F1 Driver Daniel Ricciardo, Sixers Collapse, Fyre Fest Of The Week And Billy Is Back

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Speaker 3 We have NBA Playoff Sixers Disaster, Fire Fest of the Week, and the return of Billy Football.

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Speaker 3 Today is Friday, June 18th, and Reggie Miller was right. Hashtag.
Hell yeah.

Speaker 5 Might went to rest the guys for game seven, too.

Speaker 3 Get a head start on next year. Yeah.
So if you if you forgot what Reggie Miller basically said after game five, rest Kevin Durant, James Harden for game seven. Don't even play them.
They played.

Speaker 3 They lost. They put up a good fight.
There were some times where it felt like the Nets were getting back into it. They cut it for like five, six.

Speaker 3 But the other headline is it was Chris Middleton's legacy game.

Speaker 5 Well, it was a surprise legacy game.

Speaker 3 38 points.

Speaker 5 This was almost like a foundation game for him.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 5 I think a legacy game, you have to have, like, there has to be talk about your legacy before that. Yeah.
This one was establishing legacy.

Speaker 5 So right now, anything less than 38 points in a playoff game is disappointing from Chris Middleton. Yes.
Yeah. I mean, Milwaukee looked really good tonight.
The Nets really, it was never in jeopardy.

Speaker 5 I kind of felt like

Speaker 3 we felt like this was going to happen.

Speaker 3 It's weird because obviously we're rooting for Blake, but

Speaker 3 in my mind, I was like, Reggie Miller is a stupid point. You have to try because you never know what's going to happen.

Speaker 3 But I always thought this was going to go seven, and Saturday night's going to be electric, and it's going to be fun to watch.

Speaker 5 I always respect a crazy take.

Speaker 5 It's nice to see that people out there are still willing to push the envelope. Just like throw some shit out on Twitter.
Give us a little red meat. Reggie gave us fodder, so we applaud him for that.

Speaker 5 Blake Griffin had the highest plus-minus of any of the Net starters tonight. That's true.
With a minus seven. That's facts.
It's a great game. Maybe a legacy game by Blake.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Start of something special.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and the dojo was rocking tonight outside in Milwaukee.

Speaker 3 He was throwing down dunks. Giannis was really awesome, too, which I...

Speaker 3 I didn't want to call it a legacy game for

Speaker 3 I'm addicted to legacy games, but I do think that Giannis had to,

Speaker 3 they had to win this game otherwise, because if you lose in game seven and Kevin Durant does what he did in game five,

Speaker 3 there is some, I know it's always terrible to lose that way, but there's some peace in like, that guy's way better than anyone we have. That guy might be the best player in the NBA.

Speaker 5 He had 30 and 17.

Speaker 3 Right. Like

Speaker 3 if it happens that way, you can live with it.

Speaker 3 If you lost game six on your home court after James Harden gets hurt game one, Kyrie Irving gets hurt game three or four, whatever it was, that's like a dig-deep, soul-searching.

Speaker 3 What are we doing here?

Speaker 5 Yeah, so game seven, Sunday, right?

Speaker 3 Saturday. Saturday, birthday night.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 We're going to go? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Maybe. Hmm.
Game seven. You've got Margaritaville.
Oh, no. No.
Shit. Dude.
Fuck. What the fuck? That's a preview of Firefest.
My bad.

Speaker 5 My bad. I was feeling so good a second.

Speaker 3 I fucked up. I forgot.
I thought about it for

Speaker 3 talking about it for so long.

Speaker 5 You can't go from the two sweetest words in the English language, game seven, to the two worst words, Margaritaville's closed.

Speaker 3 Yeah, fuck. My bad.
My bad. Either way, game seven.
And hopefully, we'll have.

Speaker 3 Yeah, sorry. Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Speaker 5 Bryson sucks today.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Bryson does suck. Let's talk about that real quick.
Bryson sucks today. Brooks is awesome.
Bryson sucks.

Speaker 5 Brooks was tied for the lead. He had a couple bad bogeys.

Speaker 5 That's when the course started to show its teeth. The course woke up late because the greens get harder today.

Speaker 5 And then because Bryson didn't want to play with Brooks, because he's too big of a pussy to do it, he had to play with the harder course in the afternoon, which basically skull fucked him.

Speaker 3 Also, Bryson illegal, I'm calling illegal. They were interviewing Brooks after his round, and Bryson like jumped up into the back of the screen.

Speaker 3 You can't do that and then be like, I don't want any part of this.

Speaker 3 You can't do it. You can't have it both ways.
If you want no part of it, you literally just pretend Brooks doesn't exist and never mention it again, and everyone will leave you alone. Game on, dude.

Speaker 3 Look at this. Watch this video.
Watch. Let's see.

Speaker 3 He jumped up in the screen. Look at this.
Look, alternate angle. You can't do that.
He jumped up in the back of Brooks. You want this, dude.
He wants this.

Speaker 3 That's the only thing that keeps you relevant.

Speaker 5 And I also learned a cool new golf term today that I'm going to be overusing this entire weekend. That's a U.S.
open par.

Speaker 5 So if you run into trouble and you get up and down, or maybe you hit your drive into the rough, hit a nice iron into the green, and you just kind of grit your way to a par, that's a U.S. open par.

Speaker 3 Yes, I love it. I love it.
That's a U.S. open par.
Okay, let's talk about the Sixers. Hey, do you want to do a victory lap? Who boy? No, I don't know.
This has nothing to do with me.

Speaker 3 I have some numbers that I wrote down. Let's do the numbers and then we'll go.
We'll jump off of there. So

Speaker 3 the stat that jumped out to me was

Speaker 3 in these playoffs, teams are 46 and 1 when they're up 15 points going into Sunday. So starting this week.
The Sixers have now lost two games this week where they were up 15 points. They were up.

Speaker 3 I think they're the only game. Did it only happen one time before this? Yeah.
And it it happened twice last week. This postseason.
Hank. Yes.
Jesus. Yes, right.
No, he's playing dumb. Yeah.

Speaker 3 He's really. No, I was just clarifying.

Speaker 3 You wanted to make sure I was absorbing that information correctly. This season, really.
This postseason. This postseason.
46 and 1. Luka game three, the Mavs.
No, 46-1 this postseason.

Speaker 3 Hank.

Speaker 3 I should have put a trigger warning at the start of this if you're a Sixers fan. Hank was back to the base.
Hank is going to.

Speaker 5 He's going to look like Randy Marsh, the spooky guy.

Speaker 3 Hank is going to really stick it into you. So, 46-1 when a a team has been up by 15 during a game.

Speaker 3 And then this week, the Sixers have lost two games where they were up by 15 points. They were up by 26 on Wednesday night.
They were up by 24 with less than two minutes to go in the third quarter.

Speaker 3 They got outscored in the fourth quarter 40-19. They got outscored in the second half 69-44.
They gave up 69 points in the second half.

Speaker 3 This is one of the best defensive teams in the NBA, and they got absolutely torched.

Speaker 3 We'll get to the offense, but it should be noted that their defense was really, really, really bad against the Hawks on Wednesday night.

Speaker 5 The defense was atrocious, but it's also because they pulled two of their best defensive players out of the game in the third quarter. The game was over as far as Doc Rivers was concerned.
And Smitty.

Speaker 5 And Smitty was concerned in the third quarter. So they take out and be they take out Simmons.
And they, I'll put it this way. Shake Milton.

Speaker 5 Shake Milton was getting Ben Simmons' minutes with four minutes left in this game.

Speaker 5 I say again, Shake Milton was in the game. It must have been Ben Simmons.

Speaker 3 So, all right, so

Speaker 3 more stats. So, even off of that, in the second half, the only two players to score a field goal for the Sixers was Joel Embiid and Seth Curry.

Speaker 3 That's very, very bad when only two guys score a field goal.

Speaker 3 Ben Simmons.

Speaker 3 So...

Speaker 3 I actually asked Hank before, I was like, what do you think Ben Simmons is shooting from the free throw line these playoffs? He gets 60%. It's 32.8%.
He's shooting 30%

Speaker 3 from the free throw line in this series.

Speaker 5 I've got an idea for how he could fix that big catch.

Speaker 3 Oh, don't do that again. No, free throws.
What? Free throws.

Speaker 3 This is how bad Ben Simmons has been.

Speaker 5 I think he might be right-handed. Yeah, has he thought about that?

Speaker 3 Well, I saw a very mean out of it. I'm not sure the ball goes the other way.
I saw a very mean tweet out there, and I am not going to retweet it.

Speaker 3 I'm sure Hank will go find it after this, but it was a very funny tweet. It said, if you ever feel useless, remember that Ben Simmons wears a shooting sleeve.

Speaker 3 And that is a very funny tweet, but I'm not going to retweet it because I'm still rooting for the Sixers to win this series. You know what?

Speaker 5 We're not going to give that tweet a platform whatsoever.

Speaker 3 Nope, not at all.

Speaker 3 Ben Simmons, here's a good stat about Ben Simmons. You ready for this? Ben Simmons is three for three from the field in the fourth quarter.
Oh, wow. In the series.
Oh, no.

Speaker 3 So he's only shot three attempts in the fourth quarter in the series. Two of them was in game one.
So in the last four games, he has shot one time from the field in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 That's your point guard. I can't.
100%, though. That's pretty good.
Three for three. Three for three.
I mean, that is great fishing. He doesn't miss.

Speaker 5 He's actually on fire. Yeah.
Ben Simmons. By NBA Jams terms.
I don't understand how you can have a superstar that doesn't shoot, that can't score. And don't get me wrong, he's a great defender.

Speaker 5 He really is. He's fun to watch with the ball in his hands.
He's a playmaker. Triple doubles.
Assists.

Speaker 3 He's got triple doubles. Yeah.

Speaker 3 He also, Ben Simmons, this is how bad Ben Simmons has been. He made me go look up what a stat was, usage rate, because he has a lower usage rate than Dwight Howard, who basically is in there for lobs.

Speaker 5 Oh, Dwight Howard also had maybe the funniest missed dunk of the postseason. It was

Speaker 5 horrific. It was Traveller McGee-like in how badly he missed that drug.
It was such a bad fourth quarter.

Speaker 5 And if you're a Philadelphia 76ers fan, my first question is, why are you listening to this podcast? I would be off the internet. I would not consume any media.

Speaker 5 I wouldn't watch television just in the off chance that, like, I wouldn't watch HGTV in the off chance that there might be a commercial for game six that pops up.

Speaker 5 It's tough if you're a Sixers fan to the point where like it makes you question the last 10 years of your life.

Speaker 3 Well, that's the problem. It's not just the loss.

Speaker 3 It is the entire process because the process has been built around and the end, you know, you could point to Markel Fultz never becoming anything, you know, not drafting, drafting him over Jason Tatum, all these points.

Speaker 3 But like the process was built around Ben Simmons and Joyel Mbi at the end here.

Speaker 3 They didn't trade Ben Simmons for James Harden, which I think most Sixers fans would probably go back and do if you could do that all over again.

Speaker 3 They also, I thought about it today, and I was like, you know who they really could have used in that fourth quarter? J-Butt. And they could have used Jay-Butt, and they used Jay-Butt's money for

Speaker 3 him.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Now he's been sitting at home,

Speaker 3 you know, running out his contract for the Thunder.

Speaker 3 It's so bad, and I really do,

Speaker 3 I feel like the Sixers still have a shot in this. I know that's crazy to say.
I don't know why. I think they'll win tonight.
I don't know why. I think the problem is

Speaker 3 every game I watch Joan Biade and I'm like, he's got this. And then I forget that in the fourth quarter, and I know he had 37 points.

Speaker 3 He was basically your entire offense with Seth Curry, but he's now one for 10 in the fourth quarter in the last two games. He

Speaker 3 basically just falls down every single play when he gets tired. And that, those two missed free throws, and yes, he's not a bad free throw shooter.
Those two missed free throws were very bad.

Speaker 3 And I just don't know what you do. If you're a Sixers fan, this is like,

Speaker 3 I think honestly, if I were a Sixers fan this morning or Thursday morning, I got something they should do.

Speaker 3 I would be firing up the trade machine and seeing how many picks you can get for Joel Mbi and Ben Simmons to just restart the process. Because guess what? The process, it's bad basketball.

Speaker 3 It's terrible to lose that much, but at least you got hope. And right now, if the Sixers lose this series in six, hope is gone.
Hope is out the window.

Speaker 3 You throw hope out the window, and that might be the worst fate for any sports fan.

Speaker 5 Right, to Philadelphia sports fans' credit, they have been extremely patient by and large with the process. Oh, yeah.
And this is the season that it was all put together.

Speaker 5 But like most other fan bases would not have tolerated it. They kind of embraced it.
They're like, Sam Hinkey died for this. He died for our sins to make us happy the long term.

