Pardon My Take - Max Homa, Kansas Wins The National Championship And Guys on Chicks

Episode Date: April 6, 2022

We're back from Nola and a Kansas National Title. We talk the Championship game,(00:02:26-00:13:43) Billys spreadsheet and Jake's first Final Four covering the games. (00:13:44-00:23:48:20) Hot Seat/Cool Throne. (00:24:59-00:41:11) Max Homa joins the show in preparation of the 2022 Masters, guarantees he's making the Cut, and how he thinks he'll do this year. (00:42:26-01:19:21) We finish up with guys on chicks. (01:20:12-01:31:49)You 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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Go to Sling.com slash Barstool right now to sign up and try it for free. Today is Wednesday, April 6th, and the Kansas City J Hawks are national champions. Thank you Mark Emmer. Congratulations Kansas City. Yes, all the time. Actually in the Missouri,

the college is located in Missouri. To really piss off people. It was a great moment to have Mark Emmerit give the trophy to Bill Self, who is facing five, what is it? Level one sanctions. Level one violations, which sounds very serious, but a great national championship game.

It's funny to think that like a level one sanction is like he emailed a kid during the wrong month of the calendar year. It's also just a perfect, like it is the perfect champion for this day and age where it's like the rules have changed. I'd say most people don't give a fuck about like college players getting paid whatsoever.

And the NCAA has just been dragging their feet so they could have taken care of this a long time ago. Instead, they're giving a trophy to a school that is also facing violations. But this was also justice though for Kansas for 2020. Because going into that tournament, remember we sat down, we did the fake bracketology when we found out that we had the tournament

ripped from our hands on the eve of the coronavirus. And I think we had Kansas as the number one overall seat. I think we picked them to win the championship in 2020, the fake bracket. It's good to see Kansas get this back. I like it. I like it when a state like Kansas, they've got one thing that they really care about.

And that's just college basketball. It's good to see them get back in the winter circles. Yeah, they were 28 and three in 2020 and they looked like the best team in the country. It's a testament to how crazy this tournament is. Kansas, if you went back and looked like since they last won in 2008, this is not even close to their best team.

But that doesn't matter. The tournament is, every single year we see the most talented team or the best team falter or a team that doesn't look like they have it all and they get to the final four. So this just proves like, hey, the tournament is its own entity and being able to win and cut down the nets

in the last weekend or the first weekend of April, last weekend of March. It doesn't really matter if you are the best Kansas team they've had in the last 15 years and they deserve it. And they were the better team on Monday night. That 16 point, 15 point comeback and halftime was incredible. Their defense just shut down UNC.

And Bill Self, here's my question. Bill Self, is he now, and Jake, feel free to chime in. Does Bill Self now, out of all the active coaches, have the second best resume only to Rick Petino? His resume is pretty incredible at this point. Like he, this second one for Bill Self puts him in rarefied air and it puts him, it kind of like cements everything that he's done at Kansas

and how consistently great they've been year in and year out. Coach Cow. Cow has won. And Jay Wright too. Jay Wright has, Jay Wright has two. He had a chance for three and six years. Well, but I mean, yeah, Kansas also had a chance for a lot. Yeah, well, we had two before this.

Yeah, Jay Wright, Jay Wright would be, you could throw him out there. Bill Self has more wins than Jay Wright. Bill Self also has gone to the tournament 23 straight years and that's including three different teams. So that's Tulsa, Illinois and Kansas. He's also out of those 23 years, 12 out of 23, he's gotten to at least the leading.

They don't lose early. Like Duke has to Mercer and Lehigh. I can talk you to St. Peter's. They always get a little bit of a run. Last year, also in the second round, but they always, they always make a run, which is crazy. Like the consistency to get to elite eight, half of the years that you're in the tournament

and you're in the tournament every year, that's, that's pretty, I'd think any fan base would sign up for that. Yeah. They win the big 12 every year. They win the big 12 tournament every year. And now he has two, which is that's like what puts in my head Izzo and Bayheim and those guys. They were quadruple, quadruple champions, right?

They won the big 12 tournament. They won the big 12 regular seasons. They won the Midwest bracket. And then they won the championship. Yes. Big season for them. Crown them all. Jake, how did your final last redemption bracket do?

I actually forgot to cement it. I was going to say Kansas. Ah, it doesn't count though. It doesn't count. Yeah. So you went, you went over four on brackets. Three. Over three.

But the third one was on purpose. You guys won't believe me though. Yeah, we won't believe. But that was, I mean, Kansas, Bill, I think Bill Self is, I think you make that argument. Besides, because if you just look at the totality of everything that he's done, I think he's like somewhere four or five on the active list for wins.

And obviously this conversation happens because Coach K just retired. But he, Coach K's legacy is also forever stained. Well, it's like if Bill Self lost two important games to end his season this year, we would put that as a big knock. He would not be in the Rik Pitino. Who does have the most final four? Rik Pitino remains unstained.

Yes, Tyler, Tyler Hansboro. Coach K does. Yeah, Tyler Hansboro. But he's not active. He's retired. He's over. We talked to Tyler Hansboro on Monday when he came on Barstle Live at Walk On, Shout Out Walk Ons.

And he said that was Coach K's last game, but not his last season. Because he's going to keep his corner office. He's going to hover over the whole program. But this isn't about Coach K. This is about Bill Self. And Bill Self, he might be facing these sanctions, but this really was like a legacy cementer for him. Because getting that second is very, very important.

And like he said before this final four, like it now validates all those elite eights, all those big 12 titles, regular season and tournament. The entirety, like the totality of his resume now is insanely impressive to win titles 14 years apart. The game was also insane. It was a crazy game. So it started out, Kansas looked like they were going to just

put it on in the first couple of minutes. Then UNC went on a run for the ages, and it looked like UNC was going to win by 15, 17 points. The first half was like as bad as it could have gone for Kansas. Yeah, I don't think anybody gave him any shot to win. It's like, I know I didn't. I basically just gave up at that point. I went upstairs, took a shit, which by the way,

I don't know if you guys are feeling the same way I am, but like I don't think I've pooped as much in terms of times visits to the bathroom as I've made in the last like 36 hours after being in New Orleans. I'm on a pretty regular schedule. Yeah, I'm doing okay. You're really?

Yeah, I'm doing all right. It's really, all the holes are open right now. But yeah, it was bad. Back to the game? But back to the game. Hubert Davis in halftime by the way. I'm going to listen, big guy, let you do your basketball takes the way you want to.

I'm going to do my basketball takes the way I want to. Oh, it's the back to the game. I was taking a shit at halftime. Okay. And after I finished my shit. Wait, don't get mad that we came downstairs, and I watched the second half. And in the second half, it was also just like crazy stuff

was happening to UNC left and right. There was the floor that buckled underneath underneath Armando Baycott. And then there was the Caleb Love also like re-injured his leg a little bit. Yeah, he twisted his ankle. And then Manic was just all over the place. It was crazy.

Like I don't recall seeing a championship game that had swings. Usually when there's a close game, it stays close the entire time. It's not like there's ever a time where there are two swings back and forth. Yeah, I mean, well, Puff Johnson also puked. It was UNC's resiliency was insane

this entire tournament, this entire season. I do think that that floorboard thing is insane. Like that and who knows, Kansas might win anyway, but Baycott gets hurt. And then the game winning shot is McCormick down low on a mismatch with Manic. So everything is because Baycott steps on a floorboard that's not properly put in.

The NCAA should be ashamed. Look at that gym that Zion was jumping off of the other day, which I found out the Slamble Court looking good. It's actually, yeah, it's a recovery court that they use for softer landings and softer takeoffs. I need that. For injured players. Yeah, just to walk around on all this play all the time.

Yeah. But yeah, it like buckled underneath him. It was, I don't know how that happens. Hubert Davis, where I was gonna say at halftime, I wasn't judging you for shitting. I just don't have the same, I didn't have the same issues. Yeah.

So what I was gonna say was at halftime, Hubert Davis was like, everyone thought we were gonna have a letdown spot in this championship game. This is a championship game. We wanna win this game. And it felt like a little bit, like he was like, we got this.

It's good. We're up 15. So if you were waiting for the letdown spot, it was just, you just had to wait a half. Yeah. And UNC was battered and bruised and everyone got hurt. And Manic got smoked three times in the face.

But UNC, they win toughest team award for fighting till the bitter end. And Kansas is your champion. Walking around town after the game was over, we ran into a few different UNC fans. And they were all like super happy still. That was the national championship on Saturday night. On Monday, they were just like, you know what?

We're glad to be here. We beat Coach K. That's fine. I saw a couple of UNC fans this morning. And I love this move. Cause Hank and I saw this back in New Orleans after Clemson lost to LSU. The morning after the game,

you go out there and you put on your shirt of when your team did win the championship. Like two years ago, I saw a few UNC fans walking around wearing old championship shirts. It's like, well, we still have this one. Well, and I think UNC fans, obviously, they're probably very disappointed, but there were an eight seed that had lost to Pittsburgh

at home in like late February. They don't have like NBA, crazy NBA talent. Neither does Kansas really. Abadji will be a good NBA player, I would assume. I mean, who else Jake? Like McCormick is probably gonna be, you know, Wilson's been back and forth. Yeah, there'll be guys who will be in the NBA,

but neither team has like top three picks. So it's UNC is getting there. And none of those guys are these names that you're like, oh, we're going to watch him for the next 15 years. They are great names though. Yeah. Like awesome names. You got Puff Johnson, Remy Martin, Caleb Love.

