Pardon My Take - Is Dillon Brooks The Lebron Stopper? NHL Playoffs, Billy's 2023 QB Bracket Is Revealed + Fyre Fest Of The Week

Episode Date: April 21, 2023

No guest today and we're on zoom, appreciate everyone understanding. We talk NBA Playoffs Dillon Brooks vs Lebron James, the Sixers beat the Nets and the Refs and every team plays better without their best player (00:00:00-00:27:00). We talk some hockey and whether or not Hank is worried plus Islanders minute with memes (00:27:00-00:37:04). We then talk the famous bub off between Brady Quinn and Ryan Clark plus everyone's checkmark got taken away (00:37:04-01:01:56). Billy unveils his 2023 QB bracket to decide who will be the best NFL Quarterback and it's a true test of who is a real AWL (01:01:56-01:30:16). We finish with Fyre Fest of the week (01:30:16-01:51:20). We should be back in studio Sunday with a ton of draft coverage leading up to the draft on Thursday. Love you guysYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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We'll get to the Sixers Nets because Max was there and he thinks the NBA is rigged against his Sixers. But PFT, Dylan Brooks, he will not respect you unless you put 40 on him. Yeah, that's my motto too. But I mean, you gotta hand me a steel reserve. And then I'm good. But I respect the fuck out of Dylan Brooks.

He's poking the bear. He said that he wished that he would have gotten a chance to guard LeBron when he was in Cleveland or Miami because it would have been a harder task. He said, I don't care. He's old. I poke bears. I don't respect no one until they come out and give me 40.

I love this because we're gonna get to see if LeBron's gonna come out and be able to respond to it. Or if LeBron is actually old. This might be the moment. Every player has a moment. And sometimes it takes somebody from the outside to just point out LeBron might have just gotten old overnight.

It is now, I'm gonna say it right now. Game three for LeBron is a legacy game. His first ever legacy game. His entire legacy, if he doesn't score 40, I just love the, unless you put 40 on me. So if someone put 38 on him, no respect. 39, no respect. 40, all right, now you get a little respect.

But yeah, Dylan Brooks, like that, the game in Memphis on Wednesday night, the theme was teams without their best player doing very well. Cause the Bucks also scored 138 on the heat without Yanis, but no John Moran, Dylan Brooks, Xavier Tillman, who I, I don't know if you guys saw this moment. It was such a like pure honest moment because Xavier Tillman played a lot this year,

but also had some DNPs afterwards. They asked them, they're like, did you think that you would be the one doing the court side interview on TNT or whatever his ESPN. And before he could compose himself, he just let out a hell no. And then he's like, wait, he's like, wait, I'm live right now.

Like I probably should have a little more respect for myself. But Xavier Tillman was incredible. Anthony Davis was a no show. And I don't know if it was simply the Lakers are like, all right, we won one on the road, we're good, but the Grizzlies have life. And it feels like if John Moran could come back in this series, although I saw some Grizzlies fans saying

that Tyus Jones is actually better for their offense. So we got a little Ewing theory going on. Yeah. So when I saw this, I was, I was obviously thinking to myself, are the Grizzlies better without John Moran? And then I saw it was happening in the Bucks game. And I was like, wait, are the Bucks actually better without Yannis and Tectonco? And then I saw, what was the third game?

It was Nuggets. Yeah, that's right. The Nuggets game. Then that was, that was a tough one to make, to make that comparison. And, but I think if we're looking at the LeBron James Dylan Brooks beef, we might have to take LeBron James side in this.

I respect Dylan Brooks in it, but I'm saying this as like a, like in defensive podcasters nationwide, because I've done some research into, into Dylan Brooks. And he's, he's gone at a lot of guys. He's like a, he's a known pest. He's gone at our, our good friend, Drey Mon Green, and said that like Drey Mon's a podcaster and a blogger. I don't respect him.

LeBron James, it kind of fits that podcaster mold when you think about it. Like LeBron James is a podcaster without a podcast yet. He's, he, he's drunk all the time. He loves Drake and he didn't, he lived with his mom until he had a real job. And I'm just saying in, in podcaster solidarity, we might have to defend Dylan.

We might have to defend LeBron James a little bit, even though it goes against every fiber of our being. Well, we should point out to Dylan Brooks, seem like a totally normal and, and not this agitator guy until coach K coached him up in that handshake line with Duke Oregon. That was pretty much the moment that Dylan Brooks became the Joker.

I'm rooting for this is going to, this is, I'm probably going to have to take this back later on if the Lakers make a deep run. I'm rooting for LeBron James to 40 piece him just because I'm a sports fan. And that would be like a great moment because there is something about Dylan Brooks. You need a guy like that who has that irrational confidence

who's like, I'm the man, LeBron's old. I'm going to poke the bear. But in these stories, you kind of want to see LeBron just go off and, and put Dylan Brooks in a hole. Like you just do because that's, it would be a great story. And I, it's not that I'm rooting for the Lakers. I'm definitely not, but it would be fun to see LeBron just like put in all time vintage LeBron performance

right on Dylan Brooks head and, and have that be the story going into game four. Unless there's 40, then it's not a win. He has to get 40. If he gets 39, we'll not respect it. We should actually put a bet on the sports book, LeBron James to earn Dylan Brooks respect over 39 and a half points.

And LeBron is, I mean, Dylan Brooks is a very good defender and LeBron also, if you've noticed, you can see at times during games with LeBron just doesn't feel like playing defense. And he had that moment late when Dylan Brooks hit a three and LeBron just was like, maybe 10 feet away from him. And just like, nah, I'm not even going to, I'll just let him shoot this.

But I, I, this is one of those series. Like I, I think we all went into the playoffs being like, there's going to be some great first round series for the first time in a while. And this is one of those ones that could absolutely be that because you got genuine bad blood. And if John Moran comes back, hoping the series goes six or seven

and we get more moments like this. Yeah, no, I'm rooting for it. Hank, let's, can you make sure to put that bet in there? Cause I'm going to hammer, I'm going to hammer LeBron James over 39 and a half points to earn that respect. It is a fun series. It is, it is a very fun series.

Grizzlies just play in fun series. That's just what they do. They're kind of like, they're, they're a crazy team. They're super talented, but they're also liable to like complete self-implosion. And they're also liable to just start fights everywhere in the middle of a game. Yeah. And I don't know.

Like I said, I, I do think there was a little, it felt a little like the Lakers are like, all right, we won our game. I mean, Anthony Davis was just getting bullied by Xavier Tillman all night. So we'll see. I mean, if John Moran comes back and we get the 40 piece from LeBron, fuck,

I cannot believe that Dylan Brooks has put me in a spot where I'm actually rooting for LeBron James to 40 piece. This gives me like Lance Stevenson blowing in LeBron's year, 10 years ago vibes. And the, the, the one I always bring up Ruben Patterson when he said he was the Kobe stopper and he was not, but he said it and it felt good when he said it. And Deshaun Stevenson, when he was on the wizards

and they were battling against LeBron on the calves and they had, they had a couple of good series in the playoffs. And I think LeBron said, comparing me to Deshaun Stevenson is like comparing soldier boy to Jay Z, which yeah, I get that, but also soldier boy, he's got some certified bags. I've seen the interviews on the breakfast club.

Yes, absolutely. Okay, other games that night, the box put up 138 without Giannis, Joe Engels was going off also kind of in the same vein as the Dylan Brooks, Bobby Portis. Now we like Kevin Love. He's a recurring guest. We want to have him back on Bobby Portis. Every team needs a Bobby Portis

because Bobby Portis was mad at Kevin Love for taking a charge that injured Giannis. I don't know how many times I don't have the actual tracker, but I think I saw it at least twice. Him just like yelling at Kevin Love, you're a bitch. And it was like getting picked up on the camera. And that's the crazy energy that you need out of a guy like Bobby Portis,

who like he was personally offended that Kevin Love was there for Giannis' injury and then decided to take it out on the heat and Kevin Love on Wednesday night. Yeah, but heat culture officially dead. Can we get a Dead or Live check on them? Yeah, I don't know. That was a tough one.

Keep saying it's dead. You guys said it was dead and here they are. They stole one in Milwaukee. They have home court and a five game series. I do think you saw two things, those two games specifically with Giannis and John Moran out, like there is a pride aspect for the rest of the guys where they're like, you know, this is our best player,

but we're still good too. And you could tell the Bucks felt that way after when they're like, we have the best player in the world, but we're also really good players and we're still a very good team and he's gonna be back and we're gonna be that much scarier. I think it was, I think I saw the stat.

It was the most points ever in a playoff game where the team was missing their leading scorer. So it was crazy. They just could not miss. They hit every fucking shot and the heat now, I mean, when Giannis comes back, it's gonna be curtains for the heat. Wouldn't you say, Jake?

I mean, come on. Probably, but they're in it right now. Yeah, it's a five game series. Big guy, he's not here that it's a five game series. Heat has home court. The vaunted Miami home court advantage. Remember last Friday night where you wanted a week ago, our two teams were battling it out

and we're like, do we even wanna win the game? The bulls suck. Right, he kind of sucked too that week. They lost to the Hawks by a million and then here they are a week later. If you told me this would be the scenario, I'd be like, yeah. One one, one one.

And then PFT, your nuggets beat your wolves. That game, I know that there's a lot of complaints about NBA referees. That game was phenomenal because Anthony Edwards had 41, I think in Jamal Murray had 40, they were just going off. And then the rest were just like, nah, we'll just control the entire flow this fourth quarter and suck all the energy out of this place.

So, and I also, the only other take I had from that game, I hate to pick on people, but is Carl-Anthony Towns just the worst like best guy in the league? He's gotta be, right? Probably the worst best. I think that's fair to say. He is back to back play and tournament advanced. So they've got a mini dynasty going on that one.

He's just built for the play in series. But yeah, he's so good and he also sucks at the exact same time. Right. Yeah, he's the best player that sucks. Yeah, yeah, he's the worst best player in the NBA. Or is he the worst, that's a different conversation. Is he the worst best player in the NBA

or is he the best worst player in the NBA? We did this with Dion for like four pro football shows in a row. He's not the best worst because I don't think he's bad. He is good. He just is not good in the playoffs and he plays bad. I agree, I agree a hundred percent. I think that Murray, Yoakich and Porter,

they're not, I can't say they're a big three yet. We can't call them a big three in Denver, but they're a very, very good mid three, I guess. And I don't know, when they cook together, when they're all playing like if the worst one out of those three has an average game, then the Nuggets can and will be most teams that they play against.

So I'm still very optimistic about the future there. It's hard to say though, because the Wolves do, they just, they look completely lost. And I did want to give a shout out to Kyle Ann, the face by Rudy Gobert and Kyle at the ref. Kyle Anderson, he's not scared. He went back for more and he got in his face. He's a good teammate, certified best teammate on that team.

