Patrick Beverley, March Is Here, NFL Cuts, Mike Tyson Is Back + Fyre Fest Of The Week

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Speaker 1 On today's Pardon My Take, we have an incredible interview with Patrick Beverly, our co-worker, also many-year NBA pro. He's on the Milwaukee Bucks.

Speaker 4 Also, first-team dog.

Speaker 1 First team dog. It was awesome.
It was an hour and 15-minute interview that could have gone even longer. We all walked away being like, that rocked.

Speaker 1 We talked about everything with Pat Bev, all his feuds, his crazy story, getting into the league. Everything.
We're going to talk a little more NFL cuts. We've got some more cuts coming down the line.

Speaker 1 Tyson and Jake Paul are fighting. We have Fire Fest of the Week.
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Speaker 1 Boys, I'm feeling the March madness. I'm feeling it.
I'm feeling it. We got Bubble Watch everywhere.
We got big games everywhere.

Speaker 4 Conference tournaments underway.

Speaker 1 Conference tournament day basketball is here.

Speaker 4 Day basketball is nice. Not just like a couple games.
We're talking about balls deep in day basketball.

Speaker 1 Balls deep in day basketball. This is the time I was thinking about it.
These two weeks before conference tournament in March Madness is such a weird,

Speaker 1 we're like in the middle of everything. We're in the middle of NFL free agency happening.

Speaker 1 We're right before NFL free agency happening. NBA is kind of in a weird lull.
Hockey playoffs haven't started. We haven't gotten a conference championship.

Speaker 1 We're getting through that though right now to one of the best portions of the year, and that is March. And I wish someone had told me that Murray State Racers were the worst team in the country.

Speaker 4 Oh, did they fuck you?

Speaker 1 Oh, man, they fucked me bad. Hard.
But, yeah, it's awesome. I mean, there's nothing better than bubble watching all these teams

Speaker 1 fighting for their lives. We had like Seton Hall, Villanova the other night.

Speaker 4 That was a great game.

Speaker 1 Pug versus Max. Pug came out victorious.
Pug is our people's champ. A lot of people were saying they didn't know that's what Pug looked like.

Speaker 6 Yeah, like someone said he looks like if you and Jake had a kid.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I agree. Pug is just like, he's better off being a figment of one's imagination.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We also have senior night.

Speaker 4 Senior night, always big. In some cases, multiple senior nights.
That's what I love about this time of year.

Speaker 4 It's like if you're thinking that maybe you're going to kind of graduate, you can have senior night, and then you can come back and do a second senior night.

Speaker 1 Armando Bacot finally had his final senior night.

Speaker 4 His last one?

Speaker 1 Yeah, officially? Yeah, he had it at UNC. I think we have UNC Duke on Saturday.
But there was one senior night that bothered me. I didn't realize this until I turned it it on.

Speaker 1 I think it was two nights ago. Did you guys know that Joe Girard,

Speaker 1 Syracuse legend, transferred to Clemson, and then he had a senior night against Syracuse? I didn't know that. That's kind of fucked up.
That is fucked up. You should just say, no, you know what?

Speaker 1 I'm good. I don't need my jersey and everything.
I've only been here for a cup of coffee. I'm a Syracuse legend.

Speaker 4 Yeah, every nice senior night if you're young gravy, right? That's a guy that loves MILFs, Hank.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I know rap.
I know MILF. He loves MILFs.
But

Speaker 1 that's like saying, I like bacon. No, some people don't like MILFs.

Speaker 4 Actually, no, by very definition, I think a MILF would be loved. Yes, correct, because it's someone that you'd love to fuck.
Correct.

Speaker 1 Okay. It's like he's kind of doing a late, he's like, he's like posting a picture of his dog online being like, retweet this.

Speaker 4 Well, he's also kind of like the Dana Beers of the rap game, where it's just like he's going to say something that's universally beloved and make it his own brand. Like, I'm the beer guy.

Speaker 4 I like drinking beer.

Speaker 1 You know what gets slept on? Ice cream.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you're the ice cream guy.

Speaker 1 Not enough people are talking about how good French fries are.

Speaker 4 Yeah, donuts. You're also the...
Interesting. You're the ice cream guy and the no-dunk guy.

Speaker 1 I like food.

Speaker 4 Hank's the golf and vacation guy. That's a pretty good brand.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's doubling it up. I've got to find a boondoggle.

Speaker 4 Did you see Tennessee SEC champions? Yes. My Tennessee Volunteers.

Speaker 1 We had UConn and Tennessee clinch in the last few days. Yep.

Speaker 1 I think Purdue as well.

Speaker 4 There's some arguments going on online, some discourse about Dalton Connect doing the put the ring on my finger celebration. Yeah.
Like, save that for the tournament, buddy.

Speaker 4 I think if you're a Dalton Connect and you transferred from, was it North Dakota? Yeah. One of the Dakotas.

Speaker 4 You transferred from Dakota and you won an SEC championship, which is supposed to be a very difficult conference this year. You should be allowed to stick your ring finger in people's faces.

Speaker 1 He won an SEC regular season championship. I think winning the SEC tournament is the ring.

Speaker 1 That's where I think it's the tournament is... It feels like when you get into the tournament conference championship week, that's the thing.

Speaker 1 If you ask UConn, would they rather win the Big East tournament or the Big East regular season? I think they'd want to win the Big East tournament.

Speaker 6 They're both banners, though, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can't do that.

Speaker 1 They are, but like there's something about winning the tournament on a banner yeah there's something about winning your tournament though that is special yeah i agree so hopefully they win that and then he gets another ring double ring yeah i so as i've discussed on this show um i'm heavily leveraging the volunteers this year i think tennessee and houston are my two picks uh i'm i'm a why is that just going with all free work volunteers oh that's good nice good joke hank yeah look at that brain is is lib left or right hank did you you sleep well last night?

Speaker 1 Lib is left. Yeah.
You slept well last night. See? Didn't you?

Speaker 4 Yeah. Oh, wait.
Did you get... Did you take your medicine?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Hank might be on his medicine right now. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I take my medicine every day.

Speaker 4 That's why you're locked in.

Speaker 1 I haven't seen the tongue out yet. Once the tongue comes out.
Yeah. Good for you, Hank.
Thanks. Okay.

Speaker 4 I forgot what I was going to do. Oh, yeah.
Dalton Connect.

Speaker 4 I want Tennessee to do well. I think that they could do well.
But watching him play last night, I was thinking to myself, like, I could see him getting shoved around in March. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I could see, like, a physical team just like

Speaker 1 putting their team. Yes,

Speaker 1 exactly.

Speaker 4 I could see a tough team like Houston, Kelvin Sampson being like, go out there and beat the fuck out of the skinny guy. Yes.
And see what happens. So I'm a little nervous about that, but

Speaker 4 I still really like Tennessee.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, Tennessee is very, very good. We also have a

Speaker 1 coach watch with Shaka Smart. Did you guys see the clip? Shaka Smart, the fact that he's not been teed up, I'll try to find the clip for you.
He runs, he's playing defense as a six-man on the court.

Speaker 1 It's insane. And I don't know, Max, I mean, you're a Big East guy.
Like, does this, how does this not, how is this allowed?

Speaker 7 I mean, Shaka Smart is like the universally hated guy of every team of the Big East.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. Watch this, PFT.
Watch this. Watch this.
Look at him. Look at him play defense.
Yeah, he's on.

Speaker 4 He's on.

Speaker 1 He's on the court.

Speaker 1 He's guarding guys on the court. No one's saying anything.

Speaker 4 I actually think he stepped over the... I think he was like, he would have shot a two-pointer.

Speaker 1 Yes. If he had the ball.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 1 He's actually more on the court than off the court. He spends more time on the court in this one possession that everyone was noting.
It's insane.

Speaker 1 He's in a perfect spot for a three-point

Speaker 1 shot if someone wanted to pass him the ball.

Speaker 4 That film's going to get out, though. Reps are going to be looking for it in the next game.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. We also had Matt Eberflus and Matt LaFour sitting next to each other.

Speaker 4 So Matt Eberflus.

Speaker 4 Matt Eberflus is hot.

Speaker 1 Dude, he's becoming Zaddy.

Speaker 4 I was going to say he's a daddy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he is. He is.

Speaker 4 Big daddy vibes. He's got the nice, like, gelled-up hair now.
The stubbly beard.

Speaker 1 I don't think it's going to work, but I appreciate him trying something new. Yeah.
And he looks like a bear.

Speaker 1 I would almost guarantee that Matt LaFleur probably tricks Matt Eberflues into giving him some type of secret about the draft or something.

Speaker 1 Which has been like, so what are you guys thinking about one in nine? And then Matt Eberflues is like, well, here's what we're going to do.

Speaker 4 Do you think they actually talked any football at all?

Speaker 1 Matt LaFleur probably tried to talk football and Matt Eberfoos was like, What do you? I don't speak that. I don't speak that language.

Speaker 4 Matt Eberfluz was like, You know, who's really good? Is Justin Fields?

Speaker 4 You could use Justin Fields, right?

Speaker 1 You could use him. I was, yeah.
Well, people were creating funny memes where it was just Matt LaFlore being like, so if you're ever down eight, you always want to kick the field goal.

Speaker 1 And Matt Eberfoos being like, okay, okay, that's good strategy.

Speaker 4 That makes sense. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, by the way, Matt LaFlore, we got to get him back on the show.

Speaker 1 He did reach out to me. I think he was happy that Dan Quinn Quinn got some field goal anger.

Speaker 1 Little

Speaker 1 take him off the hot seat for a minute. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I've been holding that one for a long time.

Speaker 4 I was able to overlook Dan Quinn making the Matt LaFleur mistake because honestly, I would suck a dick to get to the NFC championship game in general.

Speaker 4 So if he fucks that up in a late-game scenario against Tom Brady, I would be okay with that at this point. I'm a loser.
I don't care about that.

Speaker 1 We have, in football, we do have cut day. The Bills cut their entire team.

Speaker 1 Tamar?

Speaker 4 No. Prayers up for Damar.

Speaker 1 Prayers up for Damar.

Speaker 4 No, he was the original Cleming.

Speaker 1 They cut Mitch Morse, which was the big surprise. He was the original Cleming.
He was the big surprise. They're center.
I think

Speaker 1 Jordan Poyer's out.

Speaker 1 A couple other guys. DJ Pollo.
They're doing a whole reset, which is needed.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 4 I was seeing all these cuts yesterday, and there was a lot of window talk about the Bills. You have to talk about their window if it's opening or closing.

Speaker 4 Tredavious White is really fucking good. He's good when he's healthy, but he's been out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he hasn't been healthy.

Speaker 4 I almost feel like the Bills could deal with just getting new blood in there that haven't been around for the heartbreaks because you carry that baggage with you.

Speaker 4 If you're a player on that team, if you're a coach on that team, every time you have a heartbreaking loss to Joe Burrow or to Patrick Mahomes, especially Patrick Mahomes, you kind of, that's a scar that you keep with you for a long time.

Speaker 4 And in the back of your head, you're like, are we going to be able to do it this time? Get some guys in there that don't know any better.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, I think they were smart in the fact, well, not even smart.
They had to do it.

Speaker 1 They were in Cap Hell, and they don't want to become like the Saints where every year they're just in Cap Hell, so they did a hard reset. Yeah, I don't mind.

Speaker 4 Get some players in the draft.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of centers in the draft.

Speaker 4 Get some new blood there. There was another report that came out, I think it was on the Pat McAfee show.
Dalton Schultz was talking about the difference between playing for the Texans and the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 And he was saying some things about Hank's Dallas Cowboys that

Speaker 4 seem kind of ridiculous to an outsider. Somebody that's not like on that team or familiar with Dallas,

Speaker 4 he said that they, in Dallas, it's like being in a zoo.

Speaker 4 That when you work out in the workout facility, in the weight room, there are tours of people that go by, and there's a one-way mirror, and people can walk by and just watch you work out and tap on the glass and try to get your attention.

Speaker 1 So they're doing it.

Speaker 4 It's like an amusement park for football fans going through there, seeing the team work out. He's like, it's nice to just be in an environment where football is football.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 And that's what it's kind of always going to be like in Dallas if Jerry Jones is the owner. So you take the good and the bad,

Speaker 4 but that's the prime example of why Dallas, if you're a player on the Cowboys, you're like, why do you pay so much attention to us? Why are we the only thing that you talk about?

Speaker 4 What are the hot takes? Well, because you turn

Speaker 4 where people can go through, and it's more of like an entertainment thing.

Speaker 4 I would imagine being on that team, it wouldn't be the best thing in the world to be working out and have people watch you.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Having people watch you work out, like, you're making weird noises, you're sweaty. That shit sucks.
Yeah, you need to have it. I don't know, probably.

Speaker 1 But, yeah, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 We also had Michael Thomas' time with the Saints has ended, and he ended in the perfect Michael Thomas way, where it was reported by a Saints insider who wrote a long article being like the tumultuous, you know, times with Michael Thomas.

Speaker 1 It didn't work out. Michael Thomas then went to Twitter and he said,

Speaker 1 Jeff Duncan, funny how they planning on releasing me if I was on a one-year deal. Don't fall for it.

Speaker 1 He's the same dude that tried to be my friend in season after saying I wasn't the same player in training camp.

Speaker 1 Next topic, but not next topic because we're going to stay on Jeff Duncan Duncan for a minute.

Speaker 4 Jeff Duncan is a hoe.

Speaker 1 No, that's a new topic. Trying to stay relevant, so let's speak on it.
The Saints leak information to him to try to ruin players' value, but see, I'm not broke, so I can speak on it.

Speaker 1 He is broke, so he needs clicks. Go look at all his articles that never ended up being true.
Next topic: Look at this clown. It's a picture of Jeff Duncan.
Y'all think he knows ball. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 Y'all really clicking links to what he write? Hashtag good luck. Look like he take them salt things.

Speaker 1 What is that?

Speaker 4 What's a salt thing?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Smelling salts? No.

Speaker 8 Bass salts.

Speaker 1 Bass salts? Do you think that's what it is? Chips?

Speaker 4 Salt things. You take them salt things.

Speaker 1 What are the salt things?

Speaker 4 It might be bass salts. It might be bass salts, yeah.

Speaker 1 Salt things?

Speaker 1 I'm looking up. Look like you take them salt things.
What are salt things? Michael Thomas from Florida? Salt things.

Speaker 1 Bass salts, margarita salts. I think he means bass salts.

Speaker 4 I think bass salts, yeah. He's doing the zombie thing.

Speaker 1 Or maybe he's just salty. He's a salty person.

Speaker 4 Hank takes those salt things.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Hank is on those salt things.

Speaker 4 For sure. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 But yeah, everyone's getting cut.

Speaker 1 We're getting ready for NFL free agency. Everyone's getting cut.

Speaker 4 I was actually, I forgot that Michael Thomas was still on the Saints.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Hand up.

Speaker 4 They got to find a new slant.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

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Speaker 4 So, yeah, what else is going on now? There's some more Fallout with the Arch Manning decision. Yeah.
People are still mad about that.

Speaker 4 It's not really new Fallout, it's just more people getting mad about Arch Manning now. And I think they're actually going to stop people from creating their own Arch Manning in the game.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Which is, I don't like that.

Speaker 1 No, I don't like that. You have to create your own Arch.
We have Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson. Yeah.

Speaker 4 So.

Speaker 1 I'm going to watch.

Speaker 4 I'm still of the mindset that I think Mike Tyson could kill anybody he steps into the ring with.

Speaker 1 I've said this before, but I

Speaker 1 am, we're both of the age where i remember the end of mike tyson's career and still like like begging my dad to buy the pay-per-views because i was like he could knock anyone out yeah and just getting 20 years ago and getting absolutely like

Speaker 1 the end of his career he just wasn't he was just biting people's ears he wasn't trying like but the idea is that mike tyson One of the most ferocious boxers of all time could knock anyone out at any moment.

Speaker 1 And that's how you sell fights. And I'm in on this fight.

Speaker 4 So this is kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 I think it's pain. It It doesn't matter.
He's still one punch, Hank. He could kill a man.
One punch. Unless they have the no-knockout rule, then it's going to suck.
Because remember, they did that.

Speaker 4 Oh, they can't have the no-knockout rule.

Speaker 1 They did that, though. If they don't sanction the fight, they make it a no-knockout rule.
I don't like that. Stand around

Speaker 1 exhibition.

Speaker 1 I didn't sanction the fight.

Speaker 4 I would not buy it if it was no knockout. If it was Mike Tyson, no knockout.
I think it's free.

Speaker 1 Okay. Well,

Speaker 6 if you have a Netflix.

Speaker 1 Okay. Well, that's...
So, again, I think it's free because everyone has Netflix.

Speaker 4 Or you have your mom's password. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm I'm going to watch because Mike Tyson could knock anyone out. You could accidentally knock him out.

Speaker 4 It's a rare fight where I think most times when Jake Paul fights somebody, in fact, I'd say almost every time people buy the fight because it's Jake Paul. Let's see what he can do.

Speaker 4 He's the main attraction. In this one, I think Mike Tyson might be the main attraction.

Speaker 1 Without a doubt.

Speaker 4 Without a doubt. Like, Mike Tyson, I think, could fight almost anybody, and I would watch.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He's,

Speaker 1 I'm in, no matter what. And it's free, so I'm doubling, but the no-knockout's going to suck.

Speaker 4 I also respect Jake Paul for taking every single fight, where afterwards, the question is, that was impressive. Do you think he could do it against a real fighter? Yeah.

Speaker 4 He just finds new ways to redirect the conversation. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And this is a perfect one because Mike Tyson is a real fighter, but he's 57 years old. He's going to be 58.
He also lost to Tommy Paul. Who?

Speaker 6 Jake Paul. Yeah, he did.
Or Tommy Fury.

Speaker 1 Tommy Fury. Tommy Paul.
Tommy Paul, tennis.

Speaker 1 You have tennis on the brain?

Speaker 6 Oh, just Tommy, Paul, Jake.

Speaker 1 Tommy Paul.

Speaker 1 Did you see Chris Sims also released his top six QBs in this year's draft?

Speaker 4 I did not see that.

Speaker 1 Okay, we'll read it to you.

