Pardon My Take - Playoff Madness, Lebron Secretly Jealous Of AD's Injury, The Maple Leafs Choke, And Monday Reading

Episode Date: June 1, 2021

Its just us for a mega recap of an awesome long weekend in sports. We break down all of the NBA playoff series and disavow bad fan actions while also understanding what it means to be a regular fan (2:47 - 28:30). Lebron will have to be superman and Luka conspiracy theories (28:30 - 43:12). Leaf fans weigh in on another playoff collapse with a #BigMad segment (43:12 - 61:48). Who's back of the week and Hot Seat/Cool Throne, Talking Tennis Naomi Osaka and Monday Reading (61:48 - 99:26).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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interested in. Experience a better way to find at ZipRecruiter.com. Okay, let's go. It's part of my take presented by Barstool Sports. Welcome to part of my take presented by ZipRecruiter.com. Today is Tuesday, June 1st. Are we recording right now, Hank? We're recording? All right, I want to say something bold. Go off. I want to make sure this is on the record. I disavow any fans throwing stuff at players. There we go. Can we get a clap for me? Yeah. I know it's a it's a hot take. It's a bold thing to say. Popcorn, spitting on fans, throwing water bottles of paint. I disavow. What if Kyrie was really thirsty? True. What if he had passed out and he was dehydrated and the fan was just trying to help him? Well, I wanted to

actually do a follow up on my disavow. Well, real quick, I want to do a well, but the wizard's guy. Yeah, he didn't throw anything. He just went out there and got back. He tried to touch that. Yeah, got backboard, which is that's the coolest thing that you can do. Dude, fans be acting cray-cray, like officially. It's weird because like it makes you think that the only thing that's been stopping fans from doing any of this is just them deciding not to do it. There's no there's really no barrier. Yeah, we're trusting every single night that there are, you know, 20,000 fans in NBA arenas that are just going to all decide not to do common sense. Can you met like trusting 20,000 people to simultaneously have common sense? It's actually we should be applauding NBA fans for having a

great run the last 40 years by and large. Yeah, it's just a minor hiccup in the couple the last couple weeks. Yeah, you don't talk about all the times when you go on the subway and it runs perfectly exactly or when you get on a plane and you land with no problems and no delays. I actually think that would happen tonight. The Wizards game might it might be a fantastic deterrent for other fans going on the court because you'll notice the guy that went on there he got tackled. But what's worse than that is he had to have like a two minute conversation with Dwight Howard. Yeah, I know. And if you if the threat is like be careful if you run onto a court, you might have to hang out with Grace and Allen. Right. That's a pretty good way of making sure the fans stay away.

A strong talking to. I do think that and I know that this is going to sound like I am defending fans, which I clearly disavowed so don't even start. But I do think the pandemic has fucked people up more than we realize. And people are just getting back into to to the real world and losing their fucking minds. But it's like preseason. Yes, preseason. Everyone knows how to act right now. Given a couple weeks, I think I do not think it's it's like some huge pandemic where we are epidemic where this is going to be the new norm that fans are just fucking with players constantly. I do think that it will find its like equilibrium here and fans will stop being complete assholes. Again, disavow the Kyrie thing, though, it is very weird to me that like I disavow.

Holy disavow. Kyrie was trying to be an asshole to try to like fuck with the like he was he was stomping on the logo to be a dick to the face. Are you saying they're elements of provocation? No, I'm not. I'm not. But it is funny. It sounds like you're blaming it. You're saying no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely not. I disavowed. You heard me. Disavowed. No, what I'm more saying is the the line of thinking. I think it's very funny to watch the media reaction. I did the disavow at the beginning because everyone is like boldly saying you shouldn't throw things at players, which I agree with and is easily the easiest thing to have in your head, right? But at the same time, Kyrie was being a dick. He was being a dick. He should

never have anything. I think Kevin Durant actually summed it up perfectly. He's like, I know fans are passionate about Kyrie Irving, but that doesn't excuse you acting like that, which I completely agree with. Like Kevin Durant nailed it. And it's just funny to watch people then say, oh, well, it's a logo who the fuck cares. Sports fans care. I think they do. There's been almost too much backlash to booing. Yeah, you'll notice that a lot of people in the media, they're booing people who are booing saying that you're not allowed to boo. booing is like the healthiest thing we should. We should feel free to get out of them. Yeah, as men. A lot of times we're told to repress our emotions and to keep everything bottled up. I think you should you should encourage booing.

Booing. Yes. Yes. Hissing. Bring back kissing. We're about how how they do it over in like England. You whistle at guys. Yeah, bring all that back. You know, keep it respectful, but with a respectful level of hatred to somebody that you're actively rooting against. You shouldn't. If you're a fan, you shouldn't have to pretend like you're cheering for everybody because that's not what fans do. Well, that's that was kind of my point is that I think there's a lot of people in the media who just don't like they don't care about sports. They don't root for a team. They don't actually understand how fans think like I saw and I love his work, but Sam Monson from pro football focus was like maybe fans just suck and we don't even need them. It's like, well, yeah, we do because

fans are awesome and fans like, you know, make the experience so much better. That guy was a fucking asshole. The guy who spit on Trey Young was a fucking asshole. The guy threw popcorn at Russell West was a fucking asshole. They should all never be allowed back into a game. But at the same time, I don't I'm not going to sit here and be like, I don't I don't totally understand why a fan would be like, I don't like Kyrie Irving. It's not like Kyrie Irving if you're a Celtics fan and to boo him. Don't throw shit, but boo. So I think we predicted this on last Friday's show or last Wednesday's show. I'm going to level it up. I'm going to say by the time you're hearing my voice, if it's in the afternoon tomorrow or I guess it would be Tuesday today, if it's in the afternoon,

somebody will have already written the take that sports were better when there were no fans in the building. That's that timeline has been accelerated over the weekend to a dramatic effect. And you know what? That person who writes that is not a fan of a team and doesn't go to sporting events. Right. Like I can guarantee you that they are they are basically so removed from the heart and soul of sports and what it means to be a fan that they can basically say who the fuck cares the logo who again don't throw shit who the fuck cares logo. Guess what fans care about that shit. Yeah, they put time, money, effort, all these things in an order amount. You can say it's unhealthy. I'd probably agree with you into their teams. So of course they care caring is

cool. It is cool to care. It's also funny though that that part of the argument is like he stepped on our cartoon man's face. Of course. And that's but that's what makes sports fun. Right. I know that people are actually getting mad about that. It's totally irrational. But I get it when you were players to right when you were moved. But when you remove yourself from all of it, it does seem ridiculous. But then when you sit there and you're like, Hank, you don't like Kyrie Irving because of what he did to the Celtics, right? Right. Like so it makes sense. There's history there. And then he clearly did that on purpose when no one else when no something was on the floor to it was like after time out, he looked around nature. No one was around. It was

like a very childish move. It was again. Look at the video again. I can't say it enough. Disavow the fan. But do you think that Kyrie Irving was doing that just for no reason? He was doing it to piss people off to piss the Celtics. And I like that he did that. Right. It's great. It's all good. Yeah. Dude, it's great to have this type of animosity as long as it stays like civil in terms of fan interaction with players. Animosity in sports is fun. It makes it fun. It raises the stakes. Again, Kevin Durant absolutely nailed. He was like, they're very passionate about Kyrie Irving, but you cannot do that because you're fucking fool. I just think that I'm a little bit worried because I think that as a nation, we're about to lose our drinking privileges. Oh, I think

that that's going to be another thing in stadiums. Yeah, it's going to be like dollars. It's going to be like where you can drink, but especially in the NBA because the players control the league. So the players in the offseason can get together. You know that LeBron James, by the way, is very mad that nobody has thrown like a hot dog at him because he would he would like to lead the forefront of like the players need to take control of this mess right now. And if something bad happens, if like LeBron gets hit with a soda, there's going to be a talk this offseason of like in the EPL, you're only allowed to serve beer in the concourse area. You can't bring it to the seats like discouraging drink. Overall, this is not just an NBA thing. No way it's going to happen. This is

money out of the players. This is an American issue. I'm worried that we're going to lose our drinking privileges. You already can't drink on Southwest Airlines. You can't they stop serving hard liquor on JetBlue. I dealt with that this weekend. That was my cross to bear. It was tough for me. I'm just saying like please don't do that. It's not going to happen because it's money out of their pockets like that would be that would that that's direct money out of there. I honestly think this is just a weird moment in time where people have lost their mind and they should be publicly shunned and banned from all these games. And if arrested, sure charged definitely like you can't throw shit at people. But there's I don't know. I think people just losing their mind right

now. I also have noticed that every time something weird happens, it's usually Kevin Harlan announcing it. And then you get to replay with Kevin Harlan doing like the play by play for it. I feel like maybe I don't know. I don't want to say Kevin Harlan has something to do with it. But it's like the Rob Schneider oil spill thing. Like every time something like this happens, Kevin Harlan's voice is there. Like is he or is he right now on the phone with like the Texans and the Jaguars? He does. Hey, if Mattress Matt could get nude and climb up the uprights during a game so I could announce it. Maybe we could get a few more clicks. Yeah, he does have like a great fan on the field voice or cat a great job of doing it. We're gonna say I was gonna say since the kid that through

the water bottle got charged with like assault with a deadly weapon or whatever. Does that mean McGregor should post mostly get charged with assault for throwing the water bottle at Nate Diaz? Or when Steph Curry started this throwing his mouthpiece out of fan. That's true. Could it kill somebody? I mean, I also think that we should. I was half joking on Friday, but now that there's been more interactions, we really should implement like players get to beat the fuck out of one fan a year. The problem is we'd be running out of player flights by now. I know, but it really would stop a lot of this and people are. I think people are just fucking losing their mind. Anyway, let's talk about the actual game. What about this? What if you just put the player that through the

water bottle at center court before the next game? You put him like on a leash and then you just let everybody in the arena throw their water bottles at him with yeah, like in that old lottery. I think it was WCW clip. Maybe when everyone just started throwing chairs. Yeah, on that one guy and there was just everyone through their chairs and that should yeah, fill up all the water bottles with pennies and have them and he gets to keep the money at the end. We are literally discussing the plot of the lottery. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. I mean, it's a great story. Teach us all. Yeah. I mean, this never would have happened on a Wizards game if Tavares, Clinton and Gilbert Reigns were still on the team. That's true. He would not want to step on that

court. That's true. All right. Let's talk about the game. So because we shouldn't let this we disavow. All right. Don't be an idiot. Boo hiss, boo and whistle, reply to their Twitter and be like, I hate you, but don't do anything that makes you look like a fucking asshole. Make a sign. Make a sign. Bring signs. Yeah. Yeah. Hank, make a make a customized jersey, burn a jersey in your backyard in the comfort of your own home. Do a photo shop where there you put their face on a baby's body. Yeah, there's a lot of ways to to express yourself, but doing throwing shit at players and spitting on players and the one in Utah was actually weirdly like that was maybe the worst where they basically were going after John Morant's family.

