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Speaker 4 Welcome to part of my take presented by Core's Light today is Wednesday April 13th, and the play-in games fucking rule. So

Speaker 4 we're doing this all from home. The rest of the show is in studio, but we decided for the listeners, you know, we're huge.
Ball is life.

Speaker 4 We watched all the playing games so we could give everyone a recap of Glue Girl and Pat Beverly and the Nets and everything.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I mean, I think Skip Bayless said it best. Whatever happened to Lagon James.

Speaker 5 That's the real storyline but no you're right like pat bev this was the pat bev game i love that guy he's the best he is he's the absolute best he's the best agitator he's the best pest he could be a good hockey player he's uh he's fun to watch man and this was personal for him you saw like uh play in p said before the game talked about on the last show that this was not going to be pat beverly against the clippers pat took that personally it it I was thinking about it because it really was like, you know how whenever Patrick Beverly does something, it's like, oh, a Pat, Pat Bev moment, right?

Speaker 4 On Twitter. We had like a thousand of those in one single game tonight.

Speaker 4 I, the reason why he is so great and like so much fun to watch, we as fans always are like, we wish that the guys that we rooted for, they obviously care, but that they cared like

Speaker 4 so personally as much as we do. And he is like the epitome of that.
He cares more than any fan that's in there. He cares so, so much that he like was motherfucking Steve Ballmer.

Speaker 4 He was yelling at every single player. Like it was so personal for him and it was so much fun to watch.
And he and Anthony Edwards put on a goddamn show.

Speaker 4 Like Anthony Edwards, one of, one of, I also love when players have a heat check and it goes so poorly. Anthony Edwards had that run in the fourth quarter where he was like dunking, hitting threes.

Speaker 4 And then they had a four-on-one where he just had like, I don't know, three full seconds with no one around him and he completely airballed the three. And I was like, that's my guy.

Speaker 4 Because in life, you got to take heat checks. And he took a heat check and he missed with an airball, but it doesn't matter because he had a hell of a game.

Speaker 4 And it was so much fun to watch the Timberwolves. Like the crowd was insane.
Everything, all of it. And the Clippers, like

Speaker 4 the Clippers are the same team as they always are.

Speaker 4 They're just the same team. Like playoff P plays really well for a while and you're like, damn, this guy's so good.

Speaker 4 And then they give up a lead in the fourth quarter and the team with like younger guys who are more exciting and want it more end up beating them.

Speaker 4 It's just, I feel like I watch the Clippers every year, the same, same exact story every single year.

Speaker 5 So back to your point about

Speaker 5 Pat Bev being the guy that tries as hard as fans think that they would try if they were in a game.

Speaker 5 He's not a guy that you want necessarily to be a featured player on your team in a series.

Speaker 5 He's not going to go out there and win a series by himself, but the play-in game is the perfect environment for for patrick beverly because it literally is just like one game go out and give everything that you have and that's like the that's the antithesis of what the uh what the clippers are and what they've been made out of paul george had a couple nice shots he played he played pretty well he i don't think that there's any player in the nba that travels as much as paul george like dads across america were screaming at their television just throwing out there being like they don't call carries they don't call they don't call steps anymore in this in this game more than travels he's push-off P.

Speaker 4 He just pushes off on every single possession, which I mean, he he, there's something about Paul George, like when you watch him play, you're like, damn, that guy's really good.

Speaker 4 But it doesn't really mean anything.

Speaker 4 Like when you like, even the fucking three that he hit at the end, when they're down like eight or whatever, and it was just a beautiful, like he launched a perfect shot from, I don't know, 40 feet.

Speaker 4 It was like, yep, that's, that's playoff P right there. That's, that's play in P.

Speaker 4 And the Clippers now have to go fight for their lives and the timberwolves i it felt like justice that both of the seven like the teams with the seven seed was it were the wolves wolves were seven right yeah the seven right it feels like justice like when that happens because i i i love the playoff playing game i think last year i poo-pooed it I was like glued to my television night.

Speaker 4 I still like part of me feels like it would be so wrong if like a seven seed ended up missing the entire playoffs. Oh, for sure.

Speaker 5 But it's great that it played out this way. You were glued to the TV.
The fans were glued to the court. A-Rod was spilling Titos and sodas everywhere.

Speaker 4 The environment. I love the environment in Minnesota.

Speaker 5 And after the game, I think Carl Anthony Towns was the one that they interviewed. It could have been Anthony Edwards.
I'm not sure. But one of the guys said,

Speaker 5 I think this is the first game that we've had all season that's been on television. I don't think that's entirely correct, but I know what he's saying.

Speaker 5 Like, it's the first time that I've been exposed as a fan to like watching. Minnesota Timberwolves, a home game that gets that loud.

Speaker 5 I'm actually pumped for that series against the Grizzlies because I think the teams are very similar in terms of like the Grizzlies were always the team, even when they kind of stunk that would sneak into the playoffs.

Speaker 5 And they're the team that would like give the two seed or the one seed absolute hell in the first round because they played so hard.

Speaker 5 Them against the Timberwolves, I'm glad that we get to see Minnesota and that home stadium a few more times this postseason.

Speaker 5 Now, as for the woman that glued herself to the court, the attempted gluing, I did a little bit of research on what she was protesting exactly.

Speaker 4 What happened?

Speaker 4 So the woman, so this woman, yeah, PFT will tell you exactly what she was doing, but this woman, the game stopped for a minute.

Speaker 4 A woman basically just like covered her hand and it looked like Elmer's glue, like

Speaker 4 the glue that you use when you're doing a project in kindergarten, not like actual epoxy or guerrilla group glue that might actually have a chance of sticking.

Speaker 4 And she just slapped her hand on the floor and was laying there.

Speaker 4 It was an all-time visual when Patrick Beverly, another Patrick Beverly moment, was standing over her and a security guard and they're like what the are you doing and her palm print was on the baseline well she stopped the security guard she was like no don't you can't you can't take me off my hand stuck to the court you're not going to be able to move me at all i don't know what kind of glue ever to set in and it only works if you're if you're literally gluing like a bunch of little tiny stars to a piece of paper It would have been, it would have been great if she were protesting animal abuse with something that was literally made from Seattle Sue's grandson, you know?

Speaker 5 I think it was Elmer's, which I don't believe is made from horse hooves, but she was protesting the Timberwolves owner, Glenn Taylor. He has a farm and on his farm is a chicken.

Speaker 4 He sold the team to A-Rod, though, didn't he? He technically involved.

Speaker 4 He's like doing one of those transition, like, you know how the Will Ponds are kind of like around the Mets? He's doing a transitional.

Speaker 4 thing where in 2023 is when A-Rod and Mark Laurie finally take over. But it is kind of funny because it's like they're Glenn Taylor's.
You could have done this.

Speaker 4 I guess the Timberlolls haven't been in the playoffs a lot, but you could have done this at any point that he owned the teams

Speaker 4 last like 25 years.

Speaker 5 What she was protesting wasn't just his chicken farm. She was protesting the fact that he very recently had to kill a bunch of chickens because they all got bird flu.

Speaker 5 And so she's going to be shocked when she finds out what it is a chicken farm does with the chickens, even when they're not sick. But that's what she was making a statement about.

Speaker 5 It was very funny. Like her pretending that her hand couldn't move off the court.
And then the handprint that was left afterwards, it looked like a CSI episode.

Speaker 5 It was just a crazy environment. I loved watching.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it was insane. And yeah, you're right.
Like, I don't know her protest.

Speaker 4 This is, I bet you PETA is going to come out and speak against her because the one thing I've learned about all these protests is PETA's got a shit together.

Speaker 4 And these like rogue animal people always make PETA look bad because she looked like a fucking moron with her hand glued to the floor. Like, what?

Speaker 4 Do you think there was some meeting beforehand where she's like, all right, like I could run on the floor. Everyone's done that.

Speaker 4 What if I glue myself to the floor with glue that will take 60 to 90 minutes to set in and is literally only used for paper-mâché, not body parts to wood? It's not even wood glue.

Speaker 4 Like if she had used wood glue, I would have been like, hey, good try, good effort.

Speaker 4 It still wouldn't have have worked, but at least it would have been the correct glue to get yourself on the on the floor.

Speaker 5 It doesn't even really work for construction paper, the only thing that it's meant for. It's like subpar.

Speaker 5 She would have been better if she had a glue stick that she smuggled in and tried to use one of those things.

Speaker 5 I don't think that there was a meeting because to have a meeting, you have to have friends. And she didn't really strike me as somebody that has a vast network.

Speaker 5 But I think you're right about PETA that they get, it's almost not like they have their shit together, but they get jealous. They have like a, they're warlords.
PETA's a warlord.

Speaker 5 So if anybody is protesting animal rights

Speaker 5 and they're not under the purview of PETA and not being monitored by PETA, then they're like, nope, they're not part of the tribe. Sorry.

Speaker 4 We don't, we don't avow what she's doing. Yeah, it was, it was an all-time night.
And we also should mention D'Angelo Russell was like incredible.

Speaker 4 I loved like the Timberwolves have a bunch of young talent. And it was like each guy picked a spot, like, all right, I'm going to carry the team.

Speaker 4 And except for Carl Anthony Towns, who I actually like

Speaker 4 he has to feel terrible right now because the game changed when he got, when he fouled out. Like, it was, it was a direct court.
There was two runs that happened in this game.

Speaker 4 One was the glue girl run where she glued herself to the floor and the Timberwolves finished the second quarter on a hot run.

Speaker 4 And then the second was in the fourth quarter when Carl Anthony Towns, who had a horrendous game, complained about every foul, horrendous game.

Speaker 4 Like everyone who's who's like, who criticizes him and says that he should be so much better than he is and he's soft and all these things. Tonight was not a night that he proved the naysayers wrong.

Speaker 4 And then he gets fouled out and the Timber Wolves make a run and win that game. I don't, if you're Carl Anthony Townsend, I don't even, you shouldn't even shower.

Speaker 4 You should just go get in your car and be like, all right, we're in the playoffs. I'll try again on Saturday.

Speaker 5 I think he had three assists, four turnovers, five rebounds, six fouls.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 three for 11 from the field.

Speaker 5 Yeah, not a great night for him. And now, a little sneak preview of later on this morning on Undisputed, are the Timberwolves better without Carl Anthony Towns? Is the question many people are asking?

Speaker 4 Sure. I'm signing up for it.
What are you going to say, Hank?

Speaker 4 I'm seeing some narratives about people like kind of roasting the Timberwolves for celebrating the fact that they won the game.

Speaker 4 And LeBron posted a bunch of crying emojis immediately after the TNT coverage was showing like Pat Beverly throwing throwing his jersey in the crowd. The NBA on TNT was roasting them.

Speaker 4 Like, this is no different. Obviously, it's new.
The play-in tournament's new, but this is no different than an MLB team celebrating like the divisional round, an NFL team.

Speaker 4 Like, this is a round of the playoffs. The NBA made this a round of the playoffs.
If you win at home, you should celebrate.

Speaker 4 Not only that, but let's give a shout out to LeBron didn't even make the playoffs. What's he crying emoji?

Speaker 5 I'm sure Hank would keep the same energy if LeBron had celebrated a play-in tournament win, right?

Speaker 4 Yeah. Or Minnesota AWLs, Minnesota.
Well, you can't even make a playoff, so that's not a problem.

Speaker 4 But they are the Minnesota franchises can absolutely, whenever we say like, oh, Buffalo or Cleveland, Minnesota sports have taken the cake.

Speaker 4 Like now that Atlanta's won a couple, you know, with Georgia and the Braves. Minnesota is an absolute factory of sadness.
The Timberwolves had Kevin Garnett, who is a top 75 player of all time.

Speaker 4 They went to one Western Conference final with him. Like the Twins have lost, because I've been in a little bit of a fight with the Twins Twitter because they don't post their losses.

Speaker 4 People, and I actually feel bad because Twins fans are like, dude, we've lost 13 straight playoff games. I think that's right.
13 straight playoff games, which is almost impossible to do.

Speaker 4 And I think they've all been to the Yankees. The Vikings are the Vikings and Kirk Cousins is their quarterback.

Speaker 4 And they're the state of hockey in the Minnesota wild just losing the playoffs in the first or second round every year.

Speaker 4 So if you're a Minnesota fan, celebrate like this is a championship because it has been that bad and they deserve a young, fun team like this. You just wish Carl Anthony Towns was a little bit better.

Speaker 4 But Anthony Edwards is, Anthony Edwards, when he dunks, he dunks so fucking hard.

Speaker 4 He wants to kill the rim.

Speaker 4 I love it. I love watching him play.
He wants to kill him. And that's Tom Creen made, by the way.
That's Tom Creen made. Remember that for the resume.
Tom Creen coached Anthony Edwards at Georgia.

Speaker 5 He's also a guy that likes to get his eyes above the rim. I feel like every time I see him thrown down, down, he's like staring down into the basket, which is always cool to watch.

Speaker 5 What were you saying?

Speaker 4 Calling him ant. Calling ants is a fucking cool thing.
I have it on mute, but TNT is just cooking, cooking them.

Speaker 4 Like they're here. I can't have it on mute, but they're like

Speaker 4 doing replays of them celebrating and like posting people's tweets and stuff laughing. No, I don't care.
I don't care.

Speaker 5 Yeah. You can't tell a franchise to act like you've been there before when they have absolutely not.

Speaker 4 Not only that, but sports is about enjoying the ride. Like you, only one team wins.
What the fuck are we doing?

