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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have a great interview with Celtics Derek White and Peyton Pritchard. They came to the studio.
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Speaker 1 We also are going to talk some college basketball.

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Speaker 1 Welcome to part of my take, presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. Today is Monday, February 26th.

Speaker 1 And boys, it's happened again. We got a court storming problem.
We've got some discourse when it comes to storming the court. I think that nature kind of has a way of healing itself sometimes.

Speaker 1 When fans storm the court and the fans get injured,

Speaker 1 I think that's good.

Speaker 1 I think there should be a rule that if you're a player and a fan comes at you, you can just go hog wild on them.

Speaker 1 The free fight rule that I've had for a very long time.

Speaker 1 Let the players have a free fight. But yeah, we had a great Saturday of college hoops.
We can get to some of the other games, Yukon and Villanova.

Speaker 1 But the big story that captivated the country for, I don't know, three or four hours was Duke getting their, or Wake Forrest storming the court on Duke, Kyle Filipowski getting maybe injured.

Speaker 1 Have we had an MRI with him yet?

Speaker 1 I don't think he's that injured. I haven't seen it yet, so I guess he sprained his ankle.
He may or may not have sprained his ankle, tripping the guy, though. Shoving someone, yeah.

Speaker 1 He stuck his foot out. The guy went flying, which is awesome.

Speaker 1 But yeah, then after the game, he just said, like, yeah, it felt personal. It felt like they were attacking me.
And then the overhead camera. I don't know.
Have we always had these overhead cameras?

Speaker 1 Like, we saw that with Caitlin Clark, right? Yeah. And now we see it here.
I think it's just installed strictly to review court storm.

Speaker 1 It's installed so that when a player says, oh, my life was threatened, we can zoom in and be like, no, actually, you were the one shoving. Which I don't, listen, that was a bang-bang play.

Speaker 1 I don't know if I'm going to go all the way and say that Kyle Filipowski was like actively trying to push someone. It was was a bang-bang play.
I love court storming. I'll always love court storming.

Speaker 1 It's part of college basketball. It's part of like it's unique to the sport and like students getting excited, college kids being idiots.

Speaker 1 I'm in for all of that because I once was a very, very dumb college student, and I don't forget that, even though those years are very long, long ago. But we storm a court like a year ago.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we did, and that was fun. Well, that was when

Speaker 1 awesome. That's when Wisconsin won the Big Ten.
Yeah. Outright.
Share of it. The yeah, Darren Revell tried to tried to, because he

Speaker 1 said that guys should, it was assault and that it should be like criminally prosecuted and all these ways. Everyone came up with ways to stop court storming.
So

Speaker 1 as a big J journalist myself, what I did was I went back and I found all the times Darren Revelle cheered about a court storming and I just retweeted them into the timeline.

Speaker 1 And then he was like, Didn't you do a show Court Stormer or Storm Chasers? And I was like, yeah. And it rocked.
Yes. It was awesome.

Speaker 1 It's fun, but again, when you do it, you have to be ready to deal with the consequences. Yeah.
If you go on the court, you might get - it's like the Harambe rules. You run into the gorilla nest.

Speaker 1 You might, somebody's going to get shot.

Speaker 1 The big story for me,

Speaker 1 outside of the fact that it was just reminding me that a ton of reporters for a given sport don't like the fans and actually look down on them, which always just baffles me, was I was just missing Coach K so much in this moment.

Speaker 1 This was a moment built for Coach K.

Speaker 1 He would have probably gone into the Wake Forest locker room. He probably would have actually scheduled maybe a lecture on Monday at Wake Forest to teach a class.
At Center Court. Yeah,

Speaker 1 he would have gotten everyone off the court. He would have scolded them.
He would have asked for the microphone.

Speaker 1 And then he would have given us a press conference where he was

Speaker 1 screaming and yelling and being upset. Not screaming and yelling, being his.

Speaker 1 You know how Coach K used to be? He gets smarmy.

Speaker 1 He screams without yelling. He gets real disappointed.
Yeah. Like everyone.
Coach K thinks everybody in the world is his son. Right.
And so he gets to talk to them like that.

Speaker 1 And he would make sure to avoid all questions about the actual game and losing to Wake Forest. And I missed him.
I missed him in this moment.

Speaker 1 John Shire tried his best to give us a Coach K impression, being like, you have to ban this forever.

Speaker 1 Meanwhile, I think Duke is the one student section where the students basically touch the players when they're inbounding a ball.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I will stay. I wish Philipowski didn't get hurt.
I hope no players get hurt. I do think you probably need to...

Speaker 1 Wake Forest maybe probably should have like I think there was time on the clock when the when the players are on the yeah the clock on that court that was excessive but other than that like it was a false start figure out a way to to you know get i think creighton did it perfectly where they basically just walled off the entire yukon bench when they stormed the court Don't get rid of store court storming.

Speaker 1 Don't do that. I agree.

Speaker 1 That's the one thing that like everyone who's trying to tell you that there should not be court storming, they're fucking losers, and they probably went to like Syracuse or Northwestern.

Speaker 1 That's a shot at you, Jake, and don't remember what it was like to have fun in college. I actually think that what Coach K would do would be their next home game, Duke's next home game.

Speaker 1 He would lecture his fans. Yes.
As an example, be like, we're better than that. We don't need to do what the Wake Forests of the world do.

Speaker 1 We expect to win here at Duke, and you're endangering yourselves and your opponents. And you're more than anything, you're selling the reputation of your school if you do this.

Speaker 1 So he would give a big lecture to Duke. That is just 100% a slap in the face to Wake Forest.
And how many course throwings are there in a year? Like 100? I don't know. There's a lot.

Speaker 1 Now, yeah, so we're trying to find a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. Yeah, Wake Forest was, they were fast.
The fans were fast. They were on.
They were fast. They were all over it.

Speaker 1 You got to wait till the clock expires, and then I agree that the way that they walled off UConn is the right way to do it. So they can, all the players can, you know, file calmly off the court.

Speaker 1 But in a situation like this, like if Philipowski intentionally tripped the person that was sprinting full speed, by the way, that takes balls to just sprint full speed across the court. Yes.

Speaker 1 I'm okay with that. I am too, because guess what? His, like, this is what happens when Caitlin Clark was similar situation.

Speaker 1 When you take a terrible loss and then you have fans in your face, that's an emotional moment for the players, too.

Speaker 1 So I'm not going to go be like, oh, Philip Howski, like, how could he possibly do that? Again, bang, bang, play. I just, I think he's probably fine.

Speaker 1 I think he might have, I think it might have been a phantom roll of an ankle. Like, oh, shit, we lost.
And I just shoved a guy possibly out. My ankle hurts, how my arm, Rodney Dangerfield.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like if Grayson Allen was was complaining about like a bruised shin bone all the time, be like, well, it's because you stuck your foot out and did it.

Speaker 1 It's a very smart play by him. I think that's.

Speaker 1 No one's talking about the loss. Yeah.
It's talking about court storming.

Speaker 1 It's a heady play. It's a very Duke play.
And guess what? No matter what we say, what we do, kids are going to still rush on the court after a big win at home. Yeah.
Especially on a Saturday. Correct.

Speaker 1 It's just going to happen.

Speaker 1 And it's going to rock. And those are memories that those kids will have for the rest of their lives.
They'll be like, remember that time we dummied Kyle Filipowski? Yeah. That was sick.

Speaker 1 Where's one on the record? I'm pro-court storming. Ah, you came across, it was a moment in time where you and Darren Revelle were lockstep in your thoughts.

Speaker 1 It was like you, Darren Revelle, Seth Davis, and Jeff Goodman all being like, this is disgusting.

Speaker 1 I don't think Jake is pro-court storming. I think he's like, yes, it happened, but were there insider agitators that were telling the kids to storm the court? I am

Speaker 1 safety.

Speaker 1 I didn't want anyone getting hurt, students or players. You were quick to jump on the, oh my God, this is so bad.

Speaker 1 He got hurt.

Speaker 1 The students ran at him. Yeah, until we saw the overhead.
You gotta have waited. You gotta wait.
Of course. That's on me.

Speaker 1 Storming the court with you guys in Madison was one of the most fun experiences.

Speaker 1 You are a hypocrite, too. Yeah.
I never said I'm anti. I am pro.
Students should have fun, but this is Wake Forest administration's fault for not having a security plan.

Speaker 1 Like you said, Creighton had a perfect plan. If Wake Forest has this plan, you have to come with the plan.
Duke's coming in.

Speaker 1 I don't even. Really, the issue is Wake Forrest not being good enough at basketball to believe in

Speaker 1 their favorite. They were favorite too.

Speaker 4 People are talking about that. Oh, here we go.

Speaker 1 Here comes the word.

Speaker 1 I didn't know if you were a Duke fan or a Nova fan.

Speaker 1 We'll get to that.

Speaker 1 Philly Hank is sprouting a rose petal from concrete.

Speaker 1 I don't blame the security either because they're probably getting paid like seven bucks an hour. So pay them more? Yeah, I don't know.
Like,

Speaker 1 I'm not going to blame some dude in a yellow coat who's getting paid minimum wage and has a bunch of kids running at him. The university should have had a better plan.
Sure.

Speaker 1 You were for a moment there very much. It was a group of big J journalists who fucking suck eggs, and you were in that group.

Speaker 1 That was a fact.

Speaker 1 You don't release a notes app if you weren't in that group. You prematurely made a mistake.
I own it. I don't double down.
I know when I'm wrong. Jake, it's always tough 20 minutes.

Speaker 1 It's always better to be right than to be first. Yeah.
You're absolutely right.

Speaker 1 And I was first. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was actually, I was right in first by saying the court storming rocks no matter what. You know what?

Speaker 1 I might be anti-safety. Yeah,

Speaker 1 I caught AM too.

Speaker 1 I caught AM too. Yeah, fine.
Yeah. Listen, this is a man.
I caught AM too. This is what being a man is all about.
You got to take chances sometimes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 If you're a fan, how many times are you going to get that opportunity, if you're a Wake Forest fan, to beat Duke on your home court and then just go balls to the wall sprinting full speed right like in the thick of the game like I'm doing the bare minimum right now of being like well you really should wait till the time's fuck that run at any time yeah anti-safety as soon as the game feels like it's over fucking storm the court and you know what I bet you if you asked that guy on wake forest if he in if he ended up getting injured if he's got like a torn mcl or something he would be like yeah it was worth it It was worth it.

Speaker 1 I'd do it again.

Speaker 1 The one Wake Forest guy who patted Philip Howski on the back and Seth Davis was like, did you see him try to shove him? Oh, the second guy.

Speaker 1 My thoughts should have been on the second guy. I would have had more of a ton of people.
But that guy didn't even, like, he touched him. I guess you can't touch him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but you should be able to touch him. Fucking maybe.
We have chaos. Well, that's the thing.
If you want to touch the players, they're going to touch you, too. Yeah.
I'm cool with you.

Speaker 1 And next thing you know,

Speaker 1 people are either beating each other up

Speaker 1 or

Speaker 1 beating each other off. Yeah.
So either way, it's going to be fun. Either way, yeah.
I just don't want court storming to ever stop.

Speaker 1 And every time one of these situations pops up, it's like all these big J's just show up and like, this has to stop.

Speaker 1 These guys who are sitting in a press box who don't remember what it was like to have fun. So do it safely, fine, but keep doing it.
Do it more. Agreed.
It's fine. Do it harder.

Speaker 1 Listen, I would rather, I like seeing storming a court like this way more than I like seeing that guy and his girlfriend or wife or whatever calling Kevin Durant a bitch. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then Kevin Durant walking over to him. That was the funniest class.
That was bad for podcasters.

Speaker 1 They called him a bitch, and then he walked over to the woman and the woman was like, Here, shake my hand. And then they were like, Well,

Speaker 1 her brother died, and I have a podcast. Yeah, it was the only thing missing was if the woman was maybe skinnier and the man was fatter, it would have been an episode of Pardon My Team.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 You spent like six years calling him a bitch, then being like, Hey, dude, can you come on? Yeah, please come on our podcast.

Speaker 1 Well, that was us. We want to have him on the podcast to ask him if he is a baby back bitch.
Yeah, no, we don't. I think I've since changed my tune.
He's not a baby back bitch.

Speaker 1 I just wonder some people are asking that. Yes, some people have talked about it.
And the people that we're talking about are, that's us six years ago. Right.
We're talking about it. Correct.

Speaker 1 We've evolved. We've changed our stance.
More facts came out. Jake.
So we've updated our minds. That was.

Speaker 1 And I hate that I keep bringing up Ravel, but he's when he, when I retweeted all his old tweets and people are like, dude, was this you? And he's like, yeah, 2021.

Speaker 1 Times have changed.

Speaker 1 Times have changed.

Speaker 1 He's experienced personal growth since then. New year knew him.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That works because you're like 16, 20, 25.

Speaker 1 45 to 45. Well, they're trying to cancel you for like high school tweets.
What? Yeah, they're trying to cancel you for like high school tweets. Yeah, Ravel had a that was in his pre-woke moment,

Speaker 1 2021.

Speaker 1 Way different.

Speaker 1 What Rocks is that you can always blame anything that happened in 2020 or 2021. Like, I had COVID at that time.
COVID time. Give it up for Chicago.

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Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But yeah,

Speaker 1 it was a great weekend of College Hoops. Feels like we're getting ready for March.

Speaker 1 Big story in College Hoops this weekend. Rick Petino brought the white suit out.
I know. And he looked good.
And they won.

Speaker 1 And apparently he had to hit up a tailor and bribe a tailor to make this suit for him. Shout out Jon Fanta.

Speaker 1 Jon Fanta got the whole story. Yeah, that's like, I mean, this is why Jon Fanta exists.
It is. And this is great reporting on his part.

Speaker 1 And Patino in the white suit looks fantastic. Big win.
I wish I had known that Patino was wearing the white suit. You have to bet on the white suit.
It camouflages all the stains for Rick.

