speaker 11 And I'm a little bit hot-headed. I've had to work on over my career.
So I saw.

Speaker 11 him kind of look at a player player takes a knee he's not even injured but he takes a knee gives him time like we had given us the first down, we were finally starting to get a little momentum, and then you know, he was able to challenge the play, and I was, I wasn't too happy, so I just kind of let him know that I didn't, I didn't feel like that was the right thing to do, but uh, it is what it is, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 So, but everything's okay now, everything's good, yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, he's not coaching anymore, so I don't have to deal with him, so yeah, that's true, it's all good, that's true.

Speaker 4 I feel like uh, I feel like Bill Belichick would historically really like somebody like you.

Speaker 11 Well, it's funny, actually, after that, um, i believe that going to that next offseason um he had reached out to to the team about you know possibly trading for me uh trying to give me some there so so it must have must have been like a good impression of him he must have liked that uh that kind of uh tenacity or competitiveness i guess yeah yeah what what uh so Kirk Cousins gets talked about a lot in the media.

Speaker 1 He's had a really good career.

Speaker 1 Obviously, your teammate for a long time. What does the media get wrong about Kirk?

Speaker 11 Well,

Speaker 11 I think just like the type of person he is. I mean, again, like as NFL athletes or athletes in general, right?

Speaker 11 Like people only see what they see on Sundays for us, you know, Sundays, Mondays, whatever. And they don't see the work that gets put in to get there.

Speaker 11 And that guy is the most process-driven person I've ever been around in my life.

Speaker 11 It's unbelievable. He does not leave any stone unturned.
He does not, he, I mean, he will never not be prepared for a game.

Speaker 11 And when you're on that team, you, you can't, you can't do anything but appreciate that and to really trust it and to buy into it.

Speaker 11 So I think what people get wrong is like, yeah, he's made a lot of money and no Super Bowls and all that, but like

Speaker 11 he's putting everything he possibly can. He's getting paid that money and he's not stealing from them.
He is putting every ounce of

Speaker 11 time, effort, money into having the most success as a team and as an individual. So when you see that day in and day out, you're like, you know what? Like, I'm good with it.

Speaker 11 Like, pay him as much as you got to because he's going to give you as a team a great opportunity to win games just because of his process.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Has he ever cooked grilled for you, uh, where he put a steak on tinfoil?

Speaker 11 So I saw the pictures. I feel like this was like maybe four or five years ago when he posted on, and I'm, I texted him immediately.
I'm like, what, what is that?

Speaker 11 And you know, he didn't like that. You know, he is kind of like, what do you mean? It's just, you know, it's a steak.
Like, and, but it looked terrible.

Speaker 11 So I'm actually going out there this summer to his place out in Michigan and going to visit him for a day. So we'll see how his through grilling ability is and if it's any good.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 What were his Oxcord privileges like in the weight room? Because I know he's a big Creed guy. He likes to blast Creed and Nickelbeck, I think.
Was he allowed?

Speaker 4 Did you guys let him do like, okay, Kirk, you get the playlist for one day each summer? Or was there was there just an open thing? Like, if you want to blast Creed, go for it.

Speaker 11 Well, I think what played into his favor is like the O-line couldn't have been more on board on that

Speaker 11 so so they took over the oxcord and like 90 of the team hated it uh but but the o-line like what are you gonna do like you're not gonna say anything to the old linemen like they they just kind of you know it is what it is they got their own little fraternity it's kind of funny like when you think about the o-line in the nfl like pretty much every room i've ever been in uh or every team i've ever been on that has like the O-line is kind of like this little fraternity.

Speaker 11 Like they're like the boys. Like they hang out together all the time outside the building, like they always have each other's backs.
And so, that was kind of what it was.

Speaker 11 And they just took over the hospital, and Kirk was all for it, which

Speaker 11 was kind of a cool little bit there.

Speaker 4 I like how quarterbacks always get their offensive linemen, they usually get them like golf carts, uh, Yeti coolers, maybe some like fishing gear, nice present at the end of the year.

Speaker 4 Do you, as wide receivers, do you ever buy presents for the quarterbacks if you have a great year?

Speaker 11 So, so that's always an interesting thing because I feel like that that thing, that whole bit has gotten like way overblown and now has has made it like super awkward for the quarterbacks.

