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

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The co-branded Barstool Sports New Amsterdam Vodka bottle is out for the summer. Today is Friday, June 18th, and Reggie Miller was right.
Hashtag. Hell yeah.
Might want to arrest the guys for game seven, too. Get a head start on next year.
Yeah. So if you forgot, Reggie Miller basically said after game five, rest Kevin Durant, James Harden for game seven.
Don't even play them. They played.
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.
But the other headline is it was Chris Middleton's legacy game. It was a surprise legacy game.
38 points. This was almost like a foundation game for him.
I think a legacy game, there has to be talk about your legacy before that. This one was establishing legacy.
So right now, anything less than 38 points in a playoff game is disappointing from Chris Middleton. Yes.
mean Milwaukee looked really good tonight the Nets really it was never in jeopardy I kind of felt like first quarter we felt like this was going to happen I'm it's it's weird because obviously we're rooting for Blake but well I kind of I 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 but I always thought this was going to go go seven, and Saturday night's going to be electric, and it's going to be fun to watch. I always respect a crazy take.
Yeah. It's nice to see that people out there are still willing to push the envelope.
Just throw some shit out on Twitter. Give us a little red meat.
Reggie gave us fodder, so we applaud him for that. 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.
Maybe a legacy game by Blake. Yeah.
Started something special. Yeah.
And the dojo was rocking tonight outside in Milwaukee. Giannis was throwing down dunks.
Giannis was really awesome too, which I didn't want to call it a legacy game for Giannis. I'm addicted to legacy games, but I do think that Giannis had to...
They had to win this game otherwise. Because if you lose in Game 7 and Kevin Durant does what he did in Game 5, there is some...
I know it's always terrible to lose that way, but there's some piece in like, that guy's way better than anyone we have. That guy might be the best player in the NBA.
He had 30 and 17. Right.
it happens that way you can live with it 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 what are we doing here yeah so game seven sunday right saturday saturday night yeah yeah we gonna go yeah maybe hmm

game seven

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what the fuck

that's a preview of a fire fest

my bad

my bad

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a second ago

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game seven

to the two worst words

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game seven

and uh

hopefully we'll have

Thank you. In the English language, Game 7, to the two worst words, Margaritaville's closed.
Yeah, fuck. My bad, my bad.
Either way, Game 7, and hopefully we'll have... Yeah, sorry.
Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry. Bryson sucks today.
Yeah, Bryson does suck. Let's talk about that real quick.
Bryson sucks today. Brooks is awesome.
Bryson sucks. Brooks was tied for the lead.
He had a couple bad bogeys. That's when the course started to show its teeth.
The course woke up late because the greens get harder today.

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 a harder course in the afternoon, which basically skull fucked him.

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.

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

You can't do it.

You can't have it both ways.

it's his round and Bryson like jumped up into the back of the screen you can't do that and then be like I don't want any part of this 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 look at this watch this video watch let's see he jumped up in the screen look at that look alternate angle you can't the back of Brooks. You want this, dude.
It's the only thing that keeps you relevant. 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.
So if you run into trouble and you get up and down or maybe you're driving to 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.

Yes, I love it. I love it.
That's a U.S. Open par.
Okay, let's talk about the Sixers. Hank, do you want to do a victory lap? Who, boy.
No, I don't know. This has nothing to do with me.
I have some numbers that I wrote down. Let's do the numbers, and then we'll jump off of there.
So the stat that jumped out to me was in these playoffs,

teams are 46-1 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.

I think they're the only team. It, it only happened one time before this?

Yeah.

And it happened twice last week?

This postseason.

Yes, Hank.

Jesus Christ.

No, he's playing dumb.

Yeah.

Really?

He's really.

No, I was just clarifying.

Right, right, right.

I wanted to make sure I was absorbing that information correctly.

This season, right?

This postseason.

This postseason.

46-1.

Luka game three.

All time?

The Mavs.

No, 46-1 this postseason.

Hank.

I should have put a trigger warning at the start of this. If you're a Sixers fan, Hank is going to look like Randy Marsh, the spooky ghost.
Hank is going to really stick it into you. So 46-1 when a team has been up by 15 during a game.
And then this week, the Sixers have lost two games where they're up by 15 points. They were up 26 on Wednesday night they were up by 24 with less than two minutes to go in the third quarter uh they got outscored in the fourth quarter 40 to 19 they got outscored in the second half 69 44 they gave up 69 points in the second half like like this is one of the best defensive teams in the NBA, and they got absolutely torched.
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. 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.

And Smitty was concerned in the third quarter.

So they take out Embiid, they take out Simmons, and they, I'll put it this way, Shaq Milton, Shaq Milton was getting Ben Simmons' minutes with four minutes left in this game. I say again, Shaq Milton was in the game for Ben Simmons.
Okay. So, alright, so 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. That's very, very bad when only two guys score a field goal.
Ben Simmons. So I actually asked Hank before.
I was like, what do you think Ben Simmons is shooting from the free throw line these playoffs? He guessed 60%. It's 32.8%.
He's shooting 30% from the free throw line in this series. I've got an idea for how he could fix that big cat.
Wait, three-pointers you said? Oh, don't do that again. No, free throws.
What? Free throws. This is how bad Ben Simmons has been.
I think he might be right-handed. Has he thought about that? Well, I saw a very mean tweet.
The ball goes the other way. I saw a very mean tweet out there, and I am not going to retweet it.
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.
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 not going to give that tweet a platform whatsoever nope not at all um he 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 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 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.

That's your point guard.

100% though.

That's pretty good.

Three for three.

Three for three.

I mean, that is great.

He's actually on fire.

By NBA Jam's 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. He really is.
He's fun to watch with the ball in his hands. He's a playmaker.
Triple doubles. Assists.
Gets a lot of triple doubles. Yeah.
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.
Oh, Dwight Howard also had maybe the funniest missed dunk of the postseason. It was horrific.
It was Travelle McGee-like in how badly he missed that dunk. It was such a bad fourth quarter, 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. I wouldn't watch television.
just 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. I it's, 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.
Well, that's the problem. It's not just a loss.
It is the entire process because the process has been built around in the 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 but like the process was built around Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid at the end here 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. They also, I thought about it today.
I was like, you know who they really could have used in that fourth quarter? J-Butt. And they could have used J-Butt and they used J-Butt's money for Al Horford and Tobias Harris.
Yeah. Now he's been sitting at home, you know, running out his contract for the Thunder.
It's so bad. And I really do.
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 won tonight.
I don't know why. I think the problem is every game I watch Joel Embiid, and I'm like, he's got this.
And then I forget that in the fourth quarter, and I know he had 37 points. He was basically your entire offense with Seth Curry.
but he's now this and then I forget that in the fourth quarter and I know he had 37 points 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 like 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 and I just don't know what you're a Sixers fan, this is like I think, honestly, if I were a Sixers fan this morning or Thursday morning, I got something they should do. I would be firing up the trade machine and seeing how many picks you can get for Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons to just restart the process.
Because guess what? The process, it's bad basketball. 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. You throw hope out the window, and that might be the worst fate for any sports fan.
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.
But most other fan bases would not have tolerated. They kind of embraced it.
They're like, Sam Hinckley died for this. He died for our sins to make us happy the long term.
And now it's like, can Doc Rivers, can he bench himself for the next game? I don't know what to do. Because I think he deserves a lot of credit, too.
He is also, like, sneakily the all-time greatest basketball coach at choking away fourth-quarter victories in the playoffs. And also series leads in the playoffs.
And series leads's like doc this is like a habit for 2015 remember that uh rockets clippers series 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 it's backed up by numbers it's never wrong but this is it straight out of the atlanta falcons playbook of last year against the cowboys and it's like you you either you either die an eagle or you live long enough to become a falcon and i the the hawks right so people are like hey why don't you talk about the hawks 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 I that fourth quarter it was bizarre to watch not really not really because Ben Simmons is your point guard 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 there's nothing they do. They have no one who can go get their own basket.

