Jimmy Tatro, Daniel Ricciardo, Celtics Get Off The Mat And Hank Is Delirious, Lakers Get Swept And FAQ's

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have a twofer for the people. Our good friend Jimmy Tatrow back on the show.
He's got a new movie out, The Machine, with Burt Kreiser out this weekend.

Speaker 1 We also have our also good friend, Daniel Ricardo. We've taped it in Miami.

Speaker 1 Awesome dude.

Speaker 6 Good accent.

Speaker 1 Great accent.

Speaker 6 Great to meet him in person.

Speaker 1 Celtics heat game four.

Speaker 1 The Los Angeles Lakers got swept. Hot seat cool thrown in some great FAQs.

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Speaker 1 Welcome to Part of My Take. Today is Wednesday, May 24th, and the Boston Celtics are off the floor.
They're off the mat. They have won a game in the Eastern Conference Finals.
It is 3-1.

Speaker 1 And also, just a heads up to all AWLs. Our wonderful producer, Henry Lockwood, has not slept in two days, and he is borderline drunk on the lack of sleep and we're loving it.
Hank,

Speaker 1 I'll let you go first because you're on cloud nine.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I feel good. I feel excited.
You know,

Speaker 8 I was obviously procrastinated my packing, so I was doing all that last night because the movers were coming this morning. Was finished at three, but then I just couldn't fall asleep.

Speaker 8 And then I was worried about falling asleep at like five or six and missing.

Speaker 8 like just falling asleep through the alarm and having you know people knocking down my door so i stayed up haven't slept uh i was really tired i was really like going through the motions and then the adrenaline of that win i'm just i'm buzzing i'm absolutely buzzing max is jealous pft's mad for no reason well i'm not mad for no reason

Speaker 6 has a reason i've got a reason to be mad because you're the biggest sucker in the planet of the history of gambling like i can't i can't feel bad for you for making those bets and losing like you deserve to lose that bet no no listen you should not feel bad about about me losing i agree with that 100 in fact if i lose this bet people should relish in not feeling bad for me.

Speaker 8 PBD bet $12,000. What was it? $12,000 to win like 106?

Speaker 1 No, no.

Speaker 6 All right. Hank, math has never been your strong suit.
You're not a world-renowned educated person. $10,000 to win $1,100.

Speaker 6 It's an 11% investment.

Speaker 1 Panthers and Heat to win their both up 3-0. Both up 3-0.
I'm not

Speaker 6 at the time at the time. Now they're up 3-1.
I'm not worried. In fact, Hank, I'm glad this happened.
And I'll tell you why.

Speaker 6 Because what we're getting right now with Hank is pure, 100% uncut delirium from Hank. We're getting

Speaker 6 Hank at his most cocky because he won one game. You're down 3-1 in the series, and now you have hope, not only hope that your Celtics will win, you have hope that you'll be able to golf.

Speaker 6 And there's nothing I would like more and the listeners would like more than to see that hope get absolutely fucking crushed out of your body on Thursday night.

Speaker 1 The hope, hope.

Speaker 6 I love that you've got hope right now.

Speaker 6 Look at those eyes. I love those eyes because they're full of hope, wonder,

Speaker 6 infinite possibilities, infinite amounts of golf in the month of June. It's about to be taken away from you on Thursday.

Speaker 1 And I'm glad that you're happy right now. Deep down.
You know that's not true. Deep down.
You're going to have to sweat that fast.

Speaker 6 You want to have a whisper off?

Speaker 1 It's fucking true, you piece of shit. Deep down, Hank does think.
Boston doesn't mean that you're a fucking winner at everything. The Celtics are significantly better than the Heat.

Speaker 8 They're a more talented team.

Speaker 8 Game three was a complete fluke. But again,

Speaker 8 water always finds its level. Someone's going to have to win a 3-0 series in the NBA eventually.

Speaker 8 It was exactly reminiscent of the Yankees and Red Sox game three. They lost like 19-8, got absolutely blown out.
I was at that game.

Speaker 1 Are you just doing a Dave Portnoy recap video? Was he there too? Yeah,

Speaker 1 he's just been saying this non-stop the last three days. That's true.

Speaker 8 I was thinking about it.

Speaker 8 I remember going to that game and we had our seats were back, and we stayed, and we were like, I remember Decky Matt So we had home run and we were standing like behind home plate because everyone left.

Speaker 8 And it was like the season's over. I have so much promise, so much hope, so much talent.
They're blowing it, they're choking it. They came back.
They won. They shocked the world.

Speaker 8 First team to ever do it. Why not us?

Speaker 6 It is fitting that this started right in A-Rod's face, too.

Speaker 1 And Jeter.

Speaker 6 And Jeter, yeah, both of them. Court side.

Speaker 8 Jake almost creamed his dockers when they showed Jeter.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 6 That's a good fact. Jake did come.

Speaker 1 So, Hank,

Speaker 1 in terms of the game, credit to the Celtics because halftime, it looked like it was going to go the same way. It would look like the Heat were, you know, the game started.

Speaker 1 The Celtics came out to a lead, then the Heat started playing well. They have like a 10-point lead at one point.
It felt like the Heat were going to just make the Celtics quit.

Speaker 1 And the absolute reverse happened in the third quarter. They killed them.
I think they scored 38 points. Tatum got caught fire.

Speaker 1 And yeah, I mean, listen, back to Boston, game five. Are you saying that that one's a guaranteed win?

Speaker 8 You got to win game five.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay, so that's a must-win.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know, if you lose, you're out, right? The fact that you paused on that,

Speaker 1 it really shows Alex.

Speaker 8 Well, no, I'm just trying to, I was trying to think. I'm only focused on the self-talk.

Speaker 1 Hank honestly feels like this. But he asked a question about the self-time.

Speaker 6 The way that Hank's acting.

Speaker 8 I was thinking about myself, and it's like, don't think about yourself. Think about the team.

Speaker 6 You would think that Hank just won the series tonight, the way that he's acting right now.

Speaker 1 You're down 3-1.

Speaker 1 it's up 3-1 I don't perfectly it's perfectly set up for a gentleman sweep the real the true gentleman sweep three games you let the other team win one and then you knock them out I'm gonna do something I don't really do sorry Billy uh Billy's rooting for the fucking heat tonight well Billy was rooting for less work he found out halfway through the first quarter he's like wait if the heat win this game we don't have to record late on Thursday and we're like yeah and then he put on a heat shirt and was going nuts.

Speaker 8 I'm going to do something that I don't often do and I'm going to thank you PFT.

Speaker 1 You're welcome. I appreciate you

Speaker 8 because

Speaker 8 you were the one that made the golf bet. And when the Celtics were down 3-0,

Speaker 8 instead of Doom and Gloom, we're down 3-0. There's no way to win this series.
I had to will myself to convince.

Speaker 1 Did you listen back to Monday's show?

Speaker 8 I had to convince myself, right, Monday's show ended, and then the wheels started turning. And I was looking at knock golfing for a month, and I had to convince myself that they could win two games.

Speaker 8 And once I did that, I realized they can win four games. And that's where I'm at right now.

Speaker 8 I don't think it would have happened if it wasn't for the bet because it's like winning four games is

Speaker 8 a big, it's a big thing to overcome. And it's like they just need to win two.

Speaker 1 And if they win two, they're winning four.

Speaker 8 And everyone in this room knows.

Speaker 6 I actually agree with Hank. This is a must-win for the Heat.

Speaker 6 Game five, you can't let them win because not only will Hank get off the golf bet, which nobody wants, except for Hank, and maybe some groundskeepers in the greater Chicagoland area that would make a fortune off Hank this summer.

Speaker 6 But also, I know for a fact that if it's 3-2,

Speaker 6 they're going to win four, and I'm going to lose my bet.

Speaker 1 If Hank goes back on the heat, Hank's going to doink me.

Speaker 6 We're going to get doinked again.

Speaker 9 Hank and I agreed.

Speaker 10 The Celtics are going to be heavily favored in game five. They should take care of business at home on paper.

Speaker 10 And then, in my eyes, game six becomes game seven because if it's 3-3 going back to Boston, the Celtics should win the game.

Speaker 9 Again, I'm wrong a lot.

Speaker 10 I've been wrong plenty of times before on the show making picks.

Speaker 1 So logistically, that's where my head hits. Why are you pointing at me? You were five and a half.

Speaker 1 I said six and a half or six.

Speaker 8 I said seven and a half. It's eight.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, wow.
Yeah. So

Speaker 1 the Celtics should take care of business.

Speaker 1 I don't like you pointing at me.

Speaker 10 In my mind, game six could be game seven.

Speaker 6 Yeah. So, Jake, does that make game five game six?

Speaker 1 Yeah. So that made game four must win for the heat.

Speaker 4 Well, not necessarily. Game six is the must-win, which is

Speaker 1 game five.

Speaker 1 Max is. We also have Max who's very upset that Hank found his mojo.
Yeah. Max is a scumbag, though, because he likes to be like, I'm rooting for you, Hank.
I'm rooting for you, Hank.

Speaker 8 And then, like, you hear him be like,

Speaker 5 I was, at no point, at no point were any of my I'm rooting for you, Hanks, genuine.

Speaker 8 Like, zero. Yeah, and that was.

Speaker 5 It's not like I was pretending. Like, I was, obviously, I'm not rooting for the Celtics.
Why the fuck would I be rooting for the Celtics?

Speaker 1 Did you get on them last game?

Speaker 1 Did I? Oh, I did. Yeah, I did get on them last game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's just a good thing.

Speaker 6 I love how cocky Hank is right now. This is perfect.
I'm not asking questions. That was a good impression of Max that you you just did.
Sounded like a dying alien in a movie.

Speaker 1 No, we're getting pure, unfiltered, straight-from-the-source, Henry Lockwood, right now.

Speaker 1 There's no restrictor plate on his brain.

Speaker 8 It's the same, you know, it goes back to my packing. Like, you can do it ahead of time.

Speaker 8 You can be, you know, proactive and get it done at a normal time, or you can wait till the last minute where you have no time left,

Speaker 8 no room for error, facts against the wall, you get it done.

Speaker 6 Hank is a professional procrastinator. Yes.

Speaker 1 Celtics were like, we're not going to win a game until we absolutely have to.

Speaker 1 Right now they will.

Speaker 8 Which is me. I'm not going to pack a box.

Speaker 1 Jake? Yeah.

Speaker 8 Nine o'clock the night before.

Speaker 6 Hank, what did you say before the game? You said Missoula went down to Miami and he put two suits in the ceiling.

Speaker 8 Yeah,

Speaker 8 he left the suit in the ceiling and said, we'll come back and pick this up game six. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And he doesn't wear a suit.

Speaker 6 But Hank, it would have to be seven games.

Speaker 1 And also he doesn't wear a suit. Nope.

Speaker 8 We'll come pick it back up game six.

Speaker 6 So he's going to put the suit on game six.

Speaker 1 Which he has to wear hold. Again, he does not wear a suit

Speaker 6 And then wear it again in game seven.

Speaker 8 No, he's going to leave a suit in Miami so that he can have it after they win game six on the way back home.

Speaker 1 To wear a suit. So he's going to wear

Speaker 1 a shirt on the sidelines and then a suit on the plane.

Speaker 6 There might be a number of listeners who are lost in this entire conversation. Well, this is

Speaker 1 so are we.

Speaker 6 But what Hank was getting, he combined two great coach stories, one of which Pat Riley, he left,

Speaker 6 he said, we're only packing one suit for this trip because we're not going to need two. We're closing it out in one game.

Speaker 6 And then there was another instance a couple years ago where a coach left like a thousand bucks in the ceiling.

Speaker 1 That was the Celtics.

Speaker 6 It's like, because we're going to come back here and we're going to get our thousand bucks back. But Missoula is taking it to the next level.
He's leaving a suit behind in the ceiling.

Speaker 1 And he, again, does not wear a suit.

Speaker 1 We should just keep reminding Ink that.

Speaker 6 Jake,

Speaker 6 there are reports that Tyler Hero has been cleared for all

Speaker 6 basketball-related activities.

Speaker 6 First of all, I don't know what basketball-related activities mean.

Speaker 6 Secondly, is there any chance that he plays in this series?

Speaker 10 Probably not. The target was always NBA Finals should they get there.
So I would say no.

Speaker 1 You got Billy Cook, Billy.

Speaker 11 How the fuck do you not play in this game if you're healthy?

Speaker 6 Because he's not cleared to play in the basketball game.

Speaker 1 He's cleared for basketball activities.

Speaker 1 He's like, fucking play.

Speaker 1 Well, I don't think he hasn't played in three weeks. And I know you think that you could just roll out and play in an NBA game.
But I think that probably has something to do with it.

Speaker 8 Billy could.

Speaker 6 I just don't like the attitude.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Billy did not care about this series two hours ago.

Speaker 6 No.

Speaker 10 And then a 15-minute Zoom post-game Thursday changed this whole thing.

Speaker 1 She doesn't have to be there.

Speaker 11 I thought we were going to live stream it and record really late.

Speaker 6 Billy was upset that he was going to have to work four days this week.

Speaker 11 No, no, I just wanted to beat some traffic.

Speaker 6 Got it. So he wanted to leave

Speaker 11 Memorial Day traffic.

Speaker 1 You can still do that.

Speaker 11 I know. I'm very happy.

Speaker 1 All right, Hank.

Speaker 6 Well, congratulations. Thank you.
It's good to see some fire from you.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 1 you're, you are temporarily back

Speaker 1 because you were the saddest sack the last few shows.

Speaker 6 And it's going to be so great when you win.

Speaker 8 Which, again, when you're down 3-0, I do truly, fundamentally at the end of the day.

Speaker 1 When you're down 1-0.

Speaker 1 And when you're down 3-3-0-2,

Speaker 1 when you're down 3-2,

Speaker 1 you just never need to sleep again. This Hank is the best Hank.

Speaker 10 Also, I think if the Celtics win game five, but the Heat win game six, Hank won't be as mad because the golf is.

Speaker 8 That's not true, Jake. jake i care about the

Speaker 6 big part of it i think that's a big part of it nope nope nope well then why don't we extend the bet make it make it uh if it's three to two then you don't golf and what am i getting in return for that

Speaker 8 i don't know you tell me that's i'm gonna think about that deal but uh i'll get back to you on on if i think that makes sense it's not a bad strategy by pft because you're not thinking straight about anything but i think i think the straightest when i'm not thinking straight that's true hank you just you do have to not sleep no one's easy to do.

Speaker 1 I play a draw.

Speaker 6 I play a draw. For some reason.

Speaker 8 Starts left, comes right.

Speaker 6 When you fall asleep at night, that's when the enemy takes over. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Sleep hangs.

Speaker 1 You get dumb when you sleep. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you ever think about that?

Speaker 8 I mean, I've always wondered why I'm dumb in that.

Speaker 1 I mean, I sleep a lot. I like to sleep.

Speaker 1 I do love to sleep.

Speaker 1 I always wondered why I'm dumb. It's an all-time quote.

Speaker 1 That's the best because you're basically trapped in your own brain where you're thinking about about why you're dumb, but you can't figure out because you're dumb.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's because you turn your brain off every night for too long.

Speaker 1 It takes a while to reboot again. Yeah.
Stop sleeping. Hank with no sleep.
You haven't even yawned, which means you like broke through the wall.

Speaker 8 No, yeah, that's the adrenaline.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 You're like Brooks at the Panthers game.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Congratulations, Hank.
Series is...

Speaker 1 You can't say series is on, but it is on.

Speaker 8 Oh, it's on. It's on?

Speaker 1 It's on. Oh, it's on.
It's on. Max?

Speaker 5 Like, we've just forgotten everything that has happened in this series because of one quarter of basketball no like no the like the celtics played well in the third quarter and then the heat were like all right we'll go win game five and the celtics like the heat the celtics had the leads in the fourth quarter before this yeah no tonight but like we keep everyone everything that has been said about this series are that is that the heat are a different team the heat are are resilient they are like for talking quarters max fact of fiction the celtics won the fourth quarter in games one and two they'd be up 3-1.

Speaker 5 Yes, but that is the difference between the two.

Speaker 8 You can play, but that's both sides.

Speaker 1 Now we got a true battle of the Brains.

Speaker 1 I'm just going to sit back and watch these two.

Speaker 5 The Heat are going to win against this.

Speaker 6 Spolster needs to bring one suit to Boston.

Speaker 1 One suit. One suit.