That was so fucked up. And in the Bruins game when Posternak was getting pelted with hats. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true. That's insane. They would never throw things on the court in hockey. Yeah, never. Rats. All right. Yes. Squid. Yeah. All right. Let's talk about the games. All right. Let's start with this one. The Nets Celtics game. Holy fuck. The Nets are so scary when they decide they they had like a fuck you mode to them that similar to when the warriors are really cooking and they're like, Hey, we're just not going to miss any shots and just score every single time and there's nothing you can do about it. The big four scored 106 points. That's Blake Griffin, Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving. Kevin Durant was 14 for 20. And I

I mean, it's going to be I actually think like the NBA playoffs are fascinating this year because the Celtics are obviously not the team to beat the Nets. But like when they get into a series against the box or series against the Sixers, if a beat is healthy, what's going to happen? Because they just look unstoppable when they want to be unstoppable. And I think Blake Griffin, I think he might have led the team in offense of rebounding too. So like that's big. You get those second chance points. Yeah, they do. No, but he was close. He was one off. He was one off. Yeah, the least amount of fouls by the starters. So he's nice. Here we go. There we go. Double sportsmanship by Blake Griffin in that game. I'm proud of you, Blake. He was actually a

plus 12 and Kevin Durant was only a plus three. Yeah. And Joe Harris was a plus 17. So guests on part of my take had had an average of a 29. What's that average? Plus 14 and a half. Yeah. And that average there. That's pretty impressive. Yeah. So the Nets do have that element to him, which is like the Warriors, where they can come out and just have a sick third quarter and just dominate you. They're able to separate so quickly. Hank, do you think that the Celtics take another game? No. No, that's it. That was it. They had Jason Tatum was incredible. That was his MJ game. Yeah, that was an incredible game that he had on whatever it was Friday night. He had 50, right? Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, he had 50. And Kevin does not play. I mean,

the starting lineup, it's one of those things where it doesn't matter. You could play those starting two lineups a hundred times and the Celtics might win one. Is this the end for Marcus Smart? People are saying that. Are you sad about it? Some people are saying that. I am sad about it. It's one of those things. I was talking to a friend over the weekend and he was saying that, you know, they need to get rid of them because they need Tatum to step up and be the leader and with Marcus Smart there, like he's always going to be the vocal captain guy. And if they want to take the next step, it just can't be him. Which kind of makes sense. Hopefully they can get some good, you know, good assets for him. But I always loved him. I think he's a great player.

So Hank, if you're GM, GM Lockwood over there, what pieces do the Celtics need? They need like, you know, like a Kevin Durant, James Harden. I don't know. It's tough to say because it's just all superstars. Maybe Kyrie will come back. To compete with the Nets. Yeah, to compete with the Nets and the Lakers. Like you need another bona fide superstar, who that is and how they get them. I don't really know. The Marcus Smart thing though, we should do this for Mount Rushmore season. The Mount Rushmore of like players you rooted for that weren't like great, but you in your mind, they're like Hall of Famers in your mind. You know what I mean? Like in 20 years, you'll be like Marcus Smart. And then someone will go look up his stats

and be like, what? What are you talking about? Like Kyle Schwerber is that for me? Like I'll be like, yeah, Kyle Schwerber Hall of Famer. Tom Wilson. And you look up, it's like, wait, he was two 30 hitters. Yeah. Every team in the league would love that. But every sports fan has those guys who you're like, you just, you care about them so much, even if they aren't an all star, even if they are. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. This series is over. Can we call it over? 100% Don's over. I actually think the, I think the Nets will try to score 200 points on Tuesday or whatever it is. Kyrie Irving might score 70 just to prove a point. Don't throw shit at players. Wait, and disavow this next game. How brave is that by me? This next game is going back to

Jersey, right? Or going back to Brooklyn. Come on, dude. Sorry. Brooklyn stand up there. We sorry. My straight hand was at the game. Sorry, Mayor de Blasio. How could I come on, man? All right. So they're going to match up against the box who proved that the heat were bubble frogs that we're calling. Well, they're bubble, they're a bubble team, your bubble team. And outside the bubble, there are too many families around also. They thrive in a culture where it's just the dudes through holidays also very, very good. And that changes a lot for the box. It also seems like maybe, maybe we should have respected the Bucks more. Well, I, I'm so mad at myself for not like seeing that see this coming where the Bucks,

when they were the last couple of years, when they were the one seed and, and Janus won the MVP, and everyone was talking them up. That is when they're destined to fail and fail spectacularly. This year, everyone kind of wrote them off, especially with the Sixers being the one seed and the Nets being the Nets. And it's like, oh yeah, they still are pretty damn good. And they're a team that has won a lot of games in the last three, four years. I'm very much looking forward to that series. I think that the Bucks are for real. I really do. I think like when they have, so when they have a good number two, like that's been the question. It was always like, is Chris Middleton going to be this guy? Yeah. And now that they have like what appears to be,

they've almost got a big three. They've got a medium three. They had a medium three. I also shout out the Bucks Twitter. I thought it was very well done. Usually they'll, you know, teams will do the old takes exposed and they'll only do the talking heads of the world. They'll do like Nick Wright and Skip Bales and all these people. The Bucks did just reply guys. And I fucking love it. It was just heat fans replying to the Bucks Twitter account being like heat and five, heat and six, heat culture. And they did an entire collage of it. And it was so fun. Should they not have included the handles of everybody that replied? Was that not inviting harassment to them? Oh, interesting. Good point. PFT. Better Bucks. Yeah. But I thought it was

nice to just give a little shine to the, you know, the people who have three followers. Yeah. Burners. Tyler hero. There were a shitload of burners that were in those replies. It was like, yeah, this is what we do. Yeah. Jimmy Butler is their avatar and they're just replying to everything. I liked it. Did you see the Carolina Panthers? I mean Carolina Hurricanes after the Predators game? No. I just sent you the tweet. It was a tweet of the banners. It said one of the banners said Taylor Luan crushed a beer. The other ones had Creed played during intermission and the other ones had second loudest house in the NHL. I love it. That was another good, like social media. Yes. Well done. Well done. Um, all right. Other let's, let's stick with the east.

By the way, if you're going to have Creed play at your sporting event, you have to have some guy come down from the rafters, draped in that ribbon like they did at the halftime. Yes, Thanksgiving. Yeah. Dallas. Like it's not really a Creed performance unless you think somebody might just like fall from the rafters and land on the ice. Kind of, kind of sad how far Creed has fallen from going Thanksgiving at the Cowboys game to like basically house band. First generation. Yeah, they were. Yeah. Yeah. That was like the guitarist you ignore playing at like lunch hour at Pop Bellies. Yeah. Oh, that's sad. I know. It was very sad. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's stay in the east. Are you a clap for the Pop Bellies guitar? Yeah. You have to throw them

a couple bucks. You have to. Yeah. If you make eye contact, you always have to give money to a street performer. It's all about the eye contact. If you can avoid eye contact, you can keep on walking in the hidden cameras. Remember? Yeah. Yeah. I'm also would be jewel. Yeah. I'm terrified. I know that at some point I'm going to end up in a viral video where it's like I'm walking past Yo-Yo Ma playing the cello and he's like dressed up in some like weird outfit on the subway. It's like, look at this guy that won't even recognize the best music by the best artist. I don't think he has to dress up for me to not recognize him. Yo-Yo Ma? Yeah. I don't know. You'd be surprised. No. If you saw Yo-Yo Ma playing the cello,

if you walked past the guy who was really good at the cello and he looked like Yo-Yo Ma, you would probably think is that Yo-Yo Ma. I don't know if I could. I don't know what Yo-Yo Ma looks like off the top of my head. All right. Let's stay in the east. Anybody playing the cello? Yo-Yo Ma. Yo-Yo Ma. Yeah. The Wizards. Gentleman's Sweep is coming. Yeah. So got that one win. Yeah. That's all that matters. Well, crowd got hyped. It does matter about Joel and Beed's knee. So I don't want to do this to myself again, but I am. I don't think he hurt his knee. I think he hurt his ass slash back. He grabbed his back. He fell on his back. His back has been bothering him all year. He grabbed his back, but he also grabbed the back of his leg.

These is Drew Brees ribs all over again. Joel and Beed's back is hurt. The knee buckled a little bit. No, his back knee is hurt. You saw it. You saw the shock wave go up through his knee when he landed. It's his back. He hurt his back. I think his back is hurt and his ass tailbone. What does pro football doc say about this? Sixers fans who are freaking out, just tell yourself that Joel and Beed was like, you know what, let's get more revenue for the league and we'll go five. So sit out the second half. This is honestly though, for Sixers fans, this is as much of a disaster as possible. If Joel and Beed's actually hurt. And a series that they're going to win four to one, there's still going to be so many

conversations coming out just about Ben Simmons free throw shooting just from that one game alone that it's somehow you won the series for one. It's going to be lost. Hacking Simmons. I love it. I just saw that Davis Bertens is out for probably the rest of the series. Oh, no. After his Tony Snowline. Well, he had even better than a Tony Snowline because I think he had like five fouls. He's six fouls. He's all fouled out.