It's awesome. Yeah. It was, yeah, I mean, it was a good, great Final Four. Great Final Four, great March. Oh, Hank's rolling his eyes. You can't say it was a great Final Four. For the fans. Yeah, for the fans.

Yeah. It was better than last year. Who else would it be? And the year before. Yeah. That's Final Four in the last three years. There we go. Actually, now last year's is probably better.

Last year we had a buzzer beater. Yeah. All right, well, I'm, I'm waiting, I'm with ruling judgment until I find out exactly what the ratings were on these. That, that's the only time I can truly understand whether a game was good or not to watch. I don't think there would be that.

They're not going to be historical by any measure because it was TBS, not CBS. Right. Which they change back and forth every year. So Duke UNC, obviously. It's got to be like the highest rating ever. It's just, it'll be remembered as one of the best ever. Let's find it.

Maybe watched. And the last, can you find the ratings for us, Jake? What Duke UNC, because we'd like to, PFT's right whether, whether we like the game or not. The final thing we have for March Madness is Billy, Billy and the sheet, the conclusion of the sheet. Reminder for everyone out there. We gave Billy $2,000 cash, cash to start.

He got very scared of it to start the tournament. And he was going to employ his arbitrage and whatever split-strike, straight trading methods, whatever he was going to do to get a profit. And did you get a profit? We did get a profit. Yeah. There is profit.

Let's go Billy. Yes. So we put, we put, originally we put $5 on Upsets. $20 on Futures of the Favorite. And that only cost about $700 in the beginning. And then we used the rest of the $1,300 to sort of see how it played out, put more futures in different places to hopefully, in the end, get profit.

If UNC had won, we would have made $700 profit. But, you know, going to the game where it's like, we're either going to win $50 or $700. You know, kind of. It's a profit. So we ended up winning $50 profit. Whoa, what's in there? That's $25 per person?

Yeah. And I brought a lot more cash. Oh, nice. Here he goes. We got a brick of cash. Oh my God. How much is in that? We got $2,050 in ones and a brick.

Download the YouTube to see. Oh my God. Where did you get this? It's like shrink-wrapped. Well, look, you know, I had to strap it. You got to go to the strip club. Yes. No, I just do it in one.

Bonk, bonk, bonk. Well, it was a weird ATM. But yeah. Wait, it was a weird ATM? Look, I had to get cash. You basically just handed us no cash back. Ones I can't do anything with. You know what we have to do with this?

We just have to toss it up in the air. We have to make it rain in the studio with this cash that Billy made us. Billy, I thought we were going to re-deposit it through our master's pet. Well, we can't do that. I did this before. Give it back to him.

I honestly wanted to. Give it back to him. OK, well, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to make it rain in the studio. And then Billy's job is going to be to pick it up. No, that's fucked. Yeah. Here.

Wait, I just want to hold the cash for a second. Yeah, there's tons of. There's it's in ones and fives. They're just using rubber bands at the bank now. Yeah. It was pretty cool going to the bank and getting that out. I wanted to at least give you guys what seems like more cash than you gave me just in paper.

I was very smart. Yeah. So there's tons of cash. But yeah, it came out profit. So good job, Billy. I'm proud of you. Shout out berserker sheets. Oh, I see a five in there somewhere.

There's a couple of fives mixed in. Yeah, there you go. So it's just a ton of cash. You know what? I want to roll it. I want to roll it over. I don't want this money back. It's so much money that they had to weigh it

when they gave it to us. They didn't even count it. I also wanted to show I wasn't scared of cash. So I just got a ton of cash. Yeah, you're totally not scared. Exposure therapy to cash. Yeah. Well, it was cool when it was in the shrink wrap,

but now that it's out, it's kind of a little. Yeah, it's annoying. Now it's just a bunch of ones. You didn't take that on the train, though. You waited until you got close to the office. We're baby steps. Do you want to throw up a stack? And Billy's going to have to clean it.

I'm not trying to. He wants money. I don't want to be a jerk to him. There you go. Just one of them. Just one of them. OK, that was cool. Yeah, that was pretty cool.

That was cool. Yeah. Yeah, let's do it on a mat. I want to put all this money on Max to make the cut. Perfect. Let's do it. Let's do it. So you need to cash back.

Yes. OK. The ladies would be so angry at me when I bring it back. That's perfect. Yeah, take all the cash back. I told the ladies. Are you worried about taking the cash back? Yes, I told the lady at the window

that I was filming a music video. And that's why the music video was. So just bring it back and be like, music video went well. Yeah, music video over. We could keep the 50, because that's the profit. Yeah, that's true. That means reinvesting the initial. Oh, is that the 50 right there?

That's 100. I threw 100. Yeah. All right, so yeah. We can keep that. That could be like a slush fund for coffee. Sweet. And then we'll reinvest the rest.

I'm very proud of Billy, because when you first started talking about the spreadsheet, it sounded like the biggest bunch of horseshit I'd ever heard in my life. And somehow it worked out. And I'm proud of your brain, Billy. Thank you. Really, the two actual gambling decisions

where I had to put a risk was that St. Peter's wouldn't win the whole thing, and that Duke Organzaga wouldn't go the whole way. That was really the two. Now, did you have fun or was it stressful? It seemed like it was way more stressful than fun. It was very stressful. But I had time.

Yeah. But it did seem at points it was like this is. I'd be sitting in front of an Excel spreadsheet for just an hour randomly. For $50. Yeah, you got it. Your one last assignment for this, besides putting this all in maximum to make the cut,

is you should actually try to figure out how much time you actually spent on this so we could figure out what you got paid hourly to do this. It's probably somewhere around, I'm going to say $5 an hour. OK, well, this is also like a lot of times they always like to tell you on the news, this is the time of year where more wages are stolen

from employers than any other month because everyone's paying attention to basketball. You were actually making more money by doing less real work for the company by doing this. So we appreciate your efforts, Billy. Couple double negatives in there, but yeah. No, you did it. Sweet.

Thank you. Jake, your thoughts from Press Row. I saw you talk to Bill Self afterwards. Yeah, I got the night out first. It was great. Is the air looked real? It was fine, yeah. Yeah?

From what I saw. OK, so tell us, yeah, you got denied, and then you stayed persistent? Found them, yeah. Don't give up, boys and girls. So you were walking around right after the game on the floor. Yeah, I was on the floor with the confetti and everything. Did you turn your ankle?

No. OK, did you notice any floorboards loose? No. OK. So we're clear. Yeah, I got some cool interviews. I got Bill Self. I got Mitch Lightfoot, who's a, I think he's a Barstow athlete,

but he's a stoolie regardless. Yep. Paul Pierce pre-game. Yep. That was cool. It's a KU by 15, and they were down 15 and a half. Covering your first Final Four. Was it everything you wanted it to be and more?

It was awesome. Yeah. It was really cool. It's kind of tough because I feel like I don't know how a Final Four could be better than that with the storylines and everything. Like the only way I feel like a Final Four experience could be better is, like, A, if one of my teams are in it.

Yep. And wins it, or B, if I'm calling it one day. Yeah. Like, I don't know how else it could get better. Yeah, you'll call it one day, Jay. Hopefully. So what about one shiny marshmallow? What about your list of slays?

I just watched it through again. We're around 50% again. OK, that's pretty good. Yeah. Not as good as Billy. He's, it sounds like you were slightly below 50%. Oh! Billy was slightly above.

Were you slightly below 50%? I have to do the exact calculations, but. Where would you say, honest opinion, where do you think you land? This is what we'll take. 47. OK. And Billy, our Billy was, what, 50.5%?

I mean, 50.25. 1.5% growth. Yeah. I like that. It's over time. If you. Billy, you're a new host of Benchmark. Oh!

Could use a break from the other two anyways. Yeah. Honestly, I'd come on that show. Yeah, that was very smart of you, Jay. You absolutely, that worked just as you planned to be like, hey, that's the old Tom Shor, so you're like, oh, I'll let you watch this fence if you want to. Yeah.

Let's make sure. Enjoy. Very smart. All right, yeah, great trip to New Orleans. New Orleans is, I mean, we said it, I think, on Sunday. But when you're in New Orleans for four days, it feels like 400. I think we all were limping this morning.

It was one of those things where we came back and no one was saying anything all morning because we were just all dead. Yeah, take a couple days to recover. I don't know, it was a great trip. New Orleans is a great city to be in. Great, great people, great food, great drinks. It just takes a lot out of you.

It's obviously a bigger sporting event, the Super Bowl, but I think the final four is borderline of funner. Because it really is what Steve said. It's the Sunday that you have that you get basically to drink all day Saturday, then you get a Sunday to explore a city, have fun, see friends, all that stuff. I also like multiple teams being in the same city. You've got the different fans from all over the country

that get involved, as opposed to Super Bowl, where it's just like, it's either your celebrity or your fan of one of the two of the teams. Yeah, no, I love the final four. I'll go to the final four every year. I actually also had a little moment where I was like, final four feels like the most father-son event that happens in the sports calendar.

So that might sound right. I don't know how to tradition. Not the final four. We would go to a first round tournament site for like 15 straight years. Yeah, because you do see a lot of that. You see a lot of other families walking around, which is kind of nice, because I don't know, it's just nice.

So Roy Williams in the casino. Yeah, he was there all like the whole weekend. Sneaky for a guy that like doesn't cuss ever, he spends like 99% of his life at a craps table. He's like, he loves gambling. He was everywhere this weekend. There was also rumors about the honey badger being there at like 8 a.m. in the morning.