Speaker 5 And now it's like, can Doc Rivers, can he bench himself for the next game? I don't know. Because I think he deserves a lot of credit too.

Speaker 5 He is also, like, sneakily the all-time greatest basketball coach at choking away fourth-quarter victories in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 And also series leads in the playoffs.

Speaker 5 Series leads. Like, Doc, this is like a habit for.

Speaker 3 2015. Remember that Rockets Clippers series?

Speaker 5 Yeah. It's poetic that it came against an Atlanta team when you look at the win probability that popped up.
It was 99.7, which, as we all know, win probability is an ironclad stat.

Speaker 5 It's backed up by numbers. It's never wrong.
But this is straight out of the Atlanta Falcons playbook of last year against the Cowboys.

Speaker 5 And it's like you you either you either die an eagle or you live long enough to become a Falcon.

Speaker 3 And I the the the Hawks, right? So people are like, hey, why don't you talk about the Hawks?

Speaker 3 And we we will talk about the Hawks, but you have to admit, this story is about the Sixers because they've choked these two unfathomable leads and like they have they have lost in horrific fashion.

Speaker 3 I that fourth quarter, it was bizarre to watch.

Speaker 3 Not really because Ben Simmons is your point guard and and you can't shoot, but it was bizarre in the fact that, like, you just couldn't believe as it was happening, you're like, this is really happening.

Speaker 3 There's nothing they can do. They have no one who can go get their own basket.
And I know you dumbing down how the NBA works, but you need that guy. You need that one guy who's like, fuck everything.

Speaker 3 I'm going to go get it. Or I'm going to create it like Trey Young.
And credit to the Hawks because Trey Young has been phenomenal. Their team's been phenomenal, resilient.

Speaker 3 And so much so, you know what? We're starting to see? This is coupling with the Luca

Speaker 3 debacle where everything seems to be falling apart temporarily in Dallas. We're seeing now where the Hawks are right for taking Trey Young and not Luka Donchich.

Speaker 5 Maybe.

Speaker 3 So there you go.

Speaker 3 That means that's really when you know that you got a good one when we're doing the revisionist history, when really it's going to just flip-flop depending on who lasts longer in the playoffs every year for the rest of their career.

Speaker 5 Yeah, can I have permission to say something in a bonk-free zone? Because

Speaker 5 to me, this is like the only analogy I could come up with is that Ben Simmons like you have a star player a superstar player who can't shoot is like it's having a porn star that can't come I mean that is a bonk because if that's the only analogy you can think of it's the most perfect analogy ever like yeah he'll he'll go down he'll put his head down and he'll give you some hard minutes out there and he does all the stuff but you can fake you can fake that he makes you can fake that he can't fake you can't fake you can't fake a money shot i mean okay all right sure all right yeah, that's I think it plays.

Speaker 3 What? I mean, you can do a stunt cock, you could do a stunt cock. Girls fake it all time.

Speaker 5 I'm not talking about a girl porn star in this case.

Speaker 3 Yeah. How about the analogy of just like you have like shooting is the most just a porn star, which could be boy or girl.
Yeah, shooting is the most important thing. It's a make or miss league.

Speaker 3 Shooting a basketball into a hoop, not to really dumb it down, but I would say that's the most important thing.

Speaker 3 Like, if you really wanted a player, you'd be like, hey, I hope this this guy, at the end of the day, if he could dribble, if he could do everything else, play defense, I really would like him to be able to put the ball in the hoop when needed.

Speaker 3 He can't do that.

Speaker 5 Well, assists are great. And to quote Rick Riley, it's not basketball, it's basketball.
Yes.

Speaker 3 Something I've always wondered about basketball. Why do they even call them free throws?

Speaker 5 Because they should be free.

Speaker 3 They're not free. Jeez.
I don't want to do a free throw debate again.

Speaker 5 But if you're going to get down to it, and just to clean up the free throw thing, I did find the rule.

Speaker 5 It's further down in the listing that says there is a plane rule so just want to clear that up we did say that only one of us said that

Speaker 3 like five times no we didn't read the plane rule though yeah um all right so hank you you have carte blanche right now say whatever you want to say uh go at it do it Because we know you have a lot of things you want to say.

Speaker 3 No, I mean, I said it all. It's just one of those things where it's stunning how bad they are in the fourth quarter.
Joel and B just gas. He's one of those guys.
He just goes for stats.

Speaker 3 He tries to get all the points he can in the beginning. Doesn't realize he has a low, you know, a low tank.
And in the fourth quarter, he's out of gas.

Speaker 3 Like, you would think think after game four, he would be like, hey, maybe I should conserve some energy for the fourth quarter because I know my point guard is going to be on the bench because he can't shoot.

Speaker 3 And then every time they were doing Hacker Simmons with like seven minutes left, so you would think he would save some energy. He didn't.
It's just crazy when they're coming down the last two minutes.

Speaker 3 And you get that feeling. Like it's like a high school team when the star player is on the bench and there's no one that can get offense.
And you just know that the game is going to go bad.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the ball just keeps like falling out of their hits. I'm going to go to the bathroom.
You're ruining a team when it's like 2-2, the series is tied. It's a closed game.

Speaker 3 To have your home home fans booing, that's gotta be hurt. I love that because that's Philly.
And I love Philly.

Speaker 3 I actually genuinely feel bad for Philly fans. No, you don't.
I do. I feel bad for them because it's more than just a loss.
It's a horrific loss on surface level, right? But it's also the process.

Speaker 3 And it's also, Ben Simmons is one of those guys we talk about all the time where fan bases have players where they will defend and the rest of like national media in the world will say, hey, maybe there's some holes in this guy's game, like shooting a basketball, right?

Speaker 3 Like just basic level things. And you end up, if you're a Philly fan, defending him through thick and thin.

Speaker 3 And when he doesn't show up in those crucial moments, you just basically have to sit there and eat shit. So

Speaker 3 I hope it goes seven.

Speaker 5 You can't spin zone it. You know, if you're a Philly fan, like it sucks having a point guard that can't score.
That's that's one element that we would like very much in this game.

Speaker 5 I also understand why they defend him because he's an awesome player.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 5 He's really good. But But you can't be giving up.

Speaker 3 How big was the lead? It was 26, and they were up 24 with less than two minutes to go in the third quarter.

Speaker 5 You can't do any of that.

Speaker 3 You just can't have that in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 I actually think if I were Ben Simmons, like strategy going into game six, I would just shoot all the time in the fourth quarter because I really do believe if Ben Simmons went one for seven in the fourth quarter, it would be better than shooting one time in the last four games in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 Like that's so, that's basically giving up. I mean, you're not even,

Speaker 3 you're just resigned to the fact that you can't play at this level of the playoffs when things get tighter, teams know each other better, and everything's like, hey, you gotta, someone's gotta make a play here.

Speaker 3 I don't know. I just,

Speaker 3 he in, and it really is like the meanest thing to have a guy who can't shoot from the field and also like can't, like, the one thing Ben Simmons can do is he's good around the rim,

Speaker 3 but he doesn't want to go get contact because then he has to go to the free throw line and he'll miss those.

Speaker 5 If you were Ben Simmons, put yourself in his head right now, and you know that you can't shoot, you know that you're going to make, I don't know, 20% of your open, like, or relatively contested, not like wide open shots.

Speaker 5 I'm talking like a normal, a shot that you would create for yourself. You know that you'll make about 20% of those.
Would you do anything differently in the fourth quarter? I would shoot. Would you?

Speaker 5 Because on one hand, I think maybe I would, but then on the other, I think that it's maybe a smart idea for him to not shoot when he knows that he's not going to.

Speaker 5 It's actually like really unselfish for him to not shoot. And then in that case, who does the blame fall to?

Speaker 5 That's Doc Rivers for keeping a guy in the game that you know cannot and will not score the basketball.

Speaker 3 I'd actually fake an injury that I should say that. I'm a coward.
I would absolutely fake an injury the start of every fourth quarter and be like, oh, next game, I'm good to go.

Speaker 5 Or just fake an injury every time you're on offense.

Speaker 3 Yeah. So this is Doc Rivers.
The other thing, if you're a Philly fan, you're like, oh, well, at least we have a good coach, you know, playoff experience.

Speaker 3 2009, Celtics up 3-2 on Orlando, lose a series. 2010, Celtics up 3-2 on Lakers and NBA Finals, lose the series.
2012, Celtics up 3-2 on the Heat and Eastern Conference Finals, lose a series.

Speaker 3 Clippers, 2013, 3-2 on Grizzly, lose a series, game seven at home. 2014, Clippers blow 15-point lead in game five versus Oklahoma, end up losing series in six.

Speaker 3 2015, the Clippers blew a 3-1 lead. 2016.
That one was the bad one. The Clippers up 2-0 on the Blazers lose series.
4-2, 4 straight losses. They lost game 7 at home to the Jazz.

Speaker 3 And last year, they blew a 3-1 lead to the Nuggets. So there's some of those.
That can't feel good if you're a Sixers fan. Some of those weren't like some, like 2012, like LeBron was

Speaker 3 at the height of his powers. And the Refs, yeah.
Yeah, and isn't the, wasn't the

Speaker 3 Celtics Lakers needed, the NBA needed the heat to win that championship. Wasn't the Celtics Lakers, Kendrick Perkins, got hurt.
So there's some injuries in there, but there's a few.

Speaker 3 The 2015 one was a really bad one.

Speaker 5 It actually makes it

Speaker 5 worse than last year, knowing that the championship is kind of wide open for the Sixers to take.

Speaker 3 This is the year that has happened.

Speaker 5 They don't even have an injury that they can blame it on. They can say like Joel Embiid might be banged up.
Who knows?

Speaker 5 How torn his meniscus is. But yeah, this is the year like every other team has significant injury issues.
And this was the year that you could do it. And

Speaker 5 I do hope that they come back and they win at least one more game just so that this is not like... Because if they lose another game, then going into next year, you almost have to blow something up.

Speaker 5 Oh, you have to. You have to find something in your backyard and blow it up and be like, that's the issue.
We're going to try something different.

Speaker 5 If you end up winning one game after it, then I think you can make the case that we're going to give this another shot next year.

Speaker 5 Maybe with like some minor tweaks, maybe you get a player that can shoot the basketball in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 And I'm not going to truly rag on Joel Embiid because he's fantastic. He finished second in MVP voting.

Speaker 3 The argument is there that if he played all the games this year, which the best

Speaker 3 ability is availability, but if he played all the games this year, he probably would have been MVP. I don't blame Joel Embiid.

Speaker 3 I blame the roster construction of, and the fact that in today's NBA, your best player can't be a center in the fourth quarter when you need guys who can make their own shot, like at all times.

Speaker 5 What about this big cat?

Speaker 3 Around him.

Speaker 3 It's hard to play center when your point guard can't shoot.

Speaker 5 What if you have a guy that you had a couple years ago pretty good in shooting named J.J. Reddick on the team?

Speaker 3 Yeah. I mean, Jimmy Butler would have won that game.
I'm convinced of it.

Speaker 3 He's that type of dog that you need the fuck you. I'm going to win this game.
I don't care.

Speaker 5 That type of guy you need. As a

Speaker 5 sports podcast, we're legally obligated to mention LeBron James during any basketball discussion.

Speaker 5 Did you notice during KD's explosive game where he went off for 49 last time, Kevin Durant, or LeBron tweeted in the middle of it about the kid from Akron 17 out of 18 years getting all NBA?

Speaker 5 Like in the middle of Kevin Durant's fourth quarter. Nice.
Just had to toss that in.

Speaker 3 And he switched his number back.

Speaker 3 All right, let's talk some other NBA. So I am rooting for the Sixers.
I know Sixers fans.

Speaker 3 I have somehow, I think I've gotten a combo of I did have a really bad tweet where I was like, the Sixers are really, really good during game four. What's wrong with that?

Speaker 3 And also, what's wrong with that tweet, Bob? Also, Mike, because I'm deemed a jinx. And then also, which I'll admit, I have terrible in-the-moment opinions.

Speaker 3 And also, I think just the halo effect of Hank being our producer means that we get some ire online. I am rooting for them.

Speaker 3 Hawks fans will get mad at this. I'm rooting for the Sixers to win game six.
I probably will root for them to win game seven because I think that's a fascinating story.

Speaker 3 And I think the Hawks probably have a lot, like Trey Young's going to be great for a really long time. I think with the Sixers, big cat, you're like 24.
You're a sponge. He stinks.

Speaker 5 For their hatred.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I'll own it.
I'll carry it for you.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you're a sponge. Hank is like a tied-up dog.
And if one of those links gets broken,

Speaker 5 he's going to take all the abuse out.

Speaker 3 He's like, I can't believe this is happening. I can't wait to tweet.

