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LeBron James is a Philadelphia 76er. We break it down from all angles. Is Max ready for Championship or bust? How Hank is to blame for all of this. Pressure on Joel Embiid. Memes not talking to Max and more (00:00:00-00:50:36). Who’s back of the week including football, Tony Romo’s DUI, Zac’s early Fyre fest and more (00:50:36-01:10:17). Patrick Kane joins the show in studio fresh off his press conference announcing his return to the Blackhawks to talk about his free agency, the future with Bedard and the Hawks, memories of Cup runs and tons more (01:10:17-02:00:22). We finish with Mt Rushmore of foods you eat with a spoon. You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Netflix. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take https://barstool.link/pardon-my-take

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  On today's Pardon My Take, presented by DraftKings, we've got Patrick Kane in studio, fresh off of his press conference on Friday. He's back in Chicago, back with the Blackhawks. Awesome interview with him. We also have a decision. LeBron James is a Philadelphia 76er, and we're gonna break that whole thing down because it is-

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  It's massive news. Fluffy is gonna, is gonna be going crazy-

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  I don't, I don't sound like that.

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  Welcome to part of my take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Monday, July 27th and LeBron James as a fall for the 76er. Boys, boys.

• 3:11Speaker 02

  The decision has been made. The die has been cast. It's championship or bust for the Sixers.

• 3:16Speaker 00

  It's championship or bust for the Sixers.

• 3:18Speaker 02

  If they don't win the NBA championship next year, this could be the most disappointing season in the history of basketball.

• 3:23Speaker 00

  I'd agree, PFT.

• 3:24Speaker 03

  As the third best favorites.

• 3:26Speaker 00

  Super. As I'd agree, PFT. Well, listen, Max, we'll get it. We'll get to you. Let's, let's set the stage. On Friday morning, LeBron James decided his final decision, as he said, his final decision. So this is it. He's going to retire a fall of the 76er. He did it in a few tweets. I did like the part where he basically was like, family's not important. Now, I know what he means by that. He's basically saying that his, his two oldest are already in college. He's got a young daughter, but he wasn't deciding like I, where my family's gonna, you know, be raised because they've already been raised to extent. But it just is funny to be like, family was not part of this.

• 4:05Speaker 02

  Strictly a basketball decision.

• 4:07Speaker 00

  It's a basketball decision. And we can get into everything, what it means. In terms of just basketball, it was the best choice. In terms of just basketball, it was the best choice. If you, if you, if you say that it was between Cleveland. Golden State, Miami, maybe throw in Minnesota. The Philadelphia 76ers have the best chance with Jalen Brown now on the team. BJ Edgecombe, Tyrese Maxey and Joel Embiid. If he's healthy, that is the best team basketball wise.

• 4:42Speaker 02

  But can I have a question for you?

• 4:43Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 4:44Speaker 02

  How many balls do they play with in the NBA at one time? On the court, regulation I'm talking about here. How many balls?

• 4:50Speaker 00

  It's one.

• 4:51Speaker 02

  There's just one ball.

• 4:52Speaker 00

  There's just one ball.

• 4:53Speaker 02

  Is that enough balls?

• 4:55Speaker 00

  Might not be.

• 4:56Speaker 02

  I don't think that it, it might not be enough balls.

• 4:58Speaker 00

  It might not be enough balls.

• 4:59Speaker 02

  You're right, though, from a basketball standpoint, like the starting five, projected started five. And as Max has said, Joel Embiid is coming off the best, most healthy offseason that he's had in the last three years. So everything.

• 5:13Speaker 00

  Okay. He was only a little injured in the playoffs.

• 5:15Speaker 02

  Most healthy offseason of the last three years for Joel Embiid.

• 5:17Speaker 00

  Got it.

• 5:18Speaker 02

  It does feel like this is a, a team that out of the East should be pretty good now. There are some teams out there that might be upset that we're anointing the Sixers. Like congratulations on winning the East.

• 5:31Speaker 00

  Congratulations on winning the title.

• 5:32Speaker 02

  The title, the entire NBA championship, namely memes and the New York Knicks.

• 5:37Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 5:37Speaker 02

  Are not taking this, this news too well, which is great. Like, I like that now there's a rivalry, not, we don't just have the Celtics against the Sixers on this show. We've got legit, like the Knicks against the Sixers now too.

• 5:48Speaker 00

  And don't forget the Wizards.

• 5:49Speaker 02

  And the Wizards, have you looked at the Wizards NBA Cup group this year?

• 5:53Speaker 00

  No.

• 5:53Speaker 02

  Group of death.

• 5:54Speaker 00

  Oh, no.

• 5:55Speaker 02

  Group of death, Sixers, Bulls, Hawks, Wizards, yeah.

• 5:57Speaker 00

  Damn.

• 5:58Speaker 02

  We'll look forward to that. But this does feel like the best possible news for the show. Thank you to LeBron James for choosing the 76ers. I'm very excited about it.

• 6:05Speaker 00

  Well, and, and if we're gonna do thank yous, thank you LeBron James. Thank you, Henry Lockwood. Because Hank made this happen. Brad Stevens and the Celtics made this happen.

• 6:18Speaker 04

  Yeah, they said LeBron was not worried, like not even thinking about Philadelphia till Jalen Brown got traded to the Sixers. And then he started thinking about full.

• 6:29Speaker 00

  Yeah, right.

• 6:32Speaker 04

  I think that this could be the the greatest thing that Brad Stevens has ever done.

• 6:37Speaker 00

  Oh, do tell.

• 6:38Speaker 04

  I think I think he's playing. I think he's playing 4D chess. He knows. He knew what he was doing with the Jalen Brown trade and now with LeBron, like all the pressures now on LeBron. Jalen Brown didn't want to be, you know, a number two option with Boston and now the Sixers.

• 6:54Speaker 00

  He might be number four.

• 6:55Speaker 04

  What happens? I cannot wait for the end of games with the with the Sixers like what's gonna happen? Is this team gonna gel? On paper, they're stacked. The graphic of their starting lineup. It's stacked.

• 7:05Speaker 00

  It's formidable.

• 7:06Speaker 04

  But when you, you know, you look at the numbers, the usage rate, like all these guys are stars when they have the ball in their hands. There is only one ball.

• 7:13Speaker 00

  Hank hit him with you straight. All right, Max is now he's he's talking without the mic on. So we got it. We got to. Max, congratulations. You have LeBron James on the Philadelphia 76ers.

• 7:22Speaker 03

  LeBron historically passes at the end, at the end of the game.

• 7:24Speaker 00

  Oh, that sounded like slander there.

• 7:27Speaker 03

  No, that's not slander. It's like, oh, what are they gonna do? Everyone's, everyone's fighting for the ball for the last shot.

• 7:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 7:34Speaker 03

  And LeBron is historic of like finding the open man for the last shot.

• 7:39Speaker 00

  Okay, so Max, walk us through your feelings when it happened on Friday. Everything that's happened since you are now a LeBron fan. You are the number one LeBron fan on this show.

• 7:51Speaker 03

  For sure.

• 7:52Speaker 00

  Actually, can I ask this question first? Philadelphia is a very proud sports city. They're known for being honest with their fans. They're known for when when things are not up to snuff, they will let. Or sorry, they're honest with their players. When things are not up to snuff, they'll let their players have it. If LeBron James does not perform, will you be booing LeBron James?

• 8:16Speaker 03

  No, because he's getting paid 3.9 million dollars.

• 8:20Speaker 02

  This is sad.

• 8:20Speaker 00

  This is sad.

• 8:21Speaker 02

  Exactly what he did to the Lakers. He joined a once. Became general manager, made them draft a son, became untouchable. Now he's going to Fluffy and all of a sudden the Fluffy of sports fan that we know and love so much. Has completely just acquiesced to LeBron.

• 8:37Speaker 00

  You've been neutered by LeBron.

• 8:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 8:39Speaker 03

  What is the expectations for a guy on a vet min?

• 8:42Speaker 00

  I'm just asking. It's LeBron James.

• 8:44Speaker 03

  Yes, LeBron James on the vet min.

• 8:46Speaker 00

  All right, let me ask you this.

• 8:47Speaker 03

  Shows to come to Philadelphia on the vet min.

• 8:49Speaker 00

  How many, how many vet min's signings the 76ers have ever had in the history of their franchise? That you have sprinted around the office screaming, we got him, we got him, we got him.

• 9:02Speaker 03

  He's first.

• 9:03Speaker 00

  I exactly. So it's not, you can play the vet man thing, but let's be honest. This is championship or bust.

• 9:12Speaker 03

  I don't know. I don't know what you mean by championship or bust. Like if, if we lose in the end.

• 9:16Speaker 02

  I think it's.

• 9:16Speaker 04

  What part confusing?

• 9:17Speaker 03

  If we lose in the NBA finals, I'm going to be like, oh, LeBron's a fucking asshole for coming to Philadelphia and not winning a championship.

• 9:24Speaker 00

  Seventy sixers fans would.

• 9:25Speaker 02

  Is it the championship?

• 9:26Speaker 03

  Let's look at where the Philadelphia seventy sixers were in June.

• 9:30Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 9:30Speaker 03

  We had just gotten swept by the Knicks.

• 9:32Speaker 02

  After we beat the Celtics.

• 9:34Speaker 03

  After we beat the Celtics.

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  Jay Brown, good player.

• 9:37Speaker 03

  The franchise was going in the complete opposite direction. We had the two worst contracts in the NBA.

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  No.

• 9:44Speaker 03

  Everyone was.

• 9:45Speaker 02

  No, no, Paul George.

• 9:48Speaker 03

  And then we ended up trading Paul George and Quentin Grimes for LeBron James and Jalen Brown.

• 9:54Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 9:54Speaker 03

  Obviously you're going to be excited for the future of the franchise from what it looked like a month ago. They looked like the worst team in Philadelphia a month ago.

• 10:03Speaker 00

  What does that have to do with championship or bust?

• 10:05Speaker 02

  Is it the championship or the bust that's confusing you?

• 10:07Speaker 00

  Okay, I don't understand championship or bust. Do you not get that?

• 10:11Speaker 03

  They are not the favorites to win the championship. They are not the second favorites to win the championship. They are tied for third. So I don't understand how it's championship or bust when they're not the favorites to win the fucking championship.

• 10:23Speaker 02

  Well, they're the first out of the east.

• 10:24Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 10:25Speaker 03

  They're tied for first with the Knicks out of the east.

• 10:27Speaker 02

  Okay, so they're first out of the east.

• 10:28Speaker 03

  They're tied.

• 10:29Speaker 00

  Who were the champions last year?

• 10:30Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 10:31Speaker 03

  Correct.

• 10:31Speaker 00

  Hmm. It's championship or bust.

• 10:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, you guys can say championship or bust all you want.

• 10:36Speaker 02

  Listen, you can pretend to not understand how the LeBron James factor works, but when LeBron chooses a team.

• 10:42Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 10:42Speaker 02

  It immediately becomes championship or bust.

• 10:44Speaker 00

  You'll be talked about by, by, by the talking heads more than any other team to like a 10th degree.

• 10:49Speaker 02

  You're not, I don't think you're ready for it.

• 10:51Speaker 03

  Oh, I'm ready.

• 10:52Speaker 00

  Spotlight. Well, it sounds like you're not because you, you, you've already lost who you are. You aren't going to boo him if he, if he sucks.

• 10:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, everybody gets a trophy in Philly now. That's, that's how it's going to be.

• 11:01Speaker 00

  You're just happy, you're just happy he chose you.

• 11:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm ecstatic that he chose Philadelphia. LeBron James.

• 11:08Speaker 00

  Get to work.

• 11:09Speaker 03

  When, yeah, I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go. I'm a LeBron sexual. That's my goat. That's my guy. Buy the shirt, Barstool store, LeBron goat. I love this guy. I love this team. I'm so excited for basketball season.

• 11:22Speaker 02

  What about the, uh, the possible simmering beef behind the scenes that Jalen Brown doesn't like Bronny? Doesn't think he's a good, good enough to be a pro.

• 11:29Speaker 00

  And the fact that he wants his own team and like Hank said.

• 11:31Speaker 03

  What about the fact that it has been reported that he was very much a part of the recruitment of LeBron to come to Philadelphia?

• 11:38Speaker 02

  I didn't see that report.

• 11:39Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 11:39Speaker 02

  Oh, was that, that was a report where, where, uh, Jalen has not talked to Embiid yet, right? That was the same report, I think.

• 11:46Speaker 03

  That, that.

• 11:47Speaker 02

  Hank, was that the same report?

• 11:48Speaker 04

  I don't think it was the same report, but that was a real thing.

• 11:51Speaker 02

  That was also a report.

• 11:51Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 11:52Speaker 04

  Do you think they're gonna try and trade Embiid for Anthony Davis?

• 11:55Speaker 03

  No.

• 11:56Speaker 00

  Are you nervous that?

• 11:57Speaker 02

  Good question.

• 11:58Speaker 00

  Even though your championship are bust, which we all agree, uh, it does still kinda come down to Joel Embiid's health.

• 12:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, I, I, I've said I don't even play him until April.

• 12:09Speaker 00

  That is the one thing that like, that is set up and, and Mike Ganz did a great job with these moves, uh, is that the Sixers are set up that they can probably win a lot of regular season games and get a good seed in a very stacked East now, uh, without stressing out Embiid and LeBron. Because Jalen Brown and Tyrese Maxey should be able to play 70 plus games. And same with VJ Edgecombe and you can win a lot of games with those guys. And back to backs and all that stuff. You don't have to play, you know, playing in Denver and B doesn't have to play there like that kinda stuff.

• 12:46Speaker 00

  So that's good.

• 12:46Speaker 03

  Embiid's gonna play in Denver this year.

• 12:48Speaker 00

  Guaranteed. Is it Denver or bust?

• 12:53Speaker 04

  Is Jokic, if, if Jokic isn't playing, then yeah, Jokic might be hurt.

• 12:57Speaker 00

  This is so good for the show. I can't believe it.

• 13:00Speaker 03

  I'm so excited for, I'm so excited for basketball.

• 13:02Speaker 02

  Max, tell me your, your three favorite things about LeBron James as a Bron sexual.

• 13:07Speaker 03

  Uh, family man. I, I, I respect.

• 13:09Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 13:10Speaker 03

  I respect his, his, his love for, for his wife and children.

• 13:14Speaker 04

  He abandoned Bronny.

• 13:15Speaker 00

  He didn't, he also doesn't care. He, he didn't, he didn't consult them in this decision.

• 13:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, no, sometimes you have to make decisions for, for yourself and your basketball career.

• 13:24Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 13:25Speaker 03

  Um, he's really good at reading books.

• 13:28Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 13:28Speaker 03

  I, I respect his intellect.

• 13:30Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 13:30Speaker 03

  And I respect the way he plays the game of basketball.

• 13:34Speaker 02

  Okay. Also possibly a racist.

• 13:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 13:39Speaker 02

  You got it. Max, you're gonna have to take on all comers.

• 13:41Speaker 03

  I know.

• 13:42Speaker 02

  They're gonna be coming out.

• 13:42Speaker 03

  I mean, I'm a Biden guy anyway.

• 13:44Speaker 00

  You're not, you're not ready for the spotlight. I can already tell just from these 20 minutes, you're not ready for the spotlight.

• 13:50Speaker 03

  I'm ready. I did, I did text Roan and I was like, I'm gonna need, I'm gonna need some help.

• 13:54Speaker 02

  Let's get your talking points ready. If I were to sit here and say, I think Michael Jordan's the GOAT. Championships. Look how many rings he's got. What's your rebuttal?

• 14:02Speaker 03

  Uh, LeBron, more points.

• 14:05Speaker 00

  Okay. Oh, so he played long.

• 14:06Speaker 02

  Compiled. Okay.

• 14:07Speaker 03

  Yeah. Yeah. Longevity is a big thing, is a big thing in sports. The fact that he's 42 years old, he's still doing it. LeBron, Michael Jordan couldn't do it at 42.

• 14:16Speaker 02

  It's also interesting that LeBron has never had an injury.

• 14:20Speaker 03

  Uh, he was a little bit injured last year.

• 14:22Speaker 02

  Uh, banged up. We all get banged up a little bit, but.

• 14:24Speaker 00

  Do you think Paul?

• 14:25Speaker 02

  Serious injury.

• 14:26Speaker 00

  Do you think Paul George will give him his connect in Philadelphia?

• 14:29Speaker 03

  No, Paul, Paul George, we don't know what those drugs were. No one knows what those drugs were. And for you to assume is making ass out of you and me.

• 14:38Speaker 00

  I mean, LeBron, LeBron is, it's crazy that he's, that he still can move the media and the world and the NBA. And year, what is he, 24? I think I saw the, the numerology. It was, it was the 24th day in his 24th season. And he signed for eight year, eight million a year. So Kobe everywhere in Kobe's hometown. But yeah, it's crazy. Like I saw, I saw a stat and this, look, I just don't want LeBron, I, I don't hate LeBron like I used to. I just don't want him to win another one. That's all I care about. I told you that I would make a truce with you. That if I could find a way that LeBron is like, through the course of the season, they're like, the best rotation is LeBron playing eight minutes a game.

• 15:21Speaker 00

  And then the Sixers win with LeBron being like the ninth guy off the bench. I actually would love that. I would, I would, I would, I would, I would root for you, Max, because then I could just have a, another arrow in my quiver of being like, yeah, he was a role player. Like, cool. I do think it's a little weird that he's on his fourth team when you have the GOAT to be. I do, I do. Four teams is weird.

• 15:41Speaker 03

  Why, why?

• 15:42Speaker 00

  Cause I just do. This is just my personal, this is my personal belief.

• 15:45Speaker 03

  I like.

• 15:46Speaker 00

  Can I not have personal beliefs?

• 15:47Speaker 03

  I feel like that's a good.

• 15:48Speaker 02

  Yeah. The GOAT should be a little bit loyal.

• 15:50Speaker 00

  Yeah. I have my personal beliefs.

• 15:51Speaker 02

  He's a mercenary.

• 15:52Speaker 03

  Loyal to what? Like he's.

• 15:55Speaker 00

  Again, it doesn't, it's not an argument that has any type of, uh, substance behind it, other than I'd just like to say four teams. That's crazy.

• 16:04Speaker 03

  I'm just excited he's in Philadelphia. Uh, I said, I'm excited he's in Phil- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He's gonna be the leader in the locker room. That was one thing that I was worried about with the MB, Jalen Brown, like who is gonna be the leader and the guy that everyone rallies around. Now, they don't really have an argument to be made to be like, it's LeBron, it's LeBron. Everyone's gonna look to LeBron. He's gonna be the one that gets everyone ready to go in the playoff series.

• 16:31Speaker 00

  His team.

• 16:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, oh yeah.

• 16:33Speaker 00

  Rank whose team it is.

• 16:34Speaker 03

  LeBron, please.

• 16:35Speaker 00

  Rank whose team it is. No, no, rank it. Whose team? Like if LeBron is out, whose team?

• 16:41Speaker 02

  Josh Harris, number one.

• 16:43Speaker 00

  Whose team?

• 16:43Speaker 03

  It's LeBron.

• 16:44Speaker 00

  No, no, after that, no, no, rank them. There's obviously is a ranking.

• 16:48Speaker 03

  LeBron is the leader.

• 16:49Speaker 00

  If PFT and I just didn't show up tomorrow, it's Hank's team. If Hank didn't show up, you guys decide who's team it is. I don't know.

• 16:57Speaker 02

  I guess what I'm wondering, Max, where does Maxey fit in all this? Cause it felt like two months ago, this is Maxey's team. And then he kind of lost a team.

• 17:05Speaker 00

  Turns out the star mattered. The Rich Paul whiteboard.

• 17:08Speaker 03

  Yes. Also turns out Tyrese Maxey posted a video almost immediately of him jumping for joy in the gym.

• 17:13Speaker 00

  Oh yeah, clutch clients, clutch clients, stick together.

• 17:16Speaker 02

  He's happy.

• 17:17Speaker 03

  BJ Edgecombe did the, I can't believe this in my life meme.

• 17:20Speaker 02

  Yeah, happy guy.

• 17:21Speaker 03

  After LeBron said he was signing.

• 17:23Speaker 02

  But the dynamic, the dynamic you have to admit is gonna be interesting.

• 17:26Speaker 03

  Good thing that you have like the best vet in the league in that locker room to get the boys ready.

• 17:32Speaker 00

  Rank whose team it is?

• 17:34Speaker 03

  LeBron.

• 17:35Speaker 00

  And then one, two, three, like you know what I'm asking. Don't be obtuse.

• 17:40Speaker 03

  LeBron.

• 17:40Speaker 00

  One.

• 17:41Speaker 03

  One. MB two.

• 17:43Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 17:48Speaker 02

  See? Gets interest.

• 17:51Speaker 03

  Three, yes. Three and four is.

• 17:54Speaker 00

  No, no, give it to us.

• 17:56Speaker 03

  Maxey and Jalen Brown are right there.

• 17:58Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 17:59Speaker 03

  They're interchangeable.

• 18:00Speaker 00

  Okay. Then Edgecombe?

• 18:03Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 18:03Speaker 00

  Then D Wade?

• 18:05Speaker 03

  Uh, no, probably then, uh, Huck Porty.

• 18:09Speaker 00

  Okay. LeBron?

• 18:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, maybe some LeBron in there.

• 18:14Speaker 00

  First time a LeBron's ever played with LeBron.

• 18:16Speaker 03

  Anthony Simons.

• 18:18Speaker 00

  Okay. So D Wade.

• 18:21Speaker 03

  Katavious Caldwell Pope.

• 18:22Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, that's right.

• 18:23Speaker 03

  Dean Wade. Katavious Caldwell Pope was fired up on the golf course when he realized he was going to Philly.

• 18:30Speaker 00

  Hell, yeah.

• 18:31Speaker 02

  Love to see it.

• 18:32Speaker 00

  All right. So here's some, some crazy LeBron longevity because he signed a two year deal, which is also significant. It's not just a one year deal. He's saying it seems like he wants to play for two more years. There are 140 active players in the NBA that have been born after LeBron debuted.

• 18:52Speaker 00

  He has, he's played against 37% of all players in NBA history. That's pretty insane.

• 19:00Speaker 02

  That is nuts, yeah.

• 19:01Speaker 00

  The, the oldest opponent was born 1962, Kevin Willis, the youngest 2006. That's a lot of years. That's a lot of years in between. And he's played against 1,857 different opponents and played with 250 different teammates. That's nuts. So, yeah, he's, and he's older than six active head coach, played against five active head coaches. It's longevity is insane. The fact that we're, like I said, go like this is a, this is a pro LeBron statement. The fact that he is at this age, still moving odds, this significant a news, this significant of a piece is insane. It's, it's really something that like, we probably will never see again.

• 19:44Speaker 02

  It does bear repeating that when LeBron James debuted in the NBA, that was me and Big Cat's freshman year of college.

• 19:50Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 19:50Speaker 02

  And I still remember watching that first game because he was anointed as being the chosen one before he got to the NBA. The cover of Sports Illustrated. I remember that first game as it gets to the Kings, right?

• 19:59Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 20:00Speaker 02

  And for him to be doing it is the only thing that's keeping me and Big Cat feeling like we're not old yet.

• 20:06Speaker 00

  He's one month older than us.

• 20:07Speaker 02

  And the second he retires and he steps away, that will be a harsh realization for men of a certain age like myself and Big Cat, where it's like, oh shit, maybe we are actually in our 40s now. But until that time happens, I still kind of feel like I might be young.

• 20:20Speaker 00

  We got two more years.

• 20:21Speaker 02

  LeBron James is still out there competing at a high level in the NBA.

• 20:23Speaker 00

  Yeah. By the way, speaking of the chosen one, the Philadelphia as a city has both chosen ones now. Cause that was the other Sports Illustrated chosen one was Bryce Harper.

• 20:35Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 20:36Speaker 00

  So they have both chosen.

• 20:37Speaker 03

  And they both chose to go to Philadelphia.

• 20:39Speaker 00

  That's true.

• 20:39Speaker 04

  City of champs.

• 20:41Speaker 00

  But he also chose not to go to Philadelphia multiple times, too.

• 20:44Speaker 04

  That doesn't matter. That's

• 20:45Speaker 00

  Well, I'm just saying, yeah. Uh, memes, how do you feel about the fact that the Knicks did not even reach out to LeBron?

