Ja Morant, Stu Feiner, Suns In 4 And Joey Chestnut Is The Goat

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Today is Wednesday, July 7th. Suns in four.
Suns in four. Suns in four.
Actually, Suns in three now at three now it's gonna happen sons in three more yeah it's it's gonna happen my my analysis of the game comes down to this uh Giannis was not as injured as we were told that he was because just from the start he went out there and he was the most athletic player on the court well I actually am totally fine with Gianice being put into the adrian peterson club

of the people that just don't have knee ligaments or regular bodies that are anything like the human body because he was so injured and then he wasn't and i don't know what happened in between but it's just janice because he's a freak um i do actually want to do one thing though pft because we got to talk about the Suns in four. But because of the way the schedule broke, I feel a little bad for Bucs fans because Saturday they clinch their first NBA finals in, I don't know, it was like 40 years or something like that.
July 4th is Sunday. Monday is July 5th.
No one's really working July 5th either. And then you get thrown into the Valley and you lose Game 1.
You had no time to enjoy the fact that you're going to the NBA Finals. You had no time for people to digest the Eastern Conference Finals.
So I want to do that for the Bucs for one moment before we talk about how the Suns are going to win this series in four. Chris Middleton was incredible in game six.
Drew Holiday was incredible in game six. I'm proud of the Bucs for basically handling business when I thought maybe the Hawks, I didn't think Trae Young was too injured to play.
Like he was, he gutted it out, but he clearly wasn't himself. But the Bucs deserve all the credit for getting to the NBA finals, going through the Eastern Conference Finals.
I know there's been injuries along the way, but we don't apologize but the Bucks deserve all the credit for getting to the you know NBA finals going through the Eastern Conference final I know there's been injuries along the way but we don't apologize for those when you're a fan of a team so credit to the Bucks credit to the Bucks fans here's your moment if we had a show on Monday unfortunately we're already talking about the fact that the Suns are going to beat you in four okay yeah I mean I'll pretend like we didn't have a show and're right. They didn't get a chance to tune in to get up and hear Mike Greenberg talk about how great the Bucks were and how impressive that performance was.
That's the best part of your team advancing in any sport is like we've said before, you get to read the articles you get. You, those Bucks fans should be allowed to go to work.
If you don't live in Milwaukee, you should be allowed to go into work and just stand next to a water cooler and pretend that game one hasn't happened yet. Correct.
And just berate the Hawks fan that you know, or like a Mavericks fan or a Clippers fan and be like, ha, you guys going golfing early, huh? That's a shame. Like you need that chance to bust your coworkers balls a little bit.
So I will allow our listeners, if they're in that position, a one-day pass. Yeah, it really sucks how it broke out for them because it never happens because the NBA Finals are never in July.
And guess what? July 4th, everyone's talking about America. They're not talking about the Bucs.
So you missed all of Sunday. And Monday was a total wash as well.
So Bucs fans, feel proud for yourself. You should get your moment in the sun.
This is your moment. We're saying it right now.
I really do. I was legitimately very impressed with how they finished that series because they always say closing out a series is the mark of a good team, not letting teams linger around, not letting it go to seven games.
Chris Middleton, that legacy quarter he had, he's had a lot of legacy quarters, but was incredible so I Bucks fans there's your moment I feel bad that uh and you know this is a long series I'm not going to overreact to game one but Suns in four is just really fun to say and when the Suns win game one guess what Suns in four leads the show I I will overreact but Kat I'll take that bait I'll say Suns Suns and Four, Suns and Three from right now. If Chris Paul plays like that, there's nothing you can do.
The only thing I was thinking, if I were trying to devise a defense to stop Chris Paul, the only thing I can think of is what I hear smart people say when they talk about basketball, which is they either are or are not switching enough on screens. So whatever they did in this game, you need to do the opposite of switching on screens of what you did tonight and that should shut chris paul down so that's my analysis of the game dude i bobby portis bowl for life but holy shit he had that stretch where chris paul cooked him like four times in a row and i i want to give bobby porter some credit because he did the thing that you have to do when you're in the middle of getting fried on national television or if you're playing in a pickup game, the same exact thing that has to happen, you then go down and take a really bad shot just hoping that you'll make it so everyone will be like, well, now it's Chris Paul versus Bobby Portis.
They're going back and forth. He missed the shot.
It was a bad shot. But I respect the fact that he had to take that shot because everyone knows when you get burned multiple times, you have to shoot the next possession.
You have to try to even the score so in your head you can be like, all right, he's got six, but I got two. It's not as bad as it looks.
But Bobby Portis, it was actually criminal that he was left out on island with chris paul in those moments like i felt very bad for him if he had made that shot then you know mike breen's like a couple alpha males going right at each other yeah right oh man we watched two greats battle it out there's another way to get out of that and that's just fake an injury if you're bobby portis i think i probably would have gone for the fake an injury route after the the time where chris paul he did the josh allen thing where he mashed all the buttons yes with the ball but he went between both legs behind the back i think with both hands threw in a couple crossovers it is absolutely roasted at that point like he's a witch this guy is doing witchcraft right now i can't be expected to defend against that i'm I'm just going to fake, oh, I got a hamstring. That's a shame.
Happens to all of us. And Chris Paul was obviously incredible.
And the Suns, though, they had all their big three playing pretty much their peak performances. The only thing you could say is Devin Booker was not great from three.
But Chris Paul had 32. Devin Booker had 27.
and then DeAndre Ayton threw in a 22 and 19. He was all over the place.
You can't beat them if all three of those guys are playing that way. That's where we land.
Suns in four because of that. Big four, big cat.
Campaign played pretty well tonight, too. Also, Frank Kaminsky had four minutes.

Didn't record a stat, but he had four minutes.

Hey, guess what?

You know what?

Everyone who's making fun of Frank Kaminsky for not beating up Pat Beverly,

even though that's what I saw,

if Frank Kaminsky had fought Pat Beverly there,

he wouldn't have been able to play those four minutes tonight.

He would have been suspended.

And so, wait. So, he had four points, right?

No, he had four minutes. Oh, four minutes.
Okay. Yeah.
Yeah, that's fine. Yeah.
Who knows what would happen? Those are big minutes. What was his plus minus? Zero.
Okay, perfect. So he helped you tread water for a little bit.
Yeah. He had a four trillion.
Okay. I love it.
But the most important thing, Big Cat, is that he was out there for his teammates tonight yes exactly the only other thing i had for this game i the sun's crowd that is the coolest crowd of all time like that's what i'm saying they that is a party that i one would never get invited to but if i did get invited to everyone would be like look at that cop over there and i'd feel extra fat like I'd walk in and all of a sudden I walk through the door and my shirt it feels way tighter and my tits are bigger because that crowd like half of the crowd I don't even know if they know a basketball game's on they're just partying so fucking hard and having such a great time I just love it like they all look like they've just been toasting in the sun maybe a little bit of ecstasy and then just ball out with the boys you're right with the suns crowd they seem awesome they seem like the greatest group of fellows to ever watch a game with and i they just remind me kind of a los angeles crowd if like all the laker bros were really into bmx and dirt bike racing and there were just not enough good tracks in LA. And they like to do designer drugs a little bit more.
Then they move out to the desert. And, and those are fun guys to party with.
And it's definitely the look of a crowd that is just thankful to be in air conditioning. You can tell that like more than anything, if you get 30,000 people from the Phoenix area in a building that has a moderate climate, they're just going to go nuts because they're comfortable.
It's actually a great point because going from the summer heat all day into air conditioning is actually the greatest drug ever created. It really does change your entire mind psychology.
That's not the right words. It's late.
By the late by the way check in it's almost midnight so my brain's not working but it is the greatest drug ever so you're exactly right and then on top of it they're probably doing drugs i i don't know my la um like towns very well so probably people will roast me for this but it's like if the lakers played all their games at Long Beach. I think I nailed that.
Okay. I think I nailed that.
I'm going to say it's as if everybody from Bakersfield lived in Kauai. Kauai? Is that the island? Yeah, the island of Kauai.
Oh. The island of Kauai.
Okay. I can see how that might be difficult to comprehend because there is a player named kawaii yeah yeah and he does like living in his mind would probably be the absence of thought yeah you would just feel like you're in the matrix at that point right um last thing on this game uh we did get lebron's tweet after the game one down three to go cp3 i'm just at this point i'm excited to see what lebron's instagram post is going to be like after the suns win the championship i'll just say it right now if the suns win lebron should get a ring absolutely should get a ring absolutely cp3's best friend lebron is putting this team on his back big cat he is willing the sons to an NBA championship I wouldn't be shocked if LeBron gets on one of the floats yeah like just to be there yeah yeah like he'll basically like he shares enough business connect he's basically Chris Paul's manager so you usually invite like your managers or your reps your PR guys they get to hang out during the par, LeBron should be there.
He should get to drive one of the funny little cars. Yes, yes, absolutely.
All right, so other things we're going to get to. The match, it happened.
It was bad. It was good, but it was bad.
I like the idea. They shouldn't have done it.
I don't know how far out they scheduled these. But doing it on the night of the NBA Finals, I watched the first six or seven holes.
It was like, okay, now there's a real sporting event going on, the NBA Finals. I watched long enough, though, to realize that Bryson came with all these jokes, and he ran out of them in the second hole, and Phil Mic Mickelson just had to carry the whole crew because Aaron Rodgers is a little surly.
Tom Brady, like I think he's kind of he's got some jokes, but then he runs out as well. Phil Mickelson is all it was.
He's the guy. He's the guy who makes the match go.
And he gets all the credit in my mind for being just like fun to be around. He even did the he tried to a bet with bryson and bryson like couldn't understand the concept of it which was very funny and also my favorite moment was uh when brady was like deep in a sand trap and phil mickelson was like yeah it's pretty straightforward you're just gonna like hit it out of this it's like phil you're one of the greatest like sand trap players of all time and you're just just like, yeah, dude, just, you know, just swing the club and it will go towards the hole.
And then we'll putt it and we'll be going on to the next hole. Yeah, Bryson definitely rolled up with like a Google Doc just filled with everything he wanted to get off his chest.
And at the end, he did save one. He saved one thing for the very end, which was he wanted to make a San Antonio joke to Charles Barkley.
And he was able to squeeze that in. He almost forgot because he was approaching the last hole.
And you could tell that, like, okay, if they make this putt, they're going to win. He was like, I need to get this one in under the wire because this was the one piece of gold I want to save.
But, yeah, he was ready to go with, like, he had his little had his knee slappers. And I was rooting for the course personally.
I don't know about you. It was a beautiful course.
Beautiful. I was hoping that Bryson was going to get eaten by a bear on live television.
I mean, I thought, like no joke, I'm not even kidding. If Bryson DeChambeau had been killed and eaten by a grizzly bear during the match, that would have been the funniest thing that's ever been played on television.
And Aaron Rodgers wouldn't have tried to save him because they were not like friends and they were not really friendly at all. And the other great moment was Gronk calling in and in perfect Gronk fashion, he like didn't realize that when he called in, everyone everyone could hear what he was saying and he made like a comment about Aaron Rodgers retiring and then Aaron Rodgers like what was that Gronk and he's like oh I didn't know you were on the line it was like of course Gronk doesn't understand this concept but overall I you know it was good I just wish they should have played it in the middle of the day on Monday when there was stupid Rob Manfred didn't have any baseball games going on and everyone was like, hey, there's no sports on.
Play that. That's when it's a great concept.
It just needs to be played when it's not up against any other real sport because I just won't pick the match over a real sport. Well, they definitely scheduled it a long time ago because this in their minds was going to be when there was you know you get a little break from sports for a couple weeks in mid-july so they they thought they had that scheduled out perfectly but turns out that because of covid and all that stuff everything got mixed around um but yeah it it was it was fun it's like fun hearing phil mickelson talk shit because he's like so naturally good at it.
You can tell that like he all this stuff is just like how he normally acts, even when microphones aren't on. And maybe he's not dropping as many C-bombs as he normally does.
But it's definitely stuff like this is how Phil acts just all the time. That's why they call him Fig Jam.
The fuck I'm good. Just ask me.
That's his actual personality, like 100 percent to a T. I back to the course just real quick, because the the mountains in the background, you could I realize you can put mountains behind any sporting event.
And it makes it so much cooler to watch like when they play that Thursday night game or something out in Utah during football season, and you get a glimpse of some mountains, mountains in the background of anything. I mean, shit, the last two two seasons of yellowstone sucked but i watched every single episode of it because it might be shitty dialogue but you're in front of like the most beautiful scenery in the entire world so i i probably watched the match longer than i normally would have if it was being played at that like last course in florida or south carolina or whatever was.
I like I like sporting events with mountains next to him.