Speaker 3 No, I was just, I I was stunned. I was literally stunned.
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Speaker 3 Playoff P deserves all the credit. Playoff P, we rag on him all the time.
Well, guess what? He just went 37, 16, and 5 in Utah, played incredible defense, put the team on their back. And similar to,

Speaker 3 like, Donovan Mitchell's hurt, but similar a little bit to Simmons, like, Rudy Gobert is a great player, but offensively, he's a little challenged, and they basically went small and didn't play a, the Clippers didn't didn't play a center basically the entire game and they've kind of figured out how to beat the jazz so I play off P gets the credit like he deserves credit.

Speaker 3 He gets so much shit that was in a really really great game and he deserves a lot of credit being like hey he does show up in the playoffs.

Speaker 5 Here's this game.

Speaker 5 Did you guys ever know a kid when you were little that dealt really poorly with anger that like when they get really mad they would almost look like they were about to cry they would like not say a word they'd internalize it and just get like their face would start twitching and they'd get almost sad with how angry they were.

Speaker 5 That's what playoff P has looked like the last couple games. When people, when it's like on him to do everything and he knows that everybody's at home being like, oh, they're calling me Pandemic P.

Speaker 5 They're calling me playoff L

Speaker 5 playoff poo-poo.

Speaker 5 You name it. And so he's, I think he's internalized a lot of that, but he's actually like, he looks more explosive than he has in the last couple playoffs.

Speaker 3 And he's got a moment because Kawhi, I don't know. Kawhi's got to be the one guy who, like, when he gets, I kind of respect it.

Speaker 3 Like, when he gets injured, I feel like he's just like, yeah, I'm injured. I'm done.

Speaker 3 And I'm not saying that's soft.

Speaker 3 I'm not saying it's soft. I just honestly think that

Speaker 3 he's just like, yeah, I'm not going to be good if I'm playing with this knee or I'll get more hurt instead of like trying to get out there and gut it out.

Speaker 5 It fits in with his personality. Yeah.
Being a robot where it's like, okay, there's an error code in the software. The rest of it, it's just not going to work.
He's broken.

Speaker 5 Listen, there's nothing I can do about it. You got to fix this thing, and then the rest will work.

Speaker 3 And it's weird because it went Kawhi news, or no, sorry, it went Chris Paul news, Kawhi news, back to back, essentially making like the most wide open, ridiculous playoffs.

Speaker 3 LeBron again made it about himself by saying that he warned everyone. He did.

Speaker 5 Do you think that maybe there's a little Michael Jordan bad pizza situation with Chris Paul?

Speaker 5 Like, what if my theory is, what if Rudy Gobert dropped off a pizza at his hotel room, and you know, Rudy likes to spread it around a little bit, such as microphones.

Speaker 3 Yeah, true. Yeah.
Good point. Also, just to push back a little bit on LeBron, like I know that it was a bad turnaround, but

Speaker 3 or a quick turnaround for the league, they needed to make money because they have salaries that need to be paid and everyone needs to keep going.

Speaker 3 Also, the guys who've got hurt, like Kyrie Irving, he gets hurt. Yep.
Joel Embiid, he gets hurt.

Speaker 5 Also, Kyrie Irving happened to land on somebody's foot.

Speaker 3 Right, Anthony Davis,

Speaker 3 he gets hurt. Donovan Mitchell already was hurt.
Like, Kawhi, he gets hurt. James Harden might be the only one, which I said incorrectly a couple shows ago.
James Harden does not get hurt.

Speaker 3 He got hurt. But like, that's Chris Paul got COVID and he's got the vaccine.
So, like, they're...

Speaker 5 They're also just a bunch of players that didn't really play deep into the playoffs last year in the bubble.

Speaker 3 Right. In the bubble.

Speaker 5 So, yeah, I don't know. Like, LeBron James very clearly wanted to just remind everybody that he told everyone this was going to happen ahead of time.

Speaker 3 But guess what, LeBron? I, I, like, I, again, I understand, like, player safety is, is very important in all these things. But, LeBron, you've made a lot of money.

Speaker 3 There's probably some guys who are like, hey, I'd like like to get back and play.

Speaker 3 And there's, you know, I mean, there's like organizations that need to make money. I'm not trying to cape for the

Speaker 3 owners because that's the opposite of what I'm doing. Boot liquor.

Speaker 5 Bootlicker.

Speaker 3 But I do understand, like, you can't expect everything to keep running if you don't get back and play a season. Yeah.
Maybe a month would have fixed it. Who knows?

Speaker 5 Yeah, I don't think I just looking at the names and then looking at the schedule of what happened last year in the playoff bubble, it doesn't scream out to me that there's any correlation there whatsoever between playing those games and not having a big layoff.

Speaker 5 But I get that probably if you're a if you're a veteran that's been in the league for a while, that short rest sucked. Yeah.
Like that's all you should just say that.

Speaker 5 Be like, listen, it sucks that we had to play this full season after taking, what, like three weeks off or whatever? Yeah. That sucks.
I agree. LeBron, I agree with you.
That sucks.

Speaker 3 Chris Paul, though, getting COVID, I still, I actually, I'll throw it out there. Doesn't the timeline match up? Well, maybe not, but let's just pretend that timelines don't matter.

Speaker 3 LeBron went to that tequila party. Then they played the Suns.
Then Chris Paul got COVID. I mean, yeah, I think...
The timeline doesn't match up whatsoever.

Speaker 5 I do like to indulge in a bit of conspiracy thinking. Like Ernie Adams' retirement, I don't think that he is retired.
I think he's going to be... No chance.

Speaker 5 I think he's going to be Bill Belichick's COVID guy. Yeah.
That like, you know, he'll drop in and

Speaker 5 pass off a few injections, cough on the right people, make sure that certain unvaccinated players aren't ready to play when they're going against the Patriots.

Speaker 3 Agreed. That was great, though, that he got to do a press conference.
Did he say anything of note? I think just him being there was of note.

Speaker 3 And why did he, why was it ending now?

Speaker 3 Like, I guess it is before, but why wouldn't it end at the end of last season? Yeah, I'm not sure about that. Because he probably helped out with the draft, right?

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 Draft points for free agency. Good point.

Speaker 3 He's not going anywhere. No, he just moved his eyes off.
He's just working from home.

Speaker 5 Have you ever seen Homeland? Saul retires like every year, but he's still very much working for the CIA. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Is Russia still on?

Speaker 5 No, I think Carrie died at the end.

Speaker 3 Oh, spoiler. No, she didn't.
Oh, she lived. She's just spoiler.
In Russia.

Speaker 3 Another spoiler.

Speaker 3 Oh, she's dead. All right.
The Islanders lost. Our hockey minute.
The Islanders lost.

Speaker 3 That feels bad. Yeah, it's tough.
The series is over. And the Canadians tied it up.
Back to Canada.

Speaker 5 And that'll do it for the hockey minute.

Speaker 3 What was the guy's eyes bleeding? Did you see that?

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah, yeah. That was weird.
It looked like he was either high as shit. I think Billy said they looked like he bought Bitcoin and he had glowing eyes.

Speaker 5 Somebody said that.

Speaker 3 On Twitter, yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but it was really strange. It did look like he was going through an exorcism.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 But that's a hockey guy. Upper body injury.
My eyes are out.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 All right. So

Speaker 3 before we get to Daniel Ricardo, anything else that we got to get to before we have Firefest on the other end and also the reintroduction of Billy football.

Speaker 3 The Bears did release a statement that they're

Speaker 3 putting in a bid to buy Arlington International Racetrack, which is in Arlington Heights, about 30, 45, 30 miles, like 45 minutes outside of

Speaker 3 where Soldier Field is, downtown Chicago. And everyone's, everyone's actually, I don't think a lot of people are freaking out.
I actually think it's smart of them.

Speaker 3 It's probably, they're probably just posturing to get a renovation of Soldier Field. It's for people who don't know, because I would assume people don't just know attendance offhand.

Speaker 3 The Bears have the lowest attend, like the lowest capacity of any NFL team.

Speaker 5 And it's a very old stadium.

Speaker 3 And it's the only, it's the biggest city that doesn't have two teams.

Speaker 5 So I just think that

Speaker 5 there's something nice about an NFL team that has a stadium downtown. So Trump's somebody that doesn't actually live in that city or have to deal with the facilities on a day-to-day basis.

Speaker 5 So I'm sure there are lots of good reasons to move it out. But yeah, I just like the image when they do the blimp shot.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 There's nothing like a blimp shot that shows the skyline afterwards.

Speaker 3 But the stadium is, they did a renovation. They did a Bandaid 20 years ago, and it's already out of date.
They don't own their stadium.

Speaker 3 The Chicago Park District does, so that's also crazy. The McCaskies are thinking about selling it.

Speaker 3 So they are like, hey, let's bid for this land land, and then we can sell it to someone who will build the new stadium.

Speaker 3 I, honestly, a big new stadium that like attracts a Big Ten championship game, Final Fours, all that stuff, I'm kind of in for it. Or a renovation that makes it better downtown, which also would work.

Speaker 5 It's like when Lucas Oil got built in Indianapolis, they called it the house that Peyton built, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So what would you...

Speaker 3 The house that Mitch built. It would be Fields Field.
No, it's the house that Mitch built. House that Mitch built.
I like it.

Speaker 5 Hank, you didn't chime in on the LeBron stuff. Are you feeling all right?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I was just curious because I would think that like on one hand you're like you guys say i'm just this un unbashed hater that just only has certain things that i hate unequivocally i was just and i don't have any you know type of rational takes

Speaker 5 on one hand you'd be like well i hate lebron on the other hand i love that he's advocating for more vacations

Speaker 3 No, I mean, listen,

Speaker 3 that's LeBron 101 is when he loses, he makes up excuses and whatever fits his narrative.

Speaker 5 You should teach the LeBron 101 class. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's lose, and then he's going to put up a million Instagram stories, a million Instagrams. Like, all of a sudden, he's going to be.
I'm not going to. Yeah, Don't do anything.

Speaker 3 The Mavericks thing is weird, too. That should be noted.
Like, it feels. They're falling apart.
It feels when there's that much

Speaker 3 reporting going on, and Mark Cuban has to come out and be like, this is all fake. And then the coach resigns.

Speaker 3 It feels.

Speaker 3 They're just going to have to be.

Speaker 3 You know what it is?

Speaker 3 It's Photoshop season because everyone's Photoshopping Luca. Luca.
I retreated someone who who did it with the Bulls. And then I saw some guy who I don't know how he.

Speaker 3 Let me get his Twitter handle because I want to give the proper credit. This guy, Kofi on Twitter, said the Mavericks lost to the Clippers in seven and are down 3-0 to the Atlantic.

Speaker 3 The athletic

Speaker 3 shit.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's okay. Read it.

Speaker 3 At Oakley underscore MP3,

Speaker 3 he should be the new GM of the Bulls because he said I would offer Zach Levine and Vucevic to make the Luca trade, which

Speaker 5 I would offer that too.

Speaker 3 I love when

Speaker 3 people on Twitter are online, wherever they're discussing a team, they're like, hey, I would offer these two guys for this incredible player.

Speaker 5 You know what's no shit, dude. You know what season is.
It's NBA trade machine screenshot season because you can make the most outlandish, you can put like 12 guys. It's like, yep, this trade works.

Speaker 5 And it's like, well, it could happen.

Speaker 3 I hope that there is one GM in every league that is the annoying guy in fantasy football who just every week will offer you four bench players for like Patrick Mahomes. Yep.

Speaker 3 And be like, but look at all the value you get. It's like, dude, where am I going to put all these people? Where am I going to put these guys?

Speaker 5 Honestly, that's what they should do to the Sixers right now. The Sixers might be like, yeah, that works.
Yeah. I mean, look, we're getting six guys and only giving up one.

Speaker 3 Statistically, you got to go through it. I think the Sixers should do the opposite.
They should offer Embede, Tobias Harris, and Ben Simmons for LeBron. Yeah.
Just be like, let's do it. Why not?

Speaker 3 Why not? Why not? I would trust them a lot more if it was just LeBron and Seth Curry running around. Hell yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 All right. Let's get to an awesome interview.
Awesome interview. Daniel Ricardo.
If you're not an F1 fan, it doesn't matter. He's one of those guys.
Great accent, great stories, great dude.

Speaker 3 So it doesn't matter. It's like a fun interview whether you are an F1 fan or not.
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Speaker 3 Okay, here he is, Daniel Ricardo.

Speaker 3 All right, we now welcome on a very, very special guest.

Speaker 3 He's a race car driver, F1 driver on McLaren team McLaren. It is Daniel Ricardo.
He's also the epitome of human high performance.

Speaker 3 When you said that quote, were you like, this is ridiculous?

Speaker 7 I

Speaker 3 it's funny.

Speaker 7 When I see things play back, obviously

Speaker 7 watching the season months after it's been shot, I'm like, oh, wow, I really said that. I don't even know some of the

Speaker 7 dumb stuff I say. So that's funny.

