Blake Griffin, NBA Play In Games, Caps Make The Playoffs, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And The Debut Of Mr Pear

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Speaker 1 On today's Pardon My Take, we have our good, good friend, Blake Griffin. He announces retirement on Tuesday.
We get the first interview with him, and it was beautiful. It was perfect.

Speaker 1 Blake Griffin, yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 he's been part of our show for a very long time.

Speaker 1 Stay till the end when we kidnap him and ask him the dumbest questions possible.

Speaker 1 But really great to catch up with him, talk about his career. We're going to talk about the NBA play-in games.

Speaker 1 We're going to talk about PFT's Capitals getting into the playoffs and the NHL playoffs coming up. We've got hot seat, cool thrown, and we also have the debut of our turtle, Mr.
Pear. Mr.
Pear

Speaker 1 makes his first pick for Wednesday night's play-in game. We have him pick the Sixers heat game, so make sure you're watching for that.
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Speaker 1 Today is Wednesday, April 17th, and PFT, I got a question for you. Pop quiz, hot shot.

Speaker 4 I got an answer for you.

Speaker 1 Okay, is it better to be up three

Speaker 1 at the end of a game with three seconds left or be up four? This is a tough analytics question that is hotly debated in the math community.

Speaker 4 Reggie Miller asked this question tonight, and I said to myself, Thank God, because I've been saying this for years. I'd almost rather be up three points than four points, big cat.

Speaker 1 The best part about Reggie Miller asking this question. Do you want to know why? Why? Tell me.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I don't know because I've got a brain injury.

Speaker 1 Well, so the best part about Reggie Miller asking this question, it was the Lakers Pelicans game, which we'll get to both games, playing games.

Speaker 1 But the best part about him asking this question, the situation was the Lakers were up two with 2.7 seconds left. They get fouled.

Speaker 1 And he says out loud, and you could hear his brain like turning on out loud. He was like, if you make the first one, you're up three.

Speaker 1 Do you try to purposely miss the second one because they don't have any timeouts, so they have to go coast to coast?

Speaker 1 And then he finished it with saying, or do you just make them both go up four and game over? Like at the end, he was like, wait, shit, four points. Yeah, that would be game over.

Speaker 4 He tied it together nicely at the end, which was good. But for a second, I was with you.
I was like, wait. And don't get me wrong.
I'm a big, you don't need a three here guy.

Speaker 4 Like, that's my favorite thing to say at the end of a game.

Speaker 4 If there's one second left, if there's half a second left, if you're down with four points, I will be the guy that says, don't need a three here. Just to remind people that I know ball.

Speaker 4 But yeah, in that instance, I was just like,

Speaker 4 what could Reggie even be talking about? But I think he just mixed up having a two versus three point lead and having a three versus four point lead.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know what he mixed up, but it was the Lakers survive. They win another play-in.
They've won three play-ins. They've gotten into the playoffs three

Speaker 1 times via the play-in.

Speaker 1 We had an all-time, all-time Zion Williamson

Speaker 1 performance, 40 points. He was so, so good.
It was like

Speaker 1 everything that you wanted Zion to be. He was it tonight.
And then he got hurt. where we don't really know what he got hurt with.
He threw his

Speaker 1 towel down, went to the locker room.

Speaker 1 we even had the weird moment where kevin harlan and reggie miller were like we're gonna go to allie laforce she has an update on zion she's like guys i don't know shit like i don't know what you're talking about no one knows and then afterwards he left uh without a limp and didn't talk to reporters so we're left just wondering what the hell happened because i think the pelicans win that game if zion stays in the game they had brandon ingram wasn't good he was he he's been coming back from injury he just looked bad and zion was like i'm putting the whole team on my back.

Speaker 1 And he almost beat the Lakers by himself.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that entire game was just a microcosm of his entire career, really. He's like, oh, he's awesome.
He's awesome. He's awesome.
Fuck, he's hurt. That's kind of how it goes.

Speaker 4 And after the play was over, I was trying to figure out what was wrong. Like, I was trying to diagnose it via the video.

Speaker 4 And it was really strange because he does that little drive through the hole, makes the shot, and then he like pumps his fist and turns around.

Speaker 4 And then he, after like two steps, then he realizes, oh, I need to start walking slower.

Speaker 4 And it may be the only thing I could think of and they said they're doing like an MRI on his leg is he might have felt whatever pain he was in might be familiar to him like he knows exactly what it is and he knows exactly what it means because he's had it before and he knows how long it's going to take to recover from it because it wasn't like it didn't look to be catastrophic like oh fuck my Achilles is torn or ACL or anything like that it was just like a realization of god damn it this sucks because I know exactly what it is that's hurt and it sucks that it's hurt, but I can't do anything about it.

Speaker 1 It sucked. It sucked because he was having an incredible, incredible performance, and we're stuck just being like, fuck, that was going to be awesome.
But the Lakers do advance.

Speaker 1 Should we start the narrative? Is this Lakers' team dangerous, PFT? They now play the Nuggets.

Speaker 1 You know, this is going to be the story that's everyone talking about. Like, look at the Lakers.
I think they finished the season like 24 and 10. So they've played well.

Speaker 1 A lot of guys who won a bubble championship, which we half count, except for Caruso. That's a full championship for him.

Speaker 1 Are we going to do the watch out for the Lakers? They could beat the Nuggets. Oh,

Speaker 1 I think we have to say that.

Speaker 4 Well, Hank, are you in that they're going to beat the Nuggets? Or are you in that we have to talk them out?

Speaker 4 Hank's muted. Probably for the best.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Hank is muted.

Speaker 1 I think they could beat the Nuggets.

Speaker 5 I think they could beat the Nuggets.

Speaker 1 You think they could beat the Nuggets? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Championship experience, you know, championship DNA.

Speaker 1 They've got the DNA.

Speaker 5 They've got all the players of all time. Anthony Davis, all-stars, all NBA players.

Speaker 1 Why not? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Well, I don't think they're nearly as good as the Nuggets is the thing. Anthony Davis does look healthy.
I think that's how we started last year's playoffs.

Speaker 4 Anthony Davis looks really, really healthy right now.

Speaker 1 And he's an absolute beast when he is healthy.

Speaker 1 Let me ask you a question, Hank.

Speaker 1 This series, how many games is this series?

Speaker 5 It's a seven-game series.

Speaker 1 It's a seven-game series. Okay.
So if it were a 15-game series,

Speaker 1 I would give you the Lakers, I would say, because the Lakers have beaten the Nuggets four times over the last 15 times they've played. So I would give you that.

Speaker 1 If they played 15 games and all the Lakers had to do was get to four, if I would say, yes, that can happen.

Speaker 4 Best of 15, but it's only four when it's the Lakers.

Speaker 1 15 times in the last three years they played, and the Lakers have won four times. I just,

Speaker 1 I think we're going to all, everyone's going to talk themselves into it. And I, I mean, the Lakers are not, I don't think the Nuggets wanted to see the Lakers.

Speaker 1 I would guess that because they obviously, I mean, anytime you have to play LeBron in the playoffs, it's scary. But last year, they did sweep him.

Speaker 1 People said it was the closest sweep that's ever happened in a seven-game series. I think the Nuggets are better.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, we all remember game four, one of the all-time best games in the history of the NBA that nobody will remember.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Hank, what are you doing to yourself right now?

Speaker 1 Because, like, PFT and I are putting ourselves in a very open situation where if the Lakers somehow win this series, this will look terrible for us.

Speaker 1 But it also would mean LeBron beat the Champs and they would be like, okay, now who else do they have?

Speaker 1 They could get to the finals. So, what are you doing?

Speaker 5 I just want someone to beat the Nuggets.

Speaker 5 Oh, take them seven games, drag out, battle, really.

Speaker 4 Just bruise

Speaker 1 against us.

Speaker 4 But here's the thing.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's not against you. Here's the thing.

Speaker 4 I think we might have to just go along with Hank because Hank, he knows ball.

Speaker 4 I think Hank's right, and the Lakers can do it. And the Lakers can actually go all the way to the NBA Finals.

Speaker 4 And I think the Lakers could beat the Celtics in the NBA Finals, and LeBron could get a title over Hank.

Speaker 1 I would be down to the bottom. That would be awesome.

Speaker 1 The start of the championship DVD was Zion throwing throwing the towel and going and huffing and puffing into the locker room. That was the start of the Celtics championship DVD.

Speaker 5 Yeah, the Lakers Western Conference Finals DVD.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Champion DVD.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 so the Pelicans, I don't know what is going to happen with Zion if he's going to play on Friday. I don't, I mean, without a limp, I would say no, because it looked like he was.

Speaker 1 Like he looked like he had a non-contact injury and he knew right away that he was fucked.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you know that look that he had.

Speaker 4 It was either he knew immediately it was really, really bad or he knew immediately because he's had that same injury before and he re-aggravated it.

Speaker 1 Right. So they're going to play, the Pelicans are going to play.
The Kings light the beam. The Kings take down the Warriors.

Speaker 1 Is this the end? Is this the end for the Warriors? Because they

Speaker 1 went out pretty sad. It felt like they never, they got like, what, to four points at halftime.
It's like, okay, here come the Warriors. They were never, like, Steph was never able to get open shots.

Speaker 1 Clay is washed. I so stupidly was like, what if Clay just has a throwback game? Because I love Clay, but he's washed.
And now you have a bunch of questions: are the Warriors, is that it?

Speaker 1 Is this finally it? It was probably it last year, but is this finally it?

Speaker 4 I think we said last year that that should have been it at the end of their run. They needed to do something like drastic to retool themselves, but

Speaker 4 they there's no more frustrating team to watch when they stink than the Warriors. When they're good, it looks like they broke basketball.
And when they stink, it looks like basketball broke them.

Speaker 4 They're just so frustrating. You just want to yell at the TV, quit being pussies.
You just want to scream at them.

Speaker 1 Make some shots. They just couldn't make any shots.
And

Speaker 1 they're trusting on guys that are not playing in the right positions with Trace Jackson Davis. And, you know, there was a moment where

Speaker 1 Moses Moody hit a couple threes, and you're like, oh, here come the Warriors. And it's just, no,

Speaker 1 it's over.

Speaker 1 I'm actually disappointed that Draymond didn't get ejected. That felt like an ejection game.
I was very upset about that.

Speaker 4 I think he wanted to go.

Speaker 4 Yeah. What does this mean for Chris Paul's legacy?

Speaker 1 Oh, another playoff loss. We should probably get Rossillo on.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we need to talk about this. Chris Paul blew it.

Speaker 1 I'm going to text him right now, and we'll just see if he can respond in quick enough time.

Speaker 4 Yeah, just a comment really is all that we need.

Speaker 1 Actually, Hank, you text him because he doesn't respond to your text. So just ask is this another

Speaker 1 is this another chris paul playoff loss just ask him that just that yeah and then maybe ask if you can get the video for your brother's bachelor party

Speaker 1 yeah actually know what big cat this is you should face time him because he face timed you when the badgers lost this is his equivalent with the badgers losing yeah yeah although i mean chris ball this doesn't he he was not he was a non-factor um i have a question for you pft so the Kings,

Speaker 1 they kind of sputtered down the stretch. This is a big win for them.
Obviously, the Warriors have been there. They've had some great wars with them in the last three years.

Speaker 1 Sabonis is so much fun to watch. Sabonis, does he just have, has he just had a black eye for five years? I feel like he's had a black eye constantly.

Speaker 4 I think he

Speaker 4 does the smoky eye to himself before every game for intimidation reasons. Yeah.
But he looks intimidating. You don't want to fuck with a guy like that.

Speaker 4 It's like you see a guy with a black eye, you see a guy with a missing tooth, or you see a guy with a cauliflower ear, you steer clear.

Speaker 1 But I just

Speaker 1 is this another

Speaker 4 Chris Paul loss. He's asking us for the playoffs loss.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Asking for comment.

Speaker 8 Doesn't count as the playoffs, right?

Speaker 1 Isn't playing comment. Oh, true.

Speaker 1 Shit. So how should we phrase this?

Speaker 4 Well, let's let Ryan arrive at that conclusion on his own.

Speaker 4 I don't want to give him excuses ahead of time.

Speaker 1 The fact that hey is sending this text is great. And also, shout out Keegan Murray.
Iowa basketball is on fire right now.

Speaker 1 We talk a little bit about the WNBA draft during Hot Sea Cool Throne. He was awesome.
He hit everything. So, yeah, maybe let's light the beam.
Let's just keep lighting the beam.

Speaker 4 I want the Kings to be good.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, I do too.
I don't think that they have a chance against the Thunder, but I want them to be good.

Speaker 1 I also would like them to maybe lengthen their nets because I just, I can't stand watching a game. This is a very sad old guy take, but whenever the nets are really short, it just bothers me.

Speaker 1 I want to see swishes. I want to see cool swishes.

Speaker 1 I want to see the net really swish.

Speaker 4 I would like them to do the in-season tournament with chain nets. So you get the swish sound with the chain playground sound.

Speaker 1 I would like that as well.

Speaker 1 All right, so you send the text, Hank. There's no way he's going to respond in time.
No, yeah.

Speaker 5 I mean, his last response to me was, yeah, no problem.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 We should have Hank just be the designated Rasillo Texter because you know that he's just not going to respond. And we're going to be like, well, chuck it up to it being Hank.

Speaker 1 PFT, other things we got to talk about. Oh, they're lighting the beam right now.
Sabonis with

Speaker 1 his black eyes lighting the beam. They fucking killed the Warriors.
They killed the Warriors. There's the beam.
It's lit.

Speaker 1 The beam is very cool. PFT, congratulations to your Capitals clinching the A spot in

Speaker 1 the NHL playoffs, Stanley Cup playoffs. That was a crazy like 10 minutes of hockey.
I was actually watching the Red Wings game because I was kind of wanting Patrick King to get in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 The Red Wings scored with three seconds left. And then the Flyers, knowing that they needed to win in regulation, pulled their goalie and then lost in regulation.

Speaker 1 And people are big mad at you, PFT, in the Capitals.

Speaker 4 That's fine. I understand why they're mad.

Speaker 4 They should be mad at tortz they should be mad at the coach the flyers because what happened was you're right the flyers needed to win in regulation to have any shot at it and nobody told tortz that the red wings had scored to tie it up at the end of regulation so tortz was operating under the assumption that they could still get into the playoffs with a regular uh regular time win so they pulled their goalie and nobody told them that the goal happened until after the capitals went down scored which is about a minute and a half of real time uh like after the goal happened in the Detroit game to win the Capital scored.

Speaker 4 It was about one minute, 20 seconds. And in that time, nobody let Tortz know, okay, you can put the goalie back out there.

Speaker 4 But I don't know, like, if that was the plan along, to have some guy on the bench with like an iPad checking the scores every 30 seconds and keeping him informed.

Speaker 4 But for whatever reason, he didn't do it. It ended up working out pretty good for me.
So I'm not going to complain.