Speaker 1 And so he's out there looking his best. Oh, our stalker did hit me up.
He's like, oh, wait, what'd he say? Let me read it.

Speaker 1 He was like, this is what winners do. Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 yes.

Speaker 1 I respect Rick when he's wearing the white suit. This guy doesn't understand that we like Rick Petino.
You have to like Rick Petino. He's good for college basketball.
Yeah, hold on.

Speaker 1 He texted me almost immediately after the game. It felt like it might have been just Rick from...

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. You see what winners do? Go out and back it up against your friend McDermott.
We had Greg McDermott on once. One time, yeah.
That's what happens when you poke the bear. No coincidence there.

Speaker 1 Looking forward to seeing you in Chicago for the game on the fifth. So

Speaker 1 if I'm reading this correctly, credit to us. Yeah.
Credit to us for getting the best out of Rick Petino. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're welcome. You're welcome.

Speaker 1 The guy who keeps stalking me. The Rick Whisperers.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So we had another big game, Nova Yukon. What happened? So I didn't catch that one.
I was at a bar that didn't have TVs when that game was going on, and I haven't checked the scores.

Speaker 1 Well, good news, PFT, it was dubbed a no-lose, so no one lost. Okay.
Yeah. But somebody had to lose.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the way I saw it shaking out, as the game was,

Speaker 1 we were talking about it, we were previewing it last week, and Danny Hurley tweeted out a Game of Thrones meme with him. He was pissed off because they just lost.
to McDermott.

Speaker 1 So you felt like something big was coming from UConn, but I feel like this was a really no-lose situation for Villanova, who'll be playing like they had, you know, every opportunity, no expectations

Speaker 1 were on Villanova. So at the very least, I expected them to keep it close within probably 10 points or so.

Speaker 1 No, unfortunately, they got absolutely boat raced.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 Max was very upset. I think he might still be upset.
Was it a beatdown? It was a beatdown of...

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was a beatdown. Tristan Newton had a triple-double.

Speaker 1 They were actively, like, they were kind of toying with Villanova at the end. They kept him in till the end.

Speaker 1 And every time he'd passed the ball, he was one assist away. Every time he'd passed the ball, the crowd would go crazy.
And then finally he got it.

Speaker 1 I was behind because I caught some guy picking his nose very aggressively, so I had to rewind my TV, normal stuff on a Saturday night. So I was like maybe a minute behind.

Speaker 1 And so I'm watching the end of the game with two minutes left. And I was like, he's not going to get this because they're going to pull everyone.

Speaker 1 And I texted the group text being like, well, at least no one got a triple-double, Max. And then like right away, it happened because I was behind.
And I was like, whoops.

Speaker 1 And then Max just went nuclear, just deciding to, and then Hank jumped in. Hank's a Villanova fan now.
If you had been feed on the game, you would have never known to say that.

Speaker 1 I would never have known to say that. And

Speaker 1 Hank was texting me being like, I fucking pray that Villanova plays the Badgers in the tournament.

Speaker 1 Why is this a rivalry now? The Badgers are not good, by the way. They're going to be in the tournament.
They're not good.

Speaker 1 The minute I said I was becoming emotionally vulnerable, they stunk from that moment on. So they actually made it very easy for me.
So my expectations are low. But Villanova,

Speaker 1 I don't know if they'll be in the tournament. First four out?

Speaker 1 Actually,

Speaker 1 three quad one games still left on the schedule. First four out.
So right now, if the tournament started, they would not be in. But they got the quad.

Speaker 1 According to Joe Lonnard, like that doesn't mean anything. Well, I mean, he's usually pretty right.
That is incorrect. Right now, Blake has them in the tournament, and

Speaker 1 it would be disgusting if they let he would be very disappointed if they didn't make it. But you got to worry about the bubble, so why are you coming at me?

Speaker 1 I was upset. I was emotional.
Yeah. So how are you feeling now? And Hank,

Speaker 1 is there beef now?

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 4 I was just with Max. He was in a bad place.
I was trying to fire him up. I was also just trying to fire him up, you know, as a friend and also just to get some spiciness in the group text.

Speaker 1 Does he get a mate? Actually, I just got a text from Blake. He's listening live.
He's got great ears.

Speaker 1 He has them as

Speaker 1 one of the final four into the NIT.

Speaker 1 So Nova's in the NIT. That's his NIT bracket.
Max said, I pray we play you as a 12-5. Pray.
Hank said, Mega Max, lock of the millennium, Nova versus Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 Why Hank Reverend Boyd? Out of nowhere. Hank Reverend Boys.

Speaker 1 So that was your first Villanova game you watched, Hank? What was it? Yeah, I'm trying to get back into it.

Speaker 4 It was

Speaker 4 the tweet I thought was a little over the top. Obviously, you like that out of your coach with the Game of Thrones tweet.

Speaker 4 It was like 88% of the public money was on UConn. It seemed like a letdown spot.
It seemed like everyone was like, oh my God, he he put out this Game of Throws Suite. They're going to kill him.

Speaker 4 And, you know, Big East, rivalry, big spread. But Danny Hurley backs up what he said.
I know, but I was just thinking.

Speaker 1 He said that the Madison Square, he said, no, he said, you can get us now, get us now, because you won't get us later. And then he was completely correct when saying that.

Speaker 4 And I was thinking, Big East basketball, it's going to be close rivalry game. And then Villanova, I think, shot 7%.

Speaker 1 So he thought it was a letdown spot for UConn after they were coming off of a letdown. Yeah.
Yeah, it was a letdown after.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it was a double letdown.

Speaker 1 Also, shout out Game Dave to having Danny Hurley shoot half-court shots, and he immediately just yelled, fuck!

Speaker 1 I love that. Like as loud as possible.
I love that. Also, I heard a rumor that College Game Day was not allowing Max.
I heard the same rumor.

Speaker 1 That they were not, they're not in the interest of, they're not interested in promoting part of my take. Yes.
And so for all the people that showed up with Max, has

Speaker 1 signs, they were confiscating those signs. Yes.
ESPN is.

Speaker 1 I swear to God, Max.

Speaker 1 Max

Speaker 1 ESPN's pocket. Someone DM'd me and said they they brought us on and they took it.
Yep. I heard that too.
So they'll let you do football game day.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 1 But they won't let students bring their fans. Fickle them together.
Fickle all high school. They were trying to hire me at the time.
Also, how do they know that's part of my take? Max soda.

Speaker 1 I mean, everyone in that booth listens to us. Max, are they trying to hire you?

Speaker 1 Shout out Kevin. Shout out Kyle.
Who else is in that booth? I don't know. In the truck.
But ESPN must be. It's probably a Joe.

Speaker 1 What up, Joe? ESPN probably sees all the Max memes, and their next big move is to hire Max at ESPN. Boo.
Yep, just make him a meme. Sweet, Max, back to the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What? What do you think? We got to the game, real quick.

Speaker 1 Is it a make or mislead?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Shooting 12% from three

Speaker 4 is not going to win you basketball games.

Speaker 1 Max is on.

Speaker 4 Max was sitting at the bar, but like, you know, when you stand on the bottom of your chair, so you're even taller? Yeah.

Speaker 4 He was doing that, yelling at the TV, and I just kept looking at the bartender and being like, what?

Speaker 4 What is going on? Credit to me, Max.

Speaker 1 I didn't, I told you before, I didn't do the thing I was going to do, which is going to be very mean because you guys were at Declan's,

Speaker 1 one of my very good friends owns the bar, and I was going to have him go over before the game and be like, hey, if UConn covers, Big Cat's paying for the entire tab just to have everyone root for UConn at the table.

Speaker 1 Didn't do that.

Speaker 1 So, credit to me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, at least I wouldn't have had to pay for the tab. And I realized what I should do, if that ever happens again, is I should actually make it like shots for the entire bar.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the whole bar roots against Max. I would leave.
I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that.

Speaker 1 That's what I thought you were saying at first when you were like, I was going to cover the tab, but no, you were just paying for Max's table. Yeah, well, he was with like 10 dudes.

Speaker 1 So I was going to just get a great shot. It was a great Saturday

Speaker 1 up until that.

Speaker 1 Then you woke up this morning, you put on your Sixers shirt, and you're like, it's going to be different today. Belt ass.
I mean, no, the Sixers.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, you can't even get that from. So, Nova, in or out?

Speaker 1 They're going to be in.

Speaker 1 It doesn't help. They started the day yesterday at first, four out.
They finished the day at first four out.

Speaker 1 They can't lose to Georgetown. That would be a quad three or four loss.
That would be very bad, Max.

Speaker 1 Georgetown's must-win. You need a resume builder.
Well, that's not good. Is that a resume builder? No.

Speaker 1 No, they're going to get three quad one games after that. Okay, win some quad one games, Max.

Speaker 1 It's not hard to Georgetown and then win two of the next three. We're in.
Go do it. It's not hard.
Max versus Pug next week. Huge bubble games.
Yeah. Keaton Hall.
Do it, Max.

Speaker 1 Go win some quad one games, quad two games. That's all that matters this time of year.
Quad one and two.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Should we participate in the difficult discussion that's happening across Michigan regarding Tom Izzo? Yeah, it's over. You think it's over? That was a really bad loss.
Tom Izzo,

Speaker 1 we were very early on this take, which we made, I think, being sarcastic that he's overrated.

Speaker 1 Now it seems like the world's catching up to that take.

Speaker 1 It feels like we lost Kay, we lost Rory Williams, we lost Boheim.

Speaker 1 Boheim, by the way, getting like a Boheim day this quick. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That feels weird. He's got to let a little time pass.

Speaker 1 He was very upset he got fired.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think Izzo, that was a really, really bad loss. Things are tough right now for Michigan State.

Speaker 1 I feel bad for him. If you're Michigan State and you have Big Brother win a national championship in football, you were pointing at basketball.

Speaker 1 So you were like, well, it doesn't matter with basketball school.

Speaker 1 And then to have this implode on him but i feel like with with izzo are they gonna would they fire is oh no you have to let izzo walk on his own turn you have to be like well we'll fire you if you don't retire yeah he's he will gracefully go away it's not like you can there's no retirement home for coaches and be like we're sending you to a home right look after you right no he'll yeah he'll have to

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I have a trivia for you, PFT.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I'm going to list some names, okay? Jeff Capel, Kenny Payne, Hubert Davis, Earl Grant, Adrian Autry, Damon Stoddemeyer, Micah Shrewsbury, Kevin Keats, Leonard Hamilton. Okay.

Speaker 1 What are those?

Speaker 1 Guards? No, those are ACC head coaches who happen to be black. Okay.
That was actually a graphic on ESPN. Interesting.
ACC coaches who happen to be black. black.

Speaker 1 They just stumbled upon it. What a coincidence.

Speaker 1 I don't know what the fuck that was. That's wild.

Speaker 1 It's way better to say are black. Blackhead coaches.
Blackhead coaches. Who happened to be black? Yeah, but we're putting up this stat.
Isn't this a weird coincidence?

Speaker 1 Whoever made that graphic is so scared of language that they went with happens to be black.

Speaker 1 So why would you make that graphic if it's happens to be? I don't know. It was one of the weirdest things ever.
I thought it was a Photoshop when I first saw it, but then I saw it everywhere.

Speaker 1 I was like, this actually was put on air. I love that.
Happens to be happy. I kind of love it.
You know what I was thinking about the other day? You remember back in, when was that? Was it 2020?

Speaker 1 Maybe before? When ESPN had the guy named Robert E. Lee?

Speaker 1 Or his name was Bob Lee, Robert Lee. Yeah, Robert Lee.
And he was going to announce a game. Asian dude.
Yeah, he's an Asian guy. He still calls games for them.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was going to announce a game at UVA, and they moved him off the assignment because his name was Robert Lee.

Speaker 1 We were insane for a little bit there.

Speaker 1 What was that? What was the DJ's guy? The DJ who ended racism? Didn't we get over this? Who was that? At the MLS

Speaker 1 Tiesto. No.
David Guetta. David Guetta.
Uh-huh. Just shout out George Floyd.
Shout out to his family. Shout out to his family.
Keep that clip. Started that clip real quick.

Speaker 1 But yeah, happens to be black. That is,

Speaker 1 you got to pause and be like, what am I saying with this? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Their head coaches first. And they also, it's just a coincidence.
They just happen to be black. They just are black.
And we put them in a graphic together.

Speaker 1 To show that they all happen to be black together.

Speaker 1 Yeah, David Guetta. Maybe they meant racism.
Maybe they meant to say happy to be black. Yeah, possibly.
All right, yeah, here's David Guetta ending racism.

Speaker 1 Is

Speaker 1 in honor of George Floyd.

Speaker 1 And I really hope we can see more unity and more peace

Speaker 1 when already things are so different.

Speaker 1 So, shout out to his family.

Speaker 1 And here's the beat drum.

Speaker 1 Bam.

Speaker 4 And it's got the I Have a Dream. Yeah.
Rock.

Speaker 1 Get the confetti and the Nosco. Yeah, he did.
He remixed MLK.

Speaker 1 I still have a dream.

Speaker 1 It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Speaker 1 I have a dream.

Speaker 1 Bang! There it is. See a racism.

Speaker 1 Now we party.

Speaker 1 Yeah, see, like that. Whoever wrote the happens to be black, they should have just been like, dude, someone in the truck should have just been like, hey, dude, don't you remember David Gueta? Yeah.

Speaker 1 We've been through this.

Speaker 1 We did this.

Speaker 1 The graphic show said it happened to be black, but actually, I don't see color. So who knows? Crazy.
Crazy. All right.
Any other college basketball? I want to see what happens to be Polish.

Speaker 1 Happened to be Italian. Happen to be Italian.
Anything else before we talk some other sports? And I do a quick ad. I think that was all college basketball.
Houston Baylor was awesome.

Speaker 1 Well, until the one Baylor player.

