Max Homa, Aaron Rodgers Emerges From His Cave, Official NBA Finals Picks + Fyre Fest Of The Week

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We have Billy here who lost all his chugging competitions.

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Today is Friday, February 24th. And Aaron Rodgers has emerged from his hole, from his darkness retreat.
We have seven more months of winter. Yeah, worst groundhog ever.
Ever. He has come out.
He did it in record time. He completed 50% of his darkness retreat.
So he said on the Pat McAfee show that he was going for four days he completed two

days that's all he needed that's that's impressive because like he's due to make what 60 million

dollars yeah he figured out that he wanted to return for 60 million dollars guaranteed

in only two days time it was either that or he went in there for like one sleep and was like

yeah no i don't want to go to the jets yeah yeah and it was like i'm good i'm good i'm coming out

jesus did for three but he was in there for two and he's trying to think of, I guess, what his future has in store for him, trying to figure out if he wants to keep playing football. Spoiler alert, he will.
Yep. Want to continue playing football.
Probably win an MVP. So the report that came out from the guy, Scott Berman, who owns Sky Cave Retreats, what a crock of shit this business is, right? Oh, my God.
Basically, the dude owns a bunch of trees and then puts doors inside these little trees. Aaron Rodgers lived like an elf for two days.
They put him inside, and it's a 300-square-foot apartment. It's got electricity.
He's got a queen bed, no light, a bathroom, and a meditation light mat. It does sound like someone who's just come back from a long weekend in Vegas.

Right.

That's basically what I do every time after a bachelor party.

Yeah.

It's a perfect scenario to really dry yourself out.

And I looked at it.

It looks like a Manhattan hotel room,

the ones that you get where it's like you open up the blinds to see the view

and it's just staring at a brick wall next door.

That's essentially what he rented.

I looked at it.

I was like,

I would love to spend two days in here and just sleep.

I could have slept 20 hours a day in there.

Yeah.

It does seem like an awesome place to just hang out for a while.

Yeah.

All right.

It sounds like he was also just like cosplaying as Saddam Hussein.

Yeah.

Just like staying down a little spider hole,

hiding from the jets,

making sure that he's just in a right sound mindset.

It would get boring after, I think, three or four days. But like a good weekend in there, yeah, you just chill out, you come out refreshed.
What I really want to know, so the article, it was hilarious just to see Adam Schefter's tweet where it's like, this is an actual thing that just happened. the guy who won multiple MVPs, has a Super Bowl, is getting paid $60 million to play football.
And Adam Schefter tweeted, the room in which Aaron Rodgers spent his time is a partially underground hobbit-like structure with 300 square feet of space, devoid of light, with a queen bed, a bathroom, and a meditation like mat on the floor. And it's just a link to the article and that's like that's breaking news today yeah in the NFL world and uh there's a couple things so I read the whole article because I was like what is this all about it seems like a pretty good time just in the fact like I said you could just sleep the entire time and come out very well rested this guy Scott Berman I would love to find out so essentially what happens is he goes in there he can turn on the lights he can also leave and just walk around the woods if he wants yeah so not much of a solitude solitude like darkness retreat the guy who owns it comes with food once a day and then provides the person in the solitation confinement whatever jail we'll just say jail just so it's clear.
He provides a person in jail, Aaron Rodgers in this instance, a thought starter. Yeah.
And people who have been interviewed said that those thought starters, he'll just say like a limerick or something. Well, you know who the person that they interviewed was? Colin O'Brady, the guy that walked across Antarctica? That's the guy that started the Everest equivalent.
Yes. And he also he Colin O'Brady was quoted in this article and it was like an all-time sick flex where uh he was talking about all the things that he's accomplished and he was like yeah you know people think it's tough to pull a 375 pound sled across Antarctica but they don't realize it's really the mental toughness that's why i did this it's like oh thank you for mentioning that you went across antarctica with 375 pound sled but i am i think i want to do this for a night yeah i mean you're just talking about turning off the lights and going to sleep you're talking about sleeping i'm talking about i go on a darkness retreat every single day it's a way that that I've found to hack my body's circadian rhythms to figure out how to get more in touch with the global calendar.
You turn off the lights at night, and then you close your eyes, and it's fantastic. I actually have this in my house down to the Scott Berman where my son walks in.
He's a little troll that walks in and just gives me a little limerick in the middle of the night that's usually, Dad, can we get up? And then I think about it, and I'm like, no, darkness retreat, done. So everybody made the joke, like, this sounds like he's training to live in New York City.
Yeah. Because he's in a 300-square-foot apartment that's dungy, it's damp, it's completely dark, and it's boring.
This is actually the size of my first apartment in New York City. Yeah.
If you don't count the bathroom. I had a bathroom, not to brag.
So I had one door. But it was about 300 square feet.
And it was like partially underground. I lived there for a year.
Don't feel like I got any more clarity about my life after staying there. Other than the fact that I don't want to live in New York for the rest of my life.
Let me ask you a question, though. So you lived there for a year.
Did you at any point say, man, I wish I could play football for $60 million? Yeah, I say that every day. Okay, so there you go.
So it's complete. So it does work.
So it absolutely works. Okay, so if you spend like a good portion of your life living in a 300 square foot place with no lights, you're either going to play in the NFL or you're going to work for Barstool Sports yes that's kind of that's we have a lot of people out there that live in that lifestyle yeah the only thing was missing is the mice yes because that absolutely is is what you know he should have had if if he's planning on living in new york city so why why go to oregon for this because this dude is acting like he's sold out for the next six months i know why oh legalized hallucinized hallucinogens? Yes, it's the psychedelics are decriminalized.
Okay, so that's bullshit. That should not count as a darkness deprivation retreat if you're turning your mind into its own playground.
It's actually, again, it sounds like a fucking kick-ass weekend. Oh, I'm going to go and sleep, and then when I'm not sleeping, I'm going to take mushrooms? Yeah.
mushrooms yeah that sounds awesome this is actually they should market themselves as being the after party for a bachelor party yeah like come to oregon sit here in my tree for two days i'm gonna give you food and water and by the time you leave you're gonna feel fantastic yeah it's either that or my long-standing idea is that if we could ever get uh medical science to focus on the important things after a bachelor, if they could put us into a medically induced coma where like, you know, when someone has a spinal injury and they bring your body temperature to like 86 degrees, I would love to do that for two days. That's how I feel about the entire football offseason.
Yeah. Yeah, just put me in that coma.
Get me to September, baby. Well, that's, I mean, this is football offseason because we're talking about Aaron Rodgers coming out of his hole.
That's true. Like, that's it.
That has happened. And he is, I'm fully prepared for him to go back to the Packers and win an MVP.
Because it feels like this is just the cycle that we're in, and he's probably going to be phenomenal next year, and then we're going to do the whole thing the year after, and year after, and year after. He's also upset at the media for judging him.
Yeah. But I feel like if you put it out in the media that you're going on a four day darkness retreat and only last two days in the darkness retreat, you deserve to be kind of raked over the coals for that.
I, for one, cannot believe that Twitter and podcasts made a bunch of jokes about this. No, it's it's unfair.
I mean, I thought he was fucking with us at first yeah i thought he was just making this up entirely knowing that we would all make our jokes and then he would be laughing at us being like look how i trolled them no this is like this is this is a field day yes for us that we should be thanking aaron rogers actually for giving us something to talk about this week yes exactly um i was gonna say the the only other thing we had a couple other things to talk about one is hand up we probably didn't do a great job of explaining the alabama situation yeah that was gonna be my fire fest uh i'm retiring from from from commenting on active uh active criminal investigations hand up i'm gonna say it the names were too similar i i messed up the names like three different times. Miles and Miller? Yeah.
Yeah. I can see that.
That was a mistake. Hand up.
We should clean that up. I will not be commenting on active murder investigations going forward.
It was not Brandon Miller that said that there's a bullet in the chamber. No.
That was Miles. Yes.
I was just saying it with his. Yes.
But Brandon Miller's car. But Miles was with Miller.
They both start with M.I. I'm not a world-renowned educated person or good reader, and I fucked it up.
The car was also, one of the cars at the scene of the crime was Brandon Miller's. Right.
That was found boxing the other one in that had a bullet hole in it. So for some reason, his car was there, too.
It's not like he's not implicated at all. Right.
But he did not text him like's ready to be fired and the story so there's two things hank one spin zone for you and for this show in general alabama fans and this is just sports fandom they will uh read everything and find the best possible version of events to then defend their guys totally understand that part uh we provided them some like big time fake news like look the media spinning this the wrong way they want me to get sued for libel right so we so so that you alabama fans should be thanking us because you can't get mad when someone just says the facts and they're like this is a bad situation nato has handled it incorrectly that's not really's not really something that can be argued because it's just kind of a fact. His press conference was tone deaf and he had some stupid answers with the boys will be boys kind of shit.
But you can point to this podcast and be like, these guys got it wrong. Look at what the media is doing.
So you're welcome, Alabama. We did get it extremely wrong.
Oh, details were wrong basically except we got the state of alabama correct now it actually it's interesting because if this happened to any other fan base then alabama fans would be saying the exact same thing that like tennessee fans are saying that's how fandom works like if it happened in knoxville and it was a tennessee player you bet your ass everybody in al Alabama would be like, that kid should not be playing for the rest of the season. Right.
Like, kick him out of school. But when it happens on your own campus, you read more about the facts of the case, and then you find the little cracks that you can use to justify why this kid's being railroaded a little bit.
Now, I'm not saying that he's being railroaded entirely, but I am saying that, like, if you're a fan of that team, there's enough out there for you to look at and to say, well, of course they shouldn't put him out. You basically get to spend a week saying, well, actually, on the internet.
To us, mostly. And if he was the eighth guy on that team, he definitely wouldn't be playing.
No, he wouldn't. But because he's a star.
And he's very, very good. And he's really good.
They're keeping him in. Scored 40 last night against South Carolina.

And, like, you just see it.

If you watch him play, you're like, yeah, that guy's going to be an awesome NBA player.

Hank, I have another spin zone, too.

Okay, I disagree with you, though, on one point.

I think we actually should do any breaking news, any legal matters.

Hank explains.

I think that should be a segment on this show.

It is good legal protection for us. Yeah.
It's like, well, Hank's definitely not think that should be a segment on this show. It is good legal protection for

us. Yeah.
It's like, well, we definitely

Hank's definitely not going to get it right. Yeah, right.

Like, Hank, a breaking news

happens. Tell us what happened.