Yeah.

No, I mean, it's it's why the Rose Bowl, those little mountains, they're like foothills, but there still are, you know, mountains.

And that's part of the allure of it.

So you're you're absolutely right that Aaron Rodgers looked like he was very happy in Montana.

I tweeted out during the match, but I think speaking as a football fan, if Aaron Rodgers decided that was his last competitive event in the history of his life, I think us as fans would applaud him, and he doesn't owe us anything more. And next stop can't.
So I just want to get that out there. Incredible career.
What a way to it too as a win on a win people don't finish their careers on wins they they hang on too long Aaron Rodgers is walking off a winner right now so congrats to him on a great career I was gonna say like you got Peyton Manning winning Super Bowl riding off into the sunset John Elway doing the same I think and then Aaron Rodgers winning the match and no longer playing football after that where do you there's nowhere to go but down at this point and really you upstage Brady like Brady can't retire a winner right now if Brady wanted to retire sure he won the Super Bowl or whatever that was but he lost the match right right exactly um all right a question for you, PFT. It's the Roback question because I forgot to do it in the interview, so I'm going to do it right now.
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Bryson's weird. That's actually the question.
Bryson's weird, and I actually stand by what I said on Friday's show, that there's 5% of me, which won't come out often. Like you saw, I made jokes at his expense today and I will continue to do so.
But 5% of me will deep down feel a little weird for him or bad for him because he doesn't know how to converse. Like when they were busting his balls, he, you could see it on his face.
He just didn't know. He wasn't computing with him.
He didn't understand it. So that's where the, the, I feel bad for him.
So my question is, do you understand a little bit more what I was saying? My answer to you is yes. Bryson is weird.
Good question. He's weird.
He's a weird guy. I don't, I will.
I don't think I'll ever feel bad for him. I just think he's so, cause the personality that he puts out there.
Yeah. And everything that he's tried to turn himself into is in the image of a guy that does not give a shit what anyone thinks of him.
So if you're going to put that image, if you're going to gain like 30 pounds of totally legal muscle and act like you're like the big tough guy in golf and i hit bombs i'm the big

swing of nuts on the golf course um i'm gonna i'm gonna have zero remorse when it comes to telling

you that your hat sucks so no i'm not i i will never feel i will not apologize big cat i will

not apologize for making fun of bryson dechambeau ever i'm not asking you to i'm just saying hurt

people hurt people so when i see bryson he's. And that's why he hurts people by being a weirdo all the time.
I don't think he's hurt because bears can smell weakness. And if he was actually hurt, a bear would have killed him on the course.
I would have laughed, but then probably felt bad about him being mauled to death. So I take back what I said earlier.
I will feel bad for Bryson if he dies via the paw of the grizzly bear on television. I also have no problem people calling me soft for that take, but it's the truth.
I just, again, I'm going to keep making fun of him. 95% is a lot.
That's the 95% that's going to keep making fun of him. The 5% is just deep down every now and then I might just pump the brakes on it and be like, okay, I'm not going to make fun of them this time.
5% of the time. Should we talk a little soccer? It is coming home, even though this might be a terrible jinx because England does play against the team of destiny today.
But that Spain-Italy game was electric. The Euros are just electric.
I just love watching soccer in the middle of the day it's the perfect like warm-up for other sports at night yeah no Italy looked really good today and that dude Chiesa my guy Chiesa he's gonna be he's the next goat like we might be seeing a torch event happen in the next year two years where Messi passes that torch Chiesa is a beast had an awesome shot awesome score I just love the italians because they look so italian everybody on the italian national team when they cut to them you you could be wearing a neon yellow shirt and i'd be like that motherfucker is italian they all they all hit that like real juicy prime spot that i'm looking for and so it's uh it's it's fun to watch that sounded weird The second that I said, it sounded weird about the juicy prime spot, but I'm going to continue with my thought that I actually do love the look of really Italian, Italian people, almost like looking at a cartoon. It's like, it's like I'm watching the Sopranos on a, on a soccer field, but I think it is coming home.
I think England is going to win. I think they're going to dominate Denmark.
And I think that Italy versus England on what, Saturday this week? Saturday. That's up in the air.
I heard somebody say it's coming Rome if Italy wins. So it's coming home versus coming Rome.
Basically, what you can set your watch to is the most heartbreaking possible exit for Italy. Excuse me, the most heartbreaking possible exit for England will happen.
And so now I think that that would be losing in the finals to Italy. I don't think that they're going to have any problem with Denmark because the guy, they're not really team of destiny.
The guy's alive. So thankfully, he's alive, but they're not bringing him out until the finals.
He's going to be in the stadium surrounded by EMTs in the finals. They should do that in the semis.
No, that's a carrot for them to get until the finals he's going to be in the stadium surrounded by emts in the finals they should do that in the semis no that's a carrot for them to get to the finals they can't let him down now he might die yeah yeah i don't know i don't i don't see it happening with denmark although they the uh players from denmark they all when they talk it always reminds me of morton anderson with that like crazy cool accent that you never hear yeah Denmark accent is very underrated. Yeah, no, they do have Team of Destiny vibes.
I don't know. I'm also rooting for extra time in all these games because it really does just bridge the gap.
You're watching a game at 3 o'clock. You're like, you know what would be sweet if this game lasted until like 545? And then there'd be more games coming on.
so just more of that in the sports calendar needs to happen where we just have games just stacked up on games so you never really have to like monday was the worst because there's were no games and you just sat there being like well what do i do now one thing i i really enjoy about the european soccer too is uh all the all the coaches dressed up in their

like finest suits and most stylish like skinny ties and stuff you'll you'll never see an american football coach wearing clothes that fit them and every single european football i'd call managers uh they all look like they came directly from the tailor out onto the field they're they're they're either bond villains or like,

uh,

like 80 year old guys that look like they came directly from the tailor out onto the field they're they're they're either bond villains or like uh like 80 year old guys that look like they should probably have died a long time ago and then you then if you like tweet their name and we're like oh you don't know about him he had the golazo of 1964 and they'll like tweet that at you and be like how could you not know this so yeah they're in the italy i think the italy manager was wearing jeans which i fucking love that yeah no you're right it's like usually a really old former player of the team that has like one last chance to secure his legacy as a coach right or else people are gonna be like you ran the national team into the ground so he's always really nervous about that last one but i have a question for you about england because we've been saying it's coming home which i still firmly believe it it could be coming home uh when did england become so likable as a country oh probably troops yeah he saved england he saved england yeah so actually no barstool saved england because we hired troops all right congratulations to us we say so world war one saved your asses world war two saved your asses megan and harry left barstool came in we saved your asses yeah i think also the crown that show on netflix people got really obsessed with that shit people get it's also because they they lost a lot and they lost very politely they like they hit almost a fast forward button on becoming lovable losers they became like english soccer fans became bill's mafia yeah just by by being so polite over the course of the years where they had these heartbreaking defeats that now you want to see them redeem themselves i also think that it's uh Like, fan base that can never get tan you kind of feel bad for them because they'll never get to like their peak hotness you know what i mean like you know when you what you look like in december or january when you're looking ghostly and it's like oh you see a picture like oh that's gross i need to get tan like you you have a peak level of your hotness and that is in the middle of the summer when you get a nice tan whereas england's like none of those people can get tan so they just are you know they're always at this level of oh whoa are you like can i put my hand through you like you look like a ghost i'll take it one step further i think if you live in england you're never going to be truly happy correct anything the entire island you can be you can have like some good stuff happen to you at work but at the end of the day like your job probably sucks it's gray outside all the time you're not ever going to be like really psyched in every facet of your life if you live in england so why not why not throw these guys throw the lads a bone every now and again and let them win a Euro? Think about it. You drink warm beer and eat beans every day.
Right. Life can't be good.
Life can't be good. If you can't get tan, you drink warm beer and you eat beans.
That's not a great, like, your peak is not peaking that high. No.
The thing you get most excited about in the world is watching her frumpy old mascot drag her corgis around on like asphalt sidewalk in the middle of downtown london and then everyone has to pretend to be happy about it this is this is a country filled with people who are uh generally polite regarding most things they're understated but it's because they know that like hey there's really nothing for me to be that pumped up about. So I'm just going to be quietly polite all my life.
And hopefully one or two good sports things will happen. And that's really the most that you can hope for out of any life.
And their accents are cool because like whenever an English person says anything, it could be the least funny thing said, but it's still funny. So they have that like it's it basically is the perfect mix where everything's shit for them, but every word they say seems funny.
So it seems like they're really cool. Like go with the flow.
Hey, at least I have my sense of humor about me type of people. And that's a good person to be around.
Absolutely. And I really want to see some English shows, put all their cast of characters together to whip up a video super fast in the next like three or four days.
Like I want to see the Peaky Blinders meeting down at their pub and like raising a pint to the British national team before the game on Saturday, before they suffer heartbreak. I want to see like all the British stars come out with, you know how they sometimes do that.
You rally around a national team and occasionally like this, give me the Peaky fucking blinders, like threatening to slice Italians eyeballs out with their know how they sometimes do that you rally around a national team and occasionally like this give me the peaky fucking blinders like threatening to slice italians eyeballs out with their hats before saturday that's what i want to say isn't that like season four yeah that's well that's every season they got some of them have horses and with adrian brody right that's right yeah yeah that is season four they should just play season four i may might not be season four but whatever season has adrian brody they just should play that last episode and be like, this is what we're going to do. Yep.
All right, so we're rooting for England. Let's do Who's Back of the Week.
Then we have John Morant, Stu Feiner. Then we're going to finish the show with a hot seat, cool throne, and a quick guys on chicks.
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Okay. What also is back is Vacation is back.

Hank, Liam, Jake, Billy, all on vacation.

A much-deserved vacation.

In their place, we have guest producers, which is exciting because we've never had guest producers here.

So we have Jake Lasofsky and Youngstown Bob, also known as Tongstown Bob, because he eats a shitload of pussy.

Right, Bob?

No, he's shaking his head okay so we're he he doesn't like that he likes it but he doesn't like it you know what i mean it's one of those things but uh he i heard different i heard he likes it i heard yeah you like tungst Ooh. No, and also you might know Youngstown Bob.
So Jake produces a lot of stuff here, but he does produce Jake Marsh's Enrico and Marty's college basketball podcast called The B-mocracy? No. No.
Incorrect. The B-mobs.
What is it called? Barstool Benchmob. Barstool Benchmob.
Are mob are you sure yeah that's the only podcast that does college basketball okay all right all right i agree to disagree and then young sound bob you might know uh from uh being my burner person so i have access to his twitter account and i tweet from his account whenever actually did you get suspended for that tweet i sent uh not yet i guess okay i said i think I said that I wanted the whistler from Vanderbilt to get a disease where he loses his tongue and his lips and can't whistle, but he has to stay alive and then dies. And I tweeted that from Youngstown Bob's account, so it wasn't from me.
It was from Bob. Bob, that's a really fucked up thing to say about a person.
Well, you're really talking about HPV right now. Yeah.
So the same thing that got his name michael douglas that's that's what you want to happen tongue's town bob you might be able to give us the good pointers i think that was a good use of the burner account by the way i just i just started up a brand new burner account um because i just i i had to do a different one i got sick of using the one that i had uh and too many people started to follow it so it becomes not a burner account so it's i'm just whack-a-mole right now on the internet i'm if i do it too often am i going to get my main account shut down no they can't do that i don't think so i'll start my my own okay um all right so let's do it who's back of the week jake lead us off because that's usually hank leading us off jake lead us off oh he didn't hit the mic that's okay Mike is on by the way I just wanted to say a little shout out to both Jake and Youngstown Bob for being here because they stepped up and we really appreciate it and also shout out your own Twitter accounts let's get some let's get some followers up right yeah all right so Jake the Italians are back obviously big week for them big win uh yesterday over spain uh late last week the trailer for many saints of newark dropped oh sopranos prequel and then also this weekend a big return for a italian that we know here hanging his jersey in the rafters for the third time yes rico bosco returning to d. So just an all-around big week for Italians.
I love it. I love it.
Are Italians having a moment? Dan Patrick's, or I mean, not Dan Patrick, what's his name? Danilo Gallinari? No, no. Mike Tirico is getting ready for the Olympics right now.'s, there it is.
That's big. There it is.

Yeah.

I think the Italians are having a moment.

It would be funny to think about what would,

what would happen if you were like going into audition for the role of

James Gandolfini's son in the mini saints of Newark.

And then you see like the other person that's auditioning for the role is

his actual son.

Right.

Yeah.