Yeah, the Kyle Anderson thing, remember we brought it up to Danny Hurley, how his like restraint in that moment with Rudy Gobert showed how good of a teammate he was. So I'm not surprised, like he's a great teammate. Rudy Gobert tried to fight him and he's still, he's still there for him. He's still trying to try to hold him back,

trying to protect himself from himself. Yeah, exactly. All right. I think what everyone's been waiting for, the Sixers Nets, Max was there, NBA rigged, but the Sixers overcame that. We had, it was, it was a crazy game because we had, and beat almost get kicked out,

like what, three minutes into the game when he got stepped over and then kicked someone in the balls, James Harden did get kicked out for what seemed like an innocuous like he didn't, it was kind of like a, even in slow mo, I was like, I guess he hit him in the nuts, but it really didn't seem like it was ejection worthy. Claxton got kicked out.

The Sixers found a way to win late. Tyrese Maxi hit a big three. And then again, I hate to do it because we, as, as Russell Westbrook has told us, the name is very important, but Spencer Dinshitty deciding that he was going to try to test Joel Embiid at the rim with nine seconds left. I don't think he's ever overcoming the Dinshitty nickname.

I think that, that play was Dinshitty, where he's like, let me, let me go, let me watch out everyone. I got this, we're down to, I'm going to go to the rack with Joel Embiid standing there perfectly for help defense when he swats him away. And then Dinshitty just stands there being like, I got fouled. It was like a perfect block. And then at the end of the game, was it Melton

who was who intercepted that pass and then drove down to seal the game with that the fast break at the end? That was an awesome play. I don't know if people are going to like he on it, but when I was watching it, I was like, this is one of the first times that I've seen a player on defense do like what Trayvon Diggs does on defense

in the NFL, which is like, bait you, pretend like he's going to follow his guy and then just make a cut and try to like pick off an easy, like it was almost like jumping in front of a slant route. He jumped the route on the pass and put the game away. That was an awesome ending to the game. And as far as the James Harden thing goes, I actually think that what Embiid did was way worse

because he actually tried to kick him super hard in the nuts. And that would hurt a lot. James Harden just kind of had his arm out like he was guarding himself like most players do when they drive into contact a little bit. And his hand, it looked like the ball hit the hand, the hand didn't hit the ball, if that makes sense. So like he was, he wasn't trying,

I wouldn't even call it a nut shot. I would call it's just like, there was contact there and maybe I don't know ball and maybe I don't know the rule, but when you're on offense, that's not ever called as a foul if he does that exact same thing to any other part of the defender's body, right? They won't even call that.

But because it hit him in the groin, then he's kicked out of the game. That doesn't make sense to me. It was one of those situations where usually like when an ejection happens, you're like, all right, well, if we watch the slow-mo replay, we'll be able to figure this out and it's something we didn't see

because in real time it was like, oh, he got hit in the balls, but it wasn't anything nefarious. Then they showed it in instant replay, slow-mo replay. And I was like, yeah, I still kind of don't see what happened here that why this would be an ejection. I do think it was just a make-up call for Embiid. And to defend Embiid for a second,

you can't step over another man. I mean, listen, Hank has never recovered from Jake stepping over him. So like, your reaction is gonna be, I'm gonna kick him in the balls. So Max was there. If you watched Max's game time ad in the first quarter, he was as aggro Max as he could be from the jump.

Max, you think the league has it out for you? No, I mean, it was just blatant at halftime. There was something that happened. There was something that happened at halftime. People were upset about that Embiid didn't get kicked out of the game, which they shouldn't be, because who the fuck doesn't it claxed

and think that he is stepping over Joel Embiid like that? He absolutely had every right. He could have taken a ball away and I think that would have been justified. But there was, it wasn't even just the hard end thing. There was zero, the Nets had zero fouls in the second half until five minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

It was insane. They wanted a long series. They obviously wanted to see it. They wanted the game to go more than four games. It's not going to. Tyrese Maxey is a star. He's an absolute star. The way he picked up Harden going out today

was unbelievable. That step back three to put him up three was, it brought a tear to my eye. I was going nuts in the stands. You don't say. I almost felt bad during the hard end. During, so they go to the table and they just keep showing the replay on the Jumbotron.

And I am freaking out saying that it's a defensive foul. I'm like, why are we looking at this? It's a defensive foul. He's all up in his grill. How, like, why is this taking so long? This is the worst review in the history of the NBA. And then, like, all of a sudden, it's like, they go to the thing and it's like,

James Harden has been ejected from the game and I sat down, I was like, what's going on? And everyone in my section was looking at me and they were like, that's the best call I've ever seen. That's the best call I've ever seen. Just spit on yourself. I mean, I had so many emotions flying towards the end of that game.

But at the end of the day, Tyrus Max, he came through. He was a great player and Joe L&B, not his best game. But that block at the end, that block at the end, that's still Joe. That's still Joe. How about your man, your man, Ben Simmons, he was at the game tonight. And he's not going to the games

when they're on the road in Philly. I think he's afraid of Philly. I wish I knew that. I had no idea. What would you have done? I mean, I think they could hear me. I think everyone on that call could hear me. Great game time seats, great game time seats.

I was on their ass, I was on their ass all night. I wish they could have, I wish I had known that. It would have gone down different, Mark Wahlberg, over here. All right, so yeah, I mean, it feels good. I want the Celtic Sixers to be set up as fast as possible. So I was happy the Sixers won. It did feel like something was up.

I mean, that's just, that's the NBA, right? Like they, they, they can be like, hey, let's put out a couple of refs, see if we can extend this series by one. But the Sixers proved that they're, they're able to overcome the refs. Are you, Max, are you a Tyrese Maxi fan extra because he, his last name?

I, it's been my Twitter name for like two years now is Maxi Delente, spelled EY. I do like it. It's nice. It's, it's, it's fun that I, that we kind of share a name. Okay. All right. And just to clean it up, because we are,

we are looking forward already to the Celtic Sixers series. You're going to Soul Patch, right? It's a Soul Patch bet officially for Soul Patch Summer. Yeah, sure. But Hank doesn't even have a fucking Soul Patch. No, it's there. I can see it. I think because Big Cat, you're, you're a massive

B-Ball Paul fan. Huge. I'm a massive Josh Harris fan. I'll take Max's side and I'll, I'll do the Soul Patch bet. If you take Hank's side. Or I could, I would, I would be interested in possibly doing a Soul Patch bet where you guys can just set a line for B-Ball Paul points for the entire series.

And if he doesn't hit it, I'll just get a Soul Patch. Okay. All right. So, so it'll be, it'll be me and Max on the Sixers. It'll be Hank on Hank Island on the Celtics. You call that a big cat riding or dying with. Oh, okay. Called Blake Island. Yeah. And I'll be, I'll just be, you know what? I actually give me a combined total Blake Griffin

B-Ball Paul points. And if I don't reach it, I'll get a Soul Patch. So I'll be rooting hard for both of my guys. Also, there should definitely be a reality show called Blake Island, which is just like Milf Island, except all the dudes are just chill bros named Blake. Yeah. I would watch the fuck out of that.

Watch the fuck out of that. Hank, did you have any thoughts on the Sixers performance tonight? You were popping off a lot on the text chain. No, it was a fucking absolute war, dude. And B looked like he was going to gas out at the end of that game, but that's the playoffs. You know, it's round one.

They were probably expending all their energy, but they won the game. It was a good game by them. Well fought, hard fought battle, hardening and B'd. They're both just, you know, clearly scumbag players that have no problem kicking people nuts, dream on school of playing. That's a thing in today's day and age of the NBA,

but they won. So that's all that matters. Okay. Max, I've never seen a person more angry in an ad read in my life, but that was like, look at these seats. Hey, if you don't use game time, you're a fucking scumbag.

Um, all right. He's right. Yeah. It got to the point. No, I enjoyed it. It was just, that was my, that was my takeaway. All right. Warriors kicked the shit out of the, the Kings,

which I think a lot of people expected cause it's just warriors go home and they're too good to not have the pride. Like that was never going to be a sweep. That was never going to be something that they didn't put up a fight. Now we go to game four and see, like if this could just be one of those series where everyone wins at home

and then we just see what happened in game seven. Or the war is a sweep from here on out. Oh, you're feeling that. Oh, I was feeling that once you, once you, once you were PFT, once it got past like five minutes of pro-king stuff, I was like, this, this just means the warriors aren't going to lose another game. Like when you guys really were like getting devoted,

I was like, this, this just screams warriors in the next one. You just hate, you just, you're a thief of joy, Hank. Let, let, let the people have a little bit of fun. All right. I don't think that we've ever said the word Sacramento on this podcast in the seven year history of the show. And we're talking about it. We're having fun.

We're enjoying it. Let people enjoy a fun thing. They can. I hope they do. I was just trying to grinch on everybody. I hope that. I hope the kings win. I hope the kings win.

I don't want to see the warriors win. Especially because the warriors like Media Mafia came out in full. There was like multiple articles and people talking heads being like Sabonis was actually the aggressor and all of this and, you know, Draymond did nothing wrong. So we're, listen, we're standing up for, for, for Kings fans light to be, except for tonight.

Yeah. Because you got your ass kicked and the warriors looked really good. I almost wish that Draymond wasn't coming back until it was a road game because he's going to come back. The crowd's going to cheer for him at home. It's going to be, they're going to give him, you know, all the roses when he gets out there,

he's going to be in a friendly environment. I would much rather have him make his comeback on the road in that same hostile environment that he got kicked out of. Where he was flipping off the fans. I want to see him make his return just in a scenario where he is like, yeah, the bad guy's back, the bad guy's back and let him see go like full Draymond on people. Yeah. And I also, I do love that Steve Kerr having Draymond's back

the way he does because Draymond, you could, a coach could be like, yeah, this is, we keep losing them for these big games. It sucks. But he says it exactly how I've always thought about Draymond is like, he plays with an edge. That's why you win a lot of games. That's why you won four titles. Obviously, Steph Curry and Clay Thompson have a lot to do with him.

Kevin Durant, but Draymond's energy, you take the good with the bad. And like the way he plays, he will miss games because of these incidents. But he also plays right up on the line that helps you get that edge that has made you the most successful team in the last, you know, five plus years, seven years. And if you're Steve Kerr and you say something like, I can't believe that Draymond would do this to us in a time where we really need him in the playoffs, then you're just telling on yourself

for not understanding who you've been coaching for the last, like, whatever, eight, nine years, however long it's been. All right. So the other game looks like the Suns are going to win. They're up nine right now. It's late. It's like almost one o'clock. Should we talk a little playoff hockey?

Oh, and Kawhi, I jinxed the fuck out of Kawhi when I was like, Kawhi is a perfect example of load management. And then he missed game three with a knee injury. So, uh, yeah, you can blame me. I was going to say Clippers fans, but who Frank Immunas, you can blame me. Frank Immunas. There you go. Hank, are you nervous?

