Is Dillon Brooks The Lebron Stopper? NHL Playoffs, Billy's 2023 QB Bracket Is Revealed + Fyre Fest Of The Week

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Today is Friday, April 21st. And I think we should start with Dylan Brooks being the LeBron stopper.
We'll get to the Sixers Nets because Max was there and he thinks the NBA is rigged against his Sixers but PFT Dylan Brooks he will not respect you unless you put 40 on him. Yeah that's my motto too but I mean like you gotta hand me a steel reserve and then I'm good but i respect i respect the fuck out out of dylan brooks he's poking the bear he said uh that he wished that he would have gotten a chance to guard lebron when he was in cleveland or miami because it would have been a harder task he said i don't care he's old i poke bears i don't respect no one until they come out and give me 40 i i love this because we're going to get to see if LeBron's going to come out

and be able to respond to it or if LeBron is actually old.

This might be the moment.

Every player has a moment, and sometimes it takes somebody from the outside

to just point out LeBron might have just gotten old overnight.

It is now, I'm going to say it right now, game three for LeBron is a legacy game,

his first ever legacy game.

His entire legacy, if he doesn't score 40, I just love the unless you put 40 on me. So if someone put 38 on him, no respect.
39, no respect. 40, all right, now you get a little respect.
But yeah, Dylan Brooks, the game in Memphis on Wednesday night, the theme was teams without their best player doing very well because the Bucs also scored 138 on the Heat without Giannis. But no John Morant, Dylan Brooks, Xavier Tillman, who I don't know if you guys saw this moment.
It was such a pure, honest moment because Xavier Tillman played a lot this year but also had some DNPs. Afterwards, they asked him, they're like, did you think that you would be the one doing the courtside interview on TNT or whatever it was, ESPN? And before he could compose himself, he just let out a hell no.
And then he's like, wait, I'm live right now. I probably should have a little more respect for myself.
But Xavier Tillman was incredible. Anthony Davis was a no-show.
And I don't know if it was simply the Lakers were like all right we won one on the road we're good but the Grizzlies have life and it feels like if John Moran can come back in this series although I saw some Grizzlies fans saying that Tyus Jones is actually better for their offense so we got a little Ewing theory going on yeah so when I saw saw this, I was obviously thinking to myself, are the Grizzlies better without John Morant? And then I saw what was happening in the Bucs game, and I was like, wait, are the Bucs actually better without Giannis Antetokounmpo? And then I saw – what was the third game? It was – Nuggets. Yeah, that's right, the Nuggets game.
Wolves. Then that was a tough one to make that comparison in.
But I think if we're looking at the LeBron James-Dylan Brooks beef, we might have to take LeBron James' side in this. I respect Dylan Brooks saying it, but I'm saying this as like in defense of podcasters nationwide because I've done some research into Dylan Brooks.
And he's gone at a lot of guys. He's like a – he's a known pest.
He's gone at our good friend Draymond Green and said that like Draymond's a podcaster and a blogger. I don't respect him.
LeBron James kind of fits that podcaster mold when you think about it. Like LeBron James is a podcaster without a podcast yet.
He's drunk all the time. He loves Drake, and he lived with his mom until he had a real job.
And I'm just saying in podcaster solidarity, we might have to defend LeBron James a little bit, even though it goes against every fiber of our being. Well, we should point out to Dylan Brooks seem like a totally normal and not this agitator guy until Coach K coached him up in that handshake line with Duke Oregon.
That was pretty much the moment that Dylan Brooks became the Joker. I'm rooting for this is going to, this is, I'm probably going to have to take this back later on.
If the Lakers make a deep run, I'm rooting for LeBron James to 40 piece him just because I'm a sports fan. And that would be like a great moment because there is something about Dylan Brooks.
You need a guy like that who has that irrational confidence. Who's like, I'm the man.

LeBron's old.

I'm going to poke the bear.

But in these stories,

you kind of want to see LeBron just go off and,

and put Dylan Brooks in a hole.

Like you just do, because that's, it would be a great story.

And I, it's not that I'm rooting for the Lakers.

I'm definitely not.

Uh, but it would be fun to see LeBron just like an all-time vintage LeBron performance right on Dylan Brooks' head and have that be the story going into game four. Unless there's 40, then it's not a win.
He has to get 40. If he gets 39, we'll not respect it.
We should actually put a bet on the sports book, LeBron James, to earn Dylan Brooks' respect over 39.5 points. And LeBron is – I mean, Dylan Brooks is a very good defender.
And LeBron also – if you notice, you can see at times during games when LeBron just doesn't feel like playing defense. And he had that moment late when Dylan Brooks hit a three and LeBron just was like maybe 10 feet away from him.
He's like, nah, I'm not even going to – I'll just let him shoot this. But this is one of those series.
I think we all went into the playoffs being like there's going to be some great first-round series for the first time in a while, and this is one of those ones that could absolutely be that because you've got genuine bad blood. And if John Moran comes back, hoping the series goes six or seven and we get more moments like this.
Yeah. No, I'm rooting for it.
Hank, can you make sure to put that bet in there? Because I'm going to hammer LeBron James over 39.5 points to earn that respect. Yeah, we'll boost it.
It is a fun series. It is a very fun series.
Grizzlies just play in fun series. That's just what they do.
Yeah. They're kind of like a crazy team.
They're super talented, but they're also liable to complete self-implosion, and they're also liable to just start fights everywhere in the middle of a game. Yeah, and I don't know.
Like I said, I do think there was a little – it felt a little like the Lakers were like, all right, we won our game. Anthony Davis was just getting bullied by Xavier Tillman all night, so we'll see.
I mean, if John Moran comes back and we get the 40-piece from LeBron, fuck, I cannot believe that Dylan Brooks has put me in a spot where I'm actually rooting for LeBron James to 40-piece him. This gives me like Lance Stevenson blowing in LeBron's ear 10 years ago vibes.
And the one I always bring up, Reuben Patterson, when he said he was the Kobe stopper, and he was not. But he said it, and it felt good when he said it.

And Deshaun Stevenson, when he was on the Wizards

and they were battling against LeBron on the Cavs,

and they had a couple good series in the playoffs.

And I think LeBron said, comparing me to Deshaun Stevenson

is like comparing Soldier Boy to Jay-Z, which, yeah, I get that. But also Soldier Boy, he's got some certified baggers.
I've seen the interviews on The Breakfast Club. Yes, absolutely.
Okay, other games that night. Yeah, the Bucs put up 138 without Giannis.
Joe Ingles was going off. Also, kind of in the same vein as the Dylan Brooks.
Bobby Portis. Now, we like Kevin Love.
He's a recurring guest. We want to have him back on Bobby Portis.
Every team needs a Bobby Portis because Bobby Portis was mad at Kevin Love for taking a charge that injured Giannis. I don't know how many times I don't have the actual tracker, but I think I saw it at least twice him just like yelling at Kevin Love.
You're a bitch. And it was like getting picked up on the camera.
And that's the crazy energy that you need out of a guy like Bobby Portis, who like he was personally offended that Kevin Love was there for Giannis' injury and then decided to take it out on the Heat and Kevin Love on Wednesday night. Yeah, but Heat Culture officially dead.
Can we get a dead or alive check on them, Jake? I don't know. That was a tough one.
Keep saying it's dead. You guys said it was dead and here they are.
They stole one in Milwaukee. They have home court in a five-game series.
I do think you saw two things those two games specifically with Giannis and John Moran out. There is a pride aspect for the rest of the guys where they're like, you know, this is our best player, but we're still good too.
And you could tell the Bucs felt that way after when they're like, we have the best player in the world, but we're also really good players and we're still a very good team and he's going to be back and we're going to be that much scarier. I think it was, I think I saw the stat.
It was the most points ever in a playoff game where the team was missing their leading scorer. So it was crazy.
They just could not miss. They hit every fucking shot.
And the Heat, now, I mean, when Giannis comes back, it's going to be curtains for the Heat. Wouldn't you say, Jake? I mean.
Come on. Probably, but they're in it right now.
Yeah, it's a five-game series. Big guy.
Did you not hear that? It's a five-game series. Heat has home court.
The vaunted Miami home court advantage. Remember last Friday night, we won a week ago.
Our two teams were battling it out. We're like, do we even want to win this game? I mean, the Bulls suck.
Right. The Heat kind of sucked too that week.
They lost to the Hawks by a million, and then here they are a week week later if you told me this would be the scenario i'd be like yeah one one one one um and then uh pft your your nuggets yeah uh beat your wolves that game i know that there's a lot of complaints about nba referees that game was phenomenal because uh anthony edwards had 41 i think and jamal murray who had 40 they were just going off and then the rest were just like nah we'll just we'll just control the entire flow this fourth quarter and suck all the energy out of this place so uh and i also the only other take i had from that game i i hate to pick on people but is carl anthony towns just the the worst like best guy in the league he's got to be right uh he probably the worst best i think it's fair to say he's he is back-to-back playing tournament advancer so they've got a mini dynasty going on that one he's just built for the playing series uh but yeah he's he's so good and he also sucks at the exact same time he's the in the NBA. That's a different conversation.
Is he the worst best player in the NBA or is he the best worst player in the NBA? We did this with Deion for like four pro football shows in a row. He's not the best worst because I don't think he's bad.
He is good. He just is not good in the playoffs and he plays bad.
I agree. I agree a hundred percent.
Um, I, I think that Murray, Jokic and Porter, they're not, I can't say they're a big three yet. We can't call them a big three in Denver, but they're, they're a very, very good mid three, I guess.
Um, and I, I don't know. When they cook

together, when they're all playing, like,

if the worst one out of those three has

an average game, then the Nuggets

can and will beat most teams

that they play against. So,

I'm still very optimistic about the future there.

It's hard to say, though, because the Wolves do.

They just, they look completely lost.

And I did want to give a shout-out to

Kyle Ann the Face by Rudy Gobert.

And Kyle, you got the ref.