Speaker 4 You have to enjoy the ride. You have to enjoy these moments.
If you don't, there's no reason to be a sports fan.

Speaker 4 Imagine telling you not going to win the title this year.

Speaker 5 Imagine telling Minnesota Timberwolves fans, like, hey, don't celebrate until you get to the NBA Finals. It's like, what's...
What are you going to do? Why would you ever show up to anything?

Speaker 5 There's no, you would never have joy.

Speaker 4 I have friends from Minnesota and it's like, literally, I actually remember when KG, they went to the Western Conference final because I was in college at the time, and it was like, we've never, like, we'll, we've never had this, and they never had it again.

Speaker 4 Like, that's what happens with Minnesota sports. So, fuck that.
Fuck all the haters. Minnesota fans, justice for you.
Enjoy the hell out of tonight.

Speaker 4 If I were you, I'd watch every single replay of Anthony Edwards dunks and Patrick Beverly screaming at everyone, and Carl Anthony Towns fouling out and complaining about fouls.

Speaker 4 Um, one quick thing about LeBron: I don't want to make this playoffs about LeBron, but he's going to definitely try to make the playoffs about him. Did you see he also tweeted like two hours ago?

Speaker 4 He said, I'm sitting here after watching the WNBA draft the other day and wondering why the hell do these young ladies have to stay in school for four years before being able to go pro. I'm confused.

Speaker 4 There's no way. There's no way he watched the WNBA draft.
There's a 0.0% chance.

Speaker 4 If he was watching the WNBA draft, he would have tweeted it during the WNBA draft, not 24 hours later, being like, just a thought I've had on my mind recently. Well, it was Taco Tuesday.

Speaker 5 It was Taco Tuesday, just my thoughts.

Speaker 5 His brain was elsewhere. He was thinking about dinner all day.
Then he probably had, I'm going to check his Instagram, see how many stories he had to put up while he was cooking Taco Tuesday today.

Speaker 5 But yeah, I mean, yes, I did see what LeBron had. I have LeBron notifications set up on Twitter.
There's no way that's the best way to use the platform. Nobody's from speaking of LeBron.

Speaker 4 The Cleveland cavaliers at least advanced farther in the playoffs than he did yes that's well yes that's true they've they're they're now going to be playing on friday night let's talk about that game um

Speaker 4 i have a series of the year bet

Speaker 5 oh a series of the year well interesting i i'm doing a season of the year with the pirates but series of the year series of the year bet

Speaker 4 I mean, I don't have it right because the fact that you just did it with that transition. What were you going to say, Hank? What's your guess? What was your guess?

Speaker 4 Well, I was confused because when you said that, I looked and like there wasn't series odds for the Celtics one, so my guess was the Warriors, but I didn't feel great about it.

Speaker 4 But clearly, with the way you just set this up, it's not, I don't think it's good for me. I know, I well, I guess it's depending on if you think I'm bad at my series of the year bets.

Speaker 4 I think the Celtics are going to beat the Nets. Oh, I watched like that game tonight.

Speaker 4 Kyrie didn't miss a shot for three quarters. And the Cavs were shooting 40%.
The Cavs didn't play good.

Speaker 4 They were almost one.

Speaker 4 Watching that game. Yeah.
Kyrie Irving played perfect basketball. Kevin Durant was, you know, obviously Kyrie Irving was going off, but they were doubling him.

Speaker 4 So he was facilitating more than he usually does.

Speaker 4 Kevin Durant could score 35 any night he wants. But I watched that game being like, the Nets just don't have any defense.
And

Speaker 4 the Nets are playing perfect and the Cavs are still in this game.

Speaker 4 That game made no sense when you're watching it. The way the Nets were playing, they would be up 20 and you'd be like, game over.
They're up 40 to 20 to start after the first quarter.

Speaker 4 And then because they can't play defense, the Cavs would just keep coming back.

Speaker 4 Hank, I'm sorry, but

Speaker 4 I think that the Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving Nets have been vastly overrated and everyone's scared of them. I think the Celtics are going to beat them in six.

Speaker 4 I agree with your bet. Minus 115.
I like that a lot. I think the Celtics are a way better.
In terms of team basketball, they're a million times better.

Speaker 4 Kevin Durant's like probably the greatest, like pure scorer probably of all time. And he took over in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 4 Going against that's never fun, but I agree with you that the Celtics are way, a way better team and they have way better defense.

Speaker 4 Obviously, they don't have Robert Williams, but still, like, their team defense

Speaker 4 should help with that. And

Speaker 4 I agree. I'm with you.
The Nets have to play perfect basketball. They have to have Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving play perfect basketball.

Speaker 4 And I wasn't like, I didn't have an opinion on this before tonight, obviously, because it wasn't set. But when I saw that it was like, it's PFT, I think it's minus 110 Celtics to win the series.

Speaker 4 And I was like, I think, what's going on here?

Speaker 5 I think you're insane, actually. I think that the Nets are going to whomp the Celtics.

Speaker 5 I really do. I think it's going to be a whomping because

Speaker 5 they, yes, it's going to be W-H-O-M-P a whomping. I am apostrophe.
When they want to play well, they can play well. They are the rare team that I think the switch can be flipped on.

Speaker 4 And so the Celtics, but they couldn't even flip it tonight because the Cavs kept on coming back.

Speaker 5 They did, though. They were flipping it on and then flipping it off.
You could pinpoint the moment.

Speaker 4 They can't do that against the team.

Speaker 4 I think they can. I doubt that.
The Cavs have their like their best players are injured and they still almost won the game because they're scrappy as fuck and they're a great team basketball team.

Speaker 4 So that's why they kept it close. The Celtics minus Robert Williams have their best players.

Speaker 4 I'm going to wait to I'm going to look at it more. So I'm not going to release it yet.
I'll release it. If I release it, it'll be like on Friday.

Speaker 4 I just don't, I saw that line and I was like, what are, why is everyone?

Speaker 4 Because, you know, obviously the conversation going into this weekend, last weekend was like, everyone's trying to avoid the Nets. And I get it.

Speaker 4 Obviously, the Nets are way better than the Bulls right now. The Bulls are fucking complete garbage.
So the Bucs were smart to do that. I just don't,

Speaker 4 don't know. I have a prediction.

Speaker 5 So, also playing into my prediction here is: I do think that Ben Simmons is coming back. I think that he's ready.
I think that they've just been waiting to get him back out there. Good.
You saw him.

Speaker 5 Let me ask you this.

Speaker 5 A guy that is going to be out for the remainder of the playoffs, do you think he would sit directly in the middle of the bench wearing a neon green leprechaun Notre Dame mascot uniform with shorts?

Speaker 5 That was like, that's

Speaker 4 I think I would love it if he comes back. He's not

Speaker 5 going to to know how to play with him and by the way i i've never noticed this about ben simmons tonight from like the waist up he's not like an enormously tall guy his shins are gigantic his shins were like half a foot taller than anybody else that was sitting down on the side his knees were so high it's crazy i mean he's a very tall guy 6'10.

Speaker 4 i i do think that he's going to come back i think that he's ready to come back here's here's the other thing that made me think that this might be a series of the year bet.

Speaker 4 After the game, I think it was, was it Bruce Brown said this when he was like, we're going to just attack them because they don't have Williams because he's hurt still?

Speaker 4 And Kevin Durant then went and corrected him and was like, whoa, whoa, like that's, I think he said, like, that, that's crazy. Like, every game is going to be tough.

Speaker 4 This is going to be a difficult team. I,

Speaker 4 I don't know. I just.
They had like the number one, again, Robert Williams being out is bad, but he was one part of a

Speaker 4 the Celtics the second half of the season like have played unbelievable team basketball and unbelievable defense like they're

Speaker 4 they're gonna be absolutely like ready to fight it's not gonna be it's not gonna be a whomping a whamping is cap it's no knock on it's no knock on kd

Speaker 4 they're clearly incredible i just don't know how defensively they can play seven games and like get stops when they need to i i trust the celtics to get a stop before i trust trust the nets the watching tonight's game the calves they the nets should have beaten the calves by 40, and it should have been over after the first quarter.

Speaker 4 She's been like, all right, this game's over. And they just, the Cavs just kept on coming back.
And I guess it's more scrappy Cavs, but I just watched. I was like, what the fuck?

Speaker 5 I think it's scrappy Cavs and they kept coming back, but it was never, it never felt super close. It never felt like the Nets were in any real serious danger.

Speaker 5 They'd be, you know, within like five, six points, whatever that was. But every single time that it got that close, the Nets just, they flipped the switch again.

Speaker 5 I think that, I think the Nets are just that good. And Hank, I'm okay.
You You don't think it's going to be whomping? I think it's going to be whomping. I think it's not going to go seven.

Speaker 5 That's what I mean. I think it's

Speaker 4 Nets and Celtics and five.

Speaker 5 Celts in five, Nets and six. So if it doesn't go seven and your team and the Celtics win, I'll stop saying cap forever.
And likewise, you have to stop saying, I want to nip that in the bud.

Speaker 5 I hate hearing you say cap.

Speaker 4 All right. Did you see that commercial where the dude says cap and then

Speaker 4 the ladies like, ugh. And I was like, oh, that's part of my take.
yeah

Speaker 4 like they just stole our bit but it's not a bit because pft says it no no i brought cat back yeah

Speaker 4 oh that's exactly what i was saying that game though obviously yeah i mean kyrie was insane it was insane to watch him um what what did he end up from the field he was at one point he was 11 for 11.

Speaker 6 12 for 15.

Speaker 4 three of six from three seven of seven from the line that's crazy he was so so good and like i said kyrie or k kd didn't even like have to assert himself offensively until the very end but it is scary he is he's the best scorer in the nba i he is he is the best scorer in the nba like what about our friend blake is blake where's his health at right now

Speaker 4 we got blake issues boys he's getting iced he's getting iced out all the blakes are

Speaker 4 yeah we we our only the only blake that's doing well right now is the original blake in bordles because he's you just know even if he's not playing on a team, he's just happy.

Speaker 4 Well, because he's, yeah, you know,

Speaker 5 he's doing awesome because he's unemployed and it's about to be summertime. That's awesome.
You can't, you can't have a better career than that. That's the goal.

Speaker 4 I did talk to Blake Griffin a couple of days ago. Yeah, he's ready to go.
So let's put him in. Put him in, coach.
Let's get him in. Let's get him some minutes.

Speaker 4 Let's get him some, it's playoff basketball time. You need people out there doing the hard shit.

Speaker 4 And Blake's ready to go.

Speaker 5 Yep. Yep.
So I couldn't set it better myself. Bring, put Blake in, give Blake some minutes.
He's a spark plug. That might be what the Nets need to toughen up a little bit.

Speaker 5 He's going to go out there and Blake's going to give you six hard fouls.

Speaker 4 We got to go to one of the games. Yes, we should go to one of the games.
We absolutely will go to one of the games. So I'm not, I'm, I'm holding back my series of the year bet until Friday.

Speaker 4 I'm going to decide, but that's the way I'm leaning. I just, I saw that price and I was like,

Speaker 4 even if it goes seven, I would trust the Celtics at home over the Nets. I don't,

Speaker 4 PFT, you think it's a whampin?

Speaker 5 I think it's a whamping, guys. I don't care where they play the games.
You can play it anywhere. You can play in the Hoosier's gym.

Speaker 4 I don't care. Jake, any cool

Speaker 4 things that you do you think Patrick Beverly was maybe yelling too much?

Speaker 6 Well, it was awesome, but like I understand why people are mad. Also, big cat, Minnesota fans are going to come after you because you forgot the Minnesota Lynx have won fourth WNBA titles since 2011.

Speaker 4 That's LeBron's fault. He should have reminded everyone tonight.

Speaker 4 If LeBron had any coup, he should have tweeted,

Speaker 4 Minnesota fans, why are you celebrating like this? You got a dynasty in the WNBA. That would have been, that would have been a tweet I would have gotten behind from LeBron.

Speaker 6 Right. Also, the Grizzlies versus Timberwolves logos are way too similar in terms of colors.
I don't know if you've seen them side by side. Yeah.

Speaker 6 It's interesting.

Speaker 5 I do think that the, well, I miss the old Grizzlies uniforms. Those were maybe the best in sports.

Speaker 4 They wear them sometimes.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's always so cool when they do.

Speaker 4 And I always think uh bryant reeves big country reeves that's what those old vancouver grizzlies uh remind me of i do think that the timberwolves have awesome jerseys though very underrated uniforms yeah they do um that i'm excited the playing game good job adam silver like i said last year i'm pretty sure i on it because i am like deathly afraid of a team i i'm gonna look it up right now but like the idea that a team could win

Speaker 4 Let's see.

Speaker 4 Yeah, like, for instance, the Timberwolves, the idea that the Timberwolves could somehow miss the playoffs and they have 12 more wins than the Spurs, that would like piss me off to no end.

Speaker 4 Do you know what I mean? That would be, that would make me so angry to be like, how is that? How, how can you have that happen when a team like the Spurs are 34 and 48 and could make the playoffs?

Speaker 5 Guess what?

Speaker 4 Ball don't lie.

Speaker 4 Don't lie. So we got the results we wanted tonight.
Like that was a, those are good games. The two home teams won.
The two higher seeds won. Hank, you are now in a, it's Hank versus Frank.

Speaker 4 You're in a fight to the death with Frank Fleming. Well, I think me and Frank are probably on the same page that the Nets are bad.
So that part is good. I also have

Speaker 4 way a humongous amount on the Pelicans to make it to the playoffs, which means they have to win today, as you're listening, and then beat the Clippers, which is a revenge game for our bet versus them in New Orleans.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 4 I don't know about that now.

