Triple H, Final Four Recap And The Best Game Ever

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I said game on purpose because the other one stunk. We have Triple H.
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Hello, friends. I was going to say in sports rule.
Yeah. You kind of jumped me there.
Sorry, they do. Hello, friends, it's Wednesday.
This is sports rule because we have the national championship tonight and the Final Four on Saturday and one of the best basketball games, tournament games, we've watched in the history of the tournament. I'm fine with maybe being a little hyperbolic with that statement.
That game fucking ruled sports rule. The game owned from start to finish.
Every single part, even the beginning of it, when it felt like, okay, at some point Gonzaga's going to turn it on, I feel bad for UCLA because UCLA played the best game that they could possibly play. Everything right happened for UCLA.
Yes. And it just wasn't enough at the end.
It could have gone either way. They could have very easily won that game.
But it was a life-affirming moment in sports where it's like i'm glad that i sat through like a few clink cluckers of games some stinkers i'm glad that i lost a responsible amount of money in detroit gambling on these games it's all worth it because that game kicks so much ass it ruled and yes it was the houston baylor game was not fun it was a blowout mean, it was fun if you're a Baylor fan. Baylor kicked the shit out of Houston.
Kind of. Listen, Houston, nice run, gets to the Final Four, but kind of what we always thought in terms of the elite teams, that Houston wasn't on that level, and that's no shame to Houston.
Then we had an hour-long Miley Cyrus concert, which also ruled. But there was so much time in between the games.
And then we get to the Gonzaga-UCLA game. And Gonzaga's 14.5-point favorites.
You think to yourself, okay, this team has won 29 out of their 30 games by double digits. There's no way this is going to be close.
And you're right. UCLA deserves so much credit.
Mick Cronin's a fucking hell of a coach. Johnny Juzang is just a fun name to say.
And also the Blue Bloods keep on losing because if you're a Kentucky fan, you're like, wow, Cal couldn't have played Johnny Juzang just a little bit more. And he transfers from Kentucky to back home to UCLA.
But that game was awesome. The whole time I was sitting there being like, well, when's the Gonzaga run going to happen? When are they going to do what they do to every single team where it's like stop, transition, easy bucket, three, stop, transition, easy bucket, seven-point run, timeout, boom, they've got this.
But UCLA just hung around, and they just played their balls off,

and it was fucking awesome.

After the first half, I knew that UCLA was going to stick around for the full game because they were running with Gonzaga.

They were able to keep that pace up, which I didn't think that they would.

It was also the shots.

If you had told me that in the first half that it was going to be that high scoring

and that UCLA was going to be able to keep pace with them,

I was like, no chance in hell.

The formula was like Mick Cronin is going to do Mick Cronin things, slow the game down, win ugly. But no, Mick Cronin was like, we're going to execute a game plan that nobody sees coming, which is we're going to turn into Gonzaga, basically.
And then really the only lucky parts that UCLA ended up having in the second half when they start hitting some of those desperation mid mid-range jump shots well that's a stretch that's when it was like okay everything is going right for UCLA right now they felt it felt like a team of destiny well it was yeah I mean their their defense was good because but they also just were hitting insane shots like there was as much as that it's game plan and Mick Cronin is an unbelievable coach they also were just hitting so many many shots. What were they shooting? Jake, what did they end up shooting? There was a point when they were shooting like 57% from the field, and it was like Gonzaga was shooting 61%, I think, in the first half.
Yeah, UCLA shot 62% twos. They were just, the shot making was off the charts, and it was, we deserved that game because we had the Elite Eight kind of stunk.
You know, just being honest, it kind of stunk. There wasn't a, you know, a super close, exciting game.
It felt like we hadn't had that game since UCLA and Alabama. And I'll say this, so UCLA's not going to win the tournament, obviously.
They're out. But they won the tournament in terms of, they gave us the best stories.
Like Like the Alabama game was an all-timer. This game was an all-timer.
Alabama was a different all-timer. That was more of like an all-timer tournament game in that the quality of play wasn't great, but the drama was off the charts.
This game had it both. It had the drama and it was fucking like highly played basketball games.
So UCLA, they go six games because they played in the first four. They make this run.
First team to ever win six games and to win their last six games of the season and not win the NCAA tournament after qualifying. Five games.
They won five. They won.
That was their sixth game. When did they win? They lost in the Oregon State.
Okay. Yeah, my mistake.

That's why they ended up being in the 11th season,

because they lost their last four games of the season.

Yeah.

First team to win five games in the NCAA tournament and not win.

I'm not going to win, actually.

VCU 2011.

God damn it.

Sorry.

The first year of the first four. Sorry.

That was the whole story.

That was shocking.

That was the whole storyline that UCLA was the first time to do it since VCU.

Well, I agree with the sentiment that UCLA won this tournament.

Yes, there we go.

They're the champions of this tournament.

And it was, you know what it came down to?

We even started out, we're guilty of this too.

We made this about X's and O's, not Jimmy's and Joe's.

Turns out that UCLA had the Jimmy's and the Joe's.

And the Johnnie's.

And the Johnnie's.

They were just as athletic as Gonzaga was.

And they were able to play.

I mean, they played the game of their lives.

and we'll see you next time. and the Joes.
And the Johnnies. And the Johnnies.
They were just as athletic as Gonzaga was,

and they were able to play.

I mean, they played the game of their lives,

and watching Bill Walton react to it,

that was another life-affirming moment.

Yeah.

Because he didn't even have a moment of silence or sadness.

He was just like, he saw the shot go in,

and he started clapping.

He was like, basketball, man, life is beautiful.

He was Kyle from SNL and Good Neighbors who just has the sports on the side of his. He just stood up like, sports baby.
There's nothing else you can do about it. That was just sports.
What were you going to say? I was going to say shout out to you big guy for mushing the buzzer beater into existence via the Barstool in the Barstool, like, and I created this bet. Like, obviously, this bet, you can find it in other places, but we, like, we had a whole thing where if there were multiple buzzer beaters, it was basically a lightning round where you doubled your money, quadrupled your money.
So this bet came from my brain. What was the bet? So it was, you could bet buzzer beaters for the tournament, and it was under two seconds, a shot that that's under two seconds game winning uh you could bet it for the whole tournament or you could bet it round by round i bet it every single round and then on saturday i'm driving to philly i saw it plus uh 1200 and i was like no fuck it like gonzaga's gonna kill ucla baylor's gonna kill houston there's no reason to do this and the one time i didn't't bet it, just fucking classic.
Thank you for not betting it. Yes.
On behalf of the rest of America. PFT, I want to go back to your point, though.
Miley Cyrus? No. Charles Barkley, who...
How would you rate your... In hindsight, do you think you were too horny on Twitter? No, not horny enough.
People are overreacting to your horniness. Listen, I am an appreciator of art, Hank.
I'm an appreciator of good musicianship. And I am as simp as fuck for Miley Cyrus.
If there's a scale of like one to infinity for my simp level for it. How many concerts have you been to of hers? I've watched several of them.
I went to the one where she did the tour and she had a bunch of... It was almost like a mini circus that she brought out onto the...
She's the greatest entertainer of all time. It was awesome.
For the record, PFT tweeted a picture of Miley and just said, if this was Dog the Bounty Hunter, I would move to Hawaii and get arrested every single day. I appreciate her music.
I actually... No, same.
I mean, listen, 90% of this is about the musical performance she put on, and her song selection, that's a life hack. It's just, if you're an A-list artist, just cover other people's kick-ass songs.
And if you're a good singer, it's going to sound awesome. Plus, when you come out there looking like Dog to Bounty Hunter mixed with Freddie Mercury, mixed with Pamela Anderson from Barbed Wire, you're going to have my attention for at least 30 minutes after you're done performing.
For the first five minutes of the game, brain was still only thinking about miley cyrus also the horny police are turning into like the old takes exposed no the worst like if you mention one thing that's like semi-horny i retweeted police horny police sorry sorry for being a red-blooded american male i retweeted a uh like a uh girl from real housewives and everyone's like, horny police. Like, dude, what? Shut up.
You horny police, they're the horny ones because all they can think about is sex. You know what? Get your mind out of the gutter.
What, are you going to get a sex addiction? Are you addicted to sex? I think we need to normalize being horny. If people stop being horny, then all the people who are horny police would not even exist.
So my Miley Cyrus story is I went to her concert in the United Center in 2014, I want to say, and our friend Dante had backstage passes. So I was so excited.
I wore her shirt, Miley's shirt, rocked out. He was like, I think we can get a chance for you to meet her.
And I was like, fuck yes, this is going to be amazing the bowels of united center for two and a half hours and then i finally asked the security guard outside the like locker room the dressing room and i was like hey do you think miley's coming out soon and he was like dude she literally went from the stage to the bus she's been gone for two and a half hours and i was like okay so i probably needed the horny police there i would do i would wait in miley's Miley's bowels for much longer than that. That's too much.
Respect her fucking music, dude. Choke me with my own guitar chord.
Respect her music. Worst part of the horny police is the bonk with the doge.
Yeah, I got bonked. I hate getting bonked.
I know, I got bonked like a million times. But you know what? At the time, I was like, what if Miley just hit me with something? That would feel good, too.
Don't send me to a horny jail.

What I was going to say is back to the Charles Barkley,

the Jimmys and Joes, and then Joes, and then Jimmys.

So the Baylor-Gonzaga game, there are no Jimmys and Joes.

There is a Joel, though.

Okay.

So who do you think has the edge there?

Joel. Well, no, Joel is a Joe that's holding an L.

So I'm saying— So Gonzaga's going to lose. Yeah.
That's your official prediction. So Baylor, yeah.
Yeah, you have to. Jared Butler's going to go off.
Yeah. Oh, God.
A couple other things from that game. Obviously, Jalen Suggs, the play, the block, which wasn't a block.
I get it, UCLA fans. You have reason to be upset about that.
They also got a makeup call like 10 seconds later. But that wasn't a block.
It was a foul. But the pass was incredible.
And then, obviously, the buzzer beater was insane. Like, to have the presence of mind.
Because I feel like most of the time a player will shoot that way too early. And they'll shoot it, like, at half court.
He was just nonchalant. Like, this is exactly, I know my spot.
I'm going to throw it up there. And I, I think the bank counts because I think that's exactly what he was trying to do.
Well, yeah, you just try to get it up with the right amount of arc on it. And then like you put it in the general vicinity of the basket and let God take care of the rest.
It was in both those plays. I think they both took like exactly three seconds to get from one court from one end of the court to the other.

It was one of the best shots.

