Former MLB Manager Bobby Valentine, Suns In 4 And Segments Are Back

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Speaker 3 On today's part of my take, we have Bobby Valentine's awesome interview with the man who invented the wrap we talk everything with Bobby UFOs we talk the famous mustache coming back from being ejected in the dugout awesome interview guy that you just talked to and you're like man he's a cool guy want to be friends with him so get excited for that interview we also have a bunch of basketball talk sons in four uh we have who's back of the week we're going to talk some soccer we're going to talk some tennis we got some segments Great show coming for you and we're brought to you by our friends.

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Speaker 3 Today is Monday, June 14th,

Speaker 3 Sons and Four.

Speaker 4 Sons and Four, they did it. The fellas did it.

Speaker 3 The guy is a legend. So if you've been living under a rock and you missed it,

Speaker 3 we had a fight video from which we don't condone fighting in the stands, but if you're going to fight in the stands, be a legend like this guy.

Speaker 4 If you're going to fight in the stands, win.

Speaker 3 Yeah, win and when you're outnumbered and have lower ground, which is everything this guy did, and you're in the opposing teams,

Speaker 3 you know, or you're the opposing team in the home court of Denver. So he goes there, Suns fan, wearing a Steve Nash jersey, throwback, going up against a pair of Jamal Murray bros, which...

Speaker 3 I don't know, fair or foul, but wearing the same jersey as your bro.

Speaker 4 Sus. I think you need to fill out the team.

Speaker 3 I think one of you's got to have a jokic. One guy had two watches on.
And a bunch of chains.

Speaker 4 Although, there was that one fight that happened in Dallas a couple weeks ago where it was three separate guys wearing different

Speaker 4 77 jerseys. They were all rocking Lucas, but one was home, one was away, and then one was like a throwback alternate who comes in at the very end.
It's like, what's going on here?

Speaker 3 Listen, as just a straight-up, like, we're not going to shame whatever anyone wants to wear to a game,

Speaker 3 But if you, you saw that.

Speaker 3 What? Oh, I, nothing, nothing. I don't want to get distracted.
Uh, if you go, happy birthday, Hank, by the way. We should have said that right off the top.
Happy birthday, Hank.

Speaker 3 If you go to a game and you show up, probably show up to your buddy's house to pick him up and he's got the same exact color Jamal Murray jersey. He's got to go back to the channel.

Speaker 3 One of these got to change. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Well, you got to go shirts and skins in at that point. And I've noticed this about the fans in Denver.
No disrespect to Denver or to families, but we used to be Nuggets podcasts. We were.

Speaker 4 I did notice that it's like 25% Suns fans. They travel very well.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Right up. Stop doesn't bother them.
What's the highway? Give us the highway. Highway.
85. 85.

Speaker 3 Right up 85. Pop up 85, no problem.
But yeah. Right up into the Rockies.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 So they're representing pretty well up in Denver.

Speaker 3 They were.

Speaker 3 Up 70. Up 70, right? I-70.

Speaker 4 The I-70. It's a battle I-70.
I love it.

Speaker 3 Everyone knows that.

Speaker 4 And now we've got Chris Paul looking like he's 10 years younger now. I hope that it's going to be Sons against Clippers because I want to see Chris Paul go up against Ballmer.

Speaker 3 Yes, yes. All right, so wait, yeah, well let's talk about Chris Paul, but we got it.
We got to finish with the Sons and Four guys.

Speaker 3 So if you missed it, it's a video that came out on the internet on Saturday morning. It is from game three of Sons versus Nuggets.

Speaker 3 Two guys matching Jamal Murray jerseys, tons of chains, tons of watches. They have the higher ground against a sole guy who looks like just a chill-ass dude, if I'm going to be honest,

Speaker 3 in a Steve Nash jersey.

Speaker 3 One of the Jamal Murray guys gives a look to the camera, like, watch this, I'm about to sucker punch him. Tries to throw the sucker punch, then gets basically like a hockey fight.

Speaker 3 The Steve Nash bro grabs him by the chains and just keeps giving him, just making him eat uppercuts. And then the two Jamal Murray guys go and yell to the cops.

Speaker 3 And as they're running away, the Suns fan says, Suns in four, Suns in four, which was legendary in the moment, but now that the Suns have actually finished the sweep and it is Suns in Four, that guy has to, I don't know what they do pre-game ceremonies, light the torch, ring the bell, yeah, dunk the gorilla.

Speaker 3 I don't know,

Speaker 3 he's got to be out there.

Speaker 3 If you're the Suns organization, like it's all because no one got really hurt. It seemed like the Suns guy was the one who was getting sucker punched.

Speaker 4 He was defending himself. He had the low ground.
There was a guy that was hitting him. All he did was he just sweated the dude.
Again, that's very difficult to do with a basketball jersey.

Speaker 4 You don't have sleeves. It's not girthy.
The sweater is not heavy like it is for an NHL sweater. So yeah, he just pulled it over his head, made him turtle, caught him with a couple of them.

Speaker 3 He caught him by the chains, too.

Speaker 4 You gotta take your chains off. Caught him with a couple nice uppercuts.
But they were also very chill uppercuts at the same time. Like, I was never, I think that's the difference.

Speaker 4 That's why the internet is okay with this fight. No one's like trying, no one's shamed the guy yet for it.

Speaker 4 Because during the fight, there was never an instance where I was like, oh, these two guys in the Jamal Jury

Speaker 4 in the Jamal Murray jerseys, they're going to get hurt. Like, it never looked like that.
It was just like solid connections to the face, neck area, and then they just ran away.

Speaker 3 It was the opposite of that Padres Rockies fan, which so Denver fans really are having a tough month. The guy who knocked out the Rockies fan, and you're like, ooh, that actually was bad.

Speaker 3 Like, we don't want to see people get knocked out. You're right.

Speaker 3 They were more like, hey, I'm winning this fight.

Speaker 3 He was pointing him to death. He was scoring points on CompuBox, and he wasn't actually going to knock him out.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so basically, Denver fans, are they the YouTubers or the TikTokers of the fan fighting community, Hank? TikTokers.

Speaker 3 TikTokers.

Speaker 3 Oh, they did. Oh, no.
That's too bad.

Speaker 4 Five ones.

Speaker 3 How will they recover? Dancing. Dancing.
Just gotta dance.

Speaker 3 If you dance enough off of that, maybe get Charlie D'Amilio in one.

Speaker 4 They're gonna meme their way through it.

Speaker 3 They'll forget everything about those fights.

Speaker 4 All right. Like, there's no one that gets roasted on the internet more than Patrick Mahomes' brother, but he doesn't give a shit, he just dances it out.

Speaker 3 He literally is the

Speaker 3 cheesy saying, like, dance like no one's watching. Yes.
But millions of people are watching, but dance like no one's watching.

Speaker 3 All right, so yeah, the Suns are that game.

Speaker 4 That guy needs a ring. The bottom line is: if they win, if they win the NBA Finals this year, that guy needs a ring.
AJ Titties needs a ring.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Bonk, he needs a ring for sure, and he needs to do the pregame ceremony. If it's game one or game three, depending on the jazz or the clippers, you need to get him incorporated somehow.

Speaker 3 Even if it's like ring a bell. I don't know what the fuck the Suns do.
Even though we're a Die Hard Suns podcast. I mean, we know.
We just don't want to say.

Speaker 3 But yeah, have him out there, give a wave to the people, maybe have him do a little, you know, uppercuts, and then everyone goes crazy. It would be the right thing to do.

Speaker 4 It would. Because everyone kind of likes this guy.
You respect him. And

Speaker 4 to the Nuggets fans out there, I have one thing to say. Imagine thinking that you're tougher than the Suns.
The fucking Suns.

Speaker 3 The Suns.

Speaker 6 The only thing I can find is Langston Galloway and Campaign have a pregame breakdancing ritual.

Speaker 3 Oh, okay. Campaign is an all-famous all-time dancer.
Remember that clip of him dancing with the Thunder? Breakdance. By the way, Campaign also in a conference final.
So who would have thought?

Speaker 3 Who would have thought we'd be here?

Speaker 3 Anyway, Chris Paul, insane. Chris Paul,

Speaker 3 he's playing basically perfect basketball right now. He was 14 for 19 for 37 points.
There was a stretch there.

Speaker 3 Did he go seven for seven? He was six for six in the third quarter. I don't know if he got up to seven for seven, but he was.

Speaker 4 He was just on fire.

Speaker 3 He was on fire.

Speaker 4 And I thought that he sucked last year. I was told that Chris Paul was cooked last year.

Speaker 3 No, he was all right. I mean, remember, he got the Thunder.
Like, he made the Thunder not the worst team ever last year.

Speaker 3 He's just a really, really good basketball player, which is not like saying something groundbreaking. It's always been about the injuries and hitting people in the balls.

Speaker 3 But he's playing perfect basketball right now. The Suns as a team are playing pretty much perfect basketball.
And I know, let's throw this out there. The Jokic ejection was bullshit.
It was bullshit.

Speaker 3 It may be a technical, but having that be an ejection was so, so stupid. I don't know if that changes the game.

Speaker 3 And I know some Nuggets fans will say, yeah, of course it does, but the Suns are just on a different level.

Speaker 4 The Suns are a better team. They were going to win the series.
They were probably going to win this game. But, like, yes, ejecting the reigning MVP, that's going to have an effect on it.
And

Speaker 4 my thing with this ejection, that's just, it's a playoff foul, big cat. Yeah.
It's a playoff foul.

Speaker 3 It's a playoff foul.

Speaker 4 He wound up. He took a swing.
I think that referee, he likes seeing himself on camera a lot. He is the king of staring into America's souls in the living room.
And he does like little pivots.

Speaker 4 He looks back. He looks like he's on a runway out there.
He wanted to get more FaceTime for himself. He's like, let's review this again.
At first, Reggie Miller was like, it's not a foul at all.

Speaker 4 And then he was like, you know what? Throw him out. Throw him out of the game.

Speaker 3 Get him out of here.

Speaker 4 And honestly, endless respect for Jokic being an MVP in the NBA and still, I think he cuts his hair with a Flobe.

Speaker 4 Whatever it is, it's like the same, like number three all over. He just takes the Clippers to his head and he just goes, just get me out of this chair.
I'm in, I'm out.

Speaker 4 There's no such thing as a fade when you're Jokic.

Speaker 3 And he also, he definitely won the face-to-face with Devin Booker. You could read his lips.
He was just saying, what are you going to do do about it? What are you going to do about it?

Speaker 3 That's always like, when you say that, and the guy's backing up, it's like, all right, well, you've won this. Did you see his brothers at the MVP ceremony?

Speaker 3 No, he had a great MVP speech that was essentially, it was maybe 15 seconds, and he was like, it's not about me, it's about all these guys. Clap it up for them.
And then that was it. I like that.

Speaker 3 What was his brother? They're huge. They just look like huge, tattooed.
I love it.

Speaker 3 I love it. All right, we'll remember this year, the MVP season.
Also, DeAndre Ayton's been awesome.

Speaker 3 and I he could have been awesome anyway you know what I mean like he could have fulfilled his promise as the number one pick in the draft but it is funny to be like hey what what happened to DeAndre Ayton oh well he's now paired with one of like the top five point guards of all time that probably helps Chris Paul makes big guys great and that's what he does DeAndre Aton he misses like one, maybe two shots a game.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, he might come to this playoffs with the highest field goal percentage of any player ever because he just gets the ball. Chris Ball just throws him lobs.

Speaker 4 It's everything that we were told Lob City would be. Yeah.
Is his connection with DeAndre?

Speaker 3 And his defense has been amazing. The Suns are just playing at a different level.
So

Speaker 3 great, great pivot by us.

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Speaker 3 To become, to become a Suns podcast. I'll split this with you.

Speaker 4 If you want to chug this with the Fellas.

Speaker 3 I'll chug this. This.

Speaker 4 To chug the water. Hang on.
Fellas.

Speaker 4 Coors Seltzer. Orange Cream.
This is delicious, by the way. Boom.

Speaker 3 I just hydrated. I don't know if you've had this.
Not too much. I'm going to lie.
I'm struggling with the Papadillas.

Speaker 3 You hear that burp?

Speaker 3 That was for the fellas. Papadilla Day didn't go so hot coming out.
We can talk about that on Who's Back.

Speaker 4 The Papadilla sits heavy.

Speaker 3 This Papadilla.

Speaker 4 It's like I ate, I feel like I ate rocks.

Speaker 3 Let's just talk about it now. So we, all weekend long, I just sat there watching games and Papadillas.

Speaker 4 You're pronouncing it like a gringo. It's Papadilla.
Papadilla. There's actually no L in it.

Speaker 3 No, it's Papadillas.

Speaker 4 Papadilla. But ask yourself this, PFT.

Speaker 3 Papa John, you think he wants to pronounce it any other way than as

Speaker 3 American and

Speaker 3 I'm actual as possible? I'm sure Papadillas.

Speaker 4 I'm shocked that Papa John didn't put an R at the end of it.

Speaker 3 Papadillas.

Speaker 3 All right. So, yeah, Papadillas, they do not

Speaker 3 sit light in the stomach. I saw the commercial all weekend.
I said, I texted the boys, the fellas, on Saturday night. I was like, hey, you guys had Papadillas before?

Speaker 3 And everyone's like, no, but it looks good. I was like, all right, done.
For Hank's birthday, which we totally knew about. We totally knew it was Hank's birthday.

Speaker 4 We knew that Hank loved Papadillas. Papadillas.
It's his favorite thing in the world.

Speaker 3 So I got 26 Papadillas from Papa John's.

Speaker 3 They thought I was pranking them. So I went before I came in, I ordered it online, and it didn't, for some reason, Papa John's didn't take my credit card.
So I had to do the cash option.

Speaker 3 And when I showed up, they're like, oh, we thought we were getting pranked. Why would anyone order 26 papadillas?

Speaker 3 So I was like, nope, I'm real. I want them.
I want 26 of them. Tried them all.

Speaker 3 Let's just say I probably won't be going back to the papadillas.

Speaker 4 No, it's a one-time thing, but it was good that we tried.

Speaker 3 It's, you know what it was?

Speaker 3 If I were, if I could go back in time and be 21-year-old big cat again,

Speaker 3 drinking a lot and smoking a lot and all that shit, I would be a papa. I'd be the number one papadillo account on Twitter.

Speaker 4 What the Papadilla is, is basically just if you took a sandwich and just made grilled cheese the bread,

Speaker 4 but then just didn't put anything in between, just stack grilled cheeses on top of each other. Yeah, it's kind of what they're going for.
And you know what?

Speaker 4 To be totally honest with you, it worked for about the first four bites. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it really did.

Speaker 3 It's more sandwiched than pizza, just so everyone knows, because I know this was science for everyone at home. And we did get

Speaker 3 the rankings just quickly went: BBQ chicken, Philly cheese steak, Buffalo chicken. That's the top three.
And the reviews, Jake said, I've had worse.

Speaker 3 Hank said, too deep-fried. Note they're not deep-fried.

Speaker 3 I said, The Parmesan crusted ones made me believe in God, which is true.

Speaker 3 And then PFT said, no cap, these are major key. Yeah, it's paper.
Bubba had the best review. He said, Papa did it again.
So that's our Papadilla's review.

Speaker 4 Honestly, every single fast food company in America should have a guy whose only job it is is to just get really fucking high and sit in a room with all their ingredients. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And then just like take notes of everything that this guy creates.

Speaker 4 This should be Chris Long's job. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Is just sit in a room, like give it, put him in a Taco Bell test kitchen and give him ground beef, cheese, tortillas, sour cream, cheese, shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, and fire sauce.