And then I saw today that he's visiting with the Saints. So it's good that the timing worked out for him there. That was perfect timing for him. And thank you to Minci, the king of the South for being a great host all weekend long. He read, he read, he changed the video game. He did forever, forever, forever. He was stop motion, you said.

He did a video at the game after the game was over that looked like it was shot in two frames per second. It's art, it's truly art. Like the nightmare before Christmas mixed with an aha video. It was perfect. I don't know who makes these videos for him, but they're fifth most watch final four game, by the way.

Fifth? C1 was Wisconsin, Kentucky. Oh, wow. So wait, so that's in the modern era though. So that means we liked the game. We enjoyed the game. Yeah, we enjoyed it slightly less than when but yeah, Wisconsin was on CBS.

It probably would have been. Yeah, yes, yes. All right, let's do hot seat cool throne. Then we got Max Homa on the show to preview the masters. Hot seat cool throne is brought to you by our friends at Coors Light. It's a hectic time of year between weddings, graduation, spring sports and more.

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Manchester is just like South of town. Okay. You just got corrected. Did I say it was North London? No, I was establishing a baseline of facts because there'll be some listeners out there that'll be like, whoa, Hank just said that Manchester is in London and they're gonna get mad so I have to correct and be like, yeah,

he knows that it's in South London, but you don't have to get mad at Hank for saying that. He's basically saying that you called Jersey City, New York City. Which is basically the same thing. Right. There's videos, it's a horror show. The security line is if you pulled up to the terminal

where you get cabs, the security line is out the door, like around the corner. Everyone, people are just leaving bags because the baggage claim is taking too long. What happened? I don't know. It's just, I don't know the reason for it, but I saw a Twitter thread and it looks quite literally

like I am legend when they're trying to leave the city. So apparently it's been a bad couple of weeks and the manager, the entire manager of the airport just quit. Oh man. That's what it looked like. It looked like there was a strike or there was something where they were expecting

100 workers and 10 showed up. Okay, I'm looking at it right now. Yeah, this seems like a very, very, very bad scene. Okay. Yeah, there's not. I mean, there's all the, all the, all the, all the bins for the TSA stacked up on top of each other. There's no worse feeling than showing up to an airport

and seeing that it's like a cluster fuck day and just being like, I don't know how I'm gonna get out of here. What would you do? What would you do with this situation? I would leave. I'd go home. Yeah, I have left. I had to be somewhere the next day.

Oh, I have TSA pre-checking and clear, so I'd be fine. I've left a baggage claim before and was just taking too long. And I've been like, okay, I'll come back and pick this up later. But there's no, there's no like more stressful place to be. If you're already running late for something, then at a busy airport after you land,

you just want to be teleported back home at that point. Yeah, this would drive me nuts. Okay, good hot seat. Also, I almost missed our point on the way there. That was, I guess people, I know we might have talked about it in a drunk episode. My cool throne is our YouTube channel. Okay.

People have been asking this for a long time. We've started uploading the YouTube video of this podcast in the morning. So you can listen to it, you can watch it. We've given people the option shout out to Liam and Evan Memes behind the scenes, but we haven't talked about it on the show. And I feel like we should get it out there,

get people on the YouTube channel watching the videos. Yes, Monday was a perfect example. Video you had, or a podcast you had to watch to see Hank's dead face. That's true. Yeah, it was great. I mean, it was a great visual. You have to admit, Hank,

that like the slow zoom ends on your face. We're awesome. Where you were doing the Stephen A. Smith pain meme. Yeah. The picture was saying a thousand words at that point. And Bubba being drunk himself, trying to find me with the camera when he was like 12 feet away was so funny.

Someone said it was... I like that we do it when we do a podcast drunk. Everyone's drunk. It's not like, oh, behind the scenes is sober and the guy's in front of the camera. No, no, we're all hammered. The, someone said that he couldn't find you because you were blending in with the other colors

on the walls that he also couldn't see. That's facts. Yeah, that's facts. So good. Yeah, go watch it. Go subscribe to the YouTube channel, please. Okay, PFT, your hot seat, cool throne? My hot seat is not having your free speech controlled online

by egomanical billionaires at Twitter because... That's a light one for today. Elon Musk is coming to save it. Yup. So he's coming to save the day. So Elon Musk is buying like 9% of Twitter right now and they're giving him a seat on the board. I think he's just got so much money

that he can literally buy anything. I don't think that there's anything that he could not buy. Yeah, why not? If he didn't want to. So I think he's just like thinking about stuff in his day to day life that he uses and he just wants to buy everything that he uses. Yes.

Like sun up to sun down. So I think he's just gonna make it easier for trolls online. I think he likes trolls. He likes memes, he likes trolls. I think this is good for us. I saw a couple of people being like, I am now going to deactivate my Twitter account for at least a week to protest.

There we go. That will show them. Yeah, no, I think it's good news for those of us that like to use Twitter to fuck around a lot. Yeah. So yeah, happy to see old Elon getting on board. My cool throne is baseball. Because baseball really snuck up on us.

Yup. But it's back. Today is opening day. Yes. Tomorrow is opening day in baseball. Very excited to pay attention for the first couple of weeks of the season. The Seamhead Express is coming back this year.

People have been asking about that. I'm defending my second place crown. And I'm just, I don't know. I feel like I say this every spring, but like I'm excited for baseball season this year. Yeah. I am. Yeah.

Why not? Are you? Yeah, sure. I mean. I'm not. A little bit. I get excited for baseball when it comes around and then usually it's like baseball starts

for a week I'm pumped. Then I'm gonna watch hockey and basketball playoffs and then I'll come back to baseball. I think I'm excited because it got taken away from us for like a week. Yeah. I didn't really, that never really hurt me. Was this like a big plan by Manfred to be like,

we're gonna make the fans think that they're not gonna get a season and then they'll be so grateful. So happy. Yeah. Yeah. No, I love opening day. I love when baseball does come back.

Yeah, that's usually the rhythm of like my watching is baseball comes back, pumped, then the playoffs start. It's like, okay, let's watch the playoffs because those are kind of important. And then baseball comes back around June. It's like, yeah, let's do it. Let's hop right in.

All right, my hot seat is Andy Dalton being a nice guy because he signed with the Saints and Blake Bortles then asked to be cut because there was not enough room for Blake Bortles. So I'm starting to rethink this whole Andy Dalton thing. Well, Blake was like, there's not enough room for two nice guys in this locker room. Yeah, bullshit.

But that just means that Blake's betting on himself. I hope he gets, yeah, hopefully someone will sign Blake. Let's keep him in the league. Is there a spring game coming up for any like big 10 school? I know Clemson's got theirs on Saturday. They should have Blake throw at halftime like Michigan did with Kaepernick.

Yeah, yeah, Blake should be on a roster. But Andy Dalton, what the fuck dude? Kind of a dickhead move. Kind of a dickhead move. Yeah. And then my cool throne is Billy because we're back with Billy and he didn't do anything in New Orleans

to make us mad at him. So good job, Billy. Thanks, guys. Yeah, you did. You didn't hog for the cause. You didn't do anything. Final four, you didn't do anything. Did you guys see the Burmese pythons on Burmese?

We did, yeah. Did you take any pictures of it? Was that the part you were most foaming? Look, I had a lot of foam out. That's why I left the group text. I actually was totally cool with that move. Like I thought that was a... It wasn't, I wasn't trying to like,

I would hope you guys understood it was just like, foam out. No, you left the group text and I was like, that makes sense. Like why would you want to be on a group text where we're just planning things and you're not there? Quick question. Can I get added back now for every reason?

You already did. You got it added back this morning. Oh, I did? Yeah, yeah. Someone added you back this morning. I think I have to opt back. I'll figure that out. But you did a great job in New Orleans.

Perfect. But yeah, thanks. I did not get any pictures of the Burmese pythons. I think they were in the background of a video that I was in at one point. I mean, the fact like, you guys kind of wasted your whole trip and you also did not get a picture with those pythons.

They were big. They were very big pythons. That's the point. They're well trained. I love that about you so much that we like went to Duke UNC and all this stuff you're like, but dude, did you see those Burmese pythons? Would you have let one of them strangle you?

Well, they only strangle you if you like give off fear. Right. So if I was holding a water cache in front of you and I had the Burmese python around your neck, would you? I'm working on the cache fear. I think we made huge steps in bounds. Big steps today. Immersion therapy.

Agreed, agreed. All right, Billy, your hot seat cool throne. Welcome back. My hot seat is, I missed you guys too, is plane travelers. We had that. Manchester? No, we had that time after the pandemic

where everyone's getting kicked off of planes because no one knew how to act in public. We once again have one of those stories. They're kind of back. A guy got kicked off of a airplane for jerking off four times. And after the fourth, they landed the plane. Yeah, like two is okay.

Three, you're pushing your luck. Four, it's like we got to get everybody out. We got to bring the hazmat team on to hold you down. How long was this flight? I need, do you have the airline and the where it was going? I think it was on spirit. Okay. I think it was coming from Florida

on the way back from Florida. Wait, come. Wait, say that again. This is flying around Florida. Yeah. That actually makes us flying from Florida to. To somewhere up north. Oh, okay.

Wisconsin or Minnesota. Spirit though, you can jerk off on spirit. You can absolutely jerk off on spirit. This guy has a completely reasonable case in court being like, you sold me a $29 ticket. I was going to jerk off. And they'd be like, whoa, yeah, you're right. You know what?