Yeah, I'm actually very nervous. Go on. Bergeron is hurt. And he is like the classic guy that the season ends and they're like Bergeron played with like a broken fibula and like three torn ACLs. So the fact that he's not playing games, very concerning. The dude who was helping me with my taxes is a big Bruins fan. And we were talking today and he started telling me about all the line

adjustments we should be doing. He's like, oh, you're watching the Bruins. I was like, yeah, I'm worried about Bergeron. And then he started telling me about all the line adjustments, who should go where and where the player should go and how we can fix this. So I'm, but he was worried too. And so now I'm even like, I don't know. It's, it's just, I said it, it's a lot of pressure.

You win the president's cup. Everyone, I feel like that wins the president's cup. I don't know what the stats are, but for my personal feel, it doesn't feel like president's cups teams do well. 2013 Blackhawks are the last team to win the president's cup. It was that confirmed. So it's, it's a lot of pressure. You know, Whitney said they're the greatest team of all time.

You also said before like the greatest third period team of all time. So when they're going to the third period tie and then get smoked for one, it's like, uh, are we, I'm worried, I'm worried. As, as someone that jumped on the bandwagon not too long ago and was expecting domination, I'm concerned with the lack of domination that I've seen. You've, as, as far as you could see, the Bruins are like a completely they're one in one, but it's all, you know, it's, it's always been Bergeron. So that, that's obviously a key.

He's got to get back. Okay. Um, let's see the other Rangers, one again. I, I, when Patrick came, got traded. I was like, I just want to see him play, play off hockey. And tonight was a night. I think he had to assist in a goal and was like vintage showtime Patrick Kane. That was fun to watch.

Uh, I mean, I'll play off hockey is just the best because it's just every series, like the, the best team of all time, Bruins feel like they're in, they're going to be in a war with the Panthers. Like every series feels like this. Even the avalanche were, you know, struggling. They would, they went down one, oh, and they were struggling with the Kraken all the way till the end of the game. So there's nothing like it.

Every team can win. It's crazy. I think that with the, uh, the Rangers devil series, the two, the two fan bases are very, very similar. And there are going to be people that are like, you don't know what you're talking about. These are the same people that refuse to admit that the reason why the Steelers Ravens rivalry is so strong because they're basically the same people

that root for different teams. They're just separated by a little bit of land. And they've got the same mentality. Uh, Rangers fans and devils fans are, are, they're cut from the same cloth. And I just love a good playoff rivalry that develops between teams that are close together geographically that absolutely hate the fuck out of each other. So I say, I say, winner of the series gets Staten Island or probably the loser. Probably the loser of the series gets that night.

They have to have Staten Island. I like it. They should just do it. The loser of the series gets tolls one way. Yeah. So like if you go, yeah, like if you go into, if the devils win, everyone going into New Jersey has to pay tolls, but you don't have to pay it. If you're going to New Jersey to Manhattan.

I like that a lot. Um, and then let's wrap up with, uh, I guess not every team can win it. Uh, the Islanders Islanders minute memes. Yeah. Uh, NHL rigged. That was a tough, that was a tough ending. Guy just took a stick to the face, complained about it to the ref for 30 seconds, then instead of getting back, they scored.

So that sucked. I'd love to do it. Guys, is it, is it, is Hawking? Is the playoffs not usually violent? Like, I don't know, is not what the playoffs are all about. Yeah, but we had Merle's on. He said the refs normally hold the whistle. There's been a million penalties in these playoffs.

I just, I love this podcast because we are true authentic. Like we just go through the games and, and, uh, max, like, yeah, NBA rigged memes, like, Hey, what do you think NHL rakes? It's like, if you want, we're not going to sugarcoat it. We're not going to give you high level analysis or, you know, anything special. It's just like, yeah, my team lost rigged. I'm getting smoked and over times. That's really, I'm, I'm watching all these Hawking games, just praying for

overtime and we haven't sniffed one. Oh, just so sorry. The mark of, of a true fan is to complain that the game is rigged even though you win the game. Yeah, that's what I was going to say that it was a win. It was, it was, it was a rig, but my guys are too good. We've fought through the rigging. You, you guys, you guys be, you guys, not only tonight beat the Nets,

you also beat the entire NBA. You meant you beat the, you beat the NBA industrial complex. Adam Silver was playing center for the Nets tonight. Not to mention if Joe LNB gets a one game suspension, I, I don't know what I'll do. It probably will do nothing, but I'll be really mad. No, let's do something. What are we going to do? I don't know.

I can't think of that, but he can't, you can't give hard in the suspension and also give NBA the suspension like that. You, you've already punished NB by giving heart. Like he can't get the one game suspension. That's all, like I can't happen. Um, you, if, if they suspend NB, you have to go back for another game, find Ben Simmons and give them the double birds. And he has to see you do it.

You have, you have a chance, Max. Everything like Simmons will be there. Let's get you game time seats right, right behind him. I already have my game time seats for Saturday. Oh, nice. Yeah. Game time. See that court.

Get there. All right. Um, we got a lot of, uh, the rest of the show coming up. We're going to have a ton of NFL draft stuff next week. Thank you everyone for your patience this week, obviously, uh, no guests today, but we do have Billy's quarterback bracket that, um, I said it in the middle of it, but I'll say it right now, because some of you might tune out, but you shouldn't because this is like, we're stress testing you guys.

And if you can make it through the quarterback bracket, you are true AWL and, and takies are coming up. So these are, these are the moments I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think everyone else will thoroughly enjoy it. I don't know which, which angle you'll thoroughly, thoroughly enjoy it from, but there's enjoyment there is what I'm trying to say. Wouldn't you say, just click the blog or the blog, I would agree. I would agree.

No, no, no, no, shut up Billy. I loved every minute of it. I, I'm dumber for having listened to it, but at the same time, like it's, it's, it's wonderful. I appreciate your brain, Billy. Uh, we got to show some love to the Maple Leafs though, huh? Oh yeah. Maple Leafs.

Big comeback. Maple Leafs dominated Toronto's back. My Leafs just sticking it up the, the lightning's ass. That was awesome to see. Um, uh, what's his face? Uh, Tavares had a hat trick. Islanders, the Islanders need a guy like Tavares because their offense looks sluggish. And I just feel like they need an extra piece.

Somebody like that cut from that same cloth would really do wonders for the Islander's team. He's showing up in the playoffs. Um, we're doing it for Rob Ford. How about that? Let's, what would Rob Ford want more than anything? He would want a least crack cup. Let's, let's do it.

Yeah. And some crack. I'll smoke crack. I'll smoke crack. If the, if the Leafs win the Stanley cup, how about that? I'll match. Why'd I say that? I'll double.

Okay. Okay. Um, what did you take? I'll take, I'll take, I'll take a hit of second hand crack. Yeah. I'll take the, I'll take the crack hit and I'll blow it in your mouth. Yeah. I love it.

All right. Let's go back to ourselves where we talk everything else. Big cat, big cat, inhale. He sucks it in, does not inhale and blows it into my face. Yeah. And we're done. Done. We'll see how it goes.

Uh, the Leafs aren't going to win the Stanley cup. So it's not a problem we have to worry about. Uh, all right. We have a lot more show coming up. Let's take a quick break for an ad and then let's get to the rest of it. Quick break to talk to you guys about the new film, big George Foreman. It's a never before seen look in the unbelievable true story of George Foreman's life inside and outside the ring.

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The film features famous dynamic boxing matches recreated on the big screen. Foreman's story is one of the greatest comeback stories in sporting slash boxing history. Again, I saw the preview. I guarantee I'm going to see this movie. I will give you a review. We will review it on this show. Big George Foreman is exclusively in movie theaters, April 28th.

Tickets are on sale now rated PG 13. Watch it because we are going to review it. Go check it out. Big George Foreman exclusively in movie theaters, April 28th. Tickets are on sale now rated PG 13. Okay. Um, let's talk some other stuff and let's do Billy's QB bracket that we're all have been waiting for.

PFT. I actually have something I have to tell you before we get into everything else. Um, and only Hank knows this. I was thinking last night of things that we could do because we don't have a guest today because of the circumstances this week. So I was like, what could we do that, uh, could be different that could maybe cheer up PFT? Um, I'll give you a guess.

I'm sure you can guess, but who, who I possibly reached out to, to, to join us. Uh, no, greenie. No. Think, think, I'm all out of ideas. Think of the complete opposite of the history of part of my take. Uh, Mr. Portnoy, he's way past bedtime. One more guess.

Come on, Rob. No, no, no, think, think like the history of part of my take. Someone that if, if, if he popped up on here, you'd be like, what the hell? Our great friend, Blake Griffin, who we support unconditionally to the end of the year, I'll text him right now and see if he'll just hop on. Uh, no, the answer is Lenny Dykstra. So I DM Lenny Dykstra and I was like, Hey man, uh, we'd love to have you on today, uh, you know, weird circumstances this week.

Yeah. Been a minute, like thought it would maybe cheer up PFT. Some random guy answered me via Lenny Dykstra's, uh, DMs and was like, Lenny's focusing on a milestone coming up. So he doesn't really want to do any other stuff. And I was like, that's cool. 18 months, five years out of prison is his milestone. Um, I thought it was going to be sobriety, but five years out of prison.

He's 34 days away. So congratulations to Lenny. I am actually proud of him. Um, hopefully when the milestone hits, maybe we can have him on. Yeah. I mean, I, he's a diehard AWL and, um, I just want to say Lenny suck my dick. Yes. Yes.

Suck all of our dicks, but yeah, I thought I was, I was digging deep in, in the recesses of my brain and, uh, it led me to begging Lenny Dykstra via DM to come on the show and then talking to a random person who runs Lenny's account. Yeah. I've actually talked to that guy before cause the first time that we talked to him, I think he wanted money for, for Lenny to come on. He's like, you got to pay me and then I'll pay Lenny and then he'll come on

the show. It was like, I, this sounds suspiciously like wire fraud. Yes. Yes. Um, we could, I could, I could text someone right now. I don't know. I, I don't, Blake Portals definitely asleep, right? Stingray Steve.

What's the Stingray Steve action? What time is it in Australia right now? Jake, can you look that up? I believe it's 16 hours ahead, but I'll double check. Okay. Cause I just got a very nice, nice thoughtful text from a good friend, Brooks 1251 or 151. Depending on, is it playing right now?

It's lunchtime. Yeah. I think he's playing. He's coming back on. He definitely is coming back on. I talked to him right after the masters. Um, he's definitely coming back on, but, uh, yeah, he's going to cast a line out there.

I'm just going to say you're around right now or are you playing? I just said, I just said, Blake Portals, are you up? Go, go smash golf club. Fuck the, fuck the aces. GCS. Smash, you see. Yeah. Um, okay.

I watched the enemy. Dustin Johnson was like, well, be at the masters. Everyone was showing out. Go aces. Yeah. It's true. Aces are popping off. I, I, I'm going to watch.