I'm kind of,

I think I'm kind of fucked on this one. Yeah.
Give it a old college try. All right.
Good job, Jake. Jake will also have a hot seat, cool throne.
So get excited for that. Youngstown Bob, which, by the way, this is the first time we've had a true blue Cleveland Browns fan on PMT, like producing PMT.
So that feels good. You want to give us, before you give us your who's back, give us a record prediction.
I'm thinking 11 wins, regular season, nothing crazy. Okay.
I have too many friends that think we're going to win like 14. They're insane.
Okay. Okay.
But I like that. I like that.
Did you realize you said 11 wins, nothing crazy for the Cleveland Browns? But 17 games. Yep.
Fact. 11 and 6.
6. 6.
There it is. 11, 5, and 1.
11 and 6. Okay, so Bob, give us your who's back.
Who's back is Vacation Hank. Oh, we're not supposed to make those jokes.
It's not a joke. He's on vacation.
That's true. That's not a joke.
That jank deserves a vacation he's on vacation that's a good point um do you guys did you guys take a vacation this weekend no i went home to cleveland for about like four days hell yeah i had to move jake had to move that's not a vacation not a vacation did you go to uh put in bay i did not but i saw eddie the day before he went yeah and that's a fucking scene yeah i've never been oh fuck all right we got to get you there um all right pft who's your who's back uh my who's back of the week is the reefer the reefer's back she carry richardson she was going to set the world on fire she was going to dominate in track and field got busted for smoking the reefer uh so she is not eligible she's ineligible to compete at at the Olympics. And I think she was also today officially left off the 4x100 meter relay team.
So she can't run the 100. She can't do the 4x100.
It's so stupid. It's funny how the World Anti-Doping Association considers marijuana to be a performance-enhancing is that's beating that's beating the final boss on advanced level like it once the once madden gets too hard and you finally have that like 17 and 0 season on all madden mode that's what she's trying to do just by smoking a little pot and then trying to run fast that to me is like the most impressive athletic feat of them all potentially the um it's been uh so many days since we had a show we missed some things but emmanuel ocho's tweet needs to be at least thrown out there for the takeies are coming up but he said legalizing weed and track and field competition is all good if you're running in a straight line legalizing weed and track and field competition is all good if you're running in a straight line.
Legalizing weed in track and field competition is terribly dangerous if you throw the javelin. Where do we draw the line? So he not only, like, he came across as a narc, a loser, and just really bad thinking all in one tweet.
And he's definitely never smoked because I don't know, like, I don't think think anyone's smoked have been like let me start throwing this javelin at people does he think weed is like heroin yeah no no he thinks weed is lsd so this is a it's a common trait of the mind of somebody that's never actually smoked weed is that you think that if you get high you see what you like if you're watching television you see somebody having an acid trip with the kaleidoscope eyes you see the world is basically an animated beatles cartoon if you take a hit of marijuana and uh so it's very clear that was it emmanuel ocho yeah or was it so emmanuel he's the guy that's doing the bachelor right no he's doing um he has a show with um who the fuck have a show with? But I think I, I think he was doing the bachelor Marcellus Wiley, I think. Okay.
Well, yeah, he's never smoked weed. Somebody give Emmanuel Acho a joint and then see if he can like actually show up on television to complete a sentence.
I want to see it happen. It's I get that it's a rule that you're not allowed to smoke weed and then compete in Olympic events.
So obviously she shouldn't have done that. And she even owned up to it.
She was like, yeah, I fucked up. I made a big time mistake.
But I just want to say, like, if you're actually high competing in an event, it's awesome. It's the coolest thing you can do.
Yeah, it's incredible. It's incredible that you were able to do that to make make the olympic team while high so yeah i don't i mean just center that why don't we have a high olympics oh my god yes absolutely 100 i would love to have the high olympics it would be hilarious you can get uh shakari richardson in an equestrian event riding american spirit yeah and people just be like, you know what we do is we get people just running out

into the field and throw javelins at them.

Yeah.

That'd be fun.

It sounds amazing.

What you're describing right now is American Gladiators, which I also think that they should

have in the Olympics.

Yes.

All right.

My who's back of the week is the one and only Joey Chestnut, the greatest athlete of all

time.

I think some people think I'm being facetious when I tweet this every July 4th, but I really do think pound for pound he is the greatest athlete of all time. Maybe you could say Secretariat, but I don't – no, I think – Joey Chestnut has won 14 titles now.
14. No one has ever won that many titles at anything.
They showed it. Rafael Nadal

has won 13 French Opens,

which is cheating because it's clay.

Joey Chestnut just ate 76 hot dogs

in 10 minutes. The only time Joey Chestnut

got beat was because

his fucking fiance broke up with him

a week before the competition.

He is the greatest athlete of all time

and I thank God every day

that I am alive on this earth at the same time as Joey Chestnut. Like, that's how incredible he is.
I think he goes, one, Secretariat. Two, Cousin Junebug.
Three, Joey Chestnut. And then four, the disc golf guy that hit that shot the other week.
I already forgot his name. But that guy is the fourth best athlete of all time.
You're right. It's amazing.
Year after year, it's death taxes Joey Chestnut. Yeah, he's a marvel.
And when he retires, 20 more championships down the line, I don't think we'll ever see another guy like Joey Chestnut. I don't think he beats everyone.
Do you see that? I don't know if you watched watched but there was this fucking guy who's talking all this shit and he got beat by like 25 hot dogs it was like it's not even in the same realm you're not even in joey chestnuts you're not on his block you're not in his city you're not in his state you're not on his country you're not on his fucking earth he is one of one one of a billion trillion joey chestnut's the greatest of all time I bet Emmanuel Acho would be like, if you just let me smoke a little weed, I could go out there and eat 100 hot dogs because of the munchies, man. Yeah.
Yeah. Joey Chestnut is absolutely he's a monster.
You don't tug on Superman's cape. I don't know why somebody would choose to talk shit to Joey Chestnut on the day that he goes out there every single year and does stuff that even he thought was impossible the previous year.
Yeah. The only other guy who is close to as impressive is, I think it's Badlands Booker, who chugged a gallon of lemonade in like 35 seconds and then competed in the hot dog competition.
And it was the perfect combo of like dudes and America rocks. What are we even doing here? I don't know, but it rules.
Yeah, it's a great celebration of Americana. Did I ever tell you about the time I ran into Badlands and Joey Chestnut at a strip club? No, I think so, but tell it again.
That's basically the entire story is I ran into them at a strip club. That's hung out i hung out with them for a couple hours and drank some beers actually they at the time i was there they ordered something like 10 or 11 beers each and then the next morning they were both competing in a corned beef and cabbage eating contest in savannah georgia on saint patrick's day and so they did that having gone out the night before and gotten absolutely mangled which

even makes me respect them more

as competitors they're like Lawrence Taylor

dude he Joey Chestnut

like parties he I remember when

I competed against him

which I will be saying that will probably be the first

line of my obituary

and I will also be very

upset if you know how

people make the videos like MJ competed

against plumbers if they put me in like

Joey Chestnut competed against plumbers

I don't know. And I will also be very upset if you know how people make the videos like MJ competed against plumbers.
If they put me in like Joey Chestnut competing against plumbers and it was me. But he after we competed, we were backstage and he's like, you're going to come to the bar with us.
I was like, what are you talking about, dude? I ate 12 hot dogs. I'm not going anywhere for the next week.
Like I feel like absolute shit. And he's like, no, you go back.
you take a quick nap and then the best part about it is you can drink so much tonight because you have that base and i was like you're not human you are not a human being so joey chestnut he is the goat i just need people to respect him more he quite literally is built different when people say that word gets tossed around a lot, Joey chestnut is built different,

plain and simple.

And people always say,

hang it in the Louvre,

hang this or that in the Louvre.

We should hang Joey chestnut in the Louvre.

Yes.

His intent as a person,

his intent as a person.

Yes.

Yeah. Like the bodies exhibit that you see where they like take out the

digestive,

they should have his entire digestive tract from teeth to butthole,

just nailed to a wall in the Louvre for the, for the rest of time so that we can all take our kids there and marvel at it oh man I love it all right let's get to our interviews uh we have John Moran up first we also speaking to John Moran I think are we doing a are we doing a card rip are we ripping cards we're gonna rip a pack buddy we're gonna rip we're gonna rip some serious packs we have a a new sponsor alert. Wait, I want to hear what Youngstown Bob's new sponsor alert sound is going to be.
Here we go, Bob. I don't know what that means.
Do you just, when we have a new sponsor, do a sound. Hank, do a sound.
Oh, yeah. Oh, hell yeah.
I like that. Yeah.
All right. Oh, yeah.
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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is NBA superstar.
I'm going to call you a superstar. John Morant, he has a documentary out called Promised Land.
It's on Crackle now. It's free to stream.
It's about the rise of john morant uh reigning nba rookie of the year so uh thanks for joining us we appreciate it i do feel like we're part of the real media because you're sitting with the backdrop of the grizzlies like press conference room what are you doing at the facility what are we working on summer? Because I know that's a big thing that everyone says,

he's got to work on this, got to work on that.

What's the John Morant 2.0, 3.0 for year three?

I'm here to work on everything, in the weight room and on the court.

Love it.

I like it.

One thing I think that we as journalists need to do a better job of,

and maybe just the NBA in general, their statisticians, is keeping correct track of your statistics. Because I feel like you get hosed sometimes.
I know that you've talked about this before, but my favorite part of your game is when you throw up a lob pass and they accidentally count it as a shot, but it's actually really just a pass. Or you throw it off the backboard? That goes against your field goal percentage.
And I feel like we need to figure out a way where you can let people know that, hey, I'm passing this ball, I'm not shooting it, so you can get credit for a few more assists here and there. Have you thought about that? Definitely.
Obviously, you know, I can't control that. But me and my teammates, you know, my bigs have that connection to know when I'm, you know, doing it.
Obviously, it's just having the ball drop right in front of the rim for him to, you know, be able to finish it. Yeah, I think maybe if you say, like, as you're passing it, if you say dime, as you're putting it up there, we can go back, we can review the film and make sure you get credit for that because every assist counts yeah i need all my assists and my field goal percentage higher yep you actually need uh our friend kirk goldsbury has a stat you have uh your team scores the most when you miss in the paint of any other team 11 of the time when you when you miss in the paint, your team scores off that rebound.
So that should count as an assist, too. Should count as two if we've been honest.
Okay. Yeah, now we got, all right, this is a good way.
We're juicing up the stats. You will win every single award because you'll have like 30 assists a game.
Would you consider would you consider yourself part of the float goat uh revolution in the nba all these guys young guys with unbelievable floaters of course um i feel like you know it's something i've been working on something you know that allows me to uh you know not absorb you know a lot of contact you know just stopping you know right before the defender and just shooting the floater in. I feel like I shoot and make floaters at a high level, so I should be in that category.
I like it because it does feel basketball has evolved over the years and obviously the last five years, people taking bombing three-pointers and efficiency and you've got to either either shoot it at the rim or you got to shoot a three-pointer. But I think the floater might be the answer to, like, the lost art of the mid-range jumper.
The floater is the new two-pointer that's most efficient. I feel like both, you know, just analytics and numbers, you know, say, you know, those shots aren't efficient.
But as you can see it's a lot of people you know in this league who you know use floaters or you know pull up tools and you know make them at a hot level so how much do you listen to guys on the analytics staff or people who put numbers in front of you how much is it like finding the balance of hey i'm just going to go basketball versus oh this is actually good knowledge i gotta try to implement this in my game i actually don't listen to him at all there we go really just going out there and playing my game perfect that's a perfect answer i appreciate that a lot i feel like that's something that it could be useful like the coaching staff could figure out ways to put you in good positions,

but you don't want your players.

Like I don't want any basketball player thinking about a number while they have

the ball in their hands.

You know, like I want it to be, it should be second nature.

You should, yeah, a good shot is one that goes in.

That's what I always say.

That's the only thing that matters.

Yeah.

Lamb counts as two.

You had a quote.

We love this quote.

You said your dad was your first hater.

