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Speaker 1 Welcome to part of my take. Today is Friday, April 21st.

Speaker 1 And I think we should start with Dylan Brooks being the LeBron stopper. We'll get to the Sixers next because Max was there, and he thinks the NBA is rigged against his Sixers.

Speaker 1 But PFT, Dylan Brooks, he will not respect you unless you put 40 on him.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that's my motto too. But I mean, like, you got to hand me a steel reserve, and then I'm good.
But

Speaker 6 I respect the fuck out of Dylan Brooks. He's poking the bear.

Speaker 6 He said 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.

Speaker 6 I don't respect no one until they come out and give me 40.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 And sometimes it takes somebody from the outside to just point out LeBron might have just gotten old overnight.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So if someone put 38 on him, no respect. 39,

Speaker 1 no respect. 40? All right, now you get a little respect.
But yeah, Dylan Brooks,

Speaker 1 like that, 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 Nojo Morant,

Speaker 1 Dylan Brooks, Xavier Tillman, who I don't know if you guys saw this moment, it was such a like pure, honest moment because Xavier Tillman played a lot this year, but also had some DNPs.

Speaker 1 Afterwards, they asked him, they're like, did you think that you would be the one doing the court side interview on TNT or whatever it was, ESPN?

Speaker 1 And before he could compose himself, he just let out a hell no. And then he's like, like, wait, well, he's like, wait, I'm live right now.

Speaker 1 Like, I probably should have a little more respect for myself. But Xavier Tillman was incredible.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And it feels like if John Morant can come back in this series, although I saw some Grizzlies fans saying that Tyus Jones is actually... better for their offense.

Speaker 1 So we got a little Ewing theory going on.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so when I saw this, I was obviously thinking to myself, are the Grizzlies better without John Morant?

Speaker 6 And then I saw what was happening in the Bucs game, and I was like, wait, are the Bucs actually better without Yannis Anton Titomko? And then I saw, what was the third game? It was

Speaker 1 Nuggets.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that's right, the Nuggets game. Then that was a tough one to make that comparison.

Speaker 6 But

Speaker 6 I think if we're looking at the LeBron James-Dylan Brooks beef, we might have to take LeBron James' side in this.

Speaker 6 I respect Dylan Brooks saying it, but I'm saying this as like a

Speaker 6 like in defense of podcasters nationwide, because I've done some research into Dylan Brooks, and he's gone at a lot of guys.

Speaker 6 He's a known pest. He's gone at our

Speaker 6 good friend Draymond Green and said that like

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 He's drunk all the time. He loves Drake, and

Speaker 6 he lived with his mom until he had a real job. And I'm just saying, in podcaster solidarity, we might have to defend Dylan.

Speaker 6 We might have to defend LeBron James a little bit, even though it goes against every fiber of our being.

Speaker 1 Well, we should point out, too, Dylan Brooks seemed like a totally normal

Speaker 1 and not this agitator guy until Coach K coached him up in that handshake line with Duke Organ. That was pretty much the moment that Dylan Brooks became the Joker.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You need a guy like that who has that irrational confidence, who's like, I'm the the man. LeBron's old.
I'm going to poke the bear.

Speaker 1 But in these stories, you kind of want to see LeBron just go off and put Dylan Brooks in a hole. Like, you just do, because

Speaker 1 it would be a great story. And it's not that I'm rooting for the Lakers.
I'm definitely not.

Speaker 1 But it would be fun to see LeBron just like put an all-time vintage LeBron performance right on Dylan Brooks' head. and have that be the story going into game four.

Speaker 6 Unless there's 40, then it's not a win. He has to get 40.

Speaker 6 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 and a half points.

Speaker 1 And LeBron is, I mean, Dylan Brooks is a very good defender. And LeBron also,

Speaker 1 if you've noticed, you can see at times during games when LeBron just doesn't feel like playing defense.

Speaker 1 And he had that moment late when Dylan Brooks hit a three and LeBron just was like maybe 10 feet away from him. Just like, nah, I'm not even going to, I'll just let him shoot this.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 this is one of those series. like 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.

Speaker 1 And this is one of those ones that could absolutely be that because you got genuine bad blood. And if John Morant comes back, hoping the series goes six or seven and we get more moments like this.

Speaker 6 Yeah. No, I'm rooting for it.
Hank, can you make sure to put that bet in there? Because

Speaker 6 I'm going to hammer LeBron James over 30 and 39 and a half points to earn that. Yeah, we'll boost it.
It is a fun series.

Speaker 6 It is a very fun series. Grizzlies just play in fun series.
That's just what they do. They're kind of like they're a crazy team.

Speaker 6 They're super talented, but they're also liable to like complete self-implosion. And they're also liable to just start fights everywhere in the middle of the game.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I don't know. Like I said, I do think there was a little, it felt a little like the Lakers are like, all right, we won our game.

Speaker 1 I mean, Anthony Davis was just getting bullied by Xavier Tillman all night.

Speaker 1 So we'll see.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 This gives me like

Speaker 7 Lance Stevenson blowing in LeBron's ear 10 years ago vibes.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the one I always bring up, Ruben 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 And I think LeBron said, comparing me to Deshaun Stevenson is like comparing Soldier Boy to Jay-Z,

Speaker 6 which, yeah, I get that, but also Soldier Boy, he's got some certified bangers. I've seen the interviews on the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 1 Yes, absolutely. Okay, other games that night.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Bucs put up 138 without Giannis. Joe Ingalls was going off.

Speaker 1 Also,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Bobby Portis, every team needs a Bobby Portis because Bobby Portis was mad at Kevin Love for taking a charge that injured Giannis.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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's injury and then decided to take it out on the Heat and Kevin Love on Wednesday night.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but Heat Culture officially dead. Can we get a dead or live check on them?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Jake? I don't know.
That was a tough one.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 1 I do think you saw two things, those two games specifically with Giannis and John Moran out.

Speaker 1 Like there is a pride aspect for the rest of the guys where they're like, you know, this is our best player,

Speaker 1 but we're still good, too.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And the heat now,

Speaker 1 I mean, when Giannis comes back, it's going to be curtains for the heat, wouldn't you say, Jake?

Speaker 7 I mean,

Speaker 1 come on.

Speaker 7 Probably, but they're in it right now.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's a five-game series. Big gas.

Speaker 1 Did you not hear that?

Speaker 6 It's a five-game series. Heat has home court.
The vaunted Miami home court advantage.

Speaker 7 Remember last Friday night, rewind a week ago, our two teams were battling it out. We're like, do we even want to win this game?

Speaker 1 The Bulls suck. Right.

Speaker 7 The Heat kind of sucked too that week. They lost to the Hawks by a million.
And then here they are a week later. If you told me this would be the scenario, I'd be like, Yeah,

Speaker 1 one-one. 1-1.

Speaker 1 And then, PFT,

Speaker 1 your Nuggets

Speaker 1 beat your Wolves. That game, I know that there's a lot of complaints about NBA referees.
That game was phenomenal because Anthony Edwards had 41, I think, and Jamal Murray had 40.

Speaker 1 They were just going off. And then the rest were just like, nah,

Speaker 1 we'll just control the entire flow of this fourth quarter and suck all the energy out of this place. So, and I also, the only other take I had from that game,

Speaker 1 I hate to pick on people, but is Carl Anthony Towns just the worst, like, best guy in the league? He's got to be, right?

Speaker 6 Probably the worst best. I think that's fair to say.
He is back-to-back play-in tournament advancer. So they've got a mini dynasty going on that one.
He's just built for the play-in series.

Speaker 6 But yeah, he's so good. And he also sucks at the exact same point.

Speaker 6 Yeah, he's the best player that sucks.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's the worst best player in the actual.

Speaker 6 That's a different conversation. Is he the worst best player in the NBA or is he the best worst player in the NBA?

Speaker 1 We did this with Dion

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 I agree. I agree 100%.

Speaker 6 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

Speaker 6 I, I don't know, I, when they, when they cook together, when they're all playing, like if they're, 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 And I did want to give a shout out to Kyle Ann in the face by Rudy Gobert and Kyle at the ref. Kyle Anderson, he's not scared.
He went back for more and he got in his face. He's a good teammate.

Speaker 6 Certified best teammate on that team.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Kyle Anderson thing, remember we brought it up to Danny Hurley,

Speaker 1 how his restraint in that moment with Rudy Gobert showed how good of a teammate he was. So I'm not surprised.
Like he's a great teammate. Rudy Gobert tried to fight him and

Speaker 1 he's still there for him.

Speaker 6 He's still trying to hold him back, trying to protect himself from himself.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. All right.

Speaker 1 I think what everyone's been waiting for,

Speaker 1 the Sixers nets. Max was there.

Speaker 1 NBA rigged, but the Sixers overcame that.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 James Harden did get kicked out for...

Speaker 1 What seemed like an innocuous like, he didn't, it was kind of like a,

Speaker 1 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 claxon got kicked out the sixers found a way to win late uh tyrese maxey hit a big three and then

Speaker 1 again i hate to do it because we as as russell westbrook has told us name is very important but spencer din shitty deciding that he was going to try to test Joelle and Bede at the rim with nine seconds left.

Speaker 1 I don't think he's ever overcoming the Din Shitty nickname. I think that play was Din Shitty, where he's like,

Speaker 1 Let me go. Let me watch out, everyone.
I got this. We're down two.
I'm going to go to the rack with Joel Mbi standing there perfectly for help defense when he swats him away.

Speaker 1 And then Din Shitty just stands there being like, I got fouled. It was like a perfect block.

Speaker 6 And then at the end of the game, was it Melton who intercepted that pass and then drove down to seal the game with

Speaker 6 the fast break at the end?

Speaker 6 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 trayvon digs 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 like it was almost like jumping in front of a slant route he jumped the route on the pass and and put the game away that was an awesome ending to the game and as far as the james harden thing goes i i actually think that what Embiid did was way worse because he actually tried to kick him super hard in the nuts.