And then we just get it all wrong

and we go from

there. Yeah, I mean, the names

You're our Roger Cossack. You're our Roger

Cossack. You are our legal

analyst. I was doing some review, some internal watching the tape, and I was cringing at myself.
I thought it was like two people. But it was also – The third, the Miller, really.
This is one of those situations where we have to row together as a team because you were giving us the recap and getting everything wrong, and PFT and I were sitting here being like, oh, that's interesting. that's interesting oh good point hank like we're just as much to blame as you uh we're to blame for trusting hank yeah that's our that's our biggest crime in this situation yeah yeah i'm not i'm not an active i'm a post like once the trial's done then i'll report well i think the active stuff is where i went wrong you're pre-pre-law right and And we can't, to borrow from Nate Oates, we can't control what happens outside of this podcast room.
So we don't know what Hank is doing in terms of his law degree outside of here. As far as we know, he's a jurist doctor.
Hank's will be Hank's. That's what we've taken away from this.
My other spin zone is I actually think this helps his draft stock oh okay go on think about all the attention

he's getting everyone knows who he is and then after you know all eyes are on him he drops 40 actually i don't totally disagree because again as we as i know who he was before you know i knew who we like i knew the top you know the the projected lottery picks i didn't know too much about him i watched the whole game last night and was like wow yeah this guy is going to be great in the NBA. Because if we

believe

the course of events that his

lawyer put out there and i'm just saying i don't i we're right back to square one right now but uh he really he he has not been charged with anything he it seems like he didn't do anything wrong it seems like it it was a fucked up situation tragic situation and his name is involved he did answer a text with someone saying, you know, like, hey, can you bring my gun? He's like, yeah, I'll be right there. But either way, maybe that's not even wrong.
Either way, I think the story, again, is how Nate Oates has handled it more than anything. There's that, but there's also the aspect of just the student codes of conduct.
and like we've seen when we went to ohio state we saw like you know the teams have their team rules oh urban was very clear no guns no guns yeah a lot of teams that clear a lot of teams have an absolutely no guns policy that doesn't count finger guns and also doesn't count for when urban was at florida yes correct yeah and if you're really good and you're really good no guns if you suck yeah if Yeah. That's kind of a fair rule.
Yeah, basically, yeah. But yeah, I'm sure that Alabama has some sort of policy like that, which they will choose not to enforce on Brandon Miller because he's really, really good at basketball.
That would be funny if Urban Meyer, like when he was coaching Ohio State, like the minute you get your 50th Buckeye on your helmet, it's like, well, you can have a gun. Yeah, you get a gun.

This handy one.

I'm curious to know, we got Billy.

He's in a hotel room in D.C. right now with Dugues.

Billy, you did put out a TikTok about how Nate Oates had sought counsel

with some legal advice of his own.

Is that correct?

Yeah.

He sought out counsel from Ray Lewis, who had been in a quote unquote similar situation okay so i i was thinking about this um actually not the worst person to talk to if you're if you're discussing murders on a team but probably not something you want to say out loud ray lewis is a great person to talk to if you want to hear somebody speak emotionally for five minutes feel better afterwards but then not understand a single damn thing that he said yes and also uh who's who was after him uh with the uh hall of fame speech was it peyton i forget who followed him up who just like it's it was like brutal for him it's like shit maybe ray lewis went last he just had the sweat towel out yeah i think he did go for uh was that michael irvin no no no ray lewis had the sweat towel out he was going forever he had like the he had um he had like the the priest or the the pastor the big time like tv pastor microphone because he was like i'm gonna be walking around. It's really going to explore the city of Canton in the speech.

So he talked to Ray Lewis about how to handle a situation like this with the media or what

was the conversation about?

Do we know?

How to not have murder charges stick?

Maybe like dealing with committing a murder after the fact, like from a player's standpoint.

I don't know.

Basically like, so you bought a house.

What now? Yeah. Like manslaughter for dummies.
Yeah, right, right. So a murder has happened.
What next? They should have talked to Marvin Harrison. He'd be a more appropriate person to discuss it with.
Yes. I mean, by that logic, like why didn't he hit up OJ Simpson? Yeah.
I mean, he probably knows how to get off. Yeah.
I would say that would probably be the next call he makes. But it was we did get everything wrong.
Brandon Miller is playing. He hasn't been charged, so I don't really know.
I mean, it is weird that he's playing. It feels like Alabama maybe should have just been like, let's take a quick timeout, like a quick, you know, maybe one game, just reassess.
Yeah, it's just a bad situation all around right and it's it's a

legally ambiguous situation too where it's going to be very tough to prove especially when hank's yeah hank's actually very ambiguous hank has definitely muddied the water waters enough to the point where nobody really knows what's going on in this case so you might be working for you might get it thrown out of court yeah they're like we don't really know the facts we listened as per part of my take on February 22nd.

Who's to say what happened?

A little piece of free legal advice here. If you're a lawyer for Brandon Miller, you can say, well, the entire jury pool is tainted in Tuscaloosa now because the whole town listens to Hank on part of my take.
Right. And now they all have a preconception of what happened that night.
And that's not actually the that took place yeah if you're an alabama fan uh listening to this right now you need to download subscribe resubscribe and listen to wednesday's show like a billion like that should be our highest listened show and then we could actually prove this in court that we have led we have led the people of alabama astray mostly hank it is it is weird because it sounds like it's going to be tough to prove that a crime was committed by him. Right.
Because it's not illegal to give your friend his gun. Right.
It wasn't. Unless he knew that something was going to happen.
But that's where it comes in. Where it's like, how do you prove that he knew that something was going to happen? But then the car at the scene also adds in another wrinkle.
It sounds like a nightmare, really, to be able to sort through all those details. At the same time, you can probably say, if he wasn't on your team, he probably shouldn't be playing right now.
Right. I have a crazier take that might take some heat off, Hank.
Okay. Thank you, Billy.
People are forgetting that the boyfriend in the car also had a gun and shot back. Right.
He returned fire, which is if you get shot at, you're allowed to return fire. I know, but so his lawyer could prove in court that he may have flashed the gun before and everyone gets off.
Well, I think that's what they're trying to do. I think they're saying it was self-defense.
But either way, it's a tragic, tragic situation. And yeah, we got a lot wrong.
So hand up on us. First time for everything.
Yeah, we've never gotten any. That was the first seven years of doing this podcast.
That was the first time we got a fact wrong. We're like Lenny Dykstra.
We're 503 and one on murder cases. Yeah, we almost got it.
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Okay, other thing I had. We have big time mock draft movement going on.
Hank's boy, Anthony Richardson, went from I think it was like 100 to 1 to be the first pick to 8 to 1 to be the first pick. He's now been thrown around there in mock drafts.
It's my favorite time of year to watch as the draft guys get involved and start clipping stuff and putting it on Twitter and talking about the draft, and you're like, wait, but I watched him play. Yeah, there's certain guys, this happens almost every season, where the longer they go.
No, I don't think he's the first overall pick. The longer they go between playing actual football, they get better at football.
So this happened with, I think famously, Tom Savage. Remember Tom Savage? Yep.
Pittsburgh quarterback, right? And I think he shot up five rounds over the course of a three-month period where he just went and trained with Trent Dilfer or whatever. Anthony Richardson, he's got a live arm.
He's got a cannon. I've seen the comparisons to Josh Allen.
And I kind of like that, just like putting him in that discussion. In my brain, just when you link somebody to Josh Allen, he jumps up top ten in my book.
I've watched him play. Hank, you've watched him play.
I would not touch him with a ten-foot pole. All right, so pro Anthony Richardson's side, can in arm, can run, can make all the throws.
The game against Utah was phenomenal. The game against Florida State, I don't think I've ever seen a wide receiver group drop more passes.
The con against Anthony Richardson, it's something that I believe very strongly in.

Show me a quarterback who played at Power 5 who was average,

who then ended up having an incredible career.

And I'm not saying like, the reason why I say incredible is,

if you're the number one pick, you should have,

like you're projected to have a very good NFL career. Yeah.
And so that's like, if we're talking about the 20th pick, that's different. Brock Purdy.
Brock Purdy. He actually was pretty good at Iowa State.
He was okay, but he definitely wasn't. I mean, there's a reason why he was Mr.
Irrelevant. He peaked out.
We still got to find out if Brock Purdy is the dude. So Tom Brady is one that gets thrown out.
He was good, though. I would still contend he was good, and he also got fucked over because he did the platoon with Drew Henson in his senior year where they basically were like, well, this kid's from Michigan.
He's going to be the best of all time. Let's play him.
Let's start a game where Tom Brady starts, and then Drew Henson will come in for the second series. Yeah, it doesn't happen often.
It doesn't happen often. Like Daniel Jones is a case where Daniel Jones was average at Duke and he just finally had his first.
So maybe he will be the guy who goes on and has an incredible career. It's just, I think the drafts, all that stuff matters because at the end of the day, you do want a guy who can make all the throws.
You want a guy who's faster than slower. All these things, hand size, we joke about it.
I'd rather have a guy who has huge fucking hands than small hands. But the football you play should still matter a little bit.
The draft guys, when they get involved, they always just look at traits. Right.
I'm just looking at all the attributes. They're at essentially madden ratings right on a quarterback and not watching as much they don't put as much stock into watching film because they're it is football so there's 10 other guys on the field that he's playing with so there's variables but he also he he misses a lot of throws he's got a cannon for an arm so he can throw it you know 70 yards but it just as far as as the eyeball test goes, I should put a caveat out there where the commanders are looking for a quarterback.
If we draft him, I'm going to have to walk back all these things. You guys are going to trade up? I'll help you with that.
No, we're getting Lamar. Yeah, I don't know if you listened.
No, he didn't. He didn't listen.
You just spewed fake facts about Alabama basketball. That's all you did.
He just said if we get him, you'll be pumped, but you'd have to trade up to number one. I guess at the end of the day, this isn't like a crazy take that it's just hard to figure out what quarterbacks to draft because it is, and it's a very 50-50 proposition in the first round.
It's more that anyone who thinks that only the combine matters is an idiot and anyone who thinks that only college football matters is an idiot there's it's got to both have to matter yeah it's really kind of where i land where how how does a guy go from like go up to a number one in the mock draft with not have having played any football in the last you know. I'm going to withhold judgment on Anthony Richardson

until he does his pro day workout,

and he has one really sexy throw.

He's got the Zach Wilson.

You know he's going to have a sexy-ass throw,

and then I'm going to be all in on him.

Right now, I've already fallen in love with Joe Milton.

I'm already circling him.

I mean, Joe Milton's got a hose.

Did you see that he threw an orange 120 yards before the Orange Bowl?

I believe it.

They put him on the practice field at the end of the end zone,

and they said, how far can you throw an orange?

The man throws an orange 120 yards.

I don't need to see anything else from the guy I want him I just yeah yeah Joe Milton's got an absolute I like watching Joe Milton play just because it reminds me of when you accidentally mashed the buttons in Madden too hard yeah you just hold why you throw you throw a screen pass 100. Yeah, Hank, look up that video of him throwing an orange.
It's the most impressive thing I've ever seen on a football field. That's a big one.
Yeah. That's a big statement to me.
He's number one on my big board right now for next year. Yeah.
Yeah, so that was the only other thing I had. I mean, there's NBAs coming back, college basketball.
It was a long NBA break. You think so so it felt long it felt like tuesday and wednesday i know it just always it always it always seems i seems long i did see that me and big cat had similar takes about how to fix the nba all-star game yeah and and tie it into their contract my idea was that one well you like the the nets on fire so it looks like nba jam that'd be sick oh not the franchise not the not the franchise they did that themselves uh two what you should do is uh you should award the winning team every player on the winning team should get one year off their contract to become a free agent so they hit free agency one year sooner yeah and then that that would incentivize them i don't think that the uh i almost said the o word the governors would ever agree to that no they wouldn't they wouldn't agree to any of these ideas because my idea would fix it yeah the dunk contest should be the winner of the dunk contest gets an uh all time for the rest of their career like basically trade me to that team and it has to happen or yeah just give maybe the winning team they all get no trade clauses yeah so they can control their own destiny.
Yeah. I like that too.
Yeah. Guys would play.

