Paul Bissonnette, Warriors Take Game 2 & Lebron Coming On Pardon My Take?

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have our good friend, Paul Bissonette, talking hockey, his shaved head. He might have had a few before the interview, but it is pure biz nasty, a lot of fun.
We're also going to discuss game two of Warriors Celtics. The third quarter Warriors stepped on their throat.
We'll get to all of that. We got who's back of the week.
We got a quick Monday reading, a PLL update because we have week one in the books and Jake is back from Albany and being around the team and our terrible team, the Water Dogs. We'll get to all of that.
And also, we have a review of darts because Hank and Bubba went to darts on Saturday night. We're covering everything because it is part of my take.
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Go to visible.com slash pod. Today is Monday, June 6th, and the third Courier Warriors stomped on the Celtics.
It is now a 1-1 series. The Boston Celtics are dead.
I did like, there was a couple people were like, you guys said the Warriors were dead. We don't forget that.
It's like, have you listened to this show? Are you saying that we have knee-jerk reactions that turn out to be very wrong within a matter of days, if not hours? Usually seconds. Couldn't be us.
Yeah, listen, this was bound to happen. I felt like this was going to be a correction game for the Warriors because they are just too good of an offensive team to get their shit kicked in.
And Hank, I'm sorry. had a you had a tough day today at the office you showed up you did your job but you look very unhappy right now I'm a little bit worried about you yeah the third quarter quarter Warriors Q3 that's I mean bad Q3 they are this has been their MO for almost a decade now they have been the best team in the third quarter basically every single year that these guys have been playing together.
They jump on teams coming out of halftime also combined with the fact that Celtics have not been good in the third quarter in these playoffs. Or in the past few years.
It has notoriously a bad third quarter team. Just a perfect storm for what we witnessed of two point game going into half half turned into, what was it, like a 20-point game going into the fourth quarter? 24.
24-point game going into the fourth quarter. The Warriors outscored them 35-14, plus 21.
I think I saw the stat. I think Kirk Goldsberry, our good friend, tweeted that was the highest point differential in an NBA Finals game, maybe, ever.
No, because the Celtics did that, actually, in fourth quarter. So that was the highest, I think, Warriors third quarter differential in a playoff game, which is saying something because that's what they do to everyone.
I feel like you'll take the split, though, right? You will take a split. It is like Groundhog Day a little bit with this team, where I feel like we did this in the Bucs series.
There was a game where they just completely choked because of a terrible third quarter. In the Miami series, there was obviously the great quarter debate of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Great quarter debate, yep. Now, wait.
And this is just what they do. It's unexplainable.
They still had sloppy turnovers and not great play in the first half. Can I ask a question? Sure.
Dan, big cat. Yes.
Now, would you say that that was the Celtics choking or would I tend to believe in this particular game the Warriors just playing incredible basketball because they had the Celtics. Essentially what happened was what the Celtics did to the Warriors in the fourth quarter in game one, the Warriors returned that to them in game two in the third quarter where their defense was incredible and their offense was also just hitting every shot.
I don't think that was Celtics choking. I think that was the Warriors just playing great basketball.
It was a little bit. They got it down to six.
It was within six and all of a sudden, snap of a finger, they won an 11-0, 14-0 run, and it was over. I think that the Warriors can make any team look like they're choking, because when the Warriors play their best basketball, there's not a team that can beat them.
Their ceiling is crazy. Their ceiling is insane, and they're unbeatable when they're playing really well.
Yeah, so, alright, second question, Hank. Big cap.
I was trying to think about this series, because that's two where you watch the first two games and both teams have a quarter where they look like the other team doesn't even have they shouldn't even be on the court with them talking about obviously the Celtics fourth quarter in game one in the Warriors third quarter in game two. Now the the Warriors did this in game one as well in the third quarter.
The difference being the Celtics were able to make a few plays to keep it within that close range where it ended 12 points in the third quarter, right? Tonight they stepped on their throat. They're like, we're not going to leave any doubt.
We're not going to let you come back in the fourth quarter. Are you walking away from these two games being like, the Warriors just didn't step on our throat in game one and it feels like we're going to be in trouble if this continues like this? Or are you saying these two teams are evenly matched and it's okay, we're going to be fine back home? I think these two teams are evenly matched.
We're going to be fine back home. I'm still obviously worried.
There's always the impending. Game three is now the biggest game in the series, obviously.
But I'm just worried about a close game late in the fourth quarter and a Celtics mistake, a Celtics mishap. Obviously, it's a young team, first time in the finals.
Something happens, they lose the game, and then they lose the momentum of the series. Obviously, with them being 1-1, not 2-0, you're now in a much riskier place where it's like every game the momentum can shift so much and the Celtics just have to execute.
If they execute and play their game, they're going to win the series. I'm just going to say it.
But I'm just worried. It feels like they are the better team, similar to, honestly, the Heat series where it's like they're the better team.
So it almost makes it worse when games are close and they lose games because you're like, they should have won. Tonight wasn't really like that.
Tonight wasn't a game where they should have won. Obviously, they were in it.
They were close. They were up.
But it never felt like a game that they let slip away. That's what I'm worried about.
I'm worried about a game that slips away. This next game is a must win.
I'm putting a must win on it for the Celtics. More for the Celtics than the Warriors.
Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure. I feel like the Celtics have to win this game.
If they lose this game, I think they're done. Yeah, and I can't figure out – I just can't figure out this series right now after watching both of the games.
Like, I agree with you. The Celtics – I think the Celtics cause a lot of problems for the Warriors matchup-wise.
Like, they have – when their defense is humming, you saw it in game one. But part of me also is looking at this and being like, the Warriors could have done this in game one too, if they had just done that extra like step on their throat.
Like remember how the third quarter ended in game one, where it was like Derek White had a couple of free throws with like no time left dumb foul. There was a, you know, like it was a 16 point game that became a 12 point game.
And you were able to say like, Oh, the Celtics have a chance here. And then they went obviously crazy in the fourth quarter fourth quarter so i just can't figure out if it if tonight was more the norm or if it was you know what i mean because the warriors did the same thing in game one they just didn't do that extra little piece where they're like no you're really dead yeah i know what i mean i mean it's impossible to know because it's this series so far has been filled with three insane quarters yeah right it's like even basketball and even basketball and then three quarters where shit just goes haywire.
Yeah, so it's very hard to tell what's going to happen. I do think that the Celtics, I'm not going to actually say they're dead.
I think that the Celtics can and should win the next game at home. I still think it's going to go seven.
I think it's going to go to the Dets, but they have to win this next one. I did not walk away being like, oh, the Celtics are completely overmatched.

I'm just saying simply from the fact that these games actually were very similar.

It's just the difference being that the way the Warriors closed out the third quarter in game two

left it no doubt and no chance for the Celtics to come back.

And can they do that again? I don't know.

Because that was an insane performance tonight.

The first half was also wild with Draymond.

Yeah, Draymond really went crazy. He's insane.
He is an insane performance tonight. The first half was also wild with Draymond.
Yeah. I mean, like.
Draymond really went. He went crazy.
He's insane. Yeah.
He is an insane person. He just.
He gets out there. He was tackling people.
He was like putting his feet on people's face. I don't know.
Like, he just goes from zero to a hundred. And he's like.
He dances that fine line where he gets an early technical. And then he almost challenges the refs to kick him out.
He's like. Yeah gonna do everything possible to get kicked out of this game and i don't think that you're gonna do it yeah he had it all he was in some skirmishes he was in the crowd he licked a guy he was yeah he had his feet going everywhere i think this is just him promoting his podcast i think when he goes out on the court now he's doing stuff just so that people be like wow i can't wait to hear to hear what Draymond says about the time that he gave a wet willy to Jason Tatum.
Yeah, it's smart. I will let you, Hank, if you would like to complain about the officials.
They obviously – it didn't matter because of the difference in the game here, but they were bad in the first half. Like that call that Jalen Brown just didn't touch Gary Pay payton and i think the rest were just expecting him to touch him and he just didn't well this goes back to draymond too because two days ago draymond tweeted out out of nowhere this is his exact tweet to call adam silver the best commissioner of all sports true at this point is kind of disrespectful he's one of the best ceos of a major corporation in the world.
Just finished watching his PC. Very, very, very impressive.
Just give him that wet sock. That Adam Silva wet sock.
That gluck gluck. There were some bad calls in the first half.
You can do the ref game in any game. It's one of those things where I try and save my refs, you know, NBA rigged refs fucked up the game for if it's close.
Right, right. You can't, like this game.
I'm not going to sit here and be like, be like, the refs fucked us and we lost the game because of the refs. They did fuck us in the first half and there were some terrible calls and clearly they had an agenda and Adam Silver saw that tweet and wants the game to go seven games, but the game wasn't close, so I'm not going to say that.
That's a big view. Yeah, you've got to save it for a close game.
I agree with that. That's the most powerful excuse that you can drop.
The clip was loaded. cock that.
Yeah, but if it for a close game I agree with that that's the most powerful excuse that you can drop the clip was loaded cockbat but if it were a close game there was a lot of evidence on your side for you to be very upset but it wasn't so you can't but you could but it was rigged but you're not gonna say it agreed Yeah, yeah. Like, fact or fiction, the NBA would like this series to go more games than four.
Yes. Yes.
Fact. That's fact.
You forgot the game. You forgot the game.
I'm going to say more than five. Fact.
Right, but having the Warriors win tonight guarantees it goes more than four. Right, but now we have the reverse, where if the Warriors win game three, they also want this to go the distance the other way.
Well, no, I don't know. The NBA, they're kind of trying to set up this Warriors are the underdogs mentality.
No, everyone hates Boston. Every commissioner hates Boston.
It's day one of commissioner school. You get a test.
Well, it's Goodell. He's in Adam Silver's year.
Oh, yeah. He wrote the curriculum.
Yeah, definitely.