Speaker 4 Is this something that people are talking about?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 Chris Sims is for everything he's wrong about with Tuanon. He actually has been pretty good with his tiers when it comes to the quarterback stuff.

Speaker 4 When I think Chris Sims, I think Tuanon, and then I think Blake Portals.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You hated Blake.
Okay, so tier one, a class of his own, Caleb Williams. Okay.
Tier two, number one in other years,

Speaker 1 Jaden Daniels.

Speaker 1 Tier three, franchise starting quarterbacks. There's a lot of franchise starting quarterbacks in one year.
Bo Nix,

Speaker 1 Michael Pennix Jr., J.J. McCarthy, Bo Nicks.
Bo Nix is number three. Tier four, talented project, Drake May.

Speaker 4 He knows what he's doing.

Speaker 1 Drake May. He knows what he's doing.
Talented project.

Speaker 4 I think two years ago on this very podcast, we said, I can't wait until Bo Nix enters the draft and some team takes him in the first round.

Speaker 4 And then I think the other person, I forget who was on each side of this conversation. The other person said, that's never going to happen.
Have you watched him play?

Speaker 1 Now, Chris Sims has been very wrong, too. He just,

Speaker 1 I do know that he actually watches the film and he's making his own decisions, so I at least respect him throwing out there because I do think he had Zach Wilson number one

Speaker 1 with the draft with Trevor Lawrence, which that whole draft stinks.

Speaker 4 So we've got Drake as an interesting project, and it sounds like how many franchise quarterbacks do we have? Because I'm going to... Six.
Six franchise quarterbacks. Six.

Speaker 4 That would be the best quarterback draft in the history of the NFL.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Listen, if there's six franchise quarterbacks,

Speaker 4 I'm going to miss on the seventh.

Speaker 4 That's what it's going to be.

Speaker 1 Chris Sims did.

Speaker 1 I'm looking back right now at his previous ones. 2017, he did have Patrick Mahomes as his most talented, most special QB talent.
So he's been right at least once. Okay.

Speaker 1 You know what?

Speaker 4 It's in the hands of the Lord.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's how you got to feel it. It's just like,

Speaker 1 it is what it is. It is what it is.
What will happen will happen. All right, I'm looking 2018 rankings of quarterbacks.
Number one, Lamar Jackson. Number two, Josh Allen.
Number three, Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 1 Number four, Sam Darrell, number five, Josh Rosen. He kind of nailed that.
Yeah, nailed that.

Speaker 4 Well, Josh Rosen, number five.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, you had to put someone number five.

Speaker 4 I guess so, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but he kind of, I mean, I would put Josh Allen number one, but he like to have, because Sam Darnold went first out of all of them. Yeah.
So he kind of nailed it. No, Baker.

Speaker 4 Baker, Baker went one, one.

Speaker 1 Then Sam Darnold, then Josh Allen, then Josh Rose, and then Lamar. So he kind of nailed that.
So Chris Sims, maybe, let's see, 2019. This is actually a sad thing to go through record with QB.

Speaker 1 2019, he had Kyler Murray one, Drew Locke, two, Dwayne Haskins, three, Ryan Finley, four, four, Jared Stiddam, five, Daniel Jones, six, so he kind of nailed that one. 2020, what? Daniel Jones.

Speaker 4 I put Daniel Jones above Finley.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but Kyler Murray number one.

Speaker 1 Six, or 2020, he had Joe Burrow one, Justin Herbert, two, Jordan Love, three, two of four.

Speaker 1 That might age well. That might age.

Speaker 4 Fuck. Okay, so that might age well.

Speaker 1 Fuck.

Speaker 4 He's got, in terms of franchise quarterbacks, Bo Nicks, J.J.

Speaker 1 McCarthy, and Michael Pennix.

Speaker 4 And Michael Pennix.

Speaker 1 And then he obviously had Zach Wilson number one in the 2021 draft, so that did not go well. But

Speaker 1 he's been more right than wrong.

Speaker 4 It's a lot to think about.

Speaker 1 He's been more right than wrong. That kind of scares me, but he's been more right than wrong.

Speaker 1 Except it doesn't scare me because I have the number one pick.

Speaker 6 Is there a chance this is.

Speaker 1 You've got to take Jaden Daniels.

Speaker 4 So that's the thing is, like, I've never been more sure of the fact that whichever quarterback that we don't take is going to be really good.

Speaker 8 Right.

Speaker 4 And then that, and then Hank gets the one that we don't take.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 4 Like, we're numbered, I would rather be picking third. I would.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because then you're like, well, we had to do it. We had to do it.

Speaker 4 Our decision was made for us with the Texans. Because I like Drake, and I like Jaden.

Speaker 1 You're in the worst spot.

Speaker 4 I am in the worst spot.

Speaker 1 One and three is great.

Speaker 4 Would you like to trade up to number two? I'll trade back to number three, and then I'll throw in like a long snapper.

Speaker 1 Because even if Caleb Williams doesn't pan out, which he probably won't because he's going to go to the Bears, but even if he doesn't, it was the consensus, like, if you were number one pick, if you were number one pick, if you were number one, you all would have taken Caleb Williams.

Speaker 1 You You had to do it. So I'm clear.
Yeah, I'm clear with that.

Speaker 6 Well, that happened

Speaker 1 before. What? With whom?

Speaker 4 With Mitch.

Speaker 1 Well, he was the number two pick, and he also just got a new contract. I don't know if you saw that.

Speaker 6 Yeah, though, I know I'm just.

Speaker 4 The Philly's cut all their good players to pick up Mitch.

Speaker 6 Being like, oh, it's consensus.

Speaker 6 Number one. In five years, if it doesn't pan out, you'll be like, fuck.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, if you're not. No, but everyone would have taken Caleb Williams.

Speaker 4 Yeah, of course you'll say, fuck, it didn't work out, but

Speaker 1 it was fully consensus.

Speaker 1 But I would say that Caleb Williams is the right pick to make it number one right now right if you guys had number one like if the chiefs had had number two in that 2017 draft they would have probably taken patrick mahomes i don't know if there's another team that if they had number one would take anyone but caleb williams right and then two you have to decide and then three you get whoever's left so yeah hank and i are in a good spot i need to know who's controlling the monitor computer for why do we take right now because it keeps searching on on twitter for sydney sweeney and then scrolling through all the images who's doing that memes is that you It's not.

Speaker 7 I'm not going to say who it is, but it's not me.

Speaker 4 Somebody's just looking up Sidney Sweeney right now.

Speaker 1 I was looking at what was trending. She was trending.
Max, you're just looking. No, no.

Speaker 4 You typed in Sidney Sweeney.

Speaker 1 Wrong. Look.
It's trending. It was the first thing it was trending.
I thought maybe something.

Speaker 4 Max, I would think that Sidney Sweeney would be one of your favorites.

Speaker 1 No, I mean, I was just seeing what was going on.

Speaker 1 I've looked up Mitch before. I showed Mitch, and then I thought, oh, maybe Sidney Sweeney's he's got something.

Speaker 4 Max, you absolute freak. Did you forget that we could see that?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 I guess. Add to the list, Hank.
Add it to the list.

Speaker 1 By the way, I have a weird thing going on that memes you might be interested in. I don't know how this happened.
I don't know if I've ever met him in my life, but Greg Zerline just texts me randomly.

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah. One of the weirdest ones.
He sends me memes and stuff.

Speaker 1 He sent me a text. Good luck with the free throws today.
GZ.

Speaker 1 I like that. Have a a great Saturday, big cat.
Hope you enjoy this meme. And it's just a meme.
It's like a blurred meme. I don't even understand the meme.
Yeah, I don't know either. One of the weirder

Speaker 1 Zerline.

Speaker 4 I like you, dude. We had him on the show, I think, like 2017.

Speaker 1 Oh, we did. Whenever we did punt week.
That's right. It was him, Marquette King, McAfee.

Speaker 6 But he's a placeback.

Speaker 1 We had Kicker Week. I don't know that we had him on.
I don't think we did have him on. I think he just has my number, and I'm friends with Greg Zerline.
He just texts me.

Speaker 1 Hope you're having a great day, man. GZ.
I like that. Same to you, Greg.

Speaker 1 I've never met him.

Speaker 1 I kind of want to call him. I should be like, how'd you get my number, dude? But yeah, he's Greg Zerline.
How about that?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so you're just looking at, you're looking at Sidney Sweeney right now, Max, while we're just doing the show. She was trending.

Speaker 7 I thought maybe that we could get some, maybe something happened that we could talk about.

Speaker 1 What? Some info.

Speaker 4 So why were you only looking at the images result?

Speaker 7 That's not true.

Speaker 7 Just if you click on her thing, it's all images.

Speaker 1 So why is she trending?

Speaker 4 No, you were on the media tab. No, I wasn't.
Yes, you were. This is a different tab than it was before, Max.

Speaker 1 This is a lie.

Speaker 1 So why is she trending, Max? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Max, how much did you look at that Steph Curry picture last night?

Speaker 1 Not for me.

Speaker 4 Or boobs back.

Speaker 1 Boobs. I told you.
Sidney Sweeney has done it.

Speaker 4 I think boobs are back, guys. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That picture, all time, for people who didn't see, there's a picture of Steph Curry after he hit a big three.

Speaker 1 And in the background, there's a woman who has large breasts, very attractive, and then a guy sitting in front row with his two kids, just completely turned around, staring at her rack.

Speaker 1 And that guy had probably the worst walk into his house where he was like, that was great. I took the boys to a game, dad of the year.

Speaker 1 And then his wife. No,

Speaker 1 the official NBA account cropped it out. Oh, I love that.
Yeah, they cropped it out.

Speaker 1 She's right behind it.

Speaker 4 You know what? That's disgusting on the part of the NBA.

Speaker 1 There it is. That's the picture.

Speaker 4 To me, that's actually body shaming that woman. Yeah.
Who went to the game simply to celebrate to cheer on her family? Look at this guy.

Speaker 4 And the NBA is like, your body is so inappropriate that we won't include it in a picture of the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's so perfect that that guy just like is sitting with his two young sons and just bam.

Speaker 1 Whoops. How was the game, honey? Oh, it was great.
Did Steph Curry hit any big shots? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Of course.

Speaker 4 What did you think of a celebration?

Speaker 1 Explain this picture?

Speaker 1 I think there was a fight going on. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I was telling her to sit down because she was disrupting the crowd.

Speaker 1 Maybe we do Mount Rushmore top moments

Speaker 1 when you're in the stands,

Speaker 1 that being one of them, when there's just that happening behind you, but there's nothing better than being in the stands and there's a fight breakout and everyone stands up and like

Speaker 1 that whole section takes their eyes off. You're like, ooh, what's going on?

Speaker 4 Remember when the Caps won the Stanley Cup and I think Ovie was getting the cup and that woman in Venezuela just took her tits out and pushed them up against the glass? Yep.

Speaker 1 That rocked. Yep.

Speaker 1 That happened in a World Series game, too. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Marlin's man, I think he was right there.

Speaker 4 He was.

Speaker 1 We have some inside sources, and when I say inside sources, that was Jake Paul's girlfriend. Yeah, Keith Andle saw.
I don't even know if I told you this.

Speaker 6 It's unreal.

Speaker 1 Keith Andle ran into Marlin's man at the

Speaker 1 track

Speaker 1 on Saturday. Yeah, okay.
All right. So I picked up.
He did the usual.

Speaker 1 So Keith Andle FaceTimed me. Marlin's man was sitting next to him.
He did the usual. He was like, Hey, Hank, where's Rita? Hey, hey, where's PFT's mom?

Speaker 1 I was like, all right, what are we doing, Marlins?

Speaker 1 They're real. Yeah, they're real.
And then I hung up and Keith Andle texts me after. He goes, I ran into Marlin's man and I was like, I know the guys from Pardon My Take.

Speaker 1 And Marlin's man said, if you know them, what are Saturdays for?

Speaker 1 The passcode. The passcode is boys.

Speaker 1 You'll never get it.

Speaker 1 So perfectly, Marlin's man.

Speaker 4 Yeah, what a gangster.

Speaker 1 Only other thing I had from the sports world is Ben Simmons is out for the year. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 I don't even know.

Speaker 1 He's at the point now where it's not even news anymore.

Speaker 4 We're doing the Ben Simmons and Michael Thomas are not playing their sports. Yeah.
That's leading the show today. Yeah, no shit.
But yeah, what has Ben Simmons been doing?

Speaker 1 It was news to me that he was in for the year. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And now he's out.

Speaker 4 Well, that's too bad. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Carl Anthony Towns.

Speaker 4 The meniscus. Yeah,

Speaker 1 the Wolves.

Speaker 4 That's tough for the Wolves. Very tough for the Wolves.

Speaker 1 Poor Wolves. Out indefinitely.

Speaker 4 But the Warriors might be back.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, they've been playing good ball.
Other than the drubbing. Yeah.
Well, Hank, you.

Speaker 4 Steph said that.

Speaker 6 I know the term gets overused a lot, and I coined it. And sometimes we say it tongue-in-cheek, jokingly.

Speaker 6 That was the definition of a startup championship DVD loss.

Speaker 1 Against the Cavs.

Speaker 6 Against the Cavs. Late in the season, they got complacent.
They blew a huge fourth-quarter lead. It doesn't affect them in the the standings.
They're still number one. They still have a good lead.

Speaker 6 Like, as long as they play out the rest of the season, good. But that was a wake-up, a good wake-up call game.

Speaker 4 I would actually, I would make the argument that it's the very definition of a start of the championship TV loss for the Warriors to

Speaker 1 get hit by a bust by the Celtics. Yeah, no, that's also

Speaker 1 true.

Speaker 1 A lot more.

Speaker 6 No, but the Celtics blew a lead. It's like number one team on the road.

Speaker 6 They're up like 17 with nine minutes left, and they lost.

Speaker 6 And there's no excuse for it, but ultimately it's just

Speaker 6 like they're still going to be the ones.

Speaker 1 So, what happened? What's more powerful if it's Warriors-Celtics in the finals? Which one?

Speaker 6 I think it might be Warriors getting the Celtics, the Celtics.

Speaker 1 If the Warriors go on a run here,

Speaker 6 I would love to play the Warriors in the finals.

Speaker 1 Love to.

Speaker 1 Because the last time he played him, he killed him.

Speaker 6 And we're just a way better team. Like, we've upgraded since that team.
Steph is old. Draymond's old.
They don't have Jordan Poole.

Speaker 6 Jordan Poole killed us in that series.

Speaker 1 And then he got punched, and then everything changed.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yeah, but they got that big man.
What's his name?

Speaker 4 Who? Warriors' new big man. The guy that they're playing more.

Speaker 1 Are you talking about?

Speaker 1 No, wait. Are you talking about their usual big man? No.

Speaker 1 Are you talking about Kaminga?

Speaker 4 Kaminga's playing more. Yeah, the Cumb Bucket.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I like it.
Yeah, no, that's his nickname. Yeah, the Cumb Bucket.
Yeah. Kaminga the Cumb Bucket.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Should we

Speaker 1 get to the Hanks Patriot?

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Speaker 1 Hank,

Speaker 1 the Patriots Dynasty

Speaker 1 documentary is at the stage now where they're having to release statements on what did you see this? Oh.

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 1 director had to release a statement because at the end credits of every episode, it's like all rights crafts, craft LLC or something like that.

Speaker 1 And everyone's like, well, clearly the crafts created this as a Bill Belichick takedown piece.

Speaker 1 And then they had to release a statement being like, no, the Patriots gave us a bunch of footage and we had to create an LLC so that Apple wouldn't own the footage, the Kraft LLC would own the footage.

Speaker 1 Seems like a lot of talking about the fact that the public opinion is like this is a crazy, crazy documentary, how they've done it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so they're saying, wait a second, it actually isn't the crafts documentary. It just is owned by the crafts.

Speaker 1 Correct. Okay, all right.
Yep. Fair enough.
Yep. Simple.

Speaker 4 I'm glad they said that. Simple confusion.
I'm glad they said that because until that statement came out, I was like,

Speaker 4 I think that the crafts might own this. Right.

Speaker 1 So we have two new episodes coming out.

Speaker 6 Two new episodes coming out. Can't say I'm looking forward to them.
Although, selfishly, hopefully,

Speaker 6 I'm in one.

Speaker 1 What would you be in? Oh, Deflakate?

Speaker 1 Do you? Wait.

Speaker 1 What would you say the percentages are that you're in deflate?

Speaker 6 I think the shot of us getting taken out.

Speaker 1 Getting arrested? I think good. Give me the percentage.

Speaker 1 I mean, I. It would be so fucking awesome if you were in.
They asked the.

Speaker 6 I will say this, too. I do.

Speaker 1 Oh, you have inside knowledge.

Speaker 6 Months and months and months ago, but who knows what made the final cut? Producers hit me and gaz up and were like, oh, you're in.

Speaker 1 We're

Speaker 6 looking for footage. Hank, why did you say that? You're in this documentary because I don't know what they use or what they don't use.
When you're making these, you just get everything you can get.

Speaker 6 And then

Speaker 4 if it's you and Gaz, they definitely have you guys either marching outside,

Speaker 4 sitting down in the lobby or getting taken out.

Speaker 6 I'm guessing it will just be like a quick shot of us walking out.

Speaker 1 Hey, you're in this thing. I hope.
Are you getting paid? No.

Speaker 4 Does Robert Kraft own you?

Speaker 1 They were like, Yeah. What do we have to do? Clear the rights.

Speaker 6 Me and Gaz were like, just use whatever you want.

Speaker 1 Oh, wait, do you want to be in this now that it's become a takedown of Bill Belcher? Yeah, just Leo.

Speaker 6 Leo meme.

Speaker 4 Yeah, the Leo meme's going to hit hard. Yeah, that'd be.

Speaker 6 But I don't want to get overexcited.

Speaker 1 It could very well get cut.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, I understand how it works. But

Speaker 6 I feel like they will use a B-roll shot of us walking out of stage.

Speaker 4 What if it's just Tom Brady getting suspended had Patriots fans like, and then it's a picture of your workout picture?

Speaker 4 That would suck.

Speaker 6 But for today, do you want me to do honorable mention or my player first?

Speaker 4 You traditionally do your player first.

Speaker 6 So Mike Mike Rabel.