Speaker 3 And just go fuck me up, Daddy. And just go like, all right, go off, King.

Speaker 3 I also,

Speaker 3 I am reminded every now and then when I do something like that where I like people are like, oh, commercials are so stupid. Like, commercials work on me all the time.

Speaker 3 100% of the time, if I see a commercial, I'm like, ooh, I got to have it. I was actually, I actually have a problem.
I could have saved this for Firefest. I have been like.

Speaker 3 burning through cash just buying anything that pops up on my Instagram ads. Oh, really? Because it's all focused to you.
So they're like, hey, here's this new shirt that won't make you look fat. See,

Speaker 3 I can't do it with the Instagram ads because

Speaker 4 anytime it says like like link and bio, that's two extra clicks that I have to do, and that's too much work. No, dude, no, no, no, no, no, I need you to serve the link to me on a silver platter.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, I'm not talking about the link and bio. I'm talking about the ones that look like Instagram posts, but they're ads.
I'm just hitting that constantly. Yeah.
Shop here, boom, done.

Speaker 3 I'll buy it and then I'll just forget it. So, yeah, and it really is.

Speaker 3 You think I'm joking, but there was a t-shirt I bought that was like, do your, do your, like, does your chest look too big in your t-shirt? Buy this t-shirt.

Speaker 3 It was like, damn, they really got a targeted eye here.

Speaker 4 I got hit like a month or two back to back with like just nothing but concurrent ads for things called lift kits, which are they're just like socks that have an extra like inch and a half in the heel that you can put on and then walk around.

Speaker 4 It's like before and after. And the guy is like two inches taller in the after picture.
It's incredible.

Speaker 3 There's a guy who tweeted at me last week who said,

Speaker 3 I'm so sick of the internet just having fleshlight ads all over the place. Can you fix this? I was like, oh, buddy.

Speaker 3 Buddy. That sounds

Speaker 4 to me like a man that already has his fill of fleshlights.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he doesn't.

Speaker 4 He's no longer in the market for fleshlights. He's mad that he's getting served ads for them.

Speaker 3 Talk to me about same-height parties, PFT.

Speaker 4 Same-height parties, yeah. So

Speaker 4 apparently, somebody probably narked on something I smashed the like button on on Twitter. But there's something called a same-height party where you show up and they measure you at the door.

Speaker 4 And depending on how tall you are, they give you these like lifts that you walk around in that bring you up to the exact same height as the tallest person at the party so everybody's the same height i actually you know what though normalize same height parties yeah normalized pf

Speaker 3 i'm gonna defend pft

Speaker 3 awesome i'm gonna defend pft here let's think of like think about statistically that's a nightmare yeah but think about historically right historically when you've got short guys you get like napoleon and hitler who try to take over the world.

Speaker 3 Now we got short guys just being like, hey, everyone's got to look eye to eye at this cocktail party.

Speaker 3 dude if austria we're good we're going in a good direction here if austria had same height parties i think that right now yes the political the geopolitical situation in europe would be much simpler than it currently is yes so so short short guys no longer trying to take over the world and just being like hey meet me eye to eye when i'm trying to have this cocktail weenie i'm cool with that also napoleon gets a bad rap because i think he was just normal height for his time

Speaker 4 But they're like, he's short and retrospective.

Speaker 3 I thought he was pretty short.

Speaker 4 No, that's James Madison. James Madison was like 5'2 ⁇ .
Oof.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Where did you go to school? Oof.

Speaker 4 Couldn't dunk a basketball. Central Virginia.

Speaker 3 All right, let's talk some basketball. Let's talk some more basketball.
The Nets are broken ever since.

Speaker 3 Pretty much the moment we finished taping with Kirk Goldsbury on Thursday and said the Nets are a super team and can't be stopped.

Speaker 4 We said they weren't going to lose a game.

Speaker 3 Yeah, everything has gone very badly since. They obviously lost on Thursday, which we recapped.
Today, Kyrie Irving goes out. They lose game four.

Speaker 3 I did see some people people tweeting

Speaker 3 and people talking about Giannis.

Speaker 3 Was that a dirty play? I don't think it was. No.
I thought it was. I thought it was weird they didn't review it because I do think, like, if you're going to call landing,

Speaker 3 what do they call it? Landing area.

Speaker 4 Yeah, like invading a guy's landing area. He did do that.

Speaker 3 But it's

Speaker 3 like Zaza. Yeah, it wasn't.
People were comparing it to Zaza. Yeah, I don't know if you could still do that.
People were comparing it to Zaza doing that to Kawhi. That was totally different.

Speaker 4 Yeah, on that one, he walked underneath his feet on a three-pointer.

Speaker 4 And this one, when you're around the basket, I think it's harder to time that shit out.

Speaker 3 It is, but he did go kind of underneath him. Again, I'm just shocked they didn't review it.
I don't think that there was any dirtiness, any malicious intent.

Speaker 3 At that point, we're getting into like hockey Twitter.

Speaker 4 Break it down frame by frame in the speed of the moment. You don't know.

Speaker 4 Like, if there's anybody in the league where you don't know where that guy's going to land on a layup, it's Kyrie Irving because that's where he's making like all his last-second moves and adjustments.

Speaker 4 So I don't think he could do that if he tried. I don't think that he was trying.

Speaker 4 But I did admire, I don't agree with the take, but I did admire the take from Big Baby.

Speaker 3 Glenn Davis. Oh, yes.

Speaker 4 Glenn Davis said that's the same ankle he used to step on Lucky.

Speaker 3 And it wasn't. It wasn't.
Yeah, but

Speaker 3 of course he fucked that up. Of course he was.
But still.

Speaker 3 You can't let facts get in the way of a good deal. No, absolutely.
And that's never a take. Never.
Because he knows left and right? Well, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 It doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 He's made millions of dollars.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 4 And I think that there was like a weird backlash against big baby for for saying that because they were like yo he's injured like this is this is fucked up big baby yeah he is injured but like it's a

Speaker 3 stepped unlucky it's a sprained ankle and stepped unlucky so well what he'll never be 100 again yeah i was gonna say the bad news for the nets is his x-rays came back negative which means it was sprained which is way worse than the worst worse he won't be 100 again and he was wearing you know he's wearing it after the game what walking boot oh no hey kyrie hey kyrie hey kyrie I was thinking maybe

Speaker 3 you put maybe you slip me on. We can discuss whether or not we should add some healing crystals into my tongue.

Speaker 3 Hey Kyrie, if you hopped on a boat and went to the end of the horizon, you'd just fall right off. Kyrie,

Speaker 3 you best to move. I've noticed you're living next to a 3G tower.

Speaker 3 Oh man,

Speaker 3 it is a little like...

Speaker 3 Obviously, the Nets at full strength are probably the best team in the NBA and better than the the Bucs.

Speaker 3 But at some point, you do have to admit that like Kyrie Irving, James Harden, those guys do get injured. So to

Speaker 3 say, oh, they got derailed by injury, well, they are also injury prone, right? So like it's not totally crazy. It's not like someone who, you know, it's not like

Speaker 3 LeBron, you know, AD getting hurt. AD gets hurt.
If LeBron gets hurt, it's like, holy shit, LeBron got hurt. Like LeBron never gets hurt.
So

Speaker 3 as much as it sucks I kind of I kind of like that the Nets have to they have to win at the hard they got to overcome something like I think that if I think James Harden will probably be back and this is just a total guess for maybe game six so so KD on Tuesday night has to and and I want to say it PFD should we use the L-word is this a legacy game for Kevin Durant on Tuesday night?

Speaker 4 I was going to say it's a must-win. If you want to jump to legacy, well, if we're going to do a legacy game, we have to have someone that he's passing the torch to if he doesn't win this legacy game.

Speaker 4 There needs to be a new torch.

Speaker 3 Would it be Giannis? Oh.

Speaker 4 Is this a torch game?

Speaker 3 Or is Kawhi is, dude, Kawhi just every now and then will just pop up on the Legacy watch. Yeah.
And just be like, remember Kawhi? He's perfect in fourth quarters that they've won. I do.

Speaker 3 Let's talk about that series real quick.

Speaker 4 How come bad players never get hurt?

Speaker 3 Wait, no, the bad players do get hurt. Do they?

Speaker 4 You never hear about like Kelly Alinik needing surgery.

Speaker 3 I'm trying to think. Bad players getting hurt.

Speaker 3 The clinic.

Speaker 4 The clinic, yeah. The legend.

Speaker 4 Oh, they did say that James Harden was going to try to come back, but Steve Nash said that he needs to string together loads before he can come back.

Speaker 6 Kelly Ollinik, right shoulder surgery 2016.

Speaker 3 I don't recall him missing any time for that. All right, so the Clippers.
The Clippers.

Speaker 4 Kelly Ollinik didn't miss any games in 2016.

Speaker 6 It was May 17, 2016, where the Celtics. Yeah, he missed two playoff games against the Hawks.
Oh.

Speaker 3 in February. Two games.
Damn. I'm just reading a story.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 The Clippers. So, one,

Speaker 3 playoff P, way to go. It is great.
Like, as much as we are very mean to Paul George online, and everyone is, when he does do well, he gets extra credit.

Speaker 3 Like, everyone's like, playoff P, this is incredible. I also feel like Kawhi

Speaker 3 is like, and we talked to Kirk Goldsbury about this on Thursday, but he really does like practice load management within a playoff series where it's like, I don't need to try really hard until we go down two games.

Speaker 4 Or, yeah, I think Kirk was saying, like, you don't put Kawhi on somebody until you need to stop him because you know it's going to happen, but you don't want to get him tired over the course of a few games.

Speaker 4 So, yeah, like during the course of a game, he'll even like he does conserve his energy, especially like on offense. I've noticed that Kawhi, he doesn't move around as much as

Speaker 4 as much as he could. I'll put it that way.
Yes. Like he will chill in the corner.
LeBron does that too, though. Yeah, he doesn't play defense.

Speaker 4 Where he doesn't play defense and sometimes doesn't play offense.

Speaker 3 But yeah, you're right, Kawhi. But that's a lot of energy going after the refs.
Correct.

Speaker 4 Correct. A lot of talking to the referee.
And Kawhi doesn't use any energy at all talking to anyone, even his teammates.

Speaker 3 Exactly. Or smiling.
Isn't it like if you laugh, you burn 10 calories?

Speaker 4 No, it takes like, I want to say 20 muscles to frown and 10 muscles to smile. But he just doesn't, but it takes zero muscles to do neither one.

Speaker 3 To do nothing. Yeah.
Also, shout out LeBron for swearing on Twitter. That was shocking.
Fuck. Right ahead of Space Jam 2.

Speaker 3 That was

Speaker 3 very shocking.

Speaker 4 A loud ass hell swear word.

Speaker 3 Yeah. That series will be interesting.
And then the Sixers, the Sixers might just be the best team of the East who are just kind of waiting. Or the best team of the NBA who are just waiting.

Speaker 3 Because they have sort of destroyed the Hawks the last two games.

Speaker 4 So, who do you think?

Speaker 3 Six Stevens is good.

Speaker 3 It's very good. Hang on.
That's very good. Ben Simmons

Speaker 3 should have been the defensive player of the year.

Speaker 4 So, who do they put Ben Simmons on if they go up against Nets? Bruce Brown?

Speaker 3 Whoever they want. Yeah, Bruce Brown's floaters.
Don't let him get floaters in the middle.

Speaker 3 He just keeps going with the floaters, and I love it.

Speaker 4 Big cat,

Speaker 4 there are a lot of Bruce Brown haters out there. We are not amongst them.
I'm looking at the box score right now. He was plus three today.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Dude, his floaters work sometimes.

Speaker 4 yeah, he's like J.R.

Speaker 3 Smith level of every time he shoots. You're like, What? What are you doing? Well, I think the fact that it's a floater every time it's like what's going on here.

Speaker 3 Um, like, most guys take like one or two floaters a game. Bruce Brown just

Speaker 3 every shot's a floater. Uh, yeah, but I think the Sixers, we'll see.
And I do, every time the Sixers win a game and they play that song, it's fucking sick. You have to give them that, Hank, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, okay, their defense is good. All right, so there we go.

Speaker 3 Anything else from the weekend for basketball?

Speaker 4 I think that's about it.

Speaker 3 I think we covered most sons in four. That kind of legend.
Brown Jr. lost a championship.
Oh, and Drake was there. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Making it all about himself.

Speaker 4 Wait, Drake showed up at a tournament with a bunch of 17-year-olds.

Speaker 3 Yep. Yep.
Wow. Careful.

Speaker 4 No, it's just interesting. That's all.
I'm just intrigued by it. I thought he had some sort of restraining order.
Some 16. Keep them away from schools.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 All right. The hockey, we had the Islanders beat the lightning.
So there's a start. Oh, also, the Avalanche were the greatest team to never win a Stanley Cup.
Yep. Like that.
I mean, flamed out.

Speaker 4 You know what? I'm entering the

Speaker 4 point in this hockey playoffs where now I'm mad at people because we were told that the Avalanche were just going to shit pump everybody. Yes.

Speaker 4 We were told they were a wagon, and they're not a wagon at all. Turns out the Golden Knights might be a wagon.
Turns out the Islanders, America's team, they're the South's team now.

Speaker 4 There's a team team. Because they're the New York Saints.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I love Ryan Whitney's situation finest and biz. There's a chance that there might be some bias where I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 It's like they've talked down on the Islanders so much because Whitney goes at it with their fans. Oh.
But it's like I'm starting to wonder if maybe the Islanders are just good. Yeah.

Speaker 3 They said the Bruins are going to ship up the Islanders. It does.
And then they're like, no matter what happens, the Lightning are going to ship up the Islanders.

Speaker 3 And then the Islanders won game one pretty handily. I agree with you.
It does feel... Every time the Islanders win a game, I'm like, wow, they must have just done it with grit and grind.

Speaker 3 Like, how did they pull this off again? They might just be really good.

Speaker 4 I think they're the highest scoring team in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and they're doing it without their captain, who I thought I saw Anders Lee. I think he skated the other day.

Speaker 4 Yeah, is it fair for me to kind of like partially claim this Islanders run as a Caps fan? Because they got Barry Trots and Varley?

Speaker 3 It's Cap.

Speaker 4 Is that Cap? That's Cap.

Speaker 3 Am I capping right now?

Speaker 4 You can't cap that.

Speaker 4 But you know that there's anytime that happens, you've got to be like, there's a special part in your brain that's in the interest of self-preservation trying to make me feel okay about it.

Speaker 3 I think you should be more mad at the caps for

Speaker 3 tapping.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That situation.
Yeah, that's tough.

Speaker 3 I think he has to go. Like, he has to leave and have to be gone for a really long while for it to be like, okay, now I'm rooting for Barry Truss.

Speaker 4 Wait, I mean, you're rooting for a campaign.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I mean, well, that's...

Speaker 3 That has become, I don't know, I still don't know how he's getting these minutes. I don't know.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 he's a wonder.

Speaker 3 I'm not even rooting for him. I'm just shocked that he's doing what he's doing.

Speaker 4 And he's actually like contributing. Yes.
Yeah, out of nowhere. But with Barry Trots, it's like he won a Stanley Cup.
Yeah, no, I won that. He personally won me a Stanley Cup.

Speaker 6 So I'm like, cap for life, that guy.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, no, you're right on that. I would be more, I think just the way he left, it's like, how the hell did he leave? the year after they won the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 4 Yeah, his contract just ran. Right.