Speaker 11 Because now I feel like the old linemen are like expecting like this like grand prize and like this big show like walk out into the field all say, oh, brand new ATV.

Speaker 11 Like it's almost like it's like the price is right or something. And

Speaker 11 I don't know. I just feel like it's been overblown.
Like, yeah, is it nice to like, yeah, hey, man, like, you're doing a great job. You're protecting me, keep me healthy.
That's awesome.

Speaker 11 But long story short, no, I have not bought a quarterback a gift.

Speaker 11 Maybe I should.

Speaker 11 But yeah,

Speaker 11 it's kind of a weird, awkward thing. Usually you try to take care of the people in the building, right? That are not

Speaker 11 making millions of dollars and are grinding away. I mean, you think about you going to this NFL building.

Speaker 11 I mean, you got so many employees that absolutely give everything they have into that organization and want to win.

Speaker 11 probably worse than most of the players because they've been a part of this organization for so long. I mean, our equipment guy, Dannis Ryan, in Minnesota, had been there for forever.

Speaker 11 I think like 40-something years. And I'm probably wrong on the number, but it was unbelievable.
He just retired. Now they named the equipment room after him.

Speaker 11 But there's so many that in Carolina, Donnie, he's the same thing. He's been there forever, been a part of all this history.
And, you know, those are the guys you usually want to take care of.

Speaker 11 And you want to, you know, get them a nice Christmas gift just because,

Speaker 11 you know, of all the work they put in. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. So this has been awesome.
I got a couple of last questions. The first one is the Minneapolis miracle.
I know this is, you know,

Speaker 1 it happened whatever, six, seven years ago.

Speaker 1 But just take me back real quick to the locker room after, because I would imagine that was the coolest locker room to ever be in after Stephon Diggs makes that catch and you guys win with no time left on the clock.

Speaker 11 I've never hugged so many people in my entire life.

Speaker 11 It was like, you didn't even know the people. You're like, yeah, give them a big hug, tapping them up.
You're like, I have no idea who you are.

Speaker 11 I don't know if you're part of the team, but like, let's go. Like, you're

Speaker 11 bear bear hugs to everybody.

Speaker 11 It was, it was crazy. I mean, again, like, you put so much effort and time and energy and sacrifice

Speaker 11 into this. And, like, that's your goal, right?

Speaker 11 Like, you're doing it all with the end goal of like, get to the Super Bowl, get to the NFC Championship game to give you an opportunity to go to Super Bowl.

Speaker 11 And, like, to win the way we did, like the year we were having.

Speaker 11 And like the Saints was always like this crazy rivalry. We always faced some and it was always a tough matchup.

Speaker 11 And then like that game, like the ups and downs, like the emotions, like, oh, we're going to win this for sure. Oh, wait, now we're going to lose this for sure.
Oh, now we're going to win it.

Speaker 11 Like, it was like four times that you were like, oh, like, this is guaranteed, like, either win or loss. And for it to end the way it did, like, it was, it was the coolest experience of my life.

Speaker 11 I'll never, I'll never get tired of talking about the miracle. People every single day, pretty much, will come up to me and ask me about that game.
So, uh, pretty cool.

Speaker 11 A lot of memories from that game. Um, obviously, disappointed the next week very quickly because had our chance to go to a Super Bowl.
It was in Minnesota.

Speaker 11 First team ever to play in a Super Bowl or in their own state.

Speaker 11 So that would have been pretty cool, but

Speaker 11 yeah, really cool memory.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's an all-time sports moment, and it's why we watch sports as fans. All right, so I had one last question, the robot question.

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Speaker 1 So let's bring it back to golf real quick. You are going to be, like I said at the top at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in Tahoe.
We'll be there too.

Speaker 1 What do you drive? Like,

Speaker 1 what's your average length of your drive? And what's the one part of your game that's like, I got to do this to be in the top five or maybe win this thing?

Speaker 11 So I hit about 330.

Speaker 11 Jesus.

Speaker 11 Again, like, that's always been my

Speaker 11 strength. But the issue is I start to get a little bit of confidence.
And then I like, and I'm a meathead. So I like, I'm like, oh, I'm going to hit driver, even though I shouldn't.