Speaker 1 He lost the ball. They're just kids.
Well, no, he missed a free throw, and then he lost the ball, and then he made a terrible foul. Yeah, his controller got unplugged.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was one of those moments, too. I went and saw Migration.
Everyone should go see it.

Speaker 1 Great kids movie. And I was watching that game

Speaker 1 underneath while my son was sitting on my lap watching a kids movie being like, this fucking asshole just lost the ball. God damn it.
I knew he was going to miss that foul shot.

Speaker 1 Oh, well, it was like a 57%. 100% he bricks that every single time.
Yeah. But yeah, that was a great game.

Speaker 1 I bet on Houston. Houston's really good.
In that game, and I got a future on him, so I'm just rooting for them to win no matter what.

Speaker 1 So they didn't cover, then the brick, then the buzzer beater that wasn't.

Speaker 1 What a wild ride to get the crazy. It was crazy.

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Speaker 1 Oh, that's so cute of you.

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Speaker 1 Okay, other stories. The Cubs are back.
Cody Bellinger finally got signed. Jake, you sent him the

Speaker 1 list, right? Hank's list. I don't want to see it.
Yeah, I said, hey, Cody, congrats on the new deal. Here's Hank's full top 10 all-time patriots list plus honorable mentions.

Speaker 1 This list is highly confidential only me you and hank have access to the full list okay good can you reply to it good no not yet all right you should you should dm him across all platforms though yeah make sure he sees it i followed him on twitter he has to follow back for me to dm so this is on instagram okay also shout out this woman lisa it's just a fun little story but there's a a woman who lives in a cubb fan who lives in arizona named lisa l dubs which great name uh she said on friday night or friday afternoon i heard that they signed bellinger just now from a good friend who's in Arizona but can't find anything online about it.

Speaker 1 Have you heard anything? And so everyone was like Lisa was right. And Jeff Passon actually said like Lisa was right.
That's cool. Yeah.
Shout out Lisa. Shout out Lisa.
Good job, Brother.

Speaker 1 Good job, Lisa. We also have an update on the uniforms.
People still debating it. We're seeing more cocks.
We saw like a full. Who was that? What team was it? Someone was bent over.

Speaker 1 Yeah, somebody was bent over and you could see, I don't know what that was. It looked like his dick was in the back.
Yeah. Like his dick was inverted.

Speaker 1 If you have, listen, if your dick is underneath your balls and you're an MLB player and you've gotten away with it for this long and nobody knows, these pants are your worst nightmare. Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's gotten pretty crazy. Ravel continuing to

Speaker 1 carry water. He said, spoiler alert, the see-through jerseys through the pants isn't a new thing.
It happens all the time on Photo Day, and he had 10 years of the Cincinnati Reds dong showing. Okay.

Speaker 1 Spoiler alert. So he had that one on, he had that one queued up or something sent it to him? Like, here's a hot tip.
I don't know. He just had it ready to go.

Speaker 1 What they should do, they should put like a little blurred mosaic on the player's crotches all year long on TV. Yeah.
You know, let's fucking call him because we've mentioned him so many times.

Speaker 1 Our esports reporter, Darren Raffelle. Here we go.
Let's see. I'm going to just ask him how many years he went back to look at penises through

Speaker 1 pants.

Speaker 1 He probably's not going to pick up after last time. Well, he's kind of a glutton for punishment.
What if there's a game and it's raining? And someone always sends him clips of this show.

Speaker 1 How see-through are these things going to get? Seriously, it's going to be a wet t-shirt contest.

Speaker 1 I don't think he's picking up. He's probably looking at...
He's probably going through years and years of penises.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's hitting the ball. You've reached Darren Revelle.
Please leave your name in it. Okay.
Yeah, I mean, step one, make the bases bigger. Step two, make the dicks and balls more visible.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Step three, now you're the biggest sport in the world. Yeah.
Watch out, NFL. You did it.
You did it. Do we have, do you guys have Who's Back? Do you have Flacco the Eagle? Yeah, Flacco the Owl.

Speaker 1 Owl, sorry. Flacco the Owl.
Owl, Eagle. Flacco the Raven.
He is a fuck. Probably a Brown.
Yeah. Happens to be a Brown.
You want to save it for Who's Back of the Week? We can save it for who we are.

Speaker 1 We can save it. Yeah, yeah.
Should we, is it time? Number four, Patriot of all time. Are we ready? What are you laughing about, Max?

Speaker 6 Happens to be a brown.

Speaker 1 It was funny. Yeah.
Thank you, Max.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Ready? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Are you ready? I'm ready. Okay.
We think this might be, this is going to be telling because it's a reminder: it's offense, defense, offense, offense. For the top five.

Speaker 1 We'll do a quick recap so people know where we're at.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we have Dante Hightower in the five spot. We have Ty Law in the four spot.

Speaker 1 Wait, what? No, no, no, no, no. Six, five.
I'm five. I'm Keith.

Speaker 4 Five, six, five.

Speaker 1 Hold on, do it again.

Speaker 4 We have Dante Hightower in the sixth spot. We have Ty Law in the five spot.

Speaker 1 spot. Okay.
And the honorable mentions so far are The Lighthouse and Chris Long.

Speaker 4 Bethel Johnson. Chris Long was not on it.
I did do some reflecting. I did some research.
I did reach out to Chris. I apologize for my comments towards him.

Speaker 4 He is on the honorable mention list.

Speaker 1 Can we make a quote card out of that? I apologize to my comments towards Chris Long. Yeah.
Hank Lockwood. Because he heard what you said and he asked you.
He's like, keep my name out your mouth.

Speaker 1 And it dawned on me that Hank has become Florio. Hank Lockwood is doing...
doing, you're doing fan fiction. You're trying to get clicks off his name.
Well, it wasn't fan fiction.

Speaker 4 It is a fact that he did play for the Eagles the next year and he is very good friends with Lane Johnson. So I kind of,

Speaker 4 but there was reports, there was articles that were written that he was like, he hated that Lane Johnson said that. He disputed all of the claims that Lane Johnson made.

Speaker 4 That I kind of, you know, memory hold? Yeah, memory hold. And I was just like, he's friends with Lane Johnson.
He loved it when he said that. He definitely agreed.
Not the case.

Speaker 1 And I apologize.

Speaker 1 Also, you forget that the Lane Johnson quote was not even the lane johnson quote because we said i heard it we said it he kind of agreed with it and had like not really like jokey agreed with it then coward said that like did a whole segment about it and then it just became fact it's yeah it's actually kind of funny that we were the start of that story and then hank is somehow mad at chris long yeah you were sitting in the room you got that story really wrong

Speaker 1 okay so you take it back chris long uh honorable mention patriot yes that's good uh and then in the number four spot. Okay.
Wait, do six and five again.

Speaker 4 Dante High Tower six. Okay.
Tyla five.

Speaker 1 Did you watch the other two episodes?

Speaker 4 I did watch the other two. I am a little upset.
They kind of just yada-yadded 2003 and 2004. Uh-oh.
Which the whole series is called Dynasty.

Speaker 4 The first three episodes were great, and then at the end of episode three, they were like, yeah, they won in 2003 and won in 2004. Dynasty happened.

Speaker 1 And it's like, yeah, that was. The other two are what make it a dynasty.

Speaker 4 Yes, and that was, you know, they won a 21-game win streak. They were dominant.
There was the whole, there was a lot of lore in those two seasons with the Peyton Manning and a lot of the playoff wins.

Speaker 4 Brady becoming, you know, a superstar that I didn't appreciate them.

Speaker 4 Basically, they spent 40 minutes talking about Deflate Gate, five minutes, or Spygate, five minutes,

Speaker 4 basically, just a quick highlight package of 03-04. And I would have liked them to reverse it.

Speaker 1 This documentary is maybe

Speaker 1 not off on a great foot in terms of who's

Speaker 1 highlighting.

Speaker 4 I would have liked a I want some more biased

Speaker 4 direction in this documentary. I haven't liked making a documentary for the masses, which I guess is what you're supposed to do.
I was just expecting pure Patriots porn and that

Speaker 4 expecting to be days and days of

Speaker 1 porn, and it was just they just were like, yep, they did like a back-to-back Super Bowl. A full episode on Spygate, basically.
And I had forgotten some of the details in Spygate.

Speaker 1 I didn't even watch it. Do you remember

Speaker 1 after the story came out that they were videotaping stuff illegally when Mangini kind of ratted them out to the New York security?

Speaker 1 The next game that the Patriots had, they brought down these giant electric boxes on the sidelines that were frequency readers to make sure that

Speaker 1 you didn't have Ernie Adams talking to Bill Belichick during the game. They treated it like it was like West Germany, East Germany in the middle of the Cold War.
Got rules.

Speaker 1 Where they were checking into everything. And then Belichick's explanation about the Spygate stuff.
He's like, yeah, you know, I had a different interpretation of what the rules were.

Speaker 1 And then they read the rules for him. And he was like, yeah, well, you can read it one way.
We read it another way.

Speaker 1 There was a lot of cheating going on.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 you know, I'm not a doctor. I just stayed at a holiday in last night.

Speaker 1 I have not watched it yet. I'm going to watch it.
I did read a Jerry Thornton blog, though, and he was like, why was there so much time spent on Drew Bledsoe and Bill Parcells? Right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it's like, it is weird that they would do that and not talk about winning the Super Bowls.

Speaker 4 Which my fear now, since, you know, it's called Dynasty, they just glossed over Dynasty Part 1, is that they're going to gloss over Dynasty Part 2 and just talk about Belichick and Brady for like.

Speaker 1 How many episodes are there? 10. So they can't.
So there's going to be a full episode on 28 to 3. But they did a full episode leading up to the...

Speaker 1 What the hell is this? Why do you put this on the

Speaker 1 Zank Florio? Hank Florio.

Speaker 1 People who are watching on Anywhere

Speaker 1 We Have It Rumble.

Speaker 1 youtube you i mean this is a great photo you have to you have to be watching that is you right now right now hank florio that is a fucking nightmare image

Speaker 1 you look like the shadiest lawyer of all time there hank florio that's like that's a weed lawyer oh that that that actually is gonna give me nightmare that's that's a lawyer that specializes in like driving well stoned who made that AI Shane, yeah.

Speaker 1 Shane just made that? Oh my.

Speaker 1 God, Shane.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 memes made it. Memes made it.
Memes, send that to all of us. I need that.
Hank Florio. Okay, so by the way, Darren Revelle texted me back saying, I don't believe you.
So

Speaker 1 he's hip to us. Did I believe you? That what? That I was going to actually ask him a question, not hang up on him.
Which he's right. I would have hung up on him.
Maybe. No, I definitely would have.

Speaker 1 I would have said,

Speaker 1 how many cocks have you looked at to try to carry the water for Michael Rubin? And then he'd have been like, uh, bang.

Speaker 1 Would have been great. We'll get him again.
Okay, so, Hank, six and five?

Speaker 1 Dante Hightower. Yep.
Tylock. Okay.
Four. Four.

Speaker 1 Recurring guest. Oh, I think it's Kroc.

Speaker 4 Friend of the program. It's Jules.
It's Kroc. Great guy.

Speaker 1 Jules.

Speaker 4 Gritty receiver. Basically, fought through seven concussions against the Seahawks.
Chris Hogan. Made a miraculous catch against the Falcons.
Super Bowl MVP against the Rams.

Speaker 1 Wow. Julian Edelman.
Wow. Okay.
Four. I think that's fair.
Okay.

Speaker 1 There's going to be a lot on Julian in this documentary. I mean, two feels like more.

Speaker 1 At least three. Hank is nothing but honest with this, and I feel like, yeah, Gronk is, without Brady and Gronk together, I don't know if you get the second part of that dynasty.
Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 4 He is on the Mount Rushmore. All right.
He deserves to be.

Speaker 1 And who's your honorable mention this week? Chris Long. Or today? Oh, Chris Long.
He wasn't on it. Oh, he wasn't.
All right. He was on dishonorable mention.

Speaker 1 Has anyone gone from dishonorable to honorable? No. Chris Long.
Hernandez should be dishonorable. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you should do dishonorable

Speaker 4 We even ruled him out of the list.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, you're right. We still have 10 through 8.
It's 8 to go. Well, he was never actually convicted.
His conviction was vacated. That's true.
In the eyes of the law, not a murderer.

Speaker 1 It would be cool if he was number one. Of himself.
He just went purely on

Speaker 1 upside.

Speaker 1 It was there. Okay, so Wednesday we'll get number three.
Who's defense? Defense.

Speaker 1 Who could it be on defense? Will Fork? Will Fork, yeah, it's going to be Will Fork. Or Brewski.

Speaker 1 Or Vrabel. Is Hank gonna have an all-white top four? Uh-oh.

Speaker 1 Oh, no!

Speaker 1 Just patriots who happen to be one. Yeah, uh-oh.
Oh, boy.

Speaker 1 Okay, Hank. You still have time to change.
Well, no, you can't change it. All right, should we do Who's Back of the Week? And then we'll get to our interview.

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Speaker 1 Hank, you're who's back of the week.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we got to have a conversation about this big cat because I don't think this. I was in New York for a long time.
Bad sports town, shitty sports teams, bad fans.

Speaker 4 I've really enjoyed my time in Chicago. It is a great sports town.
You can feel the energy in town around these teams.

Speaker 4 People are excited.

Speaker 1 Hank is doing his

Speaker 1 back. He literally looked online and was like, I need something for who's back.
What's the last thing that happened?

Speaker 4 No, this is a fair, this is a, this is a bad sports time moment, in my opinion. Okay.
Patrick Kane, Red Wing, first came back against Chicago. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was there.

Speaker 1 There were actually a lot of Red Wings fans there. Like a lot.
The first goal was very loud. Like, all right, so I took my son.
It was an incredible night.

Speaker 1 I got a little misty-eyed when they did the Kane video tribute. It was Chelios jersey retirement.

Speaker 1 I had to watch the Chellios jersey retirement at home because there was no chance I was getting a four and a half year old to sit through all that.