Speaker 4 Now that it's all kind of played out. Well, it's like they played at the end of the regular season.
They could have clinched a playoff birth. They got smoked.
Hopefully that doesn't happen again.

Speaker 4 Yeah. I don't feel great about it.
I don't feel great about it. They have to play on Wednesday night and then fly to L.A.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yikes. They're playing Wednesday night in New Orleans and they have to fly to L.A.
right after the game to go play the Clippers. Anything can happen.

Speaker 4 But it's playing P. Yeah.

Speaker 4 He's, come on. And either of those teams is just going to get smoked by the Suns.
So that's actually the best part of tonight is that the Timberwolves didn't deserve to get smoked by the Suns.

Speaker 4 Like that,

Speaker 4 they can win a couple games against the Grizzlies.

Speaker 4 The playing against the Suns would have been very, very bad because the Suns are that good. Cavs might beat the Heat.

Speaker 4 Hank, you.

Speaker 4 Hank, just lost. You're just going to...

Speaker 5 This is Hank chasing his bet.

Speaker 4 You saw there as scrappy as fuck.

Speaker 4 Hank is the dog in the fire sipping the coffee, just being like, the Cavs could beat Slim fill-in team.

Speaker 4 They almost beat them tonight. Imagine if they had Jared Allen.

Speaker 4 But they didn't really almost, they didn't really keep it close.

Speaker 4 They were like two possessions away in the fourth quarter. But they never took the lead.
No, but it was close-ish. They covered.
They did cover it easily.

Speaker 5 It's true.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 4 Hank,

Speaker 5 I know what you're doing. And you were right about the Cavs when you put a bet on them earlier this year.
I think that's what you want is to be acknowledged that you were correct about the Cavs.

Speaker 5 You were. You were.

Speaker 4 You were the only person

Speaker 4 in all of media

Speaker 5 across the board. Yeah, but you were still right, even though you were wrong.

Speaker 5 You were more right than anybody else was about the Cavs. So I think you can take your victory lap on that, but like, let's not get delusional here.

Speaker 4 That's fine. That might be my series of the year.

Speaker 4 But they might not even.

Speaker 4 They might not even make the playoffs.

Speaker 4 We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Speaker 5 That would be perfect, though, if they didn't make the playoffs. Hank could always say forever, like that Cavs team would have beaten that heat team.

Speaker 4 Yes, if they just got if Jared Allen came back, which is he coming back, I love Jared Allen. I don't know.
He was questionable, and then he was ruled out.

Speaker 4 He's probably not going to be back full strength either way, but if they win on

Speaker 4 what is it, Thursday, then I think he'll be back for Miami

Speaker 4 Friday, Friday. Yeah.

Speaker 4 All right. And 3:30 is your game on Sunday, Hank.
I'm at 6:30. So it's NBA playoffs.
And

Speaker 4 credit to us. It's 1 o'clock in the morning.
Bubba and memes are still at the office. So is Evan.

Speaker 4 We're in playoff mode.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Shout out to boys for getting YouTube's up early.

Speaker 4 Yes. All right.
Let's go to the rest of the show in studio. A little contentious.

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Speaker 1 Anyone sent any cool text messages the last 24 hours? Oh, we're doing this. Well,

Speaker 1 we have to bring it up. I thought it was a fire.
Yeah, Firefest. Yeah, we got a couple of days.
I like Firefest. We can go now.
We've got a lot of stuff for that long. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hank, I just want to say before you walk us through what's been going through your mind and how you feel, I I just want to say I'm on your side on this.

Speaker 1 I don't know what you're talking about, and neither do you listen to me. So, yeah, so let me explain it.
So

Speaker 1 I was sitting minding my own business at home on Monday night. I was actually putting my kids to sleep, and I get a text message.

Speaker 1 Your father? Yeah, I'm a father, too. And I got bothered by you, Hank,

Speaker 1 with this text message. Sorry to your one kid.
That's two.

Speaker 1 Trolling me. My bad.
Well, actually, it's three. Hank's Billy and you, too, because now I have to to worry about what you're going to text to everyone.
So, four. This is Hank lashing out right now.

Speaker 1 Oh, big time lash. I'm going to get contentious.
I don't like that. Oh, no.
Jake's nervous.

Speaker 1 So there was a text message thread that Caleb,

Speaker 1 our great colleague Caleb, started six years ago at the Super Bowl. It was me, Caleb, Dave, Gaz, and Hank.
We were at the Super Bowl. I think it was probably after a late night of drinking.

Speaker 1 It was 3.23 in the morning. He texted everyone, good night, fam.
I texted One Love because i love you guys and uh name the group name the group fam

Speaker 1 flash no text messages on that group chat chain for six years flash forward to last night and hank sends us a picture of uh just a sweaty face staring deep into our souls his sweaty face and it says f45 day one check mark and we're all like huh and i actually didn't even i looked at it i was like oh this is weird and then i just kept on doing what I was doing.

Speaker 1 And then an hour later, Hank was like, whoops, I meant to send this to my family.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 since then, yeah, it's pretty much the worst people you could ever send a text message to, me, Dave, and Gaz.

Speaker 1 The internet has memed you. And

Speaker 1 I'm uncomfortable with you in the room. I submitted an HR complaint because you snitch unsolicited

Speaker 1 because you're my boss now. I'm not.
And you work on the third floor and the power structure.

Speaker 1 The power structure is so off that you send me. There is no power structure.
You literally nothing has changed. You sit on top of us.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you sent us, you sent me a picture that made me feel uncomfortable, and then you tried to silence me by calling me a snitch. That's fucked up.
It is a snitch. I said that.

Speaker 1 Did PFG? I thought I did because you turned him into HR. You saw that on the streets.

Speaker 1 When I turned him into HR, I actually just went upstairs. I was like, where's HR? And they just pointed in the corner.

Speaker 1 And I just said out loud, i'd like to file a complaint against hank and then walked back downstairs hank does sit in the corner office upstairs no i said i sit with hr so i took the complaint and just see

Speaker 1 the power structure control it this is the power structure this is corruption all the way down so hank um i'm uncomfortable being around you but i guess i have to power through credit to me

Speaker 1 i feel like you should be supporting me i don't know like again like no i don't want that picture caleb i i blame i'd say 48 of the blame is on caleb 48 of the blame is on loud sean for spiking my phone, which forced me to get a new one.

Speaker 1 Which, when I turned it on,

Speaker 1 all the messages like repopulated, but only from Saturday night. Like, it was like that, that was the last time my cloud updated, which was no, who cares?

Speaker 1 Like, it was a day's worth of meaningless text messages. But this group text, the PMT group text, my friends from home, and my family group text, like, didn't show up.

Speaker 1 And I was like, whatever, new phone, new phone blues. I texted this group literally just to make sure like things were going through.

Speaker 1 And then, yeah, I worked out.

Speaker 1 Again, new phone so i i was sweating and i didn't think the flash was on like i'm not used to my flash on my selfies being on shocking picture so i typed in fam because that's what my family group text is called and i don't know i'm again i wasn't factoring in this super bowl crew from six years ago typed in fam you say that like that's your fam it's not my family

Speaker 1 that that fam was the first time I ever hung out with the company as a whole. I remember, you know what? That was probably post-second slices at the House of Prime Rip.
Yeah, House of Prime Rip.

Speaker 1 And you, that's your family. Or your

Speaker 1 family. And you just,

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm just, I don't know. The best was that Hank texted me after on the other side.
Either way,

Speaker 1 I went back and texted, and when I realized that it was those three, I, like, pretty much,

Speaker 1 I got paralyzed. He's embarrassment.
Yeah, he said. Once I realized it was Gaz,

Speaker 1 like if I said it earlier, like, if it was, if it was maybe Caleb and Big Cat, like, you probably would have posted it, but maybe wouldn't have, or like, I could have talked you out of it.

Speaker 1 Gaz probably definitely would have. Dave probably wouldn't have just because he wouldn't have known what was going on.

Speaker 1 And like, Caleb wouldn't have, like, but the fact that it was all three of you just like piling up each other on.

Speaker 1 I knew it was, there was no shock. Hank sent me a text after he's like, I haven't felt like this in a really long time.

Speaker 1 And it just made me so happy because, like, this guy, he's been promoted to vice president of Barstool Sports. He's literally our boss.
Executive vice president.

Speaker 1 And he's still, but it's nice because we can do like a throwback 2014. Hank embarrasses himself.

Speaker 1 Just when you thought that the suit had gotten, you know, you graduated. I don't think it was anything to be embarrassed.
I thought you looked good. You looked like you were in shape.

Speaker 1 Or it's just such a weird picture to die. I was so scared.

Speaker 1 Like, it wasn't like I wasn't thinking, like, when you take a selfie, sometimes you take a picture, and I don't know, again, I don't know what I was thinking. I don't know what I was doing.

Speaker 1 I thought I was sending it to my flesh and blood. Yes, I was.
I was actually turning and sending it to literally. Would they have been as scared as I was? That was my biggest thing.

Speaker 1 Oh, that would have been like, yes, good job. How was it? Like, blah, blah, blah.
I understand how it's. Here's me playing paddle tennis.
I understand how it's going to be. How's my Wordle score?

Speaker 1 It's like, just family shit. It's not like,

Speaker 1 and I don't, I don't really drop in that much. Like, I'm probably the least active.
I'll never do it again. They're kind of like, you know, why don't you ever update us?

Speaker 1 And I'm like, I don't really have much to update. I'm like, oh, I worked out.
Like, here we go. Yeah, that was my biggest question because I understand how the mishaps happen, but the big question is,

Speaker 1 why are you sending your family sweaty photos of yourself after working out?

Speaker 1 It was just like, you know,

Speaker 1 here's an update. Like, I don't play Wordle.
I don't like

Speaker 1 to prove that you worked out. It's just, it could be, like, your air conditioning couldn't have worked.
Like, you weren't at the gym. You were just sweaty and scary.

Speaker 1 I actually, listen,

Speaker 1 it was a mistake. Like, it wasn't something I really thought out.
It was just like, here's a quick little text message, and no one's going to see it. The memes were very funny.

Speaker 1 Just to my family, and then, yeah, fucking, we had, that's where it was like, I regretted anything I've ever done to help memes. I regretted.

Speaker 1 Memes were

Speaker 1 blacked out. Meme smells blood in the water.
It's all over. over.
When he sees a new meme template just hit the internets, it's like over for a while.

Speaker 1 His timeline was like 100 tweets. Yeah, I'd imagine memes just like his memes.
I don't know. I think he might live with his parents.
He's like, mom, like, clear my schedule. I got memes to make.

Speaker 1 There's going to be a couple of things he works in. One,

Speaker 1 he's absolutely going to do the Vin Diesel, the goodbye to Paul Walker with it. He's probably going to work in a Castellanos here or there.

Speaker 1 But I think that when I first saw it, it came through on my radar. We're talking about Together

Speaker 1 No, because it's interesting, Hank. It came through.

Speaker 1 I thought it was a sports podcast. Tom, you were working out.

Speaker 1 F45. Tom Ferneli sent it to us, and I looked at it, and he said, They're all probably going to hit the badge.
Hank's down bad.

Speaker 1 That's the worst thing that I'm going to do. And I was saying, I don't understand why Hank is down bad.
And I checked Twitter like 20 minutes later, and I was like, oh,

Speaker 1 now I get it. But I thought, like, this might be just a sneaky way of Hank letting everybody know that he was in the gym.
Yeah. Like, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 No, but, like, it's worse because it's day one and, like, who breaks. Who knows if if it's going to last, and now it kind of has to last because, like, you better get that six-pack break.

Speaker 1 In 30 days, we were going to be, like, what day, like, I ha

Speaker 1 Which I guess isn't the worst. Like, it's forcing me.
It's kind of, like, I've been publicly shamed to continue working out, which is probably good for me, but just

Speaker 1 really, really bad. Really, really embarrassing.

Speaker 1 Like, I just like

Speaker 1 No, I didn't move from my couch, and I tried to just tweet through it. Like, I tried to just

Speaker 1 pet the Padres Padres Giants first five innings over and just like tweet about that a bunch. Yeah.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 ah, no. There's like 10 10 runners left on base.
Second and third, every single inning for both teams. It was I think that's I think that was the last thing I talked to Hank last night.

Speaker 1 He just texted me. He's like, I really need five runs in these first five innings.
Yeah, what you should have done is just go on.

Speaker 1 That would have been a good of like a you should have just gone on a retweet spree and played ratio defense like Adam Schefter's playing.

Speaker 1 There was no pause where it's just you just retweet everything and then you can't be ratio. I had nothing to re, there was, there was no one in my corner.

Speaker 1 There was no one like, oh, this is funny, or like, you look good. It was just like, what the fuck?

Speaker 1 In a million memes, most of them from inside the house. Yeah, the calls coming from inside the house.
All right, well, I mean, you know, shit happens. Congrats on the workout, Hank.

Speaker 1 I also think,

Speaker 1 Hank is now at the point between the Coach K, like the fact that he works like a 9-5 and has to put on a suit every day, and this picture.

Speaker 1 This boy needs the Celtics to win the title. Like, we have now somehow gotten into a review.

Speaker 1 It's never happened in the history of this podcast where people should actually be rooting for Hank's teams because they need to be. You're doing this on purpose.
No, I'm not.

Speaker 1 I know what you're doing. I'm not.
We've never been on a good picture. You're setting the episode down.