That's fair. The way that spirit operates, I think it's a $29 ticket. And then there's a $60 surcharge. If you want to pay to sit in the not getting jacked off on a section. Right. So I stand with this guy.

Am I cool? I do. Spirit is the airline that if you take, you're basically saying, I don't want to spend any money and I'm willing to just be tortured for three hours to get to my destination. Also. Including a guy jerking off next to you.

Also, let's give the guy some credit here just from a medical standpoint, to be able to do it four times on what I assume would be like a three and a half hour flight. That's some impressive numbers. Yeah, that is. That's tough to pull off. It's kind of showing off.

Correction, it was Southwest. Oh, okay. Seattle to Phoenix. Okay. It changes everything. Put them in jail. Am I cool throwing this? You didn't have any part of that right.

Well, it was on. I think you were just assuming and naturally what you assumed would be what I would assume too, that it would somehow involve Florida and spirit or leisure airlines. That was at the end of my hot seat list. My cool throne is St. Peter's University.

So I went there on Friday to see their Elite Eight appearance parade. And it was really awesome to see the Jersey City really embrace them. I mean, Jersey City really, as we spoke about earlier, is in the shadow of New York City. Don't really get much shine much.

St. Peter's really brought a spotlight to that community and they celebrated their Elite Eight appearance for the parade. And that probably is the lowest official finishing parade, do you think? Like fifth to eighth place, at least, as anyone, I know like Atlanta had a second place finish. In Cleveland had a last place, oh, and 16th grade,

but it wasn't official by the city. And that's like for charity too, I think. I'm totally fine. It's when your team makes a historic run. Yeah. Like if you're a first time ever, 15th seed gets Elite Eight, that's a parade. I think they deserve a banner there.

They deserve to remember this run for a long time. Yeah, so. Do you think UNC hangs up a banner? Probably not. And also, It would be cool though, I'm for it. Doug Etter and a couple of the other players have gone to the portal recently

to transfer out St. Peter's, but honestly, from how I saw the school embracing the team and hearing the mayor as well as the president of the school, athletic director talk. Are you gonna join the team? No, but I actually think they have a chance to become like one of these small school powerhouses that ends up going like a Gonzaga.

Like seriously, like just like they'll make runs, but I don't know if they'll win. So the difference between St. Peter's and Gonzaga is that Gonzaga has had millions and millions and millions of more dollars in funding going back like 40 years. And also NBA players. They don't practice on like a pool. Right, but now that the school has gotten,

it has had such an increase in enrollment and increase. There's just a bunch of stuff they said they'd be doing. Do you think it does? That gave me good positive vibes. It's rather big, by the way. Do you think though, as a college basketball analyst, that it's not a good sign for after their first lead eight that their best players are now leaving the school?

Like, in terms of things to build on. But you know what, it was just good vibes. Leave it at it. Yeah, it was just good vibes. Yeah, the school's like really the student body and sort of all the super fans there. Like, it was interesting. Got some video, we'll probably be coming out

at some point in some mode. So there we go. I like that. Some visual mode. Just keep it as vague as possible. Yeah. I know what's going on. I know what's going on.

School scenes are. It'll be in the future. Yeah, at some point. Some point in some way. Yeah, sweet. Mike Kamala's a podcast. Shout out Peacocks. Yeah.

All right, Jake. My hot seat is sign stealing. They approve technology for pitchers and catchers to use some devices so that they don't have to do the numbers. Oh, is this getting out ahead of the Yankee letter that's going to be released? It's like, well, now it's legal. I disavowed that, by the way.

The Yankees? Any form of cheating. What happens if the Yankees were on the cutting edge of cheating, like, twice as bad as the Astros? Well, they'd be the best cheaters. I don't know. If they confirm the cheat, I won't support that. There's no spin zone for that.

Like a microchip? Nice. No, I think it's like a, what is it? It's probably the, they probably just took the Astros technology and then used it for this. Yeah. Or like, buzzes your wrist or something. Yeah, I think it's something on the wrist.

But it's for the pitchers and the catchers and the pitching coach or the manager to communicate? It's like Frank Abednail, catch me if you can when they hire him, because he knows all the loopholes. They just had Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman sit with Rob Manfred and be like, how did you do this? So, yeah, trying to figure out how to get around it. So it's like a buzzing thing.

It's a pad with buttons on the wrist of the gloved hand. Yeah, that's pretty much what Altuve is. Snipe and location directly to the pitcher through a listening device. Okay. That's so weird. That is very weird. Are they gonna have the green dot on their hats?

Mic'd up. I don't know. It should be interesting. My cool throne is menus. It's a big week for menus, two at the Masters. Oh yeah. We've got the OG menu, which is just showing how cheap everything is, which is awesome.

And then, have you guys seen Hideki Matsuyama's champion's dinner menu? Looks really good. No, elite. Ready? Appetizers. I'm done with food though, but it looks good. But it looks really good.

Appetizers. Sushi, Sushimi, yakitori chicken skewers. The mains, miso glazed black cod, and A5 wagyu beef ribeye. Okay. And then the dessert is Japanese strawberry shortcake. That sounds amazing. That's like a perfect meal.

Yeah, unbelievable. And then obviously the pimento cheese, I've never had that, but $1.50. Everything is under, the most expensive thing, $6.00. The white wine, Chardonnay. Everything else is cheaper. Yeah, I'm done with food, but it does sound delicious. Yeah.

Yeah. I do love looking at the master's prices, and just being like, ooh, I'd be able to eat everything for $25. I saw something online that said that they were starting to modernize the masters a little bit, where I don't know if they're allowing cell phones this year.

Yeah, it was Dude Perfect. But yeah, Dude Perfect is modernized. Yeah, they're the breaking point of this entire thing. But at some point in the future, they are going to allow cell phones. I hope they never do that. No, I agree. I hope they go harder against cell phones.

I hope they actually have their own security staff arrest people that try to break the cell phone rule. Yes. I like Augusta as it is. I hope, yeah. They don't even let you use a cell phone the week before and after. Yeah, they have one of those electromagnetic pulses

that goes off that just fries all your electronics. Yeah, I agree. Keep the masters the masters. All right, let's get to our interview, speaking of, with Max Homa, who's getting ready for Augusta. Before we do that, PFT, you get a quick word from one of our sponsors. Before we get to Max,

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Okay, we now welcome on our very good friend and soon to be member of a master's making the cut group. It is Max Homa. He's getting ready for the masters. We're gonna air this right before the masters start. So let's just do a little quick, like how we're feeling, how everything's coming together. Can you really bounce off of this, you know,

Fortnite open victory and propel yourself to be someone who actually plays on Saturday and Sunday at Augusta? I mean, absolutely. You know, I've been, the only thing that's made me nervous, golf came can't possibly feel better. The only thing that's made me nervous is for the first time in my life, I've kind of laid my nuts on the table

and said I'm gonna do something. That's getting me a little, honestly, this is, I don't know if it's quite up to, up there with a pinky bit rush, but this is quite the rush. Now, did you say you were gonna make the cut before I just pretended that you said you were gonna make the cut? Did I do that to you?

No, I texted you that I was 100% making this cut. That's right. Okay, all right. Yeah, and then I just said it out loud. I said it out loud and put the pressure on you. And you have a lot more of a following and then you honestly have a lot angrier fans than I do. So they're into it right now.

So what's the stakes here? Yeah, I don't think you can just say like your nuts are on the line unless, well, like what's happening. Yeah, it could be my life. Cause I think your, your AWLs might come after me like physically if I don't do this. I have to go play laser tag with Natalie's husband's kid.

Yeah, I think you should have to do that. If you don't make the cut, you should have to go, where was that like North Carolina or something? North Carolina, that's too far. I could probably make that happen. I think that would be a very funny visual. If you don't make the cut at Augusta on Sunday, we get a picture of you playing laser tags

with a bunch of seven year olds you'd never met in your life. And that will give you like a humbling moment where it's like, Hey, do you know how you can avoid this? Being better at golf, Max. You better golf. I think that's, that's a fair point. Those kids will not know it's coming though. There's going to be a lot of aggression

on that Saturday morning. Honestly, that sounds like a lot of fun. I'm ready for that. Playing laser tag with, you're like, you're like, what's his name? Billy Madison, when he's playing dodgeball, just lighting kids up. They'll feel the wrath.

I did like your take though, that we as adults don't play laser tag enough. I agree wholeheartedly. Laser tag is a great time. We have these panic room things now, and that sounds terrible, but like laser tag is a very similar building like construct. I feel like we could just kind of

keep that afloat a little bit better. The smash room she's talking about? So the new escape rooms that they have, I'm pretty sure that they're only used for like corporate retreats. When you, you know those days where you still have to go to work, but they're like,

we're doing a fun little wacky offsite thing today. We're going to go hang out in a small room together and try to solve puzzles, and pretend like we're not annoyed. Well, it's like not a better way to build your work vibe and your team vibe. Like that feels way better than an escape room. Yeah, you solve your problems with aggression.

I'll just say it. I think paintball is far superior to laser tag. I know that paintball probably can't be played by seven year olds, but my problem with laser tag was always like the lasers, half the lasers don't work, and then you're just stuck. I feel like they never updated the technology. Maybe I'm wrong.

