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

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have a twofer. We have John Morant and Stu Feiner, the source, your source.
Stu Finer, we went out to Stu Land in Farmingdale, New York, interviewed him.

Speaker 1 He hasn't been on the show in a few years. Always great to catch up with him.
And a great interview with John Morant. We have NBA Finals Game One.

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Sun's in four.

Speaker 6 Sun's in four. Sun's in four.
Actually, Sun's in three now. It's going to happen.

Speaker 1 Sun's in three more.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it's going to happen. My analysis of the game comes down to this.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 Well, I actually am totally fine with Giannis 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.

Speaker 1 And I don't know what happened in between, but it's just Giannis because he's a freak.

Speaker 1 I do actually want to do one thing, though, PFT, because we've got to talk about the Suns in Four. But

Speaker 1 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's like 40 years or something like that.

Speaker 1 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 one.

Speaker 1 You had no time to enjoy the fact that you're going to the NBA Finals. You had no time for people people to digest the Eastern Conference Finals.

Speaker 1 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 4. Chris Middleton was incredible in game six.

Speaker 1 Drew Holiday was incredible in game six. I'm proud of the Bucs for

Speaker 1 basically handling business when I thought maybe the Hawks, I didn't think Trey Young was too injured to play. Like he was, he gutted it out, but he clearly wasn't himself.

Speaker 1 But the Bucs 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.

Speaker 6 And you'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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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 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?

Speaker 6 That's a shame. Like, you need, you need that chance to bust your co-workers' balls a little bit.
So

Speaker 6 I will allow our listeners, if they're in that position, a one-day pass.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 it really sucks how it broke out for them because this never happens because the NBA finals are never in July. And the fact, like, guess what? July 4th, everyone's talking about America.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We're saying it right now. I really do.

Speaker 1 I was like, legitimately very impressed with how they finished that series because they they always say, you know, closing out a series is the mark of a good team, not letting teams linger around, not letting it go to seven games.

Speaker 1 Chris Middleton, that legacy quarter he had, he's had a lot of legacy quarters, but he was incredible. So,

Speaker 1 Bucks fans, there's your moment. I feel bad that, 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.

Speaker 1 And when the Suns win game one, guess what? Suns in Four leads the show.

Speaker 6 I will overreact, Big Cat. I'll take that bait.
I'll say sons and four, sons and three from right now. It was if Chris Paul plays like that, there's nothing you can do.

Speaker 6 The only thing I was thinking, like, 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 Dude, I Bobby Portis bull for life, but holy shit, he had that stretch where Chris Paul cooked him like four times in a row.

Speaker 1 And I want to give Bobby Portis 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.
Like, it's not as bad as it looks.

Speaker 1 But Bobby Portis, it was actually criminal that he was left out on an island with Chris Paul in those moments. Like, I felt very bad for him.

Speaker 6 If he had made that shot, then Mike Breen's like a couple alpha males going right at each other.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. Oh, man, we'll watch two greats battle it out.

Speaker 6 There's another way to get out of that, and that's just fake an injury.

Speaker 6 If you're Bobby Portis, I think I probably would have gone for the fake and injury route after the time where Chris Paul did the Josh Allen thing where he mashed all the buttons with the ball, but he went between both legs, behind the back, I think with both hands, threw in a couple crossovers, and just absolutely roasted.

Speaker 6 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 just going to fake.
Oh, I got a hamstring. That's a shame.

Speaker 6 Happens to all of us.

Speaker 1 And Chris Paul was obviously incredible. And you like the Suns, though, they had all their big three playing pretty much their peak performances.

Speaker 1 The only thing you could say is Devin Booker was like not great from three, but Chris Paul had 32. Devin Booker had 27.
And then DeAndre Ayton threw in a 22 and 19. Like, he was all over the place.

Speaker 1 So I don't, you can't beat them if all three of those guys are playing that way. And so that's, that's where we land.
Suns and four because of that.

Speaker 6 Big four, big cat. Campaign played pretty well tonight, too.

Speaker 1 Also, Frank Kaminski had four minutes. Didn't record a stat, but he had four minutes.
Hey, guess what? You know what?

Speaker 1 Everyone who's making fun of Frank Kaminski for not beating up Pat Beverly, even though that's what I saw, if Frank Kaminski had fought Pat Beverly there, he wouldn't have been able to play those four minutes tonight.

Speaker 1 He would have been suspended.

Speaker 6 And so wait, so he had four points, right?

Speaker 1 No, he had four minutes.

Speaker 6 Oh, four minutes.

Speaker 1 So, he had a post.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, who knows what would happen? Those were big minutes.
What was his plus-minus?

Speaker 1 Zero.

Speaker 5 Okay, perfect.

Speaker 6 He helped you tread water for a little bit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he had a four trillion. Okay.

Speaker 6 I love it. But the most important thing, Big Cat, is that he was out there for his teammates tonight.

Speaker 1 Yes, exactly. The only other thing I had from this game,

Speaker 1 the Suns crowd,

Speaker 1 that is the coolest crowd of all time.

Speaker 6 That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They're just partying so fucking hard and having such a great time. I just love it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 You're right. With the Suns crowd, they seem awesome.
They seem like the greatest group of fellas to ever watch a game with. And they just remind me kind of of a Los Angeles crowd.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 It's actually a great point because the like going from the summer heat all day into air conditioning is actually the greatest drug ever created. It really does change your entire like

Speaker 1 mind or whatever. what is it? Your mind psychology.
That's not the right words. It's late.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I don't know my LA

Speaker 1 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 it.
Okay, I think I nailed that.

Speaker 6 I'm gonna say it's as if everybody from Bakersfield lived in Kauai.

Speaker 1 Kauai? Is that the island?

Speaker 5 Or the player? The Kauai. Oh.

Speaker 1 The island of Kauai. Okay.

Speaker 6 I see how that

Speaker 6 might be difficult to comprehend because there is a player named Kauai.

Speaker 1 Kauai. Yeah.
Yeah, and he does, like, living in his mind would probably be the absence of thought.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you would just feel like you're in the matrix at that point.

Speaker 1 Right. Last thing on this game, we did get LeBron's tweet after the game.
One down, three to go, CP3.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 I'll just say it right now. If the Suns win, LeBron should get a ring.

Speaker 1 Absolutely should get a ring. Absolutely.
CP3's best friend.

Speaker 6 LeBron is putting this team on his back, big cat. He is willing the Suns to an NBA championship.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't be shocked if LeBron gets on one of the floats.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Like just to be there.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 He'll basically like he shares enough business connection. He's basically Chris Paul's manager.
So you usually invite like your managers or your reps, your PR guys.

Speaker 6 They get to hang out during the parades. Absolutely.
LeBron should be there. He should get to drive one of the funny little cars.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes, absolutely. All right.
So other things we're going to get to, the match, it happened. It was

Speaker 1 bad. It was good, but it was bad.
Like, it's actually a good, I like the idea.

Speaker 1 They shouldn't have done it. I don't don't know if they, how, how far out they scheduled these, but doing it on the night of the NBA Finals, like, I watched the first six or seven holes.

Speaker 1 It's like, okay, now there's a real like sporting event going on, the NBA Finals.

Speaker 1 I also, I watched long enough, though, to realize that Bryson came with like all these jokes, and he ran out of them like in the second hole.

Speaker 1 And Phil 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He even did the, he tried to do a bet with Bryson, and Bryson, like, couldn't understand the concept of it, which was very funny. And also, my favorite moment was

Speaker 1 when Brady was like deep in a sand trap, and Phil Mickelson was like, yeah, it's pretty straightforward. You're just going to hit it out of this.

Speaker 1 It's like, Phil, you're one of the greatest sand trap players of all time. And you're just like, yeah, dude, just, you know, just swing the club and it will go towards the hole.

Speaker 1 And then we'll, we'll putt it and we'll be going on to the next hole.

Speaker 6 Yeah, Bryson definitely rolled up with like a

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 But yeah, he was ready to go with like, he had his little, his knee slappers. And I was rooting for the course personally.
I don't know about you. It was a beautiful course.
Beautiful.

Speaker 6 I was just, I was hoping that Bryson was going to get eaten by a bear on live television. I mean, I thought, like, no joke.

Speaker 6 I'm not even kidding. If Bryson DeCambo had been killed and eaten by a grizzly grizzly bear during the match, that would have been the funniest thing that has ever been played on television.

Speaker 1 And Aaron Rodgers wouldn't have tried to save him because they were not like friends and they were not really friendly at all.

Speaker 1 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 could hear what he was saying.

Speaker 1 And he made like a comment about Aaron Rodgers retiring. And then Aaron Rodgers is like, what was that, Gronk? And he's like, like, oh, I didn't know you were on the line.

Speaker 1 It was like, of course, Gronk doesn't understand this concept. But overall, I, you know, it was good.

Speaker 1 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's like, hey, there's no sports on.

Speaker 1 Play that. That's when, like, 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.

Speaker 6 Well, they, 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 of weeks in mid-July.

Speaker 6 So they, they thought they had that scheduled out perfectly, but it turns out that because of COVID and all that stuff, everything got mixed around.

Speaker 6 But yeah, it was, it was fun. It's like fun hearing Phil Mickelson talk shit because he's like so naturally good at it.

Speaker 6 You can tell that like he, all this stuff is just like, how he normally acts even when microphones aren't on.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 That's why they call him Fig Jam, the fuck I'm good, just ask me. That's his actual personality, like 100% to a T.

Speaker 6 I back to the course just real quick, because 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 I mean, shit, the last 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.

Speaker 6 So, 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 it was.

Speaker 6 I like, I like sporting events with mountains next to them.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I mean, it's it's why the Rose Bowl, those little mountains, they're like foothills, but they're still are,

Speaker 1 mountains, and that's part of the allure of it. So you're absolutely right.
That

Speaker 1 Aaron Rodgers looked like he was very happy in Montana.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And next stop, can't. So I just want to get that out there.

Speaker 1 Incredible career. What a way to finish it too, as a win, on a win.
People don't finish their careers on wins.

Speaker 1 They hang on too long. Aaron Rodgers is walking off a winner right now.
So congrats to him on a great career.

Speaker 6 I was going to 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.

Speaker 6 and no longer playing football after that.

Speaker 6 There's nowhere to go but down at this point. And really, you upstage Brady.
Like, Brady can't retire a winner right now.

Speaker 6 If Brady wanted to retire, sure, he won the Super Bowl or whatever that was, but he lost the match.

Speaker 1 Right. Right.
Exactly.

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My question is:

Speaker 1 are you feeling a little bit

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like when they were busting his balls,

Speaker 1 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 I feel bad for him.

Speaker 1 So my question is, do you understand a little bit more what I was saying?

Speaker 6 My answer to you is yes, Bryson is weird. Good question.
He's weird. He's a weird guy.

Speaker 6 I don't think I'll ever feel bad for him. I just think he's so because the personality that he puts out there

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 So if you're going to put that image out, if you're going to gain like 30 pounds of totally legal muscle

Speaker 6 and act like you're like the big tough guy in golf and I hit bombs on the big swing of nuts on the golf course, I'm going to I'm going to have zero remorse when it comes to telling you that your hat sucks.

Speaker 6 So, no, I'm not, I, I will never feel, I will not apologize, big cat. I will never ask you to for making fun of Bryson DeShambeau ever.