Speaker 3 That would be, that would piss me off. That would be more...
I think you root for Barry Trots and you're mad at your own franchise. Yes.
That's where I'm at. Okay.

Speaker 3 But still, that's capturing like Barry Trotsky. Yeah.

Speaker 3 All right. So

Speaker 3 the PLL.

Speaker 4 Our Water Dogs are the hottest team in sports.

Speaker 3 I don't want to say they listened to us, but they definitely listened to us because we

Speaker 3 dogwalked them the last week because they were that bad week one. And they actually took our advice to just shoot more.

Speaker 3 So I am going to say, good job, Water Dogs. I'm proud of the fellas.

Speaker 3 They put up. I watched both games.

Speaker 3 You know how I know that they actually took some criticism from the owner's suite?

Speaker 3 Game one, they had a power play, and I know everyone's like, oh, it's man up. It's man up.
Dude, the fucking NBC sports broadcast calls it a power play. So I'm calling it a power play.

Speaker 4 Well, I'm actually, I'm indicting NBC Sports Broadcast for that. You know who would not make a mistake like that?

Speaker 3 Chake March if he was announcing. No, no, but they're trying to, they're doing

Speaker 4 this is what happens every time rugby is on Television America. Every single play, it's like this is like a free throw in basketball, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, but they should call it a power play if it's a power play, but it's a man-up, whatever. I don't care.
I'm calling it a power play. They call it a power play.

Speaker 3 Shut up, people, you know, saying it's man-up. I'm a big, I'm a fucking lacrosse team owner.

Speaker 4 Do they call it the sin bin when a guy goes to the penalty box?

Speaker 3 I don't know what they call it. That'd be cool.
Jake,

Speaker 3 I nap for most of the games, just

Speaker 3 I'll use it if I got a game. Yeah, so I they shot right away on the power play of game one, game two, they started the game, won the face-off, fucking two-point bomb four seconds into the game.

Speaker 3 That's how you play, boys.

Speaker 4 So there's been a shitload of scoring. I'm starting to wonder if the balls are doctored in lacrosse here.
Because is this the first year that they're using the Diglo yellow ball?

Speaker 3 I think it's the two-point thing.

Speaker 4 The two-point line. That's probably, that has something to do with it.
Yeah. We take a lot of long ones, though, which I don't like.

Speaker 3 We have to fix that.

Speaker 4 I don't like that. We got to take a look at it.
We got to run it through our software algorithm and see exactly what we need to tweak. But we're on the right track.

Speaker 3 More shots. Shots.
I am convinced. And not our goalie.
Our goalie's cool. I like that guy.

Speaker 3 I think they were getting after it at the airport with the boys after a great weekend.

Speaker 4 Well deserved.

Speaker 3 But every other goalie stinks. Goalies just stink in lacrosse.
And I'm not saying that as a mean thing.

Speaker 3 I think it's an impossible job for them to have to save a baseball coming at them 105 miles an hour and like a bunch of bodies in front of them, all the gear.

Speaker 3 I don't know how any goalie ever saves anything. So my point is, just shoot more.

Speaker 4 I'm always amazed that there aren't more like just hard shin bruises in lacrosse from shots. Like a lacrosse ball hitting your leg, that seems like the most painful thing ever.

Speaker 3 Dude, our captain, I think he's our captain, Drew Snyder, he got hit in the ribs on Friday night, and it was like almost five seconds after he pulled up his shirt, and it was completely black and blue.

Speaker 3 Damn, it was crazy.

Speaker 4 I love the long-haired guy with a mustache on our team. Who's that guy? He scores too many goals.

Speaker 3 Mikey Schlosser. Mikey Schlosser.
Mike Schlosser.

Speaker 4 Every time I see him, it's very tricky because with the font that we use for our numbers, it looks like he's number 69 from the side. And then he rotates and it's 59.

Speaker 6 Guys, look at us.

Speaker 3 We're just talking lax. Yeah.
Like, just regularly talking lax.

Speaker 4 That kid's got flow, man.

Speaker 3 It's just good to win. You know what? I'm happy that they listened to us because we sucked week one.
And if we go back to that, I will say that we suck again and we're an embarrassment to this show.

Speaker 4 I'm just going to say this. If we go on a two-game losing streak at any point, we're going to move the team.

Speaker 3 We're moving it.

Speaker 4 I know that we don't have a town. It's like a traveling circus of lacrosse that we do.

Speaker 4 But we're going to move the fucking team out of Loserville. Don't believe me?

Speaker 3 Try me. Try me.
Because I would love it. Yeah, we would.

Speaker 4 We'll fucking do anything. I'll pay for my own fucking stadium.

Speaker 3 We won't, we, we won't, uh, we'll stop paying the players. Yeah.
We will stop paying the players. That's it.
If we have to

Speaker 3 make them play better, we'll fucking do it. We will do it.
I don't think there's a union.

Speaker 4 We'll stop playing the players, and then we'll we'll double what we pay them currently if they win four games in a row.

Speaker 3 Who's the head of the union? And then I'll match it. Who's the head of the union? Fucking Paul Rabel's brother? It's probably

Speaker 3 Paul. Paul's the commissioner and the head of the union.

Speaker 4 He negotiates against himself.

Speaker 3 So I'm pretty sure we can stop paying the players if we want. Yeah.

Speaker 3 All right. Any other sports stuff? We're going to do talking tennis and talking soccer in segments, so we're not going to miss those.

Speaker 3 College baseball. We're in it.

Speaker 3 We're watching it.

Speaker 4 It's on. It's on.

Speaker 3 That was our college baseball segment. I actually do look at it.

Speaker 4 Was Texas wearing like were they wearing like deceptively University of Tennessee type uniforms?

Speaker 3 Speaking of the University of Tennessee, do you see that they

Speaker 3 bad, bad University of Tennessee? They priced out all the real fans.

Speaker 3 I did see that.

Speaker 3 It was like $300 for a ticket. Forgot to mention this with the Lightning.
The Lightning are kicking out fans of the lower section that aren't Lightning fans. Yeah, they've been doing it for a while.

Speaker 3 Well, they did that.

Speaker 3 They did that in 2015 against the hawks it's insane they tried to pick up more steam it's crazy we have to talk about it it's a bunch of islanders fans got kicked out today just for just for being in the lower section in 2015 they tried to ban i think it was if you bought tickets from a non-florida area code you like they wouldn't sell them to you they've been doing this bullshit for years they did it in 2018 too when the caps were playing against them third leg gray these are people like coming down trying to get us kicked out yeah remember when nate got slapped?

Speaker 4 Yeah, that was funny.

Speaker 4 Bad Sports Town.

Speaker 4 Bad Sports Town. Actually, it's crazy.
Like, Tampa Bay,

Speaker 4 they had no excuse to be this type of bad sports town until the last two years. Now they're the epicenter of everything.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they're in everything.

Speaker 4 You remember that letter that the Lightning wrote to their fans a couple years ago?

Speaker 3 Best letter ever. Pull it up and read it to us, Jake.

Speaker 3 I want to hear that from you.

Speaker 3 Let me get to who's back of the week. Who's back of the week is brought to you by...

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Speaker 3 Jake, the lightning.

Speaker 6 We don't have any words, and we know you don't want to hear them. We understand your anger, your frustration, your sadness, everything you're feeling.
We get it.

Speaker 6 This isn't the ending we imagined, and certainly not the one we wanted.

Speaker 3 Thank you for being there the entire way. They did win the cup after.
Yeah. Apologies work, I guess.

Speaker 3 That's just an all-timer.

Speaker 4 Cut themselves.

Speaker 3 An all-timer.

Speaker 3 That's just a social media team that's not living in reality.

Speaker 4 I think the social media team was just. That was them.
That was their version of note sapping

Speaker 4 something problematic that they had done in their past. Like, when you see somebody get their old tweets brought up,

Speaker 4 that's the social media team equivalent of doing that.

Speaker 3 And little do they know, all they had to do was type out final period. Yeah.
And that would have been more than enough. More than enough.
All right, who's back of the week? Hank.

Speaker 3 Who's back of the week is Lamar Odom.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 There was a lot of big fights this weekend. High-profile guys, UFC, TikTokers, YouTubers.
But on Saturday, or no, Friday night, Lamar Odom versus

Speaker 3 Aaron

Speaker 3 Aaron Carter. I was going to say Aaron Paul, but that's not his name.
No.

Speaker 3 Aaron Carter. I don't know what this fight was.
I didn't see any promotion about it other than Buddha Ben tweeting about it and then the video that came out after.

Speaker 3 But it was just Lamar Odom just dummying fucking Aaron Carter. Obviously, a huge height difference.
It didn't look like Aaron Carter was trained at all. And he just beat the shit out of him.

Speaker 4 Aaron Carter also fought like he was mad. Lamar Odom fought like he was just annoyed that this little guy was buzzing around him like a mosquito.

Speaker 3 I like the idea that, you know, how in the Fire Fest, when they did their promotion, they're like, we're just going to pay all the Instagram influencers a ton of money to promote this.

Speaker 3 This fight company was like, we'll just pay Buddha Ben, and that will be enough.

Speaker 3 And worked. I mean, I was interested.

Speaker 4 The video was pretty hilarious of Aaron Carter just like sprinting at him and Lamar Odom just being like, get away from me, weirdo. Your brothers band sucks.

Speaker 3 Yeah. But yeah, then I also watched the YouTube versus TikTok fights on like a YouTube stream where some kids said it was, it was the title of it was Fortnite with the Boys.

Speaker 3 And it was like one of those streams where the kid would come on and interrupt. How'd you do that? Hey guys.

Speaker 3 I think I just typed it in Twitter and then I clicked a link and it was like Fortnite with the Boys. When I was on, it was like 800 people and by the end of it, there was like 80,000.

Speaker 3 I thought I was going to get a lot of fun. Holy shit.

Speaker 4 It'd be hilarious if Dana White was running one of those. Like to just totally undercut the competition.

Speaker 4 He's FaceTiming the screen.

Speaker 3 By the way, Nate Diaz,

Speaker 4 he's the best. He loves getting his ass kicked.

Speaker 3 He loves just, and he loves also losing, but having everyone respect him the most. Yeah.
It'd be like, dude, he was about to knock him out. And he really could have if he just didn't.

Speaker 3 He was doing that

Speaker 3 weird thing where he was like standing sideways.

Speaker 4 He was presenting his asshole to him. Like, that's literally what he was doing.
He was like, puts on the show. He was looking over his shoulder, like, come on over here, big boy.
You won't.

Speaker 4 And then every time he would get tagged in the face, he would like take a second and smile and be like, that was good. I like that.
We're going to get him on the show.

Speaker 3 We actually, at one point, had him. He missed a flight, I think.
Or no, something happened where he could like fishbowl the studio.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, he, the, the question that was asked to me before we I was trying to get him on and I was talking to some guys and they were like, you guys cool with like if Nate smokes?

Speaker 3 I'm like, yeah, definitely. Let's all smoke.
So hopefully we have Nate on at some point and we all smoke. That would be awesome.
I'm going to put Jake,

Speaker 3 put that in my to-do list. Just for future reminder? Yeah, I'm going to get back into contact with the guy.
Above or below the dick sucking?

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 3 when below. How many weeks?

Speaker 3 Below. Yeah.
Below dick sucking,

Speaker 3 but Aaron Rodgers retiring.

Speaker 6 That's today.

Speaker 3 Or no, he's going to get traded this week. Okay.
Yes. So what date do you want this reminder.

Speaker 4 I think every Sunday night.

Speaker 3 Thursday for the Nate Diaz.

Speaker 4 Oh, Nate. Oh, for the Nate one of those.

Speaker 3 To reach out to his people and try to get that. Thursday.
But

Speaker 3 that's a guaranteed have-to-be in person. You cannot do a Nate Diaz interview over Zoom.

Speaker 4 Hank, weren't you supposed to do that thing with the leaf blower where you just smoke out the entire studio?

Speaker 3 Do that in front of Nia.

Speaker 3 We have to do that with Nate Diaz. Do that in front of Nate Diaz.
That would be. I'm in.
I bought the pound.

Speaker 3 And then Nate Diaz for Grit Week. We got acquired by Penn and I was told maybe we shouldn't.
But with Nate Diaz, Nate's for Grit Week if we're in a legal state. Yeah.
Yeah. All right.
All right.

Speaker 3 I had to just

Speaker 3 do everything I can for the AWLs, Nate Diaz for Grit Week.

Speaker 3 I think we could probably pay him to just. Yeah.
If we just bought him a flight somewhere.

Speaker 4 That's not illegal, though, to buy a pound of marijuana and then smoke it with the boys. With Nate Diaz, is it?

Speaker 3 In a legalized state, it's not. I think it still is illegal to own over a pound.

Speaker 3 An ounce. We'll do a couple ounces.
Yeah,

Speaker 3 we'll figure each do an ounce.

Speaker 3 Details later, but just put it. Everyone put it in their own calendar.

Speaker 4 We're going to do we should get really high and invent a new Taco Bell item.

Speaker 3 That would be great. Done.
Make that happen. Papadillas.

Speaker 3 I have a feeling if I get high now that I'm all I'm thinking about is Papadillas.

Speaker 4 You're just going to recreate the Papadilla again

Speaker 3 folded it. Yeah.
Which are deep fried.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 That actually is why I think the papadilla was Was deep fried? No, was why I was

Speaker 3 drawn to it. I thought it was a new Taco Bell item.
And Taco Bell only releases the best items.

Speaker 4 Casey Gordita Crunch. True.
Best fast food item maybe ever. Yeah.
Best food ever.

Speaker 3 All right.

Speaker 4 PFT. My who's back of the week is Jeremy Toobin.

Speaker 4 Jeremy Toobin. Jeffrey Toobin.
Sorry, Jeffrey Toobin came back with a vengeance on CNN last week. So they brought him back on.
He's a guy that you might remember.

Speaker 4 He got caught jacking off on a Zoom meeting with the New Yorker staff. And so he got fired from New Yorker and he was a legal analyst on CNN.

Speaker 4 They brought him back on and the female anchor that brought him to the desk introduced him and then she's like, maybe we should take just a second to get everybody recapped on why you haven't shown your face around here.

Speaker 4 And he was like, yeah, I guess if you want to do that, go ahead.

Speaker 4 And then she spent about a minute and a half talking about how he got caught jacking off on a Skype call at his other job and wasn't welcomed back or he got fired from that job.

Speaker 4 And it was, I love seeing somebody just get publicly shamed for jacking off.

Speaker 4 And with Jeffrey Toobin, I need like a disclaimer on my screen at all times when he's presenting any sort of legal advice.

Speaker 4 He should, or he should wear like a scarlet letter, but it's like the eggplant emoji on his chest. Or at the very least, give me like a yellow box, like they show on a score bug for flags.

Speaker 4 When Jeremy Toobin shows up, give me a yellow box that pops up. It's like, this guy jacks off.

Speaker 3 It should be the jackass. It should be like warning.
This man

Speaker 3 has jacked off in front of a camera before.

Speaker 4 Warning, this guy master base.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so I'm looking forward to seeing more of him on the TV.

Speaker 4 He's just,

Speaker 4 if you were him, he's probably what, like 60, what do you think? 65 or 61 years old?

Speaker 4 Respect, respect, first of all, to Jeffrey Toobin for continuing to have a healthy sex life with his hand when you're 61. I've just always assumed that when you hit 50, you shouldn't jack off anymore.

Speaker 4 Like, that's unbecoming

Speaker 4 of a gentleman to do that. You can't be jacking off anymore.

Speaker 3 I wish that

Speaker 3 he had just, because, you know, the CNN thing I watched as well, it was so awkward. And he's like, I hope I can regain your trust.

