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Boys! Boys! Now in the street there is violence And I'm not allowed to solve the work to be done No place to hang out or wash in And then I can't blame all on the sun Oh no, we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue And then we'll take it higher Oh, we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, presented by Barstool Sports Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by Roman Go check out Roman right now, ro.co.com Today is Wednesday, December 7th And just when you think Tom Brady is dead, he's back He was dead dead last night too, too. He was so dead.
The Bucs were in my doghouse. I was going to give up watching Bucs football for the rest of the year.
Well, every game's the same. They're so bad.
And I don't know if this is just because I feel like I actually had the Saints last night. Thankfully, I've come around.
Jake reminded us. Tom Brady at night, past his bedtime, is what, 2-12 now against the spread? He's throwing the Bucs.
It's crazy. The Bucs just look slow.
Like, all their offense moves slowly. All their offense is just short passes, like, for four-yard gains where the guy is moving slowly and then gets absolutely brutally tackled.
And it's just boring to watch. And then they came back and won, and it was Tom Brady like, oh, he did it again.
Tom Brady will never die. It was Tom Brady did it again.
It was also that the Saints absolutely blew it. They blew it in so many different ways that they invented new ways to blow it.
I've never seen a running back do what Mark Ingram did. On that, was it a catch out of the backfield or a handoff he when he ran around the right side and he stepped out of bounds a full yard short of the first down marker when he very easily could have just stepped across that first down correct that probably would have put the game away or they would have at least been able to to bleed out a lot more clock at that point and then on the third down right after that they called a pass which went incomplete stop the clock again Tom Brady gets the ball back and when Tom Brady got the ball back when they were down 13 points I think everybody in America did the math yeah after he completed that first pass across the middle and said wait a second it feels like it's 30 points but this is a 13 point deficit Tom Brady's gonna win this game.
And even when he got the ball back again down seven or down six, you knew he was going to win the game. But even still, the Bucs make it so painful.
It's hard to watch. It's not like, oh, some incredible play happens and they win the game.
It's like, oh, they get a few yards here, a few yards on the sideline to the tight end oh touchdown to chris godwin oh it's coming back like it just everything is painful and hard to watch with the box i do want to give credit to brady on that one long pass in the fourth quarter they threw to mike evans it got it drew the pass interference that was a good pass he's still that that that should have been like a 50 yard touchdown catch or whatever it was a good play by the defensive back to interfere with it because he was beat. There was nothing else that he could do at that point.
But that was a good pass. Besides that one little instance, it was the most boring brand of Tom Brady that I think I've ever seen.
And his arm is still there. It's just that he doesn't trust his offensive line.
And it's so apparent that he doesn't trust. I's the difference is Tom Brady if it were no hits on the quarterback he would still be maybe the best quarterback in the NFL but because he doesn't want to get hit why would you if you're 45 years old and it's like I don't want to fucking get smoked by these guys anymore he he like will bail out of plays early or he won't stand in it as long like his arm is still there his His offensive line just sucks, and you know it sucks.
So he's dumping down constantly because he's like, I don't trust these guys. Yeah, and so as much as we've talked about Tom Brady sucking in primetime, people forget Andy Dalton.
Nice guy. You like to always remind people.
Very nice guy. Very nice guy.
I think he's lost his last nine primetime games. I don't even put that game on him.
That pass to Jarvis Landry, who he should have caught. That should have been a touchdown.
There were two drops that I think should have been touchdowns. And then Mark Ingram just not going for the first down for no reason whatsoever.
That was tough to watch. I do have a conspiracy theory.
Maybe it's not a conspiracy theory, but a theory as to why we're not getting our Jameis. I think the Saints know that they fucked up his injury when it happened, when they put him back in.
And I think that they're trying to make sure that they're doing the right thing for his health on the back end of it. And they're like, we don't want to put you in harm's way anymore because we absolutely fucked you over when you had a pretty serious pain, pain everywhere, pain on my back, pain on my legs, pain everywhere.
I think that they really fucked that up when they put them back into that game. And that's why I think that we're not getting James.
They're afraid to play him right now. Yeah.
I like that theory. And it's, yeah, I mean, it just sucks to watch Andy Dalton, Tom Brady, even, even Joe and Troy, I feel like we're a little punch drunk.
They're like, this is kind of, this isn't that fun. It was the least fun time that you could possibly have while watching Tom Brady, who they usually just like give a deep suck to whenever he's on TV.
Yes. It was a painful game to watch.
Yeah. It was the only good part about that game, I would say say was we got treated to a brand new graphic on tv around instead of in the hunt now we're calling all those teams sniffing around yeah which that's listen i love in the hunt i've always loved in the hunt in the hunts the best but sniffing around is pretty damn good well it was i think i'm a sniffing around a little bit of a rant a few weeks no it's troy aikman troy a during the Steelers-Colts game was like, we've been doing this for this long.
Why is it still in the hunt? Can we come up with something different? He's sniffing around. They fucking nailed it.
Anytime you try to mess with a classic like the new Coke, you're usually going to screw it up. This, I think, is better.
It might just be because it's new, but I saw it. Every time I see sniff i just smile i i see obviously they can't put swear the perfect like phrase for in the hunt would just be shitty teams but maybe yeah like that would be great to just have on the ground because that's really what they are it's just you're a shitty team but maybe or just who knows you never know yeah you never know your power rankings are for yeah that's pretty much it though that's like all the teams that are in the hunt in December.
Let's be honest. They're shitty teams, but maybe.
There should be an extra category of like, you never know. Like, you're not mathematically eliminated yet.
Dude, you know who put a fright through my, a chill through my spines when I was looking at this upcoming week? The Las Vegas Raiders are 5-7. Yeah.
I didn't realize that. They've won three in a row.
I didn't realize that, and they play the Rams on Thursday night. They are my pinky team.
I would say there's a 0% chance they're winning the Super Bowl, but there's not a 0% chance they're not going to make the playoffs anymore. Yeah.
There's now a grouping of teams. It's the Lions, the Browns, the Steelers, and the Raiders, who if you're a fan of any of those teams, you can essentially tell yourself, if we win out, we'll be in the playoff.
And that's kind of a fun thing to do because you're all 5-7, so you can finish 10-7. You figure you'd make it.
You could make it, yeah, for sure. And on the NFC side of things, it's basically going to be a battle.
There really shouldn't be that many teams sniffing around in the NFC because it's really just the Giants, the Commanders, and the Seahawks. I think two out of those three teams.
The Lions, if they have to win out. Yeah, they're going to win out.
They've got to win out. Put them in the category of not out of it yet.
Yeah, no, they are in the win out portion. And then the Packers are in win out mode too.
Yeah, yeah. You know what? The Packersers got to run the table what will end up happening is the lions will probably win out until they play the packers week 18 and the packers will fuck the lions yep because that would just be how it always works that's probably it uh hank what did you think about watching your guy tom brady thought he looked good won the game championship winners win winners win straight't cover, which is unfortunate, but they win.
Do you think that he'd be happier if he was back home? Yeah. I think he wants to be back in New England.
No, I was going to say San Fran, too, because he met with Aaron Judge before the game. Yeah.
And he said that he was recruiting him, that he gave him his best offer. I think that means that he was recruiting him to San Fran, be a Giant.
No, the Yankees spring training facilities in Tampa. No, he was definitely recruiting him for the Giants.
It would be such a Tom Brady. The town you grew up in, the sport you don't play in, that's still your favorite team.
He grew up a Giants fan. He's still a Giants fan.
That's fine. So he's pitching Aaron Judge to the Giants.

Yeah.

Right? Yeah.

Which is where Tom Brady's going to play next season.

That would actually be electric.

I was saying... I don't think it's going to happen.

This is like Francesco.

The San Francisco Giants and the York Giants.

Him with Shanahan. Which one?

I was saying that

how big of a power move would it be if they had lost last night, if Tom Brady was like, Bucs, just cut me. That would be awesome.
And then just go sign with the 49ers? Yeah. He's like, Bucs, I got you a Super Bowl.
Well, I mean, Hank, I was thinking to win a Super Bowl this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Would you say that the 49ers might be in a better spot this year? I guess. The Patriots are still sniffing around.
Yeah, they are. But that would be the ultimate.
He's the only guy who could ever pull it off. Just being like, cut me.
Our offensive line sucks. I gave you guys a Super Bowl.
We sold out tickets. Just cut me.
Let me go play for San Francisco, and I'll win a Super Bowl. He could just say, like, I have been cut.
Yeah. And then everybody else is under his spell in Tampa.
They'd be like, oh, yeah. I guess we cut him.
I guess we cut him. I was actually thinking about this.
If Tom Brady goes to the 49ers next year, is he now a ring chaser? Yeah. Like, he's not because he won six rings in his original team.
But isn't it kind of funny to be like, oh, the back portion of his career is a ring chaser? I feel like people joined him in Tampa to chase rings. Yeah.
So I wouldn't say that. But if he went to the 49ers, would he then be a ring chaser? For that one instance, I would say.
I wouldn't call him going to Tampa a ring chasing move. It's just a hilarious concept.
Back his net zero rings when he's been on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It's just a funny concept because Tom Brady's like the creator of rings.
He's not a ring chaser. He creates them.
So it's like to have the idea that he would be a ring chaser at the end would be very funny. I do like the idea of, well, I mean, again, what we're doing right now is just imagining more people in Kyle Shanahan's system playing quarterback.
Yeah. It's not going to be Baker.
That's what I've heard. No.
Now I've heard we're recording this before Baker has gone through waivers. But the first news that I saw today regarding that was Kyle Shanahan leaking word out that he was not interested in Baker.
And then word came out later that Sean McVay was interested in Baker. I think that McVay just wants Baker to keep him away from Kyle.
And Kyle's acting like, oh, I don't want this No, we're not even planning on picking him up off waivers. Baker would be fun in Kyle Shanahan's office.
He would be very fun. Yeah.
I mean, no, that was Manziel. I was going to say.
Kyle Shanahan was with the Browns. Yes.
Well, it was. But it was Johnny Manziel.
It was Johnny Manziel and RG3. Yes.
In Cleveland. And RG3 said, I directly quote this, that would make too much sense.
Too much sense. For RG3 to play out for the 49ers this season.
Wow. Too much sense.
All right. Other NFL news.
The Titans GM got fired. John Robinson, middle of the season.
First place team. Pretty rare.
Everyone is assuming it was because of A.J. Brown, which I know that's probably not the case, but it is.
It didn't help. I mean, A.J.
Brown just completely obliterating them, and John Robinson was like, yeah, we don't need A.J. Brown.
We'll just trade him, and we'll draft a wide receiver. This will be fine.
And then they get exposed, and he gets fired two days later. I'm going to say, yeah, you know what? That is exactly why he got fired.
I'm sure it's definitely part of the equation. Like the beatdown that he put on the Titans was significant enough where they probably got into at least an argument about it later.
They're like, didn't we used to have that guy? Yeah, it was a point of discussion. You could not ignore the fact that it was A.J.
Brown that did that. But do the Titans really need a GM? Because I think Mike Vrabel just sees big people and he's like, just sign me the biggest player at each position that you can find.
So just give me the guy who wants to be in a fistfight. Yeah, just the largest.
I want to have the heaviest team in the NFL. Yeah.
Actually, that'd be a cool metric to track. Who's got the heaviest? Who do you think has the heaviest team in the NFL? That used to be a thing I would look at preseason for offensive lines, because that would – if you just have like a bigger offensive line, it usually translated into having better run game and everything, just leaning on people.
I might try to work on a metric around that. Heaviest – you got it, Billy? Someone definitely tracks it.
Yeah. Heaviest team.
This is in the past 50 seasons. Oh.
Okay. And it's been the Ravens in the past 50 seasons oh that makes sense yeah the Ravens are every single year they don't have wide receivers ever 2004 yeah Des Bryant was their wide receiver one yeah fucking tackle okay these guys are doing it by BMI and Patrick Ricard is a running back and he weighs 310 pounds.
True.

Yeah, keep looking at that. Billy, that sounds like something, maybe a project for you, Billy.

Yeah, I'm on there.

You want a special project, Billy?

Yeah, I'll take the roster away.

I would like to see that.

Yeah, Billy.

Actually, I might be able to do this by the end of the show.

Okay.

All right.

We need to have a discussion about over-promising and under-delivering.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Because Billy has it completely reversed.

Do not.

Do not.

Do not.

Like copy-pasting all the way.

No, you got it.

You got it.

Yeah, definitely. Sounds easy.
All right. Do not.
Like copy pasting all the way. You got it.
Yeah, definitely.

Sounds easy.

All right.

Let's talk some college football while you do this, Billy.

You got this.

A few minutes later.

Yeah.