I'd say maybe the best shot in NCAA tournament history.

Embrace debate.

I'll just wait for people to do it tomorrow.

I thought it was a foul as well, but people are saying that technically the rule is that

the hand is considered part of the ball when it is in contact with the ball.

It is not a foul if a defensive player makes normal contact with the player's hand when it is in contact with the ball. So people also were saying, though, he didn't establish himself in bounds as well.
People were well-actuallying the play as like, dude, it's a cool fucking play. Relax.
I did see that part. I didn't think that it was a foul on the block.
But it looked like he took one step out of bounds, one step inbounds, then touched the ball. Who cares? At the end of the day,

I think that there are a couple

strong feelings I have about these types of plays.

If it took place in a basketball

game or in a football game, if it's

cool enough, it should not be a penalty

or a foul. Secondly,

I also think that if you

are the type of person that's

going to well actually a great play

like that, you should have a great play taken away from you as well. Well, if you are the type of person, if you're a UCLA fan, you have permission to well actually.
But if you're just a I'm a well actually guy, go fuck yourself. Well, the end of the game, I also saw people saying that that was not a charge.
It was a charge. But I also believe that you should not be able to get called for a charge if you dunk the ball after you charge it.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So I thought it was a charge because Juzang was out of control.
Like, he was out of control. You could tell he was out of control.
Wait, who just said that was the best buzzer beater? I mean, Chris Jenkins is number one. He won the national title.
Yeah. That one has to be number one.
It's no matter what, it's number one. It was a buzz reader to win the national title.
So this over Christian Laettner shot. I still probably would.
The pass was so sick. Yeah, and like Duke, Kentucky, and just, I don't know.
That one, and Christian Laettner, who he was, and how hated he was, and all that shit. And was that, that was the same game he stomped the guy, right? No.
It might not have been. I think that was a different game.
But either way, Chris Jenkins is number one because you won the title. I heard our friend Rico Bosco was saying that Gordon Hayward should be in that discussion even though he didn't make the shot.
Because the shot should have gone in. Which I disagree with.
I love his passion. Same game.
So, yeah, that's the stomp to a buzzer beater. I think that's two, but I think this makes it three.
I think it's number three. Chris Jenkins, that was like a design play right off an inbounds.
No, it was coast to coast. Yeah, it's close.
It's close for me. You cannot top a buzzer beater to win the title.
The entire game was just so awesome. I'm still buzzing off of it.
Yeah. No, I couldn't fall asleep.
It's just one of those affirming moments. You're like, sports rule.
This is why we watch a 51-49 Michigan-UCLA game. Yes.
Till midnight. This is why we sat there and watched Baylor kick the shit out of Houston.
And I guess if we want to, like, go, oh, one other point I had about Gonzaga. Drew Timmy on Gonzaga is so fucking good in the post, but he is testing.
He is really testing, like, if I want to go full dad. Because when he does his flex and the mustache thing in a, like, one possession game when you're 14-point favorites, and he did it multiple times.
I really want to yell at a cloud. Like, I really – my inner – I'm just like, dude, just get back.
Fucking act like you've been there. You guys are the number one seed.
Shut up. But I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to do it. But I want to.
I'm going to buy a copy of the Charlotte Observer tomorrow, see if we have any letters to the editor, because that's where we would see it if it was. I think that you're on to something.
Just a slight suggestion for Timmy. You should not do that while the clock is running.
Do it at a break in the game. That's when it feels like you get to do the celebration, I'm going to touch my mustache thing.
If you're doing it while the clock is running, even if you're not in a place where you should be getting back on defense, I'm going to be like, that guy is a reason for that next bucket because he didn't get back on defense because he was touching his mustache. And also, not COVID safe.
Yeah, and I love the emotion so that's why I'm reserving. I'm not going to go full crazy on him, but it just, it struck me more in the it's like it's a one-point game.
UCLA's playing their balls off. You're a 14-point favorite.
You're supposed to win this game. You're undefeated and maybe get back on defense.
Again, I'm not going to do the full thing, but we just basically did it. I'm just saying.
Either way, I love watching him play because his low post moves are insane and you know he's clearly you know how we do the not the best player but the most important player he's the most important player and he might even he's probably also the heart and soul I would say well he might be what if he's the best player and the most important player he's not the best player in my mind on Gonzaga I think Jalen Suggs or Kispert are in that category but he is the most important in that it's clear that he's like the emotional everyone looks to him for the emotion the problem I have is maybe you have too many good players on Gonzaga it's the just one ball there they're so good and their passing is so good and like they it's not like they played a bad game it's not it wasn't one of those uh almost upsets where it's like oh the favorite was just off UCLA just made all their shots and just fucking you know was toe-to-toe with them so I'm this this game tonight is going to be awesome some are saying it's the most anticipated game since UNC Illinois in 2005. John Rothstein is one of them, one of our good friends.
So, listen, if you're a hoop head like us, I would say it's up there. I don't think it's going to get the national number for all the ratings police that are going to try to shame us for watching a game that was lowly rated.
We're going to get bonked by the ratings police? I would say that anticipation, ratings are a result of anticipation. But in terms of...
So if the ratings are bad, how high could the anticipation really have been? You're right. Nationally, I wouldn't be shocked, especially with the game starting at, I think, 10-15 Eastern Time.
I know it's 9-20, but that's still ridiculous. 920? That's dinner.
That's sitting around. That's a snack after dinner.
That's your late night snack. And then the game's going to tip off.
It's going to be late. And then it's going to be like a 30 minute halftime.
That's actually what they should do if they want to ensure more people tune in. Have her run it back.
Do the exact same set list. Wear the exact same outfits that she was wearing.
Would you dance in one of those cubes by yourself if given the opportunity? Those people were the real MVP. There was one guy that was clearly with his girlfriend that just didn't want to be there.
They were so unnecessarily spaced out, too. There was like 15 feet in between.
There were like those little gym mats that they give you in elementary school to be like this is where you have to sit. It was credit to them for being able to rock out in an environment with five other people attending.
Agreed. But in terms of the game, okay, so I agree with you Hank, the ratings are not going to be great in a national conscience it's not going to be the most anticipated game.
It's not going to be even close to the most watched game. But if you follow college basketball and you love college basketball, this is one of the most anticipated finals in terms of it's a COVID year.
These are the two best teams since the beginning. They were supposed to play.
COVID canceled that game. And now you have it where it's, okay, the two teams that have been head and shoulders above everyone else for the entire year.
Because remember, Baylor was undefeated, then they get COVID, then they lost to Kansas, and they lost in the Big 12 Championship. If Baylor doesn't get COVID, they might be undefeated too.
That's how good they've been. And Gonzaga going for the first perfect season since 1976, I'm fucking excited,'m sorry that i'm the lame guy who's like sports are cool but god damn it sports are fucking cool so there's going to be high ratings in indiana i bet they're going to be watching this because you know yeah birthplace obviously well not only is it the mecca of college basketball but it's also you get to see uh whether or not that gonzaga is going to take your crown the last undefeated.
Because right now, that's like what Indiana has as that's that's their like bragging rights right now. It's like nobody's done this since us.
And then they've got actually this whole final four was very Indiana heavy. Well, yeah.
Kelvin Sampson. Yeah.
You had a lot of stuff that was like directly daggers twisting in Indiana's heart. Well, in 49 states, it's just it's basketball.
But in Indiana, it's something different. It's life.
Yeah, it's like the SEC. It just means more.
I like those things. But yeah, this is...
I'm just excited. I'm excited for this game.
Who do you guys... So are you taking Baylor? Well, I mean, I don't know if I can say that I'm taking Baylor just because Gonzaga has a guy named Joel.
Yeah. But it makes a lot of Joel.
He's good. He's really good.

It makes a lot of sense to me. It was funny though.

That Charles Barkley clip about the Jimmys

and Joes, X's and O's. Hank, can you

play the clip? Can we put that in?

The difference between Baylor and Gonzaga

and these other teams,

Houston got some Joes.

All these teams got some Joes.

These are the only two guys

got Jims and Joes. And that's what

the win game. A lot of teams got

Jims and Jims. A lot of teams got some Joes.
Bear Lake and Zocca, the only team, the only two teams in the tournament got Jims and Joes. So I tweeted out that video, and then I woke up this morning and I had like hundreds of people arguing in my mentions about the state of race relations in America and how that how identity politics is either ruining or bolstering the American electoral system.
I was like, what the fuck is going on here? And then I realized that Charles Barkley had another political take that I said earlier that looked exactly like what this video was. I don't care about the other one.
I think that Charles Barkley's diatribe on Jimmy's and Joe's and X's and O's. It was great.
It was incredible. Like, the sabermetrics he was pulling out of his ass there were unbelievable.
So I think I got to go with Joel. Or against Joel.
I'm going against Joel. I'm going with Baylor.
I'm going with our guy Jared. I love Joel EIE, too.
He's fucking good, man. He's so good.
I'm taking Baylor. He's so good.
Only one team has had a player that's come on this show in the past few weeks. Yep.
I heard a little birdie in my ear said that Corey Kispert might be an AWL. So we'll see if that works out.
I'm going to take Gonzaga. I think they're going to win.
I think it's going to be an awesome game. And I'm hoping for another buzzer beater because I still have over one and a half buzzer beaters for the tournament.
There you go. So that bet.
Yeah. Overs Club.
Who would ever fucking... Oh yeah, Overs Club

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Yeah, I'm just excited for this game.