Speaker 3 But we're excited to have you on. We figured you were the number one guy that we could basically shout out and be like, he's too scared to come on.

Speaker 3 And you would come on because that's the type of personality you have. You are by far the most entertaining guy on Drive to Survive.

Speaker 7 But did did you see it right away and you're like all right i gotta i gotta come on this guy's show because they called me out yeah yeah i i i love i love a good call out i respect it so um yeah no it's good it's good i'm happy i'm happy to talk to some good american folk so uh

Speaker 7 i'm very delighted to be here and i'm glad i'm glad you guys liked uh like the series as well and and are turning into some proper f1 fans it's good

Speaker 5 it's a great show yeah i mean like as people that i don't think we even ever paid attention to F1 until a few months ago, started watching it.

Speaker 5 It's addictive, and you get drawn in by the storylines, you get drawn in by the entire sport. Have you noticed a difference just from what you see as a driver when you go out to the track?

Speaker 5 Is there a difference in like the fan base that's coming out now? Has it grown noticeably even over in Europe because of the series?

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's it's changed a lot.

Speaker 8 And

Speaker 7 like, I know, like, there's some of us in the, let's say, in the F1 world, we're like, oh, some love it, some maybe don't love it as much, but you can't deny that it's completely elevated our sport and elevated our profiles all around the world.

Speaker 7 And I think it's just cool to, you know, like it's such a strange sport in terms of, you know, it's not something you grow up doing, like, not everyone grows up driving race cars and then getting to Formula One.

Speaker 7 And it's, it's such a kind of closed sport.

Speaker 7 So to open it up and to bring like new people into it and just to, I think just to show the sport off, you know, because it is so, so unique, but also so amazing.

Speaker 7 It's like, I like that, you know, like the show has given us that platform, and Netflix has done that for us. So it's cool.

Speaker 3 What, what, uh, you mentioned that there's some people who may not love the show, are there like traditional old school F1 people who are like, oh, this is showing too much, or it's not about the rivalries, it's all about the race cars.

Speaker 3 Is that what, is that kind of what the push and pull is?

Speaker 7 I guess there's some of that. Like, for sure, you know, like some of the rivalries might be a little, you know, there might be a little bit of sugar on the top of it.

Speaker 7 Um, but it's like, yeah, so it's probably just that, like, the real purist, like, oh, like, you know, I know these guys and they don't actually hate each other or whatever.

Speaker 7 But I mean, like, I'll be honest, it's pretty, like, some of it, again, might be a little heightened, but it is, it does kind of demonstrate pretty well what the sport's about and also, like, the politics of it and all of that.

Speaker 7 Even the rivalries, yeah, amongst not only drivers, but the teams and the bosses. It's, it's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 All right.

Speaker 3 So, you actually mentioned that uh they tried to make kind of create a rivalry between you and carlos sans and you said uh you you said quote i've probably got other guys that i dislike you know as opposed to carlos so why don't you tell us who you dislike more than carlos Yeah, everyone.

Speaker 3 It is got to be weird, though, because it is a reality television factor of it where the edits are going to make maybe some rivalries look bigger than they actually are.

Speaker 3 I would imagine there's a couple rivalries.

Speaker 3 are there any rivalries that you have that you're like i hope they don't figure out who i actually hate because now they're going to try to make this a story yeah there's there's probably some like i feel i mean it's

Speaker 7 it's like we all obviously what we do is you know i guess pretty dangerous so we all definitely have like a respect

Speaker 7 for each other so like i respect each and every driver but for sure like we also come from very different walks of life different parts of the world and like so naturally like we all don't maybe get along um

Speaker 7 like best friends but we're also trying to all take you know something from each other you know and we're trying to beat each other and get get a title so we're all fighting for the same thing so it's like there's always going to be that intense rivalry and there will be people that yeah you just don't get on with um

Speaker 7 but ultimately like the one thing that we've chosen to do in life, like we all have that common passion. So it's weird.
There's respect, but there's also a lot of,

Speaker 7 yeah, I mean, I get on with a few of the guys. Like, I'm a pretty easygoing guy, but yeah, I mean, some, some just I don't really have much in common with.

Speaker 5 Do you ever plan out a line that you're going to deliver?

Speaker 5 Like something that you think of, maybe you're about to fall asleep at night and you're like, that would be fucking awesome if I dropped this line on somebody before the race tomorrow.

Speaker 5 And then you say it, you make sure the camera picks it up. And then you watch the show a couple months later and you're like, why didn't they use my cool line that I thought of?

Speaker 7 So so i'll always it's normally during training like during training i'll let like some of my uh emotion or aggression out and i'll be like yeah that's what i'm gonna do or that would be sick but it's more just internal stuff in my head um i think like honestly most the

Speaker 7 i would say like most the shit i say on on camera is very spontaneous and it's like um

Speaker 7 I don't know. I'm very like, I don't want to say I'm like quick-witted, but I do just normally just speak what's on the tip of my tongue.

Speaker 5 Yeah, if it's authentic, I think that's better. And it's going to come across anyways.
If you like try to rehearse it, then it's going to be like, fuck, this is another line that he wrote down.

Speaker 5 And people will start to like turn on you. But I think people like the fact that you seem to enjoy living in that moment, getting to talk shit about somebody.
It's great.

Speaker 7 I think that's where it's like, I feel, obviously, like, I do realize I have a, like a, I'll say a decent fan base, like a good fan base.

Speaker 7 And I don't, I don't mean to blow smoke, but it's like, I think because I am, or I, I definitely feel I'm very true to myself. And I think people can relate.

Speaker 7 Like if you're if you're authentic and you're real, then everyone can relate to, yeah, just the normal person who just goes about it. And like, I love what I do.

Speaker 7 And for sure, if I'm emotional, I'll show it. And if I'm passionate, I'll show it.
And if I don't like someone, I won't always probably say it

Speaker 7 as I probably want to say it. But I think people get the picture.

Speaker 5 Right. So we're authentic here on this show.
And I don't think we'd be authentic. We wouldn't be doing our jobs as journalists if we didn't call you out on some stuff.

Speaker 5 So, first and foremost, I want to address this. Your nickname is the honey badger.
Number one, they don't have honey badgers in Australia. It's not endemic species to Australia.
Kind of a fraud.

Speaker 5 That's number one. Number two.

Speaker 3 Also, he needs to have the honey badger here.

Speaker 5 I think you stole the honey badger from Tyron Matthew, and you're like, that's a cool nickname. I want people to start calling me that.

Speaker 5 And then you started whispering to people, oh, you know, they call me the honey badger, right? Pretty cool, right? I hear that. That's what they're saying about me.

Speaker 5 And then you tried to implant it artificially on yourself. Would you care to respond to those allegations?

Speaker 7 I think I'm definitely more jacked than Tarin.

Speaker 3 I don't.

Speaker 3 I respect the fact that you said that. Maybe your neck muscles? I don't know.
I'm actually glad you said it. Yeah.
But

Speaker 5 I don't think he would agree.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 7 I feel I would get squashed in an instant. But

Speaker 7 yeah, so. No, I mean, I can't really counter that with much.

Speaker 7 I definitely adopted

Speaker 7 an

Speaker 7 what's the word?

Speaker 7 An animal from not my country. There's a word I'm looking for.
But

Speaker 7 yeah, like I do love the honey badger. I'm also not

Speaker 7 too,

Speaker 7 what's the word, like possessive of it. Like, I'm happy to share it.
So if Tyron wants it, he can have it as well.

Speaker 3 That's very generous of you to offer it to Tyron. Yes.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the nickname he's had for like a decade. It's that's that's beautiful.

Speaker 3 Wait, so while we're talking about uh different animals in Australia, do you think I could fight a kangaroo and beat him up?

Speaker 7 Stand up for me.

Speaker 3 I'm 6'2 ⁇ . It's a big boy.
240, 50, whatever. I also can crush windpipes pretty easily.

Speaker 7 Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.
You're jacked.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. I like you, Daniel.
I'm wearing a black shirt. That's a little trick.

Speaker 3 Everyone's always like, hey, you look skinny today. I'm like, no, I'm just wearing a black shirt.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 7 you would definitely give one a run.

Speaker 7 but man, like it's funny. So, I've got a farm out in Australia, and like, there's kangaroos all the time, but every time you approach them, they run away.

Speaker 7 Like, I've never, I've definitely never come even close to being confronted by one. But when you see some of the videos, like, yeah, they, they're quite, they're quite intimidating.

Speaker 7 But, um, I think you'll cover it.

Speaker 3 I got you.

Speaker 5 What's it like just in general living in a country where everything can kill you?

Speaker 7 So,

Speaker 3 are you talking about America?

Speaker 5 Well, he's in he's in monaco i know you got the royal family over there

Speaker 3 like well

Speaker 3 yeah no uh all the animals

Speaker 7 can kill you yeah yeah of course i got you um

Speaker 7 so it's weird because i'll be the first to admit like i am terrified of animals like especially australian snakes sharks spiders all of it like i'm not i'm not about that But I think when you grow up kind of around it, you don't really you don't really think about it.

Speaker 7 So like we'll go walking out in the bush or go riding and go in the desert or whatever it is. And

Speaker 7 you kind of like, I don't know, you just don't really think about it. So maybe that's what growing up there does.
Like it kind of puts it to the back of your mind.

Speaker 7 But don't get me wrong, if I saw, like, if I come across a snake, I'm the first one getting out of there. Like, I'm, yeah, nah.

Speaker 5 So you've never killed a snake?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 5 We had a theory on the show that everyone from Australia has killed a snake at some point. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Oh, no, I have. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
With my bare hands, I actually ate the venomous part as well.

Speaker 5 Was it like a Capri son?

Speaker 3 All right, I'm going to ask a racing question because I'm sure there's some people who are listening, like, how are you guys not asking him F1 questions? So,

Speaker 3 you made the switch to McLaren. I saw the quote that basically was like, Daniel's still learning the car.
How, like,

Speaker 3 for dumb people out there, we see race car, and we're like, all right, that race car is the same as that race car.

Speaker 3 How, like, what is the actual technical differences that are difficult to learn from going from Red Bull to Renault to McLaren?

Speaker 7 So, oh, how do I say this without, I guess, boring?

Speaker 3 No, it's okay. Your accent makes anything like you can say anything boring, and people are like, that was sick.
So, just so you know, yeah, yeah, you got that.

Speaker 7 All right, all right, this is good.

Speaker 7 Uh, so, like, so there is a set of rules within F1, but it's like there is also so much you can do with the cars so like there's guidelines but you know there's like the aerodynamics on a car are incredible and each team will have you know their own wind tunnels to figure out the best parts to put on the car and and whatever whatever so like

Speaker 7 Every F1 car is very different and it's a lot of the time it's how the aerodynamics on the car work. So some cars might be like

Speaker 7 respond better in really fast corners. So, that's where their call it aerodynamics is like on point.

Speaker 7 But then others will be much better in like the tight hairpins and the slow corners, but then they might suffer a bit more in the high. And it just depends where, like,

Speaker 7 call it where the profile peaks and where the profile like falls away. So,

Speaker 7 that can just change simply, like, one car to another. And

Speaker 7 I think with the McLaren at the moment, it's let's say it peaks,

Speaker 7 call it at the very like entry of the corner.

Speaker 7 And if I'm used to something peaking later in the corner or whatever, then I just have to adapt the way I brake, the way I turn into the corner, and all these little things.

Speaker 7 And then you've got setting the car up on top of that, you know, with suspension and all of this. But

Speaker 7 yeah, they can just have very different like characteristics is probably the best way to say it.

Speaker 3 That actually helped because it does. I mean, that makes sense when it's like driving a new car and the split-second differences can change change everything.
What also? I'm obviously a novice.

Speaker 3 Um, I drew, I watched Drive to Survive. I think there's a lot of us that are like, we watched Drive to Survive, we've now watched a few races.
This is sick, but we don't know anything about it.

Speaker 3 The tires, the soft, hard, medium. What like, do you use all different tires during a single race? And when do you use different tires? And like, how does that work?

Speaker 7 Yeah, so there's um, there's five different compounds, um, and each each race will get three. Like, so um, let's say Formula One allocate three per race.
And so,

Speaker 8 um,

Speaker 7 you know, like, so the softer, they'll give us the softer compounds on like more slippery circuits, like low grip circuits. And the softer tyre normally gives more grip.
So that that like helps.

Speaker 7 But then more of like the higher speed, the corners which put like a lot of energy and load through the car and through the tire,

Speaker 7 then they'll give us the harder, they'll bring the harder tires to that race to give it a bit more durability. So, on each weekend, we have three.

Speaker 7 Um, for example, this race coming up, I think we have the three in the middle. So, if you've got one to five, this race we've got two, three, four.

