Pardon My Take - Paul Bissonnette, Warriors Take Game 2 & Lebron Coming On Pardon My Take?

Episode Date: June 6, 2022

The 3rd Quarter Warriors showed up on Sunday night and we've got a 1-1 series. We talk about who should feel best after 2 games, Hank's wardrobe jinx, and Lebron coming on pardon my take in the future. (00:02:39-00:25:38) Who's back of the week including our good friend Max Homa and internet memes taking down Sony. (00:27:06-00:42:21) Paul Bissonnette joins the show to talk about an incredible weekend of hockey, his new hairdo, becoming best friends with Wayne Gretzky and some shout outs. (00:44:17-01:18:56) We finish with some PLL talk, the Waterdogs suck again and Hank and Bubba went to Darts over the weekend. (01:20:28-01:37:54)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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So thank you to Visible. Go to Visible.com slash pod. Today is Monday, June 6th and the third courier warriors stomped on the Celtics. It is now a 1-1 series. The Boston Celtics are dead. I did like, there was a couple people were like, you guys said the Warriors were dead. We don't forget that. Have you listened to this show?

Are you saying that we have knee jerk reactions that turn out to be very wrong within a matter of days, if not hours? Usually seconds. Couldn't be us. Yeah. Listen, this was bound to happen. I felt like this was going to be a correction game for the Warriors because they are just too good of an offensive team to get their shit kicked in.

And Hank, I'm sorry, you had a tough day today at the office. You showed up. You did your job, but you look very unhappy right now. I'm a little bit worried about you. Yeah. The third courier, courier, courier warriors. Q3. Q3 back.

They are. This has been their MO for almost a decade now. They have been the best team in the third quarter. Basically every single year that these guys have been playing together, they jump on teams coming out of halftime, also combined with the fact that Celtics have not been good in the third quarter in these playoffs. Or in the past few years, it has notoriously a bad third quarter team. Just a perfect storm for what we witnessed a two point game going into half turned into

what was it, like a 20 point game going into the fourth quarter, 24, 24 point game going into the fourth quarter. The Warriors outscored them 35 to 14 plus 21. I think I saw the stat. Someone, someone, I think Kirk Goldsbury, our good friend tweeted that was the highest point differential in the NBA finals game, maybe ever. No, because the Celtics did that actually in fourth quarter. So that was the highest, I think, Warriors third quarter differential in a playoff game,

which is saying something because that's what they do to everyone. I feel like you'll take the split though, right? You will take a split. It is like Groundhog Day a little bit with this team, where I feel like we did this with in the Bucks series, there was a game where they just completely choked because of a terrible third quarter. In the Miami series, there was obviously, you know, the quarter, the quarter, the great quarter debate of the Eastern Conference Finals.

Great quarter debate. Yep. Now wait. And this is just, this is just what they do. I don't know. It's unexplainable. They still had sloppy turnovers and not great play in the first half, but can I ask a question? Sure.

Yeah. Yes. Now, would you say that that was the Celtics choking or would I tend to believe in this particular game, the Warriors just playing incredible basketball because they were, they had the Celtic, essentially what happened was what the Celtics did to the Warriors in the fourth quarter in game one, the Warriors returned that to them in game two in the third quarter where their defense was incredible and their offense was also like just hitting every shot.

I don't think that was Celtics choking. I think that was the Warriors just playing great basketball. It was a little bit. I mean, they had, they, they got it down to six. Like it was, it was, it was, it was within six and all of a sudden, you know, snap of a finger, they went on 11, no 14, no run. It was over. I think that the Warriors can make any team look like they're choking because when the

Warriors play their best basketball, there's not a team that can beat their ceiling is crazy. The ceiling is insane. They're, they're unbeatable when they're playing really well. Yeah. So all right. Second question, Hank. Big cap.

I don't think that's the case with the Warriors because that's two games where you watch the first two games and both teams have a quarter where they look like the other team doesn't even have, they shouldn't even be on the court with them. Talking about obviously the Celtics fourth quarter and game one and the Warriors third quarter in game two. Now the, the Warriors did this in game one as well in the third quarter. The difference being the Celtics were able to make a few plays to keep it within that like close range where it ended 12 points in the third quarter.

Right. They stepped on their throat. They're like, we're not going to leave any doubt. We're not going to let you come back in the fourth quarter. Are you walking away from these two games being like the Warriors just didn't step on our throat in game one. And it feels like we're going to be in trouble if this continues like this. Or are you saying these two teams are evenly matched and it's okay.

We're going to be fine back home. I think these two teams are evenly matched. We're going to be fine back home. I'm still obviously worried. There's always the impending like if they, you know, game three is, is now the biggest game in the series, obviously, but I'm just worried about a close game late in the fourth quarter and like a Celtics mistake, a Celtics mishap a, you know, obviously it's a young team.

First time in the finals, something happens. They lose the game and then they lose the momentum of the series, obviously with them being one, one, not two, oh, you're now at a much riskier place where it's like every game, the momentum could shift so much and the Celtics just have to execute. If they execute and play their game, they're going to win the series, but I'm just worried. It's like they, it feels like they are the better team, similar to honestly the, the heat series where it's like, they're the better team. So it almost makes it worse when games are close and they lose games because you're like,

they should have won. Tonight wasn't really like that. Tonight wasn't a game where like, oh, they should have won. Obviously they were in it. They were close. They were up. But it never felt like a game that they let slip away. See, I can't.

That's what I'm worried about. It's a game that slips away. This next game is must win. Yes. I'm putting a must win on it for the Celtics. So more for the Celtics and the Warriors. Oh yeah. Yeah.

For sure. I feel like the Celtics have to win this game. If they lose this game, I think they're done. Yeah. And I can't figure out, I just can't figure out this series right now after watching both of the games. Like I, I agree with the Celtics. I think the Celtics cause a lot of problems for, for the Warriors matchup wise.

Like they have, when their defense is humming, you saw it in game one. But part of me also is looking at this and being like, the Warriors could have done this in game one too if they had just done that extra like step on their throat. Like remember how the third quarter ended in game one where it was like Derek White had a couple of free throws with like no time left, dumb foul. There was a, you know, like it was a 16 point game that became a 12 point game. And you were able to say like, Oh, the Celtics have a chance here. And then they went obviously crazy in the fourth quarter.

So I just can't figure out if it, if tonight was more the norm or if it was, you know what I mean? Because the Warriors did the same thing in game one. They just didn't do that extra little piece where they're like, no, you're really dead. Yeah. I don't know what I mean. I mean, it's impossible to know because it's this series so far has been filled with three insane quarters.

Yeah, right. It's like even basketball and then, and then quarters where shit just goes A wire. Yeah. So it's like very hard to tell what's going to happen. I do think that the Celtics, I'm not going to actually say they're dead. I think that the Celtics can and should win the next game at home. I still think it's going to go seven. You know, I think it's going to go the distance, but they have to win this next one.

I, I, I did not walk away being like, Oh, the Celtics are completely overmatched. I'm just saying simply from like the fact that these games actually were very similar. It's just the difference being that the way the Warriors close out the third quarter in game two, left it no doubt and no chance for the Celtics to come back. Yeah. And can, can they do that again? I don't know. Cause that was an insane performance tonight.

The first half was also wild with Draymond. Yeah. I mean, like really went, he went crazy. He's insane. Yeah. He is an insane person. He, he just, he gets out there. He was tackling people.

He was like putting his feet on people's face. I don't know. Like he just goes from zero to a hundred and he's like, he dances that fine line where he gets an early technical and then he almost challenges the refs to kick him out. He's like, I'm going to do everything possible to get kicked out of this game and I don't think that you're going to do it. Yeah. He had it all.

He was in some skirmishes. He was in the crowd. I think he licked a guy. He was. Yeah. I think this is just him promoting his podcast. I think when he goes out in the court now, he's doing stuff just so that people will be like, wow, I can't wait to hear what Draymond says.

Smart. About the time that he like gave a wet willy to Jason Tatum. Yeah. It's smart. The, I will let you Hank, if you would like to complain about the officials, they obviously, it didn't matter because of the difference in the game here, but they were bad in the first half. That, that call that Jaylen Brown just didn't touch Gary Payton and I think the rest were

just expecting him to touch him and he just didn't. Well, this goes back to Draymond too because two days ago, Draymond tweeted out out of nowhere. This is his exact tweet. To call Adam Silver, the best commissioner of all sports at this point is kind of disrespectful. He's one of the best CEOs of a major corporation in the world. Just finished watching his PC very, very, very impressive. He's given that wet sucked, that Adam Silver wet sucked, that gluck gluck. There were some bad calls in the first half.

You could do the ref game in any game. It's one of those things where I try and save my refs, NBA rigged refs fucked up the game for if it's close. Right. Right. You can't like this. I'm not going to sit here and be like, the refs fucked us and we lost the game because of the refs.

Right. They did fuck us in the first half and there was some terrible calls and clearly they had an agenda and Adam Silver saw that tweet and wants the game to go seven games, but the game wasn't close. I'm not going to say that. Right. You're going to save the view. Yeah.

You got to save it for a close game. I agree with that. That's like, that's the most powerful excuse that you can drop. The clip was loaded cocked back. Yeah. But if it were a close game, there was a lot of evidence on your side for you to be very upset. Yes.

But it wasn't. So you can't. Right. But you could. But I won't. But it was rigged. But you're not going to say it. Right.

Agreed. The NBA clearly has an agenda. Yeah. Yeah. I don't like this series to go more games than four. Yes. Yes. That's.

I'm going to go. I'm going to say more than five. Right. But having the Warriors win tonight guarantees it goes more than four. Right. But now we have the reverse where if the Warriors win game three, they also want this to go the distance the other way. Well, no, I don't know the NBA.

Like they're kind of trying to set up this like Warriors or the underdogs mentality. No, everyone hates Boston. Every commissioner hates Boston. Day one of commissioner school. You get a test. Well, it's Godel. It's probably he's probably in like he he's in he's in Adam Silver's ear. Oh, yeah.

He wrote the curriculum. Yeah. Definitely. Godel definitely gave him a call before the series and was like, Hey, just so you know. Well, no, when Adam Silver got the job, Godel was like, Hey, I'm really excited for you. This is a great opportunity. Make sure to fuck over Massachusetts at every opportunity because we all hate them.

