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On today's part of my take, we have two-time Super Bowl champion Ike Taylor.

I'm going to say this right now.

Listen up.

This could possibly be interview of the year.

I'm throwing in the nominees.

He was a very funny guy.

Interview of the year. He's going to be at least a finalist for interview of the year.
That's how funny he was. Out of nowhere, too, because we just sat down with, like, Taylor, thought it would be a regular interview.
He had so many good one-liners, so many good stories. We also have Game of Thrones recap, NBA playoffs, NHL, NFL draft week, and who's back of the week, and a special Monday reading from someone who should not be online anymore a certain wide receiver for the Detroit Lions which I didn't realize he signed with the Lions yeah he did yeah that was I thought he was a dolphin still okay before we do all that ever had one of those days when it's just too cold to keep working nah neither has Ariat Ariat work jackets and boots are packed with all the cold stopping waterproof protection you need to get the job done under any conditions so you can take any

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Now in the street there is violence

And then I love the stuff where can be done

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It's Part of My Take presented by Ball School Sports. playoffs so we're not balls deep yet we're like we're frenulum deep in the playoffs we're balls deep in the first round of the playoff yes that's true yes but overall in the grand scheme we're playing just the tip with the entire playoff yes so let's start with the nba playoffs we'll talk a little hockey as well uh the big story of the nba playoffs first round i would say has been jared dudley versus the philadelphia 76ers the feud that no one wanted or needed but here we are and we have it.
We got it. We got it.
We had the Sixers versus the Nets in Brooklyn. Brooklyn stand up.
They've been chanting Brooklyn. They were chanting Jared Dudley's name.
Jared Dudley tried to fight Joel Embiid. Jay Butt, teammate of the year award.
Mixing it up. That's how you get that extra money when he hops in ben simmons has become somewhat of a sympathetic character i want your take pft i'm just gonna say totally unbiased even though i'm biased because i don't like jared dudley because he denied an interview on part of my take uh and and canceled like last second i think jared dudley's a clown oh okay i'll go with that And you're right.
When you said Ben Simmons has become kind of a sympathetic character, in a very hilarious way he has because he is a very, very good basketball player. And if you have a basketball player with one enormous flaw in their game, Yes.
that person becomes more likable because they suck a little bit. The boy who can't shoot.
You're like, oh, he's not so different from you and I. We've got about the same percentage jump shot from three points, except the fact that he can dunk over everybody.
He's a great ball handler. So, yeah, he has become a little bit sympathetic.
I like the Nets. I think they're feisty.
I think that arena in Brooklyn has a lot of history in it. I think that in the second round of the playoffs when the Capitals take on the Islanders.
Oh, you're going to hop right there. We're going to have to overcome a lot in that barn.
That is ground zero for hockey on Long Island. So I think it's more the building that's given the Nets their edge in this one.
People don't like Ben Simmons. I know.
I have a question for you, though. Yeah.
Is Joel Embiid going to be a bust? Joel Embiid is a fucking monster. He is a monster.
Like watching him play. When he's healthy.
But he was a monster on Saturday. When he is out there, he looks like he's playing with little kids.
Like, his hands are so much bigger than everyone. He's so much taller.
He gets the ball in the post. There's nothing anyone can do.
Yeah, him and Boban are like 1.5 sizes. It makes no sense watching him move and be able to move as such a big guy.
He also had an awesome post-game soundbite where he basically was like, they were like, why didn't you fight? Some people were saying Joel Embiid, he just put his hands up and didn't want to fight. He's like, well, I'm very important to my team and my teammates, unlike some other people, Jared Dudley.
Jared Dudley can get kicked out. It doesn't really matter.
Joel Embiid knows that he's important to the Sixers, and I like that out of Joel Embiid. Ben Simmons, people really don't like Ben Simmons.
It's actually crazy. I think it's because everyone's like, dude, just shoot.
Just shoot. Well, they give him like 14 feet of leeway when he's like above the key, bringing the ball up.
Hockey fans would hate him. You'd shoot the puck the whole time.
That's what they used to do with Chris Paul. When Chris Paul first got in the league, people forget Chris Paul had no jump shot at all.
He couldn't hit anything outside 12 feet, and he developed one. So I think Simmons will eventually develop a jump shot to complement the rest of his game, but it's going to take him a while, and I think mentally it's tougher when you see an opponent giving you such flagrant disrespect to even get the confidence of the shooter.
You're like, that guy really thinks I suck. I must really suck.
Yes. And listen, again, I am very biased in this because Jared Dudley did cancel a part of my take interview like, what, two minutes before he was supposed to come on? So I'm happy to admit my bias here for people who are like, how could you ever take Ben Simmons' side? Well, I can tell you because guess what? Petty Wars, baby.
This league. What if Dudley comes on? Well, if Dudley comes on, we'll talk a little bit about it.
Yeah, we will. We'll wipe the slate clean.
We'll give him a chance. But until that happens, Petty Wars, for real.
I'm going to go to Instagram. I did like, I will say one thing nice about Jared Dudley.
The minute he got kicked out, he went straight to the locker room and just started liking tweets of random people on Twitter saying they would kick his ass. That they would beat him up? Yeah, that's pretty cool.
You know what I'm going to do for Petty Wars? I'm going to follow Jared Dudley right now. Hang on.
Yeah, and then unfollow him? Yeah, then boom. Jared Dudley.
That's why the no verification hurts, though.

Yeah, that does.

No one's even going to see it.

Oh, his Instagram handle is JaredDudleyForMVP.

Oh, you are on Instagram.

Isn't that?

Oh, yeah.

There we go.

Yeah, I'm so verified on Instagram.

Get it.

Jared Dudley.

Accounts.

What's his name?

Hank, can you do some research and find what his handle is?

Okay, we'll get back to that.

But the other news coming out of that game was the Brooklyn Nets general manager, Sean Marks, was suspended for one game. I always love these suspensions when they suspend an owner or a general manager for a game.
You're not allowed to sit in your nice luxury box. You're going to have to sit in your nice luxury couch at your house.
Right. He was suspended because he went into the officiating room and charged the refs, which is always a bizarre move.
I like it, though. That's the passion.
If I was an owner, if I was a general manager, I'd probably have a back entrance to the refs' room just so I could pop in and be like, it's me again, motherfuckers. What the hell? That is their version of the process up in Brooklyn, is just having your general manager just going harder than anybody else on the team.
Listen, nice season for the Nets. They probably would get bounced in game five, but yeah.
I don't know. Jared Dudley, you're on the wrong side for me here.
They're going to be good next year, though. And Jay Butt, way to be a teammate, bro.
Yeah, Jay Butt. That's a huge like just when Jay Butt goes.
I was surprised. I was surprised that Jay Butt did that.
Well, he knows. Jay Butt's usually all about Jay Butt.
Right. He knows.
He knows people know that there's questions about his being a good teammate. Boom.
Just play that highlight tape over and over and over. Jay Dud does not have an Instagram account.
His most recent tweet, though, is Cersei time. Game of Thrones, let's go.
Oh, wow. Cold tape, buddy.
Yeah. Damn.
Even though I am Team Cersei. Fuck.
Okay, Jared Dudley. I'm no longer Team Cersei.
I disow Searcy because of Jared Dudley's association with him. Follow Jared Dudley.
Unfollow Jared Dudley. Bam.
Have that. All right.
Other stories. Tell me how my ass tastes.
The Bucs Pistons series. Shout out our boy Blake Griffin for putting it all out on the line.
They can't be able to soon enough. What? That was good.
Oh, that was good. Yeah, nailed it.
My ass. Backway.
His mouth. Just a little sabermetric stat for you right there, by the way, Hank.
Albert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez, the only two players that have 14 home runs before May 1st. How many home run derby championships do those two have combined? Zero.
Wait, Pujols didn't win? No. Was that the year Hamilton? I don't know, but he has never won one.
And then how about this for you? Where is the All-Star game this year?

Cleveland.

Cleveland.

Interesting, because Christian Yelich has yet to hit a home run on the road.

That is very interesting.

Bam!

Wait, he's hit all these at home?

He just loves the slide.

He loves the fucking slide.

Suck it!

We're going to have Christian Yelich on this week.

Let me just say, though, this is a take that's going to sound like me

just trying to talk myself into not being worried about Big Cat's lips being all over my butt. And your lips being on my butt.
See, there's a lot of consternation about that because in the clip, you volunteered me to eat your ass. And you didn't say anything.
No, because I was focused. I said we will eat each other's asses.
I had a laser focus on eating that crow's ass. Let's not get bogged down.
And you kept going on your little train. I kept going on my little train.
It's tough. So we're at different destinations.
It sucks. It's going to be a human centipede that's going to start with a crow, then to my mouth, then my butt, to your mouth.
So a crow-human centipede hybrid. Okay.
You're going to have to eat my butt, too. Blake Griffin, let's get back on track.
Blake Griffin played with, like, a bionic leg. Shout out to him for trying as hard as he could.
That's the heart that you like to see out of a Blake of the Year candidate. He knows that it's coming up, too.
Yes, he knows it's coming up. Unfortunately, the Bucs just demolished them again.
That series is trash. The Rockets, James Harden missed every single shot.
James, this is when you have to be worried if you're the Warriors, because the Warriors are done with the Clippers. That was fun.

That one little comeback was all the time.

Patrick Beverly being kind of a nuisance.

Yeah, Kevin Durant was like, oh wait, I am the best player in the NBA.

I'll just shoot over you and just do everything I want.

I give credit to Charles Barkley for doing that, because he straight up talked to Kevin Durant through the camera.

And he was like, I can't do it.

I was about to do a Charles Barkley impression.

It was going to be bad.

But basically said, this guy stinks, and you're Kevin Durant. Just be Kevin Dur and things will be fine.
Right. And he was like, oh, he's right.
I am easy money sniper, snake in the grass. And Klay Thompson also said that he, to reset his brain, he just jumped in the ocean.
Yep. That's what's so awesome about California.
I love Klay Thompson so much. He's so fucking cool.
But so the reason why the Warriors should be a little worried, though, the Rockets survived the James Harden weird drug game where he just didn't score on 420. Interesting.
And they somehow then came back late, beat the Jazz. That series is basically over.
Yeah. So watching that game, I just attributed that to being in Salt Lake City.
James Hard that's not – James Harden is not in his normal environment in Salt Lake City. There are no strip clubs there.
Nothing. No fun.
Probably can't find a bar that serves any kind of the liquor that he likes because they have those modesty laws where he can only drink like 3%. Yeah, 3% milk is basically a pickleback up there.
Get you fucked up. That's a Red Bull vodka is a whole milk.
Yes. So, yeah, he was out of sorts.
He made the dunk though when it counted. He's still good at doing that thing in the fourth quarter where he just leans into you and gets a foul shot.
The thing is Utah fans hate him. They absolutely hate him.
They hate everyone. If James Harden was a member of the Jazz he would be their favorite player of all time except for probably John Stockton.
I'm going to guess they'll still lean that way. Harden, the way that he plays they would love what an asshole would be their favorite player of all time, except for probably John Stockton.
I'm going to guess they'll still lean that way. But Harden, the way that he plays, they would love what an asshole he can be on the court.
They would absolutely love that in Salt Lake. The Celtics sweep, Hank, thoughts? That was a quick sweep.
I guess all sweeps are quick. I think next round's going to be a battle.
Yes, I would say so. And then our magic.
Not going to happen. Tough break.
Not going to happen this year for our magic. Not going to happen for our magic.
We tried. I never even got the shot of Epcot.
I feel very robbed of our magic in their playoff, their return to the playoffs for the first time in forever. Listen, they'll be fine.
They got some building blocks. They got DJ Augustine like we talked about.
Michael Carter Williams.

Michael Carter, MC Dub. The one rookie of the year.

Yeah, he's good. And then they've got Aaron.