Speaker 6 And that would have hurt a lot. James Harden just kind of had his arm out like he was guarding himself, like most players do when they drive into contact a little bit.
And his hand, it looked like

Speaker 6 the ball hit the hand, the hand didn't hit the ball, if that makes sense. So, like, he was, he wasn't trying to, I wouldn't even call it a nut shot.

Speaker 6 I would call it's just like that there was contact there. And maybe I don't know ball, and maybe I don't know the rule, but when you're on offense,

Speaker 6 that's not ever called as a foul if he does that exact same thing to any other part of the defender's body, right?

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 It was one of those situations where usually, like, 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.

Speaker 1 And 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.

Speaker 1 And I was like, yeah, I still kind of don't see what happened here that why this would be an injection.

Speaker 1 I do think it was just a makeup call for Embiid. And I, 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.

Speaker 1 So that, like,

Speaker 1 your reaction is going to be, I'm going to kick him in the ball. So Max was there.
If you watched Max's game time ad in the first quarter, he was as aggro-Max as he could be from the jump.

Speaker 1 Max, you think the league has it out for you?

Speaker 8 No, I mean, it was just blatant at halftime. There was something that happened.
There was something that happened at halftime.

Speaker 8 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?

Speaker 8 He absolutely had every right.

Speaker 8 He could have taken a ball away, and I think that would have been justified.

Speaker 8 But there was, it wasn't even just the Hardin thing. There were zero, the Nets had zero fouls in the second half until five minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 It was insane. They wanted a long series.

Speaker 8 They obviously wanted a series. They wanted...

Speaker 8 They wanted the game to go more than four games. It's not going to.
Tyrese Maxey is a star. He's an absolute star.

Speaker 8 The way

Speaker 8 he picked up Harden going out today was unbelievable. That step back three to put him up three was

Speaker 8 it brought a tear to my eye. I was going nuts in the stands.

Speaker 1 You don't say that.

Speaker 8 I almost felt bad. Like during the harden, during,

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 8 they go to the table and they just keep showing the replay on the Jumbotron.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 1 He's all up in his grill.

Speaker 8 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

Speaker 8 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

Speaker 8 section was looking at me and they were like,

Speaker 1 that's the best call I've ever seen. That's the best call I've ever seen.
Just spit on yourself.

Speaker 8 Oh, I mean,

Speaker 8 I had so many emotions flying towards the end of that game. But at the end of the day, Tyrus Maxie came through.
He was a great player, and Joe LMB, not his best game.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 8 that block at the end, that's still Joe.

Speaker 6 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 him.

Speaker 1 I didn't.

Speaker 8 I wish I knew that. I had no idea.

Speaker 1 What would you have done?

Speaker 8 I mean, I think they could hear me.

Speaker 8 I think everyone on that call could hear me. Great game time seats.
Great game time seats.

Speaker 8 I was on their ass.

Speaker 2 I was on their ass all night.

Speaker 1 I wish I had known that. It would have gone down different.
Mark Wahlberg over here.

Speaker 1 All right. So we're, yeah, I mean, it's...
It feels good. I want the Celtic Sixers to be set up as fast as possible.
So I was happy the Sixers won.

Speaker 1 It did feel like something was up. I mean, that's just, that's the NBA, right? Like, they can be like, hey, let's put out a couple refs, see if we can extend this series by one.

Speaker 1 But the Sixers proved that

Speaker 1 they're able to overcome the refs. Are you,

Speaker 1 Max? Are you a Tyrese Maxi fan extra because he, his last name?

Speaker 8 It's been my Twitter name for like two years now, is Maxi Delente, spelled E-Y.

Speaker 8 I do like it. It's nice.

Speaker 8 It's fun that we kind of share a name.

Speaker 6 And just to clean it up, because we are looking forward already to the Celtic Sixers series,

Speaker 6 you're going to Soul Patch, right? It's a Soul Patch bet officially for Soul Patch Summer. Yeah, sure.

Speaker 8 But Hank doesn't even have a fucking Soul Patch.

Speaker 6 No, it's there.

Speaker 1 I can see it.

Speaker 6 I think, because Big Cat, you're a massive Beball Paul fan.

Speaker 6 I'm a massive Josh Harris fan.

Speaker 6 I'll take Max's side and I'll do the soul patch bet if you take Hank's side.

Speaker 1 Or

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.

Speaker 6 All right. So it'll be me and Max on the Sixers.
It'll be Hank on Hank Island on the Celtics.

Speaker 1 It'll be Big Cat riding or dying.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Call Blake Island.
Yeah, and I'll just be, you know what? Actually, give me a combined total Blake Griffin B-ball Paul points. And if I don't reach it, I'll get a soul patch.

Speaker 1 So I'll be rooting really hard for both of my guys.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 Watch the fuck out of that. Hank, did you have any thoughts on the Sixers' performance tonight?

Speaker 1 You were popping off a lot on the text chain.

Speaker 2 No, it was a fucking absolute war, dude. Embiid looked like he was going to gas out at the end of that game, but that's the playoffs.
You know, it's round one.

Speaker 2 They're probably expending all their energy, but they won the game. It was a good game by them.
Well-fought, hard-fought battle.

Speaker 2 Hardin and Embiid are both just, you know, clearly scumbag players that have no problem kicking people the nuts. Draymond's school of playing.

Speaker 2 That's a thing in today's day and age of the NBA, but they won. So that's all that matters.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 I've never seen a person more more angry in an ad read in my life, but that was like,

Speaker 1 look at these seats.

Speaker 1 If you don't use game time, you're a fucking scumbag.

Speaker 1 He's right.

Speaker 1 It got to the point.

Speaker 2 No, I enjoyed it. It was just,

Speaker 2 that was my takeaway.

Speaker 1 All right. Warriors kick the shit out of the

Speaker 1 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.
Like, that was never going to be a sweep.

Speaker 1 That was never going to be something they didn't put up a fight.

Speaker 1 Now we go to game four and see, like, if this could just be one of those series where everyone wins at home and then we just see what happens in game seven.

Speaker 1 Or the Warriors just sweep from here on out. Oh, you're feeling that?

Speaker 1 Oh, I was feeling that once you, once you would, once you had PFT, once it got past like five minutes of pro king stuff, I was like, this, this just means the Warriors aren't going to lose another game.

Speaker 6 like when you guys really were like getting devoted i was like this this just screams warriors and the next you just hate you just you're a thief of joy hank let let let the people have a little bit of fun all right that yeah 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 i hope they're just trying to grinch on everybody i hope i hope i hope

Speaker 1 i hope the kings win i don't want to see the warriors win Especially because the Warriors like media mafia came out in full.

Speaker 1 There was like multiple articles and people talking heads being like Sabonis was actually the aggressor in all of this and you know Draymond did nothing wrong.

Speaker 1 So we're listening we're standing up for for Kings fans. Light the bean except for tonight because you got your ass kicked and the Warriors looked really fucking good.

Speaker 6 I almost wish that Draymond wasn't coming back until it was a rogue game because he's going to come back. The crowd's going to cheer for him at home.

Speaker 6 It's going to be, they're going to give him, you know, all the roses when he gets out there. He's going to be in a friendly environment.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 I want to see him make his return just in a scenario where he's like, yeah, the bad guy's back, the bad guy's back, and let him see go like full Draymond on people.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I also, I do love that 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Obviously, Steph Curry and Clay Thompson have a lot to do with Kevin Durant. But Draymond's energy, you take the good with the bad.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 All right. So the other game looks like the Suns are going to win.
They're up nine right now. It's late.
It's like almost one o'clock.

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Speaker 1 Oh, and Kawhi, I jinxed the fuck out of Kwai when I was like, Kwai is a perfect example of load management. And then he missed game three with a knee injury.
So,

Speaker 1 yeah, you can blame me.

Speaker 1 I was going to say Clippers fans, but who Frankie Munez? You can blame me, Frankie Munes.

Speaker 1 There you go. Billy Chris.

Speaker 1 Hank, are you nervous?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm actually very nervous. Go on.
Bergeron is hurt.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 The dude who was helping me with my taxes is a big Bruins fan, and we were talking today. And he started

Speaker 2 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...

Speaker 2 all the line adjustments, who should go where, and where the player should go and how we can fix this. So I'm, but he was worried too.

Speaker 2 And so now I'm even, but like, I don't know. It's just, I said it.

Speaker 2 It's a lot of pressure. You win the President's Cup.

Speaker 2 Everyone, I feel like, that wins the President's Cup. I don't know what the stats are, but for my personal feel, it doesn't feel like President's Cups teams do well.

Speaker 1 2013 Blackhawks were the last team to win the President's Cup.

Speaker 2 Stat confirmed. So

Speaker 2 it's a lot of pressure. You know, Whitney said they're the greatest team of all time.
He also said before they're like the greatest third period team of all time.

Speaker 2 So when they're going to the third period tied and they get smoked 4-1, it's like,

Speaker 2 are we? I'm worried. I'm worried.
As someone that jumped on the bandwagon not too long ago and was expecting domination, I'm too concerned with the lack of domination that I've seen.

Speaker 1 You've, as far as you can see, the Bruins are like a completely after the show. They're one and one.

Speaker 2 But it's all, you know, it's always been Bergeron. So that's obviously a key.
He's got to get back.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Let's see. The other Rangers won again.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 That was fun to watch.

Speaker 1 I mean, playoff hockey is just the best because it's just every series, like the best team of all time, the Bruins feel like they're going to be in a war with the Panthers.

Speaker 1 Like every series feels like this. Even the Avalanche were, you know, struggling.
They went down 1-0, and they were struggling with the Kraken all the way till the end of the game.

Speaker 1 So there's nothing like it. Every team can win.
It's crazy.

Speaker 6 I think that with the Rangers-Devils series,

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 They're just separated by a little bit of land, and they've got the same mentality.

Speaker 6 Rangers fans and Devils fans are cut from the same cloth.

