Triple H, Final Four Recap And The Best Game Ever

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Speaker 3 On today's part of my take, we're talking Final Four.

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Speaker 3 Hello, friends. I was going to say in sports rule.
Yeah. You kind of jumped me there.
Sorry, they do.

Speaker 3 Hello, friends, is Wednesday. It's

Speaker 3 sports rule because we have the national championship tonight in the Final Four on Saturday, and one of the best basketball games, tournament games, we've watched in the history of the tournament.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Like, every single part, even the beginning of it, when it felt like, okay, at some point, Konzag is going to turn it on.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Like, they could have easily, very easily won that game.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 it was a life-affirming moment in sports where it's like, I'm glad that I sat through a few cluckers of games, some stinkers.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 It ruled, and yes, it was the Houston Baylor game was not fun. It was a blowout.
I mean, it was fun if you're a Baylor fan. Baylor kicked the shit out of Houston.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Then we had an hour-long Miley Cyrus concert, which also ruled,

Speaker 3 but there was so much time in between the games. And then we get to the Gonzaga UCLA game, and Gonzaga's 14 and a half point favorites.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Mick Cron is a fucking hell of a coach. Johnny Juzang is just a fun name to say.
And also,

Speaker 3 the Blue Bloods keep on losing because if you're a Kentucky fan, you're like, like, wow, Cal couldn't have played Johnny Juzang just a little bit more. And he transfers from Kentucky back home to

Speaker 3 UCLA. But that game was awesome.
The whole time, I was sitting there being like, well, when's the Gonzaga run going to happen?

Speaker 3 When are they going to do what they do to every single team where it's like, stop, transition, you know, easy bucket, three.

Speaker 3 you know, 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 If you 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 him. I was like, no, no chance in hell.

Speaker 3 The formula was like Mick Cronin is going to do Mick Cronin things, slow the game down,

Speaker 3 win ugly. But no, Mick Cronin was like,

Speaker 3 we're going to execute a game plan that nobody sees coming Which is we're going to turn into UCLA or 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 started hitting like some of those desperation mid-range jump shots Well, that was a stretch.

Speaker 3 That's when it was like okay Everything is going right for UCLA right now. They felt it felt like a team of destiny.

Speaker 3 Well, it was yeah, I mean their their defense was good because but they they also just were hitting insane shots.

Speaker 3 Like there was as much as it's game plan and Mick Cronin is an unbelievable coach, they also were just hitting so many shots. What were they shooting? Jake, what did they end up shooting?

Speaker 3 Like, 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.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 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 is not going to win the tournament, obviously.
They're out.

Speaker 3 But they won the tournament in terms of they gave us the best stories. Like the Alabama game was an all-timer.
This game was an all-timer. Alabama was a different all-timer.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 It had the drama, and it was fucking like highly played basketball game 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 what did they win they lost in the oregon state okay yeah my mistake first take that's why they ended up being in 11 seeds because they lost their four last four games of the season yeah first team to win five games in the nca tournament and not win i'm not saying

Speaker 3 BCU. VCU 2011.
God damn it. Sorry.
The first year of the first tournament. Sorry, that was the whole story.
Shotguns. That was shotgun.
That was a whole storyline that

Speaker 3 was the first time to do it since VCU. Well, I agree with the first four final four.
I agree with the sentiment that UCLA won this tournament. Yes.

Speaker 3 They're the champions of this tournament. And it was, you know what it came down to?

Speaker 3 We even started out. We're guilty of this too.
We made this about X's and O's, not Jimmies and Joe's. Turns out that UCLA had the Jimmies and the Joes.

Speaker 3 And the Johnnies. And the Johnnies.

Speaker 3 And the Jews. They were just as athletic as Gonzaga was.
And they were able to play. I mean, they played the game of their lives.

Speaker 3 And watching Bill Walton react to it was, that was another life-affirming moment. Yeah.
Because

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 He was Kyle from SNL and

Speaker 3 Good Neighbors?

Speaker 3 Who just has the sports on the side of his.

Speaker 3 He just stood up and played sports, baby. Sports.

Speaker 3 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. Unbelievable.

Speaker 3 He had a Barcelona sports book. So, yeah, in the bars, like, and I created this bet.
Like, obviously, this bet, you can find other places, but

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 What was the bet? So,

Speaker 3 you could bet buzzer beaters for the tournament, and it was under two seconds. A shot that's under two seconds game-winning.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I saw it plus 1,200, and I was like, nah, fuck it. Like, Gonzaga's going to kill UCLA.
Baylor's going to kill Houston. There's no reason to do this.
And the one time I didn't bet it,

Speaker 3 just fucking clawed. Thank you for not betting it.
Yes. On behalf of the rest of America.
PFT, I want to go back to your point, though.

Speaker 3 Miley Cyrus? No. Charles Barkley, who

Speaker 3 how would you rate your...

Speaker 3 In hindsight, do you think you were too horny on Twitter? No, not horny enough.

Speaker 3 People were 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.

Speaker 3 If there's a scale of like one to infinity for my simp level for it. How many concerts have you been to have hears?

Speaker 3 I've watched

Speaker 3 several of them. I went to the one where she did the tour and she had a bunch of

Speaker 3 it was like it was like almost like a mini circus that she brought out onto the

Speaker 3 greatest entertainer of all time. It was awesome.

Speaker 3 Yeah, 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 summer. I appreciate her music.
I actually, so.

Speaker 3 No, same. I mean, like, listen, 90% of this is about the musical performance she put on, and her song selection, that's a life hack.

Speaker 3 It's just, if you're like 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.

Speaker 3 Plus, when you come out there looking like Dog the 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.

Speaker 3 Like, for the first five minutes of the game, my brain was still only thinking about Miley Cyrus. Also, the horny police are turning into like the old takes exposed.
No, they're the worst.

Speaker 3 They're the worst. If you mention one thing that's like semi-horny, I just

Speaker 3 horny police, horny police.

Speaker 3 Sorry for being a red-blooded American male. I retweeted a like a

Speaker 3 girl from Real Housewives, and everyone's like, horny police. Like, dude, what? Shut up.
You horny police,

Speaker 3 they're the horny ones because all they can think about is sex. You know what? Get your mind out of the body.
What are you getting? A sex addiction? Are you addicted to sex?

Speaker 3 I think we need to normalize being horny.

Speaker 3 If people stop being horny, then all the people who are horny police would not even exist.

Speaker 3 So my Miley Cyrus stories, 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 a shirt, Miley's shirt, rocked out.

Speaker 3 Dawn life. He was like,

Speaker 3 I think we can get a chance for you to meet her. And I was like, fuck yes, this is going to be amazing.
And I waited in the bowels of the United Center for two and a half hours.

Speaker 3 And then I finally asked the security guard outside the locker room, the dressing room, and I was like, hey, do you think Miley's coming out soon?

Speaker 3 And he was like, dude, she literally went from the stage to the bus. She's been gone for two and a half hours.
Oh, man. And I was like, okay.
So I probably needed the Horny Police there.

Speaker 3 I would do it. I would wait in Miley's

Speaker 3 for much longer than that.

Speaker 3 That's too much. Miley.
Respect her fucking music. Choke me with my own guitar chords.
Respect her music. Worst part of the Horny Police is the bonk with the Doge.
Yeah, I got

Speaker 3 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 Horny Jail.

Speaker 3 What I was going to say is back to the Charles Barkley, the Jimmies and Joes, and then Joe's, and then Jimmy's. So the Baylor Gonzaga game, there are no Jimmies and Joe's.
There is a Joel, though.

Speaker 3 Okay. So who do you think has the edge there? Joel.
Well, no,

Speaker 3 Joel is a Joe that's holding an L. So I'm saying.
So Gonzaga's going to lose. Yeah.

Speaker 3 That's your official prediction. So Baylor, yeah.
Yeah, you're going to be. Jared Butler's going to go off.
Yeah. Oh, God.

Speaker 3 A couple other things from that game. Obviously, Jalen Suggs.
The,

Speaker 3 I mean, the play,

Speaker 3 the block, which wasn't a block, 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.

Speaker 3 But the pass was incredible.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 He was just nonchalant, like, this is exactly, I know my spot. I'm going to throw it up there.
And I think the bank counts because I think that's exactly what he was trying to do.