But you didn't you're not going to bring any of that up. You're not going to bring any of that up, which is good. Are you? I'm nervous in this level because you know, do you know what I mean about like trying to make trying to figure out this series? Because you can, I think you can, I think depending on who you root for, you can tell yourself that you're in a great spot either way. Like if you're, if you're rooting for yourselves, you're like, we just stole a game.

We are best was incredible. You know, we have a deeper team. Like we can, we can throw a bunch of defensive looks at them. And if you're the Warriors, you're like, Oh yeah, we just, we just squandered game one, but we got this. Yeah. Like you can, you can actually walk away and both sides can be right in this that they can say like, we feel good.

The longer the series goes, the better off the Warriors are. They also had the experience and they have the rest. So why, why is that funny? It's just funny. I don't know if I agree. You're funny guy. You're funny guy. No, that wasn't a joke.

I like to tell jokes sometimes and go for laughs. That was just, that was just straight up analysis. I don't know if I agree. I think the Celtics, the way they play defense and like the style that they play, the longer it goes, the, like the more gas they take out of the other, the opponent. Like you saw it with, with Jimmy Butler in game seven, you saw it with Yannis in game seven, like they kind of suck the will out of the opponent because they play such tough defense.

Well, about what Richard Jefferson was saying when he came up part of my take last week and he was saying that they have like the Celtics have the advantage in the first couple games from being battle tested, but then as a series goes on longer, then they start to run out of gas. I think you could just make, I think this series is so fascinating because you could basically say anything you want and you could pretty much be right. It's a Rorschach test. Yeah.

You can take whatever you want looking at it. You can look at this and be like, the, like the Celtics are in a great spot and you can look at it and be like, the Warriors are going to absolutely kill. The two things that. You're in a spot to be up three, one after two games at home. There you go. What more could you ask for? And then it's the best of three.

Yeah. No, it's a win in your end. It's a win. Yeah. Oh, you control your own destiny. Yeah. You control your own destiny right now. No, there's, there's two things.

Yes. You're right. This is definitely like. Don't want the best of three. Yeah, it is. You can take whatever you want. Everyone just agrees that Draymond is insane and that everyone's out to get Boston. And I guess, I guess the, the best way to sum up this series is anyone who has a strong

opinion on who is clearly the better team is just lying. They're casual. They're just wrong. Yeah. Because you can't tell after those first two games. It's impossible. You cannot tell who the better team is. Thank God we have seven games, right?

Hank? Hank was, Hank, he was dead. He was dead. We went and interviewed Biz during the third quarter. We came back and he was just laying on the couch dead. He sprawled out. Yeah. I have shoulder problems.

You have shoulder problems. What's wrong with your shoulder? I woke up today and my shoulder is like in a lot of pain. I don't know what I did. I'm going to go to the chiropractor. Carrying this whole company on your back. Yeah, I don't know. That's true.

That's fact. You need a, you need a personal day. You're like Atlas, the guy that carried the world around. Next thing you know, we're going to have like an email on Tuesday being like, hey, good news guys. It's a massage deal now. Everyone in the company has a hundred dollars to a masseuse. That's why atlases are called atlases.

Yeah. Yeah. Because of that guy. He carried the world on his shoulders like you. But like, was he named after the atlas? They named the atlas after the guy. Wow. Learned something new every day.

He was the original. He's like how Jalen Rose, there's a bunch of Jalen's now. He was the original. That's cool. Do you think there's any blame for you changing up your look going into game two? I'm wearing the exact same thing I wore Monday. I just added an extra layer. Okay.

So you're not wearing the same thing. No, I'm physically wearing the same exact thing. Right. But you added a coat. It was cold. Okay. No, I'm not. I'm not playing that.

I'm just wondering because you obviously game one was a great game. You were on cloud nine and then you changed up what you were wearing. Well, yeah. But I mean, they also changed up who the refereeing officially. That's what you're not going to say exactly because it was a blowout. Right. But if it was close, then maybe from your perspective, how much blame do you put on Hank changing out his outfit?

I didn't change my outfit. I'm wearing the same exact thing. I love the Hank. I love the fence bank. He's the best. This is actually a side note. You're playing better defense than the Celtics did in the third quarter. Come on.

That um, that Larry Berge shirt that we, no, I texted Hank that that Larry Berge shirt that we put out for the promo. I wore it game one and we lost randomly saw Nick who works with us at the bar, PFT. You were there. He was wearing it and then game six, Hank was wearing it and I texted him right after him. It was like, we can't wear that shirt anymore. Okay.

So I am a big juju guy like that. So I would, I kind of would like to see Hank wear the same exact outfit. Yeah. I mean, that's what, that's what's free to say in Hank. No, no, don't worry about me. All right. Let's go positives for you, Hank, because Jason Tatum looked better. He looked back.

He looked like he, you know, like he actually could shoot. That's a positive. Positives are we, we got one in golden state. We have a chance to be at three, one after two games at home. Yep. Marcus smart, barely into Robert Williams knee was not good for my health. See this, this series is so fascinating because you can even say like the way it was just won by, by a million and Clay played terrible.

Really? Just like in the first game, you can be like the Celtics won by a million and Tatum played terrible. Jalen Brown played really good in the first half tonight. It's just like he had like, he, he wasn't, he played terribly offensively, but he had 13 assists. Yeah. No, in game one.

Yeah. But he couldn't shoot at all. Right. But at least Clay was just, Clay's useless. Clay was, we knew Clay was bad when he missed that layup, like his second shot of the game. He had no touch. But I'm just saying this is, this is a fascinating series because you can, again, you can spin it, whichever team you're rooting for.

You can be like, Oh, we did this, but this guy didn't play well and you can keep going down the line. Where we had on the, on the Warriors fans, I'm trying to get a beat on them. They're a slippery bunch because I feel like they fall into one or two buckets either. They're like a tech executive or they're like a middle school or that trolls people on Twitter. Yeah. I, here's, here's what I think has been great for the Warriors is the fact that they

switched arenas during like COVID and when Clay was hurt and when everything happened, then like it kind of went under the radar because I definitely do not like the Warriors as much as I did when they were in Oakland. Yeah, it's better. It was way better when they were in Oakland and having that city have like a competent team. And now it's like San Francisco. It feels like now they're like a amusement park version of the Warriors.

Right. But it happened in a time when there was no fans in the stands. So we kind of just didn't like, if they had gone seamlessly championship to championship changing arenas, I think we would have been able to get our hate up, but they, they just slipped under the radar and you kind of don't even realize, oh yeah, they're playing in, you know, San Francisco. Now they've completely robbed like the Oakland people and people who were very, who stood behind really bad years of these experiences in the NBA finals.

It's fucked up. Yeah. Fucked up what they did to Oakland. Yeah. You will be on the wood. Game three. Yes, sir. So you excited?

Double fist. I mean, this is an all-time moment for you. Yeah, I can't wait. You're gonna wear that same outfit? No, TBD. Okay. Tune in. Tune in to find out.

All right. Oh, nice. That's. Tune in to NBA finals. Game three. Darren Ravel will, will, will do a quick, you know, calculus of that Hank Lockwood just gave ABC and the NBA finals $6 worth of advertising. We'll see.

We'll check the ratings and see what the luck would bump is. Tune in for to see what he's wearing. Are you, are you, are you concerned like in your ability to double fist pump with your injured shoulder? No, because I didn't, I wasn't thinking about double fist pumping the first time. It was just a perfectly natural reaction that happens. Maybe you injured your shoulder doing the double fist pump. No, I injured my shoulder sleeping like a normal person.

Well, clearly you weren't sleeping that normally. Yeah. No, I don't, I don't know what happened. I actually don't know what happened. All right. Other things. PLL and other stuff darts after that might have been where I hurt my shoulder. That could have been where you hurt your shoulder.

A dart watching injury. Yeah. Yeah. We, I'm trying to think what else we had this week. Oh, LeBron, LeBron's doing a podcast. So LeBron James says he's, he's going to be jumping on someone's podcast soon, maybe his own. Yeah.

So this is LeBron having like three glasses of red wine and then just like tweeting whatever his feelings are. Yeah. So he saw somebody that has a podcast. He's like, I, I want that, but for me. Dramond. It's actually. Yeah.

That's exactly what he saw. Dramond and his crew. Yeah. It's actually incredible that it took him this long to, to, for him to be like, I need a podcast. Yeah. Not for him to like actually do a podcast, but for him to say like, I'm thinking about doing a podcast.

Right. Right. And he also had a great tweet tonight that it's so funny to me how many basketball experts there on this app. Everybody, Dr. James Naysmith. It's fascinating with one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight laughing emojis. Are they crying? Crying laughing.

Yeah. Eight first many times as Steph has been to the finals. That's very funny. That's very funny thing for me. Hilarious. That if, listen, if his podcast is half as good as his Twitter game, I think we're all in for a treat. Yeah.

I think part of my takes and big, big trouble. He also only falls 183 people. So I don't know how many experts he's seeing on his timeline. Yeah. Somebody, I bet you can like make an app or like a plugin for Twitter where you're able to see what LeBron James sees when he logs into Twitter. Yeah. And it's, it's definitely not.

Like he's, he's, he's just saying that because other people have said that. Yeah. Like everyone's a basketball expert. I would, I would actually love, and we have extended an invitation to LeBron James or as, as Jake referred to him. This is very funny. I've never heard anybody say Mr. James, Mr. James, but, but Jake said, Mr. James, please come on.

Pardon my take. Maybe that's the key. Yeah. Mr. James, please come on. Pardon my take. It's an open invitation. I don't even know how that would go. I think it'd be fine.

It'd be awesome. It would be awesome, but it also would be like, there would be some awkward moments where we try to make jokes and he's just like, I'm not doing this. Hey LeBron, you remember when you showed your dick to the entire world on national television? This is LeBron James here for me on these. Yeah. No, he, it would, it would be interesting. Open invite though.