Speaker 1 This is literally uncharted territory for us as a podcast. You're such a wonderful thing.
I'm up cooked about it. I'm up bad.
I'm up great. What is it? Down bad.
I'm up good. You're up good?

Speaker 1 Well, at least your favorite quarterback wasn't planning on coming back to play for the Dolphins as a team owner. That would have been tough.
Wait, so is that a story?

Speaker 1 Well, I saw the rumblings of that story. I mean, there's about as good.
What, like, you just live in fantasy land. Like, Dan Sony's going to sell a team.
Tom Brady's going to play for the Dolphins.

Speaker 1 Come back to Earth. He went after

Speaker 1 dad. He's laughing.
He's coming after you. This is exactly what happened.
Tom Brady was going to take those meetings. He was going to come and play for the Dolphins.

Speaker 1 He was going to get Sean Payton to be the head coach of the Dolphins. He hates the Patriots so much, and you personally so much.
Why did he want him to stay in the team? You're just

Speaker 1 literally fanficially.

Speaker 1 you and your dad

Speaker 1 are just write fanfiction for clicks.

Speaker 1 Because of the Brian Flores lawsuit. Florio does borderline on fanfic sometimes.
He had a tweet today about Aaron Rodgers is going to miss OTAs, and it's like, I fell for it.

Speaker 1 I was like, oh, is he going to hold out? Can he hold out?

Speaker 1 That's what's beautiful. The NFL does need like a what-if guy.
Yeah. And he's the ultimate what-if guy.
Like, oh, they're already mad at each other.

Speaker 1 But I think you could also spin that to be like Bill Belichick actually

Speaker 1 now. It's never going to happen.
No, listen to me, but

Speaker 1 I'm not even listening to anything you're saying. Bill Belichick sent that text message to Brian Flores telling him, like, oh, congrats on the job, that whole thing.

Speaker 1 He sent that to him so that Brian Flores would then sue prompting Tom Brady to not be able to play for the Dolphins. There it is.

Speaker 1 That actually adds up. So you're listening to that.
If it were something that happened, that would... But again, you're writing fan fiction because it all makes sense.
Well, we're in a lull right now.

Speaker 1 NBA players haven't fully started.

Speaker 1 Baseball just started. We haven't gotten to hockey playoffs yet.
So you know, posting Jim Selfies and getting mad about Tom Brady hypotheticals is what we have to do for content. Why?

Speaker 1 Am I wrong or did hockey playoffs start before then? Something happened this year. I don't know what.
Did they have to go?

Speaker 1 My internal clock has been so thick. I agree.
It always used to start a week and a half. A week before.
The trucker convoyed it down. Yeah, they don't start till March.
I mean, May.

Speaker 1 May like 1st or 2nd is the first hockey. So it's going to end after NBA? Yeah, I guess so.
Although they do it a lot faster. Remember, the NBA gets in that stretch where it's like three games.

Speaker 1 Yeah, three games. It's basically three days off.
Yeah. It's crazy.
They take forever off.

Speaker 1 All right, well, let's give it up for Chicago.

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Speaker 1 okay Hank hot seat cool throng my hot seat my hot seat's Philly oh

Speaker 1 just leaning into this no not actually though this is just a nice it was funny but then he did the guy had a good response Alec Baum I don't know if you guys saw the clip yep made Made a bunch of errors.

Speaker 1 And then when he was walking off the field, he said he fucking hates this place.

Speaker 1 And so, yes. Talking about Philly, he's a Phillies player.
So he's a Phillies player. He had three errors on the night.
He said, I fucking hate this place. Which I was like,

Speaker 1 crazy turn of events because there was a lot of lip readers. I love when lip readers get going on the internet because it's kind of like the dress, you know, which one you see or what was it?

Speaker 1 Yanni or Laurel.

Speaker 1 People were saying

Speaker 1 he was saying, let's get out of this or something like that. I fucking hate this position.
Yeah, position. People were trying to say that.
He actually, in his post-game,

Speaker 1 the reporter asked him, he's like, yep, I said that. It was a moment of anger.
And

Speaker 1 I have the quote. Yeah, give me the quote.
I said it. Emotions got the best of me.
Do I mean it? No. It's a frustrating night for me.
These fans, they just want to win. They're great.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 I didn't mean that. And I think that actually ingratiates him to Philly even more.
I think actually the more that

Speaker 1 I hate Philly, the more you love it. Like, I think it's totally appropriate.
Even Philly. Philly fans probably hate Philly.

Speaker 1 Philadelphia

Speaker 1 say, I fucking hate this place. Right.
But that just means that you know Philly so well. Yeah, you love each other.

Speaker 1 It's a love-hate relationship, but it's at the same time. Yeah, no, I was actually kind of like, I saw his response, like, holy shit.

Speaker 1 That was, because he could have easily, easily said he said something else, and it just becomes a, you know, a story that everyone talks about. He completely, like, this is a PR 101 masterclass.

Speaker 1 I said it. I was emotional.
I don't mean it. Move on.
And it's like, yep, I actually like this guy now. The truth will set you free.
Yeah. I think Philly will respect that.

Speaker 1 In fact, like just based off what I saw on Twitter last night, all the Philadelphia fans that were replying to the story were like, yep, he gets it. Yeah.
Yeah. Exactly.
All right, your cool throne?

Speaker 1 My cool throne is Nikolai Jokic. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He it appears it's not official, but a bunch of the I mean the MVP NBA is just weird.

Speaker 1 All the writers, like, say who they voted, so people, you know, put it together and realize Jokic is going to win again.

Speaker 1 I was looking at the list. Like,

Speaker 1 we should try and get Jake a vote one of these days. We should, but I have a question for everyone.
Like, the ringer has

Speaker 1 12 votes. Really? That's entirely too many votes for the ringer.

Speaker 1 Rasilo voted for him. They all go to Jason Tatum.

Speaker 1 I would vote for Jokic. I would vote for Jokic if I had a vote.
He had a ridiculous year, and he plays with no one. I voted for Embiid, personally.
Do you want to to have a debate?

Speaker 1 I think Embiid, wins matter. They have like pretty much the same amount of wins matter, though.
Not as many as last year, though. Who? Jokic.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but he's also missed. He's playing with complete scrubs and the wins matter thing doesn't really work when the Embiid didn't play with Simmons for the whole.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because he didn't play with Simmons. The Hardin got hurt.

Speaker 1 I'm just debating on their side, but yeah, there's been a very hard push for Embiid. I just think Jokic has played with no one, and he does everything.

Speaker 1 But what I was going to say is there,

Speaker 1 the MVP debates to me might be for professional sports, they mean nothing. Like, I don't remember.
Do you remember any MVPs?

Speaker 1 Yeah, like you remember some, but you don't remember all. Like, it's not something like, oh, I remember that.
You remember who wins? No, I remember.

Speaker 1 I remember Carson Wentz got two MVP votes in 2017. Here you go.

Speaker 1 2010.

Speaker 1 Any MVP. Give me any MVP from any league, Hank.

Speaker 1 See, this is my point.

Speaker 1 This is my point. I think it was LeBron.

Speaker 1 Tim Duncan. Tim Duncan.
Okay. Dirk, I don't know.
Maybe it was, yeah, it could have been Dirk. No, it was LeBron James.
LeBron, I was right.

Speaker 1 2008. That was right before he left.
2008. Miami.
Any MVP. LeBron.
No.

Speaker 1 It wasn't KG.

Speaker 1 This is my point. It wasn't Paul Pierce.
Kobe. Kobe.
I would have got there. I was going to get there.
Oh, you were going to get there? Yeah, I was turning if they got inducted in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 Then you go back and be like, oh, they were 85 MVPs. Of course.
But I'm saying, like, in a certain season, who was the NFL MVP in 2008? Brady. Manning.
Peyton Manning. That was bullshit.

Speaker 1 Fucking on fire right now.

Speaker 1 Who is the MVP in 2012?

Speaker 1 Any MVP.

Speaker 1 This is just a game called Chris MVP. Drew Brees.

Speaker 1 It was. Hey, no, I think actually I'm not looking this up.
I know I just looked up LeBron. I think it was Adrian Peterson.
Wasn't that his year? It might have been. Let's see.

Speaker 1 I'm looking up right now. Adrian Peterson.
Yeah. All right.
So there we go. I guess we

Speaker 1 matter.

Speaker 1 MVPs matter. MVPs matter.
I just like, I don't know. There's something about, I think, like Jake said, it's at the end of your career when you're like, that guy's a three-time MVP.
Then it matters.

Speaker 1 Steve Nash has two MVPs. It's good during a player's career, too, so that you can make the argument.

Speaker 1 If you're getting into a debate, if you find yourself in a situation where, Hank, you're arguing against the entire city of Philadelphia, it would be good for you if Jokic won the MVP. Yes,

Speaker 1 yes. All right, good hot seat, cool throne, Hank.
Good job, Hank. Hank's back, guys.
Hey, you guys are the real MVPs.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 1 Remember that. Who said that?

Speaker 1 Kevin Drant.

Speaker 1 During the 2013 season?

Speaker 1 I think that's right. Might have been.
I remember who he was talking about. 13.

Speaker 1 The reporter? No, his mom. No, his mom.
No, he has no sheet, obviously. No, it's his mom.
Yeah. Yeah.
Hank. I thought you were talking about the reporter.
You're the real MVP.

Speaker 1 You're the real MVP of Hank. Yeah.
14, 2014. Mr.
Vice President. Damn.
Damn.

Speaker 1 All right, PFD, your hot sequel throwing. Oh, my hot seat is Dan Snyder.
For real this time. Oh.
Legitimately, Dan Snyder, you crusty old bitch, you energy vampire, you piece of shit.

Speaker 1 I'm just falling into the Alex Jones thing where he yells at the camera. But there was

Speaker 1 a report that came out of Congress where Congress has been looking now into Dan Snyder's finances. Wow.
They caught the fucker. And here's why I think that it's real.
Okay? Because I

Speaker 1 think every time

Speaker 1 NFL fanfiction literally every time

Speaker 1 I'm talking that now who's talking about that

Speaker 1 blogs about spectralization. You had your turn, Hank.
Now it's my turn. Hate this.
Hate this.

Speaker 1 Hank, mute yourself for the rest of this conversation.

Speaker 1 So as we discussed, when John Gruden got busted with those emails, right? Correct. And Adam Schaefer was reporting on it, he pulled the clean sweep.

Speaker 1 He insulted females, minorities, and NFL commissioners yes that's it that's all the protective owner shut the up hank dan snyder has now been busted sexual harassment he's been busted for uh persecuting minorities and now the clean sweep

Speaker 1 roger goodell has been implicated too because some of the ticket funds that dan snyder was misallocating actually came underneath Roger Goodell's tickets, under his name, for tickets that he was given to games.

Speaker 1 And so now it's like Roger Goodell's name is is front and center in this. I think Dan Snyder is done.
I think that motherfucker is done.

Speaker 1 I think he's going to get curb stomped by the rest of the owners.

Speaker 1 And also, it's been proven through the other books that have been released now, the documents that have been sent to Congress, that he was taking money out of the pockets of Jerry Jones, out of all the other owners.

Speaker 1 And if there's one thing, like you can have 40 sexual harassment claims against you, if you take money from the other owners, that's when they're going to do something about it. Or maybe they won't.

Speaker 1 If it's the doomsday clock, it's never been closer to midnight than it is right now. I'm fucking pumped.
I'm going to have a parade when Dan Snyder goes. When he's done, I cannot wait.

Speaker 1 Get the fuck out of here, you crusty old 5'5 ⁇ , bitch. Fuck you.
I hate you. Die

Speaker 1 of natural causes, but quickly. Okay.

Speaker 1 I'm looking forward. Jake's not happy.
Jake is not happy right now.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 I'm rooting for you. It doesn't sound like you are.
I am. I just...

Speaker 1 How many times does this guy just have to skirt by before we're we're like hey he's just never gonna go what's the difference between John Gruden and Dan Snyder people actually like John Gruden

Speaker 1 well Dan Snyder also owns the team yeah he owns the team right but he's a big difference there another big difference is Dan Snyder's taking money from other owners who are the ones that get to decide whether or not he stays in the league I'm rooting for you I just don't think I just the guy survived everything he's a fucking he's a zombie he's a zombie owner that will not die so it's more like I just don't I never he gets out of everything you You got to double tap him.

Speaker 1 He gets out of everything. He's done.
He gets out of everything.

Speaker 1 I would literally give anything for anybody in the world besides Dan. Name anybody in the world.
I would rather they be the owner of the Washington Committee. Yes.
Yes. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Bring Putin over here. Well, maybe, maybe he would stop invading other countries.
He's put on a quote card. Yes, I would put.
If he wants Putin, I would rather Dan Snyder.

Speaker 1 Putin is the one. OJ.
Yes. Oh, 100%.
OJ? Yes. I guarantee you Dan Snyder's killed more people than OJ.
You think so? Through grief,

Speaker 1 sorrow, and stress. That's true.
That's true. He's almost killed me multiple times.
And that fucking stadium, it's a death trap. It's falling apart.

Speaker 1 I would rather live in Kiev than spend all my days and nights underneath the cement columns of FedEx Field. It's a death trap.
People are going to die. I'd still probably pick Landover.

Speaker 1 Raul John, Maryland,

Speaker 1 actual war zone.

Speaker 1 Personally. You haven't been to FedEx Field, have you? I mean, personally,

Speaker 1 I'd rather pick Rawl John over getting bombed every day. Well, it's the same thing, mentally.
Okay.