And I know you're dumbing down how the NBA works, but you need that guy. You need that one guy who's like, fuck everything.
I'm going to go get it, or I'm going to create it like Trae Young. And credit to the Hawks, because Trae Young has been phenomenal.
Their team's been phenomenal, resilient. and so much so, you know what we're starting to see?

This is coupling with the Luka debacle. Trae Young has been phenomenal.
Their team's been phenomenal. Resilient.
And so much so, you know what we're starting to see?

This is coupling with the Luka debacle where everything seems to be falling apart temporarily in Dallas.

We're seeing now where the Hawks write for taking Trae Young and not Luka Doncic.

Maybe.

So there you go.

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 yeah can i have permission to say something in a bonk free zone because just 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 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 that doesn't show up you can fake that he makes stuff happen that he can't fake you can't fake sure. All right, yeah, that's...
I think it plays. Wait, what? I mean, you can do a stunt cock.
You could do a stunt cock. Girls fake it all the time in porn.
I'm not talking about a girl porn star in this case. Oh.
Yeah. How about the analogy of just, like, you have, like, shooting is probably the most...
But still, your analogy was just a porn star, which could be boy or girl. Yeah.
Shooting is the most important thing in it's a make-or-miss league.

Shooting a basketball into a hoop, not to really dumb it down,

but I would say that's the most important thing.

Like, if you really wanted a player, you'd be like,

hey, I hope 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.

He can't do that. Well, assists are great.
And to quote Rick Riley, it's not basketball. It's basketball.
Yes. Something I've always wondered about basketball.
Why do they even call them free throws? Because they should be free. They're not free.
Geez. I don't want to do a free throw debate again.
But if you were to get down to it, and just to clean up the free throw thing, I did find the rule. It's further down in the listing that says there is a plain rule.
So I just wanted to clear that up. We did say that.
Only one of us said that. It was said that like five times.
No, we didn't read the plain rule, though. Yeah.
All right, so Hank, you have carte blanche right now. Say whatever you want to say.
Go at it. Do it.
Because we know you have a lot of things you want to say. 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 Embiid, he's one of those guys.
He goes for stats. He tries to get all the points he can in the beginning.
Doesn't realize he has a low tank, and in the fourth quarter he's out of gas. You would 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.
They were doing hack assignments 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 and you, it just, you get that feeling like it's like a high school team when the star players on the bench and there's no one that can get offense.
And you just know that the game is going to go bad. Yeah.
The ball just keeps like falling out of their heads. I, I really team when it's like two, two, the series is tied.
It's a close game your home fans booing that's gotta hurt i love that because that's philly and i love philly i feel i actually genuinely feel bad for me too no you don't i do uh i feel bad for them because it's more than just a loss it's it's a horrific loss on surface level right but it's also the process 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 like just basic level things and you you end up if you're a philly fan defending him through thick and. And when he doesn't show up in those crucial moments, you just basically have to sit there and eat shit.
So I hope it goes seven. You can't spin zone it.
You know if you're a Philly fan, it sucks having a point guard that can't score. That's one element that we would like very much in this game.
I also understand why they defend him because he's an awesome player. He's really good, but you can't be giving up...
How big was the lead? It was 26, and they were up 24 with less than two minutes to go in the third quarter. You can't do any of that.
You just can't have that in the playoffs. 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.

Like, that's so, that's basically giving up.

I mean, you're not even, 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 better and everything's like hey you gotta someone's gotta make a play here i don't know i just he in 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 so 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. 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, or relatively contested, not like wide open shots. I'm talking like 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? 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. It's actually really unselfish for him to not shoot.
And then in that case, who does the blame fall to? That's Doc Rivers for keeping a guy in the game

that you know cannot and will not score

the basketball. I'd actually fake an injury.
I should say that.

I'm a coward. I would absolutely fake an injury

at the start of every fourth quarter and be like,

oh, next game, I'm good to go. Or just fake an injury

every time you're on offense. 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. 2009,

Celtics up 3-2 on Orlando, lose the series. 2010, Celtics up 3-2 on Lakers and NBA finals lose the series 2012 Celtics up 3-2 on the Heat Eastern Conference finals lose the series Clippers 2013 3-2 on Grizzly lose the series game seven at home 2014 Clippers blow 15 point lead in game five versus Oklahoma end up losing series in six uh 2015 the Clippers blew a 3-1 lead.
That one was the bad one. The Clippers, up 2-0 on the Blazers, lose series 4-2.
Four straight losses. They lost Game 7 at home to the Jazz.
And last year, they blew a 3-1 lead to the Nuggets. So, that can't feel good if you're a Sixers fan.
Some of those weren't. Like 2012, LeBron was at the height of his powers.
And the refs, yeah. Yeah, and wasn't the Celtics-Lakers one? The NBA needed the Heat to win that championship.
One of the Celtics-Lakers, Kendrick Perkins got hurt. So there's some injuries in there, but there's a few.
The 2015 one was a really bad one. It actually makes it a little bit worse this year, knowing that the championship is kind of wide open for the Sixers to take.
This is the year that it has to happen. They don't even have an injury that they can blame it on.
They can say Joel Embiid might be banged up. Who knows how torn his meniscus is.
But yeah, this is the year every other team has significant injury issues and this was the year that you could do it. 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 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 some different if you end up winning one game after it uh then i think you can make the case that we're going to give this another shot next year.
Maybe with some minor tweaks, maybe you get a player that can shoot the basketball in the fourth quarter. And I'm not going to truly rag on Joel Embiid because he's fantastic.
He finished second in MVP voting. The argument is there that if he played all the games this year, which the best ability is availability, but if he played all the games this year, you probably would have been MVP.

I don't blame Joel Embiid.

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.

What about this big cat?

Around him.

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

What if you have a guy that you had a couple years ago, pretty in shooting named jj reddick yeah on the team yeah that would be jimmy butler would have won that game i'm convinced he's just he's that type of dog yep that you need like the fuck you i'm gonna win this game i don't care that type of guy you need as a sports con uh sports podcast we're legally obligated to mention lebronron James during any basketball discussion. Did you notice during KD's explosive game where he went off for 49 last time, LeBron tweeted in the middle of it about the kid from Akron 17 out of 18 years getting all NBA.
Like in the middle of Kevin Durant's fourth quarter. He just had to toss that in.
And he switched hishuh. All right, let's talk some other NBA.
So I am rooting for the Sixers. I know Sixers fans.
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? And also- What's wrong with that tweet? Also, because I'm deemed a jinx, and then also, which I'll admit, I have terrible in-the-moment opinions.

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.

Hawks fans will get mad at this.

I'm rooting for the Sixers to win Game 6.

I probably will root for them to win Game 7 because I think that's a fascinating story,

and I think the Hawks probably have a lot.

