CBB With John Fanta, Olympic Preview Halfway Through The Olympics, QB Lists And Zac’s Alarm Clock Has Him In Deep Water

Summary

Pardon My Take (Barstool Sports)

Episode: CBB With John Fanta, Olympic Preview Halfway Through The Olympics, QB Lists And Zac’s Alarm Clock Has Him In Deep Water
Date: February 18, 2026

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Overview

This episode of Pardon My Take finds Big Cat, PFT Commenter, and crew in full Olympic fever, navigating a sparse sports week by diving deep into Winter Olympics events, NFL off-season rumors, and March Madness prospects with guest John Fanta. The show mixes goofy banter—most notably about alarm clock etiquette, QB rankings, and internet "mogging" lore—with genuinely robust Olympic and college basketball coverage.

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Major Topics and Segments

Olympics Preview Roundtable

[18:36–48:01; 129:06–136:08]

With the Olympics at their midpoint, each host picked a Winter Olympic sport to research and preview. The panel’s enthusiasm and competitiveness shine, blending actual sports insight with classic PMT humor.

Highlighted Sports:

• Biathlon (Max): Combo of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. U.S. has never medaled, which shocks the crew.
  • "It's disgusting… I feel like you could take any extra from any of the Yellowstone series and they would dominate at this sport." – PFT [19:05]
• Short Track Speed Skating (Big Cat): Praised for its car-crash potential and unpredictability ("We just need crashes!"). Roots for Bucks County’s Andrew Heo (18:1 odds).
• Bobsled (Hank): Talks history from Cool Runnings to actual U.S. and German dominance. Notable that U.S. bobsled recruits are sometimes found randomly at malls.
• Ski Mountaineering (PFT): Olympics’ newest, most grueling sport; players climb mountains, then ski downhill. "You have to climb up the mountain before you earn the right to go down the mountain." [35:17]
• Pairs Figure Skating (Zach): Drama in the finals—Germany chokes, Japan sets world record, and chemistry among skating pairs is debated.
• Nordic Combined (Memes): Combo of ski jumping and cross-country. "Wouldn’t recommend watching. Just catch the highlights." [47:58]

Notable Olympic Quotes and Bits:

• “If you want to win a golf tournament, you have to get your wife pregnant.” – PFT [04:48]
• "This sport is just a car crash every single time." – Big Cat on short track speed skating [24:18]
• "Who would ever want to do this? If it's that bad, you have my respect." – Big Cat on ski mountaineering [36:00]
• "Great athletes. First, attractive. Second." – Big Cat on the Dutch speed skaters [136:05]

Olympic Brainstorming:

• Fantasize about trash talk in Olympic sports—figure skating and curling would be “electric” with chirping [129:19]
• Host arguments on which women’s events Hank, in theory, could medal in (“Not a chance,” laughs ensue) [130:41–133:41]
• Discussion on the barriers to entry for curling: “I want to say $5,000 for a set of curling stones because you have to get them from this one place.” – PFT [49:38]

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College Basketball with John Fanta

[84:55–128:02]

John Fanta brings passion and insight to college hoops as March Madness approaches.

Parity and Depth in CBB

• “This could be an all time March... The top of the country is absolutely ridiculous.” – Fanta [85:42]
• Fanta claims 10–12 teams have a real shot at the title (Michigan, Duke, Arizona, Houston, Illinois, Purdue, etc.) [85:55]
• Excitement over the next week's showdowns: Michigan vs. Duke, Arizona vs. Houston—“essentially a Final Four” [89:17]

Coaches Gone Mad & Drama

• Mick Cronin’s constant headline-making, Hurley vs. Pitino’s rivalry ("vitriol and hatred") [88:37]
• Ongoing “who punched the Duke staffer” mystery: "The search continues for whatever happens” – Fanta [92:21]. PFT jokes about an "international manhunt" [93:28].

Tournament Upset Watch

• Fanta sees Cinderella potential this year: 4, 5, and 6 seeds are vulnerable [101:39].
• Potential bracket busters: Liberty Flames, Stephen F. Austin, Yale, UNC Wilmington, Austin Peay [102:09]
• Teams that could disappoint: Nebraska (“all the pressure”), maybe Carolina, Vanderbilt, but Izzo's Michigan State is "safe" [104:40].

Hot Teams & Sagging Programs

• Houston remains Fanta’s favorite: “I’m already in bed with them.” [97:09]
• Arizona’s lack of three-point shooting may doom their run [117:06].
• Reminder: Put Miami-Ohio in the NCAA tourney if they lose one game—"the optics of keeping a team that has started the season with this mark... out? You've got to put them in." – Fanta [106:24]
• Praise for Wisconsin and Villanova—both solidly “in” the tournament [110:27 & 111:00]

Fun Moments

• Wedding and bachelor party invites fly back and forth (“Kevin Willard was at your wedding”) [112:03].
• Mushrooms and the Sphere in Vegas debated as part of bachelor party plans [112:39–113:11].

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Sports News, NFL, MLB & NBA

[04:39–16:16; 66:13–69:36]

NFL Rumors/Roster Moves

• Miami Dolphins: “Cleaning house... Tyreek Hill, gone. Bradley Chubb, gone. Trying to trade Tua.” [13:36]
• Tyreek Hill trade speculation: Chiefs reunion? Raiders as chaos? Big Cat and PFT discuss possible team fits [14:01–15:10]
• Kenneth Walker, Seahawks running back, not franchise tagged; discussion about RB market value [15:23]

MLB Roster Oddities

• 11-year-old Venezuelan prospect David Basabi signs $1.8 million deal with Phillies: “How is this not human trafficking?” – PFT [12:24]
• Bryce Harper “elite” debate: Is he underrated/past prime? “Bryce Harper’s been nothing but good,” argues Max [10:51]
• MLBPA union drama: Tony Clark resigns after a reported inappropriate relationship [68:21]

QB List Rant

• Bleacher Report’s “Top 99 QBs All Time” triggers: Dak Prescott at #59 sparks big eye-roll; Marino “should be higher.” [66:13–67:01, 67:26]

Miscellaneous

• World Baseball Classic excitement, Team USA “stacked,” fandom for Harper/Schwarber/Judge [07:03–08:49]
• Wendy’s closes hundreds of restaurants, calls it a “rebuilding year”—jokes about tanking for draft picks [51:53]
• Fun with “mogging,” “gesture maxing,” and other viral internet lingo (PFT’s “clavicular” observations) [58:41–63:30]

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"Zac's Alarm Clock Has Him In Deep Water"

[71:10–80:15]

• Zac leaves on vacation, forgets to turn off a loud alarm clock that annoys his entire apartment building.
• Receives noise complaint (“I accidentally replied all to all my neighbors. Yeah, sure, you can go into my apartment and unplug the alarm clock. So now they all know it was me.” [72:19])
• PMT crew offers him shelter if he’s evicted ("three days each at our houses"), jokes about making the “apology” into PMTV content.
• Hank tells a hilarious story about Zac panicking at the airport and needlessly sprinting through security [76:37–80:30].