Yeah. I almost call him Aaron

Paul. They got Aaron Paul.

They got Aaron.

And then the game that's going on right now,

no surprise to anyone,

Damian Lillard and Russell Westbrook have

a feud. Russell Westbrook is just

walking around looking for a feud. I also need

a microphone on Steven Adams at

all times. Yes.
Because when he was getting into

Thank you. Damian Lillard and Russell Westbrook have a feud.
Russell Westbrook is just walking around looking for a feud. I also need a microphone on Steven Adams at all times.
Because when he was getting into it with Damian Lillard a couple days ago, and he was just gesturing violently all over the court and putting his finger in his chest, I just need to know what he's saying. Because I don't know what it is, but I guarantee you it's gold.
All right, so that's NBA playoffs. PFT, I want to throw something out there for the NHL.
So you put the caps in the second round. I'm fine with that.
I'm okay with that. Are you a little worried about the curse of Barry Trotz? No, I'm not worried about the curse of Barry Trotz.
Because I just decided there's a curse of Barry Trotz. Where the team that fires him? Yes, and now he's going to get his vengeance.
Here's where I would be concerned about Barry Trotz. If he gets out there and he skates the hot lap, the last lap of the practice, that's when it's like, okay, shit's real.
I'm just saying, you win a Stanley Cup, a franchise that's never won anything, that's a joke of a franchise, wins a Stanley Cup, fires their coach, and their coach goes to the New York Islanders, and now you've got to play them. Okay, first of all, we didn't fire him.
Okay. You let him go.
You didn't hire him. We did not renew.
You did not hire him. We elected not to have Barry Trotz on our bench.
Well, we got Reardon. Reardon's pretty good.
I'm not concerned about the curse of Barry Trotz. I am very concerned about that arena.
Okay. I think that that place is just, it screams hockey and it's going to be a tough place to play.
Those walls talk. They do, and I'm very worried about Frankie Borelli.
I actually am worried about that because he is a lunatic. He is insane when it comes to the Islanders.
He assaulted an old man. He did, and he'll do it again.
And, well, I mean, the dude on the Hurricanes tried to assault an old man, and Alex Ovechkin beat the shit out of him. Oh, yeah.
Was he 19? You should actually, yeah. You should really like Alexander Ovechkin because he's taking it on himself to be a vigilante and beating up teenagers.
Listen, if you're 19, don't go around Ovechkin. He'll beat the fuck out of you.
Is that guy even back? Yeah, I think he's coming back next game. He was like, yeah, he was like trying to be all a hipster to Ovechkin.
He was like, hey, name three of these bands that you've never heard of. Ovechkin was like, fuck you, teen, and punched him in the face.
Hank, Game 7, the biggest Bruins fan we know. Thoughts? Nervous.
I'm nervous. Are you? Yeah.
Interesting. It's in our barn, though.
I think we're going to take it home. Okay.
They did look good today. The boys skated well today.
On your barn, in your barn. The old barn.
What about, I mean, Toronto's goalie's pretty good. He's pretty good.
Tucker Rask is sometimes not good. Toronto was good like 50 years ago.
That's got to count for something. What about the curse of Rob Ford? That's true.
Is that maybe why they haven't been good recently? It's a couple years too late for that. I think they haven't been good prior to that as well.
Yes, yes. They haven't won anything in a very long time.
Bruins need to win to keep the Boston sweep intact. Okay, there we go.
What I'd really like to see is if the Capitals eventually play against Maple Leafs so I get to go to Toronto. Have to have Passport Day here on Part of My Tay.
Yep, yep. By the way, sir.
Wait, so you just put the Capitals into the Eastern Conference Finals? Yeah, I mean. They've not gotten out of the first round yet.
I'm also thinking like. How quickly you become a cocky fan.
It'd be awesome to go back to Vegas. Disgusting.
I wish we had last year's PFT. Winnipeg.
Who was actually, like, scared about it and, like, oh, man, this, like... I was never worried last year.
We're along for the ride. I've never seen my teams win.
Now you've got to just lift in the cup again. Like, oh, yeah, well, I'm going to have to go to Toronto.
Listen, once you taste... And then maybe back to Vegas.
Once you taste the nectar out of the cup for yourself, I know it's not a lot of, you know, you guys probably haven't done it recently. Well, I've done it a lot.
Okay, this decade. I slept on the cup.
You passed out on it? Yeah, there's a picture of me sleeping on the cup. You passed out on it? Took a little nap on the cup.
Did it just let you do that? Well, yeah. I shared a cup with Diplo, and that was pretty cool.
And so once you do that, it's like, okay. You have to get an STD test.
Yeah, well, I trust you. I'm clean.
I'm clean as a whistle. I'm looking back and I'm looking forward.
So I'm like, I would like to do... You just become a cocky fan.
It's okay. Just admit it.
You gotta bring those pants back. Yeah, you just become cocky ass fans.
No, the pants you got kicked out of the club with. Oh yeah, you're right.
Those would be the new clutch jeans for this year's playoffs. Do you still have them? No, I left them.
I think I left them in the hotel room just as my championship banner. I raised them to the ceiling.
Yes. So I lowered them.
All right, let's do a little NFL draft talk. We have two things we have to talk about.
One is our guy Pete Prisco reporting that the Cardinals now do not want Kyler Murray. So smokescreen season is in full effect.
I don't know what to make of it. I actually think there's a chance the Cardinals can say, like, wait, what are we doing? We're taking two quarterbacks in back-to-back years? But it's like, you know, new regime in there.
So, I could see them. But it's not.
I still think they're going to take Kyler Murray. Yeah.
I think that Josh Rosen is, I'm calling my shot, I think that Josh Rosen is going to be a Redskin. Okay.
I think that they're going to make a deal. Josh Rosen should.
Unless the Skins can get Haskins. A team should trade for Josh Rosen.
It's so stupid that teams could sour on a guy when he played on the worst fucking team in football. Yeah.
Behind the worst line with a totally different OC and all these things. Think about Mitch Trubisky or Jared Goff, their first seasons, and why wouldn't you want to say, oh, he was the 10th pick last year? Why wouldn't you trade for him now? Because we don't know if he really loves football or not.
Yeah, that's true. It's still up in the air.
Get that going again. Yeah, I think that he'll end up getting traded.
I really do. The other big story was the Raiders.
Oh, yeah. So the Raiders sent all the scouts home.
They said, go home, take your stuff. It's just going to be Mike Mayock and John Gruden running the show like Mr.
Burns and Smithers doing the whole power plant when they were on strike. So I get that Mayock doesn't trust anybody, but this is like the most hilarious example of NFL paranoia.
I think it's Gruden doesn't trust anyone. I think they don't trust each other.
Well, that's what I was going to say. They kicked everyone out and now they're just staring at each other on like a long table on either end and they're like, uh oh, what's going on here? Do I trust you? Do you trust me? And they're just going to basically forget to pick.
I actually wouldn't be surprised if Mayock had some like, some smokescreen pics on his big board that he just put up so that other people, you know how like Game of Thrones they'll film an ending? Spoiler alert, maybe. Or just in movies in general or TV shows, they'll film endings that don't actually air just so that they kind of throw off the scent for all the cast and production that's working on it so he can't spoil it.
I'm pretty sure Mayock has made up draft prospects' names on the big board. And they'll go, Harvester Jones from Northern Illinois University.
Let's get him. Interior lineman.
He's my number one bubble butt, so we're going after him in the second round. Oily-ass hips.
Oily-ass hips, hoping that the scouts would go spread that word. I don't think that they trust each other.
I think you're right. But I think they trust each other more than they trust anybody else in that building.
I just want them to trade all three of their picks to get Kyler Murray.

That would be great.

It would be so fucking funny.

That would be very good. So fucking funny.

And then Kyler Murray gets to play in Oakland in the baseball stadium.

For one year, yeah.

Yeah, I like that.

Maybe he can get both contracts.

All right, should we do who's back?

Hank, why don't you get us going?

Sure, I had a few.

One of them was the Ocean, after Clay Thompson's comment.

Ocean cures all.

My other... Oh, you love that.

I do love the ocean. It's the number one hangover

cure. It is.
Clay Thompson prefect.

Now, what's better, the Pacific

or the Atlantic to jump in for a hangover?

This is a very tough question, Hank.

I want you to answer this honestly

because there's a lot at stake because

Hank obviously loves the Atlantic Ocean.

Sit you a kid, but he has been

basically begging us to move, pardon my take, to the West Coast for, I don't know, since its inception. I mean, I would have to just say Atlantic though because that's all I know.
You've never been in the Pacific. I have, but I've never jumped off a bridge into an ocean in the Pacific.
By the way, I don't – It might hit different. I don't know if – were you with us? Oh, no.
It was Final Four. We were in the airport, and we were talking about Hank again being like, I want to move to California.
And I should have consulted with you, but I made the deal to Hank that we will move. This sounds a lot like the ass-eating bed.
Ready? No, no. Version two.
We'll move part of my take to California, but Hank can't ever go into any water, ocean or pool.

So he just lives there, and he just has to live there

and cannot go into any body of water whatsoever.

But is he allowed on the beach?

I would say no.

No. No beaches.

No beaches.

No beaches.

You guys are sick.

Because beaches, speaking of California,

so I just got back from California a couple hours ago. Sacktown.
Sacktown. What do you mean, Hank? That's like fake California.
Jeez. My one question for- Yeah, what if we moved to Sacramento? We'll move to California.
All right, tell you what, Hank, we're moving to Fresno. Just like you always wanted.
You wanted it, buddy. I have one question for all our West Coast listeners out there.
What do you guys do between the hours of 9 p.m. and when you go to bed?

This is where Hank's little fucking...

Dude, I remember I went to a bachelor party in San Diego a few years ago,

and I was at the bar, and at like 8 o'clock, there's just nothing on.

No more sports on.

So you have to talk to everyone.

Yeah.

It's horrendous.

Everybody just goes home and irons the bill of their hat for tomorrow to make sure it's nice and fresh. It sucks.
I don't get it. People speak to each other and eye contact, good vibes.
Fuck that. Yeah.
Wasn't a fan of that. No.
Very sad. One day.
One day you guys will come around. We can right now.
We can move to Sacramento tomorrow. I mean, a perfect example of this, best player in the world, LeBron James, he's ha hairline I don't know if you guys saw this today.
Yes. His hairline is back.
Oh really? He resurrected it on Easter. He posted a video and he just had like a nice fresh fade.
Yep. Perfectly you know full head of hair on the top.
I think is the word for it. I want him to get like braids.
Yeah. Like either Kawhi braids or Dwayne Wade braids.
You probably saw how fly Dwayne looks. D'Angelo Russell, fat braids.
Ooh, what about the Kobe Jones? You remember him from the U.S. soccer team? Yes.
Some, like, bleached braids. I like that.
I miss LeBron. LeBron would look like such a juggalo if he had bleached braids.
Yeah, he would. It'd be awesome.
I miss LeBron, though. Do you guys miss him in the playoffs? I miss him in the playoffs.

LeBron comes back with bleach braids and a tongue ring, and he's like, it's me, Callie LeBron.

I did see that.

Ratings are down like 30%.

Yeah.

LeBron, like, I do.

So is James Barnes' field goal.

I want LeBron to lose, but I miss him losing in the playoffs is really what I miss.

I miss him winning enough to the point where it's entertaining to watch him lose.

Lose, right.

Yes.