Yeah. Did I ever tell you about the time I set my youth league record for the quickest foul out? No. Actually, I think you have, but tell it again. I think it was just about two minutes. I fouled out in two minutes of the game. That's zero points. And but to be fair, like one of them was a technical foul that I got for yelling at the ref after he called me for a foul that I did not commit. It was all ball. Everybody knew it. But I still think I hold that record to this day. That's a record. Yeah. Yeah. According to Shams, Laker star, Anthony Davis is unlikely to play. Yeah.

And wait, there was something that was just posted about Joellen Bede being like likely to This is a disaster. This is threat level midnight for Sixers fans. The good news is you should be able to beat the Hawks or the Knicks. It's going to be the Hawks with maybe without them. Maybe. Maybe not. Shout out to all the Knicks fans who got mad for me calling them cute when they won. And then we're chaining. We want the Nets. Let's talk about the next and then we're just getting they've lost two games by 40 points. I feel bad for Knicks fans.

They're cute. Well, it's cute. It is cute. Big hat. I feel bad for them because they're going through something that I went through. And I tweeted about it during game two and I had a lot of Knicks fans yell at me and tell me that I was premature. But it's pretty much exactly what I said in that Tom Thibodeau is a fantastic coach. And he will always get your team to overachieve and play to their max ability during the regular season. And then when you get to the postseason, there's no extra gear. Now the Knicks aren't like they weren't supposed to be here. So it's a little different. They're a flawed roster. But you he also played Julius Randall the most minutes of anyone in the NBA this year.

The most minutes he like that was it's always going to go like this when you do that with your quote unquote star player who can't figure out a double team has been shooting terribly. He does look tired. He looks tired. He looks tired at the start of every game. Yeah. And and and he's it also was like super flashbacks when the Knicks were down, I think 15 or something and Julius Randall was still in the game. And like that's when Derek Rose got hurt. Like this is this is Tom Thibodeau. Like he's a great coach. But until like it works in the playoffs and again, they're flawed roster. So they weren't even supposed to be here. Counterpoint. They're going back to the garden. Yeah, they are going back to I love this

series. By the way, the garden in this. I want to see as many garden games as possible. And I love this series because there is like it feels like there's real animosity. Trey young has been incredible. He scored I think 30 33 35 35 37. And he Trey young has like, you know how for a baseball team, when players have handshakes with each different players, so they have like 15 different handshakes, Trey young has a celebration for like each type of play, like a long three as a celebration, a sick assist. He has a celebration. He's averaging 10 assists in this series. You know, play at the hoop. He's got a celebration. I love it. He's got so many fucking celebrations. If you're a Knicks fan, you have to move on. An important thing about this game is you need

to know when to get off of the take. And so far, the you're going bald takes have actually been counterproductive for you. Yes. Yes. So it's it was a good opportunity to see how it would impact him. It turns out just makes him pissed off, which makes him better. Yeah. So it's having the opposite effect that you want. You got to find something else to make fun of Trey young for. Yeah, I don't know what else you can do when he just scorches your team every single game. Yeah, like don't spit on him anymore. He obviously doesn't like that. He spells his name like an asshole. It should be T. R. E. Y. Yes. Yeah, especially a basketball player. Two vowels in a row. Right. But like Trey, you're shooting threes. I don't know.

But yeah, I like this series. You can also tell I can always tell the temperature of a series. If I tweet anything and it could be totally neutral about a game like I was saying on whatever day they played, Trey young was talking so much shit and he was missing his 40 footers, which he loves to take. I was like, if he hits any of these in this game, the shit talking is going to go to a different level. And I had Nick's and Hawks fans mad at me. And that just shows you how on edge everyone is. And I love that. Did you see the pregame trick shot that he was doing where he was like bouncing the ball off the other ball and then in between bounces, he would shoot it. And he was sitting down on the bench and just sank a three as he was juggling a basketball

using another basketball. So is he is he officially the poor man's step? Yes. That is very much Steph Curry thing. Yeah. I think he wants to be Steph Curry. I think well, I do too. Want to be Steph. Yeah, everyone should want to be Steph Curry. All right. So that's the east. I want to be Phoenix, son. Yeah. Get your dick sucked. Let's talk about them. So I am back to now believing that the Lakers could lose this series. Oh, absolutely. Because Anthony Davis. It's Anthony Davis' team. When Anthony Davis goes off the floor and KCP got hurt too, it was really bad watching the Lakers play offense. And I, man, I think what are your guys' predictions real quick for game five, which is Tuesday night where our next show won't be

till Friday. I think we're going to get like a vintage, vintage LeBron just every single way. We keep waiting for that 30, 38, 12 and eight. Oh, it's going to be one of those stat lines where Nick Wright will be like, no player has had like this exact one of those weird like no player since like Michael Jordan has ever done this playoffs. I don't know. I like the sons. Now, I got in trouble last time. I said that because like I was very, very wrong about what was a game too. But I feel like I'm going to bet on the sons again. Well, I mean, without Anthony Davis, totally different team. Shout out Mark Jackson, who at the end of the game was like, I don't think Anthony Davis makes a difference in this game. He's like, what? Okay. Like he, Anthony Davis,

however you want to rank them is probably a top five player in the NBA. He doesn't make a difference. Right. Okay. DeAndre Aten though has been incredible. And I wanted to, the only thing I'm worried about with DeAndre Aten is he's got Greg Odin like this guy looks 10 years older than he is face. Yeah, he looks a little bit like he looks like Abraham Lincoln. He's aging rapidly. But he's dunking. Like the dunk is just unreal. Like I think he's probably shooting 81%. Okay. I was going to guess like between 80 and 90% of the field and like the vast majority of those are just, just yams. They're just finding they're not doing a good job of defending them inside. But yeah, he's fun to watch. Like he's, he's still at that age where he's usually the biggest player on

the court and he's jumping higher than anybody on the court and you just can't stop that dunk. Yes. You can't defend. PFT has a LeBron stand. When you see Chris Paul do dirty plays like he did on Kakuzma like triple knock him down. Do you, do you wish that LeBron would speak out like their best friends and LeBron's never really mentioned how dirty of a player he is and they're going, he's going after his own guys right now. Oh, Chris Paul, but some things are bigger than your NBA. He's a country first guy. And so they play a USA basketball together. So that's a bond that's tough to break. You know, they, they, they do it for the glory of the country. So you're essentially asking him to commit treason. So no, I do stand LeBron on that. Do you think

LeBron that cheap shot he took where he pushed someone in the back and then didn't get back on defense to end the game? What do you say? That was vintage LeBron. That was, but that's the thing where it's like, it's one after the other. It's vintage LeBron where it's like, he gives up, you get your hopes up, the sons have a chance and then he just comes back and drops like 54. I know. That's why I'm fully ready for game five to be vintage, vintage LeBron. Do you think, I would not be surprised if LeBron like just grabbed the back of his neck and looked around up in the arena and just pointed up at a fan and be like, went over to ref was like, Hey, someone threw a quarter at me with like a disappearing. Oh, maybe he's going to go with

the old member when, when laser laser beam, what was it? What are they called? The laser beam. What laser point? Thank you. It's almost midnight laser pointer. He's definitely going to say laser pointer was in his eye. Yeah. Laser pointers had a moment. Remember that? And like probably about 15 years ago, people would bring them to games and try to get people. There was one, I think, at an NFL game, I want to say the Raiders were playing in it. And maybe Derek Carr got lasered or it might have been who's the quarterback from Michigan State? Yeah, played for them for a while. Connor Cook. Connor Cook. Yeah. I think Connor Cook got lasered. We haven't seen one of those. LeBron might send like, Brownie Jr. That was a great, that was a great urban legend that

a laser pointer could like burn your eye out. Don't point that at me. It could have been Brady too. That happened to him? Yeah. That was probably just somebody with a gun. April 2019. Oh, championship game. Someone laser pointed. See, that's, that's the type of fan stuff. I'm not condoning that. But if you're thinking water bottle or spit versus laser pointer, go with laser pointer, then get kicked out that way. Faces up to a year in jail. Oh my gosh. Or fine after that. Don't do that. Do not. It's honestly funny if it's not on their face. If it's on their nipple, that's hilarious. It's actually, now that I'm thinking about it, like super scary. Yeah, like it could be a gun. Don't do it. I've actually thought, I've thought this all the way

through. Do not laser point anyone ever. Do you think, I had a thought, do you think LeBron's sneaky, like deep down in places he doesn't talk about a little jealous of Anthony Davis, because he actually gets injured? Yeah, probably. He's like, damn. Calls him a drama queen. Yeah, like, I really wish it should have been, he whispers into his ear like, should have been me. I should have been the one who got this injury. I think it's not unlikely. You know who needs to step up is Caruso. Caruso, he's now, the pendulum has swung on the Caruso pendulum, where now he's overrated. Yes. So it needs to swing back the other way. He needs to have one of those games where he comes out there and silences. Maybe he has a nice chase down block and increases the value

of his old NFTs. Yes. He's got that. Do you think that between LeBron and Caruso, like there is a little bit of animosity that Caruso was like, I'm just going to shave my head because I'm going bald. And this is the good move to do. And LeBron's like, oh man, why did he do that? Is he trying to say that I should? Yes, he's sending me a message. Yeah, exactly. I think that there might be something to that because like Caruso is probably two seasons overdue for that. Yes. LeBron was, he's like a decade past that point now. Yes. All right. Well, the good news is for all you Laker fans, you can just hop to the Clippers because they're back two and two on the maps. What is going on with Luca in the free throws? I've got two Luca takes.