Is he still a hater of you? A hundred percent. I think when I run rookie of the year, his message after was, good job, you still suck.
I mean, it ain't too much I can do, you know, to make him say something positive. Yeah.
Has there ever been a time when you've done something, he's surprised you? He's been like, son, I'm really proud that you just accomplished that. Yeah.
Like just my two seasons, you know, right after this season, he was like, you know, I don't do this, but I'm proud of you. And then start laughing.
So I would imagine he's also featured a lot in the docuseries, which again is out now, promised land. You can check it out on Crackle.
Is he a featured player in the docuseries in your relationship with him? Yeah. We got, you know shows our relationship, shows how he played a part in my basketball career.
And he was a pretty good basketball player too. He played with Ray Allen, right? Yeah, he was.
I'm going to call him trash though since he called me trash. Yeah.
I mean, you should just, every time he calls you trash, you should just play him one-on-one and wipe the floor with him. Yeah, he won't play me no more.
You know, I beat him last time. We had this, you know, kids versus adult game, and I hit the game, went on him, and he won't play me no more.
Do you remember the very first time that you beat your dad in one-on-one? Nah, he, once I, you know, got a little taller and, you know, more athletic, Like, he would never play in one-on-one? Nah he once I you know got a little taller and uh you know more athletic uh he would never play me one-on-one but when I was younger he would but he just pulsed me up and was just laying the ball up so I couldn't do too much. Yeah so he just decided he would quit he would stop playing rather than have you whoop his ass every time.
Yeah he ran from the smoke. Uh talking about another hater you probably don't remember him but we have a co-worker marty mush who you actually said uh appreciate the extra motivation after you won rookie of the year he said if you watched uh that game i think this is talking about a game in the bubble if you watch that game you can't tell me that john moran is good doesn't look for teammates late in the game and can't hit big shots, sad that people can't tell the truth.
He said you would never win Rookie of the Year. He's a big Duke fan.
So does it, like, do you actually get motivation from random people online? Yeah, I get motivation from Goofy. That's a, some crazy stuff.
He is a goofy guy. He's very goofy.
And he actually had to shave his head because he won Rookie of the Year, but he didn't even shave his head right. That's how goofy he is.
Yeah. He can't use a pair of clippers.
He should have just shaved it right down the middle. Yeah.
Reverse low-hub. Just continue being the goofy guy.
Yeah, I mean, so how much of that also, and I would imagine you get into it in the docuseries, but how much of, like, being a guy who was overlooked by the major programs fuels everything that you've accomplished right now in the NBA? Do you still have that chip on your shoulder? Why didn't all these big-time programs come calling? Yeah, I still have that underdog mentality. Where I'm from is the reason I play with this chip on my shoulder and, you know, not receiving, you know, any recognition and, you know, being overlooked, obviously just, you know, added more to it.
So I still, you know, take that in this league and play, you know, like that underdog. Were there any teams like big programs who hit you up and was like, hey, you could walk on or, hey, well, you can play can play for us but you can't get a scholarship like anyone who is truly like how how could you do this like i'm clearly good enough to play at division one and higher um no i feel like if they did that anyway i probably wouldn't have responded yeah um if i had offers so i ain't got time to ain't had the funds to pay for no college why do you think why do you think that was that you didn't get recruited by those schools it seems stupid in retrospect doesn't it like i know you probably had the confidence in yourself all along but was there like was there something about your game that took longer to develop than maybe other players that were your same age no i just honestly if we've if we've been honest, I just felt like, you know, everybody was just, you know, riding the same wave.
So if it was a player that had been talked about, everybody was just focused on them. Because it was times where I played against, you know, top players who had almost every D1 offer and would have like 30 and win the game.
And, you know know they wouldn't do nothing and still no offer so

honestly I don't know what it was maybe they just didn't like me but um I'm glad you know Murray State you know offered me that scholarship and you know helped me get to this point maybe your dad talked to the coach it was like hey my son sucks don't offer him like don't worry about it he cannot cannot play at all. Probably so.
You played with Zion for one year at AAU, right? So what was the worst you guys beat a team? I would imagine it was pretty easy. Man, it was plenty of times where we would win by 40-50.
And it wasn't many, we would lose a game either. So that tells you that.
I would imagine, like, playing AU with Zion and throwing him lobs was pretty goddamn fun. Pretty easy, too.
He made me, you know, look good. All you got to do is just, you know, throw the ball by the rim and, you know, he go get it and, you know, do what he do.
Did you guys ever break a backboard nah I don't think so been to rim something like that we we missed that about the old NBA we missed the the age where you could just tear a rim off a backboard yeah no I don't think we ever uh broke a rim but I'm pretty sure um it was times where a couple of those rims was mad at Zion, for sure. Do you feel like at this point in your career, especially the last few months, it felt like on any given night you could go out there and be like, you know what, I feel like getting 40 tonight.
And you could just go out and grab 35, 40 points. Do you feel like if you're in the right headspace, you have the ability to do that on any given night? Yeah, of course.
You know, I have that confidence. You know, I know I'm capable of it, but, you know, I'm just a team player.
You know, I put myself as, you know, a real point guard. You know, I pass first, you know, make sure I get everybody involved.
But it's also, you know, you have to, you know, read the defense. So if they're trying to, you know, take my teammates away, then I know I have to score more.
Has Grayson Allen ever accidentally tripped you in practice? Nah. But ever come close? Like, have you ever looked at him like, hey, dude, that was close.
Like, I know what you're thinking. You wanted to trip me.
Nah, nah. I don't – I mean, I don't look at, you know, Grayson as, you know, one of those players.
But if it happens to, you know, anybody, I'm riding with him. Okay.
That's a good teammate. That's a great teammate.
Has he tried to get you to slap the floor on defense? If he tell me to, I will. You have a lot of Duke guys on your team, right? Like there's – isn't – Three.
Yeah. Tyus Jones on the team.
Like I – oh, Justice Winslow. Yeah.
Yeah. I hate all of them, so.
We have those, you know, battles, but, you know, we got some – two Michigan State, two Gonzaga. We got Oregon, UCLA.
And Murray State. Yeah, Murray State.
I love that. But, yeah, we all know Murray State would have beat all of them.
Yeah, absolutely. What was that like when you were in college? Your last year there was just insane, the numbers you put up.
Everybody knew John Morant was going to come out and he was going to take over the game. They had to throw some pretty crazy exotic defenses at you, like box and one or triangle and two.
Did you ever, what was the, what was the weirdest defense that they ever tried to break out to stop you in college? I have to say Alabama. You know, as soon as I crossed half, they just ran two people at me to trap me to get the ball out of my hand.
Still end up with 38. So it ain't work too much.
I love it. One more question about the docuseries.
What made you want to do it? Because it feels like some people will be like, hey, you're only year two. Are you going to redo it again in five years when you win an MVP? What made you want to do it right now? Really just to be able to tell my story, go deeper into my journey.

Obviously, it was many years before I got to the league that plays a part in this documentary.

So being able to just tell how I went from a small-town kid to the number two pick to winning rookie of the year.

You couldn't dunk until your senior year of high school. Was that, do you remember your first dunk being like, holy shit, let's go.
I'm ready. Yeah, it was my 11th grade summer going into my 12th grade year, my senior year.
And we used to have like, you know, some runs at my high school and uh my whole 11th grade year you know i was just trying to dunk but i couldn't um and then you know got to that summer um i you know threw a lob to myself one time and then got me a little rim grazer dunk in and from then on it you know just got even worse you feel like it was a lob to yourself was your first dunk? That's pretty badass. Yeah.
You know how you just, you know, throw it up, let the ball bounce. Yeah.
Yeah, I had to make sure the lob was perfect, like right by the rim so I can just. Put it right over, yeah, sneak it right over.
Did you feel like a changed man when you hit the ground after that? Yeah, you know, I let off a scream, like, finally. And, you know, you get a lot of confidence after that, and I tried to dunk again a couple times after that, and it didn't work out too good.
So I just had to hang it up. I'm curious to know about maybe one of the best landmarks in America, one of my favorites certainly, the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee.

Have you had a chance to go there?

It looks like the most magical place on earth.

Nah, honestly, I haven't had a chance to, you know, go there.

It's kind of tough for me.

I just can't, you know, live a regular life and just go out in public.

They should roll out the red carpet for you, though.

They should put you on your own little boat.

They have a lake inside that thing.

It's crazy.

I might have to check it out, man.

Highly recommend.

I can't swim, though, so I need a life jacket.

Is the beef officially squashed between you and Andre Iguodala?

I don't beef with nobody, man.

I mean, you guys are beefing. Somebody beef with me, they beefing by themselves.
You just happened like, you definitely helped out with the, I mean, it was a story, what was it, a couple years, or was it last year? When he sat out, you know, and then everyone goes crazy on Twitter. I mean, it's fun, it's entertainment for everyone who everyone who's watching you know everyone who's an nba fan i feel like also is a fan of nba twitter and and and you know guys being a little more outspoken do you not care when people come back at you and stuff like that like i i love the outspokenness no i don't at all um and then i'm you know speak my mind my mind as well.
So, I mean, if you say something, then I, you know, I say something back, then you check it how you want. You just let me know, you know, what you want.
Okay. So no beef right now with Andre Iguodala, but also kind of beef.
Nah, I ain't beefing with him. What if he said, like, I'm currently in a beef with John Mor morant would you reciprocate the beef or would you just be like you know what you can beef me all you

want i'm over here i'm gonna beef myself uh he'll be you know just beefing by himself okay okay okay

um i had one last question uh so the memphis throwback jerseys love them the the old vancouver

grizzly jerseys do you guys play better in those jerseys because i really think you have to

Thank you. So the Memphis throwback jerseys Love them The old Vancouver Grizzly jerseys Do you guys play better in those jerseys? Because I really think you have to, right? Yeah, those jerseys are kind of tough You walk in the locker room And you see those jerseys in there You get hype Me, I feel like You look better, you play better Yeah, I really think that's true.
I mean, it's obviously not like it doesn't change that much. But if it's a little bit, like a percentage-wise, you know, 1%, 2% playing better just in looking in those jerseys, those jerseys, you should wear them all the time because I am convinced you guys play better in those jerseys.
Yeah, for sure. We got a couple of tough jer jerseys and you know in the collection yeah um my last last question for you just curious like so you got you've accomplished a lot right you've got uh your docuseries coming out you've got uh rookie of the year you've you know checked off a lot of boxes what is do what are your goals for the next three years do you have a plan like this is what to accomplish? Really just, you know, win a championship.
I feel like, you know, if I do that, you know, everything else will, you know, fall in place. You think if you win a championship, your dad will be like, hey, no offense, but I love you.
Yeah, he probably would. You know, the I love you part, you know, he says that, but it's the on-court stuff.
Like, proud of you, you know, all that. He probably would be hype and then it would be like, you still suck, but congrats.
Yeah, I want to see you win a title just to see how your dad can spin zone that. Your dad would be like one of those burner accounts online.
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Okay, here he is, Stu Feiner.

And now for something completely different.

Okay, we are now welcoming on a very special guest, one of our closest friends.

A living legend.

A living legend.

He is a living legend.

It is Stu Feiner.

It has been four years since we've been out at Casa de Feiner, compound we're back out here for a pmt field trip day i don't know when we're going to run this but uh i wanted to start stew just to get in the mind of stew finer because there's people that like probably have don't really know you from the pmt audience because it's been that long but how did you start your day give me the exact like what because we walked in here at 11 o'clock and the first thing you said is you want to rip a bowl so how how did you start your entire day um what time you wake up woke up at 5 30 okay uh peed yeah went back to sleep um then i woke up at quarter to seven and took my blood. What? Every day I prick my finger to take my blood because my diabetes, type two.
I didn't know you were diabetic. Totally out of control.
My numbers are between 180 to 400 a day. But you swing back and forth, though, because there are times where I've seen all your posts when you're training for a marathon or doing some heavy like some heavy cardio and you look like you're real thin, like unbelievably skinny.
Well, I have the ability to lose 50 pounds and go cold turkey. But now that marijuana is legal, I have failed.
All right. So you wake up, you take your blood.
I would love to see you. Do you have a crash? I would.
No, never. OK.
Yeah. I was going to say, what would that look like? I eat sugar I eat sugar.
I'm not a diabetic, even though I am a diabetic, and I take medicine like I'm a diabetic, and I know I'm a diabetic, but I don't acknowledge it. So I live in a...
Wait, wait, wait, wait. I want to follow you through the garden of your own brain on this.
You just said you have... I'm going to die, and I want to be dieting what I want.
Fuck the world, fuck the doctors, and fuck my medicine. Okay, that's fair.
And where does 15, 15, 30 come in? When do you start? Well, I mean, specific. Oh, where does that come in? Meaning what, today? Did I eat my wife's ass? All right.
Yeah. I mean, I'm curious.
When you're asking the question, with evolution of it, or how did it happen, or what? Yeah, let's go macro on it. Like, when did you decide 15 30 the 15 minutes eating ass 15 minutes licking clit 30 minutes fucking when did you decide that that was going to be like a part of uh of everyday life for stew fighter well when i you know god's stopped my growth in seventh grade and i ended up having a six inch dick claiming to have a 10 inch dick bam bam you were bam bam i was bam bam surreal strength surreal strength Surreal strength.
But the six-inch dick claiming to have a 10-inch dick. Bam Bam.
You were Bam Bam. I was Bam Bam.
Surreal strength. Surreal strength.
Surreal strength. But the six-inch dick can stay hard and come on command.
Okay. Wait, on command? On command.
Not now, but in my 30s and 40s, yes. 20s, yes.
The surreal strength. I actually have that as one of the things I wanted to bring up.
Yes. Should we do it now? Yes.
Can you tell the whole Steve Mihalik story?