Correct. Anything else, Hank? Is that it, Hank? That's it.
That's it. Okay.
Yeah, two. Great job.
For who's back. It's a one topic.
All right, my who's back of the week. Segment.
Oh, you only have one. Is church.
Church is back. That was mine, too.
Fuck. So this is one of the, I guess, two days out of the year that most people go to church.
Oh, wait. On Easter.
Maybe this wasn't mine. Well, it might be different.
So the other part of my who's back the week for being church is also true love because I married a couple this weekend. I got ordained as a minister.
How is that not stealing valor? Yeah. What do you mean? Is that not stealing God's valor? No, I got officially ordained by a recognized church.
Yeah. I'm a minister.
I'm a literal minister now, Hank. How long was the course? The course? Yeah.
Do you have to be celibate? No. Well, you don't have to be celibate.
That's not minister. You're thinking of priest.
Okay, got it. No, I'm the one that gets to fuck all the time.
I'm probably going to fuck more now that I'm a minister. Yeah.
But so, yeah, I married a couple officially. Nice.
They're named for Forest and Autumn, so I can marry anybody right now. Actually, Hank and Bubba, you guys are married.
Two. I declared it as a minister.
That's a use of power. Hank and Bubba are married.
Okay, so church is back. Go ahead.
If they have kids, are you the godfather? They don't have kids. No, when they have kids, or if they do have kids.
Well, they probably, if they got married at Cannabis Cup, I don't know if their libido's great. Well, yeah, probably not.
Well, their libido might be okay, but their fertility might not be. Yeah, Mountain Dew and...
Well, they're gonna name their kid Foliage? It's a little... I had something similar, PFT.
My, who's back is Kanye's church.

He's back and people are very mad

because he's profiting off his

church and I, for one, am disgusted

that anyone would profit off religion

ever. I can't believe that.
It's gross.

The fact that Kanye thinks he can sell

sweatshirts for his church,

ugh. Can you imagine? That's

terrible. Can you imagine if somebody got on TV

as a minister and would just ask people to send them money and tell them, oh, you'll be happy if you buy your merchandise. You'll be closer to God.
Yeah. Or like having a religion and then owning a third of the world's land and tax-free and just making billions and billions of dollars.
Gross. That is gross.
But Kanye, can't believe you did the sweatshirt, man. Take him to church.
I love when people got mad about that. It's like, that's kind of the point of religion to just make a shitload of money.
No, it is. Kanye West is doing the exact right thing that you should do if you start a religion.
And people just can't believe it because he's just doing it so blatantly and they're like, oh, but usually it's supposed to be like eternal salvation and everything to hand away a tenth of your paycheck. Right, that's what it is.
It's 10%. 10% goes away.
Do you want to get ordained too? And we can do like maybe annually on Grit Week. How do I get ordained? You can just do it online.
Just type in. What if I get ordained and unordained you? You can't do that.
You can't cancel me. I think I can.
No, you can't cancel me. Yeah, you can.
A minister. No, there has to be a conclave of cardinals.
What if I become a Buddha? A conclave of cardinals has to meet up and say that they agree. No, I don't think I want to do that because I feel like the people that we would marry, there would be a pretty high divorce rate.
Probably. I mean, Hank and Bubba are already having problems.
Yeah, they are. They haven't looked eye to eye since you married them.
Is the spark gone, guys? No. How was Cannabis Cup? It was interesting.
Yeah. It was quite a crowd.
I'll put it that way. Buddha Ben was having the time of his life.
Of course he was. He woke up early in the morning like a kid on Christmas, just waiting for people to come downstairs and meet him in the lobby.
Yep. And Buddha Ben is not an early riser.
He's not a morning person. I don't think anyone had Cannabis Cup.
When you say early, everyone was getting up at noon? No. He was up at 8 a.m.
He was down in the lobby. And Buda Bin is not an early riser.
He's not a morning person. I don't think anyone at Cannabis Cup...
When you say early,

everyone was getting up at noon? No, he was

up at 8 a.m. He was down in the lobby

at 8 a.m., even though we were going to meet down there

at 9.30. Which time changes about noon.

Time changes about noon. But yeah,

the Cannabis Cup was a very, very crazy

scene. There's just a lot of ways to get high.

There are a lot of ways. Tons of ways.

So I talked to quite a few people out there

about how weed is too good. Didn't get a lot of consensus built behind that, ways.
And so I talked to quite a few people out there about how weed is too good.

Didn't get a lot of consensus built behind that.

But one guy, hopefully, he explained to me, he goes, the problem is, man, you've been getting stoned this whole time.

And I was like, yeah.

And he goes, you should be getting high.

Yes.

I was like, wait.

There's a difference.

There's a difference.

Yeah.

And so he taught me the difference.

It's like the difference between hurt and injured.

Yeah.

Being stoned and being high. Buzzed and drunk.
I have to now start getting high instead of getting stoned, and then I'll be good. Yes.
I'd agree with that. Also, it's just a big contest to see who can invent the most expensive way to get as humanly high as possible.
Wait, so it's an actual contest? Yeah, they give away awards for best strain and all that stuff. But the dab machine.
who are the judges oh i don't know i want to see i need the follow the three remaining cottonmouth kings i'm not sure i need the guys i need a follow-up like piece where they go back to wherever they came from with the trophy and like what is he the king of that town like hey i won best strain of the world 2019 so what's great so in 2019. So the reason why we married that couple was at the start, Pat says, here's a fun little fact.
Any couple that got married today, it would be their 50th wedding anniversary on 4-20-69. And then I was like, if anybody out there wants to get married, I'll get ordained during the show thinking nobody would take us up on it.
Yeah. And this couple just raised their hand.
They weren't even dating. And so the guy at first was like, and she was like, we'll do it.
And, yeah, so their 50th anniversary is going to be 426. Sunday scaries for that guy.
That'll be nice. Shit.
Can you imagine getting home and just being like, oh, I got married this weekend? Yeah, waking up on a Sunday after that. I mean, they got married for $0.
It was the cheapest wedding of all time. And they had a bunch of friends around.
The funniest part was we sat down with this dude that had this big hydraulic press for making dabs. And I was like, why don't you just get a hair straightener at CVS, a Conor hair straightener, like Action Bronson does.
He's like one of the top three dab makers in the entire world. That's what he does.
That's how he makes it. And the guy's like, well, I guess you could do that, but this one's $6,000.
Fuck. Oh, man.
Sounds exactly like I expected it to sound. I have one more who's back in the week, and that's bat flip debates.
We just got stuck inside of who's back. We did.
I like that. Back flip debates are back.
Who is saying? Who do you think is leading the charge against batless? Is Gus Gossett back? No. Okay.
I'll give you a hint. He's been on the show, and he does not play baseball.
Anymore? He may have played in college, but I don't think that he's not known for being a baseball player. I don't know.
Danny Cannell. Oh.
See, okay. You should have guessed that.
Here is, though, so he's obviously anti-bat flips. Yes.
He did play baseball. He actually was, I think he might have even been drafted in MLB.
But I actually appreciate Danny Cannell because I think we're at the point with bat flips where everyone universally loves them. So if we kill off all the anti-bat flippers, we're arguing against no one.
Right. And that's the worst place to be on the internet to be like, oh, this guy probably thinks the bat flip sucks.
Like, well, you're talking about no one, dude. You're just making a straw man argument.
No one cares. You're fighting with your own shadow.
Basically, it's been whittled down to the only people that care about bat flips are Danny Cannell. Goose Gossage.
Goose Gossage. And then the fans of the team that just got bat flipped against.
Yes. That's it.
And possibly throw in maybe like a middle reliever from Texas. Yeah.
Who's pissed off because he keeps getting homered off. Right.
Danny says, the road we're headed down by encouraging bat flips is followed by pitchers fist pumping and acting a fool after every strikeout. Please don't.
Then we've got everyone jumping around like idiots in the third inning. Who wants to see that? Damn.
Baseball could be fun. Great point, Danny.
Shit. Can you imagine if people celebrated in football? Disgusting.
So I'm actually appreciative of Danny Cannell because we really do, like they're a dying breed. The anti-bat flippers are a dying breed.
And once they die off, we will basically just be arguing with no one. You know what we need to do? And we'll be big fucking losers.
We need to mate Danny Connell with somebody else to produce the next round of people that will stand up for the stake. Like, have him mate with...
Tomi Lahren. I was going to say the Kinstate gun girl.
That works, too. Either one of those.
A threesome. Yep.
And whoever gets pregnant first. Yep.
That is the one true heir to the anti-bat flip community. He will sit on the iron throne.
The prince who was promised. Yeah, the prince who was promised.
The iron throne is just made out of bats. Alright.
Let's get to our interview. I teased it at the beginning.
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See AHS.com slash contracts for coverage details, limitations, and exclusions. Okay, here he is, two-time Super Bowl champion, Ike Taylor.

Okay, we now welcome on two-time Super Bowl champion.

Two times.

Two-time Super Bowl champion, Ike Taylor. Two more times.

Oh, you want four?

No, I was just saying two times.

You want two more?

Yeah.

Do you wear your rings?

Not at all.

Ever?

Not at all.

Okay, so it's Ike Taylor, formerly from the Pittsburgh Steelers, two-time Super Bowl champion. Where are your rings? At the house.
Okay. Can I just say that it's really one and a half rings? Well, I got to be one and a half.
Because the ref's got the other half of the ring in the Seahawks Super Bowl. No, not at all.
And also that fumble by Bettis against the Colts, that was pretty lucky. Right, but that was not a fault that we won.
Yeah, were you? You take a half of my ring. You should give that to Vanderjack.
And you bringing up old stuff from the Colts. Yeah, one and a quarter is really what it should be.
Boy, y'all hard on the pimp. Let me ask you a question.
When that play happens, when Bettis fumbles, were you watching it? Or you looking up or were you looking at the field? Man, I was talking smack to Edron James' family. Edron James' family was sitting right behind us, and I was talking cash money to his family.
So they told me, shut the F up. Look, Bussie just fumbled.
and I, and I'm like, damn, I got to get my helmet, get back on the field. So you can tell Dick LeBeau was just like our defense coordinator at the time.
He was just like in awe. And we sitting on the field like, hey, Dickie, give us the call.
Give us the call. And he snapped out of it.
And James Farrell was just like, he brought the call to the sideline. Not to the sideline, but on the field.
And we took off from there. But at the time when Bussy fumbled, I was talking smack to EJ, Andrew James' people in the stands.
And when they told him, I thought they was playing. But then the crowd just erupted.
Right. And I was like, oh, man, it's time to play.
And were you on the field for Vander Jack's field goal that missed? Yes, I was. You were? So we froze him.
And he looked over at the sideline like, that ain't going to freeze me. Yeah, he was one of the best that year.
He was like a little too too cocky too. You know, he used to keep a dollar bill underneath his wrist guard because that was to remind himself that he was money.
That's when you know your kicker is trying a little bit too hard. Which I do like the confidence though.
I like it. Because you got to understand – It's hard.
It's hard. It's hard.
That's like being the closer in baseball. You're not coming in for six, seven innings.
You're coming in to close. And if you're a good closer, you're going to get paid.
If you ain't a good closer, and I'm sure with this New York media, if you're not a good closer, boy, you're going to catch hell. Thank you for respecting the New York media.
Yeah, yeah. The next day.
So Vanderjack looks over, and he's trying to talk himself up, or could you tell that he was a little bit shaky? Nah he was just like he was just like looking and at the time we had some straight roughnecks on our team so while he looking we all giving him the blues we cursing him out like we he looking but the look turned into like some confidence to like oh snap really going to whoop my ass if I make this feel low. So, frozen, came back.
The rest is history. Yeah, the rest is history.
Then the Seahawks. Then the refs helped you in the Seahawks Super Bowl.
Not at all. One and a quarter.
Doing that. Hey, listen.
Chris Hopes. Chris Hopes sold that.
He sold that shit. That wasn't pass interference.
That stint.

We played the number one offensive teams that year.

Four.

It was five.

We played four of them.

That's actually crazy.

That defense was pretty damn good.