Goodell definitely gave him a call before the series and was like, hey, just so you know.

Well, no, when Adam Silver got the job, Goodell was like, hey, I'm really excited for you.

This is a great opportunity.

Make sure to fuck over Massachusetts at every opportunity because we all hate them.

But you're not going to bring any of that up.

You're not going to bring any of that up, which is good.

Where's your nervousness level? Do you know what I mean about trying to figure out this series? Because I think depending on who you root for, you can tell yourself that you're in a great spot either way. If you're rooting for the Celtics, you're like, we just stole a game.
Our best was incredible. We have a deeper team.
we can throw a bunch of defensive looks at them and if you're the warriors you're like oh yeah we just we just squandered game one but we got this yeah you can actually walk away and both sides can be right in this that they can say like we feel good the longer the series goes the better off the warriors are they obviously had the experience and they have the rest so why is that funny i actually it's just funny i don't know if i agree that's fat you're a funny guy you're a funny guy no that wasn't a joke i like to tell jokes sometimes and go for laughs that was just that was just straight up analysis i don't know if i agree i think the celtics the way they play defense and like the style that they play the longer it goes the like the more gas they take out of the other the opponent like you saw it with with jimmy butler in game seven you saw with yannis in game seven like they kind of suck the will out of the opponent because they play such tough defense what about what richard jefferson was saying when he came up part of my last week and he was saying that um they have uh like the celtics have the advantage in the first couple games from being battle-tested, but then as the series goes on longer, then they start to run out of gas. I think you could just make, I think this series is so fascinating because you could basically say anything you want, and you could pretty much be right.
It's a Rorschach test. Yeah, you can take whatever you want.
How are you looking at it? You can look at this and be like, the Celtics are in a great spot, and you can look at it and be like, the Warriors are going to absolutely kill them. We're in a spot to be up 3-1 after two games at home.
There you go. What more could you ask for? And then it's a best of three.
Yeah. No, it's a win and you're in.
It's a win, yeah. Oh, you control your own destiny.
Yeah, you control your own destiny right now. That's huge.
No, there's two things. Yes, you're right.
This is definitely like an ink plot test. Yeah, it is.
Where you can take whatever you want. Everyone just agrees that Draymond is insane and that everyone's out to get Boston.
And I guess the best way to sum up this series is anyone who has a strong opinion on who is clearly the better team is just lying. They're casual.
They're just wrong. Yeah.
Because you can't tell after those first two games. It's impossible.
You cannot tell who the better team is. Thank God we have seven games.
Right, Hank? Hank was, Hank, he was dead. He was dead.
We went and interviewed Biz during the third quarter. We came back and he was just laying on the couch dead.
You sprawled out, yeah. I have shoulder problems.
You have shoulder problems. What's wrong with your shoulder? I woke up today and my shoulder is in a lot of pain.
I don't know what I did. Carry this whole company on your back.
Yeah, I don't know. That's true.
That's a fact. You need a personal day.
You're like Atlas, the guy that carried the world around. Next thing you know, we're going to have an email on Tuesday being like, Hey, good news, guys.
We have a massage deal now. Everyone in the company has $100 to a masseuse.
That's why atlases are called

atlases. Yeah.
Yeah.

He carried the world on his shoulders.

Like you. But was he named after

the atlas?

They named the atlas

after the guy.

Learn something new every day. He was the original.

He's like how Jalen Rose. There's a bunch of

Jalens now.

He was the original. That's cool.
Do you think there's any blame for you changing up your look going into game two? No, I'm wearing the exact same thing I wore Monday. I just added an extra layer.
Okay, so you're not wearing the same thing. No, but I'm physically wearing the same exact thing.
Right, but you added a coat. It was cold.
Okay. No, I'm not blaming that.
It was like 85 degrees today. I'm just wondering, because obviously game one was a great game.

You were on cloud nine, and then you changed up what you were wearing.

Well, yeah, but they also changed up who the refereeing officially.

But you're not going to say anything about that.

Exactly.

Because it was a blowout.

Right.

If it was close, then maybe.

From your perspective, how much blame do you put on Hank changing out his outfit?

I didn't change my outfit.

I'm wearing the same exact thing.

I love defensive Hank. I love defensive Hank.

I love defensive Hank.

He's the best.

This is actually a side note.

You're playing better defense than the Celtics did in the third quarter.

Come on.

That Larry Bird shirt.

You're all the size of me.

No, I texted Hank that Larry Bird shirt that we put out for the promo.

I wore it game one, and we lost.

Randomly saw Nick, who works with us, the bar PFT you were there he was wearing it and then game six Hank was wearing it and I texted him right after I was like we can't wear that shirt anymore okay so I am a big juju guy like that so I would I kind of would like to see Hank wear the same exact outfit yeah i mean that's what that's what trees are saying hank no no don't worry about me all right let's go positives uh for you hank because jason tatum looked better he looked back he looked like he you know like he actually could shoot that's a positive positives are we right it's we we got one in golden state we have chance to be up 3-1 after two games at home. Yep.
Marcus Smart barely into Robert Williams' knee was not good for my health. See, this series is so fascinating because you can even say, like, the Warriors just won by a million, and Klay played terrible.
Really bad. Just like in the first game, you could be like, the Celtics won by a million, and Tatum played terrible.
Jalen Brown played really good in the first half tonight. It's just like, yeah.
Tatum at least had like, he wasn't, he played terribly offensively, but he had 13 assists. Yeah, no, in game one, yeah, but he couldn't shoot at all.
Right, but at least like, Clay was just, Clay's useless. Clay was, we knew Clay was bad when he missed that layup, like his second shot of the game, he had no touch.
But I'm just saying, this a fascinating series because you can, again, you can spin it whichever team you're rooting for. You can be like, oh, we did this, but this guy didn't play well.
And you can keep going down the line. Where are we at on the Warriors fans? I'm trying to get a beat on them.
They're a slippery bunch. Yeah.
Because I feel like they fall into one of two buckets. Either they're like a tech executive.
Yeah. Or they're like a middle schooler that trolls people on Twitter.
Yeah, here's what I think has been great for the Warriors is the fact that they switched arenas during COVID and when Klay was hurt and when everything happened. It kind of went under the radar because I definitely do not like the Warriors as much as I did when they were in Oakland.
Yeah, it's better. It was way better when they were in Oakland and having that city have a competent team.
And now it's like San Francisco. It feels like now they're the amusement park version of the Warriors.
Right, but it happened in a time when there was no fans in the stands. So we kind of just didn't.
If they had gone seamlessly championship to championship changing arenas, I think we have been able to get our hate up yeah but they they just slipped under the radar and you kind of don't even realize oh yeah they're playing in you know san francisco now they've completely robbed like the oakland people and and people who were very who stood behind really bad years of these experiences in the nba finals yeah it's fucked up yeah fucked up what they did to Oakland. Yeah.
Okay. You will be on the wood, game three? Yes, sir.
So you excited? Double fist. I mean, this is an all-time moment for you.
Yeah, I can't wait. You're going to wear that same outfit? No, TBD.
Okay. Tune in.
Tune in to find out. All right.
Oh, nice. Tune in to NBA Finals, game three Darren Revelle will do a quick calculus of that.
Hank Lockwood just gave ABC in the NBA Finals $6 worth of advertising. We'll see.
We'll check the ratings and see what the Lockwood bump is. Tune in to see what he's wearing.
Are you concerned in your ability to double fist pump with your injured shoulder? No, because I wasn't thinking about double fist pumping the first time. It was just a perfectly natural reaction that happens naturally during any game.
Do you think maybe you injured your shoulder doing the double fist pump? No, I injured my shoulder sleeping like a normal person. Well, clearly you weren't sleeping that normally.
Yeah, no, I don't know what happened. I actually don't know what happened.
All right, other things. We're going to talk PLL and other stuff.
Darts after biz. That might have been where I hurt my shoulder.
That could have been where you hurt your shoulder. A dart watching injury.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm trying to think what else we had this weekend. Oh, LeBron's doing a podcast.
So LeBron James says he's going to be jumping on someone's podcast soon, maybe his own. Yeah.
So this is LeBron having like three glasses of red wine and then just like tweeting whatever his feelings are yeah so he saw somebody that has a podcast he's like i i want that but for me draymond it's actually yeah that's exactly he saw draymond's in his crew yeah it's actually incredible that it took him this long to for him to be like i need a podcast yeah not for him to like actually do a podcast, but for him to say, I'm thinking about doing a podcast. Right, right.
And he also had a great tweet tonight. It's so funny to me how many basketball experts there are on this app.
Everybody, Dr. James Naismith, it's fascinating with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 laughing emojis.
Were they crying emojis? Crying, laughing. Yeah, I was about to say.
For as many times as Steph has been to the finals. That's very funny.
That's a very funny thing for him to say. Hilarious.
Listen, if his podcast is half as good as his Twitter game, I think we're all in for a treat. Yeah.
I think part of my take's in big, big trouble. He also only follows 183 people, so I don't know how many experts he's seeing on his timeline.
Yeah. Somebody, I bet you can, like, make an app an app or like a plug-in for twitter where you're able to see what lebron james sees when he logs into twitter and it's it's definitely not what like he's he's he's just saying that because other people have said that yeah like everyone's a basketball expert i would i would actually love and we have extended an invitation to lebron james or as as j referred to him.
This is very funny. I've never heard anybody say, Mr.
James. Mr.
James. But Jake said, Mr.
James, please come on part of my take. Maybe that's the key.
Yeah, Mr. James, please come on part of my take.
It's an open invitation. I don't even know how that would go.
I think it'd be fine. It would be awesome.
It would be awesome, but it also would be like, there would be some awkward moments where we try to make jokes and he's just like, I'm not doing this. Hey, LeBron, you remember when you showed your dick to the entire world on national television? This is LeBron James here for me undies.
Yeah, no, it would be interesting. Open invite, though.
Open invite. I mean, he would never.
It's never happening. Ever.
In a million years. Like, what? He has at least 10 people that would stop it before it happens.
Like, there are certain guests where people are like Aaron Rodgers or Kevin Durant or like, name any guests. And I'm like, yeah, there's a chance.
LeBron is a 0.0 in my mind. I doubt it.
Agreed. The only way we'd ever get him on this show is if he was doing like a press junket and we had 10 minutes with him on a Zoom and it was like you get three questions.
I don't even think LeBron does Zoom. By the way, we would say no to that interview.
We've said no to those type of interviews where it's like we won't, people would be mad. We would need, if we were to interview LeBron for real, I would need at least four days with him.