Speaker 4 Remember, if it's not Mike Rabel, he might beat your ass.

Speaker 6 Well, it is.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 6 Inside hindsight, I wish I put him higher.

Speaker 1 Remember, you can't cheat on this. I didn't.
Tony Bellinger has the match. No, no, I didn't cheat on it.

Speaker 6 I'm saying in hindsight, if I knew what I knew, I would put him probably in the three-spot.

Speaker 6 Great linebacker for a long time. Great pass catcher.
Legendary touchdowns.

Speaker 6 They didn't even show that in really the

Speaker 6 documentary, which is crazy.

Speaker 4 So what number did you have?

Speaker 6 He is number nine. Number nine.

Speaker 1 Top 10 of all. Put me on this text.
I want to see.

Speaker 4 Well, I was thinking I would just.

Speaker 1 Put me on the text. I was just thinking I would call him.
Yeah, call him.

Speaker 1 No, don't put Hank on the text.

Speaker 4 No, we're going to call Mike Frabel and get his immediate feedback.

Speaker 6 Congrats, they congratulate.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's.

Speaker 1 Top 10 is good.

Speaker 6 He also beat, you know, beat Tom Brady in his last. It's kind of like the Chris Long thing.

Speaker 6 There is some

Speaker 6 bad

Speaker 1 scene.

Speaker 6 Yeah, put us all on a text. Very tough.

Speaker 1 No, don't put it.

Speaker 4 Hank, you're not going on the text.

Speaker 4 So he's your number nine. He was featured pretty heavily in the first couple episodes, but I would have liked to get interviews of Vrabel.
I wanted to see Vrabel talking to America.

Speaker 6 I want to hear more.

Speaker 6 I want to hear from Brady about what Vrabel used to say to him because they kind of just, you know, they glossed over it a little bit, but they were like, we were all pretty mean to Tommy, and Mike Vrabel was by far the most ruthless.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 He was just like, yeah.

Speaker 6 But great guy, recurring guest of the show.

Speaker 1 Number nine Patriot. All right.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Saved your ass, maybe.

Speaker 4 And your honorable mention.

Speaker 6 My honorable mention is LeGarrette Blunt, the bowling ball.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he was fun to watch.

Speaker 6 Super fun to watch.

Speaker 1 Yeah, PFT just says

Speaker 1 Hank,

Speaker 1 has you number nine on the Patriots all time? Do you have a comment? So we'll wait for comment. We'll wait for comment.
And then write

Speaker 1 quotation marks.

Speaker 1 You can do that on your own. I'll just actually

Speaker 1 kind of low, not gonna lie. I'm gonna add kind of low, not gonna lie.

Speaker 4 I mean, that is disrespectful. You said you wish you had put him number three.

Speaker 8 Well, yeah, now that I know he's locked in.

Speaker 1 Why did he go

Speaker 1 off number three?

Speaker 6 I did this with recurring guests. I don't think I'm stupid, and I don't

Speaker 1 think you're stupid.

Speaker 6 No, I don't think, period.

Speaker 1 I'm stupid.

Speaker 6 I forget that this is a show that's listened to by a lot of people, including the people that we talk about. So when I make these lists, I'm just making the list.
I'm not thinking about

Speaker 6 people coming back and being like, obviously, I should have put Julian Edelman in Mount Rushmore guests. Like, I love Julian Edelman.
He's a hero. I just wasn't thinking like that.

Speaker 6 He is up there, but realizing that he was going to be like, what the fuck, you hurt me, versus he could have been like, you're my boy. You put me top four.
We're boys now. Like, that was dumb.

Speaker 6 Vrabel, same thing. Teddy Brewster's not going to hear it.
Teddy Brewster doesn't give a fuck.

Speaker 6 I should have put Vrabel three and like we would be boys, but now he's going to be like, Hank's a fucking loser. I'm going to give him a nugget the next time I see him.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's going to nugget you your finger on it. And it'll probably hurt a lot.

Speaker 4 Probably give you a concussion with it.

Speaker 6 So that I need to get better at pandering and like being, you know, thinking

Speaker 6 about clout and not about just my honesty.

Speaker 1 Not about clout.

Speaker 1 I think it is the beauty of this show, though, is that we all kind of do the same thing. We're like, we just tape a show and then send it out.
And we're like,

Speaker 1 no one's going to hear this. Wait, shit.
A lot of people heard this.

Speaker 4 Yeah, the real world exists. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What were you going to say, Max?

Speaker 6 Nah, I was just going to. Max is going to be like, nah, everyone's going to be talking about me looking at Cindy Sweeney's tits on the mill of the show.

Speaker 7 No, I was just going to say, I was just going to bust your balls.

Speaker 7 It was stupid. I was going to say that I said that Julian Edelman should have been in the Mount Rushmore, but you said no.

Speaker 1 Breaking Moose. Breaking Moose.
Breaking Moose.

Speaker 1 Mike Frabel has responded and he said,

Speaker 1 Fuck Hank, I'm going to nugget you in the back. What the fuck did I see? No way.
No, he said, that's a good spot. Let's go.
Here we go. All right.

Speaker 4 He said it took seven final ballots to get into the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 Okay. So, yeah.

Speaker 1 It's a good spot.

Speaker 1 Trust for Abes. Yeah.
Oh, we didn't even say

Speaker 1 probably the biggest news of this podcast this week is that

Speaker 1 we're in contact with Big Dom. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Max is like

Speaker 1 the bigger news. Yeah.
Well, I'm saving that for my Fire Fest. We're in contact with Big Dom.

Speaker 7 Now, what's the bigger news?

Speaker 1 He doesn't know.

Speaker 1 He does know. Whatever.
Just shut up, Max. You're not supposed to wait.

Speaker 1 Max was so excited, he asked me if I could screenshot the text I got from Big Dom so he could send it to his family.

Speaker 1 Yes, I didn't.

Speaker 7 That actually is exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to send it to my family.

Speaker 1 We were talking about him on the show. We were talking about

Speaker 4 the different eulogies that you're going to get when you die. I think Max, if he died, would like to have just a screenshot of that text displayed over his casket.

Speaker 1 He did say Max's name. The exact text was, this is Dom with the Eagles.
I just wanted to say I appreciate and respect the shit out of you, PFT and Max. I'm a big fan of your show.

Speaker 1 If you're ever in Philly or need anything you know, I got you my Paisons

Speaker 1 with the Italian flag emoji. He's the best.
He's the best.

Speaker 7 And later that night, my older brother gave birth to his second kid, named him Dom.

Speaker 4 Your brother gave birth to his second kid?

Speaker 1 My brother's wife gave birth to a second kid, named him Dom, Big Dom.

Speaker 4 Did he name him after Dom?

Speaker 7 I'm going to say it. I'm going to say that

Speaker 7 for his entire life that he's named after Dom.

Speaker 1 Big Dom, if you're listening to this right now,

Speaker 1 that's your godson. 100%.
That's your godson.

Speaker 4 I would go so far as to say that the name Dom might be on the Mount Rushmore of boy names that you don't want to get into a fight with. Yeah.
Like this is my buddy Dominic. He's coming over.

Speaker 4 Dominic's going to stab you. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Dominic Delente is a strong name.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. That's a good one.

Speaker 1 It's a good name.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Double D is like,

Speaker 1 you have to use your hands to say that name.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dominic Delente.

Speaker 4 Dom Delente.

Speaker 1 Dominic Delente. I can't wait for like 20 years from now when we have Dominic Delente sitting in the intern spot.
We're just trolling him.

Speaker 4 Dom Delente is going to spend 12 years in prison for tax evasion.

Speaker 1 We're just like, Dominic, question for you. Is it a must-win or can't lose?

Speaker 1 Fucking do this.

Speaker 1 Fucking do this for me.

Speaker 1 All right. Let's get to our interview.
It is a must-listen. I'm going to say right now, Papev is the man.
We came in on a Saturday. We had him on for an hour and 15, talked about everything.

Speaker 1 Very, very, very good interview. So let's get to Papev.
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Speaker 1 Okay, here he is. Pat Bev.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest.

Speaker 1 Man, thank you. Long time overdue.
It is Pat Bev, Patrick Beverly.

Speaker 1 How many years in the NBA now? 10? No, 11? 12. 12.
12 years in the NBA.

Speaker 1 Go check out his podcast on Barstool Sports. Pat Bev pod with Ron.

Speaker 1 Ron. Roan.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you stole Roan from us. We should just get that out of the way right away.
You go, let's go. You stole Roan from us.
So I was told that

Speaker 1 by a very, very, very, very, very intelligent woman. Her name was Erica.

Speaker 1 She goes,

Speaker 1 when we picked you all, we knew something good was there. So I'm guessing you're a part of that group also who did the picking.

Speaker 1 I did say Roan would be perfect for it, but I didn't know he, that was also signing my death sentence to never see Roan again.

Speaker 1 it's fine roan is incredible now he's incredible perfect co-host he's incredible he's one of the best yeah he is he's he's one of our most talented people elites and he can the thing about ron is you could put him in any any situation yeah he will be good yes he was just with the uh how housewives of uh salt lake city in milwaukee okay back room chilling eating shrimp hors d'oeuvres that's ron and i actually have talked about doing a doing a bravo podcast yeah he's locked he and i both like the housewives all right so you're here shout out the wrong.

Speaker 1 Like I said, long time overdue. We got a lot to talk about.
I don't even know where we want to start. Well, actually, you know what? I know where we want to start.

Speaker 1 Who's the number one beef right now for Pat Beth? Beef? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Your coaches aren't shaking your hands. Your former coaches aren't shaking your hands after games.
Steve Clifford from the Charlotte Hornets did. Okay.

Speaker 1 Finch didn't. Billy Donovan told me he loved me.
Okay. He did.
Okay, so we're back on the right track. But what happened with the other two? I don't know.
That was weird.

Speaker 1 Nick Nurse and Finch didn't.

Speaker 1 They didn't shake your hands. No.
Did you go up to them?

Speaker 4 Did you try to initiate a handshake?

Speaker 1 I did. I took Finchie, but I walked down to the nurse, he was already gone.
And I've been on the side where

Speaker 1 I watched, because you know, I want to be a future coach, so I like to watch the mannerism of coaches and how they do before games and how do they greet the other coaches after games.

Speaker 1 And I like to try to, you know, okay, cool, I'll use that. I'm not going to do that.
And, you know, Finchie is one of those guys who,

Speaker 1 you know, stay and this person and, you know, this to this coach. Yeah, a little wave.
Yeah, cool.

Speaker 1 And, you know, then I, I'm instantly, because I wanted to say what's up to him because I ain't talked to him since trade. So it wasn't like a, we just beat y'all, fuck you, like, whatever.

Speaker 1 I played all for that game anyway. So it wasn't, I was trying to exploit anything.
But, yeah, I look over, like, damn, what the fuck?

Speaker 1 Fuck he go? Uh-huh. Like, just disappeared on me.
Like, but, hey.

Speaker 4 Is that because, like, you're, you're an opponent today?

Speaker 1 Probably so.

Speaker 1 I'm going to take it that way.

Speaker 1 I hope it's like that.

Speaker 1 I imagine if it's not.

Speaker 4 I don't know you that well, but from what I do know about you, I would imagine that you as a head coach would kind of be the same way, where it's like, fuck them, we're playing in you guys today.

Speaker 4 Afterwards, we can be nice.

Speaker 1 Nah. You don't think so? No, not me.
As a head coach, I'm on some shit. Like, you got to understand, like, I'm there the first Sixers practice ever with 3G League guys.
And, you know,

Speaker 1 me and Tyrese Maxey, you know, on the first year of the coaches be it, that's, you know, you remember shit like that. You know, his first preseason game, we played Boston.
He started me.

Speaker 1 I remember shit like that as a player. So obviously as a coach,

Speaker 1 I would hope that he remembers shit like that. So like when you build those type of relationships, when I got kicked out of school, he was the first coach that I met when he was Iowa Energy.

Speaker 1 I played for him when I was in the G League. So the relationship isn't like, oh, we just met this season.
It's deeper than what it's ever been. So for him to walk off, I felt some type of way.

Speaker 4 What about Daryl Morris? So beef there?

Speaker 1 I just, I know Daryl. You understand what I'm saying? He literally came and got me from overseas.

Speaker 1 So like I've been on the Rockets teams where I'm like, yeah, Daryl, get me the fuck up out of here, man. Find me somewhere else to play.
You know what I'm saying? Like, so it's business.

Speaker 1 I understand how it is. You get a 35-year-old, you pay him the minimum, right? You get Pat Bev for the fucking minimum, like steal, literally, steal.
You get all the vibes. You get all the vibes.

Speaker 1 He changes my locker room. He literally helps the organization make millions and millions and millions and millions more dollars.
We're talking about Pat Bev right now.

Speaker 1 Right, we're talking about Pat Bev, right? Belt ass, right?

Speaker 1 Belt ass comes in locker room, gets locker room in order, plays well, then you trade him, you get a younger campaign, and you get a 14-year-old, a second-round pick. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Calling a 14-year-old program. I was like, wait, did they actually get a 14 year old? No, no, no.

Speaker 1 15 years old. Whoever it is.

Speaker 4 Yeah, whoever it is.

Speaker 1 He's literally 15 years old. He just hit puberty.

Speaker 4 He's probably listening to this podcast right now. He doesn't even know.
Like, you just, congratulations, you got traded to the sixth.

Speaker 1 Right, right. You don't even know, right? Exactly.
So, yeah. So you get that from a guy you paid minimum 35.
You got to think that's a hell of a business move. Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 So I understand it.

Speaker 4 I think Ron took it harder than you took it.

Speaker 1 Oh, Oh,

Speaker 1 everyone in Philly. Ron's like, it's

Speaker 1 devastating. I know.
Devastated. We were there the moment it happened and he couldn't, he couldn't be.

Speaker 1 It's a Super Bowl tradition now because last year you got traded to, I think, the jazz for a minute. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He was like, hot minute. He was like, oh, shit, I got to go to Utah.
Hot minute. So I go to, I get traded to jazz.
Sick story. I don't think I ever told this.
I get traded to the jazz. And

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 They just literally traded everybody. Diamond Mitchell's gone and Rudy Gobert's gone.
And I'm like, okay,

Speaker 1 are you guys trying to be competitive? You know, but I really don't know anyone because I literally just got traded there. And I'm like, I don't know what's going on.
I show up every day, 5.30.

Speaker 1 Six days in a row. I show up every fucking day, 5.30.
I'm the first motherfucker there. By the time I'm done, people, GMs are just walking in.
Are we trying to win? Just let me know.

Speaker 1 Let me know if we're trying to win. I got motherfuckers out there bed at six o'clock in the morning.
Yeah, I'm an ultimate. I'm talking about professional.
I see GM. He walking there with his son.

Speaker 1 I go,

Speaker 1 he man, I got to get out of here, Pat. I got to take my son to school.
I'm, you know what? I'm glad you said that because I'm just trying to see where I'm going to take my son to school this season.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And I'm going to be in Utah or I'm going to be, I need to know.

Speaker 1 Same vibes. You know what I'm saying? So, yeah, that was a

Speaker 1 tough one. Two days later, I was out that bitch.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You mentioned something I want to talk about because you have such a unique career. Yeah.
You know, you were at Arkansas, you left school. Someone wrote a paper for you.

Speaker 1 Someone, the tutor, the tutor

Speaker 1 turned in a paper that was hers and put my name on it. And did you get an A?

Speaker 1 I don't even think I got a grade. Okay.
They were like, this isn't Pat Pepsi. Yeah, and they tried to

Speaker 1 put the gun case on me, right? And I'm like, nah,

Speaker 1 that ain't how it happened. Nor am I about to sit here and tell neither.
Right. Right.
Hold the fort down. I shut up.
You know,

Speaker 1 lady, you be quiet. She go said,

Speaker 1 I took her laptop. I got a USB.
I imported it. I took the paper off that, put it on the USB, put it on my laptop.
I stopped the mid-sentence. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Yeah, right. I'm from Chicago.

Speaker 1 I don't know how to do it. Don't get her in trouble.
I don't know how to do all this.

Speaker 1 That's cool, though, but I don't know how to do all this. It's like walking him through a mission.
Right. Like,

Speaker 1 I don't know how to do all that, but I appreciate it. Later on, she said that she did it.
By that time, it was too late. She should have just held the fort down.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so you should have been in Arkansas. We'll pick.
But it's crazy because you left school and then you went and played in Ukraine and in Russia. Second division, Ukraine.

Speaker 1 How old were you when you were at Ukraine?

Speaker 1 1920. That's nuts.
What was that like? Just like being like,

Speaker 1 so I leave practice every day. You know, it was no per diem for food or anything.
So they had like

Speaker 1 a

Speaker 1 team restaurant that it might have just been like an area restaurant that they called the team restaurant. And it was a lady in the back, like a movie.
Big ass.

Speaker 1 Big ass pot of

Speaker 1 Red Borsch.

Speaker 1 Big stick. I don't know what's in that motherfucker.
Beats. Brit, I would hope so, but I don't know what's in that.

Speaker 1 I'm in the Nepritois, Ukraine. Yeah.
Been rabbit in that motherfucker. You know what I'm saying? Anything.
Every day, right? Every day. The owners come in.
They come in with these tennis brackets.

Speaker 1 I go, oh, man, they athletic guys. They know, Pat, them ain't tennis brackets.
Oh, okay, cool. Okay, cool.
AK-47. Say less, right? I'm in 2nd Division Ukraine.
21-hour train rides.

Speaker 1 I'm talking about the wet trains. I'm talking about it's so hot that the glass vacuum is fogging, and I'm up.
I got a bump guy up here and another bump high in there. Like, I'm doing 23-and-1.

Speaker 1 That's my Ukraine life. I'm thugging it out.
I leave a big game, hit gang winner, take shower with a 70-year-old who just got done playing racquetball.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? Like, so, like, yeah, that was Ukraine. That's wild.
So, and I assume the answer is no, but was there ever a moment where you were like, fuck, this is not going to work out?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that doesn't seem like a Pap thing. So, when you're playing in Ukraine and Russia, and then you get the call from Daryl Moray being like, hey, we're going to bring you, you know, to the Rockets.