You couldn't tell us nothing.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, you won a Super Bowl when Big Ben, I think,

had the lowest rating of a quarterback of all time in Super Bowl history. You couldn't tell us nothing.
Antoine Randall-El was your best quarterback. Antoine Randall, after that Super Bowl, got paid, too.
He did. Yeah, Dan Snyder broke out.
He backed up the Brink's truck for him. How much is a defense having that type of swagger where it's like every guy feels like they're bringing something to the table? And can you tell, because you obviously played for a long time, can you tell when your defense has that extra level of swagger that's like, we got playmakers versus we got some good talented guys? It was really that us against the world mentality.
Like, it was really that us against the world, really. Like, it was an unselfish us against the world mentality.
It's also probably pretty badass to be the colors of the Steelers. I feel like every time you put them on, you probably feel pretty badass.
Till this day. I feel pretty good right now.
I'm wearing yellow and black. I got out of bed with a little extra swag this morning.
You can probably tell. It was two guys right here.
It was like us, Pele and Ali Yeah, so it's just But that's how we felt And we did everything together We did everything To this day, I'm still in the 20-something man group text From that Super Bowl To this day, a 20-something man group text And it's just Our kids call each other uncle, like Uncle Troy, Uncle Ike, Uncle Chris Hope, Uncle Joey Porter, Uncle Casey Hampton. Joey.
Like it's just everything is uncle. But one thing I did like about, you know, Coach Cowell and Coach Tomlin, man, it's just he let our sons run around in that locker room.
That's cool. Which was huge because my son to this day, he's 12.
He still understands and remembers what was going on. Like, hey, man, because my son played football.
Like, why you be trying to run through these boys? He was like, Uncle James Harrison told me to take the soul. That's a bad dad.
Yeah, he was like, Uncle James Harrison told me to take the soul out of these kids.

At 12?

Yeah.

So they can come in the locker room as long as you don't Instagram Live or Facebook Live while Coach is talking.

I can just see James Harrison sitting your son down and just being like, hey, listen.

I need you to take the soul out of these kids.

And dead serious.

D-Bo was dead serious.

Like, hey, man, come here. Come here, little Ivan.
That's my that's my son name he'll come over there he'll be like yes sir you play football uh yes sir you in it good well i'm just starting when you hit him make sure you take the soul out of him okay that's so perfect so wait back up for a second you said you're in a 20 person group text Yeah to this day That's insane So we got We got the 09 And we have the 2005 So it's like Two different group text My bad would be running dead So fast I was about to say Who does Who sends the most text In those groups Oh Tyrone Carter Teron Carter, he got a little...

I ain't going to say that.

Teron Carter wasn't too tall for his position.

He played safety.

Okay.

But he was like 5...

He probably said he was like 5'9", but he really liked 5'6".

That's a classic shortcut thing to do that.

Yeah, yeah.

5'9".

No, he's actually 5'9".

So, he's from Pumbo.

And you were about to say little man syndrome.

I'll say it for you.

That's not a real thing. It's like we're just old people.
Like, I'm not that little. We're actually average size when you're 5'9".
So he's from Pompano. And you were about to say little man syndrome.
I'll say it for you. That's not a real thing.

It's like we're just old people.

I'm not that little.

We're actually average size.

That's what I'm saying.

5'9".

Yeah.

That's what I'm saying.

Thank you for not saying that.

But for football, to play safety in the NFL, that's kind of not tall.

Right.

Say it again?

Yeah, that's kind of not tall at all.

It's not tall in real life, too.

Right.

It's totally normal in real life.

Yeah, that's kind of not tall.

Yeah, right.

Short in real life. So he's from Pompano Beach.
He's from Pompano Beach, Florida. Went to Minnesota.
Thorpe Award winner. Thorpe Award winner.
So for the people who don't know what the Thorpe Award winner, it's the best secondary guy in the world in college. That was TC, fire starter we used to call him fire starter because anything you said it just pissed him off like man i just said you had a good day if you you'll mean it what you're describing is perfectly average size man syndrome that is totally normal for a guy who's five seven anyway he's five nine he's in the Flintstone days, so he's just coming into 2019.
So now he's new to social media. Oh.
And he puts out any, like, TC, like, don't show a group of guys what you're cooking. Like, don't nobody want to see what you're cooking.
Right. Because he has a kennel of dogs.
TC, don't nobody want to see What you cooking Right Cause he has a kennel Of dogs TC Don't nobody want to see you Cleaning up your kennel Of dog poop Right Come on man Right Would not poop Show us the cute dogs Get a little puppies He's so far behind Yeah I'm talking about 19 years behind Yeah So far behind Good dude He just be doing too much, so he's the one that blows your phone up. Everybody, yeah, basically.
So, I was reading your Wikipedia earlier. I think you're the fastest person to ever appear on part of my take.
Probably one of them. Fort Earl Patterson and you.
By the 40. Chris Johnson.
Chris Johnson. That's my dog.
So, so you, but you actually were timed in 4.18 seconds for the 40-yard dash. Yeah, that's not – That sounds like some Louisiana cooking.
Yeah, yeah. 4.27 was my fastest time.
Okay. So the pro day one, that was just like – that was your coaches being like, yeah, you totally ran a four.
Yeah. We need to drop.
Yeah, yeah. Somebody probably was asleep.
Okay. I woke up and was like, oh, 4.1, what? Yeah, that's really fast.
Right? So I heard that you used to train your quickness in a very unusual way. You used to chase animals around.
My uncle was old school. And I didn't know that that was kind of the norm in Florida.
Like, those boys go in the fields, and they really chase rabbits. Like, that's what they do.
Like, I was just doing that because my uncle was like, man, this will get you better and fast and quicker. So I was just doing that just because I always had that drive of good work ethic.
But you go down in Florida where Fred Taylor is from, where Santonio Holmes is from, they call it Muck City. Yeah.
Muck City, Florida. That's what them boys really do.
Yeah. Them boys really chase rabbits.
They run into that high grass stuff. Yeah.
And they get to chasing. Yeah.
Makes you quick, right? I mean, it's all mental. Have you ever caught a rabbit? No, I got close.
You know, it's the ski skirt. They got the ski skirt.
I'm not built. If you get me straight ahead, I'm built.
But the ski skirt?

Right.

So you touched one?

You ever touched one?

Like a flag football?

You get them down on flag football?

With a rabbit?

Yeah.

No, I mean, I touched a human being in flag football.

No, but I'm saying like if you've gotten that close where you've like.

I've gotten real close.

I got nervous.

Yeah, because what are you going to do?

What do you do?

I'm going to catch the rabbit, then what? The dog chasing the car, and then they finally get it. It's like, uh-oh.
We've got to ask, all the drama that's going around the Steelers right now, where have you landed on all that stuff? I was saying earlier, you need to get more to a weed and a me thing. The reason why we was winning Super Bowls, because it was doing right it wasn't this is what i'm doing this is my show and i've just learned that from the old guys back in the 70s they just coming the lens swans the star wars frank o'herit merrill blunt it's a lot...
Lance Juan messed around and been a politician now. He's the AD from USC.
Right, right. Like, and Mel Blunt probably got 100 acres in Pittsburgh.
Right. Frank O'Hara is a living legend.
Rocky, he's finally coming back. Like, it's a lot of the old school guys who just sat in Pittsburghittsburgh after winning superbowls and you're a lifetime scholarship you're on lifetime scholarship when you win superbowls in pittsburgh lifetime right lifetime set up in pittsburgh set up for life so but it was what we doing right so we love the tradition they had back in the early 2000s so hey fellas let's make it to what we doing.
Right. So we love the tradition they had back in the early 2000s.
So, hey, fellas, let's make it to what we doing. Right.
And then we turn into winning, going to playoffs, going to playoffs, winning Super Bowls. And we always used to tell each other, when you win, everybody get paid.
Yeah. When you win, everybody get paid.
It's a good point because now you see, you know, obviously there's a lot more money to be made right now than there was back in the 70s, right? Correct. So I think rightfully so, players like Le'Veon Bell sometimes look at their bottom line and they're like, hey, you know, I got to maximize my value as a running back while I can.
And they get it, and I understand that. But what you guys did, so when you played, you know, there was still a lot of money at stake right so how did how did that team balance the fact of like we want to all get paid we have a limited time to make our money with the fact that we want to keep this tradition going how did that balance play out sure well i'm gonna start off with mr with the rooney family yeah i feel like that's been a part of the change, too.
You know, obviously he passed away. Right.
Meaning Dan Rooney. Right.
And it feels like that was right around the time where the Steelers not have lost their way, but it's definitely changed a little bit. It's a lot of things that's going on now.
Pawpaw Rooney wouldn't have had that. Right.
Like, it wasn't going to happen. He wasn't standing for it.
Right. Mr.
Art is much more of a business man, business savvy lawyer, lawyer, so all that good stuff. I mean, the Rooney family, just from my perspective, they set the standard.
They set the standard. But getting to the player's standpoint, like Troy set standard in the locker room.
I tell people this all the time. Before OBJ, you know OBJ is an international rock star.
He just so happened to play football. Everybody want to be around OBJ, from rappers to artists.
Women just want to be in his presence, OBJ. If Troy wanted to be like that, Troy could have been like that.
Like, we always felt we was the Jackson 5 and Troy was Michael Jackson. Like, we just knew our role.
We just knew how special he was. But he set the tone in the locker room into being humble what we doing far from materialistic down the man the man the man just got paid first of all he's a first rounder but the man just got paid on the second contract right still wearing velcro shoes like bro you know you got like 40 million million, right? Yeah.
And? But that was just Troy. Right.
He didn't care nothing about being materialistic. No cars, no nothing.
He didn't want anything to do with being fancy. He wanted to be in the background.
Right, right. So when you got a superstar like that, everybody else in the locker room got to fall in line.
Yeah. Because it's one of the guys Making the most money And not being materialistic Yeah So now it's like Dang when I get my money man I wanted to get that God damn Lambo But I think I'm gonna get it But I'm gonna bring it home Wherever I'm from But When I'm in Pittsburgh I'm just gonna drive a Ford F-150 Right Like He set the tempo Yeah He didn't even know it, but he set the tempo.
I can understand that. So you show up to practice or you show up to the facility and you've got a much nicer car than the best player on your team.
You feel kind of like an asshole, right? Oh, yeah. 100%.
Like, hey, man, you don't have to do that. Like, you come to work.
Like, if you want to do that when you go home wherever you're from you want to have your fancy cars cool but for me and i think i can just speak for everybody at the time tp troy he kind of just said that that mode so him being the leader said that standard off the field right off the field so you can imagine now somebody getting paid and they coming up in the Rolls Royce. We thought that was too much.
If you had a Rolls Royce in Pittsburgh as a player, we thought you was doing too much. You stand out.
If you had a Lambo in Pittsburgh. It's blue collar city.
Yeah, we thought you was doing too much. And Casey Hampton, our defensive tackle tackle he told me something when I was a rookie

he was like blend in with your city don't stand out blend in with your city and I understood at

that moment when he was talking about like hey man don't be extravagant save that so if you go

to Miami or California or wherever you're from but blend in with the city that's good advice

that's good advice what about uh Ben he's obviously come under some heat as being not a great leader