• 20:53Speaker 05

  They didn't reach out to him. They, uh, they just turned him down.

• 20:56Speaker 00

  Oh, oh, so, so they reached, LeBron reached out to the Knicks?

• 21:00Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 21:00Speaker 00

  And the Knicks said, no, thank you.

• 21:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, I also

• 21:02Speaker 00

  That's way worse than not even reaching out.

• 21:04Speaker 05

  I still think they could afford him, but

• 21:06Speaker 00

  Vet Min.

• 21:07Speaker 05

  He also would have been coming off the bench. He doesn't want to do that.

• 21:11Speaker 04

  I feel bad. The Knicks, like the Knicks feels like they won the championship, but then the World Cup kind of took over real quick. And then now it's LeBron, like, that seems like, yeah, no, I feel bad, but

• 21:22Speaker 00

  It'll be like a trivia question like, oh yeah, who did win the 2026 NBA title?

• 21:26Speaker 02

  That's a good point.

• 21:26Speaker 00

  Yeah, great point, Hank. Hank, how are you doing? Because this is actually hell for you. Like, let's talk about that for a second.

• 21:32Speaker 04

  I disagree. I disagree.

• 21:33Speaker 00

  This, there's a chance that, no, because you're living in the world where LeBron is a failure in Philadelphia and Max still cheers him. What happens if LeBron wins it all and Max is a winner and the team of the decade, like you don't even have even a close, you don't even have an argument for it.

• 21:52Speaker 04

  That, I mean, we're a long, long, long way away from that. That would be a bad situation. I, it's exciting. It's like Brad Stevens made an insane gamble. But, you know, only time will tell if it pays off or not. We're back to being the scrappy underdogs, which I feel like is where, you know, the Celtics thrive. So it's like, everyone's expecting it's going to be Knicks or Sixers. Everyone's forgetting about the Celtics. That's a, that's a fun spot to be in. I also hated LeBron for so long when he was on the Cavs and the Heat, the Lakers, I just, I It wasn't as easy to get up the hate for him. Obviously, when he won the, the bubble championship, but that wasn't even a real championship. Now it's, now it's exciting to just, to just turn it all the way back on.

• 22:29Speaker 00

  Oh, so you're, you're, you're actually meeting this as like an opportunity.

• 22:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 22:33Speaker 00

  It's like you, you now get to, to throw back the clock almost.

• 22:36Speaker 04

  The team, I think memes said it on Friday, but the team that beats them, like, there's a team that's going to have an opportunity to retire LeBron.

• 22:42Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 22:43Speaker 04

  And I would like to do that.

• 22:44Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 22:45Speaker 02

  Send him on his way.

• 22:46Speaker 00

  You would personally like to do that?

• 22:47Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 22:47Speaker 00

  Wow. That's exciting.

• 22:49Speaker 04

  It is exciting.

• 22:50Speaker 00

  And there's no part of you that's scared at all about that guy sitting in the booth?

• 22:55Speaker 04

  No. I think

• 22:57Speaker 03

  What about the brothers?

• 22:59Speaker 00

  Double D and Nick?

• 23:01Speaker 04

  No, I mean, I'll never see them again, so I'm not, I'm not worried.

• 23:03Speaker 00

  That's not true. If, if there's like a game seven Celtics, Sixers, you don't think I'm paying for them to come out here?

• 23:08Speaker 04

  Nope.

• 23:09Speaker 00

  Hundred percent. First class.

• 23:10Speaker 02

  Or send Hank to Fluffy.

• 23:12Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 23:13Speaker 04

  I I

• 23:14Speaker 00

  They're a really good team.

• 23:15Speaker 04

  They are.

• 23:16Speaker 00

  As a basketball decision, this is a very, very smart decision.

• 23:17Speaker 04

  The graphic with their starting five is insane. I also feel bad for VJ Edgecombe. Like he was, you know, coming at, coming into his own, getting a much bigger role. And now it's like he's, he's gonna be the fifth option. He's gonna be forgotten about. Like his development's gonna probably like

• 23:33Speaker 03

  That's insane.

• 23:34Speaker 04

  Fall off a lot.

• 23:35Speaker 02

  It's gonna be stunted? Are you worried about stunting?

• 23:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, he gets to learn from the best player of all time.

• 23:39Speaker 00

  I thought he was just a vet man.

• 23:41Speaker 02

  Is the development's gonna be stunted?

• 23:42Speaker 03

  Right.

• 23:43Speaker 04

  Both of those things are true.

• 23:44Speaker 00

  Okay, so, but you can be, you can then boo the best player of all time. Your words, not mine.

• 23:49Speaker 03

  I didn't, I didn't.

• 23:49Speaker 00

  If he doesn't, if he doesn't play well enough. You're just switching back and forth. So when LeBron is bad, he's a vet man. When he's good, he's the best player of all time. Which one would you boo?

• 24:02Speaker 03

  Through his career, LeBron has a lot to teach VJ Edgecombe.

• 24:06Speaker 00

  I understand.

• 24:07Speaker 03

  No matter where he is right now.

• 24:08Speaker 00

  I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about.

• 24:10Speaker 03

  That's exactly what you're talking about.

• 24:11Speaker 00

  No, no, I'm talking about if LeBron fails, will you boo him?

• 24:14Speaker 03

  No.

• 24:15Speaker 00

  Because he's a vet man. That's sad. That's sad.

• 24:17Speaker 02

  Max, that part's sad.

• 24:18Speaker 00

  I think a lot of Sixers fans right now.

• 24:19Speaker 03

  It is the best contract in the history of the NBA.

• 24:22Speaker 00

  Philadelphia, if you are, what I, listen, I put Philadelphia on a pedestal in terms of like the, the most passionate fans, the fans that will give it to you straight the most. I have tremendous respect for the city. Don't let LeBron ruin that.

• 24:36Speaker 02

  I don't think that they will. That's the thing. It's like Max is saying that they won't. But I think that they will. I think the vast majority of Philadelphia is gonna disagree with Max.

• 24:44Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 24:44Speaker 02

  When it comes to booing LeBron, if he does not perform like.

• 24:47Speaker 03

  This is all hypothetical land. You guys are just, you guys love living in this fantasy land.

• 24:52Speaker 02

  This is how dudes use our imagination.

• 24:54Speaker 04

  Well, it's not championship or bust. Like what's a, what's considered a successful season? What's considered a failure?

• 24:58Speaker 00

  You just wanna be part of the farewell tour? You just want the documentary to go well?

• 25:01Speaker 02

  He says it's already a success because LeBron patting us on the head and being like, I wanna live in Philly for eight months.

• 25:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 25:07Speaker 02

  That's, that's more important than basketball.

• 25:08Speaker 00

  Max is just cool with watching the documentary. He doesn't really care how it goes.

• 25:11Speaker 03

  That documentary's gonna rock. I'm excited.

• 25:13Speaker 00

  See, that's what I'm saying.

• 25:15Speaker 03

  It would be, if he wins, if he wins, I will watch that documentary a billion times.

• 25:21Speaker 02

  But what's the answer though? What is success?

• 25:24Speaker 03

  I mean, what's success for anyone? The goal is to win a championship.

• 25:28Speaker 00

  Well, different teams are in different stands. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Their goal is always to win a championship, but there's, there's realistic goals for teams.

• 25:35Speaker 04

  But going into playoffs last year, like, we're not gonna win. We don't expect to win. You were happy to win one series. Is that the case next year?

• 25:41Speaker 03

  No, that wasn't a success.

• 25:42Speaker 00

  No, but you were going into this, you were like, I don't, I don't expect the Sixers to do anything here. Like, that's fine.

• 25:47Speaker 03

  Correct.

• 25:47Speaker 00

  Right. What, what is the, the goal for LeBron James in Philadelphia for the next two years?

• 25:55Speaker 03

  I would be happy to get, I would be happy to win the Eastern Conference.

• 25:58Speaker 00

  Oh, my God.

• 25:58Speaker 02

  Okay. All right. So it's conference or bust?

• 26:00Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 26:01Speaker 03

  I would be happy to win the Eastern Conference.

• 26:02Speaker 02

  Eastern bust.

• 26:03Speaker 00

  Wow. So LeBron is Eastern Conference final chasing, not ring chasing?

• 26:06Speaker 03

  I love second place finishes. You know I love second place finishes.

• 26:10Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 26:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, we do know that.

• 26:11Speaker 00

  You should be championship or bust. The team is stacked.

• 26:14Speaker 02

  Is it, I don't even believe, so Max is saying this, but I think the vast, vast majority of Philadelphia has higher expectations than you do. I think they're listening to Max right now and they're upset with Max. They're already mad about what LeBron's done to this city because he's made Max turn into this little beta bitch.

• 26:29Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 26:29Speaker 02

  And Max used to have standards. The city is more important than one guy coming there at the end of his career, demanding that he gets a retirement tour, demanding that, that he gets one more crack at it, the old vet.

• 26:40Speaker 03

  Two more cracks at it.

• 26:41Speaker 02

  Two more cracks at it. You know the thing about putting a lot of cracks out there. All I'm saying, Max, is that you-

• 26:46Speaker 03

  One crack just comes out a lot.

• 26:48Speaker 02

  All the time.

• 26:49Speaker 00

  It's one big crack.

• 26:50Speaker 03

  One crack.

• 26:50Speaker 02

  All I'm saying is that old Max, old Max used to have his eyes open about what this would mean.

• 26:54Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 26:55Speaker 02

  And he, he would say, I'm glad that LeBron's here, but Fluffy has standards.

• 27:00Speaker 03

  All right, fine, championship or bust.

• 27:01Speaker 00

  There we go.

• 27:01Speaker 03

  All right. If you guys want me to say championship or bust, I'll say championship or bust.

• 27:04Speaker 02

  Max, what'd you think about memes graphic that he put out saying that, uh, he put the starting lineup and then say they're the all, if they stay healthy team and put if on all their jerseys?

• 27:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, that was insane. Tyrese Maxey led the league in, led the league in minutes last year. Jalen Brown didn't miss a game last year. LeBron James, as we've said on this show, never gets injured.

• 27:25Speaker 00

  Hmm. Oh.

• 27:28Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 27:29Speaker 03

  Did you not say that?

• 27:31Speaker 02

  You just.

• 27:31Speaker 00

  No, I was just talking about his longevity.

• 27:33Speaker 03

  No, you said you literally accused him of steroids because he never gets injured.

• 27:37Speaker 00

  I, I didn't say, I said, I said Paul George and he should talk.

• 27:43Speaker 02

  I also said it was interesting. I'm finding a lot of things.

• 27:45Speaker 00

  We didn't accuse anyone of anything.

• 27:46Speaker 02

  Like this is my curiosity.

• 27:47Speaker 00

  That's crazy. You jumped to that level. I was thinking like Paul George, like he tells him like maybe Paul George sell him his house.

• 27:55Speaker 03

  Such a joke. If you got, yes, the all if, yes, MB, that I'll give you MB, but the if on every single player was, was funny.

• 28:03Speaker 00

  Yeah, Jalen Brown doesn't deserve an if.

• 28:05Speaker 03

  Yeah. Neither does Ty, neither does Tyrese Maxey, like.

• 28:08Speaker 02

  Yeah. Muse is just going through it. It's okay. Like there's, there's, you know, stages.

• 28:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, that was also weird on, on, what was it Friday? Saying like, I was going through it. I was going through nothing. I was just doing my job.

• 28:19Speaker 04

  You were in your feels. You didn't speak to Max.

• 28:22Speaker 05

  Well, I was, we were waiting for Sunday. We were waiting for the show.

• 28:25Speaker 04

  I mean, we were all talking.

• 28:27Speaker 05

  Well.

• 28:28Speaker 04

  Right?

• 28:31Speaker 03

  A hundred percent. I was talking to everyone, but that's okay.

• 28:34Speaker 02

  Uh, what did Joel Embiid have to say about this?

• 28:38Speaker 03

  Nothing yet, but he, him.

• 28:39Speaker 02

  That's interesting to me.

• 28:40Speaker 03

  Why? Because him and him and LeBron had a two hour, what's going on back there?

• 28:44Speaker 00

  I can't get my fucking headphones are stuck in the chair, dude.

• 28:48Speaker 02

  Stuck headphone situation. Are they stuck in the wheel?

• 28:51Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, that happens all the time today. They get stuck in, the cord gets stuck in the wheel.

• 28:55Speaker 00

  Keep going in and out. I didn't even hear what memes said. Memes, you didn't talk to Max on Friday? Why not? That's kind of a pussy move, dude. You're a champion.

• 29:03Speaker 05

  Don't wait for the show here.

• 29:05Speaker 00

  Yeah, but you didn't even talk to him?

• 29:07Speaker 05

  Well, I wanted to make fun of him.

• 29:08Speaker 04

  And he was sub tweeting him the whole time, which is a, is a, is a sign that.

• 29:12Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 29:12Speaker 04

  Meme was in his feels.

• 29:13Speaker 05

  I wasn't in my feels. You should be in your feels. You, your two biggest ops were built by you. I want a J J. Max probably don't want a J J this year and your, your entire, your entire front office is going to be fired next year.

• 29:26Speaker 04

  That's respect.

• 29:27Speaker 05

  But you are gonna get a nice car from PFT.

• 29:30Speaker 00

  There's no way.

• 29:32Speaker 02

  Now, now, now we're just lashing out right now.

• 29:34Speaker 00

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• 30:21Speaker 00

  The crown is yours. PFT, I did have a question for you.

• 30:24Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 30:24Speaker 00

  Okay. Uh, one, there's two things that maybe aren't great for you right now with this move.

• 30:32Speaker 02

  Okay. I'm willing to hear them.

• 30:33Speaker 00

  The first being, the East is really good.

• 30:36Speaker 02

  East is tough. Yeah. East got better.

• 30:38Speaker 00

  The, the, the Pistons were the one seed. Obviously they have question marks, but still they won a lot of games last year. The Celtics were the two seed, won a lot of games.

• 30:46Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 30:46Speaker 00

  The Knicks are the NBA champions. The Cavs, good team. LeBron didn't pick them. Raptors got Kawhi. Hawks got better. Sixers got better. Heat got better.

• 30:57Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 30:58Speaker 00

  Lot of good teams.

• 31:00Speaker 02

  Right. A lot of good teams. The East is, I think, nobody knows what's gonna happen in the East next year.

• 31:06Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 31:07Speaker 02

  Knicks are returning champions. Who knows what the Pacers are gonna look like with Halliburton coming back? There's a lot of questions. I think it's, that's totally fair to ask that question about the East. It does feel like there's gonna be at least one good team that we have very high expectations for, um, that doesn't make the playoffs this year. And that could be, it could be anybody. It could be.

• 31:25Speaker 00

  Could be the Wizards.

• 31:28Speaker 02

  It could be the Hornets. Could be the Wizards. Could be, you know, any of these great teams, like the Heat. Could be the Wizards.

• 31:34Speaker 03

  The Wizards are currently plus three 10 to make the playoffs next year, according to DraftKings Sportsbook.

• 31:38Speaker 02

  I love it. I love it. I love it. Now, um, it's not ideal for what I think could be a very fun up and coming team. I do think that the, the Sixers will probably reach out and at least make a phone call about Anthony Davis. Um, I also think offsetting some of that will be the fact that me and Max are going to get to go sit courtside. When the 76ers come to DC.

• 32:00Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 32:00Speaker 02

  And that's, that's gonna be a good time.

• 32:02Speaker 00

  That'd be sick.

• 32:03Speaker 03

  Like an awesome time.

• 32:04Speaker 00

  Um, the second one was, um, is there a, are you nervous at all? For the fact that Josh Harris has two teams.

• 32:14Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 32:14Speaker 00

  I think he still has the Devils too, right?

• 32:16Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 32:16Speaker 00

  It's three teams.

• 32:18Speaker 00

  He might have a favorite.

• 32:20Speaker 02

  So this is, this is the exact opposite of what everybody in Philadelphia has been saying for the last two years.

• 32:26Speaker 00

  Right. But now, when, when LeBron's on the team, now his favorite might switch for sure.

• 32:32Speaker 02

  See, I,

• 32:32Speaker 03

  Sixers are gonna make him a lot of money now.

• 32:34Speaker 02

  I think that, uh, I think it's a mark of a great owner that LeBron trusted the end of his career.

• 32:39Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 32:39Speaker 02

  With a businessman like Josh Harris and a good owner like Josh Harris.

• 32:42Speaker 00

  Okay. But like, is there a chance like there, you know, he's at, he's at a commander's game, he's, he's checking the scores of the Sixers? Seeing what LeBron's doing.

• 32:50Speaker 02

  I mean, his sports guy.

• 32:51Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 32:51Speaker 02

  I, I think that's fine. I also think,

• 32:53Speaker 00

  Or it could be the other way. It could be at a Sixers game, checking the commander's score.

• 32:56Speaker 02

  I think there's a good chance that he won't really care that much about the Sixers during football season. And then after football season.

• 33:04Speaker 00

  The spotlight's gonna be on. It's gonna, the schedule, the NBA schedule is gonna be just chock full of Sixers.

• 33:09Speaker 02

  He did hold,

• 33:10Speaker 00

  It's gonna be insane.

• 33:12Speaker 03

  I'm thinking about canceling League Pass.

• 33:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, because you're gonna get every game.

• 33:15Speaker 03

  Every game is gonna be,

• 33:16Speaker 02

  You don't need it.

• 33:17Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 33:17Speaker 02

  Now, big cat, back to the first question that you asked there. I did think about that this weekend, about the fact that the East got so much better.

• 33:23Speaker 00

  East is awesome. East is the most fun. It's more fun than the West.

• 33:26Speaker 02

  Including, the Wizards got a lot better too.

• 33:28Speaker 00

  True.

• 33:29Speaker 02

  That's a fact. The Wizards did get a lot better this offseason. Um, I just put,

• 33:33Speaker 00

  What heck.

• 33:33Speaker 02

  What?

• 33:34Speaker 03

  Well, they were the worst team in the league. So yeah, they got, they got, they got better.

• 33:37Speaker 02

  They got a lot better.

• 33:37Speaker 00

  They had to get better.

• 33:38Speaker 02

  Did I lie?

• 33:39Speaker 03

  No.

• 33:39Speaker 02

  Okay. Um, I did just, I just got the El Camino back from the shop.

• 33:44Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 33:45Speaker 02

  On Thursday. Um, when I say that I put a lot of money into fixing the El Camino,

• 33:51Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 33:52Speaker 02

  I could have bought an entire new El Camino for what I ended up just paying for this.

• 33:56Speaker 00

  Which you might have to do.

• 33:58Speaker 02

  And I going into the summer when I made that bet against Hank, it was no big deal if I lost now. Because I spent all this money and all this time. It does, it is gonna sting a little bit more and if I have to give Hank the car.

• 34:12Speaker 00

  And like, it seems like every move has just been like an East team has gotten better.

• 34:16Speaker 02

  Every, every team in the East has pretty much gotten better. I guess, well. You could say the Pistons, I don't know if they got better.

• 34:23Speaker 00

  No.

• 34:23Speaker 02

  But they did win the East. That's the thing is like even the teams that didn't necessarily get better. They were good teams last year.

• 34:29Speaker 00

  Yeah. Um, the Bucks got worse.

• 34:31Speaker 02

  The Cavs.

• 34:32Speaker 00

  But the Heat got better.

• 34:33Speaker 02

  I think the Cavs. By vibes, overall vibes got worse.

• 34:37Speaker 00

  Yeah, I don't understand too. I, listen, Cavs fans like. LeBron just, he just shit on you again. It's crazy. He shit on you again.

• 34:47Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 34:47Speaker 00

  I get it. He wants to be on the best basketball team and the Sixers are the best basketball team, but like. Come on. You can't, you can't, he did it again.

• 34:55Speaker 02

  Max, who gets the last shot?

• 34:59Speaker 03

  Embiid will have the ball or I keep saying Embiid, LeBron will have the ball and find the right man to take the last shot. That's how, that's how last shot will go.

• 35:07Speaker 02

  So LeBron's just taking over the entire team?

• 35:11Speaker 03

  It's, yeah. LeBron.

• 35:12Speaker 02

  It's LeBron's team.

• 35:13Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 35:14Speaker 02

  Alright.

• 35:15Speaker 00

  It's LeBron's team.

• 35:17Speaker 03

  LeBron, yeah, he doesn't, he doesn't need to shoot it.

• 35:19Speaker 00

  And when they don't win a championship, you'll boo whoever's team it is.

• 35:24Speaker 00

  Which would be.

• 35:26Speaker 03

  I haven't, I haven't booed.

• 35:28Speaker 00

  He's not ready for this.

• 35:29Speaker 03

  I haven't booed.

• 35:30Speaker 00

  He's not ready for this.

• 35:30Speaker 03

  You keep saying, you, you keep asking about the boo. You keep talking about this, this fantasy land of when they lose. I'm thinking about winning right now. You guys are thinking about losing.

• 35:39Speaker 02

  But every season goes up and down.

• 35:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, we're not, we're not booing in the regular season.

• 35:45Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 35:45Speaker 03

  Unless it's the Eagles. Eagles you boo in the regular season.

• 35:48Speaker 02

  But okay, then there could be crossover boo though. Like if the city's upset, if the Eagles don't play well.

• 35:53Speaker 03

  That's fair.

• 35:53Speaker 02

  Then you know that the fans, they're gonna go to Sixers games. They're gonna be. Way easier at the, a hair trigger to boo.

• 35:59Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 36:00Speaker 03

  I'm, I'm ready to boo the Phillies right now.

• 36:02Speaker 00

  Oh, okay.

• 36:02Speaker 02

  See, that's what I'm saying. It's like you got.

• 36:05Speaker 00

  Yeah, I don't want to do that. That feels like that might be you're gonna misdirect your booze.

• 36:10Speaker 02

  I think you almost need to have a sit down with LeBron and be like, hey, we appreciate you coming to Philadelphia. Just so you know, this is how it might go. Right. There's tough times. When we boo you. I don't want you to take it personally, LeBron. That's just what we do.

• 36:23Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 36:23Speaker 02

  Cause I feel like LeBron, he will, he listens to everything.

• 36:26Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 36:27Speaker 03

  Zach.

• 36:28Speaker 05

  Are the Sixers now the biggest team in Philadelphia?

• 36:31Speaker 03

  No, Eagles.

• 36:32Speaker 00

  Eagles, Spurs, Spurs.

• 36:34Speaker 03

  It's always.

• 36:35Speaker 02

  But LeBron.

• 36:36Speaker 00

  Unless LeBron plays tight end for the Birds.

• 36:39Speaker 03

  Which.

• 36:40Speaker 00

  Is he gonna live in Philadelphia?

• 36:41Speaker 03

  I think he is going to, Shams reported, I think he's going to live in New York and helicopter to Philly as his commute.

• 36:49Speaker 02

  Uh oh.

• 36:54Speaker 03

  Is that a problem?

• 36:55Speaker 02

  No, no, I just said, I said, uh oh, I said, uh oh.

• 36:59Speaker 03

  That's what you said. You said, uh oh.

• 37:00Speaker 02

  Yeah. Um, JJ Reddick did that.

• 37:03Speaker 03

  He didn't helicopter.

• 37:04Speaker 00

  He did sometimes when he would come back, but he lived across the street from me.

• 37:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 37:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 37:09Speaker 02

  Okay, just like from a personal standpoint, that.

• 37:12Speaker 03

  I'm sure they talked about that.

• 37:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 37:13Speaker 05

  You hate JJ.

• 37:14Speaker 00

  You do hate JJ.

• 37:16Speaker 02

  That doesn't seem like a fun way to live to like, to work in a different city and then have to commute there every single time.

• 37:22Speaker 00

  It's, it's the.

• 37:23Speaker 03

  It's like a very normal commute.

• 37:24Speaker 00

  Yeah. And he would just, the scheduling, like he would, cause like you're also on the road half the time.

• 37:28Speaker 02

  Is this just another example of a wealthy person in, in New York that has a job that goes down to Philadelphia for all the Sixers games?

• 37:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 37:37Speaker 00

  Are you worried about a series against New York?

• 37:38Speaker 03

  I know.

• 37:42Speaker 03

  I don't know what's worse though.

• 37:44Speaker 00

  You need the white boy Ricks and brown sexuals of the world to like bolster your defense.

