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Today is Friday, June 7th, and the Boston Celtics are up 1-0 on the Dallas Mavericks after an absolute shit-kicking. Hank? Yeah, great game.
Great game. It looked like in the third quarter they were going to do the classic Celtics thing, let the other team back in.
Turns into a close game, but they called a timeout when they cut the lead to 8, went on an 8-0 run after that, and it was smooth sailing from there. Yeah, it's a shame that Jason Kidd couldn't give another halftime speech where he said, everyone, remember to have fun out there.
In the NBA Finals, he said. When said when you're given the have fun speech you lost I don't think that you can come back with a uh have fun speech but I guess they did come back a little bit in the third quarter yeah no they they definitely did I mean they made it an eight-point game and then it was and then when you looked up at the end of the third quarter the Mavs had only won the quarter by one point and they took their best punch and the Celtics came out with way more energy They they looked better poor zingas kind of rope-a-doping everyone he's like i don't know if i'm 100 he looked he didn't look 100 when he started the game he looked slow they were kind of picking rolling he wasn't really closing out he wasn't really contesting shots i was like oh yeah he's definitely not 100 and then he just made 20 shots in a row yeah he, he was the best player on the court for a little bit.

In that first quarter, it was unreal.

This is a big-time revenge series for Chris Stops.

Hank, you are very confident right now.

Are we still thinking Celtics in six?

Yeah, we're thinking Celtics in six.

The Mavs aren't going to go away.

They're going to give us their best shot,

but it might be Celtics in five.

I did not realize this was going to be a Bill Walton game.

That would have affected things quite a bit for me.

The family's there.

They're wearing the Bill Walton jerseys.

They're passing out the Bill Walton buttons and stickers before the game.

If there is an afterlife where you can control something that happens on planet Earth,

I'm certain that Bill Walton would be doing everything in his power to control this game.

This should have been an easy bet. Yes.
The one thing you could say if you're the mavericks uh you couldn't played worse couldn't played with less energy coming out um the celtics hit every shot in the first half and jason kidd also sucks at game ones so that was uh i think the wolves series was the first time he had won a game one for the mavericks. He has notoriously been slow starting with his teams in a series, but it definitely looked like the Celtics were the better team all around because they just have an answer.
It's the role players. It's what we talked about.
It's different than the series they just finished where, you know, Carl Anthony Towns couldn't hit a three and Rudy Gobert is nothing on offense and you can basically play a different style of defense when there's only a certain amount of guys that can hit a shot. Everyone on the Celtics can hit a shot.
So who's the MVP after one game? Jalen? Yeah. Jalen, I am looking forward to the discourse if he wins MVP.
That is crazy that the Celtics won by as much as they won by and Jason Tatum was not good. I think that's a good yeah no I'm saying that's crazy like if he he's not going to be not good for the entire series he's eventually going to be good and uh yeah the the the Mavs role players didn't show up uh Luka started slow he had that third quarter where he was incredible and yeah you can't you can't expect to win this series if Kyrie's gonna to only score 12 points.
Yeah, they did a good job not biting on his – Luka always is trying to draw fouls. I feel like Jalen Brown – we said it.
He got snubbed for NBA all defense, and he took that personally. And he came out, and he was playing really good defense.
Every time Luka was pump faking, he was letting him shoot it, and Luka never does. He just always pump fakes and then passes.
It was just a great, great, great, great game one. Happy basketball's back.
It was a long wait, and it was a great payoff. It's good that basketball's back.
I still think that the Mavs were stupid to wear these jerseys in game one. I don't know if they did that because Luka looked very slim in them.
Were you thinking blue? I was thinking blue. These jerseys feel like the jerseys you wear for Star Wars night in early February.
Yeah, yeah. I also think the white Celtics jerseys, that's a big game jersey.
Yeah. I just feel like it's crazy because if you had said before that the Celtics were the team that had the longer rest and also had just played significantly less games, weren't in the rhythm of a big time game what are you talking about they look as sharp as could be yeah they weaponized time yeah they did they weaponized time mavs max celtics and four oh no i mean this team fucking sucked tonight these role players were horrible we have a role players play better at home well the the celt Celtics got more fucking home games.
The Mavs are going to win at least a game. The Mavs suck.
I stand by Celtics in five. I feel good about that.
Three. Listen, you can't overreact to one game, Max.
Hank's the fucking worst. I fucking hate when Hank...
Ugh. Yeah.
Continue, continue, continue. You're just such a fucking bitch when you're happy.
It's a podcast.

You gotta talk.

You gotta talk, Max.

Don't just go silent when your team loses.

You gotta let your feelings out.

You're the worst.

Max, here's a spin zone for you, for Mavs Max.

At least you still have your reservation at 4 Charles Prime.

The Celtics have eight guys who should have a $100 million contract.

Wait, what?

I said at least.

Let's list them. Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum, Porzingis, Derek White, I mean Pritchard, friend of the program.
Drew Holiday. Payton Pritchard stunk tonight.
Sam Houser. Sam Houser, stud.
Al Horford, did you say? Al Horford. Al Horford's such a fucking cock.
I fucking hate Al Horford. Sixers could have used a guy like Horford.
Al Horford is the worst. I think the Mavericks could.
Remember when it seemed like his career was over on the Sixers? That was like seven hours ago. I didn't want to play there.
I don't remember. Didn't want to play there.
Need a better environment, I think. He signed there.
He chose to play there. By the way, Luka having one assist, that tells you how bad everyone else played.
Oh, come on. Hey, do you know how an assist works? It's a fact that they missed all their shots from the pass.
Early on, it was like nobody should have thrown more lobs. Luka didn't have only one pass tonight.
They missed everything. Luka didn't play great, but one assist.
Played better than Jason Tatum. Do you understand how assists work? One assist means that the other guys, you have to make the shot for the assist to count.
Yeah, you got to make better passes. It was guys better looks.
It was great team defense by the Celtics. No, the bad stunk all around.
You say Drew Holiday? Yeah. Geez, I couldn't even say the one assist without Hank getting.
Well, I was curious how you were going to, you know. Because an assist, you have to pass the ball, then the person has to make the shot.
The rest of the Mavs. You've got to make good passes, though.
The Mavs didn't make the shots. Should have done more lops.
Yeah, Kyrie was really bad. Kyrie was really bad.
Lucky revenge game. No, the Mavs were bad.
I mean, the Celtics were, it wasn't as, the Mavs were bad.

The Celtics were just, like, they came out and they were like,

hey, we're playing in the NBA Finals right now.

And they looked as sharp as sharp could be.

I don't think this series is over either.

I think the Mavs could easily come back, win game two.

It is, you know, a blowout like that will wake you up.

Yeah.

You think statement loss?

You think that was a statement loss?

Not a statement loss.

Yeah, you think this series.

I don't think it's a statement loss. We can statement loss.
Yeah, you think this series is over. I don't think this series is over.
We can see your fucking face. You think this series is over.
I don't. Yes, you do.
It's not. Yes, you do.
It's a seven-game series. Well, it's a six-game series now.
Those were two different. Hank, you would have rather won this game by like two points, three points? No.
No. But I don't think the Mavs are going to roll over and die.

I think it's going to be bad. Like, Kyrie's not going to play that bad.

Luka's going to make some better passes next game, get some more assists.

Yeah, Kyrie was very, very bad.

I mean, the Celtics have so much more depth.

There was that one moment where Kyrie looked like he was open,

and it was just Porzingis standing with his arm out,

and someone in the gambling game was like, shoot it, dude. It's like, well, he can't.
Porzingis is a fucking monster. Like he looks like he's open from the angle, but he's 100% not open.
And he looks very healthy. Very healthy.
Yeah, Porzingis does. Max, you didn't even say you didn't like my spin zone.
What? He was just so happy. You still have your reservation at Fort Charles Prime.
This is just a bad joke. Why? Because this is the second time that Jerry's done this to me.
What happened? Jerry's good at getting reservations in New York City. He got me a reservation.
And then after he books the reservation for me, he just tells me every day that he accidentally canceled it. So did he cancel it? Yeah, apparently.
Oh. Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah. I mean, this is a bad joke.
This is not a good joke for the listeners. Can't you get it back? I don't care about this.
Do you have to reply error? Yeah, well, I was playing into Jerry's little bit. Oh, okay.
Oh, got it. Got it.
Okay. You know, Max really is angry when he tells everybody, like, the listeners hate this.

Yeah, the listeners hate this.

They fucking hate this.

Do you think the listeners like Mav Max?

No, I shouldn't.

I should just go.

Actually, no, that would be Hank.

Whatever.

I'm done.

He can't even speak.

I'm done.

He is.

Max, I'll agree with you.

He is annoying, but his team won game one. You can't really, like, what are you going to say? Nothing.
Nothing. You got to talk, Max.
He answered the question. I can't say anything.
You won. You won.
You win. You win every three years.
You fucking win. You know what? I'm happy for Hank right now in this moment.
Fucking hate boss. But I can assure you that if they win game two and game three and hank just the the shit eating grin becomes shittier and grinnier i'm gonna start to hate hank too because this this cockiness is going to carry over all summer but it was good that we got just the hate is because we got game one out of the way because the we had the worst combo of hank today because we're dealing with cocky hank right now which i i have no problem with cocky Hank.
We had nervous Hank all day, and he was just a little annoying. You'll hear it for the rest of the show.
He's just annoying. I was getting fits off in it.
You were just nervous. I think I was in jelly mode.
Yeah. I'm rooting for you, Hank.
I truly am, but I don't want to see you sweep. I want to see you sweat a little bit.
I mean, I'm rooting for a sweep. Okay.
I had two other things I wanted to say before we kick it back to ourselves, talk some Dan Hurley. This one is, and we're going to talk about Dan Hurley, but our friend Adam Lefkoe had a very interesting tweet that I very much enjoyed.
It was titled, The tradition of LeBron or his team looking to overshadow game. One of the NBA finals continues 2024 Dan Hurley, JJ Reddit coach mania 2023 LeBron retirement rumors plus biopic, uh, shooting stars premiere 2022.
I forgot about this one. Forbes announces LeBron is a billionaire the day of game one.
That's great. He really is the best at it.
He's really good at doing that and then also watching the finals and being like, damn, this is so good. I wish we were in this.
Not happening again next year. Yeah.
I'm going to be back. But that is some really good game one news that he needed to have out there.
There's no doubt that he planned this whole Dan Hurley thing for having it all day on game one yeah also he said important moment for a sport tonight love and respect to doris burke and everything she does to elevate all of us you're a goat and then everybody started to congratulate lebron james on congratulating doris burke yes like this is this is what a an ally looks like what a great great tweet by lebron he he also had uh he said I'm so effing uh with some

stars in it mad that I'm not his running mate anymore talking about Kyrie yeah Kendrick Perkins called him out was like dude shut up it's game one of the finals let it let let this be game one of the finals because he was just like damn I should be with Kyrie right now yeah in the finals okay the other thing I had was

I'm worried about Mike McDaniels

why what's up

Mike McDaniels. Why? What's up? Mike McDaniels is, so the Dolphins have not won a playoff game in 24 years.
He now has every staff meeting he puts at 24 on the hour. I don't like that.
Like 724. I don't like that.
Because you're just thinking about thinking about it all the time yeah i don't know if he was being cheeky with it he probably just did that so that the the big team meeting could start 4 24 four minutes after yeah he's ready for it i will hold reservation because mike mcdaniels is a funny guy and he probably he might be just fucking with the media but if this is true this makes me nervous this is like uh after the double doink year when matt nagy ended every practice with all the kickers having to kick a 41 yarder yeah it's in his head right it's in his head and so you're you're just making everybody in the building think about how long it's been all the time right not the best way to do it no i did i thought of a a great a great be a shame and i'm so it's a shame that i thought of it so late i think the ultimate shame would be if Justin Fields won a Super Bowl with the Steelers. That would be a shame.
It's a shame that I thought of it so late. I think the ultimate shame would be if Justin Fields won a Super Bowl with the Steelers.
That would be a shame. You're right.
People really like the shame list. A crying shame.
Yeah. We might have to do an updated shame list every six months.
I'm not going to root for it, but if it does happen, just know that it would be a dear shame. It would be a shame.
That would be a very big shame. It would be a shame if Max's reservation got canceled before Charles Prime.

It would be a shame if me and Max had to go to Game 4 and shoot a PMTV.

Oh, that would be a shame.

Where would that be?

Dallas.

Oh, okay.

Is that on the table?

Mavs Max, you love that.

You love the Mavs.

PLL.

Oh, what?