Guys would compete.

Are you ready for the home stretch NBA, Hank?

There's a lot at stake.

Giannis getting hurt helps you.

Yeah, I mean, the East is going to be a gauntlet. I think there's three really good teams.

And, you know, getting to the finals is going to be tough.

Hopefully we play the Suns.

This is when the Celtics turned around last year, so I'm excited.

Why do you want to play the Suns? I just want to go back to Arizona I've been oh really golf yeah that's it it'd be a fun series I I mean I don't want to play the one I mean the Warriors like I feel like the Warriors are the Celtics kind of boogeyman so I think we could beat anyone else have to like scratch and claw I know get into the real playoffs but I don't want I do I hope they don't a lot of disrespect being thrown at the bucks recently. to, like, scratch and claw to get into the real playoffs.
But I hope they don't.

A lot of disrespect being thrown at the Bucs recently.

They're on an 11-game winning streak right now.

I was going to say, well, Giannis having a wrist injury definitely hurts.

It's not that bad because he did start and score the first two games

at the All-Star game.

Yeah, two points.

Where they treated him like a make-a-wish kid.

Yes.

Let him drive to the hoop and dunk it and then checked himself out. have in love on the heat that it's not you know it's a good addition for them yeah it's not i mean they're they're already a good team they added a great great player what about uh we haven't done i don't think we've done this yet on the show let's do predictions for the nba finals okay uh celtic sons i'm gonna go bucks sons i'm gonna go bucks i want to say my nuggets how do you guys like oh oh you root against our friends.
Blake of the Year is on the Celtics. You guys.
I'm going to go Bucs, Suns. I'm going to go Bucs.
I want to say my Nuggets.

How do you guys like all root against our friends, root against our friends?

Blake of the Year is on the Celtics.

You guys have no respect.

No respect.

That's actually a fair point.

All right, Celtics, Suns.

Thank you.

I'm going to go.

You made a very fair point.

Just remember it next time you besmirch Jared Goff's name, Kapka's name.

What?

Yeah, no, no, no. Just remember this.
Everyone, you hate all of our friends just remember this Josh Allen Just remember this Joe Burrow JJ Watt Just remember this Mr. Portnoy I'm going to say I'm going to say Suns win This is Chris Paul's year I mean Chris Paul's got all the ingredients there Chris Paul's it.
Chris Paul's going to win. Congratulations to the Suns.

You've got KD and, more importantly, Chris Paul.

This is the time where he puts it all together for sure

and wins the championship.

If the Suns do win, I think we should just, as a podcast right now,

decide that we'll have Varsila on right after,

and then we'll just pretend his internet connection's bad.

Okay, yeah.

We can't hear you.

I mean, it's got to be.

The Suns are definitely going to win, right?

Yeah.

Chris Paul?

They're definitely going to win.

AJ Titty's baby's coming out. She's going to be ready to go.
I've been saying that we should get AJ Titty's on the podcast to do a deep dive into what happened in that hotel room. How many dicks were sucked.
Chris Paul's addicted to going to the NBA Finals. Yes.
Yeah. If it's not the Suns, I'm going to say I'm going to stick my nuggets over hank celtics yeah that's the big like everyone's getting pre-mad right now about uh jokic winning a third straight mvp which i think is we looked it up last night it's larry bird wilt and bill russell i think are the only uh players that have won three consecutive mv.
But people are getting pretty mad because they're like, if he wins an MVP and they don't get to at least the conference finals, this is a sham. Again, it's a regular season award.
Like, that's just what it is. Remember back in the day when they would have, they changed this probably the last 10 years or whatever it is they would have the MVP come

out in the second round and accept

their MVP and Dirk had to do it after

he got bounced by the Warriors and it

was like well this is awkward

it's a regular season award

finals MVP

I'll say it means more to me than the regular

MVP yeah it's like the president's trophy

in hockey it's a regular season

thing doesn't always mean that you're going to get

to the finals it doesn't always mean that you're going to win

the I'll say it, means more to me than the regular MVP. Yeah, it's like the President's Trophy in hockey.
Right. It's a regular season thing.
It doesn't always mean that you're going to get to the finals. It doesn't always mean that you're going to win the finals.
He's averaging a triple-double. It's insane.
Well, Westbrook did too. Yeah, but that was a little bit different.
It was. It was just stat chasing.
I still like my Nuggets, though. Yeah, so wait, what's your final prediction? I'm going to say my heart's been with the Nuggets because I've been on them for like a year and a half.
Yeah, stick with them. But I just don't see a way that Chris Paul loses.
No, but you got to stick with them. Okay, Nuggets.
Because if the Nuggets make it to the finals, people will be like, but you got off. Nuggets over the Bucs.
Because what's the downside of the Nuggets getting bounced early? You're like, well, I'm just a ride or die guy. I'm sorry for believing too hard in my guy.
Right, right. I think the altitude makes a difference.
It's going to be nuggets over the Bucs. Okay.
Jake and Bill, you want to do your NBA Finals prediction? Celtics-Lakers. Oh, okay.
That'd be sick. 23 most important games in LeBron's career coming up.
I'm going to be watching this. I will hawk for that load management.
I will go with Warriors over Sixers. And the city of Philadelphia completes the super facto of second place.
No, yeah. There's a 0% chance it's Warriors-Sixers.
And clip this. That's fine.
What about your hometown team, Jake? What the fuck? Yeah, what about the heat? Heat culture. Obviously, I want the heat.
Sounds like you don't. What would you rather have? No, it sounds like you definitely don't.
Jake, what would you rather have? The Heat make it all the way to the finals and lose, or the Sixers beat the Heat, make it all to the finals and lose? I'd rather the Heat go farther. Yeah, I mean, the Heat are like, they're not.
I think it's Celtics, Bucs, drop-off, Heat, Sixers, Cavs.

Cavs.

Cavs should be.

They're seven games behind Philly right now.

If you were ranking contenders in the Eastern Conference, would the Cavs not be?

I agree.

Celtics, Bucs.

Those are the two best teams.

Those are the teams that I trust the most.

A little step down.

The Cavs have to be mentioned.

Hank, what the hell is this? You were a Cavs guy last year. I know.
I don't know. They got rid of their leader, their veteran leader.
Yeah. Hank, on your golf vacation that you took in Arizona, did you happen to leave your wallet behind in Arizona? I did not.
Okay. That would be an issue for your sons.
Yeah. I'm not rooting.
I mean, I want the sons. I've always liked Kevin Durant.
I have no. Okay.
That would be an issue for your Suns. Yeah.
I'm not rooting. I mean, I want the Suns.
I've always liked Kevin Durant. I had no issue with Chris Paul.
I like the Suns. You literally just want to go on a golf vacation.
I do have. And when in the history of this podcast have we ever gone to the location of the NBA Finals? Now I'm switching back.
I'm going Suns-Bucks again because that would be funny if the Suns clinched before

the Celtics-Bucks series ends

and Hank's like,

I got my Arizona trip planned.

I did.

I think I talked about it on the show.

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in the sportsbook,

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and I was looking at the Nuggets championship

and then I entered that

and I was like, you know what? I'm not going to bet them to win the championship. I'm just going to bet them to win the Western Conference finals.
Accidentally did both for a lot. So I have a big, I'm just hoping I get in a cash out situation.
Like I have a big Nuggets conference finals future and accidentally put the same amount on the Nuggets to win the championship. So I'm just trying to get them to like cash-out spot so I can negate some of those.

Oh, no.

So you're going to be a big Jokic is a fraud if they get bounced in the second round.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I need them to make the conference finals.

Yes.

Bad.

Memes, who do you got?

Mavericks versus Knicks.

Oh, okay.

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But this is the first time in person. It is Max Homa, winner of the most tournaments in the last, what is it like? 25 months.
Oh, that's kind of specific. Yeah, it is.
What happened in 26 months? It's like, what was the old Kirk Chin MLB stats where it'd be like, he's hit the most home runs on thursdays after 9 p.m that's they fit me in they like me on social media so they make me seem a lot better than i am so wait who hit who who won all the tournaments 26 months ago uh probably rom yeah yeah okay so rom's got you yeah you're on a hot streak it's good to finally have you on in person. You are a good friend of the show.
Do I get my shirt now that we're all together? Yeah, it's on the way. It's on the way.
I think we sent it to LA. You're in Arizona right now.
You probably missed it. That makes sense.
We gave it to Kyrie. He was going to bring it out there.
Maybe it's me. Are you going to go to Dallas? Yeah, you can pick it up there.
Maybe it's Max. Maybe it's Max.
I like I like the hat. You're wearing the positive vibes only hat.
Let's start here. Do you think that you need us to stop being mean to you, or are we the last podcast that actually gives you the truth? No, you're the only ones that keep it real.
Yeah, you're on every show now. Yeah.
You're on every show. Yeah, exactly.
I'm even on the couch. Yeah, you're on the couch.
Yeah, exactly. We're going to need to see some ID.
That's weird that you know how that starts. Oh, who doesn't know how that starts? I don't know what you guys are talking about.
Put're on the couch yeah exactly we're gonna need to see some id um that's weird that you know how that starts who doesn't know how that starts i don't know what you guys are put it on the list hey put me and max on the list i just skipped that part yeah what are we talking about but we're gonna keep we're gonna keep pushing you because we want a win in augusta yeah that's all that matters that's it road to augusta is that it is that like if you were to pick one one tournament to win it's Augusta that's not it I'll take any of them but yeah I mean that that in the open uh are my two favorite events um but yeah the Masters is special plus uh I don't know there's it's an interesting place uh it's just like the city of Augusta has nothing has nothing except like Augusta national. Uh, but ever since, you know, I played my first two years, there were like the COVID year.
So it wasn't like a lot of, it wasn't a lot of fans, uh, like was kind of dull. I don't think Tiger played one of the years.
And then last year was like my first real one felt like, and you're, you start to get what I, what all the hype's about. Um, but like I said like I said I'll take any of them but that would be that would be definitely way up on that list yeah about what your your champion's dinner would be I have and that's my promise I don't have like some of these guys have all these guys are so damn rich now too they're like oh you know I got the chef from my favorite restaurant and I'm like I don't who meets the chef at their favorite fucking restaurant? Like I just eat it and then leave and tell my friends about how good it was.
So I don't know what I would do. You know, I'm half Jewish, so maybe I'd throw in like my mom's matzo ball soup.
Ooh, that would be good. Yeah, I'm not sure how everybody would feel about it, but I think I'm going to be a very boring – everyone always does like a steak, a fish.
I'm going to have to call somebody to figure out what kind of wine is real good.

I'm not really sure what I would do, but that's a problem I would fucking love to have.

It would be very funny if you served the matzo ball soup and like Fuzzy Zeller was like,

how the fuck did he get in here?

We don't like, what the fuck is going on around here?