I'm, I am more interested in live this weekend than ever before after the masters. Look at you Hank. Yeah. I like it. They're wearing, they're wearing all of us down. You just give, you just give the live tour three years and I predict that every kid, every young kid across America, it's going to do for golf what Tiger Woods did for golf in 1998, 1999.

It's going to be a phenomenon. Yes. Yes. By the way, by the way, speaking of Tiger, so we'll talk to some other stuff and we'll do Billy's list, but, um, I would like to take back a take. Uh, I saw Tiger Woods got ankle injury. I did a very Billy football thing and, uh, read up about this angle injury. And by read up, I mean, I read the replies where people were like, I'm a doctor

and this is what happened. And, uh, it seems like the ankle injury means that he's never going to be, uh, able to golf at the level he was golfing at before the car crash ever again, because it was a quality of life surgery that like will decrease the pain greatly. But his ankle mobility will never be the same. So I'm going to retroactively take back. He will never win another major. Well, one of the great things about this show is that when we're cooking on

takes like this, we just let each other go and the facts be damned and people can correct us later. And when you were saying that, I was telling you, no, he's, he's not, he's not going to be back. It's not going to happen. Cause I knew that he had an injury beforehand where, uh, his, his screws that he has in his leg had actually broken through his skin and popped out. Yeah.

I knew that too. Yeah. Again, not, not a doctor, um, but I'm just going to guess that you want, you want your medically inserted screws to stay inside of your skin when you play. But even after I just said that, it felt dirty. And it's like, I'm actually already back to maybe he could win one more. Cause he is the counterpoint. Yeah.

I was going to say the counterpoint is Tiger Woods. Yeah. All right. So I'm actually going to stick with my, I'm going to erase my retroactive take and then stick with my original take that he could win one more. I think we just need to see, send Tiger some like Marcus Latrell clips and make Tiger get back into the zone where he thinks he's a Navy seal and be like, here's a list of Navy seals that have powered through that exact same injury

and gotten congressional medals of honor. I don't even think we have to do that. We just need to update his like current call of duty on his PS five. Just make sure the updates are always, you know, he might have, he might have lapsed on a couple of updates and be like, dude, the game's calling. We need you out there. Yeah. Just, we can just convince him that, uh, that golf has, there's a new, there's

a new release and one of the patches they put in was ankle injuries aren't shit. Yes. Yes. Um, all right. So checkmark day came. Elon actually did it. He, he, Elon did like the Jim Vaughn of like, uh, being perpetually online. It's like any day that you can blow up a rocket in the morning and then take

away everyone's blue checkmark in the afternoon is like a day worth lived. Uh, if you can laugh, you can cry, you can smile. Like he, he did it all today. He blew up a rocket, spun it as it was a positive thing, which I'm going to trust our guy, Quiggs, who was a scientist and was like, these are good when they blow up because you can learn a lot from it. And then checkmark, uh, Armageddon happened and everyone has gotten their checkmark taken away, except for the people who paid for it.

Well, I think this is actually another like 12 dimensional chess move by Elon Musk, because the rocket blew up in the morning and where do people go to instantly see all the video clips of Elon's rocket blowing up and where do people, every person who dunks on Elon for fucking something up is actually putting money into Elon's pocket by using Twitter. How about that? He's a genius. He might be the best to ever do it.

As a matter of fact, like he fucks up on Twitter so much and pisses off so many different people, but guess what? Where are you going to voice your frustrations with Elon? Boom on Twitter. He's a genius. He is, he is. And they also, I didn't know this. I guess this maybe is something they say in NASA, but, um, the way they spun

it, uh, the exact terms were the Starship experience, a rapid, unscheduled disassembly before stage separation. That's the coolest way to describe a rocket blowing up. Yeah. Rapid, what was it? Rapid, rapid, unscheduled disassembly. Hell yeah. That's, that sounds, that's basically the, uh, the treatment for any Michael

Bay film ever made rocks. And all that, all that means is explosions. There was a sick ass explosion. Um, some are saying that the rocket was too woke and we didn't have all these problems. Nobody complained about it when the challenger had a mishap and now all of a sudden these days it's cool to pile on a billionaire. And so, uh, yeah, they should, they should label NASA's Twitter feed as being

government funded. How about that? Yeah. They actually, I did see one guy, I think it was, um, some professor, some nerd. He was like, can we stop showing this rocket perpetually on loop blowing up? Some of us watched the challenger live. It's like, dude, was, is that a serious tweet? Like you, you're talking about a rocket that blew up what 30, 40 years ago, 40

years ago, seminal moment. It was, I listen, tragedy. The O-rings. Does that mean you can't watch any movie with like, like explosions? Yeah. I, I don't think that you can too soon. Something that happened in the Reagan administration. So it's fucking little, like it was, it was insane.

But he's in the rocket today either, right? No, no, it was an unmanned rocket. There was another way that they phrased it that said Elon, breaking news, Elon Musk successfully launched a rocket, uh, the biggest rocket that he's ever done into the lower stratosphere or whatever. And it didn't, it just didn't finish the sentence about, about then what happened afterwards. Well, there were a lot of rocket scientists, uh, floating around that were like,

this actually is exactly what they wanted. They wanted to just prove that it could get off the ground. I guess, sure. I don't, I don't understand any of this stuff. I just know, I see big thing blow up and I'm like, haha, they fucked up. I am a student of history as, as you know, big cat. And the last time that we had a really successful space program who is designing those rockets, Warner Von Braun, former Nazis, Nazis needs to get on the horn,

call up some of the proud boys, get them, get them working on the rocket ship program. Yeah, well, because I've made like, I've made like six sarcastic points over the last like four minutes. And I keep looking down at Hank and Hank keeps being like, he's making some good points. Yeah. Dude, the Nazi thing, we talked about it a few months ago, but the Nazi Nazi thing is crazy. Yeah.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Operation paperclip. That's, that's why there was a battle to see who could get to, to, um, Berlin first. To see who could gobble up all the scientists. Yeah. And a lot of the scientists just started walking east or west, west. Yeah, west.

Easy jerk off. Yeah, west, west that. Well, it doesn't make sense that part. I'm going to Hank, you, you can back me up. The when you walk west in Europe, you are, no, wait, that is west everywhere. All right. No, it's west. Yeah.

I'm, I'm good. I got it. West, west is left. We just need to, if you're, if you're walking to your, if you're walking to your left, that's west. Yeah. And if you're going south, you're going downhill. Yep.

That's fact. Um, okay. So are you guys paying for your check mark? I'm, I'm billy. You already did. I don't check it right now. Look at it right now. You, you could change your name, but you paid for it.

You're paying for, you're actually paying for Twitter blue and don't have a check mark. You don't have to spend a life. Nope. That's the best part. Are you undercover? You're, I get, I get all the bonuses. I'm still unverified and I get all of the interaction.

So that actually might be the fucking billy might be a genius. Yeah. I mean, if it's what, what comes with Billy, Billy, can you still tweet eight minute videos? Yep. Okay. Maybe it is. So I, oh, Billy just dropped all of his keys.

He's a janitor at night. Um, the, the Jake, do you feel like you're being perspired for cocaine? Oh, no, I have a lot of keys, dude. I have no shame in paying for it because I earned it. We have the slogan of flags fly forever. I earned my check mark a few years ago, so I'm not just going to let someone take away from it. Like I grew up on Twitter hoping to have a blue check mark and one day I got it.

So like I'm keeping it. I like though that Jake is unabashedly proud. Yeah, no, check mark. There's very few people out there that are like, yes, the blue check mark is a lot to me as a journalist. I wanted the blue check. And once I got it, I felt like that was my, I have arrived moment and you can take it from my, my sticky cold hands.

So I think, uh, I'm, I'm personally not going to do it. I'm not going to pay for it unless I maybe pull a Billy type situation later. But I just, I, it, the check mark honestly means nothing to me. I only, I only liked it because I could see it because when we first got it, it was because you could just, you know, you could just, you know, you could see when new verified people followed you and then we were using that to book guests on the podcast. So wait, so you did get it?

You did ask for it? No, when I got it, when they gave it to me, I was like, I'm going to keep it because the first time I got it, I got rid of it because I didn't ask for it. Second time I got it again. I'm like, wow, they really want me to, it was like what Elon's doing with LeBron right now where Elon is forcing a blue check on LeBron James. That's what happened to me earlier. Then I was like, oh, I guess it is kind of useful to book guests.

So for the good of the show, I, I had no choice. Right, right. And you did get it. It was weird because you got it the week that Gazz sent out an email saying whoever wants to blue check mark, email me back. It was so crazy. Yeah. It was wild.

Uh, I, I think I'm going to wait to, to possibly buy it and just wait for, because I can already sense the jokes of like, who is this? Who am I talking to? And then also like the shaming of blue checkmarks, which I've taken part in, that's going to obviously switch eventually. Like it's going to, it's a pendulum. It's just going to, I'm going to stay on verified until the pendulum's like goes all the way the other way.

And she'll be like, all right, fuck it. I'll just buy it so I can tweet long videos. To treat it like a fight and who's done, do it like during the NBA finals and no one will pay attention to it. I like that, Jake. I like that. I, I think, um, I put the overunder on big cat getting a blue check. Two weeks.

Okay. Two weeks. What about you? Two days. You taking the underhang? Yeah. What about you? PFT.

I'm not going to get it. But you asked for it the first time. I'm not going to get it. I'm not going to, I have no desire to pay $8 a month to have a blue check badge next to my name. I would put PFTs like two months. I think, I think I believe them right now, but I also, that could change. I think it also, PFTs will be like if gas just emails everyone being like,

Hey, bar still is going to pay for, for blue check marks. Just email me back and we'll be good. I don't think that's going to happen. I reserve the right to change my mind, but I, I don't think it's going to happen. That's where I land. I'm going to, I'm going to wait and see. So I'm going to, I'm going to reserve my right to change my mind as well. I literally do not care about the blue check.

I would just like to be able to tweet long videos. And I think that there's a way that you can do that actually without having the blue check. So I'm going to, I'm going to try my hand at that. And if that works, then there's no need for the blue check. Someone made a good point the other day though. When was the last time that you ever watched a video longer than one minute on Twitter?

I made that point. Yeah. No, I know. Yeah. Yeah. Never, ever. Um, there are some times, there are some times that I've watched long videos on there.

What was the last video you watched that was longer than two minutes, 220? Let me look at my, let me look at my traffic history. Some of our fans are over 220. No, Jake just talked over my answer, but it's, uh, yeah, I have it. I have it by the exact date here. Interesting. No, I'm just saying, like you would think you'd watch such a long video. You'd remember it, but I guess.

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He just lost it, loved it. I, I still love like the pat down and when they decided to do it and how random it seems, um, and it just, the Mets do feel a little cursed this year. Not going to say they're cursed, but they feel a little cursed. So the real story behind Scherzer getting suspended is the umpire behind it because this dude, we, we've got America's new top cop in Major League Baseball and he's got a fantasy fuckboy name. It's Phil Cuzzy, C-U-Z-Z-I.