He's 41% from free throw. Yeah. And he's scoring like 35 points a game. I've been sitting on this take for a while with Luca in particular because he's not a terrible free throw shooter overall, but he's had a lot of moments where he just, he can't do it, especially late in games in the playoffs. I think he practices shooting threes way too much. It's another, it's the Steph Curry effect. He doesn't have a mid range shot. He should do 15 footer from free throw line. He should do like a step back. Yes. Yeah. I mean, he should, he should like dribble between his legs fade away. Do they do the Hezzi to the ref make sure it's under 10 seconds. And then yeah, a full on jump shot, jump backwards and shoot it. That's take number one, take number two on Luca. This

is a little spicy. I think Luca is older than we think he is. Ooh, I think it's Daniel Monta. I think it's a Daniel Monta Alfonso Soriano thing. I don't think Luca is 22 years old. I think, I think Luca is probably 27, 28 years old. You can do anything if you're not, if you're a player that's not born in the United States and you come over, there's a lot of paperwork that can get either lost or changed very easily. And I'm not saying I wouldn't do it. I probably would if I was Luca too. But that's, hasn't he been like a, hasn't he played in a major league since he was like 16 years old? Yeah, but he was actually 21. Got it. See, you can, you can take the clock back as long as you want. But he looked very young when he was playing. Yeah. But even in like when he was playing against

eight year olds, he was probably 12. I've been like documented all the way along. I don't think that it's probably wrong, but it's still fun to think about. Yeah, I agree. Why is Lee Harvey Oswald trending right now? Yeah, bad tweets. Yeah, cancel that ass. I think because somebody was, was getting senators and Congress people. Oh, yeah. So somebody was getting Congress people to like retweet a picture of their uncle that was in the Marines because Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marine. Oh my God. Yeah. And so Jesus Christ. Luca said he has a nerve strain, by the way. Oh, but that it's not the reason why he played and shooting free throws bad. Yeah, I like that. Just throwing that. That actually, that's when we acknowledge his nerve issue, but down plays

impact when we, when we do that as a troll, when we're like, Hey, just a reminder, like if Brooks wins, he wins. And if he loses, it's because his knees hurt. Yeah. But Luca's doing that for real. Yeah. Usually like hockey players, they do it after the series. And you can like say it after the fact like, Oh, he had a broken leg. So that's why they lost. Also a nerve is doing it in real time. A nerve is something that is completely impossible to prove unless you're the player himself that can feel it. You just be like, I'm dealing with a nerve issue. I'm dealing with numbness in my shooting hand right now. Unbelievable. 41%. That's crazy for someone that that's good. He's that good at shooting. He's shooting 41%. But yeah, I don't know that one.

That's a weird series because I feel like now it's, the Clippers were dead and now there feels like they're going to win the next two. So I've got two competing thoughts in my head in this series. One is I want to see the Clippers continue to collapse because it just keeps justifying the take of like blow this team up. They can't win the fraud. They're frauds. There's still enough time for that in the second round. But yeah, right. This would be a fraudulent move of a team to lose like this when you're stacked up. And then the other competing thought, which is I want to see them play the Lakers because again, we were promised that series a couple years ago. Right. Right. Right. Battle of LA. Rage against the machine. The other series that are going out

west. I got to admit, I only have so many hours that I can stay up. So Nuggets and Jack or sorry. Yeah. Nuggets in Blazers. I watched the game. That was the middle of the day. Saturday. There's been so many fucking games. That series is fun, but I don't, I don't have a read on it. So I'm being honest with the audience. We're Nuggets fans, but also Blazers fans. I think I'm a Blazers fan. I think we're rooting for the series. Yeah. I think we're just rooting for the series. I'm rooting for the series to be over with nobody to get hurt and move on and then lose to either the Lakers or the Mavericks later. Right. We will be rooting for whoever wins this series. You know what? I want to see the winner of this series play against the winner of the Utah Memphis series.

Yes. And then that's, that's another series we don't have to pay that close of attention to. Yeah. If the Nuggets played the Jazz, it would solve a lot of the problems in my head. It really would. It would just clear. I mean, I just screwed it up again. It might make your problems worse because you're like, I can't, I don't know which team is which. I mean, we talked about this last year, but it stands true. Like the Nuggets and the Jazz are the same team. They just are. They just always are. They're, they both occupy the central or the mountain time zone. Yeah. Right. Are they the only two teams that play in the mountains? You could switch Donovan Mitchell and Jamal Murray teams and I wouldn't know. You could. Yeah. You could switch a lot, but I mean, I do like watching

Jokic. I like Jokic. He's the best. He's a thick little boy. Dude, he is the best. He's also older. He's also older than you think he is. Yeah. Jokic. And I mean, this series actually has like some of the best players to watch in terms of Dame and Jokic. And then the Jazz Grizzlies, Jazz are going to beat them. That was fun that the Grizzlies had one game. Our friend, Sam Schwartz, he actually did the research. We talked about this in the last show about how it feels like every NBA team has a basketball in their logo. Yeah. He looked it up and 20 NBA teams have a basketball in their primary logo to remind you what sport they play. And the NFL only has three. Major League Baseball has nine and NHL has only four. So it is an NBA thing where we need to reinforce

the branding as much as possible. I saw someone treat us that like every team has to have at least one logo, alternate logo as well. That has a ball. That's a rule that David Stern created back in the day. RIP IP. That's crazy. Yeah. He died. Yeah. RIP. Moment of silence. I'm just kidding. I knew he was dead. That was what's Blake's show called? Double Cross. Double Cross. A double cross to your asses. You guys thought I didn't know David Stern was dead. It's always funny whenever we say that David Stern is running the NBA. It'll be like a new batch of five people that have never listened to this podcast before. What the fuck? You guys don't know who runs. Yeah. We know it's LeBron. There's nothing funnier than a shockingly short moment of silence.

Yes. I also, I am, you know, stupid things make me laugh, puke videos, whatnot. But when someone yells something super inappropriate during a moment of silence, it usually makes me laugh. I'm sorry. It's just, it just does. I apologize in advance. Do you want to do some NHL talk? Before we do that though. Yeah. Should we talk about some steaks? I think we should. I love steak. You know, I get my steak medium rare. That's right. Medium rare is the superior way to eat any steak. That's what we all say. And it's Father's Day coming up soon. Father's Day, I'm letting you guys know right now. Father's Day is the most forgotten holiday in the world. I don't have any stats or anything, but I just feel like it is. And fathers like Big Cat

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gift. Get it for your dad. Don't forget about dad this Father's Day. Take some time right now, hit pause. I'll wait for you to come back. Thanks for coming back. Make sure that you hit the promo code PMT when you were searching on OmahaSteaks.com. Hook your dad up this Father's Day. Hank, what are you getting Jake for Father's Day? Nothing. Good one. It's a good question. Jake, we're going to talk about your viral video soon. You ready for it? Yeah. He's ready for it. Let's talk some pock. We did a return of the Big Mad for our Leaf Fan AWLs. The Leafs are maybe the saddest franchise ever. It's tough. Right now, Big Mad is trending in Toronto. Oh, that's that's something there. It's been Big Head. It's been 6251 days since the Maple Leafs have won a playoff

series. They haven't won a playoff series since 2004. They haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1967. But it's actually way worse than that because the way they lose playoff series are so stupendously stupefyingly bad that it's like it's incomprehensible. They had 11 years, so it's 17 years since they won a playoff series. The first 11 years, they just didn't make the playoffs except for once. That one time they made the playoffs was 2013 when they gave up a 4-1 lead in the third period with 10 minutes left in Game 7, including two goals when the Bruins pulled their goalie in under two minutes to go. That's insane. Then in 2017, they were up 2-1 in a series against Capitals. They lost in six games. 2018, they lost in seven games. 2019, they lost in seven games.

And then tonight, they lost up 3-1 against a team that I think Leaf fans like they hate more than any other team in the Canadians. They were up 3-1 in the series. They go to Game 7, and there's actually nothing worse than a no-show in Game 7. Like losing in Game 7, I know that that's bad. In 2013, when they lost the way they lost, I would contend that a no-show, the way they lost tonight where you get a fucking goal with 30 seconds left to just have something on the score sheet, that hurts so much worse. And it's not like the Leafs have been a terrible team this whole time, either, because they've been good. The Leafs in the late 90s, early 2000s, had a lot of really good players, and they were so fun to watch. That was the Thai Domi team, when he would

just beat people up that fell into the penalty box. He would fight everybody on the ice. I think Darcy Tucker was on that team. You had Matt Sundin. They've had a lot of really good players come through Toronto, and you always think of them as being one of the premier franchises just because they've got their Toronto's team. The blue sweater is wonderful. But they actually kind of got screwed by the strike because they had a really good team. I think that's when they won their last playoff series was the year before the strike. They had a good team that they were building on. They got fucked by the strike, and then they just haven't done anything at all since then. It's tough, and our good friend Paul Mistanette said that when they were up 3-1 in the series,

he would get himself circumcised. Yeah, he's circumcised. As Dick got sweatered, and he will circumcise himself or pay for somebody to circumcise him if they were to lose that series, turns out they lost the series. So hot seat Paul Mistanette's foreskin. He's got to get circumcised. Yeah. He's got to get circumcised. And I looked it up, actually. You have to wait 42 days before having sex after you get circumcised. Yikes. Yikes. And then new nickname, Giz Nasty. Oh. But you can't Giz if you're on circumcised? No, you don't come. Oh. Yeah, the foreskin just bottles it in. Resorbs it. Yeah, it goes back into your balls. All right, so we got Big Mad tweets. I'm going to read some of the best.