I would need six bottles of wine.

I think the only way that we can do it.

Or sleep at his house.

Yeah.

The only way we can pull this off is if we do like a Jim Harbaugh thing where we just show up at his house unannounced.

We've got the podcasting equipment and we just ring the door until he relents.

We bring tacos.

Yeah.

On a Tuesday?

Yeah.

Tacos on Tuesday.

He probably already hit. Maybe the move is to bring him on a different day than a tuesday because you know he's already got tacos on tuesday he'd be like hey i know it's not tuesday but you can still eat tacos yeah it's a treat this is a special occasion what's the occasion you're coming on carmel is the key because he was a great interview and he's part of his crew no maybe he'd be like hey you guys if we saw carmelo on the street right now you think he'd be like oh that was awesome you guys were awesome maybe no i think he might i don't think so i don't think we left a lasting impression we got to get brawny on maybe if we get brawny first and then he tells his dad yeah yeah yeah that's true brawny's friends that listen tell brawny to tell his dad okay shout out brawny's friends uh friends.
Bronny, I see him. He's going to be an NBA superstar.
I think he's going to be better than his dad. Yeah, we have a draft board, and he's already number one.
Easily. Why don't we have LeBron on to break down that draft board? I like that, yeah.
Yeah, perfect. Perfect invite.
All right, let's do Who's Back, and then we will have our good friend Paul Bissonette on the show. Quite the interview with him.
Always a treat. He's the best.
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Uh, before we do who's back, I forgot. I had one last thing on the, on, on the NBA finals.
I didn't know this. And this is obviously a hand up, you know, could be just a very small group of psychos on Twitter, but it seems like there might be some, a group of people that think Steve Kerr is overrated, which is maybe the craziest take.
That's one of those ones where it's like we've all just – we've exhausted every avenue of debate that we're now talking about Steve Kerr who has – I think he has eight rings total between coach and player and has basically been the coach for one of the best runs a team has had. You can just look at who the coach was before with Mark Jackson and then look what Steve – Oh, but that's part of it.
Now they're like, well, he's only – Mark Jackson should get more credit. Mark Jackson is at the table.
I do love the fact, though, that Mark Jackson has to do all these Warriors games. Like right after he got fired, they went on this insane run and Mark Jackson just has to watch them win title after title after title.
He should take a little bit of credit. Like if I was Mark Jackson, you should be like, yeah, you know what? I laid the groundwork.
I poured the foundation in the basement of this house that Steve Kerr ended up building and turning into a nice mansion. But yeah, like Steve Kerr is obviously a very good head coach.
I don't think that's even a debate. But I think there's a, I think again, it's probably just we've've run out of things to debate but i just love the fact that people are trying to have this debate and then watch a game like tonight and they're those same people are probably like third quarter quarter warriors at it again it's like well what do you think happened at halftime yeah so there's an adjustment that gets made what do you think what do you think happens at halftime for every warriors game that makes them – I saw the stat.
It is legitimately like 2015 through 19 when everyone was healthy, and then this year they are the number one team in third quarter net rating. And that's like six years in a row.
Obviously there's been a couple gaps, but six years where that has happened. And guess who the coach is? And guess who talks to them at halftime? And people can make the argument that, you know, Clay and Steph are two of the best shooters of all time playing on the same game.
They are. That's not even an argument.
Which is true. Yeah.
But also, a coach's job is to coach players to improve their game. I think, like, obviously Steph Curry is, like, a freak.
That's, you know, the most talented shooter of all time. But, like, it's good that Steve Kerr hasn't fucked him up yeah it's good that he's like he's known how to use him correctly correct that's still on the coach and they still gotta play defense yeah I don't know it's just I I like those I like the attempt at the take I should say because it is one of those takes where it's like we are just we've run out of everything is now Steve Kerr's over? How many more titles does he have to win? Like, Red Arbok? I don't know.
It's fucking, man. We should just, honestly, when we get to the point where we reach that, like, when we get to the wall, we need to just have everyone on Twitter just go into a time machine and be like, let's debate something from, like, you know, the 80s or something.
No, that's a touch grass moment, big time moment big time yeah all right hank your who's back uh my who's back of the week is the internet internet culture okay sometimes i feel like i personally am on the internet too much i get frustrated i'm like i need to you know i touch grass sometimes like we talk about you know twitter and you need to take more vacation stuff on this show but then there's times like this story where it's like the internet is hilarious. This is very funny.
It's real life consequences that have resulted from the internet. And I don't know if you guys, Morbius.
No. Okay.
So it was a movie, Jared Leto movie that came out in April. Superhero movie.
I think he's a character from Spider-Man or something, but they did a spinoff. Bombed.
17% raw tomatoes. Terrible movie.
Didn't do that good at the box office. High budget.
Yeah, I've never even heard of it. Yeah, didn't do well.
I pulled a 180 on Jared Leto recently. I used to hate him and think he was annoying.
Now he's awesome when he plays annoying characters. Yeah.
Yeah, he's kind of a weirdo. I think he's a weirdo.
But this person, Radha, this was the original tweet that started the meme and it blew it up. But she tweeted on April 2nd, the best part of Morbius was when he said, it's Morbin time and Morbd all all over those guys, which is just like, obviously, like, making fun of the movie, like, joking around.
Yep, okay. That turned into, like, a huge meme where everyone was just doing, it's Morbin time, it's Morbin time, just turning everything into, you know, bringing it back to Morb and Morbing.
So much so that Sony saw all of the tweets and, like, saw that it was always, because it was, like, Twitter, so, like, everything that was Morbin-related would have like 100K favorites, like a shit ton of retweets. It was going viral every single day for the last month, two months.
It's been an internet thing where it's constantly been growing and growing, although now it's kind of dead. But right at the tail end of it, Sony saw all these viral tweets and was like, we need to bring Morbius back into theaters.
Like, there's a starving – Yes. Like, there's people that want this movie re-released.
Like, look at all these tweets. It's viral.
Everyone wants – everyone's talking about it. So they re-released it this weekend, and it bombed.
Yeah. Like, less than – This is awesome.
Less than $100,000 made in every movie theater, like, nationwide. Like, it said something like it was an average of $8 per theater that showed it is how much money they made.
That's crazy. This is so great.
So the internet basically memed the Sony, the big production studio, into re-releasing this movie, so it's bombed twice. Didn't the internet do that too? Just off of memes.
With the Sonic the Hedgehog thing? Yeah. They bullied them into changing the CGI, which was for the better.
They put out the picture of Sonic and everyone was like, this Sonic sucks. And then they went back and spent like another $100 million like redoing the fur on Sonic the Hedgehog.
This is so awesome for so many reasons. Like the fact that one, anyone takes the internet for real is hilarious.
the fact that they were able to meme this into bringing it back when it just sucked objectively. Now, the only thing, though, Hank, do you feel a little sympathy for these executives at Sony who got duped by the internet? Because that could be you someday.
Yeah, it could be, but that's kind of like, you know, maybe that'll be my sign to just take myself out back. I would just love to see those executives, like, walk into their office Monday morning and just be like, so give us the good news.
I want to hear the rest of this metaphor. Hank, you're treating yourself like you're old yellering yourself.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that is, I agree with you there.
Like, there will be a day when I'm going to wake up and everything will pass me by And be like I'm out I'm gone I don't wanna do this But I would like to Yeah I mean I would like to think that It's just funny that Probably someone at some level Was like Hey executives Look at all these tweets Like look at all these viral memes They're all talking about Morbius And Morbin Like it's Morbin time guys Cause it was like Every single day They'd be like, it's Morbin time, and it was just classic meme shit where they were turning everything somehow into Morbius and Jared Leto. A really stupid, funny joke online.
And people were like, alright, we need to re-release this nationwide and every theater. I want to get my Morb on.
$8 per theater? Yeah, Morb out. Is like, that's one ticket.
All right, so we'll do a Morbius review after the NBA Finals. You know, we have to now.
All right. We have to go watch it, all of us.
Yeah, movies are back. Yeah, we have to go.
Well, I'm sure we'll be able to watch it like online. Yeah, but we got to watch it together.
Are there any showings that are available? We'll just do a showing in the gambling cave. Let's just steal it.
Get some popcorn. Let's illegally download it.
And we'll Mor and we'll morb we'll morb the fuck out of this podcast and then hopefully we bring it back for another one um all right pft your who's back uh my who's back of the week is max homo ah that was mine all the homosexuals out there it is pride month max put up an amazing stat yes the memorial tournament i feel like there are like nine memorial tournaments that are every year. Am I way off on that? Let's always talk about the Memorial.
This one is a pretty big one. This is, I think, the sixth major.
This is the one in Dublin, Ohio. There's a lot of things to remember.
That's true. Good point.
Harambe. Don't even go there with Harambe.
We can't talk about Harambe right now. Too soon.
Max Homa required 99 putts. Internet meme culture.
Yeah, that's true. Yeah.
We're definitely going to get a Harambe movie at some point. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. That's actually a great idea.
Holy fuck. Mark Wahlberg's going to sneak in and stop it from happening.
Yeah, Mark Wahlberg should be the father of the child. We should do a Harambe movie, but make it super dark.
But also on the side of Harambe. So the kid that gets saved.
Yeah, it starts with his ancestors. Yeah, the kid that gets saved, then it does something horrific.
That's baby Hitler. We saved baby Hitler to kill Harambe.
Wow. Harambe goes, wow.
We could have ended it all. Jeez.
Holy fuck. I mean, that's box office gold right there.
I mean, I'd watch that movie tomorrow. And also, there's a Morb involved.
The Mike Francesa clip has to be in there, too. Yeah, a gorilla.
We're talking about a gorilla. What if Mark Wahlberg played Harambe? Ooh, he works out enough.
Yeah. I've read his Wikipedia page.
There's some of that in his past. Why does that go viral, by the way? Oh, Jesus.
Why does that go viral? Like every two weeks, Mark Wahlberg's daily schedule goes viral. Because he tries to say he plays golf in 45 minutes.
He wakes up at 4 a.m. How about you just, I don't know, you could wake up at 6 a.m.
and do the same shit. Well, you know who could have played golf in 45 minutes this weekend was Max Homa.
Yes.