Speaker 11 Like there's like a 20-yard gap, right? And there's like out of bounds on the right, water on the left. I'm like, I'm going to hit driver.
I'm going to bomb it.

Speaker 11 And so that gets me into a lot of trouble.

Speaker 11 But so what I would say is playing like actual smart golf, like thinking through the golf course, like Tiger says it in a lot of his stuff, books, and you can read about it. You can hear interviews.

Speaker 11 He talks about it. Like, he's not going to like overpower you in a lot of ways, he's gonna outthink you.
He's gonna, he's gonna play the course, how the course is supposed to be played.

Speaker 11 And not a lot of people can do that. So, I think that's what I got to do.
Um, I also got it out there, it's all about your wedges.

Speaker 11 Like, can you hit those 60 to 120-yard shots, um, which you think would be the easiest shots.

Speaker 11 But when you get a little pressure, greens are tough, um, and you get uh, it's just those shots become tough.

Speaker 11 So, I'm gonna be grinding on those 60 to 120-yard shots and try to give myself a chance at, you know, going to win in that thing.

Speaker 4 Have you thought about wearing the arm sleeve, the compression sleeve on your left arm like you do during games? Like, maybe wear that on the course.

Speaker 11 That's a great point because I've never gone a game without the arm sleeve in my entire career or a visor.

Speaker 11 So maybe I should wear like some sort of a visor and an arm sleeve and that could maybe help me out.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I think that's a smart move. Yeah.
I noticed that earlier when you were talking about the biggest threats, I don't think you said Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 11 that's interesting i don't think patrick mahomes is the biggest threat on the golf course on football too obviously he's the biggest but uh golf course i think a little different this is how you motivate a man like that yeah he's gonna win another he's gonna hear this yeah

Speaker 11 i know he does have like a real golf hole in his backyard so maybe he's been grinding away and he's gonna completely surprise me and he does get better every year he's got a great swing um i just uh uh i don't see him winning it but again like i said i probably just motivated him he's probably gonna whoop my butt yeah do you have a caddy for this?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 11 So my brother-in-law, he's caddy for me the last few years. And we have a great time, very similar type of people.
So he loves a game of golf. So he's been my caddy.

Speaker 11 We've kind of switched caddies over the years, but I was always like a close friend, a buddy.

Speaker 11 And so just try to go out there and have fun. But also

Speaker 11 I tend to get a little too competitive.

Speaker 11 So having somebody that knows how to calm me down a little bit and bring me back to reality that my real job is football and not golf, I tend to forget that pretty quickly when I get out to Tahoe, it's interesting because the old saying is, you know, Minnesota nice.

Speaker 4 I don't, I don't think you're Minnesota nice, are you?

Speaker 11 I'm not Minnesota nice, but I do have like this, and my wife hates it, probably the worst quality that I have for her.

Speaker 11 But I have this ability to be like a people pleaser a little bit, you know, where I just have a tough time like being the bad guy.

Speaker 11 But when the competitive juices flow, it's, it's, uh, I always say, like, you know, whenever I get a chance to talk to the team, you know, talk to the receivers, whatever, like, I always say, like, when you get in between those lines, like you can't be Mr.

Speaker 11 Nice guy. You can't be the same guy you are every day that you should be, right?

Speaker 11 Like the way you treat people in the building, the way you treat your coaches, the way that you, you know, handle your business and do things the right way.

Speaker 11 Yeah, like you should do those things, obviously. But when you step in between those lines, like you can't be that guy because you will not be that dog, that.

Speaker 11 that different type of player that you want to be if you don't like, hey, like, I remember like playing on special, and it it probably helped me with that mindset.

Speaker 11 It's like, if you go out there and just think you're just going to like go out there and like do your job, like you are going to get destroyed.

Speaker 11 So like, you got to like somehow flip this switch to like, no, like I'm a dog. Like I'm going to go out there and murder someone, even though I'm like unmatched.
Like I'm not matched up for that.

Speaker 11 Like when I was playing especially, I was 195 pounds, like usually having to like block a 230 pound linebacker that was running a 4-4.