So you're like 50% happy that Kyrie didn't go to the lakers oh yeah maybe 51 yeah yeah i mean what did you think so we're gonna run this probably in a week or two but uh this is a timeless tweet you're king lebron james tweeting maybe it's me um it's as pathetic as it gets for the lakers right now well do you feel pathetic? You should. Yeah, always.
The funny part about people today on the range, they're like, man, Kyrie didn't go to the Lakers. I'm like, was he going to fucking fix us? I don't think we're one piece away here.
So, no, it wasn't super devastating. Obviously, Kyrie and I have our background.
He likes movies I don't like as much. So I wasn't like devastated.
But now it's exciting because you just never know. With some of these players, like Pat Bev's on our team, and him and Russell Westbrook seemed like they hated each other.
Now they like each other, I think. So that's exciting.
So getting to watch the car accident yeah i feel like this could be a car accident i mean just give it a week yeah and you just never know and then the best part is this it was going so well yeah he's like yeah fuck this i can't do it anymore yeah so i love that yeah it's exciting for sure i read something uh i actually just googled your name earlier that's the prep that we do on this show sometimes you just signed up to play in tiger woods monday night golf league yeah can you walk me through what that means i know it sounds like it's golf on a monday night you so far so good okay uh him and rory uh are building um like a a small basketball court like arena where there'll be lives like people like live there and then it'll be broadcast live so it's a basically a simulator golf league so you they i don't know who is doing i think this company called full swing is doing the technology but you'll hit and you'll play like an alternate shot it's six teams of three alternate shot in the simulator but they also have like the putting and and uh and chipping and all that so i guess it's pretty extensive stuff i wouldn't understand till i get there but it'll be obviously mic'd up i'm bringing some flavor in i'm i i do believe that some of these guys are uh they they they seem funnier because everyone laughs at their jokes yeah like i'm still up for debate if uh if you know tiger's super funny or i just laugh a lot yeah i haven't got comfy enough with them and like dissect was that actually a good joke or is it just tiger and i gotta giggle well i mean because we do have to keep it real with you are you a little nervous because remember you like basically cried at the british open because you got to stand next to tiger woods then you missed the cut and he likeied you mentally. I think I might have said some things leading up to it that I hope you didn't listen to.
I whipped his ass at least. I beat him.
Yeah, you did, but you missed the cut. And we said that that was going to be – you were going to let the moment get too big.
So are you a little nervous? Like, you're going to show up to this Monday Night League with Tiger and you're going to become a puddle again. I wasn't until you just mentioned it.
So now I might need to make some phone calls. Yeah.
That's going to be tricky. I will say though, that there is no cut, which is okay.
That's good. That's kind of my sweet spot.
That's a perfect spot. All right.
Wait. So can I, can I give you just a one thing now that we're in person? Cause Caleb started this shit about the, you know, work-life balance.
You never make cuts. I think I've only missed cut once in like the last, I'm going to jinx my shit out of the Phoenix open.
Don't bet bet me for like six or seven months and i still get the oh oh look at you playing golf on a sunday all right man i mean i do it listen we're story like i like it we just keep with the story i mean we we still we're waiting for gonzaga to make a final four i mean it's gonna be sick dude i yeah i wasn't even born i don't think when they made their last final four i still think think Peyton Manning hasn't won a Super Bowl. Yeah.
There's certain takes you can't get off of. You guys have.
I listen to this way too often. I told you guys.
I was listening on my way over to the Josh Duhamel one. And it is weird how some of your guys' takes are in my head because I'll be like, has Peyton Manning won a fucking Super Bowl? No, he hasn't.
He hasn't. Think about it.
I'd say it's him, then Dan Marino. Best ever.
Yeah. Wait.
So, all right. The Monday Night Golf League, do you think Charlie will be there? Can you make an intro? He's a huge fan of ours.
We've been. I actually did see that.
That was pretty cool. We're big Charlie guys.
Charlie's next up. He's going to come and beat your brains in.
Just so you know. What a unique take that Tiger Woods' son is going to be really good at golf.
No one else has said that. No, Charlie's going to be better than Tiger.
Yeah, better than Tiger. Better than Tiger and Jack combined.
He's going to be better than you. Yeah.
Okay. That's fair.
Let's just get this out here right now because we consider you a friend and we love having you on, but if Charlie even bats an eyelash at us, you're gone. See you.
I imagine that this Monday night league, if Charlie gets the night off of school and he's like, Dad, I want Max's spot, I'll just be gone, which is actually pretty exciting. And we'll caddy for him.
Yeah, perfect. No, we will sell out completely for Charlie.
That is your guys' caddy spot is where you don't actually have to carry a bag. You can sit there and drink and we can just roast the other competitors yeah caddying in an indoor golf simulator league yes sign me up that sounds like you guys to do that one night just to see how many minutes tiger lets it go on let you you're in the league get us on your bag day yeah so they finally signed me and then first day hey so yeah that one request it is kind of crazy what what golf or dimple heads parverts what are we calling ourselves or parverts are good we're so in tune with golf like we discovered you out of nowhere and now we discovered charlie woods yeah it's pretty cool you know what we're talking about you guys are molding the future of the game i have a funny story about that parverts thing uh also sidebar pretty cool getting called a pervert every fucking week in front of my wife and my family and people have to explain it but i was in uh nashville this last weekend uh and this guy walks by me and he goes hey uh you max homa and i'm like yeah and he goes you want to pardon my take later and i'm like i don't know what the fuck that means yeah and then and then he and all my friends are there and they're like laughing and he goes uh

he goes uh couldn't be the real max home if you don't know what part of my take is i'm like no i know what it is that's a weird thing i was like i just don't know what we would do about that and i was like are you trying to do an hour-long podcast because like i'm fucking busy dude and then i see him maybe an hour later back on broadway and he walks by me goes hey he goes he He goes, I realized what I was supposed to say.

I'm like, what?

And he goes, pervert.

I said, what the was supposed to say. I'm like, what? And he goes, pervert.
He owned you. Yeah.
No, when you did a Rosilla's life advice and you guys were talking about like hecklers and you're like, I like when people say something original and in the back of my head, I was like, he's definitely saying that like all the eight of y'all is just need to come up with new jokes. The only one Joe can't stand, my caddy Joe can't stand when people just yell, everyone yells, Big Cat says hi.
And it's not because it's like what it is. It's like a very, you know, that's nice.
Like that's a nice plain one. I reach out to every single person.
Yeah. So he always says that.
He's like, it's a thousandth time and there's no fucking chance.

Big cat told him to tell him.

And he doesn't go on Twitter ever.

So he'll sometimes ask me like, did big cat tweet today?

Like tell Max.

Hi.

I'm going to fuck.

That's fine.

I'm not going to hear any more than I already hear.

I think with the pervert, we just got to keep hammering the pervert.

Yeah.

That is like to just get called a pervert.

It's pretty cool.

You have to have like an explanation. You have to have like a card to hand to people.
Be like, this is why they just call me a pervert yeah that is like to just get called a pervert it's pretty cool you have to have like an explanation you have to have like a card to hand to people be like this is why they just call me a pervert here's an explanation yeah yeah that's i am italian i mean there's a really easy way to to fix all that and that's just to win the masters and then everybody will just be like well he's not a pervert anymore he's master's champion yeah those are the two stages of golf i imagine that's how that's gonna end yeah yeah it saved tiger's career uh yeah i think i'll just be called the most perverted master's champion no tiger yeah tiger yeah that's fine listen we're in the same boat we don't bash tiger anymore because his son loves us he clearly don't say anything bad about when you think about charlie is the direct product of Tiger being a pervert. Yeah.
But we also – It's true. I do have a kid, I guess.
Yeah. He's sliding up.
You've proven you're a pervert. So you do actually maybe have to ask Charlie, like, does he like – because there's a theory that he might like – Do you think I talk to Charlie a lot? No, yeah, you do.
No, you do. Yeah, this is – can you send him this message? There's a theory that he maybe likes – pardon my tape because we bust his dad's balls.
So we need to know if we need to go further. He just texted me back.
He said yes. Push the limits.
Tiger's a sex addict. You need a rival.
Back in the day, Tiger had like a thousand different rivalries. You guys might be my rival.
We might be, yeah. We are.
We are your we are you should i throw a tea at you i bet on you and i root for my bets to lose because i'm like do i want money or do i want to bash max bashing's more fun yeah i'm with that is that like crossing a major line in golf somebody throws a tea at you it's on site um i think the lawsuit parts are definitely like a bit ahead of the tea uh but i mean i guess i didn't know i've never had somebody throw a t right at me uh and he fucking rifled that thing yeah that was the sad part of the fucking video was so just like i had to read about this all morning yeah this is what it was uh but you know i think it starts with the lawsuits pretty far up the list i put t's probably like we're pretty benign sport it's probably still second place but it's just way further on thanksgiving and the lawsuit on christmas like he timed that out he might send you one to hanukkah yeah i was yeah do you feel lame not getting a lawsuit like you kind of suck yeah that actually is kind of you're left out of the party yeah he's he's he's just one day i want to be like the bad boy like i want to yeah i got subpoenaed yeah yeah what are you gonna do about it you know so they they have rules you have to wear you have to wear pants when you golf can you wear jeans no no denim no denim they're anti-jinkos wow because that would be really like wear some like serious like cool old school skater jeans you're instantly street red i definitely probably still have some yeah what when do you think people are going to turn on you um and will we get credit for being the first it'll definitely yeah you guys will lead the mob with the the fucking fire uh it'll happen i think honestly i think maybe when i do if and when i do win a major, because I feel like then people will like, people always start to hate you when you start playing well. Like you always get like a weird crowd of people who's like, no, that guy's not that fucking good.
He's an asshole. And it's like, well, I feel like you loved him like a month ago.
And now, so maybe that'll be it, but that will be another thing. I'll be, it'll be cool.
I'll be cool. People hating me if I have won a major and I could just shit on you guys all the time.
But I'm't think but i'm not sure i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna push them but could be any day now it could be tomorrow i actually don't think people are gonna ever turn on you thank you i i truly straight up the nice no i truly believe that like you like you are refreshing for golf and you're fun to listen to and yeah you might do too many podcasts but that's okay everyone has their faults you need faults yeah right exactly yeah but no i i do think like i i would imagine you've had have you had like sponsors reach out like trying to get in the max homa business uh yeah but i tell them all the time that my fee back to the part of my take podcast this is too damn high to be accepting any more money so that the my my checking account is closed yeah so all right so let me ask the question this way when do you think you're gonna get so rich you stop answering our text messages never your guys is maybe will's okay when i saw will yeah earlier we're doing something uh tomorrow yeah i already have i'm not gonna spoil but i have an entire idea it is gonna be just one long uh running joke that he'll probably hate by the end of it oh yeah