Speaker 3 Well, yeah, you just try to get it up with the right amount of arc on it, and then you put it in the general vicinity of the basket and let God take care of the rest.

Speaker 3 And both those plays, I think they both took exactly three seconds to get from one court, one end of the court to the other.

Speaker 3 It was one of the best shots. I'd say maybe the best shot in NCAA tournament history.
Embrace debate. Big opportunities.

Speaker 3 Well, actually, I'm sure people do it tomorrow, but people, because people are, 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

Speaker 3 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 actually in the play as like, dude, it's a cool fucking play.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 at the end of the day. I think that there are a couple strong feelings I have about these types of plays.

Speaker 3 If it took place in a basketball game or in a a football game, if it's cool enough, it should not be a penalty or a foul.

Speaker 3 Secondly, I also think that if you are

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Well, the end of the game, I also saw people saying that that was not a charge. It was a charge.
It was.

Speaker 3 But I also believe that if you, 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.

Speaker 3 So I thought it was a charge because Juzhang 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?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 It was a buzzer beater to win the national title. So this over Christian Leitner shot.

Speaker 3 I still probably would.

Speaker 3 The past was so sad. Yeah, and it like Duke Kentucky, and just, I don't know.
That one, and Christian Leitner, who he was, and how hated he was, and all that shit.

Speaker 3 And was that, that was the same game he stomped the guy, right? No, it might not have been. I think it might have been a different game.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Because the shot should have gone in, which I disagree with.

Speaker 3 I love

Speaker 3 the same game. So, yeah, that's the stomp to a buzzer beater.

Speaker 3 I think that's two, but I think this makes it three. I think it's number three.
To Chris Jenkins, that was like a design play, right? Off an inbounds. No, it was, yeah, it was from

Speaker 3 coast to coast. Yeah,

Speaker 3 it's close. It's close for me.
I mean,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 It's just one of those affirming moments. You're like, sports rule.
This is why we watch a 51-49 Michigan UCLA game till midnight.

Speaker 3 Like, 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,

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 I'm just like, dude, just get back, fucking act like you've been there. You gotta reach to the number one seed, shut up, but I'm not, I'm not gonna do it.
I'm not gonna do it. I'm not wanting to.

Speaker 3 I'm gonna 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.

Speaker 3 Just a slight suggestion for Timmy.

Speaker 3 You should not do that while the clock is running, you do it, 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.

Speaker 3 If while 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.

Speaker 3 Yes, and also not COVID safe, yeah.

Speaker 3 And I love the emotions, 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 situation that it's like, it's a one-point game.

Speaker 3 UCLA is playing their balls off. You're a 14-point favorite.
You're supposed to win this game. You're undefeated.
And

Speaker 3 maybe get back on defense.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And, you know, he's clearly, you know how we do the not the best player, but the most important player.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 everyone looks to him for the emotions the problem I have is maybe you have too many good players on Gonzaga it's the just one ball through they're so good and their passing is so good and like they it's not like they played a bad game.

Speaker 3 It wasn't one of those almost upsets where it's like, oh, the favorite was just off.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Some are saying it's the most anticipated game since UNC Illinois in 2005. John Rothstein is one of them,

Speaker 3 one of our good friends. So I, listen, if you're a hoop head like us,

Speaker 3 I would say it's up there. Like, I don't think it's going to get the national number, you know, for all the ratings, police, that are going to try to shame us for watching a game that was von.

Speaker 3 We're going to get bonked by the rules.

Speaker 3 I would say that, you know, anticipation, ratings are a, you know, result of anticipation. But in terms of ratings are bad.
But I get how high could the anticipation really have been? You're right.

Speaker 3 Nationally, I wouldn't be shocked, especially with the game starting at, I think, 10.15 Eastern Time.

Speaker 3 I know it's 9.20, but that's still ridiculous. 9.20? Sorry.
Like,

Speaker 3 that's dinner. That's sitting around.
That's a snack after dinner. That's another.
That's your late night snack. And then the game's going to tip off.
It's going to be late 10.

Speaker 3 And then it's going to make a 30-minute half time. But is Miley satisfied?

Speaker 3 That's actually what they should do. If they want to ensure more people tune in,

Speaker 3 have her run it back. Do the exact same set list, wear the exact same outfits that she was wearing.
Would you say

Speaker 3 she was exactly one of those cubes by yourself if given the opportunity? Yeah, those people were

Speaker 3 the one 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.

Speaker 3 They were like those little gym mats that they give you in elementary school to be like, this is where you have to sit. It's like, that's that.
It was...

Speaker 3 Credit to them for being able to rock out an environment with like, you know, five other people attending. Agreed.
But in terms of the game, okay, so I agree with you, Hank.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 These are the two best teams since the beginning. They were supposed to play.
COVID

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Because remember, Baylor was undefeated, then they get COVID, then they lost to Kansas, and they lost in the Big 12 Championship. Like, if Baylor doesn't get COVID, they might be undefeated too.

Speaker 3 That's how good they've been. And Gonzaga going for the first perfect season since 1976.
I'm fucking excited, guys.

Speaker 3 I'm sorry that I'm the lame guy who's like, sports are cool, but goddammit, sports are fucking cool. So there's going to be high ratings in Indiana, I bet.
They're going to be watching.

Speaker 3 Yeah, birthplace. Obviously, well, not only is it the mecca of college basketball, but it's also you get to see whether or not that Gonzaga is going to take your crown as being the last undefeated.

Speaker 3 Because right now, that's like what Indiana has as, that's their like bragging rights right now. It's like, nobody's done this since us.

Speaker 3 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 hearts.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I like those sayings.

Speaker 3 But yeah, this is. I'm just excited.
I'm excited for this game. Who do you guys? So are you taking Baylor?

Speaker 3 Well, I mean, I don't know if I can say that I'm taking Baylor just because they got Gonzaga has a guy named Joel. Yeah.
But it makes sense. He's good.
He's really good. It makes a lot of sense to me.

Speaker 3 It was funny, though. So that Charles Barkley clip about the Jimmies and Joes, X's and O's.
Hank, can you play the clip? Can we put that in?

Speaker 6 The difference between Baylor and Gonzaga and these other teams.

Speaker 6 Houston got some Joes.

Speaker 6 Aldi team got some Joes.

Speaker 6 These the only 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.

Speaker 6 Baylor Gonzaga, they're the only two teams in the tournament got Jims and Joes.

Speaker 3 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 identity politics is either ruining or bolstering the American electoral system.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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 was great.
It was incredible.

Speaker 3 Like the saber metrics 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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 if that works out uh

Speaker 3 i'm gonna take in zaga i think they're gonna win i think it's gonna 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 it's the pet yeah oversclub who would ever fucking oh yeah overs club tonight too If you live in a state where we have the Barcelona Sportsbook, we have the Overs Club jacket, which is awesome.

Speaker 3 We are opening up. It's like the La Cosa Nostra when they open up membership.
We only open it up like three times a year. So if you want to be part of the Overs Club, you've got to do that.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm just excited for this game. Jake, do you have any updated one-shining moments from this week? I mean,

Speaker 3 no, just the Suggs shot and the Suggs blocking pass sequence. Okay.
Stuck out. Both those.
Maybe some Baylor threes from against Houston, but it was a blowout. Maybe some Houston tears.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Quentin Grimes.

Speaker 3 It was so weird because Houston. What about the Arizona girls coach? Oh, yeah, that was from Who's Back.
Yeah, so the

Speaker 3 Houston. Five others.
That game was so weird because the first

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So it's important to be able to make shots. That's the other side of the coin that she didn't bring up.
They literally put a seal over the rim in practice.

Speaker 3 Yeah, she had had me totally convinced that the fact that they were able to grab their own misses more effectively made them a better team.

Speaker 3 It's like, well, maybe Baylor isn't as good at offensive rebounding because they don't miss as many shots. Yes.

Speaker 3 And shout out 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,

Speaker 3 put this in your calendar. Reminder.
I want to do

Speaker 3 a

Speaker 3 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 it's actually over.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So we'll just have guys who cover spread. Because they always,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And you get moments like that. You could could tell that he wanted to make one of those shots.
Yeah. At the end, he stepped up to the line.
He started patting his chest.

Speaker 3 He was like, he was following through on his shots. 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?