Speaker 4 But this is this Caps team is the weirdest fucking team ever. Nobody thought they were going to make the playoffs.
Their Their goal differential is

Speaker 4 unbelievably bad. Last time I checked, I don't know what it is now.
I think it was like 36. They went minus 36 on the season, I think, in gold differential.

Speaker 4 The last team to make the playoffs with a goal differential of minus 30 or worse was the 1994, 1995 San Jose Sharks.

Speaker 1 Whoa. So,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm rooting for you guys because there's nothing better than when a team makes the playoffs and everyone's like, no one wanted to see this. Fuck this.
This is bullshit.

Speaker 1 That's the team you got to worry about because everyone was so mad and was like, fuck this. The Capitals are boring.
They're going to get killed by the Rangers.

Speaker 1 I might have to bet them against the Rangers.

Speaker 4 Fuck it. Well, here's the good news is the Caps made the playoffs.
Bad news is they have to play the Rangers who won the President's Trophy, which is basically impossible.

Speaker 4 to lose in the playoffs if you're that good of a team that you win the president's trophy. So there's like no chance that we can beat the Rangers.
But I'm just glad to be there.

Speaker 4 Just very happy to be there. We got a hot goalie, too.
Don't forget about that.

Speaker 1 Our goalie is standing on his head.

Speaker 4 I think the last two months, he might be, I think he's first in goals or goals against average. He's got a bunch of shutouts.
He's playing really, really well.

Speaker 4 The thing about the Caps is they get the shit kicked out of them all the time. That's why it's been such a frustrating season.
They've lost 13 games by four or more goals this year. 13 games.

Speaker 1 But they're...

Speaker 4 tied, I think they're top five for most one goal wins this season. So they can win the close ones.

Speaker 4 So, I mean, really, all I wanted, I said this to you guys before we left for the day, is all my teams stink right now.

Speaker 4 I just, I want to have one team that I can root for in a playoff situation, and the Capitals are that team.

Speaker 4 And actually, tip of the cap to the Capitals because everything else in DC, by and large, has sucked for the last like 20, 25 years.

Speaker 4 The Nats had that one World Series run, which was incredible, but the Capitals are just always there for me.

Speaker 1 They're my main bitch. I love them.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, you got a response. Oh, you got a response?

Speaker 5 Said, that's mean.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 1 He can't actually care about the Chris Paul at this point. Like, he's not even, he's playing off the bench.
That wasn't a Chris Paul loss.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say right now, Rosillo, that wasn't a Chris Paul loss.

Speaker 1 That was a Clay Thompson loss.

Speaker 1 I'm excited for you, PFT.

Speaker 4 I think it's partially Chris Paul, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, partially. I'm excited for you, PFT, about the Capitals.

Speaker 1 I really do. I do love whenever a team makes the playoffs and it's like

Speaker 1 you, you, like everyone, that was all I saw. Everyone was like, fuck this.
We'd rather see this team or that team. Nah, Capitals got in.

Speaker 1 And they did it in the last like three seconds or two minutes of the season.

Speaker 4 Yeah,

Speaker 4 I asked Vikings fans how I can prepare to respond to all the haters out there that'll be like, but the goal differential is so bad.

Speaker 4 You know, they had their team that made the playoffs, not this past season, but two seasons ago. And the majority of responses were just like, it'll be fine.

Speaker 4 Just try not to lose to a team from New York in humiliating fashion in the first round.

Speaker 4 So I'm going to try to take that to heart. And then they also told me, just like,

Speaker 4 anytime somebody says the Capitol shouldn't be in the playoffs, just tell them to suck my dick. So that's what I'm going to do.

Speaker 1 I have also one last advanced analytics I'd like to share with you guys.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I'm going to read something and then I'm going to tell you the advanced analytics behind it. So this is from March 26th.

Speaker 1 About to tune into my first Flyers Flyers game of the year. Apologies in advance to all the diehards out there.
At this point,

Speaker 1 the Philadelphia Flyers had 36 wins on the season. This is March 26th.
They finished with 38 wins. They went 2-8

Speaker 1 after that tweet, and they missed the playoffs by a point. They went 2-8, and that was from our very own Max Lante.

Speaker 1 I can't believe that.

Speaker 1 I remember when you said you were going to watch your first Flyers game, and then I just went and looked at the schedule, and it's just L's just everywhere. How did you do that?

Speaker 4 He was fired up, big cat. I don't know if you heard the news.

Speaker 1 L's everywhere.

Speaker 1 Two and eight to finish the season after Max decided to tune in. That's it actually.

Speaker 1 One point.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 One single point. I think they lost.
I think they ended up losing by, there was a bunch of tiebreakers for the last spot. But yeah, the Flyers ended up with 87 points.
Capitals ended up with 91.

Speaker 1 But that was also including tonight's game where they lost in regulation.

Speaker 1 That's even for you, Max. That's impressive.
I don't give a fuck.

Speaker 1 It's Sixers. It's all about Sixers.
Yeah,

Speaker 4 but there's definitely a bunch of people from Philly that are listening to this and they're pissed off at you.

Speaker 1 What do you say to them?

Speaker 6 I do apologize to them.

Speaker 1 2-8.

Speaker 5 also that was the only game I watched.

Speaker 1 And that was

Speaker 1 just

Speaker 1 by stunk them.

Speaker 1 Here's my stink.

Speaker 1 I'm out of here, guys.

Speaker 5 I guess. I don't know.

Speaker 10 I don't think this counts.

Speaker 11 I don't care.

Speaker 6 Like,

Speaker 10 I know like two players on the flyers.

Speaker 1 I would have, if they made the playoffs, though, I would have got fired up.

Speaker 1 You would have been in the fucking flyer zone. Yeah, sorry.
Sorry to Philly.

Speaker 4 I was going to be really mad at you, Max, if you had beaten the Capitals tonight and you would have gone into your little flyer zone in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 And then I would just be sitting here sad about everything.

Speaker 5 No, I'm happy.

Speaker 5 I'm very happy that you made it over me.

Speaker 1 Thanks, Max. It means a lot.
We got. I just need one.

Speaker 4 I don't ask for a lot in sports.

Speaker 4 I want to have one team that I can... put my heart and soul into for at least a week during the playoffs over the course of a calendar year.
I don't think that's too much to ask from the sports gods.

Speaker 1 We're just, we're right in the, I mean, I expect the Bulls to maybe win on wednesday night but then lose uh to the heat or the sixers and so we're back in the spot where hank's just sitting with two teams everyone's else just you know you're you you got in at the last game i'm in a play-in max is in a play-in

Speaker 1 just trying yeah trying but

Speaker 4 you've had you've had like a banner year in drafts though that's true that's all your draft success it's true your draft success this year has been worth like one playoff series for sure in terms of enjoyment.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 1 We also, I completely forgot, and we'll get to it later with Mr. Pear, who's owned by our one and only memes.

Speaker 1 But we get crazy memes coming up soon with the Islanders because they have been on a historic run to get into the playoffs. And memes is a fucking psycho with the Islanders.
And you know what?

Speaker 4 He might hate the Rangers more than I do right now. He does.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 4 I've got him on my side. I've got a very powerful force behind me.

Speaker 1 Yes, he absolutely does.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's kick it to ourselves. We have Hot Seat Cool Throne.
We have a great Blake Griffin interview, and then we have Mr. Pear.

Speaker 1 Awesome show. Awesome, awesome show.
Let's kick it back to ourselves in studio.

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Speaker 1 Henry, hot seat, cool throne.

Speaker 1 Did you file your taxes?

Speaker 1 My hot seat

Speaker 5 is

Speaker 5 CBS.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 Did they not file their taxes?

Speaker 5 I don't know about that,

Speaker 5 but they did air a live televised concert of Billy Joel at MSG. Yes.

Speaker 5 And they cut it off with two minutes ago in the middle of Piano Man, basically before it started.

Speaker 1 The Masters ran too long. Also,

Speaker 1 not great ratings for the Masters. Oh, really?

Speaker 4 So we didn't like it.

Speaker 1 Didn't like it. Doesn't help that Scotty had won

Speaker 1 by 10 or 11.

Speaker 4 Is Caitlin Clark bad for men's golf?

Speaker 1 I would say so. Everyone's gearing up.
They're saving their watching for the WNBA draft.

Speaker 1 So CBS did pay their taxes.

Speaker 5 CBS probably did pay their taxes. Although, you know, networks, corporations, it's a little, they get a little shady with that stuff.

Speaker 4 So they cut off after Friday

Speaker 4 or Saturday.

Speaker 4 When is the Billy Joel song? When does it take place?

Speaker 1 What's Saturday?

Speaker 4 Saturday. It's 5 o'clock on a Saturday.
Yeah, yeah. 9 o'clock on a Saturday? Yeah.

Speaker 1 People were pissed.

Speaker 5 They're re-airing the entire thing.

Speaker 1 Damn.

Speaker 5 Because people are so mad.

Speaker 1 Billy Joel lives the best life. He just takes a helicopter from his house.

Speaker 4 I think that's court-mandated.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 He can't fly the helicopter. He can't drive.

Speaker 1 He takes a helicopter from his house, goes to MSG, sells it out.

Speaker 1 20 minutes, he's home.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Glenny Ball is in the front row every time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Great life. It's incredible.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I feel like I should have gone to one of those at one point.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I feel the same way because you go to MSG and you see the big banner.

Speaker 5 Stu invited me no less than five minutes. I know.

Speaker 1 I think he invited me to the one on Sunday.

Speaker 4 The banner, they have a dedicated banner next to him. I think it's bigger than the Rangers Stanley Cup banners, actually.

Speaker 1 All right, so next time we have to go to New York City, let's just say we can't go unless Billy Joel's playing. Yep.
And we'll do that. Is this a good one?

Speaker 1 He just has hits after hits after hits.

Speaker 4 You forget all of them. Yeah.
Top three Billy Joel songs.

Speaker 1 Vienna. Okay.

Speaker 1 Italian Restaurant. Yep, that's a good one.
Bottle of red. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I will go

Speaker 1 down Easter Alexa. Rocket Man.

Speaker 1 Rocket Man's a great Billy Joel song. Yep.

Speaker 4 Goodbye, Yellowbrook Road.

Speaker 1 What are your top songs?

Speaker 4 The one they did for Princess Diana, I thought was really touching.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Candle in the Wind.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Candle in the Wind is number one.

Speaker 4 Number two, I'm going to say The Bitch is Back. Yep.
Bitch is Back rocks. And then Saturday Nights are right for fighting.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Saturday, Saturday.

Speaker 1 Saturday. Billy Joel rocks.

Speaker 5 Julie's song is pretty good, too.

Speaker 1 Cool. Okay.

Speaker 4 Did she do her taxes?

Speaker 1 What does that have to do with anything? I I don't know why you keep bringing her taxes. My cool throne.
You did your taxes, though. Of course.

Speaker 5 I'm an American.

Speaker 1 That's all it takes.

Speaker 5 My cool throne is the WNBA because ratings talk.

Speaker 5 The ratings came in for the WNBA draft. Stunning.
Stunning. Stunning numbers.
2.4 million viewers for WNBA draft. Last year was 572,000.
The NBA draft did 3.7 million on ABC.

Speaker 5 The MLB draft had 744,000. NHL 681,000.

Speaker 4 I didn't even know that the MLB draft was televised.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Had no idea. MLB Network.

Speaker 8 They do it in Studio 42 at the baseball field. Where do you guys took BP?

Speaker 4 That should be a punishment at some point. Somebody should have to sit and watch the entire MLB draft.

Speaker 1 Do you think we could talk MLB GM? Like, I don't know if we know any, but like,

Speaker 1 if we actively started being like, all right, what front offices listen to part of my take? There are so many rounds. I think we could maybe get drafted.
Just gadgets.

Speaker 1 I think they kind of throw away those last picks. Like, they'll draft someone who's playing college football being like, maybe.

Speaker 4 Maybe if he says yes to us. Right.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 You're right. Somebody always takes a pick.
They use it on like Russell Wilson. Yeah, quarterback.

Speaker 1 Who's definitely going to. Let's get Max drafted.

Speaker 1 Because he actually has. You could be like, well,

Speaker 1 we have tape.

Speaker 8 I have a baseball reference.

Speaker 1 We have a baseball reference. So let's get Max drafted.
I don't know who we can do. Like someone, please, listening who works in some organization, please reach out.
Just all we're asking for is 40th.

Speaker 1 You know what? We'll even, we'll pay you. We'll give you a signing.

Speaker 4 Did they have a rookie wage scale? No, I mean. That could be an issue.

Speaker 1 Max, what if you got drafted and then you refused to sign?

Speaker 4 Max just heard the word scale and shook his head. That's some.

Speaker 1 All right, come on now.

Speaker 6 I'm getting too many stray shots.

Speaker 1 Come on, guys.

Speaker 4 Hank started it.

Speaker 1 I haven't taken one stray shot at you.

Speaker 5 And the top goal wasn't even stray. That was just an obstacle.
About you being.

Speaker 6 I mean, that was also, I mean, you were getting made fun of, so you were just like, oh, yeah, let me deflect.

Speaker 1 That was factor fiction here.

Speaker 5 You had one camera in one hand and 17 pieces of camera.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean,

Speaker 1 you're acting like

Speaker 1 you started to lose, and you're just like, Max just won't stop eating.

Speaker 5 You just turned the vacuum button on.

Speaker 1 He's like, Kirby? Yeah.

Speaker 12 They cut the draft in half.

Speaker 8 There's only 20 rounds.

Speaker 1 Oh, 19, there was 40 rounds.

Speaker 4 There were 40 rounds?

Speaker 1 Oh, no. We might not be able to get Max drafted.

Speaker 8 314 picks last year.

Speaker 1 Also, Max drafted. Speaking of baseball,

Speaker 5 Larry Lucino and John Henry are all-time scumbags. What happened? I mean, John Henry

Speaker 1 and Tom Werner

Speaker 5 died for not attending Larry Lucino's funeral. Oh, which was two days after opening day, which they were at.

Speaker 1 That is crazy.

Speaker 5 All-time scumbags. All-time scumbags.

Speaker 1 All-time scumbags. Probably sent some nice flowers.

Speaker 5 All-time scumbags. Definitely don't pay their taxes.
Lock them up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You wouldn't be able to do that.

Speaker 1 Right, right, right, right, right. We don't want to do the tax because then if they turn it around, no, lock them up.

Speaker 4 Lock them up for what reason?

Speaker 1 Not paying their taxes. Being all-time scumbags.

Speaker 4 Okay, but not for the tax thing. Yeah.

Speaker 5 That should be part of it. But not, you can't judge a book by just someone that doesn't pay their taxes.

Speaker 1 But I'm not one of those people.

Speaker 1 Don't stop. Stop spreading this for a minute.
This is not funny.

Speaker 5 This is a satire podcast.