• 37:48Speaker 03

  Like.

• 37:51Speaker 03

  I don't know what's worse though, because then if the Knicks can't, Knicks fans can't get in there. Then that whole argument I had was, was just, was just wrong.

• 37:59Speaker 00

  Wrong.

• 38:00Speaker 02

  This is also gonna be very interesting season for the Nick Wrights of the world, who are going to be forced to defend the, the Philadelphia 76ers. While probably at the same time denigrating the Philadelphia Eagles.

• 38:10Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 38:11Speaker 02

  So you have to be prepared to like.

• 38:12Speaker 00

  Well, also like to, I think, I think what's gonna end up happening. No, I'm being honest here. This is the real take. I think what's gonna end up happening and the only person who this move is, I don't want to say bad for, but the pressure has gone to a billion is Joel Embiid. Cause if they don't perform, it will be his, he will get all the blame and no one else. And he is the only, like, think about it, like Maxey's young guy, VJ Ed Combs, a young guy, Jalen Brown's won a title, LeBron's won titles. It's like that. He is the guy. He has to, he will get the, the inordinate amount of blame for anything

• 38:54Speaker 00

  that goes bad for the Sixers and he won't get a lot of the, the praise. It will go to LeBron. That's part of playing with LeBron.

• 39:00Speaker 03

  Well, you gotta see how it plays.

• 39:01Speaker 00

  That is part of playing with LeBron.

• 39:02Speaker 03

  But you gotta see how it plays out.

• 39:03Speaker 00

  We've seen how it played out.

• 39:05Speaker 03

  But if, but if Embiid drops 40 in a, in a finals to win, win a game, he's gonna get plenty of credit. Yeah.

• 39:12Speaker 00

  Yeah. Whose team was that?

• 39:14Speaker 03

  Kyrie got credit too.

• 39:15Speaker 00

  Yeah, I know, but that's LeBron's team.

• 39:17Speaker 02

  Yeah. Kevin Love put the clamps on Steph Curry.

• 39:19Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 39:20Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 39:21Speaker 00

  We know how it goes.

• 39:22Speaker 02

  But Max, you know that you can't deny what Big Cat just said.

• 39:25Speaker 00

  Correct.

• 39:26Speaker 02

  That, that what LeBron does on a team.

• 39:28Speaker 03

  The pressure is.

• 39:29Speaker 02

  Because the spotlight is so big on LeBron, no matter what happens, it will be looked at like.

• 39:32Speaker 00

  And deservedly so.

• 39:33Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 39:34Speaker 00

  He's got, he's got 20 years of being the, the face of the NBA and, and the guy.

• 39:39Speaker 03

  No, that's, I mean, it's absolutely right because.

• 39:41Speaker 02

  It is weird that Embiid hasn't said anything.

• 39:45Speaker 03

  He hasn't said anything about anything. He doesn't, he doesn't talk about basketball publicly anymore.

• 39:49Speaker 02

  Well, I mean, in a situation, this isn't about basketball. This is about LeBron.

• 39:53Speaker 03

  He had a two hour meeting with LeBron a month ago about him, about him coming to Philadelphia and how his health and that was a big factor of why LeBron wanted to come here.

• 40:01Speaker 02

  Do you have.

• 40:02Speaker 03

  Because Embiid convinced him that he felt like he was healthy to have a long NBA season this year.

• 40:07Speaker 02

  Most healthy offseason he's had in three years.

• 40:09Speaker 03

  Easily. He actually, in that report, he actually said it's his most healthy offseason ever.

• 40:13Speaker 02

  Ever.

• 40:13Speaker 03

  Yeah. So he actually is doing the best shape in my life right now.

• 40:18Speaker 02

  Do you have.

• 40:18Speaker 03

  Gain 15, gain 15 pounds of all muscle.

• 40:21Speaker 02

  Pure muscle.

• 40:21Speaker 03

  Pure muscle.

• 40:22Speaker 02

  I love that. Do you have a backup coach in mind for when LeBron inevitably starts to turn on Nick Nurse?

• 40:30Speaker 00

  Good question, PFT.

• 40:31Speaker 03

  Nah, he's a clutch guy. Nick Nurse is a clutch guy.

• 40:34Speaker 00

  Good question, PFT.

• 40:35Speaker 02

  Okay, so no accountability then?

• 40:38Speaker 03

  Nick Nurse is a clutch guy.

• 40:39Speaker 02

  So he'll never be fired?

• 40:41Speaker 03

  Kumbaya, kumbaya.

• 40:42Speaker 02

  Okay, cuz that is one of LeBron's moves.

• 40:45Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 40:46Speaker 03

  But he's a clutch guy.

• 40:47Speaker 02

  But he's, I don't think he's LeBron's guy.

• 40:50Speaker 03

  He's a clu-, that literally means-

• 40:52Speaker 00

  Being a clutch guy means-

• 40:53Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:53Speaker 02

  That means he's Rich Paul's guy.

• 40:55Speaker 03

  But if you're Rich Paul's guy, you're LeBron's guy.

• 40:57Speaker 00

  Rich Paul is LeBron's.

• 40:58Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:59Speaker 02

  Has, has there ever been a coach that was a clutch guy that has been fired that LeBron's played under? It's a genuine question. I don't know.

• 41:09Speaker 03

  I don't, I don't know that answer.

• 41:11Speaker 00

  I feel like Hank is not taking enough of, uh, like, he's just-

• 41:15Speaker 03

  He just made this team.

• 41:16Speaker 02

  Hank, why don't you tell the story about how you found out and, and what happened?

• 41:18Speaker 00

  You made the team. Yeah.

• 41:20Speaker 02

  You created the team.

• 41:21Speaker 04

  But what if, like, what if Brad Stevens knows, like, he knows Jalen Brown may have been, you know, getting, his head might have been getting a little inflated. He wanted to be a star and he knew that if you trade him to the Sixers, LeBron would go to the Sixers, which would just implode the team.

• 41:35Speaker 00

  Hmm, hmm. It's a 4D chess. Did you see Jason Tatum took a shot at Jalen Brown?

• 41:41Speaker 04

  I did.

• 41:41Speaker 00

  I think that, is it trouble in paradise?

• 41:43Speaker 04

  No, cuz they're not on the same team anymore. They, they, they kept it, they, they were, they were good teammates and, and projected like-

• 41:49Speaker 00

  So do you wanna apologize to us?

• 41:51Speaker 04

  For what?

• 41:52Speaker 00

  For every time that we said there might be something there and you're like, no.

• 41:54Speaker 04

  Well, that's also the media. Like, who knows that that was about Jalen Brown?

• 41:57Speaker 00

  He said, I, I, he said, I don't wanna be the smartest person in the room. Hasn't Jalen Brown said that he's always the smartest person in the room?

• 42:05Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 42:06Speaker 04

  But that, those don't have to be related things.

• 42:08Speaker 02

  But he said that he, he just got done being with somebody who was the smartest person in the room.

• 42:12Speaker 00

  I, he said, I don't wanna be around that person. Being around somebody that feels like they know it all, I don't wanna be around that person. I don't wanna be the smartest person in the room. I wanna learn from somebody else. I think that's trouble in paradise.

• 42:23Speaker 04

  No, that's, that's a good lesson for the kids. He was teaching at a kid's basketball camp. He's trying to teach them humility.

• 42:28Speaker 02

  When James Harden was like, Daryl Morey is a liar. I will never play for Daryl Morey.

• 42:33Speaker 00

  I repeat. Let me say it again. Daryl Morey is a liar.

• 42:37Speaker 02

  Uh, just looked up, forgot about this, Ty Lou, he was the coach for the Cavs. Clutch guy, got fired, I think, six games into the season or after a six-game losing streak at the start of the year.

• 42:47Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 42:48Speaker 03

  Won a championship.

• 42:50Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 42:51Speaker 03

  I'll take that.

• 42:52Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 42:53Speaker 00

  Championship or bust.

• 42:54Speaker 03

  I would, I would love for Nick Nurse to get fired six games after a losing streak.

• 42:59Speaker 02

  That would be the most silly thing ever. Yeah.

• 43:01Speaker 00

  Okay. All right. One other story. So congrats, Max.

• 43:04Speaker 03

  It's exciting. It's exciting. The NBA season just got a lot more exciting.

• 43:08Speaker 00

  I'm excited to watch.

• 43:09Speaker 02

  I want Hank to tell the story of how he found out and what happened.

• 43:12Speaker 04

  Yeah, I was, thank God, Max. I was golfing Friday morning. Max was supposed to be there. He had to, he had to cancel, which honestly it's made my day because that would have been the worst way to find out.

• 43:21Speaker 03

  I had to work.

• 43:22Speaker 00

  It would have been great.

• 43:24Speaker 04

  I.

• 43:24Speaker 02

  You had to work.

• 43:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, I also had to work. I was back at work in the afternoon. Um.

• 43:31Speaker 04

  I found out as I was driving to my second shot, hit a drive in the fairway. I'm driving to my second shot, saw the, saw the alert, had about a minute to process it. And then I was trying to, you know, lock back in and I hit my second shot quite literally sideways, like impossibly sideways. It might've went backwards. Uh, and I was, I mean, I was, I was rattled. I, I had, I've had to come to grips with it and, and try and, you know, spin zone this in my mind to being a good thing. It is scary. You know, two years ago, we were NBA champions to talk the town. Now the Knicks have won and the Sixers have like.

• 44:07Speaker 02

  I forgot. I forgot the Knicks won.

• 44:09Speaker 04

  The most stacked team in the world, but it's, it's Knicks Sixers. Like they're going to have to battle it out. And where it's going to be the scrappy underdog, you know, people that no one's thinking about that we can just make a run in the, in the, in the playoffs. And I.

• 44:20Speaker 03

  The Celtics currently are the, have the third best odds to win the East according to DraftKings.

• 44:24Speaker 04

  Okay, who's one and two?

• 44:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, but let's not act like they're, the Wizards are the scrappy underdogs right now.

• 44:30Speaker 04

  Well.

• 44:30Speaker 00

  No one, no one, no one's talking about the Wizards.

• 44:32Speaker 04

  If, if.

• 44:34Speaker 00

  Sixers getting LeBron to stop Kale Wilson.

• 44:36Speaker 04

  If two teams have better odds, that would make the third team the underdog, correct?

• 44:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 44:41Speaker 04

  Okay, thank you.

• 44:42Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 44:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, no, I'm.

• 44:44Speaker 03

  But you're acting like you're a 16 seed over here, like.

• 44:47Speaker 04

  We're underdogs. Fact or fiction? Fact or fiction?

• 44:50Speaker 00

  He said scrappy underdogs.

• 44:51Speaker 03

  Underdogs. Sure. Yeah.

• 44:52Speaker 02

  No one's talking about them.

• 44:55Speaker 00

  Max, you gotta get used to championship or bust, dude.

• 44:58Speaker 02

  He's not used to it. He's not.

• 44:59Speaker 00

  He can't handle it. He wants to be the scrappy underdog.

• 45:01Speaker 02

  You've never been an overdog before.

• 45:03Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 45:05Speaker 05

  I've been an overdog.

• 45:07Speaker 00

  Okay, so, so the rest of the round, how'd it go?

• 45:11Speaker 04

  I had like two axes on, on the scorecard. I, I left after 16 holes to come to work. It was, it was, I, I mentally was, was jacked out.

• 45:19Speaker 00

  You caused this.

• 45:20Speaker 04

  Yeah, no, and then, but I think, I think I, I trust Brad Stevens. It might seem crazy. He might seem like he completely botched this entire situation. Gave the Sixers, Jalen Brown and LeBron for nothing, took on Paul George's bad contract. But I trust him. I trust him. I trust Missoula. I trust our young core.

• 45:39Speaker 00

  Shireman.

• 45:40Speaker 04

  Shireman and Hugo.

• 45:41Speaker 05

  And you're getting a new car.

• 45:42Speaker 04

  And I'm getting a new car.

• 45:43Speaker 00

  You might get a new car.

• 45:44Speaker 02

  Memes, what's, what's, what's what the Wizards hate? See, this is what it's all about. Like, I, I told, I told you, I know, it's sad. I told you a month ago. Get ready for the new rivalry in the NBA. It's gonna be the Wizards against the Knicks. Cause the Trey Young factor, memes said I was crazy. Now look at him. Rent free.

• 45:59Speaker 00

  They can't, yeah.

• 46:00Speaker 02

  Rent free memes.

• 46:02Speaker 05

  Wish I was getting that.

• 46:02Speaker 00

  Hank, we've played the championship or bust and like Max having to deal with booing LeBron and all that. What happens if the Sixers do win a championship?

• 46:12Speaker 04

  I cannot think about that. I won't think about.

• 46:16Speaker 00

  Think about it now. We made Max think about the other thing. Think about it.

• 46:21Speaker 04

  If the Sixers win the NBA championship with LeBron.

• 46:26Speaker 00

  Yeah. Max is about to come.

• 46:29Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 46:30Speaker 04

  I.

• 46:31Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 46:33Speaker 04

  I, I, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't think about what that will do.

• 46:37Speaker 00

  That parade.

• 46:38Speaker 04

  What that, what that summer will be like, what that playoff run will be like.

• 46:41Speaker 00

  Oh, the commercials with like LeBron next to the, the Rocky statue.

• 46:45Speaker 04

  I mean, it will, I will, it will, it will crush me because that will be, you know, 16 games of pure hate watching. And probably whatever, like 25 games of pure hate watching for them to come through all that and win the championship.

• 46:57Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 46:59Speaker 04

  It would break me.

• 47:00Speaker 02

  It's gonna be, so it's championship or bust for Max. It's bust or bust for you.

• 47:06Speaker 02

  Like you need Max to bust.

• 47:07Speaker 04

  No, it's retire LeBron.

• 47:08Speaker 02

  You need Max to bust.

• 47:09Speaker 00

  No, it sounds like it's championship or suicide. Or no, bust or suicide.

• 47:14Speaker 02

  Bust or suicide. That's the David Carradine special.

• 47:17Speaker 00

  Yeah. Okay.

• 47:19Speaker 04

  We can retire LeBron.

• 47:20Speaker 02

  That was a good joke. Look that one up.

• 47:22Speaker 00

  You gotta retire LeBron.

• 47:24Speaker 04

  Or beat the Knicks.

• 47:26Speaker 00

  Or beat the Knicks.

• 47:27Speaker 04

  Or have the Wizards just suck. I got a lot.

• 47:30Speaker 00

  No, no, no, no. But that doesn't matter. If the Sixers win it all and the Wizards suck, you still are.

• 47:35Speaker 02

  That won't give you any joy.

• 47:36Speaker 00

  That's nothing.

• 47:37Speaker 02

  You'll drive the El Camino off a bridge.

• 47:38Speaker 00

  God damn it, the playoffs are.

• 47:40Speaker 04

  That actually might be what I do.

• 47:42Speaker 00

  Wow. Wow.

• 47:44Speaker 02

  I'd hate to see you go.

• 47:45Speaker 00

  Hank, this is, is there a part of you too? Cause we had the takeies on Friday and we talked about how you, you want to take you for all your losses. And we're like, this is where it turns for you because you finally won something. And then immediately after LeBron went to Philadelphia.

• 47:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, someone, someone in one of the comment section said like, it was the, it's the, it's the summer of Max, leading into the fall of Hank. Creating the fall of Hank.

• 48:06Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 48:07Speaker 04

  Which I hope that means like it's gonna be a good fall, but.

• 48:09Speaker 00

  No, I think they were talking about the fall of your empire.

• 48:11Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 48:12Speaker 02

  Yeah. I think it would, I don't know. Has it been the, the summer of Max?

• 48:16Speaker 00

  I mean, he got married four times.

• 48:18Speaker 02

  Yeah. He's had a good time for sure. Yeah.

• 48:20Speaker 04

  Just two times.

• 48:21Speaker 02

  Cause like, that's kind of encroaching on the summer of memes.

• 48:24Speaker 00

  It's summer. No, we don't, why would it be the summer?

• 48:26Speaker 02

  We're not acknowledging that anymore.

• 48:28Speaker 00

  Why would it be the summer of memes?

• 48:29Speaker 02

  Uh, because the, the Jets got better.

• 48:31Speaker 00

  Oh. But what did he win?

• 48:34Speaker 02

  Um, I don't know.

• 48:37Speaker 04

  Didn't you guys have Spain and?

• 48:38Speaker 00

  Yeah. Oh, yeah. King Scott. We had Spain. Yeah.

• 48:42Speaker 02

  But outside of that, I mean, yeah, that's the beautiful cyclical nature of the show is the, the second one person starts to feel really good. Reality comes on.

• 48:50Speaker 00

  In comes LeBron.

• 48:51Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 48:52Speaker 00

  Shout out that one guy who had the, uh, is LeBron a sixer yet? From, and he updated it. His last tweet was July 1st, 2018.

• 48:59Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 49:00Speaker 00

  He said, no, he never will be. Now time to deactivate. Whole, whatever it is, eight years later. Insane. It's crazy that he's a sixer. I did not think that that was gonna happen. I thought it was Cavs. I thought it was Heat.

• 49:12Speaker 06

  I thought there was no chance.

• 49:14Speaker 00

  I'm pretty sure we put our reputation on the line as a podcast for like the 75th time. So that's tarnished again.

• 49:19Speaker 06

  I think, I think we did it for both the Cavs and also Zach.

• 49:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, at least Zach got the news out.

• 49:24Speaker 00

  Zach. Oh yeah, Zach. Talk us through what happened. Cause you, your, your one job was to tweet, I think today is the day that LeBron signs. Every single day until he signed.

• 49:33Speaker 06

  I think, I mean, as I'm new to the insider game, it's a tough game. Uh, I got the right team. Just wasn't the first guy to break it.

• 49:39Speaker 00

  Okay. So when did you break it?

• 49:41Speaker 06

  I broke it, uh, if we're doing central time to Eastern time, I think I might have broken it before some of the guys who broke it on the East.

• 49:48Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 49:48Speaker 06

  Uh, but I broke it roughly 45 minutes before the, the best guy.

• 49:52Speaker 00

  Got it. Got it. Okay.

• 49:55Speaker 06

  So within the same calendar hour.

• 49:56Speaker 00

  I will say that you broke it before Marlins, man. Cause he texted me about two hours later saying LeBron, LeBron to the Sixers.

• 50:02Speaker 06

  He's not covered the insider game.

• 50:03Speaker 00

  No, he's not. He's not ready to be an insider. That's for sure. Okay. Should we do who's back of the week? We'll cover some more sports stuff and who's back of the week. I'm sure we all have a lot.

• 50:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 50:13Speaker 00

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• 51:04Speaker 06

  All right, back.

• 51:05Speaker 00

  Part of my take.

• 51:05Speaker 04

  The week is Tony Romo.

• 51:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 51:08Speaker 02

  Who's back BAC?

• 51:10Speaker 04

  Hmm. Yeah, who's who's back BAC?

• 51:14Speaker 00

  Here we go, Jen.

• 51:15Speaker 04

  Uh, he got arrested on Friday for an OWI in Milwaukee.

• 51:20Speaker 02

  Mm hmm.

• 51:20Speaker 04

  He was competing in the, uh, Wisconsin amateur tournament, amateur golf tournament. Think he was 35 over after four rounds.

• 51:28Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 51:28Speaker 04

  Don't know if those two are things are related, but.

• 51:31Speaker 02

  Which came first?

• 51:33Speaker 04

  He was like, there was kind of a creepy creepy mugshot too.

• 51:36Speaker 00

  I was, he was just having fun.

• 51:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was like cheese.

• 51:39Speaker 00

  Well, I mean, in Wisconsin, it is kind of like a badge of honor.

• 51:42Speaker 02

  So like the.

• 51:43Speaker 00

  You get your first, you get your first, you know, they cut your tie.

• 51:45Speaker 02

  They, uh, they.

• 51:46Speaker 00

  First sale.

• 51:47Speaker 02

  They created an entire new level of DUI for beginners, right? For first timers in Wisconsin.

• 51:52Speaker 00

  Well, yeah, you don't get it's, it's a civil penalty. It's not, you don't go to jail.

• 51:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's crazy.

• 51:57Speaker 00

  It's just a fine.

• 51:58Speaker 02

  So the OWI in Wisconsin is like Fisher Price, my first DUI.

• 52:01Speaker 00

  Yeah. You're just like, hey, you gotta, you gotta give us like 300 bucks. And don't do it again.

• 52:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's pretty much, boys will be boys.

• 52:09Speaker 04

  That's crazy.

• 52:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's not.

• 52:11Speaker 00

  Wisconsin makes a drink.

• 52:12Speaker 02

  The old gunslinger at it again.

• 52:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 52:14Speaker 02

  Shots a bullet. I saw that he withdrew from this week's celebrity golf tournament though.

• 52:18Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 52:18Speaker 02

  It's like when you, uh, if you win the, the open championship.

• 52:21Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 52:21Speaker 02

  Golf, you withdraw from the next one.

• 52:23Speaker 00

  For the 3M.

• 52:23Speaker 02

  To take a week celebrating. If you get an OWI in Wisconsin, you need to do a victory lap, I guess.

• 52:28Speaker 00

  I'll say this spin zone, uh, good job, Tony Romo coming on PMT and being super likable with us because we're probably taking it a little easy on you.

• 52:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, we're just making jokes.

• 52:41Speaker 00

  Yeah. Like I do like Tony Romo, so. Shouldn't drink and drive, don't do that.

• 52:46Speaker 02

  Or operate.

• 52:47Speaker 00

  Bad idea.

• 52:48Speaker 02

  Don't operate.

• 52:49Speaker 00

  Just get an Uber.

• 52:52Speaker 00

  But yeah, it's a fine.

• 52:54Speaker 04

  Just a fine.

• 52:54Speaker 00

  Yeah, just a fine.

• 52:55Speaker 02

  Just a fine.

• 52:56Speaker 00

  Okay. You got any other who's backs?

• 52:59Speaker 00

  No others? Okay.

• 53:01Speaker 02

  All things considered, like if you compare popular color analysts in football, former quarterbacks getting arrested this year for alcohol related offenses. This one doesn't seem that bad.

• 53:14Speaker 00

  Who else? Wait, what am I missing? Popular? Oh, wait. Sanchez. Yeah. I just, I forgot that he was, that's like the next championship. It's like, don't even remember.

• 53:25Speaker 02

  Completely forget about it. Yeah. So you gotta take the good with the bad memes.

• 53:28Speaker 00

  Means just doing the Arthur meme right now. He's just, oh, these fucking guys.

• 53:32Speaker 02

  Do you think he's gonna be like, is there any sort of, uh, discipline that CBS is gonna put down?

• 53:37Speaker 04

  Well, if it's just a fine, not a felony, then yeah. Probably not.

• 53:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 53:42Speaker 00

  I don't, I don't think so. Uh, I, I'll also say, um, we did learn about this right away. Unlike Kyle Shanahan, which that was weird. I'm happy Kyle Shanahan's okay, but that was crazy. That had nothing to do with like DUI or anything, but he got in a car crash two weeks ago and has like really bad injuries and we just learned about it on the first day of training camp.

• 54:02Speaker 02

  They said severe concussion, which is crazy. Like he might've been knocked out. I guess that would be a severe concussion.

• 54:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 54:08Speaker 02

  So we went to the hospital, broke ribs.

• 54:10Speaker 00

  On July 14th. So yeah, it was like 10 days, 11 days ago.

• 54:13Speaker 02

  And now he won't, he won't be able to coach the team at the start of training camp at least. So Chris Forrester, you might remember him from a few years ago.

• 54:19Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 54:20Speaker 02

  Was, what Frank the Tank say?

• 54:22Speaker 00

  I don't remember.

• 54:23Speaker 02

  What was his joke? Hank, you remember his joke?

• 54:26Speaker 00

  I don't remember.

• 54:26Speaker 02

  Frank the Tank had a banger.

• 54:27Speaker 00

  Chris Forrester had some nice videos.

• 54:29Speaker 02

  I think it was, uh, he was a, uh, a line coach.

• 54:33Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 54:34Speaker 02

  And now he's coaching lines. I think that was the Frank the Tank joke. Yeah.

• 54:38Speaker 00

  But that was a weird story.

• 54:40Speaker 02

  It was very strange. Yeah.

• 54:41Speaker 00

  Like that it just never, and it felt like some of the reporters might've known, but didn't report on it. I don't know.