Speaker 1 Like, what was going through your head? So I go Ukraine. I go

Speaker 1 Ukraine, then I go Greece. I play on one of the best teams in Greece.
Don't play at all. Like, don't play at all.
Championship game.

Speaker 1 I'm the youngest American to ever start in the Euro League championship. Championship game, he starts me.
Hmm. Right.
Sick story. Coach spoke very little, very little English.

Speaker 1 Mind you, at the same time, Yannis and the Nassus,

Speaker 1 they're younger, but they're on like the smaller team. So they're actually looking up, like, man, who is this black guy that's on, you know, on Greece? Yeah.
You know?

Speaker 1 Layup line is my fucking game. I don't play at all.
So the layup line is my game. I'm doing all crazy dunks, whatever.
Coach grabbed me. Hey,

Speaker 1 lock in, layups. I mean, I go off, lose my shit.
First time I ever lost my shit on a coach. Fucking touch me, man.
What the fuck? I'm in here away from my fucking family, man. This, this, this, this.

Speaker 1 I'm not fucking playing. He grabbed me.
Mind you, I got a team full of greats. I got Josh Shielders, Lindis Clays, I got Von Wafer, Papalukas, European Greats.
He grabbed me.

Speaker 1 One day you're going to be better than everybody. English gets great like this.

Speaker 1 Right?

Speaker 1 I knew it since then. So I go Ukraine, Greece, get drafted by the heat, get cut by the heat, Russia.

Speaker 1 We fly to this team called Vladivostok. That shit's nine hours.
It's near Japan. It's nine hours away from the current destination I'm in in St.
Petersburg, Russia, right?

Speaker 1 We get the call before I take off to play Volleyball Stoke. Do you want to play Cleveland? Do you want to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers or do you want to play for the Houston Rockets?

Speaker 1 Mom already moved to Houston, right?

Speaker 1 Jay Lennon's in Houston. Kyrie Irving's in Cleveland.

Speaker 1 I don't think I could take Kyrie Irving's spot and just hide a, you know, I can get Jaylen shit, though. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? Ah, fuck it. Jay Lenn.
Make decision on the way to Volleyball Stoke nine hours. Flop nine hours, back nine hours, to St.
Petersburg, pack my stuff.

Speaker 1 The Russians, what they did to me with that contract was literally bent me over. Really? Bent me over.
I had a no clause. I couldn't get into the,

Speaker 1 I can go anywhere, but I can't go to NBA. No, NBA clause.
So you had to pay them? Yeah, I had to pay them. Holy shit.

Speaker 4 So you bought yourself out. Bought myself out.

Speaker 1 Not only did I have to pay them, I had to pay like the GM of the team.

Speaker 1 to go talk to even have the conversation like yeah i talked to him i need 50 000 like damn All right, fuck it. It hit you off.
You know what I'm saying? Shook you down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 The Russian way. And I respect it.
Cause, you know, if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here right now either. So I understand it.

Speaker 1 They asked all their money back, right? They gave me, I don't know, almost $2 million. I was the highest paid, one of the highest paid Americans in Europe at the time.
Manager, I got MVPs.

Speaker 1 I done took a second division team to the top 10. This is what they do to me, but it's part of the business.
That's why I don't, what Daryl's doing, come in, I done dealt with the Russians, man.

Speaker 1 You understand what I'm saying? It's light work. It's light.
Light. So, yeah, they bent me over put me in a hole about three million dollars

Speaker 1 then i had to come back

Speaker 1 oh man okay cool oh man okay i'm in a hole about two million i'm cool now because the nba got the buyout i go to nba buyout my buyout's like one four

Speaker 1 NBA is the maximum they allowed to pay is 400 or like 350 at the time. So I got to come up with another meal.
So I come to the NBA. I come to the NBA like 2 million, 2.7 in a hole.
And the dough.

Speaker 1 Holy shit.

Speaker 4 So what would have happened if you had just left? If you had said, fuck this, I'm going to leave Russia.

Speaker 1 I know, but I mean, so it was a story one time. A guy took some money from Russia.
He used to play basketball. He left.
I'm going to fast forward this real story real fast.

Speaker 1 Now I'm going to say the names. He plays in Russia doing, I don't know if it's lockout or this lockout, the past lockout or lockout before, plays in Russia,

Speaker 1 gets the money, leaves, goes, gets,

Speaker 1 knock at the door, two Russian guys.

Speaker 1 That's a story I heard. Don't know if it's true to it.
Ever since then, I don't like to fuck with the Russians.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, but great grocery stores, though. Yeah, good lucky.

Speaker 1 Good prices on groceries. Elite.
Elite.

Speaker 1 And every woman wears heels, too. Wait, who is that guy?

Speaker 1 Maurice Evans. Okay.
Damn. Bald header.
Used to play for Atlanta Hawks.

Speaker 4 So I was reading some of your career achievements here. It said that you were a two-time Russian league all-symbolic first team.
What does that mean? What is all symbols?

Speaker 1 I'm thinking it's just all first team. I hope it's all first team.

Speaker 1 So all symbolic. But that's so.
Maybe it's the maybe it's the

Speaker 1 guys that's not rushing the

Speaker 1 other guys. Yeah.
But the whole story is incredible.

Speaker 1 I would imagine it has a lot to do with why you are so loved in the NBA and your teammates everywhere you go because you probably just don't take anything for granted because you've been through it all.

Speaker 1 Seen Jay Lin

Speaker 1 Jay Lin went to Houston, seen Jay Lin.

Speaker 1 Before I play a game, they sent me down to the G League. Hey, Nick Nurse, long time no see.
Right. Get called back up.
I literally pick up Jalen.

Speaker 1 When he walked on the practice court, I picked him up for defense every single day. That had to suck for him.
Every single day.

Speaker 1 He's coming out of the locker room and you're just in your stance. Right.
Because you got to think this is my life. I'm in a hole.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You understand what I'm saying? It ain't even like about basketball, man. I got to get the fuck out of this hole.
Mind you, I signed a deal with Darrell Moore.

Speaker 1 It gives me a three-year, $1.2 million deal. A three-year, $1.2 million deal.
That's the total. That's the total.
Not each year.

Speaker 1 yeah and each year is non-guaranteed which means oh man i at this time i'm young i tear meniscus oh not guaranteed

Speaker 1 i'm in the hole three million so when daryl trades me it was come on man yeah you know it's history there it's i already know what the fuck going on assigned me to a three-year 1.2

Speaker 1 right right is that non-guaranteed is that why you competed so hard at the skills challenge i'm like i need i need every dollar everything pay me yeah everything so yeah i i mean my mindset was very different going in it's it's also

Speaker 1 a testament to your love for basketball. I saw you said, I think on your podcast, that what, 50% of the NBA are guys that don't love basketball? I don't love it.

Speaker 1 Now, I assume that's all big guys, or a lot of it is big guys, because I always just assume any big guy, any seven-footer, is like, well, I have to play basketball because I'm seven feet, but this fucking sucks.

Speaker 1 So, that's physically. So, let's raise that number to 70.
Yeah. 70% of the big guys.
Because, is that right? Like, big guys, like, I mean, it just sucks being seven feet.

Speaker 1 And then you have to run around. It's like it's forced upon you.
Yeah, right. You're like, oh, I guess I got to play basketball.

Speaker 1 Or the guy who you see at a club that's like, hey, bro, what the fuck you doing here, bro? You're supposed to be hooping. Yeah, you can't.
You can't.

Speaker 1 If you're above six, like 10,

Speaker 1 didn't play basketball. I'm wrong.
Your life sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because everyone's like, where did you play ball? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You tore some shit? No, bro. I'm just tall.

Speaker 4 I just love selling insurance.

Speaker 1 So what's the difference? Like, when you... When you're saying like someone who loves basketball versus doesn't, but they're in the NBA, it's just, how can you tell that it's like not a love?

Speaker 1 But they're in the nba they're incredible at basketball like so i'll get on the bench and i'll say some shit like okay cool i told bees yesterday uh

Speaker 1 the bulls what they like to take away he the paint i

Speaker 1 obviously

Speaker 1 every team likes to take away the paint but what do the bulls like taking away he

Speaker 1 i don't know i corner threes right so why are you putting yourself in a corner right right be the guy who wants to get the shot you're literally in a three-point contest right everybody on the bench look like damn he right even the coaches behind me look like damn he right.

Speaker 1 People don't think that deep into the game. Right.
Right. I see something that's not working.

Speaker 1 I don't like this lineup, coach. Like, we need more rim protection.
We got to go taller with this lineup, especially in the second unit. And we got to fix that.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 Some coaches don't see it.

Speaker 1 Hey, Doc, what's the play we ran two games ago, man? That shit worked right here.

Speaker 1 I just got a different feel about it. But I'm the same kid who, you know, in those Houston days, I find out in the playoffs that I'm starting.
I pull a car over. I call mom.
We cry. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, like, I'm a starting point guard in the NBA. Right.
You know, you got to think, this is my first year ever coming off the bench. Right.
I've been a decade starter

Speaker 1 on every team I've been on. Yeah.
Come to the Bulls, hey, Billy Donovan. Yeah, I don't know how I'm going to play you.

Speaker 1 I mean, the best guy in the world. I love Billy.
I don't know how I'm going to play you. You know, I don't know what Jero would be after the first practice.
Yeah, I'm going to start you tomorrow.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 So for me, the appreciation of the basketball is much different than a lot of people.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I would say so. I mean, the story of from college to overseas, to getting cut, going back overseas, back to Houston.

Speaker 4 And then when you get that first contract, I would imagine that that was probably a pretty emotional moment for you.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 When you get some serious long-term financial stability.

Speaker 4 Were you expecting that? Like, was that something that you knew was in the works? And when it happened,

Speaker 4 was there like a moment where you're like, fuck, this is awesome?

Speaker 1 No, I really thought I took a pay cut. You know, I really thought they kind of got me on the steal.

Speaker 1 I'm in a position, again, I'm working with Darren Moore. I'm in a position where I really can't argue.
Right. You know, I don't really know the ins and outs of everything.

Speaker 1 I know they offered me $24 million,

Speaker 1 all guaranteed.

Speaker 1 I'll take it now. Yeah.
Sign right now. Expeditiously.
Yeah. Please.

Speaker 1 I have some Russians to owe. Straight up.
I got to pay these folks back. They owe my ass.
That's like the plan of training day. Like, that fucked up.

Speaker 1 You feel what I'm saying? Like, and then if you don't have pen, like, you have anything sharp so I can cut my finger and sign it in blood. Yeah, Yeah, I want it now.

Speaker 4 How did the first paycheck? Was that direct deposit?

Speaker 1 So I did some wild shit. My first check was, like,

Speaker 1 I wanted like half a million dollars up front. Uh-huh.
Advance, yeah. Cash.
In July. It was my birthday, July 12th.
So, yeah, July 1st hit. That motherfucker hit that.
I damn. Called my mom.

Speaker 1 You see that shit? Count just did a push-up, right?

Speaker 1 Like, yeah, hell yeah. So I got that.
I was able to

Speaker 1 take care of my mom, get her a nice crib. But, you know, in NBA, you know, if you're not financially literally, like, you know, have your mindset right, not run through that shit.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 A lot of guys, yeah. All sports.

Speaker 1 First paycheck, what? $6 million a year? Oh, going to hard. It's hard.

Speaker 1 So I had fun, but my Bitcoin, I signed the 40-ball, then turned around, signed the 13 million.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I've been doing well.

Speaker 1 Have you had coaches that are like, hey, Pat, just chill out when you're trying to tell them what you were just saying?

Speaker 1 Like, hey, we, our second team is too short, or, you know, we got to do this different. Me and Doc.

Speaker 1 Me and Doc in the beginning. Relax.
Me and Doc in the beginning. Really? Right.

Speaker 1 But then over the time, he's seen like my commitment to the game, my love for the game, me wanting to always be a student of the game, always asking questions.

Speaker 1 Now he gets me now. Yeah.
Now it's like, oh, yeah. An extra coach on the floor is like that.
Let Pat Pat do his thing.

Speaker 4 Or if it builds a certain level of trust with you, where it's like, if he's saying this stuff, he's probably right.

Speaker 1 So let him say it. so and like documents say like

Speaker 1 did you just shut the up i say some like how long you been waiting to get that off your chest right you know what i'm saying but now is he literally pat take the room right you know what i'm saying so like it's just you know he he at first when you're around me my approach and the way i talk it seems like who's this asshole yeah then once you see it consistently you see it every day and it's like damn like that's really impressive now how because you've been on so many teams and you you've been you know traded a bunch and around everywhere.

Speaker 1 You have been on a lot of teams, but what I'm going to say is a compliment: like, to be a teammate that everyone loves almost instantly, how do you do that?

Speaker 1 Like, because you walk into a locker room and it's a bunch of guys that have been together for a while and you're the new guy.

Speaker 1 But it seems like everywhere, I mean, I saw it last year with the Bulls. It's like instant.
Pap Bev is the culture.

Speaker 1 So, what you see on TV, right? And this is

Speaker 1 prior to me having podcasts, right?

Speaker 1 So, you have to take

Speaker 1 what you see on TV and form your opinion about Pat Biff, right? Because I have no other outlets while I'm giving people. I'm on Instagram, but I'm not on Instagram.
Like, I'm not doing my everyday.

Speaker 1 I'm posting some little cool shit, maybe a flight, a jet, you know, whatever bullshit, you know, people post.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 once you get me there, obviously you see, but now that I have my podcast, everyone sees a whole different perspective. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's like they look at me and say, man, I didn't know you can, what, be smart, talk,

Speaker 1 like, have a vocabulary get my point across without cursing or saying it n-word or being disrespectful like

Speaker 1 a good human yeah i open the door for everyone uh please and thank you everywhere which you didn't know i was a you know no i can say that personally like you know we've known each other now for a year since you come to barcelona you actually what is it two years now no you're year and a half yeah like You can tell right away when you're with a professional athlete,

Speaker 1 you can almost tell instantly, like, this guy obviously is thinking himself on a different level, and he's like kind of removed himself from the regular people. I mean, never got that vibe from you.

Speaker 1 You are as much of a culture to Barstool as you are to your NBA team.

Speaker 1 And it's like that, it's just instant where you're like, PepEv's just a real dude. Yeah, and that's how, and that's the approach I come.

Speaker 1 So, like, I'm in the locker room, you know, I go through a shoot around. A guy might miss an assignment.
I go, coach, that shit was wrong.

Speaker 1 He what? I rep it again. That shit was wrong.
Don't feel right. Rep it again.
Like,

Speaker 1 you don't want to be great? We're all out here. It's a competitive sport.
Like, let's be great. We do some shit wrong.
Let's rep that shit again until we do it right. Right.
You know?

Speaker 1 And then the coaches see that. They see it for a week.
They see it for two weeks. They see it for a month.
They see it for two months. They see it for four months.
I got coaches

Speaker 1 on the 76ers who go to me who was like, man, I didn't know shit about you. But, man, literally the best I've ever seen in my life.
Like, you do this every day. Every day.
I don't drag into practice.

Speaker 1 I take care of my body. You know, I got my training staff.
I, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm, it's me on the court and Tyrese Maxie, right?

Speaker 1 Like the 35-year-old and the future, you know, so like, yeah, I don't miss days. I don't, you know what I'm saying? I don't cheat the games, which is probably why I've been so successful.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I think it's because you care too. Like, it's obvious that you don't, same thing with your podcast.

Speaker 4 And when you do, you know, if you walk into a new locker room, it's obvious that you care about what you're doing.

Speaker 4 You see the fieriness on the court, but there's a lot of care that goes into it behind the scenes where it's like you're doing all these small things correct.

Speaker 4 And no matter what organization you're with, somebody sees something like that, and you're like, I want to be on that guy's side because that guy is going to bring the best out of me.

Speaker 1 You got to think, like, so I leave these organizations and they get like, you got to think, I leave the Rockets, they got Chris Paul. Yeah, right? Traffic Cone.
I leave, right?

Speaker 1 I leave, I leave, I leave, uh, I leave the Clippers

Speaker 1 when I go Clippers to, where the fuck I go out to Clippers, Minnesota,

Speaker 1 Clippers, Minnesota, right? I think so. They fucking got Rudy Gobert.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? Out the Minnesota trade. So, like, not only are these, are, are these teams, like, they know my value because they're trading other assets according to my value.
Right.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? But I don't, you know, I don't get the money. Campaign is an awesome player.
Yeah, but the 14-year-old guy,

Speaker 1 he's going to be elite might be a good thing. He could be the best.
I'm going to be a good one.

Speaker 4 I'm going to put a bet on whoever that guy is to win MVP at some point in his future.

Speaker 8 But you might be coaching him.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Imagine.
Imagine. Holy shit.

Speaker 1 I'm going to look up the year of that pick. Yeah.

Speaker 4 You asked us before we sat down to ask you some hard questions. So, here's a good question that we've talked about a lot of times.

Speaker 1 This is me on the next since I've been in the middle.

Speaker 1 What it in?

Speaker 4 What happened in the tunnels? What happened in the tunnels?

Speaker 1 Oh, what happened in the tunnels? What happened tunnels? In LA, Clippers, Blake Griffin, yeah,

Speaker 1 big certain guy, by the way. Yeah, we love Blake.
Should I say anything bad about Blake? The podcast's over.

Speaker 4 So, tell us who was going in these tunnels to like

Speaker 4 who was sneaking up on people. Were you guys ready for him? How'd that go?

Speaker 1 So, we're in locker room.

Speaker 1 Fuck. It was the Rocket game, right? Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 good friend of mine.

Speaker 1 Great friend of mine. Trevor Reza.

Speaker 1 I think Austin was saying something to Trevor.

Speaker 1 And I think Trevor was like

Speaker 1 something Little Rivers, right? And got him agitated. I think he said something.

Speaker 1 I think.

Speaker 1 Trevor, TA was the first by the door. I go to T.A., like, I study.
You know, me, I'm the first. No,

Speaker 1 and these are all my guys I used to play with literally

Speaker 1 six months ago. Right.
So I go, no, man, come on, man. We ain't about to do this right here.
But it was just arguing. You know, Blake came and DeAndre came, but I was the first there, though.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And my locker was across. So Blake was the one who basically.
He was the second one there. Yeah, but everyone saw Blake and they're like, oh, we don't want any smoke.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's how we're going to see it. I'll say less.
Yeah, yeah. Okay.
All right. That's perfect.
What about. But no, no fight, no, none of that.
You know, but it's just, it's good to hear, you know.