Speaker 1 I'm not asking you to. I'm just saying hurt people hurt people.
So, when I see Bryson, he's hurt. And that's why he hurts people by being a weirdo all the time.

Speaker 6 I don't think, 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.

Speaker 6 I would have laughed, but then probably felt bad about him being mauled to death. So, I take back what I said earlier.

Speaker 6 I will feel bad for Bryson if he dies via the paw of the grizzly bear on television.

Speaker 1 I also have no problem people calling me soft for that take, but it's the truth. I just, I, again, I'm going to keep making fun of him.
95% is a lot.

Speaker 1 That's the 95% that's going to keep making fun of him. The 5% is just deep down every now and then.

Speaker 1 I might just pump the brakes on it and be like, okay, I'm not going to make fun of him this time, 5% of the time.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 warm-up for other sports at night.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 6 No, Italy looked really good today. And that dude, Chiesa, my guy Chiesa, 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.

Speaker 6 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,

Speaker 6 they could be wearing a neon yellow shirt. And I'd be like, that motherfucker is Italian.
They all hit that like real juicy prime spot that I'm looking for. And so it's.

Speaker 6 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 i'm going to continue with my thought that i actually do love the look of really Italian Italian people.

Speaker 6 Almost like looking at a cartoon. It's like I'm, 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.

Speaker 6 I think they're going to dominate Denmark. And I think that Italy

Speaker 6 versus England on what, Saturday this week?

Speaker 1 Saturday.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 Basically, what you can say you watch is the most heartbreaking possible exit for Italy, excuse me, me, the most heartbreaking possible exit for England will happen.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 The guy's alive. So

Speaker 6 thankfully he's alive.

Speaker 5 But

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 No, that's a carrot for them to get to the finals. They can't let him down now.
He might die.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 6 I don't see it happening with Denmark. Although

Speaker 6 the players from Denmark,

Speaker 6 when they talk, it always reminds me of Morton Anderson with that crazy cool accent that you never hear.

Speaker 6 Denmark accent's very underrated.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, they do have Team of Destiny vibes.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I just,

Speaker 1 like, I'm also rooting for extra time in all these games because it really does just bridge the gap. You're just, you're watching a game at three o'clock.

Speaker 1 You're like, you know, it'd be sweet if this game lasted till like 5.45 and then 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

Speaker 6 one thing I really enjoy about the European soccer too is all the all the coaches dressed up in their like finest suits and most stylish like skinny ties and stuff you will you'll never see an American football coach wearing clothes that fit them.

Speaker 6 And every single European football, I think call them managers,

Speaker 6 they all look like they came directly from the tailor out onto the field.

Speaker 1 They're either Bond villains or like

Speaker 1 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, everyone be like, oh, you don't know about him.

Speaker 1 He had the Golazzo of 1964. And they'll tweet that at you and be like, how could you not know this? So yeah, they're in the Italy.

Speaker 1 I think the Italy manager was wearing jeans, which I fucking love that.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 Or else people are going to be like, you ran the national team into the ground. So he's always really nervous about that last one.

Speaker 6 But I have a question for you about England because we've been saying it's coming home, which I still firmly believe it could be coming home.

Speaker 6 When did England become so likable as a country?

Speaker 1 Ooh, probably troops. Yeah.

Speaker 6 He saved England.

Speaker 1 He saved England. Yeah.
So actually, no, Barstool saved England because we hired troops. All right.

Speaker 6 Congratulations.

Speaker 6 We say, so World War I saved your asses. World War II saved your asses.
Megan and Harry left. Barstool came in.
We saved your asses. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think also the crown, that show on Netflix, people got really obsessed with that shit.

Speaker 6 It's also because 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 bills 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

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 a fan base that can never get tan

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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, it's like none of those people can get tan.

Speaker 1 So they just are,

Speaker 1 you know, they're always at this level of, uh, whoa, are you like, can I put my hand through you? Like, you look like a ghost.

Speaker 6 I'll take it one step further. I think if you live in England, you're never going to be truly happy with anything.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 You're not ever going to be like really psyched in every facet of your life if you live in England. So why not?

Speaker 6 Why not throw these guys, throw the lads a bone every now and again and let them win a Euro?

Speaker 1 Think about it. You drink warm beer and eat beans every day.
Right. Like life can't be good.
Life can't be good. If you can't get tan, you drink warm beer and you eat beans.

Speaker 1 That's not a great, like, that your peak is not peaking that high.

Speaker 6 No, the thing you get most excited about in the world is like watching your frumpy old mascot drag her corgis around on like asphalt sidewalk in the middle of downtown London.

Speaker 6 And then everyone has to pretend to be happy about it. This is this is a country filled with people who are generally polite regarding most things.

Speaker 6 They're understated, but it's because they know that like, hey, there's really really nothing for me to be that pumped up about. So, I'm just going to be quietly polite all my life.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 And their accents are cool because, like, whenever an English person says anything, they could, it could be the least funny thing said, but it's still funny. So, they have that.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 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 i really want to see some english shows put all their cast of characters together to whip up a video

Speaker 6 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 an occasion 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 see 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 gonna do yep um all right so we're rooting for england uh let's do who's back of the the Week?

Speaker 1 Then we have John Morant, Stu Finder. Then we're going to finish the show with a hot seat, cool throne, and a quick guys on chicks.

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The Cash App is back. Okay, what also also is back is vacation is back.

Speaker 1 Hank, Liam,

Speaker 1 Jake, Billy, all on vacation, a much-deserved vacation. In their

Speaker 1 place, we have guest producers, which is this is exciting because we've never had guest producers here.

Speaker 1 So we have Jake Lasofsky and Youngstown Bob, also known as Tongue Stown Bob, because he eats a shitload of pussy. Right, Bob?

Speaker 1 No, he's shaking his head. Okay, so

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 5 I heard different. I heard he likes it.
I heard it.

Speaker 6 Tongue Sound Bonk.

Speaker 1 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 Be Mocracy. No.

Speaker 1 No. Encouragement.

Speaker 1 That one is the B-Mobs. What is it called? Barstool Bench Mob.
Barstool Bench Mob. Are you sure? Yeah, that's the only podcast that does college basketball.
Okay, all right. All right.

Speaker 1 Agree to disagree. And then Young Sound Bob, you might know

Speaker 1 from 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? Not yet, I guess. Okay,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 Well, you're really talking about HPV right now. So the same thing that got, what's his name? Michael Douglas.

Speaker 6 That's what you want to happen. Tongue Town Bob, you might be able to give us a good pointers.
I think that was a good use of the burner account.

Speaker 6 By the way, I just started up a brand new burner account because

Speaker 6 I had to do a different one. I got sick of using the one that I had

Speaker 6 and too many people started to follow it. So it becomes not a burner account.
So I'm just whack-a-mole right now on the internet.

Speaker 6 If I do it too often, am I going to get my main account shut down?

Speaker 1 No, they can't do that. I don't think so.

Speaker 6 I'll start my own.

Speaker 1 Okay. 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. All right.

Speaker 1 Oh, he didn't hit the mic. That's okay.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And also, shout out your own Twitter accounts.

Speaker 1 Let's get some followers up, right? Yeah. All right.
So, Jake.

Speaker 9 The Italians are back. Obviously, big week for them.
Big win yesterday over Spain.

Speaker 9 Late last week, the trailer for Many Saints of Newark dropped.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 9 Sopranos prequel. And then also this weekend, a big return for a

Speaker 9 Italian that we know here hanging his jersey in the rafters for the third time. Yes.

Speaker 9 Rico Bosco returning to DJs. So just an all-around big week for Italians.

Speaker 1 I love it. I love it.
Italian. Are Italians having a moment?

Speaker 6 Dan Patrick's, or I mean, not Dan Patrick. What's his name?

Speaker 1 Danilo Gallinari? No, no.

Speaker 6 Mike Tarico is getting ready for the Olympics right now. So that's...

Speaker 1 Yeah, there it is.

Speaker 6 That's big. There it is.
Yeah, Italian. I think the Italians are having a moment.

Speaker 6 It would be funny to think about what would happen if you were going into audition for the role of of James Gandolfini's son in the miniatures of Newark.

Speaker 6 And then you see the other person that's auditioning it for the role

Speaker 6 is his actual son. Right.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I'm kind of, I think I'm kind of fucked on this one.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 give it an old college try. All right.
Good job, Jake. Jake will also have a hot seat cool throne, so get excited for that.
Youngstown Bob,

Speaker 1 which, by the way, this is the first time we've had a true blue Cleveland Browns fan in

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I have too many friends that think we're going to win like 14. They're insane.
Okay. Okay.
But I like that.

Speaker 6 I like that. Do you realize you said 11 wins? Nothing crazy for the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 1 But 17 games. Yep.
Fact.

Speaker 1 11 and

Speaker 1 6. Six, six.
There it is. 11, 5, and 1.
11 and 6. And okay, so, Bob, give us your who's back.

Speaker 1 Who's back is vacation Hank. Oh,

Speaker 1 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 is.
Hank deserves a vacation. He's on vacation.
That's a good point.

Speaker 1 Do you guys, did you guys take a vacation this weekend? No?

Speaker 1 I went home to Cleveland for about like four days.

Speaker 5 Hell yeah.

Speaker 9 I had to move.

Speaker 1 Jake had to move. That's not a vacation at all.
Not a vacation. Did you go to Put-in-Bay? I did not, but I saw Eddie the day before he went.
Yeah, that's a fucking scene.

Speaker 6 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 shakari 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 the olympics and i think she was also today officially left off the four by 100 meter relay team so she can't run the hundred she can't do the four 4x100.

Speaker 6 It's so stupid. It's funny how

Speaker 6 the World Anti-Doping Association considers marijuana to be a performance enhancing drug. Like that is, that's beating, that's beating the final boss on advanced level.

Speaker 6 Like 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.

Speaker 6 That to me is like the most impressive athletic feat of them all, potentially.

Speaker 1 It's been

Speaker 1 so many days since we had a show. We missed some things, but Emmanuel Acho's tweet needs to be at least thrown out there.

Speaker 1 For the takies are coming up, but he said legalizing weed in track and field competition is all good if you're running in a straight line.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 a loser, and just really bad thinking all in one tweet.

Speaker 1 And he's definitely never smoked because I don't know, like, I don't think anyone's smoked and been like, let me start throwing this javelin at people. Does he think weed is like heroin?

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, no, he thinks weed is LSD. So this is 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 And so it's very clear that was it Emmanuel Acho? Yeah. Or was it so? Emmanuel, he's the guy that's doing The Bachelor, right?

Speaker 1 No, he's doing, he has a show with

Speaker 1 who the fuck does he have a show with?

Speaker 6 But I think I think he was doing The Bachelor.

Speaker 1 Marcellus Wiley, I think.

Speaker 6 Okay, well, yeah, he's never smoked weed. Somebody give Emmanuel Acho a joint and then see if he can actually show up on television to complete a sentence.
I want to see it happen.

Speaker 6 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's like, she even owned up to it.

Speaker 6 She was like, yeah, I fucked up. I made a big-time mistake.

Speaker 6 But I just want to say, if you're actually high competing in an event, it's awesome.

Speaker 1 It's not

Speaker 6 the coolest thing you can do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's incredible. It's incredible that you were able to do that to make the Olympic team while high.
So, yeah, I don't, I mean, just send her that. Why don't we have a high Olympics?