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Notable Quotes & Moments

Olympics:

• “This sport is just a car crash every single time.” (Big Cat, [24:18], on short track speed skating)
• “That was just porn.” (Big Cat, [39:10], when Max tries to Google ski mountaineering and gets distracted)
• “Wouldn’t recommend watching. Just catch the highlights.” (Memes, [47:58], on Nordic Combined)
• “Who would ever want to do this? If it’s that bad, you have my respect.” (Big Cat, [36:00], on ski mountaineering)
• “The Winter Olympics suck because there are very few head to head sports, everything is a time trial.” (Hank, [134:02])

John Fanta Interview:

• “This could be an all-time March... The top of the country is absolutely ridiculous.” (Fanta, [85:42])
• “We’re going to see the return of Cinderella’s carriage.” (Fanta, [101:39])
• “[Provicence] Saturday was embarrassing, and it was a moment there where Duncan Powell does something that’s egregious… It’s almost like that became more important than winning.” (Fanta, [124:21])

Viral/Internet Culture:

• “The recaps are just like, talking about how this guy got mogged by frat king, and then somebody else stole his phone. And then this guy... now jester maxing.” (PFT, [59:32])
• “You could just say whatever you want, but it is like a WWE storyline.” (PFT, [62:01])

QB Rankings:

• “Dak Prescott is at 59. If you want to get mad about a QB rankings, he’s at 59.” (Big Cat, [66:13–66:59])

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Timestamps for Key Topics

• [18:36–48:01]: Olympic Preview (each host presents a sport, in-depth explanations and jokes)
• [84:55–128:02]: John Fanta College Basketball Interview
• [04:39–16:16]: NFL offseason news, MLB/World Baseball Classic
• [66:13–69:36]: QB lists, Dak drama
• [71:10–80:15]: Zac’s alarm clock saga
• [129:06–136:08]: “Guys on Olympics” – Olympic takes, trash talk ideas, hypothetical rules

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Final Thoughts

Even in a “slow” sports week, PMT keeps things lively and entertaining. The deep Olympic cuts, off-the-cuff interviews, and unique blend of sports insight and idiocy (see: “could Hank medal in women’s slalom?”) ensures there’s something for everyone. The John Fanta interview stands out for bracketologists and March Madness enthusiasts, the Olympics preview is both funny and oddly informative, and the recurring “Zac in trouble” theme brings it all together. Expect your knowledge of everything from lineup tweaks to “mogging” and alarm clocks to be maxed by the end.

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Transcript

[Big Cat]

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[PFT Commenter]

Guys on Olympic takes. Yeah, I also heard that maybe that we might have an all time Zach moment coming up.

[Big Cat]

We might have an all time Zach moment. And we also are going to get a big time apology from a couple people on this show. And it's all brought to you by our friends at Game Time. The Game Time app gives the advantage back to fans. It's the hack for unlocking amazing tickets and experiences in a few taps. It's incredibly easy to use. The Game time guarantee means you can Trust you'll get 100% authentic tickets on time and at the best price. Plus, fees are always included. So what you see is what you pay. We're looking at tickets for the NBA.

[Hank]

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[Big Cat]

Oh, okay. Zach, are you looking at tickets you.

[Zach]

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[Johnny Fanta]

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[Big Cat]

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[PFT Commenter]

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[Big Cat]

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[Max]

Patino, awm.

[Big Cat]

Welcome to part of my take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, February 18th, and we've got Olympic fever because we got nothing else to talk about.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, I mean, you, you teased a massive apology.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I, I don't know where we're going with this, Max.

[Big Cat]

Specifically, possibly you. I don't think you would you guys like to say anything about Michael Jordan and you're the slander you put on his name. Because I'm ready to sue.

[PFT Commenter]

I think I, my, my entire point was it's, it's weird.

[Big Cat]

The I. That he was getting ice out of a little kid's back.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that's weird.

[Big Cat]

No, that's not weird. That was being a admit.

[PFT Commenter]

This is like when, when Hank wouldn't admit that Tom Brady was being weird announcing games even though he's an owner of the Raiders. I don't think it's weird.

[Big Cat]

No. Getting ice. You made it weird. I actually, I think you are being more of a pedophile than, than Michael Jordan could be.

[PFT Commenter]

I just said it was weird.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, it's pulling ice out of his back. Max, would you like. I'm gonna, we're gonna sue. So you could apologize. You could drop the laws.

[PFT Commenter]

You can sue me for saying that. It's weird.

[Big Cat]

Well, Michael Jordan's gonna sue you.

[PFT Commenter]

It was weird. It was weird.

[Max]

You have no contact with Michael Jordan.

[Big Cat]

I, I, I could contact someone who could contact. Yeah, Keith Yandel is a member of his golf club. So there you go. Thought fast on my feet right there. Yance is for sure. He's for sure gonna follow up Yan's every, like, every like month. Yan's is like, hey, how do I get paid? He's been working at Barstool for like a year and a half. Yes, he got paid yet he doesn't check his email. He also is probably fucking with me, but he might not be getting paid. Would you like to apologize, Max?

[Max]

Sure.

[Big Cat]

Thank you. They see, that wasn't so hard. There we go. That was easy. That was so easy. All right, so we're, we're. What else we got besides Olympics? We got Olympics. That's what's going on.

[PFT Commenter]

There's a lot of Olympics going. We, we did, we did miss one thing on Monday's show. Hank Was too focused on the live golf because he's live head.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Colin Morikawa.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Colin Morikawa won a tournament. Pebble beach tournament. And then he used the excuse of like the post match interview, post round interview to be like. And also having a baby, which that's. If you want to win a golf tournament, you have to get your wife pregnant. And then sure enough, either right after you give birth or right after you conceive, you will get an interview right after you win something and you'll announce it.

[Big Cat]

Yep. He also, I think he gained 10 pounds of muscle the off season. So he's just. No, no, no, no, no. He fat.

[PFT Commenter]

Wrong. Yeah, he said his. His off season, he added 10 pounds of fat. And I watched swing videos on YouTube.

[Big Cat]

Love that.

[PFT Commenter]

One of us just like us.

[Big Cat]

So yeah, that was. That was golf. Colin Morikawa back. Officially back. Super, super back. Very bad. Super, super, super back.

[PFT Commenter]

Excellent striker of the ball. That was crazy on that last hole where he had to wait for like 45 minutes for this guy to get his bogey. See that?

[Big Cat]

No, I missed it.

[PFT Commenter]

He hit a shot down into. Onto the beach, like underneath a rowboat with like ropes. And he climbed down onto the beach, not more cow. But the other guy, what was his name? Hank.

[Big Cat]

The.

[Hank]

I don't.

[PFT Commenter]

That guy.

[Hank]

I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

Bridgerton, something like that.

[Hank]

Chris Bridgerton.

[PFT Commenter]

Bridgerton. So he go. He goes down there, spends about like 20 minutes getting ready for his next shot. Hits off the Seaw wall, bounces into the ocean. And then he's like, actually, psych. I'm going to go take my drop from where I should have taken it originally. I got to go all the way back up like 200 yards out, hit a great shot. And then he had to wait on the green for another 10 minutes because the wind picked up and his ball wouldn't stop moving. So Morawa had to just sit there waiting to hit his approach shot for. It felt like 45 minutes. Like, Jesus. What. What the hell is going on?

[Hank]

Jacob Bridgman.

[Big Cat]

Bridgman.

[PFT Commenter]

Bridgman.

[Big Cat]

Did you guys know since we're talking about other I golf to me, starts at the Masters. Like, I'll. If there's something close on a Sunday at this time of year, I'll tune in. But like, you know, in terms of my sports watching, I'm more focused on college basketball on a Saturday than golf. But Morikawa, I like him. Good guest. Did you guys also know we have a World Baseball Classic this year? That's pretty cool.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

And. Oh, Max, you're pumped about it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we got. Yeah, I like the world Baseball roster drama too.

[Big Cat]

There was. It was great last time. I just always think of the Francesa clip when he's like, if it was in my backyard, I'd close the blinds. They're playing the World Baseball Classic in my backyard. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Wasn't there some roster drama that was going down?

[Max]

Team USA roster is stacked.

[Big Cat]

You got to win it all.

[Johnny Fanta]

Stacked.

[PFT Commenter]

Let's just, let's just read the roster.

[Big Cat]

We got to win.

[PFT Commenter]

I got the roster right here. Okay. We got Bregman, Goldschmidt, Bryce Harper.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah. You want to get a takeoff on Bryce Harper because he's in Bobby Witt not being elite.

[PFT Commenter]

Pca Aaron Judge, Schwarber.

[Big Cat]

Nice.

[PFT Commenter]

Cal Raleigh.

[Big Cat]

Anything you want to say about Bryce Harper?

[PFT Commenter]

No, I mean Bryce Harper, is he elite? That's. I, I think most real seam heads would say like 2,000 hits. If you get to 2,000 hits, you're probably elite. What's he at right now?