Phil Cuzzy is the umpire. He's ejected all three pitchers that have been caught with two sticky substances on his hand. So he might actually just have sticky hands. And whenever he goes up to a pitcher and touches them, he's like, whoa, there's definitely something on here. What is, what is all this? What's all this all for cocktail? So he's the guy that we got to keep our eye on.

Don't fuck with Phil Cuzzy because he is, he's definitely kind of deputized himself as like the sticky guy. He's, he's the guy with, he'll find you. He'll find you. Don't try to fuck with him. He's like Kevin Costner on touchables. Yeah. And we also had, um, I don't know if you saw this clip PFT, but Madison

Baumgartner just continues. I, I love that Madison Baumgart one is still pitching and two, he has taken the role, you know, the previously was like John Lackey, then Roger Clemens before him of just starting pitcher that is perpetually upset at everyone and any type of show voting, he got mad at Wilson Contreras the other day for making a noise on a foul tip. He said, he just stood there and started saying, fuck you, fuck you. And then credit to Wilson Contreras, he then got walked and he bat flipped his

walk right in Bumgarner's face. And if Bumgarner was allowed to kill a person on a baseball field, he would have done that right there. I love it. All the best pitches are complete and total psychos when it comes to that shit. And Madison Bumgarner, he's been, he's been an intense individual for a long time and anytime we bring him up, I always have to remind people if, if you don't know the story already, Madison Bumgarner, when he was, I think in high

school, he dated a girl who was also named Madison Bumgarner. That's fucking weird. That's, that's maybe the craziest thing that's ever happened in the history of the world. He's psycho. He's a true psycho. Remember that story, what was that story about him like cutting rabbits out of a like a rattlesnake?

Yeah. I think it was like him and his wife were writing ATVs somewhere. It sounds like an episode of Yellowstone and, and they found like a rabbit being digested and they pulled over and he took out his knife, sliced it open and pulled out baby rabbits that were still alive inside of the snake. Total, total psycho. And then the last thing I had before we do Billy's QB bracket, I don't know if you saw this PFT, but the bub off between Ryan Clark and Brady Quinn.

So draft season, we're going to do a lot of draft stuff next week. We're going to do a draft preview. There's a report Brady Quinn basically said that CJ Stroud before his senior season or before his last season, he wasn't a senior, no show, the Manning passing academy. And that is apparently a character concern. Ryan Clark got very upset at it and they decided to have it out on Twitter. I've never seen a bub off before. I'm just going to read, read to you real quick, uh, how the bub off went down.

So, uh, Brady Quinn or, or yeah, sorry, Ryan Clark started or Brady Quinn started with, I'm hoping you did your homework on my comments about Stetson Bennett this year, still waiting on your cell, bub. Ryan Clark replied, following me and I'll send it now. Just followed you to send it. What? Brady Quinn out of, out of, he was the first one and he bubbed Ryan Clark. He bubbed them, he bubbed them.

And Ryan Clark replied, following me and I'll send it now. Just followed you to send it. And I ain't your bub, brah. So we should be real clear about our tones before we speak, which, which Brady Quinn replied, followed brah. Let's get real serious over Twitter. So we went from bub to brah. I just a grown man tweeting another grown man saying, and I ain't your bub, brah.

Is just, I mean, it's just beautiful. It's, it's what draft season is about. Guys getting in fights about a quarterback like CJ Stroud is going to go top five. And they're arguing about a character concern. That's not really a character concern that the guy didn't really say, but then the other guy's upset because he implied it and we're here. And this is where we land because eventually with the NFL draft, there's so many mock drafts, there's so much discussion about it that we get so bored

that we start saying like, who didn't go to whose birthday party and who, who didn't show up to this passing camp and why should we then ding him, even though he's going to end up going where he goes anyway. And the guys who are actually making decisions don't give a fuck about the Manning passing academy. Okay. So I'm on team Ryan Clark in this situation because you don't, you don't bub another grown man unless you're there, unless you're their brah.

That's, that's the equation right there. You don't bub me unless you love me. Well, that's what I always say. That's, that's my mantra. You can't, you can't bub Ryan Clark in this situation. I would, you know, it's, it's funny because at the end of the day, this argument that they're in, they're fighting over like 1920, 20, well, I guess in Stetson Bennett, like a 21 to 30 year old man that they're getting into

an argument about that they're not financially tied to whatsoever. There's, there's no consequence. Nobody will remember who had what take about which quarterback in five weeks. It's just not going to happen. It might get dragged up if they ever play against each other in the playoffs, like three years from now, then that argument will get brought up and we'll see who is right about it, but nobody is going to give a shit about it. Uh, it's just, it's very funny how quickly things escalated in that situation.

It sounds like they're going to take this offline. I, I, they have to post the screenshot. If they're going to be texting each other, they got to post the screenshots afterwards and let us know what's going on. If they've become bros or if they're still bubs. It, it was, so the original Bob from Brady Quinn was too much. Um, because I agree. You can't just Bob someone out of nowhere on a left field.

Like you're just minding your own business. You get bobbed online. That's everyone's worst nightmare. Ryan Clark's bra though. That wasn't like a bro. He didn't do bro. He did bra. That was a disrespectful bra.

I, I counted as, uh, they need to hash this out on someone's podcast. Like all real fights should be decided. All men, if you get in a fight with another man, invite them on your podcast and that's how you squash that beef. Yeah. And then they'll go on the podcast and they'll just be like good friends. Yeah. It'll be like, and then they'll be like, all right, see you later, Bob.

And they're like, haha, good one. Even though they're both still very mad. It's, it's like the meme of the two dogs that are barking at each other through the fence and then they take the fence away. And then the dogs are just like, Oh, okay, we're cool. The taking the fence away is going on somebody's podcast. Yes. Yes.

I just, that's, that's how, I mean, listen, if we get Israel and Palestine to just get on each other's podcast, we could probably solve this whole thing. Easily. Come on my podcast, bro. Yes. One day. Don't say Bob. All right.

Um, before we do firefests, let's get to it, Billy. It's a rowback question. Rowback, uh, go right now. R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com performance. Jim shorts, perfect for the summer. Use code take for 20% off your first purchase. Rowback.com, R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com use code take. They have Q zips, polos, joggers, everything, but the performance.

Jim shorts are what you need this summer. So use code take on rowback.com for 20% off your first purchase. So my rowback question is Billy, are you ready for the 2023 draft? Quarterback bracket. Yep. 100%. So this year, this year, the brackets a little different. We got four guys, the top four.

So I ranked, uh, the top 12 quarterbacks in the draft and the top four get buys. We got, okay. I was just trying to follow that. We got four guys in the top four. That's an all time record. And they have buys. They have buys in the bracket, but you missed that part. They, the top four have buys in the bracket too soon in the bracket.

All right. Wait. So list all one through 12, one through 12. So we're going to start with 12. Malik Cunningham, Louisville. Okay. Um, then we got Jake Hainer, Fresno, Snape. Yep.

Very good quarterback. Then we got Dorian Thompson, Robinson at 10. Then we got Clayton Tune from Houston. Wait, where did DTR go to school? UCLA. Okay. Got it. All right.

I knew that. I just want to make sure you know that. I feel, cause when you start saying schools and then you don't say a school, I'm like, what's going on? Clayton Tune, Houston. Okay. My map, my mouse is being annoying right now. Tanner McKee, Stanford.

Okay. Then we got Stetson bed. Shout out to the, uh, Stanford wrestling team for four time national chance in a row. I saved me like a hundred times. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to them. Okay.

Then we got Anthony Richardson. He is what seed? He's at six. Billy. No, so, so part of this, part of this. Hold on. Time out. Time out.

My favorite part about the bracket, cause we've done this three years, I think now, even though Billy has, I think done this, like written it all out, it always feels like he's doing it in front of us. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. We were recording when, when you said we're doing the bracket, he was like, sorry, you started dashing around like he starts scribbling as we're like, Billy bracket time and he's like, okay, all right.

So something about my rankings is I include that they might end up in bad situations. I'm not ranking the best players coming out of college. This is like their performance in the NFL. The funniest part of Billy's quarterback bracket by far is that he makes a list numbered one through 12 of the best quarterbacks and he puts the best quarterback number one. And then he has a bracket of his best players. That's already ranked as his best players. Well, they go ahead and the worst players lose.

Yeah, no, they have to go ahead to head. You don't know. It could be an option. No, no, but there, there are upsets. There are upsets. I know, I know, but I'm just saying, like, if you look at it from what it truly is and how the seating committee works on this project, you've already made your list of the best quarterbacks, but this is why this is why we love you, Billy.

Well, people forget Kenny and match up against. That's all I need to know. Oh, hold on. Hank, let's do this in order. Let's go to the order. People forget Kenny Pickett won last year. Yeah, people forget that in an upset, in an upset. And then he's like one of the best, most successful quarterbacks from that draft.

People forget it might be like the Warriors. The Warriors were psyched to get the Kings in the first round. Maybe Anthony Richardson gets a great match up. So like Anthony Richardson's five, Anthony Richardson's five, because he could go to a shitty situation and end up just getting tanked. OK, four. So four. OK. Oh, wait, no, now we're at five.

CJ Stroud. OK, five. CJ Stroud. OK. Four. Hendon Hooker. OK. Nice. He's higher on my list. Three. Bryce Young. OK. I can't wait to hear about your takes on Bryce Young's size, but keep going. Two. Will Leviss. OK. And then one, which is my like wild card, like Sam Elinger,

Trace McSorley, Chad Kelly, Max Duggan. OK. OK. He's the guy that makes no sense in my mind, but he just gets a buy just because it's my bracket. OK. OK. But he's but he's the one seed. Oh, he's one seed. He's more of like a different kind of seeding. He's just there. OK. Because in no one else's list is he in the top 12.

So I just put him in my list because he's a number one. You should like the next year. Just put a pin in this one. You should have a play in game next year. Yeah. Yeah. That would be cool. Yeah. OK. So, Billy, tell us your criteria before you go through the matchups. How are you how these rankings all work?

So the rankings are just like because really good players will go to really bad teams and then their careers will just fizzle out. So players who are not as good coming out of college actually kind of get an advantage if they if they like weren't top four. But they're still good players in my mind. OK. OK. Kenny Pickett was one of those guys. So this is also kind of a mock draft, too, because you're projecting where these quarterbacks are going to end up.

Kind of. Kind of. So OK. Matchup number one, Clayton Tune versus Tanner McKee. So say the seedings, too. So we just can keep track. This is a ninth seed versus an eighth seed. OK. So Tanner McKee is actually the eighth seed. He's ranked above Clayton Tune. But why do you have?