Speaker 3 And, of course, like, jerking off in front of your colleagues, whether he says that he doesn't know he was on camera, whatever, like, very bad. But he should have been like, hey, guys, listen.

Speaker 3 I'm a guy. I jerk off.

Speaker 3 You know what? You should trust me more because I'm just a regular guy who jerks off. And guess what? This is my pledge to you.
I will not do it in front of any more cameras.

Speaker 4 They should do a segment called Jacking It With Jeffrey every week where he talks about some Instagram thought.

Speaker 3 Lean into it. Yeah, lean into it.

Speaker 4 You have to own it at this point. Yeah, dude, guess what? You're going to get bonked once or twice.
That's the day and age that we live in. But yeah, just become the jack off guy.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we should put this in the notes, Jake. Let's try to book him and let's try to jerk off in front of him.
Yeah, have him judge us.

Speaker 4 Definitely get a Zoom call going with Tubin.

Speaker 3 When would you like to meet a tub?

Speaker 3 Whenever. Yeah.
You surprise us. All right.
You surprise us. We surprise us.
Above or below the

Speaker 3 side. We should actually try to self-suck on the Zoom call with Jeffrey Toobin.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 So we'll interview him, and then we'll just, right in the middle of it, we'll say that we thought the cameras were off. Yeah.
And we'll just start trying to give ourselves head.

Speaker 3 I would like to do an exit interview with Jeffrey Toobin. Yeah.
Peter Norse did.

Speaker 6 Do we want to do it like during football season?

Speaker 3 Meh, maybe. Maybe before.
Yeah, that feels like

Speaker 3 a sprit week. Before or after.
All right. Second week of August.
Yeah. All right.
Alpha week.

Speaker 4 Wait, when's National Masturbation Day?

Speaker 3 Right after Pupperino Day.

Speaker 4 National Masturbation Day is May 7th.

Speaker 3 May 7th. We just missed it.
Damn it.

Speaker 3 All right. So next year, May 7th.
Put it in. All right.

Speaker 4 To all those who celebrate.

Speaker 3 My who's back. May 1st, though, so we can.
Yeah, yeah. So we can get a little bit of...
Yeah, yeah. My who's back is.
The Cubs are back.

Speaker 3 I know statistics behind this, the hottest team in baseball. And also, Wrigley is packed.
And also, Anthony Rizzo

Speaker 3 was

Speaker 3 under fire on Friday because he didn't get

Speaker 3 vaccinated. But then he had one of those 16-pitch-it-bats where he had a home run, which is the coolest thing you can do in a baseball game.
So pretty much all is forgiven.

Speaker 4 And nobody's going to bring up the vaccination stuff after an at-bat like that.

Speaker 3 No, exactly. Like, it was,

Speaker 3 watching it live,

Speaker 3 it is one of the coolest things to do when you're watching a baseball game and a guy keeps fouling off every single pitch and you get to like 12, 13, 14 pitches, and you just know he's going to do something sweet because you can just feel it.

Speaker 3 And the crowd rises and everyone gets into it. And then, boom, home run.
So, yeah, everything else he said earlier that day, who cares? But also, you should get vaccinated.

Speaker 4 I got offered a trade in my fantasy baseball league, CMET Express. Anthony Rizzo was on it.
I declined it because

Speaker 4 I don't want him infecting.

Speaker 3 I want to keep 85% threshold.

Speaker 4 I don't don't want to have him getting my other players sick. Yeah.

Speaker 3 85% threshold. Yep.

Speaker 4 I want to keep it like that so my guys can enjoy life, stay loose a little bit.

Speaker 3 It was a sick home run, though.

Speaker 4 It was. It was very sick.
It was a very sick home run. There's nothing better than any at-bat that goes above 10 pitches.
Yeah. That ends in a hit.
Forget about a home run that ends in a hit.

Speaker 4 It feels like you've just watched the greatest movie of all time.

Speaker 3 And you can also say, you can sound like you are a true baseball analyst and be like, that was a professional at-bat. Yeah.
That was a professional at-bat.

Speaker 4 All the kids at home.

Speaker 3 It's just great seeing the crowds back. Like, I know that we've done this before.
The fans, what do we say?

Speaker 3 By Thanksgiving, you have to stop saying great to have fans back.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you got to have at least one home game in every major sport at all the iconic destinations.

Speaker 3 Okay, yeah. So that was this weekend.
It was Cubs, Cardinals. It was beautiful Friday afternoon game, like beautiful weather, and everyone's having a great time in the bleachers.
The best.

Speaker 4 Oh, it just occurred to me with the Suns guy that we were talking about earlier.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Do you think that the Suns are a team of Destiny? We talked about the gorilla.

Speaker 3 I think so. For Harambe? Yeah, I think so.
Until Chris Paul gets hurt. Because that's going to happen soon.

Speaker 3 But we're a Suns podcast. Seriously, just another pat on the back for us.

Speaker 3 To go from, to switch from a regular season Nuggets podcast, we put a fucking MVP in our trophy case and then we switch to the team that gets swept by.

Speaker 4 Everything we touch turns to gold on this show.

Speaker 3 All-time move.

Speaker 4 Water Water dogs are on fire. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Water dogs can't stop winning. Literally cannot stop winning.
Jake, who's back?

Speaker 6 Simone Biles. She won the U.S.
Gymnastics Championship, seventh all-around national title. This is a good reminder that coming up the Olympics, U.S.

Speaker 4 is just good at very niche sports.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 There was a clip of Simone Biles' super slow motion, and it blew my fucking mind. Yeah.
Like, the shit she does in the air

Speaker 3 is

Speaker 3 insane. Well, she's doing the biles.
Yeah. She's doing the biles with the moves that she does.
But watching it in super slow mode.

Speaker 4 Is there like five different moves to be done? There's like five different moves that she does in the air. Yeah.
I would forget what I was doing next. I would just.

Speaker 4 She's doing like two flips, a twist, another flip, another twist.

Speaker 3 I'd break every single ball. You know what I would do is if I went on one of those fucking bouncy mats, the minute I tried to lift off, my ankles would just shatter.

Speaker 4 Your body,

Speaker 4 your soul,

Speaker 3 you know what I also would do is I'd end like this. Hand up, stick it up.
And at at least one point for that. That's true.
If you do this, you get, it's like the SATs, right?

Speaker 3 Well, yeah, you put your name down, you get your order points. If you end like this.

Speaker 4 It's not just that. You have to salute the judges.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 4 The judges demand respect. You have to look at the judges, present yourself to them.
Yeah. So, yeah, if you've got like compound fractures

Speaker 4 and both legs, you're looking like Lieutenant Dan. Won't be hard.
You hit the floor and you just like look at them and go like that. I mean, that's better than some Olympians have done.

Speaker 3 Won't be hard to have my ankles be touching because the bones will be just sticking out, both touching that way. You've got the scooter.
And then I'm just

Speaker 3 get you right off. Wow, that was majestic.

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Speaker 3 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is Bobby Valentin.
Valentine, why did I just screw that up? Valentin? Valentin? Valentine. Has anyone called you Valentin?

Speaker 4 Like a teacher back in school?

Speaker 10 Oh, sure.

Speaker 3 I get in my own head when I pronounce names. Bobby Valentine,

Speaker 3 very excited to have you on.

Speaker 3 There's a lot we got to talk about, but you are running for mayor of Stanford. That's how I saw you pop up the other day,

Speaker 3 your ad, which was fantastic. And let's just start at the most important topic because I pointed out that I would like to be part of your campaign team.

Speaker 3 And the first order of business would be we wouldn't do a single ad without mentioning that you invented the rap. So we need to talk about you inventing the rap.

Speaker 3 You are one of the greatest inventors of all time. It's up there with Michelangelo.
I don't know who else. Thomas Edison.

Speaker 3 Who else invented stuff?

Speaker 4 I mean, there are a lot of inventors. Or you go down the list and you see the guy that invented the rap.
Like

Speaker 4 you actually changed the sandwich game.

Speaker 3 Yes. The people eat raps all the time.
So let's do it. Let's talk about.

Speaker 4 Hank also would be on that list.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Hank will. Yeah.
All right. Let's Let's talk about the wrap and then we can talk about everything else.
We want to talk about you running for mayor and all that.

Speaker 3 But the wrap, you invented the wrap.

Speaker 10 First off, I think it's a little misnomer that I invented it because I think it creates stuff in the kitchen. So I'm not sure, even though they always say I invented it,

Speaker 10 I don't think that's the case. But, you know, it's a simple story.

Speaker 10 1981, I'm cooking. You know, I open up a restaurant.
I've been in the business for a year. The cook doesn't show up.
I go back in the line. I'm flipping hamburgers, the whole nine yards.

Speaker 10 And the president of the bank that loaned me the money to open the restaurant came in and he wanted a club sandwich, which he always wanted, even though we didn't have a club sandwich on the menu.

Speaker 10 Now, a club sandwich that he wanted was always on toast. Well, this particular day, the toaster was out of order.

Speaker 10 And this particular day, we just received a big batch of 10-inch tortilla shells from Phoenix, Arizona, because in New England, England they didn't have nachos in 81.

Speaker 10 Okay, that was a West Coast thing. And so we were cutting the tortilla shells and deep frying them to get the nacho chips and put them in our nachos.

Speaker 10 Well, when he came in and asked for the club sandwich in the middle of lunch, I had about 20 hamburgers that I'm trying to test their temperatures. I said, we'll get them something.

Speaker 10 And I took a 10-inch tortilla. I put all the ingredients of a club sandwich, the mayo, the whole nine yards.
I rolled it up. I put cheese on the top of it.
I put it underneath the salamander.

Speaker 10 I melted the cheese to hold the layer together. I took it out.
I cut it into three pieces.

Speaker 10 I sent it out to him and told the waitress, Debbie Greene at the time, tell him this is a club sandwich, Mexican style. And he loved it.
It became a favorite in the restaurant. We put it on the menu.

Speaker 10 And about four months months later, my manager was on one of these little cooking stations and he was in the kitchen showing what we do in our restaurant. And they said, do you have anything special?

Speaker 10 He says, oh, yeah. You know, we invented this new sandwich type called a wrap.
Well, there were a lot of naysayers when

Speaker 10 this came out. And then more naysayers when I went up to manage in Boston.

Speaker 10 So a couple of the really cool reporters up there decided that they get their friends at the Wall Street Journal to do a national search to find out who had a rap sandwich on the menu before 1981.

Speaker 10 And guess what?

Speaker 10 They couldn't find anyone and they said, I invented the rap.

Speaker 3 You invented the wrap. First story.
That's true. I seriously, like,

Speaker 3 I know you, you know, a major league manager, incredible career, successful restaurant, running for mayor.

Speaker 3 You do know, though, that, like, you you inventing the rap is the number one accomplishment and it should be. And it's like, Bobby Valentine, he invented the rap.

Speaker 10 I think it's right at the top of the platform. Yeah, that and wearing a mustache and put a dugout.
These are the things I'm known for. You know, I had an illustrious career.

Speaker 10 I really did a lot of stuff. Yeah, I invented a rap.
Hey, you know, that restaurant, by the way, it wasn't after a successful career. That was after playing 10 years in the big leagues.

Speaker 10 And I had $6,000 in the bank. And I was at a charity dinner where a guy said, hey, what are you doing? I said, I'm waiting for the phone to ring.
I had played with the Seattle Mariners in 79.

Speaker 10 And he said, what if the phone doesn't ring? I said, whoa, I'm in trouble. He says, well, you probably saved a lot of money in your career, didn't you? And I said, yeah, a little over $6,000.

Speaker 10 Now, the most I ever made was $28,000 as a player. That's for a year.

Speaker 10 And I said, well, I don't really have an option. He said, you ever think about doing a restaurant? And I said, no.
He showed me this place. He said, I'll be your partner.

Speaker 10 We can get some inexpensive financing. And this is 1979, guys.
I didn't know about financing. You know what I mean? And

Speaker 10 if you wanted to borrow money from a bank, then it was 17.5%.

Speaker 3 Loan shark.

Speaker 10 Yeah. In this one particular area, it was urban renewal zone.
And so the federal government was loaning money to people who wanted to invest in the urban renewal zone. So we got cheaper cheaper money.

Speaker 10 I got $33,000. My dad and I took down the walls and the ceilings and the floors and built the tables and the bars and even some of the chairs.

Speaker 10 And we opened up with a sports ticker, a satellite dish, which were unknown to people. I really actually think the first sports ticker in America was in Stanford, Connecticut.

Speaker 4 You invented sports bars too. You invented the entire concept of like a Buffalo Wild Wings.
That credit should go to Bobby Valentine as well.

Speaker 10 No, at least full credit.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 4 And I like the fact that you said you made sure that we use the correct nomenclature, which was you created the wrap. To me, that tells me that you are the true inventor of it.
Because

Speaker 4 if you were just trying to take all the credit for it, you'd be like, yeah, that's me. I invented it.
But it's more of an art form in the kitchen.

Speaker 4 I'm curious how, like, if you go out to a restaurant and a wrap is on the menu, how quick are you to point out to your server, like, you know, I invented that or I created that, excuse me?

Speaker 10 I could tell you, I never did it. Over all of the years, I probably bought a lot of wraps, but I never brought it up only because, you know, this was 1981.

Speaker 10 It was 2012 when the Wall Street Journal did the thing. So I wasn't going to say it because people would say, oh, BS at that time.
Now they'll say, oh, I'll Google that. That can't be true.

Speaker 10 Right.

Speaker 10 So I didn't want anybody calling BS on something like that.

Speaker 4 Right. So, you brought it up: wearing the fake mustache, coming back into the dugout after you got ejected from a game.
One of the all-time visuals in the history of the sport of baseball.

Speaker 4 You come back in incognito, in disguise, trying to blend in. Did you have the mustache ready to go because you knew that you would be ejected at some point?

Speaker 4 And you were like, I'm going to pull this stun out, or was it just like a crime of opportunity where you walked back and you saw the mustache in the clubhouse and you're like, you know what?

Speaker 4 This feels like a good thing to do.

Speaker 10 I wish I could take credit for that one. I can't.

Speaker 10 You know, it was Oral Hirscheiser and Robin Ventura who were in the clubhouse after I got ejected and after I got through kicking a few of the stools, they said, hey, you got to go back out there because we had a situation where I had some new coaches in the dugout who didn't really know our team.

Speaker 10 It was extra innings. Maybe there's going to be an important managerial maneuver and they wanted me out there.
I said, I can't go out there, guys. I can't do it.

Speaker 10 And they said, yeah, here, put on this hat and put on these glasses. Take off your uniform and go out there, just a t-shirt.
And I did

Speaker 10 the glasses and the hat and the t-shirt. I went into the training room and I looked in the mirror to see what it would look like.

Speaker 10 And then I looked down and I saw the stims that you put underneath your eye, you know, to keep the reflection of the sun. And so I took one of them and I put it over here.

Speaker 10 And I took another and I put it over here. I looked at them, and Oral said, Oh, they'll never know.

Speaker 10 Yeah,

Speaker 10 with that, I went down there, it cost me $10,000. Well, it didn't really.

Speaker 10 They fined me $10,000 and a three-day suspension, and I got it reduced to a $5,000 fine and a two-day suspension for some ridiculous reason.

Speaker 3 So what was the fallout? Was it like, did anyone, I would assume the guys in the clubhouse liked it. What about the owners? Like, were they like, what are you doing? Why would you do this?

Speaker 10 Well, I did it because it was a tough time in the season. I just want you to know, and you guys will like this because you can Google it if you want.