Speaker 3 The splattered painted robot effect is it did look like there was a massive spill. It looked like the court got bukaki before the game started.

Speaker 3 It was,

Speaker 3 it's a little distracting. I'm one of the guys that, when you see like 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.

Speaker 3 It reminds me of,

Speaker 3 there's a great writer

Speaker 3 in Chicago, Rick Thielander, who he's been a sports writer forever for the Sun-Times.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 3 He thought that it was actually coming out of the ground, and he wrote an article or made him a tweet being like, This is a hazard to the players, they could trip over this. I like it.

Speaker 3 And it was like, no, dude, that's actually just like painted on there.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's like when you watch a professional like EPL, sometimes they'll have the fake 3D graphics on the screen, like in the middle of the field.

Speaker 3 But he's 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.

Speaker 3 They get too funky with the baseline and it fucks you up. I agree.
So

Speaker 3 he was criticized then. He should be lauded now.
Be like, the technology on the baseline, just keep it simple.

Speaker 3 Yes, I want a court that looks exactly like the courts did the minute they introduced hickory hotel. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I don't even want anything there. I just want it to be old wood look.

Speaker 3 Don't you think it, though,

Speaker 3 it's like the Super Bowl logos. Like, it's better when they have more personality.

Speaker 3 Like, when they show clips of the old tournaments and they're playing on 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.

Speaker 3 They actually do different Final Four logos every year. It's just the paint splatter did fuck me up a little bit.
Yeah, because it was every confetti on the ground or something. Whose job was it?

Speaker 3 I want that guy's job to just go around and drop cans of paint on the baseline on the sidelines. We had a lot more to work with because they're like, We have no fans, so you have all this extra space.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, it looked like the court looked like I had been standing on it watching Miley Cyrus perform. All right,

Speaker 3 Bonk.

Speaker 3 Don't act like she didn't put on the best performance on television I've ever seen. I've loved Miley forever.
I fucking love Miley. Yeah.
I'm out on Cardi B. I got new friend Miley Cyrus.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Miley's fucking awesome. She's a great singer.
That's where I respect her as a singer.

Speaker 3 Anything else from the Final Four? Anything else? Well, we had also the women's championship tonight. Arizona won.

Speaker 3 No, Stanford won. Arizona covered.
So Arizona won in my mind.

Speaker 3 Yukon, though.

Speaker 3 True. Sad.
Friday night. Pagey Buckets.

Speaker 3 Awesome games, though. Like, the Baylor-Yukon 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.

Speaker 3 I fucking, I watched

Speaker 3 from, I think, the Sweet 16 on. It was great.
The

Speaker 3 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 last second.
Last 10 seconds. Last 10 seconds was crazy.

Speaker 3 You saw, like, there was a putback 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.

Speaker 3 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.
It was just, you felt bad.

Speaker 3 It was one of those where I was like, yes, because I bet on Stanford, and then I was like, well, now I feel bad.

Speaker 3 But yeah, the last, I think the last like five women's games that I've watched have all been incredible. Yes, yes.
And

Speaker 3 yes, shout out Arizona for covering.

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Speaker 3 Henry, who's back of the week? My guy, Paul Pierce, the truth. He has

Speaker 3 went on Instagram Live Friday night. Had like, I saw it, 300 people watching him.
I think, I don't know if he's the guy that tweeted a picture of the Rocket emoji instead of the actual emoji.

Speaker 3 You know, there's the picture of him with the two phones.

Speaker 3 Who knows if he knew that he was actually on Instagram Live?

Speaker 3 Not internet literally. No, no.
So he went on Instagram Live. He had a bunch of strippers at his house.
He was on. Dancers.

Speaker 3 Okay. We don't know if they showed up

Speaker 3 in their underwear or if they took off other clothes to get into their underwear the duality of PFT he's gonna talk about ramming stuff down Miley Cyrus's orifices and whoa no no no I was talking about her doing that to me please dancers totally different not strippers

Speaker 3 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 it the screenshots put him on Twitter had like a bajillion views everyone was talking about it and then he tweeted like at like seven o'clock last night like good morning the greatest, one of the greatest tweets.

Speaker 3 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 because you know, after being basically the conversation, you know, everyone's like, There's always a main character on Twitter every single day, and like you never want it to be you.

Speaker 3 He was the main character on Twitter for the entire morning, and like lead up to the Gonzaga game. It was impressive that he was able to log off and stay offline for that long.

Speaker 3 He actually just woke up, but yeah, like most people would have tried to put together like some sort of PR statement or like an apology, a notes app, maybe. But not Paul.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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's like, dude, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 Like you're trending. Good morning.
Like, what are you going to do?

Speaker 3 You know, he's up now. My favorite was when he was like talking to the phone.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Dancing, excuse me. Throwing chips.
And he was like, where are you from? Oh, Instan Bulls? Yeah. I like turkeys.
Like, I've been to turkeys.

Speaker 3 Man, what? I mean, it's

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 The best. The best.
Is that it, Hank?

Speaker 3 Yeah, and I also had every franchise in the history of Warner Brothers. Oh, yeah.
Space Jam. Space Jam commercial came out, and every franchise in the history of Warner Brothers was made a cameo.

Speaker 3 Damoth Rones,

Speaker 3 Clockwork Orange, Clockwork Orange. Bron making a new super team.
You guys see that? Hear about that? Yeah. That was funny.
Lila Bunny. Yeah.
Everyone.

Speaker 3 Shout out our guy, B-W Carlin, being like, this movie's for kids. Like, if you don't, if you don't, like, I was like, dude, guess what? It's LeBron.
I don't care that it's for kids.

Speaker 3 I'm still going to bash it. Like, of course I am.
That's what I'm going to watch.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, I'm going to 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? Yeah.
As he's like going into the server.

Speaker 3 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. Who would watch something like that?

Speaker 3 That's what I'm thinking. My who's back in the week is Jordan Speeth.
Yeah. Jordan Speeth won, and it's very funny to see the people who were like, This is the best storyline.

Speaker 3 This is the best thing that we could have for golf because Jordan Speeth won again. We've all been rooting for Jordan Speeth to finally make a comeback.

Speaker 3 And I've never really understood, like, I guess Jordan Speeth is okay, but he's like, he's like Billy's little brother. Well, he was supposed to be the next one.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but I don't understand why people are like, this is so awesome that Jordan Speet is. Why is he the most rootable golf personality?

Speaker 3 He was, everyone anointed him as like 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 he'll do that thing in the t-box where he'll he'll like 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 him some 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.

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 That's the greatest story ever. Watching somebody overcome a situation that you've put them in.

Speaker 3 Exactly. That's why that saw guy did so many kidnappings and murders.
Yes. He enjoyed the story of watching them escape, but it was weird.
Like seeing... They acted like he was...

Speaker 3 I don't know like he battled back from having 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

Speaker 3 now he's good again yeah okay and he's also balding but okay so 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.

Speaker 3 yeah that one shot that they'd always have of him at the end of any round on on the 18th green taking the hat off. You see the giant white line on his forehead.

Speaker 3 And if you can get the bald community behind you, I mean, you got like SVP,

Speaker 3 Dickie V,

Speaker 3 Brasillo, Brasillo, not really balding. That's more by choice.
The Rock. The Rock.

Speaker 3 Larry David.

Speaker 3 Howie Mandel.

Speaker 3 What do you Billy? Billy?

Speaker 3 You got someone? MJ?

Speaker 3 Oh, Basil.

Speaker 3 LeBron. Charlie Villanova.
Come on.

Speaker 3 Kevin Durant.

Speaker 3 Come on, Billy. You can't get one bald person.
Who? Rogan. Joe Rogan.
Oh, there we go. Okay.
Okay. Good job, Billy.

Speaker 3 He's searching bald people. Bald people, yes.
Mr. Clinton.
Tell me what comes up. The Night King.
The Night King. Good one, Hank.

Speaker 3 Costanza.

Speaker 3 Johnny Sins. Oh, yeah.
Go the porn route. Carl Ravitch.
Porniest episode ever. Carl Ravitch, yes, Bill Self.
The ball guys.

Speaker 3 All right. My Who's Back of the Week is War Mode.
War Mode is back.