I have to be in Philly for PLL. We can do a different weekend for that, right? What day? Yeah, what day? I don't know.
Sounds like it's really locked in. It's definitely locked in.
I just don't know what day game four is. Oh, yeah, game four is Friday.
So, yeah, he's right. He does.
No, that's Saturday. You can just get up.
There's a flight like 530 in the morning. Oh, yeah, you could.
That would be a shame if you had to get to 5.30 in the morning flight. It'd be a shame if you had to follow Hank with a camera wherever he went.
Wherever he went. Wherever.
Until he closes his eyes to fall asleep. Any concourses, bedrooms, pools.
He is more torn up about this than he was about the Sixers. No, I'm not.
It's crazy. No, I'm not.
After the Sixers lost. No, he's not.
He's just mad. He just hates Hank.
He really hates him. After the Sixers lost, he was like, it feels different.
This one feels different. Now this feels bad for Mavs.
I think it's also the problem is Mavs Max is a great nickname. Yeah.
And it's just one game. He quit in the second quarter.
Mavs Max died in the second quarter tonight.

Dead.

Yeah.

I already tried to cash out my future, but I placed it in Jersey, so I can't.

Oh, shit.

That's a shame.

That is such a shame. That's a shame.

That's a real shame.

I'll buy your ticket for five bucks.

Just kidding.

No.

He won't?

You're not going to take it?

No, Max?

Decline. Decline.
Decline. Ten bucks? just kidding no he won't you you're not gonna take it no max max have not decline decline decline 10 bucks all right let's kick it to ourselves all right we're gonna kick it to ourselves we're gonna talk some dan hurley then we got paul bissonet uh stanley cup final preview we got evander kane from the edmonton oilers and we got Fyre Fest.
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Okay. Dan Hurley might be the new Lakers head coach.
According to the Woj bomb that went out at four, five in the morning, he said, breaking the ESPN story on the Los Angeles Lakers, preparing massive long-term offer to bring UConn's Dan Hurley to the NBA with talks expected to escalate in coming days.

So when we had Dan Hurley on, I believe this was two years ago, we asked him about taking

an NBA job and he said, not now, I've got a lot to learn.

He also said the league might not be ready for a guy like him.

That's a fact.

Might be true.

But then he also said it's a challenge that he could see himself doing at some point in

the future.

It sounds like they're about to just back up the truck for him.

Yeah.

If they actually pull a truck into his driveway, like a brinks truck yep you have to take that deal uh i thought the weirdest part of this whole thing was buried in woge's article they talked about how getting dan hurley on board could benefit brawny james if the lakers were to draft him and how dan hurley could could help him step his game up and develop as an NBA player. That is the craziest thing I've ever heard to be considering a coach based on the fact that a guy you might draft in the second round might get a little bit better.
A guy that's not even on the team yet, the son of your superstar, he could help him with his development. That's crazy to me, but then I thought to myself, wait a second.
What if it's a tit-for-tat situation and Dan Hurley says, I'll do it. I'll sign off on drafting Bronny.
I'll help develop him. But you also have to sign Andrew Hurley.
And he gets to get in all the games to be the turnover sponge at the end of every game. If his son's on the team, my son's on the team.
Yeah. That would rock.
That part of the story was very funny because it would be just as easy,

easier, way easier actually, to just have Bronny transfer to UConn.

Yeah.

Why not just transfer to UConn and stay in college

and actually learn from Dan Hurley right now?

But LeBron has tweeted about how much he likes Dan Hurley.

Dan Hurley's an incredible coach.

The Lakers are one of those jobs. I mean, Coach K, which we'll get to in a second, flirted with it 20 years ago.
But the Lakers are one of those jobs that I think every single college basketball coach picks up the phone for. Because you know they'll always get free agents.
And they'll always find a way to be relevant. My only – so there were two things initially that I thought.
One, Shams got his lunch eaten on this one because Shams has basically been talking about J.J. Reddick to the Lakers almost being a done deal for the last two weeks.
And Woj, this – the Woj-Shams rivalry is so great because you know how much pleasure this gave Woj to just dunk on him at 5 in the morning.

Shams probably woke up, saw it, was like,

Clutch has been lying to me, all this stuff.

And he has to just sit there and pray that talks fall through with Dan Hurley

and they end up with J.J. Redick.

But I was thinking about it.

I think Dan Hurley would be awesome at the Lakers. I think he's going to be a great coach no matter where he goes.
The only thing that doesn't really make sense to me is I do think the Lakers, LeBron's not going to play forever and he's fickle at best. He's not going to give you a long-term commitment.
So why would you take it now when you know you could maybe stay at UConn and the Lakers will still be there in a couple years from now when they eventually fire whoever they hire this cycle and then just take him over that? I would love to see Dan Hurley take a hands-on approaching like he did at UConn. Like, go on the court and push LeBron James.
Oh, he would. I don't think he'll go there if he can't coach the way he wants to coach.
That would be awesome. Also, Dan Hurley doesn't strike me as an L.A.
guy. No, he's not laid back enough, but he would bring the fire to L.A.
No, I mean, he's a Yukon. He's a New Jersey guy.
He's never leaving. Trust me.
I'm right. There's there's there's there's two ways is going to play out.
One is the Lakers are going to offer him so much money that he can't turn it down. And you're going to say, okay, well, Dan Hurley, good job.
You deserve this. And, yeah, you've got to take this offer.
And the other thing that could happen very well, and I can see it in my head, is Dan Hurley sitting at his desk. He tweets a picture on Sunday night maybe with just the number seven because they have six and they're going for their seventh.
And he's like, yeah, my wife couldn't find a good hoagie place in L.A., so job's not finished. You know what would be great? Let me strike that reverse.
You know it would be a real shame. It'd be a real shame if Dan Hurley left and then UConn hired Jay Wright.
That'd be a real shame. That would never happen.
Max is hoping for this to happen so, much such a shame max and pug the whole big east yeah they all need dan hurley out uh i don't i don't know which way this is gonna go i i wonder do you think jj feels like he's being used a little bit i actually think that this might be an entire duke conspiracy because yeah coach k yeah no i was stream about this morning I was right it. Coach K did all of this.
But think about with the J.J. Redick thing too.
No, Coach K was named an unofficial what was it? I'm going to get the exact How do you get named something but it's unofficial? Will you shut up for a second with your little vest? Just tell him to shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up for a second.
Satisfy. Lakers reportedly using Mike Krzyzewski as unofficial resource in coaching search.
Coach K sees Dan Hurley win his second national title back-to-back. He looks around.
He says, look, there's a lot of guys in college basketball that will never reach where I'm at. They won't be the old-school tough style like Dan Hurley.
He's a throwback. He's a relic.
I got to figure out a way to make sure that Dan Hurley doesn't surpass me as the GOAT or alleged GOAT by Coach K's standards. He's not my GOAT.
GOAT college basketball coach. I'm the unofficial resource in this

searching job.

He's just basically, every time they bring up

who should we hire, he's like, you know what I'm thinking?

Dan Hurley. He's getting

Dan Hurley to go

to the Lakers

so Dan Hurley can't take

everything from John Shire and

Duke and Coach K

and all his legacy and stuff. And he used J.J.

Redick, someone he knows very well.

He's a pawn in the scheme.

I think he might have engineered the entire podcast. And been like, hey, you guys do a podcast.
And then we're going to set that up when the coaching thing becomes available. Then we're going to link J.J.
heavily to it. I'll call Shams.
Get Shams to endorse this. And then everyone's thinking, oh, J.J., oh, J.J, no one's on the phone, picking up the phone to call Dan Hurley, and then boom, we do the old replace last second, the old switcheroo.
And don't put it past Coach K. Don't put it past Coach K to not try to take down all of college basketball because Dan Hurley is a throwback coach.
If we lose Dan Hurley in college basketball, I will be upset.

He is – we had all these tough guys, hard-nosed guys, the Patinos, the Boehimes,

the Izzo's still around, but, you know – Patino's still around.

Patino is still around, but we're losing a lot of them.

All right, it's fine.

The Boehimes, the Coach K's, the Roy Williams, the John Thompson.

Bobby Knight.

The Roley Massaminos, the Bobby Knights. These guys are like 100 years old.
The Jay Wrights. We don't have any old school coaches anymore.
Dan Hurley is what college basketball has been for a very long time. Coach K is trying to basically, I think he wants college basketball to not exist in five years.
That's what he's trying to do. He's trying to take down the entire NCAA tournament.
He wants it all to end. He's a classic.
Just pull up the ladder on you. If you're Dan Hurley, would you rather go to the Lakers and get paid a lot more money and not have to recruit and not have to worry about NIL, all that stuff, but you also have the threat of being fired every single season, sometimes in season, if LeBron James doesn't like you enough.
Yeah, but then he could go back to college. Yeah, he could.
He could, yeah. Drop of a hat.
I, what, Max? I think that he's done everything that he needs to do in college. He should go.
Mute your mic. He should go attack.
Mute your mic. He should go attack this new venture.
Now I want him to go, and I want Jay Wright to sign on that dot. That's not going to happen.
It's not going to happen. Jay Wright would just go back to No.
There's no chance. Why would he go to UConn? No chance.
No. Zero chance.
Zero chance. He'd wait one more year for them to have a bad season, fire Neptune, and go back.
If anything, I feel like. Although Nova's back.
Oh, Nova's back because you got Wuga. Wuga.
Wuga. Coach K is trying to ruin UConn.
UConn fans, don't take this. If you are trying to blame anyone, do not blame Dan Hurley for being an incredible coach and being offered a lot of money.
Blame Coach K. He's behind all of this.
That's a bunch of donkey crap. You said that because you're in the Shrek costume.
Hank's doing a bit where he dressed up today. No, we did Dungeons & Dragons earlier, and I just had been busy.
You've been really busy. You've been busy trying to nap.
Took a nap. What do you think about this, Hank? I think it's a bunch of malarkey.
Oh, you think he's going to stay? I mean, I think he is going to stay. This actually does remind me of Coach K.
Well. And he always stayed.
Yeah. There is.
Like that was every summer. It was Coach K's going to the Lakers.
Yeah. There is a strong possibility in all of this that Dan Hurley has just won two national titles.
And he's got a new recruits. He's got new transfer portal guys.
And he now has to find a way to motivate him. So he's like, all right, well, let's just leak that I'm going to the Lakers.
And then he comes back and then he's like, I'm not leaving. Yeah, yeah.
That would be a good motivational tactic. I think he might be bored with college basketball at this point.
The last two, the last two NCAA tournaments, he's just dominated so hard. There's no way that's just fucking crushed.
crushed it. The other thing, to your point, which has nothing to do with Coach K, is that it's tough to be a hard-nosed coach in today's day and age when the transfer portal exists.
If you're too hard, they just leave. But it's way harder to be a hard-nosed coach in the NBA.
But you get paid a lot more. You don't have to worry about the transfer portal.
Like Dan Hurley, you can't coach the same way that you used to be able to coach because especially on the nba but it's a completely that's a completely different game how much money would they have to offer him because he probably got do we know the terms 12 like he probably can't coach what he wants to coach in the nba at uconn but he has been coaching that way but it's probably a lot and it's probably dealing with a lot of bullshit Or you could get paid fuck you money to go coach the best players in the world. Yeah, the fuck you money is the part that, you know.
Like 20 mil a year? I don't know. I don't know what the offer was.
100 mil over however many years? I have no idea. I hope we don't lose him in college basketball.
I really don't want to see that happen. And I also, it would be funny because I honestly think that if LeBron tried to use Dan Hurley as a scapegoat, Dan Hurley would just fight him.
Yeah, that would wrap. At the end of the season, if LeBron said, yeah, that was Dan Hurley's fault, our coach didn't coach well enough, he'll just come in and be like, okay, fight me.
He'd probably just publicly say, like, we're trading LeBron James. Yeah.
You don't want to see that? You don't think that would be great? Shut up. You are so biased right now.
You're very biased. I understand.
I understand your bias, and you should be taking the stance you're taking, but everything you say is very biased. But go ahead.
That's everything in this show. Yeah, that's everything in this show.
That's fair. But, I mean, Dan Hurley with the Lakers would make the Lakers way more entertaining next year.
Agreed. I just – do you understand my point about college basketball? Of course I do.
Yeah, we've lost all of the real coaches. I want him gone.
I know. Would you rather Dan Hurley at Kentucky or Lakers? Kentucky.
Yeah, because then you get to keep him in college basketball. And I could see UConn fans cry.
Oh. Yeah, I mean, you really...
Yeah, I want Dan Hurley gone. Okay.
I don't blame you for that at all. Yeah, no, not at all.
You have to. They're just so dominant.
Maybe board is the wrong choice of terms, but I do think that he's accomplished a lot in college basketball, and he feels like a guy who's ready for different challenges. Yeah, i just i don't know if i would want the challenge to me would not be to coach lebron where he's desperate and will blame anyone but lebron maybe the challenge is try to win a championship with lebron's son yeah in the rotation yeah so we'll see what happens we'll update obviously on monday i think maybe if something happens johnny fanta will on.
Also, if they're dead set, if they're making this pitch to him like we want you in case we do draft Brawny, another team should just draft Brawny and then try to trade him to the Lakers. He's the most valuable poker chip of all time.
Yeah, for Anthony Davis, straight up. Yeah.
I offer you one Anthony Davis. You're essentially kidnapping LeBron James' son.
Yeah. And be like, all you have to do is give me me your second guy and then now we can all be friends again yeah i uh how bad do you think shams feels right now he's got to just be praying that dan early says no has to pray and do you jj is he i i'm actually this is good for jj reddick it's good for him because now he's the big name out there so next opening're going to talk to JJ.
Well, it also is a good little reminder you haven't coached yet. Yeah.
And you go behind Dan Hurley. But he's already skipped to the front of the line.
Right. So the next coaching vacancy, it's like, okay, I guess JJ is a name that we should interview.
Yeah. Coach K will probably get – that's probably the end part of it.
You got to get over it. You got to get over it.
know, I don't. No, I don't.
No, I don't. Coach K will probably get JJ.
JJ's first coaching job will probably be the Olympic team this year. Yeah, that's probably winning gold medal.
Yeah. Front of the line.
I still have the Coach K little cheat. Yeah, no, we'll update it.
It's in my wallet. Yeah, it's in mine as well.
For two years ago. will update it with uh what he's done here by trying to eliminate dan hurley so uconn fans just remember it was coach k did you see coach k got a highway named after him no i feel like that's normal yeah that makes sense he's probably donated like billions to charity do you think he'd you think he's gonna let his friends drive on the highway uh what good one what i didn't make a joke going to let his friends drive on the highway? What? Good one.
I didn't make a joke. What do you mean his friends, Big Cat? I don't know.
Any of his friends from coaching. Yeah? Do you think he's going to let Paolo Banqueiro, I mean his grandson, drive that highway? Yeah.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. Who do you thought I was talking about, Jake? No.
Oh. Okay.
Probably not all of his friends. Yeah, there's probably one friend he doesn't want.
Yeah. Tony Stewart.
Okay, anything else before we get to... Oh, I saw Angel Hernandez.
Jeff Passan said that bullying worked in this case and that he was sick of seeing himself dragged on the internet all the time. So we it yeah we did it guys congratulations it's it's this is a big year for bullying we've got this and then we've got the heisman trophy going back to reggie bush yeah and i making things happen it is very funny that angel hernandez would say i was sick of watching myself being dragged online when all he could do is just he could easily fix that by not being terrible yeah well he can't eject the internet he can't throw the internet out of the game yeah like why are they being so why are they replaying all of these times i've gotten balls and strikes wrong i hope i hope that mlb brings them on as an analyst as like a rules analyst the way they did remember when mike carey came on in the nfl and he got every prediction wrong every that was incredible if they bring they bring Angel Hernandez in for the playoffs, he's like, I think that's a strike.
Yes. And it's like clearly outside the box.
We need that. Yeah, come on.
So bad. Do the right thing, MLB.
Yes. I guess we'll talk, Max, will you talk a little bit about your deli slicer during Fyre Fest or do you want to talk about it right now? We can do it later.
Okay. Well, is it a Fyre Fest? There's some Fyre Fest aspects.
Okay, then we'll save it for later because your Deli Slacer has arrived. You're living out your fantasy of being just a strong Italian man.
Memes wants you to know our college football schedule. Oh, yes, that was a good point.
We got the college football playoff schedule and it fucking rocks there's so much football starting in december so much football there's also just so much more football in january now that is going to be we we've almost eliminated january yeah which is great yeah we the january said we were both born in January. It's the worst month.
It's just a month of pure sports now. Yeah.
And just looking forward to sports. So pull it up.
It is, it's perfect because we have a Friday game, then three Saturday games right before Christmas. And then we have a New Year's Eve game and then three New Year's Day games, which is going to be great.
And then we get the special Thursday. I think January 9th is week.
That's right before week 18. So that would be right when we were getting weaned off of Thursday night games.
So they throw a Thursday night game in there. And a Friday.
a friday uh which leads us into week 18 so the january 9th weekend think about that 10 years ago was that even was that was that divisional round already no it wasn't divisional round but it was wild card weekend not super wild card weekend so 10 years ago we had four football games that weekend this did now the the first full weekend of january is a full week 18 and two college football playoff game it's pretty sweet and then monday january 20th national championship is that is that mlk day that is mlk day that's also coming off i think that's also inauguration oh good yep and that is also coming off that'll be fun that is coming off of I think that's super wild card weekend so 11-12-13 is actually super wild card oh it is yeah so I guess everything's up this week okay 18-19 is divisional okay so super wild card weekend so we're gonna have the semi-finals Thursday Friday and then super wild card weekend that's gonnaend. That's going to be the best stretch of football right now.