These are from Leaf fans. We asked them to write in. We do feel bad for them, but Misery is the best content. So this one's from Luca. He said, I want to cut my face off while getting punched in the groin multiple times. There was a theme, too, that people were trying to relate it to like our own Misery. I didn't need that, but a couple of them were like Ben Smith said, it's like being a Packers fan, but our offense turns into the Bears come playoff time. Yeah, that's actually a pretty good take, though. Yeah, that makes sense. Mikey said, please don't talk about us on the show. I just threw up. It's so bad. I'm going to chain smoke darts and I hate sigs. Everything's a fucking joke. It's like watching a movie where you know

the ending and it sucks, but you watch it every year. Fuck, fuck, fuck. This is actually a pretty good spin zone by the Leafs. So the Leafs texted a statement to their fans after the game, saying Leafs Nation, this isn't where we want to say goodbye in our five month unprecedented journey. The vision was clear. We fell short, but we would like to thank the 550 health care workers who represent the true heroes of today. Oh, we can't wait to see Scotiabank or did you watch right that? Yeah. So this yeah, they had a bunch of like what are they like? First responders, nurses, paramedics come out and they were in attendance tonight. So another choking. Yeah. One of their spin zone is that because they there's still like

a lot of COVID restrictions in Canada, they didn't have the giant watch party in the town. Yeah, there's no video of all the Leafs fans getting their heart broken. Yeah, that's good. Good point. Liam wrote, as Leafs fans, we should collectively choose one shit coin to pump and pool our earnings to buy the team. We fire everybody and hire a shaman as a coach. No need for hockey knowledge to coach the Leafs, just enough good juju to balance out the curse. I don't know how to say this guy's name. I'd rather drag my balls through a mile of broken glass and vinegar than watch this team cock up the playoffs again. I like that cock up the playoffs. It's like taking 100 kicks to the dick over and over and over again. This one did this guy did

the same thing where Lucy decided to bring the Bears into this. I don't know why. It's like if the Bears got a top 10 quarterback and won the division was a top five team in the league with a real chance to win the Super Bowl, but then the double doing happens. But then you take that feeling and make it every year, except this year it was against the Packers. Yikes. This one came from Kyle Lowry season. He said it's like losing table tennis matches to the same guy over and over again after they've said they're the best in the office. That's tough. This guy, Tyler Rubin, shout out this guy. I'm a Leafs and Bengals fan. In the last 15 years, they've had 15 chances to move on to the next round. They've lost all 15. That's insane. That's on you for electing to

become a better. I hope that you live in Cincinnati and that you adopted the Maple Leafs and not the other way around because adopting the Bengals as your NFL team, I guess the jerseys are kind of cool. So I can see that, but like that you can, you can pull the escape hatch on that. Like you can abandon the Cincinnati Bengals franchise and nobody would blink twice except now. No, actually no. They got Joe Burrow. Yeah. All systems Joe. All right. So I have a couple last ones. I like these ones. Someone just succinctly said Nicholas said, I wish I'd got COVID and died. So I didn't have to watch that. That just plays there. Mark says topical word disgrace to the sport of hockey. I'll never be able to watch this team the same. This was humiliating. I'm a loser.

My parents are losers. My dog is so dumb because we all support the Leafs. No questions at this time. I just like being like, yeah, my dog's an idiot too. I like this one because it really paints a picture. We've all been there. Chain smoking cigarettes on my deck alone. Sick of being embarrassed and let down year after year wondering if it'll ever change because you've like just hanging out on your porch. Yeah. Smoking refreshing Twitter. Yes. Hoping that something will change. That's I think we've all been in that position that I always go back to like the the moment the day after a really bad loss. It's that next morning. That's the killer when you wake up and you have that one moment where you just like soak it all in and you're

like, God damn it. I wish I could turn back time and that's just all Toronto tomorrow. The last one I have was Jacquezy Jacobs said, I've been a Leaf fan for 47 years. I'm clinically obese and I live with 17 possums that I found in the sewer on my street. Go Seattle. I like that. I just like that because I actually kind of believe them in a weird way. I think that guy is living with possums and just hating his life because he's a Leaf fan, not because he's living with 17 possums. No, 17, but you at least you got friends. Yeah. And then the Canadians add just such a terrible element for them. I think that you rather lose to the Flyers or the Canadians if you're the Maple Leafs. I think the Flyers. I think the Canadians makes it so much worse,

so, so much worse because those are like the two hockey cities you think of when you think of Canada hockey cities. What would you, what other franchise would you compare the Maple Leafs to like in another sport? Because I don't think that I was going through. I don't think the Cubs before 2016. No, the Cubs didn't weren't like good. They were the lovable losers. I mean, they got close a few times. The Cowboys. I was going to say the Cowboys in another like 20 years would be the Leafs. They have to go another like 20 years of just never doing anything, never getting back to a Super Bowl. But the crazy thing is it would actually take like 30 more years. Yeah, no, but of the Cowboys not winning anything. But that would be the Redskins kind of the best analogy.

Well, they don't exist in whatever the R words, whatever the fuck. Yeah, football. The no logos, the football. But the Cowboys, I think, have the element of we're reigning champions. Like they're one of the teams that you think of when you think of football, like you're the least or one of the teams you think of when you think of hockey, they have historical relevance, but it's all in the past. And so I yeah, the Cowboys would be the team if the Cowboys if we're first sitting here 2045 and the Cowboys haven't gone back to a Super Bowl, they would be the Maple Leafs. So I'll put it into this type of perspective. It would be like the New England Patriots if they didn't win a playoff game until like 2075. Well, no, the least one's some playoff games in there, but they haven't won one

in series. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe the New England Patriots won like two playoff series and the year is 2075. Yeah. At that point, they would become the football equivalent of the Maple Leafs, the Pirates. Brutal. Could imagine thinking like a guy like if you're if you're 20 years old in 1967, and you're like, this is fucking sick. Yeah, we're so awesome. You think they had like that kid that brings the signs to every every parade in Boston, they had one of those in Toronto, he's like, my life is fucking set. Yeah, they won a million Stanley Cubs in like before the 50s, but they won a Stanley Cup in 62, 63, 64 and 67. And then after that, you're like, yeah, we're the fucking shit. We're net. We're always going to be the Leafs. And they just have been

so, so, so bad ever since. Have they been back to the Stanley Cup? I don't, I don't think so. I don't think they've been back to the Stanley Cup. It's also just they're really creative with the ways that they lose these series, too. Yeah. I mean, losing in seven games every time is you got to really tip your hat to them. The Bruins won a few years ago when they blew the yeah, the 41. Yeah, it's insane. Sorry. So other hockey, the Bruins and Islanders played. I that would might have been the best playoff hockey game of these playoffs, because that was like wall to wall intense. The best part, and I know it's cliche because everyone says, oh, playoff hockey is incredible. When you get to overtime and you go like an extended period of time, 10 minutes without

a whistle or a stop, that is the best. It's incredible. The referees just swallow their whistles. You just up and down and up and down. You have to like try to murder somebody in overtime to get a penalty. Yes. Or if they have to call the obvious delay of game, if you just hit the puck like over the over the glass. But besides that, they will not call a penalty in overtime. And you know, the guys are just exhausted out there. I was shocked that I don't I feel like we haven't gotten a good Martian short handed goal recently, have we? Nobody's been doing great in the playoffs. He hasn't licked anybody. Yeah, but he's had a lot of goals at overtime goal. I would like to see the first line is buzzing. Why isn't he licking people anymore? I know he's too focused on focused

on winning. Yeah, I guess. Remember him, he's not biting people. Yeah, I don't like that. I haven't heard from him since. Other the abs are just awesome. I think I feel like they're going to yeah, win it all. The South is back. Nathan McKinnon looks like when you take a player in NHL and just boost all their ratings to 99. That's kind of how he looks like when he plays. He just goes so much bigger and just goes so much faster than everyone. Yeah, you're cheating the sliders. Slider dorks are mad about Nathan McKinnon. It's embarrassing to lose seven to one in the playoffs and the second round of playoffs. That's so hard to do, I feel like. You just like incredible. And yeah, so we'll probably have Whitney on I think maybe on Sunday

for next Monday. Talks more hockey, but they have been great. The playoffs have been great. The Islanders Bruins series is going to tear Barstool apart. Stu Finer, our good friend who I I think I've decided I think we do need to get Stu back on the pod this summer. Yes. I think there's enough. We need to go have a day at Stu's house. We're going to do Wiffleball. We're in the Wiffleball tournament. Just another, Jake, how are you at Wiffleball? I think I'm decent. I haven't played in a while. Hank is going to be so, so excited. Hank is going to be really good. Oh yeah. He won the best of the Huffman. He won the 2017 Cup of Call champion over here with your team. Yeah, it was an individual award. There's three man team shook nights. Awesome. We actually maybe Jake

and Hank will be on the same team for our Wiffleball tournament. Sure. Yeah. Okay. Great. That would be awesome. Jake, do you want to talk about your viral video now or do you want to wait? Whatever you guys want to show. Thank you for the permission to talk about it whenever we want. Let's let's talk about now. All right, let's talk about it now. So Jake went viral on Friday because it turns out he is in the video that we've all seen making its way around the internet. You are the face of mansplaining. Were you leaning over talking to a girl in a bar? She's very much rolling her eyes at the conversation and disgusted disgusted with whatever it is that this young gentleman hanging on to every word but just gets more and more disappointed as the words continue to come out

and he's wearing a suit in a bar and he looks a lot like our darling Jake and this young lady went to Syracuse and she said I'm sorry Jake when she tweeted out the video. What could that have been you? I'm here. I'm a facts first person. Uh-huh. Facts are it's not me. We have proof from the source itself. It's not me but you guys can think whatever you want. The memes were great. You guys blew up my phone on vacation. Yeah, Jake was on a boat with his friends. That's fucked up guys. And well you vacation shamed on Thursday so we'll never forget that. Absolutely not. How many missed text messages did you have? So I put my phone away. We were on a boat from nine to one. I put it away and in 30 minutes 72 texts from you guys. One of my friends said Jake you should probably check the

phone. Yeah. And I told you guys earlier that morning I'm not gonna have my phone. Yeah. It was has Justine landed but for Jake you're all waiting for you to get back. We thought that you were coming up with your story like getting your story together. Which I know that you did contact the young lady. I don't know if you had deleted any of those DMs if maybe you were pressuring her to say that it wasn't you. No. So it was another Jake who went to Syracuse who looked like you and also wears suits at bars. And has been nowhere to be found. Correct. But we gotta find this like when OJ was trying to find the killer. Yeah. The other Jake. I wasn't really a suit at a bar person. I think I did like one. I think I think you've probably shown up to bars wearing

suits because you're coming from another suit event. Right. Yeah. Right. Like maybe you were calling a game. It means we're great. It was great. Yeah. If you haven't seen it Hank will retweet a bunch of them tomorrow morning for you. Just to make sure it was not me. But Hank was very excited. Where were you that night. I don't know what the night was. What bar was it. I couldn't tell. Honestly. I was smart of you to answer it that way. If you were to put a percentage on it that it is not you. What would that be. 100 percent. It can't be a hundred percent Jake because you don't you're not sure about it. You know where you were. You don't know where that bar is. We don't know who this person is. Have you. Jake. OK. Cross examination. So Jake.