Jake, do you have any updated One Sh shining moments from this week i mean no just the sugs shot and the sugs blocking uh pass sequence okay suck out both those maybe some baylor threes from against houston but it was a blowout maybe some houston tears yeah quentin grimes it was so weird because houston what about the, let's talk about that. That was from my who's back.
Yeah, so the – Sorry, Jake. Houston, that game was so weird because the first, like, minute and a half, Houston did the thing where they just got, like, four offensive rebounds and then scored, and you're like, oh, man, this is going to be tough for Baylor, and then from that point on it was all Baylor.
Did you see the tool that they use in Houston's practice, the basket? Yes. The bubble that they use? Yeah.
They just put, like, a bubble that's got five different bubbles on top of the rim. And then so you can't make a shot, and it makes the rebounds unpredictable.
Right. And then Tracy Wolfson was like, this is why Houston might win tonight, because they're used to offensive rebounding.
And at the time, it made a lot of sense. And I was like, fuck, she's right.
Houston's going to be way better because they use this weird thing. Turns out that there's more to the game of basketball.
I would say seeing the ball go through the hoop is also important. So it's important to be able to make shot.
That's the other side of the coin that she didn't bring up. They literally put a seal over the rim in practice.
Yeah, she had me totally convinced that the fact that they were able to grab their own misses more effectively made them a better team. It's like, well, maybe Baylor isn't as good at offensive rebounding because they don't miss as many shots.
Yes, and shout out to that Baylor walk-on who came in and hit the over with trying just way too hard in a 20-point game. Actually, you know what, Jake? Put this in your calendar, a reminder.
I want to do a first-team walk-on, like national walk-on team of the year for all just guys. I believe that player got put on scholarship the night before the game.
Oh, wow. And he passed me over.
That's incredible. So I want to, next year, like everyone does, like, you know, All-Americans, I want to have a spread-covering walk-on All-American team.
Got it. So we'll just have guys who cover spread.
Because they always, it's the best part about college basketball is, like, guys who come in with two minutes left, and they shouldn't be playing in a game, and they are just trying way, way too hard. And you get moments like that.
You could tell that he wanted to make one of those shots. Yeah, of course.
up to the line he started like patting his chest he's like you got he was following through on his shot yes on a free throw you rarely see that somebody hold the hand up and wait for the shot to go in it was electric where do we stand on the court uh the the splattered paint the jackson little bit weird is it did look like there a massive spill. It looked like the court got bukkake before the game started.

It's a little distracting.

I'm one of the guys that when you see a Final Four,

I just want it to look normal.

Yeah.

As normal as you can make a court, that is the perfect Final Four court.

It reminds me of a great writer in Chicago, Rick Thielander,

who has been a sports writer forever for the Sun-Times,

We're not going to do that. Reminds me of there's a great writer in Chicago, Rick Thielander, who he's been a sports writer forever for the Sun-Times.

And he, like, I think it was probably about 10 years ago.

You know how they have the graphic on the baseline in the NBA?

He thought that it was actually coming out of the ground. And he wrote an article or it may have been a tweet being like, this is a hazard to the players.

They could trip over. I like it.
And it was like, no, dude, that's actually just painted on there. Yeah, it's like when you watch a professional EPL, sometimes they'll have the fake 3D graphics on the screen in the middle of the field.
You're like, somebody should get that big triangular pad that says Fly Emeritus off the field. Someone's going to get hurt.
But Rick was ahead of his time because i actually agree with him yeah like some they get too funky with the baseline and it fucks you up i agree he like he was criticized then he should be lauded now be like the technology on the baseline just keep it simple yes i i want a court that looks exactly like the courts did the the minute they introduced hickory high yes yeah yeah exactly i don't even yeah i don't even want anything there i just want it to be old wood look

don't you think it though it's like uh it's like the super bowl logos like it's better when they

have more personality like when they show clips of the old tournaments and they're playing on the

the random floors or the different colored floors like it's better than when they just

turn everything into generic put it at mid court boom done they they actually do different final

Thank you. playing on the random floors or the different colored floors.
It's better than when they just turn everything into generic. Put it at mid-court.
Boom. Done.
They actually do different Final Four logos every year. It's just the paint splatter did fuck me up a little bit.
I thought there was confetti on the ground or something. Whose job was it? I want that guy's job to just go around and drop cans of paint on the baseline, on the sidelines.
We need a lot more to work with because they're like, we have no fans, so you have all this extra space. Yeah.

The court looked like I had been standing

on it watching Miley Cyrus perform.

Alright. Bonk.

Don't act like she didn't

put on the best performance on television

I've ever seen in life. Yeah, I've loved Miley forever.

I fucking love Miley.

I'm out on Cardi B.

New friend, Miley Cyrus. Yeah.
Miley's fucking awesome. She's a great singer.
That's where I respect her as a singer. Anything else from the final four? Anything else? Well, we had also the women's championship tonight.
Arizona won. No.
Stanford won. Arizona covered.
So Arizona won in my mind. UConn, though.
Sad. Friday night.
Pagy buckets. Awesome games, though.
Like the Baylor-UConn game was up there with any of the other tournament games. I'm not just saying this.
I'm sure people will be like, oh, you're just saying. I watched from I think the Sweet 16 on.
It was great. The Stanford-South Carolina game on Friday night was one of the best games of basketball I've ever seen.
Like the second half of that was. Last 10 seconds.
Last 10 seconds was crazy. You saw there was a put-back shot that hit off the back rim from Boston, and then she started crying.
I've never seen somebody cry more tears as fast as she did right when that happened. Like you have to be very sad to have your entire face covered in tears within a half a second of something bad happening yeah yeah it was just you felt bad it was one of those water i was like yes because i bet on stanford and then i was like well now i feel bad but yeah the last i think the last like five women's games that i've watched have all been incredible yes yes and uh yeah shout out ari for covering.
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Henry, who's back of the week? My guy, Paul Pierce, the truth. Yes.
Went on Instagram Live Friday night. Had, like, a solid 300 people watching him.
I think, I don't know if he, you know, he's the guy that tweeted a picture of the rocket emoji instead of the actual emoji. You know, there's the picture of him with the two phones.
Who knows if he knew that he was actually on Instagram Live? Not internet literate. No, no.
So he went on Instagram Live, he had a bunch of strippers at his house. Dancers.
Okay. We don't know if they showed up in that, in their underwear, or if they took off other clothes to get into their underwear.
The duality of PFT.

He's going to talk about ramming stuff down Miley Cyrus' orifices.

No, no, no.

I was talking about her doing that to me.

Please, dancers, not strippers.

But he was smoking blunts, hanging out with the dancers, shit-faced, and it was just a hilarious thing.

He had like 300 people watching, and then obviously someone screen-recorded it. People took the screenshots, put them on Twitter, had like a bajillion views.
Everyone was talking about it. And then he tweeted at like 7 o'clock last night, like, good morning.
The greatest, one of the greatest tweets, like, if you don't have the context, you would not understand what's going on. But it's in the middle of the Gonzaga-UCLA game, and he just pops on for a good morning.
After you know... After being basically the conversation, everyone's like, there's always a main character on Twitter every single day, and you never want it to be you.
He was the main character on Twitter for the entire morning. And lead up to the Gonzaga game.
It was impressive that he was able to log off and stay offline for that long. Unless he actually just woke up.
But yeah, most people would have tried to put together some sort of PR statement or an apology, a notes app maybe. But not Paul.
He was just like, you know what? I'm going to wait until the middle of the most exciting basketball game possible, and that's when I'm going to come. It was actually a brilliant move on his part.
It makes it so much better knowing that there were probably people at ESPN and Disney freaking out and like his agent was calling him and everyone was like, dude, what are you doing? Like trending. Good morning.
What are you going to do? He's up now. My favorite was when he was talking to the phone.
It must have been a bizarre thing to see if you were in the room because Paul Pierce was just holding his phone up in front of his face, talking into his phone while he had women stripping behind him. Dancing.
Throwing chips me. Throwing chips.
And he was like, where are you from? Oh, Istanbul's? Yeah. I like turkeys.
Yeah. Like, I've been to turkeys.
Oh, man. I mean, it's awesome.
Hilarious move. And Paul Pierce, like, an athlete just essentially saying, I have all this money.
I have a ring. I'm just going to have fun.
And what are you going to do about it? The truth. The best.
The best. Is that it, Hank? Yeah, and I also had every franchise in the history of Warner Brothers.
Oh, yeah. Space Jam.
Space Jam commercial came out in every franchise in the history of Warner Brothers. It made a cameo.
Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones.
Clockwork Orange. Clockwork Orange.
Rob making a new super team. You guys see that? Hear about that? That was funny.
Lola Bunny. Yeah.
Everyone. Shout out our guy B-Dub Carlin being like, this movie's for kids.
Like, if you don't. I was like, dude, guess what? It's LeBron.
I don't care that it's for kids. I'm still going to bash it.
Like, of course I am. I'm going'm gonna watch there is no yeah no i'm gonna watch

it and if i like it which i probably will i won't say it yeah what in the what was his line what in the matrix hell as he's like going into the server and then it looks sick yeah it does it honestly looks like it's going to be in the head yes no it looks like it's going to be a good movie we would watch something like that that's what i'm thinking uh my who's back in the week is jordan Yeah. Jordan Spieth won.
And it's very funny to see the people who were like, this is the best storyline, this is the best thing that we could have for golf, because Jordan Spieth won again. We've all been rooting for Jordan Spieth to finally make a comeback.
And I've never really understood, like, I guess Jordan Spieth is okay, but he's like Billy's little brother. Well, he was supposed to be the next one.
Yeah, but I don't understand why people are like, this is so awesome that Jordan Spieth is. Why is he the most rootable golf person out there? Because everyone anointed him as the next great thing.
He was awesome to start his career. And if you watch him, he is the biggest head case of all time.
So I think everyone feels bad for him. Okay.
Because, like, he'll do that thing in the tee box where he'll have, like, a nervous tick with his, like, club and his hand and his towel and all that stuff. Okay.
So he reminds them of themselves sometimes. Yeah, he's had meltdowns.
He's had just very public, like, failures. So I think it's just like anything in america where we build people up just

to tear them down and when they're at their absolute lowest we root them on and be like we were with them from day one yeah exactly where you get you get the greatest story watching somebody overcome a situation that you've put them in right exactly that's why that saw guy did so many kidnappings and murders yes he enjoyed the story of watching them escape but but it was weird. Like seeing, they acted like he was, like he battled back from having like a severe back injury or like he was paralyzed and now he's learned to walk again and he can win or like a coach that got into a vehicular manslaughter situation.
And then they came back like they were acting like it was a feel good story like that. Not just like a guy that was good, then he was bad, now he's good again.
And he's also balding. That also adds into the whole thing where it's like, hey, that sucks, you're like 24 and you've lost your hair.
He's not 24 anymore, but he was losing his hair when he was like 24. Yeah, that one shot that they'd always have of him at the end of any round on the 18th green taking the hat off.

You see the giant white line on his forehead.

And if you can get the bald community behind you, I mean, you got like SVP, Dickie V, Brasillo, Brasillo, not really balding.

That's more by choice.

The Rock.

The Rock.

Larry David.

Howie Mandel.

Billy?

Billy?

You got someone?

MJ?

Oh, Bezos.

LeBron?

Charlie Villanueva?

Come on.

Kevin Durant?

Come on, Billy.

You can't name one bald person.

Who?

Rogan.

Joe Rogan.

Oh, there we go.