I hope the new president or the president goes to that game the day after they get inaugurated.

Yeah.

Wait, when is the Super Bowl this year?

February what?

It's not President's Day, but it's like...

Ninth.

Okay.

Okay.

So it's early.

It's earlier than it's been. Yeah january is january and december are incredible this year incredible this is all my whole plan just eliminate if we could just get football as much football in january as possible to just get rid of january as a month oh we even we get that friday december 20th game we get a friday night college football playoff game no it's it's Monday, January 20th.
No, Friday, December 20th. Oh, yes.
Yeah, it's one Friday, three Saturdays. Yeah.
And then New Year's Eve, then three New Year's Day games. It is interesting how this is going to go head-to-head with some NFL games, which we usually don't see.
Which ones? The 21st is going to be Tecton's Chiefs and Steelers Ravens. That's fine.
You just have multiple TVs. Yeah.
No, it's just these marquee college games usually are standalone. It's going to be tricky for the travel schedule around Christmas time.
That weekend, that Friday and Saturday. Also, our show, yeah, we're going to have to do some shows.
Yep. I did think about that.
So December 23rd, that Monday.

Yeah, which we normally would have done Monday. Definitely do the show there.
Yeah. And then we're going to have to do a show on the Wednesday, January 1st.
Yep. Yeah, which we would have probably had to do a show anyway.
But yeah, I'm excited. A lot more football.
Okay. Let's get some hockey talk because we haven't previewed the Stanley Cup final yet.
we got Biz and we got

Edmonton Oilers

Evander Kane. Before we do that, PFT, you had a word from our sponsors.
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Give us the X factor. I love doing the X factors.
I think we started to do it last year or maybe the year before, and I think Witt was like, fuck off with these X factors. But then now he's an X factor guy.
They play. Because you know what it is, Biz? And this is a little tip for you.
I mean, you know this. You're very successful in everything you do.
No, mansplain it to me, please. don't know no no no no i'm not gonna say what you think i'm gonna say what i'm gonna say is the at least for this show when we have a guest on like you who knows hockey so well when i ask for the x factors i'm basically asking for you to give us a name or two or a situation that all of our listeners can walk around this weekend at the bar and sound smart and they can be like yeah you know if the oilers do this and then everyone's like oh shit you know your puck it's like no they just listen to biz okay all right i like this i like this okay so when we when we talk about the x factors on the pod we usually refer to a team who

might be um uh going into the series where we think they might lose like right now i have florida and six right i think that overall they have the better team but i think if these two x factors step up the oilers have a chance to win one of which apparently you have on today's show it's a Vander Kane. Yes.
Yes.

Okay. Alright.
Okay. So

if Vander Kane is like your

prototypical power forward in the NHL. He's nasty.
He can play with a physical edge and he's tough as shit. I think he grew up a boxer.
He's actually, I believe he's named after Evander Holyfield. Did he explain that in the midst of the interview? He did.
Yes. so he hasn't quite been himself over the past couple years going back to two playoffs ago he had 13 goals that might have led all of playoffs and they were ended up being getting swept in the conference finals if he can get to playing that nasty that nasty style of play play physical and find his goal scoring edge I think that that helps them out so much because he hasn't been there quite all of this playoff like this playoff I think right now they have him going into this round on the third line even if he stays there if he can be that impact in this series it's going to matter because Florida a very physical team can beat you up and they're so deep up front where they have guys on the third line like Lundell who are putting the puck in the back of the net.
So he needs to be an X factor. The other X factor was a guy that half of the fan base was kind of thrown under the bus going back to the Vancouver round.
And that was Darnell Nurse. Big defenseman.
He's earning a lot of money. I think his cap hit is just over $9 million.
And although he makes that type of money, he's not that type of player. He's not a kill McCarr.
So what he needs to do is up his game defensively, make sure he's boxing out in front of the net, and he's also playing with that nastiness. After the game in which he got called out, there was a weird pregame press conference around his stall where all the media members were grilling him.
He was giving short answers that night. And at that point, I think he was minus 12 in playoffs.
Not great. He started off the game in the first five minutes, dash two, boom, one in the back of his net on a two on one, boom, the other one hits his ass in the back.
So it was just like a bad luck streak mixed along with not good playing, and then I feel like he just snapped after that. He ended up getting an assist that game, and then he finished with 12 hits, double digits in hits.
We need that from him every game this series. And if those two X factors do that, I believe the Edmonton Oilers, along with all the other pieces, do have the possibility of winning this in seven games.

Okay.

But you picked the Panthers, and I saw Gretzky kind of trashed you over it.

He reminded you that you picked the Stars.

Well, he's on the Oilers payroll, so let's not go over there.

And he's also won four cups with them, so let's not go there.

Well, he does live in South Florida.

Right?

Yeah.

So I don't know.

I'm just saying what the great one told me on TV was that he shouldn't trust you because the pick that you had in the last series was ass. Okay.
Fact or fiction. Well, I had, so I had Dallas in six.
I thought they were the better overall team and Edmonton kind of now the new team of destiny that the Rangers have been pigeon tossed to the side. I do believe that the Oilers could do it, but they have to have all systems go.
Florida is expected to be there. They have the goaltending.
They have more depth on defense. They're overall better on defense.
Edmonton Oilers' argument and their fan base's argument might be that you don't have an Evan Bouchard. Evan Bouchard, I believe currently he has 27 points in these playoffs.
He's 10 away from Paul Coffey who set the record for 37 points in a postseason playoff run when they obviously went on to win the cup. I believe that anybody who's ever hit 29 points as a defenseman individually, I want to say Kale McCarr hit that two years ago

when they won the Stanley Cup.

Everybody in the one-to-four slot

who has had that many points as a D-man,

their team has gone on to win the Cup.

So that might be the argument on the back end

for Oilers fans to say,

we have another X factor, whammy.

Oh.

Another, whammy.

They have three X factors.