Why do you have the ninth seed playing against the eighth seed? Because because there's four, four guys get a buy. Yeah, there's the buys. Don't forget the bias, PFT. Keep forgetting about the buys. But that still doesn't make any sense why nine seed will play against an eighth seed in the first round. If you check your if you text your text, I have the I sent it to you.

He goes five, 12. He goes six, 11. He goes seven, ten, eight, nine. Exactly. It's the buys. OK. You've got to understand the buys. So Tanner McKee is he's playing a pro style at Stanford. He's tall. He's prototypical. But the thing is his hands are way too small for how big he is. He's got nine inch hands and he's a really big target, which is just a huge fumble risk.

He may have not been seeing that at Stanford, but Clayton Tune is just a gunslinger. Just like way more air raid. And, you know, Clayton Tune advances in that that matchup. OK, wow. So that was that was an upset into account. Yeah, big. Did you take into account the fact that that Tanner has a way better quarterback name? Clayton Tune is kind of is a pretty good quarterback name

like Clayton in general. Tanner McKee is a good one. But, you know, those are kind of equal there. And PFT, I would argue, Tanner is a great college name, not a great NFL man. Right. Yeah, right. Absolutely. But he's still it's such a good college name that usually in my mind, I would draft that guy higher.

Is that your hedgehog, Billy? Yes, one second. We're going to take a pause. It's a quick commercial break for Billy's hedgehog. By the way, that was so early when Billy was like a tank. Earlier when Billy was like, I'm sorry. My mouse is driving me crazy. I actually thought that he meant his rodent.

But no, he's talking about it. No, I mean, only Billy. Could I could you hear that noise and be like, oh, that must be his hedgehog. OK, drinking water. Match up number two, CJ Stroud versus Malik Cunningham. This one is just, you know, this is a first round five versus a 12. CJ Stroud easily takes this like Malik Cunningham. We'll never get out of Lamar Jackson's shadow.

So like comparing him out to anything like, you know, he's just not going to make it. He's too small. He is quick, but he's just not going to translate. OK, so CJ Stroud easily wins that. There's some Malik fatigue from from last year, given given how Malik played for down the stretch for the Titans. OK, Jake Hainer versus Anthony Richardson, another blowout.

Anthony Richardson takes it. Jake Hainer, very good quarterback, beat UCLA, but still a poor man's. Um, Derek Carr, match up number four. They did go to the same school. They did. But, you know, I didn't want to just say that Malik Cunningham was a poor man's Lamar Jackson without saying Jake Hainer is also a poor man's Derek Carr. Yeah, don't even call Billy racist.

Yeah, can't can't get me on that. Stetson Bennett also compared to black guys and to never run. OK, Stetson Bennett versus Dorian Thompson Robinson. DTR, you know, electric player, but Stetson Bennett is just going to take this one. He played better competition. One more national championship has been in bigger moments. So easy win for Stetson Bennett. So now, Billy, you would.

I don't know how much DTR you watched. He is electric. He is so quintessential. Like he will do some fuck shit and then he'll throw like a terrible interception, but then he'll go back and it'll just like rip your defense to shreds and has crazy confidence. Fun fact, he's thrown the fastest ball at the combine since Josh Allen, 62 miles per hour.

Well, got to mention that. Yeah. So I mean, think about that. And he's like so much smaller, but he can rip it just as fast as Josh Allen. OK, but he lost to Stetson Bennett, Bennett. Yeah, but, you know, there's some decision making choices. You know, he throws it fast, but he's he's. That sounds like code. Talk, maybe.

No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. We'll get into it later. Stetson Bennett is a smarter quarterback. No, no, no. He's he's older. He's very. Stetson Bennett is wiser because he's so old.

That's because he's old. It's because he's old. DTR also is totally electric. He jumps over, dudes, all the time. I think TTR is pretty old, too. Who I said, Stetson Bennett is definitely like 50 years older than him. OK, match number. 23 years old.

Yeah. So match up. Pretty well, I mean, Stetson Bennett's 27, right? I think he's 25. Now we're advancing to the next round. Max Duggan versus Clayton Tune. You know, Clayton Tune is a great air raid guy, but Max Duggan is just a competitor and he's way faster.

Like Max Duggan ran a four or five to like in the combine. Did anyone expect that? Like he's that much of an athlete and he's a winner. Why? So why did you not expect that? Because he's a ginger. So Max, not that fast. They get too angry and caught up in themselves. Max, he's got he's got solar speed.

Yeah. Yeah. So Max Duggan advances Clayton Tune. I mean, the thing is Clayton Tune's competition, you just see him throwing touchdowns to just wide open guys. And, you know, Max Duggan just pulled it off better and honestly made some throws in tighter situations. So this is where it gets interesting. Matchup number six, CJ Stroud.

I hope I have people listening at home. I apologize because I'm just as lost as you. Just look at the blog. You'll see it. It makes a lot more sense. OK, CJ Stroud versus Henden Hooker. CJ Stroud is a very good QB, very, very good. The only thing that I got against him is that he's an Ohio State quarterback

and how many really great Ohio State quarterbacks we've seen coming out that just haven't really panned out. Don't like this. I mean, they have it. Well, no, no, I can't actually. OK, who? Yeah. Dwayne Haskins, RIP, Carl Jones. OK. Damn, J.T. Barrett.

He's you don't have a little word of advice. You don't lead with Dwayne Haskins. Yeah. Billy, you say like three other names. Justin Justin, three other names. You say three other names, then you go. And obviously, like rest in peace, we never fully got to see, unfortunately, between Haskins. Yeah, also, we should investigate his death

because that's another thing. All right. Justin Fields. What about Justin Fields? Would you right now take Justin Fields over Zach Wilson? Oh, my God, the pause says it all. They're saying injury. I mean, in the world of Lamar Jackson, I mean, he's he's injury prone. We like I said it.

OK, like in this world, like the best of it, I know, but who still got hurt? But Zach Wilson is bad if you turned injuries off for Zach Wilson, he still would be the worst. Right. But I mean, yes, over Zach Wilson, but I'm just still my take on. OK, OK. Availability. Can I just? Zach Wilson is also injury prone. Are we missing out on that one? He's mentally injured.

Billy, can I just pause for a second and ask you a quick question? Just how many how many division one college football games have you attended in your life? Um, wasn't it one this year? No, I've been to five. OK. All right. So but you you this year, you went to what game? This year, I went to Tennessee, Florida. OK. All right.

I just want to that's just I want to see where the rankings go. But I just put a watch. I watch a lot of college football. Yeah, on TV. OK. Now you got me all messed up. OK, CJ. Try this is going so yeah. So Hedden Hooker wins just because. And I'm just asking a simple question

that might be allude to. Hedden really saw live when this because that was well. OK, it goes it goes a little deeper. It goes a little deeper than that because Hedden Hooker used to come on macro dosing every week. Oh, just wait. Just wait till the wait till the end of the bracket until the end of the bracket. Keep going, keep going. Hedden Hooker beats CJ Stroud because I think that the ACL is going to drop

Hedden Hooker into a way better situation. Like what if he ends up on the Patriots just because the ACL and has a way better situation than CJ Stroud going into some like Atlanta Falcons. Right. I don't think Robert. I don't think Robert Kraft would have any interest in another hooker. Hmm. It wasn't a hooker. Yeah, that's the wrong masseuse in the in the same vein. I think Hedden Hooker is a less problematic to Sean Watson in his play style.

Next matchup. Yeah, Bryce. Wait, that's problematic next matchup. OK. Bryce Young versus Anthony Richardson. OK, I get the Bryce Young hype. I get it. I get it. You know, he plays really well.

He's played him out a lot of ways. But the thing is you like Anthony Richardson is everything. Bryce Young isn't. But the thing is you can teach Anthony Richardson to get better decision making, you know, put him in a right offense. But you can't put 30 pounds on Bryce Young. His frame is his frame is just it does. It's not going to work.

It's not like he has a frame to work with. It's not like he's a beanstalk. The kid just couldn't physically put on 30 pounds without sacrificing serious mobility and making him look like a bodybuilder. Like Lily, I like I like that, Billy. You've gone from being just a respect mask guy to being respect frame guy. We're frame guys now. No, if you look at his frame, he's slender at the hips and slender slender

at the shoulders like a guy like Arizona Cardinals, Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray, he's like a big frame guy. Like he can put like Russell Wilson, big frame guy. You can put the weight on that. Yeah, like Bryce Young, he's not that thick. He's not that. OK, OK, because of that, like he's going to be more injury prone. OK, Kyler Murray's a frame guy.

He's just a beast. I don't think Kyler Murray. I don't want to. He is. I don't want to tell you how your job is stout. Drew Brees was was was was thick, too. Yeah, no, no, Billy's not wrong. Don't play young's body.

The thing is, Drew Brees wouldn't be running like his playstyle is way different than Bryce Young. Bryce Young's going to be running around. Bryce Young's body type is an anomaly. It's not it has not really you don't really see it in the NFL to quarterback position, because I would agree Kyler Murray and and Russell Wilson have just more meat to them. Yeah.

So I although I disagree with the Kyler Murray comparison, I do think it's not a comparison. They're totally different. I know, I know, I'm saying I'm saying that I don't I wouldn't say that Kyler Murray's got a great frame, but I will say that Bryce Young, there are some glaring frame issues with him. I agree. My frame coming out of high school is better than him coming out of college.

That's like a fact. Yeah, yeah, you're both different. Anthony Richardson is just totally different. And you can you can he is a not only is he a like amazing athlete, but you can tell he like goes through his progressions and is actually extremely cerebral at the position out of like a lot of these athletic quarterbacks. He's extremely cerebral and breaking it down, especially downfield

and especially facing cover zero, which I've kind of been obsessed with since talking to Chad Kelly and seeing something like him go up against cover zero. He picks up Blitz is better than most in this in this track. Is it I've seen scouts calm once in a generation talent. Yeah, I think those those Hank those Hank that said that as a scout. OK, keep going. Matchup number eight. This is a big one.

Stetson Bennett Stetson Bennett versus Will Levison. Now, this is in the final four. I don't know where we are. We we are in the final four. OK, so the two seven. No, no, no, no, no, this is the last last quarter final. Stetson Bennett will make it. It will make more sense for the listeners.

The this is a two seed versus a seven seed. The best part about this is, listen, we obviously there's been a tough week for PFT and, you know, it's like we don't have a guest on this week. And we basically are just like stress testing the AWLs being like you guys said, like give PFT as much time as possible and like we're here for you. Well, how about we do Billy's quarterback for 20 minutes and really see if you like this podcast? I'm putting I'm putting the team on my back right now.

Stetson Bennett versus Will Levison. Stetson Bennett's I don't I didn't like. So I would reviewing his body cam footage of his arrest. And I the only thing I didn't like about it was how he bitched about when they put his handcuffs on. He just kept the first thing he did was complain about how painful the handcuffs were. And I'm like, look, man, like pain is temporary.