[Max]

He's.

[Big Cat]

You.

[Max]

You say this like he's not going to get to 2000.

[PFT Commenter]

What's he at now?

[Max]

I don't like. Am I supposed to just know this off the top of my head? Is it.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, for me, for me it's like a couple things. One, if you get to 2000, that's the big number in baseball everyone talks about.

[Big Cat]

You got to get to 2000.

[PFT Commenter]

Or if you.

[Big Cat]

He looks like he had 1800 hits.

[PFT Commenter]

If you win a World Series.

[Big Cat]

So he's going to get to 2000.

[PFT Commenter]

Hits most likely and probably get to 2000 hits and will likely win a World Series at some point too.

[Big Cat]

He might not.

[PFT Commenter]

Maybe so. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Baseball's a tough sport to, to put it on individuals like the I. If you're a quarterback, if you're an NBA player, if you're supposed to be an all time great. I get it. Baseball is just tough. Barry Bond's never won a World Series.

[Max]

His postseason numbers are also great.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. It's just hard. There's so many guys we such a one on one sport.

[PFT Commenter]

But I still like to. I, I like to hold it over. Aaron Judge.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he. Well, he hasn't earned his pinstripes. That's different. He could earn his pinstripes and not win a World Series. Right. And he hasn't done that.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I think it's one of the same.

[Big Cat]

No, you could, you could. He could still get his pinstripes like saving like a, like a boy off the train who's about to get hit by the train. Then go hit it. Three home runs and burning. Yeah, for the boy, that's pinstripes. Yeah, that's instant pinstripes. So wait, so, so you don't think he's elite?

[PFT Commenter]

I, I, again, I, I am a man of the numbers. I think baseball is one of those sports that it's very easy to quantify. You can comp eras pretty cleanly. The 2000 hit club, that's a big one for being elite.

[Big Cat]

How did this, oh, this was his. This was Dabrowski. Right? Didn't he, Was he the one who.

[Max]

Started this after, after the sea. The postseason ended last year, Dave Domrowski did a stupid, stupid press conference where part of his excuse was that, that of why the team didn't win was because Bryce Harper is not elite anymore. Bryce Harper took offense to that, as he should have. Bryce Harper has been nothing but good to the city of Philadelphia. He was the first one, really the first one to choose to sign there when it was really a mediocre part, part of the team's, you know, history. He sparked, like, a good run of con. Competitive teams in Philadelphia. He hasn't won a World Series yet, and fans are upset that he hasn't won a World Series yet. As am I. But like you, Bryce Harper's been nothing but good. And Dave Dombrowski disrespecting him like that. Bryce has every right to be upset about that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I mean, Bryce is. He's always been a big time umbrage taker. Like, if, if anything remotely negative is said about him, he will take umbrage. He'll find that umbrella. Yeah.

[Max]

He's like a real athlete and he, like, says what he feels and like, that's what we like.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

And he has the right to be upset when his GM is like, blaming the, blaming the, the postseason last year on him.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[Max]

He had a bad. He had a bad series against Dodgers. He had a bad series. He had a bad year, but.

[Big Cat]

Well, he's hurt, too.

[Johnny Fanta]

Yeah.

[Max]

I think he's going to be a b. He's going to be a beast this year.

[Big Cat]

He's going to use.

[PFT Commenter]

He's going to return to being a beast.

[Big Cat]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

Get to the crack the 2k barrier.

[Max]

You are just obsessed with, like, finding something with other people's favorite players.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no, listen, I, I used to love Bryce Harper. I did. He was one of my favorite players when he was in the Nationals. There were things that, you know, Max, when you watch Bryce Harper, I hated.

[Max]

Him on the National.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

But you get annoyed with him even when he's like your favorite player, sometimes he's like. He's got a lot of passion, which is awesome. But he does boneheaded things sometimes because he's so passionate.

[Johnny Fanta]

You are you.

[Max]

Bryce Harper is a much more mature baseball player than when he was on the Nationals. He's not the same guy like he. He basically does everything right now.

[Johnny Fanta]

And when he was.

[Max]

Because when he was on the national, he was like 19 years old. Yeah, he acted like a teenager.

[PFT Commenter]

He's young.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

So now he's like a real adult. And he like plays like a real adult.

[Big Cat]

Good for him.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Speaking of real adults, did you see.

[Max]

Nothing but good things?

[PFT Commenter]

I like that he played. Now he plays like a real adult. He had a few good adult years when he was in Washington too.

[Big Cat]

Speaking of adults, did you see the Phillies signed an 11 year old.

[PFT Commenter]

Whoa.

[Big Cat]

Get an answer for that.

[Max]

Didn't know about this. Some guy with his name Renteria, who is not Edgar Renteria's.

[Big Cat]

Let me just make sure. I'm pretty sure you signed an 11 year old Venezuelan kid. Phillies and 11 year old stud is this Phillies and 11 year old shortstop reportedly agree on historic $1.8 million deal.

[PFT Commenter]

How is this not human trafficking?

[Big Cat]

It's crazy. Every year. Yeah. The. The Philadelphia Phillies have reached a pre agreement with Venezuelan shortstop David Basabi, a member of the 2031 international class.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

For a 1.8 million dollar bonus. At just 11 years old, Sabi becomes the youngest player in history to secure pre agreement with a major league organization. This kid is fucking. He's playing in a little League.

[PFT Commenter]

There's just no chance that that's in.

[Big Cat]

Does he have a good swing? Does he have a 6 swing?

[PFT Commenter]

Is this a kid that they had like squaring up at 95 mile per hour fastballs?

[Big Cat]

Oh, he does have a good swing. He's a left.

[PFT Commenter]

I saw that.

[Zach]

Pretty.

[PFT Commenter]

It's pretty impressive.

[Big Cat]

Max, speak.

[Max]

Next up. I don't know what you want me to say. Next up.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he might be too immature though. You might need to wait for him to become like a grown man adult.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, well, it's also making a little sense now. You were so like, you know, you're voicing your opinion and so boisterous on the MJ clip. And meanwhile in the shadows you're signing 11 year old boys.

[Max]

The baseball players. Well, I don't. I don't understand how those are related at all.

[Big Cat]

Well, I mean me think the lady doth protest too much.

[Max]

All I said it was signing baseball players.

[PFT Commenter]

I stand by the weird.

[Big Cat]

All right, so that was. That was also. And then the Dolphins. The other story. Then we'll get to our Olympics. The Dolphins are cleaning house, which they should have done a while ago. They gone with Tyree Kill. Gone with Bradley Chubb trying to trade Tua, which. Who's going to trade for him?

[PFT Commenter]

Good luck.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, good luck.

[PFT Commenter]

So what do you. What do you think Tyreek Hill does now?

[Big Cat]

He can still run. Yeah, he can. Confirmed. Not right this second, probably, but he.

[PFT Commenter]

Will be confirmed eventually.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, eventually he will be able to run again. I don't know. Chiefs.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking back to the Chiefs. Probably just the Chiefs.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Raiders. Raiders. Antonio Brown arc. Just Raiders for like a month.

[PFT Commenter]

That'd be classic. There's a Ouija board in the front office right now, and Tom's talking to. To Al Davis and it's saying Tyreek. Mm.

[Big Cat]

I don't know. I mean, he.

[Hank]

I'd take him on the Patriots.

[Big Cat]

You would. Him and Stefan. That's a lot of. There's only one ball.

[Hank]

True.

[Big Cat]

There's only one ball. That would be it. That would be a lot of personality.

[Hank]

Frable can handle it.

[Big Cat]

He is on the wrong side of. He's like 32, so. But he still is.

[PFT Commenter]

He's still fast.

[Big Cat]

Still fast. So I don't know where he'll end up, but someone will. It does feel like one of those. A team that's going to trade for him has to have a pretty good locker room to be like, hey, Tyreek, we're happy to have you on the team. Knowing everything, the distractions that may come with you.

[PFT Commenter]

That's why. That's why I feel like the Chiefs.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, the Chiefs.