well he might not know what it's probably about he's not yeah which would be better he's a football player it would be fucking perfect if he didn't yeah do you get uh do you get recognized a lot now uh yeah like outside of a golf environment yeah going back to just the guy screaming pervert in my face in the middle of nashville yeah so yeah when did that? Far too long ago, considering people... I had too big of a fan base for how not great I was at golf.
So, it would be even weirder to have people want to take pictures with you, and then every one of your friends would be like, why the fuck do they want to take a picture with you? And I'm like, because they liked my tweet one time. Like, back in the day, they too agree about some dumb shit I've thought up so uh yeah it's uh it's definitely growing but um i don't know i still like to at least put myself out there a little bit do you think that that's had an impact actually on your golf game the feeling that you're super well known for being like the funny golf tweeter and you're like shit now i gotta actually get yeah yeah yeah i my my old running joke that's still true is I just always want to be as good at golf as I was at Twitter.
So I'm trying to like level those two out a little bit. So yeah, it's definitely motivating.
You also do get, you know, I am like lucky that it doesn't matter on social media what I do. People are always like pretty nice to me, but there's always a few guys in there, of who will say some shit about like you know he sucks he's not even that good and uh that is definitely a motivating factor when you write something very uh benign about like hey you know the sun is quite warm today right and then everyone's like oh haha max like so fucking great what a great point and then one guy's like oh yeah well you still fucking's like, oh shit.
All right. Well, I can either stop tweeting or I can just get better at golf and I don't really want to stop tweeting.
So I'm just going to get a little bit better at this game. Well, I think you did it.
Like, it's interesting because if you look at your career and what you've been able to do the last 25 months and like, you are legitimately a very good golfer. Like you are, what are you? Top 15 in the world? the world 12th 12th so you're 12th in the world right now that's crazy it i think if you were that good right at the beginning you never would have tweeted and you never would have shown your personality because like golfers that are that good right away and they're winning right away that you never get to know them because they become like so corporatized like right away i also think like you know like comedians a lot of them say like they're depressed so i think a lot of funny starts with like a lot of sadness yeah so most of my tweets started with just like constantly having the weekend off to think and then i would probably mask all the sadness with like hey how about that sun being so hot yeah right that would like it would be like, oh man, this guy's so relatable.
And I was, because I didn't make very much money and I had a lot of weekends to tweet. So I feel like I was right in the sweet spot.
But yeah, I agree. I honestly don't know.
Some people ask me like, what would you tell a college kid coming out about like what they should do with social media? And I'm just kind of like, fuck, maybe like don't go go on it. Cause it is, it is, it's sad.
Like the whole reason for it has been great. Like for everybody, like social media is awesome, but there's so much of it that is just a cesspool of like angry people.
I'm sure you guys get this too, but like, I have never really had somebody come up to me and say anything that mean. And like, sometimes I have to remind myself part of honestly getting like recognized in public and, and, and taking pictures or whatever has having that happen more often has helped because I think like, sadly, you'd only notice the shit people say.
And when I realized I'm like, dude, everyone is so nice and like personable. And they just like, there there's fans of golf or whatever.
And it's just like, man, that's, that's like refreshing because it is weird. These people, like they look up to you guys.
Like you guys are like a big deal to them. And there will still be people in there saying like, oh, Barstool is stupid.
And they only do X, Y, and Z. And it's just like no one ever actually would say that because they don't act.
I don't even think they actually believe it. They just like they have to be different and hard.
I don't know. It's like truly it sounds cliche, but it it's hurt people hurt people like whenever someone tweets really mean shit at me i'm like like this guy's going through something like i've actually reached like there's been a couple times where i've i remember there's one kid who was like tweeting mean shit to me at like one in the morning i was like laying in bed and i was just scrolling twitter and when it's like that late you can you see the like four tweets yeah and i went to his timeline and he was tweeting like really depressing shit and I hit him up I was like dude are you okay and he was like yeah I'm not like I'm not okay like like that and it kind of like put a face to it where it's like yeah like this makes sense like if you're angrily tweeting at someone at one in the morning you probably have some shit going on in your life it's not going great so I have a little sympathy for it that is a good point it's all but it's also almost always the political activists on twitter yeah that's also that uh man that's nice of you to do that i've never thought to do that uh yeah he did i actually i actually i get it i mean it does make sense if you're i mean most people even in real life like if you're an angry person it's usually because like some you know your wife just yelled at you so you're like the the yelling uh whatever it is the thing from how i met your mother the fucking yelling train and it's just like i don't know man it i think it's a great tool i think it's also like i'm fucking 32 years old i grew up on my phone uh it's fucking fun reading all your guys like tweets and and sports takes from all over the world like i love all that stuff so it's like i'm not gonna get off of it but it is so wild how people just decide like this is the time like this is the time i'm gonna say some shit that i would fucking never say yeah try to really hurt this person's feelings i think sometimes it's people that just they need an outlet to get some takes off yeah so they'll like tweet like fuck you max i fucking hate you you fucking suck and they'll put their phone down and go back to their daughter's birthday party and they're like super happy in that moment but then they meet you face to face and they'd be like oh Max I love you it's just like whatever I need to type these words in this box get sent it's gonna make me feel good for whatever reason they need to do the creed thing like all these fucking angry people just gotta type it into word and like send it to Ryan we can figure out the can we could figure that we can figure out the anger problem this world real fast but i'm telling you that so the so finish that story i think i've told this before but i so better helps a great sponsor of ours i told the kid after he was tweeting me mean stuff and i would dm'd him i was like dude i'll buy you a month of better help go and he it like was a success he was like he hit me up like two months later he was like dude i feel a lot better like that's really sorry it was like yeah this is we shouldn't interact like this you know what i mean like interacting anonymously online is probably not healthy for everyone that is a that's actually really that's really cool now you need to do it to the other three million people yeah but it made me feel like hey if this is what this case was it probably happens yeah for sure and it's like you got to put into perspective that people are just going after you for no reason yeah except us we're going after you for a reason because we're rooting against you we're going to get back to max in a second he's brought to you by part of my cheesesteak part of my cheesesteak is a delivery and pickup only restaurant brand brings you craveable cheesesteaks and loaded fries we eat part of my cheesesteak all the time i had a part of my cheesesteak yesterday it was delicious.
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I don't want... I want you guys to be genuine and just say how you're feeling.
If it's mean, that's fine. If it's nice, that's fine.
I would be so upset if all of a sudden you guys basically did to me what you're doing to Charlie Woods. And you're just like...
No, you'll never, you'll never be Charlie. What are we doing? Charlie Woods.
We've been Charlie Wood fans for 13 years, 13 years. Yeah.
13 years his entire life. We have been rooting for Charlie Woods.
How do you know? There is a Charlie Woods Twitter account, but it's not, it's obviously not him. Yeah.
We run it. Oh, do you? Cause actually would make sense.
It is fucking hilarious. We're like talking shit about people all the time.
You got to look it up after this because it is really funny. You should start a Twitter account, Charlie Woods Goat, and just put all these stats up about how he's the best of all time at his age.
Yeah, you should. That's not creepy, is it? Yeah.
How old is he? 13, I think. Yeah, that's not creepy.
You guys would know. Yeah.
Charlie Woods and Wen Manana, those are our next up. Oh, wow.
Another. Oh, we're on that.
No, you got to get on them young. You got to start.
I don't want to. You think that guy's going to be pretty good at basketball? He's going to be the best of all time.
Really? And I'm a Jordan guy, but I'll concede Wembenyana. He already might be the best of all time.
He's the best prospect. Wow.
I love that you guys are going to be in my town the week LeBron breaks the scoring record. Wait.
What town? In Phoenix. Oh, in Phoenix? But're not gonna be i get to feel your guy's sadness i i personally don't care yeah i've noticed when you don't he's a stack compiler right and when you don't go to college which is not something we should be aspiring for we should have people get educated in this country uh when bign he...
He got studied abroad, so international education. They do differently in France.
Yeah. Listen, you can't change the goalposts on me here.
LeBron didn't go to college. That's why he has that many points.
If he was studying, he wouldn't have that many points. But I mean, it's not...
Kareem was what, one and done? Oh, no, he went all four years. Yeah, he went all four years at UCLA.
And MJ, what? i think he was three years so yeah that's interesting isn't that interesting and also lebron might do steroids maybe make that the headline max homa asked did lebron do steroids that would be the headline of the youtube uh all jokes aside could you imagine if lebron would have played like three years in college what that would look like it? It would be awesome. It would have been so much fun.
What would have been the coolest thing? I wish someone would do this if LeBron had just gone to Akron for one year and just see like how far a talent like that could take back school. Like imagine if Akron goes to the final four with LeBron.
They beat Gonzaga to the final four. Yeah, right.
They get to the final four before Gonzaga. That the final four that would be crazy I mean even like you know uh the ball brothers they went to Chino Hills

high and like you know that's basically where I'm from ish and so my friends would like I've had

friends go to their games to watch like the family and they'll be like dude we got here at so and so

time and like there's fucking thousand people for this high school gym just trying to get in it's

like I don't know if you've ever been to the Drew League, but that's how going to the Drew League is. To this high school in Compton.
And it's just like you would never really go there. And you show up.
We went to a morning game. And apparently Harden, CP3, and Westbrook were coming through that night.
And we were like, man, I don't know if I'm going to stay for nine hours. And we left and, uh, the guys like, yeah, you, you're never get bucking back in this gym.
Like there's going to be so many people here and it's just like crazy. So it'd be fun to see like, you know, not like Duke, not like Kansas where you got these big arenas to see like a, to see what the turnout would be, would be nuts.
Yeah. Yeah.
When do golfers peak? When do we peak? Yeah peak yeah is there like is there like a 17 year old golfer out there that's got all the tools uh there is like an 18 year old kid that's real real good Akshay Batia but he's been he's been pro for like maybe he's 19 now for like two three years uh it's getting younger and younger they just did a stat on uh on uh the top 15 in the world in golf right now for men, the average age is like 26, and I'm the third oldest. Whoa.
That's weird. I feel like for a long time, golf was like a middle-aged man's game.
You peaked in about 33, 34. I'm just old school, man.
I'm a traditionalist. I hit my stride when I got a three in front of my age.
You're building a sustainable game, one that you can play. Have you had to change your swing because you're like well i'm crushing the shit out of the ball but i won't be able to do this for six seven years no that i think that's also why i don't feel old yet is because like my body's hasn't broken down uh but that's what's scary is if these kids are that good when they're 22 and like i was thinking about this the other day i was like man in four years let's say i'm 36 i I'm 36.
I was like, am I still going to be fucking like working at it like this? Because if I slow down, I'm already like scratching to like stay up with some of these kids. But it's like a very 12.
Yeah. But I work my ass off.
Like I outwork the 20 year olds. The problem is that they have a lead on me.
You got to think the mental the mental game because remember we had you on uh i think it was like maybe six months ago and we talked about like the changes you've made and how the mental game were like the the last 25 months is a lot the mental game like that has to be an advantage compared to the young kids because yeah wouldn't you say that like so dumb still. Yeah, right.
But wouldn't you say during your 20s, the mental game was – you probably weren't great at it? Yeah, my mental game was just getting beers later. Yeah, right.
Tucking that away. Right.
Tweeting on Friday nights. Yeah, definitely.
That is an advantage. I definitely – it's been interesting.
My good personal friend Aaron Rodgers was telling me a couple years ago. Sand sandbagger he's a sandbagger why does everybody care he's you said yourself that sandbaggers are pieces of shit and should go to jail on the russillo podcast i thought i said prison but yeah um the uh i don't remember what i was saying oh yeah mental game's important yeah yeah what did Aaron tell you just like what like

he was helping me uh one time I was asking I was like how the fuck do I get better than so-and-so

and he's like go find what they're not good at be so significant like make that your strength and

then and then like that's how you'll like create an advantage and what's funny is you get higher

and higher and up and it's just like people don't have big strengths and I can't like quantify how

good someone's mental game is but um that is becoming like a thing I'm seeing that like