Speaker 1 One polo and pants. One polo and pants.
Okay. Other series.
The Los Angeles Lakers.

Speaker 6 Pat Riley needs to go to Boston with one suit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, one suit. He will be there.

Speaker 1 The Los Angeles Lakers got swept. LeBron James.

Speaker 1 First half, half, throwback performance,

Speaker 1 laid it all on the line, 31 points, ran out of gas, and the Nuggets were just better. They were the better team.
They are going to the finals for the first time in franchise history.

Speaker 1 They went to the finals as an ABA team.

Speaker 1 First sweep in franchise history, 44 playoff series. First time they swept someone.

Speaker 1 And Jokic is now, he's averaging a triple-double, and he has eight triple-doubles in these playoffs. I'm very happy for the Nuggets.
They're just fucking really good.

Speaker 6 Isn't that the all-time record too for triple doubles?

Speaker 6 I think he tied Wilt.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, every record is Wilt.

Speaker 6 Might have passed him. Yeah.
But the fact that he did it only playing four games a series is kind of crazy. Yep.

Speaker 1 And then he... It actually was like a, as far as sweeps goes, that was kind of a fun series.
Yeah, was it? Every game was pretty close and fun.

Speaker 6 The Lakers were not bad. Right.
The Nuggets are just, they're a wagon right now.

Speaker 6 I would like to admit that I was wrong. Nugs and six is what I kept saying.
I was wrong about not being right enough about the Nuggets. Yeah.
So hand up, I didn't realize just how great they were.

Speaker 6 I knew they were great. Didn't know they were great, great like that.

Speaker 1 And Jokic is just, he's a story that everyone should be rooting for. He's a guy who drafted in the second round, a case of Rito, took his draft moment,

Speaker 1 was overweight, worked himself into an MVP shape, you know, like playoff.

Speaker 1 Playoff, you know, bad playoffs the last couple of years. They did go to the Western Commons final in the bubble, which we don't count.

Speaker 1 But getting through that wall, getting to the NBA Finals, the Nuggets look like the best team in the playoffs. They've looked like the best team for long stretches of this season.
I'm happy for them.

Speaker 6 Hank, have we made any progress? You're our point man at Taco Bell. Any progress on them bringing back the queserito if Jokic wins NBA Finals MVP?

Speaker 8 I'll circle back.

Speaker 1 Okay. Get it for us.

Speaker 6 Yeah, put a pin in that one.

Speaker 1 Link back with me.

Speaker 6 I would like to see that. It's a delicious menu item.
But yeah,

Speaker 6 I'm very impressed with the Nuggets.

Speaker 6 I grow more and more fond of them each and every day. They're fun.
They're so fun to watch. Jamal Murray, by the way,

Speaker 6 he might have had a better series than Jokic did.

Speaker 1 He was phenomenal, and he's getting to the point now where he's getting so good in the playoffs that people will forget that he videotaped himself getting his dick sucked.

Speaker 6 I did forget that. Yeah.
I tried very, very hard to forget that.

Speaker 1 So he's getting to that point, though.

Speaker 6 You have to do a lot in America to make people forget a sex.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's doing it. He's getting to that point.
Yeah, good for him. Yeah, I'm happy.

Speaker 6 Happy to see him overcome that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 aaron gordon was like

Speaker 6 you know uh orlando or aaron gordon like he was he was awesome he found something shooting threes kcp played well kcp is a very good play like jeff green still in the league yeah jeff green uh kcp is one of those guys like hey maybe the lakers probably should have he won a title with the lakers half title yeah i'm also not a real title i'm also addicted to jokic horse content it's the best watching watching jokic do the the chariot behind the horse which i almost feel worse for the horse when they're dragging Jokic's big ass behind them than when Jokic is riding him.

Speaker 6 But there's so many awesome pictures of Jokic standing next to a horse. Yeah.
And you're like, that's a miniature horse. Oh, no, wait.
Yeah, Jokic's just an absolute monster.

Speaker 1 He's just the biggest dude ever.

Speaker 6 That's like what he does every offseason. He goes back to Serbia and just hangs out with horses.
He sounds like a pretty good one.

Speaker 1 And his brothers.

Speaker 6 Yeah. We're badasses.
His brothers throwing Michael Malone up in the air after the games.

Speaker 6 Awesome. That was amazing.

Speaker 1 Also, Jokic getting, I don't know if you saw this moment, but when they were, it's always great whenever a team wins on the road and they get the emptied out arena and it's like, it feels like they've conquered like territory where it's like, it's just them in there.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But Jokic was handed a shirt.
He started to put it on and he immediately was like, this is like a large and I'm a. triple XL.

Speaker 1 And the clip of him, like, they're handing the trophy and he's trying to put it over his head and he just bailed on it.

Speaker 6 He's like, no,

Speaker 1 not going to work.

Speaker 6 I like, we always talk about the silent arena after like a Steph Curry three on the road. Yes.

Speaker 6 There was a great moment right after the game was over when the Lakers announcer had to announce that the Nuggets had just won the Western Conference finals, and it was the saddest thing ever.

Speaker 6 It was like, congratulations to the Denver Nuggets Western Conference champions.

Speaker 1 He did the voice where it's like,

Speaker 1 please stop throwing objects on the court. Yep.
Yeah. Very serious.

Speaker 1 Oh, Hank. Hank is woken back up.

Speaker 8 The Blakes. We forgot about that.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. There you go.

Speaker 6 Yeah. We had a meeting of the Blakes tonight.
Yeah,

Speaker 6 down in Miami.

Speaker 1 I was thinking about that when I was talking. We were talking about Nuggets Lakers.
Good callback, Hank.

Speaker 6 We saw Brooks.

Speaker 6 He was sitting courtside with me. Brooks looks tired.

Speaker 1 He looks like he's ready to go to sleep.

Speaker 6 Him and Hank, handshake.

Speaker 10 He was also at the Pease game.

Speaker 1 He was at the Peas game. He wasn't tired that three.

Speaker 6 Yeah, we'll talk about that a little bit later.

Speaker 6 And Blake Griffin was also there. So we had to know, did they say hi to each other? They did, in fact,

Speaker 6 stap each other up before the game started. And since Jenna was there, too, we might have had three Blakes

Speaker 6 in about two square feet. Yeah.

Speaker 8 We need to get the curb your enthusiasm footage. Like someone's got to have that

Speaker 8 picture or video of it happening. What does that have to do with the curb? Curb their enthusiasm, like solve the murder or something.

Speaker 1 Okay, yeah, yeah, I got it.

Speaker 1 It's hard to decipher what you're saying, but we get it eventually.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's, I mean, that's, I feel like that was a big, everyone knew that.

Speaker 1 Well, Kanye, you were talking about a guy who got acquitted of a murder and

Speaker 1 wanting a footage of a DAPA.

Speaker 6 I thought he was talking about the music playing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, me too.

Speaker 1 That's exactly what I thought.

Speaker 6 But no, we get it. We follow you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're on the same wavelength. We're one team, one heartbeat.

Speaker 6 Hank, this will get you excited. Talk about LeBron James getting swept.
That's incredible. Jordan never.
Jordan, when he got swept, he did in three games. Yeah.
It took LeBron four.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 8 I don't have much to say about that. We can't lose 4-1, and I can't really be dancing on his grave.
He's old. He's washed up.
So

Speaker 8 it's not the way it was. He's just, you know, he's going to retire.

Speaker 1 Well, he's not going to retire. That was classic LeBron to basically be like, oh, I got swept.

Speaker 1 Let me talk about retiring real quick so that the story then becomes LeBron might walk away instead of LeBron got swept.

Speaker 6 I thought it was a little classless, distasteful for LeBron to tease his retirement on the day of his best friend Carmelo Anthony's actual retirement, which I have to admit, I thought he retired like a year ago.

Speaker 1 Well, at least. I don't know if you know this, but LeBron knew about that a week ago.
He did. Yeah, he did.

Speaker 6 He did the video. When they made the video.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was. But yeah, LeBron, 0.0% chance he doesn't play at least another game of basketball in the NBA.

Speaker 8 Did he miss, has he missed like 100 threes in the fourth quarter?

Speaker 1 This playoffs? It was 100, yes. It was exactly 100 threes.

Speaker 1 That's actually how they decided the series. First to miss 100 threes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's not retiring. No, he's not.
There's no way he's retiring. LeBron.

Speaker 1 There's a couple things that make it so he is not retiring. One, could you ever in a million years see LeBron James not doing a retirement tour?

Speaker 6 No, he's going to require a gift from every team that he visits on the road.

Speaker 6 He's going to ask that they retire his jersey number. Yeah.
He's going to pull out all the stops. It's going to be, it's going to be a big thing.
It's going to be a big thing.

Speaker 1 Two, Bronny is playing at USC. He still wants to play with Bronny.
He can't retire if he wants to play with Bronny. Three, retirement tour.

Speaker 1 PFT, guess where the All-Star game is? The NBA All-Star game is in 2025.

Speaker 6 LeBron James is from, I forget where he went to college. He is from Cleveland.

Speaker 6 Akron. He's from Akron.
Is it in Cleveland, Ohio?

Speaker 1 It is not. It's in Los Angeles.
Oh, okay. So LeBron James, the 2025 All-Star game, I'm assuming they'll rename a trophy after him, something like that.
That will be the LeBron Fest.

Speaker 1 That's what's going to happen. He's going to play two more years.
There's no chance.

Speaker 1 This is ridiculous that he even say it.

Speaker 6 Well, let's also say that LeBron played this game injured. He did.
An injury that many people thought nobody could even walk on.

Speaker 6 So after, you can set your watch if it's Chris Paul or if it's LeBron James losing in the playoffs. Within about 18 hours, you'll get a story about how injured they were.
Now, LeBron was hurt.

Speaker 6 I mean, he's old. He's played a full season.
He's probably banged up a little bit, but the stories started to come out right afterwards. He's going to take some time off.

Speaker 6 He's going to tease retirement. He's going to say, you know, I don't know if I want to go through this rehab process.
Playing another season is especially grueling.

Speaker 6 And then he's going to be like, you know what? I'm going to lace it up for another year. Yeah.
And then he'll be back.

Speaker 1 And he, look, I

Speaker 1 know that we're not the most pro-LeBron podcast.

Speaker 8 I hate it when stars do that.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 8 Just tease retirement and then come back at the end.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 We're not the most pro-LeBron podcast, but what he did at the first half last night was special. He's 38 years old.
He's not the LeBron. Like, he played, I think, all but four seconds on Monday night.

Speaker 1 Like, it was pretty insane that he was able to throw it back for that. He did run out of gas, but he's 38 years old.

Speaker 1 The Lakers, like, found something very special in Austin Reeves. Rui Hutchimoor played great, all these playoffs.
The big question is Anthony Davis.

Speaker 1 Like, you needed Anthony Davis to be the alpha because LeBron is 38 years old and he wasn't that guy on both ends.

Speaker 1 I also have something funny for you, PFT, that I just, I, I, like, I was having a debate with our friend Kirk Minahan about top 10 players of all time. It's a take that I'm brewing for later on.

Speaker 1 Some other, some other day we'll do like our worst takes or the takes that will get us in the most trouble.

Speaker 6 But anyway, I think LeBron's in there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, he is. He is.
That wasn't the take.

Speaker 1 I went and I looked at the top 75 all-time, the list they made the other, like whatever it was, two years ago when it was 75th anniversary.

Speaker 1 Where's Anthony Davis on the top 75?

Speaker 1 He is,

Speaker 6 he can't be that high up, right? 74.

Speaker 1 75.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I'm Ori's like 76. Thanks, PFT.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say,

Speaker 6 yeah, turn your mic off, bitch. 71.

Speaker 1 53.

Speaker 6 That's crazy. That's crazy too.

Speaker 1 That's insane.

Speaker 6 So when they put him on that list,

Speaker 6 that's people in a room just thinking to themselves, like, imagine Anthony Davis trying to get deed up by Pistol Pete and dunking on his head. That's why they put him that high on the list.

Speaker 1 Imagine how far Anthony Davis would rock one of Bob Koozi's layups. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 This is just looking at Anthony Davis, the freak athlete, and then comparing him to old players that were, by any objective stretch, much, much greater NBA players than Anthony Davis was.

Speaker 1 It's just 53, and like,

Speaker 1 yeah, I mean, he had moments in these playoffs. He had some games.
He had a 40-point game. He played great defense at times, but like,

Speaker 1 he was not what the Lakers. The Lakers needed him to be special.
They needed him to be the guy. And he wasn't.

Speaker 1 He wasn't. Yeah, he was.

Speaker 6 He's 53. He wasn't.
He was healthy, though. He wasn't.
That was nice to see.

Speaker 6 What about the rest of the supporting cast? Schroeder? You like Schroeder? Yeah, I actually think what the Lakers should do, the key to their season this year was getting rid of Westbrook.

Speaker 6 They need to re-sign Westbrook and then trade him away again. Yes, I would agree.
And then vibes just skyrocket. They should maybe try to do that.
Chris Paul, too.

Speaker 1 Yes. We also had

Speaker 1 at the Lakers game.

Speaker 1 We're already starting the rumor mill because LeBron said he was going to retire, but we also had a player there who LeBron might play with again. So Kyrie Irving was at the Lakers game.
Game four,

Speaker 1 and that will start the rumor, Mill. Look, I don't want, I'm not a LeBron fan, but I don't want him to retire because he's fun.
It's fun.

Speaker 1 And that, and like, from a pure basketball standpoint, watching him put in 31 in the first half and being like, I'm going to like empty the tank trying to will my team to not get swept was special, and it's fun to watch.

Speaker 6 For all the LeBron stands out there, and also LeBron haters.

Speaker 6 So, I guess in this threesome, I'm thinking about right now, I'd say Shannon Sharp as a lover, and then Nick Wright as a lover, and Skip Bayless as a hater.

Speaker 6 When LeBron James retires, they're still going to do like two years of content about what LeBron would have done on that night if he had been on that team.

Speaker 1 Yes, oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 You can't quit LeBron cold turkey. Yes.
You have to wean yourself off him.

Speaker 1 They will have tweet alerts on, and if LeBron tweets about any game, that will be the lead story.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that'll be their take on it.

Speaker 6 There were some people saying it was disrespectful to the Nuggets, how much attention was being paid to the Lakers. Guess what? The Lakers, it's LeBron.

Speaker 1 It's also like

Speaker 1 you talk about the losers when the winners go on.

Speaker 1 I've never understood when people get upset about that. You have more time to talk about the Nuggets.
They're playing in the NBA Finals. They have another series.

Speaker 1 When a team loses and gets swept, like if the Celtics had gotten swept tonight, we would have talked about the Celtics. That's how it works.

Speaker 1 You talk about the dead corpse and the team that's living and goes on. You have another day to talk about them.

Speaker 6 Yeah, like John John wasn't saluting Jackie Onassis as she hooked down the shot.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 6 She was saying bye to her dad.

Speaker 1 I just hate that shit. I hate when people are like, oh, you don't talk talk about it.
Yeah, the winners get to keep playing. We're going to talk about them.

Speaker 1 The Nuggets have two full weeks where, and we are, we led with the Nuggets here.

Speaker 1 We talked about the Nuggets before the Lakers, but the Nuggets have two full weeks where they get praise, and they deserve it. They're a fucking special team.

Speaker 1 I did also, now I'm starting to, I'm ditching, I'm getting into the, like, saying way too many nice things about LeBron.

Speaker 1 He gave a quote that was anti-Giannis, which I appreciated because I liked him saying this. I don't think he was like sub-tweeting Giannis or anything, but it was interesting seeing it.

Speaker 1 He said, when asked about it, about the season, he says, I think it was okay.

Speaker 1 I don't like to say it's a successful year because I don't play for anything besides winning championships at this point in my career.

Speaker 1 You know, I don't get a kick out of making a conference finals appearance. I've done it a lot.

Speaker 1 Nice brag. Fair.
And it's not fun to me to not be able to be part of getting to the finals, but we'll see. We'll see.
We'll see. Then he talks about his retirement.
But I appreciated that.

Speaker 1 LeBron was being honest when he's like, I'm not fucking playing basketball at 38 years old to be in a conference finals.

Speaker 6 Yeah. No, I think that's he's 100% right about that.
Like, of course, he's not. He's not going to be going out there and putting his body through all that shit just to lose again.
Right.

Speaker 6 He wants to win. I respect that about LeBron.
Say what you want about him. He's always wanted to win.
He's never...