Speaker 6 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

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 I like it. They should just do the loser of the series gets tolls one way.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So like if you go, yeah, yeah, like 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.

Speaker 8 I like that a lot.

Speaker 1 And then let's wrap up with,

Speaker 1 I guess not every team can win it.

Speaker 1 The Islanders.

Speaker 1 Islanders minute memes?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 NHL rigged.

Speaker 5 That was a tough ending. Guy just took a stick to the face, complained about it to the ref for 30 seconds, and then then instead of getting back, they scored.

Speaker 6 So that sucked.

Speaker 1 Guys,

Speaker 2 is the playoffs not usually violent? Like, I don't, isn't that what the playoffs are all about?

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 5 but we had Merles on. He said the refs normally hold the whistle.
There's been a million penalties in these playoffs.

Speaker 1 I just, I love this podcast because we are true authentic. Like, we just go through the games and

Speaker 1 Max like, yeah, NBA rigged. Memes like, hey, what do you think? NHL rigged? It's like, if you want,

Speaker 1 we're not going to sugarcoat it. We're not going to give you high-level analysis or, you know, anything special.
It's just like, yeah, my team lost rigged.

Speaker 2 I'm getting smoked in overtimes. That's really, I'm watching all these hockey games, just praying for overtime.
And we haven't sniffed one.

Speaker 2 This weekend, though. So sorry, Speaker.

Speaker 6 The mark of a true fan. is to complain that the game is rigged even though you win the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what I was going to say that.

Speaker 8 it was a win it was it was a it was a rig but my guys are too good we fought through the rigging

Speaker 1 you

Speaker 6 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 conference adam silver was playing center for the nets tonight not to mention if joelle and b gets a one-game suspension i 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 gonna do

Speaker 1 i don't know.

Speaker 8 I can't think of that, but he can't, you can't give harden the suspension and also give MB the suspension. Like that,

Speaker 8 you've already punished Embiid by giving hardened. Like he can't get the one game suspension.
That's all. Like that can't happen.

Speaker 6 If they suspend Embiid, you have to go back for another game. Find Ben Simmons and give him the double birds.
And he has to see you do it.

Speaker 1 You have a chance, Max. Everything, like, Simmons will be there.

Speaker 1 let's get you game time seats right right behind him i already have my game time seats for saturday oh nice yeah game time see that court

Speaker 1 get there all right um we got a lot of uh the rest of 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.

Speaker 1 No guests today, but we do have Billy's quarterback bracket that

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 this is like we're stress testing you guys. And if you can make it through the quarterback bracket, you are a true AWL.
And takeies are coming up. So these are these are the moments.

Speaker 1 I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think everyone else will thoroughly enjoy it.
I don't know

Speaker 1 which angle you'll

Speaker 1 thoroughly enjoy it from, but there's enjoyment there, is what I'm trying to say. Wouldn't you say PFTC?

Speaker 5 Just click the blog.

Speaker 1 I would agree. I would agree

Speaker 6 100%.

Speaker 1 No, Sean. I love Billy.

Speaker 6 I I loved every minute of it.

Speaker 6 I'm dumber for having listened to it, but at the same time,

Speaker 6 it's wonderful. I appreciate your brain, Billy.
We got to show some love to the Maple Leafs, though, huh? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Maple Leafs.

Speaker 6 Big combat. Maple Leafs dominated Toronto's back.
My Leafs just sticking it up the Lightning's ass. That was awesome to see.

Speaker 6 What's his face? Tavares?

Speaker 1 Had a hat trick.

Speaker 6 The Islanders need a guy like Tavares because their offense looks sluggish, and I just feel like they need an extra piece.

Speaker 6 Somebody like that, cut from that same cloth, would really do wonders for the Islanders team. He's showing up in the playoffs.
Um, we're doing it for Rob Ford. How about that?

Speaker 6 Let's what would Rob Ford want more than anything? He would want a Leafs Stanley Cup. Let's let's do it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and some crack.

Speaker 6 I'll smoke crack. I'll smoke crack if the Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
How about that?

Speaker 1 I'll match. Why did I say that? I'll double.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 What is your title?

Speaker 6 I'll take a hit of secondhand crack.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'll take the crack hit and I'll blow it in your mouth. Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 1 All right. Let's

Speaker 1 introduce ourselves where we talk everything out.

Speaker 6 Big Cat inhale, he sucks it in, does not inhale, and blows it into my face.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and we're done. Done.
We'll see how it goes. Leave Starker to win the Stanley Cup, so it's not a problem we have to worry about.

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Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I was like, what could we do that could be different, that could maybe cheer up PFT?

Speaker 1 I'll give you a guess. I'm sure you can guess, but who I possibly reached out to

Speaker 1 join us.

Speaker 1 No. Greeny.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Think.

Speaker 2 Think of the complete opposite of Greeny.

Speaker 1 Yeah, think the history of pardon might take.

Speaker 6 Mr. Portnoy.
Nope.

Speaker 1 He's way past bedtime. One more guess.
Come on. Rob Schneider.
I don't know. Think like the history of pardon my take.
Someone that

Speaker 1 if he popped up on here, you'd be like, what the hell?

Speaker 6 Our great friend, Blake Griffin, who we support unconditionally to the end of the day.

Speaker 1 I'll text him right now and see if he'll just hop on.

Speaker 1 No, the answer is Lenny Dykstra. So

Speaker 1 I DM'd Lenny Dykstra and I was like, hey, man,

Speaker 1 we'd love to have you on today.

Speaker 1 You know, weird circumstances this week. Been a minute.
Yeah, been a minute. Like, thought it would maybe cheer up PFT.

Speaker 1 Some random guy answered me

Speaker 1 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 out of it.

Speaker 1 Five years out of prison is his milestone. 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.

Speaker 1 Hopefully, when the milestone hits, maybe we can have him on. Yeah, I mean, he's a die-hard AWL.

Speaker 6 And I just want to say, Lenny, suck my dick.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes, suck all of our dicks.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 He's like, You got to pay me, and then I'll pay Lenny, and then he'll come on the show. It's like, this sounds suspiciously like wire fraud.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes. Um, we could, I could, I could text someone right now.
I don't know. I, I, I don't,

Speaker 1 Blake Portal's definitely asleep, right?

Speaker 1 Stingray Steve.

Speaker 6 No, we're not. Stingray Steve.

Speaker 6 What time is it in Australia right now? Jake, can you look that up?

Speaker 11 I believe it's 16 hours ahead, but I'll double check.

Speaker 6 Okay, because I just got a very nice, nice, thoughtful text from our good friend Brooks.

Speaker 1 12.51 p.m.

Speaker 11 Or 1.51, depending on.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think he's playing. He's coming back on.
He definitely is coming back on. I talked to him right after the Masters.

Speaker 1 He's definitely coming back on.

Speaker 6 I'm just going to cast the line out there. I'm just going to say, you're around right now, or are you playing?

Speaker 1 I just said, I just said Blake Portal's, are you up?

Speaker 1 Go

Speaker 6 smash golf club.

Speaker 6 Fuck the Aces.

Speaker 2 GC. Yeah, Smash GC.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Dustin Johnson.

Speaker 2 I watched an interview with Dustin Johnson. I was like, a little bit of the Masters.
Everyone was shouting out, go Aces.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's true. Aces are true.

Speaker 1 I'm going to squash.

Speaker 2 I am more interested in Live this weekend than ever before after the Masters.

Speaker 1 Look at you, Hank. Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 6 They're wearing all of us down.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 It's going to be a phenomenon.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 By the way, speaking of Tiger, so we'll talk of some other stuff and we'll do Billy's list, but

Speaker 1 I would like to take back a take.

Speaker 1 I saw Tiger Woods got an ankle injury. I did a very Billy football thing and read up about this ankle injury.

Speaker 1 And by read up, I mean I read the replies where people were like, I'm a doctor and this is what happened.

Speaker 1 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 like will decrease the pain greatly, but his ankle mobility will never be the same.

Speaker 1 So I'm going to retroactively take back, he will never win another major.

Speaker 6 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 the facts be damned and people can correct us later.

Speaker 6 And when you were saying that, I was telling you, no,

Speaker 6 he's not going to be back. It's not going to happen.
Because I knew that he had an injury beforehand where

Speaker 6 his screws that he has in his leg had actually broken through his skin and popped out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I knew that too.

Speaker 6 Again, 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.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I was going to say the counterpoint is Tiger Woods.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.
So I'm actually going to stick with my, I'm going to erase my retroactive take and then stick with my original take that he could win one more.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 I don't even think we have to do that.

Speaker 1 We just need to update his current Call of Duty on his PS5.

Speaker 1 Just make sure the updates are always, you know, he might have lapsed on a couple updates and be like, dude, the game's calling. We need you out there.

Speaker 6 Yeah, we can just convince him that golf has, there's a new, there's a new release. And one of the patches they put in was ankle injuries aren't shit.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.
All right. So check mark day came.
Elon actually did it.

Speaker 1 Elon did like the Jim Volvano of like

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 If you can laugh, you can cry, you can smile. Like he, he did it all today.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And then check mark Armageddon happened and everyone has gotten their check mark taken away except for the people who paid for it.

Speaker 6 Well, I think this is actually another like 12-dimensional chess move by Elon Musk because the rocket blew up in the morning.

Speaker 6 And where do people go to instantly see all the video clips of Elon's rocket blowing up?

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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?

Speaker 6 Where are you going to voice your frustrations with Elon? Boom, on Twitter. He's a genius.
He is.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 the Starship experience, a rapid, unscheduled disassembly before stage separation. That's the coolest way to describe a rocket blowing up.

Speaker 6 Yeah, rapid. What was it? Rapid.

Speaker 1 Rapid. Unscheduled disassembly.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah.

Speaker 6 That's basically the treatment for any Michael Bay film ever made. Yes.
Rocks.