Trey Young's going to be great for a really long time. I think with the Sixers, Big Cat, you're a sponge for their hatred.
Yeah, I'll own it. I'll carry it for him.
Yeah, you're a sponge. Hank is like a tied-up dog, and if one of those links gets broken, he's going to take all the abuse out right on the nearest hand.
He's like, I can't believe this is happening. I can't wait to tweet.
No, I was stunned. I was literally stunned.
Yeah. All right.
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Playoff P deserves all the credit. Playoff P, we rag on him all the time.
Well, guess what? He just went 37-16-5 in Utah, played incredible defense, put the team on their back. And similar to, 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 play a center basically the entire game, and they've kind of figured out how to beat the Jazz.
So, playoff P gets the credit. He deserves credit.
He gets so much shit. That was a really, really great game, and he deserves a lot of credit being like, hey, he does show up in the playoffs.
Here's this game. 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 get almost sad with how angry they were 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.

They're calling me Playoff L.

Pee-pee.

Playoff Poo-Poo.

You name it.

And so I think he's internalized a lot of that, but he looks more explosive than he

has in the last couple playoffs.

And he's got a moment, because Kawhi, I don't know.

Kawhi's got to be the one guy who, when he gets, I kind of respect it.

When he gets injured, I feel like he's just like, yeah, I'm injured.

I'm done.

And I'm not saying that's soft.

I'm not going to be the one guy who, when he gets injured, I feel like he's just like, yeah, I'm injured. I'm done.
And I'm not saying that's soft. I'm not saying it's soft.
I just honestly think that 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 trying to get out there and gut it out. It fits in with his personality.
Yeah. Being a robot.
He's a robot. Where it's like, okay, there's an error code in the software the rest of it it's just not gonna run broken listen there's nothing i can do about you got to fix this thing and then the rest will work and it's weird because it went kawaii news or no sorry it went chris paul news kawaii news back to back essentially making like the most wide open ridiculous playoffs lebron again made it about himself by saying that he warned everyone.
Yeah, he did. But do you think that maybe there's a little

Michael Jordan bad pizza situation

with Chris Paul?

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, he watches microphones.

Yeah, true.

Good point. Also,

just to push back a little bit on LeBron, I know that it was a bad turnaround but uh or a quick turnaround for the league they needed to make money because they have salaries that need to be paid and everyone like it needs to keep going also the guys who've got hurt like Kyrie Irving he gets hurt yep uh Joel Embiid he gets hurt also Kyrie Irving happened to land on somebody's foot right Anthony Davis yeah he gets hurt. Yep.
Joel Embiid, he gets hurt. Also, Kyrie Irving happened to land on somebody's foot.
Right. Anthony Davis, 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.
He got hurt. But like, that's, Chris Paul got COVID and he's got the vaccine.
So like, they're also just a bunch of players that didn't really play deep into the playoffs last year in the bubble. Right.
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.
But guess what, LeBron? Again, I understand like player safety is very important in all these things. But LeBron, you've made a lot of money.
There's probably some guys who are like, hey, I'd like to get back and play. And there's organizations that need to make money.
I'm not trying to cape for the owners because that's opposite of what I'm doing. Bootlicker.
Bootlicker. But I do understand you can't expect everything to keep running if you don't get back and play a season.
Maybe a month would have fixed it. Who knows? Yeah, I don't think – 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.
But I get that probably 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.
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. 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.
LeBron went to that tequila party. Then they played the Suns.
Then Chris Paul got COVID. I mean, yeah.
The timeline doesn't match up whatsoever. 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 Bill Belichick's COVID guy.
Yeah. He'll drop in and pass off a few injections, cough on the the right people make sure that certain unvaccinated players aren't ready to play when they're going against the patriots 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 and why did he why was it ending now like before 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 yeah that's true he's not going anywhere he's just working from home have you ever seen Homeland Saul retires like every year but he's still very much working for the CIA is that show still on no I think Kerry died at the end oh spoiler no spoiler.
No, she didn't. She lived.
She's very happy in Russia. Another spoiler.
No, she's dead. All right, the Islanders lost.
Our hockey minute. The Islanders lost.
That feels bad. Series is over.
And the Canadians tied it up. Back to Canada.
And that'll do it for the hockey minute. What was the guy's eyes bleeding? Did you see that? 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. Got it.
Somebody said that. On Twitter, yeah.
Yeah, but it was really strange. It did look like he was going through an exorcism on the bench.
But that's a hockey guy. Upper body injury.
My eyes are out. Yeah.
All right. So before we get to Daniel Ricciardo, anything else that we got to get to before we have? We all have Fyre Fest on the other end and also the reintroduction of Billy Football.
The Bears did release a statement that they're putting in a bid to buy Arlington International Racetrack, which is in Arlington Heights, about 30, 45, 30 miles, like 45 minutes outside of where Soldier Field is, downtown Chicago. And everyone's – actually, I don't think a lot of people are freaking out.
I actually think it's smart of them. They're probably just posturing to get a renovation of Soldier Field.
For people who don't know, because I would assume people don't just know attendance offhand, the Bears have the lowest capacity of any NFL team. And it's a very old stadium.
And it's the biggest city that doesn't have two teams. So I just think that there's something nice about an NFL team that has a stadium downtown from somebody that doesn't actually live in that city or have to deal with the facilities on a day-to-day basis.
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.
Yeah, it's sick. There's nothing like a blimp shot that shows the skyline afterwards.
But the stadium is, they did a renovation, they did a Band-Aid 20 years ago, and it's already out of date. They don't own their stadium.
The Chicago Park District does, so that's also crazy. The McCaskies are thinking about selling it, so they are like, hey, let's bid for this land,

and then we can sell it to someone who will build the new stadium.

I, honestly, a big new stadium that 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.

It's like when Lucas Oil got built in Indianapolis,

they called it the house that Peyton built, right?

Yeah.

So what would your...

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.

Thank you. oil got built in Indianapolis, they called it the house that Peyton built, right? Yeah.
So what would your... 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.
Hank, you didn't chime in on the LeBron stuff. Are you feeling all right? Yeah.
I was just curious because I would think that on one hand you're like... You guys think I'm just this unbashed hater that just only has certain things that I hate unequivocally.
No, Hank, I was just... And I don't have any type of rational takes.
You're a fair guy. I just thought that on one hand you'd be like, well, I hate LeBron.
On the other hand, I love that he's advocating for more vacations. No, I mean, listen, that's LeBron 101.
When he loses, he makes up excuses and whatever fits his narrative. You should teach the LeBron 101 class.
Yeah. 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 hit him. You don't hit him.
The Mavericks thing is weird, too. That should be noted.
Like, it feels – They're falling apart. It feels when there's that much reporting going on, and Mark Cuban has to come out and be like, this is all fake, and then the coach resigns.
It feels they're just going to have to be... You know what it is though? It's Photoshop season because everyone's Photoshopping Luca.
I retweeted someone who did it with the Bulls and then I saw some guy who I don't know how he... 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.

The Athletic.

Athletic. Yeah, that's okay.

At Oakley underscore MP3,

he should be the new GM of the Bulls

because he said,

I would offer Zach Levine and Vucevic

to make the Luka trade,

which, yeah, no duh.

Yeah, I would offer that too.

I love when people on Twitter or online, wherever they're discussing a team, they're like,

hey, I would offer these two guys for this incredible player.

You know what season is?

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. It's like, well, it could happen.
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 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? Honestly, that's what they should do to the Sixers right now.
The Sixers might be like, yeah, that works. I mean, look, we're getting six guys and only giving up one.
Statistically, you've got to go through with it. I think the Sixers should do the opposite.
They should offer Embiid, Tobias Harris, and Ben Simmons for LeBron. Let's do it.
Why not? I would trust them a lot more if it was LeBron. Yeah.
Just like, let's do it. Why not? Why not?