So they might have triple X. Triple X.
And they also got that in the stands too yes that's the tits mcgee baby we saw the big the big jugs come out in dallas but not those nice ones like in edmonton boys yeah she had a nice little punch belly too she had that she had that big black leather belt which you know she wants to be choked and spanked with you know that you know that you did some deep diving on that i didn't get around to analyzing the ball what do you mean i did r a's texting with her and to to make matters even crazier the texts have not been going through that well because she apparently is at one bar because she works up north in al at the oil. Oh, this is just it's just too perfect.
So can you explain to me how this shakes out for Canada as a whole? I know it's big if Canada wins the Stanley Cup back, but I know that like Maple East fans are Maple East fans and that's it. Is that the same way for for senators fans and for Canucks fans? Or is there some sort of like unification in Canada right now where it's like we need the cup back on our soil? Okay, so before I answer that, just to quickly go back because I got distracted by Tits McGee.
And then at the forward position, yes, Edmonton has Dreisaitl and McDavid who are our world-class top of the game, probably top three players in the world, McDavid being number one. Overall, Florida has a deeper offense up front.
They have a better four lines. You cannot debate that.
Anybody who has half a brain in the hockey world will tell you that. So going back to the is Canada on board with you? Wait, let me ask it again.
I fucking nailed it the first time I asked it. Let me set you up again.
I want to hear it again, baby. This is a major, major major stanley cup for the entire country of canada it's been so long 1993 they've been waiting since 1993 to get the cup back on home ice in canada and the thing is there's multiple canadian teams and i know that the maple leafs fans only care about the maple leafs senators fans i don't know are they pulling for edmontucks fans? Are Flames fans? Or is this only the city of Edmonton and their supporters that have been waiting so long for another Stanley Cup? Are they the only ones that are really taking this set that seriously, making it that big of a deal? Or is it the entire country of Canada? Okay, so this question, the first time, that was unbelievable.
No, you made me repeat the first time was better. Basically a cover song of my question, Paul.
Great question. No, because you being long-winded with it and throwing all this stuff at me, it reminded me, I believe it was Wayne who said that all Canada is going to be behind Edmonton on the panel, and that's kind of what sparked this whole conversation.
Now, I would argue that I think that more Canadians overall from a percentage standpoint are interested on whether Connor McDavid will lift the Stanley Cup rather than maybe more so the Oilers and a Canadian team winning it. I believe that the fact that it's Connor McDavid, this generational talent, a guy who has poured his heart and soul, every fiber of his being into hockey since probably the young, young age of like six years old.
This guy's a phenom. He deserves a cup, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
You dealt with it with a guy like Ovechkin who had done all he did in the goal scoring department and everything he'd done for the game. But what was held against him? The fact that he'd a cup and then he did and then it was like the weight of the fucking world was off his shoulders so in order to be considered a great in the hockey world you have to get a Stanley Cup that is non-negotiable and this is his first crack at it so I think that that interest is more impactful in my mind than Edmonton itself winning but as a Canadian and as a Leafs fan I am I want Edmonton to win because I would love to see the cup come back to Canada yes I also think it's um you can kind of like compartmentalize because it's a little bit it's not the exact same but it's it's similar to to college sports and rooting for your conference.
I never really actually root for my conference, but there are certain things that are in the back of your mind. Like for March Madness, the Big Ten has not won a national title in like 20 plus years.
I was not rooting for Purdue when they were in the national title this year, but if they had won, I then would have used that going forward to be like, hey, we're we're not a joke anymore so it's like you're not maybe a Maple Leafs fan's not actively rooting for the Oilers but if the Oilers win you know that you can at least like not have to deal with these jokes anymore that's okay that's fair and there's also like a tinfoil hat theory that Gary Bettman is like you know okay yeah these Canadian fan bases they're going to sell out every billion, but he's more concerned about growing the game in the States and favoritism towards these American teams and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So agreed with part of what you're saying, I think that Canadian people just want to say, ha, the Cup's back in Canada.
Fuck you. Okay, so we talked about the Edmonton oilers uh x factors you have the panthers in six is it as simple as if the panthers play their game they should win this series yeah if they're so last year the issue with florida was where they were a little bit banged up going into that finals and of course maybe the lack of experience and the fact that they had to really turn it on from the all-star break last year, all the way to, to, to the Stanley cup final in which it took a lot out of, out of them.
They are a better overall team this year. They still have the goaltending from a brosky that they had last year.
I think they're a little bit better on defense because they picked up all of Reckman Larson, who's making under $3 million. and, you know, when he was at the top of his game, when I was playing with him with the Arizona Coyotes, you know, he's at least a number two on most teams in the NHL.
So now he's basically in the, in the bottom three defense of that team. And as well as a guy, Mikola, who's six, six huge body.
So these are, they're like five and six defensemen that they have who are once again they're not anchors they're very legitimate d yeah and then uh like i said going going up front man like they have guys who aren't even going to be in a lineup who are valuable players that could be inserted on their third lines so they are all systems go sasha barkov uh easily in the world right now, probably the new Anze Kopitar as the best 200-foot center. A guy who could be a point-a-game player, but he's fast, he back-checks like a maniac.
He's the most reliable center ice position player, I believe, on the planet. Even more so than McDavid from a defensive standpoint.
Maybe not that offensive flair, but then you got Matthew Kachuk. You got Sam Bennett, the menace, who will fucking knock you out with a sucker shot if you're not even paying attention.
Carter Verhage, as we call him, Verswaggy. So clutch with the goal scoring.
And the list goes on and on and on. I said Luce Duranen and then Lundell.
Those are like their second wave of offense. There are very, very few weaknesses.
If they're all systems go, it's going to be very difficult for the Edmonton Oilers to beat this team. But what they don't have are Connor McDavid and Leon Dreisaitl.
If they are going beast mode, then it's a whole new series, and who knows? But listen, I think this is probably one of the best matchups we've seen in the Stanley Cup Finals in a very, very long time. I'm excited for it.
And we were talking with Kane about how good their power play is in Edmonton. Is there something about their game that they do that invites more penalties? They set up plays, they work the puck around, they put the other team in a position to commit penalties so that way they get that man advantage and really hammer home the power play? Well, I mean, it also depends who you're playing, right? So they played Dallas last round where, for the most part, Dallas was one of the most disciplined teams all season long as well into playoffs.
Maybe a little less towards the end of the series and that's when Edmonton's power play started clicking. But the way to draw penalties in hockey is you got to win your one-on-one battles.
So if you beat a guy, he's either got to hook you on the way to the net, trip you, do what he can. And Edmonton does have individual players like McDavid, Dreisaitl, Hyman's really good in the net front and he demands a lot of attention and they do have players where yeah you have to maybe pay a little bit more attention and haul them down more so than usual and that's just based on the power and speed of the top end skill that they do have but once again that's not something that florida doesn't have either

but the good the the the what's even been even more impressive about the edmonton oilers aside from their amazing power play that i want to say is clicking above 35 for playoffs is their penalty kill they've killed off 28 straight penalties the nhl record in playoffs i believe is 38 straight which is that's even crazier the fact that somebody did that but Edmonton's PK throughout the season was meh it was very average even after Gnaw blocked their new coach who took over after about 15 games he handed it off to Mark Stewart the penalty kill was actually even went down a little bit from that first 15 games where I I think that in the last, let's say, 50 games this season, their power play was, or PK, excuse me, was clicking at about 76%. Now in playoffs, it's just shy under 94%, which is remarkable.
So their overall special teams has been a much added boost for the Edmonton Oilers and a big reason they're in the finals. But going back to special teams, Florida, they have an unreal penalty kill,

and their power play was one of the best all season long as well

with a guy I didn't even mention earlier, Sam Reinhart.

I think he led the league in power play goals with like 30 maybe above that,

finished the season with like 56 or 57 goals.

So he's a beast too.

They have weapons, bro, weapons. Okay, I got one last hockey question for you.
Okay. Goalies.
Skinner versus Goalie Bob. Is Bob hurt a little? Because I thought I saw some Rangers fans saying he might be a little hampered with something he's dealing with.
But what would you say, like, in terms of the goalies?

Obviously, Bob is the better goalie, but Skinner's been playing.

I mean, he was incredible in that game, six against the Stars.

So, like, strengths, weaknesses between the two of them.

So, let's start with Bobrovsky.

So, he's the Russian goalie that in Florida got that big contract.

He signed, like, an eight-year deal at $10 million per and kind of lost his game and then that's Bobrovsky last year um on that playoff run found it and he's kind of playing all this season and so far in playoffs exactly like he was last playoff I have not heard one word about him being potentially injured so that is news to me okay especially keep your eye out fair enough and as that series went on against Florida he was obviously stellar but they weren't allowing a lot of high danger chances they had New York Rangers nuts in a vice yeah maybe because he was injured and they were like we have to do our job keep him out front at the end of the day most of the time if you're a team like Florida and you're limiting teams to let's say 25 shots on goal and only you know four or five high danger chances a game it's going to be hard for them to generate and obviously win so to me right now goalie goaltending looks fine overall team defense looks fine nothing wrong with bob that to be worried about i just saw one tweet i saw one tweet and i was like oh that's hey listen that's it i'm the guy who reads twitter and then all of a sudden starts spouting off too so actually everything i think i've said so far on this podcast is probably false and things that i read off twitter i love that going across the ice to skinner skinner struggled a little bit in that round against vancouver to the point where they put calvin pickard in net their backup, to play back-to-back games, and he did well. He did solid, but they had the confidence to put Skinner back in game six and game seven of that series against Vancouver, and I think he's played eight games since being put back in.
He's six and two, and I'd have to look it up online as far as his numbers, but overall, like he's fixed a few things in his game he's not moving uh as much he's not challenging um off the goal line as much he's a little bit backed up he's using his size more and he's kind of like a blocker as opposed to a reactor and when you're when he uses his size properly and he doesn't get like you know all fidgety in net and he just works his proper angles he is dialed in and he's doing everything that he needs to do in order for them to win so well above a 900 save percentage percentage he was better than ottinger in that last round and he came up with some big huge saves so um i would say that if you wanted to call the goaltending matchup even going in based on how they're both playing i would say let's call it even so that's where i'm at but most people with experience and with provenness babrovsky does have two ves in the trophies but he has never won the big one in the stanley cup finals all right. Something to keep an eye on.
Might be injured, though.

We don't know.

So Wayne Gretzky's brother, Keith Gretzky,

is the assistant general manager of the Edmonton Oilers

and knows a lot about their farm team.

And three, four years ago, the Bakersfield, their AHL team,

had made a couple runs where I don't think they were expected

to make runs in the Calder Cup playoffs.

And Wayne was like, oh, what are they doing well?

And Keith was like, they have this goalie, Stuart Skinner.

He's won at every level.

He's as clutch as they come come playoff time.

I believe he's going to help the Oilers win a Stanley Cup in four or five years.

And sure enough, here we are.

We're going to the Stanley Cup final.

And he has made a lot of good help with draft picks and calls on some of their prospects coming up, and this could be one of them. All right.
We'll keep an eye on him. So back to the goaltender being injured situation, maybe.
How does that work in terms of injury reports that teams put out? In the playoffs, do they play it straight? If you've got an injury, they put it out, Or do sometimes teams withhold that information and just not disclose it at all? So I think in football, they have to say exactly what it is that's bugging these guys at a certain date and time. In hockey, it's very private.
They usually just go with lower body injury or upper body injury, and that's all the information you're getting. And then, of course, course playoff ends for a certain team they do their end of the year press conferences and media scrums and then you find out the laundry list of injuries that those guys had throughout playoffs yeah all right so biz i had one last question for you it's a rowback question r-h-o-b-a-c-k.com promo code take 20 off your first purchase q-sips polos hoodies joggers shorts and bathing suits Roback.com promo code.
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we are going to see you in two weeks in Vegas,

two and a half weeks,

uh,

for the beer games.

But you also have agreed to be in the dingers only league.

Yeah.

With Yans,

which we're announcing it right now. I know I said that I had a verbal commitment on twitter but you you are you are a part of this league now we're gonna do the draft on that monday are you ready for this do you know anything about baseball if you lose are you going to be ready to pitch against the college baseball team okay so here are the things i know about baseball that the worst umpire in the history of the world is retiring after this season.
I think he's out. He's out.
He quit. Spent more time with his family this summer.
Yeah. Yeah, he's done.
Oh, so my understanding was it was originally said that this would be his last year, but then he just completely shut the mill? I think he shut it down, yeah. Do you think he had his Twitter mentions on? Yes.
No, that was the story that he got bullied online. He was like, I'm sick of all the hate.

It's like, well, dude, you suck.

I don't know.

I don't follow baseball.

But is this a commitment that I'm making more so than just the day that we draft?

Do I have to do this all summer?

No.

No.

That's the beauty of this league.

The league is as simple as it gets.

We each, all of us draft nine players.

And you get, I think, a 10th reserve player.