Speaker 7 Um, so it would be like a medium, a soft, and a extra soft. Um, I think it's called maybe ultra-soft.
I don't know. Um,

Speaker 7 so basically, the softer the tire,

Speaker 7 the quicker it like warms up, the more grip you can get out of it, but the quicker it also falls apart and dies.

Speaker 7 So it's, I guess it's like, I mean, it's rubber at the end of the day.

Speaker 7 So you can think if the rubber's softer, it's going to stick and have more friction, but it also is going to piece up a lot quicker.

Speaker 3 It's actually the analogy I would think is probably like the different spikes football players wear on their cleats depending on how the surface is playing.

Speaker 3 Like if it's a muddy day, a rainy day, whatever. Like, if it's field turf, they'll wear smaller cleats.
So, maybe that's how we explain it.

Speaker 7 Well done. I like that.

Speaker 3 And you're a Bills fan, right?

Speaker 7 Yeah,

Speaker 7 I am. I am.
I've sadly never been to a game. So I'm like, call it.
I'm

Speaker 7 a distant fan. But I just want to be put through a table ultimately.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 5 We got to get you to Buffalo.

Speaker 3 I mean, Josh Allen's our best friend. Legitimately best friend.

Speaker 5 What's the schedule like for F1 in the fall? We need to get you out to a game.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 7 I need to get to one. And I know Josh has come out to a race and

Speaker 7 really, really nice guy. Really nice guy.
Obviously, amazing, amazing player.

Speaker 7 But yeah, I think that as well, like when I met him and I was like, this guy's really cool. And then all the Bills Mafia stuff, I was like, this is my team.

Speaker 7 But I love summer. And I love, I do not like the cold.
I'm not built for the cold. So apparently Buffalo gets

Speaker 3 yes.

Speaker 5 It's actually, you would love it in September, early October. It's perfect weather there.
It's actually the most perfect place on earth.

Speaker 5 But then once like late October hits, you're in a snowstorm almost all the time.

Speaker 7 Okay. So when, when's game one? What month is it?

Speaker 3 It's September, early September. I think you guys drive in Austin in like October, which would actually be a beautiful time to go to Buffalo.

Speaker 3 So if we can figure that out, that would be the way to do it.

Speaker 7 I mean, I would definitely put my hand up. If the schedule allows, I will be in Buffalo in October.
Let's make it happen.

Speaker 3 All right, I'm going to work on the schedule. You ask your next question.
Okay, yeah.

Speaker 5 So, um, gonna get back to Daniel Ricardo in a second. Before we do, I want to talk to you about.

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Speaker 5 Here he is more Daniel Ricardo. We were talking about like the small stuff with the tires.
It's interesting to me how like you can have a race car that costs $10, $15 million

Speaker 5 and you can just have to quit the race. You have to withdraw the car because there's like one lug nut that doesn't work when you're trying to change a tire on it.

Speaker 5 What's the smallest mistake that has ever cost you a win?

Speaker 7 So actually, yeah, my very first podium. So I finished the race second and it was in my it was in my home home race.
It was the Australian Grand Prix back in 2014. And

Speaker 7 no Australian had ever finished on a home podium. So it was like, it was the biggest day of my career and probably like the biggest in Australian, call it motorsport.

Speaker 7 And I then got disqualified hours after the race because it was a like fuel flow meter and the reading was like point, whatever, 0.12 high.

Speaker 7 And basically, it was like a little technicality that I had no control over. And

Speaker 7 yeah, basically cost me my position.

Speaker 3 But you got you got to celebrate on the podium, right?

Speaker 7 I did, so that was counts.

Speaker 3 I'm like,

Speaker 3 yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7 I don't need, I don't need the trophy on the points, just give me the moment, give me the photos.

Speaker 5 What's the culture like within F1 when it comes to like those small little things? Like, is everybody basically just pushing the limits wherever they can get an advantage?

Speaker 5 Or is it, has it become more rigid because you got Christian running around, like, yeah, running his mouth, telling on everybody?

Speaker 7 You guys spoke to Christian, didn't you?

Speaker 3 Yeah, we did. Yeah, it's kind of sucked.
You used to, you know, race for him and he was the tattletale. Now he's tattling on you.

Speaker 7 He loves a bit of chat. But no,

Speaker 7 I got time for Christian. He's funny.

Speaker 7 But so I think, yeah, like with everything, everyone's trying to like push the limits.

Speaker 7 Like you're,

Speaker 7 I want to say even as far as like bending the rules, like because ultimately everyone is trying to get that very last millisecond of lap time.

Speaker 7 But even like

Speaker 7 that example in Australia, I don't even think it was at the time the team being like clever or tricky, call it. It was just a

Speaker 7 something in a way that was out of our control. And it was the first race of the new, like the hybrid era.
So it was the first race of like the V6 engines with the

Speaker 7 electric motors and all of all the rest of it. And it was just a new system.
And I don't think we'd call it calibrated it correctly or something. So that one kind of sucked.

Speaker 7 But pit stops as well, like pit stops can happen.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so I think that's one thing with our sport.

Speaker 7 And like, as much as I love it, and I've obviously made a career out of it, if I could do it all again, I don't know if I would pick this sport because there's so many other variables and so much out of your control.

Speaker 7 You know, so you could like, you could perform perfectly and you know, something might end it for you. But I think then that makes the high so high.

Speaker 7 Like when it all does work and gel together and you win or get a podium, it's huge.

Speaker 3 Right. So speaking of that, the

Speaker 3 obviously it's so hard to get points in F1 and every completed race where you finish top 10 is an accomplishment. But is there ever a point where you feel a little ridiculous?

Speaker 3 When like they'll maybe it's just on drive to survive. They they they like boost it up, but the guys will be celebrating and be like, that was mega, that was incredible.
It's like P7.

Speaker 3 You're like, wait, what? They finished P7? I thought he won the race the way they were celebrating.

Speaker 3 Or is it just you have to celebrate every time you score points, and that's just the reality of the sport?

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's

Speaker 7 so I've probably been that guy before as well. And the reason for it is, I guess it's pretty simple.
Like, so most seasons,

Speaker 7 only

Speaker 7 maybe two or three teams could win a race just because their car is they've done such a good job and no one else is really on that on that level so for other teams maybe like a seventh place is

Speaker 7 like the equivalent of a victory right and that's so you you can you can get that like satisfaction if you if you know and as a driver and if you've been doing it your whole life you know if you got every little last bit out of that race

Speaker 7 And if it leads to a result like that, then it is worth celebrating. I mean, it's not, obviously not a victory, but it's certainly recognized as a big result.

Speaker 3 That makes sense. Like the races, when you start farther back and you climb up to P6, that's a victory.

Speaker 7 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 And I'm sure they measure everything that you do as a driver, especially with the simulators. They can probably keep track of

Speaker 5 every little bit that you've optimized.

Speaker 5 If you leave out a couple seconds here or there, they can find out where you lost that time.

Speaker 5 Has it gotten down to the point where they can tell you if you're better at turning left or turning right overall?

Speaker 7 I mean, like, honestly, they could. There's so much data they could.

Speaker 7 I mean, I grew up a NASCAR fan, so I would say naturally, I would be probably better at turning left than right.

Speaker 7 But yeah, I mean,

Speaker 7 I know you kind of maybe, I don't know if it was a joke question, but it was like, you could literally, I reckon they could find that and figure out the statistics for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 3 What's uh, what makes, can you explain to us what makes a good party shirt a party shirt?

Speaker 3 Oh

Speaker 7 all right so

Speaker 7 it's you know it when you see it but it is it is very

Speaker 7 you know like some some people will wear wear

Speaker 7 a call it party shirt, but it's not it's like it's an old Hawaiian dad shirt or something and it just doesn't have whether whether the buttons are too big or the flowers just aren't the right flower.

Speaker 3 I don't know so you just know it when you see it but then when you see a good party shirt oh it's it's magical what how many party shirts do you own like like how many top tier like i trust this party shirt for my best parties party shirts do you own

Speaker 7 i mean i i i would own over a

Speaker 7 definitely over probably like 15.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 7 And I would be confident with a dozen of them.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 And is there one, there's one in in your mind, though, that you're like, this is, if I get invited to the number one A1 party, this is the party shirt.

Speaker 7 I mean, I recently got one with like these two beautiful unicorns on it.

Speaker 7 But I don't know if it's, I think they, I don't know if they're horn, though, they're unicorns, right? I think they're unicorns. And it's like, it's just majestic.

Speaker 7 So that, that's, that's my newest favorite one.

Speaker 3 Do you feel like Superman going into the phone booth when you, when you put on your party shirt, you're like, okay, now it's like, have you ever put on a party shirt and it hasn't been a party?

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Really? Just take it for like a test drive?

Speaker 7 I was about to say, exactly.

Speaker 3 If you're like a little bit apprehensive, you kind of,

Speaker 7 you warm it in. You warm it into the environment.

Speaker 7 But I think like most importantly, a party shirt, it's like, it's how you wear it.

Speaker 7 And if you wear it with confidence, And if you also, if you don't take it too seriously, then it's good, you're going to pull it off nine times out of 10.

Speaker 3 I also just love the way you say party.

Speaker 5 Do you have an all-time, do you have like an all-time favorite? Maybe a shirt that you've worn out, had a great time partying in, and then you've decided, hey, it's time to retire this one.

Speaker 5 Like great, you had a great career, let's hang it from the rafters. Or do you keep a shirt like that around because that's now your lucky party shirt?

Speaker 7 I mean, that's such a good question.

Speaker 7 So I, I mean, well, so.

Speaker 7 As everyone probably thinks I'm always wearing these colorful party shirts, but actually when in doubt, I'm like, I just have my trusty black t-shirt, and that's like, that's my go-to.

Speaker 7 Um, and that's that's obviously seen a lot of good nights out.

Speaker 7 So, um, I haven't retired it yet. It's still going strong, and I've probably had that one for I think like 2015.
So, that one's, yeah, it hasn't shrunk too much in the wash. It's that one's solid.

Speaker 3 That one's seen some shit. Yeah, if you ever want to retire a party shirt, you can send it to us.
We'll frame it and put it up in our studio. Be like, you see that?

Speaker 3 That's Daniel Ricardo's party shirt. It's seen some shit.

Speaker 3 All right.

Speaker 5 If you're going to go with, if you go with the black t-shirt, though, I assume

Speaker 5 you have to be having a good neck day to wear that black t-shirt. I know that you like work out your neck.
How do you, what are your neck exercises?

Speaker 7 So, actually, the reason why I was maybe a minute or two late for this call was I was literally finishing my neck exercises.

Speaker 5 So,

Speaker 7 and that's no joke.

Speaker 7 So, you have like, so we have these harnesses

Speaker 7 with uh which we basically wrap around our head and and we we get like a our trainer to to pull on it or we just kind of i'll just get some uh like elastic band stuff uh tied to the door and just sit on a chair and and kind of do do some repetitions but i could sit there for like an hour and a half and just do like a lot of long and low training um to build like the endurance

Speaker 7 So you're, did you ask why is it important?

Speaker 5 Yeah, well, yeah, why is it?

Speaker 5 I know it's important if you're wearing like a black t-shirt is actually one of those shirts that you have to be having a good neck day to pull off correctly, but why is it important for you as a driver also?

Speaker 7 Yeah, so I mean, a good neck can look good. Um, and you're right, like a black T does give it, it kind of

Speaker 7 um lends itself to definition. So

Speaker 7 you're onto something there. And then for driving, it's it's our one like major muscle that we need because

Speaker 7 probably two reasons. So it's kind of like our highest point of gravity, like center of gravity.
Like, so where, I guess, our head is the tallest point of our body when we're sitting in the car.

Speaker 7 And we also wear the helmet. So all the load and all the g-force that we get when cornering, that all gets kind of transferred to our neck.

Speaker 7 So we're doing like five G's through corners. So that's like five times your body weight.

Speaker 7 And I guess for your neck, or if your head's, I don't don't know, 10 kilos, call it, add a few kilos for the helmet. Say 13 times five.
How good's your math? I don't know.

Speaker 3 65 times

Speaker 3 five, 65 kilos.

Speaker 7 Yeah. So that's like 65 kilos on your neck for a few seconds in each corner, however many hundred times for a race.
So I think that's one. And then the second reason why we've got to keep it.

Speaker 7 conditioned and strong is the neck's really weird. It's probably the one muscle where like when it goes it goes.

Speaker 7 So, like, if it fatigues in the race and it, like, falls over, it's like, you can't pick it back up.

Speaker 7 It's like, I feel like you can, I don't know, like, in training, in the gym, you can, you can, like, push through a few bicep kills or like bench press or like, you know, you can like get that last rep out where with your neck, I feel once it's gone, like, see it later.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 7 you never want to get to that point.

Speaker 3 Do you wake up the day after a race like super sore?