Speaker 1 The WNBA draft,

Speaker 1 all the rookie wages getting tweeted out, and everyone's like, what the fuck? It's like, well, this is what Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 4 might be able to fix. She might be able to improve things a little bit.

Speaker 1 Like if people watch and then this starts making more money, then they get to pay more. But it was funny for people to be like, oh, you can't even live in New York City on that.

Speaker 1 Well, her number one, she was number one.

Speaker 5 Like, they got excited because her Iowa teammate got drafted later on to the same team. What is she making?

Speaker 1 Yeah, probably. Like, 50?

Speaker 4 Unrelated, I'm a big Indiana Fever fan. Always have been.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, unrelated,

Speaker 1 we should probably get the boys some Chicago Sky season tickets because we're bringing back Bolly Ball. Where do they play? Wind Trust.

Speaker 4 Angel Reese is, she's really fucking Angel Rees and Cardoza.

Speaker 1 My friend Ricky O'Donnell threw out a tweet because he covers all Chicago basketball. I think he said that in the last year, the two of them have shot five total three-pointers.
Yeah. Bullyball.

Speaker 1 Just rebound. We're going just bullyball.
Everyone's shooting the three. We're just going to fucking pack the paint and just have some beasts down there.

Speaker 4 Rebounds all day. Do you think I could get a rebound over Cardoza? Nope.
Yeah, she would dominate me in the paint.

Speaker 1 Hopefully, I would love to have both of them come in and

Speaker 1 we'll have them on the show. Yeah.
Would love it. But yeah,

Speaker 1 the contracts getting tweeted out were tough to look at, but it will get changed.

Speaker 4 Also, endorsements.

Speaker 1 I mean, Caitlin Clark, that's the thing. Ravel keeps talking about how she's taking a pay cut from Iowa, but now she gets a shoe deal.
I would imagine her shoe deal is going to be huge.

Speaker 1 $10 million, $15 million.

Speaker 4 It's going to be massive. She's going to get a ton of endorsements.

Speaker 1 And she couldn't do a shoe deal at Iowa because they're a Nike school.

Speaker 4 Yeah, she'll make a ton of money. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, good job. Hot seat, cool throne.
Hank, nothing to do with taxes.

Speaker 5 Nothing. I don't know why I keep bringing it up other than a tax I just passed.

Speaker 4 My hot seat is Hank because he didn't do his taxes.

Speaker 1 Shut off.

Speaker 1 Well, I didn't say it was you.

Speaker 4 I didn't say it was you, Hank. Yes.

Speaker 4 Yet. Let me finish.
Yet. My hot seat is Trump, who's on Transportation.

Speaker 1 I've always knew your taxes.

Speaker 4 I've got a new tax issue.

Speaker 5 But I would have got money back.

Speaker 4 No, my hot seat is Gordon Ramsey. Gordon Ramsey, because his restaurant got taken over.

Speaker 4 He had a pub in central London, and it's up for sale for 13 million quid, which I think is their way of saying dollars. Okay.

Speaker 4 And then six people, squatters, have taken over the building and they're occupying it and saying, we own this place now. Oh, no.

Speaker 4 And so now we can't sell it because you got squatters just living in there.

Speaker 5 Who, I mean, not to get political, but the squatting thing is... It blows my mind.

Speaker 4 How is that political?

Speaker 5 Why can't they just arrest them?

Speaker 4 So squatters.

Speaker 5 Someone in politics. It's someone in politics' fault.

Speaker 4 Which is crazy. So this is in London, so I don't know what their law is over there.

Speaker 1 True.

Speaker 4 But remember back in like 2008, 2009, when the housing market crashed, there were a ton of people that were just moving into foreclosed homes and putting up these like legal notices.

Speaker 4 They're like the same people that would go to court and then complain to the judge about it not being the proper type of court because the tassels on the flag weren't right. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Like those, they know like the letter of the law. And nowadays, there's a bunch of people that are doing it that are taking advantage of like renters' rights in New York that are doing it.

Speaker 4 But this just squatting has gone back, I think back since like the 1800s.

Speaker 1 You can't like kick someone out. It's crazy.
The thing is, whenever I see these videos of like a guy's like, I just started living in this house, and nothing, anyone can do it. And nothing happened.

Speaker 1 Because I'm like, wait, how? I don't do it. Like, what would you do? You just go home and you fucking lose my mind.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 If somebody was in my house when I went home, I would be like, dude, you probably don't pay taxes.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they definitely don't. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I would just be a bad.

Speaker 1 bad group to be in.

Speaker 1 Be like, cool.

Speaker 4 I guess you're paying rent. I would just charge them rent.

Speaker 5 Probably file a mean extension.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Mean extension.

Speaker 4 I'm dealing with some issues.

Speaker 1 What's the difference between an extension and a mean extension?

Speaker 5 It's just a really good one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Maybe after the date? No, no, no.

Speaker 4 My cool throne is the American judicial system. So I alluded to it a second ago, but the Trump trial is starting in Manhattan right now, and they're doing jury selection for it.

Speaker 4 And in the jury selection, one of the questions they're asking the prospective jurors is, do you listen to podcasts? Uh-oh. And then they're asking them, what podcasts do you listen to?

Speaker 4 So juror number B354 from Nomad was in seat number 10. And the podcast question, do you listen to podcasts? He says, yeah, if I get bored every once in a while, I'll listen to Barstall Sports.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 4 Might be in the Trump jury pool. Later on, there was an Upper Eastside resident, a native New Yorker and investment banker at KPMG, lives with his fiancée, works at a nonprofit.

Speaker 4 He's another sports podcast guy. He listens to Pardon My Take.
Yes. Which got a nice from a reporter that was sitting in the courtroom.

Speaker 1 Holy shit.

Speaker 4 We might get some fellas installed on the Trump jury right now.

Speaker 1 That rocks. Yeah.
They just basically were asking this question for anyone who answers the daily. Yeah, the daily.

Speaker 1 You're out of here. Yeah, you're gone.
See ya. You're gone.
See ya. That's awesome.
Yeah, so we might be fat guy.

Speaker 4 So shout out those guys that are in the pool. I hope you guys get selected.

Speaker 1 Really scary thing to think of anyone who's listening to this right now deciding anyone's fate in a jury. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Will the former president go to jail? Well, his fate is in the hands of a guy that listens to us pretend to know what we're talking about and just bought a turtle to gamble on scores.

Speaker 1 A guy who basically was like, clear my schedule, Mr. Pears about to be unveiled.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 I can't make jury this morning. I got to see who he's got in the in the play-in game.

Speaker 1 Oh, I love it. Yeah, so we might we might have some friends in very high places right now.

Speaker 1 Yes, like it. All right, my hot seat is the Chicago White Sox.
So we have a strategy of betting against the A's. It's been mixed reviews.
They did lose by two runs the other night,

Speaker 4 Monday night. I am a fucking idiot because this weekend I tried to bet against the athletics.

Speaker 4 I put the bet in for the next day's game, for the following day's game, which was also listed on the odds that I could put down on. They ended up losing that game by a lot.

Speaker 4 That would have been a rare win for us in the past week.

Speaker 4 I missed out on that money. And then yesterday, I don't want to blame Stephen Che.

Speaker 1 Yes, we can.

Speaker 4 I don't want to blame Stephen Che. He's in charge of telling me.
But it's Stephen Che's fault. Yeah.
And he didn't tell us to bet against the athletics.

Speaker 4 And I didn't get the bet in, and the athletics end up losing by two runs. Yes.
That's another, I guess it's a total of

Speaker 1 units that you need back.

Speaker 4 Yeah, units that I need back.

Speaker 1 That's the exact way to go.

Speaker 4 It's multiple units that I need back. And so I'm 0 for 2 on the last games that we should have won through the system.

Speaker 1 So the thing is, with the betting against the A's, it was because of that fuckface, John Fisher, fuck him.

Speaker 1 And also, we thought they'd be really bad.

Speaker 1 We should have picked the White Sox because the White Sox are so, so bad. And Jerry Reinsdorf, also a fuckface, is going to be,

Speaker 1 if the Bulls win on Wednesday night, going to be like, look, see, we got to the second level of the playing game another year in a row.

Speaker 1 But the White Sox, I have some stats from you. This is from Jay Kuda, who's a great Twitter follower.
He also is a White Sox fan. Number of times the Braves have been shut out in the last 430 days?

Speaker 1 Two.

Speaker 1 Number of times the White Sox have been shut out in the last 430 hours? Six.

Speaker 1 In baseball history, two teams have been shut out at least six times in their first 16 games: the 1907 Brooklyn Super Bass.

Speaker 1 They were before the Dodgers. And the 2024 Chicago White Sox.

Speaker 1 We also have this stat that,

Speaker 1 hold on, games won since opening day.

Speaker 1 Yukon Men's Huskies, four,

Speaker 1 Chicago White Sox, two.

Speaker 1 It's just bad. It just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse.

Speaker 1 They are on pace for the 2003 Tigers that ended up winning 43 games. And here's the last one.

Speaker 1 Number of days, Pedro Graffal has been manager of the White Sox.

Speaker 1 If you remember, we talked about it last week that Jerry Reinsorf didn't want to fire him because he wanted to let his contract run out a little more.

Speaker 1 So number of days he has been the manager of the White Sox, 531.

Speaker 1 Number of days, he has had a winning record, one.

Speaker 1 Opening day last year.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's bad. Things are bad on the south side.
They don't know where they're going to play in the future, too, right? They're looking for a new stadium.

Speaker 1 Jerry Reinhard's doing the John Fisher thing. He's just being a fucking dickhead.

Speaker 4 Somehow, and this is shocking, the story of the lady that snuck a gun into the guaranteed rate field and accidentally shot herself in the stomach because she was too fat to be holding a gun in her belly.

Speaker 4 Yeah. That's not the saddest, weirdest story to happen with the White Sox in the last two years.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and listen,

Speaker 1 I'm not a White Sox fan, but I have a lot of friends, people in my life that root for the White Sox, and I feel bad for them. I'm going to do something for them

Speaker 1 that will hurt me, but I'm going to do it.

Speaker 1 I always say, honestly, the Chicago White Sox and where they play guaranteed rate field has some of the best food in all of sports, Major League Baseball, everything. Food, beverage, everything.

Speaker 1 Beers, everything.

Speaker 4 It's more as milkshake.

Speaker 1 Way better than Wrigley. Like, world's better than Wrigley.
So whenever I tell people, like, oh, go to White Sox, like, dude, it is, they just do a top-class job of it.

Speaker 1 I'm no longer going to say that because that's what Jerry Reinsworth wants you to say.

Speaker 4 That is so good.

Speaker 1 Because he's like, it doesn't matter what happens on the field. We got great great food.
We got great beer. It's a great atmosphere.
I can no longer say that. I'm going to stand with White Sox fans.

Speaker 1 I will no longer plug the fact that going to a game there is actually fun and a great experience. So no more.

Speaker 1 Dog shit food.

Speaker 4 They get nothing out of you. Nothing.

Speaker 1 Because I would. People would ask.
I'd be like, dude,

Speaker 1 I do not have even close to the same food as the White Sox.

Speaker 4 That milkshake, though, I would let that milkshake do unspeakable things to me. Yeah.
It's so good looking. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So White Sox are really down bad. And then my cool throne is golf because golf, they did have a bad Masters ratings, but it was fun to watch the Masters nonetheless.
Golf

Speaker 1 has Rory maybe going to the live. So way to go, golf.
He denied it. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 4 It was such a classic

Speaker 1 live being like, oh, the Masters just happened. This is cool.
Everyone's talking about the Masters. Let's just float out that Rory's thinking about $850 million.

Speaker 4 Didn't we talk? Was it with Whitney or was it with Riggs? I forget. One of those guys.
We said, How much would it rock if Rory just decided to go to Liv after talking all that shit?

Speaker 4 But it's just impossible. He was Mr.
PGA Tour for it seemed like forever. He was the spokesperson.

Speaker 1 But this is all Liv's entire strategy is this now, where it's like, oh, some big PGA event happens. Let's just say, oh, Tiger Woods is thinking about taking $1.5 billion.

Speaker 1 Also, did you read the story about Greg Norman at the Masters? Yeah,

Speaker 4 his hand is sore because he shook too many hands during the Masters.

Speaker 1 So he got denied credentials, which there's every time this happens, people are like, we don't even know if he actually tried to get credentials. He bought a ticket from,

Speaker 1 he just bought a ticket online, showed up,

Speaker 1 said that there were so many people that came up to him and said, thank you so much for what you're doing for golf. And then he also, he like tried to stare down Rory.

Speaker 1 for a couple holes like basically tried to get in his eyesight and Rory just never acknowledged him but weird weird dude I did hear some people saying like you could the microphones picked up It said, thank you for everything you do online.

Speaker 4 Thanks for all the content. Content, yeah.

Speaker 1 Now, we do stand with Brooks and his live team, Smash. Smash.
You can separate the art from the artist.

Speaker 1 Also, golf's back because Scotty Scheffler went to a hole-in-the-wall die bar when he landed in Dallas. That was cool.
That is cool. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Just like us.

Speaker 1 And people are like, whoa, whoa, he wanted to be with his wife. His wife's probably sleeping.
Yeah. Also, I think.

Speaker 4 Oh, they also clowned Tony O'Brownham. The PGA Tour did.

Speaker 4 He woke up in the morning because obviously his wife's pregnant. She's sleeping in, and he made himself his own breakfast.
And the Instagram caption was Chef Scheffler.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 4 Big time clown Tonio Brown. Nice.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 4 It's literally in his last name.

Speaker 1 He was wearing the same outfit that he won the Masters in at this bar, which was very cool. I also was looking back, and I'm going to retract something with Scotty.

Speaker 1 I was like, I need this baby to come soon so that he doesn't get all this credit for being this awesome dude that I'm going to leave. I think that he was forced into saying that he was going to leave.

Speaker 1 He just said his wife was pregnant and then media members asked if he would leave if she went into labor. He never was like, she's imminent for labor.

Speaker 4 He didn't have that plan?

Speaker 1 Right. He wasn't like, oh, she could have a baby at any time.
Yeah. The reporters kept on saying if hypothetically she had a baby.
So Scotty's off the hook. Great dude.
All right, good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I staying with Scotty.

Speaker 4 We like Scotty.

Speaker 1 Like, you know how that can happen where he gets duped where people are like, well, like, his wife could be three months pregnant. And reporters would say that.
Like, what if she has a baby?

Speaker 1 And he's got to answer it one way.

Speaker 4 He didn't have that discussion with his wife before talking about it. Right.

Speaker 1 He was boxed into a corner where it's like, she's probably not going to have the baby. Why are you bringing this up? Okay, if you ask me this question directly, I guess I have to say I'd leave.

Speaker 4 Yeah, by the way, I did just look it up. Charlotte the Pregnant Stingray, by the way, pregnant, air quotes, in North Carolina,

Speaker 4 still has not given birth. Now they're doing a bait and switch news story.