Speaker 6 He has. There have been maybe one or two games where he's come up and just laid a complete egg in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 He put three against Dallas or was it game four when he scored eight points?

Speaker 6 Yeah, eight points.

Speaker 6 But for the most part, like LeBron James, he competes when he's out there and when he's not flopping. But it was,

Speaker 6 I'm going to miss talking about him when he's gone, but he's not. But he's not gone.
He's not gone yet.

Speaker 6 Everybody out there is getting faked out by the LeBron retirement thing. If LeBron James retires from the NBA, I will also retire from the NBA.

Speaker 1 Okay, I actually, let's go one further. If LeBron James retires, if LeBron James doesn't play a

Speaker 1 single

Speaker 1 more basketball game, that's a bad sentence. Hank, help me.

Speaker 6 If he quits.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. Hank, go ahead.
You got it.

Speaker 8 If LeBron James doesn't record a stat in an NBA game ever again.

Speaker 1 Okay, nice.

Speaker 1 PFT, I think you and I should have to wear LeBron jerseys for an entire month.

Speaker 6 Make it a year.

Speaker 1 Fine, it's a year. A year.

Speaker 6 I'll wear a LeBron jersey.

Speaker 1 For a year?

Speaker 1 Let's do a month. A month.

Speaker 1 We'll do a month. No, then why don't you get a cat, you fucking pussy?

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you heard what I said.

Speaker 8 I rust a cat.

Speaker 1 A month. A month.
We'll do it for an entire month. I will also.
No, you know what? We'll get cats.

Speaker 1 Fuck it.

Speaker 6 I will read The Godfather.

Speaker 1 I will read The Godfather, and I will get a cat.

Speaker 6 I will not get a cat. I will wear a LeBron James jersey for

Speaker 1 every

Speaker 6 NFL Sunday next year.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's easy. No, you got to do more.
I'm getting a cat.

Speaker 1 I wear it for all NFL season. Every day.
Every day.

Speaker 8 And get cornrows for a month.

Speaker 1 I will get cornrows.

Speaker 6 Why cornrows?

Speaker 1 Why not?

Speaker 6 LeBron James, has he ever had cornrows?

Speaker 8 That's nothing to do LeBron James.

Speaker 1 I will go bald.

Speaker 1 I will go bald. Was that?

Speaker 1 You are going bald, yeah.

Speaker 6 No, but my hair's growing back.

Speaker 1 Oh, nice. Congrats.

Speaker 6 Who's back of the week?

Speaker 6 No, I'll wear a LeBron James jersey

Speaker 1 for the entire NBA season.

Speaker 6 For the entire NBA season. There you go.

Speaker 1 And I'll get a cat. Yep.
So he, but I also will not get a cat if he sits out next year.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Because I think he would play.
He could sit out next year and then play with Bronny.

Speaker 6 Maybe come back, play for the Wizards.

Speaker 1 We also could just say he'll always come back. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Barry Sanderson.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I keep pushing that off. Okay, yeah.
So those are the stakes.

Speaker 6 Bronny's mom's hot, by the way.

Speaker 1 LeBron's wife?

Speaker 6 Yeah, well, Bronny's mom. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Savannah is her name. She's like the park.
Did you say her name? She has a name.

Speaker 6 She's Bronny's mom.

Speaker 6 That's her most important job. She's Savannah.
Yeah. Savannah, good-looking girl.

Speaker 1 Woman. Woman.
With all all due respect. Knock it out the park.

Speaker 1 What? Why? What do you mean? You guys know that clip? No.

Speaker 8 Oh, my God. It's so funny.

Speaker 1 What do you mean, why? Mark Jackson.

Speaker 8 I don't know the context, but he literally says, I'm knocking out the park, all due respect.

Speaker 1 About LeBron's wife? Yes.

Speaker 8 I'm going to play it.

Speaker 6 I would not knock it out.

Speaker 6 I would hit a sack fly.

Speaker 1 I have a take, too.

Speaker 1 You had it ready to go.

Speaker 12 All of that talk

Speaker 13 was that his wife, wife Savannah

Speaker 12 had a sinker ball and a fastball as a high school softball pitcher.

Speaker 1 I tell you what.

Speaker 13 And you know what I was thinking, Mike?

Speaker 12 We've had this running debate

Speaker 12 whether Mark could put into play against an average major league.

Speaker 14 Wait, they're actually talking about softball.

Speaker 15 Yeah, yeah, hey.

Speaker 8 Well, I didn't, I've never heard this part of it.

Speaker 8 We'll cut this. No way.

Speaker 1 Hey, I don't think Mark could put into play with a balloon.

Speaker 8 I've only heard this part.

Speaker 6 Ready? Savannah.

Speaker 1 Because of her sinker.

Speaker 12 Thompson's for three low-co. Kevin loved the rebound.
I'm shocked you downplayed Savannah. He said she was all city.
James again from downtown.

Speaker 12 And I'd hit out the park. No question.
With all due respect.

Speaker 1 So I miss context matters.

Speaker 1 Context matters.

Speaker 1 Wait. That just rumors.
You've just been living in a world where Mark Jackson said on national TV, I will fuck LeBron James' wife. He would have been a bad guy.

Speaker 1 I've only heard the Cooper goes, I think you're downplaying Savannah. And I would have knocked it out the park with all due respect, which,

Speaker 8 without the softball context, is the funniest gold of all time. And now I just ruined it for myself and probably other AWS.

Speaker 1 Probably not. No, I think.

Speaker 8 But I guess that makes more sense. Would you hit Savannah out of the park?

Speaker 6 Would you knock her out of the park, Ken?

Speaker 1 You admit it makes sense now?

Speaker 6 I'd hit a dribbler to the mound.

Speaker 1 Hank?

Speaker 1 We've lost him again. Okay.

Speaker 1 I would say, by the way, Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy, I don't know if they like basketball anymore. They complain non-stop.

Speaker 1 And I know that sometimes it's good because they're saying things that the NBA doesn't want to be said and all that, but like they really don't.

Speaker 1 Like there's times where I'm like, do these guys even want to be here?

Speaker 6 They just get frustrated with the officiating.

Speaker 1 With everything, though, with load management, with the officiating, with fouls, with

Speaker 1 like everything.

Speaker 6 You get old-fast.

Speaker 1 It's crazy.

Speaker 6 It's old-fast watching sports. Everybody becomes a boomer.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I just.
I used to love those guys, and now I'm like, they're just, they feel angry all the time.

Speaker 6 I love how Mark Jackson always calls Jeff Van Gundy coach. Yeah, that's, I do like that part.

Speaker 1 Coach for life, coach for life.

Speaker 1 Um, okay, uh,

Speaker 1 our Knights are one away,

Speaker 1 and our Panthers

Speaker 1 are one away up the P's,

Speaker 1 and that's talking hockey. Yep, uh, okay, let's do hot seat, cool throne.
Don't you dare anyone tweet saying you didn't talk about hockey.

Speaker 1 We did, yeah, we just talked about the Knights, Hurricanes, just talked. We said them.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I mean, the series, I've been watching all the series.

Speaker 1 It's fun to watch playoff hockeys, but it's hard when it's 3-0. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And the Panther, like, the Hurricanes put, they played a very good game the other night, and they just.

Speaker 10 1-0.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Bob was

Speaker 1 third-wall Bob. What is he saying? He has like 67 straight

Speaker 1 saves. So he's been on fire.

Speaker 6 I think it might have been our friend Paul Bissinette. Might have been somebody else on that desk.
When it went to overtime the other night, they said it was Stars Nights, and they said,

Speaker 6 You can't have a night with no stars.

Speaker 6 And they were saying the stars were going to win. That's just not true.
You can have a night with no stars easily, but you can't have.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, if you live in a city with

Speaker 1 air pollution,

Speaker 6 but you can you can they meant the other thing, which is you can't have stars with no night.

Speaker 1 Well, technically, well, no, that's sun, yeah.

Speaker 11 Sun's a star,

Speaker 1 fuck, yeah, goddamn it. What are you doing? Hank is Tyson, Hank is Hank has made us all a little bit hot.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I got contacts.

Speaker 1 It's hot in here. Yeah, it is hot.
It's hot.

Speaker 11 Takes our hot.

Speaker 1 Okay.

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Speaker 1 Hank, Hot See Cool Throne.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is bad because so Hank, my hot seat is quite a bit.

Speaker 1 We recorded FAQs at

Speaker 1 noon,

Speaker 1 and Hank said to us, he was like, are we doing Hot Sea Cool Throne right now? Because I don't have anything.

Speaker 1 And in the back of my head, I was like, we're going to flash forward 12 hours and he'll still have enough. Okay, LeBron.

Speaker 1 Do you have anything? Yes, pants. Oh, okay.
Good.

Speaker 8 It's getting hot out.

Speaker 6 Short season.

Speaker 8 They're Hotsy. I guess, yeah.

Speaker 8 And then I guess I'll say it this way: My Cool Throne is me

Speaker 8 because I'm a mature-looking gentleman. I tweeted and said

Speaker 8 I'm wrapping up my 20s, a couple weeks. I'll be 30.
So, this Tell This Money Line tonight was the game of my 20s. Put a decade on the line.

Speaker 8 Borderline overwhelming response of people saying, I thought you were already way older than 30.

Speaker 6 You're distinguished.

Speaker 8 Some could look at it as an insult. I look at it as a compliment because I'm a mature, older gentleman.

Speaker 1 That's also internet age. Like, people have known you for 11 years now.

Speaker 8 It's 10 years as well.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 But I'm saying, like, they've known known you, watched you.

Speaker 8 It's probably 10 years this week. Yeah.
That's a really long time.

Speaker 8 Yeah, so cool throwing me.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Great job.

Speaker 1 Is this our 10-year anniversary menu? Yeah. Wow.

Speaker 6 What's a 10-year anniversary gift? Jake, can you look that up? The traditional one?

Speaker 8 I mean, I tried.

Speaker 1 Diamond animals.

Speaker 1 I have some diamonds here.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I was hoping Big Cat was going to ride with me.

Speaker 1 Hey, I've explained this time and time again. It doesn't matter.
I just want to. You've written about it.
You've talked about it.

Speaker 9 i up tin or aluminum gifts oh get him some

Speaker 1 symbolize strength and longevity hank i actually just got this for you it's the part my take koozie

Speaker 1 actually i know so what'd you get me uh i got you a tin he's pulling it out of his pocket i lost it okay

Speaker 8 jake you got one extra one

Speaker 1 not on me okay so good hot seat cool throwing hank thank you great job hank

Speaker 1 i'm i really don't want you to ever sleep again. Like, I don't want to look.
You know what? This is like, I'm fading. This is like, this is like the Dwight shoot when he gets concussed episode.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's Pam's like, I don't want you to go back to just regular Dwight. I love this Hank.
You're fading. Yeah.
Did you drive today? No.

Speaker 1 Oh, I was going to say, you're going to fall asleep behind the wheel. No, thank God.

Speaker 8 Okay. We got an early day tomorrow.

Speaker 1 We do. You're not going to make it.
Yeah, well,

Speaker 6 what are you doing tomorrow morning?

Speaker 8 We got to shoot.

Speaker 6 Shoot what?

Speaker 1 A video. We got to shoot.

Speaker 6 What kind of video is it?

Speaker 1 at a golf course and hank hank so

Speaker 1 i'll just say it it's got it's gonna come out soon it's it's for a giveaway and uh we're gonna shoot it at a golf course no no teasers i literally need to shoot one shot pft and hank keeps in in planning this he's like yeah we'll play like three or four holes i'm like no no i need to take one shot I'm going to take one shot and then we're getting in the car and going to work.

Speaker 8 Yeah, but like, you know, show business, it's like, you got to take multiple takes.

Speaker 1 See, he's been doing this the whole time where he's like, we'll do like three or four holes. I'm like, no, no, no.
One shot is all I need. Hank needs to take zero shots.
Hank himself needs zero shots.

Speaker 6 He's going to take shots.

Speaker 6 You're going to play a full nine.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 10 I'm telling you, this golf bet's heavy in importance.

Speaker 1 Yeah, oh, yeah, more than the self-no. I don't give a fuck.
Oh, about

Speaker 1 golfing. Oh.

Speaker 8 I would go to caddy school.

Speaker 8 Okay. I already thought about it.

Speaker 1 DFT. It's not going to happen.

Speaker 6 My hot seat is the Europa Conference final in soccer because Nolesey's going. That's right, bitch.
Nolzey's going. You guys know Nolzee? No.

Speaker 6 Nolzey is the West Ham fan that at their semifinal match, it was against

Speaker 6 AZ Alkmar.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 6 Their fans are the Ultras. They're like big-time hooligans.
After the game was over, the Ultras tried to storm the West Ham

Speaker 6 friends and family section in the stands. And this one big British unit, this absolute lad, stood on the stairs like it was at the 300 at the Thermopylae.
The bridge.

Speaker 6 Fighting them all off, punching these guys in the face, keeping this. It's probably like 24, 30 guys.
How do you spell him? Nolzey.

Speaker 6 His name is Chris Noll, but they call him Nolzy, which is a perfect name for him.

Speaker 6 K-N-O-L-L.

Speaker 6 This fucking unit was just up there swinging, punching dudes in the face, knocking them all back. The video went viral.

Speaker 6 West Ham, my team, my club, they reached out to him and they bought him tickets to go to the final match next month. They're sending him there as like an official fan representative.
Oh, no.

Speaker 6 This dude is awesome. But I'm sure that if you look deep enough into Nolzee's internet history, I'm guessing you might find something bad.
I don't know.

Speaker 6 I don't know for a fact, but I know how these stories go. Just appreciate Nolzy in the moment.

Speaker 1 Okay, so I searched Nolzy. Yeah.
I wanted to watch the video, and the first video that popped up was, so Nolzy didn't actually do anything and just got battered.

Speaker 1 And it's just a video of, I think, Nolzee getting his ass.

Speaker 6 That's a bad angle. Look at the other one.

Speaker 1 It's the best angle because it's the one from above.

Speaker 6 Look at the other one, though. Okay.
You'll see Nolzee just defending. He's defending the wall.
Got it. Nolzee's a fucking lad.

Speaker 1 That one bummed me out because it was just an older guy getting fucking worked. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Well, even if he did just get worked, he still put his body on the line and protected everybody else that was in the stands. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Shout out Nolsey. Okay, shout out Nolzy.

Speaker 6 You're an an absolute lad.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 6 And then my cool throne is Thursday night football ratings because the NFL announced that they are flexing weeks 12 through 18 Thursday night football.

Speaker 10 13 through 17.

Speaker 6 I read 12 through 18. Jake's right, probably.

Speaker 10 I don't think there's a Thursday game on week 18.

Speaker 6 All right, whatever, Jake.

Speaker 10 Sorry, it was mine too.

Speaker 1 Dude, Nolesy's getting sick.

Speaker 6 13 through 17.

Speaker 6 Watch the other one. You haven't watched the good angle.

Speaker 1 He's getting a picture, too. He's got a picture.

Speaker 6 No, but watch the other angle. Yeah, yeah, because he fought 40 guys.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right.

Speaker 6 I'm trying to find the other one. I'm going to wait.
I'm going to wait till the end.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to find the other angle.

Speaker 1 I don't know where the other angle is that shows Nolzy like protecting everything.

Speaker 6 Just search Nolzee on Twitter.

Speaker 1 It looks like the fake news has gotten a hold of the Nolzy story.

Speaker 6 No, no, Nolsey.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, all right. So I'm seeing the other angle, which is kind of the bad angle.
But yeah, he did a good job.

Speaker 6 Nolzy beat the fuck out of it.

Speaker 1 It's hard to erase what I saw first.

Speaker 6 Nolzy's a lad. So weeks 13 through 17 are now eligible to be flexed on Thursday night football.
They're going to give teams a minimum of 28 days' notice before the decision is made.

Speaker 6 That feels like a lot of guessing to be like, oh, one month from now, this game will be better than the game that we have in its place.

Speaker 6 So the ones that are eligible to be flexed, Dallas at Seattle, Pittsburgh at New England, San Francisco at Seattle, the Rams at the Saints, and the Browns at the Jets.

Speaker 6 So at least one of those will be flexed.