Speaker 1 yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 It sounded like there was like a Game of Thrones battle that

Speaker 1 shit didn't even get, and then it got to a point where securities hopped in front, right? One security is pulling the door, the other guy's security on the back of it like this.

Speaker 1 Like, come on, y'all don't have to do it like this. Okay, so another tough question: where is the beef with Chris Paul right now? And when you see him, is there any do you guys even talk?

Speaker 1 No, yeah, nothing, no, nothing said, no, so it's just

Speaker 1 you stay over there, I stay over here. Yeah, when we see each other, it's on from my side.
That's the whole thing.

Speaker 1 But I think like that about everybody, but him for sure.

Speaker 1 Did he have anyone reach out to you after you went on, like, was it you went on first take? Or no, was it get up? And you were calling him a traffic cone? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just, you went, you went on a tour that week and just fucking ripped everyone. It was awesome.
Yeah, but it wasn't, I wanted to talk about basketball. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, we were talking about basketball. And I, you know, I was just like,

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 The guy who beat him for the Bulls was the guy, the new guy that got the shooter, beat him, B-I-T-M. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Cone.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But you got to think, I'm also the same guy.

Speaker 1 Right. I'm also the same guy.
When coach writes up on a board, right?

Speaker 1 Writes up on a board. Ah, he's a cone, coach.
Put cone right next to his name. So now when guys see it, instead of trying to, you know,

Speaker 1 because all NBA guys don't love it, so if they don't love it, then their mind isn't as sharp and as smarter as they're. Yeah, they're mad.
They're playing mad.

Speaker 1 Okay, so now you see a guy who you put a red mark to who can't shoot free throws. When he gets the ball down, low, you follow him.
Yeah. Okay, cool.
I seen red. Red means can't shoot free throws.

Speaker 1 All right, coach, fuck that red. You see green, green means he can shoot.
I mean, okay, cool. I motherfucker shoot.
You put cone, oh, he can't guard. Now when I see him, everybody attack him.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So it's like a game plan. Yeah.
So that's all I was saying. That was the cone thing.
That was the game plan. Okay, so if you're in an an opposing locker room, what's next to Pat Bev's name?

Speaker 1 Is it let him shoot? Let him shoot. Let him shoot.
Let him shoot. Yeah.
Yeah. Go ahead.
He'll miss him. Yeah.
Let him shoot.

Speaker 1 Maybe put the center on him. Right? But I'm, but I know that.
Yeah, center, drop coverage, no.

Speaker 1 Yeah, cool.

Speaker 1 Send him to his left hand. But yeah, let him shoot.
He can't shoot. But not a cone.

Speaker 1 Fuck not a cone. Definitely not a cone.
No. That's a traffic stop.
But they probably hit me with the

Speaker 1 let him

Speaker 1 shoot, but close out in corners. Okay.
Shit like that. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, because they like to keep the exact stats. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 What about the beef with Russ? Where's that at? Do you trick us?

Speaker 1 Pep, trick y'all? Are we tricked?

Speaker 1 I mean, I've done it. I got three awards.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 What'd you call him? You said he's the magician. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That was funny that time. Yeah.
So, look, so man, you know what? Russ, after being on the same team as Russ, I'm talking about Russ breaks hand yesterday. Sick story.
Russ breaks hand yesterday.

Speaker 1 I text Russ 1.21 in the morning. I damn, what's up? You running away from me? You ducking me? You're going to break your hand.

Speaker 1 We play y'all next. You know we play y'all next.
Yeah. What's up? Seems like he's ducking you.
Come on, man. Get your fucking hand fixed.
That's wrong. Don't break your hand.
Right.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? Like, you know what the fuck going.

Speaker 1 He responded back like, man, fuck you, man. Hell no.
Thanks, gang. So it's always love.
Yeah. Shout out to Russ.
Yeah. All right.
What about LeBron as a teammate? Great. Yeah? He was great.

Speaker 1 Is there any truth to it's a little difficult to be LeBron's teammate? Not on the court, because obviously he's one of the best basketball players of all time.

Speaker 1 He's probably the second best basketball player of all time. But is there anything to be said for when you're on LeBron's team, if you lose, it's all his teammates.
If you win, it's LeBron.

Speaker 1 That's the, right? That's the air above it all. Yeah.
But

Speaker 1 no, I just think that that team, we was on, man, we could have won a ton of games.

Speaker 1 We played it wrong. Yeah.
We just played it wrong. And it happens.
It happens. Could have, would have, should have been in the teams.

Speaker 1 Damn, we should have won a championship with Dwight Howard and James Harden. Yeah, Jokic kind of carved you guys up.
You know what I'm saying? We played it wrong. We played it wrong.

Speaker 1 We played it wrong. We played it completely wrong.
So we just played that team wrong. That's all.
We had guys that...

Speaker 1 was on the bench that should have been starting guys that were starting and should have been on the bench you know like you know it just wasn't right but you know as a coach, you live and you learn.

Speaker 1 And as players, you live and you learn too. Yeah, he was phenomenal.
But you got to think, I know LeBron since I'm with Miami Heat. Right.

Speaker 1 You know, like, I get a call from Bron Guy, like, man, listen, man, I think you should, I think you should

Speaker 1 hit Brian up, man. He'd be a great mentor.
I'm like,

Speaker 1 okay, he sent me his number. Yeah, right.
Like, oh, okay, I'll just hit Brian up. What do you mean? You know, so now I remember, I'm taking my trainer at the time.
I don't know. I'm 21, 22.

Speaker 1 I'm taking my trainer at the time to

Speaker 1 the airport on the way back.

Speaker 1 I called Brian. I'm like,

Speaker 1 hey, man, this is Pat BF, man. I'm reaching out.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Ramos.

Speaker 1 Shout out to the four horsemen. One of this guy is Ramos, older guy,

Speaker 1 who kind of put it all together, gave me his number.

Speaker 1 Ibrian, man,

Speaker 1 I got your number from Ramos.

Speaker 1 Whatever you have for me, bro, I want. To be a better person, a better man, a better athlete, like everything.
Everything. Like, I want to go on your wing.
I want you to show me the way, bro.

Speaker 1 Every single day of every minute of the day I was with LeBron James. He showed me the blue.
Sick.

Speaker 1 He showed me how to do everything the right way. We went out together.
He showed me how to, okay, cool. Be different.
That was his whole thing with me. Be different.
Guys sit on the back of the bus.

Speaker 1 You don't have to sit on the back of the bus, right?

Speaker 1 Be different.

Speaker 1 Young guys, they want to laugh and goof around. Be serious.
Be serious about your crap.

Speaker 1 All that foundation he gave me with the Miami Heat is probably where I'm sustainable now.

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Speaker 1 So you're on pardon my take. Grade this take that PFT and I have.
Okay.

Speaker 1 LeBron's actually not that special because we kind of called it. Like we said that he was going to be incredible.
He just kind of lived up to his expectations.

Speaker 1 Damn, that's a goat. Yeah.
I mean,

Speaker 4 really, every time LeBron scores a point, it's like that's a check mark in the column of the media.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was the chosen one. He was on his high school games or on ESPN.
He was on cover Sports Illustrated. Like, he didn't do anything that we didn't, we predicted it.
So people were right.

Speaker 1 Man, the homies just say he's been playing high-level basketball at this level since he was a sophomore.

Speaker 1 It's nuts. It is nuts.
It is crazy. Longevity is.
And people still don't like, you're going to appreciate him when he's gone. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, I mean, I've never, yeah, I mean, watching him play basketball is insane. He's windmill and Duncan opposite hand.

Speaker 1 He's 40 years old. Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's crazy.

Speaker 1 He's 39 because we're the the same age as him. So don't do that.
So Hank tries to do that too. He calls us 40.
We're not 40 yet. Oh, he calls you and him 40.
Hank calls us 40. We know that.

Speaker 1 I'll say you and LeBron. I think LeBron is a month older than us.

Speaker 1 We're basically contemporaries. Hey Lord.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 But always, anytime he accomplishes something, I'm like, I still got time left because he's only a month older than I am.

Speaker 1 I'll make up for that.

Speaker 4 Kick it into gear.

Speaker 1 He's great.

Speaker 1 Like, like, and that's it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But we did say he was going to be great. Yeah, we did.
Pine credit to us, too. Yeah, true.

Speaker 4 So if he's the unquestioned leader of that team, but you also, you're not afraid to have your voice be heard. Yeah.
You're not afraid to point things out.

Speaker 4 Was there ever a situation where it's like, okay,

Speaker 4 you're taking up a big leadership role in Los Angeles, and then it's LeBron's team, and you guys have to sort out, like, hey, Pat Bev, let me handle this. You handle that.

Speaker 1 No. Anything like that? Uh-uh.
You know, he's tobat.

Speaker 1 He ain't really, he really, like,

Speaker 1 his leadership comes with the way he takes care of his body and how he plays.

Speaker 1 You know, like, I'm a lead by actions.

Speaker 1 I ain't got time for all that shit. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go in here. You feel me? I'm going to, if my team needs to be talked to, I'm going to be the first motherfucker to say something.
I'm going to be the first motherfucker in the gym.

Speaker 1 I'm going to be the last motherfucker in the gym. And I'm going to produce every single night on a fucking basketball court to a point where it's like, damn.

Speaker 1 I'm going to dunk on you. I'm going to hitchh clutch tree throws.
I'm going to always make the right play. I'm going to do everything right.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 There was a play that you had this year that was maybe my favorite play recently in the NBA. The game ends, and you sprint to the locker room and grab your phone and immediately send a tweet.

Speaker 4 I thought you like ran.

Speaker 1 Every game.

Speaker 4 Every game.

Speaker 4 What was that? It was last week, right?

Speaker 4 Which one? The buzzer sounds, and you ran to the locker room and you fired off a tweet within like, I want to say a minute, 30 seconds. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 You have to understand. I have the tweet wrote, depending on how halftime is.

Speaker 1 Okay. Oh, you drafted? drafted? Yeah, I'm just chilling.
Like, okay, cool. It's looking like this.
Because I really want to literally, I want

Speaker 1 the fans to see, damn, the game just ended. How the fuck? You know, like, I want them to have that reaction.
Yeah. Man, that shit is fired up.

Speaker 4 So, what do you, what do you write at halftime?

Speaker 1 Like, let's say you're losing five points. What do you do? No, Belt to Ass is always up.
Okay. Always up.
It's either if I should add, oh, came up short, or, okay, yeah, fuck y'all. Belt to ass.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so yeah, my shit, I'm locked in.

Speaker 4 I love that.

Speaker 4 How did you start with the belt to ass world tour?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I think it was,

Speaker 1 I think we got the crib one day. What was it? The pod.
Yeah, the pod. Yeah, that's exactly what it was.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We was doing the pod. Shout out to the Pat Bill Pod with my man Ron.

Speaker 1 And we just kept saying, we just kept saying like, man, belt to ass, belt to ass. And it became like a thing.
And I'm like, cool. I like Barstu.
Love Barstu. Let's see if we could do the merch.

Speaker 1 Merch came out to be cool. Boom.
Like, people love it. Mom hits me like, fuck that.
Put tour dates on him.

Speaker 1 Okay. Real rock star shit.
Okay, love it. See her yesterday at the Bulls game.
She got on belt-ass t-shirt, right? She's on tour with me. You know, we're making it a whole thing.

Speaker 1 We're making it, okay, we got our band members. We made it, okay, he's our leading singer.
He's, you know, at the point we was talking about Joel, he's David Ruffin.

Speaker 1 He doesn't have to come to practice all the time. He doesn't have to come to recording, you know.

Speaker 1 No, he's david ruffin so we just kind of played on with that and next thing you know it became everybody's saying i mean i go to every arena i go belta

Speaker 1 it's quiet it's it's crazy it's awesome d uh but i think you guys though you got to understand like none of this is is is happening unless barstu gives me a platform yeah right obviously i had to mature in that at that role like and it i don't know it didn't take that long but it took i don't know two three months for me to kind of like okay cool this is the fuck going on let me embrace it but if it wasn't for barstew you got to think, if it wasn't for Barstu, a lot of people wouldn't even see this perspective of an NBA player.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like what we give into the NBA is like literally gold.
Yeah. Literally gold.
It is. Every clip I see is just literally gold.
Incredible.

Speaker 4 I think a lot of players, they think to themselves, like, I want to do a podcast. Doing a podcast sounds fun.
No. But once they start doing it, they're like, oh, shit, this is hard work.

Speaker 1 Ran out of story.

Speaker 4 But you like, it's clear that you love doing it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I have endless stories.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I'm great at telling them. Yeah.
You know, I've been through so much shit.

Speaker 1 You got to think, like, I go go from, you know, selling nickels, nickels and dimes on the block to burying my cousin to, you know, talking to my girlfriend about meetings with billionaires. Right.

Speaker 1 You know, so like

Speaker 1 my spectrum is, it isn't like this. My shit's from like this to this.
It's the whole fucking world.

Speaker 1 So I could talk about a homie getting shot 14 times, coming up to a lady, coming up to a lady door, asking for help. Please, lady, please help me, help me, help me.
Lady sees him pass out, right?

Speaker 1 Damn, I don't don't know if i'm gonna die now and i can i know how it is this baby how do you uh what's that caviar i like you know why many bees on a boat you know what i'm saying so like my my shit is my shit is different i understand what you know you know baby mamas is you know i understand what being the ultimate father is too you know so i've i've seen everything right i've seen everything and i still got so much more to see that's why the stories are really endless endless well so i think a lot of the success of the pod and you just alluded to it was maybe the first few months trying to feel feel it out.

Speaker 1 But you embracing barstool is a big part of it because I think we've tried it with other athletes, other people from outside the barstool world, and it sometimes doesn't work because the guy doesn't buy in or the woman doesn't buy in all the way.

Speaker 1 You've bought in all the way. So I got a question about that.
The 41 free throws.

Speaker 1 For anyone who didn't see it, I think everyone did, but we had to shoot. We had to make 41 free throws in a row.
We weren't going to leave the gym until we finished. It took us 16 hours.

Speaker 1 Pat Bev showed up after a game, drove from Milwaukee to Chicago after a game. He showed up at like two in the morning.

Speaker 1 What was going through your mind when you saw the scene of us just standing around like dejected trying to shoot free throws?

Speaker 1 You're like, these guys are fucking stupid and they're crazy and what the hell is going on?

Speaker 1 I didn't think about that at all. I thought it was genius.
I also thought like, damn, man, like that last shit that got us fired. I finished game.

Speaker 1 I think you texted me. Yeah, I was texting because you were like, I was like, listen, I don't want to, I didn't want to be pushy.
I was like, we're going to still be going at midnight when the game.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I'm currently reading a book. It's The Tula Titans.
Right.

Speaker 1 And it's the way the book is formatted, you don't have to read in a specific way. You can flip page, whatever page you land on, you can start reading it.
Our first page I flip, it says,

Speaker 1 greatness equals

Speaker 1 the ability to fall in love with the work.

Speaker 1 I like that. Right? Yeah.
That's all greatness is. Not only going to work, like, man, I got to go to work.
Like, come on, shit, let me go go to work. Like, actually loving your job.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And the person that gave me the book was like,

Speaker 1 you're going to see some shit in this book about you that, you know, that you already do. Right.
So when it comes to job, basketball, first there, last to leave. I watch film every fucking game.

Speaker 1 I watch film and practice. Now when I have another job, when it comes to barstool, like, no, this is my job.

Speaker 1 I'm going to fall in love with this shit. I'm going to come in New York and I'm going to bring pieces.
And people might think that, oh, he's trying to get, no, I'm not.

Speaker 1 I'm just a great fucking worker. I love my job.
These people took a chance on me when nobody had ever seen me.

Speaker 1 These people gave me a platform when no one else wanted to give it to me when they tried to shut me up, call me dumb, call me silly, try to paint the nigga role right on top of my head. Straight up.

Speaker 1 So, no, I'm going to be a great worker. I'm going to be here.
My squad needs me. Straight up.

Speaker 1 My boss man is actually texting me. I'm a smart individual.
What the fuck? He never texts me. Just because he texts me, I'm on my way.
Yeah. It was great fucking work.
It was awesome.

Speaker 1 The vibes change everything. Now, the other question I have about it is, did you think we were ever going to get out of that gym? No.
It's when you left. I felt bad, bro.

Speaker 4 When you left, and I think everybody in the gym understood that you had to go.

Speaker 1 You have very important things to do. Back to back.
Dave was hiding. Good to back.
He was back to back. Dave was hiding.
He was hiding.

Speaker 4 But the swing, the momentum swing that we had when you left and we still haven't done it. And we're like, wait, we still haven't done it.
And an NBA player just had to leave.

Speaker 4 We're never going to have another meal again. We're just going to be, we're going to die in this gym.

Speaker 1 Listen, you have to understand. We leave, go to sleep.

Speaker 1 I got my producers with me. I wake up

Speaker 1 4.30 in the morning. Did they do it?

Speaker 1 He watching the heat. No, not yet.

Speaker 1 It got dark with

Speaker 1 real bad. You know what I'm saying? And then I wake up.
Okay, cool. Did they do the heat? They did it.
They did it. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 So, like, as a worker, being part of it, being part of the crew. Hell yeah, we fucking did that shit.
You're on the shirt. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm at the end, but I'm on the shirt.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're on the shirt. Do we have one? I know there was.
I think we have some here. I didn't think so.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there was a moment where I left at seven in the morning to go take my son to school. Yeah, yeah.
See, I didn't think I heard about that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so I went to take my, I was like, I'll be back in 35 minutes, got to take him to school. And I was driving my son to school, and I was talking to him like I was going to war.

Speaker 1 I was like, I love you so much. I don't know when we're going to be able to see each other again.
300. Like, I thought I was going to just never see him again.

Speaker 1 And he was like, what are you talking about? I'm just going to school. All right, relax.
And then we got back and we did it. And it was

Speaker 1 the best moment ever. Y'all did that shit.
It was fucking incredible. So I didn't see,

Speaker 1 actually, I seen, because y'all switched up

Speaker 1 the way of shooting. Because I'm like, man, Cat, I think you might have to shoot some more.
Yeah. So

Speaker 1 when did the Mulligan, when did you guys do Mulligan? So, so we, so we had two things happen. One was we got a kid from, not a kid, he's a grown man.
What's his name? Scott Morris. Scott Morris.