The entire story, because it was one of the funniest clips of all time.

And I want the whole backstory.

How'd you meet him?

How'd he die?

Did he die in your backyard?

No, he didn't die in my backyard.

So, working at the 7-Eleven right here in 10th grade. Which is what year? 1977.
Okay. And less than a quarter mile away, he has a gym called Mr.
America's, which is right there. Like if you were able to just go through walls and through people and bathrooms and sewer holes and everything, you could go right to his Mrica's gym so like it was about 10 000 square feet in farmingdale on hempstead turnpike and it was one of the top gyms in the country at the time and it was around probably since 1974 and steroids and just mass bodybuilding yeah lou fred no on a schwarzen, everybody.
Everybody was there. Everybody was there.
And they would just bench and shoot massive amount of weights and just walk around like mean and angry and work out like 20 hours out of a 24-hour day, throw people through plate glass windows. So anyway, we got a job working there in this nice, hot, very me mellow environment so my job was to stack the refrigerator with juices and then in the bathroom pick up the syringes and throw them in the in the garbage how many syringes do you think you would clean out on like an average day 60 okay so none of this by the way is hyperbole just so everyone knows um so anyway um we worked out in his gym you were never allowed to talk to steve or to the people that work there i read a story that steve moholic there's like legendary no no you could once he once beat a guy up because he thought the guy was stealing his strength by looking at him no i saw fights that it was really like disturbing like thank god i worked for the place that was dishing out the fights otherwise i would never come back the rest of my life you know i mean it was murder you know like people died there's no way you get in head with with with barbells kicked in the face

10 people you know multiple times thrown through plate glass windows left for dead on the concrete

car coming putting a body in a car. Five times I've seen that.

Is this a movie or is this real life?

76, 7, 8, 9.

No, this is 70s babies.

So what was it like?

Was the protocol when there would be a fight inside the gym?

Everybody looks down.

And understanding, let the two of them handle it?

No, no.

No, it was always Steve Mihalik and his crew beating someone up mercilessly for no reason.

Just because they were roided out.

And did you lift?

Yeah. So Steve got you on a program well not not steve never talked to me never you know no never he didn't talk to but someone who brought me to the gym did yeah and did you do steroids no never they didn't even talk about steroids with us never okay no one was ever sticking a needle in there a bot on then you know unless you were were their age.
You know, they were 10 years old than us.

So how did, like, what,

did you know Steve later on in life? So what happened was, fast forward to 1989,

and I buy this house.

And when I bought it, it was 7.8 acres.

I still am on 2.5 acres.

I had a 1.8 acre side field,

and I had 3.2 acres in the back. 3.2 acres in the back was zoned for 70 by 100 housing units, 70 by 100.
You could fit 11 with sewers and roads to code. And that's what I built.
And I got the map approved named after my oldest son. So I got Show Michael Court, 11 houses in the backyard.
One of the houses boarded her house and there was a flood every time it rained.

So one day she caught me in the backyard and she went right at me like nose to nose.

She was, no, she was Italian.

Thomas C.

She was Italian.

Got it.

And she was raging right at me.

She yelling, you know, yelling.

So I said, listen, I got a map approved

and I sold it to that builder

and then she handled it with him.

But she said, my husband wants to talk to you.

My ex-husband wants to talk to you.

So about a week later,

I'm in the backyard hanging out

watching them build the houses

and he, again, makes a beeline for me.

Same exact, fucking as if they planned it out. And as he was coming at me, I went, Steve, and I was smiling.
And then he froze. He goes, how do you know me? I go, work for you.
And he immediately just was destroyed. He was like, oh, I'm so sorry.
I was a real asshole back then. Did I do anything to you? No, I said, no, you never hit me or anything.
He goes, oh, thank God. And then he goes, listen, my ex-wife's giving me a hard time what the fuck's going on i said we'll fix the problem i said what are you doing he says i'm training personal people training saul katz in the new york mets the owner of the mets i said fuck train me he goes yeah and and then we just became best friends for about 15 years wow and i'm talking about i was his best friend and he taught me everything he knew about everything so and that's why when i say knew all religions we had years of him explaining in depthly every religion down to its core and stating how scientology not really a religion silent scientology made much more sense and to me it made and to me it made and to me Steve Mihalik showed you the light.
Scientology made much more sense.

And to me it made... And to me it made...

Steve Mihalik showed you the light of Scientology?

Listen.

Scientology

is a way to answer questions. Religion

is a way of answer questions.

Before any of them start extorting

you for money and then they all become frauds,

Scientology makes the most sense.

Which part about Scientology makes the most sense? Like the UFOs that drop eggs into a volcano? In other words, when I saw the movie, I was humiliated because that's not what... You're like, Steve lied to me.
That's like level nine. Steve never told me any of this stuff because I would have thrown him out of my house.
I would have been afraid to be with him alone. Steve's right.
I think the basic levels of Scientology are not that much different from other religions. My point with religions is he took parts of Scientology, parts of Judaism, parts of Catholicism, parts of Hinduism, and squished them together.
He made his own super religion? He knew all religions. Mahalikism? That's incredible.
He basically did... He did when you go...
Again, I'm sharing with my trainer gut level my life. Right.
So we need answers. Where do the answers come from? You? Steve Mahalik.
You? No. You? You? No.
Steve Mahalik. So Steve Mahalik essentially is like when you do the suicide at the, that's a terrible word to use there.
Terrible use of the word, follow me. When you go to the soda fountain and you hit every single one, and he did that with every religion.
He's like, here's a little bit of Sprite. Arnold Palmer doing that commercial Times for it.
Arnold Palmer is doing the commercial Times for it. Here's a little Sprite Buddhism.
Here's a little Coke. But truth be told, like in other words, I shared gut level asking for answers and he provided the answers.
Wow. Like in other words, anything I was insecure about, he had an answer for and helped me.
Wow. Any problem I had with Sandy, he had an answer for and helped me.
Any problem I had dealing with a circumstance or inadequacy or insecurity or fear, he had an answer that absolutely helped me. Not just, hey, maybe I'll use it.
I implemented it and it solved the problem. What was the best piece of advice he ever gave you? Don't do steroids.
The two sayings that I live and die by, disagree, set free, the way out is the way through. So like, for example, when he would make me do 300 reps of something that he started off going, give me 25.
And then go, give me another 25. And I'd be like, Steve, I can't do it.
He goes, no, you don't want to do it, but you can do it, and I'm making you do it. Disagree, set free.
Stewart, disagree, set free. Give me another 10.
Give me another 10. Give me another six.
The way out's the way through, Stewart. Stewart, come on.
Give me another 60. And those two sayings.
I love it. It means embrace debate, essentially.
Well, now I feel sad that Steve Mahalik is no longer with us. Listen I think he's very much with us.
Can I explain something? I think he's with us through the team season. One of those people.
Stu Finer. That the second he walks in a room, like meeting Mick Jagger.
I met Mick Bono. I met Clinton.
I met. The second they walk in.
You ever run on a private plane? No, but I've had sloppy seconds. It's amazing.
No. But in other words, when he walks in a room, you just gravitate to him.
Yeah. And he's so smart.
Like, you know, like, like listening to Buddha almost. He was, he was disturbed.
He had a very dark part of his life. The steroids robbed him of his greatness.
It was a shortcut to enduring another decade of being at almost a high level, like world level, world class level. But again, paid the price for his body broke down and he had to take his life.
I'm curious to know. But in this gym, right where we are right now the gym is right here.
You know, tell everyone. The gym is like 10 feet away, 20 feet away.
We were in that gym for three times a week for 10 years. Damn.
See, I kind of agree with his take that religion doesn't have to be like deciding whether or not to go to an Italian place or a steakhouse. Religion should be more like a golden corral buffet where you show up and it's got, you can pick and choose what goes on your plate and whatever makes you happy at the end of the day.
I think that's really the key to really what religion should be. Making everybody happy, confident, content with themselves, and then get along with everybody else.
I like it. Everything else just gets in the way.
Rules just get in the way of so r.i.p steve mahallick like truly i did we didn't know the story i mean obviously that listen he was he was um so what happened was this where arnold schwarzenegger catapulted to stardom as a bodybuilder and then as a movie star as an american icon um steve mahallick was the one that arnold schnaggar was chasing and he got in a horrific car accident steve did and took him out of bodybuilding for five years they thought he was going to be dead they there was no way he was ever walking he did competing he did winning again you know mr universe level contest he did so that hurt him yeah that was horrible because arnold then went he won the contest and then shot right so he's like your favorite bodybuilders favorite bodybuilder no we're sure about it on schwarzenegger called him the phantom oh that's cool because out of the blue all of a sudden where they he started competing and winning and winning and winning and winning and then he was there just imagine arnold calling you the phantom with that cool voice of his damn yes no better compliment so stew the uh last like five years how what has it been like because i know that you know our relationship started four years ago i knew about you forever um but it's been kind of a whirlwind i i love working with you i love that you have you know part in Barstool Sports. Has it just been...
I mean, the thing I really appreciate about you, Stu, is that you love people. You love being around people.
You love people stopping you. Has it been a reinvigoration of your entire career? 100%, especially because of the Islander podcast, this new live stream has just blown through blown through the roof but yeah for the last let's say three years um you know can't go to a Met game or a Jet game or a Knit game or any game without or a concert without people on me in the bathroom even wanting to take a snap wanting to take a picture you know like at the Islander games it's crazy if you go in with me tonight you know if I scream let's fucking go they'll be it's like Lightning a picture.
You know, like at the Islander Games, it's crazy. If you go in with me tonight,

if I scream,

let's fucking go,

there'll be,

it's like lightning a match.

There'll be a thousand people.

And you truly love,

like you love people.

I live for it.

You live for it.

Like when we came,

when I told you

we were coming over here.

The only thing I would like

is that people shouldn't like

drunk people that are twice my size

because I am only a seventh grader.

Really?

Bam, bam, yeah.

They hurt me.

They grab me around the neck

and then they put a phone in my face

and go,

don't tell my grandmother

a pussy smells.

And I'm like,

I'm locked into this larger individual

and I want to, you know,

like, so.

Oh, man.

Can you walk me through

how Stu Finer became Stu Finer?

Because I don't know

if we've ever actually gotten

to talk seriously

about, you know, what the start of your career was like doing sports advisors, being the nation's first over-the-top gambling tout. How did you go from working in a gym, cleaning up syringes, to decide, you know what, I'm going to try to do this sports gambling thing and see where it goes.
Well, I mean, exactly. The date was when the Eagles played the Oakland Raiders in the Super Bowl in 1980, and it was Dick Vermeule's team.
And they were a four-point favorite. And on Friday night, this guy Professor Picks, Ed Horowitz, he owned a tax firm in Hicksville, Long Island, and he created a short-form tax firm, made a million bucks.
He took his money, put it into computers to pick winners on sports gambling. And he had like 100 people work for him.
And he had a system. And he came on TV and said the Eagles were going to beat the Raiders.
And like, there was no prayer of that ever happening. Like, none.
I don't even know how they made him an underdog because they were better. They were mean.
They were better. You know, they were great, you know, and, uh, John Madden won in 76.
Tom Flores took over the team. Madden's only, you know, Super Bowl.
Flores took over. He was brilliant, you know, and, um, they murdered him.
So I said, if this expert could go on national TV, which at the time was a big deal, there wasn't, never had, this might've been the first handicap besides Jimmy the Greek to ever get national recognition. Cause you know, they did his story short from time from a millionaire account and brought his money into sports gambling.
You know, this bozo humiliated himself. So I said, Pop, if this guy could be so wrong, you know, about something that's so's so simple like there was there was no way i could ever see the eagles you know winning that game they couldn't and they didn't and it was a route it's like 32 14 wasn't even that close um and so i said let's go into the business so my father lent me 1500 and this other guy that was 23 years older than me got $1,500 and we opened two desks against each other and we bought lists from sports like magazines, Sports Illustrated and we started calling people on the phone and just randomly calling them and saying, hey, we have picks, we pick winners, we have information, you know, and that's how it started in 1982.
Then in 1984, it was the first commercial, first nationwide commercial with my company called Profit, P-R-O-P-H-E-T, Line Sports. You do a commercial right now.
I advertised it in the NBA playoffs and we were in the ESPN guide. We have the inside front cover.
It was like a $40,000 buy. And that was the last fucking time any national commercial ever went across ESPN.