I haven't been in a laser tag place in like 10 years, maybe longer. They remember when it first came out and it was like, holy fuck, this is next level stuff. And it's like they hadn't fully figured out how to use the technology. So you're walking around with like an 80 pound pack and the lasers don't even like shoot right.

But they probably have fixed it. Think about that though. What you just said, you said that the technology wasn't great, essentially. And this has been 10, 15 years later and think of how good technology is. I mean, Jeff Bezos went to the moon. So like what if we incorporated new technology?

It could be tremendous. I'm down with that. I'm down with that. If we use our money instead of sending Jeff Bezos to play just the tip with the atmosphere to laser tag technology, I'm cool with that. I think it's more impressive to say like Jeff Bezos, technology's gotten so good that Jeff Bezos got laid.

That's like more impressive than like going into the atmosphere and then coming back in a parachute. That's pretty good technology. It is. And as far as the laser tag situation goes, I think it's like, well, did you read the story that came out about Jim Harbaugh and going to play laser tag? So Harbaugh is so competitive about laser tag

that he was setting all the high records. He was like doing the high scores for his entire party in his group and they were trying to figure out how he was dominating people so bad. And it turns out he was just following the worst kid around and just standing next to him and letting his battery recharge

and then killing him immediately. I respect the hell out of Harbaugh for doing that. I respect, and I'm not surprised after listening to his interviews on here and reading some stories about him. That makes a lot of sense. I would have thought maybe he'd be a little bit more of a competitor and want to kind of pick on the best player,

but I respect the grind regardless. Well, that's the Michigan way. It's pretty much like scheduling the Little Sisters of the Poor back in 1901 and you win an Ashford Tourism. The Jordan YMCA, yeah. They teach them how to play football. They beat them.

Max, I'm wearing the Italian soccer jersey in your honor today. I wanted to get your feedback on your team. I guess the big news is you guys won the Euros, right? Congratulations, European champions. I watched so much of it. That one guy up at the front of the pitch, as we say, or the pitch in Italian, yeah, he was really good.

He was dominant, a lot of passion. Carbo loaded, obviously, on pasta before from what the team told me, and yeah, got the job done. Congratulations. Yeah. What a team. So you have guaranteed that you're going to make the cut at the Masters. Congratulations in advance for that.

Thank you. Curious because we're, you know, we kind of parachute in once a year to Augusta, and we, you know, we talk about the Azaleas, the fake bird sounds that they put in, the spray-painted grass, all the stuff that we love about the Masters. I'm curious from a guy that has played there, what is your favorite hole?

Oh, my favorite hole. The 13th hole, because that's where all the Azaleas are on the left, and that's pretty awesome. But I mean, Augusta is pretty, it's pretty, as far as the golf course goes, it's pretty amazing. Just as far as like, it's probably the only tournament you don't ever, golf course you never have to go to, and you feel like you know every hole.

So that's pretty cool. But when you get in, it's kind of sad, you get to play the coolest golf course in, you know, the country at the very least, and I don't like get to sit there and appreciate it, but my buddy Taylor and I went three weeks ago. They did not track my flight there, like they did Tiger Woods' yesterday,

or last week, I guess, because we're in the time machine. But we went and it was cool to just go there, and like I actually had a drink, and like got to enjoy where I was. And I came, I left there thinking, you know, pretty lucky I get to come out to this golf course in three weeks and make the cut here, and see what it looks like on a Sunday of the golf tournament.

Because I practice, I practice playing the weekend, of my practice round, was Saturday and a Sunday, which was, I think that's good practice. It's like kind of manifesting what will happen here in due time. I like that, I like that. So wait, just from a noob side, like P.F.D. said, we parachute into Augusta.

How many times do you actually get to practice, like when will you go to Augusta? And how many times do you get to actually practice before you have to play in it? Like is there enough time to figure some things out, or is it just, all right, we're showing up to Augusta every year and we're just hoping that we do well? They, I think they give us, and once you qualify,

I think they give you like five rounds to go up there and check it out on your own. It's just not very similar to when you actually play the tournament, they make it so much more difficult. But then once, I'll get there Saturday of the tournament, or the week prior to the tournament. So I'll practice Sunday out there, Monday, Tuesday, and a bit on Wednesday.

So you kind of get to get a pretty good feel. It's just like any other tournament in a way with the practice, it's just a lot more important. So it's tough, it's a really hard golf course, so like learning it fast is hard. I've played one, the one that was in November, and the golf course is nothing like what it is in April. So that was kind of, that's my excuse for why

I missed the cut in both November and April, because November one, I was used to watching it on TV, obviously, and I thought, you know, that didn't seem fair. I didn't, you know, I didn't have any knowledge. And then the April one, I was tricked by the November one. So this year, second April one, I feel like, I just, I know all the things now. How serious are the practice rounds when you do it?

Like how does it work? Do you go out with someone else? You obviously are with your caddy, but like, if you go, you know, you're on the 12th hole, and you hit one in the water, do you like say like mulligan, then rip a bowl, and then get back right at it? Like how does that work?

You actually nailed that, yeah. The bowls are flying around, flying around, Augusta. No, it's pretty, I mean, it's obviously pretty serious, but I play with the same crew mostly. The only difference is we usually have a program on Wednesday, so we have to play with, you know, a bunch of CEOs and people who are successful for their brains and actual like real success

and not just hitting a golf ball round. So we do that every Wednesday, but at the majors and obviously at the masters, we do not. So we get a lot more time on the golf course. So you end up playing, you know, you get to play a little bit more loose with like only playing nine holes, but I play with this similar crew.

I'm hoping to play with Tiger Woods in a practice round this year. That is my second most important goal of the week. Wait, how would that work? You just gonna text them? Be like, hey dude, you want, can I play with you? No, I heard through the grapevine that last year, obviously he ended up not playing,

but after I won the golf tournament, he is the host of that his, you know, good friend, Fred Couples, who is my buddy, said like later, like kind of tease me later. He's like, oh yeah, we were all going to play a practice round together. And obviously, you know, Tiger can't play this year.

And I was like, well, that's news to me and even more kind of devastating. Wow. So I'm hoping, I'm hoping I get that this year. But it's, I mean, it's, it's very serious. Well, the prep, but like I said, we do it every week, oddly enough. So it's actually, it just becomes kind of,

kind of second nature. How cool was it the first time that Tiger Woods came up to you and was like, hey Max, how's it going? Like that he knew. It was like pretty frightening, honestly. Cause I just didn't, I didn't know what to say or do. I actually have a video of it without the sound, but somebody randomly got a video of it.

My catty Joe was like, hey Max, you need to turn around right now. And I'm like, I was warming up for a tournament. And I was like, what are you talking about? And I turned around and you just see like our God, like what, like be lining at me. And I'm thinking like, what could he possibly be coming over here to do?

And fortunately he did not, you know, do anything weird. It was just, he was being super nice and congratulating me on a tournament a month prior. So yeah, it's different. Tiger, I don't know, man. I always, I kind of get made fun of for geeking out about Tiger, but it's just one of those things like watching somebody since I was six years old,

like dominate the sport I love. It's hard not to get kind of, I don't know, kind of nerd out about it. Cause it's weird. I feel like it must be like what the kids, you know, I felt like playing against Michael Jordan or something. Like when they got to the league, it's just, it's hard to comprehend and golf's easier

cause we play it so much longer. Yet we have the opportunity. There are certain celebrities that even if you like, you know, do something like your professional golfer, we interview athletes all the time. There are certain people that no matter what, you see them and you're like, Holy fuck, like this is crazy.

This person is crazy. There's like a weird air to it. And I only know a few that have really gotten me, but like Tiger, it's, it's getting less with Tiger, but it's still, it's just still, it's more weird. Like it's just, you know, the best player ever is, I still get to compete against him. But I met Michael Jordan's only other,

the only person other than Tiger that I met. And I, that one floored me maybe more than Tiger Woods. Yeah. Not to mention he's like really, really big. And that helps a little bit. My dog is going to town on her water. What kind of dog you got? I got a yellow lab.

Oh, can we see her? Oh, you're so basic. Come here, come here. Yeah, bring her over. Did you, now, did you adopt your dog or did you get it at a, did you get it at a? Should I lie? Oh, I mean, go ahead and tell it so you,

so you did a breeder. Oh, I did a breeder. So you, you actually killed a dog when, when getting that dog, just so you know. Yeah, but honestly, I really love her. So I try not to think about that. Yeah, no, there's a dead dog right now with your name on it.

I think, I think my wife, Lacey, has serious kind of regret with that because almost every single day she follows some of those like dogs that get killed in China. Jesus Christ, yeah. If it was up to her, we'd have 7,000 dogs in my. Why, why following the dogs in China? Just follow Keith Oberman on Twitter

and you can just be depressed for the rest of your life. Yeah. I had to, I had to actually mute him because he would go on these retweets sprees where it would be like 10 in a row. Like this dog will die in 30 minutes unless you personally adopt it. I swear to God.

Yeah, no, that is, he's right. It would be like, but you have seven minutes to act. It's like, dude, I'm at work. It's a Wednesday. What are you talking about? Every time I see like, the thought doesn't occur to me. Like I should get a cab to the shelter right now and go save the dogs.

Just say that you donated to charity. Well, that's a good, that's a good strategy because you're not going to get less people adopting that stuff. Yeah, that's very true. Are you like the rest of the golf world when they put the tweet out in the morning of the pin placement at Augusta, where you look at it and you like go through the holes?