Okay. Okay.
Good job, billy he's searching bald people bald people yeah mr clean what comes up the night king the night king good one hank costanza johnny sins oh yeah go the porn route carl ravage horn episode ever. Carl Ravitch, yes, Bill Self.
The bald guys. The bald guys.
All right. My who's back of the week is War Mode.
War Mode is back. So I was driving into work a couple hours ago, and I was pulling from 29th Street to 7th, and I see a young Billy Football crossing the street.
So I thought, hey, this would be funny. Run him over.
I turn towards him, and I lay on my horn, and to say that I saw War Mode, boys, he didn't know it was me. He clenched his fists and started screaming so loud at my car.
I was actually nervous that he was going to try to just strangle me through the window i saw war mode i saw it like now i know why jose canseco took a dive wearing his sunday best for easter too it was crazy and then when he wore a nice little v-neck sweater when i when i pulled down the window i was like hey billy it's me he was so like ashamed because i saw a rage and i saw i saw the weapons yeah weapons came out. I was going to say, if he punched your car, he could have destroyed it.
It was fucking nuts, dude. He went full berserker mode, zero to 60.
No, no, no. It wasn't zero to 60.
I got beeped. So I'm in the crosswalk.
I get beeped at once. I'm like, oh, fuck.
Is the light red? Am I the asshole? Look, I saw a green light. And then in my mind, it's like, okay.
And then I was like, oh, maybe the guy. My brain moves pretty fast.
Yeah. Maybe the guy.
That's an understanding. Maybe the guy didn't know that.
How do you know it's a guy? Well, whoever was beeping at me. So anyway, the guy in my, who I don't know who it is yet, on the horn again after that and then i was like this motherfucker and he went he's a rageaholic i think you're a rageaholic no do you remember when he was doing the burner thing and he got and you saw the veins pop is that the is that the mode you saw bill answer i'm scared like i i actually you know what my shoulder started to hurt right away.
And I was like, I'll just take my million dollars and lay down in the corner of the ring. I'm not on steroids, I swear.
I think Billy just walked around. What? Wait.
Yeah, that came out of nowhere. Everyone was accusing me of roid rage.
Everyone? Everyone was? Everyone's still doing it? Yeah. What? No.
Okay. No, seriously.
Billy, are you kidding me? I'll take a drink. I think most people right now listening to this objectively are like, Billy's definitely not on steroids because he just said it out of the blue.
Guys, I'm also, as one on the record, I'm not on steroids. I'm not on steroids as well.
Same. Billy, I mean, I will take a piss test.
I could look at you and be like, I know you're not on steroids, but people can't see that. Yeah, Jake, are you shooting up with with anything? Jake hasn't said anything.
Billy slipped me some. Oh.
Slipped you Mickey? My other who's back is Brooks Koepka because he's going to play in the Masters. He's going to give it a go.
I think he's still injured. He actually had an Instagram story where it was, I think it was the kid from Little Giants.
He's got to pay for that engagement ring. Yeah, all like bundled up in styrofoam.
So he's going to do it. He's a warrior.
It was a questionable move on his part to get engaged on April Fool's Day. That seems like a very tricky day to be able to pull off something that sincere.
Yes. Oh, also, Jon Rahm, I think, just had a kid.
And that's like the best betting advice you'll ever get in your entire life is after a guy on the PGA has a kid, they always win. Yep, because they always have the baby that shows up to greet them at the end.
Max Homo plus 5,000. Does he have a kid? To make the cut? To win.
Max should just adopt a kid last minute. That was mean of me.
Maybe we'll have him on on Wednesday. Max, if you want to adopt Billy so that you can be like, I also have a new son.
Yes. Get a little bit of that magic going.
He's not on steroids. No.
All right, Billy. My who's back of the week is ketosis.
I think it's time, guys. I've been thinking a lot about your guys' health recently.
We've been through a couple of health scares, kidney stones, whatnot. And Big Cat has been on a diet recently.
So I thought let's take it seriously this time. For like four days.
We're going to get you guys meal prep, which is great. And we're just going to go for it because I read this study that when your brain runs on ketones, it's neuroprotective, so it wards off stuff like Alzheimer's or like Do you think we have dementia? How does an inquisitive mind like yours go about finding studies such as these? I live on a weird part of the internet, but it's fine.
But I think it's actually really cool and I'll do it too this time. Alright right.
Here's my only problem is last time you put us on ketosis, the rules changed like every bite we were having. This time I'm going to get the plan made out by a little meal prep type stuff and it's going to be awesome.
I've also heard that ketosis cannot be a great idea if you have any sort of like kidney issue. Is that true? Haven't looked into that.
No, liver might have that too yeah so uh well you want to look great at the beach i heard you want to six pack summer yeah so we'll actually get it we'll get to it it'll be sick i'm actually not going to get a six pack there's things that i have the goals that i have in mind to achieve a six pack it's just a list of six goals and i call that the six pack true i my mind about having a six-pack the second it left my lips. No, but we're actually going to do it.
I'm going to make Jake do it, too. It's going to be great.
Alright. Billy's got a scheme, but that's besides the point.
Somebody's paying Billy to put us... He's got a scheme.
I don't have a scheme. You have a how-can-I-get-food scheme.
Yeah. Yeah, Billy, you just want free protein.
He told me the scheme. I mean, he's not a scheme.
He didn't tell me it as a scheme. He told me that it's like, here's the plan.
And it actually is a good plan. It's legitimately a good plan.
But now that I've thought about it more, it's really just Billy wants. He was like, we could get a meal company or we could get like someone to give us a bunch of meat and we'll cook it.

Got it.

Now I'm realizing, and now that you're saying it out loud on the show, it's like you're just figuring out a way to get meat all summer.

Respect.

Yeah, no, dude.

I'm cool with that.

You get me in shape, you get free meat.

Boom.

Done.

That's fair.

No, but we're actually going to do it.

But you need to do the shape. You need to get me in shape.
No, I will. You can't just get the free meat.
So it's basically like... Let's get a weed ptosis.
What's that? It's like this new diet I read a study on. You just smoke weed? I have a question for you, Billy, as our nutritionist.
Do you think like... I always think like, could just like do like a cereal diet or like a PB and J diet? Something that's not that hard.
Like just only eat peanut butter and jelly. That'd probably work.
All right. So maybe we'll just do that.
You should use me as your test tube. That came out wrong.
Tim Brown used to do the cereal diet, right? Did he? I think so. I think his thing was his thing was like people be like how are you in such great shape all the time showing up for training camps he'd be like i literally eat cereal for every meal that would be awesome but like i want but i also like the the problem is i say it but it's all just gonna be sugar cereal well you also get you get protein from the shrimp yeah no but it's true i i want to see what my brain's like on ketones because like they say that you get so much

more energy and like people drink less.

Like one guy was like, I don't have to drink coffee anymore because I'm just so.

Sounds like you just want to use cocaine.

Yeah.

I don't want.

I don't want to stop drinking coffee.

Your brain on ketosis might be like being on cocaine all the time.

I'm in.

I'm in, Billy.

Okay.

I'm in.

Boom.

Who's a lot of weight?

Billy makes this podcast Joe Rogan's show. That will happen this summer.
All right, Jake, do you have a who's back? Skip Bayless not being nice. Wait, that's a segment.
King's Day Kings. Oh, are you stealing that because Hank stole yours? No, it was unintentional.
Scratch it. My who's back is languages.
Okay. Okay.

Take it on his feet here.

No, I actually had it.

Okay, I like this.

They released the Russia and the Hispanic final call. It was pretty cool.

I saw that.

It was like rate this versus that.

Well, how do you know that they're not cussing in those languages, Jake?

They could be.

They could be, yeah.

The only word I recognize is when they say the name.

Yeah, you should learn more languages, and then you could be like a one-stop shop for all the calls. Okay.
That would be kind of cool, right? Yeah. Do you speak Hebrew? Shalom.
There it is. You should do the Hebrew calls.
You did a good job with your call. Oh, thank you.
It kind of got washed out because everyone was screaming. Yeah, but that's...
That's fucked up by them. That's sports, baby.
Yeah, and that's just the moment swept us all away. It happens.
And Hank aptly said he saw me just sink into the couch and it's because I didn't bet plus 1,200. Well, yeah, it happened.
I was like, buzzer beater. I was like, all right, can we see this reaction? Big Cat's going to be going nuts.
And then everyone stood up and started screaming and Big Cat sunk on the couch. I was like, aw.
Con, wear my emotions on my sleeve on that one. Maybe I'll learn.
You should either do Hebrew or the Canadian call. Do all of them.
That would be very funny. Do all of them.
Just do like 12 languages in the final call? Yes. All right, I'll try my best.
Let's have it ready for Tuesday's show. Have the winning last 10 seconds in every language.
That would be great. You got it.
Okay, awesome. Love it, Jake.
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Okay, here he is, Triple H. Okay, we now welcome on recurring guest, someone we've had on before we went up to Connecticut to interview him last time.
It is EVP of Global Talent Strategy and Development for WWE. It's Triple H.
We have the NXT TakeOver coming up April 7th. Simulcast on USA Network and Peacock.
April 8th live on Peacock. WrestleMania coming up that weekend, April 10th and April 11th, live from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa on Peacock.
So, Triple H, I think we'd only ask you this question because we're not with you right now, but we have had other people who are streaming on Peacock on the show, and we have to ask, what's it like being cock so far I've loved it yeah you know I didn't think it would be something I would say uh but yeah you know so far uh it's been great you know um some people complain about it uh you know but but but so far it's been good I think people are enjoying the peacock. Yeah, okay, so in a real question here, people were complaining about it.
So what do you do when you guys have been so successful for so long? Is there a part of you when you hear fans be like, hey, this is the wrong direction or, you know, we're mad about this? So in today's world, does anything happen that people don't initially complain about? No. Dessert? Yeah, tweeting about bacon or something.
Yeah, dessert and bacon. Even that, I guarantee you that people still bitch about bacon.
They have some kind of complaint about it right away. Bacon's cooked too much.
There's really no complaint about that. I'm of the opinion that no matter what you do, people are going to, in their initial take on it, their initial thought is to question or criticize.
Nothing is perfect in its first iteration. And there'll be a lot of changes that are made.
We're aware of a lot of the things they had to get to. The transition was fast.
They have to migrate a ton of content. People don't understand how much content there actually is on the WWE Network that needs to migrate over to Peacock.
And that's happening now. So, you know, it's a work in progress.
It's great that people like the WWE Network so much that they're concerned about where it's going. But I think that in short order, we'll get there.
I think people will be excited. And I think this is going to be a great thing for people long term, you know, for the same as what you were paying before.
You're getting a lot more content and a lot more alternative stuff. And I think it'll be a good thing long term for everybody.
So if you're listening at home and you're not you're not watching this, Triple H right now is sitting in front of a giant bookcase. You've got it looks to be like maybe 100 books behind you.
Have you read all those books? One. I was going to say, I like to imagine that they're all just really heavy things that look like books just in case you need to beat the shit out of somebody.
Yeah. There, there's a lot of that.
Actually there's some of those are like books that stuff that people sent us over time from things that we were in or stuff like that. Probably not looked at any of them.
I just, Oh, I was in that put on the shelf. Never really looked at it.
It looks like you've got one anthology up there anthologies are always a nice look in the background yeah that's always it makes you seem important you know towards the bottom i don't know if you can see it towards the bottom there's like some zz top stuff and some album stuff like sweet my um for my 50th birthday my wife had Billy Gibbons played at my birthday party

with

uh

uh 50th birthday my wife had um billy gibbons played at my birthday party with um uh i'm blanking right now that the singer from credence clearwater revival fogarty um fogarty sorry yeah fogarty played and so it's all stuff from that that's awesome awesome. So I don't know, I'm sure you saw

because you probably lift with him, but I saw a video

of Vince, your father-in-law,

deadlifting over

almost a thousand pounds.