Because he required only 99 putts.

He's the first player in term in history to record fewer than 100 putts

since records have even been kept.

He's good.

Max is legitimately good at golf now.

Legitimately good.

It's crazy to say.

It kind of ruins the joke.

He's probably, he's got to be like top 10, top 20 favorites

to win the U.S. Open.

No, he's, yeah, he's, I think he's top 10 in the FedEx Cup, which who knows what that means. That's crazy.
He's rich as fuck. Yeah, he is very rich.
Very rich man. He needs to start.
But he still. We need to start wetting the beak.
He's still getting kept in check, though, because the PGA Tour. He should join the live and get everyone off of his good side.
Oh, that would be such a great heel turn. He should join the Live and be like, we should talk him into joining the Live and then be like, don't worry, we'll handle all your PR.
And then when he joins the Live, we're just like, fuck this guy. I did like what Greg Norman said.
He was like, listen, nobody's perfect. I can't criticize everyone.
We've all got our skeleton. He was talking about them l like, luring the journalist into an embassy and then cutting his body up with a bone saw.
He's like, listen. Got to do what's best for him and his family.
Mistakes were made. I don't know why they all don't just do the Phil Mickelson and be like, dude, I have gambling debts.
I need to do this. Like, Dustin Johnson, I don't know why he's on there, but he's playing.
Yeah. Because he's paying them like $150 million.
Right, right. Yeah.
So the PGA Tour Communications official account tweeted that stat out, but they're keeping Max's ego in check. They called him Max-a-homa.
Ah, nice. Which is a great perverted name for him.
Yes. Yeah, that was my who's back, too.
I love that he's back. Although he's never left.
He's just fucking good now. Also, my who's back is uh our good friend brooks kepka who got married this weekend he's so back yeah and i looked at the instagram stories and it looked like maybe the most fun wedding of all time ludicrous did a concert yeah i'm not upset that i didn't get invited he had ludicrous perform at his wedding that's incredible it also um there was a couple people like you guys didn't get an invite no, because we wouldn't.
But second of all, if you saw any of the Instagram stories and pictures, it was just all beautiful people. Like, just beautiful people on a beach.
And I just envisioned us being there and being like, we would just be a wet fart just standing there. Like, all the pictures would be ruined by our existence.
I feel like- There's obviously always a cut list for weddings. We weren't even close.
We weren't considered top 20? No, we weren't considered. 50? No.
No, we were the amateur that shows up and hits plus 12 on the first day. You're like, whoa, that's not good.
It was like, if we had shown up at this wedding, even if we were invited, we would have set one foot inside and security would have just instinctually kicked us out. Yeah.
No, it really would have. We would have been uncomfortable.
That's how pretty everyone looked. We did not fit in.
I feel like everybody at the wedding would just- Did not fit in. They would just leave and all text each other and be like, hey, let's go to a different spot.
Yeah. This place sucks now.
Yeah. Dude, this place is fucking lame.
Okay, Jake, you're who's back. My who's back is the king of clay.
Rafa Nadal did it again. Oh, who cares? I know you don't want to do it.
Talk about it, so we'll move on. No, it's Mickey Mouse to have to only win on one surface.
Well, I think he also won the Australian, right? So he now has a two-major lead, 22. 14 of his 22 are at Roland Garros.
That's bullshit. There's still eight other majors.
Yeah, but 14? 14? I don't know. Novak has nine of his 20 at Australian Open.
There's got to be better than more than three good tennis players. Why is he so good on Klay? He's got that spin.
Top spin changes differently. I won my club championship on Klay.
So you and Rafa. Could you take him on clay? Not one point.
Not one point? Maybe if he double faulted. Yeah.
What surface would you be most likely to take a point off Rafa on? Not clay. Yeah.
I've never played grass before, so by default it has to be hard. Okay.
Yeah. You do like it hard.
Yeah. Never won a club championship on hard, though.

Got cut from the high school tennis team on hard.

Oh, so that's your... So, might say your weakest surface.

Would you have gotten cut on clay?

Michael Jordan got cut from his basketball team.

That's true.

Yeah.

Good point.

That's right.

So, you're clay first.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's when you really...

Mm-hmm.

You dominate on clay.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, good for Rafa.

Sprayed your ankle on hard, too.

I did, yes. Didn't Rafa have, like, a sprained ankle or something i think he got hurt her foot in this foot injury he added that on yeah yeah so all-time funny protester too did you guys know what happened she attached herself to the net like with handcuffs yeah and actually like a pretty good protest because she had a shirt on that was like 10,000, it was like 1,028 days to live.

What does that mean?

Climate change. like a pretty good protest because she had a shirt on that was like 10,000 it was like 1028 days to live what does that mean it's a countdown it was a climate change but like it actually made me pause and i was like wait is that true what happens in in four years well i initially i looked at it and i was like wait is that so only only four more superbowls if the fucking world ends before dan snyder sells the team i'm gonna going to take myself out back.
Could you imagine, though, PFT, putting it into a perspective that we understand four more Super Bowls? Yeah. No, I like that.
I like that. That's such a terrible, terrible thing to say.
Especially when you root for shitty teams and you know that you're more than four years away. Could you imagine if that's how everyone decided get climate change like enacted or whatever laws enacted in america they're like hey you have three more super bowls that's not nearly enough that's actually how you talk to the people yeah don't tell me about polar ice caps don't tell me about sea raising tell me how many sundays i have left yeah and then i will cry yeah yeah it's a good point um okay let's to Biz.
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Okay, here he is, Paul Bissonette. All right, we now welcome on our very, very good friend and the man who has- Your hockey bitch.
Your hockey. I'm your hockey bitch.
You want hockey talk? No, listen. I was going to give you – Yeah, you want that hockey talk, baby? I was going to give you a beautiful intro of the man who captured the hearts and minds of two nations on Saturday night during the Edmonton Oilers Colorado Avalanche game.
It is our good friend Paul Bissonette who looks absolutely hilarious. If you missed it, you should watch it on YouTube, but he has a shaved top of his head.
He looks like George Costanza. I mean, how are you doing, dude? This has been a wild 24 hours.
Peter Mansbridge. Peter Mansbridge.
A famous, he was a news anchor, and he just delivered the news, old school, like the guy, the man. And so we were doing this silly commercial for McDonald's, and we thought of this character named Peter Mansbiz.
And then we did Kyle Dubiz, the GM for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but it was to pay homage to him. So we ended up working in this silly marketing piece.
And then I'm like, I bet wit, I think it was in fucking like what November and the Edmonton Oilers were playing like dog shit. They had no goal tending.
They were out of a playoff position and he was fucking talking them up. i said fucking battle of alberta i said i'll

fucking bet you this that i'll do this on national television if the calgary flames don't move past

the edmonton oilers they fucking by they got they had better goaltending they had a better overall

team defense uh they had just as good as a top line based on the entire season and i thought

their depth was better and fucking they got worked in that series which hey you followed it all but

Thank you. so now here you are now you fucking hooker the fucking hooker stole my rolex let's just get out of here that's what you look like at least you didn't take my passport yeah i think you actually look good it just struck me you know you've got like a tobias from arrested development thing going on yeah you look like the uh the anaurapist yeah i don't know i don't watch a lot of television man you're dropping a lot of things it's an old show it is spot on wait i have a question though so before we talk hockey you did this uh last night during the game now then you sit next to the greatest hockey player of all time in wayne gretzky what man what did he say after like was everyone at tnt like what are we doing what why how did this how did we get roped into this no they were so cool about it they've been so good tnt's been so cool about all of it and so is wayne and as much as wayne is like what the hell is going this but he's he's the fucking best guy ever like today he brought us over to over to the junior game the oil kings so like obviously wayne come the podcast let me grab a sip of water here i'm buckled okay by the way i i i let me while you take another sip and i'll just give a compliment because tnt is like just blows away everyone's coverage in nba and nhl because they have obviously chuck and you know kenny and everyone and and then you on the other side like you guys crush it Chuck paved the way for it all of it all of it what what TNT is willing to put up with and like just like let this fucking guy be an idiot right right and like but like so Chuck came on our first broadcast to start off the season and like he I felt like he took so much levity off of all of it that it set us up for success.
So not only did he pave the way in his own right, he was willing to snap around hockey, but he also loves hockey and buddy, he fucking hammers games. Like it's fucking, so we're there.
Sometimes we cross over, right? And he'll be in there. He's like, who are you guys liking tonight? And he barks it at him.
We're like, ah, and he's like, this is who I got money on. he's dropping you know you know whatever big probably reasonable to what yeah yeah responsible yeah yeah so um but yeah i don't know how but anyway so he set the way and no you're talking about wayne gretzky uh it's taking you the oil can oil kings game and and and uh so i wake up this morning and listen we had a fun night last night we went and celebrated because that whole head shave and the fact that tnt allowed it we're just so grateful and you know we're snapping around between chicklets and them and they're being so cool about it um so i wake up and and i kind of wanted one of those days where like i didn't have to turn it on at all but way i get a text from way let me read it exactly what i wanted out of you i have a man i have him as i have him as my and my phone is 99 he goes he's he's even nice to say it like this he goes hey bud i don't want to bother you are you still good to go to the junior game to read the starting lineup for the kids?