I don't understand about seven. Seven can do a lot of things.
I like how you do that, seven. Yeah, seven.
I mean, because seven and I, we were shuffleboard champions in the locker room. That was my teammate in shuffleboard.
Okay. We still hold the belt.
But seven just, if you ask seven to play one-on-one, pick up basketball, he going to smoke you. If you ask him to play ping pong, he going to smoke you.
If you ask him to play golf, they say he's a scratch golfer, he's going to smoke you. He just so happens to be good at football as a quarterback in the NFL.
I think that's going on year 16. So Seth can do it all.
He's one of the few that can do it all. You know, some guys like, okay, you're only just a football player.
Right. 7th can play any sport he want to play and be good at it.
But 7th kind of understood. And now I had no beef with 7th whatsoever.
Playing for 7th on offense, if you're a receiver or a running back, could be a little bit different. But on the defensive side, there's no beef at all.
So I didn't did a few sit downs with seven, and seven used to sit down with too many people. Right.
It's like you and Terry Bradshaw after they made a mess. Yeah.
If he don't mess with you, he ain't messing with you. There's no faking with seven.
If I ain't messing with you, I not messing with you ain't no gray area yeah but um i'm just one yeah yeah i'm so petty yeah no it's a good point because i think there's it's in today's uh like with social media and everything i think that everyone views these teams they're like everyone's best friends because you see it a lot you know you'll see everyone posting pictures with each other and everything when a lot of times a locker room a football locker room's a lot of fucking people right and there's not not everyone's gonna get along that's 53 alphas right so you got 53 gorillas in the locker room boy that's a lot of testosterone so you can only imagine every blue moon that locker room gonna get torn up either somebody fight well really it's gonna get torn up from Either somebody fight, but really, it's going to get torn up from fighting, period. Yeah.
Period. That's just how it was.
You knuckle up, you put the boxing gloves on, we're going to shake hands out. Who did you fight? Yeah.
Man, so many. Man, like for real.
It got to a point where Mr. And this was in the locker room and off field.
It got to a point where Papa Rooney, Mr. Dan at the time, and Kevin Colbert, they sat me down and was like, hey, bro, you do it again.
We got to let you go. Really? So who were you fighting with? Just a little bit.
And coming from New Orleans, it was like, at the time, eye contact and get your natural beef. So it said like, if I didn't know you.
What a line get your natural beef So it's like If I didn't know you What a line What a line Eye contact If I didn't know you And you look at me Me and you walking In two different directions That's why I wear the shirts So if I didn't know you And you didn't know me We kind of have beef right now We fighting on sight You just gave me that look Stop looking at him big cat We fighting We fighting on sight We good but but that's how and I brought that mentality to Pittsburgh not knowing the position I was in like bro you're a professional like it got you got to stop so they sat me down one time and I looked in their eyes and I was like dang and then I was just thinking and reflecting like damn in a good situation to and my care of my mom my family like i can't mess this up right so i just flip the switch and kind of turn everything around but that's also a good point of it feels like the levy on bell antonio brown situation escalated where no one sat them down and was like hey we got a good thing going on what are we doing here now people can say what they want say. The locker room wasn't the locker room until Le'Veon left.
Like, Le'Veon is the mediator of everything. He's somebody you want to have.
Interesting. In that locker room.
Le'Veon is somebody you want to have. So his absence, you think, helped accelerate the Antonio Brown stuff? For me, 100%.
Really? Yeah, Le'Veon. Super competitive.
Yeah. When Le'Veon first came to Pittsburgh, not his first year, but his second year, my body fat was like 3.2.
And it was like, oh, somebody got you this year. And I'm like, who? Le'Veon? I said, Le'Veon who? Le'Veon.
I said, what's his? 2.7. He's dead.
It's insane. He's dead if it's 2.9.
No, not at all. You know what mine is? What? Bleep this out, Hank, because I don't want it going over the end.
33%. Okay.
I mean, mine's probably 45%. You don't have to bleep that out.
So explain to me the mentality about punching a dude while he's wearing a helmet. You don't be thinking.
You just don't think about it. You just go.
You're just pissed. Yeah, it's just, I've done that too many times.
Yeah. Too many times, like, and they, bro, like, what you doing? Like, you ain't doing nothing.
You're going to break your hand. Yeah.
So, but at the time, you just don't be thinking, man. When you're in the heat of the moment, you don't think at all.
How many times did Bill Cowher accidentally spit on you? I feel like he spits a lot when he talks. Yeah, I ain't no telling.
Coach Cowher ain't no telling, man. Coach Cowher was a player's coach.
They say he was hard as a coach to work with, but a player's coach? So all this dressing up, going to the airport, showing up in suits? Coach Kyle was like, hell no. Like, we're going to kick ass and come back home.
So y'all don't need to dress up. Right.
Now, just make sure your pants ain't sagging and you look presentable. But dressing up? Flip flops.
Wife beaters. tank tops, pajamas.
Troy Palamala's Velcro shoes. Velcro.
Big Ben carrying a big sack of P.F. Chang's.
Coach didn't care nothing about that. And what about Tomlin versus Coward? What was the change like? The change was a little bit business-like.
That was Coach T, a little bit more business-like. So two different coaches, same goal, but the personalities were different.
Don't get me wrong. Coach T is another player.
He's an all-the-way players coach. Right.
Maybe sometimes too much. That's the criticism people give.
100%. He's going to let you be you.
Right. Coach T is going to let you be you.
He's not putting a leash. As far as personalities, he ain't putting not one leash on your personality.
Let you be you. That's Coach T.
Coach Caldwell, when it came to personalities, he did let you know, I'm going to let y'all be y'all, but I'm still alpha. Right, right.
I still run the show. Right, right.
I want you to walk me through something real quick. Seven.
This is about Big Ben. There was a press conference he did after one of your games where he got dressed up in my all-time favorite quarterback outfit.
What is that? Just take a look at this. He looks like a detective.
Dick Tracy. Yeah, Dick Tracy mobster.
The fedora down over his face. Dick Tracy takes a Tommy gun and shoots him full of bullets.
He looks like Cruella DeVille's lawyer is the best way I can put it. I love Seven, but Seven needs to come holler at me when he want to dress up.
Yeah, he doesn't have a lot of swag. He was trying a little bit too much, right? A little swagless.
When it comes down to dressing up, man, he need to get his suits a little bit more tailored. Do you think does Seven, can I call him Seven, or is that only players can call him Seven? Yeah, just call him Big Ben.
All right, okay, I'll call him Big Ben. Does Big Ben, does he ever, I don't want to say fake injuries, but sometimes the injuries seem more severe than they actually are.
Like a dog walking on a cold sidewalk and it yelps. It's like, come on, you're fine, dog.
Anything like that? Am I explaining it well? You're explaining it too well. He's tough as hell.
there's no other quarterback in the league can play in Pittsburgh the way Seven has played. Now, it's a lot of injuries Seven shouldn't have played, but he's just a tough, that's what makes Seven seven, just a tough son of a gun.
And there's probably a lot of other injuries that... 7-man, come on, man.
Stop all that BS. You got the walking boot on? Like, 7-man.
Like, real, like... That's the road we're going down.
That's what we're doing today? That's what we're doing today, 7-man. So, you're going to have the boot on on Monday.
But Tuesday, you're going to be all good? Yeah. He's just going to be strapped up with seven ice packs.
He just puts the boot on. Walking around like the Michelin Man.
When the boot goes on, you're not nervous. I ain't.
Because you know it's coming off in a day. It's been – then please, I got a camera? Yeah.
Seven. I got you.
it's been plenty of times where He's haven't said anything And you'll be like Damn how did he play with that injury? Yeah And it's been a few times where he's said something He's always showed that graphic of him after like in week 5 That would show like the human body And every single part of it Had like red lines of pain shooting out Here's an injury His whole body was like banged up But that's 7 though But we all knew and understood Could nobody play That position in Pittsburgh Like 7 but 7 We're gonna be very sad when he retires. He's one of them hell now.
He makes football fun. 100%.
I want to hear a little bit about the Raven-Steelers rivalry because a little birdie named Dave Damshek told me that you've gotten into it a few times. You and Joey both have gotten into it a few times with T.
Sizzle and Ray Lewis. Right.
Yeah, so you know we hate him. Can I curse him? Yeah, fuck.
You can say whatever the fuck you want. Fuck, fuck.
But there might be 12-year-old football players listening. I mean, they got to understand Coach Ike ain't coaching right now.
Yeah, that's true. So, like, it's a mutual understanding.
Like, Pittsburgh hate the fucking Ravens, and the Ravens hate fucking Pittsburgh. That's the agreement.
Like, you hate me, yeah, I hate you. I hate you too.
Cool. We good.
And, you know, one time it was just, you know, T-Sizzle, he was getting after me. Like, it was doing commercial.
That's when I was going up against Derrick Mason, the wide receiver. Savvy, savvy receiver.
Savvy. He was Antonio Brown, but slower.
Like, running routes, he made all his routes look the same And D Mace Was just smooth So T Sizzle I remember It was T Sizzle Ed Reed Shout out to my dog Ed Reed Cause we from the same city Ed Reed And Ray Ray Them boys on the sidelines Just And T Sizzle Just You know Tufo You know we coming at you Tufo Boy you gonna have a long day 2-4 Like yeah I'm talking to you Get your stuff up And I'm like I'm like bro I say bro you I say you know they only like you They as in women You know they only like you because you play football right That's gotta hurt them to hurt them. I was like, bro, you just got a face only a mother could look.
Right. It's facts.
That's facts. That's what I told them.
You can get mad all you want to. You can say how much money you got.
I don't care nothing about that because I know if me and you was on the same page and we started off at the bottom I'm going to get the girls I'm still going to get them anyway but I'm going to get the girls but he just he was getting on my nerves on the sideline shout out to you Sizzle man you're still a dog you're still a dog playing that up defensive end outside linebacker but yeah he was getting on my nerves with that that's just how it was like i didn't kill it made football great nfc the old nfc north rivalries i mean i say old but they're still going on but like when the ravens and the steelers played you knew it's going to be hard hits and and guys taking it you know to the limit you knew you was going to be sore going into the following game like your your mindset. That's good to know for gambling purposes.
You can tell the young guys, hey, this is the kind of game it's going to be. But you can actually hear it on the field like, okay, we playing the Ravens.
Really? Different from any other team. Well, Jacksonville.
At the time, Jacksonville. Yeah.

Yeah, buts. What?

Jacksonville and the Ravens,

at the time, when they had Fred T,

Byron Lefkowitz, and all them boys.

MJD, right? MJD,

my dog. Did he ever

block you? That's my dog. Did you ever blitz on

the Jaguars? Because he could hit, right?

So, I thought, okay,

let's get to MJD. MJD, red zone, coming out the backfield.
He catches a pass coming out the backfield. Now, his back is turned towards me.
I see it because I'm in zone coverage. And I'm sitting in my head, ooh, I'm about to light his ass up.
As soon as he turned around and he see me and his eyes get big and I ain't nothing but a step away from him. Eyes get big.
And I come up and I hit him and my body told me, boy, what you doing? This is a grown little man. This is a grown little man.
Yeah. This is a grown little man.

He left a lot of weights.

His body feel like lead. Now

go ahead and slide down him.

And I slid all the way down him.

All the way down to his big ass ankle.

So basically I hit him as hard as

I can at the right time. The perfect moment.

You can ask any defender

as soon as somebody turn around and you right there to smack him in the face or we call it facetime give a kiss yeah my wi-fi wasn't working yeah anytime you can do that and you slide down a person that just let me know how strong he was like yeah dang that was the perfect opportunity and he just shook a little bit just Like, bam. Struck you off.
Yeah, like, that's all you got? Yeah. So I just held on to dear life and for help, and everybody, the cavalry came.
He's like 5'6", and like 220 pounds. Solid.
Stout. Big.
Stout. Big boy.
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You were a fourth-round pick. correct uh i think the idiot mark madden said that you were the worst pick that uh kevin colbert ever made still got that on my refrigerator yep what was it like though going from a fourth rounder like to a small school to the steelers and the process of trying to like earn your spot and prove to everyone that you can stay.
I've been doing it all my life. So I played.
I walked on. I was a walk-on.
Yep. So I was a walk-on, played running back my junior year.
My first two years. What were your stats? I had, like, 400-something yards.
Okay. I'm running back.
But I barely had carries. Yeah.
Barely. First two years of college, knucklehead getting in trouble fighting.

Then my mama called me one day.