Speaker 6 All that means is explosions. There was a sick-ass explosion.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 And now all of a sudden, these days, it's cool to pile on a billionaire. And so, yeah,

Speaker 6 they should label NASA's Twitter feed as being government-funded. How about that?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's like, dude,

Speaker 1 is that a serious tweet? Like,

Speaker 1 you're talking about a rocket that blew up, what, 30, 40 years ago? 40 years ago? That was a seminal moment. It was.

Speaker 1 Listen, tragedy. The Bullrings.
Does that mean you can't watch any movie with

Speaker 1 explosions?

Speaker 6 Yeah,

Speaker 6 I don't think that you can too soon something that happened in the Reagan administration.

Speaker 1 So it's fucking

Speaker 1 like it was insane. No one was in the rocket today either, right? No, no one was in the rocket today.

Speaker 6 It was an unmanned rocket.

Speaker 6 There was another way that they phrased it that said, Elon, breaking news, Elon Musk successfully launched a rocket, the biggest rocket that he's ever done, into the lower stratosphere or whatever.

Speaker 6 And it just didn't finish the sentence about then what happened afterwards.

Speaker 1 Well, there were a lot of rocket scientists 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.

Speaker 1 I don't understand any of this stuff. I just know I see Big Thing blow up and I'm like, ha ha, they fucked up.

Speaker 6 I am a student of history, as you know, Big Cat. And the last time that we had a really successful space program, who was designing those rockets?

Speaker 1 Werner von Braun, former Nazis.

Speaker 6 Nazis. Elon needs to get on the horn.
call up some of the proud boys get them get them working on the rocket ship program Yeah. Well, it's funny because I've made like

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Dude, the Nazi thing, we talked about it a few months ago, but the Nazi Nazi thing is crazy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. Operation Paperclip.

Speaker 6 That's why there was a battle to see who could get to

Speaker 6 Berlin first to see who could gobble up all the scientists.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And a lot of the scientists just started walking east or west.
West?

Speaker 6 Yeah, west. Easy Jerichoff.

Speaker 1 Yeah, west, west. Well, it doesn't make sense.
That part, I'm going to, Hank, you, you can back me up. When you walk west in Europe, you are.

Speaker 1 No, wait, that is west everywhere. All right.
No, it's west. Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 1 I got it.

Speaker 6 West, west is left. We just need to,

Speaker 6 if you're walking to your left, that's west.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And if you're going south, you're going downhill.
Yep. That's a fact.

Speaker 1 Okay. So are you guys paying for your check mark? I'm.

Speaker 1 Billy, you already did.

Speaker 1 Nope.

Speaker 5 Check it right now. Look at it right now.

Speaker 1 Because you changed your name, but you paid for it.

Speaker 1 You're actually paying for Twitter Blue and don't have a check mark. You're the dumbest man alive.

Speaker 5 Nope. That's the best part.

Speaker 3 Are you undercover?

Speaker 1 I get all the bonuses.

Speaker 5 I'm still unverified and I get all of the interaction.

Speaker 2 So that's a perfect spot. Billy might be a genius.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I I mean, if it's what comes with it,

Speaker 2 Billy, can you still tweet eight-minute videos?

Speaker 1 Yep. Okay, maybe it is.
So I, oh, Billy just dropped all of his keys. He's a janitor at night.

Speaker 1 Jake, do you feel like you're being personal? Because you're up for cocaine.

Speaker 1 No, I have

Speaker 1 a lot of keys, dude.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Billy Parks.

Speaker 11 I have no shame in paying for it because I earned it. We have the slogan slogan of flags fly forever.
I earned my check mark a few years ago, so I'm not just going to let someone take away from it.

Speaker 11 Like I grew up on Twitter hoping to have a blue check mark, and one day I got it.

Speaker 1 So like

Speaker 8 I'm keeping it.

Speaker 6 I like, though, that Jake is unabashedly proud. Yeah, no.

Speaker 6 There's very few people out there that are like, yes, the blue check means a lot to me.

Speaker 6 As a journalist, I wanted the blue check, and once I got it, I felt like that was my I have arrived moment and you can take it from my sticky cold hands. So I think

Speaker 6 I'm personally not going to do it. I'm not going to pay for it

Speaker 6 unless I maybe pull a Billy type situation later. But I just,

Speaker 6 the check mark honestly means nothing to me.

Speaker 6 I only liked it because I could see because when we 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.

Speaker 1 Sweet. So you did get it? You did ask for it?

Speaker 6 No, when I got it, when they gave it to me, I was like, I'm going to keep it.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 And then I was like, oh, I guess it is kind of useful to book guests. So for the good of the show,

Speaker 6 I had no choice.

Speaker 1 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 back.

Speaker 6 It was so crazy. yeah

Speaker 1 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 gonna obviously switch eventually like it's gonna the it's a pendulum it's just gonna i'm gonna stay unverified until the pendulum like goes all the way the other way and just be like all right fuck it i'll just buy it so i can tweet long videos.

Speaker 1 To treat it like a five-year-old dunk.

Speaker 11 Do it like during the NBA Finals and no one will pay attention to it.

Speaker 1 I like that, Jake. I like that.

Speaker 6 I think I put the over-under on Big Cat getting a blue check two weeks.

Speaker 1 Under

Speaker 6 two weeks.

Speaker 1 What about you?

Speaker 6 Two days. You're taking the underhang?

Speaker 1 Yeah. What about you, PFT?

Speaker 6 I'm not going to get it.

Speaker 1 But you asked for it the first time.

Speaker 6 I'm not going to get it. I'm not going to.
I have no desire to pay $8 a month to have a blue check badge next to my name.

Speaker 1 I would put PFTs

Speaker 2 like two months.

Speaker 2 I believe him right now, but I also, that could change.

Speaker 1 I think it also

Speaker 1 PFTs will be like if Gaz just emails everyone being like, hey, Barstool is going to pay for

Speaker 1 blue check marks. Just email me back and we'll be good.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 That's where I land.

Speaker 1 I'm going to wait and see.

Speaker 6 so i'm gonna i'm gonna 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 gonna i'm gonna try my hand at that and if that works then there's no need for the blue check someone made the good point the other day though when was the last time that you ever watched a video longer than one minute on twitter i i made that point yeah no no i know yeah yeah yeah never ever

Speaker 2 um there's some times 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?

Speaker 6 220.

Speaker 6 Let me look at my traffic history, see when the last time.

Speaker 1 Some of our fantastic videos. But that's what I can't remember it.

Speaker 11 Over 220.

Speaker 6 No, Jake just talked over my answer, but it's,

Speaker 8 yeah,

Speaker 6 I have it by the exact date here.

Speaker 2 Interesting. No, I'm just saying, like, you would think you'd watch such a long video, you'd remember it, but I guess.

Speaker 5 I watched government controls the weather videos.

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Speaker 1 Baseball, Max Scherzer got suspended for 10 games for illegal substances.

Speaker 1 He just lost it. Loved it.

Speaker 1 I still love the pat down and when they decide to do it and how random it seems.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 So the real story behind Scherzer getting suspended is the umpire behind it. Yeah.
Because this dude, we've got America's new top cop in Major League Baseball, and he's got a fantasy fuckboy name.

Speaker 6 It's Phil Cuzzy, C-U-Z-Z-I. Phil Cuzzy 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.

Speaker 6 And whenever he goes up to a pitcher and touches them, he's like, whoa, there's definitely something on here.

Speaker 6 What is all this?

Speaker 6 This is all Fococta. So he's the guy that we got to keep our eye on.
Don't fuck with Phil Cuzzy because he's definitely kind of deputized himself as like the sticky guy.

Speaker 6 He's, 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and we also had, I don't know if you saw this clip, PFT, but Madison Baumgartner just continues.

Speaker 1 I love that Madison Baumgartner, one, is still pitching. And two,

Speaker 1 he has taken the role, you know, that previously was like John Lackey, then Roger Clemens before him, of just

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 Pump Gardner's face.

Speaker 1 And if Bumgartner was allowed to kill a person on a baseball field, he would have done that right there.

Speaker 6 I love it. All the best pitchers are complete and total psychos when it comes to that shit.
And Madden Bumgartner, he's been an intense individual for a long time.

Speaker 6 And anytime we bring him up, I always have to remind people, if you don't know the story already, Madison Bumgartner, when he was, I think in high school, he dated a girl who is also named Madison Bumgartner.

Speaker 6 That's fucking weird.

Speaker 6 That's maybe the craziest thing that's ever happened in the history of the world.

Speaker 1 He's a psycho. He's a true psycho.
Remember that story? What was that story about him like cutting rabbits out of a like?

Speaker 6 A rattlesnake. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I thought it was like him and his wife were riding ATVs somewhere. It sounds like an episode of Yellowstone.
And they found like a rabbit being digested.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 Total, total psycho. And then the last thing I have before we do Billy's QB bracket, I don't know if you saw this PFT, but the bub off between Ryan Clark and

Speaker 1 Brady Quinn. So draft season, we're going to do a lot of draft stuff next week.
We're going to do a draft preview.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 no showed the Manning Passing Academy. And that is apparently a character concern.
Ryan Clark got very upset at it.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Ryan Clark replied, following me and I'll send it now. Just followed you to send it.
What?

Speaker 6 Brady Quinn out of, out of, he was the first one and he bubbed Ryan Clark.

Speaker 1 He bubbed him. He bubbed him.
And Ryan Clark replied, following me and I'll send it now. Just followed you to send it.
And I ain't your bub, bruh.

Speaker 1 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 went from bub to bruh.

Speaker 1 I just, a grown man tweeting another grown man saying, and I ain't your bub, bruh.

Speaker 1 is just i mean it's just beautiful it's it's what draft season is about guys getting in fights about a quarterback like C.J.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And we're here. And this is where we land because eventually with the NFL draft, there's so many mock drafts.

Speaker 1 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, who didn't show up to this passing camp?

Speaker 1 And why should we then ding him?

Speaker 6 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 their unless you're their brah that's that's the equation right there you don't bub me unless you love me well that's what i always say that's that's my mantra you can't you can't bub 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.