The coach is pretty excited that you would do it.

But they haven't told the kids. So I get this text and I'm like fucking doing the contrast shower, like going through my head.

I got to make this kind of special, figuring out like, how am I going to make this cool for the kids?

But then I find out as we're getting into it and the kids don't know.

So Wayne was going to go in before the game. He gave a quick quick speech and then said I got a guy to read the starting lineup so they do this like pet like so I go in there and listen I'm usually not pretty good at these things but they brought the TNT camera on and they fucking filmed it and the it was fucking sick and then.
And then they ended up going out there and winning five, four. It was a sick game, but Wayne teed the whole thing up.
Cause he just cares so much about junior hockey in Canada. And the fact that like, I couldn't, I couldn't let them down.
So they're actually going to air it. When are you guys dropping this podcast? Tomorrow, Monday morning.
You're not going to see the footage until the broadcast, but Wayne teed the whole thing up.

That's from the minute we landed on a PJ that he set up

from fucking Colorado to Edmonton so we can get in nice and safe.

We fucking were drinking on the plane.

It was one of the nicest private planes I'd ever seen, right?

But all he kept talking about as soon as we landed was like,

we got to go to the game Friday and Sunday.

The Oil Kings are playing.

This man loves hockey more than anything.

All he wanted wants to do is hang around the boys and watch hockey so so wait did you fucking unbelievable did you have to keep it like pg because you were talking to kids because i don't think i've ever heard you say more than like three sentences no word of a lie so my wheels are spinning because i'm like i can't let wayne down right because he going to be teeing the boys up and I got to fucking nail this and I'm nervous as shit. And one of the coaches comes in beforehand and he goes, hey, because Wayne was already waiting out there, he says, hey, just to remind you, like, let's keep it PG, like no F-bombs.
And that's such a Wayne move to fight, you know, no swearing for the kids. You know, such a great guy move.

So I did end up keeping it PG.

So it's funny that you ended up mentioning that.

Wayne got ahead of that.

He's Wayne.

Wayne in life and in hockey was two steps ahead of everybody.

Everybody at all times.

He anticipated you going out there and dropping like a cocksuckers.

Yeah, right. You'd be like, hey, any of you kids eating hoop before?

I mean, you would have said that, yeah.

Is Jake the Snake there?

Yeah, Jake's right here.

He's listening.

Hey, did he not just get announced for the PLL or something?

Yes.

What's up, man?

Oh, my boy, Jake.

Hey, don't forget where you got your start. Was that the Pink Cup? Absolutely Me and Neil, we'll never forget that Check it out on YouTube The Hoop Eaters The Butthole Boys The Leather Cheerio Boys Leather Cheer The fart suckers.
He's starting to get red in the face.

No, I'm good.

How many different words do you know for butthole?

It's like the Eskimos and they have like 20 words for snow.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Hello means goodbye and hello.

Yeah.

I had this good buddy from back home and like Trent Richardson.

God rest his soul.

But like we used to.

He's not dead.

He's alive.

No, no. He passed away.
He passed away. Trent Richardson did? Oh, your friend Trent Richardson, God rest his soul.
But, like, we used to... He's not dead.
He's alive. No, no, he passed away.
He passed away. Trent Richardson did? Oh, your friend Trent Richardson.
Yes, yes. Oh, okay, all right.
We thought you were talking about the football player. No, no, no, no.
But just going back to your comment about how many names you know for asshole or sucking a fart out of one. Yeah.
And, like, I don't know. I was going to strip clubs at, like, 16 years old.
Like, you know, I was just like, we grew up different back home and well in Ontario. That's how we found our fun.
So I also, I played junior hockey. So I know a lot of terms for, you know, the reason I brought him up is because we fucking, his father owned a dealership.
We would be taking like his father's escalades from the dealership up to toronto and like go to these strip clubs and like get toony slides and shit 16 years old but 16 like when were you in a strip club for the first time big fat uh probably 18 yeah yeah yeah yeah we were tapped man we were from well and man we were we were a different breed veterans i know a lot of terms from our soul it's so so much funnier that you're saying this, and then you lean in with that fucking haircut, and it's just like, it takes it to the next level. So one of the TNT executives, Bill Galvin, he's a beauty.
We have so many cool people, and we were in this Oil Kings box, and I don't know if he was trying to tell me or recommending, like, hey kind of like shave it all off for the final you know make could be the last broadcast because they might get swept and I don't I'm like I kind of have to honor this bet of keeping this like Peter Manske biz character for at least a week so I you know I had to I had to let him down softly that this is going to continue so game four Monday I will have have the peter man's biz still yeah so i gotta right now the hair is growing in a little bit on the top but i'll have to get that cleaned up you have a very flat head too it was striking when he was shaving your head i was like he just it's just a a square unit up there wit went to town on my scalp and i don't think he knows how to shave a head or he was trying to hurt me on purpose but i was trying to remain calm and work the mic but as he was stripping it back he was taking skin out and finally i was like oh i'm like come on here so i was trying to keep it together for wit and hey he he was obviously electric on there and uh grinnelly ra um sean we're good at capturing whole thing. And the Edmonton Oilers.
So the Edmonton Oilers are like the Green Bay Packers of the NHL. Like their fan base is rapid.
This is as hockey as it gets. And as soon as we landed here with Wayne, he was like, buddy, he's like, wait till you see till you see this.
Yeah. He goes, these people are incredible.
This is the best. And, you know, he's got obviously a massive soft spot for this place and what it did for him overall.
But he loves Edmonton. And it was really cool to be able to not only do the Chickal's thing, but experience it from Wayne's perspective.
And, like, it's like rolling around with the fucking prime minister. I would imagine.
It's crazy. It's got to be crazy.
Is he always wearing the sweater vest or the cardigan underneath? Hey, you got to admit, how old is Wayne Gretzky? I don't even know how old. In his 60s, yeah.
I was going to say, yeah, like 62 or something. He fucking dresses pretty good.
He's still been wearing nice clothes. He's got the fucking, you know.
He looks right so let's talk a little hockey is this series over by the way wait before you answer this let's just clarify biz has been wrong about every prediction period he could wrong about a lot he cannot get anything right so whatever he says bet the opposite so is this series over yeah i would say that colorado is gonna easily advance okay so edmonton and seven i bet it now if a if that happened wait till you we'd a okay if that happens make me a bet i'll do a belly button uh shot out of you keep the fucking lint in there for as long as you want but then you uh the part that your podcast has to come to edmonton for the finals okay yeah deal deal easy i like that easy if we come no if we come to edmonton for the finals you have to do the shot i'll do the shot out of your belly button in edmonton yes yes for the fire game at one of these wherever they're the the hop and bars are obviously the j Marriott, they got connected to the rink. It's like, it looks like a goddamn spaceship.
It's awesome. We should stay here and we'll do it on their goddamn granite bar top.
Say no more. They win at seven.
So big component to last game was, um, dry signal who is a German player. He's one of the best players in the world.
I would say easily top five year over year the last three years. He's a horse.
He, I believe, suffered a very significant ankle sprain in, I think it was in round one, game seven against LA Kings. And he was laboring it in the second round, but still ended up having this insane series against Calgary where he put up, I believe, 17 points in five games, like tied Oilers records with like Gretzky and the great ones.
And like, you know, him and Connor really elevated the team through that situation. He ended up getting reverse hit last game and you could tell it re-aggravated it.
He's fucking hobbling around there man like he's a warrior it's but it's like hard to watch because hockey players dude it's like you'd have to amputate their leg before you told them not to play and it's like it's him so they they are basically kind of without him and also now Kane because Kane just got a one game suspension but he got that cross-check-checking Caudry in the back. Caudry's out for the series.
Caudry is a massive piece for the Avalanche. Huge.
Like, he's... You told us that before the playoffs started, too.
He, buddy, he gets under people's skin. He wins face-offs.
He makes plays. He makes big plays.

You can't intimidate him.

He's a street thug, man.

Any fucking team in the league should try to sign this guy in free agency this summer.

And he's now out for the series.