Speaker 1 My favorite argument when this came up was

Speaker 1 the football writers are like, won't anyone think about the fans that are planning their schedule to go to away games? It's like, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 There's probably a couple hundred that we're going to go to a late, late season Thursday night game away, but how many millions of people are going to watch a game on TV and we might get better football?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so that's that's what I do feel bad. You probably want to, but also they're telling you right now, don't plan to go to that game.

Speaker 6 So my idea for announcing NFL schedules in a perfect world just for TV purposes, if there were no fans in the stands, would be Sunday night after the afternoon slate before the night game starts on Football Night in America.

Speaker 6 At that point, they announced what the games

Speaker 6 week are going to be. And then, if you lose, guess what? You have something to watch that show for because there's nothing worse.
If you lose on Sunday, you avoid the highlight shows,

Speaker 6 like it's the plague.

Speaker 6 But if you watch that for the selection, for the schedule unveiling for the next week, I'd love it. Oh, my God, that would be so.

Speaker 1 That would be so awesome.

Speaker 6 I predict right now

Speaker 6 Rams Saints.

Speaker 2 That's going to be flexed. What is it?

Speaker 1 They're going to get the Seahawks, Cowboys.

Speaker 6 Dallas at Seattle.

Speaker 1 I can see the Cowboys sucking this year. I hope so.
Doesn't that feel like they do that?

Speaker 6 Yeah, Hank can't have it all. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Steelers at New England. They're going to keep that one.

Speaker 6 49ers at the Seahawks. I could also see the Seahawks sucking this year.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 And then the Browns at the Jets. They're going to want to put Rodgers on in primetime.

Speaker 1 Okay, my hot seat, similar football,

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 1 the Dogs trying to make a roster because they changed the kickoff rule again, fair catches, which college football already has.

Speaker 1 I'm fine with it. I don't care.

Speaker 6 Yeah, the only bummer is that we're not going to see any returns at all.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, we'll see some still because if you kick it to like the 10, they might return it.

Speaker 6 They've been gradually phasing that out of the game, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, which is, I don't know, it does suck a little bit, but I also, it already happens in college football so i'm always like of the belief that if it's if it's a rule that happens in college football and they make it in the nfl i'm okay with it because my brain was already split halfway down where it's like you know you'll watch a college football game and there was the first couple years where it happened and like why are they fair catching it yeah my brain is adjusted you know when they fair catch a kickoff i will know what's going on We're always going to have the Corderal Patterson return with a Sky Cam.

Speaker 6 Yeah. That's really when kickoffs, that was the last great kickoff that we got to see.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 They're just going to end up pooch kicking it to the 20 and they're going to cover and they're just going to fair catch everything.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Or if they miss the pooch kick,

Speaker 1 and then they get to return it.

Speaker 6 There could be squib kicks, the return of the squib.

Speaker 1 There's an art in that.

Speaker 1 Okay, and then my cool throne is Carmel Anthony. We alluded to it, but he retired.

Speaker 1 Legendary career. Oh, Jake Clotler.
Thank you, Mello. Thank you, Mellow.
Three-time gold medal winner.

Speaker 6 Yeah, American hero.

Speaker 1 People were talking maybe retire his number for the Nuggets. He does wear the same number as Jokic.
Someone had the good idea on Twitter that they should just make 15 the best Nuggets player.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's like number 10 in soccer.

Speaker 1 Right, exactly. I do think he might get retired.

Speaker 6 I wouldn't be shocked if the Knicks retire his number.

Speaker 1 They might. Because

Speaker 1 what, Hank?

Speaker 8 Go to like the second round once.

Speaker 11 But it was the best Knicks memories in the past 30 years.

Speaker 1 He picked the Knicks, though, over because the member after the LeBron, Bosch, Wade, Summer, and everything.

Speaker 1 Melo wanted to be with the Knicks. He wanted to be with the Knicks.
He picked the Knicks. That was the I'm Coming Home.
We talked to him about that video.

Speaker 1 I think there's like, there weren't a lot of people picking the Knicks.

Speaker 6 You know what? USA basketball should retire his number. How about that?

Speaker 1 Maybe they won't. I just know that Knicks fans do love Mellow.
He picked him.

Speaker 8 Yeah, you should retire numbers for winners,

Speaker 8 not like nice guys that you're like.

Speaker 10 Okay. Sergey's retired it.

Speaker 1 He won a championship. He won a championship.
But yeah, Mellow was.

Speaker 1 I actually think that.

Speaker 8 They like Jeremy Lynn too. His numbers aren't retired.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know. Jeremy Lynn was like really good for a month.

Speaker 8 Chris Dobbs?

Speaker 1 What about him?

Speaker 8 They loved Chris Dobbs.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but he didn't ended very poorly in the playoffs, did he? Yeah.

Speaker 8 And it very. They were doing second round.

Speaker 8 Whatever. I'm not.

Speaker 6 Actually, you know what?

Speaker 1 Hank's right.

Speaker 6 It would be weird if the Knicks retired his number.

Speaker 1 I'm not basing it on what he did. I'm saying because he picked him and no one's picked the Knicks.

Speaker 1 Pick me trophies, yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, but I wouldn't be shocked. Maybe I'm way off.
Knicks fans love Mellow.

Speaker 8 I wouldn't be shocked either. I'm just saying it's soft.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 6 Now, what happens next year if, let's say, the Lakers making a little

Speaker 6 postseason noise

Speaker 6 down the stretch. They need another body.
Let me see. There's an injury.
Get on the phone, get Mellow there. Nicks? Mellow's going to be bodying people at Lifetime Fitness.

Speaker 6 That's what I'm looking forward to. He should still treat, he should play as much basketball.
He should play more basketball, except just casually at the gym pickup ball.

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm just going off of a tweet from NBA Central. Should the Knicks retire Carmelo Anthony's number?

Speaker 1 Most people are saying

Speaker 1 no. Okay, so there you go.
No, I will change my take. No.
No. Yeah, I really picked him.
I just think they have a special place in their heart because he did pick him when no one picked him.

Speaker 6 What did he wear on USA basketball?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Probably, I think he might have worn seven.

Speaker 6 Carmelo Anthony, USA Basketball, number seven. They should retire it.

Speaker 1 Also, 15. 15 Carmelo 15

Speaker 1 okay uh Carmelo Anthony also goes retires is maybe the coolest thing you could say about someone he was a walking bucket that's what everyone will say and I also saw a video today that made me very sad and feel very old it was uh some guy on instagram talking to an au team and they were asking him who mellow is and they all were just saying lamello ball yeah and that hurt that is sad yeah they should know better yeah that's bad parenting yeah stay mellow uh okay billy my hot seats italians uh turns out there was recently a crisis meeting in italy because the price of pasta has been too high oh so they had a pasta meeting i don't like the sound of a crisis meeting in italy i would have liked to see this pasta meeting i know i just think it's hilarious like a bunch of guys standing around like the pasta is you got a pasta problem yeah they have a pasta riot pasta rebellion well hank why are you eating yourself

Speaker 1 worry about yourself i just looked over, and you were gnawing on the inside of your finger.

Speaker 1 I have a little blister from golf. I was just getting rid of the skin.
Fuck off. Too much golf.
Okay.

Speaker 6 I thought you were trying to bite off your tattoo.

Speaker 8 I saved a mean comment during the kickoff thing because I wasn't trying to be contentious.

Speaker 8 But, like, if the NFL didn't have kickoffs, like, your best Chicago player of the last 40 years was a kick return.

Speaker 1 I agree. I'm not saying, but they found out that kickoffs are pretty dangerous.
I want football to last forever.

Speaker 1 All right. That's why I didn't say anything.

Speaker 1 I feel like we're on the other side of the delirious mountain of football. When you're calling me out, like, I'm just existing.
Well, I looked over and you were going like this.

Speaker 1 This is weird. This is weird.

Speaker 1 You don't worry, you know,

Speaker 1 your hands are soft.

Speaker 1 Billy's soft as well. You got Billy's hands.
You got Billy's hands.

Speaker 1 Oh, we don't want you to do this again. Yeah.
Like, I don't understand why people. Yeah,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 8 Well, that one to the.

Speaker 6 all right. Good hot seat, Bill.

Speaker 1 Yeah, go ahead. The past throw.
Cool throne.

Speaker 11 Jets, Alan Lazard had to leave OTAs and Aaron Rodgers. They both thought they were hurt.
But turns out Alan Lazard just got hit in the nuts.

Speaker 11 And Aaron Rodgers, I think, was trying to take some time off to chill.

Speaker 1 Got it. Okay.
That's cool.

Speaker 6 So I thought he had a calf injury. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We were supposed to worry and then we're not worried.

Speaker 11 Yeah, we were supposed to worry. Now we're not worried.

Speaker 15 He had a tender little calf, though.

Speaker 11 Yeah, because, well, everyone thought Lazard got seriously injured, but they didn't say that he came back to practice but they're like he got carried off but turns out he just got hit in the nuts got it that's pretty cool got it okay

Speaker 1 go ahead hot seat

Speaker 1 okay uh my hot seat

Speaker 1 my hot seat's birds okay uh there was

Speaker 4 there was a bird sitting in the infield of the guardians

Speaker 6 game and it got hit and died and There was some pitcher was warming up in the outfield, drilled a bird with a curveball, killed the bird too, two days ago.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so not great.

Speaker 1 Horses of the sky. Horses of the sky.

Speaker 6 Carson Wynne should have played baseball. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And sticking with the animal theme by Cool Thrones Squirrels.

Speaker 1 Sweet. Squirrel.

Speaker 9 A squirrel was running along the wall of Yankee Stadium.

Speaker 6 Yeah, finally squirrel.

Speaker 1 And it fell off. Yeah, it fell off.
Now, the fans

Speaker 6 are a bad look for New York sports fans. They were terrified of this squirrel.
Probably retire his number.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I like this name.

Speaker 6 Jeffrey Maher would have snatched that squirrel up in his glove and crushed it to death.

Speaker 1 Look at this.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, they were scared. They're terrified of this.
It's bad podcasting, but it's the fans.

Speaker 4 Their jaws are on the floor, and it's a squirrel, slow motion, running on the wall on the short porch, and he fell.

Speaker 1 Down he goes.

Speaker 1 Okay, good, good, cool throne. Before we do, Jimmy Tatro and

Speaker 6 Hank has another point to make. I'm sure it's a fun fact.

Speaker 8 No, this is actually just a fun, fun little little stat. The Celtics had a team outing at Top Golf after their afternoon film session.
Maybe all their whacking golf balls help relieve their stress.

Speaker 8 That's just a fun fact.

Speaker 6 It is a fact. Yeah.
That's a fun fact. I mean, top golf is fun.

Speaker 1 Do you have any last words, Hank? Because we're going to say goodbye to this version of Hank. I assume you're going to sleep at some point.
I'm going to miss this guy. Yep.

Speaker 1 So maybe say goodbye to the AWLs. We don't know when we'll see Delirious Hank.

Speaker 8 I won't sleep on Sunday night. I'll be ready to go go Monday.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're not going to sleep now?

Speaker 8 On Sunday.

Speaker 1 On purpose. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Smart.

Speaker 1 For what if there's no game?

Speaker 1 There will be a game.

Speaker 11 There will be.

Speaker 1 You just guaranteed a game seven?

Speaker 4 He guaranteed it right when this game ended. He's like, we'll see you Monday night.

Speaker 1 Game seven is guaranteed to Henry Lockwood right now.

Speaker 8 Yeah, fuck it.

Speaker 1 PFT's going to be shitting himself.

Speaker 8 I will. Oh, PFT knows.
The second I saw that tweet, I was like, I will shit myself.

Speaker 6 i die if if the celtics win

Speaker 6 okay yeah that's fair i do i do it's it this is a bet that will make me no friends it'll just make me hopefully 10 richer it's called math hank it's called compounding interest it's called investing in your future

Speaker 8 never mind

Speaker 1 no lay it off you already went after devin hester go ahead come on do it no no i was i was thinking i was trying to pick pft apart but i you can't yeah i'm unpickable you can't bite me like I'm your hand.

Speaker 1 Okay, well,

Speaker 1 it's nothing.

Speaker 1 Nothing.

Speaker 1 Okay, Hank's, he's reached.

Speaker 6 Tank's empty right now.

Speaker 1 You could bite him.

Speaker 1 Hank won't bite me.

Speaker 1 You deserve to lose. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
Let's kick it to ourselves. Jimmy Tatro and Daniel Ricardo, both in person.
Or no, Jimmy Tatro on Zoom, Daniel Ricardo in person, and then FAQs, great FAQs after that.

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Speaker 6 Tetro.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on our very good friend, recurring guest, Hollywood star, Jimmy Tatro. Nope, you're a Hollywood star.

Speaker 1 jimmy let's start with that what is life like now that you are a hollywood star

Speaker 16 everything has changed um i think the hardest thing about being a hollywood star has been just just completely replacing my friend group um

Speaker 16 with

Speaker 16 with

Speaker 16 more

Speaker 16 um star power yeah um and you know i'm not i'm not really that good of friends with all these new friends but um but they're better friends

Speaker 16 Yeah, they're they're they're cooler friends, so you know, it's it's it's been necessary to just cut all of the friends and family closest to me

Speaker 16 But that's that's just part of the biz.

Speaker 1 That's part of the Hollywood biz, you know, yeah, it's it just happens So you are on with us because the machine is coming out this weekend

Speaker 1 You play a young Burt Kreiser

Speaker 1 Our friend Burt Kreischer. So let's talk about the movie first.

Speaker 1 When you signed up for this, so you're playing Burt Kreischer, who's in the movie. It's his life.
It's his story.

Speaker 1 Did he sit you down and he was like, This is what you have to, like, this is how cool you have to act. Like, you need to look like this.
You need to do this because it's my life.

Speaker 16 To be honest, no, he didn't even do that even a little bit. Like, I think I would have liked him to do that a little bit, but he just fully trusted,

Speaker 16 I guess, every part of the process.

Speaker 16 So, no, he didn't actually tell me anything that I should be doing or like mannerisms or anything.

Speaker 16 But it was a little weird being on set with a guy that you're playing while he's there because you're just like, I'm trying to act like you. Like,

Speaker 16 I had like a little thing in my lower lip to make my lips look more like his.

Speaker 16 And he was like, what's that thing? I'm like,

Speaker 16 this is to look like you.

Speaker 1 And he was just like uh-huh

Speaker 6 yeah did you have to uh did you have to put on weight for the role no i i

Speaker 16 i actually uh i actually did ask the director that i was like so

Speaker 16 i'm not gonna like

Speaker 16 get big for this just just so you know and he's like no it's fine it's uh you know you're like a college version of birch so i don't think you need to you don't need to actually like put on uh any weight

Speaker 16 I was unwilling to do that.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? So wait, I mean, is this going forward? Because you are a big Hollywood actor.

Speaker 1 You won't do even the other way, like Christian Bale and the

Speaker 1 machinist. Like, you're not going to do that? Well,

Speaker 16 I'm not, I'm not, not down to do it. I'm not down to do it when I'm playing Burt Kreischer.

Speaker 1 Okay, fair.

Speaker 16 You know,

Speaker 16 if it was a role where it was like, this guy is, you know, you got to get big for it,

Speaker 16 I would probably do it. But to play young Bert in the machine, it didn't feel like

Speaker 16 the right one.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, to go method acting for Bert would actually be pretty easy. You just get, you get hammered all the time

Speaker 6 and go on every podcast in America.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 16 So I'm kind of, I kind of did. go method then in that sense because you know we were just out there in serbia um

Speaker 16 just drinking the whole time

Speaker 16 Bert is like definitely it was a blast to do the movie with Bert and he's definitely

Speaker 16 what your parents would call a bad influence

Speaker 1 but in a great way it seems like because he always seems like he's having the best time ever He is.

Speaker 16 He really created like such a fun environment on set that was just so

Speaker 16 no one was stressed out.

Speaker 16 Because it's, you know, he kind of is in the position where he sets the tone. Like, if you're the lead of the movie, it's kind of your job to set the tone.
And he's just so friendly and

Speaker 16 personable and like just funny that it just created a really, just it was a really fun environment on set.

Speaker 16 And he just was like on set. Like, so what are we doing after this? What's the move?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 6 What was it like in Serbia? How are the Serbian people?

Speaker 16 Um, Serbia was interesting, you know.

Speaker 16 The people were nice.

Speaker 16 It was like a very interesting place. I love going to places.
Like, one of the cool things about this job is like you do go to places that you probably would never otherwise go.