Speaker 6 Oh, my God. Yes.
Absolutely. 100%.
I would love to have the high Olympics.

Speaker 1 It would be hilarious.

Speaker 6 You can get Shaqari Richardson in an equestrian event riding American Spirit.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And people would just be like, we'd have, you know, what we'd do is we'd get people just running out into the field and throw javelins at them.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That would be fun. That sounds amazing.

Speaker 6 What you're describing right now is American Gladiators, which I also think that they should have in the Olympics.

Speaker 1 Yes. All right.
My who's back of the week is the one and only Joey Chestnut, the greatest athlete of all time.

Speaker 1 I think some people think I'm being facetious when I tweet this at July 4th, but I really do think pound for pound he is the greatest athlete of all time.

Speaker 1 Maybe you could say secretariat, but I don't, yeah, no, I think I.

Speaker 1 Joey Chestnut has won 14 titles now. 14.
No one has ever won that many many titles at anything. They showed it.

Speaker 1 Raphael Nadal has won 13 French opens, which is cheating because it's clay. Joey Chestnut just ate 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

Speaker 1 The only time Joey Chestnut got beat was because his fucking fiancé broke up with him a week before the competition.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 I think he goes one, Secretariat, two, cousin June Bug, three, Joey Chestnut, and then four, the disc golf guy that hit that shot the other week.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he is

Speaker 1 a marvel.

Speaker 1 And when he retires.

Speaker 1 20 more championships down the line. I don't think we'll ever see another guy like Joey Chestnut.
Like, I don't think he beats everyone. Do you see that?

Speaker 1 I don't know if you watched, but there was this fucking guy who was talking all this shit, and he got beat by like 25 hot dogs. It was incredible.
Like, it's not even in the same realm.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He is one of one, one of a billion, trillion. Joey Chestnut's the greatest of all time.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 Like, yeah, Joey Chestnut is absolutely, he's a monster. You don't tug on Superman's cape.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 1 The only other guy who is close, as close to his impressive is, I think it's Badlands Booker, who drank, who, who chugged a gallon of lemonade in like 35 seconds and then competed in the hot dog competition.

Speaker 1 And it was just, it was a total it was the perfect combo of like dudes rock and america rocks like what are we even doing here i don't know but it rules

Speaker 6 it's a yeah it's it's a great celebration of american did i ever tell you about the time i ran into bad lands and joey chestnut at a strip club no uh i think so but sell it again that's basically the entire story is i ran into them at a strip club and then i hung out I hung out with them for a couple hours and drank some beers.

Speaker 6 Actually, at the time I was there, they ordered something like 10 or 11 beers each.

Speaker 6 And then the next morning, they were both competing in a corned beef and cabbage eating contest in Savannah, Georgia on St. Patrick's Day.

Speaker 6 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 too.

Speaker 1 Joey Chestnut parties. I remember when I competed against him, which I will be saying, that will probably be the first line in my obituary.

Speaker 1 And I will also be very upset if, you know, know how people make the videos like MJ competed against plumbers. If they put me and like Joey Chestnut competed against plumbers and it was me.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I'm not going anywhere for the next week. Like, I feel like absolute shit.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You are not a human being. So, Joey Chestnut, he is the GOAT.
I just need people to respect him more.

Speaker 6 He quite literally is built different. When people say that word gets tossed around a lot, Joey Chestnut is built different, plain and simple.

Speaker 6 And people always say, hang it in the Louvre, hang this or that in the Louvre. We should hang Joey Chestnut in the Louvre.

Speaker 1 Yes, his intentions. As a person, his intellect.
As a person.

Speaker 6 Yes. Yeah.
Like the bodies exhibit that you see where they like take out the digestive.

Speaker 6 They should have his entire digestive tract from teeth to to butthole just nailed to a wall in the Louvre for the rest of time so that we can all take our kids there and marvel at it.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. I love it.
All right. Let's get to our interviews.

Speaker 1 We have John Moran up first. We also, speaking to John Morant, I think,

Speaker 1 are we doing a card rip? Are we ripping cards?

Speaker 6 We're going to rip a pack, buddy.

Speaker 6 We're going to rip some serious packs. We have a new sponsor alert.
Wait, I want to hear what Youngstown Bob's new sponsor alert sound is going to be.

Speaker 8 Here we go, Bob.

Speaker 1 I don't know what that means. just, when we have a new sponsor, we just do a sound.
Hank, do a sound. Oh, yeah.
Oh,

Speaker 1 hell yeah. I like that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 6 Oh, yeah. We got new sponsors.

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Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 documentary out called Promised Land. It's on Crackle Now.
It's free to stream. It's about the rise of John Morant, reigning NBA rookie of the year.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 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 press conference room.

Speaker 1 What are you doing at the facility? What are we working on this summer? Because I know that's a big thing that everyone says he's got to work on this, got to work on that.

Speaker 1 What's the John Morant 2.0, 3.0 for year three?

Speaker 7 I'm here to, you know, work on everything, you know, in the weight room and on the court.

Speaker 1 Love it. Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 Because I feel like you get hosed sometimes.

Speaker 5 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 like throw it off the backboard and that goes against your field goal percentage.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 Have you thought about that?

Speaker 7 Definitely. Obviously, you know, I can't control that.

Speaker 7 But me and my teammates, you know, my bigs have that connection. So,

Speaker 7 know when I'm, you know, doing that. Obviously, it's just having the ball drop right in front of the rim for them to, you know, be able to finish it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I think maybe if you say, like, as you're passing it, if you say dime,

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I need all my assists and... my field goal percentage higher.

Speaker 5 Yep.

Speaker 1 You actually need,

Speaker 1 our friend Kirk Goldsbury has a stat. You have, your team scores the most when you miss in the paint of any other team.
11% of the time when you miss in the paint, your team scores off that rebound.

Speaker 1 So that should count as an assist too.

Speaker 7 Should count as two, if we're being honest.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Would you consider yourself part of the float goat

Speaker 1 revolution in the NBA? All these guys, young guys with unbelievable floaters?

Speaker 7 Of course. I feel like it's something I've been working on, something

Speaker 7 that allows me to

Speaker 7 not absorb a lot of contact, just stopping, right before the defender and just shooting the floater.

Speaker 7 I feel like I shoot and make floaters at a high level.

Speaker 7 I should be in that category.

Speaker 1 I like it because it does feel

Speaker 1 basketball has evolved over the years and obviously the last five years, people taking bombing three-pointers and efficiency.

Speaker 1 And, you know, you got to 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.

Speaker 1 The floater is the new two-pointer that's most efficient.

Speaker 7 I feel like both, you know, just

Speaker 7 analytics and numbers, you know. say, you know, those shots aren't efficient.

Speaker 7 But as you can see, it's a lot of people, you know, know, in this league who, you know, use floaters or, you know, pull up tools and, you know, make them at a hot level.

Speaker 1 How much do you listen to guys on the analytics staff or people who put numbers in front of you?

Speaker 1 How much is it like finding the balance of, hey, I'm just going to go play basketball versus, oh, this is actually good knowledge. I got to try to implement this in my game.

Speaker 7 I actually don't listen to them at all.

Speaker 1 There we go.

Speaker 7 Really just going out there and playing my game.

Speaker 1 Perfect. That's a perfect answer.
I appreciate that a lot.

Speaker 5 I feel like that's something that it could be useful.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 You know, like, I want it to be, it should be second nature. It should, you should,

Speaker 5 a good shot is one that goes in. That's what I always say.

Speaker 7 That's the only thing that matters.

Speaker 1 Yeah, lamb counts as two.

Speaker 1 You had a quote. We love this quote.
You said your dad was your first hater. Is he still is he still a hater hater of you?

Speaker 7 100%.

Speaker 7 I think when I run rookie of the year, his message after was,

Speaker 7 good job. You still suck.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 7 ain't too much I can do, you know, to

Speaker 7 make him say something positive.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 7 Yeah, like just

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 1 And then start laughing.

Speaker 1 That's so.

Speaker 1 I would imagine he's also featured a lot in the docuseries, which, again, is out now, Promised Land.

Speaker 1 You can check it out on Crackle. Is he a featured player in the docuseries in your relationship with him?

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 7 We got, you know, parts that, you know, just shows our relationship, shows, you know, how he played a, you know, part in, you know, my basketball career.

Speaker 1 And he was a pretty good basketball player, too. He played with Ray Allen, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 7 he was. I'm going to call him trash, though, since he called me trash.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he won't play me no more.

Speaker 7 You know, I beat him last time. We had this, you know,

Speaker 7 kids versus adult game, and I hit the game, went on him, and he won't play me no more.

Speaker 5 Do you remember the very first time that you beat your dad in one-on-one?

Speaker 7 Nah, he, once I, you know, got a little taller and,

Speaker 7 you know, more athletic,

Speaker 7 he would never play me one-on-one. But when I was younger, he would, but he just posted me up and was just laying the ball up so I couldn't do too much.

Speaker 5 Yeah, so he just decided he would quit. He would stop playing rather than have you whoop his ass every time.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he ran from the smoke.

Speaker 1 Talking about another hater, you probably don't remember him, but we have a co-worker, Marty Mush, who you actually said appreciate the extra motivation after you won Rookie of the Year.

Speaker 1 He said, if you watched that game, I think this is talking about a game in the bubble.

Speaker 1 If you watch that game, you can't tell me that John Morant is good, doesn't look for teammates late in the game, and can't hit the big shots. Sad that people can't tell the truth.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 7 Yeah, I get motivation from goofies that say some crazy stuff.

Speaker 5 He is a goofy guy.

Speaker 1 He's very goofy.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 You can't use a pair of clippers.

Speaker 7 He should have just shaved it right down the middle.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Reverse

Speaker 1 continue being the goofy guy. Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 you know, like, you know, fuels everything that you've accomplished right now in the NBA. Like, do you still have that chip on your shoulder? Like, why didn't all these big-time programs come calling?

Speaker 7 Yeah, I still have that, you know, that underdog mentality. You know, where I'm from,

Speaker 7 the reason, you know, I play with this chip on my shoulder and, you know, not receiving, you know, any recognition and, you know, being overlooked, obviously

Speaker 7 just, you know, added more to it. So

Speaker 7 I still, you know, take that in this league and play, you know, like that underdog.

Speaker 1 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 for us, but you can't get a scholarship?

Speaker 1 Like anyone who is truly, like, how, how could you do this? Like, I'm clearly good enough to play at Division I and higher.

Speaker 7 Nah, I feel like if they did that anyway, I probably wouldn't have responded

Speaker 1 if I had offers. So

Speaker 7 I ain't got time to ain't had the funds to pay for no college.

Speaker 5 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

Speaker 5 was there something about your game that took longer to develop than maybe other players that were your same age?

Speaker 7 No, I just honestly, if we're being honest, I just felt like, you know,

Speaker 7 everybody was just, you know, riding the same wave.

Speaker 7 So if it was a player that's 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.

Speaker 7 And, you know, they wouldn't do nothing and still no offer. So honestly, I don't know what it was.

Speaker 7 Maybe they just didn't like me, but I'm glad, you know, Murray State, you know, offered me that scholarship and, you know, helped me get to this point.

Speaker 5 Maybe your dad talked to the coach and was like, hey, my son sucks.

Speaker 1 Like, don't worry about it. He cannot play at all.