Speaker 4 Now the story is she's regrowing her dropped tailbarb that she lost. Isn't she crazy? So now it's just, oh, we're supposed to forget about the pregnancy because she's apparently re-sprouting limbs.

Speaker 4 This stinks to high heaven.

Speaker 4 I don't think this bitch is pregnant.

Speaker 1 Okay, and guy who's listening who's about to walk back into the Trump trial, you can now go now that you have this Charlotte up there.

Speaker 4 Yeah, the Charlotte, that bitch ain't pregnant.

Speaker 1 I just love the idea of that guy just

Speaker 1 sitting there at this high-stakes moment. And we're just updating on Charlotte and Scotty Scheffler to die by Scotty Scheffler drank beers.
Drank beers. News.
News story.

Speaker 1 That looked actually like a lot of fun. Like, imagine being at that dive bar and just sitting there on a Sunday night and the Masters champ walks in.

Speaker 4 Yeah. I mean, if I was Scotty, I would just live in dive bars for the rest of my life.

Speaker 1 So awesome.

Speaker 4 I would just wear the green jacket everywhere. Yeah.

Speaker 4 You'd probably get a phone call from Augusta if you're wearing it in like an establishment they don't approve of. You only get to keep it for a year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you only get to keep it for a year.

Speaker 4 And then they keep it at Augusta? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Sergio or John Rahm talked about that, how he had it in his closet and he was saying he kind of wishes he wore it more because he has to give it back. Yeah.
Yeah. But Scotty off the hook.

Speaker 1 Hopefully we get Scotty on sometime. We stay in with Scotty.
That was he was duped by the media.

Speaker 1 My apologies for falling for their tricks.

Speaker 4 No, my apologies as a member of the media.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 The media will do.

Speaker 4 The media makes us look bad as members of the media.

Speaker 1 Like the media right now has been saying that Hank didn't do his taxes.

Speaker 4 Bullshit. This is fake.
Bullshit.

Speaker 1 Bullshit. Bullshit.
They're saying Max stuffed his face with food.

Speaker 4 Bullshit.

Speaker 1 That did happen.

Speaker 4 Did Tom Fernelli do his taxes?

Speaker 1 Hank? Probably.

Speaker 9 Probably. Probably.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Jerry Russ. All right.
Jake.

Speaker 8 My hot seat is international basketball teams.

Speaker 8 We talked about it with Blake Griffin coming up, but the USA announced its Olympic roster for 2024 in Paris, and it is stacked. They are looking to win every game by 50.

Speaker 4 I am predicting that the United States will win a gold medal in basketball this year. Steph.

Speaker 1 I ran all the analytics.

Speaker 8 Tatum, Embiid, Booker, Halleburton, Edwards, Holiday, Audubio, A.D., and one open spot.

Speaker 4 There's just one ball.

Speaker 1 Maybe for a guy Blake Griffin who's coming up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We have squashed the beef with Zach Eady because he didn't make any NIL money, and

Speaker 1 he was an all-time college basketball player. I really want to play Canada and just fucking

Speaker 4 yam on him.

Speaker 1 Canada's got a good team.

Speaker 4 Is Zach Eady? Is he on Canada? Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 It's like Shea Gilgis, Andrew Wiggins,

Speaker 1 Lou

Speaker 5 Barrett.

Speaker 1 Lou Dort, maybe? What are you going to say, Max?

Speaker 1 We're E.D.

Speaker 1 No, I just thought bad. I was ED positive, but Embiid.

Speaker 6 Wait. I'm trying to guard Embiid is going to be

Speaker 1 tough.

Speaker 4 We say, like, we're ED positive, it sounds like we've got to...

Speaker 1 We can't get it up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We're.

Speaker 4 Speak for yourself.

Speaker 6 I guess I think positive ED doesn't really help.

Speaker 1 We have ED.

Speaker 1 We We have E.D.

Speaker 4 That's what I would say if I was Canadian. Canadians have E.D.

Speaker 1 Yes, correct. Wait, is

Speaker 1 where is Mbi playing in the Olympics?

Speaker 6 Yeah, he's on the list for the U.S., which is weird, but.

Speaker 1 Really? Yes.

Speaker 1 Ring channels.

Speaker 4 Because he knows he's never going to win one medals in the NBA.

Speaker 1 Yeah, here we go. It's actually a pretty good team.
SGA, Jamal Murray, R.J. Barrett, Dylan Brooks, Lou Dort, Kelly O'Linick,

Speaker 1 Zach Eady.

Speaker 1 Decent team. Yeah.
And then a guy named

Speaker 1 Thomas Scrub. That sucks.
Yeah, that's awful. That sucks to be the last listed.

Speaker 1 That's brutal, dude.

Speaker 4 Old Tom Scrubb.

Speaker 1 Old Tom Scrub. I'm going to throw him off.

Speaker 8 Yeah, so they've kind of put themselves in a position where if they don't blow every team out.

Speaker 4 So, why do we have an open spot?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Oh, man, who could it be?

Speaker 4 Yeah, who are they saving it for?

Speaker 8 So the potential list I'm looking at from Reigs' blog is Jared Jared Allen, Paolo, Desmond Bain, Scotty Barnes, Bridges, Jalen Brown, Brunson, Jimmy Butler, Alex Caruso.

Speaker 1 Ah, Caruso. It's got to be Caruso.
Got to be Caruso.

Speaker 8 Darren Fox, Paul George. Needs to be Caruso.

Speaker 4 Caruso for sure.

Speaker 1 We've got to get Caruso on this team. Brunson snubbed.
Oh, Brunson snubbed.

Speaker 1 You can't be doing pro Brunson stuff until we find out who you're playing in the first round.

Speaker 1 That sucks.

Speaker 4 Max having to go. Right, Mikael Bridges snubbed.

Speaker 1 Max having to go against the New York Wilds. Nova Knicks.
Nova Knicks.

Speaker 6 I hate that they all play for the Knicks. If they were any other team, they'd be my second favorite team in the NBA.

Speaker 9 But just brutal.

Speaker 1 Jake, your cool throne.

Speaker 8 Two cool thrones. One of them quickly.
Plug God. First responders.
We have a huge event this weekend on Long Island. FDNY, NYPD, 50th annual hockey game on barstool.tv Saturday.

Speaker 8 I believe our coverage chart's at 4 p.m. Eastern.
Can't wait for that. Plus rough and reality Friday night.

Speaker 4 Who's going to be on the call with you?

Speaker 8 So, unfortunately, Biz isn't able to make it because we have a NHL playoff conflict. So, it'll be me and Colby Armstrong, who does great things on spitting chiclets.

Speaker 8 He calls games for the Penguins, so he's great.

Speaker 8 Wit will be in between the benches, I believe. And then Jeff, I think Dave will be there part of the pregame and intermission.
Big How you did that last year.

Speaker 1 It's an awesome, awesome event.

Speaker 4 Always fights in that game, too, which is great. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 8 I can't wait to call on.

Speaker 1 It's going to be awesome.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Any rumors to the truth that Biz was afraid because he can't spell NYPD?

Speaker 1 I believe that's false. Okay.
All right.

Speaker 4 I read that online. But that's the media.

Speaker 1 Any truth to the rumor that Biz is missing because Will Compton scheduled this for him?

Speaker 8 I don't think that's true either. Okay.

Speaker 1 No, Biz has the hockey playoffs for starting. Yeah.
So it's understandable. Yeah, TNT.

Speaker 8 Yes. So that is a cool throne with Ruffin Rowdy.
Big Kylie there. And then my other cool throne is John Sterling.

Speaker 1 Yeah, retired. Retired out of the bullet.

Speaker 4 That's a weird time to retire, right?

Speaker 8 I think he just was like, all right, I got it one more time. And then two weeks, and he's like, I guess not.

Speaker 1 He said, I read an interview he did with Jimmy Tran where he was basically like, I really wanted to retire to start the season. I kind of convinced myself I could keep doing it, and I can't.

Speaker 1 Goes out on top? Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, Jake. On his own terms.
No, Jake.

Speaker 1 He did this for 64 years. I guess.

Speaker 1 Legend.

Speaker 1 Legend.

Speaker 1 It might. I mean, the Stantonian.

Speaker 4 He said, like, that's way out of here.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and that is gone. The Stantonian.
And then he's just said,

Speaker 1 what happened, bro? What did I do wrong?

Speaker 1 He is a legend, though. He's a legend.

Speaker 1 Baseball and radio is just the best. So whenever you lose a baseball

Speaker 1 announcer for radio, it does hurt. Yeah, those voices become part of your childhood growing up.

Speaker 4 And it's the summer.

Speaker 1 The boys is summer. Right.

Speaker 8 I've seen a lot of guys say it. And girls,

Speaker 8 a big reason reason why you get into the business is because you like what you see from the guys and girls you listen to.

Speaker 1 What is he doing one last game? No, that's it.

Speaker 8 He pulled the plug. They're honoring him Saturday.
Oh, wow. His last home run was the Stantonian Grand Slam.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 4 It's fitting. At the stadium.

Speaker 1 Susan Waldman's thing? She's around, yeah. Oh, good.
Good. That's basically.

Speaker 1 Of all the dramatic things. George's box.
Roger Clemens is in Georgia's box. Have you ever seen anything in all my years? All my years.
Oh, Mike.

Speaker 4 Jake, what voice really spoke to you? What voice was like,

Speaker 4 I need to have that voice? I mean,

Speaker 4 in terms of like people or their actual voice, no, just a voice.

Speaker 1 Huh. Hmm.

Speaker 8 Kevin Harlan's got a great voice.

Speaker 8 But he's got like an all-time voice. You can't try to fake a Kevin Harlan voice.
It would sound very fake.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 It's got to be yourself.

Speaker 1 What were you going to say? Hank, do you have something to say? You had something to say? You want to say something?

Speaker 4 I want to say something.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hank to do sexes.

Speaker 4 Hank, were you falling asleep during Hot Sea Cool Throne? No. Did a couple times? No.
To see that off?

Speaker 1 Do you have a sleep problem? You did you sleep?

Speaker 4 I think you've been working out too much. You get sleep?

Speaker 1 You're getting up early. Yeah.
You get sleep addiction?

Speaker 4 I was trying to get Max's attention to put the camera on you during Hot Seat Cool Throne.

Speaker 4 No, he didn't see me.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I wasn't asleep.

Speaker 4 Are these things recording even when it's not on them?

Speaker 1 Do you know getting up? They are? So we can review the tape? Yeah. Okay, yeah, we'll review the...

Speaker 4 Yes. Please make a brief clip of Hank falling asleep during Hot Sea C Cool Throne.

Speaker 1 Why are you guys coming at me so hard? I just had a question. What is it? If you fell asleep.

Speaker 5 No, I heard the whole thing.

Speaker 1 Hank has been coming in early since the time he's up till 11.30.

Speaker 1 That's a fact. I've seen you here very early.
He's training to dunk.

Speaker 4 Yeah, sleep problem? You take to sleep?

Speaker 5 No, I haven't been getting any sleep.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Because you've been thinking about dunking.

Speaker 4 And getting up early. Hank did put a camera in my face about five seconds ago and he was like, do you think I'll be able to dunk by the end of the same night?

Speaker 5 Yeah, for the documentary. It's coming out soon.

Speaker 1 Oh, fuck yes. That, I mean, you have to watch a duncumentary.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's get to, speaking of documentaries, let's get to Blake Griffin. He retired from the NBA today.
He's been a big part of our show, and we have an awesome interview.

Speaker 1 Very, very Blake Griffin interview. Stay till the end when we go on a side tangent.

Speaker 4 It's more of a side quest.

Speaker 1 It's a side quest, but it was also perfectly Blake. If you've listened to the show for a very long time, you know it was just perfectly Blake Griffin on this show.

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Speaker 1 Okay, here he is, Blake Griffin.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very,

Speaker 1 very special guest, one of our oldest dearest friends on pardon my take he is a six-time all-star rookie of the year

Speaker 1 but bigger than all of that he's a two-time blake of the year three-time right three-time blake of the year

Speaker 1 it is blake griffin who has announced his retirement from the game of basketball uh

Speaker 1 let's start there you retired Did you want to throw in a mention to us in the retirement note?

Speaker 9 I did. I actually, you know, in like a week, I'm going to start putting out my previous drafts that didn't make the cut.

Speaker 9 So just be on the lookout for those. They'll be probably in the form of a video or something.

Speaker 1 So were you ever like, are you ever like, oh, let me sneak in right after my parents and brother?

Speaker 1 Like, hey, if we're talking about people that mean the most to me in my career, what made the most of it?

Speaker 9 It was like, you guys are my agent, and I've had the same agent the whole time. And

Speaker 9 he was in a mess about it. So, I was like, you know what? The guys will understand.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, we don't. Yeah, we definitely don't.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 9 I don't know you guys, I guess, apparently.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 Next time I retire from something, you're in there.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 4 I'd like to retire from my career potentially being in the NBA right now. I'd like to thank Blake Griffin for showing me that I could play in the NBA even though I can't dunk.

Speaker 9 I too would like, I would also actually like to announce that I'm retiring from from not dunking. I will be dunking men's leagues,

Speaker 9 smaller hoops

Speaker 9 on my, you know, friends, whoever it is. So I'm unretiring.
I'm retiring from not dunking. Okay, wait.
And I would like to thank PFT and Big Cat.

Speaker 1 Yes. Okay, I like that.
So wait, are you actually going to play men's league? Because that is,

Speaker 1 whenever I talk to someone who retires, it's like, The coolest thing you could do is just show up to like pick up games or men's men's league games and just fucking dominate

Speaker 9 i don't know i mean you never say never you know justin bieber i

Speaker 4 i'll probably there's a chance i slip into a men's league game here or there yes who knows yes all right so maybe i come to the chicago the the new the new dome and play a little we play a little pickup basketball it would be it'd be awesome to see you do one of those videos i always love it when athletes pretend to go undercover for you know some sort of like marketing stunt and they're like oh shit that was kyrie irving i had no idea if you did it you're like 6'10 going undercover you could act like you were like an old man on crutches and then you just go out there and start yamming on people that would rock yeah it doesn't work as well when you're playing the sport that you are playing professionally undercover yeah but you know but you had a great career obviously a lot of highs um you've done a lot of cool shit a lot of cool shit so congratulations i think we truly mean that that like you know this is a good moment for you and i hope that a lot of people are telling you all the you know good memories they have and thanking you for whatever you've done for them.

Speaker 4 I want to know what your favorite part of your NBA career is because I have one, and I'm just curious if we had the same one.

Speaker 9 Um, I can almost guarantee you it's probably not going to be the same one.

Speaker 1 Mine might be the same one, mine might be the same one as yours, man.

Speaker 9 Favorite, favorite part. Um,

Speaker 9 probably the probably the um the tunnel debacle.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay, yeah, Yeah.

Speaker 9 With the Rockets, you know, they buried, they dug deep. They came, they popped up into our log room.
Like the loony, it was like a Looney Tunes situation. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Popped up, and, you know,

Speaker 9 we were there to meet him. We held our ground.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I like that.
I appreciate that. What's your favorite? Because I have a favorite as well.