Speaker 11 And so like, I'm unmatched here, but like, I'm just going to like turn this brain off and like flip a switch and just be a dog. And

Speaker 11 yeah, that's kind of where it comes from. Minnesota NASA.

Speaker 8 Love that.

Speaker 5 That's what I call it. Love that.
It's good.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 yeah. Adam, thank you so much, man.
We really appreciate it. We'll see you out in Tahoe.
Best of luck.

Speaker 1 We might have to try to heckle you because we're just going to try to get in everyone's head, but we're excited to be there. And good luck in the tournament.

Speaker 11 I appreciate it. Looking forward to seeing you guys out there.

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Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up the week. What an eventful week it was.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 With Firefest of the week. Anti-Firefest, by the way.

Speaker 1 We never talked about it, but last week the real shame happened.

Speaker 1 We We got kicked out of the beer Olympics.

Speaker 4 It's a real shame.

Speaker 1 If we had a reverse fire fest, what a shame.

Speaker 4 I'm really upset about that.

Speaker 4 That is my fire fest this week is. I was very, very much looking forward to traveling for four days and not getting worked up.
Ah, man. A shame shit.

Speaker 4 Getting out drank by a bunch of celebrities that are probably going to cancel. Yeah.
So,

Speaker 1 fuck. Damn it.
Damn it. I'm Drake.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
Oh, no. Drake is.

Speaker 1 That was bad.

Speaker 9 Tough night. That was bad.
That's talking about fire.

Speaker 1 Kendrick Lamar had all of LA out.

Speaker 9 All of LA. He played the song five times in a row.
Yeah. LeBron was dancing.

Speaker 4 The cameraman even started to get on the cuts for it.

Speaker 1 Wah, wah, wah, wah. I didn't realize he played it five times in a row.

Speaker 1 I just saw the one with like DeMar and Russell Westbrook. That was the fifth time.

Speaker 9 The track list is like it was, he did like 20, 20 songs or whatever, and it was 21, not like us, 22, not like us, 23, not like us.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you saw LeBron with Savannah standing by the stage. Everybody was was there.
It was wild. Drake.
Tyler the Creator also put on a great show.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, Hank, your Fire Fest of the Week.

Speaker 9 My Fire Fest of the Week is apparently

Speaker 9 I'm a bad celebrator of championships. Yes.
Barcelona Gambling. I knew this was happening in real time.
I think I might have said it like shortly after.

Speaker 9 But when you're the favorite, so

Speaker 9 the Barcelona Gambling account posted a clip of the gambling cave when we won the championship. It was me and Feidelberg, Dana, Clemmer, Wanton Don, all the Boston Celtics fans.

Speaker 9 And it was pretty, you know, we just kind of clapped, dapped it up. Like when you're in the gambling cave, it is weird.
I'm big cat, you kind of happened with you too when the Cubs won.

Speaker 9 It's like you're not really in the mode where you're, you know, drunk and celebrating and letting out all your emotions, especially when the game was over at halftime.

Speaker 9 We knew we were, you know, it was basically a formality at that point.

Speaker 9 So we didn't have the crazy celebration. And then the video has what? Right now has 19.9 million views.

Speaker 9 And every sports fan base quote tweeted it being like, I've celebrated Sacrifice Bunts more than 2,900 quote tweets.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, you are right.

Speaker 1 I mean, I think the context of the fact that you guys were up the whole game, too, and the series was a blowout, but you are right because I remember like when the Cubs won the World Series,

Speaker 1 we were in the old New York office, and it was like, me and Glenny Balls, no offense, Glenny Balls, love him. He doesn't have any, he doesn't care about the Cubs whatsoever.

Speaker 1 And I was just like, okay, like I'm looking around. It's just, it was a bunch of people actually rooting against me, and then they won.

Speaker 1 I remember game six when they beat the Dodgers to go to the World Series. I was at that game, and I partied my fucking face off, and it was awesome.

Speaker 1 But yeah, like being in a gambling cave like that, it's a little bit different.

Speaker 4 Yeah, if it was a buzzer beater that you guys won on, I'm sure you guys would have gone nuts.

Speaker 4 But the way that this clip starts in a bad look for you guys, which is fights on the couch, and he just starts yawning. He's yawning as the champion, as the final whistle is blown.