Speaker 1 We were we went to ice cream maybe eight minutes into the first period to try to

Speaker 1 prolong the staying at the game. The Kane moment was incredible.
It was like he's everything. He's the best American hockey player.
He's fucking three cups.

Speaker 1 Like, he's just showtime, big moment after big moment. I saw the overtime goal.

Speaker 4 He scored an overtime goal and basically got a standing out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, it's, it's, the Blackhawks are bad right now. They've, they, they're going for lottery balls.
I also think there were a lot of Red Wings fans there that people don't realize.

Speaker 1 Because the first goal

Speaker 1 might be a bad sports sound of Insolent Real. Well, yeah, it could be.

Speaker 1 The first goal. Chelli's retirement night.
The first goal, my son stood up and cheered. So he's actually a bad sports sound because he was confused because other people were cheering.

Speaker 1 He just heard the horn and was like, this rocks. Now, were they cheering for the goal? Were they cheering for Patrick Kane or were they cheering for the draft pick? Both.
All three.

Speaker 1 I mean, Patrick Kane is like, yeah, I get it.

Speaker 1 Sure.

Speaker 1 They're really bad. They're the worst team in the NHL.
Patrick Kane is the best. He had double standing ovation.
He went out, slew. That's all fair.
And went back.

Speaker 1 He deserves all that standing ovation. You know what we should do? But once the game starts, it's like that's where people got to, you know, that happens.

Speaker 1 A lottery, we're tanking.

Speaker 4 They come back and they give him the standing oval, and then once the game starts, it starts booing.

Speaker 1 But we're tanking. Oh, there's a lot of Detroit sucks chants going on.

Speaker 1 What we should do is how Hank's doing like the top 10 Patriots, like the dynasty in his eyes, we should do our list of top 10 guys that played for a shitty team in your town that you rooted for the hardest when they left.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I still root for Patrick Kane. Not as much now on the Red Rings I did last year for the Rangers.

Speaker 1 Yeah, okay. Bad sports sound.
That's fine. I mean, Patrick Kane is like, he's the best.
I don't disagree.

Speaker 4 I just think, you know, once the game starts, you want to win.

Speaker 1 They're so bad, though, Hank. And they don't want to win.

Speaker 1 They don't want to win.

Speaker 4 I guess. I guess.
Hey, it was

Speaker 1 a bit embraced debate. Give me something.
Tank for Celebrini.

Speaker 1 Give me something. Something.
I need something. Suck Weenie for Celebrity.
Suck Weenie for Celebrini. That's what we've been doing all year, idiot.
Suck Weenie for Celebrity.

Speaker 1 It's a very popular hashtag. Yeah.
Dummy. It was an incredible night, though.
And we also have Box of the Year nominee. So I was lucky enough to.

Speaker 1 My son is going to be very jaded because he was able to take a picture with Wayne Gretzky tonight, which is crazy. His first hockey game ever.

Speaker 1 But there was a box at the game that was Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, John McEnroe.

Speaker 1 I was only in there for like two seconds, but Wayne Gretzky, John McEnroe, Mark Messier, Kid Rock, Theo Epstein, Cindy Crawford.

Speaker 4 It might have been Box of the Year. It would have been Jordan, too, if he was supposed to be there, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And Jordan also released a very funny video on a golf course, and he started it with, they played it on the Jumbotron at the United Center, and he just started with, hi, I'm Michael Jordan.

Speaker 1 It's like, okay. We know.
We know. We know.

Speaker 1 We know, dude. God, I would have been so starstruck by Kid Rock.

Speaker 1 Oh, that means Kid Rock's definitely getting fucked up in town tonight somewhere.

Speaker 1 my my wife was like how long were you in there i was like we actually were only in there for like 90 seconds because i got the picture with wayne gretzky said hello and but we had to leave because my son was like kid rock i think he was smoking five cigars at the same time i love that it was so fucking smoky there my son was like i want to go home so uh yeah he's a bad my son's a bad sports down he also

Speaker 1 Kind of a tough moment for me when I bought $200 worth of 50-50 raffle tickets. He's like, what do we win? I was like, no, that's not how it works.
You win the ability to try to get the UV.

Speaker 1 If we win this, we haven't won. But okay, I understand your sentiment.
You just completely forgot Suckweeni for Celebrity.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think at some level, if you're in the middle of the day, Patrick Paine is so good, man. I fucking love that guy so much.
I love him. I got Misty-eyed.

Speaker 1 That was my who's back with sports feelings because I was literally sitting there being like, God damn it, he rocked so hard.

Speaker 1 And it was like having a guy play for your team and being like that guy, whenever there's a, whenever you need a big moment, he always delivers. There's just no better feeling as a sports fan.

Speaker 1 I hope that experience got to the end. You're just like, that guy will always show up when you need him to show up.
Jules.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're number four patriot. Okay, PFT.
Am I who's back? Is Flacco the L. Yes.
R.I.P., kind of back, maybe not so really back. Dead.
Flacco the L. Died.
R.I.P.

Speaker 1 unfortunately flew into a building in New York. So if Sean McDermott needs a new preseason pump-up speech for the Bills, I think he'll just do a graphic on Flacco.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 he's been capturing the hearts and minds of New Yorkers for the last like two years. He's a Spanish owl and excuse me, Eurasian.
Eurasian, yeah. Eurasian eagle owl.
He's an immigrant.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's an immigrant and he escaped the Central Park Zoo in New York when somebody cut his netting in February 2023.

Speaker 1 And then he just chilled in Central Park like a mascot, flying around, dining on the biggest, fattest, dirtiest rats in the world. Is there a chance?

Speaker 1 How did he die? Did he leave a suicide note? How did he die? Yeah, cuz like it feels like maybe he just was sick of all these New Yorkers taking pictures of him So I believe he flew into a building.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he flew into a building idiot.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a building dude Ah So they said that there was a substantial hemorrhage under the sternum and in the back of the Oh, they did an autopsy on this fucker He's a fucking owl.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so he flew into the side of an upper west side building imagine being the window washer and you did like a great job and you're really proud and then you you rappel down to like the next floor and then flacco

Speaker 1 Love Owl in the world. I bet you that apartment's probably going to go above asking now.
You think so? Yeah, you were Flacco. What if it crashed through the window? What if it broke the window?

Speaker 1 Yeah, most famous New York desk, John Lennon, Flacco the Owl. Yeah, so R.I.P.
Flacco. I know everybody was really sad on Saturday morning.
So

Speaker 1 I'm not, I don't want to, I don't want to piss off the Flacco the Owl people. Very sad.
I do love animals.

Speaker 1 Some of the reactions were a little crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I saw this one, and I couldn't tell if it was satire, but it definitely wasn't, but it was great satire if it was.

Speaker 1 This person said,

Speaker 1 late last night, I saw the news that Flacco had passed away from a building collision. It seriously felt like I collided into a wall myself.
Just completely stunned to read those words.

Speaker 1 What an unfortunate tragedy. Rip Flacco will miss you.

Speaker 1 Is it really a tragedy when an animal dies? Like,

Speaker 1 a wild animal? Harambe, again. I guess.
Yeah, I guess. Still the lion.
I guess I just never was a Flacco guy, so it's like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 People love this.

Speaker 1 People love this fucking album. There's a vigil.
I'm not going to hate on people because people should enjoy.

Speaker 1 I'm a big believer in people enjoy whatever they want to enjoy, but saying it felt like I collided into a building, too? Yeah, it's a little bit much.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was heavy. That was heavy.
So apparently he didn't break any bone. This actually, something's up.
Oh, is it Epstein?

Speaker 1 It says he didn't break any bones, but he sustained massive hemorrhaging inside his body.

Speaker 1 This seems like somebody else had a hand in it.

Speaker 1 We need to check the flight logs. Where's Hillary? Yeah.
Where's she been at? Was Flacco on the list? She'd been somewhere in the woods walking around.

Speaker 1 This owl probably had information that would have led to the arrest and subsequent conviction of Hillary Clinton. Yeah.
Interesting.

Speaker 1 Do you think Hillary and Bill, like late at night, like Hillary's just like, so

Speaker 1 what have you been doing?

Speaker 1 Maybe. They had like, there's got to be an awkward silence at some point where you're just like,

Speaker 1 so yeah, that time you said you were going on a business trip, where was that? Yeah, or why did you have to put a cigar in an internship, Johnny, Bill?

Speaker 1 There's got to be some really awkward moments like in their marriage where they're just sitting there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, never mind. Yeah.
I don't want to talk about it. No, we don't need to get into it because I like doing the show and I hope none of us gets killed.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, I was saying that's what they would say never mind i don't want to talk about it yeah um probably because bill doesn't want to get killed yeah so i feel like well there was a hilarious valentine's day post from hillary to bill the other day and it was just like my valentine after all these years and they're like smiling at each other you there's no chance they love each other right it's a work relationship zero percent chance that they're in love with each other but yeah flacco let's let's justice for flacco i i'll i'll stand with the people who uh

Speaker 1 listen it's you know it seems fishy the fact that he died by flying into a window and didn't break a single bone yeah and there's a lot of people in New York City, and there's a lot of people who, you know, they need to find an owl to be their life.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So I understand it.
Yeah. It's no different than our sports teams.
Or Harambe. Or Harambe.
Yeah. Yeah.
But that was a little satire. His murder.
Yeah. A little satire.

Speaker 1 And a little satire. And shot.
He was murdered. Wait, what? What? Wait, huh? Harambe was murdered.
There's no question of it. Cold blood.

Speaker 1 A gorilla. A gorilla.
I feel like this owl, this OWL, got murdered too. Yeah.
I'm going to look into it. All right, My Who's Back.
Good who's back. My who's back is Cam Newton.

Speaker 1 Big time. Holy shit.
Don't fuck with Cam Newton. He was at, I think he had a seven-on-seven

Speaker 1 tournament he was throwing, and there was a fight video that got released. And Cam Newton somehow fought off, well, I guess not somehow, because he's a fucking monster and a

Speaker 1 beast of a human. He fought off three guys with his hat never being touched.
The hat never got knocked off. The hat hat had the tassels on it.
It remained perfect.

Speaker 1 It should count as you knocking Cam Newton out if you knock his hat off. Yeah.
That's the rule. Dak Prescott could never, by the way.

Speaker 1 I would like to see like next rough and rowdy, Logan Paul versus Cam Newton. No punches, just try to steal his hat.
Cam Newton beat the fuck out of him.

Speaker 1 No punches. Just try to get the hat.
Just try to get the hat. Can't be done.

Speaker 1 There was one moment where he had a guy in a chokehold and then was just ragdolling another guy with his other arm. It's just awesome to see, like,

Speaker 1 you know, I don't know how this all started, but they're probably talking shit about the hat. Yeah, and these guys being like, yeah, three-on-one, we can get Cam Newton.

Speaker 1 And Cam Newton just being like, no, you can't. Yeah, Cam Newton is his first ballot.
Like, don't fuck with me, guy.

Speaker 1 You would think, too, if you were trying to fight Cam Newton, you'd be like, you'd just have a quick second where you'd say, oh, yeah, he used to do this to NFL linebackers.

Speaker 1 Like, run them over, make them look like little boys, little boy ass play.

Speaker 1 Why would we try to fight Cam Newton? Yeah, a lot of people are saying like this might hurt any aspirations he has of a comeback. I think it helps it.
I think it helps a lot.

Speaker 1 He didn't make any business decisions during this fight. No.
Those three guys are just idiots for picking up

Speaker 1 morons. Cam Newton's like 6'5, 6'6, probably 250 pounds.
Don't fuck with Cam Newton. Yeah,

Speaker 1 he's a shit brick house. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Has he put out a statement on it with a weird font?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Maybe that was a fight over the font.
It might have been. It was funny.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 By the way, so we were talking about Flacco the Owl. There's been another animal that we've discussed on this show recently, the pregnant stingray, Charlotte.
Oh, yes. Yeah, the dude in that.

Speaker 1 Where is it? It's in North Carolina. Hendersonville, maybe.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the dude who works there being very nervous. So Charlotte, the pregnant stingray, has still not given birth, which makes me think

Speaker 1 this might be a publicity stunt. Or RG3.
RG, exactly. Like, is she really pregnant? And there was a great...
She could be body shaming. Yeah, she might just be fat.
She might have just gotten fat.

Speaker 1 She's going through menopause.

Speaker 1 Back off. Add this to the list of great black sports online headlines of all time.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, no. Sports online who happens to be black.
Experts on if a shark had relations with a female stingray who is pregnant, even though she hasn't seen a male stingray in eight years. Video.

Speaker 1 That's a great headline. Shout out Robert Little.
Yep. OG.
He's been on the internet for a long time. One of the best to ever write headlines.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 we need a conclusion to this. Otherwise, she's just fat.
She might just be fat. She's fat.

Speaker 1 Okay, Jake, finish us off. My who's back of the week is this league.
We had a brawl on Friday night between the Heat and the Pelicans, and it was exciting. Yeah.
A lot of suspensions, Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 1 Wait, I thought you were pro safety. Oh, interesting.
Hypocrite. But it sounds like a bad thing.
No one got hurt. No one got hurt.
No one got hurt. Someone could have gotten hurt.
Yeah, could have.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't have the same tone. Yeah,

Speaker 1 I don't think you can celebrate this brawl.

Speaker 4 T culture there, right, Jake? Yeah, he could. Fight everyone, trip people.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Trip people.

Speaker 1 No. I'm excited for Celtics Hank to be back.

Speaker 1 You're going to hear it in a minute, but yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They are really good. But yeah, it was exciting.
Jimmy Butler said it's that time of year. He's starting to lock in.

Speaker 1 Since I put the heat on the hot seat on the show a month ago, they're seven and two.

Speaker 1 Good job, Jake. Starting to lock in.
And yeah, it was a crazy brawl. Crazy brawl.
Yeah, there was a couple. Wasn't there another brawl, too?