So I think Colorado's going to advance,

but it's such a significant piece to move

because I don't believe that any of the teams

that Colorado is going to face moving forward

Thank you. I think they're going to Colorado is going to advance, but it's such a significant piece to move because I don't believe that any of the teams that Colorado is going to face moving forward, they have better goaltending.
You're either getting Shusterkin or you're getting Vasilevsky and you don't have that goaltending, whether it's Kemper or whether it's Frantos, but they're competent goaltenders. So having that extra piece is valuable as far as the offense and just his overall 200 foot game right he is he he's he's like a world-class midfielder if you put in soccer terms he just directs traffic he can kill he does it all great analogy to us i don't know if i fucking i mean get the fucking lotion i just gave this guy the biggest hand job yeah pardon my Pardon my take.
He's like a free safety that does it all. That's everywhere.
Does it all. Everywhere on the field.
Yeah. Yeah.
He does it all. Okay.
Where do we stand on the sussy for Kane? Was that dirty hit? Did he break the kite? So my opinion, and listen, it's such a weird play in hockey. So you can't touch the guy in the back there because he's so vulnerable.
His toes are towards the wall. So any type of push or anything in his hip area can throw him off just enough rut boom into the wall.
It's I bet you there's a term in NASCAR for it. Like Denny Hemley would have an example of it for NASCAR where you fucking and you're susceptible to like major injury like you saw.
Kane even said in his post-game press conference, he's like, oh, I'm expecting maybe a reverse hit. So that's the thing about Codry.
He like makes you constantly be on your toes and like you just never know what he's going to do in order to fucking roast you. But that's not exception for like you just can't hit a guy right there.
He's so vulnerable and he nudges him off.

And it's even the.

Anything with a guy going face first into the boards is scary.

The slightest of nudges can throw you off in that situation. So you just can't do it.

And some guys, when they're going in, they want that little advantage on the puck battle.

And it's a bad habit.

And look at the consequence.

My opinion on is because that cadre is out the rest of the series cane should be out the rest of the series you can't do that one game sure old if the old school mentality i'm okay with one game i would i would have said two would have been fair because all of a sudden man if you get you get them back game, what, it would be game five. Right.
If you pull off a win, you got no cadre and Kane's back in and he's fucking rested. It's like, fuck, it's such a swing on a play that was like, it was a dirty play, whether it was by accident or not.
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On the other side, one of my favorite kind of ongoing sagas has been you versus the city of New York. And how much you hate Rangers fans.
I think you might hate them as much as Memes does. Which is saying does which is saying something because he's memes basically like the biggest Tampa Bay Lightning fan in the world right now but you've been like publicly going at Rangers fans what where did that all start it all started on the so one of the last broadcasts in the year like obviously every fan base think it's I think the local network covering their team when we're on the major broadcast.
And, like, if I'm going to get involved to it emotionally, I'm going to fucking pick sides. I'm going to be opinionated on shit.
Like, I don't fucking care, right? I have the teams I like. I have the teams I don't like.
But I also have to give a credible opinion. So in one of the final games of the year, Rangers fans were losing it because I was like, yes, this team has had success all year, but fuck do they give up a lot of high danger scoring chances and rely on their goaltending.
I think that they're going to get worked in playoffs. Like this is a major problem playing track meet type of hockey and opening yourself up.
You're playing against teams who have better shooting percentages and better execution, execution on the power play like you just can't fucking rely on your goaltender all year long so they fucking were coming at me so i was like fucking are these guys sensitive so i kind of that's where it all started and then in the first round they're playing the pittsburgh penguins fuck i love sid and i'm like fuck the rangers i'm like they're gonna get their power play is not gonna work their fucking goaltending is gonna get lit up and believe me when i say they got so lucky that jari got hurt and they had to play a three third string goalie they got fuel to the fire they got worked in every game and i watched the games right so then the analytics community comes out afterward and says, this is how much they dominated percentage wise. Well, guess what? It backed up everything that I fucking saw.
They worked them. They generated way more high scoring, high scoring chances than New York.
And Shusterkin wasn't that good, but the only way they were able to survive was because they got their third string goalie in pittsburgh dooman got hurt and then truba i still listen i'm not going to be biased about all this i said it shouldn't have been a suspension but he knocked out crosby with the chicken wing yeah he wing boned him yeah he wing boned him got away with it yeah so it fucking they shouldn't have advanced past the first round they got fucking worked this is great And I getting it even more and now they're up 2-1 in the Eastern Conference final and then I said Carolina's gonna fucking bend them over and I'm jumping on the Carolina Hurricanes bandwagon because I fucking hate these fucking fans because they come at you online like rapid fucking like yankees fans the worst the worst memes is nodding furiously right now in the corner so i so i backed so i tried to back carolina but like towards the end of the series i'm like fuck man new york they've gotten better defensively They're giving up less high danger scoring chances.

Shesterkins found his game more than he did in the first round.

And now I'm like, oh, my God, this team is like a team of destiny.

They actually have a chance to win the cup.

Yeah, they do.

They feel like they and I'm so invested into it where if they do go to the finals and they

are, we're rolling an MSG and I'm wearing a fucking Avalanche jersey.

Yeah, I'll fucking get in a fucking freestyle battle with Bobby.

I think that's a good question. who go to the finals and they are we're rolling an msg and i'm wearing a fucking avalanche jersey if they pass yeah i'll fucking get in a fucking freestyle battle with bobby schmurder on the on the catwalk do you think i'm fucking all in on on whoever fucking beats this team out i hate i i do not want the rangers to win and the worst the worst part about it is they are like they're ahead of their years like you thought this year if you know if you got the round two and lost it was like hey we we have a good core group they're young they're going to be successful for years to come if they win at one they might get fucking two in this next stretch and they're going to be fucking bending me over no spit new lube sandpaper finish and i still fucking hate their their fan base.
And then we got Avery on the mix here.

Yeah.

Zarensky having to chirp me and fuck.

Come on.

Glennie balls.

Yeah. Avery is a legit psycho.

Yeah.

Avery's like a little.

Yeah.

Wow.

I mean,

it's one thing that he cares about in life more than anything else.

If you're,

if you're Henrik Lundqvist,

wait,

what kind of dog was that?

Is it chihuahua?

Hey, so this was supposed to be a wit podcast yeah yeah and and he got caught up in custom so if you guys are like oh this is a little bit too banged up he showed up like ra it was because i wasn't expecting this and i was at the oil with wayne fucking gretzky bitch you're talking to the kids again on our show now what were you gonna say pft about the hydrant i was gonna say like if you're if you're lundquist like do you think you think he's rooting for the rangers or do you think that there's a small part of him that's like this would kind of suck if they won after i left um no i know i think that i think that henrik's very grateful for what the organization provided.

I mean, look at the career he had.

He got his jersey retired.

That's freaking, man, that's big shit.

That's MSG, the most famous sports venue in the world.

And you have Rangers fans coming to kiss your feet and say thank you for everything you've done.

If they just ran into a couple years when he was at his prime in playoffs where he just didn't really get the goal support his his numbers back it up um i think that uh i think that he would love to see the rangers win it and yes he he would not say one critical word about the rangers oh no podcast and i and i love that i'm like fuck i love that loyalty that he has and and oh my god is he ever handsome a yeah those blue eyes oh my god i i i thought i i was joking at the end of the broadcast i said oh like shortage and double a batteries now across america after this one like every every every hockey fan wife slipped off to the room with the fucking with the rabbit to watch that end of the show. One hour of just close ups of Hank just jamming their box.
He is a fucking missile. He is a very good looking man.
Rocket is very good. You're just like, holy shit, man.
Like, fucking how long does that take to like make that all work, buddy? See, I suit the suits, the hair. Yeah, hair.
It's like, holy, what's your regimen?imen yeah he should do like a he should do a mat speaking of master classes he should do a master class on how to be a man rock yeah then i would watch that and get like no no tips that i could use for myself because like you could do it all and then you'd look in the mirror and you're like wait i'm not him'm not him. No.
No. No.
I thought you looked good on Thursday, though. You were in the perfect, like, scruff zone with your beard that you had grown out.
And then next time I see you on TV, you're getting Brazilian wax on your forehead. I just, buddy, with all the travel and just, like, trying to, like, getting enough free time and get to smoke my weed and be a degenerate like I actually am, it's hard to keep it all together sometimes.
No, you're doing a great job. You're doing a great job.
You're doing a great job. It's exhausting.
I got one last question for you, Biz. That's it? We could talk forever.
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Use code T 20 off your first purchase uh q zips hoodies polos everything roback has it uh roback.com use code take for 20 off your first purchase uh all right so what do you have can i can i shout out the whole tnt crew like liam uh yeah yeah everyone he drives the bus wait no that was my question was who would you like to shout out so leah mccue drives the bus right okay why are you laughing because you anticipated the question you're so good you you got you got gretzky runoff where you're seeing the questions before they happen i was literally gonna say hey can you please shout out the tnt crew leadership matters leah mccue drives a bus insane motor like he fucking reads off the prompter like a champ like juggles it all like you know on the fly um gibby's our producer and him and liam work extremely well together and then ace uh anton carter he came over from nbc so he really helped with the broadcasting side and extend uh you, understanding like, you know, time and delivering on clips and speaking over clips and, you know, tackling social issues, all of it, all of it. You know, he's been a beast.
Rick Talkett, who is a former coach, leader, NHL record leader in Gordie Howe Hattricks, which is a fight, a fight, a goal, and an assist.

Like people, he was a Broad Street bully,

played in Philadelphia, won a cup as a player with Pittsburgh,

won two as a coach and as an assistant with Pittsburgh. And he's been a head coach.

So he brings that coaching perspective.