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Jim Boeheim is completely torn down there. They haven't been good in 10 years.
They've had good tournament runs, but they haven't been good. Yeah, and no one wants to say anything about it.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy. It was one of those random tweets that I sent out because I was just watching Syracuse get obliterated and then like all the syracuse people were like finally someone who's not like someone outside of syracuse is saying this yeah is that it's weird jim boeheim is they have not destroyed the program except for the tournament but that's good enough for some people you're just gonna take out another legendary coach is that your thing no no so people i actually said a nice thing about Coach K in the tweet, Hank.
I said as annoying and narcissistic as Coach K's one year retirement tour is, at least he didn't burn the whole program down like Jim Bayhut. Some people that get older, they just don't know when to let go of the wheel.
Let somebody else take it over. Or hit the break.
the break. Yeah.
Since the Final Four. Mm-hmm.
The post-Coach K era. What? It was my first time seeing them in person since, you know.
Yeah, that's true. That's a good point.
I mean, it's only like six games in, but yeah, I like it. Is he still running the zone? Jim Boeheim? Yeah.
Well, he stopped a little bit last year. That's why I'm asking about this year.
Yeah, there in and out, but mostly. Yeah.
But last year, remember, remember, they actually steered away from it quite a bit. That pissed me off.
If you're Jim Bayhime. They beat Notre Dame on the road.
They're 1-0 in their last one. If you're Jim Bayhime.
Well, they played a night against Oakland, so we'll see how that changes. You have to go to your death running that 2-3 zone.
3-2 zone, whatever you want to call it. The hybrid.
All right. College football.
We have our Final Four. I think they got it right.
Would you agree, PFT? I still would have loved for USC to be able to win that game Friday night. I do think that Caleb Williams getting hurt changed the whole course of that game.
Utah was great in the second half, but I think they got it right. Ohio State sneaks in.
Bama should not have been in. People were – were nick saban we talk a little bit about this with biz and uh whitney nick saban getting in front of the media and doing his tour where he was like you know our our team like ask everyone who they'd want to at least play it's us like who would vegas have favored the guy who never will talk about vegas will never like you know rat poison rat poison constantly.
He's up there saying, like, his team is the most dangerous team. It was pathetic.
Yeah, it was pathetic. They got the top four right.
I don't think anybody was really surprised by it. I want to know who asked Nick Saban to do that.
It wasn't his idea. No.
That's not a Nick Saban idea. They just basically said, hey, Nick, do you mind putting in an extra three hours of work and just sucking up to the powers that be just in case and yeah it was beneath him it was it was beneath Nick Saban it was gross to watch to beg uh don't I don't I don't like that I didn't like that image I didn't like watching him on TV uh I do think that it's like the most obvious final four of all time yeah I think they got it they got it perfectly right and it's always the precedent has been set they'll never take a two loss teamloss team over a one-loss team.
And TCU being in is going to be fun, different, purple. We've had purple since Washington.
Pac-12's out for another, I think, sixth year in a row, seventh year in a row. The Hypnotoad is back.
I like that. Hypnotoad's fun.
The TCU football account always has the best weirdest videos that they put out. I don't know what kind of drugs they're taking, but I want some.
They're incredible. So at least we'll have one game of that to look forward to.
Yeah, by the way, we're saving one question with the quarterback for Friday because I think it will be actually Max Duggins. So be ready for that.
So that's why in person because he got nominated for the Heisman, which we could talk about that as well. Hendon Hooker did get screwed.
He got fucked. He got totally screwed.
He got fucked. They did Tennessee fans dirty on that one because if you've watched any Tennessee football and watched any Georgia football this year, one of those guys is very clearly a better quarterback than the other.
Obviously, Stetson Bennett is very good at what they ask him to do. Listen, when he first started playing quarterback at Georgia, I think everybody was like, okay, the second they get somebody else on campus, they'll replace this guy.
Stetson Bennett has turned into a really good quarterback. Yes, he's 25.
Do you know he's the same age as Lamar Jackson? Is he? Hendon Hooker is probably older than Lamar Jackson. How crazy is that? Because he's like a six-year senior.
Is Hendon? Yeah, because he was at Virginia Tech for a while, coming out of Greensboro, North Carolina, Stammy's Barbecue. And now he's, yeah, he's, I think, 25 would be my guess.
He's 24. Hendon Hooker's 24.
Yeah, so we got some old heads. But it's fucked up what they did to Hendon.
I think they are punishing him for tearing his ACL. Yes.
And obviously, the loss against South Carolina, that's – It wasn't good, but you can't blame Hinden for having his defense get, what, 60 points hung on him or whatever it was? Yes. So, yeah, he got fucked over on that one.
But, yeah, the committee got it right with the top four. There's also been a lot of discourse regarding crying as a quarterback.
Oh, yeah. Because Duggan cried and then Caleb Williams cried.
And then Caleb Williams, many people were saying he was taking a shot at Max Duggan with a tweet that he put out there about Max crying. And then he tried to backtrack and say, no, no, I'm just saying that you guys aren't keeping that same energy when he cries as when I cry.
Well, I think that that probably is true. It also probably has to do with the fact that, and Caleb Williams did this before every game.
He would paint on his nails, fuck whatever team he's playing. It went viral before his game against Utah.
It said, fuck Utah. There might be more reasons why the energy wasn't kept the same, but when fuck Utah is on your fingers and you cry,

people are going to relish it.

Yes, exactly.

They are.

They just are.

That's how it's going to work.

But, yeah, the finalists are what?

It was Stroud, Max Duggan, Caleb Williams, who's going to win it, and Stetson.

And Stetson, yeah, I just looked it up.

He is the same age.

Lamar Jackson is going into his fifth year in the NFL,

and Stetson Bennett is still in college.

There should be one non-quarterback nominee every year.

I agree.

I don't know. Yeah, I just looked it up.
He is the same age. Lamar Jackson is going into his fifth year in the NFL, and Stetson Bennett is still in college.
There should be one non-quarterback nominee every year. I agree.
That might be an old man take on my part, but listen, I know it's going to go to the quarterback that performs the best on the best team. That's generally where it's going to end up.
Blake Corum should have been on there. Blake Corum, he would have been a good addition.
B. robinson would have been an addition to it yeah it's i mean i agree it should because it does it does basically end up just being every single year just the quarterbacks i mean it's besides the kale williams who's gonna win it it's the quarterbacks of the of the final four yeah like how stupid is that yeah and um i guess we can take this time to preview.
We've got the low man trophy.

Oh, yeah.

Nation's top fullback.

Many people would say that's a more prestigious award.

Agreed.

Then the Heisman trophy nominees are the ballots are out right now for the for the nominees.

I sent them out this week.

The panel is esteemed as ever.

We have Lorenzo Neal, John Kuhn, Mike Allstott,stott Tom for I mean Hank Lockwood we have Andy Staples on there Anthony Sherman from the Chiefs and Aaron Ripkowski former Green Bay Packers fullback we got a lot of guys that are voting oh Alec Ingold from the Dolphins so we're collecting the votes this week and we've got a special announcement we'll be making later about when we're going to be doing the actual ceremony. But we do like to acknowledge the fullbacks of America on this podcast, so I'm very excited to talk about that.
Yes, absolutely. The transfer portal makes no sense to me anymore.
Everyone's in the transfer portal. JT Daniels is going to play for like seven years.
It's every single player. Every single player i feel like has been in the transfer portal i can't keep up with it obviously i saw like my guy graham mertz did the transfer portal then it was like a list of all these other guys like wait is this even important i don't know i don't know if it's bad good what's going on honestly like if i was if i was a like above average talented college football player i would do exactly what some of these guys guys are doing and just travel the country for five years.
Well, yeah, and if you can be good with multiple teams, you get multiple, like, hey, that's where I can go back and see people. Yeah, exactly.
I would play in every single Power 5 conference if I could. And it's also like when you play, like Caleb, our colleague, is the perfect example.
He played Division I football as Mitch's backup. He has so many connections in the sports world just from playing there because of all his coaches who then go other places.
I would just go to five different schools and just get connected everywhere. Yeah, move around.
Move around. See the country a little bit.
You're essentially getting paid to live in awesome college towns. Yeah.
If you're not going to go to the NFL and make a shitload of money immediately, if you're not going to be a super high draft pick, then yeah, move around. Have a good time.
Yeah. Slovis is back in it.
Slovis is back in it. He's moving around.
Yeah. Who else did I see? I just like the term transfer portal.
Yeah. It's such a cool sounding thing to do.
I want to enter a portal at some point in my life. I'm in the portal.
Did Anthony Richardson enter or no? He's in the draft. Oh, he's in the draft.
The ultimate portal. The job portal.
Okay. Yeah.
He's a stud. Yeah.
No, no, no. That'll be good.
You know what? Once he learns how to read a pass option, he's good. I predict that somebody's going to ask him to work out as a tight end and he's going to be like, no, I'm a quarterback and then everyone's going to be like, wait, are you really a quarterback though? Are you sure? Yeah.
Hey, he might be good. He's raw.
He's raw. He's got talent.
He's got a lot of talent. He's got a rocket arm.
Rocket legs. Rocket legs.
Yeah, did you see Keyshawn Boutte is staying, which is crazy. Oh, really? Yeah really yeah for his senior year i thought he was going to come out last year yeah but it actually makes sense for him because the year didn't go great and he's like yeah i'm staying that's got that's such a great feeling to have a guy who's like a really really good player staying for an extra year in college sports like holy shit we get an extra year with guy.
I hope that actually ends up being part of the NILs,

like guys who, you know, maybe their draft stock,

maybe when they came as a freshman they were supposed to be a first-round pick,

had a couple bad years or tough years,

end up being like three or four, fourth-round pick.

They're like, fuck it, I'll stay.

I'll make money, and then hopefully my draft stock will go back up.

That's cool because it is like I've always seen it both ways

where if you're the player yourself, you want to make money and you want to be sure that like you're not risking injury for nothing. So, yeah, by all means, go to the NFL.
But it's also just cool to have guys that stick around on your campus and become like a face of your entire university that are there for like four years. Exactly.
It builds up like it builds. People care more about the team if they recognize the the guys it was also really funny because everyone expected him to leave so he posted his whole message and uh it like was saying like there's unfinished business and the first like five replies was like uh like you're gonna you're gonna be a raider bro like good luck like all these because they didn't expect him to all were like, all right, man, like, thanks for all you've done.
Like, good luck in the draft. It's like, read the actual message.
I like that. Yeah, read the actual message.
Breaking moves. Breaking moves.
The Rams have claimed quarterback Baker Mason. Oh, there it is.
Yeah, it makes sense, because what are we to do? I'm telling you, like, Sean McVay, the photographic memory that he's cursed with, if you saw it, do you see that last play on Sunday, the interception that Wolford threw down the middle of the field? The fact that he has to remember that for the rest of his life, he experienced that on Sunday. He was like, fuck that.
I'm not going out like this because that was maybe the worst pass that I've ever seen attempted at the NFL level. He put his entire body into it, tried to throw it 45 yards downfield, threw it about 20 yards downfield to a linebacker that didn't have anybody within 15 yards of him.
So McVay's like, okay, gimme Baker. Wow, they're saying he might play Thursday.
That would be awesome. They shouldn't even let him look at a playbook.
How fun would that game be? I mean, like, Thursday sucks. Raiders versus Rams sucks.
What if McVay was like, we signed Baker. We're not going to give him the playbook.
Let's see how it goes. Yeah.
Fuck it. Let's have fun.
Let's do it. And I also think that I think Stafford might be done.
He might be done done for his career. I think that, like, whatever injury he's suffered, the way been handling it has been really hush-hush and not giving any details.
That leads me to believe that he's not in great shape right now. And guess what? Obviously, I hope he keeps playing, but if he has to retire because of a spinal cord injury, I think he's definitely going to be a Hall of Famer.
Yeah. Because people will be like, wow, he gave everything.
Yeah. And his numbers – I mean, he's still got to probably play a few more years to be a Hall of Famer.
Well, with Baker, I actually – I'm not done believing in Baker Mayfield yet. This might be weird.
He sucked on the Panthers, but – I'll do one worse. I like Baker.
I'll do one worse. I'm not done believing in Sam Darnold yet.
All right. I mean, it's stupid.
I know. I know.
That is worse. I know, that's way worse.
I like Baker. I'll do one worse.
I'm not done believing in Sam Darnold yet.

I mean, it's stupid. I know.

That is worse. I know.
That's way worse. That's way worse.
No, but with Baker...

I actually, I like this for Baker.