Speaker 1 He played at University of New Hampshire.

Speaker 1 For sure can shoot. He shot

Speaker 1 100%. He shot 14 free throws in his entire college career.
So he shows up and we're like, uh-oh, he's like, no, no, no. I shot 14 free throws because my coach was like,

Speaker 1 you can't dribble. You can't do anything.
You can shoot. So he just stood out on the three-point line and just hit shots.

Speaker 1 He was incredible. So he came.
That was huge. He was just hitting everything.
I think he missed like one free throw out of like 200. He was insane.
Damn. So he came.

Speaker 1 I went went to take my son to school. We used the mulligan on 15.
Dave hit 30. I showed up from taking my son to school and it was, it was me.
It was 39.40. And I was like, God fucking damn it.

Speaker 1 Like, this is going to, I'm going to ruin this. Like, everyone's going to want to kill me.
No, I didn't worry about you, dude. And then I hit 39.40.
Then Dave hit 41, and it was.

Speaker 1 It's okay, the Mulligan's 50, okay. Yeah, and that guy, Scott Morris, like it was, he was so good, and he saved our lives.
Like, we would have been fucked without him. That's fire.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was never worried about you. Because I said when I was shooting on like Cat Man, you might got to shoot some more, bro.
But it started, my legs started. I think I took like 1,600 free throws.

Speaker 1 How did you feel afterwards?

Speaker 1 So the problem was I had a trip to Cabo. Yeah, you know, right, right, right, right.
And I was like, this is going to be the worst divorce of all time. Having to write, like, why'd you get divorced?

Speaker 1 For, you know, I had to finish 41 free throws and I couldn't go to Cabo. Oh, my goodness.
I got to Cabo and I went to bed for like eight more hours.

Speaker 1 You like literally showed up and I was just went right to bed. Bravo.
I was fucking

Speaker 1 dead. But yeah, worth it.

Speaker 4 I felt so bad for Titus at the end of it because Titus, he was in the role of no matter what we need from Titus, he'll step up and hit him. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And so the expectation was he would make 10 in a row every single time. He's a good foul shooter, right? I think he ended up shooting like 93% of the time.

Speaker 1 93, literally,

Speaker 1 the best, that percentage would be better than everybody in the NBA. Dude, he went, the other day we were just fucking around and he's like, let me see if I can hit 41 in a row.
No problem.

Speaker 1 He hit 41 in a row.

Speaker 4 But after 16 hours, 16 hours of doing it, and your eyes start to go, your brain starts to go. And now we're just like, oh, Titus is up.
He's good. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 4 And then, then, you know, he'll make nine out of ten, and everybody will be super disappointed.

Speaker 1 What the fuck, Titus? Yeah, right, beef squash with Titus, yeah, right? Yeah, we do, you have respect for him now. I saw him looking, motherfucker at the free throw line on

Speaker 1 Titus. I look everybody else's jerseys, make sure not that's that motherfucker right there, huh? I seen him, you look a dude.

Speaker 1 You got to understand from our perspective, because you know, this is Barstool. We're all a bunch of like out-of-shape, middle-aged bloggers, podcasters.

Speaker 1 When we get one athlete in the building, we talk him up. So we're like, we got Mark Titus.
Yeah, I can tell.

Speaker 1 And then if you're that athlete, you carry it on you. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm fucking Mark Titus. Watch out, right? Right, right.
So Pat Bell walks in. Yeah, I'm not marking.
Because we play fives

Speaker 1 on Friday. Mark Titus.
Yeah, we play fives on Friday afternoon. He'll play with us and he'll just go like half speed and just hit threes in everyone's face being like, You guys suck.

Speaker 1 Fuck you guys. I told you I was on my Pat Bev stuff.
I'm guarding Mark Titus.

Speaker 1 I was telling your producer, I was yelling out

Speaker 1 what his defensive assignment was was on my Pat Bev stuff.

Speaker 1 I was. Like, let him shoot.
Let him shoot. Love that.
But, all right, so, all right, I got a couple other hard questions. Come on, go.
I'm waiting on it. Let's go.
Kevin Durant. KD.

Speaker 1 Is he online too much? No.

Speaker 1 Okay. I like it.
We've gone the whole spectrum from KD.

Speaker 1 We've had some moments where we've maybe said some things, but I've come back to respect him just because I actually appreciate that he's online as much as he is and he mixes it up with people.

Speaker 1 I don't like when people don't get in the weeds and don't mix it up and don't reply to people. That means that you're out of touch and you don't want to get down there with people.

Speaker 1 He's an interesting guy, though. Have you like, are you friends with him? Are you? So you got me and KD, we first started playing.
I think he was at the University of Texas and I was at Arkansas.

Speaker 1 Obviously, a huge, huge rival, that rivalry that I don't know about. And that's what we first, you know, we first, we first started playing from there.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And he's, I mean, he's one of the best of all time.

Speaker 4 I like the fact that he is online, though. I think that every, it's a good, healthy outlet because people are talking about him

Speaker 1 day in, day out, right? Especially him, too, right? Like, easy sniper, like, sick fucking name. Yeah.
You know what I'm saying? Like, fuck that. I'll go to this Tang Win Championship.
Oh, fuck that.

Speaker 1 I'll leave here. Go to that.
Like, you know what I'm saying? The dark horse, but you need him. Yeah.
Everyone in the league is afraid of him. Yeah.
You know what I'm saying? Like, oh, man, KD.

Speaker 1 Like, yeah. You know,

Speaker 1 I sell the highest shoes. Yeah, I'm 6'11.
I'm going to get your ass buckets anytime. There's nothing you can do.
Right. I'm a killer.

Speaker 1 Everyone in the league knows it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 You said everyone in the league is afraid of him. Are you afraid of him?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 No. What I mean afraid of, like, okay, cool, man.
I got Katie. I got Katie tomorrow.

Speaker 1 Let me go ahead and get my rest. Yeah.
You're not afraid of anybody. Yeah, but if I got KDE, I'm going to get my rest.
Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I ain't going.
What about

Speaker 1 Luca? Are you afraid of Luca? No, I'm going to get my rest, though. Yeah.
I'm going to get my rest. Do you think that the NBA is a little too much like

Speaker 1 the league has changed a lot. Obviously, offense is insane right now.

Speaker 1 But is there times when it bothers you when, like, team basketball is a little bit,

Speaker 1 it's not in the league as much as it used to be? It's a lot of one-on-one. Like, Luca will have the ball for, you know, an insane amount of time.

Speaker 1 Some of these guys will just basically feel like they're playing one-on-one and there's four guys just standing around ready to shoot threes. Yeah, I don't think, like,

Speaker 1 student of the game, I don't think that's the

Speaker 1 issue, right? The issue is the fans. Yeah.
Right. Obviously, I'm online all the time, you know, yeah, man.
Luca, man, gave you 50. Obviously, my fucking he shot the ball 30 times.

Speaker 1 He has the ball literally every fucking possession of the game.

Speaker 1 I got to share my possessions. I got eight fucking attempts every fucking game, and that's on a great day.
This motherfucker got unlimited attempts. He should give me 50.

Speaker 1 My fuck got the ball all the time. Yeah, that's when you get kind of like you know, with the fans.

Speaker 1 But as a basketball player, you also know that, okay, cool, Luca has the ball all the time because this team needs him to have the ball all the time. Right.

Speaker 1 They made the team so he can't have the ball all the time. So, you know, I'm convinced.
I'm, you know, half and half. Is it hard though,

Speaker 1 being a teammate, like on a team like that, like your teammates with James Harden, when a guy has the ball all the time, is it hard to get into a rhythm?

Speaker 1 Is it harder to get into a rhythm when the ball's not being spread around? Hell no. Okay.
Like, so we create this thing called guard to guard screens. I'm a student of the game.
I know, okay, cool.

Speaker 1 If I'm about to play a team, I'm going to put, if I'm a coach, I'm going to put my weakest defender on who? Patrick Beverly.

Speaker 1 All right, cool. All right.
Hey, James, let's do this. I'm going to come set a screen for you.
And I'm just, either I'm going to roll, I'm literally going to be the center. Right.

Speaker 1 I'm going to roll or I'm going to pop for a three. And I found ways to give me the ball.
They don't want to switch that. Now they double-taner.
I'm in the pocket. I get to shoot my floater.

Speaker 1 Okay, cool. Now I have to work on my floater.
I'm skilled here, and I have to work on my corner three. Okay, James, when you drive left, I'm going to be in the right wing.
I'm not going to move.

Speaker 1 You can throw that bitch blind. I'm going to be there.

Speaker 1 So now

Speaker 1 I have these, okay, cool, these, okay,

Speaker 1 mental notes in my head, you know, how the game is being played.

Speaker 1 You know, I take that and i go with kawaii and i go with paul george and i learn a little bit more and i take that and i go with a younger 10 car anthony towns anthony adversar let me teach you this and i'll take that and go with lebron okay this is easy i've been down here before like so like that's why it's so easy for me playing with all these superstars by the way we had your back when you uh

Speaker 1 acted like you won the you know championship after the play-in game yeah we had your back in the moment yep well you weren't even you weren't even a co-worker at that time we were like fuck that it's sports celebrate i was so hyped.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you got to think, like, I come in locker room, right? Fuck locker room. I get, I get traded to people don't understand.
I go, I go Clippers to Memphis,

Speaker 1 right? I go Clippers to Memphis Grizzlies. I'm talking to the GO in Memphis.
Yeah, we'll bring you the training camp. We'll see what happens from there.
Training camp?

Speaker 1 I'm supposed to be starred next to Ja. You're talking about training camp.
Get me out this fucking team. I don't want to be here.
No. Trait.
Right. So that's how I go to Minnesota.
I get to Minnesota.

Speaker 1 Yeah, man, that's raw. Man, I like this team, man.
We're about to go to the fucking playoffs. Guy on the team goes, playoffs, Pat, we won 12 games last year.

Speaker 1 Shut up. Lock in.
Go into the motherfucking playoffs. Right? And to build that, to put work in that bitch.
And to, you know, Pat, man, you're going to Minnesota, bro.

Speaker 1 You know what happens after Minnesota. I what? Hey, it's over with.
Like, that's what people go to die. They go to Minnesota, end of the career, whatever.
Bye-bye.

Speaker 1 No, this is a joke. Build, build, build, build, build, build, build.
Get confidence. Get confidence.
Win some games. We won 52 fucking games that year.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's a fun team. You have people gluing their hands to the court.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 It's crazy. Yeah.
It's just a wild atmosphere. Got a contract extension in the middle of the fucking season.
It's wild. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 So out of all those teammates you just mentioned, any others that you've ever played with, who are your favorite teammates?

Speaker 1 Favorite teammates.

Speaker 4 I assume that a lot of people would say their favorite teammate was Pat Bev.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Who's Pat Bev's favorite teammate?

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I'm not saying this because he's my teammate now. McGallinari.
Okay. Right.
Trevor Arizona. Okay.

Speaker 1 James Harden. Okay.
Ryan Anderson.

Speaker 1 Big Zubach. Kawhi Leonard.
PG.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 Anthony Edwards, Carl Anthony.

Speaker 1 Every team. So I wanted to do this with you because I saw you did this with Richard Jefferson.

Speaker 4 You didn't say Mantis.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 He wasn't. Mantis.
Yeah. He's a teammate of of yours.

Speaker 1 One day. He's not with Barstool.
He's not a teammate. He wasn't.
He's off for one day. He got a one-day contract.
Oh, okay. So he was.
Yeah, yeah. Okay, I get that.
He got 10, 10, 10.

Speaker 1 I saw you did this with Richard Jefferson. It was great.
Can we go draft me and you for your, like, draft the best team of Pat Pets? How about we do that?

Speaker 1 ESPN comes the next day and redid does it and does show us nothing. They always do that.
The guy from who did our game yesterday, he goes, yeah, man, I love your material.

Speaker 1 I might steal it a couple times, but I always give you a shout out on the pod. Like, damn.

Speaker 1 This is why you're perfect for Barstool because this is the story of this company: where, like, I'm convinced Fox, ESPN, all these places. Stealing.

Speaker 1 They have a meeting where they're like, what did Barstool do yesterday? Yeah, okay. Yeah, let's put that on there.
Yeah, yeah. Right.

Speaker 1 100%. All right, so let's go.
Let's draft. Starting five.
Start five teammates. I'm not on it.
I'm not on it. You're not on it.
Okay. I mean, this ain't going to be hard.
Joel Embiid at the five.

Speaker 1 Okay. I'll take Jokic on the five.
So Embiid, or sorry, I'll take Giannis to five. Okay.
I'm going to go.

Speaker 1 You didn't play with Jokic. I was thinking Embiid because Embiid always ducks Jokic, which is a fact.
Yeah. Remember that when they played in Denver? Yeah.
No, Embiid doesn't play in Denver, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
He just gave him 40. I can't remember.
He just gave him 40 in Philly, though. Two weeks before.
Yeah, because you played with Embiid.

Speaker 4 He was probably like, look at the schedule. We're playing the Nuggets.
I'm going to be mysteriously gone, right?

Speaker 1 No. Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's what we heard. He was heard.

Speaker 1 So I got Giannis. You got

Speaker 1 Embiid. I got LeBron James.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Good pick. That's a decent pick.

Speaker 1 I'll take Anthony Davis. Cool.
I'll go James Harden. Okay.
I'll go Kawhi Leonard. Okay.
I'll go

Speaker 1 Anthony Edwards.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was on my list.

Speaker 1 I'll go Dame.

Speaker 1 I'll go.

Speaker 1 Oh, I actually have this one.

Speaker 1 I have this one. Unless he does it, I have this one.
No, you don't. I do.
I have this one. You don't.
Yep.

Speaker 1 I have this one. You don't.

Speaker 1 You ain't going to like this one, though. Okay.

Speaker 1 Shea Good was actually. Ah, that was what I was going to pick.
That was how I was going to win. I swear to God,

Speaker 1 he was my first pick a point guard. I'm just going to pick it.
You get hat always is, though. I'm going to get one.

Speaker 1 I'll take Tyrese Maxie. So we'll put those up.
I'm just going to put up a ton of money.

Speaker 1 I mean, Giannis and Anthony Davis. How are you stopping that? That's cool.

Speaker 1 You're scoring 80 points. You hear my team.
You hear my team? I have Kawhi, Anthony Davis, and Giannis. You will literally not score.
I have James Harden.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 I have Anthony Edwards. No, no, I said I have Giannis, Anthony Davis.
Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis and Kawhi.
You're not scoring.

Speaker 1 And then Dame will just give you 50. I have Joy Lembi.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay, no problem.
Giannis will eat his fucking lunch.

Speaker 1 I have Shea Good Alexander. That one hurts a little, but Tyrese Maxie's next up.
You're actually looking at the James Hardeners now. Yeah, oh, yeah.
No,

Speaker 1 and you have to play me in the playoffs. So we know how that goes.

Speaker 1 Fair point.

Speaker 1 Fair point. We'll put those up.
You played with some fucking awesome players. Everybody.
It's crazy. Yeah, still on the list is Blake Griffin, Cat, Dwight Howard,

Speaker 1 DeMar, Damar, Debo. Yeah.
Some good fucking players. Great players.
Yeah. Zach Levain on that list.
Yeah. Alex Caruso on that list.
Yeah. Fuck yeah, he's on that list.
Yeah, he is. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What was your one pick?

Speaker 4 I was going to take Blake Griffin. Oh, yeah.
NBA Jam style. Me and Blake, two

Speaker 1 everybody. Blake now or? No, yeah.
Blake now.

Speaker 4 He can still dunk.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he can still dunk. Okay, I'll say that.
He told us he could still dunk.

Speaker 1 He was great as a teammate. The best.
He's the best guy ever.

Speaker 1 Blake Griffin, there's a few guys

Speaker 1 listening to this podcast.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to sit here and lie.

Speaker 1 First game we play.

Speaker 1 First practice I've ever been to Clippers.

Speaker 1 Ain't trying to hear that shit, Doc.

Speaker 1 Him and DeAndre Jordan arguing with Doc. I look at Lou Will.
Ah, damn, damn, this is what we signed up for. Mind you, it's prior shit that probably happened before that we don't know about.

Speaker 1 We're getting the game. I'm trying to, you know, I feel like I'm one of the top five post feeders, meaning get the ball, pass it to the guys in a post.

Speaker 1 You know, Blake yells out, give me the fucking ball.

Speaker 1 Hey.

Speaker 1 You can talk to me anyway. Don't talk to me like that, though.
You know, so. But Blake was cool.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 there's a few people in the history part of my take. We've been doing it a long time.
I'm going to be like, that that guy was a huge part of our success. Blake is one of them.
Because

Speaker 1 he's been a guest for six, seven years.

Speaker 1 He just bought into everything. He's the best.
The best. He gets it.

Speaker 1 Okay, so what's up with you and J.J. Reddick? Hey, no, that's my guy.

Speaker 1 Oh, you guys squashed it.

Speaker 1 It wasn't ever no beef. I just did it.
Oh, it seemed like there was some beef. Obviously, that's the same thing.
You're talking to your life, right? What do you mean? I mean, if you tell me.

Speaker 1 What do you mean the media? You said it. You're the media.
You are the media. I am.
Literally the biggest media in the day. And they give me zero credit for it.
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I just, I don't know. You think this table is, I don't know,

Speaker 1 caramel color. I think it's brown.
I disagree with you. That's all.
That's all it is. I still like you.
I like your shades. I like your capitals cat.
Like, I even love your hair. You feel me?

Speaker 1 But I just disagree with what you said. I'm not disagreeing with the person.
I'm disagreeing with the message.

Speaker 4 Separate the art from the artist. That's it.

Speaker 1 That's all I'm doing. I just disagree.
That's all. That's it.

Speaker 4 Do you love playing defense?

Speaker 1 I feel like

Speaker 1 in order for me to sustain a career in the NBA,

Speaker 1 the key or the code to the bank or to the key to getting the door was defense.