Speaker 7 Yeah, you can do. Like you feel, your whole body just feels like heavy.

Speaker 7 And yeah, you just feel like a soreness and a general fatigue, I guess.

Speaker 3 So you've switched teams a couple of times the last few years. And obviously everyone's a professional.

Speaker 3 But when you do switch a team and you announce it and you still have to race for the current team, do you look around?

Speaker 3 You're like, are these guys, are they doing everything they could be doing for my car?

Speaker 3 Are they maybe putting a little extra time in the guy who's sticking around, Max for stopping, or, or, or, uh, you know, the year before? Who was your teammate last year?

Speaker 7 Uh, Ocon.

Speaker 3 Ocon, yeah, yeah. So, like, do you feel that at all? Or is that, or maybe it's just you're paranoid and it happens naturally.

Speaker 3 But is it, it's got to be a little bit of an awkward feeling to be with the team and everyone in the room knows that you're not going to be here next year.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's

Speaker 7 like for sure, like,

Speaker 7 I would say the first or the early stages are a bit, um, they can be like a bit awkward or uncomfortable

Speaker 7 but I think like I don't there's so many things to like on a race weekend like driving the car is hard enough and then there's so many other things to deal with whether it's the media or the team so I think adding another like filling my head with another what if

Speaker 7 I won't like doesn't do me any favors so I don't really go down that path but like I am aware that there might be a bit more shit to do in terms terms of if there's like a few

Speaker 5 i don't know appearances or like they might just load me up with a bit of extra non-fun work yeah to make me to make me kind of pay the price if you know what i mean but it's it it's not too bad like for real it's it's okay and when you make a choice like to go to renaud how much of that is dealing with uh you know there you were talking about all the different small things about a car that can make a difference things that you would have to get used to when you're switching to a new car how much of that decision is based on the technical aspects of the car?

Speaker 5 Because there's a lot of really important stuff that you have to take into account if you're switching teams, versus how much at the end of the day is like, fuck this guy, I want to stick it to him, and this guy's going to pay me a lot of money to join his team.

Speaker 5 Plus, I get to piss off the old guy, sign me up.

Speaker 7 Yeah, or all of our point number two. So,

Speaker 7 um,

Speaker 7 it's uh, no, like

Speaker 7 I think going to so like the Red Bull Renault thing. So like at the time, like a lot of people couldn't really understand it.

Speaker 7 And like, fair enough, because I was going from a, you know, I guess

Speaker 7 second best team at the time, third best team, to then like the fourth or fifth best team. So I was like, let's say downgrading, if you want to call it that from a performance point of view.

Speaker 7 But I felt like at Red Bull, I'd kind of

Speaker 7 I kind of want to say like reached my limit.

Speaker 7 Like I'd been with a team for so long, I'd known everyone so well that I was like, I'm not sure I'm going to put in any more effort into this if I keep going.

Speaker 7 And like not to, it doesn't really sound right, but like basically I was worried I'll get complacent just kind of seeing the same people every day. And so I wanted like a new challenge for myself.

Speaker 7 And I also felt like Renault was on like the come up. So I thought it could be also a good opportunity to like, let's say, jump ship and kind of trying to bring it to the top.

Speaker 5 I think that actually makes sense. And it takes a lot of self-awareness to realize that about yourself when you've been in a relationship for a while and you're like, you know what?

Speaker 5 I would push myself harder if I was with this team as opposed to with that team. I don't think, I think a lot of people would have been satisfied with being in, you know, second or third place.

Speaker 5 Like, that's still pretty good at the end of the day.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's, it's, it's true. And like, you need,

Speaker 3 um,

Speaker 7 yeah,

Speaker 7 I was, I think that was really it. And I, I felt like I could do more or had a bit more to give.
And I just needed another, another challenge and a fresh approach, really.

Speaker 3 And the real reason was more likely that you were kind of creeped out by how much Christian Horner loves Max for stopping, right?

Speaker 7 Yeah, so like he was the best man at the wedding,

Speaker 7 godfathered to the children.

Speaker 7 It was even moved into the farmhouse next door.

Speaker 3 So it was, it was getting a lot.

Speaker 3 I actually, we ran out of time with Christian Horner, but one of my questions was, like, do you ever like have to stop yourself? because you're just staring at Max and you're like, this is creepy?

Speaker 3 Because he is obsessed with Max. And obviously, rightfully so, but it's, it's a little weird sometimes.
He talks about him like he is his son, and there is some

Speaker 3 serious love there.

Speaker 7 Yeah, yeah, no, it's weird as fuck.

Speaker 5 Is there anything on the show that you think either misrepresents

Speaker 5 either a person that's on the F1 circuit or a team? Or on the other hand, is there something that you think that the F1 show hasn't done a good enough job of covering yet?

Speaker 5 Like a storyline you see every day that they haven't exposed yet?

Speaker 7 I think what like one thing, one thing I think the first season did really well, probably better than maybe the following two, was get a little bit more

Speaker 7 of us away from the circuit. And like I know they came out to my farm in the first season, like they came out to Perth and spent some time.
And

Speaker 7 I remember, like, I think Charles Leclerc, they went scuba diving with him or something. And I didn't even know he scuba dived and was into all that stuff.

Speaker 7 So I think that's where, that's where obviously people can see a bit more about us and like what we like to do away from the track because, because they know, they know what we're like with the helmet on for the most part and you know, our results and the competition side a little bit.

Speaker 7 So it's more, yeah, like what we do away from it. And then people can also relate better.
And

Speaker 7 yeah,

Speaker 7 even, even like, because I think when you get to know someone's story, it's like you might not like someone, but then you're like, oh, actually, wow, that guy's been through a lot.

Speaker 7 So, yeah, I'm going to give him a bit more time now. So I think that as well, you know, people can tend to lean on.

Speaker 3 So, do you still have your iPod that's 15 years old with 80 gigabytes of music?

Speaker 7 Yeah, I do.

Speaker 3 Do you know that Spotify exists? You know you can stream those songs now?

Speaker 7 So I,

Speaker 7 yeah, I do. Like, so I do now,

Speaker 7 for the most part, go wireless and do the Spotify thing, but

Speaker 7 yeah, I do feel a little guilty. You know, I'm just like everyone else now.

Speaker 3 I'm no different. You had 6,000 songs on it? Like, how does it still work? Do they even make chargers for it anymore?

Speaker 7 So, so I literally had to throw out one of the chargers, I reckon, probably two weeks ago, because

Speaker 7 it had RIP'd.

Speaker 7 But I've got one more and it's like, it's got a bit of tape on the end of it because it

Speaker 7 does want to say goodbye. But

Speaker 7 yeah.

Speaker 7 Can you still buy them?

Speaker 3 I don't know. I don't think so.
Maybe. Maybe.

Speaker 5 But I mean, it sounds like you're at the end of the line. You've got maybe the last one on Earth.

Speaker 3 You know what?

Speaker 5 It has them actually. Like hotels.
Hotels have the old school chargers in every single alarm clock for some reason. We haven't upgraded those yet.

Speaker 7 Actually, I'll have a look because I mean, if they've got that in America, they've definitely got that in Europe because we're normally a little bit behind here as well.

Speaker 7 So, hell, they might even have pre-iPod stuff. Who knows?

Speaker 5 So,

Speaker 5 when you're getting ready for a race, have you actually figured out if certain songs make you drive faster if you listen to them?

Speaker 7 Um, I mean, I've definitely got some songs which have like

Speaker 7 yeah, kind of um created like a good memory for me over the the years um but i'll typically like day of the race i'll like figure out a little bit my playlist for for like pre-race so it's kind of i'll go on like what i feel and kind of just the mood um

Speaker 7 but uh yeah like and that can be anything from hip-hop to edm to to folk to punk hardcore like i really do like nearly everything um so your teammate now at mclaren is lando norris uh Does he have pubes?

Speaker 7 I like, I want to say for the first time,

Speaker 7 I saw like a little bit of stubble on his chin. So I was like, maybe,

Speaker 7 maybe the chin matches the

Speaker 3 for people who don't know that question, there was a press conference when they were in 2019 and you can see Daniel leans over and like whispers to Lando, like, do you even have pubes yet?

Speaker 7 I listen, i can't believe they picked that up but yeah um

Speaker 7 so i i don't know i'm

Speaker 7 i would say some like sprouts

Speaker 3 but he right he drives a race car very very fast are you awesome at like all race car video games like if you played mario kart would you just dominate i think i would be okay like i'm not i'm not a massive uh like gamer call it But yeah, as a kid, like I would pick him up.

Speaker 7 And yeah, like racing ones, because you kind of know like the line to take and all of that. So, yeah, I would back myself.

Speaker 5 Okay. And how did you convince your parents, like, hey, can you let me drive cars really fast just for fun growing up? Because I feel like that's what every dream wants to do.

Speaker 5 But you were actually able to somehow weasel your way into doing this for a living. How did that conversation go?

Speaker 7 Yeah, I just sucked at everything else.

Speaker 7 No,

Speaker 7 I loved sports growing up. And I was always very outdoors and active.
And I couldn't really sit still in a classroom.

Speaker 7 So I think my parents knew that I was always going to do something with a little bit of pace or energy.

Speaker 7 And my dad raced a little bit,

Speaker 7 like more recreational, like for fun when he was a bit older.

Speaker 7 So he grew up around it. He was quite passionate.
So I think it was easy for me to be like, well, yeah,

Speaker 7 I've got it in my blood thanks to dad. So it's not my fault that I want to race cars.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 but then yeah like i was uh i think i was yeah nine years old and i

Speaker 7 was practically begging i was like just can i please can i please try this out because it just makes me more happy than doing anything else and uh yeah i mean mum was hesitant because it's i guess quite dangerous um to kind of be in a go-kart doing 60 miles at nine years old um

Speaker 7 But and I think dad was a little bit like well This is now going to cost me a fortune So we don't really want you to do this.

Speaker 7 But they were great. Like they knew it was going to make me happy and they supported that.
So yeah, very, very lucky for sure.

Speaker 3 All right, my last question. The shoey all-time celebration.
Do you only whip it out for first place or do you do it maybe sometimes at a bar when you got your best party shirt on?

Speaker 7 So

Speaker 7 I...

Speaker 7 The intention was to only do it for first place, but they weren't coming often enough. So I was like, any podium,

Speaker 7 any top three, I'll do it.

Speaker 7 And so actually,

Speaker 7 when I very first did it, I was like, I'm going to do this as a one-off. My Australian mates back home will love me for it.
And probably the rest of the crowd would boo me

Speaker 7 or just kind of be revolted by it. So

Speaker 7 then I remember the following, like the next time I got a podium, I didn't do it because I didn't win the race and I was like, I don't want to do this all the time.

Speaker 7 And they were chanting like shoey, and they were getting upset that I wasn't going to do it. So I feel like they certainly egged it on, and uh,

Speaker 7 and yeah, so that was um, that was that. So it's a podium, and I have done it at some pool parties before.

Speaker 7 Um, and I don't love doing it in public, but of course, if you've had a few and there's a crowd, then sometimes it has to come out.

Speaker 3 I gotta imagine the like one of the sweetest beer tasting ever is drinking out of a shoe when you finish first at an f1 race

Speaker 7 it's like there's no other way to describe it other than mother's milk like yeah yeah

Speaker 3 wait do you use

Speaker 5 how often do you change your shoes is this like a new pair of shoes that you're doing it out of or is a well-worn

Speaker 7 racing shoes it's yeah like even if it was a new pair it's just done like 70 laps in some pretty hot temperatures like so where our feet are like there's there's no cooling there so like our feet get sweaty during a race race.

Speaker 7 Um,

Speaker 7 so, and, but the boot could be maybe three, four races old. So, it's not great, but um,

Speaker 7 yeah, I mean, I'll make sure I've got clean socks on. So, at least, like, the inside of the boot is in relatively good condition.

Speaker 7 Um, but the trick, the trick is honestly just to pour it quickly and make sure the champagne is still cold. Yeah.

Speaker 7 You don't really get the other flavors.

Speaker 3 Love it. All right.
So, now you know, Daniel, that the only thing we got to tell you is that as a recurring guest, you have to come on the show after you win a race.

Speaker 3 So next time you win a race, you have to come on right after. That's the rule we have.

Speaker 7 Done, done. And if it's right after, is in like the Sunday after the race.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's right after.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Expecting me to be slurring words.

Speaker 3 That's right.

Speaker 3 With your party shirt on. Yeah, we'll wear our party shirts.
I want the retired party shirt so bad. That would be the funniest thing to put in the rafters of the studio.

Speaker 7 All right. Well,

Speaker 7 I will find one for you guys. I'll make sure there's

Speaker 7 a few stories for it.

Speaker 3 All right. Okay.
Awesome. And yeah, we're going to try to get to a race at some point.
So hopefully we'll see you.