This would changed it.

My mama called me one day because all my grades was going to my mom.

So I didn't know that.

So she called me one day crying and was like, tell me what I did wrong as a parent.

Oh, that's a heavy line. That's a heavy line.
I broke down. Yeah.
When she called and told me that, I'm like, dang, single mom, three kids, all the sacrifices. I'm taking this for granted.
Sheesh. So once she told me that, hung up, I said she would never call me with that again That's what I told myself Like I told myself From here on out I'm gonna make sure This woman don't ever Work a day in her life That's what I told myself Yeah Cause hearing that Coming from mom And seeing all the sacrifices That It cut me It cut me deep Yeah That'll change File that one away Big cat that's gonna be a good parenting technique man that cut me that cut me deep that cut me deep so that that changed my life uh then i switched over to cornerback my senior and the reason why because my dv coach you know at the time he was like hey you're not really playing as a running back but every time i put you on special teams you hitting and you're pretty fast and at the time, he was like, hey, you're not really playing as a running back, but every time I put you on special teams, you're hitting.

And you're pretty fast.

And at the time, Charles Tillman, a.k.a. Peanut, he was on the other side.

Now, I was the shortest DB because we had two other safeties that were 6'3", 6'4". We had the top five secondary in college at the time.

I was the most inexperienced guy, the shortest guy, but I was tall. But he was like, I think you have a pretty good shot if you come over.
So I went over, played cornerback for that one year. I wasn't invited to the combine, but I did go to the hula bowl.
I went to the hula bowl at the time. I don't know if they do that now, but the hula bowl.

I don't think they do that anymore.

They stopped doing it.

Yeah, I went to the hula bowl, showed out at the hula bowl, and made, I had 27 visits

in a month time.

So I flew to 2017.

27 of the 32.

2017.

Damn.

In a month.

So I was up and down. Yeah.
Up and down. Did that.
Draft time come, I actually thought the Redskins was going to get me because they just called me. That would have been way too smart for that team.
They was like, hey, we bought a scoop. You were a little did I know.
Pittsburgh was two or three slots in front of them. So the Red.
I'm like, and at the time, I'm playing the game. I'm playing Madden.
Because I didn't think I was going to get drafted. Huh.
I thought I was going to have to go through, you know. Yeah, undrafted.
Correct. And I understood that.
And I understood why. Excuse me.
But Pittsburgh, Coach T called. Me, not Coach T.
Coach Kyle was was like, you ready to be a Pittsburgh Steeler? And I'm like, what? He was like, you ready to be a Pittsburgh Steeler? We about to draft you. And I'm like, damn.
First of all, I'm getting drafted. Second of all, I'm about to be a Pittsburgh Because I was still watching the draft They gave up a few draft picks for Troy At the time It was Alonzo Alonzo played defensive end for Florida State Brian St.
Pierre Played quarterback for Boston College Me and JT Wall So that whole draft class I was just five guys, that whole draft class. Only because they reached up to get Troy, which they made.
That's a smart move. Very smart.
Very smart. Nice pick, Cal.
But I've been behind the eight ball my whole life. So when I get to Pittsburgh, they draft two second-round corners after me.
So I'm still fighting.

Right.

So now after the second, second-round draft pick get picked corner-wise, everybody looking at me like, who the eye man out? Right. Like, they only played cornerback for one year.
Like, we got a talented Ricardo Coakley. Now, in my opinion, in my opinion, Ricardo Coakley could have been the best, the best corner in the league, in my opinion.
You get Brian McFadden from Florida State. So BMAC, at the time Michigan wanted BMAC, and BMAC, the only jersey that retired was Charles Woodson from Michigan.
If B-Mac would have went to Michigan, C-Wood was taking his jersey out so B-Mac can wear it. That's how good.
B-Mac was ranked number one at cornerback when he came out. Yeah.
So I got those two guys plus little old me. Like, okay, you want to play for one year, no experience, you gone.
That offseason, I had it on my mind. I said, not today.
Somebody going to be gone, it ain't going to be me. Came back in the training camp.
Dickey and my teammates was like, he the one. Like, he the one.
Like, this dude, we don't know what happened. We don't want like this this dude we didn't we don't know what happened we don't know what transpired over the offseason but yeah he don't want he don't want and it and it changed so when i seen a mark madden that really motivated me like hey bro what you saying like i've been going through this all my life, man.
All I know is my back against the wall. Yeah, you can't hurt me like my mom hurt me.
Yeah. Mark Madden doesn't really matter when your mom calls and says what I do wrong as a parent.
Yeah, mama called me that and told me that like boo-hoo crime, boo-hoo crime. And I'm thinking something happened.
Little did I know, all my grades was going to them. So if your grades, if you had just figured out to get your grades to your dorm room, you might not even be sitting here right now.
Yeah. Ever.
Or if you had gotten better grades, you wouldn't be sitting here right now, maybe. No, that's probably the first one.
Also, if Mark Madden is criticizing your athletic ability, I think you're probably doing something Yeah, you're doing right. Because he's not exactly what I'd call going to live very long.
Yes. Right.
He just got into it with East Sanders. That's what he does.
That's what he does. He gets into it with us.
Yeah. Hell yeah.
Why? For no reason. Because we're in such better shape than he is.
Yeah. 100%.
33% body fat right here. He's like 70.
Now you keep going. 85.
Probably, 85 Probably yeah 95 He actually has a great Well I don't want to like Give him too much publicity Or air time But if you look at his Google image search If you type in Mark Madden It's just him wearing like Tommy Bahama Hawaiian shirts And strippers Or like wrestling matches Yeah It's pretty cool Yeah coolest part about him. Yeah, enough about that guy.
We talked about the Mike Vanderjack episode. We talked about the Jerome Bettis fumble.
We talked about the Super Bowl. You've accomplished a lot of things.
I do need to ask you about Tebow Mania and that play against – well, Tebow didn't beat you as much as Demaryius Thomas did, right? It wasn't Tebow.all. It was DT.
DT gave me a mean ass stiff arm. I'm like, ugh.
And I saw it coming. I see him look over because Ryan Mundy was our safety.
I see Ryan Mundy come down. So I'm like, okay, I know it's about to happen.
Slid in. Knew the sl was coming.
I was like, I just need to get him down. Tried to get him down and hit me with a main one.
Yeah. So it's hard to go full stride, restart your engine, and try to catch up with a guy who ran a 4.3.
We're talking about a young DT. Yeah.
A young DT. It's's big too.
There's a lot of power behind that so far. 225.
Ain't nothing small about DT. So DT but everybody was like Tebow mania.
I mean it was. It was Tebow mania.
You got got by Tebow mania. That is the capstone of his career.
100%. That's how I remember you.
That was DT, man.

No, it was a perfect pass in stride by Tebow.

I tore that locker room up.

I don't know how much came out of my check, but I tore that locker room up because I'm like, damn.

Tebow beat you.

No, I never said Tebow.

You knew that that highlight was going to chase you around for a while.

Yeah, you're still not come to grips with the fact that Tebow beat you.

I played longer than him when Super Bowl.

I'm that guy.

He beat you that day.

I don't care.

He beat you.

I'm that guy.

Also, Dickie, he hung you out to dry on that play.

You didn't have a lot of help.

No, no, he didn't.

A little bit.

Not at all.

Ryan Clark did because he couldn't play in the altitude, right?

That's how I played.

I didn't play with any help.

I never asked the safety for help.

Ike Island.

100%.

Yeah.

100%.

I was really that motherfucking guy.

Y'all got me twisted.

I was really that guy.

Hey, sometimes gunfighters get shot.

And that day, they got me.

That's what it just happened to be T-Bone. When you say it like that, it actually sounds cool.
It sounds very cool. Sometimes gunfighters get shot, and that day, they got me.
Yeah, that's what it just happened to be T-Boat. When you say it like that, it actually sounds cool.
It sounds very cool. Sometimes gunfighters get shot.
Fuck, that's awesome. Ike, thank you so much, man.
It's been awesome. Appreciate y'all, man.
Welcome back anytime. Thank you.
Appreciate you coming on, and congrats on the two Super Bowls and also making your mom proud. Thank you.
I appreciate that. Yeah.
Appreciate that. Thanks for having me.
Absolutely, man.

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Let's start with the PR 101 for the man who the internet loves to dunk on. It is Darren Revell.
So he had quite the Sunday, quite the Easter Sunday. It started with the LSU gymnastics team tweeting out, Thank you Baton Rouge.
And it was a billboard that now it was one of those electronic billboards. Not very hard to put up there.
It's a 2019 NCAA gymnastics national runner up. Yeah.
Okay. That's fine.
Okay. Darren Revelle said, no no you can't put up a billboard for coming in second ratio 1.1 uh 1 uh 1 000 replies 223 retweets and got dragged all day the world's best sports bar turned on Darren people found out people found the time time that he got his shoes gold-plated for finishing like 3,000th in the Chicago Marathon.
Now, he wants it to be known that he didn't actually gold-plate him himself. Nike did it for him.
Without his knowledge, I'm sure. Without his knowledge, totally.
I'm sure he had no idea that it was happening. No idea.
We also found the hilarious tweet alex restrepo who is uh a friend

of the program found the tweet where darren ravelle said my story on joe flacco's post-contract mcdonald's meal was the second most read espn headline story yesterday yep celebrating second uh so darren basically like the whole internet was like dude shut the fuck up because what darren did was he thought he had gotten the tides correct.

He read the tides internet was like, dude, shut the fuck up. Because what Darren did was he thought he had gotten the, like, tides correct.
He read the tides and was like, hey, people don't like participation trophies. They don't like celebrating second place.
I'm about to fucking show them I'm Big Bad Darren. And I, too, don't think that second place matters.
This is what happens when you take the Disney handcuffs off Darren.

He gets out on his own.

He gets to unleash the takes that changed the world.

And he said he was doing it for the kids too.

No, his kids.

His kids.

Yeah, so his kids could see him insulting the runners-up of women's gymnastics.

So what he failed to – and people obviously, if you're sitting here and you're like,

hey, aren't you the guys that made fun of the Colts banner that says second place? it wasn't yeah it was afc finalists finalists yes and yes we did make fun of that because that is a professional sports team uh you know they have a super bowl trophy very very strange to then celebrate finalists when you have something that you've achieved in your past and then to celebrate coming up it was. Yeah, I also think a big part of that one was that it said finalist, but they finished in fourth place.
Right. So it's like the finalist of half the final.
Right. And it's professional athletes.
What Darren forgets to realize here. And it's Jim Irsay, so you have to imagine that he was heavily involved in the process to design the banner.
So these are college athletes, get paid nothing. This is the highest, yes, unless it's Duke Zion.
This is the highest that LSU gymnastics, the female gymnastics team, has ever finished. Really cool for them.
Big season for them. I think they had two people on the team, two women on the team, actually win national championships individually.
So it's the community basically saying,

good job, guys.

We're very proud of you.

Not on Darren Rebell's watch.

Not on Darren's watch.

No, sir, no, sir, no, sir.

He got dragged left and right.

Like, who the fuck cares about a billboard

of celebrating runner-up?

That's a cool accomplishment.

Again, you're a college athlete.

You don't get paid.

It's not like we celebrate Final Fours.

You know what I mean?

Final Fours are pretty fucking cool.