Kyle Anderson, he's not

Thank you. they just they look completely lost and i did want to give a shout out to kyle and the face by rudy gobert and uh kyle at the ref kyle anderson he's not scared he he went back for more and he got in his face he's a good teammate certified best teammate on that team yeah the kyle anderson thing remember we brought it up to danny hurley uh how his like restraint in that moment with rudy gobert showed how good of a teammate he.
So I'm not surprised. Like he's a great teammate.
Rudy Gobert tried to fight him and he's still, he's still there for him. He's still trying to try to hold him back, trying to protect himself from himself.
Yeah, exactly. All right.
I think what everyone's been waiting for, the Sixers nets, Max was there, NBA rigged, but the Sixers overcame that. It was a crazy game because we had Embiid almost get kicked out, like what, three minutes into the game when he got stepped over and then kicked someone in the balls.
James Harden did get kicked out for what seemed like an innocuous, like he didn't, it was kind of like a, even in slow-mo, I was like, I guess he hit him in the nuts, but it really didn't seem like it was ejection worthy. Claxton got kicked out.
The Sixers found a way to win late. Tyrese Maxey hit a big three.
And then, again, I hate to do it because we, as Russell Westbrook has told us, name is very important, but Spencer Dinchitty deciding that he was going to try to test Joel Embiid at the rim with nine seconds left. I don't think he's ever overcoming the Dinchitty nickname.
I think that play was din shitty where he's like, let me go. Watch out, everyone.

I got this.

We're down two.

I'm going to go to the rack with Joelel and bead standing there perfectly for help defense when he swats him away and then didn't shit he just stands there being like i got fouled it was like a perfect block and then at the end of the game was it melton who was who uh intercepted that pass and then drove down to seal the game with that the uh the fast break at the end that was an awesome play i don't know if people are gonna like key on it but when i was watching it i was like this is one of the first times that i've seen a player on defense do like what treyvon diggs does on defense in the nfl which is like bait you pretend like he's gonna follow his guy and then just make a cut and try to like pick off an easy... It was almost like jumping in front of a slant route.
He jumped the route on the pass and put the game away. That was an awesome ending to the game.
And as far as the James Harden thing goes, I actually think that what Embiid did was way worse because he actually tried to kick him super hard in the nuts, and that would hurt a lot. James Harden just kind of had his arm out like he was guarding himself like most players do when when they drive into contact a little bit and his hand it looked like the the ball hit the hand the hand didn't hit the ball if that makes sense so like it was he wasn't trying i wouldn't even call it a nut shot i would call it's just like the there was there was contact there and maybe i don ball, and maybe I don't know the rule, but when you're on offense, that's not ever called as a foul if he does that exact same thing to any other part of the defender's body.
They won't even call that, but because it hit him in the groin, then he's kicked out of the game. That doesn't make sense to me.
It was one of those situations where usually when an ejection happens, you're like, all right, well, if we watch the slow-mo replay, we'll be able to figure this out. It's something we didn't see because in real time it was like, oh, he got hit in the balls, but it wasn't anything nefarious.
Then they showed it in instant replay, slow-mo replay. I was like, yeah, I still kind of don't see what happened here,

that why this would be an ejection. I do think it was just a makeup call for Embiid.
And to defend Embiid for a second, you can't step over another man. I mean, listen, Hank has never recovered from Jake stepping over him.
So, like, your reaction is going to be, I'm going to kick him in the ball. So, Max was there.
if you watch Mac's game time ad in the first quarter he was

as aggro Max as he could be from the jump. Max, you think the league has it out for you? No, I mean, it was just blatant at halftime.
There was something that happened. There was something that happened at halftime.
People were upset about that Embiid didn't get kicked out of the game, which they shouldn't be because who the fuck does Nick Claxton think that he is stepping over Joel Embiid like that? He absolutely had every right. He could have taken a ball away, and I think that would have been justified.
But it wasn't even just the Harden thing. The Nets had zero fouls in the second half until five minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
It was insane. They wanted a long series.
They obviously wanted the game to go more than four games. It's not going to.
Tyrese Maxey is a star. He's an absolute star.
The way he picked up Harden going out today was unbelievable. That step back three to put him up three, it brought a tear to my eye.
I was going nuts in the stands. I almost felt bad.
So they go to the table and they just keep showing the replay on the Jumbotron. And I am freaking out saying that it's a defensive foul.
I'm like, why are we looking at this? It's a defensive foul. He's all up in his grill.
How – like why is this taking so long? This is the worst review in the history of the NBA. And then, like, all of a sudden, it's like they go to the thing and it's like James Harden has been ejected from the game.
And I, like, sat down. I was like, what's going on? And everyone in my section was looking at me, and they were like, that's the best call I've ever seen.
That's the best call I've ever seen. You just spit on yourself.
I mean, I had so many emotions flying towards the end of that game. But at the end of the day, Tyrese Maxey came through.
He was a great player. And Joe Ellenbead, not his best game.
But that block at the end, that's still Joe. That's still Joe.
How about your man, your man Ben Simmons? He was at the game tonight, and he's not going to the games when they're on the road in Philly. I think he's afraid of Philly.
I wish I knew that. I had no idea.
What would you have done? I mean, I think they could hear me. I think everyone on that call could hear me.
Great game time seats. Great game time seats.
I was on their ass. I was on their ass all night.
I wish I had known that. It would have gone down different, Mark Wahlberg over here.
All right, so, yeah, I mean, it feels good. I want the Celtics Sixers to be set up as fast as possible.
So I was happy the Sixers won.

It did feel like something was up. I mean, that's just, that's the NBA, right? Like they, they, they can be like, Hey, let's put out a couple of refs, see if we can extend this series by one.
But the Sixers proved that they're, they're, they're able to overcome the refs. Are you Max are you a Tyrese Maxey

fan extra because he his last

name

um They're able to overcome the refs. Are you, Max, are you a Tyrese Maxey fan extra because his last name?

It's been my Twitter name for like two years now.

It's Maxey Delente spelled E-Y.

I do like it.

It's nice.

It's fun that we kind of share a name.

Okay.

And just to clean it up, because we are looking forward already

to the Celtics-Sixers series.

You're going Soul Patch, right?

It's a Soul Patch bet officially for Soul Patch Summer?

Yeah, sure.

But Hank doesn't even have a fucking Soul Patch.

No, it's there.

I can see it.

I think because, Big Cat, you're a massive B-Ball Paul fan. I'm a massive Josh Harris fan.
I'll take Max's side, and I'll do the soul patch bet if you take Hank's side. Or I would be interested in possibly doing a soul patch bet where you guys can just set a line for B-Ball Paul points for the entire series and if he doesn't hit it i'll just get a soul patch okay all right all right so so it'll be it'll be me and max on the sixers it'll be hank on hank island on the celtics it'll be big cat riding or dying with okay call play yeah and i'll be i'll just be you know what i actually give me a a combined total Blake Griffin B-ball Paul points, and if I don't reach it, I'll get a soul patch.
So I'll be rooting hard for both of my guys. Also, there should definitely be a reality show called Blake Island, which is just like Milf Island, except all the dudes are just chill bros named Blake.
Yeah. I would watch the fuck out of that.
Watch the fuck out of that. Hey, did you have any thoughts on the Sixers performance tonight? You were popping off a lot on the text chain.
No, it was a fucking absolute war, dude. Embiid looked like he was gonna gas out at the end of that game, but that's the playoffs.
You know, it's round one. They were probably expending all their energy, but they won the game.
It was a good game by them. Well-fought.
Hard-fought battle. Harden and Embiid are both just, you know, clearly scumbag players that have no problem kicking people in the nuts.

Draymond's school of playing.

That's a thing in today's day and age of the NBA,

but they won, so that's all that matters.

Okay.

I've never seen a person more angry in an ad read in my life,

but that was like, look at these seats.

If you don't use game time, you're a fucking scumbag. He's right.
It got to the point. No, I enjoyed it.
That was my takeaway. All right.
Warriors kicked the shit out of the Kings, which I think a lot of people expected because it's just Warriors go home and they're too good to not have the pride. That was never going to be a sweep.
That was never going to be something they didn't put up a fight. Now we go to game four and see.
This could just be one of those series where everyone wins at home and then we just see what happens in game seven. Or the Warriors just sweep from here on out.
Oh, you're feeling that? I was feeling that. Once you were in PFT, once it got past like five minutes of pro-king stuff, I was like, this just means the Warriors aren't going to lose another game.
Like when you guys really were like getting devoted, I was like, this just screams Warriors in the next four. You just hate – you're a thief of joy, Hank.
Let the people have a little bit of fun, all right? I don't think that we've ever said the word Sacramento on this podcast in the seven-year history of the show, and we're talking about it. We're having fun.
We're enjoying it. Let people enjoy a fun thing.
They can. I hope they do.
I'm just trying to grinch on everybody. I hope the Kings win.
I hope the Kings win. I don't want to see the Warriors win.

Especially because the Warriors media mafia came out in full.

There was multiple articles and people talking heads being like,

Sabonis was actually the aggressor in all of this,

and Draymond did nothing wrong.

So listen, we're standing up for Kings fans.

Light the beam, except for tonight. Yeah.
Because you got your ass kicked, and the Warriors looked really fucking good. I almost wish that Draymond wasn't coming back until it was a road game.
Because he's going to come back. The crowd's going to cheer for him at home.
They're going to give him all the roses when he gets out there. He's going to be in a friendly environment.
I would much rather have him make his comeback on the road in that same hostile environment that he got kicked out of where he was flipping off the fans i want to see him make his return just in a scenario where he is like yeah the bad guy's back the bad guy's back and let him see go like full draymond on people yeah and i also i do love that uh steve kerr having draymond's back the way he does, because Draymond, you could, a coach could be like, yeah, this is, we keep losing him for these big games, it sucks, but he says it exactly how I've always thought about Draymond, is like, he plays with an edge, that's why you win a lot of games, that's why you won four titles, obviously Steph Curry and Klay Thompson have a lot to do with Kevin Durant, butaymond's energy you take the good with the bad and like the way he plays he will miss games because of these incidents but he also plays right up on the line that helps you get that edge that has made you the most successful team in the last you know five plus years seven years and if you're Steve Kerr and you say something like I can't believe that Draymond would do this to us in a time where we really need him in the playoffs then you're just telling on yourself for not understanding who you've been coaching for the last like whatever eight nine years however long it's been um all right so the other game uh looks like the suns are gonna win they're up nine right now it's late it's like almost one o'clock i think that sandwiches were just, you know, basic until I realized how easy it is to level them way up. It's all about starting with the best ingredients.
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Should we talk a little playoff hockey?

Oh, and Kawhi, I jinxed the fuck out of Kawhi when I was like, Kawhi's a perfect example of load management. And then he missed game three with a knee injury.

So, yeah, you can blame me.