Speaker 6 There's no consequence. Nobody will remember who had what take about which quarterback in five weeks.
It's just not going to happen.

Speaker 6 It might get dragged up if they ever play against each other in the playoffs, like three years from now. Then that argument will get brought up and we'll see who is right about it.

Speaker 6 But nobody is going to give a shit about it.

Speaker 6 It's just, it's very funny how quickly things escalated in that situation. It sounds like they're going to take us offline.

Speaker 6 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 bruhs or if they're still bubs.

Speaker 1 It was so the original bub from Brady Quinn was too much

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Ryan Clark's brah, though, that wasn't like a bro. He didn't do bro.
He did bruh. That was a disrespectful brah.
I count it as they need to hash this out on someone's podcast.

Speaker 1 Like, all real fights should be decided. All men, if you get in a fight with another man, invite him on your podcast.
And that's how you squash that beef.

Speaker 6 Yeah, and then they'll go on the podcast and they'll just be like good friends.

Speaker 1 Yeah. They'll be like, haha,

Speaker 1 and they'll be like, all right, see you later, Bub. And be like, ha ha, good one.
Even though they're both still very mad.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 The taking the fence away is going on somebody's podcast.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes. I just, that's, that's how, I mean, listen, if we could get Israel and Palestine to just get on each other's podcast, we could probably solve this whole thing.
Easy. Come on my podcast, bro.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Don't say Bub. All right.

Speaker 1 Before we do Firefest, let's get to it, Billy.

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Speaker 1 Billy, are you ready for the 2023 draft quarterback bracket?

Speaker 5 Yep, 100%. So this year, this year, the bracket's a little different.
We got four guys, the top four. So I ranked the top 12 quarterbacks in the draft.
Wait. And the top four get buys.

Speaker 6 We got, okay. I was just trying to follow that.
We got four guys in the top four. That's an all-time record.

Speaker 1 And they have buys.

Speaker 5 They have buys in the bracket.

Speaker 1 You missed that part.

Speaker 1 The top four have buys.

Speaker 6 In the bracket.

Speaker 1 In the bracket. All right, wait.
So list all 1 through 12.

Speaker 5 1 through 12. So we're going to start with 12.
Malik Cunningham, Louisville.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 Then we got

Speaker 5 Jake Hayner, Fresno Snade.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 Very good quarterback.

Speaker 5 Then we got Dorian Thompson Robinson at 10. Then we got Clayton Toon from Houston.

Speaker 1 Wait, where did DTR go to school?

Speaker 5 UCLA.

Speaker 1 Okay, got it. All right.
I knew that. I just want to make sure you know that.

Speaker 1 Because when you start saying schools and then you don't say a school, I'm like, what's going on? Slight Toon Houston. Okay.

Speaker 5 My mouse is being annoying right now. Tanner McKee, Stanford.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 Then we got Stetson Bed.

Speaker 2 Shout out to the Stanford wrestling team, four-time national champs in a row. I saved him.
See me like 100 times.

Speaker 6 Dynasty.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Shout out to them.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 Then we got Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 1 He is what seed?

Speaker 1 He's at

Speaker 1 Billy. What's this?

Speaker 1 No, so part of the part of this. Get part of this off the list.
Hold on, time on, time on.

Speaker 1 My favorite part about the bracket, because we've done this three years, I think now, even though Billy has, I think, done this, like written it all out, it always feels like he's doing it in front of us.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, I don't know if we were recording when you said we're doing the bracket.

Speaker 2 You started dashing around.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 he starts scribbling as we're like, Billy, bracket time. And he's like, okay, all right.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 6 The funniest part of Billy's quarterback bracket by far is that he makes a list numbered one through 12 of the best quarterbacks, and he puts the best quarterback number one. Yes.

Speaker 6 And then he has a bracket of his best players that's already ranked as his best players. Well, they go ahead to head.

Speaker 1 And the worst players

Speaker 1 got to go head to head, PFT.

Speaker 1 They have to go to head.

Speaker 6 They're going to have the worst players lose.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, they have to go head-to-head. You don't know.
There could be an upset. No, no, but there are upsets.
There are upsets.

Speaker 6 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. But

Speaker 6 this is why we love you, Billy.

Speaker 1 Well, people forget that.

Speaker 2 Anthony Rickenson matched up against. That's all I need to know.

Speaker 1 Hold on, Hank. Let's do this in order.
Let's go. People forget.

Speaker 5 people forget kenny pickett won last year yeah 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 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 ant anthony richardson's five Anthony Richardson's five because he could go to a shitty situation and end up just getting tanked.

Speaker 1 Okay, four. So four.

Speaker 5 Okay. Oh, wait.
No, now we're at five. CJ Stroud.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Five is C.J. Stroud.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Four, Hendon Hooker. Okay.
Nice. He's higher on my list.

Speaker 5 Three, Bryce Young.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I can't wait to hear about your takes on Bryce Young's sides, but keep going.

Speaker 5 Two, Will Levis.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 And then one, which is my like wild card, like Sam Ellinger, Trace McSorley, Chad Kelly, Max Duggan.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 He's the guy that makes no sense in my mind, but he just gets a buy just because it's my bracket.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 6 But he is the one seed. He's the one seed.

Speaker 5 He's more of like a different kind of seeding. 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.

Speaker 6 He's number one. Put him real more.

Speaker 1 You should drive. I like the number.

Speaker 6 Next year, just put a pin in this one. You should have a play-in game next year.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That would be cool.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, so Billy, tell us your criteria before you go through the matchups.

Speaker 1 How these rankings all work?

Speaker 5 So the rankings are just like, because really good players will go to really bad teams and then their careers will just fizzle out.

Speaker 5 So players who are not as good coming out of college actually kind of get an advantage

Speaker 5 if they weren't top four, but they're still good players in my mind.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
Kenny Pickett was one of those guys.

Speaker 6 So this is also kind of a mock draft, too, because you're projecting where these quarterbacks are going to end up.

Speaker 5 Kind of.

Speaker 1 Kind of. So

Speaker 5 matchup number one, Clayton toon versus tanner mckee so say the seedings too so we just can keep track this is a ninth seed versus an eighth seed okay

Speaker 5 so tanner mckee is at actually the eighth seed he's ranked above clayton toon uh but why do you have the why do you have the nine seed playing against the eighth seed because uh the pl because there's four four guys get a buy yeah there's the buys don't forget the buys pf

Speaker 6 keep forget about the buys but that still doesn't make any sense why nine seed would play against an eighth eight-seed in the first round.

Speaker 5 If you check your text, I have the

Speaker 1 he goes 5-12. He goes 6-11.
He goes 7-10, 8-9.

Speaker 5 Exactly.

Speaker 1 It's the buys. You've got to understand the buys.

Speaker 5 So Tanner McKee is, 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.

Speaker 5 He's got nine-inch hands, and he's a really big target, which is just a huge fumble risk.

Speaker 5 He may have not been seeing that at Stanford, but Clayton Toon is just a gunslinger, just like way more air raid. And, you know, Clayton Toon advances in that matchup.

Speaker 1 Okay, wow. So that was an upstream.

Speaker 6 Did you take into account?

Speaker 6 Yeah, Big. Did you take into account the fact that

Speaker 6 Tanner has a way better quarterback name?

Speaker 5 Clayton Toon is kind of, it's a pretty good quarterback name. Like Clayton in general.
Tanner McKee is a good one, but

Speaker 5 those are kind of equal there.

Speaker 1 And PFT, I would argue Tanner's a great college name, not a great NFL name. Right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. Absolutely.

Speaker 6 But he's still, it's such a good college name that usually, in my mind, I would draft that guy higher.

Speaker 1 Is that your hedgehog, Billy? Yes. One second.

Speaker 1 We're going to take a look at the hospital.

Speaker 1 Quick commercial break for Billy's hedgehog. By the way, that was...

Speaker 1 Earlier when Billy was like...

Speaker 6 I'm sorry, my mouse is driving me crazy. I actually thought that he meant his rodent, but no, he was talking about his rodent.

Speaker 1 No, I mean, only Billy could you hear that noise and be like, oh, that must be his hedgehog.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 Tricky R. Matchup number two, C.J.
Stroud versus Malik Cunningham. This one is just, you know, this is a first round five versus a 12.
CJ Stroud easily takes this.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 He is quick, but but he's just not gonna translate. So CJ Strauss easily wins that.

Speaker 6 There's some Malik fatigue from last year,

Speaker 6 given how Malik played for down the stretch for the Titans.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 Jake Haner versus Anthony Richardson, another blowout. Anthony Richardson takes it.

Speaker 5 Jake Haner, very good quarterback, beat UCLA, but still a poor man's

Speaker 1 Derek Carr.

Speaker 5 Matchup number four.

Speaker 1 They did go to the same school.

Speaker 5 They did. But, you know,

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 Don't even try to call Billy racist.

Speaker 5 Yeah, can't get me on that.

Speaker 5 Stetson Bennett.

Speaker 6 Also, compared to black guys and two.

Speaker 1 Never mind.

Speaker 5 Okay. Stetson Bennett versus Dorian Thompson Robinson.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 So easy win for Stetson Bennett. So now

Speaker 1 Billy, you would, I don't know how much DTR you watched. He is electric.

Speaker 1 He's a quintessential, like, he will do some fuck shit, and then he'll throw like a terrible interception, but then he'll go back and he'll just like rip your defense to shreds and has.

Speaker 1 crazy confidence.

Speaker 5 Fun fact, he's thrown the fastest ball at the combine since Josh Allen, 62 miles per hour.

Speaker 5 Forgot to mention that.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So, I mean, think about that. And he's like so much smaller, but he can rip it just as fast as Josh Allen.

Speaker 1 Okay, but he lost to Stetson. Bennett.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but you know,

Speaker 5 there's some decision-making choices. You know, he throws it fast, but he's.

Speaker 1 That sounds like a code police officer. No,

Speaker 1 no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 He's like, Stetson Bennis is a quarterback. No, no, no.
He's older.