Open invite. I mean, he would never. It's never happened. Ever. In a million years. Like what? He has at least 10 people that would stop it before it happened. Like there are, there are certain guests where people is like Aaron Rogers or Kevin

Durant or like name any guests and I'm like, yeah, there's a chance LeBron is a 0.0 in my mind. I doubt it. I read the only way we'd ever get him on this show is if he was doing like a press junket and we had 10 minutes with him on a zoom and it was like, you get three questions. I don't even think, I don't think I know that by the way, we would say no to that interview. We've said no to those type of interviews where it's like we won't, people would be mad. We would need, if we were to interview LeBron for real, I would need at least four days

with him. I would need six bottles of wine. I think the only way that we could do it, the only way we can pull this off is if we do like a Jim Harbaugh thing where we just show up at his house unannounced, we've got the podcasting equipment and we just ring the door until he relents. We bring tacos. Yeah. On a Tuesday?

Yeah. Tacos on Tuesday. He probably already, we maybe, maybe the move is to bring him on a different date than a Tuesday because you know he's already got tacos on Tuesday. He'd be like, hey, I know it's not Tuesday, but you can still eat tacos. Yeah, it's a treat. This is a special occasion. What's the occasion?

You're coming on my way to the key because he was a great interview and he's part of his crew. No. He'd be like, hey, you guys should. If we saw Carmelo on the street right now, you think he'd be like, oh, that was awesome. You guys were awesome. Maybe. No.

I think he might. I don't think so. I don't think we left the lasting impression. We got to get Brani on. Maybe if we get Brani first and then he tells his dad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That listen. Tell Brani to tell his dad. Okay. Shout out Brani's friends. Yeah. Brani, I see him. He's going to be an NBA superstar. I think he's going to be better than his dad.

Yeah. We have a draft board and he's already number one. So easily. Why don't we have LeBron on to break down that draft board? I like that. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect.

Perfect invite. All right. Let's do who's back and then we will have our good friend, Paul Bissonette on the show. Quite the interview with him. Always a treat. He's the best. You get to who's back, Norton VPN. Your personal information gets exposed so often.

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Before we do who's back, I forgot I had one last thing on the NBA finals. I didn't know this and this is obviously a hand up, you know, could be just a very small group of psychos on Twitter, but it seems like there might be some, a group of people that think Steve Kerr is overrated, which is maybe the craziest take. That's one of those ones where it's like, we've all just, we've, we've exhausted every avenue of debate that we're now talking about Steve Kerr who has, I think he has eight, eight rings total between coach and player and has basically, you know, been the coach for one of the best runs a team has had.

You can just look at who the coach was before with Mark Jackson. But that's, oh, that's part of it. Now they're like, well, he's only, Mark Jackson should get more credit for this table. I do love the fact though that Mark Jackson has to do all these Warriors games. Like right after he got fired, they went on this insane run and Mark Jackson just has to watch them win title after title after title. He should take a little bit of credit. Like if I was Mark Jackson, you should be like, yeah, you know what?

I, I laid the groundwork. I poured the foundation in the basement of this house that Steve Kerr ended up building and turning into a nice mansion. But yeah, like Steve Kerr is obviously a very good head coach. I don't think that's even a debate. But it, but, but I think there's a, I think it, again, it's, it's probably just, we've run out of things to debate, but I just love the fact that people are trying to have this debate and then watch a game like tonight and they're, those same people are probably

like third quarter, quarter Warriors at it again. It's like, well, what do you think happened at halftime? Yeah. So there's an adjustment that gets made. What do you think, what do you think happens at halftime for every Warriors game that makes them, they have, I saw the stat is legitimately like 2015 through 19 when everyone was, was healthy in the, this year, they are the number one team in third quarter net rating. And that's like six years in a row or, you know, obviously there's been a couple of gaps, but six years where that has happened.

And guess who the coaches guess who talks them at halftime. And people can make the argument that, you know, Clay and Steph are two of the best shooters of all time playing on the same, which is true. But also a coach's job is to coach players to improve their game. I think like, obviously Steph Curry is like a freak. That's, you know, the most talented shooter of all time. But like it's good that Steve Kerr hasn't fucked him up. It's good that he's like, he's known how to use them correctly.

That's still on the coach. And they still got to play defense. Yeah. I don't know. It's just, I, I, I like those, I like the attempt at the take, I should say, because it is one of those takes where it's like, we are just, we've run out of everything. Is Steph Curry overrated? Yeah.

What? How many more titles does he have to win? Like Red Arbok? I don't know. It's fucking, man. Those, we should just honestly, when we get to the point where we reach that, like when we get to the wall, we need to just have everyone on Twitter just go into a time machine and be like, let's debate something from like,

you know, the 80s or something. No, that's a touch grass moment. Big time. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Hank, your who's back. Oh, my who's back of the week is the internet, internet culture.

Okay. Sometimes I feel like I personally am on the internet too much. I get frustrated. I'm like, I need to, you know, I touch grass. Sometimes like we talk about, you know, Twitter and stupid vacations stuff on this show. But then there's times like this story where it's like the internet is hilarious. This is very funny. It's real life consequences that have resulted from the internet.

So, and I don't know if you guys, Morbius. No. No. Okay. So it was a movie, Jared Leto movie that came out in April. Super hero movie. Like I think he's a character from Spider-Man or something, but they did a spinoff. Bombed.

17% Ron Tomatoes. Terrible movie. Like didn't do good at the, didn't do that good at the box office. Like high budget, you know. Yeah. I've never even heard of it. Yeah. Didn't do well.

I pulled a 180 on Jared Leto recently. I used to hate him and think he was annoying. Now he's awesome when he plays annoying characters. So yeah. Yeah. It's kind of weird though. I think he's a weirdo. But the, this, this person, Rada, this was the original tweet that like started the meme

and it blew it up, but she tweeted on April 2nd. The best part of Morbius was when he said it's morbid time and morbid all over those guys, which is just like, obviously like making fun of the movie, like joking around. Yep. Okay. That turned into like a huge meme where everyone was just doing, it's morbid time, it's morbid time, just turning everything into, you know, bringing it back to Morb and Morbing. So much so that Sony saw all of the tweets and like saw that it was always,

because it was like Twitter. So like everything that was morbid related would have like a hundred K favorites. Like a ton of retweets. It was going viral every single day for the last, you know, month, two months. Like it's been, it's been a, you know, internet thing where it's constantly been growing and growing, although now it's kind of dead. But right at the tail end of it, Sony saw all these viral tweets. It was like, we need to bring Morbius back into theaters.

Like there's a starving. Yes. Like there's, there's people that want this movie re-released, like look at all these tweets. It's viral. Everyone wants, everyone's talking about it. So they re-released it this weekend and it bombed. Like less than a hundred, less than a hundred thousand dollars made in every movie theater like nationwide.

Like it said something like it was, it was an average of eight dollars per theater that showed it is how much money they made. That's crazy. This is so great. So the internet basically like memed the, you know, Sony, the big production studio into re-releasing this movie. So it's bombed twice. Now, didn't the internet do that too with the Sonic the Hedgehog thing?

Yeah. When they like, They buoyed them into changing the CGI, which is for the better. They put out the picture of Sonic and everyone was like, this Sonic sucks. And then they went back and spent like another hundred million dollars, like redoing the fur on Sonic the Hedgehog. This is so awesome for so many reasons. Like the fact that one, anyone takes the internet for real is hilarious.

The fact that they were able to meme this into like bringing it back when it just sucked objectively. Now, the only thing though, Hank, are you, do you feel a little sympathy for these executives at Sony who got duped by the internet? Because that could be you someday. Yeah, it could be. But that's kind of like, you know, maybe that'll be my sign to just take myself out back. And I would, I would just love to see those executives like walk into their office Monday morning and just be like, so give us the good news.

Like how to go. I want to hear the rest of this metaphor. Hank, you're treating yourself like you're old Yellering yourself. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that is, I agree with you there. Like there will be a day when I'm going to wake up and everything will pass me by and be like, I'm out.

I'm gone. I don't want to do this. But I would like to, yeah, I mean, I would like to think that it's just funny that probably someone at some level was like, hey, executives, look at all these tweets. Like look at all these viral memes. They're all talking about Morbius and Morbin. Like it's Morbin time, guys. Because it was like every single day they'd be like, it's Morbin time.

And it was just like classic meme shit where it was like they're turning everything somehow into Morbius and like Jared Leto. A really stupid, funny joke online. And people were like, all right, we need to re-release this nationwide and everything. Now they kind of want to go see it. And maybe. And maybe. I want to get my Morb on.

Eight dollars per theater. Yeah, Morb is like that's one ticket. All right. So we'll do a Morbius review after the NBA finals. You know, we have to now. All right. We have to go watch it all of us. Yeah.

Movies are back. Yeah. We have to go. Well, I'm sure we'll be able to watch it like online. Yeah. But we got to watch it together. Are there any showings that are available? We'll just do a showing in the gambling cave.

Let's just steal it. We'll get some popcorn. Let's illegally download it. And we'll Morb. We'll Morb the fuck out of this podcast. And then hopefully we'll bring it back for another one. All right. PFT year, who's back?

My who's back of the week is Max Homa. Ah, that was mine. All the homosexuals out there. It is Pride Month. Max put up an amazing stat. Yes. At the Memorial Tournament. I feel like there are like nine Memorial Tournaments that are played every year.

My way off on that is always talking about the Memorial. This one is a pretty big one. This is I think the sixth major. This is the one in Dublin, Ohio. There's a lot of things to remember. That's true. Good, good point. So Harambe.

So don't even don't even go there with Harambe. We can't talk about Harambe right now. Max Homa required 99 putts. Internet meme culture. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. We're definitely gonna get a Harambe movie at some point. Oh my god.

Oh my god. That's actually a great idea. Holy fuck. Mark Wahlberg's gonna sneak in and stop it from happening. Mark Wahlberg should be the father of the child. We should do we should do a we should do a Harambe movie but make it like super dark but also on the side of Harambe. So like the kid that gets stars with like his like ancestors.

Yeah. The kid that gets saved like then it like does something horrific. That's baby Hitler. We save baby Hitler to kill Harambe. That would be wow. Harambe goes. Wow. We could have ended it all.