He's 75 years old.

Are you worried that he's going to kick your ass?

So you saw a video of him deadlifting a thousand pounds?

Oh no, so squatting. It was squatting.

Sorry, he squatted. Sorry.
It was a weird squatting machine. Yeah, yeah, it's a pit shark it's called.
No, no, look, Vince is incredible, and you can say that. It's almost on, like, every level.
He's 75-plus. His work ethic is greater than anybody I've ever seen.
He's still to this day. You know, I mean, he's in the office first thing in the day.
He's there all day. He's meeting with writers till one in the morning, two in the morning.
Then he goes downstairs and he trains, you know, his trainers there like ungodly hours. They go downstairs at downstairs at 2 a.m and I mean he just gets after it and he doesn't sleep that much um still trains like that still you know eats very particular about his food he's just a machine he's just a very disciplined person and uh that is his work ethic is second to none I mean it's most people that work in this company i think long term it's it's just there's just a burnout factor it's hard to hang with him for a long period of time if you're on the same schedule he's on man it's it's uh it's 24 7 yeah i'm watching the video right now it's got you've got acdc blaring in the background i have to imagine just walking through the hallways of wwe there's just always acdc coming from every single room if your events is there yes yeah that's like his go-to music especially for training like he he listens to the same stuff every time when he trains you know um yeah he just he's just he's a creature of habit but he's – he's just insane when it comes to that stuff.

You know, he will wrap up Raw, you know, on a Monday night.

It's 11.

He's got to travel somewhere, and then, you know, you'll get where you're going,

and he'll go, yeah, no, Mike's meeting me.

I'm going to a gym right now.

And he's either found a gym that's open 24 hours

or he's had somebody preemptively go in there and talk to the gym owner,

and he's got them going in there and opening it up for him.

Thank you. He's either found a gym that's open 24 hours or he's had somebody preemptively go in there and talk to the gym owner.
And he's got them going in there and opening it up for him at one in the morning or whatever time it is. So we can go in there and train.
And he's just a machine with that stuff. And, yeah, it's a great thing.
If you like to work out, it's a great thing having a meathead for a boss in a way, because, you know, you're going to have a first class gym. we in the process of of talking about moving some things and and uh you know office spaces and all that and it's the first thing he's like well where's the gym gonna go that's his first question i love it what keeps what keeps him moving yeah so i'm pumped for wrestlemania it's in tampa i have a prediction you can i'm just going to judge your eyes if you don't answer yes or no rob gronkowski is going to make return to wrestlemania this year yes or no it's a possibility has been you know i know that's been discussed um i'm of i'm of the opinion that as the first opportunity with gronk was happening and we were meeting with them and around the super bowl and everything else like you kind of sort of don't know what Gronk's going to do until Gronk does what he's going to do.
So you can have a lot of conversations, but until he actually shows up somewhere, I don't know that it's actually going to happen. So there's been conversations around that.
But, you know, there's going to be a lot of, as always, celebrity always celebrity influence and and i know as you guys know bad bunny is is heavily um involved in this year's wrestlemania will actually be wrestling the miz on night one of wrestlemania and that's incredible and it's it's funny to me let's tell you this because i think a lot of people look at somebody like bad bunny and they go like, what is he doing? You know, WWE.

I wish they wouldn't do that or whatever.

I haven't seen.

He's one of the guys that from a celebrity standpoint, he's been a huge fan and I've met him a few times and I knew he was at that level of fandom. But when I say dedicated himself to the idea that he was going to do something with WWE, like picked himself up, rented a house in Orlando, moved to Orlando and has been at the PC every day.
I mean, go and add it. I see people online going, wait, first time he takes a bump in the ring, he'll be done with it.
Dude, that was a long time ago. He is tearing it up in the ring every day.
So when people say, you know, oh, he's taking up a spot, he's earned my respect in his spot that he has. He doesn't need to be doing this.
It's a dream for him. He's like a little kid that's getting the opportunity to do what he's dreamed of his whole life.
But he's not just saying, oh, they've given me the spot because I'm an international music star or whatever.

He's earned every second of it.

So one of my favorite parts about WrestleMania is the Hall of Fame.

And Kane is getting inducted this year, one of my favorite wrestlers of all time.

How does the Hall of Fame voting process work?

Because we like to make fun of, like, Baseball Hall of Fame. They're all just old writers who are, you know, stuck up their own ass.
How does, who decides the wrestling hall of fame? How does that go down? So there's a lot of people that put in suggestion on it from within the company. So writing teams, you have people in television production.
So across the board, There's a lot of people putting input into it. And then it gets whittled down by different departments until we get to a base of more people than we need.
And then Vince makes the final call on where it's going to go from there. I love that.
So he gets to decide. It's like whoever will get the highest ratings.
Right. Vince is going to put those guys up.
Or Vince Lise. Yeah, to a degree, I think it's a little bit of that.
You know, Vince looks at Hall of Fame as, you know, or WWE looks at Hall of Fame as a moment of entertainment as well. So it's not just about who's going to go in in that moment.
It's a part of a show. And what he believes in as part of that is so that somebody like Kane is going

to get an opportunity to go on a stage.

This year will be different because of the way it is, but, but you know,

in years past,

you're going to get an opportunity to go and relive your career one more time

in a show and sort of be a part of that and have an entertainment value to that. And you want to kind of make that a show across the board, not just be some, you know, stodgy show.
That's, you know, you're an hour and 45 minutes in it and you regret watching because everybody's been saying the same thing and it's boring. You want it to have kind of ups and downs and be entertainment.
And he really believes in that. So that's a lot of what goes into it.
I think the sort of the who deserves to be in is talked about a lot from everybody else. And then he kind of takes that list of who deserves and then kind of goes through it and figures out how the entertainment component of it can work and say, like, this guy's going to be really dry.
This guy will be dry, too. Let's wait and put this dry guy in next year because we're going to put this dry guy in already this year.
So, you know, balance it out. But all Hall of Fame should be like this.
That's what I was kind of getting at. Like, if you're the commissioner, if you're the president, if you're the owner, you should just get – you basically become God.
Vince McMahon gets to be God, and he's like, all right, you're in, you're out. That's how it should be, not writers, none of this other stuff.
It should just be one person deciding all of it. You know, it's a funny thing for me is whenever I see stuff like that, I watch people go, well, who decides this and why is it decided that way? And it's so biased, it's terrible.
But anybody that decides it, if you let one person decide it, it's always biased. Right.
Because at that point, it's just opinion. Music Hall of Fame, what of fame what's good music it's opinion yeah you know so so all those things become opinion who should be and who shouldn't be and it's all opinion i i guess to your point at the end of the day uh if you if you if you're your gig you get to have the opinion yeah exactly i also read online that you're friends with ben roethlisberger is that true am.
So what are the odds of Ben ever getting into the ring? You think Ben could handle a few bumps? He's tough, dude. He's one of those guys that's played some seasons pretty banged up and just keeps rolling.
It's a funny thing. I met Ben years ago.
A bunch of the offensive line came to a bunch of shows in Pittsburgh, and then they did something with us at a raw television with DX, actually, and Roethlisberger was in the ring, and they did some things. It's a funny thing.
I'm not a huge football fan, so I'll go to to the Super Bowl but I don't know enough about it to sit there and debate it or talk about you know Shawn Michaels makes fun of me all the time like I'll make the joke but I don't even know what inning it is um and um so Ben and I kind of hit it off but more based on um just outside uh life. And we never, like, I've been to some of his games, but we hardly ever talk about football.
He's come to the wrestling, but he doesn't really ever, he doesn't follow it that closely. But at a time in his life where he was trying to figure out how to stop being Big Ben, I think, and get down to real life and not have

to be this image anymore and get married, have kids, and change who he was and all that.

We kind of bonded around a lot of that stuff.

So we have a cool relationship.

We don't talk all the time, but every now and then we get on the phone together.

So you might not be able to answer this, but I'm very curious.

WrestleMania, it's such a great spectacle it's awesome to watch on tv watch it on the peacock who'll be on the peacock uh streaming on saturday and sunday night nxt takeover wednesday and thursday uh what's the funniest or most ridiculous line item in the wrestlemania budget like i would imagine you look at the pyrotechnic techniques budget, you're like, Whoa, we spent $15 million on fireworks. Or like, what's the one that you look at? You're like, Whoa, you've driven some crazy cars into WrestleMania that I'm sure cost a lot.
What's the one thing that pops out and you're like, Whoa, we could, there's a lot of money for this. Yeah.
Um, Hmm. That's tough to say.
I think I've been blown away sometimes by, and I'll give you this one. I don't know how much it costs, but years ago, you know, my interest music is done by Motorhead.
Quite a few, they played me to the ring at one of the WrestleManias. And I remember walking in to the dressing room at Lem we were talking I remember walking in there and like it looked like we were in a liquor store yeah there was so much booze in there and like and then like a little like tray with like some ham and some carrots on it or something you know like yeah and just like every booze imaginable in like shelves and piles and I remember just thinking like wow that's the writer for them like how can you like this like you know three of them like and plus some crew how much booze can they drink apparently you know and i would get to know much better after that but a lot and uh so it always just baffled me out of sometimes the things that like when celebrities come in that they require the one celebrity one time that came in where we had to have a bus for him on set, even though we had locker rooms and dressing rooms and everything else.
It had to be a bus and the thread count had to be like 5000 thread count sheets that we had to have special ordered. And then he never even went on the bus.
Yeah, but that's, he just wanted to know that he could do it. Yeah, that's a power move.
Yeah, that's how he trusted us. It's like, he just walked on the bus, looked at the 5,000 thread count sheets.
These guys are quality people. Yes, I love it.
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Back to Triple H. When you're planning out a show like WrestleMania, I've always wondered how you time it out.