This went about as good as

he could have hoped for. He went from getting

benched behind Sam

Darnold and P.J. Walker

to now getting picked up

by Sean McVay in the Rams and having Cooper Cup on his team for next year if he sticks around. It might be dumb.
It might be naive of me. No, I'm with you, dude.
I'm buying Baker Mayfield's back. I can't give up on these guys.
I'm buying it. I mean, Mitch.
First overall pick. We were talking about Mitch being on the 49ers.
Could you imagine that? Oh, it'd be awesome. It'd be sick.
Soupy. be sick soupy yeah soupy soupy season oh last thing about college football i literally just said i want robert griffin iii on the san francisco 49ers we have problems giving up on people that we get attached to uh last thing on uh college football that uh satterfield thing so he was he's a coach of louisville he got hired at cinc.
They play in a bowl game together, and the bowl game is at Fenway Park where the dimensions of the stadium only allow one sideline. So, yeah.
I don't think he'll be... He probably won't coach either team, but it's a very funny thing.
He said he's not attending. Yeah, he won't attend, but the fact that he went from one team to another, they're playing in a bowl game, and there's only one sideline is very funny.
That is very funny. He's the guy that loves the airport in Louisville.
That's going to be bittersweet when he flies out. Yeah, he said the best thing about Louisville is 15 minutes away from the airport.
One last time. One last time hitting the road here.
That's one of those, I don't know if, listen, I took Cincinnati cincinnati's coach so i'm trying to be nice but you can always kind of judge a a higher when like scott satterfield goes to cincinnati and a lot of louisville fans were like thank god yeah yeah like well see you dude they're pumped because they want to get bobby petrino back yeah which would be sick that would be how amazing would that be he rides into this motorcycle with a bitch on the back oh it'd it'd be awesome. It would be fucking sick.
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I've never felt more sick while podcasting. Also, Billy, I did say AFC West, so I apologize to you.
That was a poor performance from me. Hey, listen.
Poor performance from the U.S. soccer, too.
I had Panama brain, so we were all banged up. I was just so off the whole show.
I mean, I puked my guts out after. I had my normal brain.
It was bad. So I would have bet my life that we had talked about it on Sunday.
That's how off I was. So, yeah, U.S.
lost, Netherlands. Netherlands is just a much, much better team.
We would possess the ball for like 75% of the game. They would get it, go on a breakaway, and immediately get a chance.
I did at points feel like I was a hockey fan, just yelling, shoot it. Yeah.
Just shoot it. Just shoot the ball.
Very frustrating. And play defense.
We don't have any strikers on the team. Just leaving guys wide open.
We need Pepe. Pepe, El Tren.
The train should have been on the team. That's what I have to say.
But, yeah, then Ronaldo, my goat, got benched. People don't like Ronaldo.
I don't understand. He's a bitch.
Yeah. I mean, he's just bigger and taller and stronger than everyone.
He just stands right next to the goal and just goes like this. Goal, goal, goal.
He's sweeping his leg. And he demands to take every penalty.
And what did they score? Six goals today? And he didn't play? He played the last 20 minutes?

Gotan.

Yeah, but they're better without Ronaldo is the fact.

They have not played this well.

He'll probably leave the squad.

He'll leave before the World Cup's over.

He's going to do an interview with Piers Morgan,

and then he's going to transfer to Saudi Arabia,

and then they'll put Saudi Arabia back in,

and they'll win on PKs.

Also, when Ronaldo, when he steps up. I hope they win the whole damn thing.
When he steps up to take— It won't be because of Ronaldo. No, he's going to get the game-winning goal.
When he takes a direct kick, a lot of times he'll just stand there, and he'll lift his shorts up, and he'll just stand there waiting for people— Pre-Madonna. —to take pictures of him because he's like, this is going to look so sweet on Instagram later.
Watch Messi highlights one time and tell me that's not just the most beautiful thing you've ever seen.

Yeah, I think both can be true.

Okay.

Just Ronaldo greater than him. You just decided this one time you're not going to take a side on a GOAT debate?

No, Ronaldo's the GOAT.

Messi's great, too.

No, he's not.

No, he's not.

Neither one of those guys are the GOAT.

They're going to.

My cool throwing, I have a couple.

First one's Brian Cashman.

I'm sure Jake is thrilled.

He's back.

Yankees GM. Oh, good.
Signed him for four years. I'm sure Jake is thrilled.
He's back. Yankees GM.

Oh, good.

Signed him for four years.

Nice.

So that's good.

Probably help with the Aaron Boone negotiations.

That was probably really tough negotiations to get Brian Cashman to re-sign.

They're like, hey, you want to keep your job?

Yes.

Where?

How?

How much?

Okay, cool.

What other offers do you think Brian Cashman had?

Was he going to go be a window washer somewhere and climb buildings full-time? He would have been on Yes Network as an analyst, probably. Yeah, true.
Yeah, just being like, here's how I would have fucked up this negotiation. Then my other cool thrones, Ralph Rowdy, Providence.
Yes. Fucking Providence kid.
Yep, Bobby Lang versus Pac-Man. Pac-Man Jones, Grace O'Malley, the girl, Susie from David Dobrik's vlogs.
I don't know if anyone here watches this vlog. Is she fighting Grace? She's fighting not Grace, but someone else.
I don't want to know who Grace is fighting. Because Grace is going to fucking put her in a coffin.
I don't want to catch any feelings. No feelings to be caught.
Right. I'm saying don't even tell me your name.
I won't. Because Grace is going to put her in a coffin.
But rough and rowdy. The last one in Providence was it just feels right in Providence.
A lot of mass holes, a lot of people there. Last one in Providence.
Very, very rowdy. I sang the Canadian national anthem and got booed so hard I started laughing.
People started chucking beers at me. It was one of the funniest moments ever.
It was extremely, extremely rowdy at the fucking dunk. I was just getting booed and I couldn't stop laughing.
Yeah, and it was hilarious. It was a very, very, very funny rough variety.
This one should be bigger and better because it's at the dunk this time. Should I do it again? Should I do it in French? Yeah, I think the girl Susie's fighting as a Canadian YouTuber.
Yeah. All right, so maybe I'll do it again and just get booed again and just start laughing.
Yeah. Fuck.
Friday night. All right.
PFT, what's your hot seat, Cool Toronto? Well, hang on real quick, Big Cat. Oh.
Per Adam Schefter, doctors concluded today that 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo does not need foot surgery. It is not a Liz Frank.
Well, no, this is breaking news right now. They were examining him to see if he had a Liz Frank or not.
I'm not going to go full. He could have a chance to return in seven to eight weeks making him a potential playoff contributor it's a breaking meh yeah i i saw it this morning that he was possibly didn't have liz frank meh like okay cool so you're gonna just throw jimmy g in like in the nfc championship game yeah they might yeah because that's like the the seven to eight weeks now you're basically saying that brock purdy has won a playoff game and then you're going to put jimmy g in or josh johnson yeah i don't think so um my hot seat is the washington nationals 2018 lineup because congratulations max max signed trey turner nice former nat uh maybe the best I'd say he's a six tool player.
He's like invented a. Nice.
Former Nat. Maybe the best.

I'd say he's a six-tool player.

He's, like, invented a new tool. That's how good he is at everything.
As Hank would say, running for power. He's also good at that.
And sliding. That's his extra tool.
So Trey Turner is now on the Phillies. That means I did look back, and I looked it up.
The 2018 Nationals had Max Scherzer, Trey Turner, Bryce Harper,

Anthony Rendon, Juan Soto, Adam Eaton, Ryan Zimmerman,

Howie Kendrick on their team.

It's fun, right?

It's fun to see all those.

I did the same thing as you just a year earlier.

Now, we did get a World Series out of it, which is all that you can hope for.

But at the same time, you look at that and you're like, that was a dynasty. We had a dynasty on our team.
But at least we got one World Series. My other hot seat is the Hall of Fame.
The Baseball Hall of Fame. Because Barry Bonds is not getting in again.
Yeah, but shout out to Crime Dog. Yeah, Fred McGriff's getting in.
That's pretty cool to see. Love the Crime Dog.
Great name. Great great great nickname but the hall of fame i don't know every every year that they don't let barry bonds in it just makes me hate them more it's so stupid the best player in the history of the game if he's not in your hall of fame you know what i vote barry bonds is the first member of the part of my take hall of fame okay when are we opening it? I don't know.
A couple years.

We have to do construction on it. Get some plans.

But yeah. He'll be the first.

You get a pizza party.

Barry. Pizza party for Barry Bonds.

Congratulations. And you come on the show.

Open invite. Done.
Very cool.

My cool throne is

Qatar and the

Emir because Donnie

has our first video coming out at the end of the day today as you're listening on Wednesday. So we're breaking it down into two separate videos of the trip over to Qatar.
This one is about how Donnie got off on the wrong foot with the Amir. I had to come over there and save his ass.
Which one has the crimes in it? I think they both probably have crimes. But the second video has a crime that probably would have gotten me executed in Qatar.
I broke a pretty big law. I broke a pretty big law.
We held hands. Yeah.
No, we did. We did some things that I said I wouldn't do when I went over there.
And then Donnie just so happened to be the one person that can talk me into doing these things. And so luckily, we escaped Qatari airspace.
It was an Argo situation where we were flying out. And once I left the airspace, I was like, okay, thank God I'm leaving Qatar with my life.
But you'll have to tune in and find out on donnie's youtube page so be on the lookout for that love it all right my hot seat is the office i don't know if you guys saw this trending all day but mindy kaling i guess was interviewed and she was like yeah the office would have been like if they had the office today it would have been canceled because it's so edgy and i I don't really know what... Like, if The Office today was made today and it was canceled, then comedy just truly is dead.
Well, I think what she was getting at was... I think she's right, though.
No, no, no, no. Because the thing that The Office did really well...
No, Hank. They're dumb characters.
Yes. If Michael Scott is doing something stupid, it's not like you're saying Michael Scott's a genius for being homophobic and racist and all that stuff.
It's like Always Sunny. Always Sunny is like the worst people you could ever imagine.
That's what they play. You know that they're bad people.
I understand the concept of the show. I don't think you do.
Yeah, you don't. No, I do.
No, I think you think Michael Scott's a real person. No, I don't think you understand.
You think the actual filming is real. You root for Michael Scott.
Yeah, you do. You think that they're actually filming a documentary.
It has nothing to do with the show itself. It is with how people react to things in today's day and age.
All right. So if that's the case, then comedy is officially dead.
Because the office is funny. I mean, Dave Chappelle gets canceled every day.
And he's the most successful stand-up comedian in the world. But also, how would they?

He says funny shit, and then everyone's like, this is outrageous.

But then how would you say?

So he's not canceled.

He's wildly successful.

But then how would they?

But he's on a network TV show.

You don't need a network TV show.

But also, the cock.

They're on a network TV show.

Or they just fucking put it on Patreon?

No, but Peacock literally invented Peacock because of The Office.

The NBC streaming service, the main driver was the office. I am understanding of how funny the office is and how popular it is.
I think you think it's a documentary. No, I just...
I think you actually think it's documentary. Those are real people.
I think people would get offended. All right.
Despite the fact that it's comedy and it's a joke, people would get offended. They would have a lot of backlash towards NBC and they would take it down.

Here's what would happen.

You'd have a lot of people online that don't actually watch the show.

Right.

See a clip of it.

That's how it works.

And complain to NBC.

And then everybody out there that watched it, which would be tens of millions of people would be like, fuck you.

We're keeping it on.

And I think it would stay on.

Like it's the canceled us. The characters on the show.
That was funny. Shout out Ziggs.
It was very funny. Do you know who I was talking about? What the fuck? Am I like...
What's going on? What? You guys are tripping me out. Why? I don't know.
PFT was the only one replied when I said I saw Ziggs. Shout out Ziggs.
Shout out Ziggs. You don't remember Ziggs? What the fuck? Yes, I remember Ziggs.
I don't remember Ziggs, bro. What if Ziggs got his cancel? Was he a producer? Yeah, he was a producer on TVT.
He was driving by me today when I was walking out of my apartment and he's just like, Barstool Van Talk. I thought I was just like a fan and I look and he's like, Ziggs.
I was like, whoa. whoa Ziggs yeah dude Ziggs will always be famous for the

fact that we uh we tried to do a segment with Dan Patrick where we lit him on fire yeah in the back of the van and we said this segment's gonna be called En Fuego and uh Ziggs was like fellas um checked with uh the insurance and you're not gonna be able to light Dan Patrick on fire yeah The original Minty.

And he also, remember we went and he was like,

he like cornered Matthew Berry to ask him fantasy football questions. Yeah.
And it was like, Ziggs, I don't think, understands. But that dude was ride or die, figured it out right away.
Like, these guys are different. I like them.
Yeah. Shout out Ziggs.
You know what? The office would definitely be able to exist on TV now but they but they might have to run like a disclaimer on it like attention anyone at home that thinks that this is a real show it's actually not yeah for any any henry lockwoods out there who think this is actually a documentary like you're not watching cops yeah so last episode they did the whole thing on stage i'm sorry that you this is like we're breaking news to you that it's not a real show. It's not an actual documentary.
Hey, Kaylee Anthony just got a TV show. I think The Office would be okay.
Casey Anthony? Casey. Well, it's about I choose to remember the victim in this situation.
Nice. Not Casey.
Bleep out her name, please. Yeah.
Okay. All right.
My cool throne is The Niners because uh the other thing that was trending today i got my hot seat cool throne just from the trends was big cock brock so i don't know i don't know if this is a nickname he had before or like it just happened to start training today but the best thing that can happen to a team is their backup coming in and having a huge cock and getting a nickname and then going to win a Super Bowl. Yeah, I don't even know if it's – it doesn't matter if it's true or not.
No. It rhymes.
Big cock Brock. I think Kittle might have had something to do with it because he tweeted BCB.
So that might have been why it started. But either way, I feel like the Niners are now in good spot.
Yeah, he replied to Kittle replied to one of his Instagrams, BCB. So there's where it started.
There's precedent for an NFC team being taken over by a quarterback with a tremendous hog to go on a playoff run. It's it's written in the stars.
He's got the nickname. So shout out to the Niners.
Probably win the Super Bowl just on that. Also, look up a metric right now.
Like the quarterbacks are the biggest dicks. I feel like they're probably the best backup.
That's going to the Niners. They're probably going to win the Super Bowl just on that.
Billy, also look up a metric right now.