Speaker 1 My cool throne is water and hydration. I'm in a battle right now against water, Twitter, which I didn't know was a thing.

Speaker 1 But maybe you guys can help me out because there's a mystery that I've been meaning to ask you guys about in the internet in general for the last several months. I've got a neighbor.

Speaker 1 Seems like a nice guy. It's a guy and a girl.

Speaker 1 Every two weeks, they get a delivery of six five-gallon water cooler-sized jugs.

Speaker 1 So, like ones that you might find in your office when you're talking about not betting the over in the Rams Chiefs game.

Speaker 1 And they have been getting these delivered every other week, and I've been trying to figure out what the fuck is going on in their house.

Speaker 1 I had a water salesperson come to my door last night when they were dropping off all the water for my neighbor, and the water salesperson was like, hey, just curious, I'm selling water to your neighbor.

Speaker 1 How much water do you drink? And I was like, I don't know. She was like, where do you get your water from? I was like, the tap.
I just, it comes out of the faucet. It's free.

Speaker 1 And she was like trying to sell me this water. We ended up not buying any.
But I've been trying to figure out what two people could use 30 gallons of water for every two weeks.

Speaker 1 And now water Twitter is like

Speaker 1 30 gallons every two weeks. Yeah, 30 gallons.
And they're like, that's a normal amount of water to be drinking if you're drinking just over a gallon a day. Well, why don't we ask?

Speaker 1 There's only one guy on this show that works out regularly. So Hank.

Speaker 1 I've been drinking a a lot of water personally. I'm looking it up.
I don't know

Speaker 1 what's the difference between my actual like how do you convert how do you convert leaders into gallons?

Speaker 1 These people have to be just like COVID crazies who don't leave their apartment, who are still in lockdown. I see them a lot, but why not just use the tap water?

Speaker 1 No, that I can't answer because I drink tap water, but they have big animals. Oh, maybe they could have, they could have a, do they have any animals? They have cats?

Speaker 1 I don't, I haven't seen, maybe they have fish. Fish? That could be

Speaker 1 getting bottled water for the fish? That could be. They don't trust the tap water for their frogs.
It'll turn gay. They have a whole bunch of the straightest frogs in America.

Speaker 1 A hardcore Alex Jones today.

Speaker 1 They could be filling a fish tank.

Speaker 1 Over and over and over again with fresh tap.

Speaker 1 Maybe they had a lot of flowers. Jake drinks the most water of like anyone I know.
I drink a lot of flowers. So I don't know how much.
Is that a lot? You've been working out? No.

Speaker 1 I feel like big water has poisoned our brains and told us that we need to actually be drinking more than we need to. Like the whole thing of you need to drink a gallon of water a day.

Speaker 1 Yeah, water is definitely something you should be drinking. Yeah, no, I know that, but

Speaker 1 I think most people can get by drinking like 32 ounces of water a day and getting the rest from their food. How many is this? 32 ounces? 16 ounces? I drink

Speaker 1 like 12. No, 32 ounces is definitely not enough.
I probably drink 4 to 16. What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 But you probably also drink like other drinks over the course of the day. Your coffee has water in it.
It's mostly water. But I definitely drink more than 32 ounces.
That's three cups of water.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you could probably drink.

Speaker 1 You could probably drink a half a gallon of water a day, get the rest of it from your food and your other parts of your diet. So they just like water.
I guess they just really fucking like water.

Speaker 1 Definitely people who drink a lot of water, who are just water guys. That seems like overkill to me.
But what do I know? I'm out of water. I have water with me on the go everywhere.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Literally everywhere. Drink a beer, water.
Yeah. That's how you do it.
That's true. Yeah.
Maybe they're alcoholics. They're constantly mixing in waters.
Yeah. Never hung over.

Speaker 1 All right. My hot seats.
Wait, what was going to be my hot seat? I was going to figure out how I was going to fucking do this. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.
Oh, my hot seat is Coach Cal. Because

Speaker 1 there was a tweet yesterday that said that Coach Cal was meeting with the AD of Kentucky to figure out his severance package that went viral. And it turned out, obviously, it was fake.

Speaker 1 The person was just making it up. It was a troll account.
But it was so believable that Cal got asked about it.

Speaker 1 And then Coach Cal's wife also released an Instagram video, which is very funny of her dog just like going to the bathroom in the driveway, being like, he's not going anywhere.

Speaker 1 But it makes me think like if a joke like that can be believed that much, he's truly on the hot seat. This is how it begins.
It is.

Speaker 1 Maybe it was put out there by, I know that their family is very active on Twitter, and I would never fuck with the Caliperi family on Twitter because they're good at it and they'll roast you.

Speaker 1 But if they had like a burner account, they could put out the terms as like a trial balloon to see how everyone reacted to it. Yeah.
And then maybe they take the fake account. Was it Ballstack Sports?

Speaker 1 No, it was Mark Fisk Hoops, who has like 300 followers. He tweeted non-player movement news per an SEC source.

Speaker 1 I'm told there's a meeting scheduled later today between John Calapari and Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart regarding the head coach's future and expectations moving forward for the program.

Speaker 1 Interesting. And it got like 150 retweets and a bunch of likes.
So people,

Speaker 1 this is how it begins.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 if you did this tweet about Bill Self, it wouldn't be believed. Well, maybe because of the violations.
But you know what I mean? Like, there's a believability. Maybe it's like Mark Phew.

Speaker 1 They did lose to St. Peter's, so, huh? He might be on the hot seat.
Yeah, I know that's it. It was the Athletic Premium Plus edition.

Speaker 1 You only get if you pay the $500 a month for the extra subscription. Yes.
My cool throne is LeBron James because LeBron has been freed of another coach. So congratulations to him.

Speaker 1 If you're keeping track at home, which I am, that would mean that LeBron, if we're going to count the interim head coach that he had, I think in 2005, LeBron has gotten six coaches fired in his career.

Speaker 1 Well, there have been six coaches fired while LeBron was there. Yeah, so the only ones who've survived is Tylou because he left Cleveland.
LeBron did. And Spolstra, who's a very good coach.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I don't know why we don't talk about LeBron James as a coach killer more because Frank Vogel got a raw, raw deal. He basically won a title two years ago in the bubble.

Speaker 1 Everyone applauded him, said that their defense was incredible, which it was. And then LeBron got all his friends to be on the team and then got injured.
And it was like, Frank Vogel, you fix this.

Speaker 1 And to be clear, I think that that title does count towards Vogel's titles. Yes.
Because it's tough to keep a team like that together in a bubble environment. It does not count for LeBron.

Speaker 1 It's a Mickey Mouse title when it's for LeBron. I'm just wondering, when does that

Speaker 1 conversation ever ever happen that lebron might get guys fired you hear who he wants next uh himself mark jackson oh my god i please i did hear that i want mark jackson i also saw stephen a smith said that he could fix the lakers but they can't afford him which would be unbelievable that's actually true stephen a smith was the gm and mark jackson was the head coach that if lebron wants i would

Speaker 1 i would maybe be a lebron fan if he got if he could figure that out then i would be a fan of the lakers i actually think that stephen a smith is right that the lakers can't afford him no i wouldn't I don't think that's in their budget.

Speaker 1 It's such a flex, though, to just be like, yeah, I would do it, but I could fix that. They can't afford me.
I had a dumb idea before we started taping today. I floated this one out here.

Speaker 1 Curious to see what you guys think.

Speaker 1 Would it be possible for LeBron James to hire his son as head coach and thereby ensure that LeBron James Jr. gets to play on the Lakers? Like, he becomes a player coach and gives himself minutes.

Speaker 1 Why don't we go one further? Why doesn't he hire his daughter for the first female head coach in the NBA history? That would be touching. We're breaking barriers.
We're doing everything.

Speaker 1 Also the first toddler head coach in the NBA history. Well, also, I mean, she drinks a lot of wine.
She does. That's an issue.

Speaker 1 He keeps her drunk. Yes.
I was actually just reading back on that story the other day where he's like, yeah, my daughter doesn't really like the wine. She says it tastes like rocks.

Speaker 1 And it's like, problem number one is your daughter drinks wine. Problem number two is your daughter.
knows what rocks taste like. Rocks are part of her palate.

Speaker 1 But yeah, LeBron, coach killer. Some are saying I'm not.
He's on my cool throne. So any LeBron fans can't say that we're hating on him right now.
I'm simply asking.

Speaker 1 He's freed, which is nice, out of the wrath of Frank Vogel. Everyone knows Frank Vogel, very similar to like a Bobby Knight type, just choking people and throwing chairs.

Speaker 1 But yeah, Frank Vogel. I actually probably, Frank Vogel is probably like relieved because that's got to suck to have had that job this year and have basically everyone conspiring against you.

Speaker 1 And it's like, dude, I won a title two years ago. He also got fired via tweet.
Yeah. He didn't even make it to his meeting.
He found out online. There was a great quote that LeBron had, though.

Speaker 1 They asked him about how this year came together. And he said, the reason we were not very good together is we weren't on the damn floor together.

Speaker 1 That's the number one damn thing. I actually think that's new segment alert.
The number one damn thing. The number one damn thing.
It is funny because, I mean, they didn't have,

Speaker 1 I think I saw a stat, like, they were the only team that didn't have 100 minutes of the same starting five, which is kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 But you could also make the argument, like, Steph missed a bunch of time. Draymond missed a ton of time.
Clay missed a ton of time. Warriors are in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 He also had a great spend zone when he was talking about whether or not this season is a failure. And he was just kind of holistic with it.

Speaker 1 He was like, it's not really a failure because we got to learn together and grow together and spend quality time as men together. Yes.
So, can that really be a failure? Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 Like, could Hank's text message be a failure if we just brought the fan back together? I just scrolled my timeline and I saw his picture like 16 times. This is actually reminiscent of,

Speaker 1 I don't want to say the name.

Speaker 1 Norm.

Speaker 1 When that happened.

Speaker 1 That was all over my timeline, too. I mean, Hank, if you want to make this go away, you just post a dick pic.
Yeah. And everyone's just talking about Hank's hog.

Speaker 1 No one's talking about your face anymore.

Speaker 1 Hank's drinking some water. Count that to the ounces.

Speaker 1 All right, Jake.

Speaker 1 Jake, has this been the most uncomfortable part of my take? It's up there. I mean, we're having fun.

Speaker 1 It's fun. Not a bad one.
I can't believe I missed Billy. Yeah, dude.
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 You missed Billy's calming presence next to you on the couch. Billy is a glue guy because we can all just make fun of him.
So

Speaker 1 he's a lightning rod.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, Jake, go ahead.

Speaker 1 My hot seat is Angel Hernandez. So the notable MLB umpire has had an interesting start to the season.
He's missing balls and strikes. Yes.
That's obvious.

Speaker 1 And he's also caught dancing behind the plate just in the middle of the season. I saw that.
What was that? I think he's just feeling himself. Yeah, I'm okay with that.

Speaker 1 Listen, Major League Baseball always needs at least one umpire for us to talk about and to be like, oh, it's this guy.

Speaker 1 Sports are more fun when you have like a Joey Crawford like in basketball that you can point out in the West. Be like, look at this game.
It's the Joe West show. It's the Angel Hernandez show.

Speaker 1 It's good to have one of those guys.

Speaker 1 In fact, I think that when we do inevitably make the switch to robot umps, we should keep Angel Hernandez around as like a controlled variable where we can show how much better the robot umps are.

Speaker 1 And if Angel Hernandez is lucky enough to come to your city on a certain night, the tickets probably go up for that game because people will want to see the umpire. Yes.

Speaker 1 No, that's been my take for a very long time that robot umps will ruin everything because then

Speaker 1 we won't get to have guys like Joe West that we can complain about. Right.
Like if any minor league umpire did this, they'd have no shot of making it to the mages. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He gets a little bit of an immunity.

Speaker 1 My cool throne is things being wild. We had a wild incident in the

Speaker 1 NL West last night. We had two twin brothers pitching against each other, Tyler and Taylor Rogers.
What? Wild. Yeah.
One of them got the loss. One of them got the save.
What? Wild.

Speaker 1 Wait, so they weren't really pitching against each other.

Speaker 1 I mean, opposing teams. Were they in the game at the same time? They were the loss in the save.
Second time in MLB history. Were they in the game at the same

Speaker 1 I mean, that's impossible. Right.

Speaker 1 Not wild. Not wild? No.

Speaker 1 I thought they were opposing starting pitchers. I mean,

Speaker 1 you look at the box score. It says L.
T. Rogers,

Speaker 1 save T. Rogers.
They look identical because they are identical. They're identical twins? They're twins.
That is.

Speaker 1 That's back to wild. That's back to wild.
I didn't realize the identical pitcher. Jake, you can't just bury the identical team.
I said it. Oh, you did? Maybe I didn't.
My bad. I don't know.

Speaker 1 But it's the second time in MLB history that two twin brothers pitched in the same game and the first time for opposing teams. Okay, that's wild.
Yeah. I'm going to say certified, stamp it, wild.

Speaker 1 Especially if one was pitching during the same inning, but that never happened, right? They weren't pitching in the same innings as each other?

Speaker 1 No, because there are three pitchers that came in after. Wait, did you just bang?

Speaker 1 You can't do that. That's Mike Breen.

Speaker 1 What's yours? Copyright. What is yours? You have one.
Yeah, I thought you had one. Boom? Well, I say kaboom, but the heat announcer does that.