If you get banged up in the game and you start complaining, like get your mentals like broken. He's already on like, you know, chemicals that are supposed to dull pain. That's a big red flag for me. If he's if you know, if he's got a low pain tolerance, that's one thing. And look, Stetson Bennett has only lost one game in his career. Will Levison has one has lost seven. You learn way more from losses.

And I think if you're in a situation like Georgia, Stetson Bennett is very replaceable with other guys who could have done the same, if not better than him in that perfect scenario. I think, you know, if you put Will Levison a better scenario, we saw that he sat out the bowl game and his team just got shelled. I mean, if you took Stetson Bennett out of a Georgia game, I don't think the backup would do that much worse. Georgia is still going to win in all those scenarios.

But what about the counter argument that Will Levison choosing to sit out the bowl game, doing some load management at that point? A real gamer would want to bid that they're out there with his guys. I mean, he was banged up and he played through a pretty brutal season with those guys. I can he's like one of the few I understand, like get to the draft. And we're going to get to the two jacked, you know, there's a lot of what ifs with Will Levison get into it for the record. I do agree with that.

I do have Will Levison head of Stetson Bennett on my big board. I do as well. I keep her doctor. Matchup number nine, Max Duggan versus Henden Hooker. Where are we? Semifinal number one finals. Thank you, Jake. Thank you.

That actually makes much better sense for me, too. Max Duggan versus Henden Hooker. You know, you're looking at it. Well, I'm looking at my notes, but I'm correct me if I'm wrong. I feel like you know, I feel like you don't actually have it written out as a bracket. No, I don't. I'm staring at the wall. I'm seeing all my notes.

But is there a physical bracket in it? Yes. Yes. I'm looking at the notes. That's in the group chat. I sent it in the group chat. So you get off on your own. I want to look because I want to I want to be surprised with who wins. I'm just going to say if you're an AWL and and you don't like this segment,

fuck off. This this is this is what if I don't like this right now? You told me to do this. I know, I know, I know, I was just going to post the blog. You're doing well. You're doing well. Keep it up. OK, Max Duggan.

He's a game winner. But unfortunately, this is the end of the road for him. Henden Hooker totally beats him. Max could end up being the next Ryan Fitzpatrick. I think that's like, you know, he's not ceiling, but a very realistic, positive outlook for Max Duggan. Henden Hooker advances matchup number 10. This is where it gets weird.

Will Leviss versus Anthony Richardson. So this is my problem. This is where it gets weird. So Will Leviss and Anthony Richardson both hit the ceiling wall at their pro days. Yep. Will Leviss did it. Everyone shat on him for it. Anthony Richardson did it and said that he hit the roof on purpose

because Will Leviss did it. This is my red flag. I want my quarterback to be a leader, not a follower. Like he like he was copying someone else. He was like following the lead. Just me. I want my quarterback to set the tone. Will Leviss set the tone of another man's pro day.

I'm just like that. I'm just saying I like that. Even though the real person would just been like, fuck that. There's no fucking low ceilings in an NFL stadium or dome. And if I put arc on the ball, like sometimes it's essential to put arc on the ball. And actually one thing about Will Leviss is that he throws receivers open using arc and using touch in a way that like the biggest comparison I could say is Brett Favre.

It's like a like he's throwing it like a guy who's like like seeing those situations like a thousand times. And how is him getting a jack and affect that, though? Is he not going to lose the touch because he got too big? Well, the thing was I did some research. He was jacked before this. He knew he could get that jack. Yeah, he knew he could get that jacked and he was injured and had to like stay off

some stuff and he just got jacked again. He was doing this all while he was jacked. But I think that that weirdness, that mayo in the coffee, that eating a full banana, that weirdness and, you know, being way too jacked. We saw the quotes, you know, like a lot of NFL GMs and coaches don't want their quarterback to be jacked. John Gruden quoted it about Brady Quinn. And so I think that's actually going to make him drop into a better situation.

Like he just had a meeting with the Patriots, Will Levis with the Patriots, I think would be much better than Mac Jones, much better than Bailey Zappi. So he could end up having a better career than AR-15 because he's in a better situation. And and he's a friend of the show. Right. Now we're in the final matchup. So when the final matchup, Hennan Hooker. Yeah, I'm curious, Billy, when you said he's been injured, so he's had to stay off some of the stuff and now he's back.

What does that mean? Like stay off the weights. Got it. Yeah. He is a friend of the show. He's probably listening to this right now. So congratulations, Will. You are a finalist and the finalists are Will Levis and Hennan Hooker. Now, Billy, can I ask you a question?

Have you met either of these two gentlemen? I've met both of them. Oh, OK, all right, all right. Have you met anyone else in the in the bracket? Max Duggan. OK, yep. Who was the one seed? Well, he, you know, he was, you know, in my that's a better game on the show. You have a man in person.

I didn't meet him. Yeah. So this is this is where I think we can really get a real credit criticism of Will Levis. Will Levis was on one question for quarterback. I think he came vastly underprepared for that segment. I think his one question was low hanging fruit. I think he could have made a better question and there's a touchdown open for him. And he took the check down by asking who would get kicked off a part of my take if you had to pick someone.

So I think now you didn't like the question or the answer. Well, he's actually right. That is that is that is like it's a low. It's a low like he could have prepared a great question, but he just got in there and he just took the low hanging fruit. And so you got to think about that. Yeah, who's doing the bracket. Yes, he's doing this.

So I mean, you know, these are things you got to consider. Also, I asked him what he was going to do when with his time while he's in New York, he said, carbon going to carbon. And that's just like the the, you know, high class equivalent of Michael Scott saying, so borrows the best pizza in New York. So I have a little judgment. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Carbon is really good, though.

If you don't know, is it changed? If you don't know good New York City Italian food and do your research, I'm just saying, carbon is like is like the Sabaro for people who where would you have sent them? I would have sent them to Arturo's, which is actually two blocks away from carbon, which I told them, which is actually has way better home style Italian food and without all the BS. So just two judgment things that I'm just putting up there.

I mean, look, it might not matter to a lot of people, but those are the things I judge people on. And then Hedden Hooker wins. Okay. Now, what would you say? Just a little post game, you know, the media gets in front of you and says, Billy, we read your bracket. There's a report out there that the only college football game you went to

this year was a game Hedden Hooker played in at Tennessee. Summer saying that's the only game you watch. And that's why he's number one. That is wrong. I watched a lot of games. Okay. Okay. All right.

That's good. That's a question from Billy actually from my seat. Billy grades on tape. I grade on tape from your seats. What we're going to say from my seats, it was probably actually better if I watched it on TV. Well, you had the all 22. Yeah.

Yeah. They're grade seats. She had our game time. Yeah. Fuck. Okay. All right. Well, Billy, that was great.

No, but seriously, I think Hedden Hooker is the best combination of falling to a bad spot and having good enough talent to like make it in the long run. Also, Will Leviss, I'm just busting his balls with all that stuff. The last part, he'd get it. You can't say that after you got to keep the ball busting going. Okay. All right.

Well, great job, Billy. Another great QB bracket. I don't know why ESPN pays these experts when we have Billy and he just he whipped that up as we were doing it. Just to check it out on the blog will make a lot more sense. And I have like a couple of like cool stuff about each quarterback that couldn't include. Okay.

Okay. Awesome. Arrest him. Weage funny moments. It's full breakdown. Check it out. All right. Also, you left out Hedden Hooker's got gigantic hands.

Yes. They're like the 10 and a half inch hands, right? The biggest hands. What was that move, Billy? What were you just doing there? Now we have an echo. My mic unplugged. Just enough time.

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Store it up. Barstelsports.com and be the envy of all your friends. OK, Firefest of the Week. Hank, would you like to start? Sure, I have a couple. OK, first one. What was it? Must have been Monday night. There was two overtime games, Oilers and Kings was three, two.

And I just got New Jersey cable. I have cable New Jersey just did an emergency program test run. And it was like, we're doing an emergency test run. Like it's kind of cable is going to be off for the next like two hours. And then the Kings scored tied it. I had the Oilers and then they lost. That's tough. I actually because you treated like this game went to overtime.

I was I was sitting. I was so mad. I've never it was one of those things. There was one o'clock in the morning and I was just walking around my house furious. Like what is going on? How do I even I had to pull it up on my phone and then I was behind. And I was I was I couldn't believe it was happening. But I was I saw it.

It makes sense why they're just doing the test. It was one o'clock in the morning. But yeah, I saw you going through that, Hank. And my question when that happened was because you maybe think about it. I don't think I've ever seen the emergency broadcast system used for anything except for a test. No. Maybe they use it on 9 11, maybe. And now, but besides that,

I've never heard the actual emergency broadcast ever. Did you guys see? No. Did you did you guys see that the whole state of Florida had an Amber alert at 4 30 in the morning 4 45. I woke up the entire state. I would drive insane. It was a mental. It was supposed to be on TV.

They sent it to phones. Must be. Yeah. Must be like reset your reset your alarm week in all the states. That's like when when they send out that nuclear missile inbound thing to the entire state of Hawaii. Oh, yeah. Right. I think that was real right right. No, I think that was real. But they stopped.

I think that was real. And they stopped the missile before it hit. That's just my take. I think I think it was it was Matt Patricia, the rocket scientist trying to psych Marcus Mario out the night before their playoff game against each other. Matt Patricia, now an Eagle. New Eagle coach. Yeah, I was just I just don't like to say that.

Yeah, you guys, you guys look you guys look a little bit alike, Max. Yeah. Good looking guy. Good looking guy. Yeah, during Eagles games this year, you got to rock a backwards hat and a pencil for sure. Sure. Fine. And then my other fire fest, I was playing PGA with Rudy the other night and we made a bet and I lost and I have to watch the entire Bruins game on mute tonight. So I'll be live on the CMT Twitch just watching the game in silence.

I'm probably not going to promote it if you're listening to this. Tune in. No one's listening right now. I'm not going to say anything. So don't nobody show up in the chat and start giving hate numbers. Yeah, now people are just going to yell. You got the water ball with the water ball with all your golf balls. Hank, those are sick. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to Taylor made.

They sent me a lottery ball, custom golf balls. That's sick. It's cool. OK, PFT. Not I had a pretty clean week, actually. So I don't really have anything to complain about right now. The only thing I have is actually I'm going through some hotel situations, which is just adding to the list of stuff that you have to take care of when you're in this scenario that I'm in right now.

So I'm staying at a hotel. I don't know if I should name them or not. It's Hilton and I I reserved a room for a couple nights because I didn't know how long I was going to be down here. Quickly found out I was going to need to be down here for for a while. So I tried to extend my stay by two nights in the same room. I did that over the phone and they ended up giving me an extension through, I want to say, or May 3rd, which is much more than two nights.

And so then I was like, wait, no, that's not what I asked for at all. Please don't please reverse the charge immediately on that. And then they said, OK, we've got you all squared away. We got two more nights for you. And then they sent me the confirmation through my email and they booked me two more nights at a completely different hotel and a completely different town. That was also a Hilton.