Thank you. people don't have big strengths and I can't like quantify how good someone's mental game is but um that is becoming like a thing I'm seeing that like it might not be something you can put a number to but it's a noticeable difference when I'm out there when I'm at home like confidence does go a long way and and I think some people uh like just in in in life have that fake confidence.
We all people who like. Billy.
They say, Billy. No, Billy's delusional.
Billy's is like, he's like clinically, he was like, he would be like diagnosed with being confident. I'm not sure.
So, but like mine is like true because I've gone from like zero confidence to like some so like i know mine's like a genuine confidence so i feel like that helps where some people you'll probably meet and you're like oh that guy's so confident and to the same thing as the tweeter guy is like man fuck maybe he's not like this is masking it so i think mine is cool because like i do have a foundation based off of a bunch of shit of no confidence hitting the ball bad all this stuff so that when i do play well i feel like i own all of it I feel like I've heard athletes talk about like when you go through swing changes when you go through struggles with your shot in basketball or something like once you like have to relearn how to do it if you can make it better you start to know hey I'm doing x I know exactly how to not do that or do that better and that has helped me because I feel like like I'm like learning all of these things, which has been like an advantage for sure. So like in just in terms of like how your confidence and mental game has grown, is it as simple as bad shot? You're able to just overcome it right away? A little bit.
It's ever changing. but I would say like the general crux of the idea i guess would be that i i need to put more value on how many good shots i hit yeah and i think that's hard when you play i i said this when i first turned pro and what really like fucked me up for a while and like sent me down a rabbit hole was i went on to the driving range uh and i don't mean like we just won it's like, we call these like metaphors.
Um, and I went on and I was just like, Oh man, I would see so-and-so hit a ball. And I'm like, fuck man.
Like I, I need to hit it like that. And I see somebody chip.
I'm like, God dang, I got to chip it like that. I got to put it like that.
Like these guys are so good at that. But I'm looking at like the three guys who are the three best at those things.
You absolutely do not need to be the best at every area of the game to be successful so I'm chasing something that I I know like that that was unattainable to be that good honestly but besides Tiger Tiger's the only person in history that's been the best at like four to five things in golf like it's it's super impossible except maybe for Charlie I guess to your guys' point so it's like it's like now I don don't know. That's the tough part about the youth come up is you don't know yet what great golf is.
And then you start to play and you're like, fuck, man, I've been like, it's been here the whole time. I'm just like chasing something that's not really real.
And it's helpful because it's motivating, but it's not helpful because it's not realistic.

And you might already, if you ever make it in any area of your life,

you're already doing something good.

Just be the best you.

Push that as far as you can.

I'm not going to ever hit a driver like Rory McIlroy.

He hits it way further than me, higher, all these things.

But I can do things within myself to get the ball in the hole the same amount of times he does. And that's kind of the game.
Yes. I mean, it's a very healthy perspective.
It sounds like you've learned that by just knowing that all the work that you put in, that nothing that you're doing is a fluke. Yeah, yeah.
That gives you an advantage. And that's hard.
I mean, that imposter syndrome, like I have it a billion percent. But you hear so many people do Josh Duhamel on your guys podcast like that's he's he's literally preaching imposter syndrome this guy is a really good actor he's incredibly hot and uh very like and he's like man i just don't know if i could be an actor right it's like i think they could just put a fucking picture of you up there for an hour and a half and there'd be at least be a turnout of women yeah that would be like fuck this is a good movie yeah and guys they'd be like this is my new favorite movie uh so i don't know i think that a lot of that just kind of comes from like just a natural thing but there's again there's positive that fuck it makes you work really hard because you're scared it's always going to go away but part of it is like you know the whole kobe bryant stuff like how we talk about um he puts in all these hours that when he plays the game he can turn his brain off and just play it right it's like I do those things and then I get in the game or or on the course and I think to myself it feels different today it's like dude just at some point like my putting coach had the best uh one of the better things I've had a coach tell me on Saturday morning before the final round of farmers my my putting stroke it didn't feel good Friday and it didn't feel very good Saturday while I was warming up and I texted him a video I said does this look okay and all he wrote back was uh it looks plenty good enough to make a lot of putts today like just go fucking putt right it was weird I was talking about it today I was like it's weird how I needed that but like I wanted everything to feel perfect and to be perfect and what I've worked on with my sports psychologist that last couple of months is like, we've been talking about winning ugly.
Like I'm looking at it as exciting for a day where my shit feels terrible and I can still be like, all right, I'm still beating your ass. And it's like, that's fun.
But I am not, I've never been good at that because I think, you know, in the back of my mind, Oh, it's a fluke. Like today's day it's gone.
It's over. It's gone forever.
And like catching that, catching yourself doing that, that's, that would be the confidence to be like, okay, I heard myself say it. She always tells me, she's like, thoughts can be thoughts and they can just move away.
But if I catch that thought, I'm like, Oh no, it's like, no, no, you don't just, it, that's your, that's like, that's your crazy side saying that's it. That's the asshole tweeting the thing at you.
You don't need to fucking take any stock in it. You, you just, I mean, you just explained why your mental game has become like gone

so far as like that thought of I can win this without feeling perfect.

You need to know that.

Cause we all have bad days where it's like, you can still go out there and, and do your

best a day.

And then usually the next day you feel better and it's, you start to feel back to normal.

But I mean, every day shit, like some days with my kid, I'm like feel better right and it's you start to feel back to normal but I mean every day shit like some days with my kid I'm like like off and it's just like I like grabbing for the diaper I'm like doing things out of order and I'm like I don't put stock into it because it's right it's it feels more mindless right but when you're doing your your own thing it's like it gets it gets scary but it's it's also I think why some people make it and why some people don't it's like self-awareness and to me and in sports especially is a big deal because you need to be um in your head without fucking up your head that's i mean that's a great message it's very profound we're going to distill this all down to uh max homa credits aaron rogers for fixing his golf swing perfect felon he'd throw another jail with him He'd throw a different type of tea at you. Yeah.
If you're picking up on a button down. Would you ever take ayahuasca? Like, let's say you had the yips.
Are we allowed to use the Y word? I don't know. I don't know.
If you get the yips, would you take ayahuasca to fix it? Does it fix it? Probably. Then fuck yeah.
You know what? If you ever get the yips, we can be your sports psychologist for a second. If you ever get the yips, just think about how much we'll be laughing at you.
Yeah. And that will get you out of it.
Because if you got the yips, oh my God, it would be like, cancel all my plans. Tough day for me.
I have to sit here and watch max have the yips that'd be a tough day for me i i i would immediately call you and say could i have billy's job i'm out yeah i think that's when billy tweets the very disturbing animal video yeah that's what i need it you'd see me walking on the fairway i'd look at the video right before i hit every shot no that's the harambe video that's when he drops that yeah oh he's been waiting another banger holstering it how many times have you done ayahuasca ayahuasca zero times i don't think i ever would it scares me actually you don't look like you'd be scared of it i'm dead i'm 100 scared of ayahuasca he's not a drug guy i'm not a drug guy i took i ate cardboard in qatar that's as close as i'll come to taking ayahuasca how How was that high? It was actually a really, really awful time to choose to do acid for the first time. You're in a foreign country where drug use is punished by beheading.
You're around 70,000 strangers. Your phone doesn't work, and you're being videotaped.
And you can't watch the football game. Yeah, and I couldn't watch the Bills game.
That checks off the entire, that's a clean sweep of places that you don't want to be when you're doing Ashford. For not a drug guy, it seems like you have to go out of your way to do something so dumb.
Well, I am not actually a drug guy. It just so happens that every time I do hard drugs, it's on camera.
I do my hard drugs off camera yes that's why i can skirt it so i'm

like i i've been unfairly but yet quite fairly pegged as the drug guy yes you get it but it's not it's not you yeah i do have an actual golf i have a suggestion yeah go ahead don't have to do it on camera man yeah that's true it would be a lot cooler if i did that's a fair point uh i have a serious golf question for you Can you give us your top three

Fifth majors

Yeah

The Genesis

Invitational

The Farmers Insurance Open

And the Fortinet Championship

Why did you pick those three?

Oh shit

Man I got a lot of majors

I guess we can stop joking about that one now

That's the max slam

You went three

I don't know. man i got a lot of majors yeah a lot of majors i guess we can stop joking about that one now that's the max slam clear yeah it is you went three i dare somebody to not only play in all three of those but win all of them you're probably the only person to win those three tournaments in it and was that a calendar year or was that 25 months yeah 25 months 25 months yeah that'll be that that's that might be my new running joke yeah just if you can win those three in 25 months yeah man that's the slam i'll get you a jacket yeah are you do you need tips for the u.s open after i shot a 72 at shit yeah that was pretty impressive it was really impressive people don't people always tweet at me that it's fucking not real it's crazy it's like well i respond to yours the other day and like're like, you know, he didn't do that.
I'm like, how? No. Yeah, he did.

I don't know why you would immediately, but talk about haters.

They just can't admit it.

Here's the problem.

I post all my scores every time real people thought it was fake because two weeks later I shot a 136 and they're like, we just talked about good days and bad days.

Right.

I watched one YouTube video, screwed me up.

Yeah.

60 strokes.

I mean, I did the same thing.

I've done done i've literally

done the day after the farmers i went and played golf and i shot 140 right i just shot 66 today it's just the fucking wing kept screwing with me and i didn't have my caddy yeah yeah happens uh another serious golf question what's your favorite club it's hard hitting shit shit hawkasan's pretty fun.

TJ?

I got a seven wood

and it's my favorite

because I love hitting it

but it's hard hitting shit shit hawk is on is pretty fun i got a seven wood and it's my favorite because i love hitting it but it's also funny because most people are like you know why the fuck would anybody have a seven one it's like that's used to be back in the day for like the old man yeah uh but it's it's made a revival in this game so i i like it for both the both the uh practicality of it and for the content yeah okay i like that um all right so i have one last question rowback question promo code take i know you wear rowback on the course even though it's not your sponsor uh rhoback.com promo code or two shirts yeah or two shirts promo code take 20 off joggers polos q-zips everything what are we realistically thinking about augusta this year i'm going to make a bet on you i think you're like 33 to 1 right now kind of disrespectful oh i was gonna say that was really fucking nice no that was district i thought it was i was like damn that's are we feeling confident did you make the cut last year yes okay i remember we almost had the cut slam yeah yeah all right yeah that's right that's right you did you did but then Tiger bodied you because you just were like a little baby just crying quick

side on that he played behind me on Sunday and I finished and he beat me by one and there was like

a long walk from like 18 to scoring and I was there with my family and I turned around because

Tiger's walking up and uh he is it was

the biggest limp i've ever seen in my entire life and i was like fucking that guy just beat me man

i was like yeah and then then it wasn't a real limp no it was fucking accurate it's big ben no

but yeah so realistically this year for the masters i will say um i am i mean you can never

know if you're just going to show up for one week and win it but i am confident i've had a very uh