Like, I guess it's kind of like what we would do when they announced the NFL schedule for the upcoming year and be like, okay, win, loss, loss, loss, win, win, loss, loss, loss. Are you like, okay, I'm going to birdie 13. 15 is going to fuck me over. And then 16, 17, I can make up that stroke there. Yeah, I mean, I look at it for sure.

The Augusta or the Masters is cool because they have like so much their app or whatever week of. You can watch other people play. So I do that a little bit more. But when I look through the pins, it's always funny. Golfers, we all think we can like control everything in our head before we play. And I'm like, oh yeah, one, that's easy.

It's to back right. Like I'll be able to like, you know, hit one in there. Two, oh yeah, front left. I'll be able to kind of work it over there. And then like the first tall like snap snap hook one into the left trees. And all of a sudden, like my entire plan is just completely gone to shit.

So I'm trying a little more to just not really put too much into it before because it's just honestly, it's a waste of time. Cause in my head, I'm never going to hit a bad shot. And in reality, I hit a lot of them. Yeah, so it's, I need to be a bit more realistic with my, my visions of how the day is going to go. We didn't mention, I'm sorry, that's a bad job by me.

He hit a hole in one, he hit a hole in one in competition. That was the first time you ever done that in competition, correct? Yeah, as a pro, yeah, it was nuts. Cause it was like the hardest day ever and somehow it went in. And it was a, that was very fun. It was one of those, like holes in one are like the most, I feel like they're like 90% luck.

Like the more, obviously the more good shots you hit, the more opportunity the ball has to go in the hole. But like you're never really like aiming at the hole that often as a pro. So like it's, it's always like almost a miss if when it goes in, so when it goes in, it's like truly jarring. Yeah. What if you hit like a beautiful five iron into a very

significant breeze and it bounces twice and goes right in at that point, if you were to do that competition, would you say that you would absolutely release an official statement after your round was over talking about it? If I was playing with Ernie L's and I beat goodness and Ken Duke and somebody else without any strokes, without any strokes, I would definitely, I would write up a press release for sure.

I don't know if anybody to read it, but yeah, how does that work though? If it's an actual tour event and you hit a hole in one, is it expected you have to buy people drinks in the clubhouse? Is that do you guys meet for drinks or is that just something us amateurs do that locker room? They just built a new one at Bay Hill. They actually do have a bar now.

So I went in and like sat with the guys and paid for some drinks. I bought the media members drinks for a Sunday when they had to do all the questioning of people who played better than me. And then I hadn't made one in so long. I went on a spree. I just started Venmoing my friends like money here and there. And I was like, have fun, get a drink. And that was my that was my form of making sure that I kept up

with the weirdest tradition in sports that the person who does something good has to spend asinine amounts of money for their favorite moment. I think that's a good. I mean, listen, when I went a big bet or something, it's like, I throw it around left and right. Let's go out. So it's good. I didn't make a direct amount of money from the hole in one.

You didn't get like a I would imagine you get like a car. You probably just you're probably not. No, you just probably forgot. You probably walked off and forgot because you're so not used to it. Like, oh, no, you're playing on a Monday. That was on a Monday, right? No, no, no, no, no. That was on a Saturday.

That was a weekend. OK, all right. Yes. So you double. OK, all right. Yeah, but you did have a Monday. What was that day that you had that you were the lowest player that day and everyone was freaking out on Twitter?

Championship second lowest score, but it was on a Monday. And I looked and it was like everyone was freaking out and tagging me and tweets being like, dude, you got to talk about Max. He's going off. I looked up and it's like you're like in 10th place. Like you're still a loser. They overreacted. They really overreacted.

That was that. But don't put that on me. That was that was their bad. They were excited. I don't I don't often make runs. That was that was our fifth major. That was nearly the master. So I think they were just I did to see see me play through the entire weekend.

Even more golf into Monday. It was it was a triumph of spirit on my on my part. If I do say so myself. And yeah, so I think that that was the excitement from everybody. It was it was a little overreactive, but it's OK. It was a crazy run and I should give you credit. I was more joking, obviously, but it was funny when I looked and I was like, oh, my God, he's about to win the players.

And I looked and I was like, wait, not even place. But yeah, you went. What did you have? I'm looking at it right now. You had eight birdies in the in your final round. Oh, yeah. Damn, these were they were they were flying around that joint that day. That's awesome. We're going to get back to Max Holman a second.

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ShadyRays.com slash PMT. Now, here's more Max Houma. Have you, have you like had any assistance in playing Augusta because you've played it in video games? So many times. Oh, 100 percent. But again, it goes kind of to my, my problem where on the video game, I very rarely don't hit a really good drive

in a really good second shot. And then they literally typically show you about what you need to do on the putt. So I need to, maybe if I could harness that, that ability or that kind of it feels so easy on a video game. I need to like almost trick myself into thinking that. Yeah, but I have played it.

I've played it a lot on video games. What you could do is you could just create a new character and make your new character really shitty. And then you could play Augusta on like the highest difficulty level. That way, when you play in real life, it's like, oh, this isn't so hard. This is a lot easier. Where they like build their actual character and like myself. I'd be like, OK, good irons, like chipping.

I'm not really going to give myself very much. But like, can we write like streaky? I wonder if anybody does that because I think everyone just says, oh, yeah, I bomb it like I'm the longest guy of all my friends. Yeah, 99 across the board. That's the only way to play video games. All right, so I'm listen. I don't want to ask a mean question, but I did ask this question last time

about can you win the Masters? Your odds now are actually like they're 100 to one. So it's still like, holy shit, this would be an insane story. And everyone would be like, how could this possibly happen? And maybe like half the field got hit by a meteor. But you're still you're 100 to one. You're now you're not the bottom. So do you feel like you could win the Masters?

Yeah, 100 percent. I would I would if I was you, I'd argue if I was a hater of myself, I'd argue that I had a better chance at last year's Masters when covid was a lot more prevalent and covid, not a meteor could knock out quite a few players. Right. Unfortunately, I did not get that done last year when I feel like I might have had my best shot. But maybe there will be some new,

maybe some people will get into some bad lettuce. Yeah, knock a few guys out, a few of the top guys. But yeah, there's definitely a world where I can see myself winning the Masters. OK, so I mean, we're going baby steps. We're going to make the cut this year. And I want everyone congratulating Max to the moon if he makes the cut because it's going to be a great moment. And then maybe next year we win the whole goddamn thing.

Yeah, I think I definitely like the baby steps and I definitely need to accomplish one goal. But I'm coming off of a made cut at my last major, sometime last recently, last September or August, somewhere back then, maybe even July, so I'm streaking at the moment. So people aren't putting a lot of that into into the momentum I'm feeling. But they're just missing out. I've been I've been reeling off that for a while, which has been

that's been huge for my prep. Well, we asked the question somewhat jokingly on Monday's show, would you be the worst player in the history of golf to win the Masters? But we've we identified other players that that would have been worse than you. So I don't think it's it's not unreasonable to think that you could win, right? Like you you if you play your very, very best golf and the course, the pin placements are all right. And if they don't max proof, Augusta,

and you you play at like 110 percent of your capability, you could win. I think they're probably thinking that right now. I guess that will be max proof. We don't get the worst player to ever win the Masters. You you would think that all those guys in their jackets are doing that at this moment. I would say that you would be the funniest guy to ever win the Masters. Not Patrick Reed.

Oh, yeah, Patrick Reed. Yeah, Patrick Reed is definitely funnier than you. I definitely had thought about that. You know, I a lot of people sit around and say, what's your goal? And, you know, goals in life and dreams and aspirations. And mine was to be the funniest golfer to ever win the Masters. And I feel like that'd be a huge honor. They're big and humor there in the post post round speech.

And Gus, they love. So I'll see how that that fits. And that'd be it. That'd be a that'd be a huge moment for for for the Masters, I think. Yeah, for comedy, really. Yes, like the first comedian to win comedy. Yeah. What about what about like your your pre round meals? What do you have for breakfast?

Let's just say that you're teeing off at, I don't know, eight a.m. Do you have a big breakfast to carry you through that day, knowing that you're not going to be able to eat for a while? I try. I struggle, especially when I'm a bit nervous to eat a lot in the morning. So I try and like choke down some eggs or an omelet or something. Usually get one piece of bacon because I am half Jewish and don't want to just dive all the way into the pork can.

Yeah, I I I force I just bring a bunch of snacks on the course. I'm more of like one of the what do they say? You eat like a bird, like a lot of I just pick at stuff all day. Yeah, I keep going, but I have never I've never been a good breakfast eater. Yeah, no one's ever said that to me. So I don't really understand that saying. You could just you could just hit the ball out on the course, make yourself a little bit more hungry.

Actually, I don't know if that's in the rule. I'll read the rules this year. If if you win, you should smoke a bowl of Augusta grass. You should just be like, no, we just pack it up, light it on fire. That would be sick. Give you a legend for that tremendously hard. Yes, yes, yes. Do you want to talk about your Lakers?

I don't, but I will. I've been enjoying the hell out of this season. They actually so that at the time of this taping, they lost by like 50 points to the Mavericks on national television. They are right now out of the playoffs. Would you say LeBron's time in like in LA has been a complete bust because we don't count the Mickey Mouse championship. And do you as a Lakers fan feel disgraced because you basically threw

Kobe aside and started loving LeBron more than you ever loved Kobe. And that's disgusting. Well, that is that. But I'm all in on the jokes. But the last thing that I can make a fan, if you say that, they they get very upset when that one hurts my soul. We rise my favorite athlete ever. So the very real championship we won.