Like the quarterbacks are the biggest dicks.

I feel like they're probably the best backups.

That's going to be harder data to pull.

What do you got for us on the weights?

I only was able to do the whole AFC.

The Ravens are leading at 247 pounds.

All the teams are usually around 242 pounds in that area.

What's the lightest team?

The lightest team in the AFC is 240 pounds and it's the Bills.

Oh,

which is weird.

They're going to get fatter as,

as the weather gets colder.

I,

it's really hard to pull all of that data from pro football reference in the

show time,

but that's what I was able to get.

I also feel like offensive line is really all we need.

Yeah.

It's like the full roster doesn't really like,

it depends on if you have backup offensive lineman or you have backup – you know what I mean? Yeah, or the box. Yeah.
Give us the box. Give us the weight of every box.
Yeah. You got to pull that data real hard.
Yeah. Regarding the box.
But here's my real hot seat. Bloggers, anyone who writes for a living.
This new thing – This, by the way, is Billy came over to my desk and was like, bro, my mind just got blown. And I was like, what? He's like, I'm saving it for hot seat.
So he was like, he was kind of hypervent. It was almost the same as when.
Is Hank doing a be real? I was going to say he was acting almost the same way when Hank found out the office wasn't real. Shut up.
No, there's this new program called ChatGPT, which is an open AI app that recently just got released to the public. And this thing can basically write blogs.
You can input. Wait, oh no.
So you found someone to just do your job for you. Yeah.
Okay. But this thing's going to replace everything wrote a blog on it should be out depending if the editors get it out yeah who wrote the blog i wrote i wrote a thousand words of my own words but there's a good two thousand words of blogs i was just able to generate through typing in a couple keywords into the chat gbt so the first one it wrote is I said, write a blog describing chat.

GBT.

And it wrote 500 words on what chat.

GBT is.

And all of these questions I put in there, like I put in a hypothetical situation about

an orangutan escaping from the zoo and being chased by the police in Daytona beach.

And I said, I told to write a 500 word blog out of three sentences of prompts. And it wrote a 500-word blog all on itself about the whole thing.
Even included some humor in it. It was pretty weird.
This is how Terminator starts. How are they stealing our data or something? I'm sure there's tons of it.
It only has access to internet from 2021 before, but it can't do anything current. So when I said, so there was a video.
Kanye West, good guy. Yeah, I think he's a good guy.
So there was a video of Brock Bowers. Queen Elizabeth, she's one of my favorite.
So alive. She's awesome.
I'm going to go hang out with her next week. But the only reason it can't do pre-2021 is because they won't let it so like for example there was a video there's a video that came out about brock bowers he was talking about how this sec championship game celebration was better than the national championship because he got drug tested right after the game and he couldn't celebrate with his friends so i input a little information on brock bowers in that situation and they put together a thousand-word blog on the whole thing.
Basically, it's wild. That is wild.
So they won't let it write in 2022 because it'll probably get canceled. Yeah.
Yeah. Under today's standards.
Yeah, it's just insane that this thing. I'm definitely going to be using this because.
So I did use it uh it didn't work out perfectly but i asked that

whole sports to use it uh for a recap for the texans browns game because we didn't watch it it was like barely even on red zone channel and so we just had to like pick up highlights here or there and this is this thing is pretty fucking good so it this is the recap it wrote a deshaun Watson and reporter dialogue after the game.

Deshaun Watson, I plan on taking full responsibility for my actions and facing the consequences. I will also be seeking counseling and working on personal growth.
I know that words are not enough and actions speak louder. I'm committed to doing the hard work to make things right.
Reporter Deshaun, what do you think this win means for the team moving forward? Deshaun, I think this win is a testament to the hard work and determination of the team. We never gave up even when things weren't looking great.
I believe that if we continue to work hard and support each other, we can have a successful season. All right, I have to go now.
I have a massage appointment. Thank you for having me and go Browns.
That was the computer wrote that.

No, no way.

I swear to God.

It made a massage joke?

Yes, it made a massage joke at the end of it.

If you're in high school or college.

Carlos Carr or Dansby Swanson?

Even better, more important.

Who?

Max just sent me this article.

Breaking Moose.

It's from Newsweek.

Comedy Central, which I think you guys would agree is comedy, right?

They should know the difference between comedy and what's not comedy, cancel culture, etc. They recently stopped putting the Diversity Day episode of The Office in their rotation.
So one episode. Interesting.
Did they cancel all of it? But it's comedy. One episode.
People should get that it's comedy. Yeah, one episode.
That's probably the most, that's the only episode I could see and be like, oh, that might be a little too far. Interesting.
And also Scott Stott's just because Scott Stott's sucks. I just hate that episode.
Everybody hates it. But it's comedy.
Hey, Mr. Scott, what you gonna do? What you gonna do when your dreams come true? It's comedy.
Yeah. Yeah, it's comedy.
So why would they take it down? Comedy Central is, come on. You don't think Comedy Central's woke? Well, everyone is now.
That's the entire point. Not everyone.
Now pardon my take, baby. What's your favorite racial slur, Hank? Say something, Hank.
Go on. He's brave.
Oh, fuck. Comedy's edgy.
Bleep that out, Max. Bleep out what he just said.
That was too far. That is.
That was too far. I haven't heard that word since.
Bleep that out. That's usually found in books from like the 1800s.
Yeah, that's like a 95-year-old guy. Tom Sawyer's favorite word.
Yeah. Bleep that.
That's a slur. What is that? Magicians.
It sounds very bad, but it's for magicians. Last thing on chat, GPT.
This thing could absolutely write homework assignments if you're in high school or college.

Well, and blogs. It could probably figure out which teams were the heaviest, hypothetically.
Well, I'm pulling the data now. Yeah, you're pulling it pretty hard.
It's Ravens. I just can't believe that it made a joke.
That's weird. I'm fucked.
Yeah. But it's scary.
You could run a whole blog just using this ai machine to generate clicks and articles all day yeah i mean instead of everyone who works in a blog here if you like got these open ai guys to just make it look for top stories and then just pull them and generate blogs yeah it would there are enough words that we've spoken into microphones as a podcast that i'm pretty sure you could just run it through like a recording device, put like a robot AI behind it, and they could write an entire episode of part of my take and play it using our voices. Deep fake.
Mm hmm. Jeez.
All right. Your cool throne.
Coach O. Oh, yeah.
You and LV. Yeah.
Coach O. You and LV.
Is that true? He's a finalist. Okay.
Yeah. And my other Cool Throne, Goblin Mode, Oxford Word of the Year.
Hell yeah. Hell yes.
Goblin Mode. Let's go Goblin Mode.
I'm always. Demon time next year.
I live Goblin Mode every day. Yeah.
It's my constant. All right.
Wrap us up on the hot seat, cool throne. Jake.
Yeah.

My hot seat is fake videos.

This could have been talked about on Monday, but Steph Curry had a viral fake video of making five consecutive full court shots.

Did you get duped?

Did not get duped.

I feel like you got duped.

I didn't get duped.

Revealed.

I ain't got duped.

I was watching the video.

You guys are fucking crazy.

I was watching the video in the studio with you guys, and I said, no way this is real. No, you went, no way.
This is real. Five in a row.
If it was like two or three, I would have bought it. But five in a row is insane.
It's the same guy Ari. He does does he did all tom brady's videos he's probably the greatest video editor of all time because he did steven chase video last night that was terrible i just i just looked up coach o's not a finalist no at unlv it's fake news what unnecessary roughness tweeted it no coach o and chris peterson are not candidates i saw saw those names.
I was like, that's our own That's our own

Got duped. Unnecessary

Roughness got duped. Damn, that sucks.

No, no. I think I

would trust our own fucking

sources. I'm going to say Brandon Walker got duped.

Coach O among the finalists

Unnecessary Roughness

tweeted out. What do you want me to say?

You got duped. I don't think so.
They're hiring Barry Odom from Arkansas. What was your cool throne? My cool throne is free tickets.
So Syracuse might be bad, but their rival Georgetown is giving away free tickets to the game against Siena if you're a D.C. resident.
That's tough. It's December.
Georgetown's really, really fun on some hard times. They have losses to American and Mount St.
Mary's. Great teams.
Great organizations. Excuse me, Loyola Marymount, not Mount St.
Mary's. Yeah, even better.
It's tough. It's tough.
Georgetown, you need to get another. Is there another John Thompson out there? They just need to give out three starter jackets to everyone.
Yeah, starter jackets. Georgetown starter jackets.
Or just whoever becomes the head coach should be the next John Thompson. Like how there's uggas.
Yeah. Like no matter who you are, you're now John Thompson V and you're the head coach for Georgetown.
Free tickets to a D1 men's basketball game when you're in a big market like D.C. and you're Georgetown.
Yeah. That's crazy.
The problem with Georgetown is it's a – I don't know. I don't know the exact enrollment figures, but there's not a lot of people that go there.
So people only really care about it when they're good. It's not a huge alumni base, and all their famous alumni are busy committing war crimes.
So it's tough to get people to buy tickets. But hey, they made the tournament two years ago.
They did. It's all that matters.
Yeah. According to Syracuse fans.
Listen, I'm on your side. I'm fighting.
Syracuse should be a good program every year. And it is funny because when I did do that tweet to go full circle, someone was like, I just imagine Jim Boeheim sitting in a 16-year-old's living room at this point.
It's like, yeah, that's not going to work. He probably falls asleep.
Well, his sons are AWL, so we love Buddy and Jimmy. Shout out to his sons.
I love his sons. Jim Boeheim's a Hall of Fame some point i would hope that uh buddy and jimmy jimmy will tell me when i've passed it by oh okay yeah they're like hey you're not cutting it anymore yeah it's time to hang it up okay hall of fame coach yeah one of the one of the best coaches of all time i just love hope yeah maybe notre dame on the road okay uh all right let's get to biz and wit.
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We now welcome on our very good friends. It is Ryan Whitney, Paul Bissonette, also RAs in the building.
We ran out of mics, but maybe we get him saying something here and there. We got the Spitting Chicklets boys here.
Yeah, we're going to do our NHL preview. Yeah, so really excited to have you guys on.
25 games into the season. Well, I did one about 18 games.
Oh, yeah. Well, we figured you guys being in studio, we might as well have you on because it's always fun.
We don't even have to talk hockey. We can talk soccer that's going on right now.
We're watching Spain in Morocco. Well, let's talk about the big bet that Whit just described.
The guy bet $90,000. I think he bet $90,000 for Morocco to get to the quarterfinals, and it's to win a million.
And he was offered about $215,000 before this round of 16 game, and he didn't take it. So now this is a Chelsea player, Hakeem Zayek.
Oh, right down the middle. I love when they shoot it down the middle.
This is beautiful. This is great radio right now.
It's such an in-your-face. Shoot it right down the middle and just know the goalie's going to jump left to right.
It's pretty impressive. I'm rooting for Spain to go home because I'm just bored with them.
I'm bored with their weird style of play where they just pass. I think they had 1,000 completed passes today.
And no chances. Single shot on target.
I don't like that they're wearing blue. They shouldn't be wearing blue.
That is awkward. It's so stupid.
It's really weird. Would you guys not agree, and somebody posted a video a couple days ago, where sometimes they've done penalty kicks where you start about twice the length that they are right now from the goal, where you have to run towards the net.
That's the old MLS. That's what we were talking about before.
That's how MLS used to do it. Yeah, that's how they should do the penalty kick.
So it's like a breakaway instead of running into and kicking it?

Yeah, because it looks a lot sillier too, so you can have a lot of luck.

I always thought that soccer, kind of like how hockey does it,

how they change it with overtime, when you get to overtime of the World Cup,

oh, wow, Spain sucks.

When you get to overtime of the World Cup,

you should just play every five minutes.

The teams have to take a player off the field.

So you could end up one-on-one with a goalie on a whole pitch how sick with that i think if i think if you get yellow cards it should be you're in the penalty box for five minutes yeah then you come think about like watching like six on six on this big of a field did you just keep it'd be like watching rugby sevens compared to normal rugby a lot more entertaining. Yeah, I agree.
Or you could just make the goal bigger in overtime. You bring in a second goal.
Yeah, that's what we'll do. Make it even bigger.
The full length of the end. The first person to get the ball over the end.
Also, you're allowed to pick it up and then throw it forward. Then you can catch it and run with it.
You and you're allowed to tackle the other guy. And then add downs.
Yeah, then add their downs. That's how they should do overtime.
What were you going to say, Witt? I want to talk to you about Georgia. What a team.
Your team. What did I say about this team? I called exactly what was going to happen.
You did. They crushed Tennessee.
He has called it. I've called the entire season.
And they're going to crush Ohio State, and then they're going to crush Michigan, too. Or TCU.
Are you to go if it's Michigan-Georgia? Will you be going to the national title with Dave? I actually don't. I would love to.
When would that be? It's January 9th. Oh, yeah, I'm in.
It's in L.A. That's tough.
That part sucks. That's tough.
It's a long flight, so you might not be in. You know what? If I get the look, I'm probably going to be going, it's just amazing to see this team.
I had a question for you two. Stetson Bennett won't ever No, the fact that he's a Heisman finalist is crazy.
Will he even get drafted? He's better than Baker Mayfield. I don't think he'll get drafted.
He's got a great career in front of him just selling whatever he wants in the state of Georgia. Being like the pitch man for life.
But I don't think that there's... I don't understand why he was put in as a finalist over Hindenhooker.
It doesn't make any sense. Spain has missed every single free kick so far.
They stink. We moved on to real football.
The Stetson Bennett argument, he's a good quarterback. Like, he's good.
But if you put – you could pick 20 quarterbacks in college football right now and put them on Georgia and they would be undefeated. I don't necessarily agree with that.
And what's funny is I

was the exact opposite last year.