And there's no lineups or anything that you set. It's just you go, and it's the only stat is home runs, and we update it every week, but the only thing is, if you lose, you have to get six outs against a college baseball team.
We'll play the field. If you lose, like, you'll pitch.
I'll probably catch PFT and Max and Hank will be in the outfield, so you'd have to be there they'll be there that afternoon yeah you yeah we we did it pft lost last year he got had to get six outs against the college baseball team and i pitch yeah pitch yeah if you lose i only hit one guy yeah oh okay if i yeah let's do it i love that i like that i'm actually leaving monday morning i'm driving to vegas and then I will be there for whatever time your draft is. Let's hope it's at, like, what, 2 or 3 o'clock? Yeah.
Whenever you get there, we'll do it. We'll have some drinks.
And it takes, like, a couple hours, but it's just us fucking around saying names, and we don't know what we're saying. How about I'll 100% do it if you guys take mushrooms with me? Oh, no.
Okay. Oh, no.
don't twist our arms. Oh, you're a big mushroom guy? Yeah, I mean, I'm going to the Sphere on the Saturday and Friday before that.
Yeah, we're fun guys. Yeah.
Okay, let's do it. I'm in.
I'm in. I don't know about Yans on the shrooms, but he'll definitely be there.
Okay. All right, how many baseball players can you name right now? I can name Bryce Harper.
Yep. Who's the guy you got? Yilich? Yeah, okay.
I'll count that. I like him.
He seems like a good dude. Doesn't really hit home runs, but yeah.
Carlos Stanton? Yeah. John Carlos.
We'll give him that. Carlos Stanton.
John Carlos? Yeah. Oh, who's the guy who got busted with the gambling? You got this.
Otani? Yeah. Uh-huh.
That's four. Oshanti Otani? Yep.
What's his first name? Oshanti Otani. Oh, who's the guy in Anaheim? He's the big dog.
Oh, fuck. Maybe the best hitter of all time.
Actually? No, he's like barry bonds is that guy but yeah he's like historically good he's like conor mcdavid if conor mcdavid never made the playoffs i think it starts with a t doesn't it yeah it's a fish oh trout mike trout yeah that's it thanks for that that's fine i know i know enough i know enough of them i really like the guy from cincinn Cincinnati who he just seems to be a fucking character that doesn't give a care in the world. He's actually Canadian, I think.
Are you talking about Joey Votto? Joey Votto. He's a Canadian.
Yeah. I don't know if he is.
Is he? I'm pretty sure he's Canadian. Oh, yeah, I think he is.
You're right. Sean Paul's not Canadian.
Yeah, he's from Toronto. Yeah, yeah.
So we're going to do, we'll have a whole cheat sheet for you so we'll have a list of everyone's, because the thing is we do the draft it's already like halfway through the season so we'll have a list of everyone who's already you know, what their home runs are. They don't count the home runs they hit before the draft don't count, but you can see like who's doing well and who's not and then you just pick off that.
It's as easy as possible. I'm so excited, and I'm pumped that you guys are spending even more time that you have in the past invested in the Stanley Cup playoffs, because it's been a great run.
For all your fans who might be just casual hockey fans, this is going to be an unbelievable final, and there's a lot at stake, and a generational talented player might end up hoisting the stanley cup for the first time so even for you capitals fans you can you can really relate to this watching ovi trying to get his cup it's been nine years since mcdavid's been in the nhl and it's the first time he's in the stanley cup finals that's a long time that's a long it would certainly it would put to bed the narrative out there that i've heard you know all over the place which is he can't win the big one that he's not good enough to win the big one so on one hand i would not like to give that narrative up on the other uh i i understand the pain and the suffering that he's going through that the fans are going through i appreciate that as a canadian yeah uh all right biz you're the best we're excited for it we'll see you in a couple weeks ready for dingers only. Bring the mushrooms because we will do that.
It will be dingers only while we're on shrooms, which will make it even better. Yeah.
Are you guys doing the Beer Olympics the next day? Yes. We are.
Yeah. Are you? Yes, we're very excited.
Oh, it's going to be the best. I can't wait, boys.
Yeah. I can't wait.
You guys are the best. Love you guys.
And hopefully we'll see you in Edmonton for game four. All right.
Okay. All right.
Save us a seat. All right.
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He is from the Edmonton Oilers. It's Evander Kane getting ready for the Stanley Cup finals.
How are we feeling, you know, on the precipice of being in your first Stanley Cup final? Yeah, obviously, really exciting. It's taken a long time to get to this stage.
And it doesn't happen every year. So really excited for our group and obviously individually.
It's been a long time coming, as I said, and I'm looking forward to kicking it off on Saturday night. Did you guys make a pact before game six against the Stars that you wouldn't be touching the trophy? Because it felt very coordinated that you weren't going to be touching the trophy um i'd be lying to you if i said there wasn't some whispers about it prior to the game uh obviously we wanted to make sure we got the job done first and foremost but uh yeah after after we squeaked that one out uh everybody was on the same page we weren't touching it and we're gonna wait until we got the big one yeah yeah smart i didn't even think about it's like a superstition like double jeopardy because you don't want to talk about what your plan is with the trophy before you get the trophy but you also got to get a plan for the trophy to not touch the trophy yeah like i said there were some whispers there wasn't anything you know really that much out there but i think we all knew what we were doing, and obviously when the game was over, we weren't touching it.
I think it was you. I think you were the one whispering.
I think you were like, don't touch that fucking trophy. Don't do it.
Don't put me in that position. He's an intuition on your part.
Yeah. Are there any nerves going on in the Stanley Cup? You know what? I think a lot of us obviously haven't been to a cup final before.
I think we have obviously got a guy like Corey Perry who's been to five of them on five different teams. So he has that type of experience.
And I know Matias Ekholm, he's been to a cup final in Nashville before. So, you know, the thing about our team is we just kind of take it game by game like it's any other game.

And I don't envision the Stanley Cup final rattling us or getting us overly nervous to have an effect on our game. So, you know, that's one thing I really like about our group.
Any additional pressure knowing that you're representing Canada as a whole, trying to win the Cup back for the first time in forever? Yeah, I mean, obviously, Canada hasn't had a Stanley Cup in a long time. I think it was 93.
I don't know how many Canadians are actually cheering for our team. You know, we played Vancouver in the second round.
Toronto's Toronto, as a couple of our teammates have mentioned. But, you know, if that's what it's going to be we're more than happy to take that that on but uh at the end of the day we're worried about the Edmonton Oilers yeah is there an is there a noticeable speed difference between regular season and postseason and is it is it do you think it's going to even go up another level because guys talk about that with football where it's like the Super Bowl is just a different level of speed um do you anticipate that that there's going to be a different level of speed or nerves or you think it's just gonna be hockey once you get out there you know what i think there's a massive difference between the regular season and the postseason um i think the intensity uh and the desperation that guys play with is is i don't want to say drastically different but but it's, it's, it's noticeably different.
Um, and, and that only continues to ramp up as, as you move on through each series. So, um, I, I think, you know, you see guys that maybe aren't blocking shots in the regular season that are diving face first in front of pucks, um, you know, to keep it out of your own net at the end of the game.
And I think it just shows how important winning is

to each and every individual on a group,

especially when you're trying to win the Stanley Cup.

Yeah.

Your power play has been so awesome in Edmonton.

It's been so fun to watch.

Talk a little bit about what your mentality is going into a man advantage

when you know that, okay, there's a pretty good chance,

like 50% we're going to score. do you guys just expect to score every time um i mean i think our power play has been historically great uh it was the best player power play percentage over the course of regular season last year in the history of hockey um you know i don't know if you're ever going to repeat that again but you know obviously especially in that first round, you know, it did a job for us to win us that series in a quick fashion.
I think we have a confidence that it's either going to score or it's going to create momentum for our group. And I think when a power play is doing that, you know, you obviously set your team up for some success.
Yeah. If you have a power play where you don't score, you're saying that sometimes just having a great power play, you end up playing with more confidence.
Yeah, just having touches, wearing down the other team, you know, being in their zone the entire time, wearing down the goalie a little bit, him having to make big saves, him getting moving in the crease. And I think it just builds confidence when you get puck touches out there, because when you get those, maybe the next shift, you're a little bit more confident with the puck.
It builds momentum for your group. All right, I got a two-part question.
I wanted to go back to your first year in the NHL and your first big fight against Matt Cook, which, if you haven't watched, is one of the cleanest knockouts you've ever seen. In that moment, Matt Cook was kind of the big badass on the block at that time.
In that moment, did you know going into that game, I'm going to have to fight Matt Cook, or was it a spur of the moment? Afterwards, you're like, I kind of earned my stripes here? Yeah, so I'll tell you the story. So, yeah, that was the last game, actually, of the regular season for us, and we weren't making the playoffs that year.
So that was the last game of of the regular season for us we weren't making the playoffs that year so that was the last game of my first year and earlier in that first period me and Crosby were kind of going out a little bit you know and I was kind of getting in his face a little bit and then I forgot the other guy's name but there's another big tough guy on pitch where they had two tough guys that's when every team had two fighters fighters, you know, 15 years ago on every team. And the other guy was Mike Rupp.
And Mike, these are two massive guys. And I'm just an 18 year old kid.
And they're now getting in my face, asking me to fight them. And I'm like, I'm not fighting you guys.
That's just not happening. So then the second period rolls around.
And I remember Eli Kovalchuk in the intermission he said hey just

make sure you keep your head up out there because you know these guys are coming after you so then Matt Cook kind of asked me to go early in that second period I believe it was and I was more than happy to oblige and ended up knocking him out and I remember sitting in the penalty box for like in real time it was like 20 minutes and he still was not off the ice and i'm thinking geez i don't want to be the first guy in my first year to kill somebody yeah because he wasn't moving so uh i was happy to see him get up but then the next season he elbowed me right in the chin and wouldn't want didn fight me again. Because, I mean, if you get knocked out, I want to fight that guy

the very next time I have an opportunity because it can't go any worse for you.

But he was a dirty, dirty player.

Yeah, he learned his lessons.

Yeah, it is one of the cleanest.

How often have you watched that back?

Because you can't get a cleaner knockout.

Yeah, well, no, I mean, when it happened, I mean, I probably watched it, I'm not even over-exaggerating, 300 times. And then I actually got a gift basket for the Boston Bruins later that year.
Wow. In the offseason because of what he did to Mark Savard.
Wow. That's awesome.
That is sick. We were talking to Yandel a couple weeks ago about what you say when you're trying to get into a fight with somebody, whether you're the person who's instigating it, who wants to fight.
And he said, usually it's like you want to go, you want to fucking go, or you want one. And then if you don't want to fight, you just say, my coach told me I'm not allowed to.
So for you, for you, you got anything that you say like off the bat, like, let's fucking go?

It depends who it is.

It really depends who it is.

I rarely fight where it's like I'm just fighting the fight. It's usually off emotion or something's transpired during that play.

I remember just earlier this year I asked Brendan Dillon,

who was actually a teammate of mine in San Jose.

There was no real animosity. There wasn't anything, but I just kind of wanted to get myself going.
So I just said, yeah, you want one? And he said, absolutely. So we went.
And Yandel was right. Those are kind of the three phrases you use.
And if you're fighting off emotion, usually you don't ask. You just start throwing.
Yeah, that's a very cordial way of saying it. You want one? Absolutely one absolutely well it also feels like somebody asked me if i wanted one it sounds like if i say yes i'm saying yeah i want you to kick my ass yeah i would say no you want one yeah you want one yeah back and forth they're just getting you want one who wants one yeah you just like very canadian friendly like just going you want one you want one no you want one over and over that's the ultimate respect yeah but so all right so you mentioned that like that that matt cook fight you didn't want to fight the guys who were like massively bigger than you but you did fight chara later on in your career that was stupid i mean yeah it probably was but at the same time it wasn't i wasn't an 18 year old in my rookie year um he kind of i he's seven feet tall on the ice.
So he hit me in the head and I went down and I looked at the ref and his arms were glued to his kneecaps. And I was so mad that there wasn't a penalty on the play.
So I just turned around and I jumped Chara. And I had him in this, I thought, pretty good headlock, but he just kept standing up.
Like he just kept getting taller so that my arms were now I don't have my headlock and now where he strung me out and that's the worst possible position to be in on a guy who's a foot taller than you yeah and I just kind of held on for for dear life and made sure my face wasn't pounded into the cement yeah so so it was the second part of the question that was uh started with the mac cook was the panthers do play a physical style hockey and you know we've seen kachuk uh get into scraps and and be physical so do you know like going into this series is it going to be a little different where it's like i gotta set a tone or just be ready for this no i mean i i think this is going to be a very physical series they obviously have some guys um that like to scrum it up after the whistles dallas was very different with the team we just played um obviously uh we played a couple of their guys um that were on calgary before a couple years ago in the playoffs kachuk being one of them um so there is a bit of a history there um you know i anticipate it being a very spirited emotional series um with two teams wanting to try to impose their game on one another so uh i'm sure i'll be right in the middle of that yeah that was a nice way of saying you're gonna hate their guts by the end of this thing yeah and it's spirited physical yeah it's gonna get nasty yeah it's gonna get nasty i love your your home ice advantage that you have in edmonton too and we're dumb fans we watch on tv so all we know is really what the camera shows us um you guys have a great fan base really good fan base um are you talking about a specific fan uh no are you talking about a specific fan no but i i thought you were maybe talking about a specific fan i i mean maybe there is like if i rack my brain uh yeah i'm racking i'm racking yeah there's one what was he he or she wearing uh it was a jersey got it you got a lot of fans that wear your jersey most of the time and then sometimes they're not wearing all of your jersey yeah they kind of take part of it off i believe it wasn't even at a game it was at like a watch party too like we were on the road playing oh yeah that's right that's even better so how quickly after that game is over did you guys pass around the phone in the locker room be like look what a fan did well i think it was almost impossible not to see that video um several times being in edmonton and just turning on your cell phone right um yeah i mean we have an incredibly again i'll use the word passionate fan base um and i think that was a great example of that yeah if you guys get in fights in the locker room uh trying to argue like what jersey she would he or she was wearing you know what i i don't know how many people were actually looking at the jersey yeah true right but after like the thousands watch you know you could be like oh yeah apparently it was discovered she was wearing a sam gagne jersey oh that's a massive dub for him he's a long time stoolie old school so yeah so obviously um you know he was uh an oil a long time ago uh as well for a lot of years and a fan favorite. So no surprise, I guess.
That's got to be huge for him. Just a little pep in his step, man, like, damn.
Yeah, it's like Gregor's, or McDavid's probably walking around the locker room afterwards like, yeah, that's my jersey. Obviously, she was wearing my jersey.
Yeah, and it's also that old saying, like, you don't until uh the last person utters your name like he his career goes as long as someone's flashing their tits with his jersey on you say udders yeah yeah yeah you could say yeah yeah is that wrong no i would d's oh yeah yeah two d's with double d's yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it was fantastic you just watched us do the middle. Yeah.
Yeah. It was fantastic.
You just watched us do the show for a second there. Is your ice shinier? It looks shinier on TV.
Compared to who? Compared to every other team. It seems like you guys have the best ice in the league.
Maybe we just have really good lighting in the arena. It's one of the best arenas uh definitely in the league so maybe it's just the lighting i don't know it was crazy how bad you guys were to start the season now you're in the sinley cup final was there ever a moment in the beginning of the season where it's like shit this isn't just a slow start like we actually have to kind of start worrying that we're we're getting too deep here yeah i mean after the first 10 games uh you know it was kind of start worrying that we're getting too deep here? Yeah, I mean, after the first 10 games, it was kind of continuing.
And I don't want to say dealt, but we definitely, the urgency was at an all-time high to end this slump or whatever you want to call it and get back into the winning column. And we have to play catch-up now.