[PFT Commenter]

They've done it before.

[Big Cat]

They. They know the. They know the plan.

[PFT Commenter]

They've probably. There might be a team that thinks that they can handle it, that absolutely cannot handle it.

[Big Cat]

I.

[PFT Commenter]

You know what? I. I would kind of like to see him in Buffalo.

[Big Cat]

I don't know about that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I would like to see him in Buffalo. I don't think he would like to see himself in Buffalo.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he is. He is very fast. And then there was a report that the Seahawks aren't going to franchise tag Kenneth Walker. No, duh. That was. I. I don't.

[PFT Commenter]

He's gonna get paid.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he is. Yeah. Well, relatively speaking, but, yes, he is. They got to do another zoom conference. All the running backs.

[PFT Commenter]

I feel like this is a. This is a good opportunity for running backs, though, like, coming off a Super bowl mvp.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

This should be A contract that every running back should be proud to be a part of.

[Big Cat]

Yes. It should actually say, like, instead of Kenneth Walker, it should say all running back.

[PFT Commenter]

All running backs Lifetime achievement award for running backs.

[Big Cat]

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[Big Cat]

Okay, boys, Olympics time. Do we want.

[PFT Commenter]

Where.

[Big Cat]

Who do we want to start with?

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, there's just so much to go around. There's so much the pageantry.

[Big Cat]

Who do we want to start with?

[PFT Commenter]

The snow, the ice.

[Big Cat]

I. I fell in love with my sport. I fell in love with my sport. I'm all in on my sport.

[Max]

I'm in on my sport.

[Big Cat]

Okay, so why don't you start backs?

[Max]

All right. I went with the winter biathlon.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Max]

The winter biathlon is a race that combines cross country skiing and rifle shooting.

[PFT Commenter]

Hell, yeah.

[Big Cat]

Is it?

[PFT Commenter]

We should dominate at that sport.

[Max]

We do not. We have never meddled in this.

[PFT Commenter]

It's disgusting. It is absolutely disgusting that the United.

[Big Cat]

States forgot about the cross country skiing part.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But we can listen.

[Big Cat]

We should make shooting. We got.

[PFT Commenter]

We should make up.

[Max]

We should.

[Zach]

We should.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

People.

[Max]

Yeah. I, I was.

[Hank]

I.

[Max]

Across my, my research, I saw that people were upset that the US hasn't. Hasn't won anything that involves a rifle.

[PFT Commenter]

It's disgusting. I feel like you could take any extra from any of the Yellowstone series and they would dominate at this sport.

[Max]

Agreed. It comes from Nordic military training because in the 18th century, a lot of the military, they needed to be on skis and to travel on skis. And when you're traveling on skis, you have to be at a moment's notice, be able to have your gun ready and, you know, take out, take out the target.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Max]

So they, they started doing this with their training and it became pretty competitive within the training. And then they started to time it and be. And, and it first debuted in the 1924 Winter Olympics under the name Military patrol.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Max]

I all. I got all this information from a guy on TikTok. I want to shout him out. His name is great guy. Name is Untold Stories of History. I wanted to make sure I shouted out that guy, he did a good job.

[PFT Commenter]

That's crazy that that's his name. And he got into telling history stories.

[Max]

There's, there's multiple different race types. My favorite one, which will be happening, I think the 20th and 21st February is mass start. So, yeah, all. There's the top 30 competitors all start at the exact same time. It's not a, like a. There's other ones where it's like, okay, you have a time and if you miss your target, you get like penalties.

[PFT Commenter]

Mm.

[Max]

Everyone starts at the exact same time, and the first person to finish wins the race. They're all in loops, so it depends which race. Some of them are like five kilometer loops, some of them are seven kilometer loops.

[Johnny Fanta]

But you do a loop and then.

[Max]

You shoot five targets and you have eight bullets to shoot five targets. If you don't finish, if you don't hit all five targets within those eight bullets. Yeah, you got a penalty loop. So let's say you, you run out of bullets, you have to do another loop around and then you have to go back to that target.

[Big Cat]

You just got hit target once.

[Max]

No, no. So there's. There's five targets and you have eight bullets. So if you run out of bullets to hit all five targets, you have to do a penalty loop.

[PFT Commenter]

That's a lonely loop.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, penalty loop.

[Max]

So I was actually watching it this morning. It's pretty electric. It's kind of like darts and the fact of, like, once they get to the shooting aspect of it, people are real. Like the crowd is fired up every time you hit a target. I imagine you miss a target. It's like a big, like.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[Max]

Like you could hear the crowd really react to missing the target because it's, it's night and day watching the, like, the cross country skiing is kind of boring because it's like, it. I mean, it's incredibly impressive how fast they're able to like go uphill with these skis. But then once they get to the, the, the gun portion of it, it's make or break. Like, if you're quick with the gun, you can make up so much time. And if you up the gun, you're done. You can go from like first to last in a second.

[PFT Commenter]

I can tell how. How into the sport, dude.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, the same thing happened where I was like, I think I'm in.

[PFT Commenter]

So what you're saying is they, they have the five targets and it was initially done like you would be hunting. Was it a hunting thing?

[Max]

No, it was a military thing.

[PFT Commenter]

So I. Because I was thinking that if you actually just made it, like if you combined hunting with the skiing, so you had to like bring back the most amount of meat while also doing the.

[Max]

That would be cool as well.

[PFT Commenter]

That would rock.

[Big Cat]

That would be cool.

[PFT Commenter]

Like almost like competitive fish.

[Max]

Like they're doing all of this skiing with just a, like a huge rifle on their back.

[Big Cat]

When is it.

[Max]

The mass. The mass start, I believe is February 20th and 21st.

[Big Cat]

So that's tomorrow. No, no, no, Friday.

[Max]

Yeah, Friday, Saturday.

[Big Cat]

Okay, cool. We're excited. Very excited.

[Max]

Us has never meddled.

[Big Cat]

We gotta.

[Hank]

That's all.

[Big Cat]

We gotta hit it. We gotta.

[Zach]

But we gotta.

[Max]

This was also. I was going into this year. This was our best chance to medal in like forever and we still haven't metaled.

[PFT Commenter]

So why we got one dude who's like, who's nasty with it?

[Max]

I don't know. I just saw one thing. Like the guy said that.

[Big Cat]

Okay. All right.

[Max]

Women's relay is. Will be 7:45am Central Time. So if you're listening to this early in the morning, you can still catch the women's relay and then the math. The mass starting. The mass thing.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Mass start I believe is. Keep going.

[Zach]

I'll.

[Max]

I'll make sure I get a final on.

[Big Cat]

All right, I'll do mine. I have a short track speed skating, which is absolutely electric because I watched a bunch of it last night, like old clips. And essentially you people probably remember Apollo Anton Ono, who was awesome, won our only gold in the 500 meter for men's. I think he won gold in 1500 as well.

[PFT Commenter]

All time Soul patch guy.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. This sport is just a car crash every single time. It's just who, who's, who's like, when is the crash going to happen and can you avoid the crash? It's so fast. And so Wednesday around 1 o', clock, they have the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals for the men's 500 meter. I also learned, obviously, I think I knew this, but I didn't really. The, the long track speed skating, that's just dominated by the Dutch.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Also very attractive women and men. Good. And we actually have a guy from Wisconsin who, who won the 500 meter in. He won the gold.

[PFT Commenter]

So the one that's the long track, that's like the long strides.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

It's almost like you glide. The short track is like you just.

[Big Cat]

You're always, you're just always going as fast as you can. You're. And you're in and every turn you're just. You wipe people out. Jordan Stoltz is the. Is the kid from Wisconsin who won the gold in the 500 meter long track, which was a big deal because the Dutch just like dominate.

[PFT Commenter]

I remember the dude that won. I think it was one of the years that Ono crashed out on that last turn. The guy that ended up winning, he, like a year before had this gash in his leg from a crash where I think he needed like 120 stitches in his leg to close it. Like, you can almost die from these crashes.

[Big Cat]

Crazy.