Because, you know, they got so many complaints and this and that.

And, you know, people were against gambling, you know.

Right.

Didn't you go up against the dog or was it a goldfish?

No, no.

In 1990, Sports Illustrated did like an expose on my industry, paid for games. And they also, because I was the most boisterous, I was the biggest, I was the one making the most money.
I had, you know, I was making millions of dollars a year at an extremely young age, mid-20s. So they were going to get me.
I had a big mouth, you know, like, and they didn't like right then. I was aggressive with advertising.
You know, I might have embellished it, you know, in the 80s. You know, in the 80s, it was whatever.
You can do whatever you want. Right, exactly.
It was like, so it was late 80s. I just got married.
It was in 1989. So it was right when Magic Johnson, like, it was the Sports Illustrated that no one ever read.
Like, you would never read it. It was the Magic Johnson like their biggest seller ever times 10 so inside you do an expose on my business and i hit like 39 but they put a dog with two bowls you know favorite underdog and a little girl who became a whore and then you know she had to pick which you know, B.
And the dog died very young cancer. Yeah! And they beat me.
They got hot. You should have hired them.
Did you consider hiring? You should have hired the dog and the girl. Listen, I get it 20% for six months.
They caught me at like 39%. Which I said to them, listen I've been worse you have been worse

of course

you remember when you started

the NFL season

on sports advisors

it was like

0 and 8

on best bets

0 and 8

yeah

until I hit that 3

it was incredible

what's the

that was the pull out of

my career

yeah that was actually

it was very strong right

what's the hottest

that you've ever been

like what's the hottest

streak Stu Fodder's

ever been on

shit listen

when I reinvented myself

in 2015-16

when I just started

Thank you. It was very strong, right? What's the hottest streak that you've ever been? Like, what's the hottest streak Stu Fodder's ever been on? Shit, listen, when I reinvented myself in 2015-16, when I just started, when I was on part of my take with you, and I posted my games like six months before on the internet for free, giving free picks, I was like 59% for like seven months.
But you admit, like, you can never figure out gambling. No one can.
Gambling is for the rich to have fun, totally enjoy it, totally love it, and lose your money. Gambling and winning were never together.
The country, the world sold the big lie that gambling, you have an opportunity to win, which you have none. No, no, like none.
and the day I listened, remember the first time I was on part of my take, you said, how many games should I bet a week? I said, one. And you almost died.
And that was when I was winning for you guys. Remember, I was hot.
You were betting my games. Yeah, and then Butler happened.
Remember Butler? No, but that was two years later. Yeah, but Butler was bad.
No, I don't think Butler was that big. I just wanted to get Dave's attention because he didn't acknowledge that I won.
No, you texted all of us. Four months in a row.
You texted all of us. Game of a lifetime.
I loved it. Remember the Tampa Bay Bucs versus the New Orleans Saints on Sunday Night Football? Yes.
You said put your life on the line. Remember the Bucs over the Chiefs in the Super Bowl? No, but you said if there's one game I'll give you for my entire life, it's the Tampa Bay Bucs.
They lost like 40 to 7. Can we honestly say something?

When I give out a game, it doesn't matter if it's a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

It doesn't matter if it's Super Bowl or just one game on the card.

I lung it.

I'm all in for that game.

This is just like completely out of nowhere. L-U-N-G.

Put your lungs on the line.

It's a lung move.

Most recent text I had from Stu was Monday's

Islanders lightning game.

It said, Islanders plus 160.

I think they lost 8-9.

Wait, what were the games before that?

I gave you winners.

Wait, I gave you a 4-1.

Did you get mad when I turned out your picks?

You did.

Why selectively imagine me on my own podcast?

I'm on 170 points.

He is, and you're looking humiliated, PFT. You know something? People think that you're the nasty one, but he is.
I gave you a four. Didn't I give you the Padre bet on that? You did, but you know what? And I went for one.
You know what I'm really bitter about? Yes. The fact that I seem to be getting only like 25% of your picks.
Well, you've got to confirm. No, no.
You have to confirm. I stopped giving them to everyone.
Yeah, why'd you stop giving them to me? I don't know because no one was listening to them. And I got on a losing streak and then they pissed on me and then they weren't around for the winners.
Were you mad at me when I tweeted out? I waited until the game was over. Listen, I'm never mad at anything you do.
Listen, you can take a shit on my face on YouTube. Besides touching my wife, you can do anything you want.

It was bad because I didn't mean to.

It didn't matter.

It was about how funny it was.

Listen, I did good off of that because people started following me and then I got hot at the right time.

And then they saw me win for like six days or so.

And they paid me off of you putting out my losers, got their attention.

A lot of losers.

Listen, I'm going to lose six out of every 10 days.

I mean, excuse me, four out of every 10 days.

Best I'm going to do is 60%.

Thank you. Putting out my losers got their attention.
A lot of losers. Listen, I'm going to lose six out of every 10 days.
I mean, excuse me, four out of every 10 days. Best I'm going to do is 60%.
So that means I'm going to lose four out of every 10 days. You catch me in those four days, I lost.
Do you remember the best day of gambling that you've ever had? Well, this prior Super Bowl was amazing. I caught Gronkowski, you know, first score.
I caught, you know, Tampa Bay, the under, a parlay. You know, I had the running back as the MVP, which is right there, the whole game.
Great action. That was a big day.
It was my birthday, you know, weekend that weekend. Yeah, it was big.
That was very big. What's your birthday again? January 31st, right? January 31st, yes.
Stu and I have the same birthday. Yes.
We look alike. I mean, you know, people might be excited.
Yeah, you PFT all the time. This was the text who sent me uh talking about his dad they got all the cancer insane great results exact opposite of what uh he prepared me for and thought woohoo and i wasn't even able to respond i responded maybe 10 seconds later saying so happy for you and your family before i could respond you said nba 25k best bet on nets minus three.5, 10K best bet on Raptors minus 2, Diamondbacks plus, and all of them went like 0-6.
But that's what I love about you. Keep shooting.
Yeah, listen. I'm not afraid of an 0.
Listen, I could lose 20 days in a row. I'm still betting to anybody.
If you put my record up 365 days a year, I'm betting to anybody. What was the score of that Bucs-Saints Monday night game, Sunday night game? Oh, shit It was...
Like 34-0. Yeah, it was insane.
The loser? Yeah, that was a bad game. That was an all-white Saints game, too, right? They were wearing those uniforms.
That was the last Saints shining moment. That was.
His career, matter of fact. Looking back on it now.
Looking back on it, that was his last shining moment. Yeah.
So what do you think about this upcoming NFL season?

I mean, look, I think it's like Florida when they kept the whole team,

when they kept the coach and that whole team and they won their second championship.

How are you going to beat Tampa Bay?

Are you looking at any of the team over-unders?

I didn't actually see the numbers yet

because I have to see actually the signings.

They're weird because it's 17 games.

It's very confusing.

Oh, it's going to be different.

Right, right, right.

You shouldn't have told him that.

He wouldn't have known.

I'm not. I didn't actually see the numbers yet because I have to see actually the signings.
They're weird because it's 17 games. It's very confusing.
Oh, it's going to be different. Right, right, right.
Yeah. You shouldn't have told him that.
He wouldn't have noticed. I know.
Week 18. If I die in my sleep tonight, I am leaving you with a 1,000-unit game of my career.
Tampa Bay Bucs minus four by 40. And they lost by 31.
Yeah. And I responded.
I said, are you still alive? It's like a 71 point loser. But I love it.
I fucking love it. How do you feel now, baby? It happens.
It happens. And you're right.
We are cherry picking like some of the worst. Listen, I'm going to say some nice things about you, Stu.
I actually genuinely love you as a person. Thank you.
You are very, very kind. People don't know this, but you are so, so kind with your money, with your time.
You love people. You bought my son, who was a year old.
A year old. Stu bought him a PS5.
PS5. I'm sorry.
PS5. He's like.
That's how I looked at it. That's the greatest gift ever.
He's like, I got this gift for your son. It's a fucking PS5.
This is like when it was impossible to get PS5s. That's no joke.
That is Stu Finer. You do put a smile on everybody's face.
Actually, like Stu Day is in the office. You can notice on a Wednesday when Stu's just around, people are just happier to each other.
I honestly do think that it it starts out if you can see somebody at the very beginning of your day that's genuinely happy to see you it makes you happier to see everybody else that you run into that day I think that's the gift that you give to people which is actually like a very special thing that not a lot of people have well I mean like I'm honored to be treated as like Pierce with all you superstars there like you you guys are superstars and you treat me like Pierce. Well, you're a living legend.
Well, I am. I am.
But you might not have to see it like that. You know what I'm saying? And you're so friendly and you're so kind and you're so talented.
And then the energy is raised when I walk in that building. Of course, I have to bring my A++ game.
I want to make sure everybody's on their A++ game and right when I walk right through, Pat's screaming,

I'm screaming. I've jumped in.
Let's go,

fucking Lodge. Let's go, Willie.

And it's just, I love it.

No, no. I love it.
I'm honored.

I love it. Do you think...
I'm the biggest people pleaser ever. I want people to be happy.

Yeah, it's true. In spite of anything.

Yeah. My health.

Do you think

Dave likes you? do I actually think

I think he loves me

no issue about it

you sure

no toys about it

well remember

I've grown into a role now

by pissing him off

is our best comedy

yeah

so that

I'm in an adversarial role with him

I'm not being his asshole buddy

I'm not kissing his ass

I'm doing direct opposite

I mean you do kiss his ass a lot

oh no no

you say he's the richest

most beautiful

I give him the accolades

he deserves

Let's see. being his asshole buddy.
I'm not kissing his ass. I'm doing direct opposite.
I mean, you do kiss his ass a lot. Oh, no, no.
I give him the accolades he deserves. Right? Right.
Right. I mean, he's the hottest human in America right now.
Like, I mean, like Matthew McConaughey has nothing on. Don't kiss his ass.
No, no. Matthew McConaughey has nothing on Dave Portnoy.
Right. You know, right.
I mean, in reality, now, you know. If you could trade lives with anyone in the world, it'd be Dave Portnoy right now? I ain't spitting down anybody's throat And putting a chain on No, absolutely not Never And I'm not wearing tight pants And I'm not wearing tight pants You just committed a federal crime You just admitted a federal crime I don't get it I don't get the.
No, that's a different one. We know you got the pussy.
No, that's a different sex tape that they put out. I mean, relax.
Wear a pair of sweatpants, Dave, and let everybody fucking just breathe a little bit around you. You know, you scare shit around Portnoy.
So I'd rather attack than be a patsy. You're Bam Bam.
Right. Some real strength.
Let me ask you this. But I am waiting for him to die because I think I can take his role.
I can do the pizza reviews. I can do all the mad money.
I can do everything. No, besides fit into his clothes.
I mean, it's not even happening. That'd be awesome.
Unless I'm allowed to do eight balls every day twice on Sunday. Like, what did you eat today? I don't know, four eight balls.
That's all I did. That's all I did.
You weighed 140 pounds while I did four eight balls. Sue, can you walk me through the clip? It's my favorite clip of all time where're on tv and uh the guy touches your arm and you just immediately say don't touch me yeah his name is ron bash his name is jimmy cavallo was he did you actually not like him no he's one of my best friends ever he did all the videos when my children were five six seven eight and they played football and baseball and basketball i to spend like 6,000 and make 50 videos, give two to each friend, two to everybody on the team of the teams.
And we filmed the whole year and he would edit it and put music and voice on. He did all the high school sports, Jimmy Cavallo.
His father, his father was one of six people that took mystic ice tea public. And he owned a beautiful house in Vermont.
We skied. He took my whole family there.
Crazy. So anyway.
I have no idea how much of that is true and how much it's just like awful. Oh, no, no, no.
Every time he's heard his stories, it's like some company that made a lot of money. Don't do that.
This is verbatim. It's always like.
Hold on, hold on. It's always like the perfect.

Like, it's a company that you know made a lot of money. But like, how would anyone know the fifth guy at Mystic Ice?

He's the vice president of finance for Mondo.

What would be my point?

That's not a dick drop what I just said.

It's a basic story.

Why are you guys so excited?

I just love the details.

You're ruining the vibe.

You're ruining the podcast.

Are we?

So anyway.

All right, Stu. So Pete does a part-time gig with me being the details.
You're ruining the vibe. You're ruining the podcast.
I'm sorry. Are we? So anyway.
All right, Stewie.