Speaker 1 Now, once I set the stone in six years, like I always play long game, okay, I'm going to play defense for six years, right? I should be cool.

Speaker 1 If I ride that wave, I should be good for like another eight or nine years. During that eight or nine years, I can show offense now.
I should be close to my 30s, and that's all that's happening.

Speaker 1 And I get to respect the defense. So now I can go up and ah, smack smack the shit out of somebody, hit none, no ball, hit all arm, ref, give me steal.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? And now I can go, okay, cool, let me shoot fadeaways now. I'm 35 years old.
What you gonna tell me? Don't shoot it, man.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to hear that shit. So, like, I used the defense to get in the door, and now, you know, I'm allowing people to see the offense.
Yeah, it's been great.

Speaker 4 Has it become harder to play defense in the NBA now?

Speaker 1 With all the, like, you can't touch anybody. No, I just, it's always, but as offensive players, they find their tricks.
As defensive players, I find my tricks. Yeah.
Okay, cool.

Speaker 1 i can't touch you but i can over help because you don't like to pass or i can't touch you okay cool i'm gonna just deny you motherfucker can't score you don't got the ball you know oh i can't touch you all right cool i'm gonna touch you in areas where refs can't see all the gray area spots okay what are those spots pause it what do refs see what the refs see what the refs see oh okay right wing underneath the elbow they really don't see that i can hit you i can i can grab you i can hold you okay jersey i'm six i'm six years in with defense i'm three all defensive guys okay cool i can check a motherfucker ref, don't say nothing.

Speaker 1 So I try to find my cheat codes, just like offensive guys, find theirs.

Speaker 4 I love that. There's the old hypothetical, like if you were to take an average fan and lock them in a gym with you for, let's say, like two hours, how many points could an average fan score?

Speaker 1 Average fan? Yeah. How tall is this average fan? Average height? Let's say like Hank.

Speaker 4 Let's say Hank. He's six feet tall.
He can't dunk.

Speaker 1 He thinks he's going to be able to dunk.

Speaker 1 Maybe the one shot where, you know, you dribble, dribble, dribble, pick up your dribble, can't shoot, turn around, throw it.

Speaker 1 Over your head, you get a lucky bounce. Yeah,

Speaker 1 that probably two of those, but that's it.

Speaker 4 So that would be four points, two hours.

Speaker 1 What about that would be a great next challenge? Good stream, yeah. You versus Dave Portnoy.
Lock in a heave till he scores. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you know him, he'll probably like

Speaker 1 make that shot. Like the, oh my God, the heave.
Yeah, but no, he can't. He'd also be like, oh, my shoulder.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm saying. He might do this from the behind.
Goes in. Clamp him.
He runs off.

Speaker 4 But you get like probably in two hours, I think you could have 300 block shots against Dave. It just swatted.
Yeah, easy.

Speaker 1 But you got to think, I don't block shots.

Speaker 1 So in basketball, I've learned like, okay, cool.

Speaker 1 I don't jump like the way I used to. I'm fucking 35, so I have to figure out another way.
Hey, coach, you look through the rule book. What is counting as a block shot?

Speaker 1 Obviously, Pat over the top is counting as a block shot, but swiping down, hitting it before it goes up, counts as block shots. I go to Kawhi.

Speaker 1 Hey, Kawhi tells me, hey, Pat, you want to be on all defensive team? You got to get more blocks. Okay, cool.
I can't get the block up top.

Speaker 1 But most of the guys, when they got out of the ball, they take it low. To their hip.

Speaker 1 If I have my hand right there above the belly, I can get everyone's ball. I led the league in blocks.

Speaker 1 How many block shots a year do you have just screaming like, whoa, in someone's ear right before they shoot?

Speaker 1 Like yelling. No, you know, my shit is more like, give me that shit.
Right before they shoot? Because that counts as a block shot in my eyes. Yeah.
I did that when we were playing pickup yesterday.

Speaker 1 One of the guys admitted it. He was about to shoot, and I couldn't get to him.
And I just went, whoa, right as he was shooting. Yeah, most of the people, but most people, they kind of scared anyway.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 You know, my trick used to be when I was playing pickup: if somebody was shooting a three, I would just fall down in front of them.

Speaker 4 If I'm playing defense, just like make a big display out of falling down their face. They start laughing as they're taking the shots.
They're like, what the fuck was that?

Speaker 1 And you know, it's

Speaker 1 so crazy. You said that we in training camp with the Clippers.
We

Speaker 1 run into play. You know, Doc Rivers, it's so crazy.
You just said this story. Doc Rivers Rivers was like, hey, yo, Pat,

Speaker 1 I just want you to just fall down.

Speaker 1 Inbound the ball. I fall down.
Everybody look at me. Corner three.

Speaker 1 You said the same thing. It's your like bark like a dog.
Yeah, where like the defense is like

Speaker 1 literally worked.

Speaker 1 All right, I got one last question. This has been awesome.
We're going to have you back on in the playoffs now that we've done it in person, which was long overdue, even though you stole Roan.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you guys literally gave him to me. Yeah, that's true.
That was a mistake. That was a trade I'd like to have.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 4 There's a 14-year-old right now, though, that's going to be on part of my take.

Speaker 1 We got future rights here. Here we go, talk about 14-year-olds.

Speaker 1 Right. All right.

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Speaker 1 You and referees. Yeah.
Do they respect you? And is there one ref that gives you a really hard time?

Speaker 1 Because I love that about the NBA where they'll be, who's the ref who would just always tee up Tim Duncan no matter what?

Speaker 4 Was that Joey Crawford?

Speaker 1 It might have Joey Crawford.

Speaker 1 Is there one ref that you're like, all right, they're refing tonight and they're just going to give me hell? No.

Speaker 1 They mostly respect you? Yeah, but they also know that I like the, I flirt the lines, too. Yeah.
So where is the line?

Speaker 1 Like, what, when, like, is it obviously different with each ref, but how, how close do you get to the line on a night tonight? I go, so I always know before a game. All right.

Speaker 1 I go up to ref, you know, before the national anthem, I go up to ref. What's up? What's going on? I say, who talks?

Speaker 1 You know, okay, but you got to understand it's still human, too. They got, you know, the kid might be sick.
or, you know, it's a lot going on, right? Refs are human, too.

Speaker 1 So, I kind of get the energy from there, right? Okay, okay, cool. I see a rookie or something.

Speaker 1 Hey, man, you ever ref me before, man?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Hey, y'all tell them how to ref me, man. Don't be calling that soft ass shit, man.
I ain't got time for this shit, bro, for real. People watching me on TV, bro.
You go fuck up my defensive rating.

Speaker 1 Straight up. So don't be calling all that ticky-tack shit.
And I have a ref. I'm like, yo, what's up, man? What's up with our relationship? We used to have a good relationship last year, man.

Speaker 1 When do we end up to this point when we can't fucking talk? This is all before the game. Yeah.
Right?

Speaker 1 And I have refs that coming to me like, yo, Pat, last game, man. Last game, I refed you, man.
You're right. That was unacceptable.
And I have also refs that, yeah, Pat, I looked at that play.

Speaker 1 You know what? I was wrong about that play. You're right.
So my energy always starts before.

Speaker 1 So now when I'm getting to a game, it's really like your homie cursing at you instead of like a basketball player cursing. Right.
Because I go up there with the rookies. People don't see.

Speaker 1 This is the things people don't see either. I go up there with the rookies.
Shay Gills, Alexander, make sure you know every ref.

Speaker 1 Take them to the huddle. Make sure you know all their names.
Yeah. Anthony Arets, all their names.
All my rookies, all their names. Make sure you know the refs, all names.

Speaker 1 So when they see that over years, it's not like I'm coming at a disrespectful way. I didn't fucking foul him, man.
Yeah. I'm gonna waste my foul on this bum ass motherfucker for he trashed.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna waste my foul on DeMar DeRosa, not fucking him. You know what I'm saying? Like, so when I say stuff like that, it's not like that, oh man, he's cursing me out.

Speaker 1 Like, all right, okay, cool, Pat. No, fuck that, man.
All right, Pat, chill. No, you fucking chill.
Don't start that. You know, then we go.
Yeah. But it's never like a.
That's smart.

Speaker 1 You're establishing the relationship. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 It's very smart. Yeah.

Speaker 4 What about, what do you think about Draymond? Because he kind of does some similar things with you with the podcast. Yeah.
With the media.

Speaker 4 Sometimes I think that Draymond does wild shit on the court because he knows that he can talk about his pod and get better ratings on his pod.

Speaker 4 So he's like doing marketing for himself when he plays basketball. sometimes.
But like in terms of his game on the court, he's known as a fiery guy. He's known as somebody that crosses that line.

Speaker 4 What's it like playing against him?

Speaker 1 So what people you have to understand with Draymond, regardless of people like it or not, he's a champion. One, two, three, four-time champion.

Speaker 1 Right?

Speaker 1 Their team makeup isn't anyone

Speaker 1 who gets techs. Literally.
No one else on their team. Right?

Speaker 1 Wiggins, you don't get no text. Steph definitely ain't good attack unless he throw mouthpieces some shit.
Yeah, he did do that. That was very dangerous.
Clay really don't get no tech.

Speaker 1 So somebody got to establish a foundation of, hold on. Yeah, we're the champions and we ain't no motherfucking pussies neither.
You know, and that's Draymond.

Speaker 1 But what comes champion, he's able to say things that no one else in the NBA can say. Yeah.
He says shit sometimes. I,

Speaker 1 what the fuck? You can say that? Like, even if I said that, I'll get a tech.

Speaker 1 You know, and I got whatever I have and whatever individual wars wars I had defensively, and whatever.

Speaker 1 But when you're a champion, not just one, two, three, four, you can say shit and you can get away with it. Yeah, I mean, I love watching Draymond play.

Speaker 1 He's gone a little crazy at times, but what he does on defense is like insane. It's just

Speaker 1 everything he's doing on defense means something, and he's never like wasting a step, and he's always in the right place. And they let him roam, too.
Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 They give him the JJ Watt treatment, right? They let him do whatever the fuck he wanted to do. Oh, I like that cross-sport analogy.
Yeah, yeah. They give give him a JJ Watt treatment.

Speaker 1 Freelance. How much football do you watch?

Speaker 1 A lot. Not a lot? But when I had microfracture, the first person I reached out to was J.J.
Watt.

Speaker 1 He reached out to me.

Speaker 1 The doctor who did his, did mine. And he listened, man, I want you to plan small milestones, Pat, each way, small goals.
Okay, today I'm going to take this. I'm going to do a thousand quad squeezes.

Speaker 1 This day I'm going to take my first step. I'm going to get off crutches this day, right? He literally gave me the whole thing to get back from microfracture.

Speaker 1 No one's ever come back from microfracture. Yeah, that's like the heart of surgery, right? Literally, the heart of the surgery.

Speaker 1 I've been off microfracture for five years.

Speaker 1 People don't even come back. Chandler Parsons don't even come back.
Amari Starmire hasn't even come back. Kenya Martin hasn't even come back from the injury.
I think value is strong.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 Didn't miss a day.

Speaker 1 Listen to everything. You know what I'm saying? I bet.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? But like, yeah, so

Speaker 1 I watched people who,

Speaker 1 you know, who had a little influence on me. So I used to watch JJ.
Yeah, J.J.'s a good dude. He's another one where we bullied him into an interview way at the beginning of Part of My Take.

Speaker 1 And he's become part of the history of Pardon My Take.

Speaker 1 We literally online bullied him. Yeah.
But I go from like, you know, as you say, I've been on so many teams. So I just kind of take up the makeup.
My original team is obviously the Bears.

Speaker 1 Right. Don't go as well

Speaker 1 most of the time. So I usually adopt the team I usually go to.
No, you can't do Packers.

Speaker 1 I can.

Speaker 1 You cannot do Packers. You can't do that.
You're not allowed to. I don't like the pause you're taking right now.

Speaker 1 Let's see how this year plays out. Okay, fuck it.
Let's just see how this year plays out first. And then I'll see if I'm going to get a cheese head.

Speaker 4 Make you an owner of the team.

Speaker 1 I'll sell you a share. I'll give you a stock that means nothing.

Speaker 4 All right, well, I got one last question. Do you guarantee a championship this year?

Speaker 1 I guarantee a chance. to compete for a championship, yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's a smart answer.

Speaker 1 It's the only answer. Okay.

Speaker 4 I mean, mean, you're good enough. Yeah.
The Bucks. That must have been like, it's a big mood swing.
You have 11 starters.

Speaker 4 I get traded again, and then, wait, it's to a team that, like, I actually think I might be a good piece on this team.

Speaker 1 So that's why the trade happened. The trade happened, like, okay, cool.
We need something that, you know, you have. Take campaign, take the 14-year-old.
Everything's cool, right? You got Doc back.

Speaker 1 Doc already, like,

Speaker 1 like, Pat, do your thing. But you got to think I'm also like,

Speaker 1 doc's not coaching. Doc, I'm thinking about you.
You feel me?

Speaker 1 We lose with the Bulls. Hey, Doc, man, y'all got a chance to win a championship, bro.
I'm rooting for y'all. Like, he texts me, Pat, what you see? Anything you see out there? No, doc.

Speaker 1 Before games, Pat, what you think about this game? Fuck that, doc. We playing the Bulls, doc.
Rebounding is the only thing we should think about. Right? So, like,

Speaker 1 influences are real big when it comes to all that. Yeah.
So, when it comes to coaching and it comes to all that, I can't wait.

Speaker 1 How many years do you want to play? How many more years? Oh, I got probably got another six in me. Okay.
And then you'll and then you'll just start being an everyday guy here.

Speaker 1 You've already been here. I mean, you had a party here last night, which, but thank you for taking care of all of my people.
You know, it was a wild text to get. Pat was just like, but you got 10 a.m.

Speaker 1 on Friday.

Speaker 1 But guys think, like, oh man, what Pat taking us to the motherfucking hood or something? Especially when I send an address, you know, and they don't know.

Speaker 1 Then they get here, like, oh shit, but I should have came an hour earlier. Yeah.
I'm like, literally, the best place. He texts me at 10 a.m.
on Friday.

Speaker 1 He's like, Cat, I need a place for after the game. Day of game.
Yeah, he's like, teammates, cards, you know, friends, chicks, hookah. I need it.
And I was like, all right, I guess so. We'll do it.

Speaker 1 Hey, listen, Cat, Cat, Big Cat,

Speaker 1 made it so easy, man. Everything was yes.
I couldn't say no to you. Everything was yes.
Everything was okay, cool. I need 20 hookahs.
Can't have 20 hookahs.

Speaker 1 I said, I was like, we got a lot of expensive equipment. I was like, how about five? You're like, how about 10? I was like, all right.

Speaker 1 Right. So, yeah, it was cool, man.
It was a vibe. It was great.
Got a chance to shoot basketballs, play some cards. I love it.

Speaker 4 I got to hire like a blackjack dealer. Yeah.
Comes in Friday nights.

Speaker 1 I mean, I love it. You are part of the barstool culture, and I just, it's awesome.
It's like your podcast has been incredible, and you buying in has been awesome. And

Speaker 1 it's fucking great having you be able to show up. Like I said, you're a regular guy, which is you wouldn't think a guy's been in the NBA for as long as you'd be like, come hang with us.

Speaker 1 This shit, you know what? This shit, so you got to think this shit has made me more famous than basketball. You got to think

Speaker 1 we got 100 million views. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 It's crushing. You know what I'm saying? So so like 100 million unsaw me like like 99 of those are wrong okay okay yeah yeah let's see but so like

Speaker 1 i mean so like the platforming here has been great like i just been but you you guys don't understand man i i study so many people here in this office at night just like i do on my film like okay cool i come in here i take video pictures okay cool i can put that with mine to try to okay i try to add little shit gold mic shit that okay i might have seen like i study so many people in this office like it it was it wouldn't be a mistake that uh that everything's successful with the pod.

Speaker 4 Give us a scattering report on somebody in this office.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I got a content idea because I'm always thinking of content, but go ahead. You go first, and then I got a content idea.

Speaker 1 Son of a boy dad.

Speaker 1 Sass. The other guy.
No, but he's ducking you on video games. Harvard.
Yeah, Francis. Francis.
Francis. Francis is the best.
Just call him Harvard. We know who.
Harvard. Okay, okay.
He's the best.

Speaker 1 The way he's able to

Speaker 1 go in different lanes. Yep.
Like, without honking a horn, without hitting a break, like his transitions to the lanes that he wants to get to, when he wants to get to them.

Speaker 1 I'm talking about the smoothest transitions I've seen.

Speaker 1 So, okay, cool. I can, I have unique perspective.
So, I'm going to use the same smooth transition, but hit crazy topics. So, now when I'm done, you're like, whoa, what the fuck? What? Watch it back.

Speaker 1 What did you just say? Watch it back. What did he say? Watch it back.
What did he say? Next thing you watched it 78 times. Yeah.
Right. Then I go, I go, Tommy Smokes.
I go, cool. I'm light.
I'm here.

Speaker 1 But I'm not here. But you feel me? I'm heavy.
We're going to cut this part because we don't want Tommy to get an ego. Oh, okay.
Okay.

Speaker 1 You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that would be a real shame if Tommy had an ego.

Speaker 1 But I go down.

Speaker 1 I see

Speaker 1 the little hitters big cat throw in. You know, like, okay, cool, Mantis down there.
Like, like, he knows Mantis like the back of his hand. Like, Mantis down there, you know, shooting threes.

Speaker 1 And he's not even looking down there like not even literally not head is for mantis is behind shooting only free throws mantis i knew he knows like he knows exactly what's going on so okay being aware of the room you know what i'm saying like i mean i knew he was gonna show up and just start whapping threes and dave obviously i you know i i watch dave so much just unapologetic just whatever erica when she was here you know the one of ones and like the one-on-one so like i'm just okay cool i'm just stealing a little bit of everything and i'm just trying to form it my shit can i throw out a content idea?

Speaker 1 You can say no. And maybe not this year because you're, you know, you're already gave me one, though.
Which one?

Speaker 1 Oh, lockdown, Dave. Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 I'm definitely still an at.

Speaker 1 What if I could give you someone to be part of your team for maybe like a week or two, and we can document it? He just goes everywhere Pat goes. He's part of your team.