Thank you. But, yeah, so realistically this year for the Masters, I will say I am – I mean, you can never know if you're just going to show up for one week and win it, but I am confident.
I've had a very – I've had a pattern throughout my career of, like, being a slow learner. And as much as it was, like, a funny joke and I, like, I indulged in the joke, making the cut in it and making the cut in a couple others for the year, like getting the taste of what four rounds in a major feels like, uh, at the PGA where I did play well, there was a part on the back nine where I thought if I like went full blackout, like I could sneak up to like the top leaderboard and at least play some of those holes down the stretch with like some kind of major pressure.
Um, like I do think it helped, uh, the Augusta fits my game. It is just a big, it's a big like spot to be in okay you got this a big spot but i i do feel comfortable my golf game will be there yes i i know that so i just have to go make sure that i i do i do the little things uh right that week um but again part of it like i said i'm just a fucking slow learner so i just needed i needed four rounds right, I'm picking up what you're saying.
We're going to go top 10 this year. So we'll bet top 10, not win.
I think I got it. I think if Max plays his best golf and Jon Rahm plays his worst golf, and Charlie Woods can't elegibly be in the tournament yet.
I think you can definitely win. Would you say that at your best, Peak max, max to the max, You could win at Augusta.
Yeah. Hell yeah.
Yeah, man. Okay, so just do that.
Yeah, do that. Was that so hard? Why, man? You just won right now.
I am a fire of my psychologist. Yeah, green magic, baby.
Yeah, no, no listen let us be the first to congratulate max homa on his master's championship thank you guys what are we having for dinner matzo ball soup baby ready um all right well max thank you i think you're gonna roast some golf swings right now um best of luck we're rooting for you genuinely so we'll say the nice thing right now i am genuinely rooting for you i genuinely like you as a person and consider you as a friend and then we'll cut that part and max you're you're you're not making any cuts oh i have one request yeah uh do we have the lottery ball thing here no we don't we already did it can i i'll we'll facetime you next time we're in studio just keep the number 25 running and i want it to be hank i want 25 to hit before hank gets you're gonna beat him yeah i'm so excited okay awesome i i don't i'm worried for you guys uh you guys can no no no 25 25 25 you're gonna win you get cash can't wait i don't want no no no we'll add it to your career earnings okay perfect yeah 23 million oh wow god damn it this will be perfect this is coming out

two weeks from now. I just won on accident.
You just won by accident. All right, so for people who understand, we taped the lottery ball machine for two weeks because we're not in the office.
Max has no idea because we taped it just between us. We didn't say anything.
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I love Dugues. He's a ride-or-die guy.
Dugues was tasked with being in charge of Billy for his free beer outing. So usually we start with Hank, but I think we have to start Fyre week with billy and duke so uh is there a fire fest uh besides the bad beat we had last night not really what i lost a bunch of beer chugging contests yeah what was the bad beat just so we so uh if you didn't know the pll championship series is going on right now in the first night games uh we watched therimmages we were probably the only reporters who watched the scrimmages and also gave picks and we won the first game we had the atlas in the first game and then we had the chrome in the second game we put out a parlay and straight picks for the atlas and chrome and the atlas won big and we were riding high and we just needed the second leg of the parlay.
And then the Chrome went up by like 10 goals in the second game. But then in overtime seven unfortunately they lost by one goal.
They tied it up. The Archers tied it up with like 10 seconds left.
Yeah, they blew a 10 goal lead. 10 goal lead, 7, what Jake said.
So let me get this right. Are you guys telling me that your plan to break Vegas with the PLL Championship Series didn't work out? Yeah.
Oh, my God. I thought you guys never saw this coming.
Also, Billy's talking like he was watching the scrimmages and he was getting inside information. He was looking at his phone the entire time.
Oh, no looking we were looking up statistics and making content uh-huh okay watching scrimmages yeah you were looking up statistics and making content you're on your phone the entire time instead of being present you're you're such a gen z you're such a zoomer billy so all right so billy you you kind of buried the lead there you went oh and three and choffs. Terrible performance to not even get one single dub.
Dukes, how was Billy entertaining clients at this function? He was really good at entertaining clients. I mean, I'll give him his part there.
I lost him for a little bit throughout the night, which got me a little nervous where he was, but he was just doing chug-offs with the AWLs. I think one thing about the AWLs, if someone that's an AWL comes up to you and they look like they're husky and they're like, Billy, I want to do you in a chug-off, they're probably going to win.
They know they're going to kick his ass in the chug-offs. I like how you phrased that too.
Billy, I want to do you in a chug-off. Yeah.
Billy, I mean. We tried to do a beer for every goal, like Wade Boggs challenge and I think like three minutes into the game it was like 5-4 and I was responsibly mangled did you guys hold on so you guys were going to break Vegas but you didn't realize they score in lacrosse no well.
Well, look, the new PLL Championship Series 6 is actually, I think, like the best lacrosse product I've ever seen. I think it's going to replace the regular rules.
This is so Billy to see one thing and be like, this is the future. Everything is going to be shifted.
Yeah, it is. You guys would enjoy watching it.
I'm sure, yeah. There it i'm sure goals we didn't know it's like all transition it's more like basketball in like the offensive play style and basically we were like okay we're gonna drink a beer for every goal to get scored and then literally there were 90 goals scored 45 in each game all the overs that were posted were just destroyed uh and it was awesome and that's kind of how we were gonna go after it so we can only drink a beer for every five goals i i get that but also in lacrosse there's a lot of goals that get scored so a typical lacrosse game what's it what's like an average score jake 12 11 i'd say there's like 20 total goals in a normal game yeah ever taken this format In this format, it's going to be double.
You'll probably see each side score around 20. So when Billy came up with this challenge, it was under the presumption that you would have to drink 40 beers in like two hours, which is also not realistic.
I'm just curious. Well, the beers weren't full-size beers.
Oh, okay. Yeah.
That's another caveat. They're probably like 10 ounces.
Some would say that's an asterisk then.

You should have put an asterisk next to every single tally mark.

Yeah.

And like with Billy, when he's talking about like the new lacrosse,

it's for like the casual fan.

There's obviously a lot of goals.

So I don't really know how much insight he's giving.

Like it was just cool to drink beers and we were pretty drunk.

And then watching a lot of people score goals, I was like, yeah, this is awesome.

I have a simple brain. I like beers.
I like goals. This is great.
They were shelling the goalies. I'm concerned about goalie safety.
They're like if Beavis and Butthead went to private school. Yeah.
Yeah. To choke.
Billy, did you delete your tweets like calling your shot that this was going to revolutionize lacrosse?'m trying to find it uh maybe yeah because so yeah the tweet okay so the tweet was essentially like listen up if you've never watched lacrosse before this this new champions league lacrosse will be the best lacrosse you've ever seen and it will blow your mind it's like wait but this hypothetical is i've never watched lacrosse before yeah but it sounds like there was another reason why you deleted that tweet like if you if you've never seen lacrosse this will be the sickest lacrosse he said it let's just say like virginia liquor license laws in certain terminology need to be deleted got it okay somehow bill Billy finds his way tangled up with the law everywhere he goes. So overall, how drunk was Billy Dukes? We were pretty deep.
I asked Dukes. I asked Dukes.
I asked Dukes. He was pretty.
I've seen him worse. Okay.
I've seen him entertain his clients at the very best, and he wasn't quite there. I would give him a B+.
All right, so side note, what was he like when you've seen him worse? Yeah, it was pretty... He was just chugging whiskey the last time I saw him.
Okay, all right, okay. This time he was just doing beers.
Respect. What about the beer pong? Did you guys play the giant beer pong? That was the funniest part is that he was clamoring for this beer pong tournament.
Like in the meetings that we had, they were like, what should we do to get fans to come to the beer section? He's like, I think we should really get like a beer pong tournament. Like people would love a beer pong tournament.
It's like an SNL sketch. Sketch.
Yeah, they move on to like the next part of the meeting. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, but back to the beer pong tournament.
I would have put a pin on beer pong. I'll take notes on this meeting, and then you just look at his paper after.
It just says beer pong. And then the guy that set up the whole thing, we see him at the end of the night.
He's like, did you guys enjoy the beer pong? Billy's like, nope, didn't even play it. Come on, Billy.
No, but there's cornhole. You can throw bags.
And there was like big beer pong buckets where you could like shoot on – like it's different than table pong. But really the best part was the seating.
And the beer garden – like if you're going to go to the PLL event, definitely get a ticket to the bar down beer garden because it is awesome. Like you can – you're basically like right on the field and you feel, and you can drink like you're not a VIP.

So it's great.

So what else do you guys have planned?

Are you going to do any sightseeing?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He keeps mentioning.

He's like, do you want to go to the Capitol?

I've never been there.

Again?

No, I've never been there.

I want to see it for the first time.

He's asked me like on the car ride up alone.

He asked me like seven times.

He's like, how funny of a bit would it be if we just stormed at the cabin? Jake, why don't you drive up with them, Jake? Good question, Jake. Oh, yeah, good question.
I was going to drive down with them, but Billy texted me the night before. He's like, by the way, there's a ton of dog hair in my backseat.
It would have been like – I'm like, thanks for that. It's up.
So fortunately, I got a train seat. It would have been like...

I'm like, thanks for that.

It's up.

So fortunately, I got a trained boy.

It would have been really mean to make Jake just be allergic to dog hair for five hours.

Yeah.

That sounds like hell for people who are allergic to dogs.

With all the pressing to go to the Capitol, Billy, you are sounding like a Fed.

You know that, right?

It sounds like you're trying to entrap Duges into something.

Yeah. I don't want to go with him.
you're trying to entrap Dugues into something. Yeah.

I don't want to go with him.

I feel like he's setting me up for failure.

I think it would just be great to shoot TikToks on the Capitol Mall,

like that area with the monument and stuff.

I really just want to take a picture and pretend that the Washington Monument lay down in front of me and pretend it's a penis.

He's basically asking me to do a picture for the eighth grade field trip when you go to D.C. With your buddies.
Billy did say yesterday on Macrodosing that driving through D.C. it's blown his mind because he's seeing the military industrial complex up close and personal and getting all sorts of ideas about it.
I'm interested to hear what the aftermath of this trip is going to be like. Maybe your whole perspective will be changed on stuff, Billy.
Yeah. thing is we're for jake's broadcast tonight we're going to try to do like the longest snake cup ever at a pll lacrosse event so hopefully we get like at least 100 okay sick sick yeah uh by the way good work boys memes found the quote it's if you've never experienced lacrosse before you need to check this out it will be like lacrosse you've never seen which is actually factual because if you've never seen lacrosse before it will be like lacrosse before you need to check this out it will be like lacrosse you've never seen which is actually factual because you've never seen lacrosse before it will be like lacrosse you've never seen i mean it's true yeah it's it's i think this is how the game is going to be played in the future like this is so it's the future of the future of the sport yeah it's the best lacrosse product you can put out it's like awesome okay um which is a highlight machine Sport of the future of the future of the sport.
Yeah, it's the best lacrosse product you can put out.

It's, like, awesome.

Okay.

Which is a highlight machine.

Sport of the future of the future.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay, all right.

Stick around because we're going to do the lottery balls in a minute.

Hank, do you have a fire fest or was it Alabama?

It was Alabama.

The other one I was going to say was that I'm all the way back in on Anthony Richardson.