When you're going through the matches, you're like, well, it's going to take us two minutes here to set the ladder up. It's going to take us three minutes to get the snakes.
How intricate do you get with the timing to know how long each match is going to last and what goes into that? so it's a funny that you when it comes to the individual stuff you sort of we've been doing this for so long you have a handle on these items are going to take this long this entrance we've done it enough by then where we've done the rehearsals we know about what the entrance is going to take we know what the layout of that when the matches, our talent, for the most part, have been doing this for so long that they almost have, like, this internal clock inside of them that plays through. So as you're laying stuff out, you know, it's not always accurate.
It's why some matches, you know, you might lay something out for 20 minutes, you end up going 27 on Mania where time is of a premium or even more so on live tv where you know you got to hit you got to go off the air at 11 and it's just going to go off the air so if the finish doesn't happen it doesn't make the air um you got to be pretty accurate with it you learn to do that over time um it's it's tough you know you're there's a constant dialogue of the performers talking about things like so that aftermath there with the run-in and this feels like it's about two and a half so let's budget that for three so we that means we need to go here and have the finish take place here because we need three minutes on the end of that just constant dialogue going of you're trying to figure those things out and and then as the production is coming through time cues are happening and you're and you're trying to be as accurate to it as possible but it's it's uh it's a process and i can tell you from from our standpoint we sit up there um and and do all this stuff but if you've never been in it and you were to come up to what we call gorilla position where everybody goes up we sort of control everything that if you're not used to that the amount of information that's happening and how fast it's happening and how quickly people are talking and changing things is mind-boggling and you know um to us it's just kind of what we're doing and it's just happening but i think if you weren't used to that you'd be like oh my god how do they ever possibly do this show you know and have it work yeah because it's it's it's all over the place uh so nxt is kind of your baby wednesday and thursday uh we have the takeover what what should we expect from that because i think a lot of people are excited and you've done a great job you now see the kind of minor leagues i don't want to call it minor leagues but you've seen the transition where some of the people you have signed are now wrestling in Wrestlemania but what can we expect on Wednesday and Thursday night yeah so I think over the years NXT's grown from being just kind of exactly that only a developmental product where you saw these new talent come in and then they made their way up and and they they kind of either thrived or or fell off they made it to Raw and SmackDown. And you see that from everybody from, you know, Roman Reigns to Drew McIntyre to, you know, Big E even was, you know, in NXT and was champion there.
I think NXT now has morphed into becoming sort of its own brand. And we will have two nights of what I think tends to be, this will sound bad because I don't want it to sound like a knock, but sometimes I will hear people describe NXT as a bit more passionate in that it's sort of like college football where you're still playing for the love of the game it hasn't become about just money yet or just position yet or you know um questioning if a guy's going to stay in there because you know he might be slightly injured so he's going to pull himself out of it whereas um i think in nxt that they're that passion comes across harder they're still trying to prove a point they're still trying to make a name for themselves and still trying to prove to the world that like they are among the best in the world and so i think when you get to that level and you know you get to night one you're going to see people that are some new people like raquel gonzalez is going to be there to try to show the world that she's one of the best women in the world iotaray who's been been considered that, is going to make sure that everybody knows that her spot is well-received.
And then on the next night, you're going to have the same thing with Balor and guys like Balor and Adam Cole that have been there for a long time or been in the business for a long time, continuing to show their dominance. But yet guys like Kyle O'Reilly, Karrion Kross, trying to show, hey, I'm that next generation and I'm taking this spot.
So I think you see that passion a bit more. The in-ring product is intense.
When it comes to like NFT stuff, Big Cat and I, we're both pretty dumb. But I think we understand what NFTs are.
We don't get them. But I feel like WWE is like tailor-made for NFTss like if you if i could buy um like mick foley jumping off of a cage or stone cold spraying the beer hose down or like driving the beer truck out that actually that to me makes more sense to like buy those moments than uh like a random nba block so is that something that you guys have been exploring at all? Yeah, I think those are things as technology changes, as those opportunities become available, it's always things that we're looking at.
You know, Vince has a big philosophy of not wanting to be the first person to jump in the pool. You also don't want to be the last person to jump in the pool.
You want to, you want to kind of let one or two people jump in there, make sure it's safe, then you jump in. And that's, I think, where we are.
But we look at all those options. And I do agree with you.
I think in some ways we're tailor-made for that, rather, like you said, rather than some random dunk or something like that in the NBA. Our moments are iconic.
It's what we do. We create iconic moments.
You know, Andre slamming Hogan or whatever that is. Those iconic moments that live forever in people's minds.
I think those are the things that lead themselves to that. And look, I'm to be honest with you, I'm like you.
I don't necessarily fully understand that stuff, but it's something we look at and have a lot of people in our company that are a lot smarter than me of those things looking at them constantly uh quick headline grab

uh cm punk you remember maybe maybe give him a call when was last time you talked to him

um last time i talked to him uh year and a half year and three quarters ago.

You know, it's a funny thing that people constantly will say,

you know, when his return is or, but, but in,

in some way, I don't know whether he does or not,

but that has to be what he wants. Right.

When people talk about, they go, I'll make the call.

What says if we make the call, he wants to answer.

Thank you. know whether he does or not but that has to be what he wants right um when people talk about they go i'll make the call what says if we make the call he wants to answer what says if we make the call he doesn't go like yeah i'm not interested in doing that anymore you know maybe he's just done with it um i think that those are our conversations that only those people can can directly answer and and uh i think if he wants to do it, either we would get word and we would have those conversations or he would make a call or anything like that.
But there has to be desire there to do something like that. This business is too all in to just go like, all right, I'll do'll do it.
I think it comes back to, as a wrestling fan myself, when guys are gone, you always just expect that dramatic return. Undertaker's retired, right? I still expect them to show up.
You always expect the guys that you loved watching to pop up when you don't expect it and be like an unbelievable pop so I'm gonna pretend that that was the coy answer and you've talked to him and it's just around the corner yeah no that's what people do they pretend whatever they want to believe and then they get to the they get to the answer they were looking for in the first place so um yeah people can believe what they want they can read into it they can read into the conspiracy theories they can read into all that stuff's part of the beauty of what we do i think it's part of what resonates about wwe is there's always that possibility of the what if right and um you know it's a funny um we did a thing a bit ago here where Shawn Michaels came out on NXT and pulled a ladder out from under the ring to make a ladder match for a match between Santos Escobar and Jordan Devlin at TakeOver WrestleMania week. And after that, when he was leaving, he ran into Adam Cole backstage.
And they just had a moment together. And then Sean walked off.
And the internet blew up of people saying, oh, my God, the what ifs. What a tease.
That's the ultimate match to want. And what they don't know is that three minutes prior to that, when Sean's music hit and he was walking down the stage, his left knee gave out.
And he started to dance and do his music because he almost fell off the stage because his left knee

is so bad that he had buckled on him while he was walking down the ramp like yeah that match isn't going to happen um but but in your mind it's the always the what if right and and those are the that that's kind of the magic of what we do any moment taker can come back any moment maybe kane can come back. Whether when

it's done you are glad you saw it

is another question, when it's done you are glad you saw it is another question but it's uh there's always that that that what if that was such a smart way for you to just be like Adam Cole and Shawn Michaels are never gonna be in the ring together that was smart by you that was a good cover-up good job yeah Triple H you're good what you do. But I could just be making that up totally to throw you off.

Yeah.

That's what I was going to say.

On the flip side when that match is made.

I was going to say, like,

why would you have gone to those links to tell me that story right there?

Uh-huh.

You're reading off of something behind you.

This is not the first time you've done press.

Right.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Which is like, it's the same thing.

It's why you wear glasses.

Yep.

So I don't know when you're lying during these interviews and stuff.

The entire time.

Everything that I don't.

I'm sorry. exactly exactly well with the same which is like it's the same thing it's why you wear glasses yep so i don't know when you're lying during these interviews and stuff the entire time everything that i don't believe a word that i say honestly uh the the don't worry i didn't the cm punk stuff it sounds to me like it's just a case of like a couple and you're you're waiting for the other person to make the call like show me that me that you want this.
He's probably on the other end being like,

I'll take the call anytime they want to call me.

But so maybe we can say for the record, you're saying that if CM Punk were to call you,

you would take that call.

You would be interested to speak with him.

Look, I think at any point in time,

if somebody in this business,

it's a funny thing.

Like people say, would you take the call?

I don't know that I can't think of anybody in the business

that if they called me, I wouldn't take their phone call.

Thank you. if somebody in this business, it's a funny thing.
Like people say, would you take the call? I don't know that I can't think of anybody in the business that if they called me, I wouldn't take their phone call, whether in the business or whatever, right? I would answer the phone. I think we would have a conversation about it.
But again, you know, CM Punk worked with us on, on the Fox show. What a year ago.
And there was opportunities there. There were people around each other at all times you know again I'll never say never but the desire needs to be there on all sides to make things happen what about you when's the next time we're going to get you in the ring of course I could be just saying that you know what I'm saying I hear you yeah exactly what about you H? When are we going to see you in the ring again?

I hope not for a while. You know, WWE is a fast-moving company.
And this last year, especially with COVID and all the challenges that it's taken us, people forget what it like to to try to put on a live event still in in this environment and we're on a weekly basis you know it's live talent and live performances and uh we're still in the middle of a pandemic and don't have fans and it's challenging and and it's gotten busier and busier and busier and as as we got closer to wrestlemania this year there were a lot of people that came up to me and said, hey, what are you thinking about WrestleMania this year? What do you think about me and you? AJ Styles, being one, was very vocal about it. He kept calling me out on the internet, doing all this thing.
And we talked about it at TV, and I was like, AJ, it's not going to happen, dude. I know you think you're just baiting me into this somehow and that I'm playing coy and I want you to come out, but it's not going to happen.
Like, I just don't have the time or the bandwidth to be able to do it. So, you know, of course, that could also be my story, right? Yeah.
Well, I mean, what would happen at WrestleMania if somebody just walked up to you, any wrestler just walked up to you and just slapped you in the face on camera and then said, come meet me in the ring, you'd have to go meet that person in the ring, right? I suppose I would. Yeah.
But it's a long walk and I might change my mind partway down. You know, Raymond James Stadium, a big stadium.
So the ramp is steep. By the time you get halfway there, I don't know, your anger goes away.
You know, I'd be angry at first. By the time I get halfway there, I'd be like, I don't know.
Maybe I'd just go back and get some catering or something, you know. Yes, yes.
I had good cheesecake. Yeah, yeah.
Well, Triple H has been awesome. We appreciate it.
Everyone go watch WrestleMania on next – or so it's two weekends from now. It's April 10th and 11th from Raymond James Stadium.