[Hank]

Have you seen the clip? It goes viral a lot.

[Big Cat]

Yes.

[Hank]

The woman that she sprinted ahead, it was a guy. I think it was. It could have been a guy. But he sprints ahead in the very beginning, so he's in the back. And then the people just forgot that he had got a correct. And he just cruised.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he cruised to a victory. So that was, I think, a 1500 meter race, which is a little longer. The one we're gonna watch on when. When you're listening to this today, the one we're gonna watch this afternoon is 500 meters. It's four and a half laps. It is so fast. It is bang, bang. It's also interesting because the quarterfinal, the way the quarterfinals and semifinals work is it's not time. So it's not the fastest time, like goes to the semifinals. It's just the top two.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

So you could have a bad. Like there could be a crash. And you finished top two in your heat. You're in the semis.

[PFT Commenter]

You're good.

[Big Cat]

Now here's where we got it. Here's where we're going to maybe get a little spicy. We got one American left in the competition. Eagles fan. Bucks. Bucks County. Yep, Bucks County. Andrew Heo. His dad owns an auto body shop in North Philadelphia. We're going to be rooting for Andrew Hugh. He's 18 to 1. So he did win the gold medal in the world tournament like two months ago. So he could do it. He could do it. Might need a crash or two or three, but we're going to root for them 18 to 1.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, not if you can just survive the crashes. That's. That's the key to winning.

[Big Cat]

Top two survive the crashes. But yeah, this sport is awesome because they just wipe out so hard. So, so hard. So I'm in on short track speed skating, and the long track is cool, too. I also learned. I listened to a podcast about. About speed skating today, which, I don't know, kind of weird.

[Max]

We just came in second in the team speed skating.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Max]

I. I know I know somebody's brother that was competing that came in second.

[Big Cat]

Nice.

[PFT Commenter]

There's a podcast about speed skating.

[Big Cat]

There was, I just, Sir, I just searched speed skating and then I listened to two British guys interview a Dutch lady talking about speed skating. The really, it wasn't that interesting other than the fact that there is a race in the Netherlands called the Tour of the or 11 cities. The tour of the 11 cities. And it's a 200 kilometer, 125 mile race, speed or ice skating race. And the race only happens when all these 11 cities, it's cold enough that they're all connected via ice. So it hasn't happened since 1997. So it's like a big fucking deal. I'm excited for the next time that race happens.

[PFT Commenter]

That's pretty cool.

[Big Cat]

That is cool.

[PFT Commenter]

I like that.

[Big Cat]

So, yeah, it's been, it's been 20, it's been almost 30 years they've had this race because they just haven't been able to do it. So next time they do it, it's going to be so sick.

[PFT Commenter]

What if you were to take like a NHL player and put him on speed skates like Connor McDavid?

[Big Cat]

I, I, I don't know. The skates are definitely different. They're not as bulky. I don't know these guys trained.

[PFT Commenter]

So do you think Connor McDavid would be more competitive at speed skating or the best speed skater in the world competitive at hockey?

[Big Cat]

Connor McDavid at speed skating?

[PFT Commenter]

For sure. Okay.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. But I think it's one of those situations where it's like, why? Yeah, I mean it would be like putting a sprinter to return a punt. I don't think the, the speed skaters could do much more than just be faster than everyone. But yeah, this sport is awesome. So one o', clock, I believe, eastern time on Wednesdays we're gonna start the quarterfinals, if you want to bet. Andrew, hio with me. 18 to 1 again, long shot. Get it. But he did win the gold in the world in the world competition a few months ago. And you could just get crashes. We just need crashes. The big one.

[PFT Commenter]

Just hang back, let other people wipe out.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Okay. Hank, what do you got?

[Hank]

I did bobsled.

[Big Cat]

Nice.

[Hank]

Some people say, you know, we can't.

[Big Cat]

Believe.

[Hank]

Jamaica we got a bob sled team.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Remind me of that. You know the, the tan you had.

[Hank]

We got a one. Yeah. So there's two man, four man. Turns out. So the four man is a driver, two pushers and a break man. Obviously the two man is just the Driver and the brake man, the brakeman, they don't use and use the brake for most of the ride. They only break after they finish.

[Big Cat]

So he's just there.

[Hank]

So it's basically just all about the guy in the front.

[PFT Commenter]

Like your job could be a parachute. Yeah.

[Hank]

Like you're. It's. It's that and then it's just kind of making sure you turn so that, you know, you get aerodynamics. Germany all time leader. Switzerland in second place. A lot of history, though, with bobsled.

[PFT Commenter]

I got a question, Hank, real quick about like the four man bobsled. You said the guy up front steers two pushers. Two pushers. So.

[Hank]

So those are guys are gonna be fast, right?

[PFT Commenter]

So. So you, you push. You do your little run at the start pushing it, and then everybody jumps into the bobsled.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And then those two guys in the middle, they just put their heads down and just. They just don't do the entire time.

[Hank]

Well, no, you got to turn. Remember, Remember the, remember the, the scene in Cool runnings when they were like practicing the bathtub?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Big Cat]

So they practice the bathtub.

[Hank]

Yeah. So. Yeah, yeah. So they just got to make sure that they're turning at the right time.

[Big Cat]

Okay, you turn together.

[Hank]

Yeah. Aerodynamics.

[PFT Commenter]

Cool.

[Hank]

2002 is the first year they did female bobsledding. USA two, two man team, two women team. Joe Back and Vanetta Flowers won, which was the first black athlete to win gold at the Olympic games. A little bit of history also. It was the first U.S. winter Olympic team gold in 1932 in Lake Placid.

[Big Cat]

Nice.

[Hank]

Also one of the only people in, like, all Olympic history to have future. A guy that has won a gold medal in winter and summer Olympics. Eddie Egan won a boxing gold medal 12 years later.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

He won a gold medal in his first and only bobsled race.

[Big Cat]

That's awesome.

[Hank]

So it doesn't really help though. Like, you know, anyone could probably do this considering he ran one bobsled race in his life and won gold.

[PFT Commenter]

I think Lolo Jones was trying to do that a couple years ago, right? Yeah.

[Big Cat]

She didn't win.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

No. In either summer or winter. Yeah.

[Hank]

But I was looking. So then that got me thinking of, or I was looking, researching, like, how many other people have won gold medals in. In different sports. Olympics. Because obviously some people have done, you know, variations of skiing or variations of. Of speed skating or whatever. Tug of war was an Olympic sport.

[Big Cat]

Love that.

[Hank]

From 1900 to 1920.

[Big Cat]

Love that.

[Hank]

U. S. And, and you could have multiple like in, in 1904, the US just won all three medals.

[Big Cat]

Do you know what was an Olympic sport in the, in the Winter Olympics? It was the dog racing. Should have had that ride. That should still be there.

[PFT Commenter]

I agree.

[Big Cat]

Those are cool. But yeah, tug of wars. That's a cool. That's a, that's cool.

[PFT Commenter]

And the dog should get the medals.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Hank]

And everyone talks about, Obviously, cool runnings. 1988 Olympic Jamaican team, but the 1994, same crew, they finished 14th overall. They. They finished ahead of like United States and France. So that Jamaican bobsled team was, was.

[Big Cat]

A wagon, by the way. I, I had a awl reach out to me knuckle pucker said that luge athletes, and I assume bobsled athletes as well, are found in like, crazy ways. Like, he knew someone who was just approached at the mall, like they had a kiosk at the mall and they were like, you have the size to be a loser. And signed up the, like, two siblings that he knew.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, you've got great balance.

[Big Cat]

They have like, baseline metrics.

[PFT Commenter]

What are. Yeah, what is the ideal prototype? Like, if you're looking for a quarterback, you're looking at a guy that's six, three.

[Big Cat]

I think it's like 230. And then, and then you also have to be willing to move to Lake Placid and. Okay, yeah, tutor.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, living in upstate New York is probably a pretty big benefit.

[Big Cat]

That's a huge one. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Didn't. Didn't Herschel Walker try to be a bobsled guy?