• 54:47Speaker 02

  I saw one reporter say that they, they found out that he would not be coaching the team a few days ago, but they didn't know why. They, they could take an educated guess that something happened.

• 54:55Speaker 00

  I hope he's okay.

• 54:55Speaker 02

  They didn't know why. I, I hope he's okay too. That sounds like it was pretty scary.

• 55:00Speaker 02

  Yeah. It's, it is strange though, that nothing got put out. Usually if something like that happens to a head coach, one way or another, people will find out, people will, will leak that news somehow.

• 55:09Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 55:09Speaker 02

  Not to say that like, it's a good thing that it always gets leaked, but it is pretty common. I would say it, it would be uncommon for something like this to happen.

• 55:19Speaker 00

  Okay, uh, your who's back of the week, PFT.

• 55:21Speaker 02

  I mean, the NFL is back. Football is, football is back.

• 55:23Speaker 00

  Football is back.

• 55:24Speaker 02

  Football is back.

• 55:25Speaker 00

  So back.

• 55:25Speaker 02

  This is, this Monday show will be the last Monday show that we have where we can't discuss any on the field football.

• 55:32Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 55:33Speaker 02

  Until after the Super Bowl.

• 55:35Speaker 00

  Love it.

• 55:35Speaker 02

  How about that?

• 55:36Speaker 00

  Love it.

• 55:36Speaker 02

  Football is officially back.

• 55:37Speaker 00

  Love it.

• 55:38Speaker 02

  I'm, I'm just excited reading every storyline coming out of training camp, which guys are on the pup list. The most meaningless reports that come out of any training camp. I am addicted to reading all of it. I'm very excited.

• 55:49Speaker 00

  Patrick Mahomes is back.

• 55:50Speaker 02

  Patrick Mahomes is back. That's one of the, yeah, one of the stories he was.

• 55:53Speaker 04

  Knee looks great.

• 55:54Speaker 02

  What do you mean?

• 55:55Speaker 00

  Being sarcastic?

• 55:55Speaker 04

  His left knee is, oh, I mean, it's rehabbing injury. That's what happens, but.

• 55:59Speaker 00

  What happened?

• 56:00Speaker 04

  The, the size difference of his left.

• 56:02Speaker 00

  Well, yeah.

• 56:02Speaker 04

  Leg and knee and right is somewhat concerning.

• 56:06Speaker 00

  That was sarcastic.

• 56:07Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 56:08Speaker 00

  That's very.

• 56:08Speaker 02

  Atrophy. It's a little smaller than it was. It'll get back.

• 56:13Speaker 00

  Knee, I'm gonna look up his knee. Yeah, but football's back.

• 56:16Speaker 02

  Football's back. Uh, so there was the Mahomes thing. Brandon Iuk just bought a house in, uh, Northern Virginia for $10 million. Pretty normal stuff.

• 56:24Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 56:24Speaker 02

  Pretty normal place to invest in real estate.

• 56:26Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 56:27Speaker 02

  Uh, for a guy that can definitely afford to spend $10 million on a house that he doesn't live in across the country.

• 56:32Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 56:33Speaker 02

  That he has no connection to. Um, somebody check on Brandon Iuk.

• 56:38Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 56:38Speaker 02

  Does Brandon, does he have anybody in his life that can like look after him? I'm, I'm actually worried about the guy.

• 56:45Speaker 00

  I'm, I, yeah, I mean, he's, it's, it's very bizarre what he's doing.

• 56:49Speaker 02

  It's, he's not, he's in a bad spot. He's in a bad spot mentally. I don't know that he's, he's got any friends or any teammates that can reach out to him. It doesn't sound like he does. Uh, it sounds like he's going through a very kind of self-destructive time right now.

• 57:02Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 57:02Speaker 02

  Very, very strange for him to spend $10 million on a house.

• 57:06Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 57:07Speaker 02

  Because it's located right next to my mom.

• 57:10Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 57:10Speaker 02

  He's essentially living next door to my mom. So mostly I'm just worried about my mom because she does use those roads. She drives on those same roads.

• 57:17Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 57:17Speaker 02

  Um, so if, if somebody could just keep an eye on Brandon Iuk, make sure he doesn't crash a car into my mom, that would be awesome.

• 57:23Speaker 00

  Yeah, someone, someone make sure you're on that. Um, yeah, it is very bizarre. Okay. My who's back week, football related, uh, acronyms. Did you guys see, uh, my former coach, Matt Nagy, has a new acronym and I think he doesn't even realize it, but, uh, his acronym is physical, tough, smart, detailed.

• 57:43Speaker 02

  PTSD.

• 57:44Speaker 00

  PTSD.

• 57:46Speaker 02

  Now, where did you see this acronym?

• 57:48Speaker 00

  Uh, he did. It was, it was some, uh, meeting in April where he, he didn't say the acronym, but he was like, here's what, he put it up on the big board.

• 57:56Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 57:56Speaker 00

  He's like, here's what we're gonna be, boys. We're gonna be physical, tough, smart, detailed.

• 58:01Speaker 02

  Oh, my God. Yeah.

• 58:04Speaker 00

  We can't see this computer, Max. You never set it up. You're too, you're thinking too much about championship or bust.

• 58:10Speaker 02

  I like that. Also, I, I did not see this part about it, but in that same, uh, it might have been the same video that came out. That was the John Harbaugh.

• 58:18Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 58:18Speaker 02

  Motivational speech that he gave to the Giants where he just kept looking around the room saying the New York Football Giants. Watching that, it was pretty obv- I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna judge Harbaugh too harshly on this because it was pretty clear that he forgot that he was supposed to give a speech that day. And he just got up in front of the room and started just saying what he was looking at.

• 58:37Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 58:37Speaker 02

  He's like, we got the vets in the back of the room.

• 58:39Speaker 00

  Well, it's also fun to say New York Football Giants.

• 58:41Speaker 02

  It is.

• 58:42Speaker 00

  It's Chris Berman.

• 58:43Speaker 02

  We got the coaches over here. He was just narrating what he saw in the room at the time and just kinda hoping that he was gonna land that plane.

• 58:49Speaker 00

  We got Nagy over here. He's got PTSD. Again, it doesn't really, it's not like he's, you know, after Cody Parker did the double doink, he had nine kickers try out all from the 43 yard line. So he doesn't have any of that.

• 59:01Speaker 02

  No, definitely not.

• 59:02Speaker 00

  It's not, it's not a, it's not an issue. Um, all right. My other who back, who's back is, uh, PCA is just the MVP. I just wanna say PCA should be the MVP. Shohei's not pitching as of right now. PCA just continues to be a joy to watch. An absolute, every night it's appointment television to watch Pete Crowder Armstrong play baseball. And my last who's back is Zach, cause you gotta tell us the story you were gonna, uh, tell us. We didn't do a fire fest during the takeys. Please tell us the story.

• 59:29Speaker 06

  Oh, my, uh, my who's back, I guess, yeah, time travel, cause we did wanna talk about Friday on Monday.

• 59:32Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 59:33Speaker 06

  Uh, it not, not too much. It wasn't, it may have gotten blown out of proportion. We went to a, we went to a boat movie the other day. We're watching a movie on a boat, movie about a boat, on a boat, Mutiny.

• 59:43Speaker 00

  Great movie.

• 59:44Speaker 06

  Great film. Lot of action, pretty immersive, cause we got like real boat horns going, helicopters going.

• 59:49Speaker 04

  Quickly before Zach finishes, we, we, the movie ended out and Zach was like, oh, it was a good movie. And I was like, Zach, what? What does that make your year-long movie total now? And he said one.

• 59:59Speaker 00

  Oh, good job, Zach.

• 1:00:01Speaker 06

  I felt like that was a strong way to get into the movie game this year.

• 1:00:03Speaker 00

  Yeah, one and done.

• 1:00:05Speaker 02

  Best movie of the year?

• 1:00:06Speaker 06

  Best movie I've seen this year, yeah.

• 1:00:07Speaker 00

  Love that.

• 1:00:08Speaker 06

  Certainly.

• 1:00:09Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:00:10Speaker 06

  Uh, so that was like, it was like pretty social, like watch the movie, eat some popcorn. They had great caramel cheddar mix. I brought a couple home. Those were banging. But, uh, there was like some drinks as well socially.

• 1:00:19Speaker 00

  Uh-oh. So you were having some social drinks?

• 1:00:22Speaker 06

  I had a couple of social drinks just to socialize, you know?

• 1:00:24Speaker 02

  You have boat drinks?

• 1:00:25Speaker 06

  Boat drinks, which are a little tricky with the, with the current going.

• 1:00:28Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:00:29Speaker 06

  Boat drink, not to be slept on, kinda like an airplane beer.

• 1:00:31Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:00:32Speaker 06

  But, uh, so yeah, the at-sea beers got caught up in me a little bit. So after the boat, I was like, all right. Maybe I just do a couple of drinks on the way home, cause the boat beers were fun.

• 1:00:42Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:00:42Speaker 06

  So went.

• 1:00:43Speaker 04

  That's normal.

• 1:00:44Speaker 06

  Got some frozen drinks as, as men do. They're, and I was alone, so they were tasty. I just leaned into the frozen's, you know?

• 1:00:49Speaker 00

  Love that.

• 1:00:49Speaker 06

  Not the answer to anyone.

• 1:00:50Speaker 02

  When you say frozen drinks, what kind of frozen drinks are we talking about?

• 1:00:54Speaker 00

  Zachary's?

• 1:00:55Speaker 06

  So the one was like a, like a mint citrus situation and the other one was just run the ball. Uh, yeah, you know, they do that Jack and Pepsi combo with the frozen as well. Very good, very tasty.

• 1:01:05Speaker 00

  Okay, and this is by yourself?

• 1:01:07Speaker 06

  Yeah, it was just in, cause, yes.

• 1:01:09Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:01:10Speaker 06

  It was.

• 1:01:10Speaker 02

  Were you still on the boat for these drinks?

• 1:01:12Speaker 06

  No, I was off the boat for these. These were on the way home.

• 1:01:14Speaker 02

  Okay, so you did like a bar crawl on the way back?

• 1:01:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, quick little bar crawl on the way back. And then I get to the apartment. I'm like, you know how you end this evening? Taco Bell, hit Taco Bell. That was delicious. And then

• 1:01:27Speaker 06

  ate the tacos, went Lucy pouch, as one does after a meal. It's like, you know, it goes great with the Lucy pouch. Die Pepsi.

• 1:01:35Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:01:35Speaker 06

  I just was in bed, one sip of Pepsi, fell asleep. Woke up, 24 ounces of Pepsi just all over my body.

• 1:01:46Speaker 00

  You fell asleep, did sip?

• 1:01:48Speaker 06

  I got one, cause the combo is so good of the pouch and the Pepsi after a meal.

• 1:01:54Speaker 02

  Knocked you out.

• 1:01:55Speaker 06

  The guys who get it, get it.

• 1:01:56Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:01:57Speaker 02

  So, did you wake up from the, the actual spillage or was it already spilled and when you opened your eyes, you were just wet?

• 1:02:03Speaker 06

  I cracked that thing, passed out, woke up, kinda looked at my comforter like, what? What, what is this?

• 1:02:10Speaker 00

  What time was it?

• 1:02:11Speaker 06

  Morning time, like.

• 1:02:12Speaker 00

  Oh, so you slept all the way through?

• 1:02:14Speaker 06

  I, we went to this interview, my sheets were still soiled.

• 1:02:16Speaker 00

  Okay, so you woke up and it was like the, the, your drink was on the floor somewhere? And you just had brown sheets.

• 1:02:23Speaker 06

  My phone was wet and I look, I'm like, did I, somebody shit this bed? And I check and like, no, this is Pepsi. I was, I was just sticky. And then I was in here.

• 1:02:34Speaker 00

  You woke up sticky?

• 1:02:36Speaker 06

  Yeah. And I don't really do the best waking up with too much time before we get here. So then I'm in here sticky.

• 1:02:41Speaker 00

  Oh, you didn't shower?

• 1:02:43Speaker 06

  I like, you know, like the hobath, like the, like the wipes.

• 1:02:47Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:02:48Speaker 06

  I didn't have time.

• 1:02:48Speaker 00

  Okay. Damn, Zach.

• 1:02:51Speaker 06

  That was tough.

• 1:02:52Speaker 00

  That's brutal.

• 1:02:53Speaker 06

  And I think I would have been okay, but there's on the way home from the bar, I found a nightclub. Never been there before. You guys check it out. Great time. I think we could go as a team would be good. Yeah. So I think that's what did it. I think nightclub did it.

• 1:03:06Speaker 00

  That's awesome, Zach. All right. Do you have another who's back?

• 1:03:08Speaker 06

  The who's back of the week. Also, uh, Mike Vrabel, cause Mike Vrabel may have used a dog as a shield.

• 1:03:13Speaker 02

  Oh yeah. The human shield.

• 1:03:15Speaker 06

  Yeah. I thought that was a classy move.

• 1:03:16Speaker 04

  Smart PR 101.

• 1:03:17Speaker 02

  Yeah. It is actually a genius move.

• 1:03:19Speaker 06

  Classy move.

• 1:03:20Speaker 00

  Yeah. The dog had a jersey on.

• 1:03:22Speaker 04

  They're trying to save dogs. We're trying to save dogs. We're, we're, we're all pro saving dogs.

• 1:03:26Speaker 00

  That's a fact.

• 1:03:27Speaker 04

  And that's, that's what he was trying to do. He's bringing awareness.

• 1:03:29Speaker 00

  A hundred percent.

• 1:03:30Speaker 06

  Thoughts on him bringing the, maybe not an arm sized dog in an arm sized dog position?

• 1:03:35Speaker 04

  That just shows how much of a beast he is. Yeah.

• 1:03:38Speaker 06

  All right. So double who's back. Vrabel might be a beast.

• 1:03:40Speaker 00

  Thoughts on maybe, maybe it's Mike Vrabel, maybe it's someone else, but like, why aren't we taking this further? Like, why wouldn't a coach, coach with the dog in their hands?

• 1:03:50Speaker 06

  Pups on the sideline?

• 1:03:51Speaker 00

  Yeah. Like you can't get that upset. If you see.

• 1:03:54Speaker 02

  It's going to be like.

• 1:03:55Speaker 00

  Like Mike McCarthy's dumb face when he's trying to figure out what just happened, but there's a wiener dog under his arm.

• 1:04:01Speaker 02

  Or yeah, if he had a.

• 1:04:02Speaker 00

  That would be a great visual.

• 1:04:03Speaker 02

  If he had a pug that was like sitting on his shoulder.

• 1:04:05Speaker 00

  Yeah. A backpack with a pug in it.

• 1:04:07Speaker 02

  Like a parrot would be funny.

• 1:04:09Speaker 06

  Ditch analytics leaning to Dotson. They make game time decisions based on peanut butter on playbook.

• 1:04:13Speaker 00

  Yeah. There we go.

• 1:04:15Speaker 02

  I feel like Andy Reid would have maybe a Australian shepherd. Like a really smart, maybe border collie, really smart dog that you just look at and the dog would go.

• 1:04:23Speaker 06

  I think Andy Reid might be sneaky tiny dog guy.

• 1:04:25Speaker 00

  He could be a tiny, it's funny if he had a tiny dog.

• 1:04:28Speaker 06

  Yeah. Use a recliner with him.

• 1:04:30Speaker 00

  Yeah. But this is a good idea. Like this should be something that, it would be hard to be mad. At a coach, like big moment, they zoom in.

• 1:04:40Speaker 02

  Mm hmm.

• 1:04:40Speaker 00

  And he's just got the cutest puppy in his arms and he's just petting it as like sympathy for himself.

• 1:04:46Speaker 02

  Yeah. My favorite part of this was just how tran- how transparent the thing that Mike Vrabel was doing was. It's so transport.

• 1:04:53Speaker 00

  Was that his first time talking to the media?

• 1:04:55Speaker 02

  That is, that is, it's hilarious. I love it.

• 1:04:58Speaker 00

  Yeah, he put a dog in a jersey too. It's like everyone's like, oh.

• 1:05:01Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:05:01Speaker 00

  Yeah. Do we have a? Listen, it's good, good play.

• 1:05:04Speaker 06

  You think it's a juice situation? You think that's really his dog?

• 1:05:06Speaker 02

  What situation?

• 1:05:07Speaker 00

  A juice.

• 1:05:08Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 1:05:09Speaker 06

  Do we think that's?

• 1:05:09Speaker 00

  Juice Kiffin. We, well, we confirmed.

• 1:05:11Speaker 06

  Well, Kiffin, that, that's confirmed Kiffin's dog, but I'm talking about dog speculations online.

• 1:05:15Speaker 00

  I don't know.

• 1:05:16Speaker 06

  I feel like this is where they start.

• 1:05:16Speaker 02

  No, I think that this is, this is a dog that, uh, you too could adopt.

• 1:05:20Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 1:05:20Speaker 02

  It's like, actually Vrabel just saved a life in that press conference.

• 1:05:24Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 1:05:26Speaker 00

  Good who's back. Any other, uh, sports stories that we missed?

• 1:05:29Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. The biggest sports story of the day.

• 1:05:31Speaker 00

  What? Holly Rose singing Mo Bamba?

• 1:05:33Speaker 02

  That was so funny. Um, no. Our long national nightmare is over.

• 1:05:39Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:05:40Speaker 02

  Jacoby Brissette has agreed to a contract with the Arizona Cardinals.

• 1:05:44Speaker 00

  We should have led with the show.

• 1:05:45Speaker 02

  So he'll be back. That's, thank God, that's over. Um, you talk about just a giant albatross hanging around the neck of an organization. Uh, Brissette's back now. People might hate on Brissette. I think he had the highest amount of yards per game of any quarterback in the NFL last year.

• 1:06:00Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 1:06:01Speaker 02

  That's how bad the Cardinals were for the first three quarters.

• 1:06:04Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:06:04Speaker 02

  That his garbage time was good enough to lead the league.

• 1:06:07Speaker 00

  Yeah. So good job, Jacoby Brissette. You, you knew your worth and you got your worth.

• 1:06:12Speaker 02

  It turns out he was right.

• 1:06:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:06:13Speaker 02

  Like they, they did end up paying him. So also tough day for Carson Beck, who is operating as if he was going to be the starter.

• 1:06:19Speaker 00

  He'll, he'll get there.

• 1:06:21Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:06:21Speaker 00

  Maybe. He'll have a chance.

• 1:06:22Speaker 02

  He might.

• 1:06:23Speaker 00

  He'll have a chance. Also the USA Today, the, the who's back of the week is just everyone still losing their mind about, uh, Katelyn Clark. Cause we had the one on Friday.

• 1:06:32Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:06:32Speaker 00

  The article basically blaming her for all racism. And then USA Today just wrote a story, just being like, Katelyn Clark missed the red, the orange carpet for, uh, WNBA All-Star game to get a haircut.

• 1:06:45Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:06:45Speaker 00

  In her hometown. Turns out she was actually going to a charity event that she ran in her hometown.

• 1:06:51Speaker 02

  People are incapable. She, she's destroyed. More brains in this country than cocaine.

• 1:06:56Speaker 00

  It's nuts.

• 1:06:57Speaker 02

  Like she is, it's impossible to have any rational take online about Katelyn Clark anymore.

• 1:07:02Speaker 00

  It's absolutely nuts. Okay.

• 1:07:03Speaker 02

  Uh, Hank, also.

• 1:07:04Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:07:05Speaker 02

  The Red Sox might be back.

• 1:07:06Speaker 04

  Yeah. Oh, yeah.

• 1:07:07Speaker 02

  Hot stove.

• 1:07:07Speaker 04

  They've been back.

• 1:07:09Speaker 02

  You know about the trade?

• 1:07:10Speaker 04

  Do tell.

• 1:07:11Speaker 02

  So you guys traded with the Nationals. You got Curtis Mead, our Australian guy. We got a lefty arm from you guys. You're not excited about Curtis?

• 1:07:19Speaker 04

  We're buyers. Yeah, we're buying.

• 1:07:21Speaker 02

  Well, also, also selling at the same time. You traded.

• 1:07:24Speaker 04

  We're making moves.

• 1:07:25Speaker 02

  You are making moves.

• 1:07:26Speaker 00

  I hate that guy's name.

• 1:07:28Speaker 02

  Which guy?

• 1:07:30Speaker 00

  Connolly Early.

• 1:07:31Speaker 02

  Connolly Early?

• 1:07:31Speaker 00

  His name should be Connor.

• 1:07:34Speaker 02

  Not Connolly?

• 1:07:35Speaker 00

  Con- I don't understand. That's not a first name.

• 1:07:37Speaker 02

  Connolly? Might be a family name?

• 1:07:39Speaker 00

  Connolly Early, but I think with Early too, it's like, I just want to say Connor Early.

• 1:07:44Speaker 02

  Connor Early is a good name.

• 1:07:45Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:07:45Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'll give you that.

• 1:07:46Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:07:47Speaker 02

  Curtis Mead, you're gonna like him, Hank.

• 1:07:49Speaker 00

  That was my, that was my take on it.

• 1:07:51Speaker 02

  Curtis.

• 1:07:52Speaker 00

  Okay. Um, let's get to our interview. We've got Patrick Kane in studio and then afterwards, we're gonna do our Mount Rushmore of, uh, Fuji with a spoon.

• 1:08:00Speaker 02

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• 1:10:45Speaker 00

  Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. It is three-time Stanley Cup champion, and now back on the Blackhawks, Patrick Kane, in person, in studio. Kane, first of all, thank you from everyone. Thank you in Chicago. Thank you, because that was-

• 1:11:04Speaker 05

  I feel like you guys played a big role in it, you know, with the ice cream offer.

• 1:11:09Speaker 00

  The ice cream, yeah. So your son's gonna have to get some ice cream. You too can get, I'll just give you a key card to the office, and you can come in whenever. So, thank you for resigning with the Blackhawks. What, I mean, so this, we're taping this on Friday afternoon, we're gonna run it on Monday. It's been like 24 hours. What is the last 24 hours? Did you have the wave of emotions that every fan had?

• 1:11:33Speaker 05

  I mean, I feel like, uh, you know, what was it? It would have been Wednesday night, I, we kind of finalized the contract and I signed it and then,

• 1:11:46Speaker 05

  you know, I didn't really know when that it was going to be announced. So I woke up early, went to the gym, like was after the gym was on my way to the skate and it must've just been announced like right as I was driving to the skate. And, um, you know, I walk into the locker room, whatever. And, you know, everyone's just like congratulating me or whatever. All my equipment's changed out. Like no more Red Wings pants, no more Red Wings, uh, stickers on the helmet. Like I'd, uh, change, change everything over to the Blackhawks pants, Blackhawks jersey, Blackhawks helmet. And then, um, you know, after that you can kind of just, uh, feel the buzz, you know, throughout the city and definitely through like social media and things like that. Right? So, uh,

• 1:12:25Speaker 05

  but I tell you what, Chicago fans are like, they're incredible. Like they, I feel like ever since I started here, they've, you know, had my back. They've been, you know, huge fans. I mean, you guys, uh, Chief as well. I feel like, uh, uh, it's been incredible, the support, um, from, from the people in Chicago. So, you know, and that plays a factor too. I think, um, just, uh, knowing that you're loved by the city and, and, and the people here is, uh, is it's, uh, such a great feeling. So, um, I mean, obviously I come back here for the summers and things, but to be back.

• 1:13:01Speaker 02

  But it's different. Yeah.

• 1:13:02Speaker 05

  Yeah. Playing for the Blackhawks now. It's, uh, uh, to be a Blackhawk again. It's just, uh, incredible feeling.

• 1:13:08Speaker 02

  I don't know if you saw this, but, but I was driving into work this morning and there was a giant billboard over the highway and it said Interstate 90, welcomes back Kane.

• 1:13:18Speaker 05

  Really? I didn't see that one. No.

• 1:13:19Speaker 02

  It said, we miss you. Did you miss the highway? Does it miss you? Literally it was a, is a welcome back from the highway.

• 1:13:25Speaker 05

  I think I've been more angry at the highway than maybe I've missed it. But, um, no, I mean, like I, someone sent me a picture that it was like at Wrigley Field, you know, yesterday, welcome back number 88.