I was like, why is this guy playing? When they

lost to Bama in the SEC title game,

I was like, I don't understand because who was the guy's

name he ended up leaving? He was supposed

to be like the big time five star

recruit. What was his name? He left Georgia.

JT Daniels? Yeah. And I'm like, why don't they put

this guy in? But if they understood that Bennett was somehow better for that team than JT Daniels, I don't know. Yeah, obviously there's some guys you bring in, but to say 20 guys, I don't think so.
Bennett is like, he's the perfect game manager for that situation. And Georgia is such a good, talented team.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Where you don't need...
Like Trent Dilfer? Yeah, exactly. But you would take more guys than him.
You don't need somebody that's going to light it up, and Morocco goes down the middle, and Morocco advances. And he hits the waddle.
So that guy wins a half a million dollars – no, a million dollars. What a fucking bet.
Yeah, that guy wins a million dollars. What a bet that is.
What a bet, too, to especially make that bet and know that you don't even have to win it all. I know.
Just get to the quarterfinal. Well, you've got to get out of your group, and the group was tough.
I tough. I'm so into the World Cup.
I know we're going back and forth between football this, football that, each type of football. I love the World Cup.
I'm so sad that in a couple days there's like two days between the semis because every day, just four games. I don't care if you hate soccer.
It's still interesting to watch. International soccer is the absolute best.
It's my favorite tournament, and I just stop whatever I'm doing every four years. I just wish it was summer.
Coming to the U.S. I just wish it was the summer.
Summer is the World Cup time. It's so much fun when it's in the summer.
I agree. This time of year, it's like there's so much shit going on.
They're talking about moving it to every two years. I think that'd be a big mistake.
No, I agree. Because as much as I love it and they know that it'll make money, having it every four years makes it special.
I like the act of waiting for it. It would be fun, though, every two years to get ourselves pumped up, being like, this is the year for U.S.
We were just talking about this on Chicklets last night. It's like, people, I respect U.S.
soccer fans. I was rooting for them, but they're so far, they have no chance.
Thank you. Give me one superstar playing in the Premier League or in Spain or France.
Give me one guy. My biggest – I root for the U.S.
It does seem like they're better than they've ever been, but it also is like they still don't win. Like one of the results actually matter.
Like they finish exactly where they are in the world, and then when everyone's like, oh, yeah, we've got a lot of young guys, you don't think Brazil's got a lot of young guys? Yeah, but our young guys are better than our youngest good guys have ever been in the past. Right, but Brazil's young guys are still going to be better than our young guys.
Show me one guy that dominates the U.S. Well, I mean, Pulisic has been doing pretty good.
I'm a Chelsea fan. He doesn't dominate.
Is that the guy who hurt his dick? Yeah, he hurt his dick. Oh, shit, man.
If he had a healthy dick, I think he finishes that one. If that dick's healthy, he's crushing away.
Yeah, but no, I think it's realistic to say that the U.S. will never be dominant ever in soccer because other countries, there are so many of them that just focus on soccer from a young age.
Is he circumcised or does he have a covered wagon? You should ask him that. Business covered.
Like sweater to sweater. Yeah, you're supposed to be circumcised.
If it was covered, maybe it wouldn't have got hurt in the midst of a game and maybe you wouldn't have had to leave. You guys have like a big group chat? Aren't you supposed to be circumcised? It's a covered wagon.
It's all French Canadians and then a bunch of NHL and soccer players. Aren't you supposed to be circumcised? What do you mean, supposed to be? Because you lost a bet? I talked to my doctor and he said it wasn't a good idea, but every other bet that I've made on the podcast, I'd follow through with.
No, there was another one, I believe. We got Grinnelli in here that you didn't follow through with.
Then bring him in here. I got a bone to pick with hockey.
What's with the digital advertisement boards on the side of the ring? That's a poverty move. It doesn't bother with, so don't worry about it.
It's such a stupid argument. It's so distracting.
It is distracting. Hazy did have the argument the amount in revenue it brings in is probably the reason that they're not going to be paying escrow moving forward.
That's pretty good. That along with the jersey ads.
Yeah, I don't mind the jersey ads. The digital boards, when they get in the way, because the technology I don't think is perfect yet, so sometimes it covers up the puck and the players.
And that's me. I'm like, ah.
I think you're proving you don't watch much hockey. Correct.
Because if you watch, like, two games, you get used to it. And now nobody even notices it.
What about the glowing puck? You're a guy who watches one Capitals game. That's probably why it still distracted me.
I only checked the box first. Also, do they have it in your – I mean, you guys are playing, like house right shut the fuck up what mullet arena what most electric i mean that place cameron indoor stadium people yeah come sign with us you can take down a few sorority sisters is it like a scene like in loogia so they're like it's the same ice sigma phi what do you i don't know is that like a name of a sure what what is going i mean how mean, that thing is small.
It's 5,500 people, and they have a student section, and it's going to work for now. Is it sold out? That's awesome.
Does it sell out? Most games. Oh, no.
You can just make... Especially when we have an original six-cup.
5,500. 5,500.
When they get the Leafs there, they're just packed. It's all blue.
You can make the case, though, there's not a bad seat in the arena. But there's cement benches with no back.
Okay, so there are maybe one or two bad ones. It's intimate.
They pay my salary, so I'm going to shut the fuck up now. No, you said it.
It's a great place. Great atmosphere.
Are the Coyotes doing well? No, listen. They're not doing great in the standings, but they come to play every night.
Everybody wrote them off as basically being the worst team in the league,

but they're competing.

And they were close to 500 at one point, but a lot of one-goal games.

A lot of one-goal games.

They're the second-to-worst team.

They're the second-to-last team.

They're real young, though.

If you bet them plus one and a half, you've been making a shit ton of money.

All right, there you go.

You guys are tanking for Bedard, right?

Yeah, but they won't give Arizona the first pick. Shooting blanks for Bedard is the hashtag.
Is he actually worth the hype? Yeah. I think we're looking at a future.
So he's over two points a game right now in the Western Hockey League, and he's being touted as basically another McDavid. The argument is...
So another best athlete, most dominant player in all of sports? Yeah, so he was a double underage in the Western Hockey League. They're both named Connor.
He's a traveling roadshow. Traveling roadshow.
Wait, what's a double underage? So I think when you're a first couple-round draft pick or the first two picks of a team, you come in as a 16-year-old. But if you get special exemption status, and I want to say throughout the whole history of the CHL, maybe 10 to 15 players have been exempt.
I think he was the first in the WHL. One of the first in the WHL, maybe the first.
I don't know the exact stat. But right now he's over two points a game in the Western League.
He hasn't gone a game without getting a point since the season started. He's a traveling roadshow.
I have a buddy who lives in Victoria, and they average probably around 2,000 fans per game. He came to town.
It was completely sold out. This Howe kid who actually plays on the team had a hat trick in the first.
He had a hat trick in the second period. So everything is advertised, but the one argument is, and Rick Tock brought it up and he was talking with Gretz, he said it's difficult maybe being a little bit undersized to be that guy who comes in and changes the face of a franchise.
What size is he? He's very small. I think he's 5'7", 5'8".
He's like messy. He looks like and plays like him.
He's the messy of hockey. He's the messy of hockey is the way he's being touted as right now.
And I think with the way that the game is changing, where it's all speed and skill, I think that he can come in and be that guy. I mean, you look at more small guys coming in and dominating.
Braden Point's a great example. I mean, as far as his play, would you agree? Yeah, I think that this kid is looking like he's probably going to be a better player.

We're just saying a lot.

Braden points unreal.

But everyone talks about his shot.

His release is supposed to be just out of this world.

So, yeah, another Conor that's going to change the game.

You're right.

Better than McDavid, though.

This guy.

I think he is.

He has him listed as the same size as Kane.

I think he's going to be better than McDavid.

He looks shorter than Kane in the videos I've seen, but who knows?

I have no idea.

I've never seen him play at all, but based on what you're saying,

I'm going to say I'm a Conor Bedard guy.

Okay, cool.

Over McDavid?

Well, because McDavid, like, I checked the standings this morning

because I knew Witt was coming in.

These guys are trolls.

He's their whole team.

I'm convinced.

The Oilers are 500, and Conor McDavid in any sport in America,

according to Ryan Whitney.

With no rings.

Yeah, you guys, what did you have? Mahomes is your answer? Are they in the playoffs right now? How are they doing against the Bengals? Everybody makes the playoffs in the NHL. I think the Oilers are in the playoffs right now.
Barely. Okay, well.
I think they might be on the outside looking in. Really? As a wild card.
No. As a wild card.
No, they're in. They're in right now.
Thanks, guys. Well, they're in the fucking Pacific.
Big deal. How are the frigging Coyotes doing in the Pacific? We're tanking.
What's the term again? We're shooting blanks for Bedard, baby. So in terms of, like, are there any tough guys, like any up-and-coming tough guys? Because I feel like the goons that we've had in the league have been around for a while.
I've gotten very familiar with them, but, like, I want to know a young guy that I need to be rooting for. So there's this jack-eye guy with the Montreal Canadiens who everybody was raving about at the start of the season, and they call him his last name.
If you Google it right now, they started calling him Wi-Fi. That's his nickname now because it looks like a Wi-Fi password.
So that was a fun name. You can't even spell it.
Just write Wi-Fi Canadian. Look at his last name and tell me how you would pronounce it.
All right, Wi-Fi Canadian. Oh, wait.
No, we need Jake to do it. Jake to do it.
Jake, you find it. I want to hear Jake's.
Don't look up the actual pronunciation. Oh, my God.
That's crazy. Yeah.
Okay. Arbor is his first name.
Yep, Arbor. This is probably wrong, but I would guess Hikaj.
Well, it's close. Jack-Eye.
Jack-Eye? Jack-Eye? Yeah. Jack-Eye? Yeah, so his name's Arbor Jack-Eye, and then the boys call him Wi-Fi, which is an awesome nickname.
But he's come in as a young – this kid was working at Costco last year. It's a crazy story.
He's playing junior and, like, all of a sudden got invited to Canadians camp. He made the team.
Young defenseman, tough as shit. So he gave Zach Cassie in a beating earlier this year, who's one of the tougher players in the league.
And he's kind of taken on this, I would say he's like a fan favorite in Montreal who's exceeded expectations, but I'm trying to think, when you ask tough guys in the league, that's how much the games change. If you can come into the league and play and also fight, it's like there's no one like that anymore.
Brady Kachok. You become a unicorn.
He's got a dirty stash. When Tom Wilson signed his contract, everyone was saying, bad contract, bad contract.
To find guys like him nowadays where back in the day it was a dime a dozen, right? So the game has definitely changed, but I feel like it's making a little bit of an inkling back as far as the physicality and more scrapping. About five years ago, the media was getting too whiny.
Every time there was a hockey hit they were like oh nhl player safety like throw this guy out of the league but this is how all sports go i mean it's like the nfl right now the nfl running the ball has become like a lot more successful like the running average is up passing average is down because teams are like okay if you're going to play too high safety safety and keep everything in front of you and there's no one in the box who's going to run the ball, if teams are going to have a bunch of small guys that can get beat up, why not have some guys who can punish them? Also, I'm sure if you talk to NFL defensive players, it's actually had to change the way they play with the hitting rules, right? Yeah. So it's made things a little bit more difficult where I also think that that definitely had its impact on the game of hockey where, you know, going back to the Scott Steven days, if you were a forward and you came through the middle of the ice, a defenseman was going to come from the other side, the weak side, and try to take your fucking head off.
Where nowadays, if you do that, chances are if you make contact, you might be sitting for a few games. So to see those open ice hits are extremely rare in today's nhl game i think it's good that they cracked down a little bit on player safety but then it went so far where people started taking like screenshots and slow-mo slow-mo screenshots targeting his knee the slow-mo screenshot might be the worst thing that's happened in all of sports and you you talk about football and hockey in particular.
You can zoom these things in and go so slow. And then you actually see it in real time.
Like even on the ice level or field level, you're like, what the fight? It's not even the same hit. So I love how they got rid of, and I don't like it how it costs guys jobs.
But I love how they got rid of the fights that were planned out. The opening face off.
That's when I got canned.. Two meatheads.
Thanks, Whit. Glad you had your guy.
I'm calling them meatheads, which is incorrect. Great guys.
Some of the best people you play with. But guys squaring off for no reason.
That was causing bad injuries, and you look at after CTE, all this stuff. But now it's turned into the exact opposite, where if you get a fight, you're like, holy shit, you don't even see him anymore yeah so i do think that if you can get more physicality in the game it gives teams an advantage so you are seeing teams try to get a little back towards that way having having mean guys on the ice what uh so what why were you in detroit what were you doing in detroit big deal brew tour yeah it's fun we go you know we go to those cities around the nhl where we have our hardcore fan bases, and it's a good time.
We went to this place called the Tin Roof. They had live music, and then you could walk over to their beautiful new rink, the Little Caesars.
Yep. They built an incredible stadium there.
I mean, the Joe was the Joe, and it was a good time, but, I mean, it was tough going in there. They didn't really have a great press box.
That's where I spent most of my time. And they would have awful towels in there.
It was like trying to dry off with a garbage bag, for fuck's sake. So they did a complete revamp of the arena and everything that it has to offer.
What arena had the best towels? Whit, do you want to chime in here? I don't even know. That's such a random question.
What was the best?