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah, I don't think.

[Hank]

Not olympically.

[PFT Commenter]

I think he tried.

[Hank]

I think he tried to competed in the Olympics.

[PFT Commenter]

That's, that's what I was trying to tell Memes the other day is like, the University of Georgia has some guys that would be great at just being fast and then just going really fast behind the wheel of something.

[Big Cat]

What do we have bobsled today?

[Hank]

I don't know when the bobsled actually is.

[Big Cat]

Okay. That's part of the find out because I want pe. We want to tune in. All right. What. What do you got? Pfd.

[PFT Commenter]

I. I didn't say.

[Hank]

Well, it's. It.

[Big Cat]

Oh, it already happened. Yeah, got it.

[PFT Commenter]

Who won?

[Hank]

It's happening today at 2:00'.

[Johnny Fanta]

Clock.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, okay. Did we win?

[Big Cat]

Did we win?

[Hank]

I'm finding out who's in it.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm going to guess. No, we didn't.

[Big Cat]

Did we win?

[PFT Commenter]

I think the Germans won.

[Hank]

There's a lot of German teams in here. We got one. We got one. We Got two guys.

[Big Cat]

Okay. We would have won. We won.

[Max]

By the way, then the biathlon is February 20th and 21st, actually. So I was wrong about 19.

[Big Cat]

20Th, 20th, 21st, and my short track is today. That's why I picked that. I wanted, I wanted everyone to tune in. Andrew Hill, 18:1. All right. Pft. What do you have?

[PFT Commenter]

All right, so I have the only new sport for this Olympics. Every year they like add a new one.

[Hank]

This year it's called One Golden Women's Yesterday.

[Big Cat]

Hell yes.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, and bobsled breaking moves.

[Hank]

Women's monobob.

[PFT Commenter]

Monobob. So that's just, that's like when you just have one person. Yeah, right.

[Big Cat]

It's when a guy named Bob talks like this.

[PFT Commenter]

Mono Bob.

[Big Cat]

Okay, what do you have?

[PFT Commenter]

I have ski mountaineering.

[Big Cat]

Is this one of those sports that like the French or sorry, the Italians added it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, exactly. This is a D. Basically, when you look at the Olympics, most of the sports are like DEI for Scandinavia. They're like, oh, we need to have more, more representation in our sports. So we're going to combine sports that kind of already exist. But the cool thing about ski mountaineering is that for, for centuries people have only gone downhill on skis and then they've taken the lazy way up via ski lift or some sort of mechanized means of getting them to the top of the mountain. In ski mountaineering, you actually, you have to climb up the mountain before you earn the right to go down the mountain.

[Big Cat]

So this one I respect just because it sucks so much.

[PFT Commenter]

It sucks. It is the, it is the suckiest sport to do that.

[Big Cat]

You get my respect. If it's like, holy, who would ever want to do this?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So it combines hiking and downhill skiing. And when people watch like the skiers go downhill after they climb up to the top, a lot of people be watching this and be like, wow, these guys really suck at skiing. They're not that fast. It's because they're exhausted because they just sprinted to the top.

[Big Cat]

All their skill is used going up.

[PFT Commenter]

All their skills use going up. And then they just kind gravity take them down because they're so tired. But if you watch some of the clips of these guys sprinting up the hill, they look like the Boston Dynamic robot dogs. Like running up these giant, giant ice and snow covered mountains.

[Big Cat]

Wait, are they using. What kind of ski do they switch skis?

[PFT Commenter]

So yeah, what you do is you have skis, but then your skis are inside of a sheath that gives you more traction when you're going up.

[Big Cat]

Cross country skis versus downhill.

[PFT Commenter]

So you go up the mountain, and then you have to, like, very quickly rip those off. Like, rip the covers off your skis. Then you go down the hill. So there's a couple different ways that you can do this. There's. There's the type that's just like, mixed relay, which is going to be on February 21, which is gonna be guy, girl, guy, girl, I think, competing, and.

[Big Cat]

Then they just keep going up, down, up, down, up, down.

[PFT Commenter]

So my idea to actually make this a better sport, just, like, last person going, like, there's no. There's no finish line. There's no time. It's just the last person who's still moving.

[Big Cat]

Oh, okay. So it's just. It's like a actual death sport.

[PFT Commenter]

It's like a death sport. It's like, you know, you can stop. You can stop without dying. Like, if you're just like, this sucks. Yeah, I'm tired. I'd like to. I'd like to go home now. You can do that. But then it's just like the. The epitome of endurance.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Just have the last person moving wins the gold medal. I think that's a good idea.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

And also, I learned a fun fact. Did you know that skis predate the wheel?

[Big Cat]

I did not.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. How crazy is that?

[Big Cat]

That is crazy.

[PFT Commenter]

That seems pretty stupid, actually.

[Big Cat]

Skis predate the wheel.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. How much people invented skis before they invented the wheel? This could also just be, like, skier propaganda that they've put out there.

[Big Cat]

That could also. Yeah. Or just be a random guy slipped on a couple logs on the ice.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Big Cat]

Like, oh, I got skis.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, my. My drunk Uncle Ol. He was. He was preparing for the harvest, and he fell down. Tumbled down the mountain.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. We also have some Americans that are competing in the finals. There's this one dude who's, like, a beast. I think he's from Illinois as well, so he might root for him. We got to root for this Illinois guy. Give me one second. I'll tell you what his name is.

[Hank]

Where does he train? Around here?

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Not a lot. Not a lot.

[Max]

You may not currently live in Illinois.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Where's this guy at?

[Big Cat]

There's a. There's a trash heap. Wilmot.

[Hank]

That's.

[Max]

This does look fun. It looks 10 seconds so hard watching these guys run up this hill.

[PFT Commenter]

It looks like. Yeah, it looks like the most annoying sport to participate in.

[Big Cat]

That was just porn.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, just watching porn.

[Big Cat]

That was just porn.

[Max]

I looked up Schemo, and now I guess some things aren't Some things aren't your imagination.

[Memes]

What?

[PFT Commenter]

Max just found Cameron Smith.

[Big Cat]

Cameron smith.

[PFT Commenter]

Cameron Smith.

[Max]

It's 99 skiing Cameron Smith.

[PFT Commenter]

Cameron Smith. That's who we're rooting for.

[Big Cat]

All right, we need to win this. I still need, like 15 more. I need a shitload more gold medals for my bet for the Super Bowl. Okay. That's a good sport. I'm in.

[PFT Commenter]

I respect this sport because it does. I think if I tried to do this, I would probably quit within maybe, maybe 10 seconds.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

This guy currently lives in Colorado.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he's from Rockford and he moved to Colorado to go up and down mountains. Okay, Zach, what do you have? What sport do you have for us?

[Zach]

So I had figure skating. Pairs, the free skate. Are you guys familiar with the pairs figure skating?

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I think so.

[Zach]

So the way they break it down is there's 16 teams who qualify through the. The short program the day before. So it's like a two minute program. Then they qualify to go into, like the long form free skate, which is about four minutes. And there's like, there's like eight or nine elements that have to be incorporated in the program or in their sequence, which are. You gotta have three lifts. One twist, two throws, one side by side solo jump, a side by side jump combination, one pair spin, a choreograph sequence, and of course the death spin all go into one routine.

[PFT Commenter]

Of course. The death spin.

[Zach]

Yes. It's a mandatory element in the pairs.

[Big Cat]

You have to do the.

[PFT Commenter]

Gotta do the death spin.

[Zach]

Everybody's got a death spin.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Zach]

And the way they do the points is like there's a base point system and then your score is based higher, lower on those base points via, like, the execution of each element.

[PFT Commenter]

And then the Russian judge is always like, the u. S. Sucks. France wins.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Russia is Russia exiled right now?

[Hank]

They're banned.

[PFT Commenter]

That's right. Yeah.

[Zach]

Yeah, they got some stuff going on.

[Big Cat]

What, are we going to win this or.