• 1:13:39Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:13:39Speaker 05

  Things like that. Like that's, that's unbelievable. The thing about Wrigley Field, it's such a big venue, you know, iconic historic place and something like that is up there for, for, you know, just coming back and signing a contract. It's, it's unbelievable.

• 1:13:52Speaker 02

  You can feel it. I, so, so my, my question that I saved when, when I saw you at the front door and I wanted to save it for the show, did you listen to Old Thing Back at all yesterday?

• 1:14:03Speaker 05

  What's that?

• 1:14:03Speaker 00

  The, the, the old thing back, or I want the old thing back, the, the song from the 2015 team. Cause I listened to it probably 20 times.

• 1:14:09Speaker 05

  What's the song?

• 1:14:10Speaker 00

  You know, you know the song.

• 1:14:13Speaker 00

  Yeah. You guys played it in the locker room every single time. Yeah.

• 1:14:17Speaker 05

  I got, I got, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got, I know what you're saying.

• 1:14:19Speaker 00

  Alright, you gotta listen to it.

• 1:14:20Speaker 05

  I've been listening to that one, but um, uh, what did I listen to? Oh, do you remember, uh, Wake Me Up by Avicii?

• 1:14:27Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:14:27Speaker 05

  That was, uh, that was like our 2013.

• 1:14:29Speaker 00

  13, yeah.

• 1:14:30Speaker 05

  And that was, uh.

• 1:14:31Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:14:32Speaker 05

  That was, um, good vibes with that one too, but yeah, I feel like all those, uh, all those, uh, Stanley Cup runs have like a certain song that's kinda.

• 1:14:41Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:14:42Speaker 05

  Correlated with that, with that time, you know, so, uh.

• 1:14:45Speaker 00

  Now, I feel like an idiot for, I listened to the wrong song. I fucked up.

• 1:14:49Speaker 05

  Honestly, we were, me and my buddies were actually, uh, we were looking through, like I had, I have a playlist on my phone, like, 2015 Stanley Cup and just listen, listening to like those songs again. It just, it brings you back to memories.

• 1:15:01Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:15:02Speaker 05

  Uh, uh, like I remember being in the limo bus, like going to Jimmy Buffett and we're listening to like, total opposite music of.

• 1:15:11Speaker 00

  Yeah, Jimmy Buffett.

• 1:15:11Speaker 05

  Of Jimmy Buffett, you know, and then we go to Jimmy Buffett, have a great time, come back, and then we're going to like Paris to, Paris Club to hang out with Tiesto, you know? It was just like, like you didn't even realize back in the day, like how lucky you were and how great those, um, those times were. So, hey, hopefully we can, we can recreate something like that.

• 1:15:30Speaker 00

  Well, that's the thing I was gonna ask is like, you know, obviously there's a nostalgia factor. I think everyone wanted to see you back in a Blackhawks jersey. Especially, you know, I was there the night that you came back with the Red Wings and they had the video and actually let's start with that. Was there, cause it felt like that was like a different emotion than you've ever shown where it was like, being there in, in, it was Chelios night and you get this video tribute and I think the standing ovation was like 10 minutes long. I told you the story, but my, I, it was my son's first ever Blackhawks game and going to the, to the UC, I told him like, this is the team we root for. And then when, when we had a 10 minute ovation for you, he's like, he, he looked at me like, he just betrayed me. Like, why are we cheering for this guy?

• 1:16:12Speaker 00

  But that did feel like different emotion. Was there a part of you at that moment? It's like, I really hope I can come back at some point?

• 1:16:17Speaker 05

  I, I think at that point, the door was, I, like, I thought the door was probably closed. So, um, you know, I think, uh, You're playing in a game like that, you're almost trying to like stick it to the team that I don't want to say didn't want you, but they were going in a different direction, right?

• 1:16:33Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:16:34Speaker 05

  So, um, yeah, I mean, I mean, that night with, uh, with Chelios and, uh, uh, the ovation and just being back in the United Center and be on the opposite side for the first time. And then, you know, the, like, I didn't play good at all that game. And then, you know, I get the

• 1:16:50Speaker 02

  Game winning goal.

• 1:16:51Speaker 05

  Chance in overtime and score, right? So it's like, uh, and what was so cool about that is I feel like half the people were kind of like mad the Blackhawks lost and then half were kind of like cheering for me, you know?

• 1:17:02Speaker 02

  Yes, definitely.

• 1:17:03Speaker 05

  It was, it was a great moment scoring that goal. And then almost like everybody skated off the ice and I did like another lap and just feeling the love from the fans. I'm like, this is, this is just, there's, there's nothing like this place, you know?

• 1:17:14Speaker 02

  Right.

• 1:17:15Speaker 05

  Even last year, you know, I, uh, we came back in and, uh, I was on the ice, you know, starting the game and, and on the blue line for the national anthem. And I was like, is it, is it always this loud in here? Like, is this national anthem always this loud? Like, like, uh, did I take it for granted those 16 years I was, I was here and, uh, um, so definitely looking forward to that. But, uh, yeah, I mean, you know, it's, it's funny the way things work out. I mean, if you would have asked me last year, I thought, like at the end of the season, I thought I would be going back to Detroit.

• 1:17:44Speaker 02

  Mm hmm.

• 1:17:45Speaker 05

  And, you know, things happen and then it's like, okay, let's just take our time, see what's out there July 1st. And Danny Wertz called me like at 11 03 or something like as soon as free agency opened and it was actually kind of like an emotional call from him, you know, it was, uh, it was, uh, you know, a call I'll never forget, but, uh, you know, all of a sudden you start thinking about, okay, well, you know, there's, there's interest, maybe it'd be a cool place to come back and play.

• 1:18:10Speaker 02

  Yeah. Was that the first time you allowed yourself to, to think about that? Or did you get yourself like, was there a moment maybe a year ago where you're like, you know, I can see myself kind of going back there at the end?

• 1:18:19Speaker 05

  Yeah, maybe, maybe a little bit, but nothing like too serious where I thought it could actually happen, you know?

• 1:18:23Speaker 02

  Mm hmm.

• 1:18:24Speaker 05

  And, uh, I think things just kind of worked out where they're kind of like, uh, uh, at the stage where they're trying to take a step as a team, you know, and, uh, you know, I was a free agent and just, you know, kind of where I'm at, I'm feeling like, feeling good about my body, about myself, about my game. And, um, yeah, I mean, I think just, obviously they made some big moves this summer, getting Byrums, signing Connor, uh, some other players coming in, some free agents, some veteran guys and. I thought it would be a great fit, not only just because, you know, I'm, I'm living in Chicago or because I played for the Blackhawks, because I actually think it's a good fit for me personally as a hockey player too, you know, so I'm excited about it. It's gonna be great.

• 1:19:05Speaker 00

  Have you talked to Connor about playing on the same line as him? Because like that's, that's the thing is like, it's obviously there's nostalgia factor, but it's also a good hockey fit. And you're still are like, you know, you're not the same player as you were in your twenties, but you're still a very good player that can contribute to a team. So if you had those conversations, like this is gonna be fun to have two incredibly skilled guys on the same line.

• 1:19:26Speaker 05

  Yeah, I, I mean, not, not in, in like real, like real depth or anything like that, but just excited to play with one another. Um, you know, obviously he's dealing with his injury, he signed his contract. And then, you know, shortly after I signed my contract, so it's kind of been a whirlwind for, for both of us, but I told him I'd like to catch up with him in a, in a few days, just to kind of see where his head is at about the team and the direction and what, what he thinks we need and, um, listen, I'd love to play with him. He's an incredible player. If not, I mean, you saw in the past, like Taser kind of had, had his line for a while. I had my line. You create that inner competition. It's, it's not, it's not such a bad thing sometimes

• 1:20:07Speaker 05

  too. So, and there's a lot of great other players that, uh, have a lot of potential, I think, uh, with their team. So, yeah, it'll be interesting.

• 1:20:15Speaker 00

  How's the hip feeling?

• 1:20:16Speaker 05

  It feels great. It's actually, it's actually unbelievable. Uh, you know, I feel like when I first got it done, it was, it was, it was okay. It wasn't painful anymore, but it kind of felt like a little bit foreign, you know?

• 1:20:27Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:20:28Speaker 05

  And, um, I feel like at the like two, two and a half years in, uh, I really started feeling like my own hip. So, uh, yeah, it's, it feels awesome.

• 1:20:36Speaker 00

  It's a crazy procedure you had, right?

• 1:20:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. So it's kind of, how, how would I explain it? It's, it's not really like a full hip replacement, but they just like, they replaced like the, the top of the femur head. And then you still have like your, your, uh, your femur, your, your bone. So it's just like, they kind of like cap the top and get rid of, uh, all the arthritis. So, uh, yeah, I mean, it's, uh, it was, it was kind of crazy because it's such this big procedure. And then as soon as the surgery was over, like I felt better right away.

• 1:21:06Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:21:06Speaker 05

  Like there was no more pain, but obviously you have to build up like, you know, they cut into your muscles. You gotta build those back up and kinda get used to just having like almost like a new joint, you know?

• 1:21:15Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 1:21:16Speaker 05

  So it it took, uh, I mean, listen, it was, I'm really happy I did it and, uh, it was, it was nice to be pain free for a bit, but I'm, it, you know, it took, I would say a couple of years to, to actually feel like my own.

• 1:21:27Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's gotta be one of those things where you, you put it off for a long time and you know that your hip hurts. You feel it all the time and you don't wanna, you know, take it any, any, uh, months away from the game of hockey. But at some point, like you have to say, okay, we need to take a step back to, to take a step forward. What, was there a moment where you're like, okay, I can't, I, I can't just tough this out anymore. I gotta do it.

• 1:21:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, I think, uh, so what happened, uh, you know, my, my hip, I was feeling my hip, uh, that the one season, I think I had like, you know, 92 points or something. And I was like, you know, I could probably play like this. And then that off season, the, the Blackhawks got rid of like Strom and, uh, Debrinka and they traded Hagel. So we were coming back in with a new group and I was, I was okay that year, but I was struggling a little bit. And then all of a sudden I like, right before the trade deadline, I just like popped. I had like seven goals in four or five games. I think it was. And, uh, I was like, maybe, you know, maybe I'll go somewhere else and, and, uh, and try to win, you know? I went to New York and it was a great experience. It was awesome. I loved it, but I just didn't really play at a, at the, the level I was used to, you know?

• 1:22:31Speaker 05

  So I think at that point it was like, you know, I should probably do something here.

• 1:22:34Speaker 00

  Yeah. Uh, I got a tough question for you. Obviously you would have liked to be on the men's, uh, national team this year with the gold medal. Uh, but was there a part of you that could watch it as maybe not a, a fan, maybe a fan? And be proud of the fact that like you are arguably, I would make the argument that you're the best American born player of all time. And all these guys playing, winning the gold medal, like a lot of them were shaped because of you and like your game and what you did for hockey that yeah, you'd rather be on the team, but there is like the, all these guys idolize you.

• 1:23:07Speaker 05

  Yeah, I know what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I mean, um, of course, like, uh, you know, I was, I was hoping I'd be on the team. I had a good start to the season and I kinda got injured, came back, got injured again. So it was, you know, I knew it, the, the chances weren't, you know, gonna be too good, but, uh, You know, I played with Larkin in Detroit, a lot of respect for him, the Hughes brothers, like they, you know, supposedly loved me as a player when, when they were younger too. Those, those kids are awesome. Um, so watching them win and like having the reaction they did, it was, it was pretty cool to see. And even, you know, after the fact, they're like FaceTiming me, texting me, all that stuff, you know?

• 1:23:49Speaker 00

  Oh, that's awesome.

• 1:23:50Speaker 05

  So it was like, not that I was like a part of the team or anything, but you feel like you're...

• 1:23:54Speaker 00

  You laid the groundwork. I think that's anyone who played on, on a, a, you know, the US team in years past, it feels like they, because we, we talked about it when it happened. It's like the guys who won the gold medal, the, in 15 years, there's going to be a lot of kids that are going to be like, I looked up to them. So it's all kind of built on itself.

• 1:24:10Speaker 05

  Yeah, you could feel the gratitude, especially from those guys, which was, which was pretty cool.

• 1:24:14Speaker 00

  That's awesome. Yeah.

• 1:24:16Speaker 02

  Can we do some nostalgia porn? Just like some walk through memory lane?

• 1:24:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, I love it.

• 1:24:20Speaker 02

  Can you talk about the, uh, the game winning goal in 2010?

• 1:24:24Speaker 05

  Absolutely. Uh, yeah. So that, that was, that was kind of a crazy game. Obviously, uh, game six in Philly. Um, you know, we're up 3-2 going into the third. I was like, this is, this is awesome. We're going to win the Stanley Cup. They tie it up with like five minutes left, make it 3-3. And, uh, yeah, I mean, I just, uh, Brian Campbell walked the line, gave it back to me. I just, uh, had a little, uh, time and space to try and make a move around Kimo Timonen, who actually became my teammate on the team in 2015 when we won. Um, and just was trying to throw it on net and, uh, went through Michael Layton's legs and, uh, kind of stuck in the back pad of the net.

• 1:25:04Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:25:04Speaker 05

  So, you know, I was like celebrating that the puck was in and there was really no reaction. So...

• 1:25:09Speaker 00

  You're the only one who knew.

• 1:25:10Speaker 05

  Yeah. So, uh, I mean, I think Sharpie actually knew.

• 1:25:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:25:13Speaker 05

  He was throwing his stuff, but I'm like celebrating like crazy, you know, throwing my stuff off, going down the ice to, uh, to our goalie, Anthony Nemi. And, uh, you know, the celebration was wild because guys are like coming to the pile and they're looking back at the ref, looking for an answer. Is, is the puck in? I'm like, yeah, it's in, it's in. And sure enough, they got confirmation that the goal was in and there's like a whole nother celebration, but... I've actually had bad dreams where like I I shoot that puck and it it doesn't go in. And I'm like celebrating and throwing my stuff off. Yeah, it's no goal. So that's happened a few times, but thankfully it actually did go in.

• 1:25:49Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think like 30 seconds later, the goalie was still looking around like, are we shooting that in? And he didn't know.

• 1:25:53Speaker 05

  Yeah, they're like stuck in the back pad and just like stuck there as as the puck went in. So.

• 1:25:58Speaker 02

  The move that you put on him to get open.

• 1:26:01Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:26:01Speaker 02

  How many head fakes is too many head fakes? Did you know how that you were gonna do like forehead fakes or?

• 1:26:06Speaker 05

  I was like, uh, I liked playing basketball when I was younger. So like, you know, you always try the. Allen Iverson crossover or whatever. Right? So that I guess that was kind of my version of like a like a hockey crossover. Right? But. Um, yeah, I probably put I put a couple of different ones on them and found just a little space, I guess. So just enough.

• 1:26:24Speaker 00

  Keep going. You got more?

• 1:26:25Speaker 02

  I mean, yeah, what what's your favorite championship? What's your favorite favorite cup in terms of like, uh, the best team that you were on?

• 1:26:32Speaker 05

  Oh, I mean, I feel like they all had their their moments, you know, um. 2013, I think that that was the lockout year. I think we started 20 or 21 0 and 3 or something.

• 1:26:44Speaker 00

  For yeah, like like two months. It was crazy.

• 1:26:47Speaker 05

  It was a 48 game season. We didn't lose for 24. So half the season we didn't lose. Um, but you know, we faced some adversity. We're down 31 to Detroit, came back in game seven, Seabrook goal. Um, ended up winning in Boston. That one was was pretty cool. That's the year I won Con Smythe, which was pretty special. 2015 at home, winning at home was was unbelievable, especially since we won 2010 and 13 on the road.

• 1:27:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:27:13Speaker 05

  Um, yeah, they all have their their moments. I mean, uh. We had a special group like like that core group of players, uh, you know, myself, Taser, Sharpie, Seabees. Uh, Dunks, Hosa, Crawford, Jelmerson, like those guys, uh, it was a special group.

• 1:27:30Speaker 02

  What was it about the Canadian dollar that made the the cap didn't go upright?

• 1:27:34Speaker 00

  Yeah, the cap got stuck right at like it just like froze in place for a couple of years.

• 1:27:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, I remember when we, uh. What was that? I think I think Taser and I signed extensions in 2014, maybe. And, uh, we signed a 10 and a half and our agent was like, listen, we should probably. You know, maybe ask for a little bit more because the cap's gonna go up. Um. I think he was saying like Stamkos and Kopitar were up. Uh, the next year and they're gonna be making like 13 or 14. Million dollars and the cap never went up. So like all of a sudden like Kupatar signing at like 10 Stamkos was eight and a half, you know, and we thought these guys were getting way more. So it's just kind of weird the way it worked out.

• 1:28:14Speaker 00

  I think I've told you, but I, I, the, from, from the, that run, I mean, there's so many big moments and it's like,

• 1:28:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:28:20Speaker 00

  We've talked to like Chief and I talked about Eddie and all the guys like the, it just felt like every spring was just like your, your schedule set that like every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, you just be at a bar. It's like, there's a big game going on. But my favorite game from that entire run was the game seven against the Ducks in 2015, which I think was like the perfect hockey game.

• 1:28:41Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:28:41Speaker 00

  And it also came off the heels of Kessler saying that like, no human can withstand the hits that we're going to give the Blackhawks. Cause it was like right in that, like the, the like big team versus skilled team debate and you guys were just,

• 1:28:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:28:54Speaker 00

  Keep winning.

• 1:28:55Speaker 05

  I know, I know. We found ways. We, we really did back, back in that, that run. I mean, there's, I feel like there's games that could have went the other way too, like, uh, like 2014, we lost the game seven in LA.

• 1:29:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:29:08Speaker 05

  You know, uh, like the, the puck hit, I think Nick Letty's pants and went through and we lost.

• 1:29:12Speaker 00

  Martinez, right?

• 1:29:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, Martinez. Yep. Yep. Um, but that game was, uh, yeah, we were on the road. Taser had two quick goals to get us up to nothing. And, um, like you said, I think they were, they were so physical. They were trying to like run us out of the building. Of course it went seven games, you know, we were down three, two in the series, came back home, won game six and then, uh, um, to win it in game seven was really, that was, uh, not like the, like stamp that we were a good team, but like, I think we kind of like crossed off every type of like situation we had to deal with, right? You know, getting through Detroit, down three, one, um.

• 1:29:53Speaker 05

  You know, beating those teams out West, Vancouver, Calgary, you know, um, uh, LA, like those, those were tough matchups. We, we beat them in 13, lost them in 14, beat them in 15.

• 1:30:07Speaker 05

  And then, uh, Anaheim was.

• 1:30:09Speaker 00

  Yeah, I remember the, the 14 one was a brutal one because I was on a bachelor party in Nashville. And we got, the whole bachelor party got back to Chicago, just so fucking like gassed. And we all just went straight from the airport to the bar to watch game seven. And I remember that puck just dropping in and just being like, well, what the fuck do we do now?

• 1:30:31Speaker 05

  Actually, I messed up. I said LA, but I meant Anaheim in 15.

• 1:30:34Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:30:34Speaker 05

  But, uh, yeah, that game was tough too, because if you look back, I think we were up like 4-2 with like 10 minutes left.

• 1:30:41Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:30:41Speaker 05

  And they scored two goals, so we get 4-4. So it's just like, you know, who knows? Maybe there could have been another one in there, or maybe, maybe we could have, could have not won at all, you know?

• 1:30:51Speaker 00

  Yeah, it shows how hard it is to win these things. Like, it's, it's crazy, like the, the barrage you have to go through in playoff hockey.

• 1:30:58Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:30:58Speaker 00

  Um, that, yeah, go ahead.

• 1:31:00Speaker 02

  I was just wondering, when you knew that the team was capable of doing something special, like obviously winning a Stanley Cup special.

• 1:31:06Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:31:06Speaker 02

  But, but going on a little dynasty run, did you, did you think that was possible before 2010? Or was it, maybe it was after you even won the first one that you allowed yourself to think like, yeah, we could do two, three?

• 1:31:18Speaker 05

  I think sometimes we were so like young and naive to the situation we were in, like. I remember coming to Chicago, being drafted first overall. And, uh, we had preseason games. There's like 3,000 people in the building. And me and some of my teammates went into the crowd and just sat in the crowd and watched the game and didn't get bothered by one person.

• 1:31:37Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:31:38Speaker 05

  And, uh, uh, by Christmas that year, the games were starting to sell out. So there was excitement, you know, there was, something was building. I think we missed the playoffs by maybe four points. And then the next year we made it to the conference finals, lost to Detroit. And everyone was like, okay, you know, you know, maybe we're coming here. We signed Brian Campbell after my first season. Then we signed, uh, Hossa after, after my second year. And those are big free agent signings, you know, you go get, get a guy like Hossa who's at, you know, two Stanley Cup finals previous to, to that year. And then obviously. One of the greatest, you know, free agent signings in sports history, right? Especially Chicago sports, but then you win the next year, you know, it's like it all happened so

• 1:32:23Speaker 05

  fast and it was just like, this is the way it's supposed to be, you know, for us, like this is just how we thought it was supposed to be. So looking back on it, I just think we were so young and naive to the situation and we like, I feel like especially at that time, like we kind of craved the attention a little bit, like it was cool to, uh, to be cool, you know, to, to feel like you're popular, you know? So I think our, our team enjoyed that too.

• 1:32:47Speaker 00

  Yeah. You, you talked to Taze after you signed and he, he said that he was a little jealous?

• 1:32:52Speaker 05

  Well, I just wanted to let him know. Uh, yeah, the night before it was announced, I, I wanted to let him know that, hey, listen, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna be going back to, to the Blackhawks. I just want to let you know so you're not caught off guard or whatever. And, uh, I didn't really know what to expect to hear from him, to be honest with you, but, uh, it was cool. His response just to say that that's, you know, that's awesome. I wish I was doing that. I'm definitely jealous of you. So, um, cool to hear that from him.

• 1:33:18Speaker 00

  Well, he, we, we have a, a longstanding take on this show because I saw that the Blackhawks said they're going to do a, a one day, you know, signing retirement for, for Taze. You should have to play if you sign for one day, which would be sick. You know what I mean? Like just one game. You just have to play one game.

• 1:33:35Speaker 05

  Well, yeah. What was he saying? He was, he was like, I'm, I'm actually jealous. I'm like, hey, maybe, maybe you come back for a year. I don't know. He's like, I'm thinking about it.

• 1:33:43Speaker 00

  That would be, now you're talking about nostalgia. Yeah.

• 1:33:47Speaker 02

  A one day contract and then at the end of the day, you go back into the general manager's office. You'd be like, okay, so let's, uh, talk about an extension. Yeah. Like two days, let's double it, go three.

• 1:33:56Speaker 05

  Didn't they used to do like 10 day contracts in the NBA?

• 1:33:59Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:33:59Speaker 05

  That's kind of crazy. Do they still do that?

• 1:34:01Speaker 00

  Yeah, they have 10 days. Yeah. They have like the up and down with the G League.

• 1:34:04Speaker 02

  On this show, we like to give every hockey guest an opportunity to talk about the NBA. Positive or negative, whatever way you want to go.

• 1:34:10Speaker 00

  It's the Ryan Whitney rule.

• 1:34:12Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:34:12Speaker 05

  Yeah. I'm actually, I love basketball.

• 1:34:14Speaker 00

  Oh, he's not gonna like that.

• 1:34:16Speaker 05

  So, oh, he doesn't like basketball.

• 1:34:21Speaker 05

  You know, obviously being in Chicago, like Jordan's, Jordan's the answer to everything, but I actually grew up like. Loving LeBron like.

• 1:34:29Speaker 00

  Oh, no.

• 1:34:30Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 1:34:30Speaker 00

  No, see, these are Philly guys clapping right now. It's our Philly producer.

• 1:34:35Speaker 05

  Like he, he gave me and some of my friends and, and my cousins so many like memories just watching him like in the playoffs and how good he was. It was, it was incredible. So, and he's going into what his 24th and 25th year like.

• 1:34:49Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:34:51Speaker 05

  So it's crazy. So, uh, a lot of respect for LeBron.

• 1:34:54Speaker 02

  He doesn't play every night though, you know, like you take some time off, load management.

• 1:34:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:34:58Speaker 02

  Be careful.

• 1:34:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, but he still played a lot last year, didn't he? Like 65 or 66.

• 1:35:02Speaker 02

  He's not gonna like this at all.