That was that was fantastic. Where was that? Where did they win that? They in a bubble somewhere in Orlando. Oh, sounds like where Mickey Mouse lives. Is that Epcot? He rents there. I don't I don't I don't think you guys know Mickey very well. Mickey is all over the place.

He you know, he's he's he's lived everywhere. So it'd be unfair to just lock him down to one city. OK, it has been tough. I'm not going to lie. It's been hard defending it because obviously it's a pretty big stage out there in LA and they're getting absolutely crucified for good reasons at times. LeBron has still been really good.

I feel like he's not getting a lot of he gets a lot of the criticism, although he does give himself quite a decent amount of praise. He's not he's not in any of the tweets when they lose. So how can that be the criticism? Yeah, is he not in the tweets? No, he's never his pictures never used in the losing tweets by the Lakers main account. So I don't know how how do you even know that he was part of a loss?

Maybe he never has lost. Maybe maybe that's the spin zone. LeBron has never lost. Well, here's the Lakers have lost a few games. It's been tough. They just they just kind of they're not gelling at all. They kind of this is late March, by the way. Like the not gelling in when there's nine years left of the season.

Not enough reps together. Yeah, I will say this, I become friendly with Alex Caruso. Yes. And I do feel like he was the blue and I don't know how to prove it other than the very real championship that they won. And he was on that team. And of course, he went to your beloved Chicago Bulls. I do have a question for you, big cat.

Thinking of just in case this came up and just a way to rebuttal that a little bit. Would you have traded right now? Would you have traded my close personal friend, Aaron Rodgers, winning the Super Bowl this year to not have coach K make this run in the in March, Manus? No, no. So the way I put it is my hatred for coach K is a five alarm fire. My hatred for Aaron Rodgers is is literally the sun, the surface of the sun.

So it's not even close, like not even close. This has been miserable for me. And by the time this is airing, we'll know the result. But yeah, no, I hate Aaron Rodgers and the fact that your friends with him. I mean, that says a lot about the character that you have. I hope that are you vaccinated? Are you immunized? What's up with you?

Oh, I don't. I don't. I just leave that up to the media to decide. Well, then you are friends with Aaron Rodgers. Good call. That's HIPAA. Yeah, that was a HIPAA violation. Tuesday to let you know. You could also say for the spin zone with LeBron, his ankle injury is horrible. He said after the game, like my my ankle right now, it's horrible.

It's basically broken. Yeah. I mean, OK, listen, I'm all in on all that. Kobe Bryant, again, my favorite would never say that I get that. But like, to be fair, it looks pretty bad. He did roll it. There is video evidence suggesting. Clap the ground. Yes, I think the side of his leg touched the ground as he was standing up.

Yeah, I would have played. Yeah, I was just tighten my shoes a little bit more. Yes. I mean, that's that's a that's a fair that's a fair point that, like, maybe some other people would have played like you, big cat. You can't judge your pain tolerance to someone else's. Yeah, you're right. That's not fair. No true warrior, no true soldier would ever get taken out with something as minor as like an ankle or a heel injury.

That just doesn't happen. I've never heard of that. So you got the Masters coming up. You've you've talked about how it feels like you get a little bit nervous on the days that like before you play. At what point do you settle down when you're out on the course? Is it like because we're talking to Brooks about this a couple of years ago and he says that at some point he just he gets bored on the course around whole

what like nine and he blacks out between holes nine and 13 or 14. Do you do you have like a spot where you consistently find yourself settling in and you're no longer nervous? Yeah, it's it's very similar to that. I would say typically after the first hole, you're like nerves kind of calm down, especially if you just like make a very easy par and then it kind of dissipates. And then when you get to like 16, if you're playing well, which I do so often, those nerves kick back up, especially on the weekend.

So it's like that middle ground board. I wouldn't use the word board for myself. It can still be a bit chaotic. So I got to keep my attention. But yeah, for the most part, I don't get I don't I don't have like the full nerves all day. I just have them. Jeez, I just get them here and there.

So it definitely beginning the day end of the day. Get that that's where it's the worst. But that's where it's like the most fun, especially the end of the day. The beginning can be a bit annoying because the mornings feel like they take a while. But once that goes away, one hole and it usually kind of kind of drops down. And one other thing I always wonder about, Augusta, is the caddy uniforms. I love them. They're like painting outfits. They look like they're like the Walter White and Breaking Bad.

Like he's going to go out there and cook meth or something. And the caddies get numbers on their uniforms. What's the process like? And is there a specific number that your caddy likes to wear? His favorite number is 22. The process is is when you check in. And so when you check in, whatever order that is. Well, the guy who won last year gets number, his caddy gets number one.

And then everybody just whatever order you check in. I tried desperately because I knew about what day I was coming in about what area the number was going to be. And I was trying desperately for 69 and I think I got 54. So I was not even close. But I had this feeling. I was like, this is the year. But Joe wants 22.

That's his like lucky favorite number. All right. So we got to get him 22. All right. So I had one last question. It's a row back question. We're going to send you some Q zips and polos. You got to come to New York. Are there majors coming up in New York? Isn't there?

We have one in Boston, so I could pop over. Yeah, or wing foot. You playing wing foot? I don't know. That was a couple of years ago. And Beth Page. I kind of popped in that week. Beth Page Black.

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My last question is for the people. Now we have fun because, you know, we bust balls, but we are truly rooting for you. So for the people, the AWLs, and everyone rooting for you, what is Thursday look like where we're like, OK, this is feeling good versus Thursday is bad. Let's change our plans here. Everyone get ready because Max is going to miss the cut yet again.

I wish I knew a man. I wish I knew what would guarantee that even at the start of Thursday. I would like to say that if I go out there kind of bogey free through nine holes, maybe one, two, under through nine, there would be a great sign would mean I'm in control. But man, I've done some dumb things in my life, my golf life, especially that would warrant anything being I would just wait till Friday afternoon to feel real comfy. OK, let's do this then.

How about on Thursday when you finish your round and you're on 18? If you feel good and you want to do it, but if you feel good, maybe after you go pick up your ball, you do a little like hat flip. So the people know like, OK, we're feeling OK. Yeah, I think that's not a bad idea on on 18. I would do a little flat hat, half flip. Yeah, just let us know that like, yeah, we'd like that was good, but let's keep the positive vibes going into Friday.

Everyone be on alert. Yeah, like nobody panic, but like, you know, things are progressing. I also want to just throw this out there to all the listeners. It's positive vibes only for Max starting the minute you hear this all the way until let's just start with all the way until Friday afternoon. Positive vibes, nice things tweeted at him. Just like, you know, puppy dogs could be from a breeder like Max, could be, you know, saving a life from, you know, an actual pound, whatever.

Whatever it is, positive vibes only to Max for those two days so we can get him to Saturday and Sunday. And then when he gets to Saturday and Sunday, just light him up. Just fucking be the meat. Look at it this way. If you positive vibes only through Friday, then it would mean that we all made the cut overcame the astronomical odds. And then Saturday, Sunday, just go back to being mean.

And I make a buggy tell me I'm the worst. I could totally deal with that. But get me through Friday. Yes, you know, it'd be great if you missed the cut on Saturday. You should adopt a dog from a shelter in Augusta. And then it's like, guess what? If I had made the cut, this dog would have died. Yeah. Yeah.

OK, that's good. They're not listening to that because I hope that there's no psychopath out there that might actually hold hold all that to to me. But I like that idea. I probably need to run that one by my wife. But if I know my wife, she will immediately agree to that. OK, so good. Yeah. So you've got a dog.

And also, Bogey would be a great name for a puppy. Bogey, maybe double Bogey for doing it for Max's house. For your two of them. It's a cut, it's double Bogey. All right, well, Max, best of luck for real. And again, everyone's got to be positive. We're sending them like, even if he fucks up on Thursday or Friday, it's like, hey, you'll get the next one.

Good job, Max. Keep going Saturday. We're back. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Because it is nice to go on Twitter and just see people say nice things about you. So over the top, the nicest thing I can't imagine anything better on that on that app. We'll have some nice stuff being said.

We'll lead from the front. You can you have our work. I'm sure you will. All right. Thanks, Max. Talk to you later, man. Good luck, boys. Max's home was brought to you by 3C. We love 3C. I'm not a drug guy.

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We got guys on chicks. Hank, why don't you get us going? Guys on chicks. Let's do it. Let's do it. Are you feeling okay about reading right now? My brain is mush. Do you want to tap in, Bubba?

My brain, my brain is so fried. What's up boys, especially dad bod cat. Oh, no, no. Let's just straight up fat ass. Obese. It is. You should shave the mustache. No, you jerk.

You know what? I'll shave my whole face if you shave yours. No. Exactly. Okay. Why don't guys like eating boneless wings? I order pizza pretty often and on the Pizza Hut app, you can redeem points for free boneless wings,

but my husband insists on paying for traditional wings because boneless wings are for children. Do guys just enjoy hot sauce all over their fingers? Plus, you get more meat with boneless, don't you? I don't understand why it's such a big deal. For me, I personally like to look at what I've accomplished after I'm done eating wings. That's part of the fun for me,

is to look at the graveyard of chicken arms that I've just been able to eat, and I can count how many I've eaten. That's fun. That's fun for guys. It's for, I like boneless wings. I like regular wings more. Boneless wings are when you just don't want to put in the effort.