[Zach]

No, we did not win pairs yesterday, but we have some promising skaters coming up. They're doing the single women's short program today to qualify for free skate tomorrow.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Zach]

But there was a little bit of drama in the pairs free skate yesterday. And so the German team was supposed to be a lock, and they got caught kind of playing defense instead of kind of like they went out there to skate, to defend, still being at first up by seven points. They got kind of got caught sleeping.

[PFT Commenter]

They did prevent defense.

[Zach]

Yeah, they went. Prevent. They should have went all out to secure the win.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, got it.

[Zach]

They let The Korean. Or they let the Japanese team sneak in and set a world record.

[Max]

Wow.

[PFT Commenter]

You can't let the Japanese hang around.

[Zach]

They.

[PFT Commenter]

They.

[Zach]

They hung around so quick.

[Johnny Fanta]

Wow.

[Big Cat]

So they won. They.

[PFT Commenter]

Did the Japanese one feel like maybe some sort of alliance between the Germans and the Japanese to just let them go ahead and do that?

[Zach]

Raiku and Ryuichi had no business, and they had. Had all the business with a world record.

[Big Cat]

Are they. All the pairs. They're dating, right?

[Zach]

There's some chemistry out on the ice.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Because, like, I feel like that's. It's a very sensual sport to be like, you have. You have the other person. Their lives are in your hands. You're twirling them, you're spinning them, you're dipping them.

[PFT Commenter]

I think even if you don't, like, align sexually with the interest of your part, you got. You have to try it at least once, right?

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Zach]

There was, like, a lot of chemistry between the Japanese team and the team from Hungary. The German team kind of skates kind of more clinical. Like, they're very precise and. But it's. There's no, like. There's no, like, emotion evoking from the Germans skating. It's just, like, cut and dry with, like, solid execution.

[Big Cat]

Got it.

[Hank]

Isn't there a lot of corrupt judges in the sport?

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Good question.

[Big Cat]

Gone.

[PFT Commenter]

Good question.

[Big Cat]

Hank, we start.

[Hank]

We.

[Big Cat]

By the way, we start. We stopped recording earlier today. That's why PFT has a costume. Costume change, and Hank just lost.

[PFT Commenter]

It's not a cost. It's a different shirt.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I know, but you call it a costume change.

[PFT Commenter]

I guess it's costume change.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

What?

[Max]

I just wish we had a full. Full body pick of pft.

[PFT Commenter]

Right? Get your jokes in now.

[Big Cat]

No, he's doing his Olympics. Those are Olympic pants.

[Johnny Fanta]

Computers.

[Max]

Your computer's blocking it. Anyway.

[Big Cat]

Those are Olympic pants.

[Max]

Yeah, I know. It looks good. That's why I was saying the people should be able to see the.

[Big Cat]

That's a costume change.

[Hank]

What does that look good for?

[Big Cat]

The costume change for pft?

[Max]

Yeah, it looks great.

[PFT Commenter]

All right. So I. I worked out a little bit on the lunch break. I thought that I had a normal pair of pants to put on. I went into my gym bag. Turns out I did not have a normal pair of pants to change into. All I had was my flags of the world pajama pants, which is great.

[Big Cat]

And perfect for this episode.

[Max]

I don't know why you're defending yourself.

[Big Cat]

It's the Olympic preview.

[PFT Commenter]

Because I can see. I'm looking at Hank's Dead eyes right now being like, well, if I say that looks great, it's like RFK junior. I did cocaine off a toilet seat when I was younger. But I kind of. Listen, I caught a glimpse of myself and I thought it's a little bit much even for me. Like this is a accidental four year old kind of day that I pulled off. Four year old who got dressed in the dark. It's fine. It happens.

[Big Cat]

A day that ends in y.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes, yes.

[Big Cat]

I like the, the pants are, are sick for the Olympic preview.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that's why I wore them.

[Big Cat]

They're. They're perfect. All right. So do we have any more pairs?

[Zach]

So we. Another fun fact though. Yesterday, the team that came in second, Georgia, they had never meddled in any winter Olympic sport until yesterday with that silver.

[Big Cat]

Oh, good for them.

[Zach]

And they were hitting speed. They're fast team.

[Big Cat]

And they're married.

[Zach]

They are together.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And that guy's name is Gleb. Smoking.

[Zach]

They're hitting speeds of Davis 16 miles an hour on the, on the ice yesterday.

[Big Cat]

Oh, they're a good looking couple.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

All right, memes, you got your last. The last sport. What did you do?

[Memes]

I'll keep mine tight. I did nordic combined. Ski jumping.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Memes]

Nordic combined is a winter Olympic sport that merges ski jumping and cross country skiing.

[PFT Commenter]

And shooting.

[Memes]

No, no shooting. That's a biathlete.

[Big Cat]

Oh, it's like steeplechase.

[Memes]

No, it's a ski jump. So they do the jump and then they. Whoever has the longest jump gets put in first for the cross country skiing.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Memes]

And then they go out one at a time and you're essentially just chasing.

[Big Cat]

The guy in front of you. So it's steeplechase if they did long jump first.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes. And then, then there's guns.

[Memes]

There's no guns.

[Big Cat]

And, and are we. I'd have to imagine we suck at this. Norway just dominates.

[Memes]

Yeah, we do suck at this. This was the only time the US is meddled in. This was 2010 where they won four medals. They won one gold, one silver, and no four silvers.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Memes]

And that was just one time. Sports been around for 100 years.

[PFT Commenter]

This is definitely. It's, it's, it's slanted against the United States. Yeah, this is how they get around there. No.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Norway.

[PFT Commenter]

This is how they commute to work.

[Johnny Fanta]

That's.

[Big Cat]

I mean, the Dutch, the, the speed skating sport. I talked about that Dutch. That's just what they did.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Memes]

Yeah. But similar to Max's, this was developed in Norway to train soldiers in both endurance and explosive Technical power. And it was developed to forge super soldiers.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, that sounds.

[Big Cat]

That's badass.

[PFT Commenter]

Interesting.

[Memes]

Capable of navigating steep terrain and traversing snowy landscapes, it remains a premier high intensity test of athleticism.

[PFT Commenter]

See, this is why we always tell people, like, don't make your kids specialize in one thing. Have them be athletes all around. Which is why we keep getting blown out at the combine, at the Nordic. Com or at the biathlon. Yeah, we spent. We got kids growing up specializing in guns. They need to be more well rounded with skis too.

[Memes]

This is also the only Winter Olympic sport that doesn't have women in it.

[Big Cat]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Hank]

Hell yes.

[Big Cat]

Sport for guys.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, why not?

[Big Cat]

They just jump and then they.

[Memes]

So it's like a split event.

[Big Cat]

They'll do like the biathlon or whatever.

[Memes]

Yeah, they do the jump at 3am so this is on the 19th. They'll do the jump at 3am and then they do the cross country at 7am that day. But if you're good at the long.

[Big Cat]

Jump, you can get a nice head start.

[Memes]

You get a nice head start, but most of the time, if you're good at the long jump, you're not good at the cross country skiing.

[PFT Commenter]

This sounds like the dudes just wanted to make up an event just to kind of get away and just have like dudes only time.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. And it also seems like a made up event for like the. The good cross country skiers just want to win a different event. Right. Because it seems like that's. It's slanted towards the cross country skiing portion. How long do they ski for?

[Memes]

10 minutes. Oh, I, I put this as a.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I think that's an Official Olympic distance. 10 minutes.

[Memes]

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend.

[Big Cat]

Go out for 10 minutes. We'll see where you end up. Looks like 10k. 10k. You wouldn't recommend watching.

[Memes]

Wouldn't recommend watching. Just catch the highlights.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Memes]

There's no point.

[Big Cat]

Jump is pretty cool.

[PFT Commenter]

It's awesome.

[Big Cat]

I'm in on that. I'm definitely in on ski jump.

[PFT Commenter]

It's terrifying, but it looks awesome.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, those guys.

[PFT Commenter]

Who is that guy? That was. I think his name was Eddie the Eagle.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

He was from the United States and he sucked at ski jumping, but he represented us in the Olympics.