Speaker 5 He's very wise. Stetson Bennis is wiser because he's so old.

Speaker 1 Because he's old.

Speaker 2 He's old.

Speaker 5 It's because he's old.

Speaker 1 TTR also is totally electric.

Speaker 5 He jumps over dudes all the time.

Speaker 1 I think TTR is pretty old, too.

Speaker 5 Stetson Bennett's definitely like 50 years older than him.

Speaker 1 Okay, matchup number 5. TTR is 23 years old.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 So matchup number 5.

Speaker 5 Well, I mean, Stetson Bennett's like 27, right?

Speaker 1 I think he's 25.

Speaker 5 Now we're advancing to the next round, Max Duggan versus Clayton Toon.

Speaker 5 You know Clayton Toon is a great air raid guy, but Max Duggan is just a competitor and he's way faster. Like Max Duggan ran a 4-5-2

Speaker 5 like in the combine. Did anyone expect that? Like he's that much of an athlete and he's a winner.

Speaker 6 Why did you not expect that?

Speaker 5 Because he's a ginger.

Speaker 6 So Max

Speaker 5 not that fast. They get too angry and caught up in themselves.

Speaker 6 Max is he's got he's got solace speed.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So Max Duggan advances.

Speaker 5 Clayton Toon, I mean, the thing is, Clayton Toon's competition, you just see him throwing touchdowns to just wide open guys.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 I hope people listening at home, I apologize because I'm just as lost as you.

Speaker 5 Just look at the blog. You'll see it.
It makes a lot more sense. Okay.
CJ Stroud versus Hendon Hooker. C.J.
Stroud is a very good QB. Very, very good.

Speaker 5 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?

Speaker 1 Don't like this.

Speaker 1 They haven't.

Speaker 1 Well, no, no, no. They can't actually.

Speaker 1 Okay, who? Yeah.

Speaker 5 Dwayne Haskins, R.I.P.

Speaker 1 Cardell Jones. Okay.

Speaker 6 Damn. J.T.
Barrett.

Speaker 6 A little word of advice. You don't lead with Dwayne Haskins.
Yeah. Billy, you say like three other names.

Speaker 1 Justin, Justin, you say three other names?

Speaker 6 You say three other names, and then you go, and obviously, like, rest in peace, we never fully got to see, unfortunately, but Dwayne Haskins. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Also, we should investigate his death because that's another thing. All right.

Speaker 5 Justin Fields.

Speaker 1 What about Justin Fields? Would you, right now, take Justin Fields over Zach Wilson?

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. The pause says it all.

Speaker 1 There is an injury.

Speaker 5 I mean, in the world of

Speaker 5 Lamar Jackson, I mean,

Speaker 1 he's injury prone.

Speaker 5 I said it.

Speaker 1 Okay. Like, in this world,

Speaker 1 like 80%.

Speaker 5 I know, but who still got hurt?

Speaker 1 But Zach Wilson is bad. If you turned injuries off for Zach Wilson, he still would be the worst.

Speaker 5 Right, but I mean, yes, over Zach Wilson, but I'm just still my take on

Speaker 5 availability.

Speaker 1 Can I just pause for a second?

Speaker 6 Zach Wilson is also injury-prone.

Speaker 1 Are we sitting down on this?

Speaker 5 He's mentally injured.

Speaker 1 Billy, can I just pause for a second and ask you a quick question?

Speaker 1 How many Division I college football games have you attended in your life?

Speaker 1 Wasn't it one this year?

Speaker 5 No, I've been to five.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right. So, but you, you, that, this year you went to what game?

Speaker 5 This year I went to Tennessee, Florida.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 I just want to, that's just, I want to see where the rankings go. But I just put a pen.

Speaker 5 I watch a lot of college football on TV.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 Now you got me all messed up.

Speaker 1 Okay, C.J. Trowder.

Speaker 6 This is going so simple.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Hendon Hooker wins just because.

Speaker 1 Pen control.

Speaker 1 I'm just asking a simple question that might be allude to

Speaker 1 someone that Billy saw live win this because that was the

Speaker 6 deeper than that because Hinden Hooker used to come on macro dosing every week.

Speaker 1 Just waiting.

Speaker 5 Just

Speaker 1 wait till the end of the bracket. Keep going, keep going.
Wait till the end of the bracket. Keep going, keep going.

Speaker 5 Hendon Hooker beat C.J. Stroud because I think that the ACL is going to drop Hendon Hooker into a way better situation.

Speaker 5 Like, what if he ends up on the Patriots just because the ACL has a way better situation than C.J. Stroud going to some like Atlanta Falcons ranch?

Speaker 6 I don't think Robert Kraft would have any interest in another hooker.

Speaker 1 It wasn't a hooker. True, that's

Speaker 1 wrong.

Speaker 5 Masseus.

Speaker 5 In the same vein, I think Hendon Hooker is a less problematic to Sean Watson in his playstyle. Next matchup.
Bryce.

Speaker 1 Way less problematic.

Speaker 1 Next matchup.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 But the thing is, you like Anthony Richardson is everything Bryce Young isn't.

Speaker 5 But the thing is, you can teach Anthony Richardson to get better decision-making, you know, put him in the right offense, but you can't put 30 pounds on Bryce Young.

Speaker 5 His frame is, his frame is just, 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

Speaker 5 couldn't physically put on 30 pounds without sacrificing serious mobility and making him look like a bodybuilder.

Speaker 1 Like, literally,

Speaker 6 I like that, Billy. You've gone from being just a respect mask guy to being respect frame guy.
We're frame guys now.

Speaker 5 No, if you look at his frame, he's slender at the hips and slender, slender at the shoulders. Like, a guy like

Speaker 5 Arizona Cardinals.

Speaker 1 Kyler Murray.

Speaker 5 Kyler Murray, he's like a big frame guy. Like, he can put like Russell Wilson, big frame guy.
You can put the weight on it.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Like, Bryce Young, he's not that thick. He's not that thick.
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 5 Because of that, like, he's going to be more injury prone.

Speaker 6 You think Tyler Murray's a frame guy?

Speaker 8 Peterson's just a beast.

Speaker 1 I don't think Kyler Murray is

Speaker 1 thick.

Speaker 1 He is thick. I don't want to say weird.

Speaker 5 He's stout.

Speaker 2 Drew Brees

Speaker 2 was thick, too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, no, Billy's not wrong.

Speaker 1 Bryce Young's body.

Speaker 5 But the thing is, Drew Brees wouldn't be running like his playstyle is way different than Bryce Young. Bryce Young's going to be running around.

Speaker 1 Bryce Young's body type is an anomaly. It's not, it has not really,

Speaker 1 you don't really see it in the NFL quarterback position because I would agree. Kyler Murray and

Speaker 1 Russell Wilson have just more meat to them. Yeah.

Speaker 6 So

Speaker 6 although I disagree with the Kyler Murray comparison, I do think...

Speaker 1 It's not a comparison. They're totally different.
Kyler Murray.

Speaker 5 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 you're both different Anthony Richardson's just totally different and you can you can you can he is a not only is he a like amazing athlete but you can tell he like goes through his progressions and is actually extremely cerebral at the position.

Speaker 5 Out of like a lot of these athletic quarterbacks, he's extremely cerebral and 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 something like him go up against cover zero, he picks up blitzes better than most in this

Speaker 5 in this draft club.

Speaker 2 I've seen scouts call him once-in-a-generation talent.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 6 I think that was that was Hank.

Speaker 9 That was Hank that said that as a scout.

Speaker 1 Okay, keep going.

Speaker 5 Matchup number eight. This is a big one: Stetson Bennett.
Stetson Bennett versus Will Levis. And now, this is.

Speaker 1 Are we in the final four? I don't know where we are.

Speaker 5 We are in the final four.

Speaker 1 Okay, this is the two, seven. No, no, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 This is the last last quarterfinal.

Speaker 1 Second seed, though.

Speaker 11 It'll make more sense for the listeners.

Speaker 5 Yeah, this is a two-seed versus a seven-seed.

Speaker 1 The best part about this is, listen, we obviously has been a tough week for PFT, and

Speaker 1 we don't have a guest on this week. And we basically are just stress testing the AWLs, being like, you guys said, like, give PFT as much time as possible.

Speaker 1 And, like, we're here for you How about we do Billy's cornerback bracket for 20 minutes and really see if you like this podcast?

Speaker 5 I'm putting the team on my back right now. Stetson Bennett versus Will Levis.

Speaker 5 Stetson Bennis, I don't, I didn't like, so I've been reviewing his body cam footage of his arrest and I the only thing I didn't like about it was how he bitched about when they put his handcuffs on.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 If you get banged up in the game and you start complaining, like, get your mentals, like, broken, he's already on, like,

Speaker 5 you know, chemicals that are supposed to dull pain. That's a big red flag for me.
If he's, if, you know, if he's got a low pain tolerance, that's one thing.

Speaker 5 And look, Stetson Bennett has only lost one game in his career. Will Levis has lost seven.
You learn way more from losses.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 I think, you know, if you put Will Levis in a better scenario, we saw that he sat out the bowl game and his team just got shelled.

Speaker 5 I mean, if you took Stetson Bennett out of a Georgia game, I don't think the backup would do that much worse. Georgia's still going to win in all those scenarios.

Speaker 6 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 there with his guys.

Speaker 5 I mean, he was banged up and he played through a pretty brutal season with those guys. He's like one of the few, I understand, like get to the draft.

Speaker 5 And we're going to get to the two-jacked, you know, there's a lot of what-ifs with Will Evis when we get into it.

Speaker 6 For the record, I do agree with that. I do have Will Levis ahead of Stetson Bennett on my big board.

Speaker 1 I do as well.

Speaker 1 I concur, Doctor.

Speaker 5 Matchup number nine, Max Duggan versus Hendon Hooker.

Speaker 1 This is a blowout.

Speaker 10 Semi-finals, number semifinals.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Jake.