Speaker 3 So I was driving into work

Speaker 3 a couple hours ago, and I was pulling

Speaker 3 from 29th Street to 7th, and I see a young Billy Football crossing the street. So I thought, hey, this would be funny.
I

Speaker 3 turned towards him, and I lay on my horn. And to say that I saw War Mode, boys, boys, he didn't know it was me.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I saw war mode. I saw it.
Like, now I know why Jose Conseco took a dive. Wearing his Sunday best for Easter, too.
Dude, it was crazy. And then when it was like, wearing a nice little V-neck sweater?

Speaker 3 When I pulled down the window, I was like, hey, Billy, it's me.

Speaker 3 He was so ashamed because I saw a rage and i saw the i saw the weapons yeah weapons he was gonna say if he like punched your car he could have destroyed it it was fucking nuts dude no he was he went full berserker mode zero to 60.

Speaker 3 no no no i it wasn't zero to 60 i got beeped so i'm in the crosswalk i get beeped at once uh 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 move my brain moves pretty fast yeah maybe maybe the guy, that's an understood,

Speaker 3 maybe the guy didn't know that. But then,

Speaker 3 yeah, well, whoever was beeping at me. So, anyway, the guy in my, who I don't know who it is yet, lays on the horn again

Speaker 3 after that. And then I was like, this motherfucker.
And he went, he's a rageaholic. I think you're a rageaholic.

Speaker 3 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 Billy, sir? I'm scared. Like, I, I actually, you know what?

Speaker 3 My shoulder started to hurt right away. And I was like, I'll just take my million dollars

Speaker 3 and lay down in the corner of the ring. I'm not on steroids, I swear.
I think Billy just walked. What? Swing.
Yeah, that came out of nowhere.

Speaker 3 Everyone was accusing me of Reid rage.

Speaker 3 Everyone was. Everyone's still doing it? Yeah.
What?

Speaker 3 No. Okay.
No, seriously. Billy, are you just talking about it? No, no, no.
I'll take a take. I'll take a picture.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Guys, I'm also, I just wanted on on the record, I'm not on steroids. I am not on steroids as well.
Same. Billy, I mean, I will take a pistol.

Speaker 3 I could look at you and be like, I know you're not on steroids, but people can't see that.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Jake, are you shooting up with anything, William? Jake hasn't said anything. Billy slipped me some.
Oh. Slipped you, Mickey.

Speaker 3 My other who's back is Brooks Kepka 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...

Speaker 3 I think it was the kid from Little Giants. He's got to pay for that engagement ring.
Yeah, all bundled up in styrofoam. So he's going to do it.
He's a warrior.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Oh, also, John Rahm, I think, just had a kid. And that's like the best

Speaker 3 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. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Max Homo plus 5,000. Does he have a kid?

Speaker 3 cut?

Speaker 3 To win.

Speaker 3 Max would just like adopt a kid last minute.

Speaker 3 That was mean of me.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 All right, Billy. My who's back of the week is ketosis.
I think it's time, guys. I've been, you know, thinking a lot about your guys' health recently.
We've been through a couple of health scares,

Speaker 3 kidney stones, whatnot. And Big Cat has been on a diet recently.
So I thought, let's take it seriously this time. For

Speaker 3 me, we're going to get you guys meal prep,

Speaker 3 which is great.

Speaker 3 And we're just going to go for it. Because I read this study that it

Speaker 3 keto when your brain runs on ketones, it's neuroprotective. So it wards off stuff like Alzheimer's.

Speaker 3 Do you think we have dementia? Do you think we're these stuff? Like, how does a, how does an inquisitive mind like yours go about finding studies such as these?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 All right, here's my only problem: is last time you put us on ketosis, the rules changed like every bite this

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Is that true? true? Haven't looked at liver issue. Liver issue.
Well, I might have that too. Yeah.
So, well, you want to look great at the beach? Or do you want to six-pack summer? Yeah.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.
That's true.

Speaker 3 I changed 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.

Speaker 3 All right. Billy's got a scheme, but that's beside 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?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah, Billy, you just want free protein.
He told me the scheme. I mean, it's not.

Speaker 3 He didn't tell me there's a scheme. He told me that it is like, here's the plan.
And it actually is a good plan. It's legitimately a good plan.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Now I'm realizing it. 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.

Speaker 7 Respect.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, dude.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 You can't just get the free meat. So it's basically.
It's a little weedosis.

Speaker 3 What's that? It's like this new diet I read a study on.

Speaker 3 You just smoke weed?

Speaker 3 I have a question for you, Billy, as our nutritionist. Do you think, like, I always think, like, could I just like do like a cereal diet or like a PB ⁇ J diet? Something that's not that hard?

Speaker 3 Like, just

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 That came out wrong. Tim Brown used to do the cereal diet, right? Did he? I think so.

Speaker 3 I think his thing was like people would 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.

Speaker 3 But like, I want. But I also like the problem is I say it, but it's all just going to be sugar cereal.
Well, you also get protein from the shrimp. Yeah.
No, but

Speaker 3 I want to see what my brain's like on ketones because they say that you get so much more energy and like people drink less.

Speaker 3 Like one guy was like, I don't have to drink coffee anymore because I'm just so anti-sounds like you just want to to use cocaine. Yeah, I don't want to use it.

Speaker 3 Your brain on ketosis

Speaker 3 might be like being on cocaine. I'm in all the time.
I'm in. I'm in, Billy.
Okay, boom. Billy,

Speaker 3 Billy makes this podcast Joe Rogan's show.

Speaker 3 That will happen this summer. All right, Jake, do you have a who's back?

Speaker 3 Skip Bayless not being nice. Wait, that's a segment.
Kingstake. Oh, are you stealing that because tanks don't know? It was unintentional.

Speaker 3 Scratch it.

Speaker 3 My who's back is

Speaker 3 languages.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Okay.
They get on his feet here. No, I actually had it.
Okay, I like this.

Speaker 3 They released the Russia and the Hispanic final call. I saw that.
I saw that. It was like, rate this versus that.
Well, how do you know that they're not cussing in those languages, Jake?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 That would be kind of cool, right? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Do you you speak Hebrew? Shalom. There it is.
You should do the Hebrew calls. You did a good job with your call of buzzer beater.
It kind of got washed out because everyone was screaming.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but that's

Speaker 3 fucked up. That's the sports baby.
Yeah, and that's just the moment swept us all away.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I was like, all right, can't wait to see this reaction. Big Hat's going to be going nuts.
And then everyone stood up and started screaming, and Big Cat like sunk on the couch. I was like, oh,

Speaker 3 kind of wear my emotions on my sleeve on that one yeah maybe I'll learn you should either do Hebrew or the Canadian call do all be very funny do all just do like 12 languages in the final call yes all right I'll try my best let's let's have it ready for for Tuesday's show have the winning like last 10 seconds yeah okay in every language that would be great you got it okay awesome Love it, Jake.

Speaker 3 All right, let's get to our interview. We got Triple H on the show.

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Speaker 3 Here he is, Triple H.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We have the NXT Takeover coming up April 7th,

Speaker 3 simulcast on USA Network and Peacock. April 8th, live on Peacock.
WrestleMania coming up that weekend, April 10th and April 11th, live from Raymond Jane's stadium in Tampa on Peacock.

Speaker 3 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 on the cock?

Speaker 7 So far, I've loved it. yeah you know i 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

Speaker 7 some people complain about it uh

Speaker 3 you know but but but so far it's been good i think people are enjoying the the pakak yeah okay so so in a real uh question here uh 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

Speaker 7 does anything happen that people don't initially complain about

Speaker 3 oh no

Speaker 7 oh like 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 ah bacon's cooked too much like there's really no complaint about that i i'm of the opinion that no matter what you do people are are going to, in their initial take on it, their initial thought is to question or criticize.

Speaker 7 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 through. The transition was fast.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 So, you know, it's a work in progress.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 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

Speaker 7 I think it'll be a good thing long term for everybody.

Speaker 3 So if you're listening at home and 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 a hundred books behind you.

Speaker 3 Have you read all those books?

Speaker 7 One.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 7 Yeah, there's a lot of that.

Speaker 7 Actually, there's some of those are like books that

Speaker 7 stuff that people send 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.

Speaker 3 Um, it looks like you've got one anthology up there. Anthologies are always a nice look in the background.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's always makes you seem important.