Listen, when you grow up as an incredible athlete such as Darren did and you have all the championships to show for it, it must chap your ass to be like, hey, these people are celebrating second place and I accomplished all this stuff. I didn't get a billboard when I won states in high school football when I was a big bad jock.
When I excelled in every sport that I ever participated in since a young age. So I'm okay with gatekeepers for the generation of participation trophy receivers.
As long as those gatekeepers are themselves elite athletes. Like Darren.
Right. So I'm fine with Darren being the guy.
So here's the tweet that he finished today. He went basically all day without tweeting.
And you know what? I want to give Darren just a little bit of credit. Last week we, well no, hear me out, Hank.
Last week we had Tiger Woods bring all of Twitter together. This week we had Darren Ravel bring all of Twitter together in their hate for Darren Ravel.
It was a really nice moment. It's like community building to dunk on Darren Ravel.
I think what made it even better was that it was on Easter. Yes.
Everyone stopped like, hold on, hold on, Nana and Papa. I got to fucking tweet a gif at Darren Ravel here showing how much of an idiot he is.
You don't understand, Nana. Darren's really out of pocket online.
I got to handle this. So it's very rare for him to go all day without doing like a true tweet.
He was responding to everyone. That's the first sign that you've been owned to respond to every single person basically being like, no, that was different.
The gold pleated shoes I didn't do. I finished.
That was a personal accomplishment. I finished fucking.
Dude, he literally talks about his marathon running like every day. And he runs like a four hourhour marathon.
So this is the most not-owned, owned tweet of all time. He finished it with, what an incredible platform this is that allows people to passionately express how they feel about topics and issues and debate those takes no matter where or who you are.
Today was a great example. This was just a great day for the discourse is what it was.

The only thing that would have been better is if he had said that this was a giant social

experiment to see how people would react.

And I wouldn't put it past Darren to do that at some point.

Oh, man.

And what really made me feel very warm inside on the high holiday, put a smile on my face,

was just imagining as Darren's getting dunked on and him saying that he did it for his kids,

him sitting his own children down

and explaining to them why Daddy put out a tweet

mocking the runners-up in the NCAA gymnastics competition

and explaining why it was for their own good

and trying to impart a life lesson.

They're like, Dad, you signed me up for a Twitter account when I was born.

I've never used it.

I don't want this.

I don't want this.

Why were you bullying a bunch of teenage women who don't, you signed me up for a Twitter account when I was born. I've never used it.
I don't want this. I don't want this.
Why were you bullying a bunch of teenage women who don't get paid? Cool. Cool, Darren.
Cool guy, Darren. Thanks, Daddy.
A great discourse on the platform. Yeah, tremendous day for the discourse.
That really shows. All time.
This is what Twitter really could be. That's going to be his tweet tomorrow.
This is why I keep reinvesting stock in Twitter because of how bad I got dunked on. You know what, Jack? Instead of fasting for two days without eating any food whatsoever, I challenge you to take two days without reading any of Darren Revelle's tweets.
I think that would be much harder. Just block him.
Yeah. Suspend Darren Revelle for a week.
Could you imagine? You know what? There are certain people in this world that the internet should be taken away from for the rest of their lives i would say darren is pretty high up on that list darren's knocking on the door yes he absolutely is hey once the cuffs came off on espn he's a bad boy the internet is it it's not for everybody yes it is not uh all right next up we have a connect the dots pft you have this yeah so i'm i'm not a conspiracy guy Connect the Dots guys. I want to state that up front.
But I read an article on ESPN last week about Greg Popovich, right? And about how he has been the league's leading wine guy for the last 25 years. Okay.
And how he's... Whining or wine? Wine, as in like a sheesh.
Both, kind of. Both.
Well, he doesn't whine. He just stares at reporters and doesn't answer their questions.
And then they whine about it later. But he has been going out to these very fancy restaurants, taking his team out.
Anybody that he's in contact with ever, whether it's U.S. basketball, anybody that goes out to dinner with Popovich is getting $10,000, $20,000 worth of wine purchased for them.
Interesting. He's a big lush.
He likes spreading the gospel of wine around. Now, connect the dots here.
This doesn't sound correct. I think that...
Why? He just buys people $10,000 worth of wine all the time? When you're going out for dinners with him, yeah. He will buy the shit out of wine at a restaurant.
Okay. I think what he did was he tried to get, and he succeeded at getting this current crop of superstars addicted to wine so that he can continue on his legacy in San Antonio.
He's been dominating the NBA for, what, the last 20 years? Sure. 23 years, something like that.
I truly think that he uses it as an advantage to be like, I'm going to turn LeBron James into an alcoholic so my San Antonio Spurs can still look like we're still in dynasty mode. Yes.
He basically took down LeBron's career. Yes.
So I don't think you're wrong here. And he also made Mello retire at the height of his career.
Yep. And Dwayne Wade has also retired to become a wine drinker.
That's what I'm guessing. No, that's what he's going to do.
The other team in Texas, Chris Paul. Wine drinker, booty eater, and Budweiser seller in his commercials.
Yes. So I think you're spot on.
Pop has taken the NBA down from within. LeBron James has gotten played.
He always said he wants to play for Pop. He really just wants to drink with Pop.
They just want to get drunk together. Yes.
This is his last hurrah. Pop's last hurrah in the NBA is to just get every good player addicted to the shish.
That would be so awesome if LeBron finished his career in San Antonio, and they would just be sipping on wine during games, and LeBron would get wine drunk and start crying while he's shooting free throws just out of emotion. And missing.
Yeah. He misses the free.
Maybe it's like Peter Griffin. He starts getting drunk at games.
He starts making his free throws. Ooh.
Yeah. Give it a shot, LeBron.
Yeah. LeBron, he's experimenting with that.
You can't be worse. You can't be worse at him.
Okay, let's wrap up. We have Monday reading, then we'll do Game of Thrones recap.
We'll keep that towards the end so that we won't do any spoilers if you have not watched. But the Monday reading, Danny Amendola had himself a weekend.
He's actually high up on the list of people who should get the internet taken away from him. He should be suspended from the internet.
He certainly is. So there was, I guess, how did it start? There was a rumor that Danny...
There was a picture of his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Olivia Coppo, dancing with Zed, who's a DJ.

And they were dancing together at Coachella. Yes.
So the normal reaction would be, I am a very wealthy wide receiver in the NFL. I have Super Bowl rings.
I'm very good looking. I don't really care.
the reaction that Danny Amendola went with was

first he did a video where he was watching the scene from Pulp Fiction where Zed is dead. That's the line, Zed is dead.
And him just flexing his abs while he's watching it in bed. Okay, that's pretty normal.
Normal. And then he wrote.
Great abs. Great abs.
Oh, I mean, he's a fucking, he's a very, very attractive guy. But then he went online and he had this Instagram post.
Bad facial hair guy, though. Yeah.
It's not great. It's just not Julian Edelman.
Julian Edelman is, that's the problem. Danny Amendola next to Julian Edelman, like, he loses all his powers.
Because Jules got the best facial hair in the game. I'm just saying.
All right. So this is what Danny Amendola wrote.
This is our Monday reading.

I believe there should be a boundary between private life and social media.

Olivia believes in fishbowl lifestyle.

This fundamental difference was huge in our relationship. If you're my real friend, you know I'm private.

My brother, my mother, father, and nephew are closest to me in this world,

and you don't see one picture of them,

and that's for their protection from those who criticize and judge. I think's totally fair so far he is on track good posts unfortunately we have a lot more to go i believe in nailing picture frames on the inside of my house to remind the the ones i love that i care olivia chooses and wants to be noticed on the internet in hollywood to make money she is by the way a a model.
Yeah, that's her job. Which he knew going into it.
It's tough to be a model when the only people that can see your pictures are the people that are currently inside your house. I'm actually the best model in the world inside my house.
Yeah. Leroy thinks I'm a perfect model.
So, which was hard for me to understand, but quickly had to learn. Whereas the cost of fame in this world doesn't appeal to me, I play ball for one reason, and that's respect.
I feel like... That's why he's in Detroit right now.
Yeah, he plays it for money and whatever. Yeah, Super Bowl.
Respect. The only reason I'm writing this post is because whether I liked it or not, we live in a public eye.
Some of it is amazing. I've met some of the nicest people from all over the world, and Olivia and I had some amazing times together.
Just like any other loving relationship, we fought. Oh, okay, so we're bringing this online.
Okay. A lot of the time, it was my fault, because let's be honest, I can be an idiot.
But, knew there was a but. Yup, she's fucked up too.
And if you cross me, I'm a hard motherfucker to deal with. Sounded a little creepy there, Danny.
The universe brought her and I together to enjoy life, love, and learn. We celebrated that as often as we could, and the sex was fucking crazy too.
That's hot. It was pretty hot, yeah.
Really hot. But I go back to the first paragraph where he was like, I like to keep everything offline.
And then we've, in a matter of sentences here, we're now talking about his sex. Yeah, it sounds like he might have partaken in some extracurricular activities before sitting down to write this one.
Yeah, okay. So she gets so mad at me for not posting her on social media, but I think this shit is sometimes fake, sometimes toxic, but sometimes beautiful.
I don't know what to make of that again this actually this actually sounds like the Tampa Bay Lightning letter that they wrote to their fan that tweet that they put out after they lost that's the tone no words stop it no words yeah I have no words but let me let me get into my sex life with Olivia real quick uh and I felt like she had enough pictures online anyway she is her model model. That is her job.
Truth is, I have a whole cell phone of funny, embarrassing, sexy pics IG would love to have. That sounds like extortion, brother.
Yes. However, living a public image isn't my choice.
It's something I've learned to deal with. Reading all these wild stories about her and I and seeing Olivia with other men, I just wanted to personally clear the air out there.
We've been on and off for a long time and not together as of late. Not sure what's in the future, but the only thing I care about is her happiness.
That's what this sounds like. That's very nice.
Yeah, it's very nice. And if that's dancing with scrawny little fucks, so be it.
That's the best two sentences ever.

Her happiness is paramount.

And in these little fuck boys that she's fucking,

fuck them.

Listen, nobody likes to see your ex-girlfriend

dancing with somebody,

but if you have to see it,

it better be with a fucking loser like this guy.

Danny, just, here's what you should do.

Be like a normal dude.

Lock yourself in a room for a week.

Listen to The Cure.

Yeah. Write some poetry.
Say you're going to start a band. Never actually get around to it.
Yeah. Then come out the other side looking normal.
Just like, you should be hanging out with Matt Patricia. Matt Patricia to me seems like a great bounce back guy to hang out with.
Yes. Just like your big furry guy that's always slapping you on your chest, like getting you involved.
Maybe a little dick hit. I don't want to think about Danny like this.
I prefer to think of my Danny Amendola when he was in better times wrapped up inside Gronk's coat.

Yes.

Like a little cloak, a little love nest for the two of them looking into each other's eyes.

That's who he should be with.

All right, here's the end.

I'm happy to.

I believe him.

With that said, Liv, my beautiful ex-girlfriend, Providence Finest and Baker's Bay Pancakes carry on IG so yeah that was a lot that was a lot that was a lot and I I feel like every person has been in that spot in life where it's like hey I don't want to see you don't want to see your ex hanging out with other people you just should have taken your advice from the very first paragraph of being like I don't want to see your ex hanging out with other people, you just should have taken your advice from the very first paragraph of being like,

I don't want to put everything out on social media.

Stop.

Yeah.

Good.

I actually think this probably helped out a lot of stuff with Danny

because it had the potential to be an on-again, off-again thing,

like recurring for the next six months, year, whatever.

They're probably going to hook up again at some point until he put this online. Yes.
Now they're definitely not going to get back together. No.
So it ended it. It actually very conveniently ended it for him.
That's true. That'll be good for him in the long run.
All right. So it's good because that was it.
That was all he posted, right? Okay, good. Oh.
Oh, wait. There's more? No, he posted more.
So yeah, he deleted it. He deleted that.
Shortly after. A true poster's poster.
And then he posted a picture of him smiling, dancing. This was over the course of a few days, too, so he really, like, worked out the stages of- And then he posted a follow-up with a lion and said, what I meant to say yesterday was that the media and general public have no idea what goes on behind closed doors.
I don't put, you know, blah, blah, blah, good vibes. You don't know how great and wild our sex is.
Yeah, no idea And then he posted People won't often remember what you said They will remember how you made them feel That seems like that's a shot at Olivia And then he said Another one that just said Fake people have an image to maintain The real ones just don't care I don't think he cares Danny's like the most athletic 8th grader That's where his brain is, that of like a 12-year-old that danced with a girl to Casey and JoJo at his middle school dance, got a little bit too big of a boner, and then won't let it go. Listen, I'm not canceling Danny Amendola.
I'm just not going to... This isn't cancelable offense.
I just know that, guess what? No one is regretting this more than Danny Amendola

when he wakes up on Monday morning.