And so then I asked them to reverse that was put on hold for about 42 minutes because the person just freaked out because they're like, I really I've really fucked up this scenario big time. And then somebody else got on the phone, fixed my reservation, got me in the right room, but I have still yet to have the other confirmation canceled. So right now, because they put the all the holds on your cards, I'm out approximately like, I don't know,

twenty three hundred dollars that will be reversed onto my card soon because of because of errors and somebody putting in the wrong information to a computer. So I'm waiting, waiting to hear back from them and see what's going to happen on that one. But that's been that's been a headache that I probably could have done without this week. Please let me know if you need a skull fuck. I had no skull fucking yet.

No, just maybe some skull grinding for a little bit. Yeah, skull dry humping. No penetration necessary, but on a serious note, thank you guys to everybody out there that's reached out. It's actually meant a lot, so I appreciate that. OK, my fire fest is so my wife's out of town this week, so I've been solo with the kids. It's kind of like when Dwight got fired from the office

and all the plants died and you just quickly realized like, oh, shit, there's like a lot of things that I didn't realize go on here. But one thing that has been interesting is I'm obviously, you know, cooking dinner. We've had hot dogs three nights in a row, and my kids have had like maybe a bite of a hot dog every single night. So I've eaten 10 hot dogs in the last three days. I realized that tonight as I was downing another couple of hot dogs.

And I was like, I just keep cooking three to four hot dogs a night and then they have a bite and then I finished their hot dog. And yeah, that that dawned on me as I was cleaning up after dinner. I was like, damn, you've eaten a lot of hot dogs this week. So maybe next time I'll figure out maybe some mac and cheese or something that I can cook. But yeah, it's it's been eye opening with, you know, it's it's something it's something. You know, you know what you're going to want to put in that mac and cheese,

though? A couple hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs. Yeah, slice it up. Yeah. I also have a situation where I think my son already has more Riz than me. Shout out to do he has the most Riz in the world. But last night or yes, time has just escaped me this week. But yesterday, come home,

eating dinner snacks. My son's like, I want to Clementine, peel him a Clementine, eats every single piece except one. I think he took one piece with him to his bedroom at night because I come down, I get him out of bed and we come down. He's holding a piece of Clementine in his hand. And I'm like, hey, dude, like, why don't we eat this or throw it out? You've been holding it for a while now.

He's like, no, no, no, no, no. He holds it all the way. We walk to school. He's holding it like like it's like the like a gold bar, holding it all the way to school. We get to school, walk him to his class, walks up to his teacher, shows his teacher and then just eats it in front of her. And she was very impressed.

And I was like, I don't know what just fucking happened here. So yeah, I think he's I think he's got more risk than me already. I thought you I thought you were going to say he was going to like give it to his teacher and here I brought you I brought your present, which would have been that would have been like that would have been medium risk. Yeah, but to show her and be like, I bet you want this. He just negged her. Yes, your son is going to he's going to become a pickup artist.

He's going to be the new mystery. And she gave the reaction that he was looking for. She's like, oh, what's that? He's like Clementine or he says orange and and then he ate it. And she's like, wow, that was that was it. He fucking the crowd went wild. So yeah, I think I'm outrised by my son already. He's definitely going to become a pickup.

He's going to come home with like a top hat and like goggles around his around his neck. He's going to be picking up chicks left and right. Get addicted to Latinas and Lancaster PA. I would listen. Now, that means I did a good job as a father. OK, I don't know what that means. An adieu. That's an adieu.

Our colleague, Jeff, to do. I think he treated the other day like, hey, I'm addicted to Latinas and I don't care who knows it. So now we know it. Now we all know it. You know, it's wild about Lancaster PA. My buddy works there. He's like, there's no one there.

And he has no idea where he's the dude's finding these people. Sounds like your buddy's a loser. Good. No offense. All right, Billy, I got fat. Nice. Belly football club. Yeah. Belly football couldn't work out for two weeks, put on a lot of pounds, and it's hard to stop being fat in a bunch.

Yeah. Yeah, but you got you got to frame for it, though. Max, don't nod that furiously. No, I know a little. I know you guys have been nice and haven't been saying anything, but I know I put on a lot of weight recently. All I was saying is that it's hard to not be fat. Yeah, no, it is very hard to daily struggle to not be fat. That's that's what I was agreeing with.

Been eating hot dogs nonstop. I understand. Billy, how did basketball go last night? Good, we killed it. Oh, nice. Hank, what are you? Hank hit some threes. Hank, you're muted. That's weird.

Me and Billy both played played well. I would say it was both of our best performances. Hell, yes. One by six held them off. Billy was beast on the boards, putting up. I had a couple of threes. It's great. Yeah, playoff. Playoff bound. Hell, yes.

I might come to the playoff game. I love to hear it. Love to hear it next week. Well, that fucking head shake, Max. Oh, you're muted again. Double muted. We're in mute off. There's no way that big cat would go to Hoboken for your playoff ball. But it was nice. And I said, yeah, I mean, that's you saw their reaction.

It's about the reaction when I say like, hey, I might come to a game. Billy and Hank both were like, fuck, yeah, that's all I was looking for. I didn't want them to have that satisfaction. Yeah, no, no, I got the moment. You can't steal that from me every. Yeah, I'm in the stands looking every game. Yeah, where's that? Where's big cat?

He said he's going to come to the game. I'm going to come with a huge left. Yeah, I would take it for a big cat before every single game that they've had this year. I'm going to keep looking at the stands. I'm going to come with two huge, like high school football pins for both Billy and Hank, just clapping along. Maybe try to get in a fight.

OK, Jake, what's your fire fast? I have an ingrown toenail that's infected. I'm on Annabelle. Me too. Really? No, shut up. Which stuff? My big, my left big toe. I'm getting to take it out tomorrow. Big toe. I've had an issue with this toe for a couple of months, though.

Have you guys just don't get to the point where you just get a kitchen knife and just have at it? No, that would probably make it worse. I went to the MD and they put me out of biotic. Oh, I've got a foot doctor. I'll give you my guy. Billy's right. Billy's right. Every man at some point in their life has performed like minor surgery on themselves.

And you're not a man until you do that, until you cut into yourself without taking a shot of whiskey. Yeah, yeah, just put your foot over the toilet. Just fucking go to town. I've been told I'm in danger of losing my toe if I don't get it taken care of. So that's scared me. Oh, my God.

No, they gave me that whole song and dance at the city and D2. That's why I had to go get a foot doc. That's why I had to go to a foot doctor. No, you get a steak knife and just turn it into a giant cut and then you just keep disinfecting the cut. That sounds. Billy's right.

I mean, I get results. I think I'd rather lose my toe. I'd rather lose my toe. I've been dealing with it for literally like six months. I've got I've got I've had this procedure done to my toe five times and I'm doing it again tomorrow. Get a steak knife and basically cut off all the infected dead skin and shit

and then just pour alcohol on it and just do that every day with vasatracin. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. OK, so that is the show. We have big draft stuff coming next week. Obviously, NFL draft. Very excited. I think we think we'll be back in person. I did something special.

So Jake, PFT, Memes and Billy don't know this. I did all the ads in studio earlier. Max and Hank were there. We did the lottery ball. They guessed we said we're not going to tell them so you guys get a full guest and then we will tell you what the number is. And we can play the video for you after as well

so you can see it. So it is an official lottery ball. Numbers for you guys. Eighteen. 69. I'm going to go with 46. Memes, he said 21. 21. OK, so here's what we're going to do.

Obviously, we've had a little bit of different schedule this week with PFT's father passing away. So we you just listen to the whole show on on Riverside on us doing zoom. PFT, Jake and Billy are not with us right now. So they don't know that we're going to do this. So we all three of us have to get this show three of us have to keep the result of this lottery ball

completely separate, do not tell them, and then we will play it for them at the end. So they're going to get to guess as well. OK, so numbers for the three of us and double numbers do count. So if someone guesses, someone can double up. Actually, no, we'll just tell them our numbers. 59. 59. Is this something new?

Wait, have you ever gotten this? No, I can I just say as a side I love the little Hank stands out there that are like, when are we going to start talking about the fact that big cats only got it once? And I just reply to all of them. I'm just like, ask me if I've ever gotten the lottery ball. And they're like, have you ever gotten it?

I'm going to say yes. That's all I'd say. Yes, I have. Congrats. I've gotten it. I'm happy for you. Fifty nine once. Yeah. How many of you got here? Oh, OK, that's interesting. This is you're just doing the Max no hitter thing. Max, that's shot. That was not that.

How many hits of this? The Phillies get in Game Three of the World Series on my number is 20. OK. Yeah, you know what? I'll go 17. Fifty nine. What? You were very confident with that. This is my number. OK. My dad turned fifty nine.

It's it's been an emotional week. OK. The number is ninety nine. Another G.G. One one. No. It happened again. You're such a fucking idiot. He literally tweeted you last week. God damn.

And like, let's be honest, let's just break it down the other way. You just basically were like, fifty nine. I'm flexing on PFT that my dad's still alive. Yeah, that's what you just did. That's literally what you just did. No, I did not. That's that's. I'm not going to be online this weekend.

OK, yeah. So we won't tell them and we'll what we'll have them watch this. And yeah, this is going to be great. You just got fucked by J.J. One again. All you had to do is do 99. You would have it twice right now. That's my dad's fault.

The number was ninety nine. So J.J. Watt in the same week that he fucking did that to Hank. It hit again. It was so bad. Dude, I was like, J.J. Watt did it again and Hank didn't it didn't register for him for a second. And then I told him and he was so upset. Hank.

Hank, this is so bad. You keep getting worse. No, bless you. Ninety nine. In your face, Hank. And this is all bad. Yeah, no, it's recorded. We recorded it.

I made fun of him. I also he we did have a discussion, PFT, because he gets fifty nine because it was dad's birthday and I was like nice flex on on PFT there. So yeah, it was it was a whole thing. He just he just couldn't have been a worse one for Hank. Ninety nine. No, I thought three days ago, asking how it was going. I thought that was nice.

Hank put up a picture of him with his dad the other day. I thought that was that was sweet. Yeah. Well, it was his birthday and, you know, you got me in my feels. I know I want to I apologize, but hurt your feelings. I want to apologize for for gassing my dad up. Would you trade your dad for a lottery ball win? At this point.

It's a fair question. It's not. I don't have a lot of a lot of good memories. I don't think he would, but it's definitely like it's because it's gotten so long that it's a pause. You know, it's like when you get a trade request and it's like it's a no, but it definitely it wasn't like a no hang up. It was a no, no, no, no, no.

Memes means drop drop the meme of the guy with the long hair making the the steeple with his fingers trade requests. Thanks, dad, for one lottery ball. Oh, man. All right. We'll see everyone on Monday. Love you guys. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.