Speaker 7 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.
Sweet. My

Speaker 7 for my 50th birthday, my

Speaker 7 wife had

Speaker 7 Billy Gibbons played at my birthday party with.

Speaker 7 I'm blanking right now. The singer from Creedon's Clearwater Revival.

Speaker 3 Fogarty.

Speaker 7 Fogarty, sorry, yeah. Fogarty played, and so it's all stuff from that.

Speaker 3 That's awesome.

Speaker 3 So I don't know, I'm sure you saw because you probably lived with him, but I saw a video of Vince, your father-in-law,

Speaker 3 deadlifting over almost a thousand pounds. He's 75 years old.
Are you worried that he's going to kick your ass

Speaker 3 so you saw a video of him deadlifting a thousand pounds oh no so squatting it was squatting sorry he squatted sorry i'm like yeah yeah it was a weird squatting machine

Speaker 7 yeah yeah it's uh pit shark it's called um

Speaker 7 no no look vince is uh incredible and and you can

Speaker 7 say that it's almost on like every level he's he's uh 75 plus

Speaker 7 his work ethic is

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 They go downstairs at 2 a.m. And I mean, he just gets after it.
And he doesn't sleep that much.

Speaker 7 Still trains like that, still,

Speaker 7 you know, eats very particular about his food.

Speaker 7 he's just a machine he's just a very disciplined person and uh man his 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.

Speaker 3 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 a cdc coming from every single room.

Speaker 7 If Vince is there, yes. Yeah, that's like his go-to music, especially for training.
Like

Speaker 7 he listens to the same stuff every time when he trains, you know,

Speaker 7 yeah, he just, man, he's just, he's a creature of habit, but he's also, he's just insane when it comes to that stuff. You know, he, he will, uh, will wrap up raw,

Speaker 7 you know, on a Monday night. It's 11.
He's got to travel somewhere. And then, you know, you'll, you'll get where you're going.
And he'll go, yeah, no, Mike's meeting me. I'm going to gym right now.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 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 he can go in there and train.
And he's just a machine with that stuff. And yeah,

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 We're in the process of talking about moving some things and,

Speaker 7 office spaces and all that. And it's the first thing he's like, well, where's the gym going to go? That's his first question.

Speaker 3 I love it, Tom.

Speaker 7 So, what keeps him moving?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Rob Gronkowski is going to make a return to WrestleMania this year. Yes or no?

Speaker 7 It's a possibility. It's been, you know, and I know that's been discussed.

Speaker 7 I'm of

Speaker 7 the opinion that as the first opportunity with Gronk was happening and we were meeting with him 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.

Speaker 7 So

Speaker 7 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

Speaker 7 there's been conversations around that, but you know, there's going to be a lot of,

Speaker 7 as always, a celebrity influence. And I know, as you guys know, Bad Bunny is heavily involved in this year's WrestleMania.
We'll be actually be wrestling The Miz on night one of WrestleMania.

Speaker 7 And that's incredible. And 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,

Speaker 7 WWE. I wish they wouldn't do that or whatever.
I haven't seen, it's one of the guys that from a celebrity standpoint.

Speaker 7 He's been a huge fan and I've met him a few times and I knew he was at that level of fandom.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 I mean,

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 So when people say, you know, oh, he's taking up a spot, he's earned my respect, any 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

Speaker 7 getting the opportunity to do what he's dreamed of his whole life.

Speaker 7 But he's not just saying, oh, they're giving me the spot because I'm a, you know, I'm an international music star or whatever. He's, he's earned every second of it.

Speaker 3 So one of my favorite parts about WrestleMania is the Hall of Fame. And Kane got, is getting inducted this year, one of my favorite wrestlers of all time.

Speaker 3 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,

Speaker 3 you know, stuck up their own ass. How does, who decides the wrestling Hall of Fame? How does that go down?

Speaker 7 So there's a lot of people that put in suggestion on it from within the company. So writing teams.

Speaker 7 You have people in television production. So across the board, there's a lot of people putting input into it.

Speaker 7 And then 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 just gets he gets to decide it's like whoever will get the highest ratings right vince is going to put those guys or whoever love is like

Speaker 7 yeah to a degree i think it's it's a little bit of that you know

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 It's, it's, it's a part of a show. And what he believes in as

Speaker 7 part of that is so that somebody like Kane is going to get an opportunity to go on a stage.

Speaker 7 This year will be different because of the way it is, but, you know, in years past, you're going to get an opportunity to go and relive your career one more time.

Speaker 7 in a show and it sort of be a part of that and and have an entertainment value to that. And you want to kind kind of make that a show across the board, not just be

Speaker 7 some, you know, stodgy show that's, you know, you're an hour and 45 minutes in and you regret watching because everybody's been saying the same thing and it's boring.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 the sort of the who deserves to be in is talked about a lot from everybody else.

Speaker 7 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, well, this guy's going to be really dry.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 3 But all Hall of Fame should be like this. That's what I was kind of getting at.

Speaker 3 Like, they're, if you're the, 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 7 You know, it's a funny thing for for me is i i whenever i see stuff like that and i watch people go well 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 opinions music hall of fame what's good music It's opinion.

Speaker 7 Yeah. You know, so all those things become opinion.
Who should be and who shouldn't be? And it's all opinion.

Speaker 7 I guess to your point, at the end of the day,

Speaker 7 if you're your you're gig, you get to have the opinion.

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly. I also read online that you're friends with Ben Rothlessberger.
Is that true?

Speaker 7 I am.

Speaker 3 So, what are the odds of Ben ever getting into the ring? You think Ben could handle a few bumps?

Speaker 3 Ben's tough, dude. And

Speaker 7 he's one of those guys that's played some seasons, pretty banged up and

Speaker 7 just keeps rolling.

Speaker 7 It's a funny thing. I met Ben years ago.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 And Rothelsberger was in the ring, and they did some things.

Speaker 7 It's a funny thing. I'm not a huge football fan.

Speaker 7 So I'll go to the Super Bowl, but I don't know enough about it to sit there and debate it or talk about, you know, Sean Michaels makes fun of me all the time. Like, I'll make the joke about it.

Speaker 7 I don't even know what inning it is.

Speaker 7 and um so ben and i kind of hit it off but more based on um just outside uh

Speaker 7 life and 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 um but at a time in his life where he was trying to figure out how to stop being Big Ben, I think, and

Speaker 7 get down to real life and

Speaker 7 not have to be this image anymore and

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 We don't talk all the time, but every now and then, you know, we get on the phone together.

Speaker 3 So you might not be able to answer this, but I'm very curious.

Speaker 3 WrestleMania, it's such a great spectacle. It's awesome to watch on TV, watch it on the Peacock.
It'll be on the Peacock streaming on Saturday and Sunday night. NXT take over Wednesday and Thursday.

Speaker 3 What's the funniest or most ridiculous line item in the WrestleMania budget?

Speaker 3 Like, I would imagine when you look at the Pyrotechnic Technics budget, you're like, whoa, we spent $15 million on fireworks. Or, like, what's the one that you look at?

Speaker 3 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? You're like, whoa, we could, this is a lot of money for this.

Speaker 7 Yeah,

Speaker 7 that's tough to say. I think I've been blown away sometimes by,

Speaker 7 um,

Speaker 7 and I'll give you this one. I don't know how much it costs, but years ago, uh, you know, my entrance music's done by Motorhead and quite a few, they played me to the ring at one of the WrestleManias.

Speaker 7 And I remember walking in to the dressing room at Lenn, we were talking, I remember walking in there and like, it looked like we were in a liquor store. Yeah.

Speaker 7 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 and like shelves and piles.

Speaker 7 And I remember just thinking, like, wow, that's the rider for them.

Speaker 7 Like, how can you like this? Like, you know, three of them, like, and plus some crew, how much booze can they drink?

Speaker 7 Apparently, you know, and I would get to know them much better after that, but a lot.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 7 so it always just baffled me of sometimes the things that, like,

Speaker 7 when celebrities come in, that they require

Speaker 7 the one celebrity one time that came in,

Speaker 7 we had to have a bus for him on set.

Speaker 7 Um, 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 5,000 thread count sheets that we had to have special ordered.

Speaker 7 And then he never even went on the bus.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but that's he just wanted to know that he could do it. Yeah, that's a power move.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's how he trusted us. It's like he just walked on the bus, looked at some some 5,000 thread count sheets.
These guys are quality people.