And then obviously Wayne and then a couple of people like Hank

and Jen botterill

filled in in the meantime but even everyone behind this behind the scenes like tnt they make it so easy travel wise they're fucking they understand how it all works and as i mentioned earlier the nba they they set the standard and it's been a fucking whirlwind and i'm so happy to be a part of it all i'm so grateful wayne's a fucking man dude oh oh uh koharski so we have this old school official that comes on the broadcast sometimes and fuck he's gotten quite a few wrong during the during all of it so we don't they started they started calling him the mush on the broadcast and wayne's chirping them but fuck well you know you know we we had such a fun crew it's been a blast so i just wanted to make sure i gave all them love because they really helped uh the awesome week in edmonton work yeah yeah it's sort of the oilers man they gave us like full access like the fuck it was a shit show buddy we felt like we were royalty i like how you're becoming charles oakley like you're becoming like michael jordan charles oakleyley are best friends and that's your relationship with Wayne Gretzky now. I'm sure if Wayne needs to collect a debt from somebody if somebody owes Wayne $90,000 he'll probably tap you on the shoulder and be like hey, pay this guy a visit.
Yeah, take care of this for me. This is why you're around.
This is why you fly on the B-J. In the muscle.
It is great. I didn't know this was part of the job.
Wait, so who do you have winning the whole thing at this point? Again, you've been wrong on everything. I mean, you have been wrong on everything.
I think Colorado takes it. So the premier southern organization lifting the cup.
I think Colorado takes it. Yeah.
So, wait, Rangers, Avalanche? I can't count the champs. Yeah.
No, no. That's a tricky one.
No, because I don't know if you guys watched the Tampa game tonight. Yeah.
Their backs were against the wall, and they worked them. They outshot them.
It was kind of like how I chirped them against Pittsburgh. Right.
They got outworked. They got outchanced they almost won the rangers almost won yeah because because of goaltending so it's an uphill battle because they're dealing with a guy that they kind of like a guy that they have but you just can't write off the champs they got the next game at home if they win the next game at home it's 2-2 and then they got to just go win one on the road yeah and they've done that before can't write write them off.
So I don't know yet. I think that Colorado Rangers would be an incredible final.
Two new teams, two young up-and-coming teams. You got Adam Fox, who is a very, very, very skilled defenseman.
Then you have Makar. And I like talking about the hockey guys, like the real good ones.
When I come on here, because like you guys have more of a sports demographic. He is the greatest defenseman we've seen since Paul Coffey.
He's probably as good as Paul Coffey. If he keeps going on this trajectory easily, right, maybe right below Bobby Orr, could eventually become like a Bobby Orr type.
He is a freak. He's a Connor McDavid of defense.
It's just like, he's just so fucking good. He's so well conditioned.
He always makes the right play. He's sick on offense.
He, he's basically a forward, but he's never get, he never gets caught up the ice. He is fucking incredible.
So him going against Adam Fox, all the skill like Panarin and stuff from New York going against the McKinnons and the Landis Cogs and the Burakovskis and the Rantanans, everybody from the other side, it will be a very heavy hitting final. Colorado, a young up and coming fan base that has been rejuvenated since the SACC years with the scumbags of the hockey world, the New York fans.
If I could have summarized that. The perfect ending, yes.
I love it. Thank you, Biz.
It's good to see your face. Yeah, you're the best.
I rambled on a lot. I was a little bit cocktailed during this one, but hey.
No, this is perfect. We love whenever you're on, and now we have something to root for.
Edmonton to win in seven so that we'll be in Edmonton for the Stanley Cup final. You'll get fucking hounded here, buddy.
Yeah, and you'll be doing belly shots of me. I'll be doing more than that when we come back here.
I'm not going to shower for a week. It's a big fucking belly button.
There's going to be a whole beer tower. I'll let you shave my asshole live on TV if you're fucking winning seven, buddy.
You should wax everything. Take all your hairs off if they lose in seven.
So shout out to a lot of shout outs. Oh, I was going to say, do you have any more shout outs? That's the robot question.
The spit and chicklet screw. Grinelli, Sean Appuzo, all the boys.
We have to play it out music.

Yeah, kick me off stage at the fucking Oscars type shit.

Fuck you, big cat.

Shut up my mom.

I got to shut up my crew, bitch.

Now you got me stumped.

But everybody who came to Edmonton and made it work.

Yeah, no.

Is there anyone on the chicklets crew that you want to shout out?

Yeah.

Well, I said Grinelli.

Yeah. Sean Apuzo.
Chicklets memes. What? Wit.
R.A. What about Merle's? Oh, Merle's.
You haven't said Merle's name once. He's my guy.
I almost forgot. That's why we need you here, buddy.
Okay. I got you.
I got you. You guys stumped me.
Maybe I would have fucking said Merle's if you didn't stump me dead in my tracks. Bitch.
Well, you didn't say him the first time so everybody rides merles yes merles is the man he we play with him he's he's a he's a degenerate no i mean there's i never thought that i would be in a spot where i'm betting fucking uh like swedish and german and russian hockey at like seven in the morning on a february like tuesday butle's came into my life, and here we are. Everybody rides.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
All right, well, you're the best, Biz. We love you, and hopefully – I love you guys.
I'm rooting for the Rangers now because I want to see you. I'm coming there regardless.
Okay. So all you sporting fans, NHL is going to – Fuck you, Big Cat.
All you sporting fans. The NHL is – Can you give us an analogy about sporting fans because you did soccer and NASCAR two sports we cover a lot I'm saying a lot of people I know it's gonna be summertime and you're probably like oh my god hockey's still going on regardless of the situations with the two series and the conference finals the NHL is gonna wait till June 18th to start the finals till the NBA is over.
So it'll be the last sport sport like playing. So fucking jump on a bandwagon, watch an incredible sport, especially if it's fucking Colorado or New York, it's going to be a good time.
And by then golden state and Boston Celtics is over. So let's keep fucking sportsing and follow the finals.
I love it. And we'll be doing live streams.
Buddy, we're going to be in NYC June 19th, 20th, 21st. We're going to get a sandbag in.
We'll collab with you guys. We're coming there regardless.
All right. So if New York makes it and so does Colorado, game three is, I believe, on the 21st or maybe the 22nd.
I'm going to MSG. I'm going to be front, nose, and center with these fucking degenerate scumbags, the New York Rangers fans.
Oh, my God. That three that Jordan Poole just hit.
That was crazy. All right.
See you, Bizz. Love you, man.
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The Celtics are minus 106. So basically a coin flip.
Yep. So even Vegas doesn't know.
Yep. Yep.
Yeah. They're telling you.
They don't fucking know. Vegas zone.
Okay. Let's finish up the show.
We got a couple things I want to address. PLL.
Waterdogs suck that team is a disgrace came out of the gate slow as expected yeah and we heard all week that the cannons were we were hearing from camp and i'd like to hear your take on it jake that the cannons were the worst team and nope quick reminder water dogs are the worst team yeah when you think it can't go any lower wait till you see the water dogs yeah and they didn't post the score for like an hour Because they're cowards Now at what point do we have to start looking at a coaching change here Because this is two years in a row that we've gotten off to a slow start I'm certainly not going to take any blame for it Copeland? Copeland There we go I knew that Yeah but they won the regular season last year Oh great Yeah put up the banner Great good job AFC finalists I think we got to get drew snyder out of retirement i think so when i say coaching change i mean just like wear a different shirt our coach needs to change his outfit actually like the old gary patterson change colors at halftime do something different jake how was your time at pll uh as we saw you shot one shot your entire life one cross firstrosse. One shot, first and last ever.
And you scored on Billy. I did.
Wow. You put a top cheddar on him.
So much so that Billy's not here to defend himself because he's so embarrassed. He skipped tonight.
What are you going to do? Yeah. And if I know Billy, he is currently stewing over this.
He's going to come and be like, actually, I was able to stop all the other shots, and it was just this one lucky shot. Actually, the coach low-key said that I could have gone pro.
I'm interested to know how he walked onto that warm-up field being like, I have that. He belongs here.
Right. And you'll see the vlog on PMTV.
You're pretending like that's news to us? No, he actually said that. Yeah, no, I know.
I'm sure. It wasn't for the equipment changes.
changes like equipment changes i could low-key hang with these guys could he hang with them high or low-key no well you'll find out on pm tv but it was some cool drills he did uh a face-off with trevor baptiste who's like the goat at face-offs yeah so that'll be pretty cool okay we had justin gutterding who's an awl love it uh yeah are there other guys are the water dogs do they know that we trash them so you know what's funny we saw pretty much a member of every single team except we didn't see one water dog the whole time i don't know if it was just a schedule of conflict no they know they know yeah they didn't want any piece of jake the alpha yeah they didn't want it because it listen we told you we we sent sent sent you to albany with one mission it was to find the water dogs and berate them the nazi one water dog the whole weekend interesting cowards unless they weren't wearing gear actually i usually and i do want to say that um if you told me like personally which guy like if you're like hey it's this guy's a nice guy i probably like all the water dogs personally but a collection, they are a terrible team. They are.
That's just subjectively true. Fact or fiction.
Are they worse right now? Right now they are tied in last with the score differential with Redwoods, who also lost by six. Okay.
And really, we lost by more. That was pity.
Score differential matters at the end. Well, that one dude, he shot the ball between his legs.
That was kind of sick. That's a Mickey Mouse play.
When you're losing at the end of the game, he was padding his stats on that, just trying to make sports in our top ten. Yeah, so next up in Charlotte, week two, they're playing Whipsnakes Saturday night.
Lost. Two-time champions.
What's the line? Whose line is it anyway? Whipsnakes minus 15.

We're not beyond yet.

Game of the year.

They probably took it off the board.

Whipsnakes, game of the year.

That's the game I called last year, and the Waterdogs won.

Okay.

Who cares?

Okay.

But it was a fun time?

Yeah, it was a good time.

Shout out PLL.

Shout out Paul Rabel.

RJ, they hook it up.

And when are you calling the games?