The best amenities as a player.

What was the arena you were most excited to play for

just because you knew that the locker room and everything was so set up nicely?

I loved Minnesota's – I loved the Accel Energy Center.

Remember, their locker room was huge.

The visiting room was great.

Great arena.

I'm not just saying this because Big Cat's here, but –

United Center?

United Center had the best buffet.

Really?

Oh, fuck.

For the healthy scratch.

The minute we'reup was over, I'd be right over getting the buffet. I'd have my gitch on still.
You guys need to do like a full rankings of like the entire NHL. What's the worst? What's the spread like at the Coyotes place? It's just like delicious.
It's a college spread of blow and fucking penguins. What's the worst place? What's the worst place? Oh, my God.
You should have seen Melon Arena where I played for the Penguins. It was one of the worst.
I mean, obviously, that's not there. Wait, was that the igloo? All the batter.
That was the igloo? Oh, the visiting room there was like a straight-up public rink in downtown Boston. My first year in the NHL, I played out of the igloo.
Yeah, the Van Damme movie was there. The Islanders' old arena was horrible.
But all those old ones... No, but it was great because they had the best ice girls.
Do you know what's a brutal visiting room? Oh, yeah. There's actually a story of...
You say Chicago and Dallas had the best ice girls. No, you just said Long Island.
Long Island had good ones too. Remember that story when the Penguins are in there? This is way before my time.
I think it was a starting goalie, but he wasn't playing that night, and the backup goalie that night would stay where you came out, so you would not be on the bench. And he snuck off, because that's where the ice girls would come out of, and he went back in the back and got a BJ from one of the Ice Girls in the midst of the game.
I always want to say the other guy got pulled and they were like, where is he? Where is he? And he was in the back. It's like that Mickey Mantle letter that he wrote where he's like, I was going to blow job underneath the bleachers.
Well, there you go. His favorite memory.
Well, Dallas Stars, they not only had the Ice Girls, which I would get a calendar signed by them every single year, but they would have the ones that would dance up on the podium. So they had the double dip.
So they'd put them on the Jumbotron. They'd do the little dance routine, and then you'd smell them coming by the bench probably to distract us.
It was like the perfume coming out of their tits, just like in Austin Powers. They'd just, like, hypnotize you.
That's why they got so many home wins. I'd be there drooling with a fucking heart.

I'd be trying to skate around out there with a heart on with no blood in my legs because it was all in my cock.

And my foursy.

I don't even know what to say after that.

I was going to say, Billy, do you have a question for winter?

So they used to have great ice girls at the Chicago games, but I want to say they stopped that. Because remember when they used to get the rockets to shoot between periods too? Yep.
They basically have changed the whole thing. They notice their team stinks now.
Yeah. Yeah, no, it's true.
It's good. You can see the – yeah, you're absolutely right.
Bring back misogyny. Yeah.
Misogyny. Is that what it's – that's not the word I'm looking for? That was Deshaun Watson that you tried to do there.
Misogyny. He knows all the best towels.
What's the word I was looking for? Misogyny. You almost said it.
You kind of added like A-M-A-S-S. You said it was misogyny.
I'm French-Canadian for fuck's sakes. You guys always give it to me about my grammar.
What's the other word I say that – Organization. Organization.
What's wrong with that? Yeah, your Canadian soccer team sucked. Did they even score a goal? I don't think so.
He didn't even know they were in the World Cup, I don't think. But Henri was dapping us up when we lost three in a row.
Who cares? That's cool. He was in the hallway.
Henri? Yeah, yeah. T.R.
Henri. Henri.
Henri. Henri.
I can't believe he had to speak for. T.R.
Henry. Where did you see him? Oh, there was a clip on mine.
He was, like, dabbing us up after the loss and consoling the whole country. So I thought that was a classy move.
And I was a big fan of him because I'm French, so I root for France as well. And they got a wagon in this World Cup, don't they? They do.
And Mbappe is, like, he's a player that you see, I don't care what sport you watch, but you see him on the field and you're like, that guy is different from everybody else on the field. Not like Connor McDavid is different from everybody else, but very similar.
If you put Mbappe on the Oilers right now, I think that they're in first place. He's that good of sports.
No, the Haaland guy from Norway, he might be even better. He's not even in the World Cup.
That guy is a freak. How come you guys didn't ask W about his uh trip to jamaica oh yeah i saw the dolphin video unbelievable that was incredible you were you're getting you were right what did they pick you up he thought the dolphins came flying from behind and stuck a nose in each one of my arches in my feet and next thing you know the guy just said keep your legs straight and i did and just all of a sudden i'm just flying high and i i wish i tried to like balance it out but in the end i just kind of fell forward it was unreal were you not afraid the dolphins are gonna like i always think so i was but they're so nice and smart and like they're better than humans i love dolphins like all those like pet the dolphins or like this like you know the monkeys or any of that i don't do that shit i always think in the back of my head, like, at some point, this animal's going to be like, this fucking sucks, fuck all of you.
It's going to happen one day. A monkey will rip your face off.
A dolphin can't really do much. Oh, I think dolphins get pissed, too.
What are they going to do? I'm so sick of fucking lifting up this fat fucking guy. Billy, what's that face? I've never seen the sun before.
What are they going to do? What's a dolphin going to do? Dolphins sometimes, like, assault people. Yeah.
How? They sexually assault people. 100%.
I've seen the videos. I said that one of them tried to plow your wife.
No, it was my son's birthday. So luckily we didn't get fucked by a dolphin.
At least she got the angry inch from somebody. Can I bring up a little topic? I've long been an NBA hater.
Trey Young. Yep.
Biz, did you see the story about this guy? The star on the Atlanta Hawks Okay so I saw This fucking asshole This guy Didn't go to the team's game He didn't go to his team's game Like I There is not an NHL player In existence Who just wouldn't show up For a game It's so disrespectful And such a typical NBA move That people could say Oh he hates he hates the coach. The coach will treat him unfair.
To not show up to your team's game is the biggest slap in the face to every teammate you have. What was the reason? Was he getting rest? I don't even know.
Well, let's ask the sports guys with the number one sports podcast in the world. I think he's got a shoulder, if I remember correctly.
Okay, so you're injured, but you just don't go to the game? Upper body injury is how I would explain it to you. What a great guy to compare yourself to, Kyrie Irving.
Kyrie. How would you guys have handled that in the locker room if somebody on your team had posted links to an anti-Semitic video? Is that what Kyrie did? This is going to be the first time I've ever done this in my career.
Yeah. Next question.
Well, Biz would have been like, let me retweet it. Interesting stuff.
Yeah, more of that uh no the uh yeah i know my i feel like nba like actually it happens in the nfl nfl is a little different because guys once they're injured they're pretty much out of it but yeah nba guys will not sit on the sidelines sometimes when they're hurt not travel with the team but this was a home game and like yeah not goingrie did do that. Maybe he was in the back with an ice girl.
Yeah. Yeah, maybe.
Was he in the arena? No, he didn't even go to the game. That is a little crazy.
It's just such a dirtbag move to not even go and support your teammates. It's unbelievable.
And it's like normal in that association. It drives me crazy.
I did sit second row. Portnoy was giving me shit I wasn't front row.
Yeah, I mean, he was front row.

Yeah, I mean, I don't care.

You said he was on the phone.

My father-in-law gave me these unbelievable tickets he brought us.

He wasn't even, his mom was trying to talk to him, and he's texting away like a prick.

But I sat second row.

Oh, you mean Dave's mom?

Yeah, I was amazed.

Amazed sitting up.

He was working customer service for his watch company.

Wait.

Maybe he was busy trying to pay for those front row seats.

Wait, hold on.

Go ahead, Biz.

I want to say that again because it got or sorry wit like that was no sitting up close it it's pretty sick okay so the nba is the one sport the like if you sit front row of nba you realize more than any other sport you're like holy fuck how big these guys are how strong they are, how fast they are, how much they like. I got to sit front row for a Sixers game a couple years ago.
Watching Embiid close up, he's just a giant of a man. I saw Luka.
Yeah. And I think he had 48, maybe 50.
It's nuts. And being that tall and seeing how smooth and athletic they move around, it was pretty impressive.
Now, granted, there were a lot of flops and fucking, wah, like diving. But still, it was nuts to see a couple dunks Tatum had that you're just like, what the fuck? The guy's seven foot.
So you're now an NBA fan. If I could sit second or first row.
What do courtside seats at an NBA game cost, like a good team, like Boston Celtics? Probably. Big dough, I think.
Yeah, probably. I would say like a few thousand up to like, well, if you're like center court, like 10, 15 grand.
You think for a regular season game? If it was like Celtics or the Knicks or the Lakers, maybe not that much. Playoffs.
Playoffs are going for that, though. Yeah, playoffs for sure.
I saw the Thunder last year were going for like $150 courtside. Yeah, that's a little different.
That's more my speed. $150? Yeah, pretty cheap.
That's like going to a Coyotes game. On GameTime app.
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Billy, did you have a question for these guys? I got a question for you. How are you taking all the liver king stuff? Yeah, it's sad.
Oh, did you believe him? No, no, I never believed him. Yeah, I don't think.
Who did believe him? A little bit. We all wanted to.
It was funny to think. This guy was living like a caveman, avoiding Wi-Fi when he slept.
Six? Yeah, he was definitely juicing. Yeah, oh, you think so? Yeah.
No shit. Do you think it has affected his brand financially at all since this has happened it's probably helped him probably helped him he's definitely got more you know like rogan's talking about him and that's like that whole conglomerate of people who sell supplements and stuff so but you know i don't think like anyone really like do you know what his brand was no i know he was selling like liver pills.
Yeah, liver is still healthy. Have you juiced? Juiced? Yeah.
No. You never stuck a needle in your ass? Liar.
Did you? Liar. I've never taken a steroid.
Why is it Billy? I had to talk to you about lying. Why are you blushing? I got the back pimple.
Is this a learning joke? No, because it's a liar. Liar.
You definitely juiced. Do I look like I would have juiced? When he just asked, have you ever juiced? You go, juiced? No, and then he goes, did you? No, bro, I just asked you.
Juiced? The stupidest part about what Billy's doing right now is that he's admitted on this show that he's done it before. No, I haven't.
And now he's like, no, I haven't. Oh, really? When have I ever admitted to it? You've talked about doing all sorts of weird supplements.
You did like wind straw. No, you did like creatine for sure.
Well, there's like peptides. There's like BBC.
There's like... Yeah, he did inject peptides into my body too.
I talked about a time I was accidentally illegally doping during an NHL season, or at least in training camp in the summertime when I was taking this stuff called... Jacked up? Jacked 3D.
Oh, yeah. Well, everyone did Jacked 3D.
I've gotten so many messages about these old school people saying that that was the OG pre-workout. It's the best.
Nothing ever compared to it. And I'll never forget, Yann's like saw it in my stall and he goes you're not taking this are you and i was like oh yeah it's awesome like you get the you get the little tingles before you go out and you're feeling all good and he goes i'm pretty sure this is on the band's list and sure enough it was you never like how close were you but everybody that year got tested in training camp and for whatever reason i think i flew the radar, but maybe I didn't have enough of it in my system.
No, they're like, this guy's going to the minors anyway. So the stuff in there that was illegal, it was like a fake geranium extract that they had.
It wasn't a steroid. It was DMAA.
That's the geranium extract. Like, yeah, so.
Billy, I know what I'm talking about. That was the germanium extract that turned into the DMAA-1-6, and that flagged you positive for methamphetamines.
It was synthetic meth. It was awesome.
But the tingle stuff is legal. The tingle stuff you can still do.
That's totally legal. That makes you.
Oh, yeah, it doesn't sound like a guy who's done steroids. Beta alanine like it's in all the pre-workout hey wasn't the other one ultimate orange wasn't that a crazy one there was an ultimate orange one um no explode that was the jv version of it but jack 3d if anybody out there because i know some people hoarded it when they took it off the market because it killed a few guys or whatever um so whatever yeah Yeah, they hoarded it.
There were like five deaths in the span of six months. It was a casual one.
It was a four local free workout. Send me some Jack 3D, please.
I'm begging you. I know we're talking about uppers, but do you ever think about the other side of it where I wish they still had quaaludes around? Oh, dude.
How fun would a quaalude be? I think about that all the time. Just once.
Ever since I saw that movie. No, I've never taken one.
They weren't even allowed to try one. Quaaludes? All right, grab the mic.
All right, you jump in here. What were Quaaludes like? What were Quaaludes like? What were they like? Fucking zonked.
You get wicked zonked. I mean, they like.
It's not cool to do this stuff, but just one time to try a Quaalude. It's like a prescription drug that just doesn't get made anymore.
It had to be bad. Curiosity is like, huh, what's going on? PFT was probably like 30 years ago when my buddies had him.
He had a stash, a stable, whatever. I took one, and yeah, it just fucking completely.
What's the movie? It's a horse triplizer. Yeah.
Wolf Wall Street. That's just like, oh, my God.
These guys are like, when he's like, I'm not dying. It's over.
Get the loots. R.A.
was actually a guinea pig for a company. Which one? A bunch of different ones.
You want to talk about it, R.A.? No. Wait, what were you a guinea pig for? A pharmaceutical company.
Pfizer? We all were. Oh, nice, Billy.
There you there you go, Billy. Put the tinfoil hat on.