We really started to have to put some wins together,

five, six, seven games in a row,

just to start climbing in the standings to get ourselves back in a playoff spot.

And we did that.

We did that tenfold.

We won eight in a row.

We won 16 in a row.

And obviously got ourselves back to where we thought

we would be at the beginning of the year.

So that was impressive. Was there a moment where it started to click, and you were like okay this is this is something we can build off of yeah i think um you know it was the game in washington um a couple of guys said some things in the room before we played washington i made a bet with the boys if we won five or six in a row or seven in a row was i'd wear wear double Rolexes for warmup, which I ended up having to do.

And then when we were winning 16 in a row,

we had a bet going with,

if we'd made it 20,

Davo was going to have to wear a grill and warmup.

So we didn't get to 20.

I'm sure he was probably not happy about it,

but not overly disappointed.

So he didn't have to follow up with that grill and warm up. If you win a cup, he has to do it.
Oh, yeah, I think. Yeah, we'll take it one step at a time.
We're four wins away. We'll start with Saturday.
Yeah, we can't. We can't.
We can't talk about it. We can't remember.
We're in superstitions. Like, will you guys be? No, I was going to say, will you touch the cup if you win it? I't ask that can't even ask that touch the cup well no what maybe they will will we touch the cup yeah maybe they will answer that yes oh you jinx yourself dude why would you do that no no that's a common sense question everybody you never know so you're satisfied talk about it you're satisfied with one cup because if it were me personally i wouldn't touch the cup the first time yeah i wouldn't look because i want to win two in a row I wouldn't touch the cup until I won like five I actually don't think I'm going to challenge you on that I think every person who's won multiple cups has touched it the first time right but they top themselves off like you keep touching the cup eventually you're going to stop winning cups what if you never touch the cup you're just going to win forever I wouldn't be satisfied with winning a cup.
We haven't proved that. I'm already thinking about the next one.
The first person to not touch the cup might win infinity cups. We don't know.
Yeah, I mean, we don't know. That's not it.
I rest my case. I rest my case.
Good point. We don't know.
Yeah. It might be a sensitive topic to bring up but um i i was

watching an interview with you the other day and you were taught it was right after you had the the devastating wrist injury uh when you got your wrist run over by by pat maroon skate and uh you were talking about how you're going to start wearing kevlar around your wrist or you were thinking about some sort of protection is that something that you're doing now on both wrists yeah yeah i am i wear a cut resistant uh undershirt under my equipment that has uh kevlar on both wrists so that they protect them it was honestly it was shocking to me to hear you so soon after that injury which was it was a life and death moment for you so soon talking about getting back on the ice getting back with the guys spending time with them because if if it were me i would be like i'm never i'm never playing hockey again like that i could see somebody going that direction did you know like from the instant you started your recovery like okay i'm a hockey player i'm gonna go back and play hockey or was there a small part of your brain that was like maybe it might be time to hang this one up no no i never had any um any thoughts about any my career over that type of injury um I think you know my biggest focus was wanting to be able to come back that year um because early on or after I got a surgery you know they had kind of ruined at least the regular season out for me um and maybe be back for the playoffs. And then when I actually got all the bandages off and I saw the wound, I was actually kind of sick when I first saw it, to be honest.
But I ended up coming back in two and a half months, which nobody thought I'd be able to do. And yeah, i put a lot of work into trying to get my feeling back and desensitize uh that area um as much as i could i still have sensitivity but um yeah definitely uh not how you drop a year going uh with an injury like that and it was a scary moment for me when it happened super scary moment um but i guess the only like upside now is do you kind of feel like batman when you put on your kevlar well i definitely feel more protected i mean honestly i went i honestly wouldn't um get on the ice in an nhl atmosphere uh without that on yeah i think just you know with what i went through and having those flashbacks a little bit I definitely feel a lot more secure on the ice um you know because honestly it happens more than you think it actually happened to me again this year where it saved my other wrist I kind of got it wasn't as it wasn't as prominent as obviously somebody stepping on your wrist but you know it was just kind of a glancing skate blade that you know if I wasn't wearing that i probably would have been cut not as severely but um it did save me so uh it does happen it's the same thing with those cut resistant socks um you know it happened to a player uh a bunch of years ago where he cut his achilles yeah and the whole league kind of got these cut resistant socks in i put them on right away and two games later um i got stepped on with a hit it wasn't stepped on it was kind of you know two guys going on the boards and the skate came down behind my boot and it actually cut the cut resistant sock and um i had a small very small cut on my leg but if i wasn't wearing those it was where the major already was already was, and I could have, you know, you never know.
So it's a very dangerous sport hockey is, and I think any time you can put on something a little bit more protective, especially when it comes to cut resistance stuff, why not? Yeah, I mean, that's crazy. I mean, I remember when it happened with your wrist and, like, the panic.
It was just like, because you don't see it very often on the on the ice where a hockey guy's like this is a problem right now we have to fix it right now you know and just how scary that moment was yeah no it uh it definitely was scary yeah happy every i mean now you're in the stanley cup final this is awesome so uh i wanted to ask you about mcdavid and playing with him. Can you explain the difference in his speed versus everyone else to people who might not have watched enough McDavid this year or the last few years? Yeah.
You know, obviously he's an incredibly fast player in straight lines and whatnot. You know, there's lots of fast players.
But I think what separates him is is that his entire all his limbs and his mind work in unison together at that speed you know his hands move as fast as his feet his brain moves as fast as his hands you know he's so coordinated and then obviously just the strength on his edges and I think there is probably no better example of that than the goal he scored in game six against Dallas. Yeah.
You know, it's something that I don't think any player possesses in terms of that type of skill set. And obviously, you know, one of the best to ever do it, if not the best to ever do it.
Yeah. I mean, that goal, that was just – it was a joke.
That goal was a joke. It looked like it was – it looked like a goal you'd see in, like, an all-star game, not game six of the Western Conference final.
Yeah, it looks like a goal like you're playing three-on-three with your buddies in the summer. Right.
Has there been – is that the most impressive thing that he's done, or has there been another play that might not be in as big a moment where you watch him and you're like, that person is simply not human? I mean, geez, there's been so many incredible goals he's scored. To date, that's probably the most impressive thing that he's done that I can remember off the top of my head.
And I think when you have it in that type of a moment, it amplifies. So I'll give him that for right Yeah.
Yeah. Do you think they should bring the thrashers back?

You got drafted by the thrashers.

You were the last thrashers draft pick,

uh,

first round draft pick,

right?

I was the second last second.

Alex,

uh,

was the,

was the last.

Yeah.

Um,

I loved Atlanta.

I love my time there.

I had,

uh,

an incredible two years,

the fans in Atlanta.

Um,

I think we're awesome. I think it's a great city to live.
Um, lots to do. The fans in Atlanta, I think were awesome.

I think it's a great city to live.

Lots to do.

I'm all for getting hockey back in Atlanta.

Yeah.

That's a great idea.

Good French.

Is there a city in either Canada or the United States that you think

deserves a hockey team?

I mean, I would, again, I'd argue Atlanta.

I'm a real homer in that regard. That's where I started my career.
I had my first two years there. I had great experiences and I'd love to see hockey back in that market with the right ownership group.
I think it would do incredibly well. What do you think about Biz's mustache? Do you like it? Or are you like, this looks like a caterpillar died on his lip.
Yeah, I think, you know, he's rocked a lot of different hairstyles and facial hairstyles in the past. I think I think this suits him, to be honest, the best.
I think it really does. Yeah.
I think just a straight mustache. That's perfect for him.
Yeah. Were you you were named after Evander Holyfield? Yes.
That's kind of that's a lot of pressure. When did you realize the pressure? I honestly never looked at it that way.
I think I kind of had a very athletic family growing up. My dad played hockey.
He was an amateur boxer. My cousin, Kirk Johnson, was a professional boxer.
So there was a lot of boxing in my family. And my grandfather, his favorite boxer was Evander Holyfield.
And my dad and mom decided to name me after him. And I actually got an opportunity to meet him in Atlanta my rookie year.
So that was pretty cool because he was living there. We got an opportunity to not interview him,

but we got a listener just duped us and texted our producer

saying that Evander Holyfield wanted to come on the show,

and we just sat in a hotel room for like three hours

waiting for him to show up, and he just didn't show up.

It was a good prank.

It was a good prank.

So that's our Evander Holyfield story.

Well, you're named after one of the best boxers of all time and maybe the best wrestler of all time, too. It's a strong name.
Yeah, Kane. Kane? Yeah.
Kane, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
The Undertaker's brother. Yeah, yeah.
I was a big WWF fan growing up. Who's your favorite? The Rock.
Oh, I kind of don't like you anymore now. Really? I'm a Stone Cold guy.
I'm a Stone Cold guy. Yeah, other.
I'm a huge Stone Cold guy too. Nobody wants this double middle finger in the air and be smashing beers more than me, especially if we win.
So I mean, I love Stone Cold too, but The Rock, you just had that extra charisma and that showmanship, right? It was hard not to like. Yeah, I mean, whenever he did the eyebrow.
The eyebrow was good. Got the people going.
The elbow was good, too. Got the people going.
Yeah. Yeah.
So you're growing up. How early did you learn how to skate? When did you first put the skates on? I was three years old.
So like right after you start walking, skates. Yeah.
Yeah, I started skating at three. My dad got me on the ice, took me to a public skate and that's all she wrote i was i worked with my dad um my entire career but he was the one i kind of worked with specifically early on um before i got to the nhl and is a big reason why i am where i am what's the longest you've gone without skating oh uh eight months that's a long time yeah i had shoulder surgery so that one makes sense long long yeah long long time did you grow up a canucks fan yeah uh colorado and vancouver were my favorite teams um you know i was a big marcus naslin, big Joe Sackick fan, big Peter Forsberg fan.
Those are kind of my favorite players along with the Ginla. So I was big fans of Colorado and Vancouver.
Yeah, those Colorado teams were very good. Is there a guy that you looked up to, like you get into the league and all of a sudden you're on the ice skating against him a guy that you've been watching for years yeah my my first my very first exhibition game i was incredibly starstruck i was we were playing nashville and paul korea was on the other was on nashville warming up on the other blue and i looked over like it's just crazy like i was like eight years old you know watching paul korea play for the mighty ducks now i'm out here playing against him.
And then the other guy would probably be Jerome McGinley. You know, I kind of, I wouldn't say modeled my game, but I really liked his style of play.
And obviously the play against him early in my career was pretty cool. Yeah.
All right. I had one last question.
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So my last question is, in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and now obviously in the final, hockey locker rooms, from our perspective, and we know Biz and Witt very well and all those guys, like it feels like a very jovial, like joking around place. Does it get a lot more serious before a big playoff game? And is there that weird line where it's like, hey, we got to keep doing what we're doing.
Why are we switching this up just because we're in the playoffs? Yeah. Yeah.
I i touched on it earlier like our team is we're very business-minded you know we we're very serious but at the same time like you know we're really tight we like to joke around we're talking about lots of different things you know the morning of the game before pre-game skate or whatnot joking around and i think um if that were to change i think that would be a negative, that would have a negative impact on our group. And I think we've done a really good job each round as the pressure continues to mount and the stakes get higher of staying with what we've been doing all year long.
And I don't see that changing even in the Stanley Cup finals. And I think if we do that and continue that off the ice, it's going to lead to hopefully the same honor ice results we've had.
So you're going to maybe be like, look at this video of this fan right before you go puck drop. I will get her tattooed.
I think I'll keep the material of that by that time. I don't know.
That's her, yes. Play the hits.
Play the hits. Just keep playing the hits.
Somebody should get her tattooed on their body if they win the Stanley Cup.

Well, it won't be a veteran guy.

Maybe you're a rookie.

Yeah.

I might do it, actually.

She made me fall back in love with that. That's a good move.

That's a good move.

I like that.

That'd be great.

Yeah.

Okay, so you're not going to say – we're not going to do any official predictions for you guys.