Speaker 1 Probably so.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 7 Man, it was, you know, plenty of times where we would win by 40-50.

Speaker 7 And it wasn't many times, you know, we would lose a game either. So

Speaker 7 that tells you that.

Speaker 1 I would imagine, like,

Speaker 1 playing AAU with Zion and throwing him lobs was pretty goddamn fun.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 5 Did you guys ever break a backboard?

Speaker 7 Nah, I don't think so.

Speaker 5 Bend a rim, something like that?

Speaker 5 We missed that about the old NBA. We missed the age where you could just tear a rim off a backboard.

Speaker 7 Yeah, no, I don't think we ever

Speaker 7 broke a rim, but I'm pretty sure it was times where a couple of those rims was mad at Zion for sure.

Speaker 5 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,

Speaker 5 I feel like getting 40 tonight, and you could just go out and grab, you know, 35, 40 points. Do you feel like

Speaker 5 if you're in the right headspace, you have the ability to do that on any given night?

Speaker 7 Yeah, of course. You know, I have that confidence.
You know, I know I'm capable of it, but,

Speaker 7 you know, I'm just

Speaker 7 a team player.

Speaker 7 You know,

Speaker 7 I've put myself, as you know, a real point guard. You know, I pass first, you know, make sure I get everybody involved.

Speaker 7 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.
So

Speaker 1 has Grayson Allen ever accidentally tripped you in practice?

Speaker 7 Nah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 7 Nah, nah.

Speaker 7 I don't, I mean, I don't look at, you know, Grayson as, you one of those players, but if it happens to, you know, anybody, I'm riding with him.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's a good team. That's a good team, man.
That's a great teammate.

Speaker 5 Has he tried to get you to slap the floor on defense?

Speaker 7 If he tells me to, I will.

Speaker 1 You have a lot of Duke guys on your team, right? Like, there's

Speaker 1 three. Yeah.
Tyus Jones on the team. Like, I, oh, Justice Winslow, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I hate all of them. So

Speaker 7 we have those, you know, battles, but we know we got some

Speaker 7 two Michigan State, two Gonzaga, you got Oregon, UCLA.

Speaker 1 And Murray State. Yeah, Murray State.
I love that. Yeah.

Speaker 7 But yeah, we all know Murray State would have beat all of them. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Absolutely.

Speaker 5 What was that like when you were in college? And like you really, your last year there was just insane. The

Speaker 5 numbers were put up. You were like, everybody knew John Morant was going to come out and he was going to take over the game.

Speaker 5 They had to throw some pretty crazy exotic defenses at you, like boxing one or triangle and two.

Speaker 5 Did you ever, what was the, what was the weirdest defense that they ever tried to break out to stop you in college?

Speaker 7 I have to say Alabama.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 Still end up with 38, so it ain't work too much.

Speaker 1 I love it. One more question about the docu series.
What made you want to do it? Because it feels like some people be like, hey, you're only year two.

Speaker 1 Are you going to redo it again, you know, in five years when you win an MVP? Like, what, what made you want to do it right now?

Speaker 7 Really, just to, you know, be able to tell my story, you know, go deeper into my journey. Obviously, it was, you know,

Speaker 7 many years before,

Speaker 7 you know, I got to the league that plays a part in this documentary. So

Speaker 7 being able to just tell, you know, how I went from, you know, a small town kid to, you know, the number two pick to, you know, winning rookie of the year.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it was

Speaker 7 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

Speaker 7 my whole 11th grade year, you know, I was just trying to dunk, but I couldn't.

Speaker 7 And then, you know, got to that summer,

Speaker 7 I, you know, threw a log to myself one time and then got me a little little rim grazer dunk in. And

Speaker 7 from then on, it, you know, just

Speaker 1 got even worse. You feel it.

Speaker 1 It was a lob to yourself was your first dunk. That's pretty badass.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 You know how you just, you know, throw it up, let the ball bounce. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Yeah. I had to make sure the lob was perfect, like right by the rim so I can just put it right over.

Speaker 1 Yeah, sneak it right over.

Speaker 5 Did you feel like a changed man when you hit the ground after that?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, I

Speaker 7 let off a scream like finally.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Then, 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.

Speaker 5 I'm curious to know about maybe one of the best landmarks in America, one of my favorites, certainly, the Basque Pro Shop Pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee. Have you had a chance to go there?

Speaker 5 It looks like the most magical place on earth.

Speaker 7 Nah, honestly, I haven't had a chance to go there.

Speaker 7 It's kind of of tough for me.

Speaker 7 I just can't

Speaker 7 live a regular life and just go out in public like that.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 7 It's crazy. I might have to check it out, man.

Speaker 5 Highly recommend.

Speaker 7 They swim, though, so. Need a life jacket.

Speaker 1 Is the beef officially squashed between you and Andre Guadala?

Speaker 7 I don't beef with nobody, man.

Speaker 1 I mean, you guys are beefing.

Speaker 7 Somebody beef with me. They beefing by they self.

Speaker 1 you just you just happened like you definitely helped out with the i mean it was a story what was it a couple or was it last year um when he sat out you know and then everyone goes crazy on twitter i i mean it's fun it's entertainment for 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

Speaker 1 you know, guys being a little more outspoken. Do you not care when people come back at you and stuff like that?

Speaker 1 Like, I love the outspokenness no i don't at all um and then i'm you know speak my mind as well so

Speaker 7 um

Speaker 7 i mean if you say something then i you know i say something back then

Speaker 1 you take it how you want you just let me know you know what you want Okay, so no more no beef right now with Andrea Goodala, but also kind of beef.

Speaker 7 Nah, I ain't beefing with him.

Speaker 5 What if he said, like, I'm currently in a beef with John 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.

Speaker 5 I'm going to beef myself.

Speaker 7 He'll be, you know, just beefing by himself.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I had one last question.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Them jerseys, you know, are kind of tough. So, you know, you walk in the locker room and you see those jerseys in there, you know, you get hype.

Speaker 7 Me, I feel like, you know, you look better, you play better.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I really do think that's true.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's, 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.

Speaker 7 Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 7 We got a couple tough jerseys and, you know, in a collection.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 My last question for you. Just curious, like, so you got, you've accomplished a lot, right? You've got your docuseries coming out.
You've got Rookie of the Year.

Speaker 5 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 I want to accomplish?

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 5 You think if you win a championship, your dad will be like, hey,

Speaker 5 no offense, but I love you.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he probably would. You know, he's he,

Speaker 7 the, I love you part, you know, he, he, he says that, but it's the on-court stuff, like proud of you.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh. You know, all that.
Would he?

Speaker 7 He probably would be hype and then it'll be like, you still suck, but congrats.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I want to see you win a title just to see how your dad can spin zone that.

Speaker 5 Your dad would be like one of those burner accounts online. They'll be like, that's a Mickey Mouse championship.

Speaker 1 Yeah, too many guys got injured. Like one of of the worst championship teams of all time.

Speaker 6 Asterisk beside it.

Speaker 1 I love it, I love it. Well, Ja, thank you, man.
We really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 Um, and good luck with everything. Everyone, go check out the docuseries that's out now.
It's Promised Land, it's called Promised Land, it's on Crackle.

Speaker 1 Um, and if you want to see Ja's dad be more of a hater, go watch it right now.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Marty, uh, shave your hair right.

Speaker 1 I love it, I love it. Thanks so much, uh, Ja.

Speaker 1 Thank y'all, man.

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Okay, here he is, Stu Feiner.

Speaker 5 And now for something completely different.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It has been four years since we've been out at Casa de Feiner, the compound. We are back out here for a PMT field trip day.

Speaker 1 I don't know when we're going to run this, but I wanted to start, Stu, just to get in the mind of Stu Feiner, because there's people that

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 what time you wake up

Speaker 8 woke up at 5 30 okay

Speaker 8 uh peed yeah went back to sleep um then i woke up at quarter to seven and took my blood which was i every day i prick my finger to take my blood because my diabetes, type 2.

Speaker 1 I didn't know you were a diabetic.

Speaker 8 I'm totally out of control. My numbers are between 2180 to 400 a day.

Speaker 5 But you swing back and forth, though, because there are times where I've seen all your posts when you're like training for a marathon or doing like some heavy cardio and you look like you're real thin, like unbelievably skinny.

Speaker 8 Well, I have the ability to lose 50 pounds and go cold turkey, but now that marijuana is legal, I have failed.

Speaker 1 All right, so you wake up, you take your blood. I would love to see you

Speaker 1 do you have diabetic crash I would I don't know never okay yeah I was gonna say what would that look like I eat sugar I eat like I eat like 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

Speaker 1 I just want to I want to follow I want to follow you through the garden of your own brain on this so you just said you have I'm gonna die and I want to be die eating what I want okay the world fuck the doctors and fuck my medicine okay

Speaker 5 that's fair and what where does 15, 15, 30 come in? Like, what is the first? When do you decide to be in the middle?

Speaker 8 Well, Mike, I mean, specifically, oh, where does that come in, meaning what, today did I eat my wife's ass?

Speaker 1 All right, you know, why?

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm curious.

Speaker 8 When you're asking the question, with the evolution of it, or how did it happen, or what?

Speaker 5 Yeah, let's go macro on it.

Speaker 5 Like, when did you decide that 15, 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

Speaker 5 everyday life for Stu Fighter?

Speaker 8 Well, when I, you know, God stopped my growth in seventh grade and I ended up having a six-inch dick, claiming to have a 10-inch dick.

Speaker 1 Bam-Bam. You were Bam-Bam.
I was Bam-Bam. Surreal strength.

Speaker 8 Surreal strength.

Speaker 1 Surreal strength.

Speaker 8 But the six-inch dick can stay hard and come on command.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Wait, on command.

Speaker 8 On command.

Speaker 1 Not now, but

Speaker 8 in my 30s and 40s, yes.

Speaker 1 20s, yes. The surreal strength.

Speaker 1 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 Mahaloch story? The entire story?

Speaker 1 Because it was one of the funniest clips of all time. And I want like the whole backstory.
How'd you meet him? Like, how'd he die? Did he died in your backyard?

Speaker 1 No, he didn't die in my backyard. So,

Speaker 8 working at the 7-Eleven right here in

Speaker 8 10th grade.

Speaker 1 Which is what year?

Speaker 8 1977.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 8 less than a... quarter mile away, he has a gym called Mr.
America's, which is right there.

Speaker 8 Like if you fucking had a 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 Mr.

Speaker 8 America'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

Speaker 8 and steroids and

Speaker 8 mass bodybuilding yeah Lou Fregno Arnold Schwarzenegger 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.

Speaker 8 So anyway, we got a job working there in this nice, hot, very mellow environment.

Speaker 8 So my job was to stack the refrigerator with juices and then in the bathroom, pick up the syringes and throw them in the garbage.

Speaker 5 How many syringes do you think you would clean out on like an average day? 60.

Speaker 1 Okay, so none of this, by the way, is hyperbole, just so everyone knows.

Speaker 8 So anyway,

Speaker 8 we worked out in his gym. You were never allowed to talk to Steve or to the people that work there.

Speaker 1 I read a story that Steve Mahaloch, there's like legendary syringes. No, no, you could.

Speaker 1 He once beat a guy up because he thought the guy was stealing his strength by looking at him.

Speaker 8 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 there for the rest of my life.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? It was was murder.