Speaker 4 Mine was going to be when you dumped that glass of water on the fan. When you were pretending to say, oh, what's going on on the video board? And you just doused him with water.
That rocked.

Speaker 9 What do you mean, pretending?

Speaker 4 You were pretending to be like, oh what's going on and then you threw the water on him

Speaker 9 yeah that was unfortunate man unfortunately the fan he he was happening to be a warriors fan actually i actually know him he's a nice guy and we've uh we've we've reminisced about it yeah my favorite uh moment from your nba career is when you made 258 million dollars oh man

Speaker 9 was that it

Speaker 1 that's a pretty cool moment right

Speaker 9 yeah it was pretty cool i guess you know growing up didn't never imagine that was that would be a a possibility. So that was pretty cool, I guess.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So, all right.
So, what's today like, though? Because it is, we were talking before.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm sure you're just getting texts from everyone, and it probably was like, oh, I didn't want to get this many text messages today.

Speaker 1 But is it, like, have you had a moment to be like, this is pretty cool that this many people are reaching out and, like, care about me and appreciate my career?

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean, definitely.

Speaker 9 It's been three hours. I kind of just like, I've responded to some, you know, people that I know, but um

Speaker 9 it's been pretty cool man it's cool to see teammates older old teammates guys that are still playing all my friends and family I mean you know when you when you play this long and like it's been a been a career like a lot of people are affected by that you know your friends your family you can't go to stuff I've missed weddings I've missed you know a whole bunch of stuff so

Speaker 9 it's cool to like sort of put that put that in the past you know actually you know i didn't know how it was going to feel but it is nice man it's um

Speaker 9 I was ready to be done. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, wait, so was there any, because when we had Peyton Pritchard and Derek White in here, they said they begged you to come back.

Speaker 1 Was there any part of you this year where you were like, maybe I can just get on a team for the playoffs, be, you know, give some, give a couple minutes here? Like, or were you just, I'm done?

Speaker 9 I kind of left it open for a while.

Speaker 9 I did. did have sort of a, I guess, a standing offer to go back to Boston.
And I remember like December, like in December hit, and I called Brad Stevens, and I was like, man, I really appreciate it.

Speaker 9 I had communication with him the whole time. And I just, I wasn't, I wasn't there, man.
I just, I don't know. Something changed.

Speaker 9 And I knew like when something changed like that, like, it was time to be done. And I told him, you know, like, I think it was like into December.

Speaker 9 And I kind of like waited around. I honestly just kind of was enjoying life a little bit.

Speaker 9 You know, finally decided to put it out there. But yeah, I mean,

Speaker 9 if I had gone anywhere, I would have gone back to Boston. I love those guys, and I'm pulling for them, and they got a great shot.
But it was just time for me to be done.

Speaker 9 I don't think that I would have been like, I wouldn't have been able to give what I should give to a team, you know, if my heart truly wasn't in it.

Speaker 1 You know, that's got to be awesome, though, to know that you retired while someone was still wanting you to be on the team. Like, that's a good way to go.

Speaker 9 Yeah, it was, I mean, yeah, it's nice to sort of retire someone on your own terms, you know, and not,

Speaker 9 you know, not like be begging the whole season. but I'm super appreciative of Boston and those guys, Brad, and all those guys, but it was time.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So what is actually next for you? Because

Speaker 4 we have a feeling that you're coming after our job

Speaker 1 in some shape or form. Well, you're coming after our job in podcasting.
You're probably coming after Hank's job in golfing.

Speaker 9 Yeah,

Speaker 9 I'm pretty serious about my golf game. Hopefully big strides this summer.
I think

Speaker 9 I'm going to play in that Tahoe tournament. So, you know, didn't get a championship in basketball.
So, hopefully, I get a

Speaker 9 meaningless championship at a celebrity golf tournament.

Speaker 1 That counts. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, it does count.

Speaker 9 I don't know, man. You know, podcasting, maybe.
OnlyFans, maybe.

Speaker 9 You know, maybe start coaching a G-League team, get into a fight, get fired, try to become a GM,

Speaker 9 get fired.

Speaker 1 I like that.

Speaker 9 Start a podcast, get fired.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I don't know.
That sounds like fun.

Speaker 4 Blake Griffin gets fired would be a great reality

Speaker 1 too.

Speaker 4 See how many jobs you can get can from.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I know. What does Wake Up Mincy?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fired.

Speaker 1 What's your handicap right now?

Speaker 9 It's about 10 something right now, 11, 11.1, I think, right now. But, you know,

Speaker 9 we're working on it. You still suck.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I'm not even not good at all. It's been like two, you know, almost three years now.
And I'm I was like I think it was like 15 in the beginning of last summer and I've just been grinding.

Speaker 9 I I don't want to admit how much I practice golf now, but I love it. It's like, it's a huge stress reliever.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but that's actually good that you're a 10-handicapp because if you retired and you were scratched, it's like,

Speaker 1 what do you have to do now?

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean, like,

Speaker 9 I feel like all the scratch golfers, most of the scratch golfers I know are miserable.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Because they're just like, unless you shoot under par, you're not, you didn't do well. Yeah.
I can go out there and I can shoot 95, still had a great day. Yeah.

Speaker 4 If you see somebody that that tells you that they're scratched, and you're right, if they don't shoot par, then you're like, that guy's bullshitting me. He's not really scratched.

Speaker 4 They don't understand how like the system works. Also, we've been, I think we said this to Brooks Kepka when he was on the show one time.

Speaker 4 I think we have more fun playing golf than Brooks Kepka or somebody at that level does because when you hit a good shot out of nowhere, you're like, holy shit, golf is awesome. That was great.

Speaker 4 And for them, they hit one bad shot around and they're like, I fucking suck. So we're actually, we're doing it the right way.

Speaker 9 I mean, you saw guys like come every tournament, the guys are coming down the stretch and they like put one in the water.

Speaker 9 Danny McCarthy the other day, or the two tournaments ago, had an unbelievable bag nine,

Speaker 9 record-breaking bag nine. Sorry, don't mean to pile on here, but he, and then puts one in the water, and everybody's like, oh, that sucks.
I put one in the water.

Speaker 9 I'm like, I've got one in my pocket actually.

Speaker 1 You're like, I didn't see that go in. Yeah, didn't that bounce out?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Oberg, when Oberg was playing so well, and yeah, Scotty beats the shit out of him. And then he's like, damn it, I just lost the masters potentially.

Speaker 4 It's like, dude, you played, you hit like a hundred great shots this week, and that would be enough for my entire lifetime. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I can't wait to hit 100 good ones.

Speaker 1 Have you played Augusta?

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 1 Oh, you got to play it before Hank. It shouldn't be hard.

Speaker 9 All right. That's my new goal.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Do you have a, do you have like a list of things you want to do? I feel like when everybody retires, they're like, okay, here's five goals that I have for myself.

Speaker 9 Yeah, it's mostly like travel stuff. Like there's just like not a lot of places I've been able to go, you know, just because our off season was so short.

Speaker 9 I want to do Australia, but in their summer, you know, all the places that are summer during our winter, I never got to go to. I checked the box off on skiing, skied the first time.

Speaker 1 That had to look weird.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean, also, you know, I don't know if you guys know this, but my knee history hasn't been great. So that was a huge concern on the mountain.

Speaker 9 I was like, literally, I took a lesson and I'm just, I get on the bunny slope and there's legitimately like six five year olds getting lessons and it's just me just like just going so much slower than them but we got to hang out we got to hang on the tallest man on skis what about uh visiting beautiful chicago and hanging out with us here that's got to be on the list yeah that's on the list as well you know it's i hear it's beautiful this time time of year or maybe in a month or two yeah um

Speaker 9 so you know i'll let you guys know when i pop by it'll be fun i want you to dunk on max so bad

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah. There's

Speaker 9 there's a there's a few things I want to do.

Speaker 9 That's that's one of them. That's close to the top of the list.

Speaker 1 Sorry, Matt.

Speaker 1 No, you have to dunk on him. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 9 Just any Philly fan. Yeah.

Speaker 4 You might not be able to jump over Ikea anymore, but Max, how tall are you? Six foot?

Speaker 6 Six foot. We'll say 6'1.

Speaker 4 6' flat. He's

Speaker 1 six feet tall.

Speaker 4 Could you jump over Max?

Speaker 9 Yeah, I think so. It's like a

Speaker 9 mid-sized sedan. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that works.

Speaker 4 Yeah, just come to Chicago, Teabag Max. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That'd be perfect. Come there.

Speaker 1 All right, so your retirement letter.

Speaker 9 Yeah, well, no, it wasn't a letter.

Speaker 1 Well, it was kind of a letter.

Speaker 9 It was a non-letter.

Speaker 1 It was a non-letter letter.

Speaker 9 It was a non-letter letter.

Speaker 1 What part of it are you going to look back in like two days and be like, man, I wish I hadn't written that?

Speaker 9 I mean, hopefully none of it. I don't know.
Was it bad?

Speaker 1 No, it was good. But it felt like you didn't want to write it and you were forced to write it because it's like, that's what guys got to do.
They got to write it.

Speaker 1 Like, you're, you know, you even said it in it. You're like, I never envisioned myself as the guy who had to write one of these.
Yeah,

Speaker 9 well, I just, I just felt like I would do it a different way.

Speaker 9 I don't think I'll regret any part of it. I think my message that I just wanted to get across was like, I am thankful.

Speaker 9 Even for like the shitty moments, that's like what makes the ups and downs of the season, the ups and downs of a career, the the ups and downs of life. That's like what makes it all worth it.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean?

Speaker 9 And I was trying to be sincere

Speaker 9 with like a little bit of a little bit of levity, but I don't know. I felt pretty good about it.
I honestly, I just wanted to just get it out there and be done with it.

Speaker 1 I mean, the correct answer was the part that you didn't mention us, but

Speaker 9 oh, yeah, but I remember I said I was gonna, I was gonna, there's like a part two to the retirement thing.

Speaker 4 That would have turned it into a letter. Being part

Speaker 1 of it. Being part two of a letter is actually cooler than being part one of a letter.
Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, because it's like the PS part is like the part that everybody remembers because it's just like the last thing they read.

Speaker 1 True, you know. True.

Speaker 9 I'll put something together real nice for you guys.

Speaker 4 Have you spent any time online today looking what people are saying about you?

Speaker 9 No, I have not.

Speaker 1 You should do that.

Speaker 4 I sincerely mean that because like all the things that people are saying, I search for Blake Griffin on Twitter and I just get to watch highlight reels of your best dunks. You should do that.

Speaker 4 You should treat yourself and just be like, yeah, I was pretty fucking awesome at dunking the ball.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 9 I mean, yeah, maybe I will. It's fun to fun to relive it from a different perspective, I guess.

Speaker 1 Who were you tea-bagging in this Knicks dunk? Oh, man. Oh, Timothy Mozgoff.
Oh, man. Oh, yes.
That was.

Speaker 4 Do you have a favorite dunk over the entire course of your career?

Speaker 9 That was one of them. I remember that Knicks game.
I had like three dunks that I I felt like were like,

Speaker 9 I don't know, after that game, I've said this before, but like after that game, I think I went home and I woke up the next morning, and I feel like my life never changed after that game.

Speaker 9 So it holds like a special moment, you know, to me that it was just like everything just kind of just like just took off. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Are you going to be an actor? Because I feel like you would be an awesome actor.

Speaker 9 I've got a couple things lined up that I can't really talk about. Yeah.

Speaker 9 But

Speaker 9 maybe a little bit.

Speaker 9 I've got a couple of things that I'm pretty excited about,

Speaker 9 kind of at the intersection of

Speaker 9 sports and comedy, I guess, a little bit.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, like, we've known you for a long time. I think like there are athlete funny where a guy can like do a quote and it's like, oh, he's funny because we don't see an athlete do those quotes.

Speaker 1 You're legitimately funny. And I would love to see you.
I even saw you in that commercial. You fucking crushed that commercial.
Was it a Super Bowl commercial?

Speaker 1 I don't know. It's the ones where you were doing a bunch of stuff in the kitchen.

Speaker 9 Oh, the

Speaker 9 Daily Harvest one? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was like, this is. Thanks, man.
This was great. Like, I want to watch more Blake.

Speaker 9 I only, like, when I started doing endorsement deals and, like, how to do commercials, I asked, like, early on, I was like, I only want to do something fun.

Speaker 9 I only want to do like a comedy commercial, you know, like something that's funny.

Speaker 9 And then over the course of time, like, it just worked out because, you know, I think brands and people like enjoyed that a little bit more than like the typical, like, you know, every day I wake up and train.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And,

Speaker 9 you know, what I put into the game, like, get out of the game. And nothing wrong with those, but like, I just like never wanted to do those.

Speaker 9 It's so fun to like try to think of funny things and execute. So

Speaker 9 that's kind of what I'll be doing.

Speaker 1 I don't know. It would rock at a teaser.

Speaker 4 It would also rock if you ended up like Shaq where your face is on every product known to man. Like you're selling printers and Best Buy.

Speaker 1 That'd be funny.

Speaker 9 But just like everything Shaq does, but just like the competitor, like Ben Gay,

Speaker 9 whatever the competitor general insurance is. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hewlett Packard printers. Yeah.
Go one-on-one with Shaq. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, who's your favorite teammate? That we wouldn't know either. You can maybe don't do like

Speaker 1 someone that's like a perennial all-star or someone famous, but like someone, some guy that's like, give him his flowers. Like, yeah, no one knows this guy was the best.

Speaker 9 I love, like, I've said, I mean, I mean, Jamal Crawford's a name. Everybody knows that name, right?

Speaker 1 But he's the best, yeah.

Speaker 9 One of my young boys, I love Bruce Brown, man. Awesome dude.
Yep.

Speaker 9 Love

Speaker 9 Lamar Odom was awesome, like an awesome dude, awesome teammate, just like so caring, so kind.

Speaker 9 I could name so many guys.

Speaker 9 I've had some awesome teammates. I don't want to leave anybody off the list, but those guys are great.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then what are you going to miss? Are you going to miss the guys in the locker room? You got to say that.

Speaker 9 Yeah. You know what? I think I'm going to miss the most is those little times in the locker room.

Speaker 9 The bus rides, the camaraderie. No, I really will.
I mean, everybody,

Speaker 9 every teammate, I remember guys would retire and I talked to them and everybody mentions that's what they miss. I will miss like playing basketball a little bit.

Speaker 9 You know, sometimes I'll watch games and I'll be like, oh, man, it'd be fun to be out there. But also, like, you know, end into my career, I was only out there half the time, not that many minutes.

Speaker 9 So, you know, it's, it's, when, when, like, your favorite thing to do is play basketball, and like, you, you're, you're not doing that all the time, you're not doing it at a level you're used to, it's like, God, it's probably time, yeah, you know, yeah.