But give us a roadmap.

How do the Oilers win the Stanley Cup? What does that look like? What do you have to do? I think we just got to continue to play our game. I think everybody obviously has to raise their level individually, and I think if we do that as a group, our best, I think, will be good enough.
Score more goals than them. That's obviously a very good

equation to winning a hockey game.

Yep. Yep.

Take a lot of shots. Pucks on net.

Pucks and bodies on net.

Yeah. Give you the old cliches.

Pucks out at the blue lines.

Pucks in at their blue line.

Finish your checks.

All that good stuff. Here's one.
Just the last

one. Maybe tell McDavid that could you play a little bit more? I don't know.
Like, a lot of guys don't. Patrick Mahomes doesn't come off the field on offense.
Like, just stay on the ice the whole time. Yeah, that's not realistic in hockey.
If it were me. Hockey's not that tough.
You'd have to drag me off the ice.

Well, yeah,

then it'd be like a five on four, and you're now helping the other team.

Yeah. You have to drag both of us

off the ice, so it's five on three.

So this is an example of a great intellectual

debate that we have on the show sometimes.

Do you think that a team that has

let's say 15 Connor

McDavid's, but also Connor McDavid

has to play goalie do you think that

that team could win the stanley cup um yes play goalie yeah every position yeah you just get

no and he's playing against real nhl teams yep yeah but it's just conor mcdavid on every position

yeah i mean

yeah that'd be tough but i'd probably see no still like goalie is a very important position is way harder than people think okay like i had danny green come out uh in vancouver and put on equipment and he could barely move yeah okay here's yeah six six seven 6'7", 6'8". Takes up a lot of the net.
Yeah. All right, last one.
If you had 15 Evander Cain's on a team and 15 Charra's on a team, how many fights would the Evander Cain's team win? You're going like 15 on one? No, each of vander kane's going against chara like

consecutively 15 fights oh i'd give i'd be uh i don't know i i'd probably say uh maybe 10 of them okay that's not bad yeah so you win at least one i think i could one and a half yeah yeah i'd speak at a couple you get a puncher's chance inside on them yeah yeah maybe trips yeah exactly because really like correct me if i'm wrong obviously you can win a hockey fight if you knock someone out like you you did with matt cook but you could also win a hockey fight just by taking it to the ground and being on top of the other guy and then everyone's like oh he must have won yeah a lot of guys go for the takedown and the referees hop in. Yeah.
A lot of guys try to do that now.

I'm not a huge fan of that.

I don't think you won the fight because you took the guy down by any stretch of the imagination.

But yeah, you are seeing that a little bit more.

I think that's some of the younger generation and their whole UFC attitude with some of the on-ice fights.

Yeah.

Ground to pound.

Well, good luck.

I think I speak for myself.

I'm rooting for you.

I'm rooting for you.

Yes.

I want Canada to get one back.

I want this team to win one.

I want to see i'm sick of having the conversation of whether or not mcdavid can win the big one you think you can you think he can win the big one we're in the finals we're gonna do everything we can okay smart answer but i'm sick of having that conversation too it's so annoying i don't want to't want to have it. The media does this where they're like, oh, he can't win the big one.

It's like, dude, he's fucking awesome.

And he's one guy on a team, and he's got a great team around him.

It's a team sport.

Hockey's the ultimate team sport.

If you reduce it to one guy winning the big one, you don't know puck.

Right.

Yeah.

No, hockey, I think, is the ultimate team sport.

It's not like other sports.

We can have one or two guys, and you can win a championship.'s just not the way right our sport is um it's it's almost impossible facts facts um all right well vander best of luck man we really appreciate it and uh if you guys do win we'd love to have you back on awesome i appreciate it guys all right thanks very much okay let's uh do some fire fest welcome back to fire fest it is brought to you by our friends at Morgan & Morgan. You know what really sucks? When Hank won't take off his costume, even though we taped Dungeons & Dragons.
Why are you so jealous? Why are you so jealous? You know what also really sucks? Getting injured. That's not what that is.
That's not that emotional. Pure jealousy.
But you know what doesn't doesn't suck calling Morgan & Morgan so they can help you get what you deserve. Well, they can't help Hank fix his spider problem.
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For more information, go to forthepeople.com slash PMT or dial pound law, pound 529 from your cell phone. You think Big Cat's jealous of that? No.
Definitely. It's like, stand up.
When Big Cat starts chirping me this hard, it's like anger and it's like a lot of bit of like, I wish I could pull that off. Hank's saying that Big Cat's like, yeah, people watch part of my take for him, but they also watch part of my take for me too.
Yeah. All right.
me put it on if i'm so jealous let me put it on no what i want to put it all right i admit i'm jealous i want to put it on no get your own stand up and spin around for the people you look like a beaver trapper i mean it's ridiculous yeah you look like the guy that dies first in a Civil War movie. You look like a dude who did Dungeons and Dragons this morning and then had nothing to do for the next five hours.
What does that mean? We were working in fucking fantasy land. I can win whatever I want.
Okay. Go ahead.
Cricket. That's right.
Also, biggest upset in sports history. USA just beat Pakistan.
Let's go. USA.
Coincidence? I think not. Biggest in sports history? That's what they said.
You can never take off that vest. No, I guess not.
Okay. How fast do you think our best baseball players would win the cricket, the World Series of Cricket? Cricket's fucking hard.
Jack said that the pro cricket players were looking at my swing and they were like, we could really use that guy. Sure, yeah.
You want me to go get him?

I bet they were genuinely impressed.

I'll go grab him right now.

I bet they weren't just being nice, yeah.

They singled me out over your swing, that's for sure.

Yeah, well, I'm not saying I could take over the world in cricket.

You just said baseball players?

If so, fact-o.

We're still trying to get me drafted.

Let's not forget that.

Fact.

Oh, wait, We got Breaking Moose.

We got Breaking

Moose.

Hold on. I want to make sure that I have the

dates right.

Breaking Moose.

What?

What did you think I would do?

I thought we were getting a reschedule.

Canceling a beer Olympics. No.
That'd be a shame. Oh, no, but here's breaking moves.
So, beer Olympics, which we will be attending begrudgingly, has been tossed around a million times. They've taken away other people's dates because they were trying to get Jason Kelsey and Travis Kelsey to come.
The Kelsey's then dropped out. But Jason Kelsey officially sets date for his celebrity bartender at Ocean Drive hosting Beer Bowl in C.I.L.
City. Oh, D.
Rocks. Yeah.
Is it the same? Same day as the Beer Olympics. Is it actually? Yeah.
No fucking way.

He's like, I don't have a weekend to just go out to Las Vegas.

That's so great.

I got to go to the shore and drink beer.

No, they're proud members of Sea Isle or residents of Sea Isle.

It's for charity.

It's for a good cause rather than just drinking beers with the fucking boys.

Perfect.

That is going to be a great event. Everyone should go to that event and not the Beer Olympics.
Okay, Hank. Yeah, the spiders are back in a big way.
I don't really know what to do every time I get rid of them. They keep coming back.
I'll start taking pictures. They're fucking huge.
i feel like i'm just eating spiders in my sleep which leaves me my next point if you guys i'm sure you all remember uh remember when i was like sleeping basically upside down last year yeah bed was angled and i didn't realize it for like a couple months like that i recall i set up my bed and and i oh this you you didn't have the slats set up perfectly or something? Yeah, I had them slanted downwards.

The slats were set up, but the way I screwed it in...

Doka beam.

They came down, yeah.

And I fucked up my back.

Stop touching the microphone.

And I think I...

Let's say, please.

Let's go, B.

I mean, it's annoying.

All the listeners out there heard Hank just grabbing the microphone.

They're probably like, oh, is my radio broken or are my earbuds broken? Hank, we're taping this at 3 o'clock right before your afternoon siesta. You usually take a nap right around now.
No, siesta. I'm in the gym at 4.30.
What? And then I'm probably going to take a nap before. What's your prediction for this game? I don't know.
I'm nervous. Yeah i'm nervous yeah see it's not me it's you you're you're you're the nervous little thing right now Celtics by six whoa three four six okay didn't cover no who cares do you have a marriage bet with tiffany uh yeah we're working on something we're we're trying to figure it out before the game time i think the loser should have to smooch the winner i yeah i suggested the loser has to pay for mouth stuff our trip uh wherever we choose to go together yeah and what what airline not american yeah but it's so episode a fact a long story short um i'm i i was like on the phone i was i was doing some day drinking saturday and i was just on the phone with someone and i kind of like not jumped on my bed but just like fell on the bed on the phone and i think i broke one of my slats you having phone sex no i was just you I was just...
You broke your bed having phone sex? You guys are... You're the worst.
Never mind. I haven't checked the damage.
I haven't looked up my mattress. You just said you were drunk and you called someone on the phone and you jumped on your bed.
I was on the phone with a friend making plans. Okay.
And I'm pretty sure... What were the plans? Like, oh, I'm going to come in 10 minutes? I'm done.
Sheldickson five go ahead go ahead he's sleepy finish finish i know this is this is a i can't exist i can't i apologize i can't speak i can't exist finish based off my sleep the last couple nights i'm pretty sure i broke the slats of my bed and i haven't checked it. Yeah, they might not be broken.
They might just, you know how they can come off, but they're not broken. Yeah.
So just look. Just lift your mask.
You just haven't looked? Well, I forgot. I woke up this morning again and was like, what the fuck? And then I left and then it hit me today.
I was like, oh. A normal person would just look the minute they woke up and said, what the fuck was i didn't know what it was i got up at 6 30 this morning so i was just like i must be tired and then i was like oh and then i was like my back hurts i was like oh i think shit yeah you just lift the mattress up and the slats probably fell down in between the box correct so they're not broken we'll see who knows fix them could be anything i love the fact that you just slept on an uneven bed for like a year.
You were sleeping upside down. It was like three months.
And he's also, he just started a new streak. It's going to be another three months here before he looks under his mattress.
Yeah. No, I'm going to get to the bottom of it.
Are you? Yeah. When? Probably not tonight.
Tomorrow. Maybe Celtics win.
Tiff comes and helps you repair your bed. So tune in for the mayor's bet? Yeah.
Nice. Okay.
I'm excited. My FireFest.
Suggestions? Any suggestions that aren't actually that was a dumbass. Do you want to take that back? Yeah.
Okay. It's an easy fix.
Anyways, my FireFest of the week is I posted this online yesterday. You said you had a doozy.
Is this the doozy? Yeah, this is doozy. Okay.
Life goal accomplished. Yes.
Put the check mark next to it. Your boy got an El Camino.
It's been my dream car for a very long time. There's one word to describe an El Camino, and it's bitching.
This ride is fucking sweet. 1970 SS Racing Stripe Cherry Red.
It is the El Camino of El Camino. So I got it.
It purrs. It makes a great noise.
And I was driving around yesterday, and I parked it on the side of the road, and now it won't start. Now it doesn't start.
The car is awesome by the way congratulations it was thank you incredible i'm happy very very happy for you i'm actually thinking about getting a mullet as an accessory to my car because the el camino is a mullet of cars it's business in the front party in the back so it doesn't start now and i don't know what to do with it i guess i have to get it towed somewhere and have them fix I got a lot of work. I knew that I had to put some work into it.
It's not like 100% ready to roll yet. The sound system's awesome.
That's the important part. But I have to fix all the lights, the wiring on the inside.
And now I was cool with that. I was like, whatever.
It's just wiring. The motor is fine.
It's been rebuilt. It's going to do me good.
and I pulled it over and now i i was cool with that i was like whatever you know like it's just wiring the the motor is fine it's it's been rebuilt it's gonna do me good and i pulled it over and now it doesn't start so it's just on the side of the road right now and uh i have a feeling like this is i'm just gonna have to become like a car guy it's gonna be the thing that i try to fix up and never gets actually correctly fixed that'd be cool though it'd be cool and i'm an aspiring car guy in the short time that i've had it i've realized why old dudes become car guys yeah so i drove it around and every guy every dude that's above the age of like 45 stops you and like flags you down it's like that's a cool car man right what's under the hood it was at 456 and then you get into a conversation you make a new friend that that's how old guys make friends not only that but old cars break down that's how old guys just spend their day yeah just fixing their own car working on their car so i'm gonna have to figure out first of all what's wrong with it uh and why it won't start and then hopefully i can get it back in working order shortly because this is the best car for the summertime and i need to have this ready for me for the summertime i was so excited yesterday and i i put out that video and then about literally an hour later the car just doesn't start now yeah so whatever just play the video yeah just keep playing the video i do close my mind yourself i close my eyes and i think about it i'm like fuck yes i have an el camino at home for me yeah and uh i'm very excited about the potential behind it but now i'm just i'm realizing that i'm gonna just pour a bunch of money into fixing this car i'm very happy for you i at my dream my el camino like car is uh like there's a sick old cadillac yeah i want a sick old cadillac or bronco bronco is more of a beach car but like a sick old cadillac that could sit three people in the front yeah like huge front end on it yeah big ass boat yeah i want one of those so i've been also thinking about how to accessorize the el camino because it does need some sort of like flare to it it's a cool car but when you have an el camino you have to have bitchin bumper stickers so um the ones that i've got on my short list i want to get an ass gas or grass or grass Nobody rides for free bumper sticker That's a good one Maybe Calvin peeing on something Calvin peeing on the Ford logo Maybe Calvin peeing on Charlotte the Stingray Calvin peeing on the Dallas Cowboys star One of those things One that says if you're going to ride my ass At least grab my hair I think that'd be a good one And yeah, maybe one one that just says like legalized soup. I don't know.
I don't know. But I got to accessorize this thing.
Get the hula girl, the fuzzy dice hanging from it. Customize horn.
Maybe get Max rolling around with a keg in the back. So I'm like the ice cream guy, but for beer.
So you just go around selling beer to dudes. It's unlimited.
You're Mr i'm i'm very excited i feel like i've been an el camino guy my entire life just without the el camino but now that i have it it's not working so i don't know if you fix cars in chicago let me know if you specialize in 1970s cars i would i would love to hear from you because we got to get this baby Pern. It also needs a name.
So feel free to give it a name. Gotta be chick name.