Speaker 8 You know, like people died. There's no way you get hit in the head with

Speaker 8 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

Speaker 1 five times. I've seen that.
It's weird.

Speaker 8 Six, seven, eight.

Speaker 5 70s, maybe.

Speaker 5 So, what was it like? What was the protocol when there would be a fight inside the gym? Everybody looks down at the bottom. And understanding, let the two of them handle it.

Speaker 8 No, no, Steve. No, it was always Steve Mahaloch and his crew beating someone up mercilessly for no reason, just because they were roided out.

Speaker 1 And did you lift? Yeah. So Steve got you on a program.

Speaker 8 Well, not Steve never talked to me. Never.
You know, no, never. He didn't talk to me.
But someone who brought me to the gym did, yeah.

Speaker 1 And did you do steroids?

Speaker 8 No, never. They didn't even talk about steroids with us.

Speaker 1 Never. Okay.

Speaker 8 No one was ever sticking a needle in a bot arm then, you know, unless you were their age. You know, they were decades, they were 10 years older than us.

Speaker 1 So how did it like what?

Speaker 1 Did you know Steve later on in life?

Speaker 8 Like, so what happened was,

Speaker 8 fast forward to 1989,

Speaker 8 and I buy this house.

Speaker 8 And when I bought it, it was 7.8 acres. I still am on 2.5 acres.
I had a 1.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.

Speaker 8 You could fit 11 with sewers and roads to code. And that's what I built.
And I got got the map approved, named after my oldest son. So I got Shaw Michael Court, 11 houses in the backyard.

Speaker 8 One of the houses bordered 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

Speaker 1 nose to nose.

Speaker 8 She was, no, she was Italian, Tomasi,

Speaker 8 she was Italian. Got it.
And she was raging right at me. She yelling, you know, yelling and stuff.

Speaker 8 I said, listen, I got a map approved approved and I sold it to that builder and then she handled it with him.

Speaker 8 But she said, my husband wants to talk to you. My ex-husband wants to talk to you.

Speaker 8 So about a week later, I'm in the backyard hanging out, watching them build the houses. And he, again, makes a B-line for me.
Same exact thing, fucking as if they planned it out.

Speaker 8 And as he was coming at me, I went, Steve, and I was smiling.

Speaker 8 And then he froze.

Speaker 8 He goes, how do you know me? I go work for you.

Speaker 8 And he immediately just was destroyed. He was like, oh, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 8 I was a real asshole back then you did I do anything to you and 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 cats and the New York Mets the owner of the Mets I said fuck train me he goes yeah

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 1 Not really a religion.

Speaker 8 Scientology made much more sense. And to me, it made and to me it made...

Speaker 1 And to me... Steve Mahaloch showed you the light of Scientology?

Speaker 8 Listen, listen.

Speaker 8 Scientology is a way to answer questions. Religion is a way of answering questions.

Speaker 8 Before any of them start extorting you for money and then they all become frauds, Scientology makes the most sense.

Speaker 5 Which part about Scientology makes the most sense? Like the UFOs that drop eggs into a volcano?

Speaker 8 In other words, half it, like when I saw the, when I saw the movie, I was humiliated because that's not what

Speaker 1 Steve lied to me. That's like level 10.
No, no, no. Steve never told me any of this stuff because I would have thrown him out of my house.
So Steve, I would have been afraid to leave him alone.

Speaker 5 Steve's right. I think like the basic levels of Scientology.

Speaker 1 But he wasn't a Scientology.

Speaker 5 And that's much different from from other religions.

Speaker 8 My point with religions,

Speaker 8 he took parts of Scientology, parts of Judaism, parts of Catholicism, parts of Hinduism,

Speaker 8 and squished them together.

Speaker 1 He made his own religion. He was a religion? He knew all religions.
McCall knew all religions. Maholicism? That's incredible.
He basically did.

Speaker 1 He did when you go.

Speaker 8 I'm sharing with my trainer gut level my life.

Speaker 1 Right. So we need answers.

Speaker 8 Where do the answers come from?

Speaker 1 You, Scientists.

Speaker 1 so sorry.

Speaker 8 You know, you, you know.

Speaker 1 Steve Mahalak.

Speaker 1 So Steve Mahaloch essentially is like when you do the suicide at the

Speaker 1 terrible word to use there.

Speaker 1 Terrible use to word. Follow me.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 8 On your Palmer doing that commercial times for

Speaker 1 Arnold Palm is doing the commercial times. Here's a little sprite Buddhism.
Here's a little

Speaker 1 coke.

Speaker 8 But truth be told, like in other words, I shared gut level

Speaker 8 asking for answers, and he provided the answers. Wow.
Like, in other words, anything I was insecure about, he had an answer for it and helped me.

Speaker 8 Any problem I had with Sandy, he had an answer for it 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.

Speaker 8 Not just, hey, maybe I'll use it. I implemented it and it solved the problem.

Speaker 5 What was the best piece of advice he ever gave you?

Speaker 8 Don't do steroids. The two sayings that I live and die by, disagree,

Speaker 8 set free.

Speaker 8 The way out

Speaker 8 is the way through.

Speaker 8 So, like, for example, when he would make me do 300 reps of something that he started off going, give me 25. And then he'd go, give me another 25.

Speaker 8 And he'd be like, and I'd be like, Steve, I can't do it.

Speaker 1 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. Stuart, disagree, Set Free.
Give me another 10, give me another 10, give me another six.

Speaker 1 The way out's the way through, Stewart, Stuart, come on, give me another 60.

Speaker 8 And those two sayings, I love it.

Speaker 5 It means embrace debate, essentially.

Speaker 1 Well, now I feel sad that Steve Mahaloch is no longer with us.

Speaker 5 Oh, listen, I think he's very much with us. Can I explain that?

Speaker 1 I think he's with us through the team. He's one of those people

Speaker 8 that the second he walks in a room, like you know, like meeting Mick Jagga, I met Mick Bono, I met

Speaker 8 you know, Clinton. I met, you know, when the second they walk in.

Speaker 1 You're on a private plane?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 8 But I've had sloppy seconds. It's amazing.
No.

Speaker 8 But in other words, when he walks in a room,

Speaker 8 you just gravitate to him.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 And he's so smart. Like, you know, like listening to Buddha almost.

Speaker 8 He was disturbed. He had a very dark part of his life.

Speaker 8 The steroids robbed him of his greatness.

Speaker 8 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 where his body broke down and he had to take his life.

Speaker 5 I'm curious to know.

Speaker 1 Um, but in this gym, right where we are right now,

Speaker 8 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

Speaker 8 three times a week for 10 years.

Speaker 1 Damn.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 Religion should be more like a golden corral buffet where you show up and it's got and you can pick and choose what goes on your plate and whatever makes you happy at the end of the day.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 Everything else just gets in the way. You know, rules just get in the way of things.
So RIP Steve Mahalo, like true.

Speaker 8 We didn't know the story i mean the obviously that listen he was he was um so what happened was this

Speaker 8 where arnold schwarzenegger catapult to stardom as a bodybuilder and then as a movie star as an american icon um

Speaker 8 steve mahaloch was the one that arnold schwarzenegger 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.

Speaker 8 There was no way he was ever walking. He He did.
Competing, he did. Winning again, you know, Mr.
Universe level contest, he did. So that hurt him.

Speaker 1 That was horrible.

Speaker 8 Because Arnold then went,

Speaker 8 he won the contest and then shot. Right.

Speaker 5 So he's like your favorite bodybuilder's favorite bodybuilder.

Speaker 8 No, we should have had it. Arnold Schwarzenegger called him the Phantom.
Ooh, that's a cool name.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 5 Just imagine Arnold calling you the Phantom in that cool voice of his. Damn.
Yes. No better compliment.

Speaker 1 So, Stu, the

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 but it's been kind of a whirlwind. I love working with you.
I love that you have, you know, a part in barstool sports.

Speaker 1 Has it just been, I mean, the thing I really appreciate about you, Stu, is that you love like people. You love being around people.
You love people stopping you.

Speaker 1 Has it been like a reinvigoration of your entire career?

Speaker 8 100%, especially because of the Islander podcast, you know, this new live stream has just blown through the roof. But yeah, for the last, let's say, three years,

Speaker 8 you know, can't go to a Met game or a jet game or a Nick 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.

Speaker 8 You know, like at the Islander games, it's crazy. If you go in with me tonight,

Speaker 1 if I scream, let's fucking go.

Speaker 1 it's like lightning a match there'll be a thousand and you truly love like you love people

Speaker 8 you live 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

Speaker 1 they hurt me they grab me around the neck like and then they put a phone in my face and go don't tell my grandmother a pussy smell

Speaker 8 and like i'm i'm like i'm locked into this larger individual and i want to you know like so oh man can you uh can you walk me through how Stu Finer became Stu Finer?

Speaker 5 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, making, you know, being like the nation's first over-the-top gambling tout.

Speaker 5 Like, how did you go from working in a gym, like cleaning up syringes, to deciding, you know what, I'm going to try to do this sports gambling thing and see where it goes.

Speaker 8 Well, I mean, exactly. The date was when the Eagles played the um

Speaker 8 oakland raiders in the super bowl in 1980 and it was dick vermeal's team and

Speaker 8 they were a four-point favorite and on friday night this guy professor picks ed horowitz he he owned a tax firm in uh hicksville long island and he created a short-form tax firm made a million bucks they took his money put 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

Speaker 8 they murdered him So I said, if this expert can go on national TV, which at the time was a big deal, there wasn't never had, this might have been the first handicap besides jimmy the greek to ever get national recognition because you know they did his story short from tax from a millionaire account and brought his money into sports gambling you know his bozo humiliated himself so i said pop if this guy could be so wrong

Speaker 8 you know about

Speaker 8 that's but that'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 $1,500.

Speaker 8 And this other guy that was 23 years older than me

Speaker 8 got $1,500. And we opened two desks against each other.
And we bought lists from sports

Speaker 8 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?

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 1 I advertise it right now. I advertise it in the FPS

Speaker 8 in the NBA playoffs. And we were in the ESPN guide.
We have the inside front cover. It was like a $40,000 buy.

Speaker 8 And that was the last fucking time any national commercial ever went across ESPN because we, you know, they got so many complaints and this and that. And, you know, people were against gambling.

Speaker 8 Right.

Speaker 1 Didn't you go up against the dog or was it a goldfish?

Speaker 8 No, no, no. In 1990.

Speaker 1 Sports Illustrated, yeah.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 I had, you know, I was making millions of dollars a year at an extremely young age, mid-20s.

Speaker 8 So they were going to get me. I had a big mouth, you know, like, and they did, they didn't like right then.
I was aggressive with advertising.

Speaker 8 You know, I might have embellished it, you know, know, in the 80s. You know, in the 80s, it was whatever.

Speaker 1 You can do whatever you want. Right, exactly.

Speaker 8 It was like, so it was late, late 80s. I just got married.
So 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.

Speaker 8 It was the Magic Johnson cover with AIDS, like their biggest seller ever, times 10. So Inside the Do it next was a on my business.
And I hit like 39%.

Speaker 8 But they put a dog with two bowls, you know, favorite underdog, and a little girl that that became a whore. And then, you know, she had to pick which, you know, A, B,

Speaker 8 and the dog died very young cancer. Yeah!

Speaker 1 And they beat me.

Speaker 1 They got hot.

Speaker 1 You should have hired them.