He's like, whoa, that was a weekend.

Oh, fuck.

Whoops.

I should have put my phone down.

Is this what happens when you just wake up

and you realize I'm going to be in Detroit for the next year?

And I just lost Miss Universe.

That's the thing.

It's like she, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like to explore more the opportunity of developing a modeling career that doesn't involve getting pictures taken of yourself yes so you know just a mind's eye model danny amandola you'll you'll pick up the pieces you'll be fine you got uh does he have two super bowl rings one super two you got millions of dollars you're a very good looking dude your best friend's julian edelman that's like one of best, best friends you could ever have. And Gronk.

He's perfectly average height.

Perfectly average height.

He's also got all the time in the world to party with Gronk right now.

Right.

Gronk should just go.

If Gronk isn't on a plane to wherever.

Do you think he's in Detroit right now? Yeah, probably.

If he's not on a plane to Detroit, then I've really underestimated Rob Gronkowski as a friend.

Yes, for a boys weekend.

And here's the ultimate spin zone, Danny, if you're listening. You've already done the most regrettable thing you can do online.
It's over. So you can't go lower.
It's like most people are waiting for that moment. Like, oh, what if I just fuck up and start pouring my heart out and talking about how crazy the sex was and saying I want to beat up scrawny fucks.
I think he can go lower. I believe in Danny.
Well, we're trying to pick him up here but i believe in him okay he's always been known as like a hard worker yeah um i think that maybe goth amandola goth danny we're gonna be a nice little phase yeah this is gonna all be hilarious like one day we're just gonna be like remember that time you lost your mind and just posted a shitload of instagrams being really mad because your ex-girlfriend was dancing with a scrawny DJ?

Yeah, it's tough.

It's very tough.

Good times.

All right.

Let's wrap up.

If you haven't watched Game of Thrones, there will be spoilers here.

A little Game of Thrones recap.

Play some music.

30 seconds.

Hank, why don't you start?

I am the host of the kings who are gone.

Jenny would dance with her girls. The ones she had lost and the ones she had found The ones who had loved her the most Once who'd been gone for so very long she couldn't remember their names they spun around on the damp old stone spun away all her sorrow and pain And you never wanted to leave Never wanted to leave Never wanted to leave Never wanted to leave.
Never wanted to leave. Why'd you start, Hank? I thought it was a good episode.
It kind of felt like it was episode one, part two. Yes.
So there's a lot of reunions, a lot of jokes. It was, yeah, everyone was in a good mood.
It's like Moth Draft version 1.2. Yeah, everyone was in a good mood, joking around before they die.
Yeah, I was nervous the whole time thinking something was going to happen. I thought it was a great episode.
The one thing that I was hoping, like Bran said what the Night King's intentions were, and his whole thing as flashbacks, I was hoping they were going to show what are the Night King's intentions. Tyrion sat with them and was like, what's your deal? I thought they were going to go back in time.
It was a 60-minute episode. I thought they could have cut down some of the jokes and the union.
At least done... Just saying that this is what the Night King wants, I thought they could have at least shown it and done a little bit of a better job showing why the fuck this dude is coming to Winterfell with a million undead zombies.
That's a classic writer's trick where they make you get extra attached to everyone right before they die. Yeah, also...
Like, this guy was really fun. What it showed me is like a city under siege where everything's on lockdown.
That becomes a giant locker room. Yeah.
So, like, all is fair. There's that one, the beefy red-haired guy.
Tormund. Tormund, who just was trying to get laid and drink titty milk all the time.
He's Jim Harbaugh. Yeah, he was just sucking that giant's breast milk out of the horn.
What a story. And just trying to have sex with anybody.
Yeah. The whole city is just locker room talk.
Yeah. I enjoy that a lot.
I noticed that you guys got kind of grossed out when that girl had sex. Okay, so Aria.
Aria having sex was, I looking forward to that she is she like basically has grown up on the show okay she started on the show as like a 10 year old okay that's tough so it's like and she still is seen as like a little girl even though i think the real actress is 22 but like it was weird i didn't need it now that's tough for us but if you started watching when you were were 10 years old at the same time as her, and she grew up as you were growing up, then that was probably the coolest thing ever. It's like when I was 15, I really liked Alicia Silverstone, who was also 15, and we grew up together, and she probably definitely felt that connection with me, just like I felt it with her.
I also like the callback how in the first episode, Ned and King Robert were like, let's join houses, thinking it was going to be Sansa and fucking Joffrey. Yep.
Then it finally came around full circle, Arya and Gendry. Which probably means that Gendry's going to die, Arya's going to get pregnant.
Oh! Yeah. All right, so now I really can't deal with it.
No, I think she is going to be pregnant. Can't even deal.
I think, wait, what if she's pregnant? Because in this show, basically, if you have sex, you're pregnant. Yeah, what if she's pregnant in real life and they had to write it into the show? She's not.
No. As like an 18-year-old.
That'd be wild, huh? She's 22. That'd be wild.
Please, don't. My question, I noticed this today.
So like last week, I had a bunch of questions about like the fires that were burning everywhere. Yeah.
This one is just like their general hygiene. It looks like the smelliest place on earth.
Oh, yeah. Everyone's breasts stinks.
Do they not shower? No. Bad shower discipline? The rich people bathe.
The poor people just live in shit. They just deal with smell.
Everyone smells like shit, so nobody does? No one does. So it actually probably doesn't smell bad because that's all you know is that everyone smells like pig shit.
Okay. They also didn't show the Night King in the next time on, which might mean that he's pulling the hezy hay.
He's the hezy hay. Jamie is a woke liberal.
He knighted Sir Brianne. He's a white knight.
That was just a flex on tour. Big time white knight.
Big time white knight. Can you believe it? A knight? A female knight in my lifetime? Could never happen.
Joining the legendary warriors such as Sean Connery, Mick Jagger. Who else has been knighted? Bing Kingsley.
Yep. Prince.
Prince. Prince was knighted? That's confusing.
I mean, I assume he was. That would be extremely confusing.
The knight prince. That was actually an awesome moment, though, because Sir Brianne, the smile on her face.
I think that, like Fights actually pointed out, I think that was actually the first time someone smiled on the entire show. What if J.R.
Ryder got knighted and he became Knight Rider? Ooh, that would be sick. That would be fucking awesome.
That would be real sick. Let's make that happen.
Can I do that as a minister? Can I knight somebody? Nope. I've also, I'm going to unminister you as soon as I can.
No, you can't. What else? Oh, I wrote down, oh, Jon Snow telling his aunt that they've been fucking.
That was a wild one. Twitter user, I think it's at Big Business.
He said, Danny acted like Bran was Chris Broussard, dog. He did.
She did. She was like, you're going to believe that fucking guy? That's the other thing that I've been hoping was going to happen.
So remember the two kids that went with Bran to the wall and Three-Eyed Raven and all that shit? Yeah, yeah. Their dad was the dude that stabbed the knight that was with Ned Stark.
Remember there in the fight? And he thought it looked like he was going to lose. And then that guy, his friend, stabbed the guy in the back.
Okay. And he ran up to the tower to get Jon Snow.
Yes. So that guy's still alive.
It's those two kids' dad. So he can come and verify everything.
Oh. He's still alive.

He's out there somewhere.

He's alive in the world,

and I was hoping that in these first two episodes

he was going to come and be like,

no, this is legit.

Damn.

So I'm still hoping that happens,

but that was another...

I thought it was a good episode,

but those two things were a little bit of a letdown.

It's going to be a huge episode next week.

Everyone's going to die.

Jorah's going to die in the ultimate friend zone.

That guy probably... How many times do you think Jorah has jerked off to Khaleesi since hundreds thousands seven seasons he's just been following Khaleesi Daenerys around and being like her right hand man but he secretly just wants to fuck her oh her hand her hand yeah yeah yeah but she's like no're too old.
Yeah, he's been with her as she's had like seven boyfriends. That's the perfect seasons of friend zone.
She's playing that exactly right. Like getting his testosterone all the way up, making him be horny all the time.
That's what you want your defender to be. Right.
So he's just been jerking it to her like every single time he's off camera and now he's going to die without ever feeling that. Without ever feeling a woman's's warmth yes exactly so yeah it's going to be a crazy episode i don't know Jon Snow i feel like Daenerys did not take that news well that she is not the rightful heir she took it about as well as he could have expected like well that's it is kind of like oh your best friend and your weird-ass brother like maybe she was happy that he was the heir but she was sad that she wasn't going to get dicked down anymore.
Oh, they're still going to dick down. That's not going to stop them? Oh, no.
The Targaryen tradition. That actually, in a weird way, I think it makes it even hotter for them.
Their whole family thing is not muddying the bloodlines. They just want to fuck.
So fucking incest is incurred. It is kind of funny what Game of Thrones does to your brain where it's like the 22-year-old girl that you saw grow up.
You're like, no, don't fuck. And then the aunt and nephew and then the brother and sister, you're like, fuck yes, that's hot.
Wait, so they're sisters or they aunt? That's aunt and nephew. Yeah.
He's fucking his aunt? He's fucking his aunt. All right, that's better than brother and sister.
Yeah, Cersei and Jaime have created four children together. Okay, nice.
And they're twins.

Very cool. Very cool.

Alright, that's our show.

I think we covered everything. Oh, Bran's still a weirdo.

He just says weird shit.

He just like,

it just should be record scratch every time he says something.

I'm still very woke on Bran.

I think that Bran is either going to kill

somebody, he could be the

Night King. He's like trying to do this thing where he's like, have the Night King meet me by myself out in the middle of the woods somewhere so we can make some secret treaty, and I'll come and I'll kill the fuck out of all of you people.
Also, one last thing. All-time shitty situation for Theon.
Gets his dick cut off, comes back to Winterfell, and Sansa starts giving him the eyes. Yeah.
And he's got no dick. That's very tough.
He literally left. She was too young, comes back.
She's like, oh, you're hot, Fionn. And he's like, well, about that, I actually got my dick cut off like four seasons ago.
That was a dude that was up on the roof? He was with Sansa. He said he would defend her, the Ironborn.
Okay. He came back.
He's got no dick. No dick.
Got it cut off. That's a tough break.
Still got the balls though, right? I think he got everything cut off. So it sucks.
He might have his balls. But he literally came back.
She could just play with his balls for a while. The hottest chicken Winterfell wants to suck it.
And it's like there's nothing there. Yeah.
Grey worm scissor sesh. Just scissor with the balls.
Do whatever Grey Worm did. Well, if he's smart, he takes it all the way.
You know what I mean? He sees if they were like, oh, I could have had her. Don't tell her that you don't have a dick until the last possible second.
Last second. And then, yeah, it's too late.
Oh, fuck. I forgot to mention this.
You know what? I forgot my dick. Wouldn't you know it? I didn't bring it.
Let me go back and see if I can get my dick. Do you want to peg me instead? All right.
That's our show. We'll see you everyone Wednesday.
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Love you guys. Talking away I don't know what I'm to sing at the stage anyway Today is a night Day to finally shine away Lover King, Lover King Take to find me.
Shine away.

Lover King. Lover King.
Shine away. Lover King.
Lover King. Take on me me Take me on I'll be gone

And after I'm always saddened But I'm each some little more.

This is my soul.