Speaker 9 So, I will miss, I will miss like those conversations. Like, the

Speaker 9 I told some of the guys on Boston, too, like, I'm not just gonna sign before the playoffs.

Speaker 9 Cause like part of like growing together as a team, like through a season, is like you go through all like training camp, you go through all that shit of like road trips that are miserable, losing streaks, like bad games, whatever it is.

Speaker 9 And like, you sort of like grow together and you have that kindred spirits.

Speaker 9 So, like, for me, it was like, I don't want to just jump on a roster and like at the end of the season try to win a championship. Like, part of the joy is like being there from the beginning.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 4 You could get that same kind of locker room environment if you were to do like the NBA show on TNT.

Speaker 1 Have they talked to you you about that?

Speaker 4 I feel like you would be the one guy that I feel like would fit in with Shaq, Kenny, Charles, the whole crew.

Speaker 9 I don't know, man. I've had some conversations about doing some,

Speaker 9 what's it, studio stuff, some broadcasting stuff. It's just like, I don't know, talking basketball is fun and something I know, but like, I don't know.

Speaker 9 I just kind of want to do something a little bit more broad than that.

Speaker 9 So I never say never again, but, you know, those guys are great. I think they have a good formula, and I think I want to try to forge my own path a little bit.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I respect that. I noticed, actually, let me ask you to you this way.

Speaker 4 Who is your favorite owner that you've played for who had to sell the team?

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 9 Favorite owner that had to sell the team. Got to be D.
Ster.

Speaker 1 I mean, got a bad rap.

Speaker 9 Got a really bad rap, but Jesus, was he a sweetheart?

Speaker 9 Once you got past the racism and the

Speaker 9 bigotry. and you know, dude, I mean, talk about misunderstanding.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I noticed he wasn't included in the thank yous in your retirement.

Speaker 1 Part three, baby. Part three.

Speaker 4 Yeah, whatever you do, if you do a part two, we don't want to be on the same thank you as Donald Sterling. Yeah.
Why not?

Speaker 1 Actually, no, we can. You can throw us in there.

Speaker 4 That's fine. He did have the best testimony of all time.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Sir, I asked if that was your handwriting.

Speaker 1 Big Magic Johnson.

Speaker 9 Man,

Speaker 9 Miss Deester, man, Miss Deester.

Speaker 1 All right, so who was your favorite owner that made all his money in a software company? Oh, man. I think,

Speaker 9 yeah, there was a minority owner for the

Speaker 9 Pistons

Speaker 9 who had a tech startup.

Speaker 1 Love that.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 9 He was great. I don't want to say his name, but he was great.

Speaker 1 That's huge.

Speaker 1 I know who you're talking about. That guy Rox.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That was a good answer.

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Speaker 4 What was the uh, what was the best team you ever played on?

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 9 Oh, man. Dude,

Speaker 9 Boston last year.

Speaker 9 That's what's crazy about Boston this year. Boston's better this year than we were last year.

Speaker 9 I would have said Boston last year or obviously one of the Lob City teams. I mean, our Nets team, like, we were super talented,

Speaker 9 but there was just something missing. Obviously, like, you know, we got, I think if we had beat Milwaukee game seven, like, we had a great chance to win a championship.
But I don't know.

Speaker 9 I mean, I was super fortunate, man. Some of those Clipper teams, man, we had, we won like 20 straight games one year and just felt like we were just like on a roll.

Speaker 9 And then, you know, for whatever reason, we just always

Speaker 9 injuries or just mental lapses

Speaker 9 that didn't get us there.

Speaker 1 I was at that game, the game seven against Milwaukee, the KD foot on the line.

Speaker 1 That series, you were just fucking all over the place. You were just like, you were the energy, everything, just fucking guarding everyone.

Speaker 9 You know, sometimes sometimes the old dogs got to learn a few new tricks yeah

Speaker 9 i just remember because you guys had so many injuries and it was just like blake is just doing literally anything that's asked for him and it's everything yeah it was like katie was just like scoring 50 and then we were just trying to put like plug gaps of like there's just like a new leak and we're like no no no go get that go get that we just like plugged that one and um it was a fun series and it sucks that we lost but it was a it was it was fun because like on every team of my career i just i sort of played like a very different role Yeah.

Speaker 9 Which was kind of fun. It just kind of brings your career, kind of gives you that, that full,

Speaker 1 full spectrum. Yeah, and the Pistons have not been the same since you left.
That's a fact.

Speaker 9 You know, they got some good young talent.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 They got some good young talent. Getting a new president soon.
And, you know, things are things are looking up.

Speaker 1 I remember that Pistons year where you took them to the playoffs and you had, like, before one of the games, I've never seen anyone have their knees wrapped more.

Speaker 9 And you just still. And I had

Speaker 9 the offensive lineman brace.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And you're like, even before the game, you had all the towels and everything.
And you just went out there and just gave everything and just was a warrior for them.

Speaker 9 Yeah, that was fun. And then, you know, I do,

Speaker 9 I get some nice love from Pistons fans. I think maybe the majority probably hate me, but

Speaker 9 tell you what.

Speaker 9 I gave it a, quite literally almost tried to give it my all.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, Hank just stepped in here.
Hank, do do you have any Celtics questions? He said one of the best teams he played on was last year's Celtics and they're better this year.

Speaker 1 Not because Blake's not on it.

Speaker 1 Maybe. No questions.

Speaker 5 That's all I needed to hear.

Speaker 1 That's all you needed to hear? Hank's very nervous about this year.

Speaker 5 He's not nervous. I'm excited.

Speaker 9 I mean, dude,

Speaker 9 they got to stay healthy, but like, I mean,

Speaker 9 Joe Missoula is a year under.

Speaker 9 I think he's more comfortable now. JTJ, it just feels like they just have pieces that all work, and they're fucking, they're so good.
They're so good. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Hank's nodding. He's poured his entire self-worth into this into this Celtics postseason.

Speaker 9 Yeah. I mean, you know, sounds like just like a die-hard sports fan.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Die-hard sports fan.

Speaker 4 Has anybody started the Blake Griffin for Hall of Fame conversation? Oh.

Speaker 1 Can we be the first? We'll do it.

Speaker 9 Yeah, if you guys want to.

Speaker 4 I'm sure. I think it's no-brainer.
I think it's first ballot.

Speaker 9 Thanks, man. I appreciate it.
I don't know, though. You never know.

Speaker 9 Sometimes

Speaker 9 you see guys like, oh, they got not like,

Speaker 9 who was it this year? Chauncey? I mean, that's a Hall of Famer right there. Vince Carter, Hall of Famer.
And then you try to go look and see what guys accomplished, what awards.

Speaker 9 Obviously, winning a championship helps, but I don't know. I honestly, I'm not going to spend too much time thinking about it.

Speaker 1 I have one question, Blake.

Speaker 5 Yeah. One, one mulligan for your career, one shot, if you could have one single shot back and take it again, what would that shot be?

Speaker 9 Like an actual shot? Yeah.

Speaker 9 Oh,

Speaker 1 man.

Speaker 9 There was like

Speaker 9 moments with the Clippers.

Speaker 9 I don't know. I mean,

Speaker 9 there was.

Speaker 9 That's a great question. Great question.
There's probably the series against the series against, we went, went up 3-1 on Houston. They came back and won.
There was a point in game six at home

Speaker 9 where we were up, and then they came back.

Speaker 9 There was moments where I

Speaker 9 had a missed shot that you never know. With four minutes left, a made shot could just completely deflate them.
So it was probably in that series somewhere.

Speaker 9 I don't know exactly a shot, but not necessarily a game winner.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Do you think that

Speaker 4 you retiring at this time can take your name officially off the list for the Olympic team for that open roster spot that they're keeping?

Speaker 9 I

Speaker 9 know. I said I was retiring from the NBA, not the Olympics.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Let's get Blake a gold medal. Ooh.

Speaker 9 Yeah. No, I mean, listen, I

Speaker 9 don't know. Never say never.
Yeah. Kind of the theme for me today.

Speaker 1 Did David Duke reach out to you today?

Speaker 9 Junior, the one that the basketball player?

Speaker 1 The basketball player. Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 9 Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I.

Speaker 1 Was there another David Duke that reached out to you?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 9 When I first met him, I walked up and I go, hey, man, big fan.

Speaker 9 I don't know if he got it, but obviously it's a, you know, it was a joke.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was very much a joke. I'm so shocked.

Speaker 9 I think there's maybe a message here from him somewhere. Junior, David Jr.

Speaker 1 David Jr., the financier. Yeah, the financial.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 What, Jeffrey?

Speaker 1 Who's your favorite point guard you played with?

Speaker 9 Oh, man.

Speaker 9 Got to be CP. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Got to be CP. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 He's like, you know, kind of, like, as a young player, he was there my second year, taught me,

Speaker 9 he, like, taught me how to, taught us as a team, like, how to, how to, like,

Speaker 9 will a victory. Like, that was his thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.
Wait, I have, I have another basketball question for you. Um,

Speaker 1 Kyrie Irving is beloved in the NBA by all the players. Is it just because he's so goddamn good at basketball? Like,

Speaker 1 when you play with him or practice with him, you're just like, he does things that we all wish we could do.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean, like, a perfect example is the left-handed running

Speaker 9 pushing floater that he hit over

Speaker 9 Jokic in the game.

Speaker 9 Like, it's just like a shot where he does that, and you're not like,

Speaker 9 oh, like, lucky. It's just like he shoots it, and you just expect to go in.
Also, like, the way he hangs it, like, the things he can do are like, I think he's

Speaker 9 the most talented basketball player in the NBA, maybe still. Yeah.

Speaker 9 It's a weird thing to say because like, you know, there's so many talented guys, but the things he does at his like stature and like, he's not like crazy athletic.

Speaker 9 He's athletic, but he's not crazy athletic. It's like, it's pretty mind-blowing what he does.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because it's always so funny whenever he's in the news for whatever reason, but then...

Speaker 9 All his teammates always have his back and you just, you realize, like, they probably just watch him and they're like, that guy can do all these things that help us win and are so incredible that like no one else in the world could do that stuff yeah i mean yeah he he makes shots i've seen him make even in practice i've seen him make shots that you're just it just like leaves you just kind of like scratching your head and like in an nba practice like you're playing five on five like guys are hitting crazy shots it's not quite the game like a game setting so guys are trying stuff guys are doing stuff so you see some crazy stuff and he probably has like three of the top five things that craziest things i've seen in practice of all time yeah yeah just the way that he uh he puts the exact right amount of spin on the ball as he's coming down from the peak of his jump like in the paint and getting a layup around somebody that's like seven feet tall and he's

Speaker 9 the ball off the backboard and then yeah and also he's going the opposite way or like he's facing the opposite way and still spins and still like it's like it's pretty nuts to be like that talented at controlling a basketball yeah one of the craziest like in-person

Speaker 1 basketball performance that I ever saw was, remember we went to that game, it was Cavs Celtics in like what, 2016?

Speaker 1 And he scored like 18 straight. And it was just like, what, like, it just every type of shot.
And you're just like, what is going on here? Like, no one can even come close to touching him.

Speaker 9 He's a great player. And I even think he's misunderstood.
He's definitely, he's definitely misunderstood. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But, you know.

Speaker 1 It is your retirement, so not to to make it about us, but do you think we'll ever get Kevin Duran on this podcast? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Perfect answer.

Speaker 9 Another guy who's misunderstood. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 9 I don't know. I don't know how many podcasts he does.

Speaker 9 Does he do a lot of podcasts?

Speaker 4 I think he probably listens to a lot of podcasts. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He leaves me on scene on Instagram all the time. Always hurts my feelings.

Speaker 9 Yeah. I mean, listen,

Speaker 9 never say never.

Speaker 1 never say never never say never solid maybe we never you know you never there was probably a day when you were like you know growing up you're like will i ever make 258 million dollars like never say never no never say never yeah never say never that's what i said as a kid i said never say never to 258 exactly yeah it's weird how that works i would have written down actually yeah yeah a lot of kids say never you'd be surprised yeah um so want to talk real quick about missoula because we're fascinated with him as a coach and especially his love of the movie the Town.

Speaker 4 Um, you know, that he loves the town, right? Like, would he always bring it up like constantly?

Speaker 9 No, that wasn't even really one. I think he did, he definitely did bring it up once.
All the coaches last year had shirts that said, Whose car are we going to take?

Speaker 9 Um, so that was like definitely like their their

Speaker 1 thing.

Speaker 9 I did know he loved the town. I don't, I don't remember him like mentioning it multiple times, like maybe once, um, but that's just who he is, man.
He's like,

Speaker 9 he's like, what you see in like

Speaker 9 uh press conferences and like, you see him like trying to block a guy's shot, like, that's how he thinks, like, that's not like a, he's not putting on a,

Speaker 9 like a character. Yeah.
You know, he's not, like, playing that up. Like, that's who he is.
So, like, and I think that's one of the most important things about head coaches is authenticity.

Speaker 9 Like, guys can sniff through it immediately. You know, even if it's not your style, like, guys can sniff through,

Speaker 9 you know, somebody who's unauthentic, and that's just who he is. So, I think that's that's why he's going to be a great coach for a long time.

Speaker 4 Did you know that he was getting choked out? That he would have his jiu-jitsu guy come over and just make him pass out for a little bit?

Speaker 9 I didn't.

Speaker 9 We didn't touch on that, but

Speaker 9 I have seen him in his

Speaker 9 game.

Speaker 1 It might be.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It might be Gi.

Speaker 9 I've seen him do that. And then he could have been like, him and like Grant, I think Grant Williams, him and Grant would like, they would try to play spar.

Speaker 9 And I mean, that guy, there's no quitting that guy.

Speaker 1 Can you name all the Williams you played with?

Speaker 9 Oh, boy, Robert Williams. Yes.

Speaker 1 Start there.

Speaker 9 There was a guy named Jamal Williams who was on the Clippers that I played with.

Speaker 1 This is a tough question.

Speaker 9 Let me think. Williams.

Speaker 9 Let's go to Detroit.

Speaker 9 There was no Williams on Detroit. Nope.

Speaker 9 There was

Speaker 1 okay.

Speaker 9 This guy's, come on, what are we doing here? Robert. This is supposed to be about me.

Speaker 1 Robert, Moe, Lou, Grant, CJ. Mo.

Speaker 1 That's a lot of them. That's a lot of Williams.

Speaker 9 CJ Williams, yeah.

Speaker 1 CJ Williams.

Speaker 1 That's a ton of Williams. That's a lot of Williams that you play with.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean, listen, I was fortunate, you know, fortunate to have a lot of Williams as teammates.

Speaker 1 Great name.

Speaker 1 All right, I have one last question.

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Speaker 1 It's actually not a question. I wanted to get a little sentimental for a second and say thank you to you, Blake.