Speaker 3 Yes, I love this.

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Speaker 3 When you're planning out a show like WrestleMania, I've always wondered how you time it out.

Speaker 3 Like 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 out.
Like, how

Speaker 3 intricate do you get with the timing to know how long each match is going to last and what goes into that?

Speaker 7 So it's 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.

Speaker 7 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 it comes to the matches,

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 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

Speaker 7 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

Speaker 7 it's it's tough you know you 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.

Speaker 7 So let's budget that for three.

Speaker 7 So 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 trying to be as accurate to it as possible but it's it's uh

Speaker 7 it's a process and and i can tell you from from our standpoint we sit up there um

Speaker 7 and do all this stuff.

Speaker 7 But if you've never been in it and you were to come up to what we call guerrilla position where everybody goes out and 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 it 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 nxc is kind of your baby wednesday and thursday uh we have the takeover what what should we expect from that?

Speaker 3 Because I think a lot of people are excited. And you've done a great job.
You now see the kind of minor leagues.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 But what can we expect on Wednesday and Thursday night?

Speaker 7 Yeah, so I think over the years, NXT has grown from being just kind of exactly that.

Speaker 7 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 as they made it to raw and smackdown and you see that from everybody from you know uh roman reigns to uh drew mcintyre to

Speaker 7 you know big e even was you know in nxt and was champion there

Speaker 7 um

Speaker 7 i think nxt now has has morphed into becoming sort of its own brand and we will have two nights of what I think tends to be

Speaker 7 um

Speaker 7 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

Speaker 7 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,

Speaker 7 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 I think in NXT,

Speaker 7 that passion comes across harder. They're still trying to prove a point.

Speaker 7 They're still trying to to make a name for themselves and still trying to prove to the world that like that 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 io shirai who's been considered that is going to make sure that everybody knows that her spot is is well received and then on the the next night you're going to have the same thing with baller and guys like baller 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, carrying cross trying to show, hey,

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 3 When it comes to like NFT stuff, Big Cat and I are 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 NFTs. Like

Speaker 3 if I could buy

Speaker 3 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 to me makes more sense to like buy those moments than like a random NBA block.

Speaker 3 So is that something that you guys have been exploring at all?

Speaker 7 Yeah, I think those are things as technology changes, as those opportunities

Speaker 7 become available, it's always

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 Our moments are iconic. It's what we do.
We create iconic moments.

Speaker 7 You know, Andre slamming Hogan or whatever that is, those iconic moments that live forever in people's minds.

Speaker 7 I think those are the things that lead themselves to that. And look, to be honest with you, I'm like you.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 3 Quick headline grab:

Speaker 3 CM Punk, you remember, maybe give him a call. When was the last time you talked to him?

Speaker 7 The last time I talked to him,

Speaker 7 a year and a half, year and three quarters ago,

Speaker 7 you know,

Speaker 7 it's a funny thing that people constantly will say,

Speaker 7 you know, when his return is, or, but, but

Speaker 7 in

Speaker 7 some ways,

Speaker 7 I don't know whether he does or not, but that has to be what he wants. Right.

Speaker 7 When people talk about they go make the call what what says if we make the call he wants to answer what says if we make the call he doesn't go like i'm not interested in doing that anymore you know maybe he's just done with it um

Speaker 7 i i think that those are are conversations that only those people can can directly answer and and uh i think if he wants to do it

Speaker 7 um

Speaker 7 either we would get word and we would have those conversations or

Speaker 7 he would make a call or, you know, anything like that. But

Speaker 7 there has to be desire there to do something like that. This business is too all in to

Speaker 7 just go like, yeah, all right, I'll do it.

Speaker 3 I think it comes back to like as a wrestling fan myself, you always, when guys are gone, you always just expect that dramatic return. Like Undertaker's retired, right?

Speaker 3 I still expect him to show up. Like, I just, you always expect the guys that you loved watching to pop up when you don't expect it and be like an unbelievable pop.

Speaker 3 So, I'm going to pretend that that was the coy answer and you've talked to them and it's just around the corner.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 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.
It's part of the beauty of what we do.

Speaker 7 I think it's part of what resonates

Speaker 7 about WWE is there's always that possibility of the what if.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 7 And,

Speaker 7 you know, it's funny.

Speaker 7 We did a thing a bit ago here where Sean 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.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 7 After that, when he was leaving, he ran into Adam Cole backstage. And they just had a moment together, and then Sean walked off.

Speaker 7 The internet blew up of people saying, Oh my god, the what if, what a tease! That's the ultimate match to want.

Speaker 7 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 into 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.

Speaker 7 Like, yeah, that match isn't going to happen. Um,

Speaker 7 but but in your mind, it's always the what if, right? And those are the,

Speaker 7 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, but

Speaker 7 there's always that what if.

Speaker 3 That was such a smart way for you to just be like Adam Cole and Shawn Michaels are never going to be in the ring together. That was smart by you.
That was a good cover-up. Good job.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Triple H, you're good at what you do.

Speaker 7 But I could just be making that up totally to throw you off.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's what I was going to say.

Speaker 3 I was going to say, like, why would you have gone to those links to tell me that story, right? Uh-huh. You're reading off of something behind it.
This is not the first time you've done press.

Speaker 7 Exactly. Exactly.
Well, with the CM Punk, 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.

Speaker 3 The entire time. Everything that I don't believe a word that I say, honestly.

Speaker 3 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 waiting for the other person to make the call.
Like show me that you want this.

Speaker 3 He's probably on the other end being like,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 You would be interested to speak with him.

Speaker 7 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?

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 I think we would have a conversation about it. But again,

Speaker 7 you know, CM Punk worked with us on the Fox show,

Speaker 7 what, a year ago?

Speaker 7 And there was opportunities there. There were people around each other at all times.

Speaker 7 You know, again, I'll never say never, but the desire needs to be there on all sides to make things happen.

Speaker 3 What about you? When's the next time we're going to get you in the ring?

Speaker 7 Of course, I could be just saying that.

Speaker 3 You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, I hear you. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 What about you, Triple H? When are we going to see you in the ring again?

Speaker 7 I hope not for a while.

Speaker 7 You know, it's

Speaker 7 WWE is a fast-moving

Speaker 7 company. And this last year, especially with COVID and all the challenges that it's taken us, you know, people

Speaker 7 forget what it's like to try to put on a live event still

Speaker 7 in this environment and where on a weekly basis, you know, it's live talent and live performances and

Speaker 7 we're still in the middle of a pandemic and don't have fans and it's challenging and it's gotten busier and busier and busier. And as

Speaker 7 we got closer to WrestleMania this year, there were a lot of people that came up to me and said, hey, you know, what are you thinking about WrestleMania this year? What do you think about me and you?

Speaker 7 AJ Styles, being one, was very vocal about it. He kept calling me out on the internet, doing all this thing.
And, you know, we talked about it at TV and I was like, AJ, it's not going to happen, dude.

Speaker 7 Like, I, you can, I know you think you're just baiting me into this somehow and that I'm, I'm, I'm playing Koi and I want you to come out, but it's not going to happen.

Speaker 7 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?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 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?

Speaker 7 I suppose I would, yeah. But it's a long walk and I might change my mind part way down.
You know, it's Raymond James Stadium, a big stadium, so the ramp is steep.

Speaker 7 By the time you get halfway there, I don't know, your anger goes away.

Speaker 7 You know, I'd be angry at for by the time I got halfway there, I'd be like, I don't know, maybe I'll just go back and get some catering or something.

Speaker 3 You know, yes, yes, and good cheesecake,

Speaker 3 yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Well, Triple H has has been awesome. We appreciate it.
Everyone go watch WrestleMania

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We love it.

Speaker 3 It's the Super Bowl for wrestling. So appreciate it, and good luck.

Speaker 7 Thank you very much. You guys should come on down.
Let's have a ball.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I feel like that's what we were meant to do.

Speaker 7 Let's do it. Let's do it.
So come down Wednesday, Thursday, watch the show. Friday, we'll train for refs

Speaker 7 Saturday, Sunday, WrestleMania.

Speaker 3 Perfect. Perfect.
All right. Well, thank you so much, Triple H.
We appreciate it.

Speaker 7 Appreciate it, guys. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3 Okay, let's get into some segments. We should just do an emergency way to stay relevant baseball.