Speaker 1 You can maybe even have him drive for you. He's your bag man.
He's doing everything with you.

Speaker 1 Ben Mintz.

Speaker 1 The guy who said nigger.

Speaker 1 Him.

Speaker 1 Right. That guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's an unfortunate part of this story. One yesterday.
And that's the only thing that he said in a lyric, but yes. I know, but he did say it.

Speaker 1 Listen, you got to understand, once I hear that name, that's the first thing I think of. Okay.
So, but, you know, I mean, I'm, you know. So maybe someone else.
I'm the turn other cheek.

Speaker 1 You know, I believe in Jesus Christ, so I'm the turn other cheek type of guy. Maybe someone else.
Good point. Fair point.

Speaker 1 But I'm the turn-other cheek guy. So, yeah, come on, have him slide with me.

Speaker 4 Ben Mince turned his cheek the other day. I got hit in the face with a football.

Speaker 1 A concussion style. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What about Frank the Tank? Ooh.

Speaker 1 I've gone on record to say Frank Detank has been, he's really the magician.

Speaker 1 He's more famous than anyone at Barstool. Like, people, when we talk to coaches, athletes, everything, they always, like, J.J.

Speaker 1 Watt is like, he texts me, he's like, I can't get enough of Frank the Tank. He's the one.
I watch all of his videos. I come in the office.
Hey, y'all,

Speaker 1 I think because he was running late.

Speaker 1 I was in the office. I brought donuts.
It was a lot of content being put out. You've seen people that were not in the office in the background.

Speaker 1 Obviously, if they don't know, you guys don't watch that. They're crazy.

Speaker 1 He comes in a little late. Yeah, Pat, all the trains are down.
What?

Speaker 1 All the trains.

Speaker 1 He'll give it to you. I got to get a train back.

Speaker 1 Everything's down. Everything's down.
What the fuck is going on, man?

Speaker 1 We had Blake Griffin come in the office when he was on the Nets. And Frank was a Nets fan.
And Frank, I think, said he was like, Yeah, Blake, you've like a B minus C plus this year.

Speaker 1 Just straight to his face. Blake's like, What? Right.
Yeah, that's Frank. He knows, but he doesn't want you to know he knows everything.
He's great. Yeah.
He's great. Shout out to Frank to thank.

Speaker 1 Well, Pat, thank you for making time for us.

Speaker 1 Thank you for allowing me to have me on here, bro. Yeah, you'll be back on.
We got to get you back on in playoffs, whether in person or Zoom. You're only 90 minutes away.
Only.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so we'll come up to you. No, no, no.
I came down here. We got to come up to you.
No, no, no. I like coming here.
The office is regular. We'll get Giannis on, too.
Yeah, I like that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Okay, Fire Fest of the Week. Let's wrap it up.
Hank.

Speaker 6 Yeah, my Fire Fest.

Speaker 6 I still have a Christmas tree and I don't know what to do. What?

Speaker 1 Oh, nice, Hank. It's March.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 I respect that.

Speaker 1 Well, we were January, I was locked into comedy.

Speaker 6 And it was still January 2020.

Speaker 1 It's going to be a great spin zone.

Speaker 6 Then we were in Vegas. Then I was in Arizona.
Okay, there's a lot of time.

Speaker 4 Yeah, the entire time.

Speaker 1 We're going to be in October, and Hank's still going to be using this comedy show. There's a reason.
Yeah, seriously.

Speaker 6 Well, no, that was for January. Then it was Super Bowl.
Then we were in Arizona. Then I was kind of sick.
I didn't feel 100%.

Speaker 1 And now

Speaker 1 you've barely been here.

Speaker 4 You were like, then I was hungover for a week, and so I couldn't take it out.

Speaker 6 And then, you know, last week probably should have taken it out. And now it just stares me in the face.
It's like, fuck.

Speaker 1 And make it an Easter tree.

Speaker 6 In my old building, both my old buildings. I used to have like you could pay for storage or whatever.
Because I bought it. It's like a $150 tree or something.
I don't want to just throw it out.

Speaker 1 Throw it off the balcony.

Speaker 1 I'm not doing that. Why?

Speaker 6 But what I was thinking is like this room could use some no, we're not taking your garbage.

Speaker 4 There's no chance you're going to bring it in because

Speaker 1 I would.

Speaker 4 No, because the worst part about it. So here's the thing about the Christmas tree, Hank, is it's gotten so dry now.

Speaker 1 Well, it's a fake tree. Oh, oh.
That's what I'm saying. I should just fucking

Speaker 1 store it.

Speaker 1 Or just throw it. No, you can't store it here.
I'll take it back next December. No, because you'll forget to take it back.
No, I won't. I'll need a tree.
Just store it somewhere. Where? In your car.

Speaker 1 Or your closet. I'm not storing it in my car.
Put it in your kitchen.

Speaker 6 I don't have room in my closet.

Speaker 1 Just keep it up.

Speaker 4 It doesn't like.

Speaker 7 You can't break it down.

Speaker 1 I don't have closet space. Do you have no storage in your

Speaker 1 tree? Definitely

Speaker 8 have shit in it.

Speaker 1 Put it in the front of your parking spot.

Speaker 1 I got... No.

Speaker 4 Just put it in shotgun and drive around with it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're going to just,

Speaker 1 we're now his storage.

Speaker 1 If allowed, I think it could help

Speaker 1 spice. Hank, well, I'm going to do.
I'm going to know out of principle.

Speaker 4 Walk me through the content, Bran, on your part.

Speaker 4 We're not allowed to have a flight simulator in the office, but we can have a Christmas tree taking up pretty much the exact same amount of storage space.

Speaker 6 I'll put it in a bin in the back of a closet.

Speaker 1 No, we're not your storage.

Speaker 1 All right. So then I'll just throw it away.
I don't know. Oh, no.
Don't threaten us. Well, no, like, I was hoping you guys were going to get to the point of the future.
No, no,

Speaker 1 that.

Speaker 1 She might throw it away.

Speaker 4 So, why don't you just put it on your hallway and hope it disappears?

Speaker 6 Because that's throwing it away, and then my building is mad at me.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Put it in someone else's.

Speaker 4 When you said you still had a Christmas tree, I think we both assumed that you had a live Christmas tree or a tree that was at one point alive.

Speaker 1 Dude, just throw it in a dumpster.

Speaker 6 I'm probably going to do that. I just like, it's a nice tree.
I like it. I'm going to.

Speaker 1 You have enough storage in your apartment. You live in a two-bedroom apartment by yourself.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And there's not a fucking closet that you can break it down and put it in a box.

Speaker 6 I guess it's just going to take up a lot of space.

Speaker 4 Put it under your bed. Wait, dude.
Are you going

Speaker 4 to box spring on the ground?

Speaker 1 No. No, he's got a nice bed.
He's got a nice bed.

Speaker 6 But there's not, I don't have like a child's bed where there's.

Speaker 1 There's not, there's definitely a closet in your apartment that I've chosen. There's closets.
And there's nothing. Yeah.
Yeah. You got a third closet.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.
All right. I'll think about it.

Speaker 6 Well, I'm getting rid of it, but I guess it's either trash or closet, not here. Yeah.
I was hoping you guys would be like, we need a tree.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 6 Finally. No.

Speaker 1 No. It's white.

Speaker 1 It's a white Christmas tree?

Speaker 1 Oh, this is a fucked up tree.

Speaker 1 I don't want that tree hanging. I talked about that.
It's a sick joke.

Speaker 1 Get a live tree, Hank. Oh, my God.
Have some Christmas spirit.

Speaker 4 All right. Was it white before Nikki Smokes came over?

Speaker 6 Nope. He's never been over my apartment.

Speaker 1 Condo. Never will.
Condo.

Speaker 1 I always forget. Let's get that clear.
It's a condo, people. He owns.

Speaker 6 I didn't know that that was a difference until people were like, why don't you say condo?

Speaker 4 Condo does sound a lot cooler.

Speaker 6 Yeah. But I,

Speaker 6 before,

Speaker 6 I thought they were the same thing.

Speaker 1 Have you had to talk to the board at all for anything?

Speaker 6 When I got, when I was moving in,

Speaker 6 and then I went to, we had like a monthly meeting once. And you went? I went in the summer, and it was just literally eight super old women drinking wine.

Speaker 1 And you went? Yeah, it was

Speaker 1 That rules.

Speaker 4 Do you offer any suggestions?

Speaker 6 No, we just you know, talked about life.

Speaker 1 Actually, parcel to them, they were like, oh, wait till the next board

Speaker 1 meeting, go to it, bring a bottle of wine, and then be like, hey, ladies, I got a good idea. How can we spruce up the lobby? How about a white Christmas tree? Boom.

Speaker 4 Problem solved. Pink, I've got some news for you.
What? Some breaking news. Oh,

Speaker 1 Hank.

Speaker 1 Can I get a shifter alert?

Speaker 4 Jalen Johnson extended. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 Yes. Let's go.
Four-year deal. Yeah, he was franchise tagged and they were saying they were going to keep working on it.

Speaker 1 Fucking love it. It's a good movie.
Oh, Bears are back.

Speaker 1 Bears are back.

Speaker 6 I don't think PFT can be tripped. I mean, I saw you say this too, which I saw it was like,

Speaker 6 you know, Arnold Brothers' meme when you posted a picture of Blake, and people were like, how long have those picture frames been on your floor? Yeah.

Speaker 6 It's like, I'm 95% moved in, but I have to have a lot of stuff. Oh, dude,

Speaker 6 for whatever reason I have two

Speaker 6 pictures that I haven't hung up that have like I have the material. That's where they live.

Speaker 1 I have a room in my house that's that's my like office, and it just has boxes that have never been unpacked.

Speaker 4 Every kitchen should have two pieces of art that just kind of lean up against the refrigerator. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, PFT, your firefest. I've got two.

Speaker 4 The first one is that Hank owes me $60,012.

Speaker 1 Ooh, that sounds like a lot.

Speaker 4 It's a lot of money. So I've taken $60,000 from Hank, really $60,020 over the last two days playing golf against him.

Speaker 8 He paid me eight, so now he well, you said, I was like, Do you have change?

Speaker 6 You're like, No, for $60,000 for $100,000. And then I gave you the eight, you're like, okay, now you still owe me $12.
So that was kind of okay.

Speaker 4 Let's, I'll tell you what I'll do, Hank. I'll wipe the $12 clean.
Hank owes me $60,000.

Speaker 1 You guys should keep playing until one of you hits a million.

Speaker 4 I'm down. And then that person owes you a million.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I like that.

Speaker 4 So I'm never going to collect on that.

Speaker 1 You're going to lose it back.

Speaker 4 Shut the fuck up, Hank. So

Speaker 4 my other Fire Fest is I was talking with some of the Chicago guys today, and I do this every year for baseball season.

Speaker 4 I'm getting in the mindset for betting on baseball because I have a system every year. My system is very simple.
It's bet against one team for every single game.

Speaker 4 And I've done it with the Pirates, and I've done it with the Athletics, and it's been profitable both seasons that I've done it. Now,

Speaker 4 I haven't done it to the extent that I'm planning on doing it, and then I got all worked up about it, about a content idea, and I think I'm just going to have to do it because

Speaker 4 it sounds like a lot of fun. But I think I'm going to bet $100,000

Speaker 4 against either the Athletics or the Chicago White Sox every single game this season. I'm going strictly based off of.

Speaker 1 Every game you're betting $100,000. No, correct.

Speaker 4 Total. That's your bank roll.
That's the bank roll. So

Speaker 4 over the course of the season, I did the math. It's a $617

Speaker 4 bet every single day that they play.

Speaker 1 What? Oh, yeah. So you won't have to ever put up $100.

Speaker 1 How much?

Speaker 4 I'm going to be betting a total of $100,000. How much?

Speaker 1 He's going to bet $617.

Speaker 4 $617 match every game.

Speaker 4 The real trick in this season.

Speaker 1 That was a tricky way you said that, whereas you started it as like, you're betting $100,000 every game.

Speaker 1 That was smart.

Speaker 4 No, no, I'm betting $100,000 total this season.

Speaker 1 Right, but that won't count.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 when you say that, I was like,

Speaker 1 I'm not going to lose $100,000. Right, it's $617 every day.
Correct.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 4 I think it's going to be profitable no matter which team I pick, but I always do it based strictly off vibes. And this year, I'm leaning right now towards doing the athletics again.

Speaker 4 The athletics are leading the league in bad vibes.

Speaker 4 Nobody in Oakland wants to go see them anymore. The team is halfway in Las Vegas putting up like fake bullshit coked-out photoshops.

Speaker 1 Vegas doesn't want them.

Speaker 4 Vegas doesn't want them either. The Photoshop they put out of the new state, did you see it? Yeah.
It's insane. It's an insane Photoshop.

Speaker 4 And the plot of land that they're going to say that they're building it on is not big enough to fit that ballpark you put that on. And the athletics have turned off replies to all their tweets.

Speaker 4 I love that. So you can't even reply to a single tweet that they have, which goes against the First Amendment, and judging by their pitching staff, the Second Amendment as well.

Speaker 4 Look at this Photoshop right here.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. I love it.

Speaker 1 I want this stadium.

Speaker 4 It's just insane. I would love it, too.
It's also probably

Speaker 4 I was going to say it's probably violating some sort of copyright infrared on the Sydney Opera House.

Speaker 1 I think you should do the A's because I don't know how much you talked to White Sox Dave, but he had, I was talking to him the other day, he had the White Sox for 60 wins, but then he went to spring training and talked to the entire White Sox organization.

Speaker 1 He's upgraded to 66. Yeah, so I did talk to you talked to the guys who actually are like, he was like, yeah, they're really bullish.
I was like, at spring training?

Speaker 4 I talked to White Sox Dave about it for this specific reason. He's like, I think they're going to be better than last year.

Speaker 4 And then Chief was like, does this have anything to do with you spending a week hanging out out with him? Right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, possibly spring training where it's the best vibes possible.

Speaker 4 Yeah, because his explanation was they're all young, hungry guys that are going to bust their ass that nobody believes in. Okay.

Speaker 4 And I also don't feel like sticking my finger in the south side of Chicago's eye. Yeah.
So I think it might be the athletics. Yeah, I think it is.
Okay, officially decided.

Speaker 4 I'm betting $100,000 against the athletics. Love it.
Although that's not... Breaking it down $67,000.

Speaker 4 I'm betting $100,000 against the athletics.

Speaker 1 Well, you said it was fine, yeah.

Speaker 4 So, yeah, so I guess I'm going to have to do that this season, but I feel like it's going to make me money. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I feel good about this. I might take this journey with you.
You want to do it? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Do it every single day.

Speaker 1 Because, fuck, John, not run line?

Speaker 4 I was thinking about run line. Okay.

Speaker 1 Not money line. Yeah.
Because I was going to say money line is going to get expensive.

Speaker 1 And it's risking six. It's like you'll risk $600 to win like $50.

Speaker 4 You want to do run line?

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then we go run line.
Every day. Minus one and a half against the A's.
Okay.

Speaker 4 So the tricky part is going to be remembering to do this. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 someone's got to remind us. Jake's out today.

Speaker 1 Somebody.

Speaker 1 Max.

Speaker 1 Remind you every day. Every day that the white

Speaker 1 athletics play. You know what? I got the perfect person.
Stephen Shea. Stephen Chey Shah.
He will absolutely remind us every day, and we'll want to fucking kill him.

Speaker 4 I need him to send us a text with a link to the bet slip

Speaker 1 out. Every day.
Every day.

Speaker 1 Okay. My Fire Fest is a little bit of a teaser, but we knocked off another white whale, and it's coming Monday, and we've had to sit on it all week.

Speaker 4 Yep, we sure did.

Speaker 1 We sure did. So get excited, AWLs, because

Speaker 4 the man or woman has been a recurring topic throughout the history of part of my take. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Are we putting the short teaser in?

Speaker 1 Should we? Maybe we could just do his voice.

Speaker 1 Like it fades to black and it's his voice. Yeah.
So Viva TV. Viva TV.
Tune in Viva TV on Friday night. There will be a teaser on who it is.
And yeah, get ready.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just have it be as like it goes to black and then you hear his voice.

Speaker 4 Very excited.

Speaker 1 We nailed it, too.

Speaker 4 I think so.

Speaker 1 I think so. I think we did as best as we could given the circumstances.
Let's just leave it at that. Max, do you have a Fire Fest?

Speaker 7 This whole week was a Fire Fest.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah, the toilet.

Speaker 1 Nova.

Speaker 4 How's your toilet?

Speaker 6 No rugs. The

Speaker 1 Darcy Amazon review.

Speaker 4 His name is is Max. Is your toilet fixed? Toilets fit.
Your nephew has a way cooler name than you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's not a fire fest. I'm never going to let you meet Big Dom.
Don't say that. Oh, future Fire Fest.
Okay.

Speaker 1 It's all right. Next week will be better, right? Yeah.
Yeah, Big East Tournament. What could go wrong?

Speaker 1 Saturday, big game. Who are you playing? Creighton.
Oh, gotta win.

Speaker 1 Gotta win. Super Bowl.
I know. Kyle Neptune said it was a Super Bowl.
So bad. Oh, man.
All right. Let's do numbers.

Speaker 6 40.

Speaker 1 20. 3.

Speaker 7 77.

Speaker 1 8.

Speaker 1 Max and I are in a dangerous dance stealing each other's numbers.

Speaker 1 Dangerous dance. 20 dance.

Speaker 1 36.

Speaker 1 36.

Speaker 1 Love you guys.

Speaker 1 Get excited for Monday.

Speaker 1 Talking away.

Speaker 1 I don't know what I'm to say. I'd say it anyway.

Speaker 1 Today's a matter of day to find you shy away.

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for your love of day. For your love of me.

Speaker 1 Take on

Speaker 1 me.

Speaker 1 Take

Speaker 1 me up

Speaker 1 I'll be on

Speaker 1 daylight

Speaker 1 I want to sentence but I'll be so little way

Speaker 1 Further than life is okay

Speaker 1 Say after me

Speaker 1 It's better to be safe It's better to be safe It's all better to be safe It's all better to be safe

Speaker 1 Take me up.

Speaker 1 I'll give you all

Speaker 1 together.