Speaker 5 Thank you. That actually makes much better sense for me, too.
Max Duggan versus Hendon Hooker.

Speaker 1 You're looking at it.

Speaker 5 Well, I'm looking at my notes.

Speaker 1 Correct me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 I feel like you don't actually have it written out as a bracket.

Speaker 1 No, I don't. I'm staring at the blog.
I'm looking at all my notes.

Speaker 2 But is there a physical bracket in it? Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 But I'm looking at group notes.

Speaker 1 That's in the group chat. I sent it in the group chat.
So you can all follow it. I don't want to look because I want to be surprised with who wins.

Speaker 6 I'm just going to say, if you're an AWL and you don't like this segment, fuck off.

Speaker 1 This is

Speaker 1 the way to sign this right now.

Speaker 1 You told me to do this. I know, I know.
I was just going to post the blog. You're doing well.
You're doing well. Keep it up.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 I think that's like, you know, his, not ceiling, but a very realistic, positive outlook for Max Duggan. Hendon Hooker advances.
Matchup number 10. This is where it gets weird.

Speaker 5 Will Levis versus Anthony Richardson. So

Speaker 5 this is my problem.

Speaker 6 This is where it gets weird.

Speaker 5 So Will Levis and Anthony Richardson both hit the ceiling while at their pro days.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 I want my quarterback to be a leader, not a follower.

Speaker 1 oh

Speaker 5 like he like he was copying someone else he was like following the lead

Speaker 5 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

Speaker 5 i'm just saying i like that even though the a real person would just been 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.

Speaker 5 It's like a like he's throwing it like a guy who's like

Speaker 5 seen those situations like a thousand times.

Speaker 2 How is him getting jacked into affect that though?

Speaker 2 Is he going to lose the touch because he got too big?

Speaker 5 Well, the thing was, I did some research. He was jacked before this.
He knew he could get that jack.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 he was doing this all while he was jacked but i think that that weirdness that mayo in the coffee that eating a full banana that weirdness and you know being way too jacked we saw the quotes you know like a lot of nfl gms and coaches don't want their quarterback to be jacked um john gruden quoted it about uh brady quinn and so I think that's actually going to make him drop into a better situation.

Speaker 5 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 Bailey Zappi.

Speaker 5 So he could end up having a better career than AR-15 because he's in a better situation.

Speaker 1 And he's a friend of the show. Right.

Speaker 5 Now we're in the final matchup.

Speaker 1 So when the final matchup,

Speaker 6 real quick, 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?

Speaker 5 Like, stay off the weights.

Speaker 1 Gotcha. Yeah.
He is a friend of the show. He's probably listening to this right now.
So congratulations, Will.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 5 I've met both of them.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. All right.
All right.

Speaker 1 Have you met anyone else

Speaker 1 in the bracket?

Speaker 5 Max Duggan.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yep.
Who was the one seed?

Speaker 5 Well,

Speaker 5 he was in my...

Speaker 6 Bethany Bennett came on the show.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but met in person.

Speaker 1 I didn't meet him. Yeah.

Speaker 5 So this is where I think we can really get a real criticism of Will Levis. Will Levis was on one question for quarterback.
I think he came vastly underprepared for that segment.

Speaker 5 I think his one question was low-hanging fruit. I think he could have made a better question, and there's a touchdown open for him.

Speaker 5 And he took the check down by asking who would get kicked off a part of my take if you had to pick someone.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so I think... No, you didn't like the question or the answer.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 he's not. right.

Speaker 2 That is, that is, that is like

Speaker 5 it's a little it's a low like he could have prepared a great question, but he just got in there and he just took the low-hanging fruit and picked on one guy.

Speaker 1 I just think about that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Who's doing the bracket?

Speaker 5 Yes, who's doing this? So, I mean, you know, these are things you got to consider. Also, I asked him what he was going to do with his time while he's in New York.

Speaker 5 He said carbone, going to carbone, and that's just like the

Speaker 5 high-class equivalent of Michael Scott saying Sabarro is the best pizza in New York. So I have a little judgment issue.

Speaker 2 Carbone is really good, though.

Speaker 1 And it's also not.

Speaker 1 Is it chained?

Speaker 5 If you don't know good New York City Italian food and do your research,

Speaker 5 I'm just saying carbone is like, is like the Sabaro for people who

Speaker 1 where would you have sent him?

Speaker 5 I would have sent him to Arturo's, which is actually two blocks away from Carbone, which I told them, which actually has way better homestyle Italian food and without all the BS.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Now, what would you say? Just a little post-game. You know, the media gets in front of you and says, Billy, we read your bracket.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Some are saying that's the only game you watched, and that's why he's number one.

Speaker 5 That is wrong.

Speaker 1 I watched a lot of games okay okay all right that's good that's the

Speaker 1 question from the media actually from my seats high grades on tape high grade on tape from your seats what were you gonna say

Speaker 1 uh 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 fuck um okay

Speaker 1 all right well billy that was uh great um

Speaker 5 no but seriously i think think Hendon Hooker has the best combination of falling to a bad spot and having good enough talent to make it in the long run. Also, Will Levis.

Speaker 5 I'm just busting his balls with all that stuff. The last part, he'd get it.

Speaker 1 You can't say that after. I mean, you got to keep the ball busting going.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 5 Just check it out 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 I couldn't include.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
Awesome.

Speaker 1 Arrest footage. Funny moments.

Speaker 5 It's full breakdown. Check it out.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 6 Also, you left out Hinden Hooker's got gigantic hands.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 6 10 and a half inch hands, right?

Speaker 5 Billy's. The biggest hands.

Speaker 1 What was that move, Billy? What were you just doing there? Now we have an echo.

Speaker 5 My mic unplugged.

Speaker 1 Just enough time. We had just enough time.
All right. Billy's muted.

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Speaker 1 Okay, Fire Fest of the week. Hank, would you like to start?

Speaker 2 Sure.

Speaker 2 I have a couple.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 First one,

Speaker 2 what was it? It must have been Monday night. There was two overtime games, Oilers

Speaker 2 and Kings. It was 3-2.

Speaker 2 And I just got New Jersey cable. I have cable.
New Jersey just did an emergency program test run.

Speaker 2 And it was like, we're doing an emergency test run. Like, it's going to, cable is going to be off for the next like two hours.
And then the King scored, tied it. I had the Oilers.
And then they lost.

Speaker 6 That's tough.

Speaker 1 I, I actually, because you tweeted, you're like, this game went to overtime.

Speaker 2 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?

Speaker 2 How do I even, I had to pull it up on my phone and then it was behind. And I was just, I was, I couldn't believe it was happening.
But I was also like, I saw it.

Speaker 2 It makes sense why they're just doing the test it was one o'clock in the morning but

Speaker 6 yeah I 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 use it on 9-11 maybe and that 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 430 in the morning 445 It woke up the entire state.

Speaker 1 It was accidental.

Speaker 11 It was supposed to be on TV. They sent it to phones.

Speaker 2 Must be, yeah, it must be

Speaker 2 reset your alarm week in all the states.

Speaker 6 That's like when

Speaker 6 they sent out that nuclear missile inbound thing to the entire state of Hawaii.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I think that was real.

Speaker 1 Right before.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 I think that was real, but they stuck.

Speaker 5 I think that was real, and they stopped the missile before it hit. That's just my take.

Speaker 6 I think it was Matt Patricia, the rocket scientist, trying to psych Marcus Mariota out the night before their playoff game against each other.

Speaker 2 Matt Patricia, now an Eagle.

Speaker 1 New Eagles coach.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I just unmiced to say that.

Speaker 6 You guys look a little bit alike, Max.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Good looking guy.

Speaker 8 Good looking guy.

Speaker 6 Yeah, during Eagles games this year, you got to rock a backwards hat and a pencil, for sure.

Speaker 1 Sure, fine.

Speaker 2 And then my other Fire 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.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 1 Tune in. No one's listening right now.

Speaker 2 I'm not going to say anything.

Speaker 6 Don't nobody show up in the chat and start giving Hank numbers.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, people are just going to yell, have you got the lottery ball?

Speaker 1 Have you got the lottery ball? Oh, I saw your golf balls, Hank.

Speaker 5 Those are sick.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah shout out to taylor made they sent me uh lottery ball custom golf balls

Speaker 1 that's sick it's cool

Speaker 1 uh okay pft

Speaker 6 uh not i had a pretty clean week actually um

Speaker 6 so i don't know don't really have anything to complain about right now uh 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.

Speaker 6 I don't know if I should name them or not. It's Hilton.
And

Speaker 6 I reserved a room for a couple nights because I didn't know how long I was going to be down here. Quickly found out I was going to need to be down here for a while.

Speaker 6 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

Speaker 6 I want to say

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 And then they said, okay, we've got you all squared away. We got two more nights for you.

Speaker 6 And then they sent me the confirmation through my email, and they booked me two more nights at a completely different hotel in a completely different town. That was also a Hilton.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 So right now, because they put all the holds on your cards, I'm out approximately like, I don't know,

Speaker 6 $2,300 that will be reversed onto my card soon because

Speaker 6 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

Speaker 6 that's been a headache that I probably could have done without this week.

Speaker 1 Please let me know if you needed skull fuck.

Speaker 6 No skull fucking yet. No, just maybe some skull grinding for a little bit, some skull dry humping, no penetration necessary.
But

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 Okay, my Fire Fest is,

Speaker 1 so my wife's out of town this week, so I've been solo with the kids.

Speaker 1 It's kind of like when 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 go on here.

Speaker 1 But one thing that

Speaker 1 has been interesting is I'm obviously, you know, cooking dinner. We've had hot dogs three nights in a row.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I realized that tonight as I was downing another couple 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 finish their hot dog.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So maybe next time I'll figure out maybe some mac and cheese or something that I can cook. But yeah, it's it's been eye-opening with,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 it's something. It's something.

Speaker 6 You know what you're going to want to put in that mac and cheese, though?