Jeez. Holy fuck. I mean that's box office gold right there. Yeah, I mean that's I'd watch that movie tomorrow. And also there's a Morb involved. Yeah. The Mike Francis a clip has to be in there too. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. A gorilla. We're talking about a gorilla. Mark Wahlberg. What if Mark Wahlberg played Harambe? Oh, he works out enough. Yeah.

I've read his Wikipedia page. There's some of that in his past. Why does that go viral by the way? Oh Jesus. Why does that go viral all the way like every two weeks? Mark Wahlberg's daily schedule goes viral. Yeah. Because he tries to say he plays golf in 45 minutes.

Yeah. He wakes up at 4 a.m. How about you just I don't know. You could wake up at 6 a.m. and do the same shit. Well you know who could have played golf in 45 minutes this weekend was Max Homo. Yes. Because he required only 99 putts. He's the first player determined history to record fewer than 100 putts

since records have even been kept. He's good. Max is legitimately good at golf now. Legitimately good. It's crazy to say. It kind of ruins the joke. He's probably he's got to be like top 10, top 20 favorites to win the U.S. Open. No he's yeah he's uh he's I think he's top 10 in the FedEx Cup.

Who knows what that means. That's crazy. He's rich as fuck. Yeah he is very rich. Very rich man. He needs to start wet in the beak. He's still getting kept in check though because the. He should join the live and get everyone off of his good side.

Oh that would be such a great deal turn. He should join the live and be like we should be we should talk him into joining the live and then be like don't worry we'll handle all your PR. And then when he joins the live we're just like fuck this guy. I did like what Greg Norman said. He was like listen nobody's perfect. You know like I'm not I can't criticize everyone. We've all got our skeleton.

He was talking about them like luring the journalist into an embassy and then cutting his body up with a bone saw. I don't. He's like listen. Got to do what's best for him and his family. I don't know why. Mistakes were made. I don't know why they all don't don't just do the Phil Mickelson.

Be like dude I have gambling debts. I need to do this like Dustin Johnson. I don't know why he's on there but he's playing. Yeah. Because he's paying on like $150 million. I know right. Right. Yeah.

So the PGA tour communications official account tweeted that stat out. But they're keeping Max's ego in check. They called him Max Ahoma. Ah nice. Which is a great perverted name for him. Yes. Yeah that was my who's back too. I love that he's back.

Although he's never left. He's just fucking good now. Also my who's back is our good friend Brooks Kepka who got married this weekend. He's so back. Yeah. And I looked at the Instagram stories and it looked like maybe the most fun wedding of all time. Ludacris did a concert.

I'm not upset that I didn't get invited. He had Ludacris perform at his wedding. That's incredible. It also there was a couple people like you guys didn't get to invite. First of all no because we wouldn't. But second of all if you saw any of the Instagram stories and pictures it was just all beautiful people. Like just beautiful people on a beach and I just envisioned us being there and being like

we would just be a wet fart just standing there. All the pictures would be ruined by our existence. I feel like. There's obviously always a cut list for weddings. We weren't even close. We weren't considered. Top 20. No we weren't considered.

50. No. No we were the amateur that shows up and hits like plus 12 on the first day and you're like whoa that's not good. It was like if we had shown up at this wedding even if we were invited we would have set one foot inside and security would have just instinctually kicked us out. Yeah no it really would have we would have been uncomfortable. That's how like pretty everyone looked.

We did not fit in. I feel like everybody at the wedding would just. Did not fit in. They would just leave and all text each other to be like hey let's go to a different spot. Yeah this place sucks now. Yeah yeah. Dude this place is fucking lame. Okay Jake your who's back.

My who's back is the king of clay. Rafa Nadal did it again. Oh who cares. I know you don't want to do it. Well it saves. Talk about it so we'll move on. No it's Mickey Mouse to have to only win on one surface. Well I think he also won the Australian right.

So he now has a two major lead twenty two fourteen of his twenty two are at Roland Garros. That's bullshit. That's still eight other majors. Yeah but fourteen fourteen. I don't know. No back has nine of his twenty yet. Offside open. There's got to be better than three good tennis players.

Why is um what why is he so good on clay. He just got he's got that like spin. Top spin. Yeah. Changes differently. I won my club championship on clay so I could. Oh wow. So you know in Rafa.

He's a pod. Could you take him on clay. Not one point. Not one point. Maybe if you double faulted. Yeah. What surface would you be most likely to take a point off Rafa on. Not play.

Yeah. I've never played grass before so by default it has to be hard. Okay. Yeah. You do like it hard. Yeah. Never won a club championship on hard though. Got cut from the high school tennis team on hard.

No so that's you. So might say you're weak at surfing. Would you have gotten cut on clay. Michael Jordan got cut from his basketball. Yeah. That's true. Good point. That's right.

So you're clay first. Yeah. Yeah. That's when you really you dominate on clay. Yeah. Good for Rafa. Spray your ankle on hard too. I did.

Did Rafa have like a sprained ankle or something. I think he got hurt. Her foot in this one. Foot injury. He added that on. Yeah. Yeah. So.

All time funny protester too. Did you guys see what happened. She attached herself to the net. Like with handcuffs. Yeah. And actually like a pretty good protest because she had a shirt on that was like 10,000. It was like 1,028 days to live. What does that mean.

It's a countdown. It was a climate change. But like it actually made me pause and I was like wait is that true. What happens in four years. Well I initially I looked at it and I was like wait is that so only only four more Super Bowls. If the fucking world ends before Dan Snyder sells a team. I'm going to I'm going to take myself out back. Could you imagine though like to could you imagine a PFT like putting it into a perspective

that we understand four more Super Bowls. Yeah. No I like that. That's terrible. I like that. Such a terrible terrible thing to say. Especially when you root for shitty teams and you know that you're more than four years away. Could you imagine if that's how like everyone decided to get climate change like enacted

or whatever laws enacted in America they're like hey you have three more Super Bowls. That's not nearly enough. That's actually how you talk to the people. Yeah. Don't tell me about polar ice caps. Don't tell me about sea raising. Tell me how many Sundays I have left. Yeah.

And then I will cry. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point. Okay. Let's get to Biz. Great interview with him before we do that. We're brought to you by Coors Light.

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Okay. Here he is. Paul Bisonette. All right. We now welcome on our very, very good friend and the man who has. You're hockey bitch. You're hockey. I'm your hockey bitch.

No. You want hockey talk? No. Listen. I was going to give you. Yeah. You want that hockey talk, baby? I was going to.

I was going to give you a beautiful intro of the man who captured the hearts and minds of two nations on Saturday night during the Edmonton Oilers Colorado Avalanche game. It is our good friend, Paul Bisonette, who looks absolutely hilarious. If you missed it, he has, you should watch it on YouTube, but he has a shaved top of his head. He looks like George Costanza. I mean, how you doing, dude? Like this has been a wild 24 hours. Peter Mansbridge.

Peter Mansbridge. A famous, he was a news anchor and he just delivered the news old school like the guy, the man. And so we were doing this silly commercial for McDonald's and we thought of this character named Peter Mans biz and we, and then we did Kyle do biz the GM for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but it was to pay homage to him. So we ended up working in this silly marketing piece and then I'm like, I bet with, I think it was in fucking like what?

November and the Edmonton Oilers were playing like dog shit. They had no goal tending. They were out of a playoff position. And he was fucking talking them up. And I said, fucking battle of Alberta. I said, I'll fucking bet you this, that I'll do this on national television. If the Calgary flames don't move past the Edmonton Oilers, they fucking, but they got, they had better goal tending.

They had a better overall team defense. They had just as good as a top line based on the entire season. And I thought their depth was better and fucking they got worked in that series, which Hey, you followed it all, but every game was chaos. And it was like a fucking bad asset trip. And it was over. It was like, you felt dirty about it. And you, you know, it was like going to Vegas.

So now here you are. Now the fucking hooker, the fucking hooker stole my Rolex. Let's just get out of here. That's where you look like my passport. Yeah. I think you actually look good. Yeah. It just struck me.

You know, you've got like a Tobias from arrested development thing going on. Yeah. You look like the, uh, the Anourapist. Yeah. I don't know. I don't watch a lot of television, man. You're dropping a lot of things. It's, it's old show.

It is spot on. Wait, I have a question though. So before we talk hockey, you did this, uh, last night during the game. Now then you sit next to the greatest hockey player of all time and Wayne Gretzky. What man, what did he say after like, was everyone at TNT like, what are we doing? What, why, how did this, how did we get roped into this? No, they were so cool about it. They've been so good.

TNT's been so cool about all of it. And so is Wayne and as much as Wayne is like, what the hell is going on? This is, but he's, he's the best guy ever. Like today he brought us over to, uh, over to the junior game, the oil kings. So like obviously Wayne coming to the podcast. Let me grab a sip of water here. I'm buckled. Okay.

By the way, I, I, I, I, let me, while you take another sip and I'll just give a compliment because TNT is like just blows away everyone's coverage in NBA and NHL because they have obviously Chuck and, you know, Kenny and everyone. And, and then you, on the other side, like you guys crush it. Chuck paved the way for it. All of it, all of it. What, what, what TNT is willing to put up with and like just like, let this fucking guy be an idiot, right?

Right. Right. And like, but like, so Chuck came on our first broadcast to start off the season. And like he, I felt like he took so much levity off of all of it that it set us up for success. So not only did he pave the way in his own right, he was willing to snap around hockey, but he also loves hockey and buddy, he fucking hammers games. Like it's fucking, so we're there.

Sometimes we cross over, right? And he'll be in there. He's like, who you guys like tonight? And he barks at it and we're like, uh, and he's like, this is who I got money on. And he's dropping, you know, whatever, probably reasonable. Yeah. Responsible. Yeah.

Yeah. So, um, but yeah, I don't know how, but anyway, so he set the way and no, when you're talking about Wayne Gretzky, uh, it's taking you to the oil can. Oil Kings game. And, and, and, uh, so I wake up this morning and listen, we had a fun night last night. We went and celebrated because that whole head shave and the fact that TNT allowed it, we're just so grateful. And it, you know, we're snapping around between chicklets and them and they're

being so cool about it. Um, so I wake up and, and I kind of wanted one of those days where like, I didn't have to turn it on at all, but Wayne, I get a text from Wayne. Let me read it. That's exactly what I wanted out of you. I have him. I have him as night. I have him as my phone is 99.