Speaker 3 Shohei Otani is fucking electric. Yes.
So we actually, before we started the show, we were like, hey, let's wait and see him hit.

Speaker 3 He throws one-on-one in the first inning, and then he hits a fucking bomb in the second, or sorry, bottom of the first

Speaker 3 pitch.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And the only weakness in Otani's game is he's beanable. So, like,

Speaker 3 if you really wanted to do it, you could just beat Otani, what, four or five times a game? Yes. Really take away their best offensive and defensive player.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but why would you bean the guy that could literally just be

Speaker 3 back?

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 3 He can beat everybody. Yeah.
Well, then that's fine.

Speaker 3 He throws faster than what you can beat him. He can't beat all of us.
Yeah, he could. Yeah, I guess he probably could.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 So people forget that Mike Trot is 30 and 10 has never won a playoff series. Oh, never been?

Speaker 3 No, he's been.

Speaker 3 Never won. Never won.
I don't know if he's been. Is he like?

Speaker 3 Jake is saying no. I don't think he has either.
No, I don't think he's been. I think he's the Ryan Fitzpatrick of baseball.
I don't think he's been. Brandon Marshall.
I don't think he's been.

Speaker 3 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 playoffs.
Okay, so he's been to the playoffs.

Speaker 3 Have you really been, though, if you've never won? Right. Yeah.

Speaker 3 He got swept. Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, his debut was 2011. Okay, so he's been, but he has not.
It was also Tim Kirchen probably had

Speaker 3 just

Speaker 3 like an hour-long orgasm because I was looking it up about Otani. The last time a AAL team

Speaker 3 didn't have a or had the pitcher DH was actually Joe Madden incorrectly filling out the lineup card in 2009. We had two third basemans.
That's very funny.

Speaker 3 So then they had to cancel one third baseman and the pitcher had to hit.

Speaker 3 How many baseball fantasy league managers are getting emails from everybody in their league trying to figure out how to score Otani's performance? I think they did change the rules, right, Jake?

Speaker 3 You were saying something about it. My question is about roster numbers.

Speaker 3 My question, and 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 what would you say hank no why did come out of the game no but he didn't he's still in the game you're a dham if you're a pitcher and you go 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 what i don't think that you could what what would happen if you got put in the game as a first baseman

Speaker 3 that you can be removed as a pitcher and called back as pitcher but because they don't stay in as hitters. Because it's never happened before.
Right.

Speaker 3 I think it's defensive and offensive. I think it's different.
I think it's the same as hitters. Like, you can't.

Speaker 3 You couldn't be a DH, get taken off as DH, and then become the pitcher and come back as Ditcher.

Speaker 3 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. No shot.
Is that Little League? No, that's for a moment.

Speaker 3 No, it's

Speaker 3 Q-U-O-R-A, where it's like

Speaker 3 crowdfunding. That one sisters.

Speaker 3 And that person's usually like one guy who's the president of a strange app company in Silicon Valley that answers all the questions. What they should do is they should have him

Speaker 3 come out of the lineup when there's going to be left-handed batters for that inning and then come back the next inning. Right.

Speaker 3 They should treat him just like, yeah, he's going to break the rules of baseball. Okay, I'm on a message board called Baseball Fever that has this is a

Speaker 3 thread from 2008.

Speaker 3 Can a pitcher come on to pitch, then after he's done, get switched to play another position and then come back to pitch? That's the question.

Speaker 3 It's illegal and literally divisions below.

Speaker 3 Yes, players may switch positions anytime during the game with the following rule being the only restriction on the pitching position.

Speaker 3 Rule 303 comment, a pitcher may change to another position only once during the same inning.

Speaker 3 For example, the pitcher will not be allowed to assume a position other than a pitcher more than once in the same inning. What does that make sense of that for?

Speaker 3 I don't know, but I'm on the bodybuilding.com forums because they have answers to everything.

Speaker 3 They say, as we all know, there are several different positions in baseball. One common strain between all the positions is speed.
Speed is an important role in all positions.

Speaker 3 In this workout, we're going to be doing, we're going to focus on explosive behavior. There we go.
You know what? Maybe should we try to call Dan Heron? I don't, I think you can do this, Hank.

Speaker 3 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...

Speaker 3 FaceTime him? I don't know. No,

Speaker 3 he would never pick up the FaceTime. The pugs.
Do you think he's a FaceTime guy? If you have pugs, I think that's what you use him for, right? That's true. What's the point? Yeah.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 When was the last time we had him on?

Speaker 3 It was about a year ago, I think.

Speaker 3 This is going to hurt my feelings. He's probably mad that Billy didn't put together him to stand here in front of the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 Yes, true. He probably

Speaker 3 ex-communicated. He's probably going to tweak Dan Aaron and say, why didn't you pick up?

Speaker 3 I think you can do it, Hank, based on bodybuilding.com, baseballfever.com, and Ash G.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I think that there's, I think we found a loophole.
I don't know why they would do it.

Speaker 3 That's probably the more.

Speaker 3 I'm trying to think of a scenario. Well, if you had like 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.

Speaker 3 But you can't do a one-at-bat lefty specialist anymore. That's right.
That's right. That's right.
All right.

Speaker 3 Well, baseball should let that happen just so the Angels could do it, just so Tim Kirchen could get, like, reach Nirvana. I'm also loving Tony LaRussa in this game right now because

Speaker 3 you know that Tony has had

Speaker 3 two pops. He's got a nip underneath that mask for sure.
Yes, like Andy Reid's barbecue rib. He's just got like a,

Speaker 3 what is it, the airplane bottle of Jack Daniels strapped in there. Oh, yeah, yeah, look at that.
That mask is huge.

Speaker 3 He's got a camel back of

Speaker 3 absolute fod camels. Do you think he has like a race simulator in the dugout just so he can simulate getting behind the wheel?

Speaker 3 Oh, I thought you were going in a different direction with the race simulator thing. No, no, no.

Speaker 3 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.
You're like, you're going to say that I'm old?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Unreal.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And 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.

Speaker 3 He actually, Skip Bayless's brain should be studied just because he truly does not care that everyone hates him. And I think he might be the only person in the shirt that actually feels that way.
Yes.

Speaker 3 No shame whatsoever.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Did you see the most recent post that he put up on Instagram where he was shirtless? He says that all the time. The rules in Skip Bayless's house are

Speaker 3 what?

Speaker 3 Me?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 3 I'll take that bone.

Speaker 3 He comes home. Did you see shirtless Skip Bayless?

Speaker 3 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 wash and dryer. Just a picture of nude Skip Bayless.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 stay woke

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Kyle Pitts, I think, also ran a 4-4. We're Kyle Pitts guys on this podcast.

Speaker 3 I think that... the major programs out there are making a section of their practice fields where the hash marks are slightly closer together.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Billy's looking at me like, holy shit. No.
It just blew my mind. What do you think, Billy?

Speaker 3 Are you in on it or are you going to say, well, actually, this is how they do it? We just got to wait till the combine. Well, there isn't.
There's not a combine.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 combine? No.

Speaker 3 This is the year, this is the first year they really aren't doing a combine. Well, I guess, no, last year they did the combine.
This is the first year they're not doing a combine.

Speaker 3 So this would be the year. To get away with it.
To get away with it. But in the future, you're going to have players probably not go to the combine as much.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Be like, you can come to my pro day, check it out. And honestly, like, it's a smart.
If they're not doing it, they should be doing it. Yeah, shame on them.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And then just be able to like break all the records when it comes to the bench press. Well, you know what the trick is?

Speaker 3 You always max out with the old rusty plates because they're like a little bit lighter. Oh, yeah, because of gravity.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Billy, are you just 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.

Speaker 3 I just thought that it would be

Speaker 3 a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 You were shocked that the combine hadn't happened already or was about wasn't it i thought it would be a bigger deal if they canceled it yeah it was

Speaker 3 it was a pretty big deal it was a pretty big deal

Speaker 3 yeah

Speaker 3 you were busy at the time just didn't get it it didn't come across your dick you were busy your chickens were dying probably way more important things you know that we should we should be rooting for jalen suggests because he was he's a football guy first he was he was offered a scholarship by urban meyer so you know his character checks out and he's terrels' cousin

Speaker 3 is that true whoa yeah Yeah. He's Terrell Suggs' cousin.
Oh, that's awesome. I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 What about this? The idea. Are you sure?