Speaker 10 But like three days before, when there was a change of my coaches, I had to do a press conference at Yankee Stadium. Okay.
My coaches were gone. I had to sit and take questions and answers.

Speaker 10 And one of the questions was, why didn't you leave with your coaches and show them loyalty?

Speaker 10 And I said, well, because they told me to stay here, turn this around so they could get a cut of the money at the end of the season when we make the playoffs.

Speaker 10 And one of the reporters said, Yeah, well, what's your record going to be in the next 55 games?

Speaker 10 And I got up and I was walking out, and then I stopped and I looked at him and I said, We'll go 40 and 15.

Speaker 10 And he said, What if you don't? As I was walking, I mean, a really fun New York press corps, huh? Yeah,

Speaker 10 you know, I had no sleep, you know, the whole night with my coaches. And I looked over and I said, If we don't, I'll quit.

Speaker 10 And just because Google's out there,

Speaker 10 we went 40 and 15.

Speaker 3 There you go.

Speaker 10 And the job.

Speaker 3 Unbelievable.

Speaker 10 So everyone was all weirded out in the dugout when I got thrown out. And so I went out for a little levity.

Speaker 10 And the guy who was the most stoic guy on our team was John Oliver.

Speaker 10 You couldn't get him to laugh or smile if you had a magician and a clown come in at the same time.

Speaker 10 And he was walking up to the on-deck circle and he kind of looked over his shoulder and he saw me down at the end of the dugout. And he stopped and he was laughing.

Speaker 10 And then everyone turned their head down the dugout to see what he was laughing at.

Speaker 10 And with that, the third base camera that was over third base of the second deck zoomed down into the dugout where I was standing at the end.

Speaker 10 Busted. Nark.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's unfortunate. It's almost like if everybody had just played it cool at the time, you probably would have gotten away with it.

Speaker 10 Just play it cool, guys. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And when you're talking to Major League Baseball after the fact, I would have just told him it was funny. Come on, you have to admit that it's funny.

Speaker 4 Is that why they knocked the suspension down or the

Speaker 4 fine down from 10,000 to 5,000? Because we're like, you know what? At the end of the day, a laugh's a laugh.

Speaker 10 Leonard Coleman, who was the president of the National League at the time, at the time you had a president of the National League and president of the American League and the commissioner.

Speaker 10 I appealed it to him. He was a really good guy.
Matter of fact, he was a friend of a friend of mine, and they still play golf together. And I went in and said,

Speaker 10 Mr. President, you got to give me a break on this one.
It's a tough situation. Everyone laughed.
We won the game. There was no harm done.
I never put on a play. I didn't have any involvement

Speaker 10 with what went on. It was only for two innings.
And he said, yeah, Bobby, I laughed when I saw it too, but I have to be the president. 5,000, two days suspension.

Speaker 3 I like it.

Speaker 4 So you've been around the game for a long time, and it seems like the credo of baseball is almost almost it's not cheating if you can get away with it, or it's not cheating if they don't call it.

Speaker 4 You take every advantage that you can to win a game, and recently we've seen Major League Baseball start to crack down, or they say they're going to crack down, on some of the sticky stuff that pitchers have been using.

Speaker 4 Has that been something that's just been part of the game for the last 40, 50 years, and now it's just coming to the forefront, or is this like a recent development?

Speaker 10 Oh, it's recent and it's much more refined, right?

Speaker 10 The sticky stuff isn't by chance, it's by trial and error to find out what works the best.

Speaker 10 And, you know, in the day, if you will, if you go back even 25 years ago, pitchers would have these gross calluses on the end of their fingers.

Speaker 10 Sometimes the calluses would break off and become a blister, and the pitcher wouldn't pitch for a couple weeks until the skin grew back. You know, they put on new skin and

Speaker 10 all these things to try to get the skin to grow back.

Speaker 10 But they had the big calluses so that when their fingers were on the seam of the ball and the ball would leave their fingers, it would create more spin. Huh?

Speaker 10 Well, the smart guys got together and they said, well, you know, I'm tired of getting blisters and having my wife say that I have an ugly finger or two or three or whatever it is.

Speaker 10 I'm going to do it a different way. And so they get this super sticky stuff.
One of the things I remember guys fooling around with was the

Speaker 10 mice paper, you know, you put in your attic, and when a little mouse goes on, they, oh, I'm here forever type of stuff, you know, it's there forever.

Speaker 10 They started fooling around with that because you really had to have our arm speed and you really had to have it going to get the ball off. But when it came off, you created more spin.

Speaker 10 And that's where we are today. And, you know, just as far as that's concerned, why do we always have to hang our dirty laundry out in public?

Speaker 10 Why can't Major League Baseball, when they have these situations, like the other sports? I don't ever hear of a scandal in the other sports. You mean they,

Speaker 10 I'm not going to mention any sports, but you know, if you can be 6'5, 340 pounds and run a 4'4 and do it all naturally, well,

Speaker 10 you know, God bless you. But you don't get tested.

Speaker 3 They're not talking about a problem that they have or for anything else that people might use to enhance their performance it's only baseball that says oh we're cheating again and what a lousy image that is created yeah no i agree i i think i think what happens with baseball is a lot of times baseball will ignore a problem until it becomes so public and then they'll try to find one or two guys to stick it on you know the steroid era was very prevalent everyone was doing it and then you know you get a couple guys that you put in front of uh you know the grand jury or whatever it was was, a congressional hearing, and you say, well, this is the face of the problem, just like this one right now.

Speaker 3 Like, hey, Garrett Cole and Trevor Bauer are the face of the problem.

Speaker 3 No, probably everyone's done it, and you guys have just ignored it for long enough that it became public, and now you got to do something.

Speaker 10 Spot on. You are so exactly right.
And

Speaker 10 why? I don't know. Maybe, you know, some say it's lack of leadership, but

Speaker 10 I don't get it.

Speaker 10 I am tired of defending our sport. It's a pretty good good sport.
And not everyone cheats, but everyone tries to do things that will give them an advantage.

Speaker 10 Is it cheating? I'm not sure.

Speaker 10 You know, I used to flash signals in from second base. Heck, when I coached third base, if the catcher was...

Speaker 10 you know showing me the sign once in a while i had a signal with the hitter especially the left-hand hitters who would look down and see what i was doing i'd give them either location or pitch was i cheating i don't know if i was cheating i think you know shame on them them for letting me get the sign.

Speaker 10 And that stuff with the signs and the Astros, I just have to say this one real quick because I'm not the smartest guy in the room.

Speaker 10 But if the Astros got this technology from NASA that was going to steal these signs and relay them to the dugout on internet, Wi-Fi, with fiber optics, and in a mega second, they were going to get the sign and they were going to relay it to the hitter.

Speaker 10 Believe me, guys, they wouldn't be butt-banging on a garbage drum to give the hitter a signal.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 10 If you want me to believe that, then you probably have some order from property in Arizona you want me to purchase.

Speaker 4 Wow. So let's unpack that a little bit because you can hear the garbage can being hit at certain times.

Speaker 4 Are you saying that they didn't cheat?

Speaker 4 Are you saying that it's the line of thinking that it was players like Altuve that had the vibrating bandages that they were sending it in on it was it was very high tech it was it had to be very high tech guys if if the catcher

Speaker 10 said something to the umpire during and at bat i would hear it in the opposing dugout

Speaker 10 huh if the hitter went up there and made some noise that sometimes people laugh at when it slips huh i would hear it in the dugout how could i not hear someone banging the drum when the curveball was coming?

Speaker 10 Come on. They were banging it to the size.
They probably banged it when fastballs, banged it with curveballs, banged it with sliders.

Speaker 10 And, you know, the opposition said, well, we can't decipher the code, so it must not be anything with the banging of the drum.

Speaker 4 Interesting.

Speaker 4 I like the notion that NASA was there helping out. That just kicks it up an extra notch.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Well, you know, and I only say that because I've heard that they were leaned on when the new administration came in to deal with a lot of the metrics, you know, the swing and the pitch, the mechanic, because they weren't doing much down there in Houston.

Speaker 10 And they got some of these real smart guys to come in and evaluate the mechanics and biomechanics of the players. They had a nice edge there.
Nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 10 But I'm guessing one of the biomechanical guys came up and brought one of the IT guys up and said, hey, why don't we just relay the signals too?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Just call it a hunch.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I would like to see maybe SpaceX got involved with the Dodgers after they lost to the Astros. And then Elon Musk is now helping the Dodgers out.

Speaker 10 Maybe, or, you know, one of the astronauts in that SpaceX played baseball at Army. And he might be part up there right now, might be relaying some of the signs.

Speaker 4 Let's go.

Speaker 3 We got to get you on info score i like where your head's at um all right so not to bring up bad things bobby but we have to address the the the red sock season uh the chicken and beer thing because i know that people who listen to this show are red sox fans would be like you got to bring it up so biggest regret from that year and what if you could go back and do it all again what would you change

Speaker 10 I would have stayed at ESPN.

Speaker 3 That's a good one. Yeah, that's a good answer.
Yeah.

Speaker 10 They were ready to give me a multi-year contract, and I was loving the job.

Speaker 3 And, you know, yeah,

Speaker 10 you know, everyone has the woulda, shoulda, you know, and regrets I have a few. I took that job like in December, you know.

Speaker 10 I usually, before a season, I usually started preparing for the next season, the day the season, the previous season ended. Right.
Right. I didn't even have a coaching staff.

Speaker 10 I didn't know the players.

Speaker 10 I had to fly around the country on New Year's Eve to meet guys who the front office thought I might have offended with something I said when I was doing ESPN telecast to make sure that they were going to be cool with me coming in as their manager, you know, before the season started.

Speaker 10 And then when I got there, they said, and make sure you tell everyone you can't have beer in a clubhouse. I said, whoa.

Speaker 10 I said, what am I going to drink after the game?

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 10 are you kidding me?

Speaker 10 No one wants a cold beer better than me on a hot summer day. And they said, no, the manager has to do it.
I said, it's not my responsibility. It's not my liability.

Speaker 10 I mean, if someone drinks too much in the clubhouse after the game, goes out and runs someone over, you know, I'm not the one responsible. The person with the liquor license is responsible.

Speaker 10 I know that from being a bar owner for 40 years. So,

Speaker 10 you know, I didn't want to do that, but I came in

Speaker 10 as this super cop,

Speaker 10 which I'm not. You know, I mean, I'm anything but the

Speaker 10 guy who goes all the way over to enforce silly rules.

Speaker 10 So anyway, yeah, it started off bad. And

Speaker 10 it was kind of okay for a little while.

Speaker 10 But then

Speaker 10 on that

Speaker 10 Patriots Day, you know, I ride a bike every morning, and so I got up real early at five in the morning, and I'm riding down

Speaker 10 riding over to Cambridge and

Speaker 10 down the river and across and came back about 6 30 in the morning for this 10 a.m. game I think it is or 11.

Speaker 10 and one of my players was was waiting for me when I came back and he was all upset about something I said the night before in a TV interview now you got to get this I'm sweaty I'm in my bike stuff it's early in the morning huh and

Speaker 10 I'm going I wasn't didn't have an interview last night what are what are you talking about i wasn't on tv last night yeah you were you were on an interview last night and you said that uh i I wasn't playing up to my capabilities.

Speaker 10 And I said, oh, no, I don't think so. And then he left and was real upset saying that I was lying.
Then I found out that the first

Speaker 10 taped show, which was taped Sunday

Speaker 10 before the game on Sunday, was aired on Sunday night. This is Monday morning.

Speaker 10 And I don't know when it was aired. I didn't know the process up in Boston.
I was there for a few weeks. You know, I just moved into an apartment.

Speaker 10 So anyway, he goes out into the clubhouse. Hey, the guy's lying to me.
You guys hear what he said and all that stuff. Then I had to take it back and say, yeah, I was on TV last night.
It was state.

Speaker 10 So I would have taken that one back.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 4 So the season goes on up there. And like, obviously, a big part of being a manager, I think, is to keep the clubhouse loose.
You have so many games. It can grow a little bit tiresome.

Speaker 4 It can be monotonous over the course of the season. You want to let the guys have some fun.

Speaker 4 You want to treat them like men and let them, you know, do what they want to do at certain times in order to, you know, make sure the team stays cohesive. Do you regret?

Speaker 4 Was there like a little bit, was it a little bit too laissez-faire that season where at the end, the storyline did become like they were drinking too much beer and they were eating too much chicken?

Speaker 10 No, remember, I wasn't there for the chicken and beer.

Speaker 10 I wasn't there that year. I came in the next year after the general manager at midnight flew the coupe and went to Chicago, and the manager retired.

Speaker 10 And I got a call while I was over in Japan partying with all my players at one of our anniversary seasons. And I was at dinner.
I got a phone call and I got the job offered to me.

Speaker 10 So, no,

Speaker 10 I didn't even know about the chicken and beer. I knew about it from a story on ESPN that they talked about.
I thought it was crazy. It was at the end of the season.

Speaker 10 But no, I didn't know anything about it. And, you know, when you talk about being loose, that's one of the places that you actually get a little looser.

Speaker 10 You have a beer with the guys, you go over and you say, hey, what are you doing? You're all right. You know, relax.
Tomorrow's another day. Something like that.

Speaker 10 One day I tried to tell this Will Middlebrooks. who I loved as a player, by the way, who took over for Eucalypt when Yuke left, which is a real big burden on him to replace

Speaker 10 a star like Yuke in that area. He made three errors in a game.
And I went over to him, sat by his locker after the game. I said, hey, dude, no big deal.
I played for the Dodgers.

Speaker 10 I made three errors in a game.

Speaker 10 When I was coming off of the field, it was seat cushion night, and everybody was standing up in the second deck, and they were flying the seat cushions down, trying to hit me as I was coming off of the field.

Speaker 10 We don't even have seat cushion night here, man. You're cool.
Don't worry about it. That became a story that I was kidding him about making three errors in a game.

Speaker 10 You know.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know what I mean? Yeah, it could happen. Yeah, yeah.
All right.

Speaker 10 And if it could happen that year,

Speaker 3 it happens. Right, right.
Where it's just kind of a, yeah, everything that could go bad goes bad.

Speaker 3 So talking about managers, you did play at one point for a Hall of Fame manager, may he rest in peace, Tommy Lasorda, who has been on, he was on this show before he passed away, legend of the game.

Speaker 3 What was he like in his heyday when he was, you know, firing brimstone and, you know, full of it?

Speaker 10 Well, when I played for him, he was really full of it. Okay.
I left Stanford, Connecticut as an 18-year-old, went out to Ogden, Utah. He was my rookie league manager.

Speaker 10 From there, he became my AAA manager for two years. And we went to Venezuela and the Dominican Republic during the wintertime, and we played there.
He was just learning to be a manicure.

Speaker 10 He was just learning how to get a free meal at every restaurant he went into.

Speaker 10 He was just learning how close you can get to an umpire without touching him while chewing a tobacco and not spitting on him. I mean, he was perfecting everything

Speaker 10 that made him a character, a caricature in one of the great guys in uniform ever. My only regret is I never played for him in the major leagues,

Speaker 10 But I watched them from afar. I played against them when I was at the Padres in the Mets.
And when I got to manage the All-Star game in 2001,

Speaker 10 I went to the commissioner and asked special permission if I could have an additional coach. He had already retired.

Speaker 10 If I could have Tommy in the dugout with me so that we could say that we were in uniform one time in the major leagues. And he allowed it.
And I don't know if you know that blooper film.

Speaker 10 That's when he talked me into going out and coaching third base.