He goes, he's, he's even nice to say it like this. He goes, Hey, bud, I don't want to bother you. Are you still good to go to the junior game to read the starting lineup for the kids? The coach is pretty excited that you would do it, but they haven't told the kids. So I get this text and I'm like, fucking doing the contrast shower, like going through my head. I got to make this kind of special figuring out like,

how am I going to make this cool for the kids? But then I find out as we're getting into it and they had the kids don't know. So Wayne was going to go in before the game. He gave a quick speech and then said, I got a guy to read the starting lineup. So they do this like, like, so I go in there and listen, I'm usually not pretty good at these things, but they brought the TNT camera on and they fucking filmed it and it was fucking sick.

And then they ended up going out there and went in five, four. It was a sick game, but Wayne teed the whole thing up because he just cares so much about junior hockey and Canada. And the fact that like, I couldn't, I couldn't let him down. So they're actually going to air it when you guys drop in this podcast. Tomorrow, Monday morning. You're not going to see the footage until the broadcast, but Wayne teed the whole thing up.

That's from the minute we landed on a PJ that he set up from fucking Colorado to Edmonton so we can get in nice and safe. We fucking were drinking on the plane. It was one of the nicest private planes I'd ever seen, right? But all he kept talking about as soon as we landed was like, we got to go to the game Friday and Sunday. The oil Kings are playing. This man loves hockey more than anything.

All he wants to do is hanging out with the boys and watch hockey. So, so wait, did you fucking unbelievable? Did you have to keep it like PG because you were talking to kids? Cause I don't think I've ever heard you say more than like three sentences. No word of a lie. So my wheels are spinning because I'm like, I can't let Wayne down, right? Cause he's going to be teeing the boys up and I got a fucking nail this and I'm nervous as shit.

And one of the coaches comes in beforehand and he goes, Hey, because because like Wayne was already waiting out there. He says, Hey, just to remind you, like, like let's keep it PG, like no F bombs. And that's such a Wayne move to fight, you know, no swearing for the kids, you know, such a great guy move. So I did end up keeping it PG. So it's funny that you ended up mentioning that Wayne got ahead of that.

He's Wayne, Wayne in life and in hockey was two steps ahead of everybody, everybody at all times. He anticipated you going out there and dropping like a cocksuckers on the Yeah, right. You're like, Hey, any of you kids eating hoop before? I mean, you would have said that. Yeah. Is Jake the snake there?

Hey, Hey, did he not just get announced for the PLL or something? Yes. Yes. My boy, Jay. Hey, don't, hey, don't forget where you got your start was at the pink Whitney Cup. Absolutely. That threw on for all the ladies.

Yeah. Me and Neil will never forget that. Check it out on YouTube. The hoop eaters. Of course. The butthole boys. Yeah. The leather Cheerio boys.

The leather Cheerios. Yep. How many? The fartsuckers. Jay, Jay. The fartsuckers. He's starting to get red in the face. No, I'm good.

How many different words do you know for butthole? It's like the Eskimos and they have like 20 words for snow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I guess. Aloha means goodbye and hello.

Yeah. I had this good buddy from back home and like Trent Richardson. God rest his soul. But like we use he's not he's not he's alive. No, no. He passed away. He passed away. Trent Richardson did.

Oh, your friend Trent Richardson. Yes. Yes. Sorry. Sorry. All right. We thought you were talking about the football player. No.

Oh, no, no, no, no. But just going back to your comment about how many names you know for asshole or sucking a fart out of one. Yeah. And like, I don't know. I was I was going to strip clubs at like 16 years old. Like, you know, I was just like, we grew up different back home and well in Ontario.

That's how we found our fun. So I also I played junior hockey. So I know a lot of terms for, you know, the reason I brought him up is because we fucking he his father owned a dealership. We would be taken like his father's escalates from the dealership up to like Toronto and like go to these strip clubs and like get to any slides and 16 years old by 16. Like when were you in a strip club for the first time?

Make that probably 18. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We were tapped, man. We were from Welland, man. We're we're a different breed.

There's a veteran. I know a lot of terms from our soul. It's so so much funnier that you're saying this. And then you lean in with that fucking haircut. And it's just like it takes it to the next level. So one of the TNT executives, Bill Galvin, he's a beauty. We have so many cool people and we were in this oil kings box. And I don't know if he was trying to tell me or recommending like,

Hey, maybe we kind of like shave it all off for the final could be the last broadcast because they might get swept. And I don't I'm like, I kind of have to honor this bed of keeping this like Peter Manson's character for at least a week. So I had to let him down softly that this is going to continue. So game for Monday, I will have the Peter Manson still. So I got it right now. The hair is growing in a little bit on the top,

but I'll have to get that cleaned up. You have a very flat head too. It's striking when he was shaving your head. I was like, he just it's just a square unit up there. Whit went to town on my scalp. And I don't think he knows how to shave a head or he was trying to hurt me on purpose. But I was trying to remain calm and work the mic.

But as he was stripping it back, he was taking skin out. And finally, I was like, oh, I'm like, come on here. So I was trying to keep it together for Whit. And he was obviously electric on there. And Grinnelli, Ra, Sean were good at capturing the whole thing. And the Edmonton Oilers. So the Edmonton Oilers are like the Green Bay Packers of the NHL. Like their fan base is rapid.

This is this is as hockey as it gets. And as soon as we landed here with Wayne, he was like, buddy, he's like, this is wait till you see this. He goes, these people are incredible. This is the best. And, you know, he's got to obviously a massive soft spot for this place and what it did for for him overall. But he loves Edmonton.

And it was really cool to be able to not only do the chicklets thing, but experience it from Wayne's perspective. And like, it's like rolling around with the fucking Prime Minister. I would imagine it's crazy. It's got to be crazy. Is he always wearing the sweater vest or the cardigan underneath? Hey, you got to admit for, for how like, how old's Wayne Gretzky? I don't even know how old I was going to say Alex 62 or something.

He fucking dresses pretty good. And he's still wearing nice clothes. He's got the fuck, you know, he looks good. Yeah. So let's talk a little hockey. Is this series over? By the way, wait, before you answer this, let's just clarify. Biz has been wrong about every prediction period.

He could wrong about a lot of he cannot get anything right. So whatever he says, bet the opposite. So is this series over? Yeah. I would say that Colorado is going to easily advance. Okay. So Edmonton and seven. Bet it now.

If, hey, if that happened, wait, we'd, hey, okay. If that happens, make me a bet. I'll do a belly button shot out of you. Keep the fucking length in there for as long as you want. But then you, the part that your podcast has to come to Edmonton for the finals. Okay. Deal. Deal.

Easy. I like that. If we come, no, if we come to Edmonton for the finals, you have to do the shot. I'll do the shot out of your belly button in Edmonton. Yes. Yes. For the, before a game at one of these, wherever the, the hop and bars are, obviously the JW Marriott, they got connected to the rink.

It's like, it looks like a goddamn spaceship. It's awesome. We should stay here and we'll do it on their goddamn granite bar top. Say no more. If they win at seven, but so big component to last game was, um, dry saddle, who is a German player. He's one of the best players in the world. I would say easily top five year over year, the last three years.

Um, he's a horse. He, I believe suffered a very significant ankle sprain in, I think it was in round one, game seven against the LA Kings. And he was laboring it in the second round, but still ended up having this insane series against Calgary where he put up, I believe 17 points in five games, like tied Oilers records with like Gretzky and the great ones. And like, you know, him and Connor really elevated the team through that situation. Um, he, he ended up getting reverse hit last game.

And you could tell it re-aggravated it. He's fucking hobbling around out there, man. Like he's a warrior. It's, but it's like hard to watch because hockey players do it. It's like, you'd have to amputate their leg before you told them not to play. And it's like, it's him. So they, they are basically kind of without him and also now Cain. Cause Cain just got a one game suspension.

But he got that cross-checking cross-checking. Cadre in the back. Cadre is out for the series. Cadre is a massive piece for the avalanche. Huge. Like he's, you told us that before the playoffs started too. He's, he, he buddy, he gets under people's skin. He wins face offs.

He makes plays. He makes big plays. You can't intimidate him. He's a fuck it. He's a street thug, man. He's a, he's any, any, any fucking team in the league should try to sign this guy in free agency this summer. And he's now out for the series.

So I think they're going to, Colorado is going to advance, but it's such a significant piece to move because I don't believe that any of the teams that Colorado is going to face moving forward, they have better goal-tending. You're either getting Schusterken or you're getting Vasilevsky. And you don't have that goal-tending, whether it's Kemper or whether it's François, but they're competent goal-tenders. So having that extra piece is valuable as far as the offense and just his overall 200 foot game. He is, he is, he's like a world-class midfielder if you, in soccer terms.

He just directs traffic. He can kill, he does it all. He's a sort of great analogy to a sport. I don't know if I fucking, I mean, get the fucking lotion off. I just gave this guy the biggest hand job. He's like a free, he's like a free safety that does it all. That's everywhere. Does it all.

Everywhere on the field. Yeah. Yeah. He does it all. Where do we stand on the, on the Sussie for Kane? Was that dirty hit? Did he break the code? So my opinion, and listen, it's such a weird play in hockey.

So you can't touch the guy in the back there because he's so vulnerable. His, his, his toes are towards the wall. So any type of push or anything in his hip area can throw him off just enough, rut, boom into the wall. It's, I bet you there's a term in NASCAR for it. Like Denny Hemlin would have an example of it for NASCAR where you fucking, and you're susceptible to like major injury, like you saw. Kane even said in his post game press conference, he's like,

Oh, I'm expecting or maybe a reverse hit. So that's the thing about cadre. He like makes you constantly be on your toes and like, you just never know what he's going to do in order to fucking roast you. But that's not exception for like, you just can't hit a guy right there. Yeah. So vulnerable and he nudges them off and, and it's, it's even the, anything with a guy going face first into the boards is scary.

The slightest of nudges can throw you off in that situation. So you just can't do it. And some guys, when they're going in, they want that little advantage on the puck battle and it's a bad habit and look at the consequence. My opinion on is because that, that, uh, cadre is out the rest of the series, Kane should be out the rest of the series. Mm hmm. You can't do that.