Let's go, baby.

Nice one, Billy.

All right, so wait.

Back to – all the way back to football,

did you think that Alabama got screwed with?

No.

All right, so you're –

No, I actually love how they got –

I watched that game against Kansas State.

For them to get in, it's the right thing.

I think if they got blown out, 100% put Bama in.

But the argument of people saying Bama's going to give Georgia or Michigan a better game, it's like that's not... I saw Brandon's thing.
That's not what it's about. It's about how the season went.
And yeah, TCU might get blown out. I hope they don't.
I hope it's a good game. But you can't let Alabama in when TCU has one loss and it was the way it went down.
It was kind of pathetic watching Saban do that. Yeah.
I was actually was actually, like, felt bad for him. I bet you.
Dude, the dude pretends that Vegas doesn't exist and he's out there being like, who would they have favored in a game? It's like, really? You're doing this? I think even he was sick to his stomach doing it, but you're doing it for, like, your players. But it was like, I was like, this is like, it's like sad watching Nick Saban out there begging people to put him in.
It also does the exact opposite where it's like, if you have to beg that way, it's like, well, clearly you're not. You know you're not that good.
He should have almost went in reverse psychology. We have no business being in this top four.
Our resume speaks for itself. And they're like, whoa, what's he saying? This is Nick Saban.
Either that or just be like, they don't want us in there anyway. So it's no point in me begging because they know that we're just coming in there and spoil it for everybody else.
I'm not trying to sound like the Georgia homer, but I said back before the Tennessee game, they are the new Bama where they'll crush both teams in this playoff, and it kind of makes it a little unenjoyable. They're so good.
They're like an NFL team. They're just crushing everyone.
They have all these five-star recruits at every single position. And I love it being a Dawgs fan.
Yeah. That's a good time for it.
I have a hockey question. What's up? So you guys were talking a couple weeks ago about what's going to happen with Kane.
Yes. Maybe to Boston.
I can't stop thinking about where he's going. I bring it up every show.
Because the Rangers are now out because the Rangers suck. The Rangers stink.
They're not out. They're not out.
But it's like he controls where he wants to go.

And so they just beat the Rangers.

And the Blackhawks are terrible.

So it's kind of like, why would I want to go there?

I don't necessarily think they're contenders.

He may think the same.

But he's going to decide where he wants to go.

Really.

And what do you think?

I said Boston just because I'd love to see it happen.

And Boston's in their true final run this season. Yeah, it's like the last.
Here's a wild card for you. The Kraken.
Ooh. They're this.
No? I don't know. It's not a bad call.
Well, he's only got. This is the last year of his deal, correct? Yes.
So you're there for four or five months, whatever it's going to be now, and I think that they have the salary cap space. That's what's so hard in the NHL is a hard cap.
So all these good teams who are now making playoff runs, like if you look at Boston, they would have to trade away two significant pieces that they have in their lineup. Therefore, why would you want to mess up the chemistry of the team that's got you to this point already? They only have three losses on the whole year.
So if you look at teams that do have available cap space, it's not many who are in a playoff position. I think the Kraken could be one that could pull it off.
That's a complete wild card. You know who was a good possible scenario? Frankie Borelli and the Islanders.
And if you remember back, I don't know, maybe it was 2009-10. I don't remember the season, but Ilya Kovalchuk, he was going to be a UFA in Atlanta and it was very obvious they were going to trade him because he wasn't going to resign there.
And everyone's like, where's he going? Where's he going? And boom, Lou Lamarillo with the Devils swooped in. Nobody even mentioned the Devils as an option.
Well, now losing in Long Island, they have a team, they have a goalie that's literally good enough to win him a cup. You never know.
Patrick Kane goes over there, playsal we'll see what happens but it's going to be crazy when it does go down it's it's nuts to think about as a Blackhawks fan I'm sure it's just such an end of an era oh yeah he's the greatest Blackhawk of all time correct I mean I think he's the best American born player yeah no hands down and it's also like I mean it's already been kind of over for the last few years but yeah when he goes and tase goes i don't know what that will have that's it that's officially and it's shooting blanks for bedard baby yeah and they're probably gonna get them because it's all well they've been stuck in that spot for the last five years where it's like you don't want to give up when you still have these guys but if they were, they should have moved on a few years ago and started.

Like, you can't do a half rebuild.

They've been trying to do the half rebuild for so many years now

where it's like, oh, we could just, you know, if we fix this, do this.

Like, we still have the core of this.

It's like, no, that's not how it works.

Yeah, but if you look back to the history of hockey,

a lot of guys, especially with the way that he was in Chicago

and his legacy, they like playing for one organization. You look at the guys like Patrice Bergeron, like Crosby, Malkin, Letang.
But what I've said is I'll root for him wherever he goes because I want him – like he's so much fun to root for in a playoff atmosphere. He's such a fucking clutch, big-game player that it's going to be great to watch him play playoff hockey.
Yeah. Like, just as a fan perspective.

If you had to guess another team that we haven't mentioned,

where would you say he ends up?

We've mentioned Boston.

These guys haven't won one game of hockey.

I'm just going to say the name of a team.

February.

Okay.

The Avs.

Ah, you know what would be fun for Kane?

Well, hey.

What do you think about that?

Here's what's not crazy about that.

Yeah.

So, Gabriel Landeskog and now Nathan McKinnon are injured.

I don't know how long they're going to be out for. That's what I was thinking, yeah.
mckinnon's out get cane in there the the what happens with the cap situation is they're allowed to put these guys on long-term ir therefore bring in a big salary so not out of question and you could also do a three-team trade where you can split the salary in half because one team can retain salary, and then that next second team before he ends up at the location then cut the salary in half again. So I don't think that's the craziest theory either.
I'll give you one. So you're a hockey guy.
I'll give you one. I'm a puck boy.
I'll give you one because he's matured. He's a father now.
He might even be a father of two, father of one. What about Vegas? They are also up against the cap.
I don't know every team's cap situation. Yeah.
That would be fun. That would be real fun, actually.
That's actually not that crazy, I don't think. The Lightning? This is a hockey pod.
This is a hockey pod. Is that crazy? We might as well just name all 32 teams.
Yeah. No, 31, because he's on staying with Chicago.

Coyotes.

Panthers have, like, no cap space.

When's the trade deadline?

If you're getting a march.

I love how hockey does the no trades during Christmas thing.

That's so funny.

They do a three-day, I think.

I thought it was longer than that.

Is it?

I remember Brian.

I thought that was Brian Burke.

There's a two- or three-day freeze.