• 1:35:02Speaker 00

  No, he's gonna hate this. He's gonna hate this. Hey, it was your, uh, was your dad a little disappointed that you didn't sign with the Sabres knowing that he, so he drives to every home game, right?

• 1:35:13Speaker 05

  Well, he, he did one year in Chicago. He made all 41 home games.

• 1:35:17Speaker 00

  Okay. From Buffalo, he would drive.

• 1:35:19Speaker 05

  It's an eight hour drive. It's not like he's coming in and staying for a month, you know, he'll come in for one, drive back, come in for two, drive back.

• 1:35:25Speaker 00

  That's crazy.

• 1:35:26Speaker 05

  He's, he's nuts, but.

• 1:35:27Speaker 02

  Did you ever say like, hey, maybe get a extended stay hotel?

• 1:35:30Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:35:31Speaker 02

  Or a flight.

• 1:35:31Speaker 00

  They have fly, you can fly.

• 1:35:33Speaker 05

  Well, it actually worked out where, um, I had like one of my places I didn't sell. So he would just come in, stay there.

• 1:35:40Speaker 00

  That's perfect.

• 1:35:41Speaker 05

  He almost had like his.

• 1:35:42Speaker 00

  His own place.

• 1:35:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, his own place, but like freedom to come and go whenever he wanted, you know? So it worked out for him. Um, but actually, you know what? He was, uh, like, I think he would have been happy if I went to Buffalo.

• 1:35:56Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:35:56Speaker 05

  You know, just especially with like my son being five years old and then, then being able to see him more often and like every day, but, um, I think he actually wanted me to come to Chicago.

• 1:36:07Speaker 00

  Really?

• 1:36:07Speaker 05

  Yeah. Yeah. He's got his, he's got a good life here. He comes in, you know, he's like.

• 1:36:11Speaker 00

  He knows every steakhouse. Yeah.

• 1:36:13Speaker 05

  He knows all the, uh, security guards at the United Center.

• 1:36:16Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:36:16Speaker 05

  Uh, he's got his little, you know, breakfast places he goes to, but.

• 1:36:19Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:36:20Speaker 05

  He'll walk into the rink, you know, chat it up with the security guys, go and watch practice, leave whenever he wants.

• 1:36:26Speaker 00

  So it's basically like he resigned too.

• 1:36:27Speaker 05

  Yeah. It's not like I'm having, yeah. It's not like I'm having to babysit. The whole time, you know, he kind of just does his own thing and he's comfortable with it and.

• 1:36:34Speaker 00

  It's not like you sign with Anaheim or something that would probably bother him. Yeah.

• 1:36:37Speaker 05

  Yeah. So, um, you know, actually when I was in Detroit, that's like only four hours for him. And he didn't come to as many games because I think he wasn't like as comfortable with like.

• 1:36:46Speaker 00

  The people around. Yeah, right.

• 1:36:48Speaker 05

  So I'm sure he'll be coming to a lot more now that I'm back in Chicago.

• 1:36:51Speaker 00

  They got it. The Blackhawks have to, I don't want to tell the, the social media team how to do their job, but like. Your dad's homecoming would be very funny of like him like shaking everyone's hand and being like, hey, he's back. Like this is awesome. They should absolutely do that. Yes. Absolutely gotta do that.

• 1:37:08Speaker 02

  Track how many miles he drives per year, coming back and forth to the games.

• 1:37:11Speaker 00

  Yeah. Like, like a new security guard being like, oh, the bathrooms. I was like, you don't have to tell me. I know. I know exactly where I'm going. Don't you worry.

• 1:37:18Speaker 05

  Might have to, uh, uh, keep that idea to yourself and maybe.

• 1:37:22Speaker 00

  Yeah. Well, I just said it. It's a free, free idea.

• 1:37:24Speaker 05

  Trademark it before it gets, gets popular.

• 1:37:27Speaker 00

  Yeah. We gotta get him. We gotta get him some ice cream too.

• 1:37:29Speaker 05

  Yeah. Oh, yeah. He'd probably love this place too.

• 1:37:31Speaker 00

  We did, uh, we, we, so Kane came on the stretch last year, which was great, but we told some of the stories, but I'll, I'll retell this one. The, the first time that Kane and I ever actually met was in 2013 on the, on the bus with the Stanley Cup. And he just walked up to me. He goes, who the fuck invited this blogger? And I almost shit myself. I was so fucking nervous because I already was like, well, I shouldn't be here.

• 1:37:58Speaker 05

  I bet you Sharpie like told me to do it or something.

• 1:38:00Speaker 00

  Dude, no, he, Sharpie like, he was like, no, he's cool. He's, he's all right. Because it was the, uh, party in the, the West Loop. Sharpie hit me up and was like, hey, come to this bar.

• 1:38:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:38:10Speaker 00

  You get to see the cup, take a picture with the cup. And I come and I take a picture with the cup and like after 20 minutes, I'm like. Patrick, thank you so much. Like I appreciate it so much. Like that was so incredible. What a night. And he goes, what do you mean? What a night? You're coming with us. I was like, what do you mean? I'm coming with you. And then it was just, he was like, yeah, get on the bus. And I remember I was doing, everyone was doing on social media. They were trying to do the, uh, like Stanley Cup tracker, like where the, the cup's going. Cause it would basically be, it was just go to a bar for 20 minutes, pop like 17 champagne bottles. Spray it everywhere. Get back on the bus. Go to another bar. So everyone's like, where's the cup going? Where's the cup going? And I was just giving updates and people were like, how, how do you know where it's going? And I just took a selfie with me and the cup sitting on the bus. I'm like, cause I'm staying, I'm right next to it.

• 1:38:54Speaker 00

  But yeah, that was a, and then by 15, you were like, oh, you were, you were pumped to see me.

• 1:38:58Speaker 05

  You're at Sharpie's house.

• 1:38:59Speaker 00

  Yeah. Sharpie's house and then on, on the field.

• 1:39:01Speaker 05

  Actually 15 was funny too, because uh, we did like a big picture. I think I told this on the stretch where we did a big, a big uh, picture with like the Blackhawks, the Cubs, the White Sox. Well, the White Sox were there, right?

• 1:39:14Speaker 00

  Uh, no.

• 1:39:15Speaker 05

  Was it just a Cubs?

• 1:39:15Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:39:16Speaker 05

  Okay. Blackhawks and Cubs. And then there's like two other guys in the picture and one of them was like my best buddy and the other one is, is a big cat.

• 1:39:24Speaker 02

  Yeah. Is that the one that was your, uh, your avatar for a while?

• 1:39:27Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:39:27Speaker 02

  And on the field at Wrigley?

• 1:39:29Speaker 00

  On the field at Wrigley. But that was because your buddy, your best friend.

• 1:39:32Speaker 05

  Yeah. He said that's all right.

• 1:39:33Speaker 00

  It was him who did it. So we were like, we were with the cup. We're walking uh, in the concourse. And it's like, all right, guys, ready to go on the field and Keener's best friend just looks at me, goes, we're going. And I was like, okay, we are. All right. Let's fucking go. And we're just waving at everyone in the outfield.

• 1:39:50Speaker 05

  Those were like such good times, such good memories.

• 1:39:53Speaker 00

  I also remember that we were at, I think we were at uh, Rocket when it was still in Wrigleyville. And it was like, maybe an hour after we left Sharpie's house and, and Corey Crawford, the goalie, uh, incredible goalie, was at Sharpie's front door being like, where, where is everyone?

• 1:40:10Speaker 00

  Sharpie's like, we left so long ago. That was that one. And then the, the, in 2015, one of my favorite uh, moments was uh, there's like a night, how the cup works is like, you guys go out with it, like the first, second night, uh, party, everything. And then the parade happens. And then like after the parade, there's always a night where the cup goes somewhere. And like all the behind the scenes staff, like all this ticket people, everyone from the Blackhawks gets to go. So it was at the Pony. And I showed up because uh, Sharpie told me like, go get your buddies to get a picture with the cup. Like go. He's like, I'm not going, but you go. And I'm sitting there and uh, Johnny O'Dooley is sitting at the table. And he looks at me, he goes, where is everyone? And I was like, Dude, I'm not on the team.

• 1:40:55Speaker 00

  Why are you asking me? He was the last one at the party. He was the only player there. He's like, where the fuck is everyone? I was like, I think they're done partying, dude.

• 1:41:03Speaker 05

  The night was for him too.

• 1:41:05Speaker 00

  Yeah, he's like, I just was gonna keep going out with the cup. When did you have to like, it's gotta be a different realization, I guess, for everybody, but what's the moment where you say to yourself, okay, I think, I think I'm done partying with the cup. Time to call it a night.

• 1:41:16Speaker 05

  Oh, man, there's a, there's actually, I feel like we got so used to it. In 2015, after we won, in the locker room, like this is right after. There's pictures of like me and my sisters and my buddies and the cup's just like behind us. Like, no one's even paying attention to it, you know? And, you know, that didn't happen very often, but there, there was just like, you know, one shot of it where it's just like chilling by itself, like behind everyone, you know?

• 1:41:45Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:41:45Speaker 05

  And.

• 1:41:46Speaker 00

  The cup's an afterthought.

• 1:41:47Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, so. But honestly, it was probably, I feel like guys stuck around for like a couple of weeks.

• 1:41:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:41:54Speaker 05

  And then, you know, once it gets around like a week, 10 days, guys are like, alright, I gotta, you know, maybe I gotta get out of here.

• 1:42:01Speaker 00

  Season comes around so fast. It's like.

• 1:42:03Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, especially right when you go that long, right?

• 1:42:06Speaker 00

  Right.

• 1:42:07Speaker 05

  So.

• 1:42:08Speaker 00

  It does have a curfew though, the cup.

• 1:42:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:42:10Speaker 00

  The guy, he would like, at like, I don't know, midnight, around then.

• 1:42:15Speaker 05

  I remember.

• 1:42:15Speaker 00

  Pack it in and be like, alright, that's enough cup tonight. But the party would keep going, but he'd be like, cup's gotta go home. It's got a curfew.

• 1:42:21Speaker 05

  In 2010, they said, we're gonna give you the cup a little bit later in the summer, but you're gonna have it in Buffalo. And then you're gonna bring it to Chicago the next day and bring it to Jimmy Buffett concert. So you're gonna have it for two days, you know? So I was like, yeah, that works, whatever. So we have it in Buffalo. We go to Jimmy Buffett concert. We take it out in Wrigleyville. And the guy with the cup's like, you know, I'll stay out with you guys a little bit later tonight, like,

• 1:42:45Speaker 05

  I'll stay out till like 2 or 3 a.m. So we're like all pumped up or whatever. And by that time, we're like spraying each other with champagne, like spraying each other with beers. Everybody's soaked. And we kind of look at the cup guy and we're like, should we spray him? And he's like, if you guys spray me, I'm taking the cup home. Spray him. Then he just got up all wet with the cup and went home. He was so mad. We were just like, maybe we shouldn't have did that, but.

• 1:43:11Speaker 00

  And he's the guy, the guy with the hair, which is he's, you can spot him from a mile away. Yeah, he's the man.

• 1:43:16Speaker 02

  He's got the white gloves.

• 1:43:17Speaker 00

  Yeah, there's a couple of them, but he fills the main guy. And you're just like, it's so funny, like the scene of being at a bar where it's just absolute chaos. And there's just this one guy who's sober, who's just staring at this thing being like, please don't drop it. Please don't fuck this.

• 1:43:33Speaker 05

  It always gets you dropped.

• 1:43:34Speaker 00

  Yeah, he's got the most stressful job in the world. Oh, man. All right. So have you thought about, like, is there any part of you, like, coming back where now you're, you are like the veteran in the locker room? I know you were the veterans when you were last with the Blackhawks, but the team's changed over. Is there like something that you're gonna, you know, take the boys out or something like that where it's like, try to help everyone? Cause it's a young team, you know, there's young guys who are just trying to get to the playoffs.

• 1:44:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'll have to figure it out a little bit, but I definitely want these, like, I want these kids to treat me like their teammate, you know? I don't want it to be like they're just like looking up to me or anything like that. Like, I want to be friends with these guys and have them, you know, treat me like one of their own. Like, if I, if I turn the puck over, I want someone to, like, yell at me for doing that, you know? Say, hey, you can't do that, you know? I want it to be the same across the board, that accountability. So, yeah, definitely try to get to know them a little bit more. You know, I've, I've skated with a lot of these guys in the past few summers, you know, like Nazar and Vlasic and Lev Shunov and Kaiser, guys like that.

• 1:44:40Speaker 05

  I've actually skated with, with Bedard at hockey camps before and whatnot. So I feel like I know these guys well. It's just more like, you know, just having the respect factor on an even level, right? So it's, it's kind of even across the board. But, um, yeah, someone, I saw something today that it was like Anton Frondel is closer in age with my son than, um, Than I am with him, you know? So it's like, it's like, these guys are pretty young, but at the same time, I feel like I've done really well with young players in the past, you know?

• 1:45:14Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:45:14Speaker 05

  Looking back on like Schmaltz and, and Hartman and, and those guys. And then it was like Panarin. And then it was, uh, DeBrincat, um, you know, Raymond in Detroit, you know, so I fit it off well with the young guys. So I'm not too, too concerned about it.

• 1:45:29Speaker 00

  When, when you, when you're in the summer, like, and you're going to skate, how long do you skate? This is a dumb question, but like.

• 1:45:36Speaker 05

  Um, I think every day's, every day's different.

• 1:45:38Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:45:39Speaker 05

  Like yesterday, we were on for like an hour and 15.

• 1:45:42Speaker 00

  And what are you guys doing? Just drills or you actually?

• 1:45:43Speaker 05

  Yesterday I was like, actually like a fun, like we do like a game day, you know, like, so we play like three on three across the ice or uh, neutral zone games. Um, other than that, like, uh, I've actually been, I've had some skates this year where it's just me and Frankie, Frankie Nazar on, on the ice. And we're just kinda like working on skills and stuff. So, um, kinda trying to develop some chemistry, chemistry with him a little bit, just because like he's here and, you know, I didn't, I mean, it wasn't like I was thinking I was gonna play here, but at the same time, in the back of my mind, I knew it was maybe an option, right? So you think about that stuff. Um, but yeah, I mean, every skate's different. It's probably anywhere from like an hour to an hour and a half.

• 1:46:25Speaker 00

  Yeah. Well, I actually had a question about the free agency because there was an article, I think in the Athletic, uh, your agent talking about it, like usually guys, you want to sign July 1st, July 2nd.

• 1:46:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:46:36Speaker 00

  Uh, and you were like, I want to take my time.

• 1:46:38Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:46:38Speaker 00

  Was there any time in those three weeks where you're like, fuck, I gotta, like, all this money's get going away? Like what's, you know?

• 1:46:45Speaker 05

  Uh, nah.

• 1:46:46Speaker 00

  Or spots are filling up?

• 1:46:48Speaker 05

  No, I, I never really thought, thought about it from, from the, you know, money aspect. I think it was, you know, at first you kind of feel that pressure, right? Because teams, I think they, they want an answer, right? Like especially early on. So, I felt that pressure a little bit from some teams and I was like, not ready to make a decision. So I was just gonna wait it out. And then after like the first two or three days, everything like really quieted down and I was pretty much like on my own schedule and my agents like, take as much time as you need. So that was kinda comforting. And um, yeah, it was pretty much between Buffalo and Chicago. So.

• 1:47:24Speaker 00

  Yeah. He said that he had like 10 different teams that were inquiring, which has got to feel good. You know, like at this point of your career, the teams are still wanting you.

• 1:47:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, there's so there's some great options out there and uh, you know, like I said, it was never really about the money or anything, just more about the fit and uh,

• 1:47:42Speaker 05

  I think uh, like, for me, from ages like five to 13, I would go to Sabres games, you know, that's what I would do like that. That's how I grew up. Like I loved being a Sabres fan and I love the Sabres. So, you know, that little like, kid you still have in you is like telling me to go back to Buffalo, but then, you know, you have like the nostalgia factor of Chicago and just like the fit here. So just it was, it was nice to have my time to just kind of like, go through it all and you'd talk to different people every day, whether it was, you know, like Danny Wirtz or Jeff Blashill or people in Buffalo, different players would reach out. You know, Bedard reached out saying he would love to have me here, things like that. So,

• 1:48:25Speaker 05

  makes you feel good and uh, gives you more information, the more time you have too, right?

• 1:48:29Speaker 00

  Yeah. Yeah. Are you a Bills fan?

• 1:48:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, I am.

• 1:48:32Speaker 00

  Have you seen the uh, the new stadium out there?

• 1:48:35Speaker 05

  I haven't been to it. Um, you know, I've seen different videos of it, but uh, I know they play Detroit, uh, actually I think in their, their home opener this year. So, place will be rocking.

• 1:48:45Speaker 00

  We're big Josh Allen guys.

• 1:48:47Speaker 05

  You guys love Josh Allen?

• 1:48:48Speaker 00

  Love Josh Allen. Well, we, we like got to know him before he even got drafted and he's been a friend of mine for a long time.

• 1:48:54Speaker 05

  He's come on the show?

• 1:48:55Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:48:55Speaker 05

  Oh, really?

• 1:48:56Speaker 00

  He's actually in the book.

• 1:48:57Speaker 05

  Oh, really?

• 1:48:57Speaker 00

  He wrote a chapter in the book.

• 1:48:58Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah. That's awesome.

• 1:48:59Speaker 02

  And then I, I was just looking at the new stadium today. They have a giant, I think it's like a 40 foot, folding table statue.

• 1:49:05Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:49:06Speaker 02

  That's broken and smashed down the middle. Have you ever, you ever broken a table?

• 1:49:09Speaker 05

  I've never broken a table.

• 1:49:10Speaker 02

  We gotta get you to do that.

• 1:49:11Speaker 05

  I, I don't think I'm Bills mafia, but. I'm a Bills fan, you know, so I'm not on that level.

• 1:49:16Speaker 00

  Maybe after you retire, you can just be the guy.

• 1:49:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, just gain like 50 pounds.

• 1:49:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, put on the Zuma's. Yeah. Start jumping through shit.

• 1:49:23Speaker 02

  That's what Ryan Fitzpatrick pretty much did.

• 1:49:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:49:25Speaker 02

  He's just like, I'm just gonna go to Bills games, get shirtless and drink a bunch of beer.

• 1:49:29Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:49:29Speaker 05

  Who is that?

• 1:49:30Speaker 02

  Uh, Fitzpatrick.

• 1:49:30Speaker 05

  Oh, really?

• 1:49:31Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:49:32Speaker 02

  Yeah, Fitz, he loves it up there.

• 1:49:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:49:34Speaker 02

  Do you have any, um, any superstitions? Cause we had, um, we had Strom on the show and he's got like a million superstitions.

• 1:49:40Speaker 05

  Oh, you got Don Strom on?

• 1:49:41Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:49:41Speaker 05

  Oh, really?

• 1:49:42Speaker 00

  He's got, it was actually insane. I don't know how he plays hockey game with the amount of superstitions he has.

• 1:49:46Speaker 02

  He has a full-time job.

• 1:49:47Speaker 05

  Some guys are like that. I, I'm not really like that with the superstitions. I think it's just more routine. You know, you kind of stick to just your routine of, you know, what comes natural and how you go about your day, but nothing really crazy like superstition wise.

• 1:50:00Speaker 02

  You got a pregame meal?

• 1:50:02Speaker 05

  Yeah, but I'll like switch it up. I, I won't, I won't, you know, stick to the same thing. Um, you know, if, if things are working, you know, you kind of keep it the same, but, um, it's not like I have to do, do something just, you know, because it's like superstition or, or routine, you know, I'll, I'll switch it up if I want.

• 1:50:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah. What about, what about playoff, uh, Mario Kart?

• 1:50:24Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:50:25Speaker 00

  That's, is that, is that something you'll bring back?

• 1:50:27Speaker 05

  I would love to bring that back. That would be, that would be incredible.

• 1:50:29Speaker 00

  Just locking in with the boys and play Mario Kart during any playoff run?

• 1:50:33Speaker 05

  Great way to, uh, turn off the brain a little bit.

• 1:50:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:50:36Speaker 05

  A little competition with the boys, you know, um, you know, it's a, it's a, it's the four man game, right?

• 1:50:41Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:50:41Speaker 05

  With the we, and then you'd have like a A, like an A game, like all the top players were in the A game. And then you'd have a B game, like, uh, guys that were trying to get up to the top level and win. And if you, if you were like the low guy, you got kicked out and the next guy would come in that won in the B level. So.

• 1:50:56Speaker 00

  Who was the best player?

• 1:50:58Speaker 05

  Um, I think John Merson was actually.

• 1:51:00Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:51:01Speaker 05

  John Merson was probably the best.

• 1:51:03Speaker 00

  John Merson was one of those guys that like, if you see him in a suit, you're like, how are you the toughest guy ever? Cause he looks like an accountant from Deloitte and you're just like, and you're, you're just nails. Like you are the toughest man.

• 1:51:14Speaker 05

  Oh, man. The way that guy played the game.

• 1:51:16Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:51:17Speaker 05

  I don't know how you play hockey like that.

• 1:51:18Speaker 00

  It's nuts.

• 1:51:19Speaker 05

  It can't be fun.

• 1:51:19Speaker 00

  No, and he's not like a big dude.

• 1:51:22Speaker 05

  Blocking shots, like, he would get run over all the time and it's just like, he'd become limping back to the bench. This guy's done.

• 1:51:29Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:51:30Speaker 05

  And then he'd be out there next shift.

• 1:51:31Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:51:31Speaker 02

  What Mario Kart character would you?

• 1:51:33Speaker 05

  Uh, what was I? It was, uh, King Boo.

• 1:51:37Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:51:37Speaker 02

  King Boo.

• 1:51:37Speaker 00

  Yeah. Oh, so it's a new Mario Kart?

• 1:51:39Speaker 05

  No, no, it was, it was the older one.

• 1:51:41Speaker 00

  Wait, King Boo?

• 1:51:42Speaker 02

  It's gotta be new one, right?

• 1:51:43Speaker 05

  I don't know if we unlocked the characters or whatever, but, uh...

• 1:51:46Speaker 02

  Was that on Wii?

• 1:51:47Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was on the Wii.

• 1:51:48Speaker 00

  Oh, Max, you know King Boo? Were you...

• 1:51:50Speaker 05

  Yeah, for sure.

• 1:51:51Speaker 02

  What does King Boo mean? What, what does that tell us about a guy?

• 1:51:53Speaker 03

  He's the big ghost.

• 1:51:54Speaker 00

  So is that like a...

• 1:51:55Speaker 03

  Power header, power header in the baseball.

• 1:51:56Speaker 00

  But he's slower, but he can hit everything?

• 1:51:58Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:51:59Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:51:59Speaker 05

  It's like perfect for me, right?

• 1:52:00Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get to just like cosplay as a big dude.

• 1:52:04Speaker 05

  I'm trying to think of some characters, uh... Seb's is Bowser.

• 1:52:07Speaker 00

  Okay. So that makes sense, right? That actually fits perfectly for him.

• 1:52:11Speaker 05

  Taser was Waluigi.

• 1:52:12Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:52:13Speaker 05

  Um...

• 1:52:14Speaker 00

  This actually is like a good experiment in like the personality.

• 1:52:16Speaker 05

  Sharpie was Princess Peach.

• 1:52:17Speaker 00

  Okay, that's perfect too? It's just a beauty?

• 1:52:23Speaker 00

  Oh, that's King Boo. Okay, I know King Boo.

• 1:52:25Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:52:25Speaker 00

  We gotta pull that off.

• 1:52:26Speaker 05

  I don't even remember who Jomerson was. Oh, uh, Jomerson might have been Wario.

• 1:52:30Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:52:31Speaker 05

  Um...

• 1:52:32Speaker 00

  That's good. That's a, yeah, break it down. That should be like a, a combine question.

• 1:52:37Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:52:37Speaker 00

  It's a good character in, in Mario Kart. Uh, Chief, you got any questions? You wanna come sit down for a sec? Chief's in here.

• 1:52:45Speaker 05

  Chief?

• 1:52:45Speaker 00

  You got something.

• 1:52:47Speaker 05

  I don't know why Chief didn't get into the show. They didn't wanna be in here, right?

• 1:52:50Speaker 00

  Yeah, he's been here, he's been here the whole time back in there. Yeah.