Speaker 1 The Fires Rangers fight rock. Oh, yeah, that was incredible.

Speaker 1 That fight was so sad. Rocky fights are just the best.

Speaker 4 There was a Warriors Hornets brawl. That's right.
And then afterwards, J.M. Greener was like, Mikael Bridges can do no wrong.

Speaker 1 Whoops. Whoops.
Just because Miles Bridges. Miles Bridges.
Miles Bridges. Miles Bridges.
Mikhail Bridges, great guy. Nova.

Speaker 4 But yeah, just because they've

Speaker 1 Michigan State, Michigan guys. Yeah.
Also, bonus who's back? The Barstool Combine. Yep.
Yeah. Today, 11 a.m.
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I'm just going to be live.

Speaker 1 I am solely just trying not to get hurt. That's my only goal.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'm not going to win. I'm not going to come in last.

Speaker 1 I know I'm not going to win, but I just can't get hurt because I can't knock on wood. I just want to feel an injury coming, and I'm very nervous about it.

Speaker 1 I want to get out of here with both Achilles' tendons intact.

Speaker 1 And there's been some steps that I've taken recently where I'm like, I feel like the Achilles is about to go. Yeah, my back.
I woke up and my back was all tight, and I'm like, oh, no, Kalman.

Speaker 1 Don't get hurt. Don't get hurt.
I'm knocking knocking on wood. Don't get hurt.
Ah, famous last words. And how is Max not competing?

Speaker 1 He's producer. Can we get him in? I'm producer.
Can we get him in? I'm producer. You know that he needs.
People want to see. No, no, no.
Come on. Can we still? Do we still have time?

Speaker 1 No, we have no more time. At least do the vertical.
Ow, my best. Maybe during the

Speaker 1 yak.

Speaker 1 I'm out. I'm out.
I'm out. I'm out.
I need a replacement.

Speaker 1 Can anyone replace me? No, come on.

Speaker 1 I'm not in this.

Speaker 1 He'll have to run it at some point.

Speaker 4 Maybe during the yak. Okay.

Speaker 1 All right, fine. That's fine.
I just need to see him compete.

Speaker 1 I don't think I can make it in tomorrow. Oh, okay.
All right, Darren Revelle's calling me back. Should I pick up? Yes.

Speaker 1 Darren.

Speaker 1 Yes. Darren, you're live on Pardon My Take.
We had a question for you as our reporter, our esports reporter/slash.

Speaker 1 Groin specialist. Groin specialist.
How many penises did you go back and look at to find those Reds' penises when you posted that?

Speaker 1 About four.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay, four penises.
All right. The Mount Rushmore of baseball dogs.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That was Darren Revelle, esports reporter and penis expert. Recurring guest.

Speaker 1 All right, let's get to our interview. We have a great interview with Derek White and Peyton Pritchard in studio.
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Speaker 1 And now, here's Derek White and Peyton Pritchard.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on two very special guests from the Boston Celtics. It is Derek White and Peyton Pritchard.
First of all, thank you guys for coming by.

Speaker 1 And Derek, I've met you before, and I'm happy that you're here right now because you contributed to a very embarrassing moment for me.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you even remember it, but it was surviving bar stool, and I got eliminated on the first day, so I was staying at a hotel, and the Celtics were playing.

Speaker 1 I think you guys were in preseason? Yeah, Knicks in the preseason. Yeah, and we got in the elevator together, and I was like,

Speaker 1 I have a podcast, and my producer is a huge Celtics fan. And you just go, Yeah, I know.
And I was like, Fuck, I feel like such an asshole.

Speaker 1 So I think, should we credit Blake Griffin for getting you guys to listen to PMT? Is that who we need to credit?

Speaker 6 Actually, my guy, Paul, over here. Okay.
He was the one that sent it to me first. And he's like, you got to watch the fastest two minutes.
And so I used to watch that.

Speaker 6 And then I was like, let me just keep watching, see what's going on. And I've just been a fan since.
So

Speaker 1 respect. That's awesome.
So So, you were aware of Hank and his Celtics fandom. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 So, I knew all that. I mean, Big Hat got in the elevator, but he had like headphones in, so I'm like, I don't know if I should say something.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

Speaker 6 We kind of stood in opposite corners of the elevator, kind of just like kind of looking at each other.

Speaker 6 I was like, Yeah, I'm a big fan, but I don't know what to say anymore.

Speaker 1 It's like, I'm a big fan, but I don't know what to say.

Speaker 1 When you see Hank on the sidelines with his feet on the wood, you know, like sitting courtside, are you like, I got to show out tonight because Hank's here?

Speaker 1 It's like when guys see Drake on the sidelines, yeah, you always want want to show off for Hank. Yeah.
Do you guys know when you guys were in the finals?

Speaker 1 Did you see Hank almost take a, was that in the finals when he pump shot it? He did a pump fake with the ball.

Speaker 1 The ball rolled to him in the middle of the finals and he pump faked and had the whole crowd going crazy. What game was that?

Speaker 1 What game was that? Game

Speaker 1 four, five. Four, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, it was a nice pump fake.
He did the mellow, yeah. It would have gone in.
Sounds like you guys don't really know the vibes that Hank's bringing.

Speaker 6 I didn't see that one.

Speaker 1 We lost that game, so I don't know if it helped or hurt us yeah that probably hurt yeah if he shot it and went in that would have helped

Speaker 1 shot it yeah um I want to talk to you guys about something that is I guess everyone's talking about right now after the all-star game it was not really a game as much as it was like a lot of offense we've figured out some ways where we can fix it most of them are stupid as shit and probably won't work in your guys head like is there a way that you can fix the all-star game because I do have one suggestion uh to add to it but I want to hear you guys go first also Derek you should have been an all-star facts yeah yeah I appreciate it yeah that that would have fixed the all-star game yeah that would have fixed the all-star would have tried hard

Speaker 1 yeah yeah so what's the fix payton do you think there is a fix or is it just guys don't want to get injured

Speaker 1 putting money up for like the winning team yeah well i my idea was that the losing team had to pay the winning team because then it's money both ways because then guys would actually be upset if they lost like they have to pay like someone has to go and pay lebron five hundred thousand dollars yeah so what amount per person i think it's 500 each yeah it's got to be something big.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It would also be very funny if Adam Silver was like, you guys stay out of the gambling app, stay out of casinos.

Speaker 1 Also, if you're an all-star, you're forced to bet the other guy $500,000 to make our game better. Yeah.

Speaker 1 My suggestion would be that the winning team, everybody on that roster for the winning team, gets like 10 tags from the NBA's main account on Instagram for the rest of the year, along with a link that will allow people to slide into your DMs more easily.

Speaker 1 Like highlight reels. You get like 10 highlight reels for for the rest of the year.
That's pretty good. What do you think about that? Just for the winning team? Just for the winning team, yeah.

Speaker 1 Losing team gets low light reels posted.

Speaker 1 Every missed shot, yeah.

Speaker 6 Whatever it takes to make it entertaining.

Speaker 1 I was thinking, too, losing team can't tie their shoes for the rest of the season. Do you guys think, I mean, that would probably be an injury waiting to do?

Speaker 6 I don't like that either. Okay, all right.

Speaker 6 As long as we win. Yeah, yeah, we're working.

Speaker 1 We're fine with that. So we got the video right there.
That's Hank on the sidelines. It's on this monitor right here before we move forward.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I hate that because I was actually off of my turnover. Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Sorry that I remember that. So

Speaker 1 you almost got assisted.

Speaker 1 You're like, who's that fucking guy?

Speaker 1 Oh, man. That's very funny.

Speaker 6 If you shot it and you made it in Steh's face, like, that would have gone crazy.

Speaker 1 Now, the crowd would have gone nuts. They can't kick you out if you make it, right? No.
No.

Speaker 1 If you miss, if you airball, they kick you right out. 100%.
That makes sense. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the other question I had to just start about the NBA right now, the thing that people talk about a lot is the scoring is crazy right now. From your guys' perspective,

Speaker 1 because you've been in the league for a little bit and you obviously have been playing basketball your whole life.

Speaker 1 Is it a problem or is it just everyone's so skilled that it's like we're trying on defense, but guys are just so goddamn good?

Speaker 6 I think a little bit of both.

Speaker 6 I mean, especially like as it goes on, like in the playoffs, like you'll see more defense, more intensity on both sides. So

Speaker 6 especially like in the playoffs, like there is defense, but there's just so much space now. And you're giving these star players so much room with four shooters around them.

Speaker 6 Like it's really, really hard to stop them or slow them down.

Speaker 6 So, especially when they get in the rhythm, so it's just with the space and everything, like the rules they are, it's kind of, it's kind of impossible.

Speaker 6 But, I mean, once the playoff starts and it gets a little bit more physical, then you'll definitely slow down. And that's really

Speaker 6 a different ballgame.

Speaker 1 Yeah, did you guys notice it right when you got to the NBA? Like, Peyton, you played Oregon, and then you get to the NBA, and it's like, wait, everyone can make shots everywhere?

Speaker 1 Because it does feel like the NBA is like every guy on the bench can make shots. For sure.
I kind of noticed it, like, in college.

Speaker 1 It's like, I don't know if you noticed it, but you turn the ball over in the NBA. It's almost like a guaranteed three-ball or like to the rim.
Right. In college, you might, you know, people can miss.

Speaker 1 You also have like two or three people in college you can help off of. Right.

Speaker 1 And you also have this no three, uh, like three seconds in the key. Right.
So you got a big that's just sitting there. So I think it's way harder to score in college than it is in the NBA.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But it's just the different rules as far as that. Yeah, and college refs also are terrible refs.
That's a fact. They just call charges.
They're all charges charges everywhere.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're just addicted to calling charges. Yeah, you can say it now.
Like, you're not in college. Yeah, you can say, yeah, college refs, Pac-12 refs, pretty bad.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that's why they got rid of the league.

Speaker 1 They did well for us, so we won a lot, so I didn't complain. There you go.
Yeah, you're a Big Ten guy now. Yeah.
Yeah, you got, I mean, that's real basketball. We're playing in like the 50s.

Speaker 1 So you got to be ready for that. Did you, my Oregon question is like, you had to hate that court, right? I mean, it's.
I didn't actually notice it, but on TV.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and TV, it looks weird, but you never notice it playing, but I didn't mind it. Did you notice because you played at Colorado your last year, Derek? Did you notice it when you'd get there?

Speaker 1 You'd be like, this is, what is going on here?

Speaker 6 You don't really notice it that much, but like when we had shoot around, I was like, what are we doing?

Speaker 1 It looks dirty. Yeah.
It looks like somebody spilled something on it. I mean, I do like it.

Speaker 6 It looks horrible on TV.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it looks horrible on TV. I do like it when it's like, you know, 10 p.m.

Speaker 1 and you got Bill Walton calling a game and it does feel like you're taking acid with him and you're like, okay, this makes sense.

Speaker 1 But when it's like a prime time game, you're like, I don't don't want to watch this. What's going on? That's true.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Derek, when you went to Colorado, were you, did altitude affect your shot at all? Because I'm always thinking about altitude in terms of football, right?

Speaker 1 You always talk about the altitude games going to Denver, but it's got to make a difference in basketball, right?

Speaker 6 I don't know about the shot.

Speaker 6 I mean, I'm from Colorado, so I never really knew the difference, but when people would come in and like, they can't breathe, like, that definitely is real.

Speaker 6 But I don't know if it really affects the shot.

Speaker 6 Maybe. I don't know.
I never really thought about that. The less wind resistance.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it might have just a little bit. For a guy like me, I'm money down at sea level.
You see that, but if I go to Colorado, you might be able to dunk. You might be better.
Oh, good point, Peyton. So

Speaker 1 we've got a member of the podcast, Hank, that thinks that

Speaker 1 he's going to be able to dunk by the end of the year, the calendar year.

Speaker 1 He's about five inches away from the rim right now, and he's just going to train like hell, just work out the legs, build up some beef in the quads, the hamstrings.

Speaker 1 And so I guess you've got to get, what, like eight inches above the rim to be able to dunk? Do you think he can do it?

Speaker 4 How old were you guys when you first dunked?

Speaker 1 Good question.

Speaker 6 I was late,

Speaker 6 probably like 16.

Speaker 1 Okay. 15? 15, 16.

Speaker 4 And what change where you couldn't dunk before? And then what did you work on to be able to?

Speaker 1 I think the answer is genetics.

Speaker 6 I just got above the rim.

Speaker 1 Oh, sorry. Yeah, that's what you're saying.

Speaker 1 That's pretty much it. Yeah.
I got to ask about the hat, too. Save the bees.

Speaker 1 I just saw the hat in my house. I liked the colorway.
Okay. Fit the outfit at the time, so I just went with it.
Okay, you're not a b guy nah i don't even know what the hat's for

Speaker 1 perfect hat them bees yeah all right i got a tough question um on a scale of one to ten how awkward is it uh coach missoula's obsession with the movie the town

Speaker 1 how often does he bring it up he doesn't really bring that it up with us that often okay but i think it's a media thing yeah he never is like this is like we're you know you're going into like a game seven you're like we're robbing a bank boys it's no big deal we've done this a million times we've only seen one clip yeah he showed one clip of it one time.

Speaker 1 The Whose Car Are We Taking?

Speaker 6 No, no, no. That is his favorite line, though.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That was the note. Yeah, the note.

Speaker 6 The car. They left the note on the car.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 But yeah, other than that,

Speaker 6 he does wear that shirt a lot. Whose car we taking?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's definitely his favorite show or movie, but you don't hear about it as much as the media does.

Speaker 1 It is probably a media obsession because the other one was that he does, what does he do? Taekwondo? No, Jiu-Jitsu.

Speaker 1 He got choked out.

Speaker 6 Or he was trying to. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. and I think there was a story about how he got...
The story about his jiu-jitsu coach flying out every time that he needed him was nuts. But I guess, I mean, he's a tough coach.