Have you ever consumed more than six beers or alcoholic drinks in an hour. No. Of course he yeah. All right. All right. But have you ever been intoxicated in a bar. Yes. Have you ever talked to a girl at a bar. Yeah. So is there at all a possibility that at some point in your life you would have talked to a girl in a bar while you were intoxicated. Yes. OK. However if it was a t-shirt I was telling you guys this earlier I would have been like trying to convince myself maybe it is me but the suit factor I know for a fact there was one time I wore a suit in four years at a bar at college. It was a t-shirt maybe it could have been me. It was a time maybe I really got drunk. But the suit factor really made me sure it was not me. What about the fact that she

said that it was Jake. OK. Syracuse is a big school. Yeah. Popular name. How many. Short haircut. The haircut was crazy. Crazy crazy. It was wild. Crazy wild. Yeah. Looked exactly like you. Exactly. All right. Well we'll get to the bottom of it. We appreciate it. No we'll get to the bottom of it. OK. If we have to have her on the show we'll have her on the show. OK. And we'll this poor kid though you don't want it. Jake. Yes. Jake now. Got it. We went one Jake to get it. I got it. Four million views. No matter what I guess. I was so fucked up that she was like I'll never reveal what was said. Sorry Jake. You kind of just blew that one wide open. Our. There's a place holder named Jake. I don't know. Maybe it's a couple of alums and

cahoots. Oh. Interesting. I don't know. All right. Well we'll get to the bottom of it. You know what you should do. We should have Jake reenact that video with somebody here in the office and just see how it matches up how the angles match up. I have a feeling that Billy's spending a lot of time on this video. He already told me he was analyzing the angle of your ears. Yeah. Yeah. OK. We'll find out. We found out. Yeah. We will find out. We will find out. We will find out. All right. Let's get to who's back the week. We're going to do who's back the week and hot seat cool throne because we're combining Monday and Tuesday Monday and Wednesday show. Who's back the week is brought to you by the cash app. The stock market is backed investing

through cash app buying and selling Bitcoin. And of course when you download the cash app and enter the referral code bar still you receive $10 for free. $10 to ASPCA. Do it now. Download the cash app from the app store Google Play Store today and get involved with the cash app. You can buy Bitcoin with one click of a button links directly to your bank account. Super easy to use the cash app is the best. OK. Hank who's back the week. My who's back the week is Urban Meyer. Oh yeah. Wrestling. So it was whatever A.E. wrestling Chris Jericho. Yeah. They're in Jacksonville in the I guess we're Jaguars practice or whatever. And in the I don't know what do you call it a bit work. They run into that was real. They run into Urban Meyer's office. He and one another coach

are in there. Charlie strong. They start throwing footballs at him. The wrestlers take a laptop smashed over another's wrestlers which looked like it hurt a lot. I still I know it's like wrestling is fake but I don't I watch that video a lot of times like that dude got absolutely smoked. Urban Meyer handed him the laptop. Yes to then get smashed. Yeah. Afterwards they asked him about it and he was like I don't remember what you're talking about. I had a brain aneurysm. Did he report the assault to the proper authority. He did. OK. He said I'm sorry that we were in this situation. He put he forwarded the report to all the appropriate authorities that he was obligated to do under law. I was thinking about it because I was like why would Urban Meyer open himself up to the jokes

that are going to get made from this which I made many of them. And then I remembered that Tony Khan Shod Khan's son. Yeah. He owns that wrestling league. So he kind of Urban Meyer might have to be in every wrestling promo going forward. Yeah. It was a good one. Yeah. Tony's the he's the director of analytics now for the Jaguars. Love it. It would have been very funny if if Cam Newton had just shown up taking the laptop and then run out the door with it. Yeah. That would have been great. Yes. And Urban would have been like oh you can't be on the team anymore. I'm also just a huge fan of the narrative that he brought in Tebow just to take off heat off Trevor Lawrence. You like that. I actually kind of like that narrative too. Because it has worked. Right.

But what's also going to happen is Tebow is just going to be too much of a natural leader and take all the heat and all the including from the players off Trevor Lawrence. It's a classic Marcus Smart. Do you want him on your team. Yeah. Do you want it. Do you want a guy who's such a natural leader like Tim Tebow on your team. If you're trying to groom a younger guy to take that spot. I just love every time they showed Tim Tebow like flexing while trying to catch a football. And they're like looking out Jack Tebow is he Tebow has muscles that aren't conducive to playing football. No. They don't. I don't know if he can move other than in a robotic fashion at this point. No he's just he's just been getting swole for the last like three years. Right.

Right. Like baseball is a hobby for him. He's just been in the gym. I've always loved the old swinging like leg press video back in the day. Like that looked like the worst exercise you could ever do for your legs. Yes. Well Tim Tebow's mindset is like there's not a problem in the world that can't be solved with a hard workout. Yes. Working harder than the other guy. There was that story that did you see the story about Tim Tebow at summer camp. No. When he was like 12 years old they had a 55 pound barbell that the guys were doing curls on and it was a contest to see who could do the most curls with this barbell. And I think the guy that was in first was like 40 or 50 reps and then Tebow got up there and did like 300 reps and then he couldn't move his arms for three

days afterwards which is like the perfect Tim Tebow story. So perfect. I will work out so hard and ruin my body so hard that you're going to have no choice but to respect me for it even if it makes me functionally unathletic. Yeah. You could have stopped at 70. Yeah. Said you went to 300. All right. Is that it. My other who's back is Jake Paul. Okay. He's fighting a 39 year old Tyrone Woodley former UFC fighter. Oh. But Jake Paul came out as the early favorite too. So he's doing it so fucking masterfully where he just keeps on like upping it a little bit but it's also guys that he can beat. Right. This guy's lost his last three fights but I've already seen videos of fights he won and knock guys out where it's like oh this guy looks fucking sick. Right. But that was

when he was in his prime. He's 39 now. All right. Is that it. I have more but I'm saving them for hot. That's smart. That's smart. My who's back of the week is gaming the system via quote tweets and making things that you want to trend trend online. Oh. So you've seen like so many of these in the last two or three weeks where it's like what I'm telling you. Who's the person that you think of when you see this logo. Yes. Now every brand is doing it with their logo and it's just the easiest way in the world to make some like one specific thing trend that you want to. I love that we should we should do that with Jake where it's like who's the who's the first person you think of when you see this picture and it's the guy talking to the girl at the bar but it's really

easy. Like every single sports media organization if you haven't gotten on board this train yet like what are you even paying your social media team to do. Yeah. It's true. Just figure it out and it's not even they're just throwing up like J pegs of the of the old logo like job well done. Yeah. Done for the day. All right. My who's back is vanilla ice. Did you guys see his Memorial Day post. It was beautiful. He said happy Memorial Day happy because we have the freedom to have a backyard cookout sports and sharing smiles thanks to the soldiers. Hashtag happy Memorial Day. And then it was a picture of Michael Angel. No. Leonardo. What was close. He's blue Leonardo with what colors is Raphael with a American flag draped over

his shoulder looking like a badass. I love it. And I know ice. I don't know how often he tweets. I don't follow him. I'm going to start following him actually. That's how you do it. Like that's just just show up. If you're if you're a celebrity who you know was a was hot for 15 minutes and you haven't been heard from from for 20 years show up every now and then Frankie Muniz does it well like show up every now and then with a hilarious tweet and people like damn that was awesome. I just like any time you can incorporate like an old animation into whatever new movement is going on that day. You see that happen a lot with like there's usually like some jacked up Garfield. Yes. Like people have started to sexualize Garfield online. But yeah any throwback to the

Ninja Turtles is a winner of my book. Yes. Jake do you have a who's back of the week. I do. It is a full plans. There weren't many positives over the last 18 months. Yes. One of them was the middle seat being open that is no longer the case. I feel like you're back into work for the Twitter people. Yeah. Yeah. People are complaining a lot. Dick Vitale. Shout out to. Right. Wait are you saying it's a good thing that the middle seats are filled. No I'm just saying it's back. I said it was a good thing. Yeah. It was a good thing. Yeah. I thought your who's back was going to be talking to girls at bars. But that's also back when you agree. Yeah of course. Plenty of opportunities. Interesting. For the fellow jakes out there.

Maybe who go to Syracuse. I guess it's the summer now but when the fall kicks back in. That's what you do. Jake you need to do like like M&M when he had that was that music video where it was all the real slim shady. Yeah. You need to just get all the jakes you can find to pack a bar with them. Well jakes at Syracuse this fall. Sign us your videos. Talking to girls at the bar. Yeah. You just got money. DJs. Yeah. Money. Money the water. Does Syracuse have a Jake problem. Maybe possibly possibly. So yeah full plans are back but they're I'm telling you you're not going to be able to drink on a plane. If things keep going the same way that they've been going you see the exact same thing happening on planes that you see at NBA Playoff Games people have

forgotten how to handle themselves on a plane. Like a flight attendant was she got her teeth knocked out the other day in that video. Yeah. So that's what I'm saying. Like you can't buy hard liquor on a plane anymore. Southwest said we're you guys lost all your drinking privileges. You can't handle it. We're taking away the booze in the air. Figured out guys. Damn. All right. Let's do. Hot seat. Cool throne. Shall we. Hot seat. Cool throne brought to you by our friends at Coors Seltzer. We are on a mission with Coors Seltzer to save the rivers. So we get a court. We got a course Seltzer scoreboard installed. The scoreboard is going to track the amount of cases AWLs and Barstool HQ drink throughout the rest of the year. The goal is to restore one million

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vascular big deal. Did you see the giant moose? That's kind of an old one but I saw that recirculating as well. It does feel like people are trying to prove that I can't beat these animals. But again show me an animal. I'll find its windpipe. I'll snap it in half. I mean the kangaroos. Dude the kangaroo is the only thing that scared me was the elephant because like you could punch that elephant in the dick and he might like it. You know what I mean? So that one I'll give 50-50. The kangaroo was a bitch. He was a spaz. He was just losing his mind. I put that thing in a fucking headlock and he's not going anywhere. Interesting. All right and then my cool throwing is across. Yeah. Sport of the future. National championship today. Awesome. I was driving so I didn't get

to catch it. I watched every minute. But I heard it was must watch. Who won? The minus the 20 minute nap. Virginia. Back to back champs. Oh wow. Dynasty. Dynasty. Yeah. And Maryland had a chance to tie the game with like 10 seconds left. They won a face off. They scored a goal to go down by one. They won the face off. The guy ran down. He didn't go low to high. You got to go low to high till you die. You got to go top cheddar. Yeah. So it was an awesome game though. I feel like this happens every Memorial Day. They just need to we just need more Memorial Days. That's the only way that La Crosse can take off because every Memorial Day I'm like damn La Crosse is awesome. And then I forget about it until the next Memorial Day.