Speaker 1 You are a very important part of this podcast, and you can't tell the history of pardon my take without Blake Griffin. I really do sincerely mean it.
Like you

Speaker 1 coming on, you know, whatever it was, six, seven years ago, having fun with us, knowing that we're idiots, like playing with the Blake of the Year, like that's what made it cool was that you were like, you you took it seriously.

Speaker 1 And I just want to thank you. Like you are, you are success is,

Speaker 1 there's a piece of it is because of you.

Speaker 9 I

Speaker 9 greatly appreciate that. And

Speaker 9 yeah, man,

Speaker 9 I've always

Speaker 9 had fun. This is like the podcast that you look forward to doing

Speaker 9 because you never know what's going to happen.

Speaker 9 It's awesome. I love you guys.
And yeah, man. Yeah.

Speaker 1 When we retire,

Speaker 1 you will be in our retirement letter. With Donald Sterling.
Part one. We'll thank Donald Sterling.
Part one.

Speaker 4 We're going to thank Donald Sterling for giving us so much material. Yeah.
And also Blake Riff.

Speaker 1 We'll put you right back to back.

Speaker 1 I appreciate that, man.

Speaker 9 Like the good old times, me and Donald Sterling.

Speaker 1 Back to back. MVPs.

Speaker 1 Man, you should. Just see what he's doing.
Oh,

Speaker 4 a little tip: if you do decide to get into the podcasting game, here's a great question you can ask your guests. So this will be my last question.

Speaker 4 Blake, if you were to interview yourself on the day that you retired, what question would you ask yourself? Good question.

Speaker 9 Thank you. Oh, man.

Speaker 9 I mean, I would have asked the Williams thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 we talk about hard-hitting questions.

Speaker 9 Just leave people in a

Speaker 9 just a, just a pretzel.

Speaker 4 We're going to have to ask every player that comes on the show.

Speaker 1 Yo, how many Williams did you want?

Speaker 9 Man, what would I? So, what would I ask myself? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yes, I'm basically getting you to do our interview with you for us.

Speaker 9 I would ask.

Speaker 9 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 4 The Williams answer was good.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 All right, I mean, I guess we could just leave it.

Speaker 1 We can cut it after that. Yeah, you actually,

Speaker 1 you forgot Willie Green, Willie Warren.

Speaker 9 Well, no, no. Willie Reed.
You guys said Williams.

Speaker 1 Was that

Speaker 9 apostrophe S or just?

Speaker 1 No, how many Williams?

Speaker 4 I think he said Williams's.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. Williams's.
So you forgot a bunch of Williams.

Speaker 9 I did forget a bunch, man. I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 Sorry to all the Willys and Williams.

Speaker 1 Well, so if anyone asks you this, if you do another show, you just got to simply go, I think I'd ask myself, was it all worth it?

Speaker 1 And then I'd say yes.

Speaker 9 And then I'd say yes. And then you repeat it.
And then I'd say yes.

Speaker 1 And then I'd say yes. Was it all worth it?

Speaker 1 I love when everyone, any professional athlete, says that, like, was it all worth it? Yeah, I mean, I think so.

Speaker 1 Got to play in a professional sports league.

Speaker 9 Would I change anything if I had to do it all over again?

Speaker 1 Hell no.

Speaker 1 Hell no.

Speaker 1 I would answer that differently. I'd be like, I'd try to play with a few more Williams.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 just collect a few more Williams along the way.

Speaker 9 Yeah. I mean, I could be up there all time.

Speaker 1 Oh, Williams.

Speaker 4 Yeah,

Speaker 4 but you have to go up against guys like Robert Ory, guys that like bounced around. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, let's look. You know what? Let's look right now.
Robert Orey's teammates.

Speaker 4 Yeah, let's see what's going on.

Speaker 1 This is why people tune into this podcast. Robert Ory,

Speaker 4 I'm going to guess 13 Williams's.

Speaker 1 Okay. So, Blake.

Speaker 9 I mean, he may have rings.

Speaker 4 Is there a website where you can just type in how many Williams? No, you can just.

Speaker 1 We should make it.

Speaker 1 Actually, yeah. Blake had one, two, three, four, five Williams, if we're not counting Willys, but he had three Willys as well.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we're only talking Williams' last name.

Speaker 1 Okay, so Robert Ori

Speaker 1 had,

Speaker 1 ooh, he had Hot Rod Williams, Eric Williams, that's two. Robert Orey only had three Williams.

Speaker 1 Holy shit. Good job, Blake.
Who else could have a lot of Williams?

Speaker 1 We're going to trap you into basically the lottery ball again, the pink punk ball again.

Speaker 1 Let's just see

Speaker 1 Kobe Brown.

Speaker 9 I think maybe we just end it there.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no.
Lou Williams, Shimon Williams, Sean Williams. Kobe only three Williams.

Speaker 9 Not everybody can handle being on teams with Williams. I just like, I treated him like everybody else.
You know what I mean? Jay Crowder.

Speaker 1 I bet you Jay Crowder's. All right, all right, let's go.
Jay Crowder. Jay Crowder real quick.
No, no, no, no. You know who

Speaker 9 Ish Smith or Jeff Green?

Speaker 1 Oh, Jeff Green.

Speaker 4 Jeff Green's a guy. Jeff Green.
All right. All right.
He might be the all-time goat.

Speaker 9 Shout out to Ish and Jeff Green.

Speaker 1 All right. This is big.

Speaker 1 All right, Jeff Green, Terrence Williams, Nate Williams.

Speaker 1 Only two Williams.

Speaker 4 Look up Jay Crowder.

Speaker 1 There we go. Holy shit.
We got to find somebody that can be you might have the record for Williams.

Speaker 5 What about Lou Williams?

Speaker 1 Oh, I think Lou, you would Williams attract Williams?

Speaker 4 No, I don't think so.

Speaker 5 You just played for so many teams.

Speaker 9 Yeah, because how many times did you see L Williams on the back of his jersey? If there was another Williams, then he'd have to be L Williams, and he was always just Williams on the back.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Crowder.

Speaker 4 You ready for this? Uh-huh. Oh, God.

Speaker 1 Jay Crowder.

Speaker 9 Can't just let me have this on my day. On my day.

Speaker 1 Has never played with a Williams. What?

Speaker 4 That's got to be the biggest statistic anomaly in the world.

Speaker 1 Holy

Speaker 1 shit.

Speaker 1 Feels pretty good, boy.

Speaker 1 Jay Crowder has never played with a Williams. How is that possible?

Speaker 9 Did you guys just have to

Speaker 9 keep this in mind next time we do Blake of the Year?

Speaker 9 Add that to the old resume.

Speaker 1 Lou Williams only played with one Williams. No.

Speaker 1 No, he played with two Williams

Speaker 1 and himself. And himself.
He probably played with the same.

Speaker 9 I mean, what's his name? Marvin Williams in Atlanta?

Speaker 4 This is a whole subset of category, which Williams has played with the most Williams.

Speaker 1 This is a perfect way to have your retirement

Speaker 1 PMT interview go where we just

Speaker 1 how long.

Speaker 9 It's mostly just you guys typing stuff in.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, you just sit there and your phone blows up with like a bunch. Well, actually, did any Williams text you?

Speaker 9 Does Instagram messaging count?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Then no. No.

Speaker 9 I didn't.

Speaker 9 I'd have to scroll back. You know, I'm getting so many messages, guys.
It's just, it's hard to keep track right now. So, yeah, let's just put me down for two Williams messages.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I found one guy who has five as well, but I'm not going to. Well, you know what I could say? Because he's one of your favorite teammates.
Jamal Crawford also played with five Williams.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So that's that's cool. You get to share it with Jamal.

Speaker 9 That's great. You know what? That's an honor.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And Jamal will have Jamal on when he retires in what, 10 years from now?

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know, he's,

Speaker 9 didn't he officially retire?

Speaker 1 I think he did. I think he officially retired.

Speaker 9 Yes, he did. Yeah.
No, of course he did. I remember.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Also, credit to you for retiring when it wasn't like, oh, I thought he retired a while ago.

Speaker 1 Because, you know, your namesake, Blake Bortles, did do that on this show where he just accidentally retired on this show. So you did a good job with that.

Speaker 1 Because you never want to be the guy who's like retiring and everyone's like, oh, shit, didn't he retire like 10 years ago? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah. You always leave people wanting more.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 You got to know, got to know when to exit. Although, I'm sure people are like,

Speaker 9 didn't he retire 10 years ago?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 4 Those people are lazy. Yeah.
That's a lazy comment.

Speaker 9 Lazy sports fans.

Speaker 1 Lazy sports fans. I liked, you said, yeah, got to know when to exit as we look for the 10th person who has the most Williams as teammates.
All right, Blake.

Speaker 9 Got it.

Speaker 1 Got to know when to call it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You are the best, though. We can't thank you enough.

Speaker 1 We do want you to come out of Chicago and dunk on Max. It would be awesome.
One last dunk we could call it.

Speaker 9 One last dunk. Yeah.
Maybe make a whole documentary about it.

Speaker 1 Oh, last dunk. Yeah.
Yeah. One last dunk.
We could actually do like, we could, we could have it be like, you start with, you know, we could have you dunk over our turtle, Mr.

Speaker 1 Pear, and then like go up from there. We'd have you dunk over a dog, and then it's just, and then it's Max is the one last dunk and just balls in his face.

Speaker 9 God, can you imagine if I like slipped and kicked the turtle or the dog?

Speaker 1 Oh. You can kick me.

Speaker 6 That's fine.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can kick Max. You can kick the door.

Speaker 9 You're a tough guy, dude. You'll be fine.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right, Blake.
Thank you as always. Congratulations on an incredible career.
We love you. You're always a part of this show.
And look forward to Blake of the Year coming up.

Speaker 9 Thanks, boys. I appreciate it.
As always, thank you, Blake.

Speaker 4 And you're not retired from Blake of the Year?

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 1 For the record. Okay.
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Speaker 1 it is time. We're going to do listener FAQs, but we also have

Speaker 1 the newest member of Pardon My Take

Speaker 1 ready to be unveiled.

Speaker 1 He's adorable. It's Mr.
Pear.

Speaker 1 Mr. Pear.
Oh, no, Mr. Pear.
Who are you going to take, Mr. Pear? Now, for longtime listeners, you know that we had a gambling goldfish.

Speaker 1 We had a listener FAQ a few few weeks ago that sparked the idea in our head to get another goldfish. And we're like, you know what? We've done goldfish.
They die really quickly and everyone blames us.

Speaker 1 Let's get something that's going to live outlive all of us. A turtle.

Speaker 1 Also, shout out Marcus Paul AWL, who found the tape of when we were actually getting Larry the second in 2017,

Speaker 1 we were talking about getting turtles. Yeah.
So, for anyone who says that we took an idea or Jack and I, we've had this idea for six years, seven years.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's been a long time.

Speaker 4 Long time in the making.

Speaker 1 Turtle racing, the first bet I ever won, a turtle race in Key West, Florida, $100.

Speaker 1 So, turtles. Oh, here he comes.

Speaker 4 So, it appears that this is a Russian tortoise.

Speaker 1 Uh-oh.

Speaker 4 Is what it is. Psyop.
This Russian,

Speaker 4 superior, adorable.

Speaker 1 Look how cute he is. Hank, get in.
This was your idea to name him Mr. Pear.
Mr. Pay, Mr.
Pay. Musical boy.

Speaker 1 Can he fall off this, Max?

Speaker 4 No, he's fine. He's got a shell.
But the cool thing is, this is the first type of thing.

Speaker 1 Max, put it further on the table. Wait, wait a second, memes.

Speaker 1 By the way, memes, it is memes' turtle.

Speaker 1 Memes is already.

Speaker 1 Well, we're all papas, but memes is the number one papa. Memes is tasked with keeping Mr.
Pear alive. Memes is also madly in love with Mr.
Pear after 24 hours.

Speaker 4 He's very cute.

Speaker 1 He's territorial, Mr. Pear.
That's my boy.

Speaker 4 He likes to scratch his shell a little bit.

Speaker 1 Can he bite?

Speaker 4 No, he doesn't bite. He's too sweet to bite.

Speaker 1 Max, Max, put it further on the table.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, it's memes.

Speaker 1 I got it. Pear.

Speaker 4 No, what I was going to say, this type of tortoise is actually the only type of tortoise to ever go to the moon.

Speaker 1 Oh. We're going to go to the moon.
Mr. Pear, you're an astronaut.
You're so cute. Oh, no, Mr.

Speaker 4 Pear, did you forget to unlock the door in the Apollo mission, Mr. Pear?

Speaker 1 Mr. Pear.
Mr.

Speaker 5 Pear already pooped on Max. Oh,

Speaker 4 he came on Max. He came on Max.
Mr.

Speaker 1 Pear, why'd you chew on the NOS?

Speaker 4 He's very cute, isn't he?

Speaker 1 He's so cute. He's adorable.
All right, so Mr. Pear's going to pick the Sixers versus Heat play-in game.
This is his first pick.

Speaker 4 You know, he's going to live to be like 40.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Memes was really nice to us when he came out, and he just goes, he's going to outlive all of us. And I'm like, what?

Speaker 1 He's like, yeah, he's going to live to 50. And so, I mean,

Speaker 1 for me and PFT, I understand, but Memes is putting a cap on your life, Hank, at 80. You, Max, at 77 or whatever you are.

Speaker 1 Pug, I don't know how old you are. You have to factor in dog ears.
Pug, whoa, whoa, pick him up, pick him up, pick him up, pick him up.

Speaker 1 Memes is very nervous.

Speaker 1 He's put him down. Memes, he's totally safe.
And put the camera on. First pick.
Put the camera on so we can see where he goes. Mr.
Pear. And let's do some listener FAQs while Mr.
Pear makes a pick.

Speaker 1 Oh, he's going.

Speaker 4 Oh, he's going. He's going to the Sixers.

Speaker 1 He smells so fast. He did it so fast.

Speaker 4 He did that with some

Speaker 1 Philly guy.

Speaker 1 Mr. Pear.

Speaker 1 You did it, Mr. Pear.
You picked the Sixers. Love Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 Mr.

Speaker 4 Pear, did you know that in Philadelphia Max's dad will put you in a soup and eat you?

Speaker 1 Hell, no. We can never bring him to Philadelphia.
Yeah, no.

Speaker 4 Max's dad is not allowed anywhere near this turtle.

Speaker 1 All right, so I'm going to put a

Speaker 1 responsibly large wager on the Sixers right now. Let's go.

Speaker 1 Oh, they're five and a half.

Speaker 4 That's fine. They got that.
They're basically the best team in the league right now.

Speaker 1 Mr. Pear, let's say five.
Five is minus 115. We'll go five.
Mr. Pear's pick is sixers minus five.

Speaker 1 Responsibly large wager has been put on him. Mr.
Pear's first ever pick.

Speaker 1 Let's go 76ers. Come on, Max.
This is now big-time pressure for you. Mr.
Pear's first pick.

Speaker 5 First question, valid question. What steps will be taken to prevent Billy from fucking Mr.
Pear?