Why not?

I would trust them a lot more if it was LeBron and Seth Curry running around.

Hell yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Let's get to awesome interview.

Awesome interview.

Daniel Ricciardo.

If you're not an F1 fan, doesn't matter.

He's one of those guys.

Great accent.

Great stories.

Great dude.

So it doesn't matter.

It's like a fun interview whether you are F1 fan or not.

But you should be an F1 fan because you should watch Drive to Survive because it's

Thank you. Great accent, great stories, great dude.
So it doesn't matter. It's like a fun interview whether you are F1 fan or not.
But you should be an F1 fan because you should watch Drive to Survive because it's fucking awesome. Before we get to Daniel Ricciardo, quick word from our friends at...
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Okay, here he is, Daniel Ricciardo.

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

He's a race car driver, F1 driver on McLaren, Team McLaren.

It is Daniel Ricciardo.

He's also the epitome of human high performance. When you said that quote, were you like, this is ridiculous? It's funny.
When I see things played back, obviously 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 dumb, dumb stuff I say.
So that's funny, but we're excited to have you on. We figured, uh, you were, uh, the number one guy that we could basically shout out and be like, he's too scared to come on.
And you would come on because that's the type of personality you have. You are by far the most entertaining guy on, on drive to survive.
But, uh, would, 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 i'm very delighted to be here and i'm glad i'm glad you guys liked guys liked the series as well and are turning into some proper F1 fans. It's good.
It's a great show, yeah. I mean, as people that...
I don't think we even ever paid attention to F1 until a few months ago. Started watching it.
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 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 yeah it's it's changed a lot and like i know like there's some of us in the let's say in the f1 world we're like ah 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 um all around the world 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 and it's it's such a kind of closed sport 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 it's like i like that you know like the the show has given us that platform and netflix has done that for us so it's cool what what uh you mentioned that there's some people who may not love the show or they're 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 is that what is that kind of what the push and pull is 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 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 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, even the rivalries, yeah, amongst not only drivers, but the teams and the bosses, it's, it's pretty cool.
All right. So you actually mentioned that, uh, they tried to make kind of create a rivalry between you and Carlos Sanz.
And you said, uh, you, you said, quote, I 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.
It has got to be weird, though, because there's a reality television factor of it where the edits are going to make maybe some rivalries look bigger than they actually are. I would imagine there's a couple of rivalries.
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 probably some.

I feel, I mean, it's like we all,

obviously what we do is, I guess, pretty dangerous.

So we all definitely have a respect 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 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 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. 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, of yeah i mean uh 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 do you ever plan out a line that you're going to deliver 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 drop this line on somebody before the race tomorrow and then you say you make sure the camera picks it up and then you you watch the show a couple months later and you're like why didn't they use my cool line that i thought of so i'll always it's normally during training like during training i'll let like some of my uh emotional 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 of i would say like most of the shit i say on on camera is very spontaneous and it's like um 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 what's on the tip of my tongue 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 gonna be like fuck this is another line that he wrote down and people start to like turn on you but i think people like the fact that you you seem to enjoy living in that moment getting to talk shit about somebody it's great i think that's where it's like i feel obviously like i i do realize i have a, like a, I would say a decent fan base, like a good fan base.
And I don't, I don't mean to blow smoke, but it's like, I think cause I am, or I definitely feel I'm very true to myself. And I think people can relate.
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 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'll i won't always probably say it as i'll probably want to say it but i think people get the picture 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 so i 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 that's number one number two also he needs i i have the honey badger here 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 people, you know, they call me the honey badger, right? Pretty cool, right? I hear that that's what they're saying about me.
And then you tried to implant it artificially on yourself. Would you care to respond to those allegations? I think I'm definitely more jacked than Tyron.
I don't... I respect the fact that you said that.
Maybe your neck muscles? I don't know.

I'm actually glad you said it, but

I don't think he would agree.

I feel I would

get squashed in an instant,

but yeah, so

no, I mean, I can't

really counter that with much.

I definitely adopted

and... what's the word? an animal from not my country there's a word i'm looking for but uh but yeah like i i do love the honey badger i am also not um too 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 it's very generous of you to offer it yes yes yeah the nickname he's had for like a decade it's that's that's beautiful wait so while we're talking about uh different animals in australia do you think i could fight a kangaroo and beat him up um stand up for me i'm like i'm six two big boy two 40 50 whatever i also can crush wind pipes pretty easily yeah yeah oh yeah yeah you're jacked oh yeah i like you daniel i'm wearing a black shirt that's a little trick everyone's always like hey you look skinny today i'm like no i'm just wearing a black shirt yeah you would you you definitely give one a run um but man like it's funny so i 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 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 but um i think you'll cover it i got you what's.
What's it like just in general living in a country where everything can kill you? Are you talking about America? Well, he's in Monaco. Oh, I know.
They've got the royal family over there. It's funny to say it, though.
I'd be like, well, Ark. Yeah.
No. All the animals can kill you.
Of course. I got you.
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 about that.
But I think when you grow up kind of around it, you don't really think about it. So like we'll go walking out in the bush or go riding and go in the desert or whatever it is.
And 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, 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 like i'm yeah nah so you've never killed a snake uh no oh we had a theory on this show that everyone from australia has killed a snake at some point yeah oh no i have yeah yeah of course with with my bare hands i actually ate the venomous part as well or is it like a capri sun uh um all right i'm gonna ask a racing question because I'm sure there's some people who are listening like, how are you guys not asking them F1 questions? So you made the switch to McLaren. I saw the quote that basically was like, Daniel's still learning the car.
How, like, for dumb people out there, we see race car and we're like, all right, that race car is same as that race car how like what is the actual technical differences that are difficult to learn from going from red bull to renault to to mclaren so oh how do i say this without i guess boring no it's okay your accent makes anything like you can say anything boring and people like that was sick so just so you know yeah yeah you got that all right all right this is good 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 are incredible, and each team will have their own wind tunnels

to figure out the best parts to put on the car and whatever, whatever.

So every F1 car is very different, and a lot of the time,

it's how the aerodynamics on the car works.

So some cars might respond better in really fast corners, so that's where they call it aerodynamics is like on point um 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 call it where the profile peaks and where the profile like falls away so that can just change change simply like one car to another. And I think with the McLaren at the moment, it's let's say it peaks, call it at the very like entry of the corner.
And if I'm used to something peaking later in the corner or whatever, then I just have to adapt to the way I break the way I turn into the corner and all these little things um and then you've got setting the car up on top of that you know with suspension and all of this but uh yeah they can just have very different like characteristics is probably the best way to say it that actually helped because it does i mean that that makes sense where it's like driving a new car and and the split second differences can change everything what also i i'm obviously a novice um i i watched drive to survive i think there's a lot of us they're like we watched drive to survive we've now watched a few races this is sick but we don't know anything about it the tires the the soft hard medium what like you use all different tires during a single race? And when do you use

different tires? And like, how does that work? Yeah, so there's, there's five different compounds. And each, each race will get three, like, so, let's say Formula One allocate three per race.
And so, 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 tire normally gives more grip. So that, that like helps.
Um, but then more of like the highest speed, the, the, the corners, which put like a lot of energy and load through the car and through the tire, 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.

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.