We love La Crosse though. It is the sport of the future. Yeah. And the PLL is starting up. Water dogs. We'll get Paul Rabel back on. That's it. That's it. Well I had I had Jake Cutler on there too but I don't know. I don't know. I was unsure. Vaccines. He's asking for half of Chris and Cavalieri's uncommon James Brown and the divorce. Love it. We're going to get Jay back on the show. We'll help him get that going. Get divorced. Yeah. But yeah I thought that was kind of a power move usually here coming from the other side. It's called negotiating. Yeah. Yeah. Listen. It just tells me that he made a good decision when he married. He married a successful woman. Art of the deal. You got to anchor the negotiation and then you work back from it and

then you end up power shift. I don't know. A quarter of uncommon James. Boom. My hot seat is everyone that will never be born. There was an article in Bloomberg today saying spare thought for the billions of people who will never exist. And the article was just about how population growth is slowing. And so therefore we're going to miss out on a bunch of people who will never be born. Damn. Because population isn't growing anymore. Damn. So that's tough. So thoughts. But spend zone is there. That's one less potential Coney or Hitler out there. That's ever going to be born. It is sad though. You gotta take the good with the bad. Yeah. Like every second that you're not fucking you're murdering millions of people over the next thousand

years. I'm doing my part. Unfortunately I'm not. Yeah. But yeah I thought that was that's a great premise of an article. I do like that. That's just that's a classic case of you had you got really high and had a thought. Yeah. And you're like this is going to go. Or you had to write something. You had a deadline. So here you go. What about everyone who's not going to be born. My cool throne is Germany because the NFL is going to try to play games in Germany. It's the fastest growing market out there. So I don't know if it's going to be if they're going to play like the the Mexico game in Germany or the England game that's supposed to be in Mexico in Germany. But the bottom line is in twenty twenty two. I think the NFL is going to have

like an early morning game in Germany to grow that brand. I don't know how I feel about it because like I feel like I've just gotten the vibe of what the British field looks like. Like I can spot British grass. Right. On TV. I don't know what the German soccer field. It's long. Is it too long. It's too long. Yeah. So Germany and it's wet. It's always wet. And the grass is always wet. Yeah. Yeah. In England it's super wet. Super wet. Because they play at like Wimbledon field and they they don't know how to water it like an NFL team. Yeah. Or it just rains a lot. Yeah. But yeah it's always wet. All right. My hot seat is Narcissus. So I'm going to read something for you guys. You tell me who wrote this. OK. OK. For those of you who have had exposure to one talking about Narcissus

this will take all of you are seemingly confusing and emotionally draining experiences and create a huge aha moment. And for those of you who haven't you will want to know what to look for. Narcissistic abuse is no joke and one of the most difficult emotional experiences to regain your confidence and clarity from. But I always say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and smarter. Who wrote that. LeBron. Cam Newton. That was written. Johnny Bananas by one Confucius. Wait. Danica Patrick. Oh interesting. Interesting. Who she talked about. I don't know. I have no idea. But she did an interview with a doctor in the field of narcissism talking about her past experiences dating someone who had narcissistic abuse. Counterpoint. Who did she did it. If you

were a legend quarterback of the Green Bay Packers would you not feel that your narcissism was at least a little bit justified. So he's allowed to be a narcissist. I like that. That's a fine line because if you are let's say you are the greatest athlete to ever walk the face of the earth wouldn't it be unhealthy to not think of yourself in the highest terms possible. Campaign. As far as I know is a really good teammate. OK. So I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. I just thought that was an interesting quote. That's all. I also want to do something and I'm going to do this every week until it comes true. I'm going to predict that this is the week that Aaron Rodgers gets traded. OK. So and if it doesn't happen this week I will do it next week and give me credit

when that happens. Have we got an update on is he still in Hawaii right now with Miles Teller. Miles Teller got punched in the face. Yeah. You see that. Probably by Aaron Rodgers. Yeah. Spent too much time. They bound to bound to break up. That was a crazy story. Some guy like came up to him and was like you owe me money from my wedding or from your wedding. Yeah. And and fought him at a bar. How about Aaron Rodgers top bun. We haven't had a real conversation about that. I think he's just living his best life. I love it for him. It's like when when Ryan from the office like came back from Thailand and like bleached his hair. Yep. Kind of changed. That's like we're dealing with Hawaii Aaron Rodgers. Yes. Yes. Aloha Aaron. Yes. All right. My cool

throne is America because Pulisic won a Champions League. Yeah. Congratulations. From America. That's our first step. It's never been done. An American has never won a Champions League. We want it all by ourselves. Next stop World Cup. Well next stop qualifying for the World Cup. I'm skipping pass. I have a feeling that all these building blocks that we've got in place at some point in the next 10 years the U.S. men's national team is going to qualify for World Cup. There we go. I'm feeling it. I like that. And if they don't it's hilarious. And so either way weren't we going to have somebody wasn't like was dust on Man City. No. He was on and he was on like Real Madrid or something like that. One of those other super league but we want it all.

And you got it. You have to just admit that if you're a fan of European soccer you got to admit that America has taken over the best player in the world played. I would say that like in the world if you win UEFA Champions League that's actually the best team in the world right because you would think that the best club team could beat any national team. Yes. So the best player on the best club team is American. Therefore the USA is the best soccer country in the entire world. Yes. Did you see that guy. Fuck was his name. The swans get bumped. Yeah they did. I thought that was a good thing. No. Bumped down. They stayed down. Who's the guy. Fuck. I gotta find his name. He had won like he's basically the Robert Ori of soccer right now. He won like he was on the Leicester City

team then he was on Chelsea. He won a World Cup with France. He won the Europa League last year. He won the Champions League this year and he's a short king. He's five six. Who would that be. I don't know. Dude from France. A little guy. Yes. Napoleon. Yes. That's exactly right. Got it. That is exactly right. All right. Let's do one quick talking tennis and then we have a Monday reading to end the show. Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French open because the media is a bunch of fucking jerks. My girl. No but seriously what the fuck. This was the weirdest story. So the way I read it was she she said she said that she was uncomfortable doing the media stuff because she deals with anxiety. She deals with like social anxiety and oppression and yeah and all that stuff

and so she tried to communicate that the French open people were like we're not going to tolerate this. You have to do your records and media interviews and so then she's like I'm just going to bow out then because they were going to make her you're not allowed to compete in the French open unless you deal with the media. The media should get suspended. Yes they should get one of the best players in the world not playing in one of the best tournaments because of the media. We stand with Naomi and then we did two things this show. We disavowed water bottle throwers and we stood with Naomi and then the French tennis president issued a statement and then I bet that guy's fucking cool. Yeah then he declined to answer questions to the media afterwards

which is perfect. You know what? You fucking loser. What's the biggest sponsor of the French open? Is it Rolex? Rolex. I'm going to boycott Rolex. Yep same. I will not buy Mike Cornelian. I was going to buy Hank a Rolex watch and I was going to buy two. I was going to match it for the entire control room for Jake as well. I was going to buy them all Rolexes but due to their ongoing sponsorship of the of the French open I can no longer in good conscience give my money. Let's go down the list. What are the other ones Jake? Hennessy? Hennessy? No. No for you. Maybe. Yeah I'll boycott them. Is it Hennessy bottled by Coors Lake? Uh no. Okay. So then boycott Hennessy. Done. BMW? Out. Tropicana you said? Tropicana. I'm not ready to give up orange juice. No juice.

No I'm not. That's where I draw the line. Perrier. Yeah boycott. Boycotted. What is that? Wilson. Lacoste. Lacoste. Yep boycotted. I will be buying the. Done. Out. Emerits. Yeah I'm not going to fly to Perrier. Out. Wilson. Out. Mastercard. Out. Magnum. What's with Magnum condoms? Out. Easy. That's an easy one. Yeah. I will no longer be purchasing Magnum condoms. What's Lavazza? I think it's a drink. I hate it. Okay this is really easy for me to boycott all these things. Yep. Congratulations to us. Tennis. I'm going to boycott Tennis. In general. And he would play Wimbledon. Eh. What about table tennis? No. I know that. I love that sport. I love watching that sport. Boycott that. I'll be back for Wimbledon. Possibly the wrongest person on the internet

consistently is a guy named Rob Parker. If you don't know Rob Parker you might remember him from such hits as is Robert Griffin black enough. He used to be on ESPN then he got fired then he was out of but he's probably been fired like everywhere nine times. He wrote a take on D E A D bleep bleep bleep spin.com. He said Naomi Osaka is wrong. Her boycott of the media at the French Open is misguided and worse. It's downright unprofessional. If this tennis superstar is seriously dealing with a mental health issue as she announced on social media she should have bowed out gracefully from the event and taken time for herself. But to claim she can do everything else but she can't talk to the media is bogus. Bravo to the four Grand Slam tournaments who issued Osaka both a fine