I was going to say Clippers fans, but Frankie Munez. You can blame me, Frankie Munez.
There you go. Billy Crystal.
Hank, are you nervous? Yeah, I'm actually very nervous. Go on.
Bergeron is hurt, and he is like the classic guy that the season ends and they're like Bergeron played with like a broken fibula and like three torn ACLs. So the fact that he's not playing games is very concerning.
The dude who was helping me with my taxes is a big Bruins fan, and we were talking today, and he started telling me about all the line adjustments we should be doing. He's like, oh, you're watching the Bruins? I was like, yeah, I'm worried about Bergeron.
And then he started telling me about all the line adjustments who should go where and and where the player should go and how we can fix this so i'm but he was worried too and so now i'm even but like i don't know it's it's just i said it it's a lot of pressure you win the president's cup everyone i feel like that wins the president's cup i don't know what the stats are but feel, it doesn't feel like President's Cup's teams do well. 2013 Blackhawks were the last team to win the President's Cup.
Stat confirmed. So it's a lot of pressure.
Whitney said they're the greatest team of all time. He also said before they're the greatest third-period team of all time.
So when they're going to the third-period tie and they get smoked 4-1, it's like, we i'm worried i'm worried as as someone that jumped on the bandwagon not too long ago and was expecting domination i'm concerned with the lack of domination that i've seen you you've as as far as you can see the bruins are like a completely average yeah they're one and one but i it's all you always been Bergeron. So that, that's obviously a key.
He's got to get back. Okay.
Um, let's see the other Rangers one again. I, I, when Patrick Kane got traded, I was like, I just want to see him play playoff hockey.
And tonight was a night. I think he had two assists in a goal and was like vintage showtime.
Patrick Kane. was fun to watch.
I mean, playoff hockey is just the best because it's just every series, like the best team of all time, Bruins, feel like they're going to be in a war with the Panthers. Every series feels like this.
Even the Avalanche were struggling. They went down 1-0 and they were struggling with the Kraken all the way till the end of the game.
So there's nothing like it. Every team can win.
It's crazy. I think that with the Rangers-Devils series, the two fan bases are very, very similar.
And they're going to be people that are like, you don't know what you're talking about. These are the same people that refuse to admit that the reason why the Steelers-Ravens rivalry is so strong because they're basically the same people that root for different teams.
They're just separated by a little bit of land, and they've got the same mentality. Rangers fans and Devils fans, they're cut from the same cloth.
And I just love a good playoff rivalry that develops between teams that are close together geographically that absolutely hate the fuck out of each other.

So I say winner of the series gets Staten Island.

Or probably the loser.

Probably the loser of the series gets Staten Island.

They have to have Staten Island.

I like it.

They should just do the loser of the series gets tolls one way.

Yeah.

So if you go into – if the Devils win, everyone going into New Jersey has to pay tolls.

But you don't have to pay it if you're going New Jersey to Manhattan.

Thank you. So if the Devils win, everyone going into New Jersey has to pay tolls,

but you don't have to pay it if you're going New Jersey to Manhattan.

I like that a lot.

And then let's wrap up with, I guess not every team can win it,

the Islanders.

Islanders minute memes?

Yeah.

NHL rigged.

That was a tough ending. Guy just took a stick to the face, complained about it to the ref for 30 seconds, and then instead of getting back, they scored.
So that sucked. You guys do it.
Guys, is the playoffs not usually violent? Isn't that what the playoffs are all about? Yeah, but we had Merle merles on he said the refs normally hold the whistle there's been a million penalties in these playoffs i just i love this podcast because we are true authentic like we just go through the games and and uh max like yeah nba rigged memes like hey what do you think nhl rigged's like, if you want, we're not going to sugarcoat it.

We're not going to give you high-level analysis

or anything special.

It's just like, yeah, my team lost?

Rigged. I'm getting smoked

in overtimes. I'm watching

all these hockey games just praying for overtime,

and we haven't sniffed one.

This weekend, though.

So sorry. The mark of

a true fan is to complain that the game is rigged, even you win the game yeah i was gonna say that i was gonna say that it was a win it was it was a it was a rig but my guys are too good we fought through the rigging you you guys you guys beat you guys not only tonight beat the nets you also beat the entire nba you meant you beat the you beat the NBA industrial complex. Adam Silver was playing center beat the Nets, you also beat the entire NBA.
You beat the NBA industrial complex.

Adam Silver was playing center for the Nets tonight.

Not to mention if Joel Embiid gets a one-game suspension,

I don't know what I'll do.

I probably will do nothing, but I'll be really mad.

No, let's do something.

What are we going to do?

I don't know.

I can't think of that.

You can't harden the suspension and also give Embiid the suspension like that you've already punished Embiid by giving Harden he can't get the one game suspension that can't happen if they suspend Embiid you have to go back for another game find Ben Simmons and, and give him the double birds, and he has to see you do it. You have a chance, Max.
Simmons will be there. Let's get you game time seats right behind him.
I already have my game time seats for Saturday. Oh, nice.
Yeah. Game time.
See that court? Get there. All right.
We got a lot of the rest of the the show coming up we're gonna have a ton of nfl draft stuff next week thank you everyone for your patience this week obviously uh no guests today but we do have billy's quarterback bracket that um i said it in the middle of it but i'll say it right now because some of you might tune out but you shouldn't because this is like we're stress testing you guys. And if you can make it through the quarterback bracket, you are true AWL and take these are coming up.
So these are, these are the moments I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think everyone else will thoroughly enjoy it.
I don't know which, which angle you'll thoroughly enjoy it from, but there's enjoyment there is what I'm trying to say. Wouldn't you say PFT? Just click the blog i would agree i would agree 100 no shut up billy i i loved every minute of it i i'm dumber for having listened to it but at the same time like it's it's it's wonderful i appreciate your brain billy uh we got to show some love to the maple leafs though huh oh yeah maple leaf, yeah.
Maple Leafs. Big comeback.
Maple Leafs dominated Toronto's back.

My Leafs just sticking it up the lightning's ass.

That was awesome to see.

What's his face?

Tavares had a hat trick.

The Islanders need a guy like Tavares because their offense looks sluggish,

and I just feel like they need an extra piece.

Somebody like that cut from that same cloth would really do wonders for the Islanders team. He's showing up in the playoffs.
We're doing it for Rob Ford. How about that? What would Rob Ford want more than anything? He would want a Leafs Stanley Cup.
Let's do it. Yeah, and some crack.
I'll smoke crack. I'll smoke crack if the Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
How about that? I'll match. Why'd I say that? I'll double.
Okay. Okay.
What did you – I'll take a hit of secondhand crack. Yeah.
I'll take the crack hit and I'll blow it in your mouth. Yeah.
I love it. Shocker.
All right. Let's kick it back to ourselves where we talk everything else.
Big Cat, inhale. He sucks it and does not inhale and blows into my face.
Yeah, and we're done. Done.
We'll see how it goes. The Leafs aren't going to win the Stanley Cup, so it's not a problem we have to worry about.
All right, we have a lot more show coming up. Let's take a quick break for an ad, and then let's get to the rest of it.
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Tickets are on sale now, rated PG-13. Okay, let's talk some other stuff, and let's do Billy's QB bracket that we all have been waiting for.
PFT, I actually have something I have to tell you before we get into everything else, and only Hank knows this. I was thinking last night of things that we could do because we don't have a guest today because of the circumstances this week, so i was like what could we do that uh could be different that could maybe cheer up pft um i'll give you a guess i'm sure you can guess but who who i possibly reached out to to to join us uh no greenie no think i'm all out of my take think the complete opposite of yeah think the history of pardon my take uh mr portnoy nope he's way past bedtime one more guess come on rob no no no think think like the history of pardon my take someone that if if if he popped up on here you'd be like what the hell? Our great friend, Blake Griffin, who we support unconditionally to the end of the year.
I'll text him right now and see if he'll just hop on. No, the answer is Lenny Dykstra.
So I DMed Lenny Dykstra. And I was like, hey, man, we'd love to have you on today.
You know, weird circumstances this week. It's been a minute.
Yeah, been a minute. Like, thought it would maybe cheer up PFT.
Some random guy answered me via Lenny Dykstra's DMs and was like, Lenny's focusing on a milestone coming up, so he doesn't really want to do any other stuff and i was like that's cool

18 months five years out of prison is his milestone um i thought it was going to be sobriety but five years out of prison he's 34 days away so congratulations to lenny i am actually proud of him um hopefully when the milestone hits maybe we can have him on yeah i mean i he's a Die hard AWL.

And I just want to say, Lenny, suck my dick.

Yes.

Yes.

Suck all of our dicks. But yeah, I thought I was digging deep in the recesses of my brain, and it led me to begging Lenny Dykstra via DM to come on the show and then talking to a random person who runs Lenny's account.
Yeah, I've actually talked to that guy before because the first time that we talked to him, I think he wanted money for Lenny to come on. He's like, you got to pay me and then I'll pay Lenny and then he'll come on the show.
This sounds suspiciously like wire fraud. Yes, yes.
We could. I could text someone right now.
I don't know. I don't.

Blake Bortles is definitely asleep, right?

Stingray Steve.

No, we're not having a Steve.

What time is it in Australia right now?

Jay, can you look that up?

I believe it's 16 hours ahead, but I'll double check.

Okay, because I just got a very nice, thoughtful text from our good friend Brooks.

1251 p.m. or 151, depending on.

Is he playing right now?

What do you playing? I just said i just said like portals are you up go go smash golf club fuck the fuck the aces gc yeah smash gc yeah um okay i watched it i watched every. I was like, love being at the Masters.
Everyone was shouting out, go Aces. Yeah, it's true.
Aces are propping off. I'm going to watch.
I am more interested in live this weekend than ever before after the Masters. Look at you, Hank.
Yeah, I like it. They're wearing all of us down.
You just give the live tour three years,

and I predict that every kid, every young kid across America,

it's going to do for golf what Tiger Woods did for golf in 1998, 1999.

It's going to be a phenomenon.

Yes, yes.