Yeah, where no one can get moved. Let them be with their family.
Some things are bigger than sports. It's very nice.
Yeah. Who's the second guy? If it's not Kane, who's like the next big name that could be on the move? In free agency right now? I would say for defensemen right now, the biggest name is Jacob Chikrin, and he plays for the Coyotes.
And the reason I say him is because he's got a pretty pretty uh good cap hit just over four million bucks and I think it's inevitable that he's going to move and like we mentioned about the hard cap and teams finding it hard to squeeze guys in with what they're making he's a valuable asset and he also has another two years left on his deal at a good cap hit so I would say that he's's going to be a big-name defenseman that moves close to the deadline. Other than that, I can't really think of any other big names.
R.A., can you hop in here? Do you know what? Potential trade or free agent? Big-name NHL free agents who are going to move near the deadline. Or trade.
Patrick Kane. No, I'm kidding.
He's not coming to Boston. I'll say that.
I know that's all. Why? I don't think he's coming.
Because you'd have to trade too many guys? No, I just think where that originated. It originated from me.
It originated from me. It would be tough if you were the best team in the league to try to add.
Because then you mess up maybe some nucleus stuff. Patrick Kane's not messing up anything.
No, no. I'm just saying if you have to trade a couple guys.
Other than a cab driver's face. Oh, come on.
He was young. He was like 19, bro.
That's a low blow. He was 19.
Okay, well then fucking edit it out. I'm sorry.
Oh, wait a minute. I didn't know you guys talked about incidents in cabs now.
I thought that was off limits for spitting chiclets. Oh, that's what you're bringing up.
No, we never even. Yeah.
We didn't. Yeah.
Well, we didn't need some help? We didn't not talk about that with Ottawa. You need some help, bitch? We talked about it.
No, no, no, no. No way.
No way. No way.
The story was Portnoy wanted us to break the news. Oh, you want me to talk about it? No, dude, are you going to listen or no? You want me to blog about it? Oh, so we do cab stories now.
No, we talked about it. We do cab stories now.
He wanted us to be breaking the news and talking about it the minute it minute it happened. We let things happen.
Other insiders break the news. We chat about it on Chicklets once a week.
So shut up. You're uninformed.
And Patrick Kane fucking punches one cab driver. You got to bring it up 15 years later? That was biz.
I mean, everybody's been in a cab with a guy that you've wanted to punch before. I regret bringing it up.
I do regret bringing it up. Listen, he's a matured guy.
Oh, I know. He's a different guy.
He's completely changed. He's a different guy.
I know that. I know that.
He also chirped me in the preseason. Or not the preseason.
First game when they played against Colorado. But let's not get into it.
Oh, yeah. He called Busy Clown.
Oh, that's good. You probably.
And he didn't even use him by name. I have Patrick Haynes back on that one.
He didn't use him by name. He's like, that other clown you have up there.
The reason it hurt so much is because he was right. Yeah.
And that's why I brought up the question of the cab driver. You looked in the mirror, and you're like, shit, I am a clown.
No. Damn.
What do you got? Oh, RA's trying to French kiss me. John Klingberg.
That's a name that'll move. Okay.
All right. Got it.
Put it out there. John Klingberg.
All right. I have one last question.
Go ahead, Billy. You have a last question? Yeah.
That was Saturday. I never got that question off.
During warm-ups in NHL games, why do only two guys not wear their helmets? So it's probably one of the cooler things that you used to get to do in the NHL. You were able to come up and realize you're in the NHL, and if you had good hair, which wasn't me, but you could go out, your flow is flying in the wind and you just feel like an NHL or getting to experience no bucket warmups.
What's happened is when I was on Edmonton, Taylor Hall was skating around with no helmet. And unfortunately, this guy, Corey Potter, friend of mine, he kind of tripped on a puck.
I don't remember exactly what happened and stepped directly on Taylor Hall's forehead. I have the picture before surgery.
You could see his skull. It was horrific.
And I think he had about 50 to 60 stitches. Since then, the Edmonton Oilers made it mandatory where you have to wear a helmet.
Other teams have done the same. Some teams still allow it, but the league came out about last week or two weeks ago and said moving forward, it's completely banned.
The only people who can do it were people grandfathered in who were in the league before today. So it's a really cool thing.
I did it once in a while. I actually remember Max Talbot and myself probably five months into our rookie season.
We were playing pretty good and we were like, all right, let's do it. And so we're flying around first time and it feels amazing.
It's unbelievable. Like you're skating around, no helmet.
And Michelle Terry and our coach, he knocks on the bench, on the window at Mellon Arena because you used to skate across the ice to leave the ice. And he's like, put your fucking helmets on, you two.
So in the middle of the warm-up, put it on because we weren't old enough or veteran enough to do it. But now it's gone.
But it was just a cool experience for guys that could get to try it once, I think. I like that.
So now there's going to be a new Craig McTavish, but the warm-up version. Yeah, the last guy.
That's no Bucky. Have you guys ever talked to, like, I'm sure that you have, a player that played, you know, his entire career without wearing a helmet.
Did he have the same sentiment where it was like, it felt amazing out there being able to skate around? Well, Craig McTavish, he was the last player to not wear a helmet and play in the NHL. He'd be doing face-offs.
They said he'd be head-butting guys with helmets on. They were like, what the fuck? This guy doesn't even feel it.
Ari, you could probably back me up on this. Was it Brad Marsh who we had come on the podcast and say that he at one point played without a helmet and he ended up putting one on and he felt that he was getting dinged and nicked up way more than he was when he wasn't wearing a helmet.
So after one game of putting one on, he took it back off. And then he went right back to normal where he actually felt that he wasn't as susceptible to getting dinged up with sticks or whatever it was catching his head when he didn't have a head on.
That makes no sense. No, it actually does.
I think maybe more guys notice you out there. I don't know.
Some people think there's more respect for each other when you don't have a helmet on there might be less injuries i know it sounds insane i've heard people say that in football too where it's insane to think that they wouldn't have a helmet on it never happened but you'd tackle different and it would probably be like somewhat safer i know that sounds insane billy kind of agrees with me i can tell i don't know it's a good thing a good thing. No, in boxing, headgear, you get hit differently.
The gloves don't bounce off your head as much when you have headgear on for boxing. Maybe that's what I was thinking.
I would say maybe like the cage in college. Guys have more balls than the cage.
If it wasn't, they wouldn't be as fucking dickheads out there. At first when I heard that, I was like, that sounds insane.
But I actually think that if you're an opponent and you're playing against a guy that's not wearing a helmet, you are probably going to be more careful with your own stick. That's what this guy was saying.
You don't want to kill a guy out there. It does make sense to me in a weird way, but I have to imagine that playing hockey without a helmet on was just terrifying.
Just warm-ups was sick. I'm sure the cold air through your hair.
I saw a picture a goalie, you have no mask. But then I saw a picture of myself.
Like, you know, they got the Getty Images people. I saw a picture of myself in warm-ups with no helmet.
And with, like, my ears and my terrible hair, I was like, that doesn't look as cool as I thought it looked. But you felt cool.
Yeah, it felt cool. Yeah.
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Yeah, he's done. I'll take 19.
And we also did on Black Friday, we did a deal where we picked one listener that they get to guess now every time. And if they get it before Hank, he gets five grand.
Let's do it this though, because I need to have action. If anyone hits their number right now, 100 from each guy.
69. Okay.
Yeah. 100 from each guy.
Are you in? Done. Done.
17. Well, we're picking a number.
Bill, are you in? And then if it gets pulled out. Done.
I'm in. I'm in.
100 from each guy. Is there any number of 1 to 100 that's not in there? No.
No, they're all in there. All in there.
So everyone doing it in this room is. 100.
100. 100.
100. 100.
100. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
This is a $900 hit. Yeah, yeah.
It's $900. $19.
I'm going to go with my old pal Sidney Crosby, $87. Now, how long does that thing move around in there before it sucks one up? What does that matter? I mean, it's about $77.
$87 is at the top right now. You just wanted to say sucks one up.
Yeah. What are you talking about? Well, because $87 is at the top.
Biz, the one on the top is not going to go. I'm going to change my number.
All right. I got 12, my old hockey number.
12. All right.
19 for Whitney. 12 for Biz.
24. 24 for RA.
18. And Sebastian? 18.
76. 76.
20. We're all real tightly grouped here.
Three for memes. Three for memes.
69 for Billy. Oh, you guys have your own memes.
Wait, wait, wait. Sebastian? Where's Sebastian? If you're not in the room, you're not in.
No, actually, he only can do it when Hank's in here. Anyway.
So his will count for the end of the show. You have to be in the room right now.
91. I'll do 17.
Sergey Fedorov. Come on, I'll buy dinner tonight.
17 is the number Hank always picks. So this would be the best moment ever if I got 17.
Oh, 87 almost went up there a bit. Oh, no, you took 12.
19. Oh, that's 61.
Oh! Oh! It's a re-spin. We got a jam.
It's a jam. I've never seen a three-ball jam.
That's crazy. Oh, shit.
Three-ball jam is crazy. That thing could suck a golf ball through a garden hose, can't it? Three-ball jam.
Come on, 19. 69.
Oh! Oh! Oh! 12 is right there. 19 just got...
What is that? 81. Oh, damn.
Marion Hosef. Marion Hosef.
Shit. Legend.
All right. Yeah, 81.
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Okay, let's wrap up with some FAQs. Henry.
It's's faqs hank not the other word that you were thinking of that you can't say on tv anymore in 2022 i think that we should do maybe in the new year uh maybe a full faq segment about chicago because there's a lot of uh chicago questions but you know why they call it the windy city's not because of the wind. Really? It's because people are very blustery there originally.
A lot of gas. Yeah, people just talk a lot, and they're a bunch of windbags.
That's why they called it the Windy City to begin with. Fun fact.
Yeah, we will. That's a good call.
Hit us with the FAQs, Hank! Do you guys feel as awkward as I do when you're saying goodbye to a guest and it just goes back and forth too much and lasts too long? I've heard it cut off here and there, and it's probably unavoidable, but does it make it feel good when one just hits right? Yeah, it's kind of like a clean dap when you're exiting a Zoom call with somebody, and you're like, all right, thanks for coming on. We'll see you later.
Yeah. And then they're like, all right, bye.
And then they, that's why I love Jerry, Jerry O'Connell. Oh, he hangs up on us.
He closes out. So there's no awkward goodbye.
We didn't even say thanks. He just hung up on us.
Yeah. It's great.
I actually prefer that. Yeah.
No, it is. It is a weird, it's a weird part of the job is just being like, all right, so thanks.
Cool. Keep in touch.
All right, cool. And then sometimes you're on the, on the line a little bit too long And you hear Dak Prescott say They asked me about a porn star I don't like those, that didn't go well Hey Big Cat PFT, Cake Honk and Soft Hands Billy Oh I have a situation about Christmas presents When you turn over the age of 20 Should you still reciprocate gifts to family members and friends that are also that age? Spoiling younger family members and seeing their reactions to big gifts is the best.
But when it comes to older family members, it always seems forced to do. Should I make the call to my family never saying no gifts? Thanks.
I think what you can do is you can reach an understanding with everybody ahead of time of time and like say with the money that we would be spending on gifts for each other yeah let's just go out let's just like put it put it in a pile we'll go out we'll spend it at a bar one night or it's like at some point you just like get them one nice thing like oh here's a nice bottle of whiskey you know what i mean like it's almost like it's not really some elaborate gift it's just like i am acknowledging the season type of thing yeah or one thing i like to if you have something that you've bought for yourself that year then just get that for somebody to be like i got it for you because like i use this thing every day i love it and you might like it too i don't know Hey. Hypothetically, aliens come down to Earth to learn more about human culture.
They listen to 50-plus PMT episodes that come out during football season but never watch one second of an actual football game. What would their perception of football look like? Do you think they would be able to understand how the game is really played or would it be some warped part of my take version through the lens of your weird brains? That's actually a, that's your chin up Hank against a lot of ball one day.
I appreciate you guys. No, you don't.
That's a, that's a good question though. They'd probably think that Josh Allen was like William Wallace.
He's 10 feet tall and lightning bolts come out of his arse. They also would like, I would love to see like them draw like big Ben and Phil rivers.
Yeah. That would be very funny.
Just very funny just like they probably yeah just just like a bunch of idiots walk like playing quarterback and coach yeah big ben walking around with like a thermometer in his mouth and one of those fever things on his head probably in a wheelchair i like this idea yeah that is got billy kyler murray yeah he's He's like two feet tall. He's you got, Billy? Kyler Murray.
Yeah.

He's like two feet tall.

He's got a Game Boy Switch in his helmet.

He's played video games and crying. Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Next.

Last one.

Deshaun Watson is a pervert.

Yeah.

He's just always coming.

Yeah.

Everywhere.

His dicks just leak.

He leaves a snail trail on the field when he's... That's why people can't catch up to him.
Yeah. He's just always coming.
Yeah. Everywhere.
His dick's just leak. He leaves a snail trail on the field when he's, that's why people can't catch up to him.
Yeah. Yeah.
Brock Purdy. Big Brock.
Looks like he's carrying a rock. Yeah.
He's like, it looks like he's got a baseball bat. Yeah.
All right. Last one.
Hey, PMT. I work a public accounting job and I'm 23 and work around 45 to 50 hours a week.
Busy season, January to March, we work 70-hour plus a week. What are the hours you would say you work in a given week compared to your busy time of the year? Oh, question.
I know I'm young, but I do value time as COVID wiped away half of my junior year and most of my senior year of college, and now I'm in the workplace for the next 50-plus years. All right, so this is tricky question because i there's parts of our job that i fully understand are like for everyone else it's their entertainment but like watching sports at night it's not like i'm sitting on my couch i would be doing it anyway but it is part of our job yeah does that count you'd be punching in yeah like nfl sunday

we watch all the games but i'd probably be doing that even if i wasn't right so you'd be drinking yeah you would be in like yeah like on a tuesday night i would be yeah like i wouldn't have to tweet while i'm watching a college basketball game so if we do like actual like anytime my brain is on in the fall?

Fuck, there's, I mean,

what's the max amount of hours i'm just gonna count like in the office let's just count because like monday night football watching that okay i don't know if i can but then like on saturdays when i do the college football show like traveling yeah traveling that counts saturday is is i'm gonna give an my day off. Is tweeting work? It can be.
No. I'm going to guess.
Yeah, why are you asking that, Billy? I'm just saying it is 24-7. No, you have an angle.
Like just staying on top of everything is 24-7. If you tweet from the...
No. I would say 70 hours.
I wasn't your personal account is not work 70 hours We classify it as work. I do like research for some of my tweets.
Yeah, no Jake your tweet. Yes you you do my tweets No, Billy's asking weird reason.
I'd say 70 hours a week. That doesn't really count like sitting at home watching games 70 hours a week in the fall, but then it becomes a less than like i don't know if you guys have thought about it but like i love football but the idea that we could come in at you know seven o'clock on a sunday and be done in two hours pretty nice when you think about how we can do that the rest of the year dream come true i mean my body's breaking down this football season just takes a People who say mean things online about my skin.
I'm tweeting up a storm. Yeah, my hair's falling out probably from all the hours I've worked and all the stress.
Yeah, that's true. It's because of what we do for the people.
That's why. We're a lot like Jesus.
Yeah, absolutely. Double the Jesus.
What did this person say to me yesterday? It really hurt my feelings nicely. It really kind of made me feel like shit.
He said, every few months I look at the podcast on YouTube and your hair slash skin slash face are somehow looking worse each time. That was nice.
That made me feel good. I know how bad I look in football season.
I need to out of football season Maybe lose a few pounds I did lose 7 pounds in the last 48 hours If anyone wants to give me credit for that You got tapeworm? I just didn't eat I haven't eaten anything You guys should have known I was sick Remember when we ordered dinner on Sunday And I didn't get any? That actually was a dead giveaway That was the moment I should have known that. I was thinking, like, what's going on? Two things.

One is I didn't put any.

I thought you were, like, pissed off.

I didn't have any loosies in.

Pissed off.

I didn't have any loosies in, and I didn't eat dinner.

It's like, all right, something's wrong with him.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I actually was actively thinking, like, what is going on?

And I had a good gambling day, so it wasn't even that.

I just started feeling like shit.

It was very sick.

You know what, though?

That just means that you've got a head start on Super Bowl labs.

Yeah, that's true.

Super Bowl labs.

We're getting into it.

I'm ready to go.

Right?

I had one more FAQ.

Okay, what is though? That just means that you've got a head start on Super Bowl Labs. Yeah, that's true.
Super Bowl Labs. We're getting into it.
I'm ready to go. I had one more FAQ.
Okay, what is this? What's up, PMT boys? First time caller, long time listener. Question for Hank.
It's not calls. It's text submissions.
Have you ever thought of maybe trying to guess the lottery ball number correctly? I'll hang up and listen. Yeah, right now.
Five. I didn't say numbers yet.
That's a false start. That's a false start.

You're a bad person.

I have a question, too.

Oh, okay.

Hey, big fan here.

Just wondering if Hank has ever gotten the lottery ball.

I'm sure a lot goes on behind the scenes, and he would for sure have gotten it once, right?

Oh, wow.

Who's that from, Jake?

Memes actually just sent this one to me.

Hey, dad, cat, not a drug guy, PFT, and Batgirl.

I always guess along with you guys for the lottery ball machine and have to say I don't think Hank has ever guessed it right. If Hank hasn't guessed the lottery ball, how long do you guys think it will take for him to get it right? If he hasn't already, I don't think he's going to get it, but I call lottery ball 68.
This person called lottery ball 68. Can we do that same game we do with Biz and Wit every time we do it? No, and we're already doing it with Hank.
I've got $5,000 on the table for Hank. We will after January 1st.
We can start doing that. Billy, if you want to make an arrangement with somebody else in this room, that's fine.
No, what we'll start doing, which will actually be very fun, is what we should start doing is... Hank, are you okay? Is there an issue here?

What we should start doing is we should do

every episode five bucks in a pot.

So then it keeps growing.

It's awesome if someone gets it after a long time.

What's the matter, Hank?

Your noises

that you're making right now tell me that you're

consternated over something.

Alright, numbers five.

17.

18, and Sebastian has 76.

He's been changing every time.

Nate, Natolius, Nick is tweeting.

What is Sebastian's number?

76.

34.

Oh, I took 17.

Oh, you took 17.

All right, we got five.

20.

20.

34?

34.

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