Speaker 4 And this is also just classic Boston. It gives a lot of like,

Speaker 4 there's a lot of red meat on the bone for people that like to hate on Boston sports fans because you guys have had so much success that it does piss a lot of people off. Myself, which is good, yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's where it's like, it's like hate us.

Speaker 9 It's literally hate us because you have to.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's like you have championship fatigue. It's like when Nancy Pelosi hits a massive winning trade, she doesn't like jump around and be like, yes, I don't have to work anymore.
This is as usual.

Speaker 4 That's how we operate around. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It does look, it gives a lot of vibes of like finishing 18 holes with your friends. There's just some nice calm handshakes and like, all right, another one.
I got a couple of the best quote tweets.

Speaker 1 This guy said, my cat gets more excited to go to the vet than this.

Speaker 1 This guy, this might be Max's burner. He said, I've celebrated a Tobias Harris corner three in a January game to cut the deficit to seven in the third quarter harder than this.

Speaker 4 That's a reverse own right there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I've celebrated harder on a ghost wipe than these guys winning a championship.

Speaker 1 That's true. I've absolutely celebrated harder on a ghost swipe.

Speaker 4 Save a lot of time. Yep.

Speaker 1 I've celebrated Iowa punting harder than this.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's just Iowa football. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I've celebrated finding a $5 bill in a coat I haven't worn in a while more than this.

Speaker 1 And then on and on and on. Yeah, everyone has chimed in on that.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I just don't know really. Like, I was thinking, what should I do? And I kind of knew that that was going to be the reaction, but I also wasn't going to fake it.
Like, I wasn't going to

Speaker 9 drop to my knees and be like, you guys knew you were going to win after game three.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 You had a lot of great moments that cumulatively like built up to much more than this final thing yeah you got to enjoy the ride and you were locked in

Speaker 1 like for the whole game yeah

Speaker 1 but yeah it's very funny that you became

Speaker 1 you became a uh quote treat machine meme for uh not really caring yeah i mean it's been 18 years of people hating on us for winning and it's just it's not going to stop and we're not going to stop you're probably yawning is so great it's such a good yawn too yeah and he's like laying back with his belly out Yeah.

Speaker 1 And everyone just thinks

Speaker 1 that you can't.

Speaker 1 Everyone does a really simple high five.

Speaker 9 Yeah, it is like a 18th hole. Like, all right, good match.
Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 All right. It could be worse.

Speaker 4 It could be a lot worse if you guys had, you know, the golfers always miss the handshakes. They always screw up the handshakes in the high fives.
I think you guys connected on just about all of them.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 True.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So if you had messed up the handshakes, then it's like it becomes more of an own than this.
Yeah. This is just, yeah, hate us because they ate us.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 PFT, what's your fire for us?

Speaker 4 All right, I've got a couple.

Speaker 4 One is

Speaker 4 Blake has started to

Speaker 4 go after my penis again. Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Cock-hungry? That's his thing. He just, like, he follows me around, especially in the morning if I'm getting out of bed.
He follows me from room to room.

Speaker 4 And every time I turn around, I think he thinks it's like a toy that he has to go after and try to pick up and then run away with. So I have to walk down my hallway.
with my ass towards Blake.

Speaker 4 And I'm always guarding my... Boxing him out? I'm always like I'm setting a pick.
I've got two hands in front of my balls at all points when I'm around Blake. He did make contact the other day.

Speaker 4 He didn't bite, but he just, he just likes to play with it. Yeah.
Or he thinks it's a toy, and I have to keep it away from him.

Speaker 1 Maybe your dick's too big?

Speaker 4 No, it's definitely not that. It doesn't, I don't think it would remind him of any of maybe a milk bone.
It might remind him of a milk bone. Yeah.
That's it.

Speaker 4 So that's, that's been a challenge that I've been dealing with. And then the other is that the El Camino won't start again.

Speaker 4 And I drove to work. I was so pumped.
I brought it in here on, I think, Tuesday, And that thing was purring. It was so loud.
Really enjoyed the ride in. And then we're getting ready to tape the dozen.

Speaker 4 And Jeff's like, can you go out to your car? Because I want to get a shot of you pulling up in the El Camino, stepping out, walking into the office confidently.