By the way, speaking of Tiger, so we'll talk some other stuff

and we'll do Billy's List, but I would like to take back a take. I saw Tiger Woods got ankle injury.
I did a very Billy football thing and read up about this ankle injury. And by read up, I mean I read the replies where people were like, I'm a doctor and this is what happened.
And it seems like the ankle injury means that he's never going to be able to golf at the level he was golfing at before the car crash ever again because it was a quality of life surgery that will decrease the pain greatly. But his ankle mobility will never be the same.
So I'm going to retroactively take back. He will never win another major.
Well, one of the great things about this show is that when we're cooking on takes like this we just let each other go and and the facts be damned and people can correct us later and when you were saying that i was telling you no he's he's not he's not gonna be back it's not gonna happen because i knew that he had an injury beforehand where uh his his screws that he has in his leg had actually broken through his skin and popped out. Yeah, I knew that too.
Not a doctor, but I'm just going to guess that you want your medically inserted screws to stay inside of your skin when you play. But even after I just said that, it felt dirty, and it's like I'm actually already back to maybe he could win one more because he is Tiger Woods.
Yeah, I was going to say the counterpoint is yeah all right so i'm actually gonna stick with my i'm gonna erase my retroactive take and then stick with my original take that he could win one more i think we just need to see send tiger some like marcus luttrell clips and make tiger get back into the zone where he thinks he's a navy seal and be like here's a list of navy seals that have powered through that exact same injury and gotten Congressional Medals of Honor. I don't even think we have to do that.
We just need to update his current Call of Duty on his PS5. Just make sure the updates are always – he might have lapsed on a couple updates and be like, dude, the game's calling.
We need you out there. Yeah, we can just convince him that golf has – there's a new release, and one of the patches they put in was ankle injuries aren't shit.
Yes, yes. All right, so checkmark day came.
Elon actually did it. Elon did like the Jim Valvano of like being perpetually online.
It's like any day that you can blow up a rocket in the morning and then take away everyone's blue check Mark in the afternoon is like a day worth lived. Uh, if you can laugh, you can cry, you smile.
Like he, he did it all today. He blew up a rocket, spun it as it was a positive thing, which I'm going to trust our guy Quiggs, who was a scientist and was like, these are good when they blow up because you can learn a lot from it and then check mark uh armageddon happened and everyone has gotten their check mark taken away except for the people who paid for it well i think this is actually another like 12 dimensional chess move by elon musk because the rocket blew up in the morning and where do people go to instantly see all the video clips of elon's rocket blowing up and where do people every person who dunks on elon for fucking something up is actually putting money into elon's pocket by using twitter how about that he's a genius he might be the best to ever do it as a matter of fact like he fucks up on twitter so much and pisses off so many different people but guess what where are you going to voice your frustrations with Elon? Boom, on Twitter.
He's a genius. He is.
He is. And they also, I didn't know this, I guess this maybe is something they say in NASA, but the way they spun it, the exact terms were the Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation.
That's coolest way to describe a rocket blowing up yeah rapid what was it rapid rapid unscheduled disassembly hell yeah that's that's basically the uh the treatment for any michael bay film ever made yeah it rocks and all that all that means is explosions there was a sick-ass explosion um some are saying that the rocket was too woke and we didn't have all these problems nobody complained about it when the challenger had a mishap and now all of a sudden these days it's cool to pile on a billionaire and so uh yeah they should they should label nasa's twitter feed as being government funded how about that yeah they actually i did see one guy, I think it was some professor, some nerd. He was like, can we stop showing this rocket perpetually on loop blowing up? Some of us watched the Challenger live.
It's like, dude, is that a serious tweet? Like you, you're talking about a rocket that blew up, what, 30, 40 years ago? 40 years ago? It was a seminal moment. It was.
Listen, tragedy. The O-rings.
Does that mean you can't watch any movie with, like, explosions? Yeah. I don't think that you can too soon something that happened in the Reagan administration.
It's fucking, like, it was insane. No one was in the rocket today either, right? No, no one was in the rocket today.
no it was an unmanned rocket there was another way that they phrased it that said elon breaking news elon musk successfully launched a rocket uh the biggest rocket that he's ever done into the lower stratosphere or whatever and it didn't it just didn't finish the sentence about about then what happened afterwards well there were a lot of rocket scientists uh floating around that were like this actually is exactly what they wanted they wanted to just prove that it could get off the ground i guess sure i i don't i don't understand any of this stuff i just know i see big thing blow up and i'm like haha they fucked up i'm a student of history as as you know big cat and the last time that we had a really successful space program, who was designing those rockets? Wernher von Braun, former Nazis. Nazis, yeah.
Maybe Elon needs to get on the horn, call up some of the Proud Boys, get them working on the rocket ship program. Yeah.
It's funny because I've made like six sarcastic points over the last like four minutes and I keep looking down at hank and hank keeps being like he's making some good points yeah dude the nazi thing we talked about it a few months ago but the nazi nazi thing is crazy yeah oh yeah yeah operation paper club that's that's why there was a battle to see who could get to to um berlin first to see who could gobble up all the scientists yeah and a lot of the scientists just started walking east or west west yeah west easy jerek off yeah west west that well it doesn't make sense that part i'm gonna hank you you can back me up the when you walk west in europe you are no wait that is west everywhere all right west everywhere. All right.
No, it's west. Yeah, I'm good.
I got it. West is left.
We just need to – if you're walking to your left, that's west. Yeah, and if you're going south, you're going downhill.
Yep. That's a fact.
Okay, so are you guys paying for your checkmark? I'm – Billy, you already did. No, check it right now.
Look at it right now. Because you changed your name, but you paid for it.
You're actually paying for Twitter Blue and don't have a check mark. You're the dumbest man alive.
Nope, that's the best part. Are you undercover? I get all the bonuses.
I'm still unverified, and I get all of the interaction. That actually might be be the fucking Billy might be a genius.
Yeah, I mean, if it's... What comes with it, Billy? Billy, can you still tweet eight-minute videos? Yep.
Okay, maybe it is. So, I...
Oh, Billy just dropped all of his keys. He's a janitor at night.
Jake, do you feel like you're being persecuted now? That's a lot for cocaine. That's a lot of keys, dude.
Billy Pardis. I have no shame in paying for it because I earned it.
We have the slogan of flags fly forever. I earned my checkmark a few years ago, so I'm not just going to let someone take away from it.
I grew up on Twitter hoping to have a blue checkmark, and one day I got it. So I'm keeping it.
I like, though, that Jake is unabashedly proud of the blue checkmark. There's very few people out there that are like, yes, the blue check means a lot to me.
As a journalist, I wanted the blue check, and once I got it, I felt like that was i i have arrived moment and you can take it from my my sticky cold hands so i think uh i'm i'm personally not going to do it i'm not going to pay for it um unless i maybe pull a billy type situation later but i just it the check mark honestly means nothing to me i only i only liked because I could see, because when I first got it,

it was because you could see when new verified people followed you,

and then we were using that to book guests on the podcast.

Sweet.

So you did get it?

You did ask for it?

No, when I got it, when they gave it to me, I was like, I'm going to keep it.

Oh, God.

Because the first time I got it, I got rid of it because I didn't ask for it.

Second time I got it again, I'm like, wow, they really want me to.

It was like what Elon's doing with LeBron right now,

where Elon is forcing a blue check on LeBron James.

That's what happened to me earlier.

Then I was like, oh, I guess it is kind of useful to book guests.

So for the good of the show, I had no choice.

Right, right.

And you did get it.

It was weird because you got it the week that Gaz sent out an email saying,

whoever wants the blue check mark, email me it was so crazy yeah it was wild uh i i think i'm gonna wait to to possibly buy it and just wait for because i can already sense the jokes of like who is this who am i talking to and then also like the shaming of blue check marks, which I've taken part in, that's going to obviously switch eventually. Like it's going to, it's a pendulum.
It's just going to, I'm going to stay on verified until the pendulum like goes all the way the other way. And it's like, all right, fuck it.
I'll just buy it so I can tweet long videos. To treat it like a Friday news dump, do it like during the NBA finals and no one will pay attention to it.
I like that, Jake. I like that.
I think I put the over-under on Big Cat getting a blue check two weeks. Okay.
Two weeks. What about you? Two days.
You're taking the under, Hank? Yeah. What about you, PFT? I'm not going to get it.
But you asked for it the first time. I'm not going to get it.
I have no desire to pay $8 a month to have a blue check badge next to my name.

I would put PFTs like two months.

I believe them right now, but that could change.

I think also PFTs will be like if Gaz just emails everyone being like,

hey, Barstool is going to pay for blue check marks. Just email me back and we'll be good.
I don't think that's going to happen. I reserve the right to change my mind, but I don't think it's going to happen.
That's where I land. I'm going to wait and see.
So I'm going to reserve my right to change my mind as well. I literally do not care about the blue check.
I would just like to be able to tweet long videos, and I think that there's a way that you can do that actually without having the blue check. So I'm going to try my hand at that, and if that works, then there's no need for the blue check.
Someone made a good point the other day, though. When was the last time you ever watched a video longer than one minute on Twitter? I made that point, yeah.
No, I know. Yeah, yeah.
Never. Ever.
There's some times that I've watched long videos on there. What was the last video you watched that was longer than two minutes? 220.
Let me look at my traffic history and see when the last time I went to. Some of our fantastic videos are over 220.
No, Jake just talked over my answer, but it's, uh, yeah, I have it by the exact date here. Interesting.
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also available on uber eats grubhub and doordash uh okay other things uh baseball max scherzer got suspended for 10 games for uh illegal substances uh he just lost it loved it i i still love like the pat down and when they decide to do it and how random it seems. And it just, the Mets do feel a little cursed this year.
Not going to say they're cursed, but they feel a little cursed. So the real story behind Scherzer getting suspended is the umpire behind it.
Because this dude, we've got America's new top cop in Major League Baseball, and he's got a fantasy fuckboy name. It's Phil Coussey, C-U-Z-Z-I.

Phil Coussey is the umpire.

He's ejected all three pitchers that have been caught

with two sticky substances on his hand.

So he might actually just have sticky hands,

and whenever he goes up to a pitcher and touches them,

he's like, whoa, there's definitely something on here.

What is all this?

This is all fakakta.

So he's the guy that we've got to keep our eye on.

Don't fuck with Phil Coussey because he's definitely kind of deputized himself as like the sticky guy. He's the guy with – he'll find you.
He'll find you. Don't try to fuck with him.
He's like Kevin Costner on Untouchables. Yeah, and we also had – I don't know if you saw this clip, PFT, but Madison Baumgartner just continues.
I love that Madison Baumgartner, one still pitching and two he has taken the role you know the previously was like John Lackey then Roger Clemens before him of just starting pitcher that is perpetually upset at everyone and any type of showboating he got mad at Wilson Contreras the other day for making a noise on a foul tip.

He just stood there and started saying, fuck you, fuck you.

And then credit to Wilson Contreras.

He then got walked and he bat flipped his walk right in Bumgarner's face.

And if Bumgarner was allowed to kill a person on a baseball field,

he would have done that right there.

I love it.