Speaker 1 It's not mine. Wait, the heat announcer says kaboom? Yeah.
So what's yours? I don't have one. You need one.
Eventually. Wait.
It's still early in my career. Wait, blap.
Bang is yours?

Speaker 1 No, it's Mike Brains. Oh, Mike Brains.
Yeah, yeah. And he said bang, and I was like, what? You can't do that.
You need to have one.

Speaker 1 Eventually. Right.
You need one. Okay,

Speaker 1 right. Natural.
Natural. Natural.
I like kaboom, but it's not mine. It's heats.

Speaker 1 I'm about to say kaboom so MF loud right on your forehead. You need one.
Okay. Splash.
I feel like that's

Speaker 1 common. Yeah.
We're about to get some.

Speaker 1 Say, we'll see.

Speaker 1 Can you do this noise? Oh,

Speaker 1 Hank, that was cool. Can you do that again?

Speaker 1 Dude, you're back. You started doing that in the mic.
That was awesome. Do that one more time.
4-3.

Speaker 1 It's a great turn.

Speaker 1 That fucking rules. How do you do that?

Speaker 1 That's why that was, I spent a lot of time in school doing that.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 trying to figure it out. Hank, one time we need to have like your former teachers on the show to interview them.
That would be

Speaker 1 interested to hear that.

Speaker 1 It would be great if. And you know what they would say.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he spent the entire class in

Speaker 1 the back of the room with his finger down his throat.

Speaker 1 It would be

Speaker 1 put on the list. You literally just put it on the list.

Speaker 1 It would be great.

Speaker 1 He's not putting his finger in his mouth. I'm flicking my cheek.
Yeah, he's flipping his cheek.

Speaker 1 It would be great if Jake got to, got, like, a big NBA gig and was like, well, there's one condition. Hank's coming with me.

Speaker 1 And whenever there's a big shot, he's going to have to do the sound effects. Or you can just pre-record it and they can.
No, no, no, no. I can teach you, Jake.
I'll teach you.

Speaker 1 No, it's got to be live. Yeah.
Has to be live. Fair.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Good. Let's get to our interview with Craig Robinson.
We got FAQs on the other end.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is Craig Robinson.
You may know him as Daryl from the office, but we know him as his new show, Killing It, out on the cock, April 14th.

Speaker 1 It's on the cock, right? Yes, sir. It is on Peacock, streaming April 14th, killing it.
Welcome to the office, man. Also, I should say, one of the smoothest voices in the world.
Well, thank you.

Speaker 1 How you doing today? Thanks, brother. I appreciate you.
I'm great. How about yourself? We're doing great.
We're doing great. So, killing it.
Thank you for having me, yeah.

Speaker 1 Killing it out on April 14th. We're going to run this tomorrow, so it'll be out the next day.

Speaker 1 The show is a lot of snakes. I saw that part.

Speaker 1 What do we say to people? So essentially, the show, the premise is a guy's going out. He's down on his luck and he's going, participating in a snake

Speaker 1 capturing chase for money. He's

Speaker 1 a security guard, a bank security guard turned Python hunter. Okay.
So yeah, he

Speaker 1 loses everything. He loses

Speaker 1 his car, burns up, loses his apartment,

Speaker 1 and he loses his job. And so

Speaker 1 he gets in this Uber. He's going after the American dream.
He really wants to start this salt palmetto farm, to sell these salt palmetto berries. And he hooks up with this Uber driver,

Speaker 1 and she's crazy, played by Claudia O'Doherty, amazing actress, comedic. And

Speaker 1 then

Speaker 1 hilarity ensues. And then he finds himself having to,

Speaker 1 well, he agrees to join this snake hunting contest.

Speaker 1 That's the elevator pitch. You're welcome.
I mean, I like it.

Speaker 1 Did you have to interact with real snakes? Yes.

Speaker 1 We had real snakes where the American Humane Society was on

Speaker 1 present every time we had those. We had fake snakes, and we also had the CGI, which blew my mind when I saw the CGI because I was like, well,

Speaker 1 I didn't work with that snake. How does it there? It was amazing.

Speaker 1 Do the snakes have names when you're working with them on set, like the ones that you're handling?

Speaker 1 They do. I didn't catch them, you know, because they had the handler.
Yeah. So he would,

Speaker 1 you know, show us all of that.

Speaker 1 But yeah, we just,

Speaker 1 we had a few days of those. You know, he's a real big snake guy, is Dwight Howard.
He's got like 25 snakes. Yeah, 25.
Oh, somebody, you know, they just told me he had 500. Oh, 500.
25. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I might be wrong.

Speaker 1 It's a lot. That's a lot.
He names one is a lot. So, yeah.
He has to earn their names. I have a long-standing theory that

Speaker 1 you can't trust anyone who owns a snake as a pet.

Speaker 1 And that's biblical. Like, the snake is...
Bro. Snake showed up on, what, day seven, and was and fucked everything up? Now Eve kind of fucked it up.
Yeah, but Eve fell for the snake's charm.

Speaker 1 But I'm saying

Speaker 1 it's a bad rap, though, sometimes. Snakes get a bad rap because of the Bible and Indiana Jones.
And when I met a snake for the first time, I ended up touching it. I was in Australia with my band.

Speaker 1 We was at this

Speaker 1 animal sanctuary. Ended up holding snakes.
And I was like, this is, the snake means you no harm.

Speaker 1 You've been afraid of these snakes

Speaker 1 for all this time just because you saw a movie movie or heard biblical stories. Yeah, they are scary.
I think the snake from the Bible gets a bad rap. He was just trying to spread knowledge.

Speaker 1 He was like, imagine,

Speaker 1 if we hadn't eaten that apple, there would be no TV show. There would be no

Speaker 1 killing Craig Robinson.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes, very true. But I do think that if you own a snake as a pet, it's like, why can't you just own a cat or a dog? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Those are totally fine. I recently held a snake on a talk show, and

Speaker 1 it was,

Speaker 1 I held a couple of them, but there was this one. It's called a corn snake, and it's the number one snake pet, and it's adorable.
And I'm thinking about getting the corn snake. No, adorable.

Speaker 1 If you own a snake, imagine getting tickled by a hot dog. Okay, that's not a good thing.
I'm just thinking about that.

Speaker 1 That wasn't something that was going to sell me. Tickled by a dog.
Think about it, McKeck.

Speaker 1 Just think about laying back, closing your eyes. So, like, a dog.

Speaker 1 I just heard myself saying that. Yeah, like a dog's unrequited love for you,

Speaker 1 loyal companion or tickled by a hot dog that's a tough one but the this if you own a snake it's like people own monkeys too you're just counting down the days until the monkey rips your face off or the snake gets lost in your house and you can't find it that's just gonna happen true that true that maybe

Speaker 1 but true yes i stress it with the monkey

Speaker 1 i i don't think the same way that like if you have a snake it's gonna attack you i just think that if you own a snake that's kind of pre-crime where a police officer yeah

Speaker 1 if if my neighbor owns a snake, I'm just going to call 911 on him. I'm going to be like, something's going to happen eventually.
I want you guys to be close by. Pre-crime, he's a snake guy.

Speaker 1 Look, Tom Cruise on that ass. Yes, yes.
Minority report, right? Speaking of getting tickled by hot dogs, that's actually a good segue.

Speaker 1 I want to talk to you real quick about Sausage Fest, the movie that you. Sausage Party? Sausage Party.
Excuse me. Yeah, Sausage Party.
Sausage Fest.

Speaker 1 That's a different thing. Different thing.
Well, it's pretty similar. Like, Sausage Party,

Speaker 1 the supermarket orgy scene in Sausage Party. Yes.
You were Mr. Grits.
You did the voice of Mr. Gritz.
Correct. That's maybe the most disturbing piece of cinema that I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 Bro, you know, I haven't heard the outtakes or the extras, but if there are extras and if Mr. Grits is in those extras, we should find them.
Because the things that we were saying...

Speaker 1 that didn't make the movie, oh my God. Yeah.
Forget about it. So they get you in the booth and they're just like, okay, you're participating in a giant orgy with other

Speaker 1 snack foods.

Speaker 1 They grease you up a little bit. No,

Speaker 1 you go in there, yeah, and you just act a damn fool.

Speaker 1 Exactly. That's fun.
Yeah, that's the most fun you can have at a job.

Speaker 1 How often, is it getting annoying that people are like, hey, Daryl, all the time? Nah, nah. You like it?

Speaker 1 I mean, I know it's coming from love. And, you know,

Speaker 1 I do like it because

Speaker 1 you get

Speaker 1 like sometimes people you never expected some foreign dude, you know, right. Look like he's all to himself.
He's like, Oh, office, you know, so it's like, it's, it's amazing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so it's uh, it's pretty dope. And, you know, if I, if I need to disappear, I can do all that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, it is, it's kind of a weird, like, I would imagine there's sometimes there's like, hey, I do, I've done a lot of other things, but then you also, on the flip side, you've, you're part of one of the most iconic TV shows of all time.

Speaker 1 I'm very grateful, man. It's, it's, uh, it's like having friends everywhere you go, you know, so it's, it's all good.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I, I do have one bone to pick with the office, with your character on the office. Maybe you can help me out on this.
Talk to me.

Speaker 1 What was it exactly that you're in Jim's company actually did? Because I couldn't figure that out. Athlete.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You worked in a house.
That's the answer. Athlete.
Yeah. We lead athletes.
And then you hang out with athletes too sometimes. You hang out with them.
You sign them. Uh-huh.
And you lead them.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you lead them. I like that.
That actually takes no idea.

Speaker 1 Different than some agents. Yeah.
I just got the script. I was like, okay, we're doing this.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, it's, yeah.

Speaker 1 What's your favorite episode that you were part of? Oh, man. Let me see.

Speaker 1 Great question.

Speaker 1 I think, you know, when I told Mike he had on lady clothes. Yes.
Yeah. When you got to do a scene with Steve Carell, that was just like Christmas.

Speaker 1 And the fact that I was in so many scenes with him in that one was,

Speaker 1 you know, it blew my mind. It blows my mind.
I'm a part of it. Yeah.
So to, you know, go in there and go toe-to-toe with Corel was

Speaker 1 a good look. And I saw that you did comment not recently, maybe a couple years ago, that you would be in if they did a reunion.
Do you think that's ever talked about?

Speaker 1 People

Speaker 1 tell me, but I never hear anybody from the castle, but I'm just waiting to hear Greg Daniels speak on it. If he speaks on it, then it'll be real, then we could cross that rope.

Speaker 1 On the surface, I'm in. Yeah,

Speaker 1 bar would be so high, but I think everyone would, like, jump at, you know, I would be so pumped. But yeah, you have to get the right, you know, the writers correct.
And

Speaker 1 I'm sure there's a billion stories that if they were to do it again,

Speaker 1 you have to do it like a special or like a movie. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We've had Brian Baumgartner on the show a couple times. He kind of gave us like a little bit of insight as to what the secret life of Kevin might have been behind the scenes because

Speaker 1 you've probably seen some of the theories out there. There's just some crazy shit.
Super fans of the show. I have not.
They dive. Well, some people think that Kevin was like a secret genius.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's like, you know, he's an expert poker player, but he's also dumb as shit when it comes to doing accounting. Did you have it? Like, what was the internal motivation that you had behind Daryl?

Speaker 1 Did you come up with like your own backstory or were you just like, I'm Daryl? The beauty of Daryl is actually like... What Daryl says is what he means all the time.
Right, right. Like, no nonsense.

Speaker 1 But did you have anything like in your head that was your own backstory at all? Or were you just like, I'm going to show up and do it? I probably did at the time.

Speaker 1 I don't know anymore.

Speaker 1 Because there's always a backstory. But

Speaker 1 I don't remember. I just

Speaker 1 don't remember. I feel like I'm letting you down.
No, it's okay. I mean, sometimes those super fan theories are just so far out there.

Speaker 1 Is it just Secret Life of Kevin or do they do other people? I'm going to look it up right now.

Speaker 1 I'm going to Google Reddit Theory Daryl Office. We'll see what happens.
There'll be something for sure.

Speaker 1 You've worked a lot with Seth Rogan. Is he as high as he seems? No.

Speaker 1 Really? I mean, he likes to get high, but

Speaker 1 I don't think he's as high as

Speaker 1 I don't see him high a lot. Yeah.
What was your favorite project you worked with? I loved Pineapple Express. That was one of my favorite.
I love it too. Fool's still won't.
I love it.

Speaker 1 You know, this is the end was

Speaker 1 pretty dope to be a part of. We were in New Orleans for like two and a half, three months.

Speaker 1 Did that kill you? Because we actually, we just came back from New Orleans. We were there for the final four, and I said that being in New Orleans for four days felt like 40.
Bro, I was there just

Speaker 1 for shooting, killing it. I was there from mid-October to mid-February.
And, I mean, and I didn't have any alcohol. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 How? I don't know. I just, I was like, I'm not drinking.
I would be dead if I, because between the food and the schedule,

Speaker 1 it would have been a problem.

Speaker 1 It's a city unlike any other because it's like

Speaker 1 not only the culture, but the food. And then we were joking, like, I got back and I was like taking my son to school.

Speaker 1 And I was like, man, I wish I was just drinking a beer standing in the middle of the street with like a, you know, like fresh off a bowl of gumbo. You know, it's super dangerous down there now.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like super dangerous.
Like my car got stolen. My rental car, you know.
Just like. What happens when a rental car gets stolen? You know what? I don't know.

Speaker 1 They didn't tell me if they found it or not. You just called and you're like, hey, it's gone.
Can I get another? Pretty much. But no, you had to go get a police report.
Yeah, yeah. Turn that in.