Speaker 8 Did you consider

Speaker 1 that? I should have hired the dog and the girl. You got to get 20%.

Speaker 8 Listen, I get it 20% to six months. They caught me at like 39%,

Speaker 1 which I said to them, hey, listen, I've been worse.

Speaker 1 You have been worse. Of course.

Speaker 1 Remember when you started this NFL season on Sports Advisors? It was like

Speaker 1 0-8 on Best Best. 0-8, yeah.

Speaker 1 Until I hit that 3-2 bar. Incredible.

Speaker 5 What's the

Speaker 8 pullout of my career?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was actually.

Speaker 5 It was very strong, right? What's the hottest streak

Speaker 5 that you've ever been? Like, what's the hottest streak Stew Fighter's ever been on?

Speaker 8 Shit.

Speaker 8 Listen, when I reinvented myself in 2015, 16, when I just started, when I was on pardon 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%

Speaker 1 for like seven months but you admit like you could never figure out gambling no one can right gambling is for the rich

Speaker 8 to have fun totally enjoy it totally love it and lose your money right

Speaker 8 gambling and winning were never together they all it it the the country the world sold the big lie

Speaker 8 that gambling you have an opportunity to win which you have none no no like none and the day i listened remember what the first time i was on part of my day, you said, how many games should I bet a week?

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 1 You were trapped in. Remember Butler?

Speaker 8 No, but that was two years later.

Speaker 1 Nah, yeah, but Butler was.

Speaker 8 Oh, I don't think Butler was that big. I just wanted to get Gabe's attention because he didn't acknowledge that I was

Speaker 1 all of us in a row.

Speaker 1 You texted all of us. I mean,

Speaker 1 I loved it. Remember the Tampa Bay Bucks versus the New Orleans Saints on Sunday night football? Yes, but you said, put your life on the bottom of the bottom.

Speaker 8 Remember the Bucks of the Chiefs in the Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 You said

Speaker 1 Super Bowl. You said, if there's one game I'll give you for my entire life, it's the Tampa Bay Bucks.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 5 This is just like, did you say I lung it?

Speaker 1 Completely out of the game. You lung the WNG.
It puts your lungs on the line. It's a lung, a lung move.

Speaker 5 Most recent text I had from Stu was Monday's Islanders Lightning game. It said, Islanders plus 160.

Speaker 1 I think they lost 800. Did you get mad?

Speaker 8 Wait, what were the games before that? I gave you winners. Did you get mad? Wait, I gave you a four and one.

Speaker 1 Did you get mad when I chose

Speaker 1 your picks? You did. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 8 So, why selectively embarrass me on my own podcast? It's just because I'm all in one service point. He is, and you're looking humiliating, PFT.

Speaker 1 You know something?

Speaker 8 People think that you're the nasty one, but he is.

Speaker 1 I gave you a four.

Speaker 8 Didn't I give you the Padre?

Speaker 8 And I went for more. You know what I'm really bitter about?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 5 The fact that I seem to be getting only like like 25% of your picks.

Speaker 1 No, you got to keep firm. No, no.

Speaker 8 I stopped giving them to everyone.

Speaker 1 Yeah, why'd you stop giving them everyone?

Speaker 8 I don't know because no one was listening to them.

Speaker 8 And I got on a losing streak, and then they pissed on me, and then they weren't around for the winners.

Speaker 1 Were you mad at me when I cheated out?

Speaker 1 I waited till the games were over. Listen, I'm never mad at you.

Speaker 8 It's just

Speaker 8 a net. Listen, you could take a shit on my face on YouTube.

Speaker 8 Besides touching my wife, you can do anything you want.

Speaker 1 It was bad because I didn't mean to. It didn't matter.
It was about how funny it was.

Speaker 8 I did go to. Listen, I did go to that because people then started following me, and then I got hot at the right time.

Speaker 8 And then they saw me win for like six days or 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.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 1 I lost.

Speaker 5 Do you remember the best day of gambling that you've ever had?

Speaker 8 Well, this prior Super Bowl was amazing. I caught Grinkowski, you know, first score.
I caught, you know, Tampa Bay, the under, a parlay.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 1 That was your birthday with you.

Speaker 5 Which was your birthday again? January 31st, right?

Speaker 8 January 31st.

Speaker 5 Stu and I have the same birthday.

Speaker 1 Yes,

Speaker 1 we look alike. I mean, you know, this was the text.

Speaker 1 This was the text. Stu sent me talking about his dad.
They got all the cancer. Insane, great results.
Exact opposite of what he prepared me for and thought, woo-hoo. And I wasn't even able to respond.

Speaker 1 I responded

Speaker 1 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 3.5, 10K, best bet on Raptors minus 2, Diamondbacks plus.

Speaker 1 And all of them went like 0-6. But that's what I love about you.

Speaker 8 Keep shooting.

Speaker 8 Listen, I'm not afraid of an 0-8. Listen, I could lose 20 days in a row.
I'm still betting anybody.

Speaker 8 If you put my record up 365 days a year i'm betting than anybody what was the score of that bucks saints monday night game sunday night game oh shit it was uh like 34 nothing yeah it was it was insane the loser yeah that was a big that was an all-white saints game too right they're wearing those uniforms that was the last saints shining moment and drew that was his career matter of fact yes that was the last looking back on it now

Speaker 1 looking back on it that was his last shiny moment yeah so what do you think about this upcoming nfl season give us i mean look i mean i think you look at florida when they kept the whole team and

Speaker 8 they kept the coach and that whole team, and they won their second championship. How are you going to beat Tampa?

Speaker 5 Are you looking at any of the

Speaker 5 team over-unders?

Speaker 8 I didn't actually see the numbers yet because I have to see actually the signings.

Speaker 5 They're weird because it's 17 games. It's very long.

Speaker 8 Oh, it's going to be different.

Speaker 1 Right, right, right, right.

Speaker 1 You shouldn't have told him that. He wouldn't have noticed

Speaker 1 if I die in my sleep tonight, I am leaving you with a 1,000-unit game of my career, Tampa Bay Bucks minus 4 by 40.

Speaker 8 And they lost by 31.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 And I responded, I said, are you still alive?

Speaker 8 It's like a 71-point loser.

Speaker 1 But I love it. I fucking love it.
How do you feel now, baby? It happens. It happens.

Speaker 8 And you're right.

Speaker 5 We are cherry-picking some of the worst kids.

Speaker 1 Listen,

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 you are so, so kind with with your money, with your time. You love people.

Speaker 1 You bought my son, who was a year old, year old Stew bought him a PS5.

Speaker 1 PS5.

Speaker 1 PS5.

Speaker 1 He's like,

Speaker 1 that's the greatest gift ever.

Speaker 1 I got this gift for your son. It's a fucking PS5.

Speaker 1 And this is like when it was impossible to get PS5s.

Speaker 1 That's Stu Finer. That is Stu Finer.

Speaker 5 You do put it, you 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.

Speaker 5 I honestly do think that 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.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 8 Well, I mean, like,

Speaker 8 I'm honored to be treated as like Pierce with all your superstars there.

Speaker 1 Like, you guys are superstars, and you treat me like Piers. You're a living legend.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 And then the energy is raised when I walk in that building because I have to bring my A

Speaker 8 game. I want to make sure everybody's on their A game.
And, you know, right when I walk right through Pat screaming, I'm screaming. I jumped in, let's go, fucking Lodge.
Let's go, Willie.

Speaker 8 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?

Speaker 1 I want people to be happy. Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 8 In spite of anything.

Speaker 1 My health, you know.

Speaker 1 Do you think Dave likes you?

Speaker 8 Do I actually think I think he loves me? No issue about it. No toys about it.
Well, remember, I've grown into a role now by pissing him off is our best comedy. Yeah.

Speaker 8 So that I'm in an adversarial role with him. I'm not being his asshole buddy.
I'm not kissing his ass.

Speaker 1 I'm doing the direct opposite. I mean, you do kiss his ass a lot.
You say he's the richest

Speaker 1 beautiful person.

Speaker 8 I give him the accolades he deserves,

Speaker 1 right?

Speaker 8 Right. Right? I mean, he's the hottest human in America right now.

Speaker 1 Like, I mean, like, Matthew McConaughey. Don't give something on.

Speaker 8 No, no, Matthew McConaughey is nothing on Dave Portner anymore.

Speaker 1 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 Portner right now.

Speaker 8 I ain't spitting down anybody's throat and putting a chain on.

Speaker 1 No, Don, certainly not.

Speaker 1 Never.

Speaker 1 And I'm not wearing tight pants. That's a federal crime right now.
And I'm not wearing tight pants. You just committed a federal crime.

Speaker 1 You just admitted a federal pant.

Speaker 1 I don't get the federal crime. I don't get the title.

Speaker 8 I don't get the tight pants.

Speaker 1 Dave, you want that idea of your federal crime? We know you got the dick. That's a different one.
We know you got the dick.

Speaker 5 That's a different sex tape that they put out.

Speaker 1 Relax. Wear a pair of sweatpants, Dave, and

Speaker 8 let everybody fucking just breathe a little bit around you. You know, you scared shit around Port Noy.
So I'd rather attack than be a Patsy on.

Speaker 1 You're bam-bam.

Speaker 8 Right. You know, I want to wait.

Speaker 1 It's a real strength. Let me ask you this.

Speaker 8 But I am waiting for him to die because I think I could take his role.

Speaker 1 I could do the pizza reviews.

Speaker 8 I could do all the mad money. I could do everything.

Speaker 8 besides, fit into his clothes.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's not happening.

Speaker 8 Unless I'm allowed to do eight bowls every day twice on something.

Speaker 8 Like, what'd you eat today? I don't know, four eight bills.

Speaker 1 That's all I did. That's all I wore.
Well, you weigh 140 pounds.

Speaker 8 Well, I did four eight bills.

Speaker 5 Sue, can you walk me through the clip? It's my favorite clip of all time where you're on TV and the guy touches your arm and you just immediately say, Don't touch me. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Is that Ron Bash?

Speaker 8 His name is Jimmy Cavala.

Speaker 1 Was he, did you actually not like him?

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 I used to spend like 6,000 and make 50 videos, give them two to each friend, two to everybody on the team of the teams.

Speaker 8 And we filmed the whole year and he would edit it and put music and voice office.

Speaker 8 He did all the high school sports, Jimmy Caballo.

Speaker 8 His father was one of six people that took Mystic Iced Tea Public. And he owned a beautiful house in Vermont.
We skied. He took my whole family there.
Crazy. So, anyway.

Speaker 5 I have no idea how much of this is true and how much it's just like.

Speaker 1 It's just crazy because it's a good thing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Speaker 1 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's like Sky. It's some company that

Speaker 1 made a lot of money.

Speaker 1 Don't you say this is verbatim.

Speaker 1 It's always like,

Speaker 1 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 Iced T?

Speaker 1 He's a vice president of finance for

Speaker 1 Mondo. What would be my point?

Speaker 8 That's not a dick-drop, what I just said. It's a basic story.

Speaker 1 Why are you guys so sorry?

Speaker 1 I just love the video.

Speaker 1 You're ruining the podcast, you're ruining the podcast.

Speaker 1 So, anyway,

Speaker 1 so this is your podcast, does a part-time gig with me being the host of Sports Advisors.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 8 So, Brant, just out of the blue, he touched my hand and and it just came to me.