All the best pitchers are complete and total psychos when it comes to that shit. madison bumgarner he's been he's been an intense individual for a long time and anytime we bring him up i always have to remind people if if you don't know the story already madison bumgarner when he was i think in high school he dated a girl who was also named madison bumgarner that's fucking weird that's yeah that's maybe the the craziest thing that's ever happened in the history of the world.
He's a psycho. He's a true psycho.
Remember that story? What was that story about him cutting rabbits out of a- A rattlesnake. Yeah, a rattlesnake.
Him and his wife. Him and his wife were riding ATVs somewhere.
It sounds like an episode of yellowstone and and they found like

a rabbit being digested and they pulled over and he took out his knife sliced it open and pulled out baby rabbits that were still alive inside of the snake total total psycho um and then the last thing i have before we do billy's uh qb bracket uh i don't know if you saw this pft but the bub off between Ryan Clark and Brady Quinn.

So draft season, we're going gonna do a lot of draft stuff next week we're gonna do a draft preview uh there's a report brady quinn basically said that cj stroud before his senior season or before his last season he wasn't a senior uh no showed thening Passing Academy, and that is apparently a character concern. Ryan Clark got very upset at it, and they decided to have it out on Twitter.
I've never seen a bub-off before. I'm just going to read to you real quick how the bub-off went down.
So Brady Quinn, or yeah, sorry, Ryan Clark started, or Brady Quinn started with, I'm hoping you did your homework on my comments about Stetson Bennett this year. Still waiting on your cell, bub.
Ryan Clark replied, following me, and I'll send it now. Just followed you to send it.
What? Brady Quinn, he was the first one, and he bubbed Ryan Clark? He bubbedbed him he bubbed him and ryan clark replied follow me and i'll send it now just followed you to send it and i ain't your bub bruh so we should be real clear about our tones before we speak which which brady quinn replied followed bruh let's get real serious over twitter so we we went from bub to bruh i just a grown man tweeting another grown man saying, and I ate your bub, bruh, let's get real serious over Twitter. So we went from bub to bruh.
I just, a grown man tweeting another grown man saying, and I ain't your bub, bruh, is just, I mean, it's just beautiful. It's what draft season is about.
Guys getting in fights about a quarterback like CJ Stroud's going to go top five and they're arguing about a character concern that's not really a character concern that the guy didn't really say. But then the other guy's upset because he implied it.
And we're here. And this is where we land.
Because eventually with the NFL draft, there's so many mock drafts. There's so much discussion about it that we get so bored that we start saying, like, who didn't go to whose birthday party? And who didn't show up to this passing camp? And why should we then ding him, even though he's going to end up going where he goes anyway.
And the guys who are actually making decisions don't give a fuck about the Manning passing Academy. Okay.
So I'm on team Ryan Clark in this situation because you don't, you don't bub another grown man unless you're there, unless you're their bra. That's bra that's that's the equation right there you

don't bob me unless you love me well that's what i always say that's that's my mantra you can't you can't bob ryan clark in this situation i would you know it's it's funny because at the end of the day this argument that they're in they're fighting over like 19 20 20 well i guess in stetson bennett like a 21 to 30 year old man that they're getting into an argument about that.

They're not financially tied to whatsoever. There's no consequence.
Nobody will remember who had what take about which quarterback in five weeks. It's just not going to happen.
It might get dragged up if they ever play against each other in the playoffs like three years from now. Then that argument will brought up and we'll see who is right about it but nobody is going to give a shit about it uh it's just it's very funny how quickly things escalated in that situation it sounds like they're going to take this offline i i they have to post a screenshot if they're going to be texting each other they got to post the screenshots afterwards and let us know what's going on if they've become bros or if they're still bubs it it was so the original bub from brady quinn was too much um because i agree you can't just bub someone out of nowhere out of left field like you're just minding your own business you get bubbed online that's everyone's worst nightmare ryan clark's bra though that wasn't like like a bro.
He didn't do bro. He did bra.
That was a disrespectful bra. I count it as they need to hash this out on someone's podcast.
Like all real fights should be decided. All men, if you get in a fight with another man, invite them on your podcast.
And that's how you squash that beef. Yeah.
And then they'll go on the podcast and they'll just be like good friends. Yeah.
They'll be like, and everybody, they'll be like, all right, see you later, bub. And like, ha ha, good one.
Even though they're both still very mad. It's, it's like the meme of the two dogs that are barking at each other through the fence and then they take the fence away.
And then the dogs are just like, oh, okay, we're cool. The taking the fence away is going on somebody's podcast.
Yes. Yes.
I that's how i mean listen if we get israel and palestine to just get on each other's podcast we could probably solve this whole thing easily come on my podcast bro yes one day don't say bub all right um before we do fire fest let's get to it billy it's a rowback question rowback uhack, go right now, rhoback.com. Performance gym shorts, perfect for the summer.
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So this year, the bracket's a little different. We got four guys, the top four.
So ranked uh the top 12 quarterbacks in the draft wait and the top four get buys we got we got okay i was just trying to follow that we got four guys in the top four that's an all-time record and they have buys they have buys in the bracket but you missed that part they the top four have buys in the bracket too soon in the bracket bracket. All right, wait.
So list all 1 through 12. 1 through 12.
So we're going to start with 12. Malik Cunningham, Louisville.
Okay. Then we got Jake Hayner, Fresno State.
Yep. Very good quarterback.
Then we got Dorian Thompson Robinson at 10.

Then we got Clayton Toon from Houston.

Wait, where did DTR go to school?

UCLA.

Okay, got it. All right.

I knew that. I just want to make sure you know that.

Because when you start saying schools and then you don't say a school,

I'm like, what's going on?

Clayton Toon, Houston.

Okay.

My mouse is being annoying right now. Tanner

McKee, Stanford. Okay.

Then we got Stetson Bedden.

Shout out to the Stanford

wrestling team. Four-time national

champs in a row. I saved Stanford wrestling.

DM me like a hundred times. Dynasty.
Yeah.

Shout out to them.

Okay. Then we got

Anthony Richardson. He is what seed? He's at six.
What the fuck? My favorite thing. Part of this.
Hold on. Time out.
Time out. My favorite part about the bracket, because we've done this three years, I think now, even though Billy has, I think, done this, written it all out, it always feels like he's doing it in front of us yeah yeah oh i don't know if we were recording when when you said we're doing the bracket he was like sorry you started dashing around like he he starts scribbling as we're like billy bracket time and he's like okay all right uh so something about my rankings is i include that they might end up in bad situations.
I'm not ranking the best players coming out of college. This is like their performance in the NFL.
The funniest part of Billy's quarterback bracket by far is that he makes a list numbered 1 through 12 of the best quarterbacks. And he puts the best quarterback number 1.
And then he has a bracket of his best players that's already ranked as his best players well they go ahead and the worst players they gotta go ahead and the worst players lose yeah no they have to go head to head you don't know there could be no no but there are upsets there are upsets yeah i i know i know but i'm just saying like, if you look at it from what it truly is and how the seating

committee works on this project,

you've already made your list of the best quarterbacks.

No, no, no. This is why we love you, Billy.

Who was Anthony Richardson matched up

against? That's all I need to know. Hold on,

Hank, let's do this in order. Let's go

through the order. People forget

Kenny Pickett won last year.

People forget that. In an upset.

In an upset, and then he's, like, one of the best, most successful quarterbacks from that draft. People forget.
Yeah, it might be like the Warriors. The Warriors were psyched to get the Kings in the first round.
Maybe Anthony Richardson gets a great matchup. So like Anthony Richardson's five.
Anthony Richardson's five because he could go to a shitty situation and end up just getting tanked. Okay.
Four. So four.
Oh wait're at five cj stroud okay five cj stroud okay um four hendon hooker okay nice he's higher on my list uh three bryce young okay i can't wait to hear about your takes on bryce young's size keep going. Two, Will Levis.
Okay. And then one, which is my wild card, Sam Ellinger, Trace McSorley, Chad Kelly, Max Duggan.
Okay. He's the guy that makes no sense in my mind, but he just gets a buy just because it's my bracket.
Okay. But he's the one seed.
He's the one seed seed he's more of like a different kind of seating he's just there okay because in no one else's list is he in the top 12 so i just put him in my list because he's a game number one put him next year just put a pin in this one you should have a play-in game next year yeah yeah that would be cool yeah uh okay so billy tell us your criteria before you go through the matchups how you how these rankings all work so the rankings are just like because really good players will go to really bad teams and then their careers will just fizzle out so players who are not as good coming out of college actually kind of get an advantage if they if they like weren't top four but they're still good players in my mind. Okay.
Okay. Kenny Pickett was one of those guys.
So this is also kind of a mock draft too because you're projecting where these quarterbacks are going to end up. Kind of.
Kind of. Okay.
Matchup number one, Clayton Toon versus Tanner McKee. Say the seedings too so we just can keep track.
This is a ninth seed versus an

eighth seed. Okay.

So, Tanner McKee is

actually the eighth seed. He's ranked above

Clayton Toon.

Why do you have the ninth seed playing

against the eighth seed?

Because there's four

guys get a bye.

Yeah, there's the buys. Don't forget the

buys, PFT. Keep forgetting about the buys.

But that still doesn't make any sense

why a ninth seed would play against an eighth seed in the first round.

I'm sorry. four guys get a bye.
Yeah, there's the buys. Don't forget the buys, PFT.
Keep forgetting about the buys. But that still doesn't make any sense why nine seed would play against an eight seed in the first round.
If you check your text, I have the... I sent it to you.
He goes 5-12, he goes 6-11, he goes 7-10, 8-9. Exactly.
It's the buys. You've got to understand the buys.
Tanner McKee, he's playing a pro style at Stanford. He's tall.
He's prototypical. But the thing is, his hands are way too small for how big he is.
He's got nine-inch hands, and he's a really big target, which is just a huge fumble risk. He may have not been seeing that at Stanford, but Clayton Toon is just a gunslinger, just like way more air raid.
And Clayton Toon advances in that matchup. Okay, wow.
So that was an upset. Yeah, Big, did you take into account the fact that Tanner has a way better quarterback name? Clayton Toon is a pretty good quarterback name, like Clayton in general.
Tanner McKee is a good one, but, you know, those are kind of equal there. And PFT, I would argue Tanner's a great college name, not a great NFL name.
Right. Yeah, absolutely.
But he's still – it's such a good college name that usually, in my mind, I would draft that guy higher. Is that your hedgehog, Billy? Yes.
One second. We're going to take a pause.
This is a quick commercial break for Billy's hedgehog. By the way, that was Stanford Men's plastic tank.
He's nocturnal. I'm sorry.
My mouse is driving me crazy. I actually thought that he meant his rodent, but no, he was talking about his computer.
No, I mean, only Billy could you hear that noise and be like, oh, that must be his hedgehog. Okay.
Tricky wire. Matchup number two, CJ Stroud versus Malik Cunningham.
This one is just, you know, this is a first round five versus a 12. CJ Stroud easily takes this.
Like Malik Cunningham will never get out of Lamar Jackson's shadow. So like comparing him out to anything, like, you know, he's just not going to make it.
He's too small. He is quick, but he's just not going to translate.
So CJ Strong easily wins that. There's some Malik fatigue from last year, given how Malik played down the stretch for the Titans.
Okay. Jake Hayner versus Anthony Richardson.