Speaker 1 And then about two weeks later, I got another car. You just gave me a great business idea.
What? Just continually rent cars and be like, hey, it got stolen again.

Speaker 1 Let me get another one.

Speaker 1 Then you drive them all to Mexico and sell them. Give me another.
Give me another.

Speaker 1 I think that's pretty flawless. You're welcome.

Speaker 1 So the first time I remember watching you was in Knocked Up when you played the doorman, right?

Speaker 1 That was a really good use of a cameo because it was short, it was sweet, but I remember watching and being like, that guy's funny. That guy's naturally funny.
Was that all scripted out?

Speaker 1 Was there any improv to it? It was a lot of improv.

Speaker 1 Essentially, though, the top half of the monologue was Appleton written, and the bottom half was

Speaker 1 we had improvised some stuff.

Speaker 1 And then it gave me a huge shot of confidence because I was throwing stuff out there. And then, you know, they'll say, they'll tell you to get something again for safety.

Speaker 1 And then Judd was throwing my lines back to me. He's like, oh, pregnant bitches.
And I just can't handle all pregnant bitches running around the club. So,

Speaker 1 yeah, that was definitely some

Speaker 1 heavy improv going on. Yeah, it was great.
It showed like a little bit, like you were being very funny, but also there was like a little bit of emotion coming from the doorman.

Speaker 1 Nobody ever thinks about how the doorman thinks. Right, exactly.
Yeah. Nobody does.
I got a dumb question. So you've done a bunch of commercials.
Pizza was one of them.

Speaker 1 Do you just get to eat free pizza when you're there? I think we got some coupons coming. But no, no.
I want to do a video where I'm like, hey, I'm going to see how this Pizza Hut works out.

Speaker 1 And then I walk up and they're like, yeah, $8.99. Yeah, right.
Doesn't matter that you're in the commercial. Good for you.
$8.99. So they don't, like, I just assume.

Speaker 1 They take good cameras. Okay, because I was going to say, I assume I sh you show up to a Pizza Hut commercial and it's just Pizza Hut all day.
And that's...

Speaker 1 I guess you have to work, too. That does happen, yeah.
Because you're doing, you know, takes. So you got to eat the pizza.
But yeah, no, no, Pizza Hut, I'm fine with it.

Speaker 1 And I think they are giving us some coupons or something, but they could go either way. That's fantastic.
Yeah. I'm glad they're taking care of you.
I don't want that.

Speaker 1 I don't want that relationship to sour at all. However, I was dismayed is maybe too light of a word when I ordered the triple treat box, which you were promoting.
You know what I'm going to say?

Speaker 1 I heard there was no levels. It doesn't come in the drawers.
Oh, my God. What the fuck? That's why I ordered you.
That's on you. Somebody treated you on you, Chris.
Somebody tweeted me.

Speaker 1 Like, what the fuck?

Speaker 1 I have no idea. I have no idea

Speaker 1 what goes on with that. Because watching you in the commercials, you've got the thing, and it's got the drawers.
It's drawers. And it's the triple treat.
And I'm like, I want that.

Speaker 1 Craig looks so happy eating out of the drawers. And then it's drawerless by the time it shows up.
I was very disappointed. I don't know what to tell you.
And I did bring it to their attention.

Speaker 1 Okay. I hope it works out.

Speaker 1 That would actually make me very happy if you fixed that problem.

Speaker 1 Finally had drawers.

Speaker 1 I told them I had an idea for doing a commercial where, like, oh shit, like you,

Speaker 1 like, you see a brick go through a dominoes, and I'm like, no, and I'll piece the hut, and then I drive off.

Speaker 1 I like that. Yeah, yeah.
You kidnap Papa John? Yeah. Oh, the kidnapping.
Oh, that's a whole other level. Yeah.
Papa John would probably be down. Just beat the shit out of Papa John.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 There'll be a lot of people like, yep, that makes sense. Exactly.

Speaker 1 So you mentioned your band. Are you still touring with the band? Yeah, we got a show May 4 at the Troupador in L.A.
Part of this Netflix comedy festival thing. But

Speaker 1 absolutely, man,

Speaker 1 we get out there when we can. It's actually been

Speaker 1 a while between gigs.

Speaker 1 I've been busy. They're busy.
But my band is beyond fantastic.

Speaker 1 Everyone has their own band in the band. We're like a...
a supergroup that comes together like Voltron or something. So do you, like, if you had to pick,

Speaker 1 not saying you have to pick, but like acting or music, which one is like your true power?

Speaker 1 I would go with the band. Yeah.
I had to go all the way. I feel like most musicians are people who have musical ability who do other things.

Speaker 1 Like PFT is a great guitar player, and I bet you if it's like, hey, you could trade all this to be like in an all, like, you know, top 10 band. Forget about it.
I'd probably trade all the time.

Speaker 1 I'd turn it all just if you're a bad person. I understand.

Speaker 1 Go for it, dude.

Speaker 1 That would be sick. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The song,

Speaker 1 the Dunder Mifflin, the People, the People Persons, Paper People. That is a jam.

Speaker 1 that's not have you thought about taking paper yeah can you sing it just stock there's friendly faces around the block break loose from them chains that are causing you pain call michael and stanley gym the wine and creep call andy and kelly for your business paper at least call the the me flip people persons paper people

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I think that have you ever like considered just changing the words to it not being about a fictional paper company and just making it into a hit? I have not. I think it's good enough.
Wow.

Speaker 1 It's so smooth. Yeah.
I'd agree. Why not just keep it like it is then? Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 1 This is me trying to

Speaker 1 organize a whole like people want the office to reunite because they want to go back in time to feel the way that they felt about it the same time they first watched it.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm doing with that song right now. I want to go back and listen to it again for the first time.
Do you have your act here?

Speaker 1 I do have a guitar down here. Oh, is it acoustic or acoustic?

Speaker 1 Bust it out, out, man.

Speaker 1 There you go. Shoot.

Speaker 1 Why not?

Speaker 1 What do you want to sing? Purple Ring. Oh, you went right to like expert mode there.
What do you want to do? Oh, one of the best songs from the best artist of all time,

Speaker 1 real quick.

Speaker 1 Why not?

Speaker 1 Got to put it on him there.

Speaker 1 Who would you say are your favorite artists of all time?

Speaker 1 Wow, man. That's deep.

Speaker 1 Good deep. Michael Jackson.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Michael Jackson. Prince,

Speaker 1 James Brown, Marvin Yay.

Speaker 1 Sam Kinnison. That's a pretty good fucking list.

Speaker 1 Are you searching how to play it? No, what key do you want to play it in? Let's go be flat.

Speaker 1 Be flat.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Have you ever played Purple Rain? I have a long time ago.

Speaker 1 Do you need the lyrics?

Speaker 1 Limit calls you into sorrow.

Speaker 1 I never meant to cause you any pain.

Speaker 1 I only wanted one time to see you laughing.

Speaker 1 I only want to see you laughing in the purple rain

Speaker 1 Purple rain, purple rain

Speaker 1 Purple rain, purple rain

Speaker 1 Purple rain, purple rain

Speaker 1 Only wanna see you, baby, in the purple rain

Speaker 1 That's beautiful. Yes.

Speaker 1 That's beautiful. I mean, that was off the top.
That's fucking sick. That was thanks, bro.
Thanks.

Speaker 1 Nice skills there. I heard a little funk, bro.
I mean, you picked it in beat flat, which is tough to do and make it sound nice and open.

Speaker 1 You know, couldn't play any open chords on there. It was a little high for me, too.
I was like,

Speaker 1 I mean, that was fucking awesome. You do have a smooth voice.
You have a gift. Yeah.
I appreciate it. Get it from my mama.

Speaker 1 So I don't know where to go from that because we never had someone just, you know, drop a perfect rendition of purple rain on our face.

Speaker 1 What do you like doing better? What do you like doing better? Live action shit?

Speaker 1 There we go. Animated stuff.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Well,

Speaker 1 they're both like, you know, it's like choosing between your kids. But the animated, man, you get to do a lot of...

Speaker 1 You know, you get to go big and go crazy.

Speaker 1 I got this movie coming out April 22nd called uh the bad guys and it's like tarantino for kids man it's pretty dope wow tarantino for kids yeah and i got a stupid character named mr shark and he he's the master of disguise so it's like

Speaker 1 it's uh it was stupid it was so much fun to make yeah but then the live action you know

Speaker 1 that's this whole that's a whole nother beast it's just two different beasts um so a serious question for back to the office real quick like in terms of your career and what it did for like the trajectory of your career, because, you know, reading a little about you, it wasn't, you weren't like someone who was day one, you know, like 16 years old doing stand-up comedy.

Speaker 1 So, what, what did it do for, like, was that the moment where you're like, okay, this is actually now a career. Now, this, I was part of a hit.
I was a very likable character on a huge TV show.

Speaker 1 Like, did that catapult you? Yes, absolutely. The office is,

Speaker 1 I would consider that my

Speaker 1 big break.

Speaker 1 I was on a show before that called Lucky that you probably haven't heard of, but it was John Corbett and Billy Gardell, myself, and John Corbett was a gambler.

Speaker 1 I actually do remember that. Yeah, it was on FX.

Speaker 1 And we had, it was, dude, we had, I'm talking about, we were

Speaker 1 talking about Critics Darling.

Speaker 1 I had

Speaker 1 like 30 clips of newspaper things or whatever that it was like lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky.

Speaker 1 Everybody loved it. And then I forget how it happened.
Some kind of politic happened.

Speaker 1 And we got canceled after one season but uh that was a huge beautiful lesson because I didn't save a dime from it I was just ready for the second season and then I got uh uh

Speaker 1 Billy Gardell called me hey man

Speaker 1 no no I think Mark called me first my manager right here he said hey man they canceled the show and then uh the the two got uh Rob and Mark Cullen who are the the brothers who uh

Speaker 1 who wrote the show. Hey man, they're letting us go.
And by the time Billy Gardell called, I was like, I got it. But I was holding on to my shit.
I could not believe it.

Speaker 1 But I was at a party for, okay, so it was The Shield, and then Lucky came on, and then there was the show, Nip Tuck. So we went to the premiere of Nip Tuck.

Speaker 1 President of FX looks at me in the eyes and go, you got nothing to worry about.

Speaker 1 So I'm like, it's on. Now that's when I felt like

Speaker 1 I made it. That's when I felt like.
So then once that happened, ever since then, I haven't had that feeling. I always feel like the bottom could come out at any time.

Speaker 1 That's, I mean, that's actually a blessing in disguise. A super blessing because now I don't spend money.
Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Is there a show that you've worked on where you thought it was going really, really well? And then you watched the final version.

Speaker 1 You're like, this didn't turn out the way that it felt in the moment. No, but that would be my act, my comedy act.

Speaker 1 Or like a certain joke sometimes. No, the shows,

Speaker 1 it's hard, man,

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 you get on a show, and it's so much good morale. Everybody's like, oh, this is good.

Speaker 1 It's always positive, you know, and then you get out there, and sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't. So

Speaker 1 it's hard to tell. I just go in, do the best work I can, and keep it moving, man.
Do you always watch the stuff that you do? Or is it just it's done? I have not always.

Speaker 1 I try to, you know, but there are some things I have not seen. I have not seen the full movie Walk Hart yet.
Oh, really? Would you believe that? That's a great one. That is a great one.
Good.

Speaker 1 There you go. You don't have to see it.
I will be checking it. Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 1 The gods is.

Speaker 1 We got to see, I guess, how it, you know, debuts and people stitching it. We need people to watch it.
We need people to watch it, watch it all the way through.

Speaker 1 Whether you love it or hate it, if you love it, wonderful. If you hate it, watch it anyway.
Just let it play on the air. Yeah, just like just queue it up and let it play.

Speaker 1 Leave and go somewhere.

Speaker 1 You got a pet snake at home. You got dogs at home.
Just turn it on and leave. What about if people have snake phobia? Should they watch it? Maybe those are the people that turn it on and walk away.

Speaker 1 I get it.

Speaker 1 Some people can't watch because of that.

Speaker 1 It's not so much.

Speaker 1 So many snakes all the way through and all of that, but that is the center of it, but it's not. It's hard to explain.

Speaker 1 Have people actually reached out to you and been like, dude, I support you, but like, I can't watch you. I tweeted that they could, I love Craig Robinson, but I can't look at the snakes.

Speaker 1 So that's a perfect case of just turn it on and walk away. Turn it on and walk away.
Yeah, just keep it running.

Speaker 1 And tweet that you watched it. And tweet that you watched it.

Speaker 1 It's, you know, people are going to do what they want to do.

Speaker 1 They want you to do the elevated pitch. They want you to come out and say, why should you see this? I don't know.

Speaker 1 We have fun making it. It was very challenging.
I loved every minute.

Speaker 1 And and it's it's got some great moments and I you know I hope y'all enjoy it yeah yeah I need a new TV show so I'm in awesome it was a pleasure jamming with you likewise brother thank you yes thank you all very much thank you so much we appreciate you stopping by appreciate you getting the word up

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All right, let's finish up FAQs.

Speaker 1 Hank.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 Give it to me one more time.

Speaker 1 I love it so much. You want another one I would do? I don't know if you're going to be able to hear this.
Yes, please. But this would get people going.
The many talents. Oh, my back hurts.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. I have seen you do that before.
I guess you love yourself. You're cracking your fingers, right? Crack your neck.
Oh, man. Look at that.

Speaker 1 Oh!