One game. Sure. Old, old school mentality. I'm okay with one game. I would, I would have said two would have been fair because all of a sudden, man, if you get them back game, what, it would be game five. Right. If you pull off a win, you got no cadre and Kane's back in and he's fucking rested.

It's like, it's such a swing on a, on a play that was like, it was a dirty play, whether it was by accident or not. Business is being brought to you by our good friends over at price line. We love price line. And right now it feels like we're all getting less, we're getting less social interaction these days, less sunlight, less steps, less being in the office. And while that last one might not be so bad, aren't you ready for more?

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Because Memes is basically like the biggest Tampa Bay Lightning fan in the world right now. But you've been like publicly going at Rangers fans. What, where did that all start? It all started on the, so one of the last broadcasts in the year, like obviously every fan base think it's, I think the local network covering their team when we're on the major broadcast and like, if I'm going to get involved to it emotionally, I'm going to fucking pick sides. I'm going to be opinionated on shit.

Like I don't fucking care, right? I have the teams that I like. I have the teams that I don't like, but I also have to give a credible opinion. So in one of the, like the final games of the year, Rangers fans were losing it because I was like, yes, this team has had success all year, but fuck, do they give up a lot of high danger scoring chances and rely on their gold tending? I think that they're going to get worked in playoffs. Like this is a, this is a major problem playing track, meet type of hockey and open yourself up.

You're going to, you're playing against teams who have better shooting percentages and better execution, better execution on the power play. Like you just can't fucking rely on your gold tender all year long. So they fucking were coming at me. So I was like, fucking are these guys sensitive? So I kind of, that's where it all started. And then in the first round, they're playing the Pittsburgh penguins. Fuck, I love sit.

And I'm like, fuck the Rangers. I'm like, they're going to get their power plays, not going to work. They're fucking gold tennings going to get lit up. And believe me when I say they got so lucky that Jari got hurt and they had to play a three third string goalie, they got, they got worked in every game. And I watched the games, right? So then the analytics community comes out afterwards and says, this is how much they dominated percentage wise.

Well, guess what? It backed up everything that I fucking saw. They worked them. They generated way more high scoring, high scoring chances than New York. And Shosturkin wasn't that good, but the only way they were able to survive was because they got their third string goalie in Pittsburgh. Duhman got hurt. And then Truba, I still, listen, I'm not going to be biased about all this.

I said it shouldn't have been a suspension, but he knocked out Crossley with the fucking chicken wing. Yeah, he wing boned them. Yeah. He wing boned them. Got away with it. Yeah. So it fucking, they shouldn't have advanced past the first round.

They got fucking worked. This is great. Yeah. And I called them. You're going to get even more. You said, and now they're up to one in the, in the final. And then I said, Carolina's going to fucking bend them over. And I'm jumping on the Carolina Hurricanes bandwagon because I fucking hate these

fucking fans because they, they, they, they come at you online, like rapid fucking like Yankees fans. The worst, the worst memes is nodding furiously right now in the corner. So I, so I backed, so I tried to back Carolina, but like towards the end of the series, I'm like, fuck man, New York, they've gotten better defensively. They're giving up less high danger scoring chances. Sisterkins found his game more than he did in the first round. And now I'm like, Oh my God, this team is like a team of destiny.

They actually have a chance to win the cup. Yeah. Like they do. They feel like they, and, and, and, and I'm so invested into it where if they do go to the finals and they are, we're rolling an MSG and I'm wearing a fucking avalanche jersey. If they pass, I'll fucking get in a fucking freestyle battle with Bobby Schmurder on the, on the catwalk.

I'm fucking all in on, on whoever fucking beats this team out. I hate, I, I do not want the Rangers to win. The worst part about it is they are like, they're ahead of their years. Like you thought this year, if you know, if you got the round two and lost, it was like, Hey, we, we have a good core group. They're young. They're going to be successful for years to come. If they went at one, they might get fucking two in this next stretch and they're going

to be fucking bending me over. No spit, no loop sandpaper finish. And I still fucking hate their fan base. And then we got Avery on the mix here. Zarensky having a chirp me and fuck. Come on. Glennie Balls. Yeah.

Avery is a legit psycho. He has a good roof plus. Yeah. Avery is like a little. Yeah. Chihuahua. I mean, it's one thing that he cares about in life more than anything else. Oh, if you're, if you're a Henry Cloak, wait, what kind of dog was that?

Was it Chihuahua? Hey, um, so this was supposed to be a wit podcast. Yeah. Yeah. And, and he got caught up in customs. So if you guys are like, Oh, this is a little bit too banged up. He showed up like R.A. It was because I wasn't expecting this.

And I was at the oil. You're doing it right then. This is great. With Wayne fucking Gretzky, bitch. You're talking to the kids again on our show now. What were you going to say? P.F.D. about a hydrant? I was going to say, like, if you're, if you're a Lunkwist,

like, do you think, do you think he's rooting for the Rangers? Or do you think that there's a small part of them that's like, this would kind of suck if they won after I left? No, no, I think that, I think that Henrik's very grateful for what the organization provided. Like, I mean, look at the career he had, like, he got his jersey retired. That's fricking man.

That's big shit. Like that's, you know, MSG, the most famous sports venue in the world. And you have Rangers fans coming to like kiss your feet and say, thank you for everything you've done. If they just ran into a couple of years when he was at his prime in playoffs, where he just didn't really get the goal support, his, his numbers back it up. I think that, I think that he would love to see the Rangers win it. And yes, he would not say one critical word about the Rangers on the broadcast.

And I, and I love that. I'm like, fuck, I love that loyalty that he has. And, and oh my God, is he ever handsome, eh? Yeah, those blue eyes. Oh my God. I was joking at the end of the broadcast. I said, oh, like shortage in double A batteries now across America after this one. They see me like every, every, every hockey fan wife slipped off to the room with the

fucking, with the rabbit to watch that end of the show. Hey, one hour of just close ups of Hank, just jamming their box. He is a fucking missile. Here he is. No very good looking guy. Men rocket. He's a very good looking guy. You're just like, holy shit, man.

Like, fucking how long does that take to like make that all work, buddy? The suit, the suits, the fucking hair, the hair. It's like, holy, what's your regimen? He should do like a, he should do a math. Speaking of master classes, he should do a master class on how to be a man rocking. Yeah. Then I would watch that and get like no, no tips that I could use for myself because like you could do it all and then you'd look in the mirror and you're like, wait, I'm not him.

No, no, no. I thought you look good on Thursday though. You were, you were in the perfect like scruff zone with your beard that you had grown out. And then next time I see you on TV, you're getting a Brazilian wax on your forehead. I just buddy, it's, I just with all the travel and just like trying to like getting enough free time and get to smoke my weed and be a degenerate. Like I actually am. It's hard to like keep it all together sometimes.

No, you're doing a great job. You're doing a great job. You're doing a great job. All right. So it's exhausting. I got one. I got one last question for you, biz. It's the row, row back question.

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All right. So what do you have? Can I shut, can I, can I shut out the whole TNT crew like Liam, Liam McHugh? Yeah. Everyone. He drives the bus. Wait, no, that was my question was who would you like to shout out? So Liam McHugh drives the boss, right?

Okay. Why are you laughing? Because you're so good. You got, you got Gretzky runoff where you're seeing the questions before they happen. I was literally going to say, Hey, can you please shout out the TNT crew? Leadership matters. Liam McHugh drives a bus insane motor. Like he fucking reads off the prompter like a champ, like juggles at all.

Like, you know, on the fly. Gibby's our producer and him and Liam work extremely well together. And then ACE, uh, Anson Carter, he came over from NBC. So he really helped with the broadcasting side and, uh, you know, um, understanding like, you know, time and, uh, delivering on clips and speaking over clips and, you know, tackling social issues, all of it, all of it. You know, he's been a beast. Rick Tauket, who is a former coach, um, leader, NHL record leader and Gordie

Howe-Hatrix, which is a fight, a fight, a goal and an assist. Like people, he was a broad street bully played in Philadelphia. Won a cup as a player, uh, with Pittsburgh, won two as a coach. And as an assistant with Pittsburgh and he's coach been a head coach. So he brings that coaching perspective. And then obviously Wayne and then a couple of people like Hank and, um, Jen Botterle filled in in the meantime, but even everyone behind behind the scenes, like TNT, they make it so easy travel wise.

They're fucking, they understand how it all works. And as I mentioned earlier, the NBA, they, they set the standard and it's been a fucking whirlwind and I'm so happy to be a part of it all. I'm so grateful. Wayne's a fucking man, dude. Oh, oh, uh, Koharski. So we have this old school official that comes on the broadcast sometimes and fuck, he's gotten quite a few wrong during the, during all of it.

So we, we don't, they started, they started calling them the mush on the broadcast and Wayne's chirping them. But fuck, you know, we, you know, we, we had, we had such a fun crew. It's been a blast. So I just wanted to make sure I gave all them love because they really helped, uh, the, the awesome week in Edmonton work. Yeah. Yeah.

It's sort of the Oilers, man. They gave us like full access, like the fuck. It was a shit show, buddy. We felt like we were royalty. I like how you're becoming Charles Oakley. Like you're becoming like Michael Jordan, Charles Oakley are like best friends. And that's your relationship with Wayne Gretzky. Now I'm sure like, if Wayne needs to collect a debt from somebody, if somebody owes Wayne

like $90,000, he'll probably tap you on the shoulder and be like, Hey, pay this guy a visit. Yeah. Take care of this for me. This is why you're around. This is why you fly on the muscle. In the muscle. Yeah.

Yeah. It is great. I didn't know, I didn't know this was part of the job. Wait. So who's your, who, who do you have, uh, winning the whole thing at this point? Again, you've been wrong on everything, not to, I mean, you have been wrong on everything. I think Colorado takes it.

So the, the, the, the premier Southern organization lifted the Colorado takes it. Yeah. So wait, Rangers, Avalanche. I can't count the champ. Yeah. No, no, that's a tricky one. No, because I don't know if you guys watch the Tampa game tonight, like they, you know, their backs were against the wall and they fucking, they worked them.