And April 7th and 8th is the NXT TakeOver.

The Wednesday night is going to be on USA Network and Peacock.

April 8th, Thursday night, will be on Peacock.

Go check it out.

It's going to be great.

There's nothing better than WrestleMania week.

We love it.

It's the Super Bowl for wrestling.

So appreciate it and good luck. Thank you very much.
You guys

should come on down. Let's have a ball.
Yes.

I mean, I think you still owe us

a date at the... We're going to become

refs. You're going to put us in the referee

training program for NXT.

We'll do it. I feel like that's what we were meant

to do. Let's do

it. Let's do it.
So, come down

Wednesday, Thursday, watch the show. Friday,

we'll train for refs. Saturday, Sunday, WrestleMania.
Perfect. Perfect.
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We should just do an emergency way to stay relevant baseball. Shohei Otani is fucking electric.
Yes. So we we started the show we were like hey let's wait and see him hit he throws 101 in the first inning and then he hits a fucking bomb in the second or sorry bottom of the first uh first pitch he's he's like the modern day baby this is it's the plot of the natural if you've ever seen that movie.
Yeah, this is awesome. This makes baseball so much fun.
Yeah, you know, I feel bad for Mike Trout because more people are going to be able to recognize Otani than Mike Trout, probably already in the world. Yes.
And the only weakness in Otani's game is he's beanable. So, like, if you really wanted to do it, you could just bean Otani, what, four or five times a game? Yes.
Really take away their best offensive and defensive player? Yes. Yeah, but why would you bean the guy that could literally just bean you right back? Yeah, that's a good point.
He can bean everybody. Yeah.
Well, then that's fun. You don't want to bean him.
He throws faster than what you can bean him. He can't bean all of us.
Yeah, he could. Yeah, I guess he probably could.
People forget that Mike Trott is 30 years old and has never won a playoff series. Oh, never been? No, he's been.
Never won. Never won, I believe.
I don't know if he's been. Is he like the...
Never been? Jake is saying no. I don't think he has either.
I don't think he's been. I think he's the Ryan Fitzpatrick of baseball.
I don't think he's been. And Brandon Marshall.
I don't think he's been. Has he been? The last time they were in the playoffs was in 2014.
They got swept in the ALDS. Was he on that team? Zero wins.
Yeah, never won a playoff game. Okay, so he's been to the playoffs.
Have you really been, though, if you've never won? Right. Yeah.
He got swept? Yeah, I don't think so. His debut was 2011.
Okay, so he's Ben, but he is not. It was also Tim Kirshen probably had just like an hour-long orgasm because I was looking it up about Otani.
The last time an AL team didn't have a – or had the pitcher DH was actually Joe Maddon incorrectly filling out the lineup card in 2009. We had two third basements.
It's very funny. So then they had to cancel one third baseman and the pitcher had to hit.
How many baseball fantasy league managers are getting emails from everybody in their league trying to figure out how to score Otani's performances? I think they did change the rules, right, Jake? You were saying something about it. My question, this might be a very stupid question, but if he comes out of the game as a pitcher but stays in the game as a DH, can he come back in the game as a pitcher? Because he never came out of the game.
As a closer? Or whatever. That'd be sick.
Also, what were you saying, Hank? No. Why? He did come out of the game.
No, but he's still in the game. You're a DH.
If you're a pitcher and you come out of the game but you go to first base, you could then come back and pitch, could you not? Well, no, I don't think that you could. What would happen if you got put in the game as a first baseman? There's no shot that you can be removed as a pitcher and come back as a pitcher.
Because they don't stay in as hitters. Because it's never happened before.
Right. I don't think it's – I think it's defensive and offensive.
I think it's different. I think it's the same as hitters.
You couldn't be a DH, get taken off as DH, and then become the pitcher and come back as DH. I found a rule, but it's Little League rules, so it doesn't count.
As long as he remains active in the game, he can re-enter as a pitcher. This is from Cora.
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What they should do is they should have him come out of the lineup when there's going to be left-handed batters for that inning and then come back the next inning,

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There we go. You know what? Maybe should we try to call Dan Heron? I don't...
I think you can do this, Hank. I think this is possible.
I just want to call Dan Heron because he's going to be like what are you guys doing? Why are you calling me? I don't think I've ever... FaceTime him? I don't know.
No, he would never pick up the face. The pugs? You think he's a FaceTime guy? I don't know.
If you have pugs, I think that's what you use them for, right? That's true. What's the point? Yeah.
We'll cut this if he doesn't pick up. It'll also really hurt my feelings.
I haven't talked to him in a year. When was the last time I had him on? It was about a year ago, I think.
This is going to hurt my feelings he's probably mad that Billy didn't put together his Dan Heron for the Hall of Fame yes he probably got in everyone tweet Dan Heron and say why didn't you pick up I think you can do it Hank based on bodybuilding.com, baseballfever.com and ask Jeeves I think And Cora. Yeah.
I think we found a loophole. I don't know why they would do it.
That's probably the more interesting question. I'm trying to think of a scenario.
Well, if you had a lefty come up and you're like, hey, we're going to do a lefty specialist for one at bat and then bring him back in. But you can't do a one at bat lefty specialist anymore.
That's right. That's right.
That's right. All right.
Well, baseball should let that happen just so the Angels could do it, just so Tim Kirchner could reach nirvana. I'm also loving Tony La Russa in this game right now because you know that Tony has had a few pops.
He's got a nip underneath that mask for sure. Yes, like Andy Reid's barbecue rib.
He's just got like a – what is it? The airplane bottle of Jack Daniels strapped in there. Yeah, look at that thing.
That mask is huge. He's got a camelback of absolute vodka in there.
Do you think he has like a race simulator in the dugout just so he can, you know, simulate getting behind the wheel? Oh, I thought you were going in a different direction with the race simulator thing. No, no, no.
I do think he's got a tanning bed and a hair dye guy back there because he pulled a major Colin Coward, Skip Bayless. He came back in the league.
They're like, you're going to say that I'm old? Well, guess what? I'm going to come back with sandy blonde hair. Yes.
Not the same La Russa. So speaking of Skip, we'll go to our King State Kings.
After that game on Saturday night, which was incredible, Skip Bayless, King State Kings, says, no idea how you can call that an all-time great college basketball game when it was won by a lucky shot. Unreal.
He really is the best at being like, what does everyone like? Let me go the opposite. Well, because he thinks that if he likes what everybody likes, then he's a casual.
Skip has figured out the key to having a long, successful career as being Skip Bayless, and that is, he is fully, 100% comfortable with every single person in the world, except for Ernestine hating him. As long as he's got Ernestine at the end of the day, as long as he's got a nice, warm bed with Ernestine in the adjacent bedroom unless it's a Saturday night.
He is the happiest person on earth. He actually skip Bayless.
His brain should be studied just because he truly does not care that everyone hates him. Yeah.
And I think he might be the only person no shirt that actually feels that way. Yes.
No, no shame whatsoever. I, uh, I know that giving him attention is the wrong thing to do,

but I just said at like one in the morning,

I just tweeted, fuck you, Skip Bayless.

It's just sometimes fun to just say, fuck you.

And one of our listeners responded,

which I should have gone with this one.

How about you go microwave your dick, Skip?

That was good.

So that was good.

Yeah.

Did you see the most recent post that he put up on Instagram

where he was shirtless?

The rules in Skip Bayless's house

are... Bonk.

What? Me?

Yeah, you're right.

I'll take that bonk.

He comes home... Did you see shirtless

Skip Bayless? He comes home

and he says, the rules in my house are

Ernestine makes me strip the second

I walk into the door

so she can put all my clothes in the washing dryer.

Just a picture of nude Skip Bayless.

And he's got a chain around his neck, and his chain says, skip on it.

Oh, God.

He's actually, the more I talk about him, he's got it all figured out.

Yeah, he does.

All right, we have a stay woke for the pro day that you had, PFT.

Yeah, I've been noticing that every single player is running faster than everyone thought that they would. So, like, Justin Fields ran, what, like a 4-3-5, 4-4? Kyle Pitts, I think, also ran a 4-4.
We're Kyle Pitts guys on this podcast. I think that the major programs out there are making a section of their practice fields where the hash marks are slightly closer together.
So the place where they have them run the 40-yard dashes at their own pro days, it's actually slightly less than 40 yards, which would make them time out better and then have pro scouts draft them higher, which in turn would increase recruiting in the future. Billy's looking at me like, holy shit.
He just blew my mind. What do you think, Billy? Are you in on it, or are you going to say, well, actually, this is how they do.
We just got to wait until the combine. Well, there isn't.
There's not a combine. The combine should have taken place a month ago, and it didn't.
So it's pretty much a this year thing, because this year is the year. They're not doing a combine? No.
This is the year. This is the first year they really aren't doing a combine.
No, last year they did the combine. This is the first year they're not doing a combine, so this would be the year to get away with it.
But in the future, you're going to have players probably not go to the combine as much. Yeah.
Be like, you can come to my pro day, check it out. And honestly, it's a smart – if they're not doing it, they should be doing it.
Yeah, shame on them. Shame on you for not standing up for your players.
I also think what they should do is they should take weights that say like 45 pounds on the side of them and make them like 35 pounds. Yeah.
And then just be able to break all the records when it comes to the bench press. Well, you know what the trick is? You always max out with the old rusty plates.
Why is that? Because they're like a little bit lighter. Oh, yeah, because of gravity.

Billy, are you sad because it just dawned on you right now

that you actually didn't get an invite to this year's combine?

You were still waiting for the possibility?

I just thought that it would be a new loss.

You were shocked that the combine hadn't happened already.

I thought it would be a bigger deal if they canceled it.

Yeah, it was.