I don't know if I'm allowed to say that yet. Okay.
know rather than later yes say we'll bleep it out don't say jake this is a trick no i might be allowed but i'll play it safe but it's soon all right great it's time to start thinking about prepping it's time to start thinking about your wardrobe what are you gonna wear are you gonna wear the same blue suit and and let me just say this um you know we've had our history but the espn plus app much better than the app that was previously hosted the water dogs like i watched the water dogs today and it was seamless yeah it was very very it was a yeah it it was as good of an experience as you can have watching the team that you own suck a tremendous amount of dick that's fair yeah um but yeah shout out to pl and espn for making that happen how good is memes at lacrosse you'll have to find out the pm tv vlog it's a good team beautiful beautiful uh wednesday all right and then the other sport we're going to talk about darts the it might be ahead of lacrosse as a sport of the future it takes let me just set the scene real quick real quick because PFT was in Nashville. I was with my family, who I love, but – Your father? I'm a father, but I love – This is a pretty big but.
But it takes a lot for me to get FOMO at this point because I'd rather just be on my couch. Seeing the lads – I think you guys were technically lads on Saturday.
There was like 30 dudes from Barstool that went to the darts. 50.
50. All dressed up.
All chanting. Just scenes.
I was so jealous. I almost got off my couch and was like, if I just show up, will they let me in? They probably would have, and I probably should have.
I'll set the scene. Liam can fill in there because he was there as well.
It was pretty much like every producer and video editor, like behind the scenes guy at Barstool. This event was supposed to happen in 2020, but it got canceled like right in the beginning of COVID.
It was supposed to be like April or whatever of that first March. And then during COVID, I actually watched it.
It was the PDC, so it's like the top players in the world. I watched a lot of their broadcast during COVID because they were the first sport that was like back.
They didn't have crowds, obviously, but there was broadcast going on. So I kind of got into it.
I understood the rules, 501, regular darts. For whatever reason, this kid Greer is the one that bought the tickets, kind of set it all up.
He decided that he bought 50 tickets, and then people just Venmo'd him. He bought 54.
So we would have had to cut somebody for an nfl football team yeah he decided that instead of sending people tickets like because it was too difficult because people would have to sign up for a ticket master account which i assume a lot of people already have one like i just have one already like game time though he said right he said that he's not going to do that i guess it was probably out of loyalty for game time and so we went in with 54 dudes together together all in one line awesome all shit face at this point like everyone had been drinking for a few hours already and i was saying when we're at the the thing because he's just sitting there like with the usher just going flick flick flick flick flick everyone's chanting going crazy. And I was like, I don't think there's any event that's happened that this usher has seen 54 people come in at one time.
No one would do it for a sporting event. No.
No one would do it for a concert. No.
There's no reason to go in with 54 people. So it was a rowdy, rocker scene going in there.
And then, honestly, the actual event exceeded my expectations. It was a great time.
It was a good viewing experience. People were dressed up.
There was a chance. Michael Smith won.
He beat Van Gerwen, who was the GOAT. That's who I had.
Everyone's dressed up. Everyone's just drunk, chanting.
USA chants. Michael Van Gerwen chants.
Obviously, if you get three triple 20s, it's 180. That's the highest score you can get.
And when that happens, people just go nuts. It's 180.
I'm very, very jealous. I love darts.
I absolutely love it. I can't wait to go.
I should have gone. We have to go to one in England or Ireland because as good as it was, the crowd was great.
It was an awesome atmosphere, but I just can't imagine being in one of these. If one of the guys that was in the championship was a USA guy or a New York guy that everyone was rooting for, being in one of these guys' home courts or whatever for a big darts match would be just absolutely unbelievable.
So I was following along on your Instagram stories, and like you said, it was basically everyone who worked as a producer here. So I was watching everyone's stories, and it was like everyone was standing next to each other, but I still was watching every story because I couldn't get enough of it.
My only question is, was there a little bit of a lull when 54 dudes walked in all shit-faced and the event hadn't started yet? Well, yeah, because we had to they're like well we only have one fucking person with the ticket i noticed i noticed it in the like it's so sad that i was sitting on my couch watching this but i noticed how amped you guys were chanting going in and then everyone's stories the next picture was an empty arena it being like go time we but like you could feel that it was like not go time we also like like none of us really know what's going on and so we're just doing the most generic chance of all time where we're just chanting like we want darts yeah when the guy like comes out and it's like doing the intro for it whatever we're just chanting like we want darts or like darts darts darts whatever it was and um another takeaway i have is like i know how the scoring works too i don't know how they do the math so fast yes like that's something that i would think where it's like obviously i know where it's like the triple 20 is what like when it starts at 501 it's like you want to get the most amount of points so like people have a big 180 signs where it's like that's the goal that you're going for but once it gets down to it, I don't know how they know what they're aiming for, where they can do the math so fast. The last shot, the winning shot, it was like he had 82, and he did it in three shots where it was like boom, boom, boom, exactly what he needed.
I was like, you just shot a second ago. Yeah, but I don't know how you know what's the easiest way to go about those numbers.
They know every single number. They know if they have a 138, they know what they need to get.
If it's a 137, they know what they need to get. They know every single combination.
It's kind of like us when we're watching football. Yeah.
And we know, okay. Try to get the over.
Yeah, well, you can still get three touchdowns and a safety. Yeah, right, right.
Like a field goal doesn't kill us here. That kind of shit.
One guy was saying, I was with the guy Rudy, and he was like, oh, this isn't even that impressive. Like, blah, blah, blah.
I was like, you won't understand how hard and how good the hand-eye coordination these guys are. It's unbelievable.
It's darts. I mean, I like darts.
I've played darts many times. It's a game of 501 takes like 30 minutes.
And trying to end on a double or triple like what do they play it in like just double or bullseye no it's double or it's triple yeah oh maybe it's just double yeah i think it's just double or bullseye because we were supposed to do it yeah plus i studied during coven and no one was good enough here so we pulled it what did what how long would each game take 10 minutes yeah not even yeah and like the like the the triple 20s that they're hitting too they're like almost hitting the exact same dart right where it is where it's like they are right in the middle of that tiny thing where they're like on top of each other where they're like that precise if you're new to darts and you're listening to this and you haven't you have no darts experiences nine darters. Just YouTube, PDC, nine darter.
It's one of the most. We got close.
We got three, six darters. And it's like that.
I can't even imagine. It's literally on the bucket list.
Like I have to see a nine darter live. Watch them on YouTube.
I've seen them all. They're just some of the best, most like raw sports crowd moment videos it was they was you know they got six and it was like oh my god here we go here we go we might get a nine darter and then you know they missed it but it would have been the roof would have blown off and it's also one of those sports it's great because the guys who are playing it are not like they're fat guys yeah they're big they're big dudes yeah i want to i want to know more about the actual yeah yeah they haven't started to work out yet everyone starts looking at tiger woods and you're like fuck yeah now i gotta hit the weight room too although i feel like if you get really strong that would negatively impact you right yeah but you know there's too much that you can pull you know there's gonna be one guy who wins darts it's like yeah it's all because i've been doing pilates and like band workouts meditation yeah and it's gonna suck i feel like the trick to darts more so than any other sport the old guys like ben gerwin's been doing it for 20 years the guys that can figure out like exactly what your blood alcohol content has to be to optimize your steady nerves yeah i would imagine like a point a point seven nine would make me at my my peak physical form like right right below the legal limit yeah i'm saying yeah i feel like i think a point seven nine close to death oh maybe you pussies no but yeah like a point oh seven nine that's the perfect amount to be i also want to know more about these dart player like i want to i want to find a darter or is that what do you call him a darter a dart a darter i want to find who the bad boy is i want to like root for a certain athlete that's what we i wanted to do that i told our crew and they said it was van gerben where i was like if there's 50 of us drunk i want to root for the bad boy yeah like we can kind of get some like some scuffles with people yeah there was a guy that was uh facing off against a usa guy but he was scottish but he wore all american flag outfit and had a red white and blue mohawk so he was he was leaning into it because i was a little bit confused because he was getting booed at one of shane usa and i was like isn't this our guy and they're like no he's he's scottish like the.
Damn. That's awesome.
Like I said, it takes a lot for me to get FOMO. I had severe FOMO on Saturday night.
It would be a great bachelor party event. Like, obviously, they'd have to come back to the U.S.
or whatever, unless you really wanted to do the whole European bachelor party. But it's just a great dude's rock to scream.
Yeah, and you guys. 180 happens to go nuts.
Everyone was wearing shirts. Everyone gets dressed up.
There was a lot of good outfits. A lot of AWLs out there, too.
Shout out to everyone. Yeah, you guys all had shirts and had darts stuff on it, which was very funny.
Like, I'm sexy and I throw it. Yeah.
It's a lot of dart puns. Yeah.
I like those a lot. We should do a Grit Week Liverpool and go do darts competitions.
And see Paddy the Batty. Yep.
All right, so when is darts? So that it? It was just this event in America? They're not going anywhere else? I don't think so. Fuck.
All right. So we should start our own darts league.
We can actually do that. Oh, yeah.
That's right. We did.
It was a disaster. We tried to move.
Well, no, with actual darters. Yeah.
No, we tried to do it for stool streams. We moved the distance up a foot and a half, and people still couldn't even...
They were aiming for 20 and getting fives. Yeah, yeah.
It was just hope and a prayer. The real darters, though, we should do it.
Yeah. It would be fun.
Because I bet you we could... There's probably some insane dart players, untapped resources.
You go to a a fucking, you know, like a hole in the wall bar in the Midwest. Guys are playing darts all day.
I feel like Wisconsin is ground zero for our nation's best darter. Yes, absolutely.
Brian Fitzsimmons, sneaky big dart guy. Really? He's got his own deck.
He's got like $200 dart set. Love that.
He's ready to roll. Love that.
Love that. All right.
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28's not a first timer.

Come on.

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Hank, what'd you pick?

14.

Have you won?

I have not.

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