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 so basically the softer the tire the quicker it like warms up the more grip you can get out of it but the quicker it also falls apart and dies so it's i guess it's like i mean it's rubber at the end of the day. So you can think if the rubber is softer, it's going to stick and have more friction, but it also is going to piece up a lot quicker.
It's, it's actually the, the analogy I would think is, is probably like the different spikes football players wear on their cleats, depending on how the surface is playing. Like if it's a muddy day, a rainy day, whatever, like if it it's field turf they'll wear smaller cleats so maybe that's how we we explain it well done i like that and you're a bills fan right yeah i i i am i am i've sadly never been to a game so i'm like call it i'm i'm a um a distant fan but i just want to through a table ultimately.
Yes, we got to get you to Buffalo. I mean, Josh Allen's our best friend.
What's legitimately best friend? What's the schedule like for F1 in the fall? We need to get you out to a game. Yeah, I know.
I need to get to one. And I know Josh has come out to a race and really, really nice guy.
Really nice guy. Obviously, amazing, amazing player.
But yeah, I 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 this is my team but i love summer and i love i do not like the cold i'm not built for the cold so apparently buffalo gets yes yes it's actually you would love love it in september early october it's perfect weather there it's actually the most perfect place on earth but then once like late october hits you're in a snowstorm almost all the time okay so when when's game one what month is it september early september i think you guys drive in austin in like october which would actually be a beautiful time to go to buffalo so if we can figure that out that would be the way to do it. I think you guys drive in Austin in like October, which would actually be a beautiful time to go to Buffalo.
So if we can figure that out, that would be the way to do it. 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.
All right. I'm going to work on the schedule.
You ask your next question. Okay.
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We were talking about the small stuff with the tires. It's interesting to me how you can have a race car that costs $10, $15 million, and you can just have to quit the race.
You have to withdraw the car because there's one lug nut that doesn't work when you're trying to change a tire on it. What's the smallest mistake that has ever cost you a win? So actually, yeah, my very first podium.
So I finished the race second and it was in my home race. It was the Australian Grand Prix back in 2014.
And 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 um 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 and basically it was like a little technicality that i had no control over and yeah basically cost me my position but you got you got to celebrate on the podium right i did so that was counts yeah exactly i don't need i don't need the trophy or the points just give me the moment give me the photos what's the 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 or is it has it become more rigid because you got christian running around like yeah running his mouth telling on everybody you got like you guys spoke to christian didn't you yeah we did yeah it's gotta suck you used to you know race for him and he was the tattletale now he's tattling on you he loves he loves a bit of chat but uh i got time for christian he's funny um but uh so i think yeah Like with everything, everyone's trying to like push the limits and like you're 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 um but even like like 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 something in a way that was out of our control and it was 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 with the 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 that one kind of sucked um but pit stops as well like pit stops can happen um yeah so i think that's one thing with our sport 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 like i don't know if i would pick this sport because there's so many other variables and so much out of your control. You know, so you could like you could perform perfectly and, you know, something might might end it for you.
But I think then that makes the high so high, like when it all does work and gel together and you win or get a podium, it's it's huge. Right, so speaking of that, 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? Maybe it's just on Drive to Survive. They boost it up.
But the guys will be celebrating and be like that was mega that was incredible it's like

p7 like wait what they finished p7 i thought he won the race the way they were celebrating or is it just you have to celebrate every time you score points and that's just the reality of the sport yeah it's um so i've 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 seasons only 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 like the equivalent of a victory right and that's 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. Um, and if it leads to a result like that, then it is, it is worth celebrating.
I mean, it's not obviously not a victory, but it's certainly recognized as a big result that makes sense like the race is when you start farther back and you you climb up to p6 that's that's a victory yeah exactly and i'm sure they measure everything that you do as a driver especially with the simulators they can probably keep track of like every every little bit that you've optimized every you know if you leave out a couple seconds here or there, they can find out where you lost that time.

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

I mean, honestly, they could.

There's so much data.

They could.

I mean, I grew up a NASCAR fan, so I would say naturally I would be probably better at turning left than right. But yeah, I mean, 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. What's what makes can you explain to us what makes a good party shirt, a party shirt? Oh, all right.
So it's, you know, when you see it, but it is, it is very, you know, like some, some people will wear, wear 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. 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. 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? Like, how many top tier, like, I trust this party shirt for my best parties, party shirts

do you own?

I mean, I would own over a, definitely probably like 15.

Okay.

And I would be confident with a dozen of them.

Okay.

And is there one, there's one in your mind though, that you're like, this is, if I get invited to the number one, a one party, this is the party shirt. Oh, I mean, I recently got one with like these two beautiful unicorns on it, but I don't know if it's, I think they, I don't know if they're, no, they're unicorns, right? I think they're unicorns and it's like, it's just majestic.
So that that that's that's my newest favorite one 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 yeah really just take it for like a test drive i was about exactly if you were like a little bit apprehensive you kind of you you warm it in you warm it into the environment um but i think like most importantly a party shirt it's like it's how you wear it 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 gonna pull it off nine times out of ten i also just love the way you say party 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 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 i mean that's such a good question um so i i mean what so 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.
And that's obviously seen a lot of good nights out. So 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.
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? That's Daniel Ricciardo's party shirt. It's seen some shit.
If you're going to go with, if you go with the black t-shirt though, I assume you have to have, 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? So actually the reason why I was maybe a minute or too late for this call was I was literally finishing my neck exercises. So, um, and no joke.
So you have like, so we have these harnesses with, which we basically wrap around our head and we, we get like a trainer to pull on it or we just kind of, I'll just get some like elastic band stuff tight to the the door, and just sit on a chair and do some repetitions. But I could sit there for an hour and a half and just do a lot of long and low training to build the endurance.
So did you ask why is it important? Yeah, well, yeah. 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? Yeah. So, I mean, a good neck can look good.
And you're right. Like a black T does give it, it kind of lends itself to definition.
So you're onto something there and then for driving it's it's our one like major muscle that we need because probably two reasons so it's kind of like our highest um 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 and 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.
So we're doing like five Gs through corners. So that's like five times your body weight.
And I guess for your neck, or if your head's, I don't know, 10 kilos, call it, add a few kilos for the helmet, say 13 times five. How or if your head's i don't know 10 kilos call it add a few kilos for the helmet say 13 times 5 how good's your math i don't know 65 65 kilos yeah so that's like five kilos on your neck for a few seconds in each corner however many hundred times for a race so i think that's that's one and then the second reason why we've got to keep it conditioned and strong is the next really weird.

It's probably the one muscle where like when it goes, it goes. So like if it fatigues in the race and it like falls over, it's like you can't pick it back up.
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 uh 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 you later so you never want to get to that point do you wake up the day after a race like super sore yeah you can you can do. Your whole body just feels heavy.
And yeah, you just feel like a soreness and a general fatigue, I guess. So you've switched teams a couple times in the last few years.
And obviously everyone's a professional. 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 and you are these guys are they doing everything they could be doing for my car or they may be 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 who was your teammate last year uh okon okon yeah yeah so like do you feel that at all or is that or maybe it's just you're paranoid and happens naturally, but 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.

Yeah, it's like for sure, like I would say the first or the early stages are a bit, they can be like a bit awkward or uncomfortable.