Speaker 10 And Vladimir Guerrero swung at a low and away slider, let go of the bat, and it went spinning with overweight old man Tommy Lasortis seeing it zoom in on his forehead.

Speaker 3 Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 3 Yep.

Speaker 10 Doing a standing ovation of 50,000 people.

Speaker 10 clean himself off and i swear before he went out there he said tommy you haven't been out there in a long time It's happening quickly. These balls are coming down there.

Speaker 10 If you die when you're out there, I'll never, ever be able to live with myself.

Speaker 10 That was in the first and second. Let me go out there, Bobby.
Let me go. Tommy, believe me.

Speaker 10 It's not your place. I got to go out there.
I'll get us some runs. I got to go out there.
So by the fourth inning, I said, all right, take it. We need some runs.
First hitter, he almost died.

Speaker 3 He's an angel.

Speaker 3 What a story.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 4 he's notorious as being a fiery guy.

Speaker 4 Like in the time that we met him, I think he recounted probably a dozen different stories of times that he either got into a fight with somebody or wanted to fight somebody.

Speaker 4 Did he ever try to fight you? Because I almost feel like that's a badge of honor. That's when Tommy loves you is when he cares enough about you to try to take a swing.

Speaker 10 Never tried to take a swing, but one day I didn't listen to him. I was playing shortstop in the bottom of the knife and he was going from

Speaker 10 the dugout, Bobby, move over. Bobby, move over.

Speaker 10 And I moved over about that far you know and the guy took a swing Bobby move over and I moved over about that far then the guy hit the ball and he hit a slow hopper to my right I fielded it man on third two outs tie score through the first we pulled him safe we lost the game the clubhouse was in right field he met me in the middle of the diamond as the game ended and walked that far from my ear as I was walking to the clubhouse in Rightfield, and he said

Speaker 10 everything about me that anybody who really didn't like me would say about me. And he screamed it at the top of his lungs.
So no, we never went to battle, but he screamed at me a lot. That's for sure.

Speaker 3 So I think you might be our first, we've been doing this for a very long time. I think you might be our first major league manager, which is crazy.
I think that's true.

Speaker 3 We just haven't been able to get major league managers on the show. So I have to ask this question.

Speaker 3 When it comes to getting kicked out of a game, what is the thought process of like kicking dirt on the umps' shoes, stealing a base? Did you ever steal a base? Like any of that stuff?

Speaker 3 You know, turning your hat backwards.

Speaker 3 Talk us through that because that is, in my mind, and you know, watching baseball, there's a lot of funny quirks of the game, but when a manager gets tossed, there's something really special where it's like, all right, here comes a show.

Speaker 3 We really want to see him earn it. So what was your approach when you knew, I'm going out there, I'm not coming back, I'm getting tossed.

Speaker 3 What are you going to do to toss me?

Speaker 10 Well, the real argument comes after they toss you.

Speaker 10 Sometimes they toss you just because of nuance. You know, one time I asked the umpire if I could get thrown out for what I was thinking.
And when he said no, he threw me out of the game.

Speaker 10 You know, so, and then you start

Speaker 10 because I told him what I was thinking.

Speaker 3 Yeah, which was, I think you said, I think that you're a piece of, like, your calls are terrible or something.

Speaker 10 I probably question his ability to work as a professional.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, probably.

Speaker 10 But you're spot on. It's all theatrics.

Speaker 10 There are times, most every time I got kicked out of a game, as I was walking by, I mean, in this, as you say, the nuances of the game, one of my players would say, Where do you go, skip?

Speaker 10 You know, under his breath. Or I'd wink at him as I was going by, you know, like, you know, it was a good act.
Yeah. And you didn't want to waste their time if it wasn't a good act.

Speaker 10 So you had to have your stuff together. I had a lot of practice.

Speaker 10 Yeah, I had about 24 times that I walked off the field into the clubhouse. And I got caught once coming back.
And I'm, oh, we already talked about that.

Speaker 3 But did you ever, did you ever, did you ever do the kick the dirt? I kicked the dirt. I ever kicked the dirt on through the bases.

Speaker 10 I

Speaker 10 remember one time

Speaker 10 Chuck Knoblock was given second base on a play when Todds were playing this interleague series.

Speaker 10 You know how tough that was back in 78,

Speaker 10 I mean, 98 and 97 when it was first interleague play and the Yankees got to play the Mets. It was like the end of the world.
Yes. Everything mattered with what was going on in those games.

Speaker 10 And I think it was like in the first inning, Todd Zeal was standing over at first base and Knobloch hit a ball and he kind of ran around Zeal and he was out at second base by 20 feet.

Speaker 10 And the umpire called obstruction on Todd Zeal and gave Knoblo a double. And I happen to know the rule book pretty good and I started reciting the rule to him.

Speaker 10 and saying that obstruction occurs, you point to it, the play continues, then it's your determination whether the obstruction, what caused the guy to be out at the next base.

Speaker 10 If it wasn't the obstruction that caused him to be out, then he's out. If it was, then he's safe, but the play continues.
He was out by 20 feet.

Speaker 10 There's no way just running around Todd caused him to be out by that much. And so I ran in.

Speaker 10 the steps that it was first inning right so you could see the strides in the dirt the way mountlock came around, right?

Speaker 10 And so I started running in those strides and yelling as I was running.

Speaker 4 It was kind of the effect. Footprints in the sand, like the old poem.

Speaker 3 I love it. I love all that stuff.

Speaker 3 I do always appreciate when a manager covers home with dirt, being like, here, you clean this up. And then it never, the up never cleans it up.
They always make the catcher clean it up.

Speaker 3 But it's always the best. Yeah, yes.

Speaker 4 That one, the minor league manager a couple years ago that did the army crawl, grabbed the Rosenbag, bag pretended it was a grenade and threw it i don't like that one by the way that was a good move you did

Speaker 4 you did get kicked out once you said you got kicked out because your breath stunk oh probably at least that's what they said you got too close and your breath stinks you're gone yeah so that that's always been one of my favorite one of the big mysteries really of baseball because they don't let any of the miced up segments come out they let one slip a couple years ago when it was a manager yelling at the umpire i've always wondered when you're screaming right in his face do you just black out and let it fly do you remember what you say?

Speaker 4 Do you have a rehearsed speech that you're giving to him? Are you guys just like screaming every word that you can think of into each other's mouths?

Speaker 10 Okay, well, that's interesting because Lasorda was the master, and I saw him do it in the minor leagues when you could stay out there for 15 minutes if you want to.

Speaker 10 And

Speaker 10 he was spectacular, and he had a way of

Speaker 10 putting adjectives and adverbs, every other word, you know, with you

Speaker 10 is it was the pronoun that the adjective was the,

Speaker 3 right?

Speaker 4 You can cuss on the show, you motherfuckers, probably what he said.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 10 So I learned from him and I had a kind of a straight intro

Speaker 10 that always got me going.

Speaker 10 You know, like, how the fuck could you call that?

Speaker 3 And then that, that, that, that, that, that.

Speaker 10 Or what the fuck were you thinking by calling that?

Speaker 3 Yep.

Speaker 4 Just like a prompt for your brain to get started. And then you recognize that you started.

Speaker 3 Exactly. Very cool.

Speaker 4 I also read, this is kind of interesting. You were being considered to be the ambassador to Japan from the United States a few years ago.
Is that true?

Speaker 10 I don't think so.

Speaker 10 You know, that was reported. And just so we know,

Speaker 10 this was the time when

Speaker 10 Chris Christie was handling the

Speaker 10 transition team at the White House. And a friend of mine, Anthony Scaramucci, was dealing to be the press secretary.

Speaker 10 And during that week, I had received

Speaker 10 the

Speaker 10 Rising Sun Award from the Emperor of Japan.

Speaker 10 for building bridges between our two countries, not only when I was the baseball manager, but afterwards and when the tsunami hit, I raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help refurbish fields that were destroyed.

Speaker 10 I brought teams over to play and all that stuff. And so they that Anthony was invited

Speaker 10 to the ceremony, but he was in D.C.

Speaker 10 And while he was in DC, he said something about the award and said, wouldn't he be a great ambassador? He builds bridges.

Speaker 10 The next thing I know, I got a call from some reporter who says, I hear you're being mentioned as an ambassador. I said, maybe I'm being mentioned, but I have nothing to do with that.

Speaker 10 That's a pay grade

Speaker 10 a little above mine.

Speaker 3 Yeah. All right.
So here's another one. You saw a UFO once.

Speaker 10 Haven't we all?

Speaker 3 I believe I wish I had.

Speaker 4 They definitely exist.

Speaker 3 So you saw one during a press conference, though.

Speaker 10 Yeah, and we stopped at Chase Stadium and everyone looked, everyone pointed. I said to the press, did you see that? And two or three of the guys said they did.

Speaker 10 And then I was pretty sure I took a wonderful

Speaker 10 17-day excursion down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in a dory boat, you know, a five-person boat with one oarsman and all that, camped out at night and had a wonderful time.

Speaker 10 Well, the stars are plentiful and you can see all the satellites that are circling the Earth very clearly.

Speaker 10 there was one thing that i saw there it wasn't a star it wasn't the moon and it wasn't a satellite satellite so

Speaker 3 i i think there's stuff up there yeah because i was going to say the the one at chase stadium i don't want to tell you what you did or didn't see but that is next to laguardia airport so it could have been a plane it could have been a plane but it was at dusk it wasn't nighttime yeah you know and it wasn't really high in the sky um but who knows yeah but i i it might have been one of those days where they were asking me why i made the pitching change and i might have wanted to distract them but that's a great distraction but i I believe the Colorado River won.

Speaker 3 That's for sure. All right, so let's talk real quick.
You're running for mayor. I watched your ad.
I loved it.

Speaker 3 I do want to work on your campaign. You're running unaffiliated, correct? I am.
So it's all about the people of Stanford. What are we going to do?

Speaker 3 I saw you walk across that bridge. I'm a literal learner.
So I liked that you were walking across a bridge talking about fixing that bridge. And I was like, I see it.

Speaker 3 I see his vision because you're on the bridge that you need to fix. So

Speaker 3 what made you get into this? What made you, you know, a lot of people don't want to be in the public eye like this and be in politics. What made you think like, hey, this is a good idea.
Let's do it.

Speaker 10 It's my hometown, number one.

Speaker 10 It's been really good to me. You know,

Speaker 10 I was always treated like, you know, the special son of this town. And

Speaker 10 now that I'm at a place where I've had 50 years of experience in five different countries,

Speaker 10 leading people, changing things, fixing things, making things better. When I left,

Speaker 10 I said, why wouldn't I want to lead one of the finest little cities in America in the right direction going into the next year and out of COVID? You know, I saw a lot of

Speaker 10 similarities from 9-11 and how we dealt with fear and uncertainty and how we thought we'd never get back on track again, you know.

Speaker 10 And I think I had a lot of lot to do with some of the healing process. And I think there's a lot of people who need to be healed.
There are businesses that need to be healed.

Speaker 10 There are children who lost a year's education or part of it and they need to be healed. You know, we have a growing city, but it's growing apart in all of the different sectors of our city.

Speaker 10 And as that bridge kind of symbolized, I think I could build the bridges that unite the city. Who knows if that's going to work?

Speaker 10 And doing it unaffiliated, that means I have no party support, no party money, no party

Speaker 10 IT or data or any of that other stuff, but I have a really great team that I'm building.

Speaker 10 And I want to see, because I am a team builder, if I could build a team that can win an election and then build a team that runs a great city.

Speaker 4 I like that. And then build a team of all the citizens of Stanford together, working together, keeping them loose too over the course of the year.

Speaker 4 I think you've got the right temperament for it some of the best leaders I've ever had have been maybe my second third grade teachers I remember they'd reward us with pizza parties if we all read you know we did all our reading or whatever what if you did maybe uh you promised everyone if you pick up X amount of trash in our city parks over the course of one weekend we're doing a pizza party from Colony Grill everybody gets to eat I love it.

Speaker 10 And I think Chris Jury would love it too, because instead of paying all those dollars, he's the owner, you know, of Colony Pizza, or one of the owners, that we'd give him some of the money back.

Speaker 10 And, you know, there's a lot of private and public partnerships that have to be established for a city of $135,000 to grow the way I see it needed, needing to grow.

Speaker 10 And one of those things, when you talk about pizza parties, the people who work in the city,

Speaker 10 they make a salary.

Speaker 10 whether they're in uniform or out of uniform, but they're public servants. A lot of people have decided that this is what they want to do with their time, their energy, and their life.

Speaker 10 And I don't think they're rewarded enough. I don't think that they're thanked enough.
I don't think that there's enough of parties that celebrate their hard work.

Speaker 10 And I'm hoping that I could have those little gatherings and go to the offices that people sit in for eight hours a day with dim lights and old computers and tell them I appreciate them.

Speaker 3 So follow-up question on Colony Grill. Hot oil, are you a stinger guy?

Speaker 3 What's your order there?

Speaker 10 I'm a stinger. I like hot oil.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 10 You know, and, you know, I remember Colony. Daniel Malloy was a mayor of this city and then a governor of our state.
And I'm pretty sure I campaigned with him at Collie League Grill,

Speaker 10 you know, 40 years ago or whatever it was. It's a great, it's a great place.

Speaker 3 It's some of my favorite pizza ever.

Speaker 4 A little hypothetical here, if you had to pick one of the two small businesses that you personally had to close down, would it be Colony Grill or the Dan Patrick Show?

Speaker 10 Whoa, luckily, Dan Patrick's up in Milford out of my

Speaker 3 there. We go.
I was going to say, I was trying to figure out a way to work in

Speaker 3 a little WWE because that is in Stanford. I think, did they move their headquarters yet? I don't know if they did across the street, maybe?

Speaker 10 They're going to the UBS building where we had a vacancy there, and they're a great partner, a great

Speaker 10 company to be in our city.

Speaker 10 You know, Linda McMahon was a trustee at Sacred Heart University and

Speaker 10 you know her daughter Stephanie and husband, the whole family have been credits to our community and their business is awesome.

Speaker 3 Yes. And so I was thinking like I know they were billed out of Greenwich Street, Greenwich, Connecticut, but the Mean Street posse, maybe we bring them back.
Joey Abbs, Pete Gas.

Speaker 10 Oh, yes. How come you know so much?

Speaker 3 Absolutely.

Speaker 3 I used to love Attitude Era Wrestling. Wow.
Yeah, we bring those guys.

Speaker 10 Well, someone highly up in your company lives in New Canaan. I think you guys should film right out of the village or one of our cool spaces, new media centers right here in Stanford, Connecticut.

Speaker 3 So I think that

Speaker 10 would really pardon my take.

Speaker 4 It's a good idea, like how Joe Rogan and everybody's moving to Austin. You make Stanford the Austin of Connecticut.
Yeah. Get a bunch of podcasters to move in.
We'll do it.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Why not? Just drop the bag off, Bobby Ribble every day.

Speaker 10 Can I use that as an original thought

Speaker 10 I'll just know. I'll say that I heard it.
Yes.

Speaker 10 Part of my take.

Speaker 10 I give full credit.

Speaker 3 It's cool.

Speaker 3 I'm down to appear in an ad if you buy us Colony Grill. Like, we will come up and we will sit there and we'll be like, we endorse this message because we got pizza.
Yeah.

Speaker 10 Well, maybe that Chris is now president of the Rangers. Maybe he needs someone to pass the baton to.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Listen,

Speaker 4 we will be your unofficial. We're just ideas guys.

Speaker 4 Don't ask us to follow up.

Speaker 3 Inventor of the rap on every ad. All right, so I have one last question.