Speaker 7 Would love to have you. I know, obviously, Austin ended this year.
Miami's on the cards next year. So, yeah, we'd love to have you.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Sounds good. Absolutely.
All right. Thank you so much, Daniel.
We appreciate it. Best of luck the rest of the season, man.

Speaker 7 No worries. Cheers, fellas.

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Speaker 3 All right, Fire Fest. We're going to do it.

Speaker 3 Fire Fire Fest. Let's get it.

Speaker 5 Are we still saying, let's get it?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.
Let's get it.

Speaker 3 It's Fire Fest and the reintroduction of Billy football, which I know you guys have all been waiting for. I saw Twitter.
Everyone was pumped. I appreciate everyone who supports Billy.

Speaker 3 He's back and ready to go. But let's do Fire Fest.

Speaker 3 We're going to end with Billy's Fire Fest, and then we're going to introduce Billy's new role, which I think everyone's going to like a lot, and I think we're all going to be better for it. Hank.

Speaker 3 My Fire Fest is that despite being skinny, I've managed to get fat

Speaker 3 over the winter. And I've been trying to lose some weight, shed a couple pounds for the beach this summer because I didn't want to be skinny with a gut.

Speaker 3 So I've been running, trying to do some ab stuff. And I was in the gym the other day.
I did like 20 sit-ups, and I got cramped so bad that I was screaming out loud.

Speaker 5 It hurt so bad that

Speaker 3 I was like screaming, and people in the gym had to come over and be like, are you okay? And I was like, no, I'm just cramping, but

Speaker 3 I couldn't stop myself. The pain was that bad.

Speaker 3 I'm like, like are you on your period and I was just no I'm just I just am that I just hadn't been exercising that that much at all damn well I mean spin zone gotta start somewhere but it was it was quite embarrassing I was just like rolling around being like ah ah because because you know you know cramps go yeah they just don't go away but it was

Speaker 5 I mean terrible that's like a second workout if you're if your abs start cramping because it's doing you're doing crunches and not even having to do the work yeah it was embarrassing that's that was my fire fest it was just a a lady had to to come over and be like, are you are you all right?

Speaker 3 Oh, no. No, I'm fine.
I'm just doing abs. Let's never go to the gym.

Speaker 5 We're going to get you into shape, Hank. Yeah.
Don't do abs. You want to drink, you want to go on the soup diet? The broth diet? Yeah, I'm actually.

Speaker 3 I'm thinking about it. You want to drink? Sure.

Speaker 5 Sure. All you do is you just drink soup all day.

Speaker 3 Doing abs is so stupid anyway, because like you're never going to have a six-pack. Who are you kidding? No, when you're skinny, well, you don't understand.
When you're skinny, if you're...

Speaker 3 You're going to have a six-pack? Yeah, I'll have a six-pack. You will never have a six-pack.
Yes, I will. All right.
Great.

Speaker 3 How much time? Give me a month. By the end of the summer.
Oh,

Speaker 5 six-pack summer.

Speaker 3 You're going to have a six-pack?

Speaker 3 You're going to have a visible six-pack. Yes.
No chance. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 3 I'm not trying to be a hater. It's just genetically not.
You're not a six-pack guy.

Speaker 3 No. Skinny people and six-packs go hand in hand.

Speaker 5 I think Hank's still young enough. Once you hit 30, at that point, it's like if you've never had a six-pack, you're never going to get one.

Speaker 3 You can do it, Hank. He's 28.

Speaker 5 Support the homies. I got you.
All right.

Speaker 5 My fire fest of the week, I've got, well, I've got a couple.

Speaker 5 My first Fire Fest is that I was supposed to go to Margaritaville this weekend, and they canceled my reservation because it's not ready.

Speaker 3 Sorry if you're lost. Thank you.
Where is Margarita Ville?

Speaker 5 It's in Times Square. Oh, and it's the most magical place on earth.
There's a pool that fits upwards of at least... 10 people in it and 256 rooms.
It's an all-inclusive resort.

Speaker 5 It's not really all-inclusive, but it does include bars that you can pay for drinks at. So I was really excited about that.
They They had all these customized, awesome novelty drinks.

Speaker 5 I had actually like made a schedule for myself.

Speaker 5 You know, if you like go on a vacation that you're really pumped about and you over-plan everything, I managed to over-plan a vacation to Times Square, to a hotel in Times Square.

Speaker 5 And then they called me two days ago and they said, guess what? It's not going to be ready for the opening. Can you come back later this summer? And I was like, yeah, but it's not the same.
Because

Speaker 5 it was going to be opening weekend of Marg Ritaville. I was going to be one of those losers that camps out in line to be the first to get that

Speaker 3 Chick-fil-A.

Speaker 5 That was going to be me, and I was super excited about it. And now, I don't know.
I don't know what I'm going to do with myself. So, really,

Speaker 5 I'll just say that's my Fire Fest. I don't think I can top that.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, no. That's a Fire Fest.

Speaker 5 I paid for it. I was ready to go.
My bags were packed.

Speaker 5 I didn't really have to pack a bag because they lived down the street.

Speaker 3 That's a legit Fire Fest.

Speaker 5 I was ready to go.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's a legit Fire Fest. I'm sorry if you lost.

Speaker 5 I'm still going to have to listen to Jimmy Buffett this weekend. And you can't be sad listening to Jimmy Buffett.
I'm going to be the first person who cries listening to to Cheeseburger in Paradise.

Speaker 3 It will be good, though, to cry it out, you know? To listen to some Buffett and cry it out.

Speaker 5 As men, we don't show our emotions.

Speaker 3 Jake, why don't you go? Then I'll go, then we'll give it to Billy. Yeah, I do have one, but today is the one-year anniversary of something very important.
Doug's first national title.

Speaker 3 You got some tweets, or you remember? Yeah, I had a few, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Is that Tennessee? God damn, yeah, that feels like. Tennessee 41, Miami 34.
June 18th, 2020.

Speaker 5 That was a hell of a game, too. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Especially after the Virginia

Speaker 3 lost that one was tough. Miserable.
Still don't know what happened. Yeah, so congrats to dogs.
See you later. We like

Speaker 5 sprayed champagne.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we can smack confetti. We smoked

Speaker 5 76ers.

Speaker 3 And then we're like, whoa, this is kind of weird.

Speaker 3 All right. You're real firefast?

Speaker 5 Yeah. I did smoke cigars.
Who's inside?

Speaker 3 In the room. In a room.
Small room.

Speaker 5 All the electronics. Yeah, small room.

Speaker 3 But that also was like, we were, there was a moment in time in this office where we were like, what was that Tom Cruise movie where he lives in the air? The terminal.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we were basically living in the terminal where we just, it was just our office. No one else.
Tom Hanks.

Speaker 3 Who did I say? Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise.
Yeah, yeah. Tom Hanks.
Yeah. Yeah.
So.

Speaker 5 Eyes wide shut.

Speaker 3 Yes. Fidelio.

Speaker 3 My apartment lease is up at the end of the month. I've been searching all week long, took plenty of tours, phone calls,

Speaker 3 and I think I'm just going to say

Speaker 3 for that year.

Speaker 5 I have a humble suggestion, Shakespeare.

Speaker 3 So it's just a total waste of time this week. And you live in a depressing, depressing place

Speaker 3 what he does he explained it to me

Speaker 3 made me so sad it's all right it's actually okay now during covet i was really sad yeah no i think the fact that new york's open now

Speaker 3 you're doing much time but when you hank gave me an extra tv yeah when when covet was happening and and you were like yeah i live in a i live in my kitchen i was like oh my god dude yeah jake i have a humble suggestion for you you can take it or you can leave it if you're looking to upgrade your space one way that a lot of people do that here in in New York is they take on a roommate.

Speaker 5 And I happen to know someone who's also looking for an apartment in New York

Speaker 5 at exactly the same time.

Speaker 3 However, do you know who he is? That person is

Speaker 3 a dog. He's sitting right next to me.
And I am allergic to dogs. He's sitting right next to you.

Speaker 3 So that would make me ineligible. Jake was

Speaker 5 Jake was very quick with that lie when I brought it up to him the other day. He was like, I'm allergic to dogs.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, no, no. No, Jake is not a personaler.
Jake doesn't allergic to dogs. That's not the type of guy to be allergic to the dogs.
Jake's allergic to everything. I'm allergic to dogs.

Speaker 3 Cats? Yes. Yeah, of course.
Are you allergic to? I guanas? No. Nah, but maybe.

Speaker 5 Are you allergic to tree nuts? No. Okay, good, because we have spider attack in the studio.

Speaker 3 Sweet.

Speaker 3 My firefest. That sucks, Jake.
Sorry.

Speaker 3 My firefest. Although, not moving is also...

Speaker 3 Yeah, not moving is also really great. So, yeah, it is.
It's just the time I wasted this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Touring and... Broker fees are a fire fest of just life.
Yeah, they are. It's bullshit.

Speaker 3 All right, My Fire Fest. I tweeted about this when a Sixers fan asked me to tweet about anything besides the Sixers.
So you guys might have seen it, but it's still kind of like haunting me.

Speaker 3 I was walking Stella, I think it was like Sunday or Monday, and there was a couple riding their bikes up my street.

Speaker 3 And it's like, there's some cobblestone, there's some weird shit, potholes, and the dad had a kid on the back. And the mom...
Describe the back, though. That's what I didn't understand.

Speaker 3 It's like, you know, those, like, the extra seat on the back.

Speaker 5 Like a basket. That's right.

Speaker 3 The kid was probably like five, right? And the mom goes up on the curve on the sidewalk and she's like, watch out, this street is really like not great. And two seconds later, he just toppled over.

Speaker 3 And I'm pretty sure the kid broke his arm. And I was, this happened like

Speaker 3 maybe 12 feet in front of me. And

Speaker 3 then the mom started just berating the dad. And I didn't.
He was crying. Yeah, he was wailing.
And I just didn't do anything.

Speaker 5 I just walked back inside. You were probably psyched to watch a real life arm-breaking video.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, it was sick when it happened, but then I was like, ooh, that's bad. And I also, like, I don't know, there's nothing I could have done.
There was two parents, one kid.

Speaker 3 Like if there were two kids and the mom had jumped off, it would have been like, oh, make sure the other kid. What am I supposed to do?

Speaker 5 Right. So in that situation, you think like, I should do something, but really the something that you would do would be like, go up and like push that.
I would be like, out of my way. I'm a blogger.

Speaker 3 I can help. And also I had Stella who probably would have just started barking in their face.
So I, yeah, it's, it's kind of haunted me because I feel like I should have just been like, you guys good?

Speaker 3 As I walked away, but I didn't even do that. I just,

Speaker 3 it happened. It was like right in front of me, wailing, arm break, yelling.
Maybe two seconds later, I just turned around and walked inside.

Speaker 3 Yeah, this is that's a bad age to get a cast on your arm, too. It was like, forget this happened.

Speaker 5 I feel like if you're in second or third grade, that's it. If you have to have a cast, that's a really good age.
Because everyone in your class is like, oh, cool, cast. Let me sign it.

Speaker 3 Sign it, yeah.

Speaker 5 Exactly. But if you're five, it's like, wow, now the kid has a whole summer where we're going to have to take care of everything for him.

Speaker 3 Oh, man. Yeah.
So I've been thinking about it a lot. No beach in the summer.
No pools. Yeah.
Also, are you okay? Like, I'm

Speaker 5 worried about you mentally.

Speaker 3 I'm not okay.

Speaker 5 Do you have like any discussion? It's very awkward. Did you tell somebody about it?

Speaker 3 Yeah, it was very awkward. It was, it was tough.
Also, my Firefest's Madden codes are back, and now my mentions are a mess. Which, speaking of, here's it.
So here's what we're going to do.

Speaker 3 I'm going to give out an Xbox one and I'm going to give out a PS5 one. There's four more that are giving out, but they're going to be on our YouTube of this show.
Liam's going to put it in randomly

Speaker 3 just on the screen. It's gonna be on the screen.
So subscribe.

Speaker 3 Also, just please subscribe to our YouTube. It helps us.
We're gonna do more live stuff. So, Xbox Series X

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Speaker 3 H F M X V J F J Q Q T R Q 7 Z and then P S 5 A G C A

Speaker 3 8 B N 8 N D X P. I would assume that Billy is probably going to plug one of those in before the show is even released, but let's do it.
Billy Football is officially back. He has graduated college.

Speaker 3 Clap it up for Billy.

Speaker 3 We're excited to have him back. Summa cum lad.
We told him

Speaker 3 it's

Speaker 3 blank slate coming back, which I truly believe. We had a talk.
Billy and I went and got a coffee. It was very adult of us.
Well, I am an adult. You're not.

Speaker 3 No, that was wrong. What I just did was wrong.
I shouldn't have done that. I'm an adult now.
Yeah, you're an adult now.