But I think like I don't'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 um i won't i 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 of if there's like a few i don't know appearances or like they might just load me up with a bit of extra non-fun work um to make me to make me kind of pay the price if you know what i mean but it's it's not too bad like for real it's okay and when you make a choice like to go to Renault how much of that is dealing with uh you know 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 because there's a lot of really important stuff that you have to take into account if you're switching to a new car, how much of that decision is based on the technical aspects of the car? 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.

Plus I get to piss off the old guy.

Sign me up.

Yeah.

All of,

all of our point number two.

So,

um,

it's,

uh,

no,

like,

Thank you. yeah all of all of uh point number two so um it's uh no like i think going to so like the red bull reno thing so like at the time like a lot of people couldn't really understand it um and like fair enough because i was i was going from a you know i guess second second best team at the time third 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. But I felt like at Red Bull, I'd kind of, I kind of want to say like reached my limit.
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.
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.
And I also felt like Renault was on like the come up. So I thought it could be also a good opportunity to like,'s say jump ship and and kind of trying to bring it to the top i think that actually makes sense and it takes a lot of self-awareness to realize that about yourself when you've been in like a relationship for a while and you're like you know what i would push myself harder if i was with this team as opposed to 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.
That's still pretty good at the end of the day. Yeah, it's true.
And you need... Yeah, I think that was really it.
And I felt like I could do more or had a bit more to give. And I just needed another challenge and a fresh approach, really.
And the real reason was more likely that you were kind of creeped out by how much Christian Horner loves Max Verstappen, right? Yeah, so he was the best man at the wedding, old father to the children. He was even moved into the farmhouse next door.
So it was getting a lot. i 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 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 some serious love there yeah yeah no it's weird as fuck is there anything on the show that you think either uh misrepresents uh either a person that's on the f1 circuit or a team or on the other hand is there like something that you think that the f1 show hasn't done a good enough job of covering yet? Like a storyline you see every day that they haven't exposed yet? I think one thing I think the first season did really well, probably better than maybe the following two, was get a little bit more 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 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. So I think 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 and you know our results and the competition side a little bit so it's more yeah like what we do away from it and then people can also relate better and uh yeah um 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 so yeah i'm going to give him a bit more time now so i think that that as well you know people can tend to lean on so do you still have your iPod that's 15 years old with 80 gigabytes of music? Yeah, I do.

Do you know people can tend to lean on so do you still have your ipod that's 15 years old with 80 gigabytes of music yeah i do do you do you know that spotify exists you know you can stream those songs now so i i yeah i do like so i i do now for the most part go wireless and do the spotify thing but yeah i do feel a little guilty you know i'm just like everyone else now i'm i'm no different you had six six thousand songs on it like how does it still work do they even make chargers for it anymore so so i literally had to throw out one of the chargers i reckon probably two weeks ago because it it had it had r.i.p um but i've got one more and it's like it's got a bit of tape on the end of it because it does want to it does want to say goodbye but um yeah can you still buy them i don't know i don't think so maybe maybe but i mean it sounds like you're at the end of the line you've got maybe the last one on earth you. You know what? You know what? It hasn't actually like hotels.
Hotels have the old school chargers and every single alarm clock for some reason. We haven't upgraded those yet.
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. So they might even have pre iPod stuff.
Who knows? So when you're when you're getting ready for a race have you actually like figured out if certain songs make you drive faster if you listen to them um i mean i've definitely got some some songs which have like yeah kind of um created like a good memory for me over the years um but i'll typically Probably like day of the race, I'll like figure out a little bit my playlist for like pre-race. So it's kind of, I'll go on like what I feel and kind of just the mood.
But yeah, like, and that can be anything from hip hop to EDM to folk, to punk hardcore hardcore like i really do like nearly everything um so your teammate now at mclaren is lando norris uh does he have pubes i like i want to say for the first time i saw like a little bit of stubble on his chin so i was like maybe maybe the chin matches the for people who don't know that question there was a press conference when they were in 2019 and you could see daniel leans over and like whispers to lando like do you even have pubes yet i i was i can't believe they picked that up but yeah um so i i don't know i'm i would say some like sprouts but he right he drives the 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, I'm not a massive, like, gamer, call it.

But, yeah, as a kid, like, I would pick them up.

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.

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 kid wants to do. but you were actually able to somehow like weasel your way into doing this for a living.
How did that conversation go? Yeah, I just sucked at everything else. No, I loved like I loved sports growing up and I was always very like outdoors and active and I couldn't really sit still in a classroom so I think my parents knew that I was always going to do something with like a little bit of pace or energy um and my dad like raced a little bit um like more recreational like for fun when he was a bit older um so like he grew up around it he was quite passionate so I think it was easy for me to be like, well, yeah, I'm like, I've got it in my blood thanks to dad.
So it's not my fault that I want to race cars.

yeah but then yeah like i was uh i think i was yeah nine years old and i 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 cart doing 60 miles at nine years old um but uh 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 but that was great. Like they knew it was going to make me happy and they supported that.
So yeah, very, very lucky for sure. All right.
My last question, the Shoei 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? So I, the intention was to only do it for first place but they they weren't coming often enough so i was like any podium any any top three i'll do it um and so actually when i first when i very first did it i was like i'm gonna 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 um or just kind of be revolted by it so 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 and they were chanting like shooey and they were getting upset that I wasn't going to do it.
So I feel like they certainly egged it on and, and yeah, so that was, that was that. So it's a podium and I have done it at some pool parties before.
And I, 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. I got to imagine one of the sweetest beer tasting ever is drinking out of a shoe when you finish first at an F1 race.
It's like there's no other way to describe it other than mother's milk. Yeah.
Wait, do you use – how often do you change your shoes? Is this like a new pair of shoes that you're doing it out of or is it a well-worn shoe? It's racing shoes. Yeah, like even if it was a new pair, it's just done like 70 laps in some pretty hot temperatures.
So where our feet are, there's no cooling there. So our feet get sweaty during a race.
But the boot the boot could be maybe three four races old so it's not great but um 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 but the trick the trick is honestly just to pour it quickly and make sure the champagne is still cold yeah you don't really get the get the other flavors. Love it.
All right. So now you know, Daniel, that the only thing we've got to tell you is that as a recurring guest, you have to come on the show after you win a race.
So next time you win a race, you have to come on right after. That's the rule we have.
Done. Done.
And if it's right after, as in like the Sunday after the race. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, it's right after. Yeah.
It's for me the race yeah i mean yeah you it's right after yeah it's me to be slurring words that's right 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 all right well i'm gonna i will find one for you guys i'll make sure there's a few uh a few stories for it all right okay

awesome and uh yeah we'll try we're gonna try to get to a race at some point so hopefully we'll see you we'd love we'd 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 sounds good absolutely all right thank you so much daniel we appreciate best of luck the rest of the season man no worries cheers fellas Daniel Ricardo is brought to you by our great friends

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Alright, Fyre Fest. We're going to do it.
Fyre Fest. Let's get it.
Are we still saying let's get it? Yeah. Yeah.
Let's get it. It's Firefest 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. He's back and ready to go, but let's do Firefest.
We're going to end with Billy's Firefest, 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.

My fire fest is that despite being skinny, I've managed to get fat 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 like skinny with a gut.

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 like i stomach it hurt so bad that i was 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 i was i couldn't i couldn't stop myself the pain was that bad i'm like are you on your period and i was just no i'm just i just in that uh 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 i mean 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 was my fire fest.
A lady had to come over and be like, are you all right? Oh, no. I was like, no, I'm fine.
I'm just doing abs. Let's just never go to the gym.
We're going to get you into shape, Hank. Yeah.
Don't do abs. You want to go on the soup diet, the broth diet? Yeah, I've been thinking about it.
You want to drink broth? Sure. I've been eating healthy.