To tie up, go full circle with it, Stephen Shea, our resident draft expert, knows how much I love Anthony Richardson. And like two weeks ago, he also knows I love value.
He knows my love for value. And he said, Anthony Richardson plus 10,000 or whatever, 100 to 1 to go number one.
And I said, say less. Put it in now I'm now yesterday the news going I when I put it in it was 80 to 1 I think when he told me he put it in the night before so I have it at 80 to 1 to win like six grand so yesterday I'm all the way back in I it was one of those things where I was like yeah Anthony Richardson he could have said anything and I would have been like I'm in Anthony Richardson and now I'm reading all the articles, trying to just will him to somehow become the number one overall pick.
Sounds like maybe for a little piece of that pie, we could start a draft anthonyrichardson.com. Yeah, I'm down.
Okay. We'll think about it.
Cannon arm. Cannon arm.
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All the traits. Elusive.
PFTft what's your fire fest uh my fire fest is i got talked into doing something last week uh it was kind of entrapment that um i'm i'm objectively terrified of doing you're playing an alumni rugby game you're climbing up to like the 50th story of a building uh it's very similar. Oh, boy.
But scarier. Oh, I know this.
Because I was asked and I said, hell no. So large.
Well, that's not the story I heard. So large.
Oh, no. I said, hell no.
So large, you would recognize him. He does Barstool Finance, Twisted History here at Barstool.
He's a big guy. He covers NASCAR for us.
Commissioned referee for Rough and Row rowdy he um he was racing he was asked to go up in an f18 before the nascar race at the poconos later on this year and he was like well i'm a big guy they ran the numbers he was too big to fit into the cockpit of an f18 um and then he asked dave if dave wanted to go up and dave was like absolutely not. They talked to Big Cat.
Big Cat's also too big to go up in the F-18. No, he said I could go up.
I said no. The story I heard was that Big Cat was too big to fit into an F-18.
Large asked me if I wanted to go, so I would assume. And then so Large was like.
If Large isn't going in, asking a guy named Big Cat probably. I mean, Large is a lot bigger than me, like height-wise and probably weight-wise.
It's okay. Like, you're not that big, but you're too big for an F-18.
He asked me if I wanted to do it, and I said, hell no. Yeah, so Large said, well, PFT flies an F-18 in the simulator all the time.
Well, okay, so this is where the story, Large is not telling the full story. Let's see if PFT would be down to do it.
Well, so Large came up to me and said, do you want to do this? And I said, hell no. And I said, but PFT might.
So I put that in his head. Okay.
So Big Cat was too big to fit into the F-18 Hornet. And then he hit me up last week.
I was drunk because I was on vacation. I'd been outside drinking tequila all day.
And I got a text from large saying, hey, PFT, would you want to go up in an F18 Hornet before this NASCAR race? And my reply was, fuck it, which tells you I was in just like a bad state of mind to make that type of decision. And now I'm trapped into doing this thing where I'm going to go up in an F18 and they're going to pull some series Gs.
Now I do have have experience in the cockpit of an F-18, so I'm familiar with the layout, and I know how to work my way around there. But I'm also deathly afraid of heights, and this seems like it's going to be the worst experience ever while also being the coolest experience ever.
That's right. But I'm going to get a flight suit.
I'm going to get the helmet and everything. So that's why I told Large to ask you.
Yeah. Because I know you're death but you also love fighter play I do and maybe they're gonna let me take over the sticks for a second when I'm up there maybe just might be too small for that all I'm saying is if there if there's any balloons up there I'm gonna shoot a fucking balloon down if I see a balloon I'm going to make sure that we attack that balloon what is the movie where the guy goes up in one of those planes and pukes all over himself? It might be Top Gun.
I don't think it is. I don't think I'm going to puke.
I might pass out just from the anxiety of going up there. I've been watching people do it on YouTube because they take people up in F-18 sometimes, the Blue Angels.
And when they do it, they actually pull back hard on the stick. They go upside down.
They make high-speed turns and shit. And I think my body is just – I think my brain is just going to shut down.
I think I'm going to be up there, and my body will go into possum mode where I'll just pass out for a little bit. Aren't you Tom Cruise's height? No, I'm way taller than Tom Cruise.
Isn't that why they chose him for Top Gun 2? No, I think they did that because of Top Gun 1. No, no, in Top Gun 1, they chose him because of his height.
I don't know. He could fit in all the planes.
I don't know. I can definitely fit into an F-18, though.
The cockpit is friendly to five nine gentlemen such as myself. So I'm like, I am excited about it because I'm going to get to actually fly in a jet that I've flown on in the simulator, which is very realistic.

I'm not delusional enough to think that I could land the jet.

Most of my training comes landing the F-18 on an aircraft carrier, which I could do, but this is going to be an airstrip.

But I do think that if they gave me the controls, I'd be able to at least hit the waypoints and shit and pull some sick moves.

So at the same time, I'm deathly terrified of doing this. You're going to be fine.
By the way, I just looked it up. I hit all the requirements.
I'm almost too tall. That's my only issue.
You can go up to 255 pounds. Get Smart is the movie I'm thinking of.
Get Smart. Classic.
You got this, though. You got this.
I'm going to look like George Bush in my flight suit. Mission accomplished.
That actually, looking at the height restrictions, it's actually large is too tall. Yeah.
That's the funniest part. He would have bumped his head on the camera.
Yeah, that's crazy. You can't be more than 6'4".
I think I'm going to have to get back on the sticks in DCS and do some more Ghost of Manhattan streams, too, to get fully

prepared for this. Yeah.
I'm just going to have to

know the F-18 cockpit like

it's the back of my hand. Yeah.

Okay. My FireFest, Hank, I'm going to need

you to leave for my FireFest.

Why? I'm going to need

you to leave for my FireFest. Why? You can come

back in in two minutes. Why?

I'm going to need you to leave for my FireFest.

Leave for my FireFest. I'm asking you to leave for my fire fest leave for my fire fest I'm asking you to leave for my fire fest thank you I appreciate it leave I mean I'm gonna I'm gonna hear it oh okay well thank you that's an extra download we get please listen to the podcast yeah oh I automatically download it please please leave for my fire fest.
Wait, would you listen to the podcast? Yeah. Oh, I'd automatically download it.
Please leave for my fire fest. Thank you.
And goodbye and see ya. Okay.
I miss vacation. Yeah.
Vacation kicked out. I really miss vacation.
It was great. I was like, damn, I really wish I could go back on vacation.
That ruled. Seeing all of us in the studio with our tans, it is pretty nice.
Yeah, like I am a big vacation guy now, I think. What's to stop us from doing the podcast just always on vacation? Vacation.
The vacation boys. Yeah.
Well, I'll tell you what's to stop us. Hank's satisfaction.
Yeah. That's exactly what I had to have him leave the room.
I can't have him be like, yes, let's go on more vacation. If he was in the room right now, he already would be planning his vacation on his phone he is he's i'm slowing it down by at least an hour so yeah that's my fire fest when's your next vacation uh probably memorial day yeah memorial day in june july yeah all right so we'll three months away yeah july we'll take a week off for july 4th bring tim woods back uh but yeah i miss my vacation i miss vacation vacation kicks ass It was fucking sick.
What's not to like about it? Yeah, July. We'll take a week off for July 4th.
Bring Tim Woods back. But, yeah, I miss vacation.
Vacation kicks ass. It was fucking sick.
What's not to like about it? Hank, you can come back in. Hank! Oh, he's not coming back in.
I'm going to text him. Hank! Can't get the lottery ball.
So that was why Alabama said they were going to sue us. Oh, shit.
He's back in. All right.
That was my fire fest.

Jake.

So I've been sitting on this one for a while because we were off last week.

I think PFT, I think I told you about this one.

It was nice to be off last week.

Rewind.

I hated.

I love being with you guys here.

I hated being on vacation.

Yeah, but it's nice to work hard and then.

No, it's nice to work hard. Stop.
Full stop. All right.
Fucking work hard, Hank. Vacation boy, you're a soft bitch.
All these vacations you're taking. I didn't even like doing it.
I wanted to be working with the boys, with the fellas. Jake, go ahead.
I'm taking one after the Final Four. Oh, no shit.
Of course you are. And I'm going to shame you for it because vacation's for suckers and losers.
Jake. So two weeks ago we were in Arizona.
We were at Barstool Scottsdale for Super Bowl Sunday and I had to go to the bathroom at the two minute warning and missed the end. Oh my god.
You missed the end of the Super Bowl? Yeah, Jake was shitting.

I missed the Bradbury holding.

I came back out.

I saw the field goal.

I was just sitting in the floor listening to Kevin Burkhart on the speaker.

It was an emergency.

How bad did you have to go to the bathroom where you couldn't wait for another two minutes? The last two minutes of football for the entire year, you're like, got to go.

Yeah.

It was bad. Wow.
What did you have for lunch that day uh salad acai bowl but we were eating we were eating all night we were eating all night yeah um so yeah unfortunately that was uh the end of the road for me but i got got back out for Buckner's field goal. Now, Jake, being in the broadcast booth, what would happen in a situation like that if you were calling the Super Bowl? It wouldn't because I wouldn't put myself in a position to eat risky food.
Is an acai bowl a risky food? It wasn't from that. It wasn't from that.
Okay. Yeah.
Well, I can't believe you missed the last two minutes of football season. The food was delicious, though.
How could you do that? No, I saw the end. It's the last bite.
You literally had like an ice cream sundae and you just left a little ice cream at the bottom. No thanks.
I don't want it. Send it back.
The human body doesn't care. All right.
Good show, everyone. Monday, we have our good friend Christian Jelich So, I haven't talked to him in a while.
We got him in person in Super Bowl week 2 and it's probably a mistake by us because that means that the ass-eating bet is going to be brought back up all the time. He looks big.
He looks big. He looks like he's been working out.
And also, just a reminder on Wednesday's show, we're going to do a full swing. You mean Jackson Mahomes? Yeah, Jackson Mahomes.
He's the Waluigi to the Luigi. He burned you bad, Billy, with that clip.
Where you're like, I was on vacation all week, and all I could think about was Jackson Mahomes and Christian Yellich lookalike. It was just a take I had.
But it was a part of I was on vacation,

and that's all I could think about.

He conveniently removed the part where I asked

if Jackson eats more ass than Christian does.

Yeah.

He edited that part out.

Yeah, that was smart of him.

But yeah, and then full swing review on Wednesday,

so everyone watch it.

It's on Netflix.

It's fucking awesome.

We'll do that.

We have a couple golfers that will be on with us then.

Hank, have you ever gotten this lottery ball machine i have not oh that's too bad uh dukes do you want to start us off with what number you want and you can have 69 if you'd like 69 yeah take it take 69 i'll do 69 all right nice hell yeah dukes all right everyone else numbers Eight, 96. Take 69.
I'll do 69. All right, nice.
Hell yeah, dudes. All right, everyone else numbers? 8, 96.
17. 99.
Ooh. 4.
Shout JJ, dude. Okay.
Get around with my guy. My son picked three this week.
What? You can't count that high. Can I start bringing in people's guesses? His doesn't count.
I'm just doing it for my own. I'll tweet it.
Fine. I'll start tweeting it.
He'll get it before you, and that'll be funny. What was your number? 99.
Have you ever gotten this? No. Three is missing.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
What an idiot. How did he not know that? I think something else is missing.
What is that? Oh, 60. I thought it was 69.
Oh, my God. That would have been incredible.
No. Oh, my God.
I would have literally murdered dude. It would have just been the rest of Dukes and Billy's day.
It would have been Billy just being like, bro, why did you fucking take my number 69? I took you and he would have won all the money.

Yeah, and he would have won all the money.

He'd be like, well, dude, it's 69.

I had to.

It's great having you on, Dukes.

All right.

Thank you for having me, guys.

Yeah, we'll see everyone Monday.

Love you guys.

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