and a stern warning for her behavior. He's just a big fan of the tournament spanning together. I love it. Why does she do we really need to like have these interviews where a tennis player would be like my opponent played really well and I'm just lucky to advance. Okay. Okay. I was thinking about it. Yes. I think that well I stand with Naomi. I want to just throw that out there. Blanket. Good. I've already boycotted all those places. I whenever someone says do we need these interviews. I just think of Alan Iverson practice like we would never have that. If we don't take it out of context though practice or what about the thing is that that interview like he was talking about like his best friend had just died. Yeah. And he was like

putting it all on perspective. He's like my best friends died. Blah blah blah. But we're talking about practice. Everyone took it out of context. What about that's actually a good example. What about John Cheney trying to choke John Calpari. Never would have. You should have. Yeah. What about not a dime back. Jim Calhoun. Jim Calhoun actually should just step in for anyone who has social anxiety and do their like if this is the perfect solution. You should have Naomi Osaka should just hire Jim Calhoun to do all of her interviews for him and then we all win. I think then we have Jim Calhoun giving press conferences and being mad at a bunch of French people. Riley Curry. Yeah. Riley Curry. Boom. I do think that you should be able to nominate a champion that

steps in and handles a media for you. That should be allowed. Yeah. That'll be like your official spokesperson. Have more Sean Lynch go out there and just be like I'm just here so Naomi doesn't get fine. Yeah. What about LeBron like if we didn't have LeBron we wouldn't have had last year when he said that 35 year old LeBron could beat 27 year old LeBron. He would have never known about his pretty much broken wrist. Yeah. Pretty much. Or the episode when he kind of carried his purse and walked away. Yeah with his little short shorts. Yeah. Yeah. These are all things that we need. All right. Let's finish up. PFT. What sunglasses are you wearing. I'm wearing Shady Ray's right now. Oh hell yeah. You know that I'm wearing Shady Ray's. I wear Shady Ray's all day

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at ShadyRays.com where you can find their newest and their best selection. All right let's wrap up. We got a quick Monday reading. It might be fake. I just want to say before we get into this a lot of people are always asking. It's 12.29 right now in the morning. I'm struggling. Let me tell you. 12.29. I am struggling. I'm an exhausted person in general. I think I'm unfortunately I'm just an always tired guy now and no like people were shocked today because I was talking about how I was going to take an afternoon nap. Like you couldn't take a nap with the amount of coffee you say you drink. I could drink five cups of coffee and I fall asleep two seconds later if I have to if I'm tired enough. I did an all-time old person move on on Sunday night. I left the bar

at like 1130. That's the best. I left the bar at 1130 because I wanted to go home and watch Mary of Easttown on demand before I fell asleep. It just and I still fell asleep during it but it was leaving early early so I can catch up on a program. It's the best. It's the best. All right. Our dad gets his pair of air monarchs. Yeah. It's the best. All right. Here's the Monday reading again. It might be fake but it's good. So it is titled My husband won't take his mask off even for sex. So here we go. I've been married to a great guy for five and a half years. He's handsome, sexy, funny and kind. Wow. Way to brag. It's true that he's always been a little prissy about illnesses but I never thought it was a real problem. However, during the pandemic,

his terror about getting sick has reached new levels. For the last year, he's refused to take off his face mask even when we are at home. Just the two of us. This is true even now that he's fully vaccinated for the virus. He wears it to sleep. Come on. To do most of his bathroom activities and yes, even during lovemaking. To eat, he pulls it up to, he pulls it up to expose his mouth and then quickly pulls it back down between bites. Well, he does not insist that I do the same. I can tell it bothers him that I do not, especially because I have now started going maskless outside for the CDC guidelines and plan on restaurant dining inside soon for girls night out. I, I actually think this guy might be real. Why? Because I think there are people that are like

this, that continue to wear mask, like to sleep. That are like, they love rules so much. COVID has broken their brain where like it was, wait till we get a vaccine, wait till we get a vaccine, then we got a vaccine. They're like, well, not everyone's vaccinated. So we have to keep doing everything. I keep asking everybody the same question, which is like, is there a reason why why it's a danger for vaccinated people to like not be wearing a mask? So far, I haven't heard somebody say that it is. And until that time, it's like, fuck, I'm just raw dog and air all the time. It feels great. The entire purpose of doing all this bullshit for the last year was to get to the point where you can take the mask off again. But some people, you're right.

Some people's brains have been broken where it's like, oh, if you're not wearing a mask, then people think you're Republican. So I don't want to do that. It's like, everyone should not want to wear a mask. Wear a mask sucks ass. It sucks. I wear a mask now. The only times I ever wear a mask are on the subway because I just, I feel like everyone's going to do that for the rest of the time. I'm actually cool to do that forever on the New York City Subways. If I get a cold sore, I'm going to wear a mask like I just I still haven't had New York City Subways. We should have been wearing masks a long time ago. Yes. And then I'll wear it like walking into a store if that's what they demand. But even then it's like, I'm doing it for you,

not for me. Like, I would take this shit off if you let me. But if you're going to tell everyone they have to, I'll fucking play ball. I don't care. Maybe he just got one of those sweet ass masks that have like a political statement on it and say like, fuck your mask like a bumper sticker mask. Yeah. And so he's actually wearing it just as a fuck you'd people who are still wearing their masks. He's like, I can't take it off because then people won't know how much I hate their mask. Right. Right. All right. So here this is this is good. It gets good here. When I have tried to present him with the science, he says, scientists don't fully understand the virus yet. Or I know it probably isn't necessary, but wearing it doesn't bother me. So if there's even a small

chance that it can protect us, I'd rather be on the safe side. What's the harm? Actually, that's a fine. That's a fine response. If it doesn't bother you, who the fuck cares? Sounds like it bothers his wife though. Yeah. I disagree that there's no harm. I want to see my beautiful husband's face again. I want to kiss him on the lips romantically like we used to. So they haven't kissed. This is fucking weird. And not through a piece of fabric. He does not change his mask very often and is often smelly and soiled. Oh, you got to be one or the other. You can't be full mask all the time guy and not adhere to just like basic common hygiene. You got to have multiple of them like hats that you put on for different occasions. Do you think he's gone down on his wife while

still wearing the mask? Yeah, for sure. Very hot. I don't want to feel judged by him for my own behavior, which I consider reasonable. This is making me depressed and concerned about our future together. I've asked him when he plans to stop masking and all he says is when it is safe for everyone. What if this becomes a permanent part of him? My mother who is very conservative thinks that I should move out, but I don't think I'm ready for that step yet. What I want is my husband back. How can I get it through to him and not to blow up anyone's spot? But his name is Jake. Oh, interesting. Signed maskless and alone. That's tough. That's tough. I mean, maybe he's what if he just had braces on and he's waiting for another six months to get him taken off and

then boom, perfect smile. I do think that there are people like they just they love rules. Like the pandemic has been the best. Think about someone who just loves rules and authority. The pandemic was a fucking wet dream for them. Yeah, just everyone told them what to do. I really don't have a problem with it. If somebody wants to wear a mask, if that's like their thing now, I mean, yeah, but I don't want to have sex with somebody who's wearing a mask. That's my choice. Like my kink. The thing I'm really turned on by is having sex with somebody maskless. If that makes me a weirdo, then that's my cross. I just like the the scientists don't fully understand it yet. That's a great line. Scientists don't understand anything. Yeah, fully. Yeah, it's

called science, right? It's ever evolving. You have to. Yeah, it's constantly testing new hypothesis. Hank, do you still wear a mask? Just on the train. Yeah, I honestly do think the train like we should just do that. That should be a law. Massachusetts like they like ended them on Saturday, I think. And on Friday, I walked into Dick's Sporting Goods, and I thought with no mask on, I got like verbally yelled at. Really? You should have pulled out your phone and demanded they kick you out, gone viral. No, but I thought it was going to be like a kind of like end of school situation where it's like, all right, it's the last week of school. Do whatever. Right. Tomorrow's the day, but today's the real day. Right. I also think at this point, if you haven't gotten the vaccine,

like you've made a choice to not get it yet. And but I'm not going to change my behavior based on if somebody else made a different choice. I can't wait to go to a sporting event. We got to go to a Nets game for our boy Blake. I'm gonna try and go to the Coliseum on Saturday. Whoa, Hank, Henry. I want to. I kind of want to. What time is the game? I think seven o'clock. We should go. I don't have anyone to go. When is it Friday? Saturday. What would I wear? A refs uniform? Just a third party? Dude, a sports sport. Yeah. Actually, yes, I'm in. I'm in. All right, let's go. Yes, I'm in. I might be late because I put, my son doesn't go to bed at seven. Oh, all right. So I might be a little late, but I'll be there. I'll buy us tickets. All right. All right. 15. There's no bad

sound. I'm definitely gonna get out of this. But as of right now, I'm going to do it. That actually be funny. Just wearing sports. It's also like for the past few years, because it does look like an unreal game. Yes. Then you would see games that I've been like, I kind of want to go to an Islanders game, but I haven't had any real ties to it to go. But now. Just bet the over. Yeah. Okay. Wait, what are the other dates? Hmm. Numbers. Now I'm going to get. I'm going to get 51. We do. We are going to go to a Nets game. Because yeah, we said we would go to a Nets game. 99. 51. Five and three out of play. 89. We'll have guests back on Friday. We needed no guest show because we had way too much stuff to go over. How long is the show? 89. How long is this episode?

96 minutes. Probably like, yeah, it would have been like two hours and 20 minutes with a guest. Animal fact. We share 70% of our DNA with a slug. All right. Waiter, when you just said 96 minutes and then it's going to end up being 90 minutes, people would be like, would they cut out? A lot. Jesus. Oh, they cut out that thing that Jake said. You didn't know it was a hot mic in your defense. Yeah. Yeah. It was three years ago. Yeah. It was, yeah. And it's fine. College. Yeah, right. You're wearing a suit at a bar. Yeah. It's no big deal. So you are admitting it. It is not me. Love you guys. Things that you say and reason why, but just to play my way away.

You are the things I've got to remember. You shine away. Well, I'll be coming for you anyway. You shine away. Well, I'll be coming for you anyway. You shine away. It's part of my take presented by Barstool Sports. You