Sure.

All you do is you just drink soup all day.

Doing that is so stupid anyway, because 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.

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.

How much time?

Give me a month.

By the end of the summer.

Oh.

Six-pack summer.

You're going to have a six-pack?

Let's do it.

You're going to have a visible six-pack?

Yes.

No chance.

Okay.

Okay.

You're going to have a six-pack? Let's do it. You're going to have a visible six-pack.
Yes. No chance.
Okay. Okay.
I'm not trying to be a hater. No.
It's just you're genetically not a six-pack guy. Skinny people in six-packs go hand in hand.
Nah. Yes.
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.
You can do it, Hank. He's 28.
Support the homies. I got you.
All right. My Fire Fest of the week, I've got a couple.
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. Sorry for your loss.
Thank you. Where is Margaritaville? It's in Times Square.
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. Nice.
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 had all these customized, awesome novelty drinks. I had actually made a schedule for myself 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 time square yeah to a hotel in time square and then they called me two days ago and they said guess what it's not going to be ready for the opening damn can you come back later this summer and i was like yeah but it's not the same because i was going to be it was going to be opening weekend of Margaritaville.
I was going to be one of those losers that camps out in line to be the first to get that Chick-fil-A. 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, I'll just say that's my fire fest.
I don't think I can top that. Yeah, no, no.
That's a fire fest. I paid for it.
I was ready to go. My bags were packed.
I didn't really have to pack a bag because I lived down the street. That's a legit fire fest.
I was ready to go. Yeah, that's a legit fire fest.
I'm sorry for your loss. 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 Cheeseburger in Paradise. It will be good, though, to cry it out, you know?

To listen to some Buffett and cry it out.

As men, we don't show our emotions.

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 a one-year anniversary of something very important.

Doug's first national title.

You got some tweets?

Are you remembering?

Yeah, I had a few. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Is that Tennessee?

God damn.

Yeah, that feels like 10 years ago.

Tennessee 41, Miami 34. June 18, 2020.
I showed up for that game. That was a hell of a game too.
Yeah, it was. Yeah.
Especially after the Virginia Tech loss. That one was tough.
Miserable. Still don't know what happened.
Yeah. So congrats to the Duggs one year later.
Thank you. Yes.
Where were you? We sprayed champagne. Yeah.
We smoked confetti. We smoked cigars.
In honor of the 76ers. And then we're like, what? This is kind of weird.
All right. You're real fire fast? Yes.
We did smoke cigars. We was inside.
In the room. In a room.
Small room. With all the electronics.
Yes. Small room.
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 airport? The terminal. Yeah, we were basically living in the terminal where we just, it was just our office.
There was no one else in Tom Hanks. Who did I say? Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise, yeah, Tom Hanks. Eyes wide shut.
Yes, Fidelio. My apartment lease is up at the end of the month.
I've been searching all week long, took plenty of tours, phone calls, and I think I'm just going to stay. No! Jake, I have a humble suggestion.
So it's just a total waste of time this week and you live in a depressing depressing place it's a studio what he does he explained it to me 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 yes now you're good much time when you- Hank gave me an extra TV. Yeah.
When COVID was happening and you were like, yeah, 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 New York is they take on a roommate.
And I happen to know someone

who's also looking for an apartment in New York

at exactly the same time.

However, do you know who he is?

That person owns a dog,

and I am allergic to dogs.

He's sitting right next to you.

So that would make me ineligible

for a potential roommate.

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.

No, no, no, no.

No, Jake doesn't look like he's a dog. Jake doesn't type of guy to be allergic to dogs.
Jake's allergic to everything. Cats? Yes.
Yeah, of course. Are you allergic? Iguanas? No.
Meh, but maybe. Are you allergic to tree nuts? No.
Okay, good, because we have spider tack in the studio. Sweet.
All right. My Firefest.
That sucks, Jake. Sorry fire although not moving is also yeah not right is also really great so yeah it's just the time i wasted this yeah yeah touring and broker fees are fire fest of just life yeah they are it's bullshit um 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 I was walking Stella I think it was like Sunday or Monday and there was a couple riding their bikes up my street 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 described the back though that's what I didn't understand it's like you know those like the extra seat on the back like a basket that's right on the back The kid was probably like five, right? And the mom...
Describe the back, though. That's what I didn't understand.
It's like, you know, those, like, the extra seat on the back. Like a basket that's right behind the back.
The kid was probably, like, five, right? And the mom goes up on the sidewalk, and she's like, watch out. This street is really, like, not great.
And two seconds later, he just toppled over, and I'm pretty sure the kid broke his arm. And this happened, like, maybe 12 feet in front of me.
And then the mom started just berating the dad and uh I didn't do crying yeah he was wailing and I just didn't do anything I just walked back inside you were probably psyched to watch a real life arm breaking video yeah no it was sick when it happened then I was like oh that's bad and I also like I don't know there's nothing I could have done there was two parents right one kid 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? 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 would be, like, out of my way. I'm a blogger.
Right. I can help.
And also, I had Stella, who probably would have just started barking in their face. So, yeah, it's kind of haunted me.
Because feel like I should have just been like you guys good as I walked away but I didn't even do that I just it 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 yeah this is that's a bad age to get a cast under your arm too I was like forget this happened i feel like if you're in second or third grade that's if you have to have a cast that's a really good age yeah everyone in your class is like oh cool cast let me sign it yeah exactly but if you're five it's like wow now that now the kid has a whole summer where we're gonna have to take care of everything for him oh man yeah so i've been thinking about a lot no beach in the summer no pools yeah also are you okay? Like, I'm worried about you mentally. I'm not okay.
Do you have, like, any... It was very awkward.
Do you talk to somebody about it? Yeah, it was very awkward. It was tough.
Also, my Fyre Fest is Madden codes are back, and now my mentions are a mess. Which, speaking of, here's what we're going to do.
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 just on the screen.