Speaker 3 But Billy has a list of things he's going to do. And one of those things, so

Speaker 3 Billy is going to, at the end of shows, he is going to basically do a recap, like things we missed, jokes that he would have said in the flow of the show,

Speaker 3 you know, stats, whatever, notes from the interview.

Speaker 3 Basically, like a stat boy, extended stat boy, where he's contributing, and it's almost its own segment at the end where it's like a recap of the show, uh, loose talk, have some fun.

Speaker 3 That way, Billy can be have a place to succeed, but also doesn't feel like he's butting into the you know, start of the show.

Speaker 5 And he's got a notepad and pen in his hands, which is you look very professional like that. And I noticed that you're wearing a shirt with Jake's picture on it.
That's very big of you, dude.

Speaker 6 I've been listening to the show since I've been gone, and like, that was electric. That was hilarious.
Like, kudos to Jake for being the alpha of the office.

Speaker 3 Yeah, very well trained right now, billy this is impressive oh yeah yeah so i'm excited billy i'm excited that you're back i think this is going to be really good for you uh it's also like the we have structure you know what i mean like you we have structure to to your role in this we'll expand it as we see fit but that's how it will go from here on out it will be start of the show me pft hank little jake interview then the back half of the show whatever you know we do depending on the day and some billy recap and having some fun um billy i had one question question for you.

Speaker 3 Yep. Did you listen to us talking about what animals we could beat up?

Speaker 6 Yes, I did extensively.

Speaker 3 What did you think?

Speaker 6 I thought that you guys targeted the wrong animals. Kangaroos could beat the shit out of you.

Speaker 3 Nope.

Speaker 3 Billy. Did you listen to the interview?

Speaker 5 What about getting inside of its pocket and then punching it from within?

Speaker 3 No, Australian Daniel Ricardo said I could beat up a kangaroo.

Speaker 6 No, no, I listened to that one.

Speaker 6 I have another take on that. Okay.

Speaker 3 We'll get to that later.

Speaker 6 Kangaroos beat the shit out of people all the time. They literally have talons on their feet that like can slice you open.

Speaker 5 Have you ever seen a kangaroo boxing match, though?

Speaker 3 Like, yes, people have beaten up kangaroos.

Speaker 6 Those are the ones that they take their talons off.

Speaker 3 Okay, what about the

Speaker 3 windpipe?

Speaker 5 That won't work.

Speaker 3 Black bears, actual pussies. I saw you.
You were right on that video.

Speaker 6 You could beat the shit out of a black bear.

Speaker 3 You snuffed that out.

Speaker 6 Black bears would run

Speaker 6 like pots and pans get rid of black bears.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 5 Black, fight back.

Speaker 3 Brown, lay down. Lay down.

Speaker 5 White, say goodnight. Boom.

Speaker 3 There it is.

Speaker 6 That's how you handle bears.

Speaker 3 Okay, so what's your firefest? And also, let's do it. Whatever you want to talk about.

Speaker 6 Words. So Fire Fest, I moved into a new place in between housing.

Speaker 6 Didn't want to commit to a gym membership, so I was taking the one-day free passes at all the different gyms.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 6 So one day ended up in a Planet Fitness.

Speaker 6 Planet Fitness, Lunk Alarm, set off the Lunk Alarm.

Speaker 5 You set off.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 What'd you do? What'd you do? Did you have set-ups and you started cramping and yelling?

Speaker 6 No, I had my headphones on and didn't realize that the machine, the pull-down machine I was using was slamming.

Speaker 3 Oh no.

Speaker 6 I totally, I mean, I usually do set it down gently, but it turns out it was a little clankier than I thought. Anyway, got tossed.

Speaker 6 He said, we don't let the one-day membership people fuck around like that, like get a real membership.

Speaker 3 That's fair. Yeah.
Fair.

Speaker 5 So you got to pay us $8.99 a month in order to do that.

Speaker 6 Exactly. So that's what happened.
And now, into

Speaker 5 real quick, your Fire Fest reminded me, I actually did have a bigger Fire Fest that

Speaker 5 I left it out. I'm sorry.
But it was a gym-related story.

Speaker 5 I was changing after my workout. I was not nude, had my shirt off, was at my locker.
I look across the locker room as I'm starting to put my stuff back in.

Speaker 5 There's a guy with a camera out and his flash went off because he was taking a picture of me from across

Speaker 5 and I just pretended not to notice it because at that point it's like this is weird for all of us yeah probably the worst moment of that guy's life

Speaker 5 and I got secondhand embarrassment even though I was you know I'm basically Aaron Andrews at this point because I was getting spied on but uh yeah I just I chose to let it go but I my fire fest of the week is feeling embarrassed for that guy with the flash going off.

Speaker 5 That's the worst thing that you can ever do.

Speaker 3 That's terrible.

Speaker 6 That actually happened to me like two years ago in a gym locker room.

Speaker 3 You were taking pictures of someone?

Speaker 6 No, a guy just walked up to me, butt-ass naked. Oh.
And I was butt-ass naked.

Speaker 3 And just like,

Speaker 5 what happened next?

Speaker 6 And I was just like, dude, like, who are you? And there's like, hey, like, are you Billy?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Oh, it was a case situation.
All right.

Speaker 3 Okay. So recap of the show or whatever you want to talk about.

Speaker 6 Male porn stars can fake money shots, PFT, if you could reference OG Mudbone to

Speaker 3 see if you can.

Speaker 6 I did not make the big

Speaker 6 eyes comment.

Speaker 6 Credit to whoever that was. It was a good comment.

Speaker 6 I don't think Ricciardo is actually from Australia

Speaker 6 because one, he didn't make a drop bear comment, which is like Australia 101.

Speaker 5 Yeah, they tell you to do that in every, like, whenever you encounter a dumb American, you mentioned drop bears are hoop snakes to him.

Speaker 6 Exactly. And kangaroos are actually dangerous, and he wasn't actually like down with the animals in Australia.

Speaker 3 Good accent, though, for a faker, right? Right. He's probably from Chile.
Mm-hmm. Hey.
Solid. Who knows?

Speaker 6 Hank, before you work out, try Maidol.

Speaker 5 It's great for workout

Speaker 3 reduce stuff.

Speaker 3 And if you're looking for a

Speaker 6 six-pack shortcut, drink green tea all day. Cuts down on the fat and gets your metabolism going.

Speaker 3 That's

Speaker 5 broth.

Speaker 3 Do you think you can get it?

Speaker 6 A six-pack? I'm going to be honest. I was thinking about this last year.
I was 235 pounds at the Doug's championship game. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Billy, what was it?

Speaker 3 Belly football.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I've lost 25 pounds in six.

Speaker 5 But that's a year. I know.
Well, he has way less.

Speaker 3 But he has way less mass to lose. Skinny people get six packs easier.
So he could do it. Six factor fiction.

Speaker 6 And last year.

Speaker 5 Was that just you trying to say that you have a six-pack?

Speaker 6 I do not have a six-pack.

Speaker 3 He did, though, for a second.

Speaker 6 For a second. Yeah.

Speaker 5 I also like the fact that Billy weighed himself in before the national championship video game.

Speaker 6 No, it it was bad.

Speaker 3 But I think six-packs, like, obviously I've never even come close, obviously. I'm saying that.
But isn't it like if Bank loses weight, losing weight is hard.

Speaker 3 Going from getting skinny to actual six-pack is like really hard. But if you do abs every day.

Speaker 5 Oh, no, that's not even it.

Speaker 6 It's just lowering your body.

Speaker 3 Genetics, too, though. Eating healthy.
Working out, doing like full body restaurants. You have cardio.
Yes. Full one.
Yes.

Speaker 3 I ran across country when I was like a freshman in high school. Full six-pack.
Yeah. That was 14 years.

Speaker 5 No, Billy's right. Like, if you do enough cooking.

Speaker 3 But I was the same size.

Speaker 3 I've been six feet 160 since I was like

Speaker 3 13. The absolutely.
You're six feet 180 right now. You actually hope you have a six-pack right now.

Speaker 5 There's just a layer of fat that's over, and you got to get rid of that fat.

Speaker 6 Don't waste your time and do sit-ups and stuff. That won't do it.
You got to do stuff like

Speaker 6 huge, yeah, burpees, anabolic lifts that get your tea up, get your fat burning, and just get the system going.

Speaker 6 Jake, my dog is hypoallergenic, and I think it would be really convenient if we lived together.

Speaker 6 And last but not least,

Speaker 6 T-Rex are closer to humans in time than they are to Stegosauruses.

Speaker 5 Whoa.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 6 T-Rexes and humans are 65 million years apart. Stegosauruses and T-rexes are 85 million years apart.

Speaker 5 Wow. Except the Earth is 60,000 years old.
So checkmate. Might want to check your math on that, Billy.

Speaker 3 Oh. It's good to have you back, Billy.
Are you happy to be back? I have a present for you guys. Oh, yes.
I actually knew about this because this is, I'm going to give Billy credit, a lot of credit.

Speaker 3 Yep. I texted Billy.
He's got the 69 ball. I texted Billy.

Speaker 3 I said, hey, you know what would be a good thing is if you maybe were at the barn, like brought back the 69 ball as like a peace treaty, like when boys are back together. And then he showed me.

Speaker 3 He's like, I already brought it from the barn. It's ready to go.

Speaker 6 I had moved at that point. Yep.

Speaker 3 Already had it. I liked it.
Love it, Billy. Back in.
Great job with your first segment there. That was exactly what we're looking for.
Wait, perfect. Big cat.
Funny jokes.

Speaker 5 Billy, the fact that you brought this back, I think you should have it.

Speaker 3 That showed a lot. No, because I don't know what number.
Okay, that was a test. That was a test.

Speaker 3 I just want to keep saying 69 every

Speaker 3 it was December 3rd, 2020 when Billy correctly picked it. So it's been out of the office for over half a year.
And I'll tell you what, if it hits right now, then Billy, like, you're...

Speaker 3 I don't know what we'll do.

Speaker 5 I'm going to guess 69.

Speaker 3 56.

Speaker 6 69

Speaker 3 this is okay 18 99 96 get ready for Monday show we got a great we got a great string of guests coming up I'll go eight actually it's great to have you back Billy thanks guys everyone thank you handshakes yeah handshakes in the chat handshakes in the chat trust the process trust the billy process we're gonna succeed it's gonna be great everyone's gonna love this I'm telling you and if you don't go fuck yourself also check out the Madden codes on the YouTube and subscribe 99 8 56

Speaker 3 what'd you say

Speaker 3 18. What did you say, Liam?

Speaker 3 96.

Speaker 3 Ah!

Speaker 3 What do we got? Should we run it again? Just to see if we get 69, just this time. Bonus.
This would be bonus. 82.
First timer. First timer.
First timer. This one doesn't count unless it's 60.

Speaker 3 This doesn't count. It doesn't count unless it's 62.

Speaker 5 Don't overshadow 82's first time.

Speaker 3 It's 82, but I just wanted to... No, okay, see? Didn't count.
Oh. Disqualified?

Speaker 3 Nope. Well, that's actually a bad sign, Billy.
Unlucky 13.

Speaker 6 No, I was born on the 13th.

Speaker 3 It's lucky for me.

Speaker 6 Friday the 13th? I actually was born on Friday the 13th.

Speaker 3 Oh, that explains everything.

Speaker 5 Love you guys.

Speaker 5 Talking away.

Speaker 5 Oh, I don't know what I'm to say. I'm changing away.

Speaker 5 Today's another day to find you. Shy it away.

Speaker 3 Oh, I've been coming for your love of the king. Shy it away.

Speaker 3 Oh, I've been coming for your love of king. Take

Speaker 3 on

Speaker 3 me.

Speaker 3 Take

Speaker 3 me

Speaker 3 on

Speaker 3 I've he

Speaker 3 gone

Speaker 3 We're torment

Speaker 3 Needless to say

Speaker 3 I've all said it's but I've been stoned away

Speaker 3 So we live life is okay

Speaker 3 Say after me

Speaker 3 better to be safe than something

Speaker 3 Say after me

Speaker 3 better to be safe than sorry.

Speaker 3 Take

Speaker 3 on

Speaker 3 me.

Speaker 3 Take

Speaker 3 me

Speaker 3 I'll be

Speaker 3 gone

Speaker 3 in a double tree.

Speaker 3 Have things that you say.

Speaker 3 Just to play my worries away.

Speaker 3 You are the things I've got to remember. You shine away.

Speaker 3 I'll be coming for you anyway.

Speaker 3 Take

Speaker 3 on me.

Speaker 3 Take

Speaker 3 me

Speaker 3 up.

Speaker 3 I'll be God.

Speaker 3 I'll be

Speaker 3 gone

Speaker 3 It's part of my take presented by Far School Sports.