Speaker 8 It was not premeditated. It just went.

Speaker 1 It was beautiful. It's my favorite.
And you do hate Ron Bash, right? No, I love him.

Speaker 8 But I shred him in public.

Speaker 1 I'm pretty sure you hate him.

Speaker 8 No, I shred him in public.

Speaker 1 So we're in public right now. I hate him.

Speaker 1 He's the worst.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 1 But his ad was, I took two teams to the final four.

Speaker 8 Sounds like it was like Division I.

Speaker 8 So people hated him for that. Jeremy Schapp came to where we filmed the show once with a whole crew to expose him.
And Ron Bash got in a limo in the back and spun out.

Speaker 8 So I came out and I said, Jeremy, you want to interview me?

Speaker 1 They're like, no.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. Do you have any

Speaker 5 real life beef with anybody?

Speaker 1 In reality? Yeah, like who's on? God.

Speaker 8 You got a problem with God. Yeah.
Listen, truth be told, as God is my witness. I walk out the street.
All people want to do is take my picture,

Speaker 8 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 all my friends are like, we've all been rooting for you your whole life, Stu.

Speaker 8 So there's only love. God's a scumbag.
Why did he make me five foot four and three quarters?

Speaker 1 No, no, no. Truth be told.

Speaker 8 If I was two inches short, I'd be perfectly round.

Speaker 1 You think that's funny? That's not funny. No,

Speaker 1 I'd rather be perfectly round.

Speaker 8 So what's the kid? 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's pretty good. Good, though.

Speaker 8 Five, four, and three quarters. Three quarters.

Speaker 1 Those three quarters matter, though. Yes, they do.
Yeah, you got it. She said it did.

Speaker 1 Have you lost any weight? I mean, height? You got to be like, you're getting older. Five.

Speaker 8 You should.

Speaker 8 No, every time I get on the scale, every time I measure myself.

Speaker 1 How do I measure myself?

Speaker 8 I'm very sensitive.

Speaker 1 I'm a hobbit.

Speaker 8 It's not not funny.

Speaker 5 Are you going to get back in shape?

Speaker 8 Yeah. I'm running the marathon October 11th, the Boston Marathon, and I'm two months behind on training and

Speaker 8 20 pounds overweight, what I should weigh right now. So it's going to be a daunting task.
But I'm superhuman.

Speaker 8 Listen, in seventh grade, 1974, Long Island, it was Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Stu Finer.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's how it went down. We've had two fancy fancy fancy fancy.
And not really in that order.

Speaker 1 Not really in that order. We've had two podcast guests say that they're superhuman, Jose Gonseco and Stu Finer.
And I believe you so much more than Jose Conseco. You are superhuman.

Speaker 8 Listen, he was superhuman. I watched Mid Hobers.
They were fucking jokes. I mean, it was scary.
And then just because Billy

Speaker 8 showed that he's over the hill doesn't negate him.

Speaker 1 Oh, Billy kicked his ass.

Speaker 8 No, no, it doesn't negate that Jose Gonseko is a legend. No, Billy Kegel.

Speaker 1 Billy destroyed a legend.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Listen, I don't care that he got hurt. Jose Conseiko, before that fight, you see him.
I was scared. Like, I didn't, I knew Billy would win, but I was still scared.

Speaker 8 Were you scared that you could get caught with a shot?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Right or wrong.
You had to be. Yeah, he's already, but he went in war mode.

Speaker 8 No, but I'm saying, but Jose Conseco's Jose Conseco.

Speaker 1 Fuck him. Really?

Speaker 8 I saw him in his prime. I was a big fan.

Speaker 5 I actually think that he used to fuck everything that walked.

Speaker 8 I wanted, I wanted Madonna. Listen, I wanted a pussy that he, I would have fucked Madonna.

Speaker 1 I know you would have.

Speaker 5 Jose didn't, though. Jose really, he said that she wasn't hot enough for him.

Speaker 8 God, imagine being that hot.

Speaker 1 Do you think you have too much testosterone?

Speaker 8 Do I? Yeah.

Speaker 8 Well, I still take a shot every two weeks to make so that my dick can get hard, and I come regularly and I can, you know, I could roll my mouth three times a week and put my wife twice a week.

Speaker 1 Do you have to go to like,

Speaker 1 but I think do your sons ever say, like, hey, dad?

Speaker 8 They humiliated. Yeah, exactly.
They want to change their name.

Speaker 5 Do you have to go to like the tea clinic to get the shot? Or do you notice that?

Speaker 8 No, I go to a urologist.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 8 Nurse walks in and says, hi.

Speaker 8 And then they thank me. They say, thank you for your penis.
I'm like, thank you.

Speaker 8 Thank God.

Speaker 1 I feel like your days are just filled with disappointments. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 8 Like doctors?

Speaker 1 Yeah, just are just like, oh, I got to go here.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You just 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.

Speaker 8 It is. Well, you know, you don't appreciate life until you have an amazing life.

Speaker 8 And then you fall off a cliff and you really got to struggle for a decade on the balls of your ass, bag barring, stealing, humiliating yourself, shaming yourself, being friends with people you would never 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.

Speaker 8 I love that.

Speaker 8 Every second of every day is beautiful.

Speaker 8 You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Speaker 8 If all you know is good,

Speaker 8 you know, big deal.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You got to crash. Yeah.

Speaker 5 What would your neighbors say about living next to you? Do you think they like?

Speaker 8 Two neighbors here, I graduated high school with the wife, me and Sandy. So she's known me forever.

Speaker 1 She knows what to do. Yes.

Speaker 8 On the other side,

Speaker 8 they're moving next week. Matter of fact, their daughter's getting married this Saturday.
They're the Mead brothers, the Meads, and they were the house band at the Bordy Bond since 1984. Got it.
Okay.

Speaker 8 So they're a rowdy. Remember, I've invited you to come to the Meads, the house is the band.
Yeah. So they're partiers.

Speaker 1 So wait, are you nervous about who moves in?

Speaker 8 No, he's like 70 years old and he's already been,

Speaker 8 they Googled me and he thought I was funny. He's looking forward to meeting me.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 8 So I mean, 8-15 where I'm screaming, let's fuck eat ass like clit. You know, I mean,

Speaker 1 he's cool. Okay.
I might help a sex life. There we go.

Speaker 8 I'm a positive influence in anything I touch.

Speaker 5 What happens when you go to touch your girl's clotoris?

Speaker 1 No. It's going to be

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 8 In between the snaps I do, what I used to find it.

Speaker 5 Come on, yeah, no one's talking to each other, and you know, people just like to be in the middle of the day.

Speaker 1 Come on to me and they snap. They're like, I used to, hey, what is Dave? I love his pizza.

Speaker 5 So you haven't like, you haven't like stood in a line quietly for years now. Decades.

Speaker 1 Decades. You've done nothing.
You love quietly. You love people.
Yeah. I love people.

Speaker 1 All right, Stu, we appreciate you coming on the pod. We still have a lot of fun we're going to do today.
Oh, no. It's a good one.
Make some videos, make some memories. Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 Thank you for your hospitality.

Speaker 8 Yes, I'm booking a one-night show at Westbury. It's going to 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 his life.

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 1 Even if you don't come, you'll come. Okay, good.

Speaker 8 I haven't booked it yet. I have to pay for it.
It's like $28,000 just to book the place.

Speaker 1 You just take it for yourself?

Speaker 8 Yeah, because my ego's through the roof.

Speaker 5 An evening with Stu Fine or Chris.

Speaker 8 I just say that. The moment I book it, I just want to kill every enemy.

Speaker 1 We should just die. We should make it a die.
People are just going to be like, I can't believe they it put a gun in their mouth and killed themselves. We need to make it a whole special on Barstool.

Speaker 1 Done.

Speaker 1 Okay, so I can do that?

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 I can call it Stu Feiner and Friends.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I'm saying we need to get cameras out there so we can

Speaker 1 put it out after.

Speaker 1 We'll pay for it.

Speaker 5 I'm not worried about that. Can we set up like a bar on stage and just

Speaker 5 sit quietly to the side and just watch you do your

Speaker 1 guy? He's not me. I'm just

Speaker 1 sitting here. I want Stu Finer.

Speaker 5 Evening with Stu Feiner presented by Super Super.

Speaker 8 So I'm going to do it from when I was two years old up until now.

Speaker 1 You remember when you were two? Absolutely. Okay.
Yeah, because my father. By no eight, I'm not going to be a fan of the family.
My mother and father. No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 8 My mother and father fought.

Speaker 1 It was nothing to do sexually. Okay.

Speaker 8 Fought, and when your parents fight, that affects a child, and they remember those things.

Speaker 8 I went into therapy to rebring them out in the wounds.

Speaker 8 So unfortunately, I have a great memory about a lot of negative things that key off a lot of good things.

Speaker 1 Beautiful. All right.
Well, Stu, thank you. We love you and appreciate you.

Speaker 8 I love you. Thank you.
God bless you. May God be with you.

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Are you boys ready to go?

Speaker 1 And Jake and Young Sound Bob will be here on Friday as well. PFT will be back in the studio.
We'll all be here. We'll watch game two.

Speaker 1 So 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.

Speaker 1 So maybe we won't now that I'm thinking about it.

Speaker 6 What's a two-way contract?

Speaker 1 Let's see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like the G-League. Yeah, we can call them up and down whenever we want.
Yep. I'm in.
All right, perfect. That was it.

Speaker 1 The thing I love about Young Sound Bob, he's a great negotiator.

Speaker 1 All right, Chic, hot seat, cool thrown.

Speaker 1 All right, I got two, actually.

Speaker 9 First one, announcers calling Royals Reds games and giving emotional monologues.

Speaker 9 Nicholas Castellano did it again.

Speaker 9 The Royals announcer was giving a eulogy of someone who passed away on the game.

Speaker 1 Can you put this clip in? Yes. Fuck yes.

Speaker 10 This is George Gorman, who passed away at the age of 96.

Speaker 10 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.
Wow.

Speaker 10 And that was Pat's father.

Speaker 10 That's a great life, 96 years.

Speaker 10 And Pat, just like his dad, went to KU. He also went to Bishop Ward High School.

Speaker 10 There's a drive into deep left center field, and there's never a great time to eulogize someone during the broadcast.

Speaker 1 Do you know what the best part was? Someone also unearthed Nicholas Cassianos. I like to really, really get that out there.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 I'm okay with that eulogy being interrupted. Yes.

Speaker 6 But yeah, it is perfect. There was also another thing Coley tweeted out.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 Basically, it's kind of like our, well, we won't say his name,

Speaker 1 but a guy who oil spills. Yeah, who has movies come out in oil spills.
We won't say his name.

Speaker 6 But yeah.

Speaker 6 But his name's R.

Speaker 5 Schneider. Yeah.

Speaker 6 But yeah,

Speaker 6 it was laugh out loud loud funny. He is Nick Castellanos.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 Yes. All right.
Good hot seat. You got another one.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I was just going to do Kawhi Leonard and specifically his knees as Giannis came back after.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Everyone thought his knee was shredded.

Speaker 1 But Jake actually makes a good point here because this is what happens when you have the freak of natures like Adrian Peterson, which I mentioned at the beginning of the show.

Speaker 1 Now everyone compares him. So remember after Adrian Peterson came back from an ACL in like eight months?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Why can't they? Well, because they're not a freak of nature like Giannis and Adrian Peterson. But I kind of like Kawhi.
Was Kawhi soft?