Speaker 1 A couple hot dogs. Hot dogs.

Speaker 6 Hot dogs. Yeah, slice it up.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I also have a situation where I think my son already has more Riz than me.

Speaker 1 Shout out Jeff Nadu. He has the most Riz in the world.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 last night, or yes,

Speaker 1 time has just escaped me this week, but

Speaker 1 yesterday,

Speaker 1 come home,

Speaker 1 eating dinner, snacks. My son's like, I want a Clementine.
Peel him a clementine. Eats every single piece except one.
I think he took one piece with him to his bedroom at night because I come down.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He's like, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 He holds it all the way. We walk to school.
He's holding it like it's like a gold bar, holding it all the way to school.

Speaker 6 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 what just fucking happened here so yeah i think he's i think he's got more res than me already i thought you were i thought you were gonna say he was gonna like give it to his teacher and be like here i brought you i brought you present which would have been that would have been like that would have been medium res yeah but to show her and be like i bet you want this he just negged her he's yes your your son is gonna he's gonna going to become a pickup artist.

Speaker 6 He's going to be the new mystery.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 then he ate it. And she's like, wow.

Speaker 1 That was it. He fucking, the crowd went wild.
So yeah, I think I'm outrizzed by my son already.

Speaker 6 He's definitely going to become a pickup artist. He's going to come home with like a top hat and like goggles around his around his neck.
He's going to be picking up chicks left and right.

Speaker 1 Get addicted to Latinas in Lancaster PA.

Speaker 1 I would, listen,

Speaker 1 that means I did a good job as a father.

Speaker 6 Okay. I don't know what that means.

Speaker 1 Nadu. That's a Nadue.

Speaker 1 Our colleague, Jeff Nadu,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 5 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

Speaker 5 the dude's finding these people.

Speaker 1 Sounds like your buddy's a loser.

Speaker 1 Good point. No offense.
All right, Billy.

Speaker 1 I got fat.

Speaker 1 Nice. Belly football.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Belly football.

Speaker 5 Couldn't work out for two weeks. Put on a lot of pounds.
And it's hard to stop being fat and eating a bunch.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but you got the frame for it, though.

Speaker 1 Max, don't nod that furiously.

Speaker 1 Don't 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 it is very hard it's a daily struggle to not be fat that's that's what i was agreeing with been eating hot dogs non-stop i i understand billy how did basketball go last night good we killed it oh nice nice hank what are you hank hit some threes

Speaker 1 Hank is mutually muted. He's muted.

Speaker 2 Me and Billy both played well. I would say it was both of our best performances.

Speaker 1 Hell yes. One by six, held them off.

Speaker 2 Billy was beasting on the boards, putting up, I had a couple threes.

Speaker 1 It was great. Yes.

Speaker 1 That's playoff bound. Hell yes.
I might come to the playoff game. I love to hear it.
Love to hear it.

Speaker 5 Next week's.

Speaker 5 What was that fucking head shake, Max?

Speaker 1 Oh, you're muted again. You teleported.

Speaker 1 We're in a mute off.

Speaker 8 There's no way that Big Cat would go to Hobo can figure your playoffs.

Speaker 1 Big Cat loves ball. But it was nice that I said it.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 I mean, that's.

Speaker 1 You saw their reaction. It's about the reaction.
When I say, like, hey, I might come to a game, Billy and Hank both were like, fuck yeah. That's all I was looking for.

Speaker 8 I didn't want them to have that satisfaction.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, no.

Speaker 1 I got the moment. You can't steal that from me.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm in the stands looking every game.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Where's Big Cat? He said he was going to come to the game. I'm going to come with a huge.

Speaker 6 Hank's listed a ticket for Big Cat before every single game that they've had this year.

Speaker 1 Just keep looking at the stands. I'm going to come with two huge high school football pins for both Billy and Hank.
Just clap along, maybe try to get in a fight.

Speaker 1 Okay, Jake, what's your fire fest?

Speaker 11 I have an ingrown toenail that's infected.

Speaker 1 Oh. I'm on antibiotics.
Me too.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 No, shut up. Shut up.

Speaker 1 Which toe?

Speaker 5 My left big toe.

Speaker 8 I'm getting to take it out tomorrow.

Speaker 1 My left big toe.

Speaker 8 I've had an issue with this toe for a couple of months, though.

Speaker 5 Have you guys just don't get to the point where you just get a kitchen knife and just have at it?

Speaker 1 No, that would probably make it worse. I went to Billy MK and you get an antibiotic.

Speaker 1 Oh, I got a foot doctor.

Speaker 8 I'll give you my guy.

Speaker 1 Billy's right.

Speaker 6 Billy's right. Every man at some point in their life has performed minor surgery on themselves.
And you're not a man until you do that, until you cut into yourself without it.

Speaker 1 You take a shot of whiskey. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You just put your foot over the toilet and you just fucking go to town. Yeah.

Speaker 11 I'm in danger of losing my toe if I don't get it taken care of. So that scared me.

Speaker 8 No, they gave me that whole song and dance at the city MD, too. That's why I had to go get a foot doctor.
That's why I had to go to a foot doctor.

Speaker 5 No, you get a steak knife and just turn it into a giant cut and then you just keep disinfecting the cut.

Speaker 11 That sounds awesome.

Speaker 6 Billy's right.

Speaker 1 I mean, I get results. I think you guys have been dealing with this.
I'd rather lose my toe.

Speaker 8 I've been dealing with it for literally like six months.

Speaker 8 I've had this procedure done to my toe five times, and I'm doing it again tomorrow.

Speaker 5 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 with Bassettrayson.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah.

Speaker 6 Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, so that is the show. We have big draft stuff coming next week.
Obviously, NFL draft. Very excited.

Speaker 1 We think we'll be back in person.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 10 18.

Speaker 5 69.

Speaker 6 I'm going to go with 46.

Speaker 1 Memes?

Speaker 5 He said 21. 21.

Speaker 1 Okay, so here's what we're going to do. Obviously, we've had a little bit of a different schedule this week with PFT's father passing away.
So

Speaker 1 you just listened to the whole show on Riverside on us doing Zoom.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 So numbers for the three of us.

Speaker 1 And double numbers do count. So if someone guesses, someone can double up.
Actually, no, we'll just tell them our numbers.

Speaker 2 59.

Speaker 1 59. Is this something new? Wait.
Have you ever gotten this? No.

Speaker 1 Can I just say as an aside,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I'm just like, ask me if I've ever gotten the lottery ball. And they're like, have you ever gotten it? I'm going to say, yes.
That's all I'd say. Yes, I have.
Congrats. I've gotten it.

Speaker 2 I'm happy for you.

Speaker 1 59. Once.
Yeah. 59.
How many have you got?

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. That's interesting.
This is you're just doing the max no-hitter thing. Max.

Speaker 8 That's a shot. That was another.

Speaker 1 That's how many hits did the Phillies get in game three of the World Series?

Speaker 8 My number is 20.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know what? I'll go 17.

Speaker 1 59.

Speaker 6 You were very very confident with that.

Speaker 2 This is my number. Okay.
My dad turned 59. It's, you know, it's been an emotional week.
Okay.

Speaker 1 The number is 99.

Speaker 1 Another GG11. No!

Speaker 1 It happened again. You're such a fucking idiot.
He literally tweeted you last week.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 That's what you just did. That's literally what you just did.
No, I did not.

Speaker 2 That's, that's.

Speaker 2 I'm not going to be online this weekend.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So we won't tell them and we'll have them watch this.
And yeah, this is going to be great.

Speaker 1 You just got fucked fucked by jj watt again all you had to do was do 99 you would have it twice right now

Speaker 2 that's my dad's fault

Speaker 1 the number was 99 so jj watt in the same week that he fucking did that to hank it again

Speaker 1 dude hank i was like jj watt did it again and hank didn't it didn't register for him for a second and then i told him and he was so upset hank

Speaker 1 hank this is so bad you're

Speaker 1 you keep getting worse no bless you 99

Speaker 1 in your face hank and this is all

Speaker 1 so bad yeah no it's recorded we recorded it i made fun of him I also,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, it was a whole thing. He just, he just, it couldn't have been a worse one for Hank.
99. Changed what tweeted three days ago asking how it was going.

Speaker 6 I thought that was nice, Hank. Hank put up a picture of him with his dad the other day.
I thought that was

Speaker 6 sweet.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, it was his birthday today, and you know, you got me in my feels.

Speaker 2 I apologize if it hurt your feelings. I want to apologize for gassing my dad up.

Speaker 6 Would you trade your dad for a lottery ball win

Speaker 2 at this point?

Speaker 1 It's a fair question. It's not, I don't think he would.

Speaker 2 A lot of good memories.

Speaker 1 I don't think he would, but it's definitely like it's gotten so long that it's a pause.

Speaker 1 You know, it's like when you get a trade request and it's like, it's a no, but it definitely, it wasn't like a no hang up. It was a

Speaker 1 no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 6 Memes dropped, dropped the meme of the guy with the long hair making the steeple with his fingers trade requests.

Speaker 6 Thanks, Dad, for one lottery ball.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. All right.
We'll see everyone on Monday.

Speaker 6 Love you guys. Bats are the only mammals that can find it.

Speaker 6 I don't know what I'm going to say and say anyway.

Speaker 6 I'll be coming for your love of day.

Speaker 6 Wake

Speaker 6 on

Speaker 6 me,

Speaker 6 make

Speaker 6 me

Speaker 6 up.

Speaker 6 I'll be

Speaker 6 gone.

Speaker 6 Needless to say,

Speaker 6 I want to say yes, but I please don't let it away.

Speaker 6 Early learning, life is okay.

Speaker 6 Say after me.

Speaker 1 Well, it's no better to be safe than sorry.

Speaker 1 Take

Speaker 1 on

Speaker 1 me.

Speaker 1 Take

Speaker 1 me

Speaker 1 off.

Speaker 1 I'll be

Speaker 1 gone.

Speaker 1 the day.