Speaker 1 Like, do you guys, when you guys, like, when he took over the job, you're like, this guy's played, he's a tough coach. Like, do you like playing for a guy like that?

Speaker 1 I mean, he definitely expects, like, I enjoy it because he expects you to play hard. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, sometimes I feel like in coaches in the NBA, they get in the NBA mode of like the season's long and stuff. He doesn't really care like back-to-back or anything.

Speaker 1 Like, he's trying to win every game, and you can feel his passion towards it. So, I really respect that out of him.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Was there a moment for each of you guys where you realized that you could play in the league? Where we could? Yeah, yeah. Like growing up? Like, right, no,

Speaker 1 after you get drafted, right, after you enter the NBA,

Speaker 1 I assume that everything's a little bit new. There's some uncertainty there, right? Because you haven't played against this level of competition yet.

Speaker 1 Maybe in the back of your mind, unless maybe you're supremely confident in your own abilities, but I would assume that there's like something in everybody that's like, I don't know, let's see if we can do this.

Speaker 1 And then there might be a moment where it clicks and you're like, oh, yeah, I belong here.

Speaker 6 Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 6 I mean, my first year, I was basically in the G League the whole time. And like when I did play in the NBA, which is like garbage minutes, like here and there.
So

Speaker 6 it's kind of like in the back of your mind, like, do I really belong here? Like, especially, okay, like, like, I was from D2, like, the D1, like late.

Speaker 6 Like, some people, like, they come to the league like, yeah, this is is what I've been destined to do or whatnot. And so it definitely was a time I was like, do I really belong here?

Speaker 6 And then probably like the playoffs, like I had a good first round. And I was like, oh, yeah, I'll be here for a little bit.
And I kind of just clicked from there.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Did you have one, Peyton, where you're like, yeah, I belong here?

Speaker 1 Probably like right when I got to the Celtics is playing against the guys preseason stuff because I played right away. Yeah, I kind of thought.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because Derek, you had the famous pop quote when you came, when you got drafted by the Spurs.

Speaker 1 And I think the story goes that you played well in your first preseason game, and then someone asked what your role was going to be, and he said, get towels and water. Yeah.
That's kind of hurt. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And I was like, I thought I played pretty well. Like, maybe I'll find some minutes here and there.
And yeah. And I saw that.
I was like, oh, this is going to be interesting.

Speaker 6 Way different from anything I've ever experienced in my life before.

Speaker 1 Do you think that was good?

Speaker 1 Because it feels like Pop is a guy who

Speaker 1 he doesn't want to throw you into the fire. I would assume that would be a good thing for a rookie who's like, I don't don't know what's going on here.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, it makes sense. Like, we had DeJounte, Patty,

Speaker 6 Patty Mills, Tony Parker, Monty Genobly, Dana Green. Like, there's all these guys that have done so much in the league before me.

Speaker 6 So, like, he's not going to just throw you out there if you're not ready. And, I mean, I was just trusted because the Spurs has had so much success developing players.
And so

Speaker 6 I knew that I was going to be sent to the G-League eventually and just try to embrace it and make the most out of it.

Speaker 1 Did you ever interact with Kirk Goldsbury? Do you know him?

Speaker 1 He was like the the vice president of being a nerd. He was

Speaker 1 chief nerd.

Speaker 6 I like his numbers. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 He does the graphs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so what do you guys think about that? About basketball analytics. Do people, does a nerd ever come up to you and like whisper in your ear, like, hey, this is your corner.

Speaker 1 You need to shoot more from over here? Or like this is you should change your game in this way?

Speaker 6 Not necessarily like.

Speaker 6 Well, this is what like you know where you like to shoot from so you don't really need someone to tell you but I wouldn't say someone's like maybe you like break down the numbers like oh you shoot this much from the corner or what percentage.

Speaker 6 So, like, they don't really come up to you saying that like that, where they want to get in your head and whatnot.

Speaker 6 So, but you know, like where you want where you want to be at and where you're comfortable at, and so you just try to get to there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I've heard a lot of stories about San Antonio about how Pop's a big wine guy. He loves wine.
He'll go out, take people out for the most expensive bottles that you'll ever find.

Speaker 1 Did he ever take you out for a dinner? Like, were you part of a team dinner where he just opens up the wallet and drops 20 bottles of wine on the table?

Speaker 6 Yeah, all the time.

Speaker 6 Like, especially like if we stay in the city after a game, like it's a team dinner and all the wine.

Speaker 6 And like one time I was like, my rookie year, I was like, no, I don't want to drink anything like trying to be a good guy.

Speaker 6 And he was like, oh, come on, like, you're going to have a glass of wine with us. Like, this is part of the gig the gig.
And I was like, all right.

Speaker 6 And then ever since then, like, I've just started getting more into wine. And like, if I have a question about wine, like, I'll call Pop.
And he'd be like, no, don't drink that. Drink this.

Speaker 6 And so he's big into wine.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. I know a lot of NBA players have gotten into wine recently.
Is that something that you found is more and more popular over the years?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I think it's really the big thing. I mean, especially after a game, it's just nice to have a glass of wine.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just kind of relax. They should let players in the all-star game drink wine during the time.
I mean, LeBron was probably drunk. He's probably drunk.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Peyton, when you were at Oregon, a lot of guys, obviously, in the NBA now, they don't stay for all four years.

Speaker 1 Did you sense it from the fans that they were like, all right, this guy's been here for too long? Because I looked up my old tweet and I had one that I said, is this Peyton Pritchard's last year?

Speaker 1 I swear he's like 28 years old and has been playing for the Ducks for a decade. Get him off my TV.

Speaker 1 yeah I mean my bad I feel like it felt like that because I just I started as a freshman right that's the yeah yeah so like and we were went to the final four that year too so I feel like it's like a it's like a good thing people think that because it means you're probably winning and you're on like the big games a lot but I don't know yeah definitely I felt like I was there forever.

Speaker 1 I noticed that you changed up your shoe game recently because I think the first time we saw you play Meaningful Minutes for the Celtics, we were like, why is he wearing black shoes all the time?

Speaker 1 Black shoes. It was actually slow.
I seen that, but they actually weren't black. They were like dark green.
But the problem was, is like, I had a couple of good games in them. Yeah.
So I'm like,

Speaker 1 they are slow, though.

Speaker 1 My dad used to always say that. Yeah.
Black shoes look slow. Yeah, sure.
Yeah. I only wear white ones now, really.
Yeah, I noticed that. I think we talked about that on the show.

Speaker 1 We're like, I like where Peyton's going with his career because he's not wearing those clunky ass black shoes anymore. Yeah, but like Roger Cement.
Yeah, I switched them up.

Speaker 1 This is the high-level analysis you get on this show. Yeah, you can listen to shoes.
Listen, listen to J.J.

Speaker 1 Reddick talk about like off-ball defense all you want we're gonna talk about how slow you look when you wear dark color shoes on the show and you got way better when you started wearing white shoes facts

Speaker 1 yeah speaking of which the details the important basketball details that we always get into in the show um derek why did you decide to cut your hair

Speaker 6 um well i i told my my boy like Christmas of that year, I was like, after the year, I'm doing it. And then

Speaker 6 after we lost, I was just sitting there kind of just depressed and and just like cut it. And then it just happened, and just been rocking the ball of the gang forever now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, it's a good look. It is a good look, yeah.
Some people hang on way too long, and then you're like, ah, probably should have done that a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 I'm talking about myself right now, but I just wear a hat, so I respect the fact that you're like Belichick. Cut it one year too early instead of one year too late, right? Yeah.

Speaker 6 I mean, I rock a hat all the time, so they didn't really change much. Like, really, just on the basketball course, really, people notice it.
So, yeah.

Speaker 1 Who's the one team that you guys like to beat the most? Ooh. Good question.

Speaker 1 Does it rhyme with

Speaker 1 Philadelphia?

Speaker 6 Winning in Philly is fun. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You guys do it a lot.

Speaker 1 A lot.

Speaker 6 That rivalry, you can feel it is just different going into that building or when they're playing us in Boston.

Speaker 1 Do you think it is a rivalry? Because at some point they would have to win, right? To make it a true rivalry.

Speaker 6 It's a fun game.

Speaker 1 Were you guys on the Celtics when the Sixers hit the cannons too early? No. No,

Speaker 1 that was awful. That was Philly that did that? Yeah, Philly.

Speaker 1 Cannons, and then they lost in overtime. Yeah,

Speaker 1 they got second place, and they celebrated it. That's wild.
Yeah, in a playoff game. I can't believe that.

Speaker 1 That was pretty bad. That's embarrassing, though.
It was really bad.

Speaker 1 How good is Jason Tatum? When you watch, do you ever, like, are you on the court ever kind of zoning out being like, damn, he's good?

Speaker 1 Because, you know, like, maybe you'll be like, oh, shit, I wasn't paying attention to that possession. So I was just watching him just be awesome.

Speaker 1 he's phenomenal yeah i mean at his size the way he can dribble and move and and being able to uh hit threes and and get to the hoop is i mean he's one of a kind yeah so yeah off that question so you guys obviously like you have jason tatum you have jalen brown they're kind of the stars on your team it what How do you stay like in rhythm if you're not shooting for an extended stretch?

Speaker 1 Because that, like, we've had this debate with people before that sometimes the NBA turns into like one-on-one where a guy's just going off, and you're like,

Speaker 1 everyone else has to stay in rhythm somehow. How do you do that?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I think that's like a very underrated skill. Yeah.
Especially if you don't touch the ball a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 6 But I think, especially this year, like we're doing a good job with everybody's involved.

Speaker 6 It's not just JT or JB.

Speaker 6 I mean, we got a lot of weapons, so everybody's involved. We each got the freedom to attack and do whatever we need to do.

Speaker 6 But yeah, it's definitely an underrated skill of just being ready whenever they fi, like you finally get the ball or the ball comes to you.

Speaker 6 The ball might not come to you for 10 possessions in a row, but you still got to compete defensively and then be ready to knock it down or make a play.

Speaker 6 So it's definitely one of the tougher skills that nobody really talks about.

Speaker 6 It's hard to stay in rhythm, especially. people have had the ball in their hands their entire life.
Right. So it's definitely an adjustment.

Speaker 6 But especially this year, I think we're doing a good job just keeping everybody involved and everybody just feels like they're they're a part of the offense. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, it is, it definitely, like, no one really talks about it, or no one really, like, compliments guys who are able to be just in rhythm, even though they haven't been part of the offense for a couple of possessions.

Speaker 1 And you're right.

Speaker 1 I didn't even think about the part that, like, you guys were obviously incredible basketball players your whole life, and then you get to the NBA and it's like, wait, I was the one who was taking all the shots.

Speaker 1 I had 50 ball screens at work.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, it's somebody else. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Last year in the playoffs, you guys obviously were in the Eastern Conference final. Didn't go well.
I'm not going to bring up painful memories, but I had two questions about that series.

Speaker 1 One, our boss, Dave Portnoy, tried to take credit for putting together a team dinner. Do you guys know that he put together a team dinner in Miami when you, I think you were down 3-0?

Speaker 1 Did you know he did that?

Speaker 6 I didn't know that was him.

Speaker 1 Okay, so it looks like no credit given. Yeah.

Speaker 1 In Miami. He went to that little sushi place where we sat up top.
I didn't think that was after game three, though. It might have been game four after game four.

Speaker 1 But he basically was like, if they win this series, it's all because of me.

Speaker 6 That was before game five,

Speaker 6 maybe, yeah, or before game six, before game six, Komodo, Komodo.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yes, he knows those guys, so yeah. Did you know that he was the one who hooked that up?

Speaker 6 I did not know. Okay, it was good, and a lot of food.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right. So, he, yeah, he was walking around being like, when they come back, it's all on the start of the championship DVD.
So, that's what he's in Top Golf. Yeah, oh, Top Golf.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Top Golf brought you back. And then the other one

Speaker 1 about that.

Speaker 1 When, Derek, when you hit the game winner in game six, which was incredible,

Speaker 1 first of all, walk me through how that happened because it was off of a rebound, no time left.

Speaker 1 It was just all instinct, I'd assume?

Speaker 6 Yeah, pretty much. I mean, I was taking it out, and I remember there was like two seconds, or however much they added on.

Speaker 6 And so I was like, we got a lot of time. So I was expecting someone to take a dribble or something.
But when we talked about in training camp, like in the game, offensive rebounds are huge.

Speaker 6 And so the shot went up, and I just was like,

Speaker 6 might as well crash. And it bounced right to me.
And then, yeah, that's just instincts. And

Speaker 6 I mean, I felt pretty confident I got it off, but you're kind of just sitting there waiting. And

Speaker 6 I feel like that five seconds was like five hours.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was, it was great. It was, I bet you there was a lot of dads across America who were like, see, that's why you offense, that's why you crash the boards.
That's why you follow your shot.

Speaker 1 Like, that was, you were, you were, you were everyone's like favorite player that night. And then the other thing in this shot, our producer Max, we have a video up.
So he is a die-hard Sixers fan.

Speaker 1 He hates the Celtics. He hates Hank.
He hates pretty much everyone. And all he does is lose.
So this is his replay of what he's rooting so hard for the heat in this game.

Speaker 1 This is his replay of watching your shot go in. So go ahead and play it.

Speaker 4 And no one asked him to take the video. No one asked him.
He was just like, I'm going to film myself.

Speaker 1 I had a couple beverages.

Speaker 6 I think it was Memorial Day weekend.

Speaker 1 Yeah, your cheeks are sweating. Yeah.
It was hot.

Speaker 1 I need a rolling. I need a rolling.
I need a rolling. I need a rolling.

Speaker 1 And he got kissed by his boy. Yeah.
So that wasn't just a buzzer beater against Miami. That was against the entire city of Philadelphia, too.
That was against you. That was him.

Speaker 1 You crushed, you ruined his labor day. Yeah, no, I wanted you guys to lose for sure.