Speaker 6 I don't know if he was soft, but 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.

Speaker 6 And I do, I do remember 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 going to be back in two.

Speaker 6 And everybody was like, okay, Greg. And then sure enough, like by the powers of

Speaker 6 the common person's body.

Speaker 6 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 ruptured MCL.
It doesn't always work like that, it turns out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and it's uh it takes are like a game of Uno where now we have the take of Yannis. Like if if you say well Kawhi's hurt, here's my card.
We'll just throw down Giannis. Yannis came back and boom.

Speaker 1 Now you're fucked. Now you got to draw five, four, whatever it is, and Uno.
I haven't played Uno in a long time. All right, cool throne.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 And there's nothing sports writers like talking more about than the boss.

Speaker 1 Dude, Jake is fucking nailing this right now.

Speaker 9 There's actually, there were some articles today, Born to Ride.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. That one's easy.
Yep. Oh, fuck.

Speaker 9 I'm sure there'll be plenty more throughout the next month.

Speaker 1 Damn, did you have this BFT as your hot seat?

Speaker 6 I had it as my hot seat. Yeah.
And you're absolutely correct.

Speaker 6 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 in the stands and fall asleep and nobody will ever catch them there uh unlimited diet coke set 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 horse doesn't get that medal?

Speaker 1 Well, they should at least give him a medal in like hay or carrots or something. I assume they give him something extra, right?

Speaker 6 Who knows? 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.

Speaker 6 I need to see which horses turn away from the flag when the national anthem's playing for their country. I need more

Speaker 6 horse-centric content at the Olympic.

Speaker 1 I agree. I totally agree.

Speaker 1 All right, Youngstown Bob, your hot seat cool thrown. All right, my hot seat is Barstill employees taking the week off during our week off.
Wait, this is... Oh, okay, go ahead.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It was very funny. But yeah,

Speaker 1 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 when some people got it bad, yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 If he doesn't even know who you are, that's when you're in trouble.

Speaker 6 If it's,

Speaker 6 yeah, it was a test this entire time, but we're going to 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.

Speaker 1 That's not. So, I know

Speaker 1 it did. People are probably like, what the fuck? We could take a a video.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He's like, all right, well, Overs 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.

Speaker 1 He watched the first half and then he got in an Uber and showed up at the second half and being like, hey, I didn't know you guys are going to be here. It was very well played.

Speaker 6 It's awesome.

Speaker 1 Good for Marty. All right, you're cool thrown, Bob.
All right, I have two of them. I have have the Overs Club, now three and three.
Yep. I hit today.
Yep. Barstool Sportsbook.
Yep.

Speaker 1 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, there's going to be some like cringy, funny, comical commercials.

Speaker 1 Yes, that's

Speaker 1 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 South Bend Ford dealership.

Speaker 1 That would be very funny. Like there will be that where guys are just cashing a check.

Speaker 1 I didn't even think about that, but I like that, Bob. PFT, you like that?

Speaker 6 I love that. I love that idea a lot.

Speaker 6 We should do that with Alex O'Connell.

Speaker 6 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 him advertise that for us.

Speaker 6 But yeah, the local businesses in general, not just like car dealerships, but like mom and pop restaurants. You know what they should?

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 And just like the fattest guys that you can find on the team, just go into town on some burgers.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And that's who you bet on.

Speaker 6 I'm also interested to see how Nick Sabin handles like players doing ads for various businesses in the local towns. So like, I don't know, like

Speaker 6 you can't obviously do business with a gambling company or there are a couple others like adult entertainment, alcohol, tobacco or some, but you know that there are some places that Nick and Miss Terry don't like to go.

Speaker 6 Maybe they haven't gotten great service there in the past.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 It will be, I'm excited to see how all the NIL breaks out.

Speaker 1 I've also thrown out the offer that if there are any potential five-star recruits, basketball or football, that want to attend the University of Wisconsin, I will buy all their shirts.

Speaker 1 So just, that's, that's just, that's just out there. Okay.
So I'm just going to throw that out there. Let it, let it land wherever it does.

Speaker 1 Your hot seat, cool throw on PFT. Well, you had your hot seat.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 My second facet of the nepotism was going to be that the Washington football team report was issued on Friday.

Speaker 6 And because Tanya Snyder has taken command of the team from her husband, Dan, that happens to be her husband, Dan Snyder, there will be no significant punishments levied towards the team in terms of draft picks.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 But they also didn't actually issue a report.

Speaker 7 It was an oral report that was given.

Speaker 6 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, okay, here's my punishment.

Speaker 6 no paper trail and honestly I think it might be the smartest thing that Roger Goodell 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 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 another tip of the cap to you the PR master.

Speaker 6 You handled this one in a way that really you probably should have been handling everything in the past.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 chess, not checkers.

Speaker 1 Your cool throne.

Speaker 6 My cool throne is Baker Mayfield contract debates. This is off to a early start, early start.

Speaker 6 You can tell when you're getting through, getting into like some, a couple really slow news days when it comes to sports. It started two weeks ago when I first noticed it.

Speaker 6 They started debating whether or not not Baker Mayfield should get a contract extension right now

Speaker 6 and how much that extension should be worth.

Speaker 6 He has like another full year, probably like a year and a couple months before they want to decide if they want to give him an extension before they get into the final season of the deal.

Speaker 6 Like, there's absolutely no reason why he would be getting a contract extension right now.

Speaker 6 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 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 like 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 uh you're going to see that discussion take place throughout the entire next season it's like It's way too early.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 But the powers that beat have gotten together and decided that now's the time. I've seen it pop up here, there, here, there.
It's going to just, it's going to explode in the next six months.

Speaker 6 I'm telling you right now.

Speaker 1 So, uh, PFT lightning hit his house or right outside his house

Speaker 1 as he was in the middle of that. And when you went away for a second, uh, Young Sound Bob said that he actually was having this conversation on the golf course this weekend as a Browns fan.

Speaker 1 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-Beaker guy two years ago, but I mean, he proved he could win.

Speaker 1 I don't know. He's our quarterback.
Yeah, yeah. But it is time to start talking about that, though.

Speaker 6 Just as a Browns fan, it's got to be thrilling to you to get to have that conversation right now. Like,

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 So, you've actually been like anticipating, talking about whether or not Baker Mayfield deserves an extension for like three and a half years.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. The guy, the guy, I was paired up with three random guys at golf the other day.
They had a golf, a Browns golf bag. And I was like, oh, I'm going to chop it up with these guys.

Speaker 1 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 going to have a fun round then. Fun.

Speaker 1 We just chopped it up about Baker. And yeah, 11 wins.
This is great.

Speaker 1 What's happening on the streets? We need this from Youngstown Bob.

Speaker 1 That's what people are talking about.

Speaker 1 All right, so we're going to skip guys on chicks because PFT's block got hit by lightning. And we'll do it on Friday.
So we have the question. We'll do it on Friday.

Speaker 1 I'll do my hot seat cool through and then we'll guess some numbers. My hot seat is simply the Water Dogs.

Speaker 1 They fucking suck. I'm so sick of this team.
They're terrible.

Speaker 1 I watch every game. At least they shop more.
Also,

Speaker 1 we need an enforcer because our guy, Drew Snyder, got fucking jacked up.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 Well, I think that if you're going to fight, you've got to fight harder. I was disappointed that Paul Rabel didn't do enough to get fined.

Speaker 6 It's like a Frank Kaminski thing, you know? Yeah. Like I would have liked, I would have liked to see Paul Rabel step up to defend his teammates to the same level that Frank did.

Speaker 6 But, you know, like 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but the Water Dogs,

Speaker 1 the Water Dogs need to win.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I don't think I have that authority.

Speaker 1 But if I do, I will fire everyone. Everyone.

Speaker 6 I think it's simple, big cat, when we do move the team. If they lose this weekend, we're moving the team.

Speaker 1 You know what we do? We make them the water cats.

Speaker 6 I like that.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 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 game because of Shohei Otani.

Speaker 1 Shohei Otani was the first ever to get voted into the All-Star game as a pitcher and a batter, and he's doing it all.

Speaker 1 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 game. And this guy, like, this is what baseball needs.

Speaker 1 They need a guy like this. It's fucking awesome.

Speaker 1 He has 31 home runs, 83 strikeouts that he's given other people, not for himself. He is electric.
Every fucking home run he hits, though, too, like, he pisses on the baseball.

Speaker 1 He fucking, it's violent what he does to baseballs. So I'm pumped for Shohay Otani to be the next Babe Ruth and for everyone to get jacked about this and for MLB All-Star Break to

Speaker 1 be awesome. Is Christian Yelich in the home run deriving?

Speaker 6 I don't think so. I haven't seen anything about that.

Speaker 1 Interesting.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 5 They have somebody step up.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 The glass breaks and Christian Yelich just sprints out of the dugout. Next thing I know, I got to go buy Dinnel Dam.
I think

Speaker 6 I love Shohei Otani in the all-star game. I want to know the answer to the question, could Shohei Otani strike out himself?

Speaker 1 I would say no. He had a streak

Speaker 1 this last week where he had seven,

Speaker 1 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, it was a home run.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 It's something I never thought that I would see in the game ever. It's, it's bizarre.
It's like the ambidextrous pitcher that we had

Speaker 6 10 years ago that was going to change the sport.

Speaker 6 That's like the one last mountain to climb in baseball.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 6 But besides that, it's like this is incredible shit that he's doing.

Speaker 1 It really is. So I'm excited.
Good job, baseball. I mean, you didn't do anything, but good job, baseball.

Speaker 6 They didn't fuck this up.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, they didn't fuck this up.

Speaker 6 I would just like to say, Rob Manfred, do not piss test Shoheo Tani. Whatever you do, I don't care what he's on right now.

Speaker 6 The only way you could fuck this up is if you stuck a little test strip into a stream of urine, and then you just, you were just a big bummer for America.

Speaker 6 Don't, we're doing okay as a country right now, okay? Don't harsh everyone's mellow. We're trying to come together.

Speaker 6 Just let us have some fun with Shohei Otani.

Speaker 1 Agreed. Or the sticky stuff.
If he wants to use sticky stuff, let him use sticky stuff.

Speaker 6 Fuck that. Yeah, no discipline on Shohei Otana.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.
Let's do numbers. So, Friday, I think we have the return of our good friend Ryan Rosillo.

Speaker 1 So that will be fun. We'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.

Speaker 1 But yeah, good show, boys. Good job, Jake.
Good job, Bob. Love having you boys here.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. You guys are now on a two-way contract, which Bob signed almost immediately.

Speaker 1 All right, numbers. Guess them.
Jake. Now, if one of you gets this, I think you get.
I think you get promoted. I think you get promoted.
And we relegate Billy.

Speaker 1 Agreed.

Speaker 1 PFT, your number?

Speaker 7 Eight.

Speaker 6 And yeah, we should relegate Billy. Billy has to produce Jake's podcast.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yes. Which was, it's called The Big Man on Camp.
Barcelona Benchmark. Barcelona Benchmark.
Yes. I got it confused.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 9 Number, jake 25 pop 10.

Speaker 1 all right 99 for me eight eight eight

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 6 and i'm doing this show in a power outage i got hit by lightning and we finished the show. That's hockey tough, baby.
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