Speaker 16 And so I got to spend like two months in Serbia just being immersed in the Serbian culture, seeing bus ads of Nikola Jokic everywhere you go.

Speaker 16 It was fun.

Speaker 6 Is that why you don't like it that much? Is because it reminds you too much of Jokic?

Speaker 1 You knew we were going to get here.

Speaker 6 That's the entire reason I asked the question.

Speaker 1 You knew we were going to get here. It's actually credit to us to get almost 10 minutes into the interview without talking about how washed your king looks.

Speaker 1 The franchise, really. Yeah.

Speaker 16 So, this is coming out when, tomorrow?

Speaker 1 Either Wednesday or Friday. So, it'll be over.

Speaker 16 So, no, so by the time this comes out, the Lakers, it will be three and one.

Speaker 16 LeBron had a great game last night or the night before. I forget which one.

Speaker 16 AD really came through.

Speaker 16 And we needed.

Speaker 1 I mean, be honest, you thought that this year was special. You thought that after you beat the Warriors, it's like this team, and they looked really good.

Speaker 1 Ever since the trade deadline, they looked really good.

Speaker 1 And now they're just flaming out in spectacular fashion. The NBA is trying to rig the games for the Lakers, and they're not good enough to win.

Speaker 1 Where are you at with the future? Because, again, LeBron's looking old.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 16 You know,

Speaker 16 it's been a tough, it's been a tough three games.

Speaker 16 It's been frustrating because it felt like every game we had so many opportunities to win it. And we just kept blowing it over and over again.

Speaker 16 I still think there's a chance right now.

Speaker 16 Maybe that's wishful thinking, but I think if anyone's going to do it, it's this squad.

Speaker 16 See, here's the thing. All season, every game I've been to and watched, I've been like, if we just played defense,

Speaker 16 we'd be good. First half, neither team played defense during the regular season.
We'd be winning. Second half comes around, we continue continue to not play defense.

Speaker 16 The other team plays defense, we lose. So it seemed this all season like we have a pretty straightforward

Speaker 16 solution.

Speaker 16 And I don't, you know, I just don't know what's been going on these last three games. I thought we were on a good, on a good roll.
And then,

Speaker 16 yeah, it's tough. It's tough.

Speaker 16 It is starting to feel like

Speaker 16 the nuggets are

Speaker 16 looking a little too good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, now, would you, if, if you do end up getting swept, or even say it's 4-1,

Speaker 1 would that be so bad that you then put LeBron below Kobe in your all-time Lakers? Because I know right now you have LeBron above Kobe. So,

Speaker 1 how would that shake out?

Speaker 16 Yeah, so

Speaker 16 no, I think if LeBron pulls this off, he'll make his way into my top Lakers category. But for now,

Speaker 16 I mean, I still don't put him above Powell Gasol.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 6 That's spicy. Now, could you consider this season to be a moral victory, though?

Speaker 16 Say it again.

Speaker 6 Is this season a moral victory?

Speaker 1 French.

Speaker 6 You got all the way to the Western Conference finals. Nobody thought that was going to happen.
Like, good job, Lakers.

Speaker 16 I think it is.

Speaker 16 I think, I mean, I don't think it's a bad result if we if we,

Speaker 16 even if we don't make a miraculous comeback and win this Nugget Series in seven, I don't think it's a bad result. Um,

Speaker 16 I still think it's impressive,

Speaker 1 but um that's loser talk. This is great coming.
That's the Lakers talk. Yeah, that's loser talk.

Speaker 6 It's not a failure. This season's not a failure.

Speaker 1 This is the once-proud Los Angeles Lakers. Hey, we got swept in the Western Conference finals.

Speaker 16 It's steps to success. It's steps to success.

Speaker 1 To what? Winning a title win LeBron's 45?

Speaker 16 No, that was just me quoting Giannis.

Speaker 6 It would be great, though, if the Lakers hung a banner that said Western Conference finalists.

Speaker 1 Won a game. Maybe.

Speaker 16 I

Speaker 16 look,

Speaker 16 I respect

Speaker 16 the shit out of LeBron.

Speaker 16 It just when he

Speaker 16 just the

Speaker 16 complaining about the foul calls that I have a I have a hard time with. You know, maybe if there was a little breath of that, I would be be more willing to include him in my top Lakers category.
But

Speaker 16 yeah, it just makes it a real top.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Austin Reeves is definitely in there, though. That guy is the best.

Speaker 16 Austin Reeves, I swear to God, if we fucking trade Austin Reeves, I'm going to be so pissed off. We need a guy like Austin Reeves.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 he is a glue guy. Are you at the point in your A-list celebrity life that you get free courtside tickets to the Lakers? Like, have you been, I assume you've been shown on the Jumbotron, right?

Speaker 1 Is that the official made it in LA moment?

Speaker 16 I actually have not been shown on Jumbotron.

Speaker 16 But it's funny you asked, I did actually have to turn down courtside tickets to the game tonight, which I'm

Speaker 16 pretty devastating, to be honest.

Speaker 16 But I'm just simply not in la and it was it wasn't going to work but that was burnt burt invited me to come with him and i and i had to say no and i

Speaker 16 i'm still i'm kind of mad just thinking about it to be honest

Speaker 16 if you lose it's your fault then yeah you could have been there you could have made a difference that's true well that's the thing about about courtside seats is you actually can kind of make a difference yeah like my friend has My friend has the tickets that are like right in front of the basket where they shoot free throws.

Speaker 16 And like in that seat,

Speaker 16 you can have a big impact on the game. If you stand up and scream some shit when they're shooting free throws, like they'll hear you 100%.

Speaker 16 So it is a lot of pressure, but

Speaker 16 no one on the court is like

Speaker 16 that into it at Lakers games. I feel like they're just, you know, people just are trying to look so cool on the floor.

Speaker 6 I've always thought that a fan could really create a lot of chaos if they just brought a whistle into an NBA game.

Speaker 6 If you're sitting court side and you have a whistle, you can actually, you can stop the other team from winning.

Speaker 6 If it's coming down and there's like 30 seconds left, they're trying to get their last shot off. You blow the whistle.
Yeah, you get kicked out, but that's a defensive stop.

Speaker 16 Right.

Speaker 16 But you'd have to, you don't, you'd get one, you'd get to blow that whistle one time before you get booted. So you'd have to really be strategic about, about when you blow.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like a fast break or game seven.

Speaker 6 It's a home game. There's two minutes left.

Speaker 6 You got to bring that whistle out. You got to be waiting for just the right time and you can actually win a championship for your team.

Speaker 16 wow this is

Speaker 16 this is but do you think that if you blew a whistle you'd get banned for life or you probably

Speaker 1 yeah but but you get a championship like this is this is a sacrifice that you would make well or it could totally backfire and like they could call a technical foul on the fans because that can happen i'm pretty sure they can do that which would be nuts

Speaker 1 I think like you know you've seen times when like fans have gotten unruly and the coach has to come out and like they'll give like a warning.

Speaker 1 It happens in college basketball where they'll give like a warning to the student section. I maybe they would be like, yeah, that fan.

Speaker 1 Maybe what you do is you wear the other team's colors and then you blow the whistle and then you just mass confusion. False flag.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 You get, you could actually win two technical foul shots for your own team.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Something I've wanted to do for years.

Speaker 16 And maybe now that I say this, someone will, someone will steal the idea. But there's two seats right next to the Lakers bench where you're literally like, it's like Lakers, Lakers, Lakers fan.

Speaker 16 And I want to get that seat. I want to buy that seat and I want to figure out what uniform they're wearing that day.

Speaker 16 And I want to get the warm-ups, the jersey, and just be on the floor, just pretending I'm part of the team, joining the huddles, you know, just trying to get my hand in there for

Speaker 1 a defense on free.

Speaker 1 I love that idea. I've actually had that idea, not for basketball, but for college football, if you just put on a pair of khakis and a team-issued polo, there's like 200 people on the sideline.

Speaker 1 You could easily just run out there and just be like, yeah, he's one of the grad assistants. Like, no one knows who he is.
It would work.

Speaker 16 I think that would 100% work for football because there's just so many guys. There's no way the coach knows all those names.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. Just hanging out.

Speaker 16 If they ask, you just say, I'm the transfer.

Speaker 6 That always worked.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 16 oh, you're the new guy? Oh, cool.

Speaker 1 Yeah, look at these plays I got drawn up.

Speaker 1 Um, since we've last had, well, we've had you on a few times, but uh, the first time we had you on, it was like right before everything's kind of taken off for you. Uh,

Speaker 1 like, this is a dumb question, but I'm just curious. Like, the last five years of your life, has it been like, holy shit, I can't believe all the things I wanted have are now happening.

Speaker 1 Home economics, you've been in a couple big-time movies. Like, it's it's happening.
It's all happening in front of our eyes.

Speaker 16 I definitely feel

Speaker 16 like

Speaker 16 grateful for

Speaker 16 where I'm at. But I think, you know,

Speaker 16 it's weird. Like, from my perspective, it just seems like I've just been kind of slowly cruising and making progress and making progress.
It hasn't seemed like there's been like a significant,

Speaker 16 you know, jump at any point.

Speaker 16 It just seems like,

Speaker 16 I don't know, like I've just been grinding and working hard and like it's cool to, it's cool to see

Speaker 16 big things start to happen. But from my perspective, it's just been like a slow and steady

Speaker 16 grind.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Have you, have you had, have you had people,

Speaker 1 and this sucks to ask, but like, fans of your YouTube back in the day being like, oh, dude, you sold out.

Speaker 16 Oh, yeah. So, well, first, it was you guys.
Yeah, well, you did, yeah, I totally did.

Speaker 1 Um,

Speaker 16 but uh, no, it's it's honestly pretty cool. Like, a lot of my fans from my YouTube will come up to me on the street and just be like, Hey, man, I'm really proud of you.
And I'm like,

Speaker 16 Thanks, dude. I had a dude come up to me the other day.
He was like, Dude, I've been watching you since I was six. And I was like,

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 16 yeah, like, how old are you? He's like, I'm 19. And I was like, wow, yeah.
I mean, I guess, I guess

Speaker 16 the math works, but that doesn't really make me feel that good. You've been watching me since you were six.

Speaker 1 Yeah. His brain has been molded by you.

Speaker 16 Yeah. I'm like, where are your parents? He's like, I've been watching since I was six and just wearing a flat-brimmed hat.

Speaker 16 Bro, you shit my childhood, dog.

Speaker 1 That's awesome.

Speaker 6 We actually had, we had Anders Holme on the show, and he was talking to us about his kind of behind the scenes where he was being offered the home economics job if you turned it down.

Speaker 6 And then he said he DM'd you and was like, the way he put it was very funny. He was like trying to talk you out of it, but not talk you out of it because I think he wanted that gig.

Speaker 6 And I think he said like, Jimmy, you will, this, this, I don't want to say that this spot is beneath you, but you have unlimited potential.

Speaker 16 And it wouldn't be the worst thing if you, if you turn this down, let me have this one and then you go off and be a big star he was actually like so cool about it and he was literally the worst person i called him for advice i was trying to figure out if i should do the show or not and i knew that he had done like a network show

Speaker 16 um

Speaker 16 and he's also like a guy that makes his own stuff so i called him to be like hey i just wanted to like get your opinion on on you know your experience doing a network tv show and he was like dude before this goes any further i got to just be honest with you.

Speaker 16 I've been told that if you turn this down, they're going to offer it to me and I would love to do it. With that being said,

Speaker 16 and then he just like had an honest conversation about,

Speaker 16 you know, how he felt about the whole thing.

Speaker 16 But it was just really funny. Like the one dude.
that I called for advice on like, should I do this or not was like, if you don't do it, I'm going to do it and I want to do it.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 6 did you think, like, was there a little bit of guilt when you said, I'm going to do it?

Speaker 16 I, there was a little bit because I was like, I could feel that he really wanted to do it. And I'm over here, like,

Speaker 16 so, so, yeah, I hit him up. I was like, I was like, hey, man, just uh, letting you know, I did, I did decide to do it.
He was like, dude, that's great. Super happy for you.

Speaker 1 That's so funny. Hey, is Real Pros of CB Valley? Are we getting another

Speaker 16 I do have

Speaker 16 some news.

Speaker 16 I can't,

Speaker 16 it's unofficial right now, but there is,

Speaker 16 I will have some official update in the next like

Speaker 16 couple months.

Speaker 16 Something is coming.

Speaker 1 It's so crazy because when we first interviewed you, we were in LA and Hank, our producer, was like, I think you guys got to interview Jimmy Tatra.

Speaker 1 We admitted it.

Speaker 1 We didn't really know you. You didn't know us.

Speaker 1 And then since that moment, like Real Bros and Simi Valley is like maybe my favorite show.

Speaker 1 And so I, and I know you've, you're going for the cycle. I think you're trying to get it on the fifth different streaming platform.
Um,

Speaker 1 so, but I, yeah, I, I want, I need another season. Like, it is such a fucking, it's one of those shows that you watch and you're like, how is this not the most popular show? Because it's that funny.

Speaker 16 I know, believe me, there's been a lot of um

Speaker 16 frustration with

Speaker 16 the,

Speaker 16 what's it called?

Speaker 16 The people that are in the position to make more happen.

Speaker 16 And

Speaker 16 we've finally found a way to

Speaker 16 make more. I think that's as much as I can say.

Speaker 16 It's been a journey, but we do have, because we just had like such a great idea for how to bring the thing to a close,

Speaker 16 and uh, there was just like so much left to do, yeah.

Speaker 1 And um,

Speaker 16 I mean, I'm very, I'm very excited, and and I will, uh, you guys will be the first to know when I'm allowed to actually say what it is.

Speaker 1 I like that, and and Hawk will be like what, like 85 years old in this last season, it'll be great.

Speaker 16 He will be,

Speaker 16 um,

Speaker 16 very old, yes,

Speaker 16 He is definitely older than Xander

Speaker 6 at this point.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 16 I don't want to give too much away, but

Speaker 16 Hawk's story is a big part of

Speaker 16 where we're going with it.

Speaker 6 I can't wait. That's going to be awesome.

Speaker 6 What's next for you?

Speaker 6 Have you reached a point where you're getting like superhero, like Marvel movie calls? Are you going to be a big action star next?

Speaker 16 I'm still waiting on my superhero role. I just want, I think I just want an excuse to get in really good shape.

Speaker 16 And realistically, if I don't book like an action or superhero role, I'm not going to really,

Speaker 16 I'm not going to be that disciplined. I'll exhibit some discipline, but I'm not going to go all the way unless I like really need to.
So I'm just waiting on my call, you know, to be a to be in

Speaker 16 some type of superhero universe. That's all I, that's all I want.

Speaker 1 Okay, so

Speaker 6 would you rather be in like Thor 9

Speaker 6 or would you rather be in Fast and Furious 14?

Speaker 16 Whoa.

Speaker 16 Whoa. Honestly, just because I feel like Chris Hemsworth is such a perfect Thor that anyone who comes after him is just going to get endlessly shit on,

Speaker 16 I'd go Fast 14.

Speaker 6 I think you'd be good in Fast and Furious. They could get you in good shape for that, too.

Speaker 16 And I think in Fast and Furious,

Speaker 16 you get more of these moments.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that was good.

Speaker 16 Where you turn dramatically and the camera slides in, and then you say

Speaker 16 some shit like, daddy's got to go to work.

Speaker 1 You know?

Speaker 1 I think you just nailed the audition.

Speaker 16 I just want my dramatic turn moments, you know, where you just turn over your shoulder and just say some corny shit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that would be good.

Speaker 1 Are you willing to get on the gear for one of these roles? Because that kind of is the secret of Hollywood. You just get on a shitload of steroids.

Speaker 16 Oh, I don't know, man.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 It's a bad answer, Jimmy. I mean, the guys are execs are watching, you know, the execs of all these major

Speaker 1 production companies. They all are AWLs.
They're like, oh, so Jimmy Chaitro won't get fat. He won't do steroids.
This guy won't do anything.

Speaker 16 Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 I'll do it. Okay, good.
Good. Maybe

Speaker 1 Maybe share some with us.

Speaker 16 Yeah, I'll do it. And I'll let you guys,

Speaker 16 I'll slip some under the table to do that.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 16 we'll all just be on our 10th podcast together, just all looking fucking massive.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'll have the Instagram

Speaker 1 ads and be like... 10 tricks that Jimmy Tatro used to be in Fast and Furious 14.
And it's like all these ridiculous workouts. And really the, it's, well, yeah, he got on steroids.