• 1:52:54Speaker 05

  Is it?

• 1:52:55Speaker 00

  Is that it?

• 1:52:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, I think so.

• 1:52:56Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 1:52:57Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:52:57Speaker 02

  Welcome, Chief.

• 1:52:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, thanks for having me. Big fan. A W L.

• 1:53:02Speaker 01

  No, I don't know. I, I guess it's like, it's kind of more serious question, but like the goals, like, do you, did you talk it to Davidson and Blashill? I'm dying to know what Danny Wirtz said to you too.

• 1:53:11Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah. Um, no, it was like, w- with Danny, I feel like it was actually like pretty emotional. Like, uh, you know, you start getting all the feels back when you're talking to him, but one thing he said was, um, "If you came back, it would be nothing like the city's ever seen before." So, you know, you start thinking about that, like, that's the city of Chicago and how great of a sports talent it is and the memories here. So that one, that one hit me pretty hard, but he was great. He was great on the phone. Davidson was, Kyle was, has been awesome through the whole thing. Um, uh, Blashill was actually very impressive. Just kind of breaking down the roster where he sees the team, where he sees guys kind of popping off. Uh, so he was great. Um...

• 1:53:56Speaker 01

  You got my dad to buy tickets again.

• 1:53:57Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:53:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, he, he had season tickets. From oh six to seventeen.

• 1:54:01Speaker 05

  No way, he gave him up.

• 1:54:03Speaker 01

  He gave him up.

• 1:54:04Speaker 00

  How'd he get off auto renew?

• 1:54:05Speaker 01

  I don't know.

• 1:54:06Speaker 00

  He's gotta tell me.

• 1:54:07Speaker 01

  He had some guy, Kevin.

• 1:54:09Speaker 05

  I think there's just a little bug.

• 1:54:12Speaker 01

  It was the day they traded Panarin and Jomers and he's like, I'm out. Yeah, that was it. But he texts me yesterday. He's like, we gotta get tickets. I'm like, alright.

• 1:54:19Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:54:19Speaker 01

  So.

• 1:54:20Speaker 05

  That's awesome.

• 1:54:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, so he's back. He's back in. Yeah.

• 1:54:23Speaker 00

  I love that.

• 1:54:23Speaker 05

  Yeah, I think this team has a lot of, a lot of potential, a lot of firepower.

• 1:54:29Speaker 05

  Just actually, when we played, when we played them last year here with Detroit, I think we beat them like four or five to one, but they, they like kinda like buzzed on us, you know, like they, they had some chances, they had some looks. Um, so I think there's, there's definitely, uh, some potential. So I'm excited for it. I mean, um, I feel like the last, you know, week or two, it's kind of been, you know, just like Chicago, I'm, I'm, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go to Chicago and just, you know, not really waiting on anything, but just, you know, kinda making sure it's the right, it's the right move and, uh,

• 1:55:04Speaker 05

  I think Buffalo would have been, you know, pretty fun too, but I think, uh, yeah, my heart was, was definitely here.

• 1:55:11Speaker 01

  Yeah, I think I set the record for refreshing Twitter the last three weeks. So, yeah, thanks for that.

• 1:55:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, no, I mean, like you guys, you guys are awesome. I mean, like the support you guys have given me and especially you, Chief, like throughout the years, like that's, that doesn't go unnoticed, you know, I, I, I love that part about you guys. So.

• 1:55:30Speaker 01

  Footpath, please.

• 1:55:32Speaker 00

  There you go.

• 1:55:32Speaker 05

  Give love where the love's due.

• 1:55:34Speaker 00

  Um, you got any other questions? We, we can go to Zach if you don't.

• 1:55:37Speaker 01

  Go to Zach.

• 1:55:37Speaker 00

  Alright Zach, alright, so put on the headphones, cater. Zach, you ready? This is a big moment for you.

• 1:55:42Speaker 05

  Headphones here?

• 1:55:43Speaker 00

  Yeah, headphones right there. Uh, Roback question, R H O B A C K dot com promo code TAKE, twenty percent off your first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, roback.com promo code TAKE. Zach, you're up. You ready?

• 1:55:55Speaker 06

  Oh, hey sir. How, how you doing, sir? Do more? I had a quick question.

• 1:55:59Speaker 00

  Zach's very nervous, if you can't tell, all the time. So don't.

• 1:56:02Speaker 06

  All good. I appreciate your time today very much. Thank you very much.

• 1:56:05Speaker 05

  Thanks for having me.

• 1:56:06Speaker 06

  You being here. Uh, I did have a quick question. Alright, so drafted eighteen, you're going into your twentieth season. You spent more time as a professional hockey player than not a professional.

• 1:56:14Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:56:15Speaker 06

  What's like a ma- what's the key to longevity? When it comes to playing at that kind of clip this long? And do, how many more years do you think you can execute that?

• 1:56:25Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's a good question. I think.

• 1:56:28Speaker 00

  Good question. Good question, Zach.

• 1:56:31Speaker 05

  Honestly, I think it comes down to the love of the game and just the desire to want to put the work in, whether it's the offseason, every day during the season, whatever it may be to keep your body right. I actually feel feel really good, so. Um, you know, not really, really sure how many years I have left, but um. You know, I signed a two-year contract. I mean, I would like to think I could still play after that. We'll see, but um. Uh, yeah, I think at this point, especially, you know, thirty-seven, turning thirty-eight this year, it's probably more of like a year-to-year thing. And uh, um, we'll see as we go, but I still love the game, still love playing. Um.

• 1:57:14Speaker 05

  Definitely excited that I got a two-year contract. Um, you know, the last few years, I think every year's the last three years, it's been one-year contracts along the way, so. Um, nice to get a two-year deal and kind of uh, try and see this thing through a little bit here in Chicago.

• 1:57:31Speaker 00

  Yeah, good question, Zach. You got a follow-up?

• 1:57:34Speaker 06

  Uh, you spoke a little bit earlier in the interview about how uh, you feel it's important for your teammates to look at you, not just as like, uh, someone to look up to and more so as a teammate. Uh, do you feel a responsibility, though, to kind of try to pass on those same values to the younger guys and instill that in them for the team or or not so much?

• 1:57:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I'm gonna try to help these guys as much as possible. I mean, I want to uh, any way I can help, um, you know, whether it's help Connor as much as possible, help, you know, Frankie, help all these guys. Uh, um, I think one of the the best things you can do in in uh, in the NHL is play with confidence and uh, if you have that confidence, that swagger, which I feel like a lot of these guys do, and take it on to the ice and play. You know, not like pond hockey, but play the right way. I think the sky's the limit, especially with the potential here. So, um, yeah, I'm gonna help as much as I possibly can, but I do think it is important that, you know, I'm, I'm one of the guys, you know, I'm not just

• 1:58:35Speaker 05

  like the old guy in the room that's, uh, you know, riding into the sunset and, you know, just, uh, accepting his money and moving on, you know, like I still want to play. I want to be a player. I want to, uh, help the team as much as possible and be a factor. So, um, that's going to be important.

• 1:58:52Speaker 00

  Zach, by the way, I did a bad job of introducing him. He is, uh, he's, he and Jacob are the cream team here. So they have, when I bought, yeah, when I bought the ice cream machine, I told Zach and Jacob.

• 1:59:05Speaker 01

  What were you thinking?

• 1:59:06Speaker 05

  I was like, what's the cream?

• 1:59:08Speaker 00

  Yeah, I told Zach and Jacob, I was like, as long as this ice cream machine works, you have a job. Uh, now they've done a lot more since then, but, uh,

• 1:59:17Speaker 05

  Fix it at all?

• 1:59:19Speaker 00

  They've had to fix it. They have to make sure it's running. They got to get the deliveries.

• 1:59:22Speaker 05

  How's the, uh, what do you get? Do you guys have one flavor?

• 1:59:25Speaker 00

  Chocolate vanilla.

• 1:59:26Speaker 05

  Chocolate.

• 1:59:26Speaker 00

  With toppings. Yeah, everything. So Zach will get you hooked up.

• 1:59:30Speaker 02

  Waffle cones, sugar cones, uh, the real thin crispy cones.

• 1:59:34Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:59:35Speaker 01

  He was, he was here on Saturday.

• 1:59:36Speaker 05

  A lot of options.

• 1:59:37Speaker 00

  What?

• 1:59:37Speaker 01

  Zach was here Saturday.

• 1:59:39Speaker 00

  Oh yeah. Fixing it. Yeah. Cause we had some issues.

• 1:59:41Speaker 02

  Yeah. It's like anything else in life. You know, there's ups and downs, but right now we're in a back in a good spot.

• 1:59:46Speaker 05

  Oh, boy, Zach.

• 1:59:47Speaker 00

  Yeah. If it's not working for Kane, admit it, like I'll,

• 1:59:52Speaker 06

  I'll hit the side door. I'll understand.

• 1:59:54Speaker 03

  He did say the lever was left down for a little bit.

• 1:59:56Speaker 00

  Oh no.

• 1:59:57Speaker 03

  They took care of that before the interview.

• 1:59:59Speaker 02

  I don't know what else he can do. He put up a sign that says, do not leave the lever down. If people won't look after their things, then that's kind of on them. Zach can't police.

• 2:00:06Speaker 00

  We might have to start finding people who leave the lever down.

• 2:00:09Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:00:10Speaker 06

  With me against that.

• 2:00:11Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 2:00:11Speaker 06

  Maybe hard time.

• 2:00:13Speaker 00

  Put him in jail.

• 2:00:14Speaker 02

  Mincy was in charge of the toppings bar, but I think that lasted about one day.

• 2:00:17Speaker 00

  Yeah, no, that didn't work. That didn't work. All right. Well, uh, Kane, thank you so much.

• 2:00:22Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 2:00:22Speaker 00

  Welcome back. It's such an awesome, awesome thing. And, uh, I can't wait to watch you play hockey in, uh, at the United Center.

• 2:00:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's gonna be great. I'm glad I got to make my debut on Pardon My Take.

• 2:00:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:00:34Speaker 05

  The same day as Chief.

• 2:00:35Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah.

• 2:00:37Speaker 01

  We're just locked together all the time.

• 2:00:38Speaker 00

  Going down the history books.

• 2:00:39Speaker 02

  Great day. It's like when Dolly Parton wrote, I will always love you and Jolene on the same day.

• 2:00:44Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:00:45Speaker 05

  She did that on the same day?

• 2:00:46Speaker 02

  Same, great day. This is a better day.

• 2:00:47Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:00:48Speaker 05

  Two heavy hitters, same day, same day.

• 2:00:51Speaker 00

  All right. Thanks so much, man.

• 2:00:53Speaker 02

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• 2:02:32Speaker 00

  All right. Mount Rushmore time. Look alive, everyone. Uh, it is the Mount Rushmore of things you eat with a spoon. And right now it is myself, Max, memes at 30 points, PFT at 23, Hank and Zach at 19. I do have a question before we start. We left the listeners on a little bit of a cliffhanger on Friday with the takeys. Who said kumbaya first?

• 2:02:57Speaker 04

  I said the words kumbaya first.

• 2:02:59Speaker 00

  Oh, interesting.

• 2:03:00Speaker 02

  I thought so.

• 2:03:01Speaker 00

  Interesting.

• 2:03:04Speaker 04

  That's it.

• 2:03:05Speaker 00

  You want to say something to me?

• 2:03:07Speaker 04

  I said it. I said it. I made.

• 2:03:08Speaker 00

  You claimed that I did.

• 2:03:09Speaker 04

  Well, you guys were trying to do kumbaya. I said that I was physically the first person to say kumbaya. So on a technicality, you were right.

• 2:03:17Speaker 02

  I said that Hank said it. And then Hank, you also gaslit me by telling me that I was gaslighting you.

• 2:03:22Speaker 00

  And you then gaslit me and made me almost cop to it.

• 2:03:25Speaker 04

  I was just fighting back and you guys were like, why are you fighting back? This was supposed to be like a fun Mount Rushmore. And I said, oh, I forgot we're doing kumbaya. So again, like I was not the one pushing for kumbaya. I just said.

• 2:03:36Speaker 00

  None of us were.

• 2:03:37Speaker 02

  You guys socially implied it and then he said the word.

• 2:03:39Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 2:03:40Speaker 00

  Oh, Zach.

• 2:03:42Speaker 04

  There was social implication.

• 2:03:43Speaker 02

  Social implication.

• 2:03:44Speaker 00

  I socially implied it after Hank scoffed at the fact that he said that you couldn't just eat turkey.

• 2:03:51Speaker 02

  I forgot that Hank said that.

• 2:03:52Speaker 03

  That was crazy.

• 2:03:52Speaker 00

  That was crazy. That was everything.

• 2:03:55Speaker 02

  That's a very funny thing to say.

• 2:03:56Speaker 00

  Started.

• 2:03:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, I said it first. I said it first.

• 2:04:00Speaker 02

  So why, why did you just now say technically I was the first person to have?

• 2:04:04Speaker 04

  Because I was not the one that was like, I was trying to fight back.

• 2:04:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:04:08Speaker 04

  I didn't want kumbaya.

• 2:04:10Speaker 00

  Neither do I.

• 2:04:11Speaker 04

  But you, you were like, this is supposed to be a fun Mount Rushmore. We thought we did one.

• 2:04:14Speaker 00

  No, we thought we were.

• 2:04:15Speaker 04

  There's going to be no disagreements.

• 2:04:15Speaker 00

  It was the easing into the first one. Yeah.

• 2:04:17Speaker 04

  Yeah. Yeah. You wanted a fun, easy kumbaya.

• 2:04:20Speaker 00

  So you said the kumbaya word.

• 2:04:21Speaker 04

  I said the kumbaya word. I said that.

• 2:04:23Speaker 00

  Okay. All right. Mount Rushmore of things you eat with a spoon.

• 2:04:29Speaker 00

  Who lets the order? We screwed up every time we go. All right. So we're first.

• 2:04:33Speaker 02

  I have a question.

• 2:04:33Speaker 03

  So we're back to first on Mondays, by the way.

• 2:04:35Speaker 02

  I have a question.

• 2:04:36Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:04:37Speaker 02

  Hank and Zach, have you guys won yet?

• 2:04:39Speaker 04

  No.

• 2:04:41Speaker 02

  Okay. Cause I saw that stat. I didn't know if it was true.

• 2:04:44Speaker 04

  It's true.

• 2:04:45Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 2:04:47Speaker 04

  You guys, yeah, I mean, the lava lamp was bullshit. You won that one. Your team, I mean, big guy chicken's head, but you could have voted and you didn't. So it's.

• 2:04:55Speaker 00

  No, my team voted.

• 2:04:56Speaker 04

  I know.

• 2:04:57Speaker 00

  My team voted.

• 2:04:58Speaker 04

  For it.

• 2:04:58Speaker 02

  Max voted.

• 2:04:59Speaker 00

  No, no. Oh, yeah. Max had voted for it.

• 2:05:01Speaker 03

  I voted on, no, I did. I voted on behalf of PFT.

• 2:05:03Speaker 00

  Yeah, that was stupid.

• 2:05:05Speaker 02

  Whatever. That's a democracy.

• 2:05:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:05:08Speaker 02

  Kumaya.

• 2:05:09Speaker 03

  Kumaya.

• 2:05:10Speaker 04

  Yeah, you said who's you didn't vote though you didn't vote with your heart you voted with you literally said who's gonna get the least mad at me.

• 2:05:17Speaker 03

  Correct.

• 2:05:17Speaker 04

  So that's not really democracy, but.

• 2:05:19Speaker 02

  That is.

• 2:05:20Speaker 03

  That's kind of.

• 2:05:21Speaker 02

  You can vote for whatever reason you want to vote.

• 2:05:22Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:05:23Speaker 00

  Wait, and aren't you wrong now because Hank's the most mad at you?

• 2:05:26Speaker 02

  True.

• 2:05:27Speaker 00

  So that backfired.

• 2:05:28Speaker 03

  I actually but I'm used to Hank being mad at me.

• 2:05:30Speaker 00

  Got it. That's resting.

• 2:05:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:05:32Speaker 00

  That's resting level.

• 2:05:35Speaker 00

  Oh, man. Championship or bust for Max is not.

• 2:05:38Speaker 03

  We're we're doing Rushmore right.

• 2:05:40Speaker 00

  All right, okay. All right.

• 2:05:41Speaker 04

  Is it championship or bust for you guys?

• 2:05:43Speaker 00

  For what?

• 2:05:44Speaker 04

  Rushmore season?

• 2:05:45Speaker 00

  No.

• 2:05:45Speaker 03

  Just can't come in last.

• 2:05:46Speaker 00

  Can't come in last. You know the answer to that. It's always been Rushmore.

• 2:05:51Speaker 04

  But with this big of a lead.

• 2:05:52Speaker 00

  It's there's a lot I heard from this guy. There's a lot to left to play.

• 2:05:56Speaker 03

  No ring is a big three. That would be.

• 2:05:57Speaker 00

  Why are you coming in my team? I'm not the one who asked.

• 2:05:59Speaker 04

  Question.

• 2:06:00Speaker 00

  I but I'm not the one who asked you if you'd won one. That was PFT.

• 2:06:02Speaker 04

  I was asking if you guys are championship or bust.

• 2:06:04Speaker 00

  Do you think PFT actually was asking that question or do you think he knew the answer?

• 2:06:07Speaker 04

  He knew the answer.

• 2:06:07Speaker 02

  I didn't know.

• 2:06:08Speaker 00

  He was being you you're you're being a little cheeky with it.

• 2:06:11Speaker 02

  I was being curious.

• 2:06:13Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 2:06:13Speaker 03

  PFT is so cheeky.

• 2:06:15Speaker 00

  All right. Ah.

• 2:06:16Speaker 02

  You're cracking.

• 2:06:18Speaker 00

  Oh, that is a great shirt. Get a life, a football life.

• 2:06:23Speaker 02

  Oh, fuck, yeah.

• 2:06:24Speaker 00

  That guy rocks. Okay, we have the first pick.

• 2:06:28Speaker 02

  And who's second?

• 2:06:30Speaker 00

  Hank and Zach. Is that correct?

• 2:06:33Speaker 02

  Correct.

• 2:06:34Speaker 00

  Memes?

• 2:06:36Speaker 02

  Correct.

• 2:06:36Speaker 00

  Are you sure you don't sound?

• 2:06:38Speaker 04

  PFT.

• 2:06:39Speaker 00

  What's that?

• 2:06:40Speaker 04

  It's the same order every time.

• 2:06:41Speaker 00

  But the problem is when we miss a day then like because I I was used to like Friday, we go last. Now it's Monday. We go or Friday, we go first. Now it's Monday. We go first. All right. Our first pick is ice cream.

• 2:06:50Speaker 02

  Good pick.

• 2:06:50Speaker 03

  It's a good pick.

• 2:06:51Speaker 00

  I'm an ice cream guy through and through. Had to do it.

• 2:06:55Speaker 03

  There's no other way. Had to be ice cream.

• 2:06:56Speaker 00

  Yep, had to be ice cream.

• 2:06:57Speaker 04

  All right. And then we talked about this earlier, but this means we get all the entirety of all all of them. We're going to take soup.

• 2:07:03Speaker 00

  Okay, good pick.

• 2:07:04Speaker 02

  It's all soup.

• 2:07:05Speaker 03

  Good pick.

• 2:07:06Speaker 00

  Good pick.

• 2:07:07Speaker 02

  Good pick.

• 2:07:07Speaker 00

  I'm going to go with. I mean, there's a clear one, two in this draft, so third is there's a tough spot to be.

• 2:07:18Speaker 02

  I'm gonna go with gelato.

• 2:07:22Speaker 03

  Here we go. Here we go.

• 2:07:25Speaker 02

  Okay. What?

• 2:07:27Speaker 03

  You're gonna go with gelato?

• 2:07:29Speaker 00

  It's ice cream.

• 2:07:29Speaker 06

  Good pick.

• 2:07:30Speaker 02

  It's different. It's different from ice cream.

• 2:07:31Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 2:07:33Speaker 03

  You're gonna go with gelato. We picked ice cream and you're gonna go with gelato.

• 2:07:37Speaker 02

  It's different from ice cream. It's a different dish.

• 2:07:40Speaker 03

  I would like for you to explain it to me.

• 2:07:41Speaker 00

  Should we put it?

• 2:07:42Speaker 03

  I would like for you to explain to me the difference.

• 2:07:43Speaker 02

  Okay, uh, it's got a different.

• 2:07:46Speaker 00

  I'm fine with it.

• 2:07:46Speaker 02

  Fat content.

• 2:07:49Speaker 03

  Great. That was a great explanation of the difference.

• 2:07:52Speaker 02

  I honestly don't know. I'll be honest with you. I don't know the difference between gelato and ice cream.

• 2:07:56Speaker 00

  I'm fine.

• 2:07:56Speaker 06

  Any more air whipped in?

• 2:07:57Speaker 02

  I don't. I don't know it. So, point taken. I won't take gelato.

• 2:08:00Speaker 00

  No, you can take gelato.

• 2:08:01Speaker 02

  No, it's bad. No.

• 2:08:02Speaker 00

  Max, you let him take. No, gelato's the pick.

• 2:08:05Speaker 02

  I would.

• 2:08:05Speaker 00

  We're not protesting. We're not officially protesting.

• 2:08:07Speaker 02

  I withdraw my pick.

• 2:08:08Speaker 00

  No, you can't do that. You picked it.

• 2:08:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, you picked it.

• 2:08:10Speaker 02

  It's a valid point.

• 2:08:11Speaker 00

  You picked it. The pick is in. Gelato. We're not. We're not. We're not making a protest. We're not protesting.

• 2:08:17Speaker 03

  Pick is in.

• 2:08:17Speaker 00

  Okay. You're not protesting gelato.

• 2:08:19Speaker 02

  I'm gonna go mashed potatoes.

• 2:08:20Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 2:08:20Speaker 03

  It was on our list.

• 2:08:21Speaker 02

  Second pick.

• 2:08:22Speaker 00

  Good pick. Good pick.

• 2:08:23Speaker 06

  I use a fork.

• 2:08:24Speaker 00

  Hank? Zach?

• 2:08:27Speaker 04

  Think we go three?

• 2:08:28Speaker 06

  You think three?

• 2:08:29Speaker 04

  You think four? I'll let you pick. Four, three.

• 2:08:31Speaker 06

  All right, uh, all right, we would like to take cereal.

• 2:08:33Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:08:33Speaker 00

  How did that fall?

• 2:08:35Speaker 03

  How did cereal fall?

• 2:08:36Speaker 00

  How did it fall?

• 2:08:37Speaker 02

  It's a good pick.

• 2:08:38Speaker 03

  Soup is soup.

• 2:08:39Speaker 00

  I was shocked. I didn't say anything after PFT's pick because I was like, how did? You guys won. You guys won.

• 2:08:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, just won.

• 2:08:45Speaker 00

  PFT jinxed that you guys hadn't won and then you didn't take cereal with his first two picks.

• 2:08:49Speaker 03

  That's a great win. Congrats. Why did you not take cereal?

• 2:08:52Speaker 02

  Dude, I was like. You can make the argument that cereal's a type of soup.

• 2:08:55Speaker 00

  Dude. That was one of the most shocking things I've ever seen.

• 2:08:59Speaker 03

  I liked that argument. I liked that argument.

• 2:09:02Speaker 02

  Tell me why. Tell me why cereal is different from soup.

• 2:09:04Speaker 03

  I liked that argument.

• 2:09:05Speaker 06

  It's not cooked. Soup's in a can. Cereal's in a box.

• 2:09:08Speaker 03

  Despacho is also not.

• 2:09:09Speaker 00

  I was shocked. I was. The only reason I didn't say anything is because I was hoping that you guys didn't take it.

• 2:09:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:09:15Speaker 06

  We thought about taking.

• 2:09:15Speaker 00

  It was such a.

• 2:09:16Speaker 03

  I realized that that's what you were doing and that's why I was like, all right, fine, let him have it.

• 2:09:19Speaker 00

  It was the most.

• 2:09:21Speaker 03

  But we fucked up.

• 2:09:21Speaker 00

  It was the most one, two, three, everyone gets an awesome pick. Ice cream, soup, cereal.

• 2:09:27Speaker 02

  I think cereal is a clear third.

• 2:09:29Speaker 06

  Oh, we did think about taking ice cream lamp, but.