Speaker 1 That's loaded. Yeah, that's what sports does.
It brings us all together and gets kissed by your boys in the middle of the max. Do you have any questions for them because you hate the Celtics so much?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 6 Like, what's it like?

Speaker 1 I mean, you got to hate Sixers fans more than anyone, right?

Speaker 1 They beat you all the time.

Speaker 1 That's awesome.

Speaker 6 But it is definitely a different atmosphere in Philly. But I wouldn't say I hate them.
It's fun. Yeah.
Like I said earlier, it's definitely fun playing there. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, you guys just beat the shit out of us all the time. It sucks.

Speaker 1 Hank, what do you got? Hank is a die-hard Celtics fan. He actually, like, now that the Patriots stop winning Super Bowls, I think the Celtics are his number one easily.
Yeah, I mean, for a while.

Speaker 4 I feel like it's, you know, same core team. The biggest unexpected storyline for me has been poor Zingas and Jalen Brown and how tight they are.

Speaker 4 I feel like they're like a buddy cop friendship, which no one really expected. Is it like that? Like, were you guys surprised at how tight they are? And do they act like they're

Speaker 4 brothers in the locker room and stuff?

Speaker 1 I mean, I feel like I wasn't surprised. I mean, they do live in the same apartment building.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But no, they're JB and KP are both just easygoing and get along with everybody, great personality. So once I met KP, he was going to be a great fit to the locker room because he is just a good dude.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 6 they're always nice to each other. Yeah.
And you got no choice but to become friends. And they were just playing well together.
So

Speaker 1 KP makes life easier for everybody. Yeah, for sure.
Does KP do things in practice sometimes where you're like, holy shit, that dude's still got some incredible athleticism?

Speaker 1 We don't, I mean, in the games, but practices, we don't really like do live stuff or anything like that. That's a bad question.
Bad question. Bad question.

Speaker 6 But if he's 7-4 and can shoot from anywhere in the games, it's like.

Speaker 1 I definitely wouldn't ask that.

Speaker 6 Unless he gets a switch, you're like.

Speaker 1 I feel like his body was just, they just kind of put him in suspension last year where he was like on ice for a year playing with the wizards.

Speaker 1 And then they're like, okay, now we're going to, now he's fully healthy, ready to go. Yeah, he's a good player.
He actually had a great year. Great year last year.
Countless last year. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hank also, he just told us before we started taping taping this that if you guys don't win the title this year, he's going to shave his face into

Speaker 1 soul patch. Yeah, never mind.
So he's like, all in, all in. Didn't you say that? Nope.
You want to say it right now? No.

Speaker 1 For the guys. Right here.
You believe in the Celtics, don't you? Yeah. You don't believe in us? Yeah, you don't believe in us.
Unless you believe in us. Come on.

Speaker 1 Come on. You don't believe in them?

Speaker 1 I believe in you guys. So then you would do it if you believed in them.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I believe in you guys.

Speaker 1 What What about, Hank? You can follow Derek's lead, and if the Celtics win the championship, you shave your head. Ooh.

Speaker 1 I'll do that. Okay.
Okay. All right, good.
There we go. We got it.
And if they don't, soul patch.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'll shave my head when we win.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay. Yeah, you won't.
You may win. Do you have any other crack? No, it's

Speaker 1 we. Yeah, is it we?

Speaker 1 I've wondered about that, like, with diehard fans. Can they say we? For sure.
It's a city. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
You put

Speaker 6 the soul into it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you get mad, though, when because what I do is I say we when it's going well and then when it's bad, I'm like they.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that's not

Speaker 6 either right or

Speaker 4 my other question was was Jeff Van Gundy because he obviously like just you know came in late. Does he work with the players or does he like work with the coaching staff?

Speaker 4 Because it's it's not a coaching role. I don't really know what he what his role is.
I just know it's like, yeah, Jeff Van Gundy is a Celtics staffer, but what does that mean?

Speaker 6 Yeah, he's mostly with the coaches.

Speaker 6 But like he's just around practices and if anybody has anything, they can go to him and he has a great basketball mind and so just adding him has been I think great, but I think he's he's mostly with the coaching staff.

Speaker 1 How many does Brad Stevens ever draw plays for you guys? Or is he just obviously you know, he's in management, but does he ever come down as like, hey, try this?

Speaker 1 Not that I've seen, but I'm sure him and Joe talk. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Brad, because I played with Brad for my rookie year, so he's definitely really smart in that aspect of like the game and like the plays and all that. Like Brad is a genius.

Speaker 1 Yeah, when you guys would go on a losing streak or anything, would you ever just be like, Indiana would pay me $150 million right now if I went back to college?

Speaker 1 You think they would? Yeah,

Speaker 1 they definitely would. Desperately.
He never holds that over you guys. Like,

Speaker 1 I can be living in Indiana. 150 mil.
No problem. No, I think he enjoys it in Boston.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he's got a pretty nice life, I would say.

Speaker 1 Like, that's the Indiana basketball. They just, he is the guy that they just put out there.
They're like, Brad Stevens will just come and save everything. It's like, I don't think he's leaving.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I'll see it after you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think being in the front office would be an awesome gig. You just watch basketball and you're like, here's what I would do different.
Especially for a good team. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You'd be like, yeah, see, we're one minor tweak, and I think I could solve this. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What are the differences in coaching style between Brad, Emei, and Joe?

Speaker 1 Oh, good question. I guess that's only for me.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hmm.

Speaker 1 We do FMK for those three if that's the Brad.

Speaker 1 I mean, there's definitely similarities to all three of them.

Speaker 1 Brad is, I would say, a little bit more laid-back, obviously really smart.

Speaker 1 Emei was more tense, would you say?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 You guys got an edge when Emei took over, it felt like, especially defensively. Yeah,

Speaker 1 I think, definitely did i think uh joe's like a balance between the two of them uh like he was he worked under brad so i think he took a lot of that stuff and then and joe was already like you know

Speaker 1 kind of like a psycho in a way like he's very like mentally locked in and yeah he expects that a lot so it's like he has that part of like emei in him too so he has like a little bit of both yeah i mean i would expect you to be pretty like locked in and you know going aggressive when you have the town just playing on loop in your brain For sure.

Speaker 1 The more I think about that, I like that strategy where it's like, I'm going to tell the media something just ridiculous about myself. We fell for it.

Speaker 1 And then that's all the idiots in the press room ask about it.

Speaker 1 Talk to me more about the town. Yeah.
We fell for it. Meanwhile, they're not asking the town a lot.
He does, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 When you guys saw Eme

Speaker 1 having a little back and forth with LeBron, were you like, I'm not surprised at all? No, not at all because I knew he didn't like LeBron.

Speaker 1 I mean, I believe that LeBron would have, I think Eme Eme might have beaten him up if they let them fight. Head to head.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It feels like Eme is a pretty tough dude.

Speaker 1 It'd be interesting. Yeah.
I'd pay to watch. Maybe Rough and Rowdy.
Maybe we'll get it going. Rough and Rowdy.
That'd be good. Speaking of the town, what are you guys' favorite Boston movies?

Speaker 1 Ted. Ted, okay.
Ooh. That's a wild card.
I kind of like Goodwill Hunting. That's a classic.
Yeah. That's a classic.
It's not your fault. How about the Mapples? Yeah.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 I just go see about a girl. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 A lot of classic lines of that one. I went on my first date to Goodwill Hunting.
Didn't go well. It didn't? No, it's got a bad, bad connotation in my head, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, my girl broke up with me at the ice skating rink right after the movie was over. That was tough shit.
So you never watched it again? I never watched it again.

Speaker 1 I should go back and see it, but it would bring up a lot of painful memories, but jokes on her because I dated like all her friends afterwards. Nice.
To get back at her. That's awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it is awesome.

Speaker 1 Thank you.

Speaker 1 I touched boobs when I watched Waterboy in the theaters. That was pretty cool that is cool yeah

Speaker 1 first time to do with it yeah i don't know if it was the first time but it was definitely awesome yeah

Speaker 1 congrats it was awesome that movie i didn't watch much of that movie it's a funny movie though big moment yeah i got i got another serious basketball question for you um how far in advance do you pick out your outfits for the tunnel walks oh

Speaker 1 p

Speaker 1 probably does them more than me it's like 30 minutes before i head out yeah more of a sweatpants kind of chill yeah and we'll we'll edit this part out if the answer is not correct but when you were wearing that boy dad sweatshirt, that was not because you're a boy dad.

Speaker 1 That was because you listened to the podcast.

Speaker 6 I am a boy dad. Okay.
So I just had my second son, and so my wife bought it for me. And I was like, after

Speaker 6 that.

Speaker 1 And I was also Little Sass. You love Little Sass.

Speaker 6 I actually didn't know it was Barstow.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 1 But now you love Little Sass. Now you love it.
I wish you had found out about him earlier.

Speaker 6 I should have done my research before I wear it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 I am a fan now. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 That's a good shirt. That's huge.
Good answer. So the

Speaker 1 stretch run, you guys obviously were taping this in February.

Speaker 1 How is the stretch run in the NBA when you're getting, when you know you're a really good team, you guys are the one seed, you know you have the playoffs, like is it hard to keep focused down this stretch where it's like we're going to be playing meaningful basketball for a very long time?

Speaker 1 And like these games in the middle of March,

Speaker 1 do they kind of drag sometimes?

Speaker 1 I mean, I think the one difference about this team this year that I noticed is like everybody really like loves basketball.

Speaker 1 So every day like when she said like everybody's like kind of excited to play and like it doesn't matter if it's really a back-to-back or you know we've had like five games and seven nights like people are like motivated so yeah I'd say the toughest stretch in the NBA is probably like the week or two before all-star break yeah like it's not halfway like we've played majority of our games and so you know you're just tired and

Speaker 6 people got their vacations booked like they're looking forward to get to the sun and um so i feel like that's the toughest stretch and then I mean after this now we're just trying to prepare for the playoffs and make sure we play in the best basketball we can to to get to the real basketball yeah does it affect your preparation for the playoffs at all with the the play-in tournament where you don't know who you're gonna play until like the last minute nah

Speaker 1 take anybody yeah not really what about the uh the in-season tournament did you guys like when they announced the in-season tournament uh did you care about it and then once you started playing in it did your level of how much you care about the in-season tournament change yeah when they first announced it, I was like, what is this?

Speaker 6 But it was actually pretty fun. Like, that game against Indiana that we lost at Indiana, like, Indiana has never been that loud before.
Like, yeah, in the games I've played there, and

Speaker 6 like, it was just a

Speaker 6 different level. So, I think it was a success, and it was a lot of fun.
And

Speaker 6 I think they did a good job with it. It's going to just be around forever now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, people are pumped. Yeah.
We actually have a colleague here, Mark Titus, that has a great idea for how to switch up the NBA a little bit, make things more exciting.

Speaker 1 One night per year, there is one breakable basketball goal that you can shatter the backboard at, but they don't tell you where it is, but it's just in some arena somewhere in the league.

Speaker 1 Do you think that would get the guys pumped up?

Speaker 6 Yeah, it depends on like

Speaker 6 a basic dunk.

Speaker 6 Nobody, like, if it's a basic dunk and the backboard breaks, then you're just like, ah,

Speaker 1 that would be a letdown. Yeah, you're right.
It would have to be a good dunk that broke it. Yeah.
Have you guys ever broken a backboard or a rim?

Speaker 6 No? Just let nerf one. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That counts.
That's got to be a great feeling, though, if you're able to shatter one. Yeah, Hank, before I ask my last question, do you have any other questions?

Speaker 4 No, that was it. I was going to talk about the fashion questions.
I feel like it's you, JB, and Tatum

Speaker 4 are always going going for it. And then some guys, you know, Derek and Horford just roll up in their

Speaker 1 normal fits. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Drew comes with some good outsprew. Yeah.
KP, he's so tall, but he always rocks the, you know, the wears the, rolls it up. I don't know.
He got a little style.

Speaker 1 He's wearing suits the games from here and there.

Speaker 1 Have there ever been any misses where some guy wears something that he thinks he's going to look really awesome and then you guys just all clown him? I mean, I've definitely missed my time.

Speaker 1 I look back at some of my old outfits and I'm like, what the heck? I'm going to look it up again.

Speaker 1 Did you

Speaker 1 know that?

Speaker 4 What was the locker room after that when Drake was chirping you?

Speaker 1 Well, I didn't know whether to take it as a compliment or was he trying to diss me, but I mean, end of the day, Drake was saying something about me, so I was like, whatever, it's a compliment.

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Speaker 1 Do you guys want to guarantee a title?

Speaker 1 It would help the podcast. And we've been very nice to you guys.
We're going to put everything into it to win one. okay

Speaker 1 and what about you derek you're gonna guarantee yeah i agree with what peace said okay so if i said you guys are gonna win the title guaranteed would you agree with that won't be because of a lack of effort okay okay so it's halfway there if you don't win a title will how disappoint how disappointing of a season is that it would definitely be disappointing that kind of sucks though like i i know that's the right mentality for a player to have but you can have a great season

Speaker 1 right now yeah no i am no i'm like uh Anthony Rendon. Like, the game comes after Faith and Family.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But, like, if you have a great season and you don't win the title, you're like, well, that was a waste of a year.

Speaker 1 To me, I don't have that mentality, which is probably why I'm not in the NBA, where I'd be like, yeah,

Speaker 1 I had a lot of, I made a lot of friends this year in the league, so it's not a good thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I don't know.
I would say it's a waste. It wouldn't be a waste.
It just writes this. makes the story better when we finally do do it.
Yeah. That's true.

Speaker 1 And we got enough because we'll just do a quote that says, we're going to win the title guaranteed and then then not for lack of effort in really small print.

Speaker 1 And then it will say Peyton Pritchard in big print and then Big Cat in small print. Yeah, or you can be.
You just have to figure out who said what. You can be like,

Speaker 1 we're going to win the title this year. That's a guaranteed dash PFT and Big Cat.