You know what I mean? Like, if you're just, hey, sometimes it's nice to get a blow job instead of have sex, kind of thing. Like, I don't want, you know what I mean? Like, I just want to be able to eat this. I don't have to deal with bones. I don't have my hands all gross.

Like, sometimes it's just nice, right? Also, we forgot to mention, Stanford Steve, maybe the most helpful move ever when we got wings, he ordered a side of buffalo sauce, and like, they brought it in like a soup container, and he was dipping his wings for more buffalo sauce, which I liked.

It is a pretty, it's a solid move. Yeah, it's aggressive though. He was coming at Billy's neck. Oh, Billy, yeah, he was. He was, yeah. Boneless wings are slow twitch muscles, and bone-in wings are fast twitch muscles. Got it.

In terms of on the chicken. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay. But I- Does that correlate? Like, if you eat more boneless, does that help you? I think it has more higher mineral density.

I don't trust anyone who goes all boneless all the time. I think it's one of those things that you just do every now and then, like, as a change of pace. Yeah, I mean, to me, boneless wings are just chicken nuggets. Yeah. They're chicken nuggets with sauce, which is fine. It's not a problem.

I just, I don't look at them as being wings. Correct. It's like my costume is not, my culture is not your costume when you try to call them wings. What's up, boys? I recently offered to treat my boyfriend of a few months to dinner at a local steakhouse.

He ordered an appetizer, the most expensive steak, and four drinks. Yes. He then asked if I would treat to ice cream. Yes. I said yes, because I really like him, but I have an average job and other things to take care of. Do I just never offer again

or tell me as to keep it to a minimum? Thanks, boys. That is kind of a dick move if you just went most expensive thing on the menu, because, like, steakhouse is one of those things where if you specifically order the most expensive steak, you're kind of an asshole for that. Like, if someone who, like,

in this situation, if it was, like, you know, maybe, like, a business thing where it's like, oh, it's on the corporate card, but there's always that one steak that's, like, $150. The one that, like, yeah, that sulfate personally prepares for it. So what he should have done is he can order the expensive steak, he can get the appetizers, he can do the drinks,

but instead of ordering the ice cream at the restaurant, he should just be like, no, you know what, we've got stuff at home. That made you stick around while he makes you pay for an extra dessert, and then he'll just, like, stop by the grocery store, pick up ice cream on the way home, and that's his contribution to dinner.

Yeah. It just would have been nice for him to think about that. I was just thinking about this because it, so if you go out to dinner with your girlfriend's parents, maybe the first time you meet them, what is it? What would you say? Third most expensive steak is where you have to, that's the ceiling?

My rule is you go one level beneath what her dad orders. Right, but what if you order first? No, you don't. But what if? No, you don't. You want to be literally says you order first. I would hold my breath and die. All right, so that would be worse than ordering

the most expensive steak. It's very important to be like, to let them establish the baseline. But he keeps on saying I'm not ordering until you have. Well, I'm not going to order. It looks like we're just going to be in a standoff, Mr. X. What are you going to say, Billy? Me and your daughter are pretty hot now.

Listen for suggestions. What? If there's like a suggestion thrown out there, like, this is good here. Yeah. You got to pick on what's cute. I think like the third or fourth most expensive steak is there's just always that feel.

You have to judge who you're with. Like, you don't, if you're out with someone who maybe can't afford the like, you know, a super expensive steak, just don't be that guy. Yeah. Don't order. There's really good steaks that aren't the most expensive steak.

Don't order the special either. Right. Right. What's up, big daddy cat, short king PFT and famed Duke alumni, Hank. My boyfriend and I live in LA and have been dating for around three years. He's great.

I'm 22. He's 24. He has a job. He's clean. He's funny. And our sex life is great. He's clean. There's one problem though.

That's good. I've recently stopped smoking weed and he's still smoking at least twice a day. We've had discussions about it, but whenever I bring up the fact that he should at least try to cut back, he just replies, smoke weed every day and laughs. Is there a merit to my argument

or should I not care? Because sometimes I want to go out and do things, not just sit around with a stoner. Yeah. I mean, there's some merit to it. But on the other hand, But if you were smoking before, Yeah.

when you started dating. You kind of, this was. You got too good for him. Yeah. You think you're better than him. You kind of pulled out the rug on him. Yeah. Like he's not, he thought like,

he definitely went around being like, yeah, my girlfriend's so sweet. We smoke pot all the time. It's awesome. She just gets me. The next thing you know, you're being a narc on his ass. Like if he got into CrossFit

and then started pressuring, like, you know, you can't, that's something else that happens. I feel like sometimes people get super in an exercise. It's like, I didn't sign up for this. Yeah. Yeah. The, I would say, I mean, there's definitely the people who smoke so much

that it's their entire personality. If that's the case, I think you probably have to break up. Yeah. It's not going to work. Like you can't have somebody that's stone cold sober and somebody that's like. High all the time.

If it's Buddha Ben. Buddha Ben needs a. Well, he's building. But he needs a Buddha babe. Yeah. That understands him and gets him. Correct. Correct.

But you can't, you can't pair up like a stone cold sober person with that because the personality's just, you don't align. Right. So it's, he also has a really good comeback every time you tell him to stop, which is just saying smoke weed every day. Yeah.

There's really nothing you can say to that. Maybe just smokes a little less weed. He's going to be fine. Yeah, just don't smoke in the morning. But yeah, this does feel like this is headed for a collision course. It sounds like you like want to go out and do stuff. And he's like, should we watch Avatar for the 75th time?

Maybe just switch him over to Sativa instead of Indica. Get him outside, go for a hike. I like that. My boyfriend and I have been dating for two and a half years. When we started dating, he had been broken up with his ex for a year. I noticed very quickly that the Spotify playlist we always use had a cover photo of his ex-girlfriend.

Uh-oh. Note, you can't really see her face because she's pointing at the logo on her hat, which is actually his hat that she's wearing. But it's obviously her. I never said anything because I didn't want to come off crazy and I knew the relationship was over. Two years later, we used this playlist occasionally,

so the pic still pops up. My friends say they are shocked. I never confronted him or asked him to change it. Should I have been upset and asked him to change the picture when we started dating? Should I ask him to change it now? No. No.

You're cool. Like, if you're confident in yourself and you trust your boyfriend, it's a nothing burger. It sounds like she's only upset because some of her friends got upset about it. Yeah, that's a nothing burger in my mind. If you are, like I said, confident in yourself, trustworthy of your boyfriend, healthy relationship,

nothing burger. I also think that the quality of the playlist matters here too. It sounds like it's a banger. Yeah, just keep bringing it up. Yeah. That's true. So maybe that part, because then it's like, oh man, this is our like,

I mean, if it's like your fuck playlist then yeah, definitely change it. But I think you're doing the right thing. Don't listen to your friends. Be yourself. All right, last one. That's a good one. Big Cat and the rest of the crew.

I'm currently seven months pregnant with my boyfriend and my boyfriends and my first child. Before the tournament, my boyfriend made me choose 64 potential names that he then proceeded to rank and put in a bracket form. Love it. We know we're having a girl. As the college teams moved on, so did our names.

I thought it was a fun little joke, but now that the tournament is over, he is dead set that we now have a name picked out and he won't budge from it. How do I explain to him that we can't name our first born based on the system? Why not? The name.

Yeah. What is the name? What one? Okay. So my problem with this is if you agreed to this, you have, it's legally binding. You shouldn't have done this. Like if I had, if I had proposed this,

it would have been shot down immediately, which is the normal thing to do. Like we're not naming our child off of a completely random tournament, but you agreed to it. And now guess what? Your only recourse here is have another kid and then you get to name that kid.

It sounds like maybe though he kind of just did it and was like, oh, babe, look, I'm doing this funny little bracket thing. And she's like, I'm seven months pregnant. I'm just trying to like get this baby out, whatever, go watch the tournament. And now that now it's coming to a head. Both of my children were named after they were born.

Like, okay, now we gotta figure out a name. You kind of gotta meet them first. Yeah, it's weird to just set them up with a name and then have it not fit. Like I'm curious to know what the name for Kansas was. It had to be one that he liked going into it because they were a one seed. Ask yourself this.

Cerulean? Was it Cerulean? This is, shout out to the boy. Ask yourself this, if your name, if a name you liked had won, would you have been cool with the system? And if that's true, then I think it's tough shit. You got to just deal with it.

And then have another kid and you get to name it. Like, save this for your back pocket. When you have another child, you can be like, remember when we did your stupid system? I'm getting to name this kid. That's, I think that's all you got. And it's also kind of a cool story. She's like, I got named after Kansas.

There was a floorboard that was loose under Armando Baycott's foot and that's how I ended up with my name. Yeah. I mean, that's really like, you have to take your hat off to the guy. He's trying to be a dad. He's trying to contribute to the, to the pregnancy and birthing process.

But us guys, sometimes we just have to put things in bracket format to really appreciate them. I understand it. He tried. Yeah. All right. Numbers and then sleep. 25.

8. 22. Six. Hank, what's that look? I might just do, I might just start again. One. Okay. He's starting again.

The use. You have to say it. You have to say it. You have to say it. Seven. If it catches, didn't catch. Oh, we're still going. We're still going.

We're still going. Numbers stay real. That was, if you would guess seven, you got a bad beat there. Who dinged up 71, by the way? Uh-oh. 73. Got a little assist there.

Yeah. It's the machine. She's almost two years old now. Starting to, might have to get a new one. Fourth time. Fourth time. Okay. Love you guys.

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