So Pete does a part-time gig with me being the host of Sports Advisors.

And we did a show right afterwards where I sold a show for like, I was making $20,000 a week just selling the show, me doing the show with three guys on it.

And he was also on that show.

So just out of the blue, he touched my hand and it just came to me it was it was just it was was not premeditated it just went it was beautiful it's my favorite and you do hate ron bash right no i love him but i shred him in public i'm pretty sure you hate him no i shred him in. So we're in public right now.
I hate him. He's the worst.
No, he really isn't. But he was a pompous ass.
Very smart. An excellent basketball coach.
But he took two Division III teams to the Final Four. But his ad was, I took two teams to the Final Four.
Sounds like it was like Division I. Right.
So people hated him for that. Jeremy Schaap came to where we filmed the show once with a whole crew to expose him.
And Ron Bansh got in a limo in the back and spun out. So I came out and I said, Jeremy, you want to interview me? They're like, no.
Oh, man. Do you have any real life beef with anybody? In yeah like who's a god you got a problem with god yeah listen truth be told i as god as my witness i walk out the street all people want to do is take my picture tell me they love me tell me i help them with their sex life tell me their spouse loves me and wants to fuck me and and all my friends are like, we've all been rooting for you your whole life, Stu.
So there's only love. God's a scumbag.
Why did he make me five foot four and three quarters? No, no, no. Truth be told, if I was two inches short, I'd be perfectly round.
Do you think that's funny? That's not funny. No, it's funny.
I would rather be perfectly. I had a six inch dick in fourth grade.
I was doing porn. I still have a six inch dick.
That's not fair. So I have a beef with God.
That's pretty good though. Four and what? I'm five, four and three quarters.
Three quarters. Those three quarters matter though.
Yes, they do. Yeah, you got to count that.
She said it did. Have you lost any weight? I mean, height? You got to be like, you're getting older.
Five. You sure? No, every time.
I get on the scale every time. I measure myself.
I measure myself. I'm very sensitive.
I'm a hobbit. It's not funny.
Are you going to get back in shape? Yeah. I'm running the marathon, October 11th, the Boston Marathon.
And I'm two months behind on training. And I'm 20 pounds overweight, what I should weigh right now.
So it's going to be a daunting task. But I'm superhuman.
Listen, in seventh grade, 1974, Long Island, it was Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Stu Feiner. I mean, that's how it went down.
And not really in that order. Not really in that order.
We had two podcast guests say that they're superhuman, Jose Canseco and Stu Feiner. And I believe you so much more than Jose Canseco.
You are superhuman. Listen, he was superhuman.
I watched him hit homers. They were fucking jokes.
I mean, it was scary. And then just because Billy showed that he's over the hill, doesn't negate.
No, Billy kicks his ass. No, no, doesn't negate that Jose Canseco is a legend.
Billy destroyed a legend. Yeah.
Listen, I don't care that he got hurt. Jose Canseco, before that fight, you see him.
I was scared. I knew Billy would win, but I was still scared.
Were you scared that you could get caught with a shot? Yeah. Right or wrong? You had to be.
He's a legend. But he went in war mode.
No, but I'm saying, but Jose Canseco's Jose Canseco. Fuck him.
Really? I saw him in his prime. I was a big fan.
I actually think that you- He used to fuck everything that walked. I wanted...
Not Madonna. Listen, I wanted the pussy that he...
I would have fucked Madonna. Yeah, I know you would have.
Jose didn't, though. Jose...
Really? He said that she wasn't hot enough for him. God, imagine being that hot.
Do you think you have too much testosterone? Do I? Yeah. Well, I still take a shot every two weeks so that my dick can get hard and I cum regularly.
I can rub one out three times a week

and fuck my wife twice a week.

Do you have to go to like...

No, I don't think so, no.

But I think...

Do your sons ever say like,

hey, dad...

They're humiliated, yeah, exactly.

They want to change their name.

Do you have to go to like the tea clinic

to get the shot or do you...

No, I go to a urologist.

Okay.

Nurse walks in and says,

hi, dude.

And then they say,

thank you for your penis.

I'm like, thank you. Thank God.
I feel like your days are just filled with disappointments really yeah like doctors yeah just or just like oh i gotta go here and do you you have a great life though like i'm not saying it's a bad fabulous and then you just get the food and no matter what it's a 10 out of 10 you you just uh were at the hospital with your father yesterday and you were saying that the hospital food was the greatest meal you've ever had in your life. It is.
Well, you know, you don't appreciate life until you have an amazing life, and then you fall off a cliff, and you really got to struggle for a decade on the balls of your ass, beg, borrowing, stealing, humiliating yourself, shaming yourself, being friends with people you would never even talk to even talk to you know you know having to be in circumstances that when you pop out of it my god you never look back i love that every every second of every day is beautiful yeah you know what i'm saying yeah no you went off all you know is good you know big deal yeah what would uh you gotta crash yeah what would your neighbors say about living next to you do you think they like two neighbors here i graduated high school with his the wife me and sandy so she's known me forever she knows what yes on the other side uh they're moving next week matter of fact their daughter's getting married this saturday um they're the mead brothers the meads and they were the house band at the boardy bond since 1984 got it okay so they're a rowdy remember i've invited you to come to the meads the houses the band yeah so they're partiers so wait are you nervous about who moves in no he's like 70 years old and he's already been uh they googled me and he thought i was funny he's looking forward to meet me yeah i don't I don't know. So, I mean, 815 where I'm screaming, let's fuck eat, ass, like, clit.
You know, I mean, he's cool. Okay.
I might help with sex life. There we go.
I'm a positive influence in anything I touch. What happens when you go- If I touch your girl's clitoris, it's going to be my girl.
No, no, no. What happens when you go to like the DMV and you have to wait in a line where it's like a traditionally quiet environment? In between the snaps I do what I used to find.
Come over here. No one's talking to each other.
People just face down. They snap.
They're like, I used to. What is Dave? I love his pizza.
So you haven't stood in a line quietly for years now. Decades.
Decades. You've done nothing quietly.
You love people. I love people.
All right, Stu. We appreciate you coming on the pod we still got a lot of fun we're gonna do today oh no it's amazing videos make some memories yes yes thank you for your hospitality yes i'm booking i'm booking a one-night show at westbury it's gonna be a one-night show i don't know if you saw seven sundays with billy crystal it's like a three-hour show he tells life.
You're going to do that? 3,000 tickets. I might

need you to come because I'm going to say special guests. I'm going to lie

and say you're going to come. Yeah, I'll come.
Even if you don't come. Where is it?

Okay, good. I haven't booked it yet.
I have to

pay for it. It's like $28,000 just to book the place.

You're just doing it for yourself?

Yeah, because my ego's through the roof.

An evening with Stu Feiner.

I just like

the moment I book it, I want to just want to

kill every enemy I've ever had. They're just going to die.
They're going to die People are just going to be like, I can't believe it. We need to make it a whole special on on Barstool.
Done. OK, so I can do that.
Yeah, I can. Like, I can call it stew finer and friends.
Yeah. No, I'm saying we need to we need to get cameras out there.
So I put it out. I'm not worried about that.
Can we set up like a bar on stage and just sit quietly to the side and just watch you do your monologue. People are going to want to see you guys, not me.
I want to see an evening with Stu Finer. An evening with Stu Finer presented by Stu Finer.
I'm going to do it from when I was two years old up until now. You remember when you were two? Absolutely.
Okay. No, wait, I'm not going to say.
No, no, no. no My mother and father fought There was nothing to do sexually

Fought and when your parents fight

It affects a child and they remember those things

I went into therapy to re-bring them out

And the wounds

So I have it

So unfortunately I have a great memory about a lot of negative things

That key off a lot of good things

Beautiful

Alright well Stu thank you

Love you and appreciate you I love you thank God bless you. May God be with you.
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Are you boys ready to go? And Jake and Youngstown Bob will be here on Friday as as well pft will be back in studio we'll all be here watch game two uh so it's a it's a week-long thing maybe we'll sign them to a 10-day contract and be like liam and hank actually no hank will be like fine i won't come back i'm fine so maybe we won't now that i'm thinking about it what's a two-way contract let's do that yeah yeah the G League. Yeah, we can call them up and down whenever we want.
I'm in. All right.
Perfect. That was it.
The thing I love about Young Sound Bob, he's a great negotiator. Oh, yeah.
All right, Jake. Hot seat, cool throne.
All right, I got two, actually. First one, announcers calling Royals Reds games and giving emotional monologues.

Nicholas Castellano did it again. The Royals announcer was giving a eulogy of someone who passed away on Saturday.
Can you put this clip in? Yes. Fuck yes.
This is George Gorman, who passed away at the age of 96. He served our country in World War II.
He went to the University of Kansas and so did his son Pat Gorman who's been

working for the Royals in the clubhouse for 26 years. And that was Pat's father.
That's a great life. 96 years and Pat just like his dad went to KU.
He also went to Bishop Ward High School. There's a drive into deep left center field, and there's never a great time to eulogize someone during the broadcast.
Do you know what the best part was? Someone also unearthed, Nicholas Casianos. I like to really, really get that out there.
His first home run as a major league player, or it was in the minor leagues, but as a professional baseball player, was the night that we killed Osama bin Laden. I'm okay with that eulogy being interrupted.
Yes. But yeah, it is perfect.
There was also another thing Coley tweeted out. I don't have it in front of me, but somebody pointed him to a famous international soccer player that scored, I think, 70 career goals.

And of those 70 goals that he scored, something like 40 of them happened

on the same day that a celebrity had died.

So like a shockingly large amount.

Well, it's kind of like our, well, we won't say his name.

It's like an oil spill.

Yeah, who has movies come out and oil spills. We won't say his name.
But yes. I'm not going to say his name, but his guy who has movies come out and oil spills.

We won't say his name.

We won't say his name, but his name's R. Schneider.

But yeah, it was laugh out loud funny.

Nick Castellanos, he is the funniest person on planet Earth.

I don't care that he's not doing it intentionally.

This is the highest form of comedy that there is.

Yes.

All right.

Good hot seat.

You got another one. Yeah, I was just going kawaii leonard and uh specifically his knees as yannis came back after yeah everyone thought his knee was shredded and this is but jake actually makes a good point here because this is what happens when you have the the like freak of natures like adrian peterson which i mentioned at the beginning of show, now everyone compares him.
So remember after Adrian Peterson came back from an ACL in like eight months, every ACL for the next two years, everyone's like, well, Adrian Peterson came back in eight months. Every knee injury, everyone's like, well, Giannis came back in like a week and a half.
Why can't they? Well, because they're not a freak of nature like Giannis and Adrian Peterson. i kind of like it kawaii was kawaii soft uh i don't know if he was soft but i do i like the fact that we have to bring up that take i think it's a great i don't necessarily agree with it but i love the fact that we're having a discussion yeah and i do i do remember uh when greg kittle injured his knee i think it was two years ago and they were like yeah this is a six-week injury he was like I'm gonna be back in two and everybody was like okay Greg and then sure enough like by the powers of you know the common person's body it he came back in like four weeks which is freakishly fast but he was like disappointed that he wasn't able to just simply will away his his ruptured MCL it doesn't always work like that it turns out yeah and it's uh it takes her like a game of uno where now we have the take of yon like if if you say well kawaii's hurt here's my card we'll just throw down yannis yannis came back and boom now you're fucked now you gotta draw five four whatever it is you know i haven't played uno in a long time all right cool throne cool Cool Throne.
Sports writers and headline writers covering the Olympics because Bruce Springsteen's daughter, Jessica, was named to the equestrian team for the Olympics, U.S. team.
And there's nothing sports writers like talking more about Ben the Boss. Dude, Jake is fucking nailing this right now.
There was actually some articles today. Born to Ride.
Oh, man. That one's easy.
Yep.. Oh fuck.
I'm sure there'll be plenty more throughout the next month. Damn.
Did you have this PFT as your hot seat? I had it as my hot seat. Yeah.
And you're absolutely correct. Like sports writers, this is a dream assignment for them because first of all, they get to go to the horse event and then that's, you know, they can just chill out in the stands and fall asleep and nobody will ever catch them there uh unlimited diet cokes at the track and then they also get to talk about bruce springsteen and and work in so many different lines from his songs i so i was reading this too and but the thought occurred to me like why why are we giving the people who ride on the horses medals like shouldn't these medals go to the horses yeah they the the equestrian events like you happen to be on the back of a horse that can jump super high how come how come the horse doesn't get that medal well they should at least give them a medal in like hay or carrots or something i assume they give them something extra right who knows i i would just like to see them get the accolades for it like they do

in horse racing like the jockeys yeah they're mentioned after the fact but i need a podium with horses on it i need to see which horses uh turn away from the flag when the national anthem is playing for their country i need more horse horse centric content at the olympic i agree i I totally agree.