Chick names. In 1970s cars, I would love to hear from you because we got to get this baby Pern.
It also needs a name.

So feel free to give it a name.

Got to be a chick name.

Chick names.

Tiffany?

Carmen.

Oh, Tiffany's a good name.

Tiffany's a really good name.

You just, you, so we said a woman's name for a car and you came up with Carmen?

Carmen Sandia.

I was thinking Carmen Sandia.

You just said the name car. Yeah.iego.
What about Caroline? Carmen Sandiego. Red.
Sexy red. Sexy red.
Sexy red. Sexy red's pretty good.
Sexy red. That's not a name.
For a car, yeah. It's also a person.
It's an adjective and a color. It's a person's name.
Andy Reid. Ooh, yeah.
Yeah, Andy Reid's not a name. Carmella.
Carmella, there you go, Hank. You got another one.
Sexy red. Sexy red is good.
My pussy pink, my transmission fluid brown. Yeah, sexy red.
Ski-yi. You got a Camino now.
You can do that. I can do anything do anything I can do anything you're a Mr.
Unlimited I I have transcended race I'm no longer a white man I'm a I've achieved the most powerful form of white boy summer of all time yeah I'm a white boy with a fucking El Camino ready to go um okay congrats again that's awesome thank you but I'm afraid I'm afraid I'm going to double the price of the car just trying to fix it up. Yeah, probably.
By the way, is Vanny Woodhead here? I haven't seen it. Is it or no? Go check in the loading dock.
Was it supposed to be here today? It was not here yesterday. It was not here on Monday either, I looked.
Yeah, yeah the loading dock it's supposed to get here at some point yeah might be lost and lost in the sauce somewhere out there billy might have just gotten ahead of it on the road and then just carjacked the dude that's driving it over here yeah um all right i don't really have a fire fest i guess i guess i gotta just stop responding to people on twitter because i every time i do i just realize that like then it just has a bunch of other people responded some guy was like you yawned a bunch on sunday night i was tired and i was like yeah this is unfortunately having three kids is like there's i'm tired i don't have any time to myself which not a complaint because i love i have the best life ever but then just a bunch of people being like we didn't tell you to have kids or there were some people who were backing me up but i just gotta just not did they tell you to have kids those people did not tell me to have kids okay so those if you did not tell big cat to have kids then you'd have a legitimate gripe yeah it was a simple just response to why i was yawning not there uh that was why i was yawning i am i'm just perpetually tired. It's just you're going to have to deal with it.
Yeah. I keep showing up.
Yeah, Hank has the same thing going on in his life. Maybe Hank's tired all the time because he sleeps on an uneven, jagged edge of a bed.
Yeah. Hank sleeps on the aggro crag, and then he wonders why he's tired all day.
It's been like two days. Chill out.
You slept for four months upside down. But if I yawn, that's why.
It's not because I'm bored. It's because I probably have not slept ever.
Big Cat, can I step in real quick? I think the appropriate person to blame for your tiredness is actually Hank. Because Hank's always yawning.
True. Because he's always tired.
And then it's contagious and you catch it. True.
So stop yawning, Hank. True, true.
True, true. Remember when you guys made me yawning the podcast? I do.
Yeah, disgusting y'all. I haven't done it since.
I also don't know what it is about this specific spring. I don't know if you guys have felt this, but this is supposed to be our not as busy time, and it's felt like it's way busier than ever.
Way busier. I don't know what's going on.
Someone didn't get the message that this is supposed to be our not busy time yeah i thought it was like after memorial well i think it's after nba finals and nhl finals yeah well that's but i already know the schedule for the rest of the summer and there's no break so i feel like uh yeah again these complaints are not real complaints we know we have the best job in the world i don't want anyone to be like i can't believe you guys are complaining about this i'm literally just stating a fact that's why i was tired go ahead yeah i was just gonna say nba nhl playoffs they're sneaky i think we have this conversation yeah that's true they are we work later hours than we do usually in football season because football season late night sunday and then late night thursday but i'm talking about nba playoffs it's sunday tuesday thursday night every night but we just have other stuff going on that's just i haven't golfed all week i am going on a three-day vacation next week we'll have regular shows don't worry uh okay you know what it is it's also knowing the beer olympics are coming uh that's what it is that's what you have something you just desperately do not want to do sitting in front of you for as long as it's been sitting in front of us your whole life is just basically ruined yeah so if actually if you need to blame big cat for being tired blame hank for yawning and also blame will compton for beer olympics for existing yeah yeah funny enough we were gonna do a yak case race and i invited will he said yes and then he it. Oh, really? Yeah.
He doesn't like traveling places to drink beer? Yeah. Funny enough, no, he said he had to go to TEU, which we would love to go to, but we have the dozen, which we have the dozen because of...
Beer Olympics being rescheduled. Yeah.
Doesn't he have the dozen? Yeah, he said he's going to go and come back. He doesn't plan on winning.
Yeah. Yeah.
Their whole team doesn't plan on winning. He has a much shorter stop at the dozen.

Yeah.

Okay.

Jake.

I aggravated my arm a little bit.

Don't ask how.

How?

Oh, well, since you asked, I was lifting.

Oh, sick.

Oh, nice.

Yeah.

But running some bio freeze on it and should be good to go for this weekend.

Oh, okay.

What do you got planned this weekend?

Golf. Nice.
Yeah. How much much uh two maybe three whoa you are getting low-key jaked you're getting i see i can see the muscles you think yeah appreciate it you're getting a little jack there yeah yeah working on it um you want to finish this off max with your deli slicer yeah no I found my new hobby and my passion in life, which is deli slicing.
But I may have to retire because cleaning it is a real bitch. This is like everyone always has a little flirtation with cooking, and then they forget the cleaning part.
But this cleaning, you have to get a screwdriver to clean it. You have to like...
Don like donnie it's also i'm with donnie who's like a professional world-class cleaner of kitchen appliances why don't you just get an intern to clean it i that's that's an excellent point that sounds i have the power do i have the power to do that yes that sounds like a medical emergency waiting to happen i also cut my two of my fingers make one of the interns be just in charge of cleaning it okay because we don't i don't want to lose my sliced meat because you don't want to clean something okay good the solution is make someone else clean it okay good no this is great but like cleaning it is a huge issue but the deli slicer is great i got pft on the sticks today how satisfying is it get getting a satisfying is it? Getting a nice hunk of salami in there and just hearing the brrrr of the engine. See, you got the engine of the El Camino this week.
I got the deli slicer. Yeah, the deli slicer is powerful.
You feel good when you do it. You feel like a man cutting your own meat.
I was saying that Max's are Jared from Subway. Yeah.
No, no, no. Yeah, you got the pants.
You got the big pants that you like to hold up for everybody. Hank looks like Shrek.
That's true. He does like it.
Don't get it. Max, why don't you just, to clean it, just get a big-ass bar of soap and then just cut the soap like you're cutting the meat.
Like meat gets stuck inside of the blade,

so you have to take it all apart to get the meat and the blade.

I don't know.

If someone owns a deli and knows tricks to cleaning it, let me know.

That'll do, donkey.

It was a disaster trying to figure out how to clean this thing.

You don't have to clean it every day, right?

That's what I said, but then Donnie was giving me shit.

Leaving some of the meat on it, add some seasoning to it. Donnie was giving me shit.
Max, when am I going to get to cut a basketball? I think it'll ruin the thing. So I told Max that we should actually cut a football and make a sandwich out of football.
Yeah. When am I going to go cut a basketball? I mean, whenever.
Yeah. It doesn't matter yeah those things cost it was like 500 bucks yeah yeah honestly it should pay for itself donnie was talking shit on the one that you got oh he wants like a french one and he wants he wants a guillotine he no he just said that you he was like, you just got a deli slugger.
That's impossible to clean.

Oh, no.

Oh, we could upgrade.

What are you doing in my swamp?

Listen.

What the fuck was that?

He's just doing different spec lines.

Hank tried to blame it on me.

Hank does have so much nervous energy right now,

and that is partially why he's putting on his little cape and his armor. I can't wait to be Mav Max this week.
Oh, Mav Max! Yo, you should dress up like Mad Max. Mav Max.
You and Drake, elite company. Fine.
What? Drake put a big bet on the Mavs. Oh, Drake and Jared from Subway, probably good buddies too.
Jack Mack CFP put a big bet on the Celtics, and that's honestly terrifying for me. Yeah, it should be.
It is. I trust him more than most.
Same. Always have.
You talk shit about it. Disrespect, yeah.
The way you just said that was disrespect. you're doing it You're being cheeky

I've always happened

Big Cat and I are the real

We will not eat the Bucks

You and Big Cat are elite glazers

I'll say that

Two of the top glazers in the world

I will not eat the Bucks

Luke is so fucking good dude

Do you want to wear it?

I have a Celtics in seven. Do you want to wear it? Yes.
Thank you. Max, get your slicer.
What? We're going to slice this. No.
I don't want this ever to be worn again. Donkey.
Oh, God. What other lines of dialogue from Stratford.
That's all he's got. Ogres are like onions.

Oh, that's bad.

We have flyers.

That was good, Max.

What are you doing in my swamp?

Fiona.

Wait, so what?

Is it deli days once a week?

Sure, whatever you want it to be.

Yeah, meat day.

We can do a different menu each week.

I think we can get better bread.

Yeah, the bread sucked.

Pug.

Sorry, Pug.

Pug did that. Sorry, Pug.
We're going to Domato's. How many times? I said Domato's.
We literally worked next to incredible Italian bakery. If you were to put Pug on the slicer, how many slices do you think it would take to cut through all of Pug? Oh, good question.
I think... Well, it depends how thin.
175. Oh, you think that many? No, I could get them thinner.
I could get them thinner. Yeah.
No, you could do thicker slices. No, you could...
Oh, I thought we were trying to get it as thin as possible. No, I'm saying, like, what's the fastest you could cut the roll? Oh, we got to get the jerky from Paulina.
We got to cut that. How quickly do you think...
Yeah. You know, we should do a series, like, is it cake? But could it slice? Will it slice? And episode one, Mr.
Pear. Oh.
No, no, no.

Well, that would be part of the shame list.

The shame list, yeah.

It'd be real shame if somebody ran Mr. Pear through the meat slicer.

Jesus.

Real shame.

Let's see if he can get Celtics and Oilers home.

Yeah, that's true.

Then he'd be an incredible.

NHL, he was spot on.

Got every series right.

Right, memes?

Except for one.

Except for the one, yeah.

Well, I don't know.

We'll see everyone Monday.

And by the way, we are going to stream game two on Sunday night as well.

Oh, wait.

Yeah.

No, that made sense.

Numbers.

Ocho.

23.

56. 18.
77. Yeah.
No, that made sense. Numbers.
Ocho. 23.
56.

18.

77.

99.

21.

Max, have you ever gotten this?

Nope.

We actually shouldn't let Max use a slicer until he gets this.

Don't you think, PFT?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm going to take your slicing abilities away until you get this.

Then you'll never have Deli Day.

I can slice.

I've gotten this.

Deli Day is when you do your show.

Okay, but I can do it whenever I want.

I can do it at 10 in the morning.

Click the button.

47. 47.
Love you guys. I don't know what I'm about to say.
I'll say it anyway. Today's a mountain to find you shining away.
I'll be coming for your love of grace. Shining away.
I'll be coming for your love of peace.

Take on me.

Take on me.

Take me.

Take on me.

Take on me.

Take on me.

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