Speaker 1 Oh, wait, by the way, if you're, everyone who's watching, watch it. We obviously have

Speaker 1 Mr. Pear out right now.
You can see him.

Speaker 4 He's making his picks live on camera.

Speaker 1 He made his pick live on camera.

Speaker 4 Billy can't fuck Mr. Pear?

Speaker 4 I wouldn't put it apart, Billy to try, but I think he's more of a frog guy, right? Yeah, he's not a frog.

Speaker 1 Mr. Pear is not a frog.
He's very much turtle. We should get a frog, though.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 And dress it up all slutty just to taunt Billy. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Who is the most active in the PMT group chat? Who has the funniest messages?

Speaker 4 Most active

Speaker 1 memes is surprisingly active for how much he talks yeah I'd say the the text per word that memes actually says is a very high ratio can't you see depending on the how big the bubble is is that what that means I think that's recent yeah so what I'm looking at right now it's Hank and Max

Speaker 1 or is that memes

Speaker 1 Hank and Hank and Max and memes are our most active

Speaker 1 um Max has some good one-liners on there.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I usually am only, if I'm popping in, it's usually just to stir the pot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Shane is easily. Shane and Pug.

Speaker 4 They stay off.

Speaker 1 They don't.

Speaker 8 They send the drop box.

Speaker 5 They don't even like a message, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they don't like it. They won't even like it.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 I'd say the person who likes messages the most is Jake.

Speaker 1 Oh, by far.

Speaker 4 Jake will just hammer the like button on everyone.

Speaker 8 And I wish you guys luck when you're talking about bets.

Speaker 1 Yeah, actually, that's true.

Speaker 4 Anytime anything remotely good happens to us, Jake is in there with a congrats.

Speaker 5 I hate sometimes we do the like someone's congratulates and you have to

Speaker 1 hate it.

Speaker 5 Congrats on the card. I have to say congrats.

Speaker 5 I'm going to get shit for not saying congrats, but I actually don't feel correct.

Speaker 1 I agree with you. We got to just stop doing that.
All right, I'll stop. No, no, you can keep doing it, Jake.

Speaker 1 But Hank, you and I, like, yeah, I just don't want to come in and be like, well, everyone else said, congrats. All right, so you and I will do an alliance.
No congrats. Yes.

Speaker 1 Unless it's a championship. I'll congrats on a championship, but like winning a play-in game, no congrats.
Jake, you should keep being you because that's you. Yeah, that is me.
Yeah, that is you.

Speaker 5 How long would you have done the podcast at the start with no success before quitting?

Speaker 1 Oh, good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know. It was fun.

Speaker 4 Like, I think our goal from the start was always just to entertain ourselves. So it probably would have lasted for a little bit with no success.

Speaker 5 Yeah, we didn't really know the success. There was no.

Speaker 5 I guess the charts.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and we also did have that

Speaker 1 when they couldn't really tell actual analytics. And I think it was the first Harbaugh interview.
And they're like, 10 million people listened. And we're like, that's not possible.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But I think I said this maybe a couple of months ago when PFT and I were, we got to drive back from the Arizona Bowl together. It was just the two of us.

Speaker 1 And we had a moment where we're like, imagine if this didn't work out.

Speaker 1 Our lives are awesome because of this. Yeah.
Like it's directly, obviously, Barstall and everything before that and everything after that, but this has has been the catalyst for everything else. Yeah,

Speaker 4 it's real. We do remind ourselves of that from time to time.
I do.

Speaker 1 I remind myself pretty much every day that

Speaker 1 whenever I get down, I'm like, but I get to do the best job ever. Yeah.

Speaker 4 When I use my sauna, I'm like, this is the sauna that Hot Takes built.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because there's days where I get down on myself. I'm like, but dude, you fucking have an awesome job.

Speaker 4 Actually, the real answer is probably if we had gotten fired from ESPN and we didn't have have a successful podcast, we probably wouldn't have gone back to our unsuccessful podcast after that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, although we wouldn't have gotten ESPN if the podcast wasn't successful.

Speaker 4 That's true, which would have been a great success.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I would say a year, it seems right. If we had just been doing a year and like they're like, yeah, 10,000 people are listening, that probably would have been okay.

Speaker 1 We got to do something different.

Speaker 5 I know you guys give each other a lot of shit. That's all in good fun, but has there ever been a legitimate beef between anyone involved with PMT?

Speaker 4 Legitimate beef.

Speaker 4 I don't think so. Nothing's coming to mind.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to think if Hank and I have ever had legitimate beef. I've never had legitimate beef with PFT.

Speaker 5 I've had no beef with anyone.

Speaker 4 Hank's just drama-free. That's what we always say about him.

Speaker 1 No, there's tense moments, but they're never

Speaker 1 last. Yeah, we get in cat fights, yeah, right.
Which is,

Speaker 1 it would be crazy if we didn't. Yeah, that would be fucking weird if we just never got into little like tiffs.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The only time

Speaker 1 that it's not beef, but there are moments when we're on the road and like breakfast. Yeah, breakfast.

Speaker 1 Breakfast is a perfect, like if you call that a fight. Yeah, you didn't let me eat.
If you call that a fight, then yeah, of course you fight, but that wasn't a real fight. Oh, did not.

Speaker 4 Dip spit. Dip spit.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, because you. Yeah.

Speaker 4 But we also still don't know who's

Speaker 1 never know who had the dip spit next to your seat.

Speaker 4 In the Mountain Dew container, yeah. You also did.
Because we're all drinking Mountain Dew, so we don't know.

Speaker 1 There'll be moments when we're on the road where we just sit silently together in an Uber where it's just like we're just tired.

Speaker 4 That's usually the end of a trip. Yeah, but that's not beef.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, we've been lucky to never have like an actual...

Speaker 4 I was mad at Max for

Speaker 4 about a minute, actually mad. When he was watching the Phillies last year and he spat on me.
But that was an accident. He didn't mean to spit on me.
He was just too excited. And I was just...

Speaker 4 You ever been in a situation where you're just mad at what happened, but you're not actually like, you don't know what to do about it? Because you understand that Max is just going to yell and scream.

Speaker 4 He's got very moist lips. Yeah.
And so when sometimes it gets a little out of hand, you set the splash zone, you get Gallagher in the front row.

Speaker 4 And then I just had to calm myself down and be like, he didn't mean to do it. Max would never intentionally spit on you.
He's just a messy guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we've been very lucky because it is, there have been a lot of successful podcasts that have broken up.

Speaker 1 And we've never had, I don't think there's ever been something that's lasted like over a like a couple minutes like through a night, yeah, right.

Speaker 1 Never go to bed angry, we've never gone to bed angry, and also we got lucky because our beef guy isn't here anymore.

Speaker 4 Yeah, there is, there was a guy,

Speaker 4 there was a guy who did beef, we all had legitimate beef with him at some point. There was a guy who just he basically was cooking beef, yeah, but not seasoning it

Speaker 1 last one, uh, it's Mr.

Speaker 5 Pears.

Speaker 1 Ventura. Oh, dude, Mr.
Pears on the move! Shell, yeah,

Speaker 4 Mr. Pear.
That's what they're saying, all the kids.

Speaker 1 Don't let him go under the couch. Don't let him go under the couch.
Oh, no, Mr.

Speaker 4 Pear. We're never going to find you.

Speaker 1 Memes, how nervous are you about Mr. Pear

Speaker 1 rolling around here?

Speaker 11 Not that nervous. It's very funny.
Max just keeps putting him back in there.

Speaker 1 What the fuck?

Speaker 1 Mr. Pear's technically moving faster than Max.

Speaker 4 I love Mr. Pear.

Speaker 1 I love you, Mr. Pear.

Speaker 1 I love you, Mr. Pear.

Speaker 4 Who's a very good boy? Is it? Can I boop him, Max?

Speaker 1 Can you bring him? Confirmed boy?

Speaker 1 Sure, yeah. Yeah, Sure.
He's a dude. Memes? Yep, confirmed.
Can I boop? Can I boop him? He goes in when you boop him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he goes in. He's so cute.
You want to boop him? Yeah, I want to boop him. He loves you.
Mr. Pear.

Speaker 4 He loves you. Mr.
Pear.

Speaker 1 Give him a kiss. He loves you.
Mr. Pears, one of your papas.

Speaker 4 One of your papas, Mr. Pear.

Speaker 4 I just kissed him.

Speaker 1 I was a little turtle head. Oh, let me give him a tummy tax.
Tummy tags.

Speaker 4 Tummy tax, tummy tags.

Speaker 4 Oh, tummy tax. Yeah.
He's so cute.

Speaker 1 We're going to get all kinds of weird shit from this pair. Yeah.

Speaker 5 I'm circling back to the fact that you said you wanted to record an episode at an AWL's wedding in Thursday during NFL offseason. NFL Week 6 recap.

Speaker 5 I'm having a wedding at the end of August on a Thursday, which Pug is invited to and hopefully comes. And it would be pretty chill if you guys came to Pugs actually knows the person.

Speaker 5 And recorded an episode at the wedding. I cleared it with the fiancé who believes Pruce Ringstreen and Avril Lavinia will also be attending if invited.
No shot that happens.

Speaker 5 So I thought I would shoot my shot with the PMT boys. Love you guys.

Speaker 1 Is it a flight?

Speaker 4 Pug, are you aware of this?

Speaker 11 Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know who wrote this.

Speaker 1 Is it a flight, Pug?

Speaker 11 Yeah,

Speaker 11 it's in Jersey.

Speaker 1 Okay, no, I'm out.

Speaker 4 It's at the end of August.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 4 What day?

Speaker 5 Thursday.

Speaker 4 Just a Thursday at the end of August.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say something that's going to make Hank even more mad.

Speaker 1 I think the only way we can do this is we just have to host a wedding here. No, don't say that.

Speaker 4 Don't say that.

Speaker 1 I mean, the worst idea that we've ever done

Speaker 1 in the entire history of this podcast was when we married.

Speaker 1 We married. I don't even, we've probably told the story.

Speaker 5 We said we wanted PFT wanted to marry someone, so we found someone.

Speaker 4 No, not get married to someone. I was an ordained minister.
Still up.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you wanted to marry. I'm ordained.
That's the correct verbiage.

Speaker 4 But you could also, it also sounds, I'm just clarifying.

Speaker 1 So when you said marry someone.

Speaker 5 That's what you said. I want to marry someone.
PFT really wanted to marry someone. That's not what I said.
So we found two people for PFT to marry.

Speaker 5 Got them in the back of a van

Speaker 5 in a parking lot in

Speaker 5 L.A. in Ralphs with like 150 people outside the van.
PFD officiated the wedding. Most awkward thing of all time.
I think I left the van in the middle of it.

Speaker 1 I can't do this.

Speaker 5 I'm out. I want to crawl out of my skin.
This is so awkward. Thinking they were actually getting married.
Then it ended and it was the kid's sister.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that was actually my sister. I just really, you know, convinced her to do it because I thought it'd be cool.
Worst idea ever. Very bad idea.

Speaker 5 So yes, I would say that this is also a terrible idea.

Speaker 8 There was a Zoom one that we did for real over COVID.

Speaker 4 The Zoom one for real, yeah. That was two people just getting married.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Married, married.

Speaker 1 If

Speaker 4 yeah, it's just a bad idea. It's just a bad idea to...

Speaker 4 There's a hundred fiancés listening to this right now that have already turned the podcast off because they don't want their fiancé to have any ideas from this.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to say no to this dream.

Speaker 1 Eventually we will do it. No.
No.

Speaker 1 I'm not giving up. No.
I'm not giving up. Nope, we're not going to do it.
I'm not giving up.

Speaker 5 Eventually that tweets to me, Danzel Games at Barcelona Big Head. Listen,

Speaker 1 eventually someone's someone's going to invite us to a wedding that's like down the block on a Thursday, and we can just pop in, just record

Speaker 1 10 minutes during the electric slide, and then be it. Nope.
Nope. Okay.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'm not giving up on the AWS.

Speaker 4 Big Cat really wants to go to one of your weddings. You guys are going to be doing it.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying it would be a funny idea.

Speaker 1 What's Mr. Pear doing?

Speaker 4 He said that we could do in a Pugs wedding next year. Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay, that works.
Because it's a pug. Is it a flight?

Speaker 11 Yeah, it's also a flight.

Speaker 1 He says, I'm out.

Speaker 5 It's also a new jersey.

Speaker 1 I'll get you a really nice gift, pug.

Speaker 1 Look at the pug.

Speaker 4 Look at Mr. Pears.

Speaker 4 Look at Mr. Pears' little tail.

Speaker 1 40. 8.

Speaker 1 18.

Speaker 5 Someone should.

Speaker 4 99 pugs. He's trying to escape because he's so happy.

Speaker 1 I just did the dumbest Google ever.

Speaker 5 I'm going to do 76 for winner of Pete Pears first pick.

Speaker 1 What number is turtle?

Speaker 1 What does it say? 6112. I'll take 61.
Okay. I'll do three.

Speaker 1 Anyone want 12?

Speaker 1 I'm stick with eight. Okay.

Speaker 1 What number is turtle?

Speaker 4 Wait, wait, you said 12? Let me just.

Speaker 1 It says 61. The four-digit number for turtle is 6112.

Speaker 4 Is turtle, is 12 turtle? No, 61. I know, but I'm verifying if 12 is turtle.

Speaker 4 I'm not saying anything that 12 is turtle. I'm sticking with eight.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 Everyone say their numbers? 76.

Speaker 1 Three. Pear.

Speaker 1 18.

Speaker 5 If it's 40, I will maybe

Speaker 1 turtle.

Speaker 1 What? Just kidding. Whoa.
Just kidding.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 72.

Speaker 1 72.

Speaker 8 Undefeated dolphins. Mr.
Pear, undefeated.

Speaker 4 Love you guys. Love you guys.

Speaker 4 I'm the one. I'm saying I'd say it anyway.

Speaker 4 Days are not day to find you. Shy away.

Speaker 4 I'm coming with a love up here.

Speaker 4 I'm coming with a love up here.

Speaker 4 Come on.

Speaker 4 Make me you.

Speaker 4 I need

Speaker 4 one.

Speaker 4 Don't you want me

Speaker 4 to say, I'm all set in about me stole a little way.

Speaker 4 Further than if life is okay, say after me.

Speaker 4 Life's no better to be safe than sorry. It's for better to be safe than sorry.

Speaker 14 Life's for better to be safe than sorry.

Speaker 1 Say gone.

Speaker 1 I've been gone.

Speaker 1 Things that you say.

Speaker 1 Just play my body.

Speaker 1 one time to my love,

Speaker 1 shine away.

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for you anyway.

Speaker 1 Coming for you anyway,

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for you anyway.

Speaker 1 Take on

Speaker 1 me,

Speaker 1 take

Speaker 1 me

Speaker 1 up.

Speaker 1 I'll be gone

Speaker 1 in a day.