All right.

Youngstown Bob, your hot seat, Cool Throne.

All right.

My hot seat is uh barstool employees taking the week off during our week off wait this is oh okay go ahead because dave was just on the live stream just reaming everyone out for going on vacation on the day on the week that we have a vacation yes it was very funny very funny. But, yeah, it is like the office is closed.
But we were here watching the game, and he just roasted everyone. And I don't know.
It's always funny. Some people got it bad.
Yeah, some people got it bad. But also, I've always just thought that, like, when Dave, if Dave mentions you, that means that he likes you in a weird way.
If he doesn even know who you are that's when you're in trouble if it's uh yeah it was a test this entire time we're gonna give you a week off and see who actually takes it and the ones that take it they don't deserve to be here in the first place that's not so i know i it it did people are probably like what the fuck we could take me did the game one stream came together very last minute because we have a meeting tomorrow. And it was like, I was like, yeah, I'm going to be doing PMT.
He's like, all right, well, over's club. I'll come in.
And yeah, but it really sucks. If you're Marty mush came all the way from New Jersey.
I don't know if you saw that PFT. He's he's, he watched the first half and then he gotten in Uber and showed up at the second half and being like, Hey, I didn't know you guys were going to be here.
It was very well played. That's awesome.
Good for Marty. All right.
You're a cool-throwing, Bob. I have two of them.
I have the Overs Club, now 3-3. Yep.
I hit today. Yep.
Barstool Sportsbook. Yep.
And I also have, I think the local TV commercials are going to be great in the future because I think all these local athletes, like D1 athletes,'s going to be some like cringy, funny, comical commercials. Yes.
That's a good, I think those are going to be coming back. We need to make some, we need to make some for them.
But yes, that absolutely like the, like the entire offensive line of Notre Dame doing like a, a South Bend Ford dealership. That would be very funny.
Like there will be that where guys are just cashing a check. I didn't even think about that, but I liked that Bob PFT.
You like that? Oh, I love that. I love that idea a lot.
I think we should do that with, we should do that with Alex O'Connell with like, Hey, I'm AOC here for the car stick store. And we'll just like do a pop-up shop of car sticks and have them advertise that for us.
But yeah, the local businesses in general, not just like car dealerships, but like mom and pop restaurants. You know what they should? It should be like an entire offensive line at whatever the local buffet is and just have them like in front of a mess of tables and just like the fattest guys that you can find on the team.
Just go into town on some burgers. That's always one of the best events of the year is the Outback Bowl when they do like the meat-eating contest between the two teams.
It's like this team ate 900 pounds of meat and this team ate 950. And that's who you bet on.
I'm also interested to see how Nick Saban handles players doing ads for various businesses in the local towns. So like, I don't know, like you can't obviously do business with a gambling company or there were a couple others like adult entertainment, alcohol, tobacco or some, but you know that there's some places that Nick and miss Terry don't like to go.
Maybe they haven't gotten great service in the past. And if he finds out that one of his players is going to a place that he personally left a one-star yelp review on he might get mad at that player for endorsing it yeah yeah it will be i'm excited to see how all the nil breaks out i've also thrown out the offer that if there are any potential five-star uh recruits basketball or football that want to attend the university of wisconsin I will buy all their shirts.
So that's just out there. Okay? So I'm just going to throw that out there.
Let it land wherever it does. Your hot seat, Cool Throw on PFT.
Oh, you had your hot seat. Yeah.
My hot seat was going to be nepotism because Jessica Springsteen qualified on her own without her daddy's help for the equestrian events in the Olympics. My second facet of the nepotism was going to be that the Washington football team report was issued on Friday.
And because Tanya Snyder has taken command of the team from her husband, Dan, so happens to be her husband, Dan Snyder, there will be no significant punishments levy towards the team in terms of draft picks. And I love the fact that, did you see that it was, first of all, you can set your watch to it from the NFL standpoint, that there will be a news dump that comes out either the Thursday or Friday in the afternoon before the 4th of July long holiday weekend.
It's every year. They time whatever their worst study is or their worst report is.
It's going to come out on that day. They're geniuses when it comes to scheduling that up.
But they also didn't actually issue a report. It was an oral report that was given.
So it's like Snapchat the report. There's no record of the report ever happening.
It was just somebody told Roger Goodell what the report found. And then Goodell was like, OK, here's my punishment.
No paper trail. And honestly, I think it might be the smartest thing that roger gadel has ever done he's like why are we why are we writing things down and uploading them into a cloud i don't i don't have to do that there's no freedom of information act when it comes to the nfl just tell me the bad stuff that happened then i'll make my draconian punishment so in this case he knew that you know it's impossible to screenshot an oral report and then you know tweet it out and get 5 000 retweets on it so goodell uh another tip of the cap to you the pr master uh you handled this one in a way that really you probably should have been handling everything in the past yeah chess chess not checkers uh your cool throne my cool throne is baker mayfield contract debates this is off to a early start early start you can tell when you're getting through getting into like some a couple uh really slow news days when it comes to sports it started two weeks ago when i first noticed it um they started debating whether or not baker mayfield should get a contract extension right now and how much that extension should be worth.
He, he has like another full year, probably like year and a couple of months before they want to decide if they want to give him an extension before they get into the final season of the deal. Like there's absolutely no reason why he would be getting a contract extension right now, but this is the start of the is does baker mayfield deserve to get paid like an elite quarterback discussion that we're going to be having all year long and in well into next year too what you're starting to see is just like the the beginning of a germination of a seed that we planted a few months actually we planted the seed back in the joe flacco days of, is Joe Flacco elite? Does he deserve to get paid as an elite quarterback? That is happening before our very eyes with Baker Mayfield.
So you're going to see that discussion take place throughout the entire next season. It's like, it's way too early.
When you look at the calendar of when you should be talking about certain players getting extensions, we're at least a calendar year too early for Baker Mayfield for this discourse. But the powers that be have gone together and decided that now is the time.
I've seen it pop up here, there, here, there. It's going to explode in the next six months, I'm telling you right now.
So PFT, lightning hit his house or right his house, as he was in the middle of that.

And when you went away for a second,

Youngstown Bob said that he actually was having this conversation

on the golf course this weekend as a Browns fan.

So it's happening.

It's happening.

And, Bob, let's get your take.

I honestly think it's time to lock him down now.

I was the most anti-Baker guy two years ago,

but, I mean, he proved he could win. I don't know, he's our quarterback.
Yeah. But it is time to start talking about that, though.
Just as a Browns fan, it's got to be thrilling to you to get to have that conversation right now. There's a reason why you're having it way too early.
It's because this is the first quarterback that you've had in a long,

long time that has even been worthy of this discussion.

So you've actually been like anticipating talking about whether or not

Baker Mayfield deserves an extension for like three and a half years.

Oh yeah.

The guy, the guy I was paired up with three of them guys at golf the other

day and they had a golf, a Browns golf bag.

And I was like, Oh, I'm going to chop it up with these guys.

And sure enough, first question was, are you a Browns fan?

I'm like, yep.

And they're like, all right, we're going to have a fun round then.

Thank you. other day they had a golf uh a browns golf bag and i was like oh i'm gonna chop it up with these guys and sure enough that's what it got first question was are you a browns fan i'm like yep and they're like all right we're gonna have a fun round then fuck yeah we just chopped it up about baker and uh yeah 11 wins this is great the the uh what's happened on the streets we need this from young sound bob that's what's that's what people are talking about um all right so we're gonna skip guys on chicks because pft's uh block got hit by lightning and we'll do it on friday so we have the question we'll do it on friday i'll do my hot seat cool throw and then we'll guess some numbers my hot seat is simply the water dogs uh they fucking suck i'm so sick of this team they're terrible i i watch every game at least they shot more also we need a we need an enforcer because our guy drew snyder got fucking jacked up um so we need an enforcer and paul rabel did not deserve to get fined for his skirmish he didn't deserve to get fined that's my take on that well i think that if you're gonna fight you gotta fight harder i was disappointed that paul rabel didn't do enough to get fined it's more it's like a frank kaminsky thing you know yeah like i would have liked i would like to see paul rabel step up to defend his teammates to the same level that frank did uh but you know like he he is the face of lacrosse so i'm sure that he has those thoughts like okay i'm the face of the league i can't be biting some guy's finger off out there yeah but uh the water dogs get the water dogs need to win it's it's now it's now or never we're the second to worst team i'm so sick of watching them suck so get your fucking shit together guys like this is it this is the last call otherwise i'm firing everyone i don't think i have that authority um but if i do i will fire everyone everyone i think it's simple big hat we do move the team if they lose this weekend we're moving the team you know what we do we make them the water cats I like that yeah okay and then my cool throne is baseball we give baseball a lot of shit but I am legitimately very very excited for the all star break and all star all-star game because of Shohei Ohtani.
Shohei Ohtani was the first ever to get voted into the all-star game as a pitcher and a batter. And he's doing it all.
So he's in the home run derby on Monday night. Then he's going to pitch in the all-star game.
And he's going to DH in the all-star. And this guy, like, this is what baseball needs.
They need a guy like this. It's fucking awesome.
He has what? He has a 31 home runs, 83 strikeouts that he's given other people, not for himself. He's electric.
Every fucking home run he hits though, too. Like he pisses on on the baseball.
He fucking it's violent what he does to baseballs.

So I'm pumped for Shohei Otani to be the next Babe Ruth and for everyone to get jacked about this and for MLB All-Star break to be awesome.

Is Christian Yelich in the home run derby?

I don't think so.

I haven't seen anything about that.

Oh, interesting.

Yeah, I'm going to I'm going to guess no, but that would be incredible if they brought him out as like a surprise guest, like how they do, like the Masked Singer, essentially. Or Sting.
They have somebody step up. Yeah.
Yeah. The glass breaks and Christian Yelich just sprints out of the dugout.
Next thing I know, I got to go buy a dental dam. I think I love Shohei Otani in the All-Star Game.
I want to know the answer to the question, could Shohei Ohtani strike out himself? I would say no. He had a streak this last week where he had seven, all seven of his hits, like in a row, consecutive hits.
They weren't, like he had outs in between them, but they were seven home runs. So when he hit the baseball, the baseball it was a home run like that was just the result that happened when Shohei Otani hit the baseball and got it recorded a hit it was a home run yeah what he's doing right now in baseball is honestly something that I never like it blows my mind every time I see him either strike somebody out or hit a home run knowing this guy can do both of these things it's something I never thought that I would see in the game ever.
It's bizarre. It's like the ambidextrous pitcher that we had 10 years ago that was going to change the sport.
That's like the one last mountain to climb in baseball. Now that we have a pitcher that is maybe the best pitcher or one of the top handful of guys pitching in the game and the best hitter in the game.
The last mountain really is to have the ambidextrous pitcher that can throw 100 on the black with either hand. But besides that, it's incredible shit that he's doing.
It really is. So I'm excited.
Good job, baseball. I mean, you didn't do anything, but good job, baseball.
They didn't fuck this up. Yeah.
Yeah, they didn't fuck this up. I would just like to say, Rob Manfred, do not piss test Shohei Ohtani.
Whatever you do, I don't care what he's on right now. The only way you could fuck this up is if you stuck a little test strip into a stream of urine and then you were just a big bummer for America.
We're doing okay as a country right now, okay? Don't everyone's mellow we're trying to come together let's just just let us have some fun with shohei otani agreed or the sticky stuff don't if he wants to use sticky stuff let him use sticky stuff fuck that yeah no no discipline on shohei otani yeah all right let's do numbers so friday uh i think we have the return of our good friend ryan rusillo uh so that will be fun we'll'll talk some NBA finals with him. PFT will be back.
We'll do guys on Chicks and Firefest then. We'll be taping after the game, so we'll have a recap there.
But, yeah, good show, boys. Good job, Jake.
Good job, Bob. Love having you boys here.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
You guys are now on a two-way contract,

which Bob signed almost immediately.

All right, numbers. Guess them.

Now, if one of you gets this,

I think you get promoted.

I think you get promoted, and we relegate

Billy. So...

PFT, your number?

Eight. And yeah, we should

relegate Billy. Billy has to produce

Jake's podcast yeah yes

which was it's called the big man on camp barcel benchmark yes got it i got it confused um all right number jake 25 pop 10 all right 99 for me eight eight eight oh 21 21 all right we'll see everyone on friday just a little time check it's 1 a.m

and we do technically have this entire week off but we're here and i'm doing this show

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