Another blowout.

Anthony Richardson

takes it.

Jake Hayner,

very good quarterback.

Beat UCLA,

but still a poor man's

Derek Carr.

Matchup number four.

They did go to the same school.

They did.

But, you know,

I didn't want to just say that Malik Cunningham was a poor man's Lamar Jackson without saying Jake Hayner is also a poor man's Derek Carr. Don't even try to call Billy racist.
Yeah, can't get me on that. Stetson Bennett.
Also compared two black guys and two. Never mind.
Okay. Stetson Bennett versus Dorian Thompson Robinson.
DTR, you know, electric player, but Stetson Bennett is just going to take this one. He played better competition, won more national championships, been in bigger moments, so easy win for Stetson Bennett.
He's a gamer. Billy, I don't know how much DTR you watched.
He is electric. Oh, he's so electric.
He's a quintessential, like, he will do some fuck shit, and and then he'll throw a terrible interception but then he'll go back and he'll just rip your defense to shreds and has crazy confidence. Fun fact, he's thrown the fastest ball at the Combine since Josh Allen, 62 miles per hour.
Forgot to mention that. Think about that.
He's so much smaller but he can can rip it just as fast as Josh Allen. Okay, but he lost to Stetson Bennett.
Yeah, but there's some decision-making choices. He throws it fast.
That sounds like code talk, maybe. No, no, no, no.
We'll get into it later. Stets Benes is a smarter quarterback? No, no, no.
He's older. Stetson Benes is wiser because he's so old.
He's old. It's because he's old.
DTR also is totally electric. He jumps over dudes all the time.
I think DTR is pretty old, too. Stetson Benes is definitely like 50 years older than him.
Okay, matchup number five.

No, DTR is 23 years old.

Yeah.

So matchup number five.

Pretty old.

Well, I mean, Stetson Bennett is like 27, right?

I think he's 25.

Now we're advancing to the next round, Max Duggan versus Clayton Toon.

You know, Clayton Toon is a great air raid guy,

but Max Duggan is just a competitor, and he's

way faster. Max Duggan

ran a 4.52

in the combine. Did anyone expect

that? He's that much of an athlete.

And he's a winner.

Why did you not expect that?

Because he's a ginger.

So Max,

not that fast.

They get too angry and caught up in themselves. Max, he's got, he's got soulless speed.
Yeah. Um, so Max Duggan advances, um, Clayton soon.
I mean, the thing is Clayton tunes, uh, competition, you just see him throwing touchdowns to just wide open guys. And you know, Max Duggan just pulled it off better and honestly made some throws in tighter situations.
So this is where it gets interesting. Matchup number six, CJ Stroud.
I hope people listening at home, I apologize because I'm just as lost as you. Just look at the blog.
You'll see it. It makes a lot more sense.
Okay. CJ Stroud versus Hendon Hooker.
CJ Stroud is a very good QB. Very, very good.
The only thing that I got against him is that he's an Ohio State quarterback. And how many really great Ohio State quarterbacks we've seen coming out that just haven't really panned out.
Don't like this. Can you name them? They haven't.
I can't actually. Okay.
Yeah. Dwayne Haskins, RIP Cardell Jones.
Okay. Damn.
JT Barrett. You don't hear a little word of advice.
You don't lead with Dwayne Haskins. Yeah.
Billy, you say like three other names, Justin, Justin, three other names. You say three other names and you go and obviously like rest in peace.
We never fully got see, unfortunately, but Dwayne Haskins. Yeah.
Also, we should investigate his death because that's another thing. All right.
Okay. Justin Fields.
What about Justin Fields? Would you, right now, take Justin Fields over Zach Wilson? Oh, my God. The pause says it all.

You're insane. Injury.

I mean, in the world of Lamar Jackson, I mean, he's injury prone.

I said it.

Okay.

In this world, the best of it, I know, but who still got hurt?

But Zach Wilson is bad.

If you turned injuries off for Zach Wilson, he still would be the worst.

Right. But, I mean, yes over Zach Wilson, but I'm you turned injuries off for Zach Wilson, he still would be the worst.
Right.

But, I mean, yes over Zach Wilson, but I'm just still my take on availability.

Can I just pause for a second?

Zach Wilson is also injury prone.

Are we missing out on that one?

He's mentally injured.

Billy, can I just pause for a second and ask you a quick question?

How many Division I college football

games have you attended in your life?

Wasn't it one

this year?

No, I've been to five.

Okay, alright.

But this year you went to

what game? This year

I went to Tennessee, Florida.

Okay, alright.

I want to see where the rankings go, but I just put a pin in that. I watch a lot of college football.
Yeah. On TV.
Okay. Now you got me all messed up.
Okay, CJ Trout. This is going so smoothly.
Hendon Hooker wins just because. I'm just asking a simple question

that might be

allude to someone that Billy saw live win this because that was it goes a little deeper than that because Hindenhooker used to come on Macrodosing every week just wait wait till the end of the bracket. Keep going.
Keep going. Wait till the end of the bracket.
Keep going. Keep going.
Hendon Hooker beat C.J. Stroud because I think that the ACL is going to drop Hendon Hooker into a way better situation.
Like, what if he ends up on the Patriots just because of the ACL? It has a way better situation than C.J. Stroud going into some Atlanta Falcons.
I don't think Robert Kraft would have any interest in another hooker.

It wasn't a hooker.

True.

That's exactly wrong.

Masseus.

In the same vein, I think Hendon Hooker is a less problematic

Deshaun Watson in his play style.

Next matchup.

Yeah.

Way less problematic.

Next matchup.

Okay.

Bryce Young versus Anthony Richardson. Okay.
I get the Bryce Young hype. I get it.
Next matchup. Bryce Young versus Anthony Richardson.

Okay.

I get the Bryce Young hype.

I get it.

I get it.

You know, he plays really well.

He's played him out a lot of ways.

But the thing is, you like Anthony Richardson is everything Bryce Young isn't.

But the thing is, you can teach Anthony Richardson to get better decision making,

you know, put him in right offense.

But you can't put 30 pounds on Bryce Young.

His frame is – – it's not going to work. It's not like he has a frame to work with.
It's not like he's a beanstalk. The kid just couldn't physically put on 30 pounds without sacrificing serious mobility and making him look like a bodybuilder.
I like that, Billy. You've gone from being just a respect mask guy to being respect frame guy.
We're frame guys now. No, if you look at his frame, he's slender at the hips and slender at the shoulders.
Like a guy like Arizona Cardinals. Kyler Murray.
Kyler Murray, he's like a big frame guy. He can put like Russell Wilson, big frame guy.
You can put the weight on there. Fat ass.
Yeah. Like Bryce Young, he's not that thick.
He's not that thick. Okay.
And because of that, he's going to be more injury prone. You think Kyler Murray's a frame guy? Andrew Richardson's just a beast.
I don't think Kyler Murray's a frame guy. Kyler Murray's thick.
He is thick. He's stout.
He's stout.

Drew Brees' guy was thick, too.

Sneaky.

No, Billy's not wrong.

See, Bryce Young's body... But the thing is, Drew Brees wouldn't be running...

His play style is way different than Bryce Young.

Bryce Young's going to be running around.

Bryce Young's body type is an anomaly.

It's not...

It has not really...

You don't really see it in the NFL quarterback position because I would agree Kyler Murray and Russell Wilson have just more meat to them. Yeah.
So I – although I disagree with the Kyler Murray comparison, I do think – It's not a comparison. They're totally different.
Kyler Murray has way more meat on them. I'm saying that – I wouldn't say that Kyler Murray's got a great frame, but I will say that Bryce Young, there are some glaring frame issues with him.
I agree. My frame coming out of high school was better than him coming out of college.
That's like a fact. Yeah.
You're both different. Anthony Richardson's just totally different.
Okay. You can – he is a – not only is he an amazing athlete, but you can tell he goes through his progressions and is actually extremely cerebral at the position.
Out of a lot of these athletic quarterbacks, he's extremely cerebral in breaking it down, especially downfield and especially facing cover zero, which I've kind of been obsessed with since talking to Chad Kelly and seeing him go up against Cover Zero. He picks up blitzes better than most in this draft.
It's serious. I've seen scouts call him a once-in-a-generation talent.
Yeah. I think that was Hank that said that as a scout.
Okay, keep going. Matchup number eight.
This is a big one. Stetson Bennett versus Will Levis.
Are we in the final four? I don't know where we are. We are in the final four.
No, this is the 2-7. No, no, no.
This is the last quarterfinal. It will make more sense for the listeners.
Yeah, this is a 2-seed versus a 7-seed. The best part about this is, listen, obviously there's been a tough week for PFT.
And, you know, it's like we don't have a guest on this week. And we basically are just like stress testing the AWLs being like, you guys said like give PFT as much time as possible.
And like we're here for you. How about we do Billy's quarterback bracket for 20 minutes and really see if you like this podcast? I'm putting the team on my back right now.
Stetson Bennett versus Will Levis. Stetson Bennett, I didn't like – so I've been reviewing his body cam footage of his arrest.
And the only thing I didn't like about it was how he bitched about when they put his handcuffs on. He just kept – the first thing he did was complain about how painful the handcuffs were.
And I'm like, look, man, like pain is temporary. If you get banged up in the game and you start complaining, like get your mentals like broken.
He's already on like chemicals that are supposed to dull pain. That's a big red flag for me.
If he's got a low pain tolerance, that's one thing. And look, Stetson Bennett has only lost one game in his career.
Will Levis has lost seven. You learn way more from losses.
And I think if you're in a situation like Georgia, Stetson Bennett is very replaceable with other guys who could have done the same, if not better than him, in that perfect scenario. I think if you put Will Levis in a better scenario, we saw that he sat out the bowl game and his team just got shelled.
I mean, if you took Stetson Bennett out of a Georgia game, I don't think the backup would do that much worse. Georgia is still going to win in all those scenarios.
What about the counter argument that Will Levis choosing to sit out the bowl game, doing some load management at that point, a real gamer would have wanted to be out're out there with his guys i mean he was banged up and he played through a pretty brutal season with those guys i can he's like one of the few i understand like get to the draft and we're gonna get to the two jacked you know there's a lot of what ifs with will levis we're gonna get into it for the record i do agree with that i i do have will levis ahead of stetson Bennett on my big board. I do as well.
I concur, doctor.