Speaker 3 Niece or nephew? What? Probably not niece. I don't.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I'm going to guess nephew if it's one of the two. Yeah.
Shot. Those are easy to confuse.

Speaker 3 Jimmy's and Joe's more important than exes and another ex chromosome. His, his, uh.

Speaker 3 Suggs' father is Larry Suggs, who's second cousins with former Raymond.

Speaker 3 Okay, so that's not.

Speaker 3 Suggs is really.

Speaker 3 He's a cousin of Eddie Jones. That's bigger.

Speaker 3 A first cousin of Eddie Jones, maybe. So his Suggs' second cousin is NFL.
Second cousin. Got it.

Speaker 3 Got it. What do you think about this idea, big cat? Yeah.
Going along with the gym that has the fake heavy weights?

Speaker 3 What if you set up a gym that was strictly for influencers on Instagram? And then, but it had like all these weights that were seriously like half as heavy as they said they were on the side.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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 money.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they do that all the time with fake weights on Instagram.

Speaker 3 I don't know how this wasn't, like, 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.

Speaker 3 Terrell sucks.

Speaker 3 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 Bucher? Did not know that.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 3 They were friends.

Speaker 3 Crazy. Imagine if they got married and had kids.
Whoa.

Speaker 3 That's crazy. That kid would be a bucket.
Yeah. It would be a bucket.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 Where are we? I was just talking about my pie in the sky idea for the gym. I like your idea.
The gym influencer. Yeah.
Like, people would pay a couple hundred bucks to be a member of that gym.

Speaker 3 I had an idea. I was driving back from Philly last night, like, at one in the morning, and I don't have any friends on the West Coast besides Rasil, so I was calling him to catch up with him.
Titus?

Speaker 3 Oh, Titus, but he was in Indiana. So, no, not true.
Spencer Hawes, too, fuck.

Speaker 3 But the idea is,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 joe nameth football camp okay joe nameth the football camp i was pretty close uh we should we should create a uh 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 uh like a baseline 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 of counselors for that.

Speaker 3 Crafty, yeah, top spin on a, on a on a tennis shot. So it's like, we're not going to teach you how to serve.

Speaker 3 You're not going to be able to, you're, you're not going to be able to like dunk, but we can teach you how to do the few things that everyone will be like, ooh, that was kind of cool.

Speaker 3 We need a knuckleball guy. That's really the knuckleball.

Speaker 3 That's another gap that we have. But like, Mark Schlerth would be the head instructor for the football camp.
Like, here's how you get away with holding on every single play. Right.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 And also piss yourself before every play, too. Right.
Shit yourself if you have to. Teach like old man tricks on every sport to to kids.
And it's basically just a group of kids.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Like the guy who, the kid who is like a little pudgy and just runs through three-point line to three-point line and just is wet from three. Like and can't do anything else.

Speaker 3 Matthew Delavadova's charge-taking station. Yeah.
There's like the little crafty things.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 They always have the camps for 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?

Speaker 3 Yeah, the Blake Bordles Handoff Mastering Academy.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I 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.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I think we just solved all the problems.

Speaker 3 All right. Last up, we had hurt or injured,

Speaker 3 the MMA fighter who lost his finger. I'm going to say

Speaker 3 hurt on this one. I'm going to say

Speaker 3 in the ring, yeah, yeah, his finger came off

Speaker 3 into his own glove during

Speaker 3 during a fight. Yeah,

Speaker 3 and they looked for the finger and they're like, Where's the finger? You're missing it. It's got to be around or somewhere.
It got lodged in between his glove and his hand.

Speaker 3 It was just the bone sticking out. But then they reattached it and he tweeted out, all good.

Speaker 3 Which that was an all-time tweet. What if it was your thumb and you're like you're getting stretchered out of the ring? You're trying to give the thumbs up.

Speaker 3 You're like, ah, shit, this catch tweets.

Speaker 3 But what 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 bobbitted second you can't poke the other guy in the eye.

Speaker 3 It's less of them to grab and if you had no fingers you'd just be wildly throwing punches and not worry about

Speaker 3 breaking anything. Billy is our fighter.

Speaker 3 Honestly, if he you can fight without a thump.

Speaker 3 I think the fight ended once they found out he didn't have a thump. Did he want to keep fighting? No.
Yes, he went out there and fought the second round. Yeah,

Speaker 3 and then they noticed in the the second round the ref was like, wait, something's not adding up with this guy. Oh, yeah.
I thought it was in between rounds.

Speaker 3 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. Crazy.
Fucking crazy. Look at this, Hank.

Speaker 3 If the guy's willing to go out without a finger,

Speaker 3 I'm good.

Speaker 3 Let me see if that's gross. Whoa,

Speaker 3 you see that?

Speaker 3 It's fucking gross. It looks like Chubbs' hand.
Oh, that's a warrior right there. That is at war mode.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 You're actually soft. Oh, can't hear us calling that.
Like being like, I would die, but not saying I'm willing to lose my hand. All right, here we go.

Speaker 3 Hey, Dan. Dan.

Speaker 3 Hey, we're in the middle of taping pardon my take.

Speaker 3 If

Speaker 3 Shoheio, am I saying his name right? Show

Speaker 3 Shohei Otani came out of the game as a pitcher but stayed in as a DH, could he go back in as a pitcher?

Speaker 3 I don't think so. Why not?

Speaker 3 Let's see.

Speaker 3 I think if he gets removed from the game as the pitcher, then you lose the designated hitter. What?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 3 because

Speaker 3 then when,

Speaker 3 say, if he comes out of the game and a reliever comes in, the reliever's got a hit, right? No, because he's in the AL.

Speaker 3 It just blew your mind. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yes. We couldn't find the answer on the various message boards we tried to find.
So we definitely know. Who's the guy?

Speaker 3 I could find out, though. Okay, find out for us.

Speaker 3 Yeah, just text me when you find out. But yeah.

Speaker 3 I'm going to text my guy right now. Okay, all right.
Thank you, Dan. Hope you're well.
Say hi. You got to come back on soon.
Say hi to the pugs for me. You're just saying that now.
No, we mean that.

Speaker 3 Say hi to the pugs. Say hi to the pugs.
I want to see your pugs again. Whoa, one died.

Speaker 3 What the? I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 My dog died, too. Fuck.
All right. Thank you.

Speaker 3 My dog has a huge dick. Thank you, Dan.
I'll talk to you later. Oh, no.

Speaker 3 I do. Why'd you say pugs? I said pug.

Speaker 3 You added the beer on there. I knew you were playing with fire with that.

Speaker 3 When you don't talk to someone for like a while and you're like, hey, how are those pugs?

Speaker 3 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 it. Probably a rules guy.
You've got to have a guy.

Speaker 3 I'm really sad about Dan's pug. So everyone, if you tweeted at Dan being like, hey, why didn't you pick up now? Please tweet at him being like, sorry about your pug, dude.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 It was a medium, rare, plus, plus, plus, plus.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 But the two that come to mind is 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.

Speaker 3 Everyone's like, dude, what the fuck is wrong with your thumb? It's always a picture of a guy with a normal thumb, but it looks weird on camera. With this one, you know what you should have done?

Speaker 3 Just if you're gonna post a picture. I gotta get fucked up thumbs.
I got normal thumbs. I got let me just get out ahead of this.
I've chowed thumbs.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no, just but when people see a thumb on picture, it it looks weird no matter whose thumb it is, but uh He if you're going to post a picture of something that you cooked like meat just post it in black and white and then everyone will get mad at you for that because I can't tell if this is good or not and it's driving me insane because I want to judge you.

Speaker 3 Yes, no, you're right. The the thumb thing is actually spot on.
I don't think I have weird thumbs with

Speaker 3 what for texting us the picture. Well, I did I didn't know if you wanted to put it in the show.

Speaker 3 Okay, yeah, I'll put the picture in right here. Okay, just dude, I don't know

Speaker 3 You can put everything in there. Tell us if you think the guy with no finger has a weird thumb.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, dude.
Oh, bro.

Speaker 3 Dude, you're missing your finger, but let's talk about your thumb first. Dude, what the fuck is wrong with your hand? All right.
All right. That is our show.
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