Speaker 16 Yeah, it's like the nine of them are things that have nothing to do with actually getting jacked.

Speaker 16 Just like every like all these routine podcast guys that are like steps to success, wake up, cold plunge, fucking journal affirmations, do 5,000 push-ups.

Speaker 16 And I'm like, at which point are you making money? You're not doing anything. You haven't said one thing that

Speaker 16 brings in any kind of income. They're just like, write down my goals,

Speaker 1 talk to my wife.

Speaker 16 So that's that's what it'll be. It'll be just affirmations, journaling, cold plunge, cold brew,

Speaker 16 steroids, and then five other things that don't matter.

Speaker 6 The best is Mark Wahlberg's secret for getting in shape. Well, besides like waking up at 2:30 in the morning every day or whatever, when he plays golf, he sprints from shot to shot.

Speaker 6 So, yeah, he plays speed golf like he'll hit a shot and then he'll run up to his next shot and then hit that one. He might be lying.
The more I'm thinking about it, this might just be a big lie.

Speaker 6 And he also has somebody else drive his clubs around for him. So he's not even carrying his own bag.
He's just out there hitting shots and running up to his next one.

Speaker 16 I think Homer 2 would suck to play with him.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that'll be bad.

Speaker 1 Although it'll be fast.

Speaker 16 Yeah, there he goes.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Golf is like meant to be a game that you get away and like relax.
And he's just, how fast can I do this?

Speaker 16 Drinking, he's like, steps to getting in shape. Sprint on the holes.
Wear municipal clothing.

Speaker 1 That's pretty much it. And gloves where they're working out.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, Jimmy, this has been awesome.

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Speaker 1 Okay, the machine out this weekend.

Speaker 1 What is like, are you going to go see it? Do you see movies that you're in? Do you watch the movie you're in?

Speaker 16 Yeah, I watch them. A lot of people, a lot of actors don't.
Like a lot of people are uncomfortable going and seeing their

Speaker 16 thing. I think it's helpful.
Like I see a lot of, like, when I go and watch stuff.

Speaker 16 I learn a lot about

Speaker 16 myself and my own performance. And I also just enjoy seeing it with a, with a group of people and kind of feeling the reaction.

Speaker 16 But like, you can, you know, when you watch your movie, you're in theater with people, you can kind of like,

Speaker 16 you know, you can see things in your performance where you go, oh, I'm not going to, not going to do that again, or that worked. Almost like watching game film.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
That's got to be a weird, like out-of-body experience. So like will you actually go to a movie theater? That would be crazy.

Speaker 16 That's honestly, it's when you're at like a premiere and you're expecting to see it. That's, you know, it's more like, oh, this is just, this is what we're doing here.

Speaker 16 It's when you're like in a movie and then you see a trailer for your movie beforehand and you're there to see something else, and all of a sudden your face is on the screen. You're like,

Speaker 1 or like when

Speaker 16 I got on a plane one time and someone was watching 22 Jump Street, like two seats in front of me, like right there.

Speaker 16 And it was the scene where I'm like running into

Speaker 16 a field goal post. And I was so tempted to just tap them and and be like,

Speaker 1 See that?

Speaker 1 Nailed that one.

Speaker 16 Actually, you're watching a movie, you're watching a guy, and then you sit tap on the shoulder, you turn it, and it's that guy. It's like

Speaker 6 you do behind-the-scenes DVD commentary for him the entire time that he's watching it.

Speaker 6 Yes, what movie, what movie that you've been in has been the best movie to watch, and what movie has been the worst?

Speaker 16 Um, what movie has been the worst?

Speaker 16 The movie that's been the best was

Speaker 16 honestly, this movie was, well, 22 Jumpstreet is probably my favorite movie that I've been in that like to watch. Like I would recommend watching 22 Jump Street objectively.

Speaker 16 This movie, I was like very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Like I knew it was going to be funny.
It was really funny on paper, but it's so big.

Speaker 16 It's like a really big, fun action comedy that they just like, I want to see more movies like this. So it's,

Speaker 16 I'm excited for everyone to see it. I'm excited for you guys to see it.
I think, I think you'll really enjoy it. It's like, yeah, I said to Bert, it's better than I thought it was going to be.

Speaker 1 That's so mean. That's like when people see me in public and they're like, oh, you're not as fat as I thought you were.
No, you're actually,

Speaker 16 you're just dad jacked. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I do have a pose that I can like pop some muscles.
It's just when I do it, like I need to sit down and take a breather for like 10 minutes after. But I got it.
I have it. I can flex it.

Speaker 16 The director of this movie, his name is Peter Atensio.

Speaker 16 He

Speaker 16 like really took, the script was great. Like the way they turned the story into a movie.

Speaker 16 The writer, Kevin Beagle, did a really good job of that. But what Peter was able to do,

Speaker 16 like he just really elevated the whole thing to like a level that wasn't really,

Speaker 16 it didn't feel this big on the page. And then you see it and you're like, oh, fuck, he made this like a, it feels like a huge, like a massive, like a superhero movie almost.

Speaker 1 I like it. I'm excited to watch it.
And I do want to say, like, I can tell by our conversation that you actually think the Lakers are going to come back. I'm going to tell you right now they are not.

Speaker 1 So let me be the first to just let you down as easy as possible. It's over.
You might win a game. It's over.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 16 You know, I just, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 16 There's no way to know for sure. All we know right now at the point that this has come out is that the Lakers have begun their comeback.

Speaker 16 It's currently one in three, and we don't know what's going to happen after this, you know. But things are looking good based on that last game.
I really like

Speaker 1 this. It's going to be great.
A nice sweep. You know, the Nuggets have never had a sweep in the history of their franchise.
So at least you're part of history.

Speaker 16 In the history of their franchise?

Speaker 1 They've never swept a team in the history of their franchise.

Speaker 16 Wow.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 16 have they ever been in the conference finals?

Speaker 6 They have straightened you brought that up because it was in the bubble, which we also agree didn't happen. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So you memory hold it.

Speaker 16 That's another thing that we've always disagreed on.

Speaker 16 Aren't these the same four teams that win the bubble?

Speaker 1 Yes. Yeah.
So this one counts. The bubble didn't.

Speaker 16 But so have you come off of your stance on the bubble not counting?

Speaker 6 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no because if when the Nuggets win this series, it just proves that this is the team that would have won in the bubble if there had been fans in the bubble. Yeah.

Speaker 16 Okay.

Speaker 1 And then in the Eastern Conference, you know, we can flip it. The Eastern Conference just further proves the Heat were the better team, even though the bubble didn't count.

Speaker 1 Kill. Yep.
Yep. You see what we did.

Speaker 16 Yeah. So if that works for you guys, you know, you roll with it.
But, like I said, you know, right now is that it's one and three.

Speaker 16 And, you know, we'll see what happens in game six.

Speaker 1 I can't wait for this sweep to happen. And you just, oh, man.

Speaker 1 We're going to clip this.

Speaker 16 You're just going to put that clip.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 6 It's going to be, look what a great actor Jimmy Tetro is. He was, yeah, he convinced himself to believe.

Speaker 1 Or is Jimmy Tatro losing his mind and just not accepting reality?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 We have multiple ways ways to spin this.

Speaker 1 We're going to have a whole, we'll have a whole section of clips.

Speaker 1 Just, you know, choose your own adventure.

Speaker 1 Jimmy Tetro has lost reality.

Speaker 1 All right, man. Well, thank you as always.
We love having you on. We love that you're part of this show.
And hopefully we see you soon.

Speaker 16 Yeah, I'd love to see you guys soon.

Speaker 6 All right, man. Yeah, we'll let you know next time we're in California.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah. Got to see.

Speaker 6 Oh, no, we'll see you when the Real Bros news comes out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we want a cameo.

Speaker 16 You guys, you guys can have your cameo. I actually have you guys in another script that I wrote.

Speaker 16 So we'll talk more about that. I'll be in New York in July.

Speaker 1 So I'll show you.

Speaker 1 Well, we're moving to Chicago. So then you'll come see us in Chicago.
You just take a flight from New York to Chicago.

Speaker 16 You're moving to Chicago?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're opening a big warehouse that you'll have to come and show us your skills because we have a whole basketball court.

Speaker 16 Oh, perfect.

Speaker 1 Love it. Yes, yes.
Maybe we'll do like a bubble championship there.

Speaker 16 Well, we all know who's going to win.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Mark Titus,

Speaker 1 who is going to be moving to Chicago as well and play to Ohio State. So that would be perfect.

Speaker 1 We'll see.

Speaker 1 All right, we want the cameos, though. I want to be in Real Bros.

Speaker 1 Even if I'm just like a dude at the skate park and you just like have to freeze it and be like, wait, was that PFT and Big cat that that would make my world okay it's doable it's doable okay love it amazing thank you jimmy you're the best see you jimmy

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Speaker 6 And now here's Daniel Ricardo.

Speaker 16 And now for something completely different.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest, recurring guest. Third time on is Daniel Ricardo.
We're here in Miami, F1. First of all, great to meet you in person.

Speaker 1 We interviewed your teammates. They were saying that you've been lifting a lot and your arms look jacked.
Can I see real quick? Yeah, absolutely. You look pretty jacked.
You look pretty jacked.

Speaker 1 I look jacked.

Speaker 6 Do you just do the

Speaker 6 biceps? Yeah.

Speaker 15 Yeah, just every morning before breakfast. Just pump out 10 girls.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the big question, I know this has nothing to do with racing, but you went to the Met Gala, and we still don't know what happens at the Met Gala. Can you tell us what happens in the Met Gala?

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 every year we see all these famous people dress up, then they go into this building and we don't hear anything else.

Speaker 1 So can you tell us what happens in the Met Gala?

Speaker 15 Yeah, it's like this pretty dark basement down there.

Speaker 15 It's well, firstly, good to see he's in the flesh. Yes.

Speaker 1 This is real.

Speaker 15 It's cool. Yes.

Speaker 15 These are beautiful as well in person.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Appreciate that.
Appreciate that.

Speaker 6 You didn't say anything about our arms.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh,

Speaker 1 you're huge.

Speaker 1 PFT, I think he dodged the MetGawa question because something happened. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 I got you, big cat.

Speaker 15 So it's,

Speaker 15 no, it's kind of cool because I think that's why it's kind of nice is there's no like media in there. You're not allowed to take photos and stuff.
And mostly, like, you're not bringing a plus one.

Speaker 15 So you're kind of forced to like mingle and just talk to people that, especially in my world, like there's not many people in there that i know i've come across before so i really enjoyed like kind of just making new friends so to speak so that was fun um so what happens you kind of everyone's kind of standing cocktails and you go in sit down at your table people are still kind of standing moving around it's not very formal like it feels formal but it's not yeah and that's kind of nice like everyone's kind of just there like moving table to table seeing friends people they know it's just like a big kind of conversation then i'm trying to make this fast then like they'll have a performer go on so lizzo went on she was awesome okay um loved her out dancing yep people are dancing yeah they're kind of like there are the table okay like wedding dancing yeah yeah yeah exactly okay so it's a big wedding for rich famous people that's pretty much yeah i saw ann hathaway came over introduced herself she's a massive fan of yours yeah that's pretty cool who's the who's the coolest person that you met there well that that moment was pretty um it was pretty funny because well it was cool for sure and funny because i was like looking at her waiting because she was up next to like kind of do the photo thing and then I was I was like I guess I go up next so she was there and then she kind of looked she's like oh Danny Ricardo and I was like oh

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 15 and then I was I was probably I would have loved to see my face I was probably just like this yeah but um yeah I was uh I was kind of I think I've for me especially going there first time I'm like yeah no one's gonna know who I am right and then like for her to kind of call me out.

Speaker 15 I was like, oh, this is really unexpected.

Speaker 1 So she was, she was sweet. So has it been weird, like having drive to survive the success of the show, like have you noticed that people recognize you so much more in America now?

Speaker 1 And like you're a celebrity in America? Because I'd imagine before the show, you were a lot more anonymous when you came to the States, right?

Speaker 15 Yeah, like very anonymous. And now it's,

Speaker 15 yeah, that's,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 15 Pretty much and it's funny.

Speaker 15 I find New York is actually a place I'll probably get recognized most like around the world and maybe it's because it's fairly international I don't know but yeah, New York is a place where I get noticed a lot.

Speaker 15 And yeah, even there, like at the at the gala, yeah, like there was like people who, even if they didn't know me, they're like, oh, yeah, like, I know who you are.

Speaker 1 Thanks. You know my name.

Speaker 6 Yeah, did anybody ask you to do a shoe?

Speaker 15 That's actually a great question. Great question.
So I did. No, because I feel like I did.
Oh, I was, I saw Trevor Noah, and I was actually, he was really nice to me. He was like, show me the ropes.

Speaker 15 So we hung out quite a bit that night. And I did a shoey with him on his show the last time I was there.
So, that's why I knew there was like some shoey relation.

Speaker 1 Shout out, Trevor.

Speaker 6 Yeah, shout out, Trevor. Yeah, I mean, it's been cool to see F1 grow here in the United States.
And I saw an interview that you did last week where you said that you've been humbled recently.

Speaker 6 Whereas, I think you said before you were a selfish driver or whatever. Don't you have to be selfish to be a driver?

Speaker 1 Isn't that kind of like a trademark?

Speaker 6 If you're not selfish when you're trying to be the fastest person on the track, then what are you doing out there, right?

Speaker 15 Yes, true. Not wrong.
I think it's,

Speaker 15 and it's kind of not to take, I mean, there's still that selfish part or element that you need, like, absolutely. Like, you can't, you can't race fully selfless.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 15 You just won't, you won't take those.

Speaker 15 It's kind of, it'll take the edge away.

Speaker 1 You can't like weigh people. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, you're not.

Speaker 15 You bought me dinner last night.

Speaker 1 Yeah, sure. Pass me.

Speaker 15 Like, it's, you can't be like that. So I think, yeah, the, the humbled thing was, like, the last couple of years were a bit more of a struggle for me, for sure.

Speaker 15 And it was, you know, you go through your whole career, like, I'm the best, I'm the best, and I'm invincible, and this and that. And, yeah, there's obviously moments where you aren't.

Speaker 15 And I think, you know, I probably had more of those moments the last couple of years.

Speaker 15 So that's where I was like, okay, it was more just sort of awareness as well to know that, yeah, okay, there's things I need to work on. And if I do want to truly be.

Speaker 15 call it invincible, then these are my weaknesses and that's what I have to address.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so in that interview, too, you talked about maybe not a regret, but like maybe it was a mistake to leave Red Bull. How is that like the last few years when you left and then coming back,

Speaker 1 it's been a journey and it's been weird to watch the different teams and stuff. So are you like mad at yourself or are you just like, hey, this is just a learning process.

Speaker 1 This is what happens in sports.

Speaker 15 Yeah, I'm not mad at myself. You know, I think I'm kind of at that,

Speaker 15 yeah, kind of that point as well where I see things. I feel like everything happens for a reason.
And I feel like like these last few years all made me, you know, and it wasn't all bad.

Speaker 15 Like, there were some good moments, don't get me wrong. But yeah, it's kind of like it made me see things with a different kind of perspective.

Speaker 15 It made me mature, made me appreciate things in a different way.

Speaker 15 So now going back like full circle to Red Bull, and even though I'm not in a race seat at the moment, it's like, oh, like, yeah, this is... This is the family.
Like, this is where...

Speaker 15 you know, I'm happy to come home to and where I feel like I truly belong.

Speaker 15 And, you know, it's, yeah, it's it's like, so I don't, I don't regret it because at that time, I really felt like I needed to see something else.

Speaker 15 And it's like, you know, you think, yeah, grass is always greener. And of course, you're young and you're hungry and you want to just go and try and take every opportunity in front of you.

Speaker 15 But now where I'm at, I'm like, yeah, I'm so happy to be back.

Speaker 1 It's a cool story. I mean, I think everyone has those moments in life where they, you know, take a risk, do something different, and they're like, oh, maybe this was better.
So right now,

Speaker 1 you're the third driver. What does that look like day to day, week to week?

Speaker 1 Like, what is, are are you doing the same prep as them are you like doing the same schedule as them yeah so I'm I'm like preparing all their meals in the hope that one of them is slightly tarnished

Speaker 15 but

Speaker 15 I mean actually no like I am enjoying this like little bit of time off for now and yes the hunger's still there but I'm like

Speaker 15 I'm okay with where the years at and having this time off and yes watching the races I do feel a bit like antsy and the adrenaline gets spiked but I'm yeah kind of just happy being let's say patient.