Matchup number nine, Max Duggan versus Hendon Hooker. Where are we? This is a blowout.
Semifinal number one. We're in the semifinals.
Thank you, Jake. Thank you.
That actually makes much better sense for me, too. Max Duggan versus Hendon Hooker.
You're looking at it. Well, I'm looking at my notes.
Correct me if I'm wrong. I feel like you don't actually have it written out as a bracket.
No, I don't. I'm staring at the blog.
I'm looking at all my notes. But is there a physical bracket in it? Yes.
Yes. But I'm looking at the notes.
It's in the group chat. I sent it in the group chat.
I didn't want to look because I want to be surprised with who wins I'm just going to say if you're an AWL and you don't like this segment fuck off this is really at its finest right now you told me to do this I was just going to post the blog you're doing go. Max Duggan, he's a game winner, but unfortunately this is the end of the road for him.
Hendon Hooker totally beats him. Max could end up being the next Ryan Fitzpatrick.
I think that's his, not ceiling, but a very realistic, positive outlook for Max Duggan. Hendon Hooker advances.
Matchup number 10, this is where it gets weird. Will Levis versus Anthony Richardson.
So this is my problem. This is where it gets weird.
So Will Levis and Anthony Richardson both hit the ceiling while at their pro days. Yep.
Will Levis did it. Everyone shat on him for it.
Anthony Richardson did it and said that he hit the roof on purpose because Will Levis did it. This is my red flag.
I want my quarterback to be a leader, not a follower. Oh.
Like he was copying someone else. He was like following the lead.
Just me. I want my quarterback to set the tone.
Will Levis set the tone of another man's pro day. I'm just saying.
I like that. I'm just saying.
I like that. Even though a real person would just be like, fuck that.
There's no fucking low ceilings in an NFL stadium or dome. And if I put arc on the ball, like sometimes it's essential to put arc on the ball.
And actually one thing about Will Levis is that he throws receivers open using arc and using touch in a way that like the biggest comparison I could say is Brett Favre it's like a like he's throwing it like a guy who's like like seen those situations like a thousand times and how is him getting jacked and affect that though is he not gonna is he gonna lose the touch because he got too big well the thing was I did some research he was jacked before this he knew he could get that jack yeah he knew he could get that jacked and he was injured and had to like stay off some stuff and he just got jacked again. He was before this.
He knew he could get that jacked. Yeah, he knew he could get that jacked, and he was injured and had to stay off some stuff, and he just got jacked again.
He was doing this all while he was jacked. But I think that weirdness, that mayo in the coffee, that eating a full banana, that weirdness in being way too jacked.
We saw the quotes. A lot of NFL GMs and coaches don't want their quarterback to be jacked.
John Gruden quoted it about Brady Quinn. And so I think that's actually going to make him drop into a better situation.
Like he just had a meeting with the Patriots. Will Levis with the Patriots I think would be much better than Mac Jones, much better than Bailey Zappi.
So he could end up having a better career than AR-15 because he's in a better situation. And he's a friend of the show.
Right. Now we're in the final matchup.
So when the final matchup, Hennon Hooker. Real quick.
Yeah. I'm curious, Billy, when you said he's been injured, so he's had to stay off some of the stuff, and now he's back, what does that mean? Like stay off the weights.
Got it. Yeah.
He is a friend of the show show he's probably listening to this right now so congratulations will you are a finalist and the finalists are will levis and hennon hooker now billy can i ask you a question have you met either of these two gentlemen uh i've met both of them oh okay all right all right um have you met anyone else in the bracket? Max Duggan. Okay, yep.
Who was the one seed? Well, he was in my... That's when Bennett came on the show.
I didn't meet him. So this is where I think we can really get a real criticism of Will Levis.
Will Levis was on one question at the quarterback. I think he came vastly underprepared for that segment.
I think his one question was low-hanging fruit. I think he could have made a better question, and there was a touchdown open for him, and he took the check down by asking who would get kicked off a part of my take if you had to pick someone.
So I think – now you didn't like the question or the answer well he's actually right that is that is that is like it's a low it's a low like he could have prepared a great question um but he just got in there and he just took the low-hanging fruit and so you gotta think about that yeah who's doing the bracket yes he's doing this so i mean you know these are things. Also, I asked him what he was going to do with his time while he's in New York.
He said Carbone, going to Carbone. And that's just like the high-class equivalent of Michael Scott saying Sbarro's the best pizza in New York.
So I have a little judgment issue. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Carbone is really good, though. And hard to get renovation.
And it's also not a. Is it chained? If you don't know good New York City Italian food and do your research.
I'm just saying Carbone is like the Sbarro for people who, you know. Where would you have sent him? I would have sent him to Arturo's, which is actually two blocks away from Carbone, which I told him, which actually has way better homestyle Italian food and without all the BS.
So just two judgment things that I'm just putting up there. I mean, look, it might not matter to a lot of people, but those are the things I judge people on.
And then Hendon Hooker wins. Okay.
Now, what would you say, just a little postgame, you know, the media gets in front of you and says, Billy, we read your bracket. There's a report out there that the only college football game you went to this year was a game Hendon Hooker played in at Tennessee.
Some are saying that's the only game you watch, and that's why he's number one. That is wrong.
I watch a lot of games. Okay.
Okay. All right.
That's good. That's just me.
Question from the media. Actually, from my seats.
Billy grades on tape. I grade on tape.
From your seats, what were you going to say? From my seats, it was probably actually better if I watched it on TV. Well, you had the all 22.
Yeah. Yeah.
They're great seats. Shout out game time.
Yeah. Oh, fuck.
Okay. All right.
Well, Billy, that was great. No, but seriously, I think Hendon Hooker is the best combination of falling to a bad spot and having good enough talent to make it in the long run.
Also, Will Levis. I'm just busting his balls with all that stuff.
The last part, he'd get it. You can't say that after.
I mean, you got to keep the ball busting going okay all right well great job billy another great qb bracket i don't know why espn pays these experts when we have billy and he just he whipped that up as we were doing it

just to check it out on the blog it'll make a lot more sense and i have like a couple of like

cool stuff about each quarterback that uh couldn't include okay okay awesome arrest footage

I'm sorry. make a lot more sense and i have like a couple of like cool stuff about each quarterback that uh couldn't include okay okay awesome arrest footage funny moments it's full breakdown check it out all right okay also you left out hidden hookers got gigantic hands yes they're like the 10 and a half inch hands right the biggest hands what was that move billy what were you just doing there now we have an echo my mic unplugged just enough time we had just enough time all right billy's muted uh all right let's take we'll do our last ad and then we'll do fire fest on the other side last ad real quick barstool sports store are you tired of boring sports merch that doesn't reflect your personality look no no further than Barstool Sports Store.
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It was 3-2. And I just got New Jersey cable.
I have cable. New Jersey just did an emergency program test run.
And it was like, we're doing an emergency test run. Like, cable's going to be off for the next, like, two hours.
And then the Kings scored, tied it. I had the Oilers.
And then they lost that's tough i i actually because you tweeted you're like this game went to overtime i was i was sitting i was so mad i've never it was one of those things where it was one o'clock in the morning and i was just walking around my house furious like what is going on how do i even i had to pull it up on on my phone and then i was behind and i was i was i couldn't believe it was happening but i was also i saw it it makes sense why they're just doing the test. It was 1 o'clock in the morning, but.
Yeah, I saw you going through that, Hank, and my question when that happened was, because you made me think about it, I don't think I've ever seen the emergency broadcast system used for anything except for a test. No.
Maybe they used it on 9-11, maybe. But besides that, I've never heard the actual emergency broadcast ever did you guys see no did you did you guys see that the whole state of florida had an amber alert at 4 30 in the morning 4 45 it woke up the entire state i i would drive insane it was accidental it was supposed to be on tv they sent it to phones must be yeah it must be like reset your alarm week in all the states.
That's like when they sent out that nuclear missile inbound thing to the entire state of Hawaii. Oh, yeah.
I think that was real. Right before.
No. I think that was real.
I think that was real. And they stopped the missile before it hit.
That's just my take.

I think it was Matt Patricia, the rocket scientist,

trying to psych Marcus Mariota out the night before their playoff game against each other.

Matt Patricia, now an Eagle.

New Eagles coach, yeah.

I just un-miked to say that.

You guys look a little bit alike, Max.

Yeah.

Good-looking guy.

Good-looking guy. Yeah, during Eagles games this year, you got to rock a backwards hat and a pencil for sure.
Sure, fine. Then my other Fyre Fest, I was playing PGA with Rudy the other night, and we made a bet, and I lost, and I have to watch the entire Bruins game on mute tonight.
So I'll be live on the PMT Twitch just watching the game in silence. I'm probably not going to promote it if you're listening to this.
Tune in. No one's listening right now.
I'm not going to say anything. Don't nobody show up in the chat and start giving Hank numbers to us.
Yeah, no, people are just going to yell, have you got the lottery ball? Have you got the lottery ball? Oh, I saw your golf balls, Hank. Those are sick.
Yeah. Yeah, shout out to TaylorMade.
They sent me a lottery ball, custom golf balls. That's sick.
It's cool. Okay, PFT? I had a pretty clean week, actually.
So I don't really have anything to complain about the only thing I have is, um, actually I'm going through some hotel situations, which is just adding to the list of stuff that you have to take care of when you're in this scenario that I'm in right now. Um, so I'm staying at a hotel.
I don't know if I should name them or not. It's Hilton.
And I, uh, I reserved a room for a couple nights cause I didn't know how long I was going to be down here. Quickly quickly found out I was going to need to be down here for a while.
So I tried to extend my stay by two nights in the same room. I did that over the phone, and they ended up giving me an extension through, I want to say, May 3rd, which is much more than two nights.
And so then I was like, wait, no, that's not what I asked for at all. Please don't, please reverse the charge immediately on that.
And then they said, okay, we've got you all squared away. We got two more nights for you.
And then they sent me the confirmation through my email and they booked me two more nights at a completely different hotel and a completely different town that was also a Hilton. And so then I asked them to reverse that was put on hold for about 42 minutes because the person just freaked out because they're like, I really, I've really fucked up this scenario big time.
And then somebody else got on the phone, fixed my reservation, got me in the right room, but I have still yet to have the other confirmation canceled. So right now, because they put all the holds on your cards, I'm out approximately like, I don't know, $2,300 that will be reversed onto my card soon because of errors and somebody putting in the wrong information to a computer.
So I'm waiting to hear back from them and see what's going to happen on that one. But that's been a headache that I probably could have done without this week.
Please let me know if you need me to skull fuck. No skull fucking yet.
No, just maybe some skull grinding for a little bit. Some skull dry humping.
No penetration necessary. But on a serious note, thank you guys to everybody out there that's reached out.
It's actually meant a lot. So I appreciate that.
Um, okay. My fire fest is, uh, so my wife's out of town this week.
So I've been solo with the kids. Um, it's kind of like when, uh, Dwight got fired from the office and all the plants died and you just quickly realize like, Oh shit, there's like a lot of things that I didn't realize, uh, go on here.
Uh, but one thing that, uh, has been interesting is I'm obviously, you know, cooking dinner. We've had hot dogs three nights in a row.
Uh, and my kids have had like maybe a bite of a hot dog every single night. So I've eaten 10 hot dogs in the last three days.
Um, I realized that tonight as I was downing another couple of hot dogs and I was like, I just keep cooking three to four hot dogs a night and then they have a bite and then I finished their hot dog. And yeah, that, that dawned on me as I was cleaning up after dinner, I was like, damn, you've eaten a lot of hot dogs this week so maybe next time i'll figure out