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Speaker 3 This one's kind of random, but you have a collection of every World Series program. Is that correct? Since 1912?

Speaker 10 Almost. Yeah,

Speaker 10 I have 1905. I missed missed 1909, but I have 1912, which interestingly enough was one of the first ones I collected.
And that was the first Boston Red Sox World Series.

Speaker 10 And 100 years later, in 2012, I was managing the Red Sox. So I have that program too.

Speaker 3 That's cool.

Speaker 3 Even though we weren't in the World Series. Yeah.
So

Speaker 3 like you have all these. I mean, that's a really cool thing to have.

Speaker 3 Which one's your favorite? What's your specific favorite World Series program?

Speaker 10 Well, I have a 1927 Yankee World Series program with a babe Ruth autograph on it. And I think it gets the most ooze and odds when I'm welcoming people around the house.
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 It's one of my favorites.

Speaker 10 Absolutely. I have a 69 Met one

Speaker 10 that has everyone's signature on it. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's awesome. I had one last, last question.

Speaker 4 I still remember watching commercials for the Zen of Bobby V, the movie that was made about you. It was in some major film festivals.
Do you remember when that came out?

Speaker 4 Did you get like a little bump in notoriety? Do you still enjoy watching that movie? Or is it one of those things where you watch a movie about yourself and it's like a little cringy?

Speaker 4 Because, you know, no one likes the sound of their own voice. You can be a little bit more judgmental of yourself on camera.

Speaker 10 I was judgmental, but can I give you a quick backstory?

Speaker 10 We have a minute?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 10 So

Speaker 10 three

Speaker 10 college seniors from NYU, they were juniors when they approached me, said, we want to come to Japan. You're doing great things over there.
We want to follow you with a camera and do a documentary.

Speaker 10 And I said, yeah, yeah, get your education and then come and see me again. Well, at the end of the year, they came and see me again at my restaurant in Stanford during the offseason.

Speaker 10 And they said, hey, we did this documentary last year. We moved in an old age home down in Florida.
We were there for three months with all these people. And we did a wonderful documentary.

Speaker 10 Take a look if you like it, maybe we could do it. Well, they get $800,000 from ESPN to travel around with me and the team for the entire season in Japan and make this film, which is

Speaker 10 or was the first documentary that ESPN ever filmed, the Zenobabi V.

Speaker 10 And then they said, oh, people like this stuff and started doing more. Just to fast forward,

Speaker 10 one of

Speaker 10 the three,

Speaker 10 as he graduated, we started a little film company. He says, hey, I could do this.
I could do this. And so that was in

Speaker 10 2007.

Speaker 10 And it debuted, 2008, it debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. And the three guys graduated from NYU the next day.
It showed on May 13th, which is my birthday. They graduated on May 14th.

Speaker 10 Kind of cool. But what's more cool is the same guy just was with Bill Murray for months in Europe and filmed a documentary about him with four

Speaker 10 Philip Monic string concert

Speaker 10 performers where he recited poetry, sang songs, and made a documentary. It just got awarded a selection into the CAMS

Speaker 10 Film Festival. in

Speaker 10 France.

Speaker 10 And they're going to go there and hope to win an award and then he gets on a plane and goes to Bangkok where he is a co-producer of a film with Peter Farley

Speaker 3 called the greatest beer run ever so he's done really well and it all started with the Zenobotty Dave love it love it well Bobby this has been awesome so much fun we really appreciate it we have to get together have some colony pizza also you got to make us a wrap pizza yeah inventor of the wrap that's just you got to have that on every every time you run an ad at the end, just be like, oh, yeah, and I invented the rap.

Speaker 3 Just to remind people. So let's just do that.

Speaker 10 I'm going to work the rap into something.

Speaker 3 Okay, perfect. Yeah, it could even just be you sitting at a diner and it's like, you know, the ad starts and it's like, oh, didn't see you there.
Just enjoying my rap.

Speaker 4 Or,

Speaker 4 if you want to get to like the literal kind of metaphor thing that you're doing with the bridge, you know, sandwiches are great.

Speaker 4 A triple-decker sandwich is good, but the bread, it divides the layers, Bobby. And a wrap brings them all together, all in the same vessel.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, that's what we got to do. We got to wrap up Stanford.

Speaker 3 Point, yes,

Speaker 3 yes,

Speaker 3 we got you. We got you.
We got a lot of ideas. We'll get together.
We'll do it. We'll have a brainstorming session.

Speaker 10 Well, I understand why you guys are so popular. You're doing a great job.
I appreciate it, guys.

Speaker 3 All right. Thanks so much.
Thank you. Thank you.

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Speaker 3 Okay, let's do some segments. By the way,

Speaker 3 Breaking Moose.

Speaker 3 It has been brought to my attention

Speaker 3 that we need to say something for our friends in Rado, Colorado. Rado is what the cool people say.

Speaker 3 I didn't put this together, but someone just mentioned this to me. Colorado just did the unimaginable.
They They just lost eight straight playoff games in the course of two weeks. Wow.
And the fight.

Speaker 3 And the fight. The Avalanche were up 2-0,

Speaker 3 and then they lost four straight. And in the midst of those four straight losses, the Nuggets got swept.

Speaker 3 That's actually yikes.

Speaker 4 That's a rotto curse.

Speaker 3 Like, to not have a win, to have two teams... deep in the playoffs and not have a fucking win in two weeks.

Speaker 4 You know what this is, Big Cat? It's the bargain with the devil that you have to make in order to get Aaron Rodgers traded to your city.

Speaker 3 Yes. Good point.

Speaker 3 Really good point. I'm going to match up these schedules real quick.
Let's see

Speaker 3 when they exactly happen because that is,

Speaker 3 man.

Speaker 3 I love Menver.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I love Menver. I'm a Fort Collins guy.
I like that guy that goes on the detective shows and talks about how he caught people 40 years ago.

Speaker 3 No, I love Menver. I think it's a great city.
I've had some fun times. I went to a Rockies game.
Unbelievable stadium.

Speaker 3 Unbelievable stadium. Jay, can you find it for me while I do this? Tell me exactly when the Avalanche started their four losses and when the Nuggets started their four losses.

Speaker 4 I also think it's a curse on the Nuggets for just wearing shitty uniforms.

Speaker 3 Yeah, tonight's the one they wore tonight, they wore against the Blazers.

Speaker 3 That uniform, and if you're the Nuggets, you have so many cool

Speaker 3 imagery and colors that you can use, and you go with that. Gunpowder Red, I think is what it's called.

Speaker 4 They had a sunset on their jerseys while they were playing against the Suns.

Speaker 3 They did the same thing where they wore basically the Trailblazers colors against the Trailblazers.

Speaker 6 Suns were 7th, 9th, 11th, and today.

Speaker 3 Avalanche, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th. So on the 4th,

Speaker 3 from the 4th till today,

Speaker 3 they lost eight straight playoff games.

Speaker 6 It's 10.

Speaker 3 10 days.

Speaker 3 That's really, really tough. Okay.
So pour one out for our friends in Rado. We appreciate you as AWLs.
We are going to celebrate when Aaron Rodgers goes to the Broncos.

Speaker 4 The mountains are blue.

Speaker 3 We will celebrate for days when Aaron Rodgers. We will call it Rado Week when Aaron Rodgers gets traded to the Broncos.
All right, couple segments. Let's do some talking soccer.
So the Euros started.

Speaker 3 One of the craziest, scariest stories on Saturday when

Speaker 3 let me get the facts correct. What is his full name?

Speaker 4 Christian.

Speaker 3 Christian Erickson, right?

Speaker 3 Playing for

Speaker 3 Denmark against Finland, collapsed. He actually

Speaker 3 went into cardiac arrest. They were able to, I think the, I think a Finnish player, the story goes, started CPR.

Speaker 4 So what I heard was

Speaker 4 he was struggling to run at the last couple steps, and then they were throwing the ball in. He He collapses into the ball as he's getting thrown, goes face down.
They immediately call over the medics.

Speaker 4 I don't know if he started giving him CPR, but they got the medics out there like real quick. The trainers were there in a matter of like five seconds.
The medics were not long after that.

Speaker 4 He was dead on the field. Yeah.
He was dead. His heart stopped.
Nikki Six. Yes.
And they put the defibrillator on him and they shocked him and then gave him CPR to keep his heart going.

Speaker 4 So, yeah, they brought him back from the dead. It was a brutal scene.
Crazy. The

Speaker 3 Danish players. Yes.

Speaker 4 Danish? Yes. Surrounded him in order so that people couldn't take pictures or film him on the ground in case he was dead.

Speaker 4 And so they were trying to protect him in their way that they could doing that. They take him to the hospital.
They call the game off, which was probably the right thing to do. And then

Speaker 4 football guy, Christian Erickson, gets on a Zoom call with them, starts jacking off. No, he tells them, I want you guys to play the game.
Then they went out there and played. Unfortunately, they lost.

Speaker 4 But it was one of those things where you were watching the game and you could tell that nobody on the field was thinking about the game whatsoever.

Speaker 4 They basically just watched their captain die in front of them. Crazy.
It was insane. So thankfully, he's okay.
But it did bring out, we talked about this a little bit before we started taping.

Speaker 4 It brought out some of our least favorite people on Twitter. Yes.
Who were everyone was mad. Everyone was

Speaker 4 upset watching the game because they just saw somebody maybe die. Right.
And they chose to take that anger out on the broadcast of the game because the broadcast was coming in from UEFA.

Speaker 4 And UEFA's cameramen, like, dude, just be a normal camera guy and find a hot chick in the stands like every other horny camera guy in the world.

Speaker 4 Or actually, the appropriate thing would be just like cut to the blimp feed or whatever that is.

Speaker 4 But they were showing like the players, they were zooming in on Christian Erickson's wife in the stands who just thought she saw her husband die. And it was brutal.

Speaker 4 It was immediately or admittedly brutal to watch. But everyone was like mad at ESPN for making them watch this.

Speaker 4 And it's like, you, I get that you're mad, and I get that, like, you're upset about what you're watching right now, but you do have, like, there's a button in your hand on your remote that actually controls your own television that you can turn off.

Speaker 3 And what it comes down to is people are on social media to get retweets and likes. And of course, we're, I mean, always, all of us sitting in this room are guilty of this.

Speaker 3 But in a situation like this, they like just tweeting, I hope this guy is okay, won't get you the most retweets. So what does having an adjacent conversation to it where you're just mad at it?

Speaker 3 You're mad at someone who didn't have anything to do with the ESPN, but you're just yelling about

Speaker 3 how they did this wrong when everything happens really fast. It's fucking crazy.
It was a scary situation. I wasn't watching the game.
I saw that he was, you know.

Speaker 3 awake on a stretcher going off and and i've said this a million times before but the read the room people are the worst people in the world because I still can't, for the life of me, understand how

Speaker 3 being affected by something and then spending that time immediately after replying to other people to read the room is like you showing your

Speaker 4 lack of room reading your ability.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, you're just you're you're giving the proper like credence to the moment by just replying to people saying read the room.

Speaker 3 Yeah, like you are you're clearly thinking about Christian Erickson by

Speaker 3 sitting on Twitter and replying to to people, Read the Road.

Speaker 4 Just maybe a moment of silence. Maybe just don't tweet anything.

Speaker 4 You don't have to tweet when you watch a guy die on television.

Speaker 3 Again, I wasn't watching. I saw that he was, like, I caught up.
I saw it was scary. I saw that he was on a stretcher, like, awake.
I saw that they said he was okay.

Speaker 3 I retweeted that one and I moved on with my day because I wasn't watching. Like, I wasn't going to jump in and be like, oh, my God, just saw this thing.
Let me get my take off on it. Right.

Speaker 4 You don't have to tweet a video and be like, block or charge.

Speaker 3 Yeah, right. Right.
But thank God.

Speaker 3 Let me say this, though. I hope that Christian Erickson is

Speaker 3 okay. It seems like he is, but he lives a long life to the point where in 50 years,

Speaker 3 that him collapsing can be put accidentally in a Watch These Soccer Guys flop compilation. Yeah, we're going to be able to do that.
That would be the greatest thing to get.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we can get to a point where we can laugh at it.

Speaker 3 No, not even laugh at it, but just someone accidentally be like, oh, watch this flop, not realizing, because he lives such a fruitful life that it became such a side note to everything else.

Speaker 4 Yeah, if it ends up in one of those like soccer versus hockey compilations,

Speaker 3 it's not a story. Right.
That would be the best

Speaker 3 way for this to end is that, you know, he lives a great life and nothing serious ends up coming out of it.

Speaker 4 It's tough. I'm glad he's okay.
I guess that's a relative term because he's probably not going to play soccer again. No.
It's probably like a genetic heart issue that he has. Who knows what it was?

Speaker 3 We're not doctors.

Speaker 4 They got to do the tests and all that.

Speaker 3 What did Dr. Chow say? Probably two to three weeks?

Speaker 3 Walk it off.

Speaker 3 I've seen a lot of these. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Do you think anybody tagged Pro Football Doc in that?

Speaker 3 Probably.

Speaker 3 I need an update on putting on Christian. Oh, my God.
Either way, Euros are here, which is awesome.

Speaker 4 Next time Darren Revelle puts out the JFK video, I'm going to tag Dr. Chow.

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 When's the timetable?

Speaker 3 Yeah, do you think he'll be ready for the playoffs?

Speaker 3 Though the Euros are awesome. I'm very, very excited.

Speaker 4 It's such a great tournament. It really is.

Speaker 3 And it's,

Speaker 3 yeah.

Speaker 4 Another who's back of the week, North Macedonia.

Speaker 3 Yeah, who's there?

Speaker 4 North Macedonia played in their first international, like major international tournament, I think. Got a goal.
They just changed their name to North Macedonia.

Speaker 4 I went down a little Wikipedia wormhole on that when I was like, what's North Macedonia?

Speaker 3 What were they doing?

Speaker 4 Turns out Greece has just basically been taking the name Macedonia hostage and not letting them call themselves Macedonia for years and years and years.

Speaker 4 And they finally reached a bargaining agreement where Greece was like, okay, you can call yourselves Macedonia, but it has to be North Macedonia. Wow.
And they got a goal, which was huge.

Speaker 4 There were people crying in the stands because of how much this meant for their country to see the little engine that could.

Speaker 3 Wait, Ireland didn't make this shit? But North Macedonia did? Mm-hmm. The fuck?

Speaker 4 All I'm saying about the Euros, it's coming home.

Speaker 3 Yeah. It's coming home.
They saw those guys. Something just very special about pasty white English fans ripping off their shirts and being like, ooh, dude, get that sunshirt back on fast.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they're the best. You're about to burn.

Speaker 4 They're the best. I also just like saying it's coming home.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's a fun thing to say. You remember in the World Cup a couple years ago when they had a flyover of Jets in England that just spelled out in the air?

Speaker 3 It's coming home. It's coming home.
It's coming home.

Speaker 3 Football's coming home. And then they're going to lose in like tragic fashion.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Can Argentina get into this?

Speaker 4 No, they're playing in the

Speaker 3 they would have beaten England in a tragic fashion.

Speaker 4 I feel like this is going to be penalty kicks in the semifinals. England's going to lose.

Speaker 3 Against

Speaker 3 Belgium.

Speaker 3 Give me Belgium. That could happen.
Yeah. Belgium beats England.
I'm going to see that. Penalty kicks.

Speaker 4 Wait. Or maybe Denmark.
Team of Destiny.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Although they probably won't get out of their group, right?

Speaker 4 Probably not. Not without Christian Erickson.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's probably going to be tough.