Speaker 15 But yeah, I'm doing like all like the meetings and that, and I'm doing simulator when I'm back in the UK with the team.

Speaker 15 So like staying sharp enough, but still giving myself some time off to, yeah, just kind of reset myself.

Speaker 1 You got to realize, like, we are the biggest backup quarterback fans in the world. Like, we think that is the dream job in any, in any sport, like all sports being the backup quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 So like, maybe stupid because you obviously are more competitive than we are and like you have the inner drive, but it seems like a sweet gig. Like I'd take that gig.
It is hang out.

Speaker 1 Obviously, you're doing more than hang out, but backup court. Like, we have a Chase Daniel, a backup quarterback in America.

Speaker 1 He's thrown like, I don't know, maybe like 200 passes, and he's made like $50 million in pretty 15 years. Yeah, pretty good.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So it might be, you know, it's a Daniel fit. I know you want to get back in there.

Speaker 1 I know you want to get back in there, and I want to see you back in there, but it seems like it might not be the worst year possible.

Speaker 15 Absolutely. Like,

Speaker 15 when it was like, I knew kind of deep down that I needed this year off and I needed just to like step away from the sport a little bit. Um, you know, moments last year where I was like,

Speaker 15 I can't kind of keep going through this and that. And

Speaker 15 yeah, like, so it was very risky in terms of a lot of people's eyes. Like, if you remove yourself from the sport, then you'll never come back.
Like, it's such a risk.

Speaker 15 Not many drivers have kind of had a sabbatical or whatever and come back. But I knew that it was like, just for me, the best thing.
And I already feel like kind of like lighter, fresher.

Speaker 15 I feel like re-energized. I'm, I don't know.
And I think as well, you never, I never would have given myself this perspective to see kind of

Speaker 15 from this angle with this time. So I know like if I get back in the car, I'm like, oh yeah, like, why was I doing it that way? Like, I would do this.
And

Speaker 15 even just like, maybe it's the people around me. Yep, do that.
Cut these things out, focus on this area.

Speaker 15 So like, just with the way the season is, you just don't get the luxury of time to to really have that valuation. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah. So deep down inside, you probably, you still feel like you're the best driver in the world, right?

Speaker 15 There is, there is certainly a very big part of me which still feels that.

Speaker 15 But I know that like I'm kind of holding myself, and this is maybe like to keep that fire there. It's like, I still want to prove that to myself.

Speaker 15 Like I believe it, but I want to go out there and like prove it again to myself. So I'm not going to go and like blow my horn and make too much noise for now.
But yeah,

Speaker 15 I feel there's certainly an element of it.

Speaker 1 You tell us when you want us to start blowing your horn. We'll be ready to go.
So like you did, you tell us like, hey, like maybe end of the year being like, yeah, go time.

Speaker 1 Let's get the PR machine going. We'll be all over that.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's kind of like you're a Bills fan.

Speaker 6 Stefan Diggs, he stayed on the field at the AFC championship game to watch the celebration so that he would have that feeling inside him like, I want to get better.

Speaker 6 I want to remember this feeling so that I want even more to like work harder in the offseason, overcome everything.

Speaker 6 Every time you see somebody on the podium that's on your team, that's not you, you're probably thinking like, yeah, that's going to be me. That's going to be me one day.

Speaker 15 Yeah, it's honestly that like what you said there is very, very accurate. Like a lot of us, I think, think like that.

Speaker 15 And yeah, you kind of want to put yourself in a, in a bit of like a painful situation to, yeah, give you that drive. And actually, I met Steph at the gala as well, and he was cool.
We chatted a bit.

Speaker 15 And I think he's coming to the the race this weekend.

Speaker 1 Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 So you went to a Bills game this year, right? Yeah. Which game did you go?

Speaker 15 I still haven't been to Buffalo.

Speaker 1 Okay, so you went to which game?

Speaker 15 I went to MetLife. Oh, that was a bad game.
Yeah, I know. That was a really bad game.

Speaker 1 So your best friends with Josh Allen were best friends with Josh Allen.

Speaker 15 Should we fight it out? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you want to ask him a call? Yeah. Call him a call.

Speaker 1 Will he pick up? He'll pick my phone. He'll be fine with it, yeah.
He'll pick up for me.

Speaker 6 He does owe us $15 million, though. Yeah.
Really? That impacts our friendship a little bit. Yes.

Speaker 1 You can actually ask him that. Be like, when are you going to pay the guys the $15 million?

Speaker 15 Should we see if he picks up? Yeah. Do you have the phone? Should we see if Josh picks up?

Speaker 1 And if he doesn't, he'll probably pick up for me.

Speaker 15 It's a FaceTime as well. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 Well, he'll probably pick up for me, but probably not you.

Speaker 1 Let me check.

Speaker 1 Hopefully he picks up for you. All right.
Well, this

Speaker 15 week, Josh Allen. All right.

Speaker 1 We're good friends. Yeah.
Oh, man. This is a lot of pressure on you.

Speaker 15 I know he loves you guys.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of pressure on you. Come on, Josh.
I think he's going to pick up.

Speaker 15 Come on, Josh.

Speaker 1 Oh, we're good. We're good.
We're good. We're good.
Yeah. Hey, Jerobus.

Speaker 1 Oh, he hung up.

Speaker 1 Let me call him real quick. We got it.
We got it. I'll call him.
No, no, I'll call him. He hung up on you.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit. All right.
Hey, Josh. My best friends.
Yeah, there it is.

Speaker 6 That's the question, Josh.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Are you better friends with Daniel Ricardo or with us?

Speaker 1 Danny Rick. Oh!

Speaker 1 Hang up on him. But that's because you owe us $15 million.

Speaker 15 You owe them a lot of money, apparently. I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 15 Allegedly.

Speaker 1 Allegedly. I think we have the tapes.
I don't think it's alleged.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 13 I mean, you know, it's kind of like how Tank and Ryan Garcia bet the whole fight, but like Ryan Garcia just said, nah, you keep your half.

Speaker 1 It's fine. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right, so you need us to just say that.
Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. All right.

Speaker 15 I'm sorry to put you on the spot.

Speaker 1 Sorry, Nate. mate good

Speaker 1 guys so

Speaker 1 your hair is beautiful by the way i was gonna say that too josh your hair's beautiful he's going for i think your whole personality is beautiful josh and your arm is gorgeous i think you guys are i think uh pft's got better hair than i do but oh thanks josh

Speaker 1 yeah i'm growing it back all right thanks josh um i'll speak to you later love you dog

Speaker 1 He's the best.

Speaker 1 Did you hear the Aussie accent at the end? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 Do you do an an American accent? We've both admitted.

Speaker 15 Sorry, just let me just, I got to get this one out there. We've both

Speaker 15 very comfortable saying, like, we're each other's man crush.

Speaker 1 Oh. Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's,

Speaker 1 it's a thing.

Speaker 6 And it's hard not to love Josh Allen. Yeah.

Speaker 15 Am I speaking on behalf of three of us?

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, no. I absolutely have a man crush on him.
When he plays games, we'll just be like, whoa, look at him. Look at him running over people.
He's majestic. He's so awesome.

Speaker 15 The whole jumping over people thing.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh. He just smets.
We call it.

Speaker 1 I don't know if you ever played like video, like Madden or video games, like football video games, but we call it smashing all the buttons.

Speaker 1 Where like there'll be a few plays where he'll just smash all the buttons and it will work. Like where it's just like, what is he doing? Oh, it worked out.
It's like a touchdown.

Speaker 6 It's like a spin move into a hurdle, into a jump, into a lateral

Speaker 6 all at once. Yeah, it's electrifying to watch.

Speaker 1 Smashing all the buttons. So you got to get to Buffalo.

Speaker 15 Yes. So that's, and especially.
The beauty of this year and having now this time off is I'm like, I've got bucket lists that I'm ticking ticking off, and that is one thing.

Speaker 15 I'm like, if I don't get to Buffalo this year, because if I'm on the grid again next year, I could be, it could be five more years down the track. Yeah, I don't want to wait that long.

Speaker 6 So we'll go with you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're going to go. We're going to go with you.

Speaker 15 Yes, because I remember you guys, I think, said you were like, when I go, we're going together. You go, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes. We're going to get Pinto Ron to squirt.
We'll squirt catch up on him and everything. I don't know if you've ever seen that, but the whole video, the Bills Mafia.
Yeah. Wait, what is it?

Speaker 6 The tailgate's incredible.

Speaker 1 Pinto Ron is a guy, a Bills fan. He, before every game, he gets

Speaker 1 two hamburger buns, stands underneath a van, and then like, we've done it before. Like, five people just squirt ketchup and mustard all over him.
It's the fun. Yeah.
You just have not seen yesterday.

Speaker 8 Yeah,

Speaker 1 we got to do that with Pennsylvania.

Speaker 15 And so we would be the...

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, we squirted all over.

Speaker 6 And they had this station where you take bowling balls and you fill the bowling balls with liquor, and then you take a shot.

Speaker 1 out of the bowling ball. I think that's how it goes.
Like out of like the finger holes. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 15 Yeah, it's kind of gross, but kind of awesome. Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 People think it was Wuhan. It was actually Buffalo.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 All right, so we have a present for you. I know you got to run because you got a busy schedule.
I know. I wish I could talk longer.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so you were nice enough. You did send us a party shirt.
It was,

Speaker 6 I'm not going to lie. It was not.
It was like a...

Speaker 1 It was like a cocktail hour shirt. Like a white party shirt.
It was the one you didn't want to have. I didn't want to make up for it.
So I got...

Speaker 6 I went down to the mall downstairs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we should do party shirts. Ooh, that's it.

Speaker 6 I got you a party shirt. That's actually a short shit.
I think this is a pretty sick party shirt. Oh, interesting.
Yeah, it is interesting. Interesting.

Speaker 15 I feel like this is a long sleeve number. It is.

Speaker 6 Yeah, do you prefer short sleeve?

Speaker 15 I don't know. Is it a party shirt if it's a long sleeve?

Speaker 1 Well, you could tear the sleeves off. Yeah, you could tear the sleeves off.
Is this a party? Am I wearing a party shirt right now?

Speaker 15 Well, it's no, because it's not, you don't have buttons all the way down.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 15 That's more of like you're going golf in that shirt. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 1 I love the

Speaker 1 what are they called again? Are they flamingos? Flamingos. Pelicans.
You didn't know what flamingos were called?

Speaker 1 You're so Australian. You're probably like, what is that? Is a pink spider? Does it kill you? No,

Speaker 1 no, no, no, no, no, no. Everything's a spider to you.

Speaker 15 I feel like this is something I'll wear at a wedding.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's a good party shirt. That's a good party shirt, though.
There's a lot going on. Yeah.
It's better than the party shirt you gave us. I would say we both need to do some work.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I think you went to Cole's and you bought like a $15 shirt off the rack.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like an urban outfitters.

Speaker 15 I'm going to give you guys a real swanky, real obnoxious, nice one. Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay. I like it.

Speaker 15 And I know I've said that before, but I really need to live up to my word now.

Speaker 6 All right, so Josh owes us $15 million. You owe us a party shirt.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I like it. One of you could swap too.
Josh could give us a party shirt. You give us $15 million.
That's fucking good. You guys settle it between the two of you.

Speaker 15 Most important, sorry. When are we going to Buffalo? Do we know the schedule? What's going on?

Speaker 1 They released schedule next week.

Speaker 6 Yeah, they did the schedule release for the schedule release last week. I really love the week.

Speaker 1 Wings, everything. We'll do it all.

Speaker 15 And

Speaker 15 what alcohol are you drinking out of the bowling ball?

Speaker 1 Poor Zourbon?

Speaker 6 No, I think they do like

Speaker 6 a cherry cherry liquor. They pour it for you.
Oh, so it's a whole station. I don't think you can make demands.
You just drink what they put in there.

Speaker 1 And like we're, we're, Buffalo, we love Buffalo to the point, like, we've actually made the joke.

Speaker 1 Did you watch the Pablo Escobar show on Netflix?

Speaker 15 Maybe not. Subtitles one? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Either way, he, like, when, when all hell broke loose and he's like, I'm going back to, like, home and, like, everyone will protect me there.

Speaker 1 We've always made the joke if, like, shit hits the fan, we'll just move to Buffalo and, like, the people of Buffalo will protect us from everyone else. That's that's Buffalo.
So,

Speaker 1 the earth people. So, we're going to do it.
I love it. Um, all right, well, good luck rest of the season.
Thank you. You let us know when we need to start blowing.
Hit the button.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're going to hit the Daniel Ricardo button.

Speaker 1 Yeah, being like, He's back, and he's going to win them all. So, sign him.
You just let us know, and we're on it. All right.

Speaker 6 I'm going to be even more jacked by that point.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah.

Speaker 6 Get strong as shit.

Speaker 1 Can you get two jacked for a race car, though? Probably. Yeah, but I'm not there yet.
I'm still pretty lame. Got some room.
All right. Well, thank you so much, man.
Great to see you in person.

Speaker 15 Likewise, you're even more beautiful. Thanks, man.

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Speaker 1 Effectiveness.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up with some FAQs.

Speaker 1 Hank. Yo.

Speaker 8 Hey, Dad Cat, tall PFT and no golfing, Hank, false.

Speaker 1 My question. I'm taping this, by the way, before

Speaker 1 the Celtics heat game for false. So, the Celtics won.

Speaker 8 Celtics won.

Speaker 1 Easy. Game of your 20s.

Speaker 2 Game of the decade.

Speaker 1 Easy.

Speaker 8 It's my game of my 20s.

Speaker 6 Which decade?

Speaker 8 My 20s.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 1 Which only has

Speaker 1 three weeks left?

Speaker 8 Three weeks? Less than a week. Or no, less than three weeks.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you don't know when your birthday is.

Speaker 8 Moving? No, but like, you know, moving, sometimes it gets the memories going. You get a weird, weird kind of like.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you think your birthday's in May. It's actually in June.

Speaker 8 Nostalgic. And I've just been like, damn, I'm almost in my 30s.
And then I realized I had never loved a bet as much as I loved the Celtics tonight. So shout out to everyone that rode with me.

Speaker 6 Yeah, Hank, I'm rooting for you. You want to know why? Because I think it'd be much, much funnier if you lost the golf bet after going down 3-1 than if you just got totally swept.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I mean, I think if you lose your

Speaker 8 minus sign maniac parlay, you should, I don't even know what you should have to do.

Speaker 6 I like that name for it. It's an investment, Hank.
I'm getting 11% back return.

Speaker 8 You've been hanging out with Billy too much. It's insane.

Speaker 8 There's nothing. Think about it.

Speaker 1 That is

Speaker 1 nothing.

Speaker 6 I'm riding with Jake. I put $10,000 on the Panthers to close it out on the Pease, go Peas, and

Speaker 6 parlayed that with the Heat, closing it out at some point against the Celtics. As long as they win the series, both they're going to win.
They're going to win.

Speaker 8 If they don't, you got to get to run back to Soul Patch.

Speaker 6 Maybe even cut the hair.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 yeah.

Speaker 6 And what that's too much because $10,000 and losing the hair. Yeah.
Maybe I could sell the hair for $10,000 to a rich cancer patient.

Speaker 8 My question with being on the internet as your career, which piece of content has been the hardest to explain to your family, friends, and loved ones?

Speaker 8 Saw a video of Big Cat kissing a dude in the lips and can only imagine that conversation with the in-laws. Thanks.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I have a few, but.

Speaker 6 Yeah, there's. Pissing my pants.
There's a bunch to choose from.

Speaker 1 Pissing my pants, definitely up there.

Speaker 1 My wife isn't a huge fan whenever I take off my shirt. Um, that's just kind of just not a huge fan of me taking off my shirt on camera.

Speaker 8 Does she like try to avoid it, but then still sees it?

Speaker 1 No, she's just like, I told you I don't love it when you take off your shirt, and I'm like, Well, I told you this is my job. She's like, Fair, so that kind of ends out.

Speaker 6 She's probably just like, I don't want you putting the goods out there for other people's, that's just for me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's it is a beacon for women to start, you know, flocking towards me whenever they see my large nipples.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I would say probably the time I

Speaker 6 probably the time I ate

Speaker 6 I ate horse shit on camera.