They outshot them. It was kind of like how I chirped them against Pittsburgh. Right. They got outworked. They got outchanced. But they almost won the Rangers almost one. Yeah. Because of, because of goal-tending.

So it's an uphill battle because they're dealing with a guy that they kind of like a guy that they have, but you just can't write off the champs. They got the next game at home. If they win the next game at home, it's two, two. And then they got to just go win one on the road. And they've done that before. Can't write them off. So I don't know yet.

I think that Colorado Rangers would be an incredible final. Two new teams, two young up and coming teams. You got Adam Fox, who is a very, very, very skilled defenseman. Then you have McCarr. And I like talking about the hockey guys, like the real good ones. And when I come on here, because like you guys have more of a sports demographic, he is the greatest defenseman we've seen since Paul Coffey. He's probably as good as Paul Coffey.

If he keeps going on this trajectory easily, maybe right below Bobby Orr, could eventually become like a Bobby Orr type. He is a freak. He's a Connor McDavid of defense. It's just like he's just so fucking good. He's so well conditioned. He always makes the right play. He's sick on offense.

He, he's basically a forward, but he's never, he never gets caught up the ice. He is fucking incredible. So him going against Adam Fox, all the skill, like Panarin and stuff from, from New York, going against the, the McKinnons and the, you know, the, the, the land of scogs and the Burikovskis and the, uh, Rantons, everybody from the other side, it will be a very heavy hitting final Colorado, a young up and coming fan base that has been rejuvenated since the sake of years with the scumbags of the hockey world, the New York If I could have summarized that, the perfect ending.

Yes. I love it. Yes. Thank you, biz. It's good to see your face. Yeah, you're the best. I rambled on a lot. I was, I was a little bit cocktail during this one, but hey, no, this is perfect.

We, we, we love whenever you're on and I'm now, we have something to root for, uh, Edmonton to win in seven so that we'll be in Edmonton for the Stanley Cup final. You'll get fucking hounded here, buddy. Yeah. And you'll be doing belly shots for all of me. I'll be doing more than that when we come back. I'm not going to shower for a week. It's a big fucking belly button.

Yeah. There's going to be a whole, it's a beer tower. I'll let you shave my asshole live on TV if I can win in seven, buddy. And shut up. You should watch everything. Take all your hairs off if they, if they losing seven. Yeah. Um, so shout out to, um, a lot of shutouts.

Oh, I was going to say, do you have any more shout outs? That's a robot question. The spitting chicklet screw. Brinelli, uh, Sean Appuzo, all the boys. Played out music. Yeah. Kick me off stage at the fucking Oscars type shit. Fuck you, big cat.

Shut up, my mom. I got to shut up my crew, bitch. Uh, now you got me stumped. But everybody who came to Edmonton and made it work. Yeah. No, no. It gives her anyone on the, on the chicklets crew that you want to shout out. Yeah.

I, I, well, I said, Brinelli, Sean Appuzo, chicklets, chicklets memes, wit, array. What about murals? All murals. You haven't said murals name once. He's my guy. I almost forgot. That's why we need you here, buddy.

I fucking, I got you. I was trying. You guys stumped me. Maybe I would have fucking said murals if you didn't stop me dead in my tracks. Bitch. Well, you didn't say him the first time. Everybody rides murals. Yes.

Murals is the man. He, we, we play with him. He's, he's, he's, he's a degenerate. No. I mean, there's, I never thought that I would be in a spot where I'm betting fucking, uh, like Swedish and German and Russian hockey at like seven in the morning on a February, like Tuesday. But then murals came into my life and here we are.

Everybody rides. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. All right. We, you're the best biz. We love you. And hopefully I love you guys.

I'm rooting for the Rangers now because I want to see you. I'm coming there regardless. Okay. So, so, um, all you sporting fans, fuck you big cat. Can you give us an analogy about sporting fans? Cause you did soccer and NASCAR to sports recover a lot. No, I'm saying a lot of people.

I know it's going to be summertime and you're probably like, Oh my God, hockey's still going on regardless of, of, uh, the situations with the two series in the conference finals where the NHL is going to wait till June 18th to start the finals till the NBA is over. So it'll be the last sports sport like playing. So fucking jump on a bandwagon, watch an incredible sport, especially if it's fucking Colorado or New York, it's going to be a good time. And by then golden state and Boston Celtics is over.

So let's keep fucking sports and follow the finals. I love it. And we'll be doing live streams, buddy. We're going to be an NYC, uh, Joe, uh, June 19th, 20th, 21st. We're going to get a sandbag ran. We'll cloud with you guys. We're coming there regardless. All right.

This game. So if, if New York makes it in sort of Colorado game three, as I believe on the 21st, or maybe the 22nd, I'm going to be front nose and center with these fucking degenerates scumbags, the New York ranger fans. Oh my God. That three that Jordan pool just hit. That was crazy. All right.

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You will love it. Your dad will love it. All right. Whose line is it anyway? Real quick, game three. Boston, one and a half. I already know. Oh.

Seltzer minus three and a half. Minus three and a half. And we were right about the series. The Warriors are now favorites on the series minus 115. The Seltzer minus 106. So basically a coin flip. Yep. So even Vegas doesn't know.

Yep. Yep. It's, yeah. They're telling you. They don't fucking know. Vegas don't. Okay. Let's finish up the show.

We got a couple of things I want to address. PLL, Water Dogs fucking suck. That team is disgrace. Came out of the gate slow as expected. Yeah. And we heard all week that the cannons were, we were hearing from camp. And I'd like to hear your take on it, Jake, that the cannons were the worst team. And nope.

Quick reminder. Water Dogs are the worst team. Yeah. When you think it can't go any lower, wait till you see the Water Dogs. Yeah. And they didn't post the score for like an hour. That's just cowards. Now, at what point do we have to start looking at a coaching change here?

Because this is two years in a row that we've gotten off to a slow start. I'm certainly not going to take any blame for it. Copeland? Copeland. There we go. I knew that. Yeah. But they won the regular season last year.

Oh, great. Oh, President's trophy. Yeah. Put off the banner. Great. Good job. AFC finalists. I think we got to get Drew Snyder out of retirement.

I think, so when I say coaching change, I mean just like, a different shirt, our coach needs to change his outfit actually. Like the old Gary Patterson. Change colors at halftime. Do something different. Jake, how was your time at PLL? As we saw, you shot one shot your entire life in the cross. One cross, first and last.

And you scored on Billy. I did. Wow. You put a top cheddar on him. So much so that Billy's not here to defend himself because he's so embarrassed. He skipped tonight. What are you going to do? Yeah.

And if I know Billy, he is currently stewing over this. Actually, I was able to stop all the other shots. And it was just this one. It was a lucky shot. Actually, the coach low key said that I could have gone pro. I'm interested to know like how. No, he walked onto that warm-up field being like, I have that. Right.

He belongs here. Right. Yeah. And you'll see the vlog on PMTV. You're saying you're pretending like that's news to us? No, he actually said that. Yeah. No, I know.

I'm sure. I could low key. It wasn't for the equipment changes. Yeah. He basically said the equipment changes. I could low key hang with these guys. Could he hang with them? High or low key?

No. Well, you'll find out on PMTV, but it was some cool drills. He did a face-off with Trevor Baptiste, who's like the goat at face-offs. Yeah. So that'll be pretty cool. OK. We had Justin Gutterding, who's an AWL. Love it.

Yeah, are there are the water dogs? Do they know that we trash them? So, you know, it's funny. We saw pretty much a member of every single team, except we didn't see one water dog the whole time. I don't know if it was just a schedule conflict. No, they know. They know.

Yeah. They didn't want any piece of Jake the Alpha. Yeah, they didn't want it. Because, listen, we told you, we sent you to Albany with one mission. It was to find the water dogs and berate them. They're not the one water dog the whole weekend. Interesting. Howard's.

Unless they weren't wearing gear. Actually, I'm not wearing gear. I do want to say that if you told me, like, personally, which guy, like, if you're like, hey, this guy's a nice guy, I probably like all the water dogs personally, but as a collection, they are a terrible team. They are. That's just objectively true.

Factor fiction. Are they, are they worse right now? Right now, they are tied in last with the score differential with Redwoods who also lost by six. Okay. And really, we lost by more. It was, that was pity. Score differential matters at the end.

Okay. Well, that one, that one dude hit, he like shot the ball between his legs. That was kind of sick. Yeah. But you can't, that's a Mickey Mouse play. When you're losing at the end of the game, he was patting his stats on that,

just trying to make sports in her top 10. Yeah. Yeah. So next up in Charlotte, week two, they're playing Whipsnakes. Oh, wow. Saturday night. Lost. Two-time champions.

Yeah, lost. What's the line? Whose line is it anyway? Whipsnakes might as well have 15. Our team, we're not beyond yet. Game of the year. They probably took it off the board. Whipsnakes, game of the year.

That's the game I called last year and the Water Dogs won. Okay. Who cares? Okay. But it was fun time? It was a good time. Shout out PLL, shout out Paul Rable, RJ, they hook it up. And when are you, when are you calling the games?

I don't know if I'm allowed to say that yet. Okay. But sooner rather than later. Say it, we'll bleep it out. Don't say it, Jake. This is a trick. No, I might be allowed, but I'll play it safe. But it's soon.

All right, great. It's time to start thinking about prepping. Yeah, try to start thinking about your wardrobe. What are you going to wear? Are you going to wear the same blue suit? And let me just say this, we've had our history, but the ESPN plus app much better than the app that was previously hosted the Water Dogs.

Like I watched the Water Dogs today and it was seamless. Yeah. It was very, very, it was a, it was a, it was a, as good of an experience as you can have watching the team that you own suck a tremendous amount of dick. That's fair. Yeah. But yeah, shout out to PL and ESPN for making that happen.

How good is memes at La Crosse? You have to find out at the PMTV vlog. That's a good tease. Beautiful, beautiful. Yeah, big tease. Wednesday. All right. And then the other sport we're going to talk about, darts.

It might be ahead of La Crosse as a sport of the future. It takes, let me just set the scene real quick because PFT was a national. I, I was with my family who I love, but your father, I'm a father, but I love, this is pretty big, but, but I, it takes a lot for me to get FOMO at this point. Cause I just, I'd rather just be on my couch seeing the lads. I think you guys were technically lads on Saturday.