It's going to be on the screen. I'll just put it in at random points.
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We're going to do more live stuff. So Xbox Series X, 649X9YX4R2HFMXVJFJQQTRQ7Z and then PS5AGCA8BN8NDXP I would assume that Billy is probably going to plug one of those in before the show's even released, but let's do it.
Billy Football is officially back. He has graduated college.
Clap it up for Billy. We're excited to have him back.
Summa cum laude. We told him it's 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 uh well i am an adult you're not um 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 uh but billy has a list of things he's gonna do and one of those things so uh the 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, you know, stats, whatever, notes from the interview. 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, loose talk, have some fun.
That way Billy can have a place to succeed but also doesn't feel like he's butting into the start of the show. 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, I've been listening to this show since I've gone, and that was electric. That was hilarious.
Kudos to Jake for being the alpha of the office. Yeah.
You're 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.
It's also like we have structure. You know what I mean? We have structure 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 we do, depending on the day and some Billy recap and having some fun.
Billy, I had one question for you. Yep.
Did you listen to us talking about what animals we could beat up? Yes, I did extensively. What did you think? I thought that you guys targeted the wrong animals.
Kangaroos could beat the shit out of you. Nope.
Billy, did you listen to the interview? What about getting inside of its pocket and then punching it from within? Australian Daniel Ricciardo said I could beat up a kangaroo. No listened to that one i don't i have another take on that okay we'll get to that later okay um kangaroos beat the shit out of people all the time they literally have talons on their feet that like can slice you open have you ever seen a kangaroo boxing match though like people have beaten up those are the ones that they take their talons off okay what about the what about uh the windpipe and that one bears, actual pussies.
I saw you. You were right on that video.
You could beat the shit out of a black bear. You snuffed that out.
I appreciate that. Black bears would run like pots and pans, get rid of black bears.
Okay. Black, fight back.
Brown, lay down. Lay down.
White, say goodnight. Boom.
There it is. That's how you handle bears.
Okay, so what's your FireFest? And also, let's do it. Whatever you want to talk about.
Words. So FireFest, I moved into a new place in between housing.
Didn't want to commit to a gym membership, so I was taking the one-day free passes at all the different gyms. Okay.
So one day, ended up in Planet Fitness. Planet Fitness, Lunk Alarm, set off the Lunk Alarm.
You set it on? Yeah. What'd you do? What'd you do? Did you start cramping and yelling? No, I had my headphones on and didn't realize that the pull-down machine I was using was slamming.
Oh, no. I mean, I usually do set it down gently, but it turns out it was a little clankier anyway got tossed he said we don't let the one day membership people fuck around like that get a real membership fair you gotta pay us $8.99 a month in order to do that exactly so that's what happened and now into wait wait realyre Fest reminded me.
I actually did have a bigger Fyre Fest that I left it out. I'm sorry.
But it was a gym-related story. 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.
There's a guy with a camera out, and his flash went off because he was taking a picture of me from across the locker room. 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.
Dude, don't do that, people. 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 yeah, I just, I chose to let it go. But my Fyre Fest of the Week is feeling embarrassed for that guy with the flash going off.
That's the worst thing that you can ever do. Yeah, that's terrible.
That actually happened to me like two years ago in a gym locker room. You were taking pictures of someone? No, a guy just walked up to me butt-ass naked.
Oh. And I was butt-ass naked and just like a stranger.
And what happened next? And I was just like, dude, who are – and then he was like, hey, are you – Oh, nice. It was a great situation.
All right. Okay.
So recap of the show or whatever you want to talk about. Male porn stars can fake money shots.
PFT, if you could reference OG Mudbone. Okay.
I did not make the Bitcoin eyes comment. Credit to whoever that was.
It was a good comment. Okay.
I don't think Ricciardo is actually from Australia. Because one, he didn't make a drop bear comment, which is like Australia 101.
Yeah, they tell you to do that. Whenever you encounter a dumb American, you mention drop bears or hoop snakes to them.
Exactly. And kangaroos are actually dangerous, and he wasn't actually down with the animals in Australia.
Good accent, though, for a faker, right? He's probably from Chile. Solid.
Who knows um hank before you work out try my doll it's great for workout um induced stuff um if you're looking for a uh six-pack shortcut drink green tea all day cuts down on the fat and gets your metabolism going that's do you think that's the same thing you think he can get it, a six pack? I'm going to be honest. I was thinking about this.
Last year, I was 235 pounds at the Dougs championship game. Billy, what was it? Belly football.
Yeah, I've lost 25 pounds since then. But that's a year.
He's got two and a half months. But he has way less mass to lose.
Skinny people get six packs easier. So he could do it.
Fact or fiction? And last. Was that just you trying to say that you have a six pack? I'd like to see it.
I do not have a six pack. He did, though, for a second.
For a second. Yeah.
I also like the fact that Billy weighed himself in before the national championship video game. No, it was bad.
But I think six packs, like, and obviously I've never even come close, obviously. I'm saying that.
But isn't it like if Fank loses weight, losing weight is hard. Going from getting skinny to actual six pack is really hard.
Yeah, but if you do abs every day. No, that's not even it.
It's just lowering your body fat. It's genetics too, though.
Eating healthy, working out, doing full body exercises. Have you ever had a six pack? Yes.
Full one one? Yes. I ran cross-country when I was a freshman in high school.
Full six-pack? Yeah. That was 14 years ago.
No, Billy's right. If you do enough cardio, you're small enough.
But I was the same size. I've been six feet 160 since I was like 13.
I'm six feet 180 right now. You actually have a six-pack right now.
There's just a layer of fat that's over and you got to get rid of that fat. Don't waste your time and do sit-ups and stuff.
That won't do it. You've got to do stuff like huge burpees, anabolic lifts.
That get your T up, get your fat burning, and just get the system going. Jake, my dog, is hypoallergenic, and I think it would be really convenient if we lived together And Last but not least T-Rex Are closer to humans in time Than they are to stegosauruses So T-Rexes and humans are 65 million years apart Stegosauruses and T-Rexes Are 85 million years old.
Wow. Except the Earth is 60,000 years old.

So checkmate. Might want to check your math on that, Billy.
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.
I'm going to give Billy credit. A lot of credit.
Yep. I texted Billy.
He's got the 69 ball. I texted Billy.
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. I texted Billy.
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 the boys are back together.

And then he showed me.

He's like, I already brought it from the barn.

It's ready to go.

I had moved at that point.

Yep.

Already had it.

I'd like to send it back in.

Great job with your first segment there.

That was exactly what we're looking for.

Wait.

Perfect.

Some funny jokes. Billy, the fact that you brought this back, I think you should have it.
That showed a lot. No, because I don't know what number to pick.
Okay, that was a test. That was a test.
Good job, good job. I just want to keep taking 69 every episode.
It was December 3rd, 2020, when Billy correctly picked it. So it's been out of the office for over half a year.
I'll tell you what. If it hits right now, then Billy, you're...
I don't know what we'll do. I'm going to guess 69 on this one.
69. This is...
Okay. 18.
99. 96.
Get ready for Monday's show. We've got a great string of guests coming up.
I'll go eight, actually. It's great to have you back, Billy.
Thanks, guys. Thank you for taking me back.
Handshakes in the chat. Handshakes in the chat.
Trust the process. Trust the Billy process.
We're going to succeed. It's going to have you back Billy.
Thanks guys. Handshakes in the chat.

Trust the process.

Trust the Billy process.

We're going to succeed.

It's going to be great.

Everyone's going to love this.

I'm telling you.

And if you don't, go fuck yourself.

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99.

8.

56.

What did you say Jake?

18.

What did you say Liam?

96. Ah! What do we got? Should we run it again? Just to see if we get 69 just this time.
Bonus. 82.
First timer. First timer.
First timer. This one doesn't count unless it's 69.
This doesn't count? Doesn't count unless it's 16. We don't want to overshadow 82's first step.

It's 82, but I just wanted to...

Nope.

Okay, see?

Didn't count.

Oh, disqualified?

Nope.

Well, that's actually a bad sign, Billy.

Unlucky 13?

No, I was born on the 13th.

It's lucky for me.

Friday the 13th?

I actually was born on Friday the 13th.

Oh, that explains everything.

Love you guys

I'm talking away.

I don't know what I'm to say I'm changing away Today's another day to fight you Shying away I'll be coming for your love, okay Shying away I'll be coming for your love, okay Take on me you Thank you. I'm out of tears.
Needless to say, I'm on sentence, but I'm feeling stolen away. So they learn that life is okay.
Say after me, it's better to be safe than sorry. Say after me, it's better to be safe than sorry Lay up to me Place me back to be safe and sorry Take on me Take me on I'll be gone In a day of time All the things that you say Is it life or just to play my worries away You're all the things I've got to remember You're shying away I'll be coming for you anyway Take on me

Take me on

I'll be gone Indeed I'll be gone

In a day

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