maybe some mac and cheese or something that i can cook but uh yeah it's it's been uh eye-opening with you know it's it's something it's something you know you know what you're gonna want to put in that mac and cheese though a couple hot dogs hot dogs hot dogs yeah slice it up yeah i also have a situation where I think my son

already has more Riz

than me. Shout out

Jeff Nadu. He has the most riz in the world.
But last night, or yes, time has just escaped me this week. But yesterday, come home, eating dinner, snacks.
My son's like, I want a Clementine.ine peel him a Clementine eats every single piece except one. I think he took one piece with him to his bedroom at night.
Cause I come down, I get him out of bed and we come down, he's holding a piece of Clementine in his hand. And I'm like, Hey dude, like why don't we eat this or throw it out? You've been holding it for a while now.
like no no no no no he holds it all the way we walk to school he's holding it like like it's like the like a gold bar holding it all the way to school we get to school walk him to his class walks up to his teacher shows his teacher and then just eats it in front of her and she was very impressed and i was like i don't know know what just fucking happened here. So, yeah, I think he's got more Riz than me already.
I thought you were going to say he was going to, like, give it to his teacher and be like, here, I brought you a present, which would have been, that would have been, like, that would have been medium Riz. Yeah.
But to show her and be like, I bet you want this, he just negged her. Yes.
Your son is going to, he's going to become a pickup artist. He's going to be the new mystery.
And she gave the reaction that he was looking for. She's like, oh, what's that? He's like Clementine or he says orange.
And, uh, and then he ate it and she's like, wow, that was, that was it. He fucking, the crowd went wild.
So yeah, I think I'm outrised by my son already. He's definitely going to become a pick-up.
He's going to come home with a top hat and goggles around his neck. He's going to be picking up chicks left and right.
Get addicted to Latinas in Lancaster, PA? I would... Listen.
That means I did a good job as a father. I don't know what that means.
Nadu.

That's a Nadu.

Our colleague, Jeff Nadu, I think he tweeted the other day like, hey, I'm addicted to Latinas and I don't care who knows it.

So now we know it.

Now we all know it.

You know what's wild about Lancaster PA?

My buddy works there.

He's like, there's no one there and he has no idea where the dude's finding these people. Sounds like your buddy's a loser.
Good point. No offense.
All right, Billy. I got fat.
Nice. Belly football.
Welcome to the club. Yeah.
Belly football. Couldn't work out for two weeks.
Put on a lot of pounds, and it's hard to stop being fat yeah yeah but you had you got the frame for it though max don't nod that furiously no people a little i know you guys have been nice and haven't been saying anything but i know i put on a lot of weight recently all i was saying is that it's hard to not be fat yeah no, no, it is very hard. It's a daily struggle to not be fat.
That's what I was agreeing with. I've been eating hot dogs nonstop.
I understand. Billy, how did basketball go last night? Good.
We killed it. Oh, nice.
Hank, Hank hit some threes. Hank, you're muted.
He's muted. Me and Billy both played well.
I would say it was both of our best performances. Hell yes.
One by six, held them off. Billy was beasting on the boards, putting up.
I had a couple threes. It was great.
Let's go, boys. Playoff bound.
Hell yes. I might come to the playoff game.
I'd love to hear it. Love to hear it.
Next week's season finale. What was that fucking head shake, Max? Oh, you're muted again.

You're double muted. We're in the mute off.

There's no way that Big Cat would go to

Hoboken for your playoff game.

But it was nice and I said it.

You saw their reaction. It's about

the reaction. When I say, hey, I might come to

a game, Billy and Hank both were like, fuck

yeah. That's all I was looking for.
I didn't

want them to have that satisfaction.

No, no. I got the moment.

You can't steal that from me.

Yeah, I'm in the stands looking every game.

Yeah.

Where's Big Cat?

He said he was going to come to the game.

I'm going to come with a huge...

Yeah.

Hank's left the ticket for Big Cat before every single game that they've had this year.

We keep looking at the stands.

I'm going to come with two huge high school football pins for both Billy and Hank. Just clapping along, maybe try to get in a fight.
Okay, Jake, what's your fire fest? I have an ingrown toenail that's infected. Oh.
I'm on antibiotics. Me too.
Really? I got a toe. Which toe? My left big toe.
I'm getting it taken out tomorrow. Oh big toe i've had it i've had an issue with this toe for a couple of months though have you you guys just don't get to the point where you just get a kitchen knife and just have at it no that would probably make it worse i went to the md and they get out antibiotic oh i got a foot doctor i'll give you my guy Billy's right Billy's right Every man at some point In their life has

P***ed take it out antibiotic oh i got a foot doctor i'll give you my guy billy's right billy's right every man at some point in their life has performed like minor surgery on themselves and you're not a man until you do that until you cut into yourself without you take a shot of whiskey yeah yeah just put your foot over the toilet and you just fucking go to town yeah i've just been told i'm in danger of losing my toe if i don't get it taken care of. So that scared me.
Oh, my God. No, they gave me that whole song and dance at the city MD, too.
That's why I had to go to a foot doctor. No, you get a steak knife and just turn it into a giant cut.
And then you just keep disinfecting the cut. That sounds awful.
Billy's right. I mean, I get results.
I think I'd rather lose my toe. I'd rather lose my toe.
I've been dealing with it for literally like six months. I've had this procedure done to my toe five times, and I'm doing it again tomorrow.
Dude, get a steak knife and basically cut off all the infected dead skin and shit, and then just pour alcohol on it and just do that every day withacitracin. Hell yeah.
Hell yeah. Okay, so that is the show.
We have big draft stuff coming next week. Obviously, NFL draft.
Very excited. We think we'll be back in person.
I did something special. So Jake, PFT, memes, and Billy don't know this.
I did all the ads in studio earlier. Max and Hank were there.
We did the lottery ball. They guessed.
We said, we're not going to tell them. So you guys get a full guest and then we will tell you what the number is.
And we can play the video for you after as well. So you can see it.
So it is an official lottery ball numbers for you guys. 18 i'm going to go with 46 memes he said 21 21 okay so here's what we're gonna do um obviously we've had a little bit of different schedule this week with uh pft's father passing away so we you just listened to the whole show on

on riverside on us doing zoom uh pft jake and billy are not with us right now so they don't know that we're going to do this so we all three of us have to keep the result of this lottery ball completely separate do not tell them and then we will play it for them at the end so they're going to get to guess as well okay so numbers for the three of us and and double numbers do count so if someone guesses someone can double up actually no we'll just tell them our numbers 59 59 is this something new wait have you ever gotten this no i i can i just say as an aside um i love the little hank stands out there that are like when are we going to start talking about the fact that big cats only got it once and i just reply to all of them i'm just like ask me if i've ever gotten the lottery ball and they're like have you ever gotten them say yes that's all i'd say yes i have congrats i've gotten i'm happy for you 59 once yeah 59 how many have you got here Oh, okay. That's interesting.
You're just doing the max no-hitter thing. Max? That's a shot.
That was not a necessary shot. How many hits did the Phillies get in Game 3 of the World Series? My number is 20.
Okay. Yeah, you know what? I'll go 17.
59. You were very confident with that.

This is my number.

Okay.

My dad turned 59.

It's been an emotional week.

Okay.

The number is 99.

Another JG want one?

No!

It happened again.

You're such a fucking idiot.

He literally tweeted you last week.

God damn.

And, like, let's be honest.

Let's just break it down the other way.

You just basically were like 59.

I'm flexing on PFT that my dad's still alive. That's what you just did.
That's literally what you just did. No, I did not.
That's, I'm not going to be online this weekend. Okay.
Yeah, so we won't tell them. And we'll have them watch this.
And yeah, this is going to be great. You just got fucked by J.J.
Wj watt again all you had to do was do 99 you would have it twice right now that's my dad's fault the number was 99 so jj watt in the same week that he fucking did that to Hank. It hit again.
Hank was so bad. Dude, I was like, JJ Watt did it again.
And Hank didn't register for him for a second. And then I told him and he was so upset.
Hank. Hank, this is so bad.
You keep getting worse. No, bless you.
99. Wow 99 in your face

Hank

you were so bad

we recorded it

I made fun of him

I also

we did have a discussion PFT

because he guessed 59 because it was his dad's birthday

and I was like nice flex on PFT

there

it was a whole thing

he just couldn't have been a worse one for Hank. 99.
JJ Watt tweeted you three days ago asking how it was going. I thought that was nice, Hank.
Hank put up a picture of him with his dad the other day. I thought that was sweet.
Yeah. Well, it was his birthday yesterday, and you got me in my feels.

I apologize if I hurt your feelings.

I want to apologize for casting my dad up.

Would you trade your dad for a lottery ball win?

At this point?

It's a fair question.

We've had a lot of good memories.

I don't think he would, but it's definitely lot of good memories. I don't think he would.

Yeah.

But it's definitely like it's gotten so long that it's a pause.

You know, it's like when you get a trade request and it's like it's a no,

but it definitely wasn't like a no hang up.

It was a no, no, no, no, no.

Memes.

Memes.

Drop the meme of the guy with the long hair making the steeple with his fingers.

Trade requests.

Thanks, Dad, for one lottery ball.

Oh, man.

All right.

We'll see everyone on Monday.

Love you guys.

Bats are the only mammals that can fly.

I'm talking away.

I don't know what I'm to say.

I'm saved anyway.