Speaker 1 And then in big letters, while they're interviewing Peyton Pritchard. Yeah.
Yeah, so it's us that say it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You're not having Derek in there at all? Yeah. Just Peyton.
Yeah, just Peyton Prince. If you fell for it,

Speaker 1 oh, I had one last question.

Speaker 1 How awesome of a teammate was Blake Griffin? Because we love him. The best.
He's the best. He's kind of our best friend.

Speaker 1 He's too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why doesn't he still play basketball? I don't know. We begged him to.

Speaker 6 We've been begging him. I'm begging him, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm begging him, too.

Speaker 1 Like, come back to Boston, Blake, too. Do you guys still continue to beg him? I texted him actually like a week or two jokingly being like,

Speaker 1 coming back for one last ride. And what'd he say? He says enjoying his life.

Speaker 1 I kind of want to FaceTime him right now and make him go come back to basketball. Yeah, quit enjoying your life, Blake.

Speaker 1 If I FaceTime him and he doesn't pick up, it would be disastrous for me. You should try.
I'll do one more question while you're doing that.

Speaker 1 If there was a button that you could press

Speaker 1 and you win an NBA championship, but someone somewhere in the world dies,

Speaker 1 but you don't know who, do you press that button?

Speaker 6 I've seen this movie before.

Speaker 6 Then they give that button to another person and then...

Speaker 1 Yeah, you got to be wary of that movie. I touched the vagina during that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That was a joke.

Speaker 1 This is a big movie. Oh, he did pick up.
Hey,

Speaker 1 these guys miss you.

Speaker 1 Why don't you keep playing basketball? Is it because you can't dunk? Oh, man.

Speaker 1 Now I wish I hadn't picked up.

Speaker 1 Come on.

Speaker 1 They said that Peyton Britchard said he texted you like last week saying, come on back.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 1 we talk quite a bit. I'm just enjoying life right now, man.
I told you. It's badass.
All right, fine. Well, we got to get you back on soon.

Speaker 1 The question was, how awesome is Blake Griffin as a teammate? And they said, the best.

Speaker 1 Oh, nice. Yeah.
Appreciate that, guys. Yeah.
You're welcome. I'll demo you later.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Hey, Blake, I got one more question for you. Do you guarantee the Boston Celtics win an NBA championship this year?

Speaker 1 I think, yeah, they're my favorites. Okay.
Okay, so yeah. He said, yeah, we'll end the sentence after, yeah.
I don't guarantee you I don't want to put bad juju on them, but yeah,

Speaker 1 they're heavy favorites in my mind. Okay, so why don't you come back and win a ring?

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 Is it the not dunking thing? Because we we could tell everyone you can still dunk.

Speaker 1 If you get that out there and enough people start tweeting about it, then maybe I'll come back. All right, no problem.
We will do that. You can still dunk.
All right, bye, Blake.

Speaker 1 Thank you for picking up. All right.
Did you ever hear anybody yell at Blake like congrats on winning Blake of the Year to him? Oh, my God. All the time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, all the time. Pretty much every game.

Speaker 1 Blake of the Year, Blake.

Speaker 1 Our fans are the the best, but they can sometimes take things too far.

Speaker 1 We had that with Max Homa, who we had to get them to stop yelling at him homosexual. No, no, pervert.
Pervert. You don't say that.

Speaker 1 That was our fault. Because we called him a parvert, and everyone's like, oh, you're pervert.
No, it didn't work out that way.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, Derek Payton, thank you so much.
Best of luck rest of the season. Hopefully, you guys win it all.
Otherwise, Hank's going to have to get that soul patch. So,

Speaker 1 right, Hank?

Speaker 1 We got it. And if you do, shaved head.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.
Thanks, guys.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we have two Monday readings.

Speaker 1 One is memes sent us a story from Reddit. I want to do that second.
The first one I wanted to share with you, PFT,

Speaker 1 from the people that brought you Travis Kelsey inventing the fade.

Speaker 1 We have a new phenomenon.

Speaker 1 Thanks to Taylor Swift fans. It was a headline that reads, Taylor Swift fans drive drive, excuse me, Taylor Swift fans drive new travel trend of gig tripping.
Okay. How does it work? Can I guess?

Speaker 1 You could take a guess, but you will be wrong. Okay, so if you're a fan of Taylor Swift and you want to go see her performing concert, but her concert is not in your hometown,

Speaker 1 then you would make a trip to go see her play or concert somewhere else. Kind of.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Gig tripping, this is from the article, gig tripping combines travel with music with people willing to merge vacation plans with a music event. Okay.
This has literally never been.

Speaker 1 I've never heard of this. So you

Speaker 1 take a vacation, and your vacation is going to a different city and seeing a concert. Correct.
Now, am I, full disclosure,

Speaker 1 slightly triggered by this, being a Grateful Dead and Fish fan? Maybe, but gig tripping has been invented by Taylor Swift fans.

Speaker 1 According to Sky Scanner, 44% of Americans are willing to fly short haul to see their favorite artists, while 18% would go the extra mile with long-haul flights.

Speaker 1 And it goes on to say, with kids and adults alike looking for Swift tickets, travel company TravelMation is seeing an increase in gig tripping requests.

Speaker 1 I just booked a family on a European trip built entirely around Taylor Swift. This is literally what hippies have been doing for

Speaker 1 decades and decades and decades and decades. Gig tripping is one of the hottest trends in travel, and much of it is thanks to Taylor Swift.
She's creating an industry, yeah.

Speaker 1 Adam Duckworth, president and founder of Travel Mation, said, We have clients booking trips all over the world this year. Gone are the days where people see their favorite artists at the local venue.

Speaker 1 Gone. Gone.
People don't do that anymore. Usually it was just if your favorite band is playing within 20 miles from you, you go.
Otherwise, never.

Speaker 1 I have seen some of those clips of people on planes, and they're all going to the Taylor Swift concert. And that, I would rather be on a plane with 75 maxes, housing, like what is that, 150 sodas?

Speaker 1 I would much rather be on a plane like that than than a plane of Taylor Swift. I'd rather be on a plane with the pilot as Flacco the Eagle.
Mm-hmm. Wow.
Sorry. Yeah.
Apologies, Flacco people.

Speaker 1 They're willing to travel as far as necessary to experience these high-energy shows.

Speaker 1 And it goes on and on and tells you how gig tripping is now a thing thanks to Taylor Swift. Fans are traveling to see Taylor Swift.
Multiple concerts. Never been done.

Speaker 1 Like, I saw that she was performing, but it's in a city that I don't live in. There's got to be a way for us to get there.
I can't believe this is a real story that Travel Mation guy.

Speaker 1 He literally just woke up yesterday. Like he was born yesterday.
Oh, no, no. Travel Mation Guy, this is his business.
He sells these trips, and so he's like, this is a great news story.

Speaker 1 And then he found some reporter that needed to fill a copy. So

Speaker 1 I got a scoop for you.

Speaker 1 My business is doing very well. Would you like to write about it?

Speaker 1 It's a good scoop. I was reading this as the Arthur meme, just shaking my fist.
Very mad. Like, god damn it.
She invented everything. Well, no, Mincy actually invented gig tripping.
That's true.

Speaker 1 That's true. In two ways.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes. All right.
Here's Monday reading number two. This is from memes.

Speaker 1 Boyfriend, 28-male, keeps sneaking plastic food onto my 25-female plate.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 So we've been together. I can already tell you, I'm on the guy's side of this.
Yeah, so we've been together 14 months, and he's a great partner overall.

Speaker 1 He has a stable, respectable career that he enjoys, nutritionist. He's very caring in most ways.
Well, I didn't even, I skimmed this. The fact that he's a nutritionist makes it even funnier.

Speaker 1 And he's doing this. He's very caring in most ways, and we have similar goals for our lives.
But he's got an odd sense of humor sometimes, especially about one particular thing.

Speaker 1 He has access to a seemingly unlimited supply of plastic foods, and he keeps sneaking them onto my plate at meals. I saw the humor in it the first time.

Speaker 1 Plastic scoop of cottage cheese replaced my real cottage cheese at breakfast, but I have lost count of the number of times he's played this prank on me.

Speaker 1 There have been plastic turkey slices on a sandwich, a plastic chicken tender coated in buffalo sauce at a restaurant.

Speaker 1 He sneak it onto her plate? This guy's awesome.

Speaker 1 Even a plastic deviled egg swap at my friend's wedding.

Speaker 1 Okay, so without seeing the plates of food, I kind of have to blame her. Yeah.
If you're this easily trickable, what are you, a Labrador retriever?

Speaker 1 This is a trick that you could play in your dog quite successfully on your girlfriend who's, what, 25 years old? 25.

Speaker 1 I'm questioning her eyesight. The sandwich is the only one I'll have her back.
Sandwich is the only one. If you slip something in a sandwich, that's kind of fucked up.
Yep, it would be. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. But I think the one that irritated me the most was when he wrapped a real banana skin around a plastic banana and put it back with the the rest of the bunch on my counter.

Speaker 1 He says he just means it is a little joke when I've asked him to stop, but I'm getting paranoid when I eat with him. What if he takes it too far and I choke on a fake cheese cube?

Speaker 1 The weirdest thing is, I don't know where he gets these. As I've seen his bank statements, there's no indicator he's buying them himself.

Speaker 1 Okay, so what you're going to want to do is go deeper into his bank statements and don't look for like prank things that he's purchasing at like a joke store. The man has a 3D printer.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think he bought bought a 3D printer just to fuck with you. Not only that, but you kind of said it at the beginning.
He's a nutritionist.

Speaker 1 Isn't he probably making videos where he's like, this is what you shouldn't eat? He might be. But if it's plastic, again,

Speaker 1 with a banana, he put a fake banana in a real peel and you saw it and you were like, oh, this looks like it. Yeah, this is, I agree with you.

Speaker 1 It's got to be, you got to pay more attention to your food. Also, I'm a...
I like this guy because

Speaker 1 he knows the art of comedy. He knows that it's funny the first time, then it's not funny for a really, really long time.
But it will get funny again. It gets funnier the less funny that it gets.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But he's still doing it. Yeah.
And if it makes him laugh, isn't that like, what are you going to stop him from finding joy?

Speaker 1 I really think he got a 3D printer and he's just printing up fruit all day long. Hey, which is awesome.
He could be printing guns. Yeah, it's true.
So he's just... This is actually a good thing.

Speaker 1 Is it illegal for guys to have hobbies anymore? No, I mean, apparently it is. Apparently it is.
I would do that with Hank, except for weed. This guy rocks.
Give him a bunch of fake nugs.

Speaker 1 We could get Hank to. Hank would just power through a fake

Speaker 1 chicken tender. Yeah, Hank doesn't pay attention.
By the way, we tested some new stuff for Pardon My Cheesesteak. You had to leave PFT to your stream, but

Speaker 1 the new, we have some new menu items that are going to come out. They're going to be incredible.
One of them was a Buffalo Chicken Tender sub.

Speaker 1 It had zero heat. No, it's hot.

Speaker 1 No, I tried all these items. Hank

Speaker 1 cried. Yeah,

Speaker 1 he was like, it's so hot. It was not spicy at all.
And I had to tell the chef, I was like, he cannot be the person who decides whether something's spicy. It was a perfectly normal, like buffalo sauce.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Perfect.
Hot.

Speaker 4 Too hot. My mouth is still recovering.

Speaker 1 Still recovering. How was golf today? What did you guys shoot? We played golf today.
Yeah, how'd you shoot? Yeah.

Speaker 1 The shot in February.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but how did you guys shoot? So we played golf today. So what were the scores?

Speaker 4 Shot a shot, shot another shot after?

Speaker 1 Hundreds.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah jake what were the scores 99 for me 105 for hank 113 for pft okay that's it was a tough day i had like four good shots that's fine i've i came to the realization today that um like i used to hate water on a golf course now i like water because at least it's not trees yeah when you hit into the trees then that's that might as well be a three-stroke penalty you gotta go for it

Speaker 1 look for it yeah you just gotta just drop it and like found it they also shut off the water fountains oh yeah the whole course yeah oh yeah because it's february almost passed out it's tough well they shut them off for the the winter.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but if the course is open, they should. They don't just, they're not like, oh, it's a warm day.
Let me turn it back on. It's like.
I'm still freeze. Yeah.
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 You know who pees a lot on the golf course is Jake. No doubt.
Jake's a big peer. Like whole three.
Illegal.

Speaker 1 Wait, you're showing your penis outside?

Speaker 1 There were some children. Of course, there were.

Speaker 1 He said he's gun shy unless it's a child around.

Speaker 1 He can only pee when a child's around.

Speaker 1 Okay, good show, boys.

Speaker 1 Good show.

Speaker 1 Let's do some numbers. 40, 8, 18, 20,

Speaker 1 88 for Patrick Kane.

Speaker 1 3.

Speaker 1 99, Pug.

Speaker 1 Pug, by the way, is becoming like a cult classic. Oh, Pug's the best.
People love Pug.

Speaker 1 We were playing Pug before we broadcasted tonight, and if you're wondering what Pug is, it's exactly like horse, but you spell Pug. Love it.
And he's got the most hilarious shots that he invents.

Speaker 1 He was doing like hop twice off your left foot and then shoot with your right hand. And it was incredible.
Get crossed over by Gia.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 We get creative, Pug.

Speaker 1 People just love Pug.

Speaker 1 He's perfect. Shane, did you say yours?

Speaker 1 Shane?

Speaker 1 Say your number.

Speaker 1 21.

Speaker 1 Here we go.

Speaker 1 What was your number, Max?

Speaker 1 20. 40.

Speaker 1 38. Ooh, 38.
38.

Speaker 1 All right, good show. We'll see everyone Wednesday.
Love you guys. Talking away.

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Speaker 1 Things that you say,

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Speaker 1 I'll be coming for you anyway.

Speaker 1 In the shine away, it.

Speaker 1 I'll be coming with you anyway.

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