Speaker 1 Fun stuff. I feel like the bubble one would be appropriate for a free throw.
All right, Jake. A single

Speaker 1 learn how to do it first. Yeah, no, I think that's a three.
Okay. Yeah.
Splash. Yeah.
It's a wet sound effect. Okay, I'm wrong.
Implying that the jumper is wet. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 You got that?

Speaker 1 That's basketball.

Speaker 1 Nice.

Speaker 1 Hank's lashing at Jake knows ball. Hank nose ball.
What's up, Coach K Killer, Mr. Commenter, Honk, Billy Pigskin, and Jake? How often are you guys recognized out in public?

Speaker 1 Is it just at sporting events, or do you get recognized in normal places as well?

Speaker 1 Sporting events are normal. Like, I'm thinking through my head of when I go out in public the most.
It's like sporting events are sports related is probably number one. It's two things.

Speaker 1 One is when we're going somewhere that everyone knows we're at, it's obviously way different.

Speaker 1 Like when we're in New Orleans for the final four, it's like non-stop, but that's also sports and people know we're there. In terms of like regular just walking around i don't know i

Speaker 1 probably like i walk like a like six blocks to from from the train to to the office maybe once maybe once

Speaker 1 like that's the average is like one time a day when i'm walking that walk my favorites are when i i ran into a guy yesterday actually that um i was out on the trail and the guy holds up his phone as i'm walking past him and he's like i'm listening to you right now i always like that when he's actually got part of my take playing while they see me.

Speaker 1 That's always good. One time, actually, I was at a restaurant and this girl came up and she was like, hey, are you post-Malone?

Speaker 1 That really, that really set me back a few. It is nice to get recognized because our fans are the best.

Speaker 1 So the only time it ever, I mean, we've said this before, the only time it ever sucks is when someone tries to take a picture without saying hello.

Speaker 1 Then you feel a little bit like a zoo animal, but that very rarely happens. Usually it's just a, what's up, what's up?

Speaker 1 And then that's you know fun or sometimes people will ask me like a construction site by my house the dudes will ask me for a pick and I think I'm like 0 for 7 on picks I've given them so I stop walking that way

Speaker 1 I mean memes is just continuing to troll me he's he picked these oh no FAQ will hank return to full participation in upcoming Mount Rushmore season or is he still butthurt about pizza toppings

Speaker 1 hashtag double olives oh I forgot about that yeah I mean I'll be back you guys ruined the sanctity of the you know competition forever. It was awesome.
So,

Speaker 1 again, I feel bad for the listeners, but yeah, it's after

Speaker 1 July, yeah.

Speaker 1 I have a motion for this year's Mount Rushmores. I think that we should do them.
Yeah, what? No, no.

Speaker 1 What? Okay.

Speaker 1 Every year you have a motion that's we shouldn't vote. No.
And then, but go ahead. No, we can vote.
I'm just saying we do it the Chicago style where you take the names off.

Speaker 1 Okay. And it's a big reveal act.
I mean, it's.

Speaker 1 That works. I don't really worry about the voting.
Well, something like that. Yeah, I mean, once you guys cheated, it's like the whole system is broken.
You guys broke the catalog.

Speaker 1 But don't even worry about the voting. Who cares about the voting? I know, I literally don't care about the voting.
But every year you come up with a rule that tries to change the voting.

Speaker 1 Hank cares very much.

Speaker 1 No, I'm done. See?

Speaker 1 You guys broke my will to care.

Speaker 1 That's actually put that on our resume. Are you ever

Speaker 1 June 19th? So that'd be like. All right, June 19th.
That's huge.

Speaker 1 Killed Coach K, broke Hank's will to care. Are you ever going to? I also made him a suit, which congrats on the promotion president of Barcelona Sports.
Thanks. You fired.

Speaker 1 What's Dave like as an employee?

Speaker 1 You fired. Are you ever going to have Tim Woods back on for more D ⁇ D? Absolutely.
Absolutely. I see that.

Speaker 1 We're just now getting to

Speaker 1 a little bit of a slower time. The footballs from September to the end of March Madness is chaos.

Speaker 1 Now we will get to do, we have a couple, like, we have some weird interview we're doing next week that should be great. Um, so yeah, we're gonna start doing some different interesting things for sure.

Speaker 1 I always loved him.

Speaker 1 It's not just the uh, the actual act of playing Dungeons and Dragons, just his personality in a room is kind of like it's rejuvenating. Yes, makes me feel like there are good people in this world.

Speaker 1 Effervescent? Effervescent, positive. Yes.
Can you just read the Ray Allen tweet again? Yes, no problem. It's, well, I know most of it.
It's, I'm getting there.

Speaker 1 picture me hold on let me yeah you don't want to you don't want to ruin it i don't want to ruin like that would be trying to quote shakespeare all right i'm going to intro i'm going to introduce you

Speaker 1 and now big cat reading tweets the ray allen tweet where he talks about the clitoris i'm getting there

Speaker 1 wait

Speaker 1 I'm actually getting there. Alright, I'm getting there.

Speaker 1 When you masturbate, think about my tongue or your clit and switching back and forth from my dick to my tongue i just i want to have him on just to ask him like it it would be so awkward because i he we think about this tweet far more than he's ever thought about no i i actually don't i think if you fire off

Speaker 1 you think about it all the time every now and then you just can never it might be cathartic for him because he he could actually probably have spoken about it he could help me with what i'm dealing with um let's see if he's is he on twitter still?

Speaker 1 He might not even be on Twitter. That would be legendary if he just deactivated it.

Speaker 1 I'm looking Ray Allen right now for people, and there's no verified Ray Allen's, so he might have just been like, I'm out, I can't.

Speaker 1 No, it's like I think it's like Sugar 20 or something.

Speaker 1 I would love to have Ray Allen on, and it would basically be

Speaker 1 all questions about that. I can't find him.

Speaker 1 Hi, Fit Cat.

Speaker 1 Fit Hank. Oh, no, this is funny.

Speaker 1 Hi, Fat Cat. Dude, he deleted his Twitter account.
FitHank and Perv FT.

Speaker 1 Get it? When the heck are you guys going to do another 24-hour stream? Never.

Speaker 1 We should do one.

Speaker 1 No, never.

Speaker 1 Well, so this year we're combining training camp and grit week, so it's going to be in August. Maybe we do one in May? Maybe we do a 24-hour stream in May.

Speaker 1 This is

Speaker 1 Hank's got to know that. I had fun.

Speaker 1 I think we should do it. I can do it.
I'm just not drinking a beer an hour. Yeah, no, you don't have to do that.

Speaker 1 I'm not eating a hot dog an hour. That set me back to the business.
Billy will be running a marathon again. He'll be running two marathons.
One of the most impressive things he's ever done.

Speaker 1 It really was. But yeah,

Speaker 1 we're not going to guarantee anything. We're not going to commit to anything, but we'll talk about it because that was fun.

Speaker 1 It was just guys hanging out. Remember when you guessed that card? Yeah.
Buster Posey. That was a highlight of my life.

Speaker 1 I mean, some of these questions, I don't know. This is.
Memes.

Speaker 1 What's the the most difficult lesson you've learned while building bar stool slash PMT?

Speaker 1 The most difficult

Speaker 1 game, memes, nice try, memes.

Speaker 1 That was A-Rod, actually. Trying too hard.

Speaker 1 Sometimes we learn that if you try too hard, you just burn out. We got to think of the macro versus the micro sometimes when you're developing a show like this.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Just consistency. Consistency.
Be consistently fucking stupid. I would say.

Speaker 1 Oh, the hardest lesson.

Speaker 1 Oh, I guess, I guess, one of the hardest lessons is you just got to eventually get to a point where you realize that there's just going to be people who don't like you.

Speaker 1 That's hard to deal with when you start, especially like early barstool when it was very small and it was like it felt like, you know, everyone was in on like the joke.

Speaker 1 And then it's like you get bigger and bigger. It's like, all right, some people are not going to like you from the outside.
Some people aren't going to like you from the inside.

Speaker 1 Some people listen to this podcast and probably hate us and they just hate listening.

Speaker 1 And then they, you know, comment all day about how much we suck but it's just like getting over that and being like your opinion doesn't matter uh because it just doesn't anymore it is weird to get to that point because there's it's human nature correct to read what people say about you and then when uh there's enough people that say negative things and if you're a show that that has a lot of listeners it's just natural that there will be a significant amount of people that might not like what you say or disagree with you or don't like you personally or whatever and it's it's very um it goes against everything in your body to be able to not listen to what they have to say correct it took me probably like about two years to get to the point where now i literally don't care um if somebody has constructive criticism that's completely different and that's valid but you have to like be able to differentiate between the two and i sometimes i wonder are the people that comment on twitter different from the people that comment on Instagram and the people that comment on Reddit.

Speaker 1 It's really weird. Like Twitter is the worst.
Twitter's useless. I think think Twitter is agreeing.
Twitter's the best. Yeah, I think Twitter's not bad.
I think Reddit is like, you can't find

Speaker 1 a podcast, show, anything that doesn't devolve into we just don't like this anymore, like critiquing it because that's a platform. That's the nature.
Like, and I don't even hold it against anyone.

Speaker 1 It's like, if you comment on something and consume it for long enough, you're just going to poke holes in it. It is what it is.
I think most the people commenting probably still like it.

Speaker 1 No one wants to read everyone and be like, these guys are the best over and over. That's just the nature of the internet.

Speaker 1 You can't, like, no one's going to be like, oh, let's read an entire thread about how much these guys rock and how funny they are. It's just not going to happen.

Speaker 1 Would you listen to this show if we were talking about the NBA, for example, and we thought every player was good? Yeah. Because guess what? Every player is pretty good in the NBA.

Speaker 1 They're pretty damn good. For the most part.
Except LeBron Coach Killer. Yeah, an NB'd.

Speaker 1 Hank, what was your corporate Hank? You've gone from literally an intern to the C-suite at this.

Speaker 1 Not true.

Speaker 1 I would say

Speaker 1 Emperor of Barcelona Swear. I keep promoting him throughout this show.
Thankfully, I

Speaker 1 got publicly roasted and my entire life broken down when I was like, you know, 20, 21 years old. And

Speaker 1 I had to get over

Speaker 1 people

Speaker 1 shit on over and over and over again. And I had the like,

Speaker 1 if you care, like, you're not going to be able to work here. So I, thankfully, have been over that for a long time.

Speaker 1 And I feel like, you know, it just doesn't, even nights like last night, like, I've had so many of them, it just doesn't, it's, it's embarrassing, but like, I don't, I don't lose sleep over it.

Speaker 1 It goes back to the first question that we did with FAQs about getting recognized in public. People are mean online.

Speaker 1 They just are because they can be faceless and they don't have to like stand behind anything. They can just be mean.
I've never had a single bad interaction in person.

Speaker 1 No one has ever come up to me and been like, you fucking suck. You know what I mean? It just doesn't happen.
So that's how you kind of just gauge your life off.

Speaker 1 It's a sliding scale. And it's like, that's one bad thing, but there's a million good things.
Like, who cares? There was one guy at LSU. I was never going to be awesome.

Speaker 1 I was walking around before the LSU Alabama game, and he just goes, Hey, PFD. I looked over and he goes, You suck.
But I was too drunk to care. I was like, Okay, respect.

Speaker 1 I like if I was getting booed going to restaurants, I think I'd probably be like, Oh,

Speaker 1 something bad's happening. Uh-huh.
But that hasn't happened yet.

Speaker 1 You just show up, and everyone just starts heckling you.

Speaker 1 That's actually a good question, memes. That was a good question, memes.
Is that it? Yeah. Okay.
Are you good? Are you sure that's it?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm fine.

Speaker 1 Can we get one more wet sound?

Speaker 1 All right. Numbers.
Numbers.

Speaker 1 Six. 25.

Speaker 1 By the way, a hippo can eat 150 pounds of grass in a single night. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 About 150 pounds. Okay, thank you.
Holy fuck. Clarification.
That's a lot.

Speaker 1 22.

Speaker 1 90.

Speaker 1 90. 90.

Speaker 1 I like it. strong number

Speaker 1 well to be sixty-nine.

Speaker 1 Oh, I love every second of that

Speaker 1 thirty

Speaker 1 love you guys

Speaker 1 talking away as Though I don't know what I'm to say, I'm saved anyway.

Speaker 1 Today's ain't not the day to find you. Shy it away.

Speaker 1 No, I'll be coming for your love. Okay,

Speaker 1 shy it away.

Speaker 1 No, I'll be coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 1 Take on me,

Speaker 1 take

Speaker 1 me on.

Speaker 1 I'll be gone

Speaker 1 when I drain all change.

Speaker 1 Needless to say,

Speaker 1 I won't say it's about me, so a little worry.

Speaker 1 So they learn the time is okay.

Speaker 1 Say after me.

Speaker 1 It's got better to be safe than sorry. Say after me.

Speaker 1 It's got better to be safe than sorry. Take on

Speaker 1 me.

Speaker 1 Take

Speaker 1 me on.

Speaker 1 I'll give gone

Speaker 1 in a day or two

Speaker 1 of the things that you say

Speaker 1 just to blame my worries away.

Speaker 1 You're all the things I'll start to remember. You shine on me,

Speaker 1 lovely coming for you anyway.

Speaker 1 You shine on me,

Speaker 1 lovely coming for you anyway.

Speaker 1 Take on

Speaker 1 me,

Speaker 1 take

Speaker 1 me

Speaker 1 up,

Speaker 1 I'll be gone.