Speaker 4 Then we'll cut from that to you walking onto the set. So it'll look like you just arrived.
So we're pre-taping this thing. I'm like, okay, this is going to be awesome.
Go out to the car.

Speaker 4 And then I try to start it. And then it just doesn't start at all.
And so they're just waiting for me. I'm like, I'm sorry, my car won't start.
We open up the hood. I don't know.
I'm not a car guy.

Speaker 4 There's just gas gushing out of the carburetor. And so now I've got, I got to deal with that and maybe replace the carburetor.

Speaker 4 And it's, uh, I've, for the first time yesterday, I thought to myself, what, what if I just sold it? I'm not going to. I'm not, but I had the thought.

Speaker 1 I got to be honest. You got to wait till at least the end of summer.
I, yeah. You definitely don't want it in winter.
I maybe. Did you think about all of this stuff? in 10-degree weather.

Speaker 1 Yes, that would be very

Speaker 1 brutal.

Speaker 4 That would be very bad. Or I could try to give it away to somebody that I hate and act like I'm giving them a present.
Like, hey, guess what? I got you an El Camino. Enjoy it.
I like that.

Speaker 4 You sucker.

Speaker 1 Give it a max.

Speaker 5 I am going to fix it.

Speaker 4 I'm going to fix it. Shane's dad tried to help me fix it today.
And we're looking good.

Speaker 1 Pug, what's up? Pug, you got your hand up? No, nothing's working.

Speaker 4 Just tune in to PM TV to watch everything PFT just talked about, Pug. Yeah,

Speaker 4 it's been a real roller coaster.

Speaker 1 Pug the plug.

Speaker 1 Pug God. Pug God.

Speaker 4 I can't believe we don't have anybody really inside this building that knows about cars.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 5 Not really.

Speaker 9 No, I'm saying that's surprising.

Speaker 1 There's a bunch of fucking indoor bloggers.

Speaker 4 I feel like there would be one person that knows about cars.

Speaker 1 Chaps is your only shop for all of these things.

Speaker 4 He was like, you want me to shoot it?

Speaker 1 He's the manliest man. And then, yeah, if he doesn't have it, it's over.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to think. Who else? Yeah, there's not

Speaker 9 white boy Rick. A lot of our.

Speaker 1 For our security guards?

Speaker 4 I've talked to all the security guards. I ran through all the security guards.

Speaker 1 White boy Rick. No chance.

Speaker 4 I even asked a random guy that was walking down the street if he knew about cars. Yeah, I've reached that point.
That's brutal. Hey, you want to come help me fix my car?

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 by the way,

Speaker 1 is Pug the hottest stock in the game right now? Oh, for sure.

Speaker 4 It's crazy. For sure.
The 99 Pug just on the way out. It's wild, Pug.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's that's just how the lottery ball goes. You don't know when it's going to hit.
You're a beast. You're a beast.

Speaker 4 I just had an idea for like a dating app, but it's young dudes that want to meet up with old guys

Speaker 4 who know about cars.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'll do that. Like an old guy.

Speaker 4 I would like to, yeah. I feel like an old guy wants to share his car knowledge.

Speaker 1 I'm an aspiring car guy. Like, I want to, at some point, uh, own an old Bronco and a Cadillac.

Speaker 1 And I know that I need to, when that day comes, I have to have my schedule fully cleared to like dive into learning about cars. Yeah, yeah.
That will be my thing when I retire.

Speaker 4 It would be a great thing for just an old, because they have all the time in the world. Right.
And they want to work on cars.

Speaker 1 And all I want is just

Speaker 1 to live

Speaker 1 in like a retirement area with drive my Bronco around. And then when I want to go to the horse track, drive my Cadillac.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's a winning car.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's a winning car. All right.
My Fire Fest is, well,

Speaker 1 it's a good news, bad news situation.

Speaker 1 Good news, or sorry, the bad news is I have the replacement for this podcast.

Speaker 1 So you have to admit sometimes when you're getting a little older that there might be an up-and-comer that is ready to take the reins.

Speaker 1 The good news of it is I think it's my three-year-old daughter because this week my son, who turned five

Speaker 1 on Wednesday,

Speaker 1 my daughter refused to wish him happy birthday for the entire day.

Speaker 4 That's power move.