Speaker 3 Okay,

Speaker 4 I had a joke and I didn't say it.

Speaker 3 No, it's

Speaker 3 because you read the room. I read the fucking room.
You read out of the fucking room.

Speaker 4 People out there listening to that pregnant pause,

Speaker 3 you can see what I almost said. You read the fucking room.
All I'm saying is

Speaker 4 it's a tough group, Denmark's in.

Speaker 3 Do you think that there were...

Speaker 3 Now, this is really going to get dark for a second.

Speaker 4 Jake just got it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Do you think that there were people on Twitter who were mad mad that he, like, was okay because they couldn't spend the rest of their day shaming other people?

Speaker 3 I swear to God, I think that that happens. Maybe, yeah.

Speaker 3 Like, he was okay so quickly that we had to, we moved on with our day, and all the people who spent, you know, a half hour grandstanding were like, well, what the fuck do I do with my Saturday now?

Speaker 4 Let's get a little bit darker with it, Big Cat.

Speaker 4 Those are the exact same people that log off for the rest of the weekend when there's a mass shooter that doesn't fit their political ideology of what a mass shooter is.

Speaker 4 And then they're like, I'm just going to ignore this.

Speaker 3 Yes, yes, I'm just going to keep moving.

Speaker 3 All right, let's talk some tennis.

Speaker 3 The goat,

Speaker 3 Jokovich, who's going to, who can I pick on here? Is it you, Jake? Can I pick on you? For what? For thinking that Djokovic isn't the goat?

Speaker 3 He has 19 major titles. I want someone I can pick on.
Roger and off of. I feel like during

Speaker 3 that whole coronavirus thing, you kind of fell off. No, no, no, no, no.
He had an unvaccinated party. Oh, shit, we got it.
It was a tournament. It was fine.
It was a tournament.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it was a super spreader event.

Speaker 3 I remember you saying that. Dude, I mean, I also fell off when he was down to Rafa on Friday.
I was like, clay's a fake thing to play. I mean,

Speaker 4 was it the same day, Rizzo and Djokovic?

Speaker 3 No, I actually tweeted that. People got very mad.
I said, Rizzo and Djokovic, have a day. My guys are awesome.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Big cat. How could you?

Speaker 4 He's absolutely perfect.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 he is the mental toughness. To win on the clay, be down 2-0.

Speaker 6 Yeah, two sets to love to Stefano Sitsipas.

Speaker 3 Who's the next up-and-comer, right? Sisipas. How do you say his name? Sisipas.
Sisipas? Sisipas. Yeah.
Sisipas.

Speaker 4 I love it when Djokovic gets just like angry at the sky all around him. And he just starts screaming.
If something is, if there's an object around him, he will yell at it. And he just uses that to

Speaker 4 draw off their energy. And he acquires the energy of whoever he's mad at.
And it was honestly like a great comeback. I love watching Clay Court tennis.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's great. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And I love

Speaker 3 having Djokovic be my goat, even though I watch maybe an hour and a half of tennis a year.

Speaker 4 I'm a Federer guy still.

Speaker 3 Federer still has a crown.

Speaker 6 Yeah, he and Rafa have 20. Did you guys see the semifinal on Friday between Rafa and Yokovic?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I did. It was sick.
I'm a Djokovic guy. They had a curve.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I did. I watched the live.
It was 11 p.m. local time.

Speaker 6 And because they said due to the exceptionalness of the match, Kirfy's been lifted.

Speaker 4 That was always the best growing up when there was like a really good game on. And my dad would be like,

Speaker 4 honey, let's just let the boy stay up and watch the end of this game.

Speaker 3 He'll be tired from work tomorrow, but this is a great game. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Tennis, yeah.

Speaker 3 I really have no affinity

Speaker 3 towards Djokovic. I have affinity towards the

Speaker 3 debate. And the greatness, but the debate.

Speaker 3 I mean, that's what makes me interested in tennis is that I like to debate it.

Speaker 3 And also, I saw that he gave his racket to a kid, and I noted that has there ever been a classier competitor than Djokovic?

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 3 A lot of people said, actually, he's a real dickhead. All I saw was him making a kid's life.

Speaker 4 Well, Big Cat, with the exception of like once or twice, he has never tried to kill a line judge. Right.
So who else can you say that about in the game? Serena Williams has done it too.

Speaker 4 It's like truly a mark of the greats. But when he hands the racket to the kid in the stands, A conspiracy theorist would say,

Speaker 4 maybe there's something on that racket that he is trying to keep away from from the tying eyes of the press or of the officials.

Speaker 4 And what better way than because nobody's going to go into the stands and take away the greatest president of that kid's life from him?

Speaker 3 Yeah, he was freaking out.

Speaker 3 Love it. Classy, classy, classy competitor.
He would have been just as classy in defeat if he had lost, but he wouldn't. Absolutely the goat.
And I would have messed.

Speaker 4 But I do think that we can still, right now, the debate is still like Federer is the goat.

Speaker 3 Federer and Jokovich.

Speaker 4 He could die tomorrow. Kyle Shanahan.

Speaker 3 Nothing's promised. Nothing's promised.

Speaker 4 Nothing's promised.

Speaker 3 God.

Speaker 4 But once he equalizes with Federer and Dahl, I think at that point it's like, yeah, Jokovich is a goat. And I think head to head, he's dominated both of them, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, and there's obviously the argument that he came in at the end of their careers. I don't care.
Guess what? No one's going to remember that. 10 years when we just go numbers on everyone's ass.

Speaker 3 Ricky

Speaker 6 wins Wimbledon. We'll have a three-way tie at 20 heading into the U.S.
Open here in New York end of the summer.

Speaker 3 And I still won't care about it. I'll go.
I reported on it.

Speaker 3 Let us know how it goes. I'll go back.
Yeah, right. I would like to.
We're going to put you on assignment. Jake.
Perfect.

Speaker 4 Great. Would you like to be a ball boy?

Speaker 3 Yes. I'm too old.
What? I think. Maybe.
I don't think they do the tryouts. No, there's a six months.
No, Jokovich almost killed him.

Speaker 3 You could do it. Also, Djokovic almost killed like an old lady when he hit that ball.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so they're going to need replacements in case Jokovich just goes ham.

Speaker 3 Yeah. All right.
Well, you should should be a ball boy. All right, we'll see.
Let's let's try to get you in.

Speaker 4 What if Jokovich killed Jake, like hit a ball at him and just knocked him out?

Speaker 6 I played king of the court in the suit.

Speaker 3 We would make everyone log off for at least 25 minutes.

Speaker 4 A while. If you died,

Speaker 3 if you died, well, now there'd be some good memes. We would just repurpose that shirt and just write was.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's an awful lot.
I'm trying to think, would we take... No, we wouldn't take a show off.
If you died, I would take a lunch off. Okay.
Yeah. Hank would.
Would you make some shirts?

Speaker 4 Hank would schedule a million ping pong matches.

Speaker 3 It got Suol Shoes back.

Speaker 3 Ping pong tournament. Oh, I actually had Jake scheduled.
Don't die, Jake. We love you.
We don't want you to die. No, don't die.
Please don't die.

Speaker 3 But if you do die, Hank will be the benefactor of all your everyday. It's his birthday.
Yeah, it's his birthday. Which is the next segment.
Happy birthday, Hank.

Speaker 4 Happy birthday, Hank. Thanks, guys.
Really proud of you. Appreciate it.
I'm proud of you not taking a vacation on your birthday.

Speaker 3 No. That's big.

Speaker 4 I feel like that's a major corner that we've we've turned.

Speaker 3 I've never taken a vacation on my birthday. I don't even really take vacations.

Speaker 6 I just take time off when we have time off.

Speaker 3 Wait, you're 28? 28. How old were you when you took

Speaker 3 how old were you when you taped the Top McShay video? 19? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Damn.

Speaker 4 Old as fuck. Time flies.

Speaker 3 Dude, when you turn 30, I'm going to cry.

Speaker 4 What's the biggest thing that you've learned in your 20s, Hank?

Speaker 3 Sheesh. I don't know.

Speaker 3 Okay, that was very eloquent.

Speaker 4 I'll put you on the spot. It's not really fair.

Speaker 4 You learned how to pronounce several words.

Speaker 3 You learned how to ice a dog boner. Yep.

Speaker 3 Save a little money for each paycheck. There it is for Bitcoin, right? Yeah, or whatever.
Yeah, for whatever. Just set up in your direct deposit, a little bit of money, goes away.

Speaker 3 You don't even think about it. That is, that's actually great advice.
And then when you need it, you actually have

Speaker 3 a little bit of cash.

Speaker 3 That is great advice.

Speaker 4 You have a 401k? Yep.

Speaker 3 Fuck yeah. Starting early.
Get that compound interest.

Speaker 3 You max that? I don't think so. No, you got a max, bro.
Shout out, Max. Actually, no, I don't think we match.
So, no, we don't. Yeah, so then don't max.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I would have.

Speaker 3 If you max, if you match, if they match, you max. That's that's what you got to do with your 401k.

Speaker 3 Uh, all right, that was great. Segment.
Thanks. Happy birthday.
I appreciate everything you guys got for me today. We got you.

Speaker 3 Papadillas, 26 of them. True.

Speaker 3 That's 28 for his birthday.

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 3 fuck. And then you actually could have played it off instead of being like, I just ordered 26 because I'm a fat ass.

Speaker 3 Wow. You know what?

Speaker 3 I'm not even going to respond to that because it's his birthday. It's his mother.
Let him just say that because I got 26. I'm going to let him say that.
What do you want me to say?

Speaker 3 I did feel a little awkward when they had to have two guys help bring them all to my car. That felt a little like, all right, maybe I went too far here.

Speaker 4 Yeah, when you said, like, how many should I i get 20 i thought you were joking and then i'm off at 26.

Speaker 3 i have a listen i'm a great guy to have around when it comes to like going out to dinner or like planning for a party because i'm my biggest fear in life is not having enough for everyone so i'm the guy who like will show up with i'll fill the i'll fill the bathtub with beer be like well just in case it becomes a rager and then the next morning we have like 200 beers in the bathtub but we never had to worry no one's ever complained about having too many papadillas.

Speaker 3 Right. Ever.
Ever. Well, Hank did, but that's fine.

Speaker 4 He's the first.

Speaker 3 Quick saber metrics before we wrap up.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so Julio Jones, he's wearing number two in Tennessee.

Speaker 4 I'm still not comfortable on a personal level with wide receivers wearing single digits. It's going to fuck my brain up this fall.
It's absolutely going to ravage my brain.

Speaker 4 Between that and having a 17-game season where I have to memorize, like, oh, this team's going to go nine and eight.

Speaker 3 That is, oh, March Madness. We got that fixed.

Speaker 4 Yeah, also, you can, what I'm doing is I'm just doing regular numbers and then adding a tie on to the end of it. That way my brain saves itself.

Speaker 4 But Julio Jones is wearing number two, and he said that A.J. Brown offered him the number 11 that he wore in Atlanta.
He declined.

Speaker 4 Julio Jones said one and one is two,

Speaker 4 and two times 11, which is Brown, is 22, which is Derrick Henry. He said that lets people know that they have to deal with all three.

Speaker 3 Whoa. Whoa, mind blown.
Holy shit. Mind blown.
Or he just misses Matt Ryan.

Speaker 4 I think he just wanted, I think he thought two would look cool, and then he put it on. And you know that there was like a moment of truth when he saw himself in the mirror.

Speaker 4 He was ready to feel good about his new look, where he looked at it and he was like, this looks stupid.

Speaker 3 This sucks.

Speaker 4 This sucks.

Speaker 4 Number two is, I'd say like maybe

Speaker 4 six is the only number that's worse for a wide receiver to wear.

Speaker 3 Two is a long, well, no, it's not even a long snapper, but it's like, it's, yeah. It's a bad kicker.
It's a bad, it's, and it's a court, a slow quarterback. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Although, what was no, Kimney was Devontae. He was Devontae Smith of six.
Devontae Smith of six? In Alabama.

Speaker 4 That's dumb, Devonta.

Speaker 3 Although, no, it'll be the highest matter.

Speaker 4 It'll be good for him because he's going to look fatter. And he weighs, what, 165 pounds?

Speaker 3 On a good one. No, he's six with the Eagles, too.

Speaker 3 He's six with the Eagles?

Speaker 3 All right, I'm going to pick six for him.

Speaker 4 I'm going

Speaker 3 with eight.

Speaker 3 85.

Speaker 4 67, 92, 47.

Speaker 3 Out of play.

Speaker 3 Someone got mad about 13 not counting.

Speaker 3 Let's go all the way up.

Speaker 4 Tweet out the video.

Speaker 3 33.

Speaker 3 Larry B.

Speaker 6 First timer.

Speaker 3 Really? How many do we have that have not been picked?

Speaker 6 I updated my pyramid chart like three weeks ago, and there was still like 30. So it's probably like 27, 28.

Speaker 3 Can I get a statistical breakdown, please, to add it to my list? Of that? Yeah, of just everything. I want to know everything.
How many lists picked? For that one.

Speaker 3 Yeah, how many?

Speaker 4 I don't think you keep track of our picks.

Speaker 3 Put that up.

Speaker 3 Keep track of this. No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 How many total lottery things have we done? Okay,

Speaker 3 so we can get the hundredth and every one. We've probably done the hundredth.

Speaker 4 So we've got, what, you said 28 left?

Speaker 3 28 scoreigamis left? I'll put that at the top of my list, please. Clear the rest of my list.
You'll have it. Put that at the top.

Speaker 4 I think self-suck has to go first.

Speaker 3 No, put that. This is the most important.
Me staring at a sheet of numbers for 25 seconds tomorrow has to happen.

Speaker 6 You'll have it by tomorrow.

Speaker 3 Oh, wow. You're the best.
All right. See you guys on Wednesday.

Speaker 3 Great guests coming up. Great, great, great guests coming up.

Speaker 4 Love you guys. Oh, Jake, you have a fact?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Animal.
Animal.

Speaker 6 Alligators have been a long-running problem for NASA, including climbing over their fences and entering buildings overnight.

Speaker 3 What? That's very cool, Jake.

Speaker 4 Love you guys.

Speaker 4 Talking away,

Speaker 4 though I know what I'm to say, I'd say the new way.

Speaker 4 Today's a hard day to find

Speaker 4 shy away.

Speaker 4 Oh, I've been coming for your love of dear.

Speaker 4 Oh, I've been coming for your love of dear.

Speaker 4 Take

Speaker 4 me

Speaker 4 up

Speaker 4 I'll be

Speaker 4 gone

Speaker 4 for

Speaker 4 Needless to say

Speaker 4 I'm on the settings But be stoned away

Speaker 4 Thurling

Speaker 4 life is okay

Speaker 4 Say of me

Speaker 4 It's no better to be safe than sorry

Speaker 4 It's no better to be safe and sorry.

Speaker 4 Take

Speaker 4 on

Speaker 4 me

Speaker 4 I'll be

Speaker 4 gone

Speaker 4 in a day of pain.

Speaker 4 I'm things that you say.

Speaker 4 Just to play my lovely look.

Speaker 4 You are the things I've got to remember. When you shine away,

Speaker 4 I love the caribou anyway.

Speaker 4 I love the caribou anyway.

Speaker 4 Take

Speaker 4 on

Speaker 4 me.

Speaker 4 Take

Speaker 4 me

Speaker 4 on.

Speaker 4 I'll be

Speaker 4 God

Speaker 4 in a day.

Speaker 4 I will be

Speaker 4 gone

Speaker 4 in a day.