It was a pretty big deal. It was a pretty big deal it was a pretty big deal yeah you were busy at the time just didn't get it didn't come across your desk you're busy your chickens were dying probably more important things you know that we should we should be rooting for jalen sucks because he was he's a football guy first he was yeah he was offered a scholarship by urban meyer so you know his character checks out and he's taro's cousin is that true whoa yeah he's taro's cousin oh that's awesome i didn't know that what what about this the idea are you sure nef niece or nephew what probably not niece i don't yeah i'm gonna guess nephew if it's one of the two.
Those are easy to confuse. Jimmy's and Joe's more important than X's and another X chromosome.
Sugg's father is Larry Suggs, who's second cousin's with former Raymond's. Okay, so that's not...
The Suggs is really. He's a cousin of Eddie Jones.

That's bigger. A first cousin of Eddie Jones, maybe.
So Suggs' second cousin is NFL. Second cousin.
Got it. Got it.
What do you think about this idea, Big Cat? Yeah. Going along with the gym that has the fake heavy weights.
What if you set up a gym that was strictly for influencers on Instagram, then, but it had like all these weights that were seriously like half as heavy as they said they were on the side. And then you could show people working out and people be like, damn, that dude's strong as hell.
Look at all the weight that he's lifting. And then you just charge people money to go work out in this fake gym.
I feel like that that would be like, we could make some serious. Yeah.
They do that all the time with fake weights on Instagram. I don't know how this isn't something that was in every broadcast, like Clayton Kershaw and Matt Stafford, but as a youth football player, he played center on offense, and his quarterback was Joe Maurer.
Terrell Suggs. I knew that Joe Maurer was like Mr.
Football in Minnesota. I didn't know that.
Yeah. That is crazy.
Did you know that Jalen Suggs went to the same high school as Paige Buecher?

Did not know that. Yeah.
That's crazy.

They were friends.

Crazy. Imagine if they got

married and had kids. Whoa.

That's crazy. That kid would be a bucket.

Yeah. A walking bucket.

Yeah. Yeah.

Exactly.

Where are we? I was just talking about my pie in the sky idea for the gym. I like your idea.
The gym fluencer? Yeah. People would pay a couple hundred bucks to be a member of that gym.
I had an idea. I was driving back from Philly last night at 1 in the morning, and I don't have any friends on the West Coast besides Russell, so I was calling him to catch up with him.
Tit oh titus but he was in indiana so no not true spencer haugh is too fuck um but the idea is uh so you know how they have like camps for like the what did you what was the camp you went to the manning passing academy no no joe nameth football camp okay joe nameth football camp i was pretty close uh we close. We should create a crafty camp where we teach kids who are, like, clearly not going to be great athletes how to do just enough to get by.
So it's, like, be able to shoot, like, a bank shot from, like, the baseline extended. Be able to hit opposite field in baseball.
Actually, like, given our network of people that we've had on this show i actually think that we would have the best possible roster of counselors for that crafty yeah top spin on a on a on a tennis shot so it's like we're not gonna teach you how to serve you're not gonna be able to you're not gonna be able to like dunk but we can teach you how to do the few things that everyone would be like oh that was kind of cool we need a Knuckleball guyuckleball guy. That's really the only – Knuckleballs? Yep, that's another one.
That's the gap that we have. But, like, Mark Slareth would be the head instructor for the football camp.
Like, here's how you get away with holding on every single play. Right.
And also, piss yourself before every play, too. Right.
Shit yourself if you have to. Teach, like, old man tricks on every sport to kids.
It's basically just a group of kids. It's like we figured out that you'll never be really good at any of these sports.
But we can give you enough that when you're playing, people are like, ooh, look at that. The kid who is like a little pudgy and just runs three-point line to three-point line and just is wet from three.
And can't do anything else. Matthew De La Vadova's charge-taking station? Yeah.
There's, like, the little crafty things. I think we could create a camp to do this because they don't have those camps.
They have, you know, the Hasselback has a camp and Manning and Joe Namath camp and all these Elite 11 and all this shit. They always have the camps for the incredible athletes.
Where's the camp for the average Joe who just wants to be able to play a little rec sports in their mid-20s and have people respect their game? Yeah, the Blake Bortles Handoff Mastering Academy. Yeah.
There's all these things that we could get people to get to a certain point where it's like, we're going to give you the tools that you won't embarrass yourself when you're playing intramural sports in college. actually think it's a pretty good idea yeah and if we incorporate the shorter together hash marks we could probably get some of those kids college scholarships yes exactly get their speed up yeah i think we just solved all the problems um all right uh last up we had hurt or injured uh the mma fighter who lost his finger i'm gonna say hurt say hurt on this one.
I'm going to say in the ring. Yeah, his finger came off into his own glove.
It fell off. During a fight, yeah.
And they looked for the finger, and they're like, where's the finger? You're missing it. It's got to be around her somewhere.
It got lodged in between his glove and his hand. It was just the bone sticking out.
But then they reattached it, and he tweeted out, all good. Which, that was an all-time tweet.
What if it was your thumb, and you're getting stretchered out of the ring, you're trying to give the thumbs up? Mm-hmm. And you're like, ah, shit, this catch-22.
This sucks. But what if, if you're an MMA fighter, because he tried to continue, you can't, first of all, you can't break your finger anymore once it's been John Bobbitt

in second. You can't poke the other guy in the eye.

It's less of them to grab

and if you had no fingers

you'd just be wildly

throwing punches and not worry about

breaking anything. Billy is our fighter.

Honestly, if he

you can fight without a finger.

I think the fight ended once

they found out he didn't have a finger. Did he want to keep fighting?

Yes, he went out there and fought the second

round and then they noticed

It's just... You can fight without a finger.
I think the fight ended once they found out he didn't have a finger. Did he want to keep fighting? Yes, he went out there and fought the second round.
And then they noticed in the second round, the ref was like, something's not adding up with this guy. I thought it was in between rounds.
I think he came out for the second round after he lost it in the first round. Let the boys play.
Yeah, let him play. Fucking crazy.
Look at this, Hank. If the guy's willing to go out without a finger.
I'm good. Can you see it? Yeah.
It's gross. Whoa.
You see that? Mm-hmm. It's fucking gross, dude.
It looks like Chubbs' hand. Ugh.
That's a warrior right there. That is a warrior.
Yeah, war mode. Yeah.
That's a war mode. You're actually soft, boy.
Dan Hill is calling back. Like being like I would die, but not saying like I'm willing to lose my hand.
All right, here we go. Hey, Dan.
Dan. Hey.
We're in the middle of taping part of my take. If Shohei Ohtani came out of the game as a pitcher but stayed in as a DH, could he go back in as a pitcher?

I don't think so.

Why not? No.

Let's see.

I think if he gets removed from the game as the pitcher,

then you lose the designated hitter.

What?

No.

Yeah, because then when, say,

Thank you. hitter what no yes no i yeah because well that yeah because then when say if he comes out of the game and a reliever comes in that reliever's got a hit right no because he's in the al just blew your mind yeah yes we couldn't find find the answer on the various message boards we tried to find.

It's definitely no.

Who's the guy?

I can find out, though.

Okay, find out for us.

Yeah, just text me when you find out.

But, yeah.

I'm going to text my guy right now.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you, Dan.

Hope you're well.

You've got to come back on soon.

Say hi to the pugs for me.

Oh, yeah, you're just saying that now.

No.

We mean that. Say hi to the pugs.
Say hi to the pugs. I want to see your pugs again.
Well, one died. Oh.
I'm sorry. My dog died too.
Fuck. All right.
Thank you. It was awful.
It was awful. My dog has a huge dick.
Thank you, Dan. I'll talk to you later.
Oh, no. I knew.
Why did you say pugs? I said pug.

I knew you were playing with

fire with that.

When you don't talk to someone for like

a while and you're like, hey, how are those

pugs? That's why

we haven't reached out to him in a while because we wanted to

give him some time. Oh man.

Did he say he had a guy?

Yeah, no, he's got probably a rules guy.

You gotta have a guy. I'm really sad about Dan's pug.

So everyone, if you tweeted Dan

being like, hey, why didn't you pick up now

I'll put it about Dan's pug. So everyone, if you tweeted Dan being like, hey, why didn't you pick up? Now please tweet it and being like, sorry about your pug, dude.
I feel sad. Yeah, I do too.
Oh, yeah, also Lincoln Riley's terrible at cooking brisket. It was a very funny picture of Lincoln Riley's brisket.
It was insane. It was medium rare, plus, plus, plus, plus.
There's nothing better than people who post pictures of their food and they think they nailed it there are two things you should never post online well probably more than that uh but the two that come to mind it's always your meat don't post any picture of meat and then don't post your thumb because your thumbs always look bad no one's thumb has ever looked good everyone's like dude what the fuck is wrong with your thumb it's always picture of a guy with a normal thumb, but it looks weird on camera. With this one, you know what you should have done? Just if you're going to post a picture.
It's like you have fucked up thumbs. I got normal thumbs.
Let me just get out ahead of this. I've chowed thumbs.
Yeah. No, just when people see a thumb on picture, it looks weird no matter whose thumb it is.
But if you're going to post a picture of something that you cooked, like meat, just post it in black and white. And everyone will get mad at you for that.
Yes. I can't tell if this is good or not, and it's driving me insane because I want to judge you.
Yes. No, you're right.
The thumb thing is actually spot on. I don't think I have weird thumbs.
Oh, thanks, Big Cat. What? For texting us the picture.
Well, I didn't know if you wanted to put it in the show. Okay, yeah, I'll put the picture in right here.
Okay. Dude, I don't know.
Just tell us. NFTs and shit, you can put everything in there.
Tell us if you think the guy with no finger has a weird thumb. Yeah.
Yeah, dude. Oh, gross.
Dude, you're missing your finger, but let's talk about your thumb. Dude, what the fuck is wrong with your hand? All right.
All right. That is our show.
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I got to put these back in.

32.

12 and 47 are out.

99.

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Show me eight.

Dogs can get vasectomies as an alternate treatment for neutering.

23.

Ooh.

MJ.

MJ. All right.
see you everyone Wednesday

Love you guys

Another first timer

talking away.

I don't know what I want to say.

I'll say it anyway.

Today is a night and day to find you.

Shining away.

I'll be coming for your love of cake.

Shining away.

I'll be coming for your love of cake. Take on me, take me on, I'll be gone, left to your teeth.
I need less to say I've already said it But I need to stop it away Thank you. It's no better to be safe than stubborn.
Take on me. Take me on.
I'll be gone in a day of time. All the things that you say isn't a lie for.
Just to play my worries You are the things I've got to remember He's shying away I'll be coming for you anyway He's shying away I'll be coming for you anyway Take on me Take me on I'll be gone in a day

I'll be gone in a team.

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