There was like 30 dudes from Barstool that went to the darts. 50. 50, all dressed up. Absolute change. Just scenes. I was so jealous. I almost, I almost got off my couch and like was like, if I just show up, will they let me in?

They probably would have, and I probably should have. I'll set the scene. Liam can fill in there cause he was, he was there as well. It was pretty much like every, every producer and video editor, like behind the scenes guy at Barstool. This event was supposed to happen in 2020, but it got canceled like right at the beginning of COVID. It was supposed to be like April or whatever of that first March.

And then during COVID, I actually watched it was the PDC. So it's like the top players in the world. I watched a lot of their broadcaster in COVID because they were the first sport that was like back. They didn't have crowds obviously, but there was broadcast going on. So I kind of got into it. I understood the rules, 501, regular darts.

For whatever reason, this kid Greer is the one that bought the tickets, kind of set it all up. He decided that he bought 50 tickets and then people just Venmodem. He bought 54. 54. We would have had to cut somebody for NFL football team. Yeah. He decided that instead of sending people tickets,

like because it was too difficult, because people would have to sign up for a ticket master account, which I assume a lot of people already have one. Like I just have one already. Like game time though. He said, right. He said that he's not going to do that. I guess it was probably out of loyalty for game time.

And so we went in with 54 dudes. Together. Together. All in one line. All shit faced at this point. Like everyone had been drinking for a few hours already. And I was saying when we're at the thing, because he's just sitting there like with the usher just going flick,

flick, flick, flick, flick. Everyone's chanting drunk going crazy. And I was like, I don't think there's any event that's happened that this usher has seen 54 people come in at one time. Like no one would do it for a sporting event. No. No one would do it for a concert. No.

Like there's no reason to go in with 54 people. So it was a rowdy rocket scene going in there. And then honestly, the actual event exceeded my expectations. Like it was a great time. It was a good viewing experience. People were dressed up. There's a chance. Michael Smith won.

He beat Van Gerwin, who was the goat. That's who I had. Everyone's dressed up. Everyone's just drunk chanting USA Chance. Michael Van Gerwin Chance. Obviously, if you get three, you know, if you get three, triple 20, that's 180. That's the highest score you can get.

And when that happens, people just go nuts. It's 180. I'm very, very jealous. I love darts. I absolutely love it. I can't wait to go. I should have gone. We have to go to one in England or Ireland.

Because as good as it was, the crowd was great. It was an awesome atmosphere. But I just can't imagine being in one of these. Like if everyone, if one of the guys I was in the championship was a USA guy or a New York guy that everyone was rooting for, like being in one of these guys' home courts or whatever. Home courts. For a big darts match would be just absolutely unbelievable.

So I was following along on your Instagram stories. And like you said, it was basically everyone who worked as a producer here. So like it was, I was watching everyone's stories and it was like everyone was standing next to each other. But I was still watching every story because I couldn't get enough of it. My only question is, was there a little bit of a lull

when 54 dudes walked in all shit-faced and the event hadn't started yet? Well, yeah. Because we had to go early because they're like, well, we only have one fucking person with a ticket. I noticed it in the, like it's so sad that I was sitting on my couch watching this. But I noticed how amped you guys were chanting going in

and then everyone's stories. The next picture was an empty arena, being like go time. But like you could feel that it was like not go time. We also like, none of us really know what's going on. And so we're just doing the most generic chance of all time where we're just chanting like, we want darts. When the guy like comes out and is like doing the intro for it, whatever, we're just chanting like, we want darts

or like darts, darts, darts, whatever it was. And another takeaway I have is like, I know how the scoring works too. I don't know how they do the math fast. So quick, yes. Like that's something that I would think, where it's like, obviously I know where it's like, the triple 20 is what like, when it starts at 501,

it's like, you want to get the most amount of points. So like people have a big 180 signs where it's like, that's the goal that you're going for. But once it gets down to it, I don't know how they know what they're aiming for, where they can do the math so fast. The last shot, the winning shot, it was like he hit like 82 and he hit like, he did it in three shots

where it was like, boom, boom, boom, exactly what he needed. I was like, how did you just shot a second ago? Yeah, but like, I don't know how you know, like what's the easiest way to go about those numbers. They know every single number, like they know, they have a 138, they know what they need to get. If it's a 137, they know what they need to get. They know every single combination.

It's kind of like us when we're watching football and we know, okay. Try to get the over. Yeah, well, you can still get, you know, three touchdowns and a safety. Yeah, right, right. Like a field goal doesn't kill us here. That kind of shit.

One guy was saying, I was with the guy Rudy and he was like, oh, this is even that impressive, like blah, blah, blah. I was like, you won't understand how hard and like how good the hand-eye coordination these guys are like, it's unbelievable. It's darts. I mean, I like darts.

I've played darts many times. It's a game of 501 takes like 30 minutes. Trying to end on a double or triple. What are they playing in like six? Double or bullseye. No, it's double or... It's triple? Yeah, how...

Oh, maybe it's just double. Yeah. I think it's just double or bullseye. Because we were supposed to do it at the triple S. I studied during COVID and no one was good about here. So we pulled it. What did, what, how long would each game take? 10 minutes.

Yeah. Not even. Yeah. And they play better than 50s. Like the, the triple 20s that they're hitting too, they're like almost hitting the exact same dart. Right. Where it is, where it's like,

they are right in the middle of that tiny thing where they're like on top of each other, where they're like that precise. If you're new to darts and you're listening to this and you haven't, you have no darts experiences, YouTube, nine darters. Just YouTube, PDC, nine darter. It's one of the most, we didn't, we, we got close.

We got three, six darters. And it's like that, that I can't even imagine. It's literally on the bucket list. Like I have to see a nine darter live. Watch them on YouTube. I've seen them all. They're just some of the best, most like, raw sports crowd moment videos.

It was, they was, you know, they got six and it was like, oh my God, here we go. Here we go. We might get a nine darter. And then they, you know, they missed it, but it would have been, the roof would have blown off. And it's also one of those sports. It's great because the guys who are playing it

are not like they're fat guys. Yeah, they're big, they're big dudes. I want to, I want to know more about the action yet. Yeah, yeah. They haven't started to work out yet. Yeah, everyone starts looking at Tiger Woods and you're like, fuck. Yeah.

Now I gotta hit the weight room too. Although I feel like if you get really strong, that would negatively impact you, right? Yeah, but you know there's too much that you can pull. You know there's gonna be one guy who wins darts and it's like, yeah, it's all because I've been doing Pilates and like band workouts. Meditation.

Yeah, and it's going to suck. I feel like the trick to darts, more so than any other sport. The old guys like Ben Gerwin's been doing it for 20 years. The guys that can figure out like exactly what your blood alcohol content has to be to optimize your steady nerves. I would imagine like a 0.79 would make me at my peak physical form. Why'd you pick that?

You'd be dead. Like right below the legal limit. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I feel like that's 0.79. 0.79 would be dead. You'd be dead. You'd be close to death.

Oh, maybe U-pluses. No, but yeah, like a 0.79. That's the perfect amount to be. I also want to know more about these dart player. Like I want to find a darter, or is that what you call him? A darter. A darter. I want to find who the bad boy is.

I want to like root for a certain athlete. That's what I wanted to do that. I told our crew, and they said it was Vancouver, and where I was like, if there's 50 of us drunk, I want to root for the bad boy. So like we can kind of get some scuffles with people. Yeah, there was a guy that was facing off against a USA guy, but he was Scottish, but he wore all American flag outfit

and had a red, white, and blue mohawk. So he was leaning into it. Because I was a little bit confused, because he was getting booed. Everyone was chatting in USA, and I was like, isn't this our guy? And they're like, no, he's Scottish. Like the other guys in America.

Damn. That's awesome. Like I said, it takes a lot for me to get FOMO. I had severe FOMO, et cetera. It would be a great bachelor party event. Like obviously, you probably have to like, they'd have to come back to the US or whatever, unless you really wanted to do the whole European bachelor party.

But it's just a great like dudes rock to scream. Yeah, and you guys. Everyone's wearing shirts. Everyone gets dressed up. There was a lot of good outfits. A lot of AWLs out there, too. Shout out to everyone. Yeah, you guys all had shirts.

Had dart stuff on. One shirt said, like I'm sexy, and I throw it. It's a lot of dart puns. Yeah. I like those a lot. We should do a Great Week Liverpool. Go do a darts competition. And see Paddy the baddie.

Yep. All right, so one is darts. So that it, it was just this event in America. They're not going anywhere else. I don't think so. Fuck. All right, so we should start our own darts league. We can actually do that.

Oh yeah, that's right. We did. It was a disaster. We tried to move. Well, no, with actual darters. Yeah, now we tried to do it for stool streams. We had that we moved the distance up a foot and a half. And people still like couldn't even,

like they were aiming for 20 and getting five. Yeah. Yeah. Like it wasn't even, it was just, you know, hoping a prayer. The real darters though, we should do it. Yeah. It would be fun. Because I bet you we could find, there's probably some like insane

dart players, untapped resources. Like you go to a fucking, you know, like a hole in the wall bar in the Midwest. Guys are playing darts all day. I feel like Wisconsin is ground zero for our nation's best starters. Yes. Absolutely.

Brian Fitzsimmons, big, dark guy. Really? Fitzsimmons. He's got his own deck. He's got like $200 darts set. Love that. She's ready to roll. Love that.

Love that. All right. Good show. Reminder Kentucky Sports Radio on Tuesday, 10 to 12. Tune in. Do not call if you're an AWL. If you call in, you'll be suspended from listening to Pardon My Take.

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Yeah, it is. I absolutely love doing it. All right. Numbers. 14. 6. 59. 69.

25. Oh, first timer. And I was going to guess it. Oh, no. Oh, no. Drop. Dropped. It was going to be 29.

It was going to be 28. No, how would you be 26? 28's not our first timer. 26, 27, 29 are. Hank, would you pick? 14. Have you won? I have not.

54. Did you say that? I said 59. Fifth time. I posted a new chart, by the way. Yeah, I loved it. Love that. Do it again every month.

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