• 2:09:34Speaker 03

  Now this, alright, now we're

• 2:09:38Speaker 00

  That's what gets interesting. Now we're buckling up.

• 2:09:41Speaker 03

  No, I can't believe that.

• 2:09:42Speaker 00

  You want to do that, Beavs?

• 2:09:44Speaker 05

  I like 11.

• 2:09:45Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 2:09:47Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 2:09:49Speaker 00

  BFD, you remember?

• 2:09:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, here we go. Here we go.

• 2:09:53Speaker 00

  Our team voting for you. Lollapalooza, which got you a win.

• 2:09:58Speaker 00

  Uh, we're gonna take. We're gonna take chili.

• 2:10:02Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:10:03Speaker 00

  Is chili a soup?

• 2:10:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, no, no.

• 2:10:05Speaker 03

  No, no, chili's different.

• 2:10:06Speaker 02

  It's not a soup. I had chili on my list, too.

• 2:10:08Speaker 00

  You good with that, Hank?

• 2:10:09Speaker 03

  So you, you would have fall for chili as well?

• 2:10:10Speaker 02

  Yes, chili is not a soup.

• 2:10:11Speaker 03

  Chili is not a soup.

• 2:10:12Speaker 00

  Are you, are you good with that, Hank and Zach?

• 2:10:13Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 2:10:14Speaker 00

  I do think chili is different than soups.

• 2:10:16Speaker 02

  It is.

• 2:10:16Speaker 00

  Like, we're not taking, you know, clam chowder or anything like that. Chili is a different category.

• 2:10:22Speaker 05

  Then six or seven?

• 2:10:23Speaker 03

  I like six or seven, yeah.

• 2:10:25Speaker 00

  I think seven.

• 2:10:25Speaker 03

  I think, I think six.

• 2:10:26Speaker 00

  I think seven.

• 2:10:29Speaker 03

  Okay, seven.

• 2:10:29Speaker 00

  Wow, what, me, Beavs?

• 2:10:31Speaker 05

  I think we could get seven on the.

• 2:10:32Speaker 03

  I think, I think we can get six on the way back.

• 2:10:35Speaker 00

  I do, too.

• 2:10:35Speaker 03

  I think we get six.

• 2:10:36Speaker 05

  I'm not, I'm not looking at my phone.

• 2:10:37Speaker 00

  Six, seven. I think we get six on the way back.

• 2:10:40Speaker 02

  You think we get six on the way back?

• 2:10:41Speaker 00

  I do, I do.

• 2:10:45Speaker 03

  Six, six.

• 2:10:46Speaker 00

  No!

• 2:10:47Speaker 03

  Alright, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven. Six, no, no, no, no, no.

• 2:10:51Speaker 00

  I'm on the booth to decide.

• 2:10:52Speaker 03

  Seven.

• 2:10:53Speaker 02

  You think seven?

• 2:10:54Speaker 03

  What do you think?

• 2:10:55Speaker 02

  I think six.

• 2:10:55Speaker 00

  What do you think, Hank? Hank, you decide, six or seven?

• 2:11:00Speaker 04

  Eight.

• 2:11:00Speaker 00

  No.

• 2:11:01Speaker 05

  Oh, no.

• 2:11:01Speaker 00

  You gotta say six or seven.

• 2:11:03Speaker 03

  No, definitely not eight. That big cat was fighting for eight.

• 2:11:05Speaker 00

  Oh, eight, eight, we'll, we'll have a conversation about it afterwards.

• 2:11:10Speaker 04

  I think you guys have enough people, you can figure it out.

• 2:11:13Speaker 00

  Alright, you pick it, Max.

• 2:11:14Speaker 03

  What are we doing?

• 2:11:15Speaker 05

  Six.

• 2:11:17Speaker 03

  We're definitely doing six?

• 2:11:18Speaker 00

  This is a little too.

• 2:11:19Speaker 03

  Alright, peanut butter.

• 2:11:20Speaker 00

  Peanut butter.

• 2:11:21Speaker 03

  Spoonful of peanut butter.

• 2:11:22Speaker 00

  It's great.

• 2:11:23Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 2:11:23Speaker 00

  It's fantastic. Just, you gotta, I mean, you can't do it without anything else.

• 2:11:27Speaker 02

  Yeah. It's Blake's favorite thing.

• 2:11:30Speaker 04

  You like five, Zach?

• 2:11:32Speaker 00

  I like five for you guys.

• 2:11:34Speaker 04

  Or seven?

• 2:11:35Speaker 02

  Do seven.

• 2:11:35Speaker 00

  Seven, seven, is your seven R7?

• 2:11:38Speaker 03

  Seven, seven, sneaky good.

• 2:11:39Speaker 02

  Seven. What do you think about one in the middle of the list?

• 2:11:42Speaker 03

  Little friends reference.

• 2:11:43Speaker 04

  What number?

• 2:11:44Speaker 02

  Uh, it's number one between one and 21.

• 2:11:48Speaker 00

  You guys have, no pressure. I don't want to put any pressure on you guys. You can't lose this draft. Shut the fuck up. You can't lose this draft. In a spoon draft, you cannot lose this.

• 2:12:00Speaker 02

  What do you think Hank? You think we go?

• 2:12:02Speaker 00

  It's a huge pick.

• 2:12:04Speaker 05

  This is like pizza topping equivalent.

• 2:12:06Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah.

• 2:12:08Speaker 04

  Alright, we'll go, we'll go mac and cheese.

• 2:12:10Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 2:12:12Speaker 02

  Mac and cheese with a spoon.

• 2:12:14Speaker 00

  I always eat with a fork. Wow.

• 2:12:16Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 2:12:16Speaker 00

  I always eat with a fork.

• 2:12:17Speaker 02

  Same, but that's fine.

• 2:12:18Speaker 04

  I do with a spoon.

• 2:12:19Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 2:12:20Speaker 02

  To each his own.

• 2:12:21Speaker 00

  What about like Chick-fil-A mac and cheese?

• 2:12:25Speaker 04

  What about it?

• 2:12:25Speaker 02

  That might be a spoon.

• 2:12:26Speaker 04

  They give you utensils with everything.

• 2:12:27Speaker 00

  I know, but like that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a hearty mac and cheese. They for sure. That's a hearty mac and cheese.

• 2:12:35Speaker 04

  If I'm making mac and cheese on the stove, I'm putting it in a bowl and eating it with a spoon.

• 2:12:39Speaker 02

  It's like, yeah, if you're making like blue box, I will give you that. When I stir it up, I usually typically eat the mac and cheese with the same thing I stirred it with.

• 2:12:47Speaker 04

  Right.

• 2:12:47Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:12:47Speaker 04

  Which is a spoon.

• 2:12:48Speaker 02

  Yeah, alright.

• 2:12:49Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 2:12:52Speaker 00

  I actually, I, I do too. We had an internal debate. Yeah, we had a, we had a fight. They didn't want me to pick it because they all, only, Max and memes only eat it with a fork. I only eat it with a spoon.

• 2:13:04Speaker 02

  I think that'll cause some division out there.

• 2:13:05Speaker 00

  No, but I'm, I'm a spooner.

• 2:13:07Speaker 02

  There'll be some people.

• 2:13:07Speaker 00

  If you're eating Kraft mac and cheese, you have to use a spoon. Yeah. That's a fact. Like that's, you, I don't, I asked memes how he gets the rest out of the bowl and he said he dipped the bowl. I was like, you're savage. Just use a fucking spoon, dude.

• 2:13:18Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:13:19Speaker 00

  I, there is a like elevated version of mac and cheese, but that's like a steakhouse mac and cheese. That's, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's like on a side, yeah. Yeah, the big noodles. But yeah, Kraft mac and cheese or Annie's, you gotta, you gotta use a spoon.

• 2:13:32Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:13:33Speaker 00

  Alright.

• 2:13:34Speaker 02

  Alright, um, I'm gonna go with, uh, with yogurt.

• 2:13:38Speaker 00

  Mm. On our list.

• 2:13:39Speaker 02

  Good pick, good pick.

• 2:13:40Speaker 00

  Good pick, good pick.

• 2:13:41Speaker 02

  How else are you gonna get that fruit on the bottom?

• 2:13:42Speaker 00

  Yep, good pick. Good pick.

• 2:13:45Speaker 02

  And then, this is a thin, it's a thin draft.

• 2:13:50Speaker 00

  Oh, we had 22.

• 2:13:52Speaker 04

  We had 20.

• 2:13:56Speaker 02

  Applesauce.

• 2:13:57Speaker 00

  I guess it is.

• 2:13:58Speaker 02

  Applesauce.

• 2:13:58Speaker 00

  Did you have cereal on your list?

• 2:14:00Speaker 02

  I did have cereal on my list. It wasn't popping at the time. It didn't, it didn't ju- jump off the page.

• 2:14:06Speaker 03

  Had to jump off the page.

• 2:14:07Speaker 02

  Listen, I, I love Honey Nut Cheerios, but at the time, maybe it's because I'm hungry for dinner right now.

• 2:14:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:14:13Speaker 02

  I wasn't, I wasn't feeling, this is actually gonna, cereal is gonna play really good in the morning.

• 2:14:19Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:14:19Speaker 02

  On that graph.

• 2:14:20Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:14:20Speaker 02

  People on the west coast.

• 2:14:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:14:21Speaker 02

  It's gonna be nine AM, cereal's gonna hit like crack. Yeah.

• 2:14:24Speaker 00

  Applesauce is a good pick though. We had applesauce as well.

• 2:14:28Speaker 04

  I think send it Zach.

• 2:14:29Speaker 06

  What do you think with send it?

• 2:14:30Speaker 00

  Alright, finish it off. Put a bow on it Zach.

• 2:14:33Speaker 04

  I think.

• 2:14:33Speaker 06

  Do you feel good about that one that's written in between the two lists or no?

• 2:14:36Speaker 04

  I do, but it's us.

• 2:14:39Speaker 06

  I know, man.

• 2:14:40Speaker 02

  Do it Zach.

• 2:14:41Speaker 03

  You guys got this.

• 2:14:42Speaker 00

  You got this.

• 2:14:43Speaker 06

  Or what do you think about eight?

• 2:14:44Speaker 02

  You can't lose.

• 2:14:44Speaker 00

  Honestly, you should be high stepping. You should be Deion high stepping in the end zone.

• 2:14:49Speaker 04

  Safe pick.

• 2:14:49Speaker 00

  No, don't go see, you guys have it. You guys have stupid cereal.

• 2:14:54Speaker 02

  You're up 25 points in the Super Bowl. Go for it.

• 2:14:57Speaker 03

  Go eight, go eight, go eight.

• 2:14:58Speaker 00

  Sad Zach. Zach, you used to, like, people look to you to be like, you know.

• 2:15:03Speaker 06

  Remember when you threw that? We're gonna go pudding.

• 2:15:05Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:15:06Speaker 06

  You guys won.

• 2:15:07Speaker 00

  It's fine.

• 2:15:07Speaker 03

  It's a good pick if you're 80.

• 2:15:09Speaker 00

  It's fine.

• 2:15:10Speaker 03

  That's a good pick.

• 2:15:10Speaker 02

  Pudding's good.

• 2:15:11Speaker 03

  Pudding's good.

• 2:15:12Speaker 00

  Pudding's good, pudding's good, pudding's good. Um, okay.

• 2:15:15Speaker 03

  Seven. Yeah, we knew it was.

• 2:15:17Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:15:17Speaker 03

  It got back.

• 2:15:17Speaker 00

  It's gonna fall.

• 2:15:18Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 2:15:18Speaker 00

  Fried rice.

• 2:15:19Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 2:15:19Speaker 00

  Fried rice, out of the container with a spoon.

• 2:15:22Speaker 03

  Okay, great.

• 2:15:23Speaker 00

  Uh, alright, what do we got missed?

• 2:15:26Speaker 04

  The one we were gonna take debating was Cookie Skillet.

• 2:15:28Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 2:15:29Speaker 02

  Ooh, yeah.

• 2:15:30Speaker 00

  Yeah, we had, we had molten lava cake on there. I'll give you a spoon for that.

• 2:15:33Speaker 02

  I, usually I, I'll eat cheesesteak with a spoon too, or cheesecake with a spoon.

• 2:15:38Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:15:38Speaker 03

  Chees- cheesesteak, I was.

• 2:15:40Speaker 02

  Cheesecake, no.

• 2:15:40Speaker 00

  Alright, so here's, here's what else we had. Would you have?

• 2:15:43Speaker 03

  Get mad.

• 2:15:43Speaker 00

  Would you have fought against, uh, jambalaya's soup?

• 2:15:47Speaker 02

  Uh.

• 2:15:48Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 2:15:48Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 2:15:49Speaker 00

  Okay. Cause gumbo's a soup.

• 2:15:51Speaker 03

  Jambalaya's soup. Jambalaya's pretty dense.

• 2:15:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:15:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:15:54Speaker 03

  I think jambalaya would have played gumbo, no.

• 2:15:56Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:15:57Speaker 02

  The only thing is with jambalaya, there's usually, you got shrimp in there. That's a fork food.

• 2:16:02Speaker 00

  Um, I had, uh, chicken pot pie.

• 2:16:07Speaker 00

  Chicken pot pie with with a spoon, red beans and rice.

• 2:16:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, chicken pot pie is that's a miss.

• 2:16:12Speaker 00

  Yeah, chicken pot pie is great with spoon, Italian ice.

• 2:16:15Speaker 04

  Italian ice we had.

• 2:16:16Speaker 00

  Hank, did you have this one? I thought you would say it.

• 2:16:19Speaker 04

  Oatmeal?

• 2:16:19Speaker 00

  Favorite. No, oatmeal sucks. We had it. Street corn.

• 2:16:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, I had like I I I had it high. Zach was right. He's like, it's kind of niche.

• 2:16:28Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:16:28Speaker 04

  It's true.

• 2:16:29Speaker 00

  But I thought of you when I thought of it.

• 2:16:30Speaker 04

  Cream corn is is delicious.

• 2:16:32Speaker 00

  Yeah. Um, we also had baked beans.

• 2:16:37Speaker 00

  Tiramisu, curry.

• 2:16:41Speaker 03

  Curry I like.

• 2:16:41Speaker 02

  Curry's good.

• 2:16:42Speaker 00

  And cocaine.

• 2:16:44Speaker 02

  Ooh, cocaine.

• 2:16:44Speaker 00

  Tiny little spoon.

• 2:16:45Speaker 03

  But you don't eat it.

• 2:16:45Speaker 00

  You don't eat it, but you do ingest it.

• 2:16:47Speaker 02

  You ingest it, yeah.

• 2:16:48Speaker 04

  What about pie?

• 2:16:49Speaker 02

  You can't eat it. Pie, I feel like a lot of these are, you can go either way. Like if you gave me a spoon to eat.

• 2:16:54Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:16:54Speaker 02

  A slice of pie, I I wouldn't think twice about it.

• 2:16:57Speaker 04

  Like apple pie, because it comes with ice cream too. They usually give it to you with the spoon.

• 2:17:00Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:17:00Speaker 04

  And you eat it with a spoon.

• 2:17:02Speaker 00

  I think you guys got your first one.

• 2:17:03Speaker 02

  What about a, uh?

• 2:17:04Speaker 03

  You guys want?

• 2:17:05Speaker 02

  What'd you guys have said to, uh, milkshake or root beer float?

• 2:17:08Speaker 04

  Zach was trying to do milkshake. I said that I would, I would not, I would not accept. Yeah, it's strong.

• 2:17:13Speaker 00

  And it's also ice cream.

• 2:17:14Speaker 03

  Ice cream, yeah. But ramen? Soup.

• 2:17:18Speaker 00

  Ramen, yeah, it's soup. That's a soup.

• 2:17:20Speaker 02

  A lot of these, yeah.

• 2:17:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:17:23Speaker 00

  Jardiniere, I like to eat out of a, I just like to.

• 2:17:25Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't like that.

• 2:17:26Speaker 00

  Face smash some hot peppers. Just get a little sweat going, but that's, that's probably not.

• 2:17:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:17:33Speaker 00

  A normal thing. Um, oh, it's good Mount Rushmore.

• 2:17:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 2:17:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, jambalaya is so good. Yeah, red beans and rice so good.

• 2:17:42Speaker 02

  Would gumbo count?

• 2:17:44Speaker 00

  I said, I thought gumbo's more soup than jambalaya.

• 2:17:47Speaker 06

  I think gumbo has a lot more broth.

• 2:17:48Speaker 00

  Yeah, gumbo to me is more soup than jambalaya.

• 2:17:50Speaker 02

  I would agree with that, but it's maybe with the rice base, some people would say it's not a soup. In fact, I think I've argued against it being a soup before.

• 2:17:59Speaker 03

  Like, that doesn't look like a soup right there.

• 2:18:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's not a soup.

• 2:18:01Speaker 00

  No, that doesn't.

• 2:18:02Speaker 06

  That's been, that looks like it's been sitting out a little bit. It's kind of locked up.

• 2:18:04Speaker 02

  All right, cereal was a miss. That was a mistake. I, it just didn't.

• 2:18:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, you fucked up that whole draft, Anthony, honestly.

• 2:18:09Speaker 02

  It didn't pop.

• 2:18:09Speaker 03

  We would have, it would have been a good draft all the way through if you just took cereal.

• 2:18:13Speaker 02

  Cereal wasn't popping to me at the time.

• 2:18:15Speaker 00

  I don't know what that means.

• 2:18:17Speaker 02

  That's a mistake.

• 2:18:18Speaker 00

  I was praying it got back to us. We got ice cream and cereal.

• 2:18:21Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 2:18:22Speaker 00

  But donezo.

• 2:18:23Speaker 02

  That was a mistake.

• 2:18:25Speaker 04

  We almost took chili.

• 2:18:27Speaker 00

  Really?

• 2:18:27Speaker 03

  Really?

• 2:18:28Speaker 02

  I thought about chili too.

• 2:18:30Speaker 04

  Good pick, Zach.

• 2:18:32Speaker 00

  Yeah, but it was, yeah, it's good that you diversified.

• 2:18:35Speaker 05

  Chili's a good pick.

• 2:18:36Speaker 00

  Chili's the best. I love chili.

• 2:18:38Speaker 02

  But also mashed potatoes.

• 2:18:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, mashed potatoes is on our list.

• 2:18:43Speaker 05

  I eat them with a fork.

• 2:18:45Speaker 00

  You eat everything with a fork, dude.

• 2:18:47Speaker 05

  Yeah, I don't think I own spoons.

• 2:18:50Speaker 05

  I'm the inverse.

• 2:18:51Speaker 00

  Oh, all right. Good show, boys. Uh, let's do numbers.

• 2:18:55Speaker 02

  Three. Let me go five.

• 2:18:58Speaker 03

  Twenty-three. Twenty-four.

• 2:19:00Speaker 00

  Oh, you son of a bitch.

• 2:19:04Speaker 03

  It's a good number.

• 2:19:05Speaker 00

  I go.

• 2:19:07Speaker 03

  A lot of people that wear twenty-three.

• 2:19:08Speaker 02

  Max, you gonna get a jersey?

• 2:19:10Speaker 00

  Fifty-nine.

• 2:19:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, I want to see what the city, city connect jerseys. There's rumors that they're not gonna play the Iverson, the black Iverson jerseys this year, which would really piss me off.

• 2:19:19Speaker 05

  Whoa, whoa.

• 2:19:20Speaker 02

  You can't do that. Can't do that.

• 2:19:22Speaker 05

  You can't do that.

• 2:19:22Speaker 02

  You can't.

• 2:19:23Speaker 05

  All the photoshops were him and the.

• 2:19:24Speaker 03

  I know, I know.

• 2:19:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're disappointed the Photoshop makers.

• 2:19:28Speaker 03

  Shams had a bad one.

• 2:19:30Speaker 02

  I do like that Shams, uh, went out there and he credited Rich Paul, not only talk about clutch sports, but also, uh, the host of, was it the Game On?

• 2:19:39Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:19:40Speaker 02

  Show?

• 2:19:40Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm. Fifty-nine.

• 2:19:44Speaker 00

  Hurry up. Shane, hurry up.

• 2:19:49Speaker 05

  Eighty-six.

• 2:19:51Speaker 03

  Zach match.

• 2:19:53Speaker 00

  Hurry up.

• 2:19:55Speaker 05

  Seventeen is a joke. I already said that.

• 2:19:59Speaker 03

  What is it? What is it?

• 2:20:01Speaker 02

  What we got? Is it a single dig?

• 2:20:03Speaker 00

  Fifty-three, fifty-three.

• 2:20:04Speaker 03

  Fifty-three.

• 2:20:07Speaker 00

  One more.

• 2:20:09Speaker 00

  One more, one more.

• 2:20:12Speaker 00

  By the way, I know the end of the show, take these, we were talking about God being in A W O and I flipped the coin. I mean LeBron signing with the Sixers right after. It's crazy.

• 2:20:20Speaker 03

  Although God not being in A W O, then it's true on Friday morning.

• 2:20:23Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 2:20:24Speaker 03

  Sixty-three?

• 2:20:26Speaker 00

  Sixty-three.

• 2:20:27Speaker 03

  Why did you say it like that, Hank?

• 2:20:29Speaker 04

  I saw the three.

• 2:20:30Speaker 00

  Sixty-three. You want to do one more?

• 2:20:32Speaker 04

  I do say it all.

• 2:20:33Speaker 00

  You want to do one more, Maxie?

• 2:20:34Speaker 02

  Let's do one more.

• 2:20:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, sure. I mean, I already won this.

• 2:20:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, but if you could win this right now with MJ's number?

• 2:20:41Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:20:43Speaker 05

  You're sick.

• 2:20:54Speaker 00

  Sixty-eight.

• 2:20:57Speaker 00

  That'd be close.

• 2:20:58Speaker 02

  One more?

• 2:20:59Speaker 00

  No.

• 2:21:01Speaker 00

  I said fifty-nine.

• 2:21:01Speaker 03

  What if we do twenty-three numbers right now?

• 2:21:03Speaker 02

  No, it's not.

• 2:21:04Speaker 00

  No, because you really want to get it, you're not gonna get it. You're not gonna get it.

• 2:21:08Speaker 03

  I did get it that one time.

• 2:21:10Speaker 02

  Happy birthday to Uncle Chaps. Happy birthday, Nicky Smokes.

• 2:21:15Speaker 00

  Uncle Chaps' birthday tomorrow?

• 2:21:17Speaker 03

  I'm happy you remember Nicky Smokes' birthday and not mine, by the way.

• 2:21:20Speaker 02

  What's up?

• 2:21:20Speaker 03

  I'm happy you remember Nicky Smokes' birthday and not mine.

• 2:21:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, happy birthday, Smokes.

• 2:21:23Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 2:21:24Speaker 00

  He's, wait.

• 2:21:25Speaker 02

  What?

• 2:21:25Speaker 00

  It's his birthday to Nicky Smokes.

• 2:21:27Speaker 02

  On Monday.

• 2:21:28Speaker 00

  That's, he's gonna, he's gonna have like a birthday, he's gonna have a birthday month. Yeah.

• 2:21:32Speaker 02

  Blown, birthday week. Blown out backs by the weekend, blown out candles by the week. Uh, happy birthday to Coach O also on Monday. Happy birthday to Max Scherzer. Happy birthday to somebody named Andy Lockwood. Hank, is that your uncle?

• 2:21:46Speaker 04

  I haven't, uh, yeah.

• 2:21:47Speaker 02

  Happy birthday.

• 2:21:51Speaker 02

  To your uncle.

• 2:21:52Speaker 04

  It's like my second uncle, yeah.

• 2:21:53Speaker 03

  Shout out Andy.

• 2:21:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, shout out Andy.

• 2:21:55Speaker 04

  Dad's cousin? No.

• 2:21:57Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 2:21:57Speaker 04

  Is it, is it actually his birthday?

• 2:21:59Speaker 02

  Yeah. Happy birthday.

• 2:22:01Speaker 00

  Are you doing all Hank's family now?

• 2:22:03Speaker 02

  I'm gonna try.

• 2:22:05Speaker 04

  Shout out, yeah, fuck yeah.

• 2:22:07Speaker 02

  Happy birthday to Abu Bakar Al-Baghdadi and, uh, happy birthday to Soulja Boy.

• 2:22:15Speaker 02

  Love you guys.