Speaker 1 And it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I literally kept on saying, can you wish him a happy birthday? And she's like, no.
And just all day, just held out.

Speaker 1 And I was like, this is the troll queen. This is the heir to the troll crown.

Speaker 4 What about the next day? Did she say like, happy birthday yesterday?

Speaker 1 No, but she was just like so adamantly,

Speaker 1 we sang with the candles and everything, didn't sing. She said before, she's like, I'm not going to sing.
What did he do? Nothing. She just didn't.
She was just not acknowledging his birthday.

Speaker 1 Did he ask her to?

Speaker 1 He was kind of like, why aren't you saying happy birthday? And she's like, I don't want to. I don't feel like it.

Speaker 5 Because she's a queen.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was, it was, I just, because it started at the beginning of the day where I was like, Can you please say happy birthday to your brother?

Speaker 1 And then, as the day progressed and she kept on staying firm about it, I just started laughing every time she refused. And then she obviously went into that and was like, This is funny.

Speaker 1 I'm doing something funny. Yeah, you gave her the reinforcement.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Because it is.

Speaker 4 I thought her that was hilarious. It's very funny.
To just be like,

Speaker 1 it might be your birthday, but I will not be acknowledging it.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Did she get any presents for his birthday?

Speaker 1 She stole some of his. Yeah.
Yeah. But yeah, that's, she, she might be my

Speaker 1 heir apparent in terms of trolling. Because

Speaker 1 that's a really young age to have that ability to really stick it to someone that you love.

Speaker 4 I wonder if it's going to be every birthday or if it's just his.

Speaker 1 Like, does she just have a rivalry with the oldest?

Speaker 4 Or the babies, yeah. She won't give it to the babies.

Speaker 1 Yeah, everyone else that she goes crazy for. Yeah.
Then she would really be the troll.

Speaker 4 She has one enemy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Good show, boys.
Hank.

Speaker 9 Great show. Great week.

Speaker 1 Good luck. Great week, Hank.

Speaker 9 See you on Sunday. You're going to have a great time.

Speaker 4 It'd be a real shame if you threw up on Coach.

Speaker 4 Don't say that. I said it was a real shame.
You don't think it'd be a shame?

Speaker 1 Oh, you know, it'd be a real shame.

Speaker 4 Oh, no, I'm not going to say it. You think they're going to let Hank?

Speaker 1 I'm going to be. I'm going to.
Oh, we already said it would be a real shame if Hank had a boating accident. Yeah.

Speaker 4 What if it was... What if it was this one? You're certified, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know, but it's still you'd be part of a boat. I mean, would you say, would you say someone, would you say

Speaker 1 a person who died on the Titanic had it was part of a boating accident yeah I don't think there's going to be a boating accident with the duckboats going like five miles an hour down the street but who knows that's you never know are they going to well no not on the street we're not saying on the street

Speaker 1 aren't they going in the water yes yeah no they don't go in the water too well why do they use the duckboat theory they don't go in the water because it's a boston thing they just drive the duckboats correct that's weird to me okay so maybe you have a boating accident on the road no i think you can have a boating accident on the road in a duckboat any other any other thing down downfall you want to wish?

Speaker 4 No, I said it would be a shame. I didn't say it would be.

Speaker 1 It'd be a shame if you got a really bad sunburn. Actually, you need to suntane because that's the only part of your head that looks weird.
I know. Is that it's very white.
Let me see.

Speaker 1 Give us the whole.

Speaker 1 You have a little bit of a scars of your head.

Speaker 9 I have one back here.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you have one back there, but you also have one on the side. That's from basketball.

Speaker 4 Yeah, if there's one thing you can say about Hank from today and from the Nikki Smokes clip, good head. Good head.

Speaker 1 Hank, good head approved.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 We'll see everyone on Monday. Let's finish with numbers.
Eight.

Speaker 9 Let's go. 18.
Banner 18. No, it's

Speaker 1 retired.

Speaker 9 We said we weren't retiring.

Speaker 4 We retired 18 for Jake. Did we?

Speaker 1 Yeah. 20.

Speaker 4 You can say 101.

Speaker 1 101 would be 18.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's all I'm saying. 18 comes up.
It's 101.

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