Speaker 6 That was a tough one to explain away. No, I'm doing this I'm doing this satirically.
This was this is a bit. I was eating horse shit as a joke.
Yeah. But I kind of had to do it.

Speaker 6 When you explain to somebody the reason why you ate horse shit was so the Capitals could win the Stanley Cup and then it happened, then it takes a little bit of sting out of it that that visual is still going to be out there.

Speaker 1 For the most part, I would say family is very, very supportive because you can't do this job without that.

Speaker 1 But I have like uncles, like in-laws, like you're at Thanksgiving. Is there ever like, hey, like, I saw it, like, I saw you piss your pants.
Like, what was that about?

Speaker 1 Yeah, they kind of just expected at this point.

Speaker 1 I would say there's definitely a part of me that knows that I've talked about safe drug use.

Speaker 1 And that will make it a little difficult when I have that conversation with my children because they'll be like, don't do drugs.

Speaker 1 They'd be like, well, what about the time you said that you like to do mushrooms and coke and weed and all this?

Speaker 1 Like, haha, that was old me. It was AI.
Yeah. It was a bit.
Don't worry about it. It was a deep fake.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Maybe I'll just like fake an injury and be like, yeah, all those drugs, it's why your dad can't walk.

Speaker 6 The thing is, I'm pretty sure that if we're talking parents, our parents laugh at the stupid stuff you guys do. Like, my parents would laugh at the stupid stuff you guys did on camera.

Speaker 6 Your parents probably wouldn't like watching the stupid stuff, but they would laugh at the stuff that we did that was just as bad. It's just like seeing your own flesh and blood do it.

Speaker 1 They're very supportive.

Speaker 8 Oh, yeah. My direct family is super supportive.
When I I got arrested, that was like every family party for a few years was like, did you got arrested?

Speaker 1 Like, for telling them, like, what was that about? It's like,

Speaker 6 yeah, the MDMA.

Speaker 6 The MDMA thing was tough to explain. I had a hard time with that one.
Yeah, the drugs.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm saying. Like, it's just, listen, it's, it's, you really can't do this job unless you have

Speaker 1 a great support system. And I think my support system.

Speaker 10 Mine was eating the hot dogs with no hands.

Speaker 1 Oh. Yeah.
Yeah, that's why Billy didn't do it. He didn't want his dad to call him gay.
Yeah.

Speaker 10 Like, you had to go deep into it saying, you know, I had eight minutes to make my target score easier. There's a lot of explaining to do there.

Speaker 1 Oh, since Jake talked there,

Speaker 1 the Ray Allen tweet definitely I got hit up a few times about the Ray Allen tweet. My mother has never been more upset with anyone other than you.
She blamed me for that? Oh, yeah. That's okay.

Speaker 1 I'll take that. I'll take that.
Yeah, the Ray Allen tweet did not go great.

Speaker 1 I'll say that.

Speaker 8 My mom doesn't usually text me. When she does it, it's usually like she'll send it in the contacts.
It's like, yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's not great.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 6 When I said a couple weeks ago that I was going to have a baby after Hank won the lottery ball, I got a couple texts from people that I usually don't get texts from asking me what was going on with that.

Speaker 6 That was difficult. That was tough to explain.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I will have a kid.

Speaker 11 Yeah. There's a hard and fast, no tattoos and no motorcycles rule in my family.

Speaker 1 Good thing you've never gotten a tattoo. I got one on the bottom of my foot.
Oh, yeah. And then you called me and said, you have to reimburse me.
I was like, what?

Speaker 1 If I can't get this off, why no tattoos?

Speaker 11 It's just a thing. I don't know.

Speaker 1 That was, I did feel bad for you.

Speaker 8 That has tattoos and a motorcycle.

Speaker 2 No, just people have died on motorcycles.

Speaker 1 I felt bad for Billy in that moment because he was very mad, but he called me and was like, You have to pay for the tattoo removal. And I was like, I literally had nothing to do with this.

Speaker 1 It was like a totally separate piece of content. He just called me and wanted to vent.
But yeah, it rubbed off, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 11 I took a sandpaper and I just rubbed it off.

Speaker 2 Because if they...

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 No. It was on the bottom of his foot.
If any of them saw that tattoo, I'd be like disowned.

Speaker 11 I don't know. It's just like one of those things.

Speaker 6 Having a tattoo on the bottom of your foot? It's just, I don't know. Okay, so what about you, Hank?

Speaker 6 Is there anything that you've done on camera that your family's been like, what's going on with this?

Speaker 8 Yeah, a lot. I'm trying to...
I mean, the...

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 you cut your finger off with a drone.

Speaker 8 Cut the finger off with the drone. That actually is when my mom...
Started to turn on Dave.

Speaker 8 Like, she obviously, I don't think she was the biggest fan of Dave early on, especially with how, you kind of mean he was to me. She didn't like that.

Speaker 8 But he took me to the hospital and was looking after me. My mom, after that, was like, oh, he was super helpful that day.

Speaker 1 Here's one that will probably

Speaker 1 start conversations, but

Speaker 1 I had a really bad thought

Speaker 1 when I was going home last night.

Speaker 6 Intrusive thought. Intrusive thought.

Speaker 1 PFT,

Speaker 1 the Bears and Commanders play week five Thursday night football. They sure do.

Speaker 1 We should make it a tattoo bet.

Speaker 1 It's the dumbest. It will be the dumbest game ever to have a tattoo bet in.
Why would you say that? You don't have to be in the battle.

Speaker 1 Why would you say that out loud for the first time? I know. On a hot night.

Speaker 6 This is a conversation that should have happened.

Speaker 1 We'll table it. We'll table it.
We'll table it.

Speaker 1 But I was just, I mean, what happened was I was going home and I was just laughing to myself, being like, because, you know, tattoo bets kind of reached a peak when fantasy football got big like 15 years ago.

Speaker 1 But to just be like, why do you have that tattoo? It's like, well, the like six and 11 Bears lost to the 5-12 Washington Commanders a week five 2023 season. The dumbest reason to get a tattoo.

Speaker 1 We'll table it. I'm in.
Okay, I'm in. I mean,

Speaker 1 we should also

Speaker 6 make shirts for it going into it. Like

Speaker 6 the inaugural PMT will have a pissed off Major Tutty facing off against a giant bear. Yes.
That'd be sick.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Tattoo bet for week five Thursday night football. Yeah, it just means more.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's pretty good.

Speaker 8 I don't want to rain on your guys' parade, but I'll say this question. I'll call it foreshadowing.
Uh-oh. For that tattoo bet.
Uh-oh. Hey, Big Cat, PFT, Mr.
Title Town, and Hank's dad, Jake.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 8 How is your guys' fantasy baseball league going?

Speaker 1 Oh, good question.

Speaker 1 We're getting closer. Every day that we wake up, we are one day closer to doing the draft.

Speaker 6 I have to admit, I miss playing fantasy baseball.

Speaker 6 I'm a little bit bitter that the league hasn't started.

Speaker 1 We're going to start it.

Speaker 6 I should be knuckles deep in fancy baseball.

Speaker 1 We're going to start it. We're going to start it within the next four months.

Speaker 6 If it doesn't start by the all-star break, I'm starting my own league.

Speaker 1 So we had the idea, and people can tell us, you know, sound off in the comments, let us know. Week of July 4th, we will have a new Dungeons and Dragons episode.

Speaker 1 Would people be upset if we just had an entire podcast that was just us doing our draft? Sound off in the comments because I think that's what we should do.

Speaker 6 All-star break. We're just literally have

Speaker 1 like, all right, with the first pick, I'm taking this Mike Trout, and then like, all right, PFT, you're up. Yeah.
No visuals.

Speaker 6 Yeah, we should do it with no reminders whatsoever of which players have been drafted.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And just see if we can fill out a fantasy roster just by naming current players.

Speaker 1 It would be one of the worst episodes we've ever done, but

Speaker 1 I kind of like the idea.

Speaker 8 Sound off in the comments.

Speaker 1 Sound off in the comments. Because that would be a horrible

Speaker 1 terrible. But it would get good because it's so bad.

Speaker 8 And I think it's like if you're in a spot, you know,

Speaker 8 God willing, you're just getting shit face having a great time for the jolly week. If you're sitting in an office somewhere, like, yeah, why not doing our draft?

Speaker 6 It'd just be us saying names for two hours.

Speaker 1 Correct.

Speaker 6 Probably longer, actually.

Speaker 8 Sup, fellas, how did Brooks Kepka get into the Blake of the Year running?

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 6 good question. So the first time we interviewed Brooks,

Speaker 6 it was right before he played at Bethpage, right? Yes.

Speaker 6 For the U.S. Open, which he won.
Yes.

Speaker 10 PGA 2019.

Speaker 6 PGA 2019. Thank you, Jake.
Very cool.

Speaker 1 2018.

Speaker 6 Thank you, Hank. Even cooler.

Speaker 1 Very cool. Got him.

Speaker 6 Own Jay. 2018.

Speaker 1 Beth Page 2019. No!

Speaker 1 Reverse. Wait, who got on? 2018.

Speaker 15 Who got owned?

Speaker 10 May have done it there, but.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 6 It wasn't Shinocock. It wasn't.

Speaker 10 We interviewed him before the Beth Page 2019.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit, Hank. Oh, my God.

Speaker 6 You should get tattooed patching, dude, Jake.

Speaker 1 Jake is your daddy. He's your daddy.
It's your daddy.

Speaker 6 So we interviewed Brooks, and we were talking about his mentality for golf, and he was just saying that he kind of blacks out between holes, what, like 8 and 15 if he plays.

Speaker 6 And he was just very chill. And so in the interview, Big Cat and I looked at each other, and Big Cat goes, I think he's a Blake.
I think this guy's a Blake.

Speaker 6 And so we just started calling him Blake from that point on.

Speaker 1 And his name is close enough, and he just has, yeah, he's just a...

Speaker 1 chill dude like the epitome of blakes blake griffin and blake bortles are two dudes that are professional athletes and make millions and millions of dollars and are better at their job than like 99.9% of the world, but they're also just regular dudes that are awesome to be around.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's the definition of a Blake.

Speaker 6 And Brooks was so chill last night at the Pease game. Yeah.
Just hanging out, just being relaxed like a Blake.

Speaker 1 Hyper chill. It was insanely chill.

Speaker 6 It was Columbian night. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just not blinking. That's how chill he was.

Speaker 8 This is actually another foreshadowing question. This is some crazy FAQs.
Oh, no.

Speaker 8 Sup, father of 3Cat, PFT, Hank, Billy, Jake, and Max Vick.

Speaker 8 Have you had any ideas for the show?

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Max Vic.
It took me a few seconds there. Yeah.
He's fast. Yeah, that's right.
He's fast. Loves him.
He's a game changer.

Speaker 8 Have you had any ideas for the show

Speaker 8 that you thought would be awesome?

Speaker 6 Does not have herpes, though. Do not murder dogs.

Speaker 8 But ended up being a complete flop.

Speaker 1 Wait, say it again.

Speaker 8 Have you had any ideas for the show that you thought would be awesome, but ended up being a complete flop?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I'd say our first idea for the show, where we decided that we would play air horns in between segments and limit the interviews to four good minutes.

Speaker 1 And tape it in the morning.

Speaker 6 Yeah, and tape it in the morning. That lasted a week.
We interviewed Chris Long and we didn't ask him a single question.

Speaker 1 Our Saturday shows were

Speaker 1 when we tried to do Saturday, Let's Get Weird. That was, we realized, hey, we already talked a lot.
We don't really need to just add a Saturday show.

Speaker 1 That was a bad idea. idea yeah

Speaker 1 yeah we do have to get him back on but yeah I would say the the the first iteration of this show where we decided we were gonna tape at like eight in the morning and uh yeah that was stupid that was very stupid of us I will put my hand up and say that I believe it was my idea and I definitely advocated for doing the Blake of the Year lottery ball idea oh yeah that was a dumb one that was that was a dumb one really bad yeah that was a really dumb like I was like oh it'll be so long it will be funny and it actually was beyond painful.

Speaker 1 Encouraging Billy to do his QB bracket every year.

Speaker 1 I actually love the QB bracket. Yeah, no, I fucking love the bracket.
That's the QB bracket. I love the QB bracket.
I wish we could do it every day.

Speaker 6 If you don't love the QB bracket, then you should not be listening to the show.

Speaker 1 I love the QB bracket.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think that's

Speaker 6 probably the majority of them. Jake, what about you? Say something bad about Pard My Take.
What's the worst idea we've ever had?

Speaker 10 I didn't know you guys did Saturday morning shows. It was like two.

Speaker 1 I was so out on those. It was so stupid of us.
Because it also, it was back when we were just starting, and it would fuck up our download numbers too.

Speaker 8 Because it would be like. I might have just made that up.

Speaker 1 You could have. Yeah, actually, Hank might have made that up just to get us not to do it.
But yeah,

Speaker 1 that was one where it was like, you know, we don't need to do this four times a week.

Speaker 1 We talk six to eight hours every single week. Yeah, because I was like, well, Courtney Friday afternoons.
I was like, no. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 That was the seedlings of vacation Hank.

Speaker 8 This, I'll say this,

Speaker 8 and it's exciting because, you know, as long as we've been doing the show, I feel very similar to how I do in summer 2016, where it's got a fun summer in front of us, and then it's going to be an unbelievable new opportunity, and we're just going to grind.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. I'm so excited.
Like, just the change of scenery, getting into a new studio, new office, like, everything has me pumped up. I can't.
New life.

Speaker 8 And it's like, but

Speaker 8 there's still some time.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah. Have a nice summer, and then we're going in.

Speaker 6 Summer 16, it was a movie. It really was.
Summer 16 hit different things.

Speaker 1 It changed everything.

Speaker 1 It did. It did.

Speaker 1 Changed everything.

Speaker 6 Billy's smiling because he's thinking about Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 That's what I heard. Both of you.
New World Order. He's thinking of Donald Trump and Arambe Wrestling.

Speaker 8 Pokemon Go. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Is that it? Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 Lottery ball numbers. Where are we, Jake? Do we have someone who's going to build us this machine that I have?

Speaker 1 I still have to look through the because I have it in vision in my head, and it's enormous. Yeah.
And it's cool. Yeah.
Hank wants it to come out of the out of the floor.

Speaker 8 That would be sick. That would be so sick.

Speaker 1 He's like, what if we had to come out of the floor?

Speaker 1 That was like, it would be sick. That would be so sick.

Speaker 8 There's no way that's happened. No, but it would be sick.

Speaker 1 It would be fucking sick.

Speaker 1 We had like a trap door in front of you.

Speaker 8 In Austin Powers,

Speaker 8 that's what would happen.

Speaker 1 Just produces one number.

Speaker 6 You're talking about an air pressure machine that goes underneath the floor.

Speaker 8 Like, as it comes out, smoke billows out.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 8 And then it's bigger than Big Cat.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we have The Undertaker come out pretty much every single episode.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Also, congratulations to Max Homa. Better late than never.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was

Speaker 1 gotten it already.

Speaker 4 Yes, he has.

Speaker 15 All right, but like he still deserves

Speaker 1 it. He deserves it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good job.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 That was such a sad applause.

Speaker 1 You guys didn't join me. Yeah, no.
Wow. He won.

Speaker 8 If you're not saying the number in this room, I don't count it.

Speaker 1 Okay. I count everybody.
Wait, that means that

Speaker 6 Max has beaten Hank.

Speaker 1 Yes. He's tied with me.
Max has beaten Hank. He's just guessed the lottery ball for three months.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 But he hasn't.

Speaker 1 But he has.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Numbers.

Speaker 1 26.

Speaker 1 69.

Speaker 6 55.

Speaker 8 I'm going to go 29.

Speaker 6 Wait, where's memes?

Speaker 1 Memes is out this week, so he would guess two. He guesses one.
We'll give him one. Has he gotten it? He has never gotten it.
20.

Speaker 1 What was your guess, Hank?

Speaker 8 29.

Speaker 1 What was your guess, BFT?

Speaker 8 55. It's for winning my game of my decade.

Speaker 6 But you didn't win? I like that game of my decade.

Speaker 6 Not the decade, but smart. It's not your decade.

Speaker 1 It's his decade.

Speaker 2 Well, everyone's decade starts.

Speaker 1 75.

Speaker 8 Everyone's decade starts a different time.

Speaker 6 There was no year zero.

Speaker 1 75. Vince Wolford.

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