[Big Cat]

I'm not familiar with this.

[PFT Commenter]

That dude kind of rocked. If I remember, he was just not very good. But for whatever reason, he got an automatic bid. Maybe when it was in Lake Placid.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And so, yeah, they're like, go, Eddie the Eagle. And we all cheered for me, jumped like 10ft. New as a hero.

[Big Cat]

Did. The endurance that it takes for these cross country skiers got to be insane.

[Max]

Like, when you go skiing for, like, a little bit and you run out of speed and you just have to go from, like, one side of the lodge to the other side of the lodge, it takes up everything I have.

[Big Cat]

They do have better skis for it, but still, it doesn't matter. Yeah, they have skinny skis, but yeah, it's. It's insane how. How these guys are just insane athletes.

[PFT Commenter]

Never been skiing.

[Big Cat]

That's right.

[PFT Commenter]

Never been snowboarding.

[Big Cat]

You should just cross country ski. So, yeah.

[Hank]

Look like you're going skiing today.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you should ask. You should do some cross country skiing. So when people like, do you ski? Be like, yeah, cross country, cross country.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm at skimo.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Mountaineer ski.

[Big Cat]

Okay. Good job, boys. Good Olympic preview.

[PFT Commenter]

I forget if you said this when you're talking about curling the other day. Did you. Did you cover the fact that all the stones come from the same island?

[Big Cat]

I did not.

[PFT Commenter]

So if you have. If you have a curling stone, they're all taken from granite from this one tiny island. I like that because that's, like, where the granite grows. The specific way to be the right density.

[Big Cat]

It's like the one. The one family that makes all the footballs.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, exactly. Or the. The family that gets the mud to rub down a base.

[Big Cat]

Baseballs.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. No, it's like, I want to say $5,000 for a set of curling stones because you have to get them from this one place.

[Big Cat]

That seems ridiculous.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Barrier to entry. I think there was more cheating for Canada, by the way.

[PFT Commenter]

I saw Finger on stone. Again.

[Big Cat]

Finger on stone. They just can't stop cheating.

[PFT Commenter]

Mm.

[Big Cat]

Absolute bullshit. Okay, good, good. Olympics preview. Andrew. Hugh. Let's. Let's root for him 18 to 1. Bucks County, Philadelphia.

[Max]

Bucks County.

[Big Cat]

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[Hank]

My Hut seat is Wendy's.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

They put out an announcement today. It read like a team, like a sports team. Announcement said Wendy's is to close hundreds of restaurants in 2026 in what interim CEO Ken Cook calls a rebuilding year.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I love that.

[Big Cat]

I. They're tanking for draft picks.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep. Yeah. Trust the process.

[Big Cat]

I do like that.

[Hank]

Yeah, it's tough, you know, Tough. Tough to hear for Wendy's, but I guess they'll. They're going to be back better than ever.

[PFT Commenter]

Maybe they've got a plan. They. Right now they're in cap also interim.

[Hank]

Just the fact that it's an interim CEO.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Sounds like an interim coach.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. That's not great.

[Max]

We're McDonald's guys anyway.

[Big Cat]

We are.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Can I, can I take Wendy's maybe off the hot seat real quick?

[Big Cat]

Sure.

[PFT Commenter]

Like in an effort to maybe try to rescue. Because I think iron sharpens iron in the fast food game. Right. Yeah. Right. So here's the thing. I read an article the other day about this dude that made a bet and because he lost his bet, he had to eat Chili's or Wendy's chili for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day for 30 days. Okay. He did it. He got through 17 days. At the time this article was written, he lost £17.

[Memes]

Oh.

[PFT Commenter]

So it might just be a great diet. Maybe it's just Wendy's for Health, or he's just.

[Hank]

Every time he eats.

[PFT Commenter]

That is probably a more likely explanation, but we're trying to look on the bright side here.

[Big Cat]

What could be the downside of having someone become a celebrity endorser for a fast food restaurant saying they lost a ton of weight?

[Zach]

I don't.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't see a problem with that.

[Big Cat]

No problem here.

[Hank]

Or.

[Big Cat]

That's never gone wrong. It worked for you.

[Hank]

And you did gumbo every day, too.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Kidney stones. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Okay, good hut.

[Hank]

Seat My Cool Thrones, Game of Thrones.

[PFT Commenter]

Isn't Jared getting out of prison soon?

[Big Cat]

I think so. I think. Well, no, we looked it up. It was, like, maybe five years from now.

[Hank]

Oh, I thought the super siiz guy, me, was also super problematic.

[Big Cat]

Well, the super siiz guy, me. Morgan Spurlock.

[Hank]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Cat]

He also wasn't.

[PFT Commenter]

He canceled himself.

[Big Cat]

No. But wasn't he an alcoholic?

[Memes]

A severe alcoholic.

[Big Cat]

And he went and did the Super Size Me. And the doctor was like, you have liver failure because you've been eating McDonald's? It's like, no, dude, it's because you stopped drinking.

[PFT Commenter]

No, he's like.

[Big Cat]

Like, I have the shakes. Like, yeah, dude, you stopped drinking vodka every day.

[PFT Commenter]

He's like, it's probably that Arch deluxe that I had.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, yeah, that was.

[Memes]

That was.

[PFT Commenter]

That gave me hepatitis.

[Big Cat]

When is he getting out?

[PFT Commenter]

I think Jared a little too soon.

[Big Cat]

He's got to do the gauntlet when he gets out. He does 2029.

[PFT Commenter]

2029.

[Big Cat]

All right. Okay. Five years. He's got to do three years. Holy should. Okay, it's 2026.

[PFT Commenter]

There's no such press as bad press.

[Big Cat]

No, Jared's got bad press.

[Zach]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, then I won't say it.

[Big Cat]

Bad guy.

[PFT Commenter]

I just had a marketing. Just had a marketing idea.

[Big Cat]

I don't want to get in business with Jared.

[PFT Commenter]

Part of my cheesesteak.

[Big Cat]

Nope, nope, nope.

[PFT Commenter]

But what if he gets fat? What if the whole thing is, like, now I got so disgustingly fat, and then he dies.

[Big Cat]

Okay. Yeah, yeah. If it kills him.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. If he eats himself to death.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, yeah, that could work.

[PFT Commenter]

That's good press. Yeah.

[Hank]

Yeah. We could poison them.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. We could be heroes. Yeah, we would be heroes. All right. That was your cool turn.

[Hank]

My Cool times. Game of Thrones.

[Big Cat]

Oh, Game of Thrones.

[Hank]

Yeah, Back all the way back.

[Big Cat]

How many episodes are we into this? Because I, I was not familiar it.

[Hank]

Was back, I believe, the fifth or sixth episode. They're short episodes.

[Big Cat]

All right. So I can get into it.

[Hank]

It's like 20, 25, 40 minutes.

[Big Cat]

Okay, I'm in.

[Hank]

It's. It's slower at first, but I, I, I, I liked it from the beginning. And it's. It. The season has. I don't know if it's over now, but it's. It's gotten very, very, very good.

[PFT Commenter]

How does this fit into the Game of Thrones universe?

[Hank]

It happens after House of Dragon, before.

[PFT Commenter]

Game of Thrones, but House of Dragon is still going on.

[Hank]

House of Dragon is. Season three is coming out. Maybe never. It's gotten delayed. It seems like it's gonna be bad.

[Big Cat]

Did I watch season two of that?

[Hank]

I don't think so. I stopped. Ever.

[PFT Commenter]

The crab piece.

[Max]

I did the same.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, the crab feasters.

[Max]

I have a question, Hank.

[Zach]

Yeah, I asked.

[Max]

Question, please. Do I need to know anything about Game of Thrones to watch this? Like, do I need.

[Hank]

No, it's.

[Big Cat]

It's this.

[Hank]

It's similar houses. There's Targaryens, Baratheon's Stark, not Starks in the show.

[Max]

But is there a billion different characters that are going to make it hard for me to know?

[Hank]

It's two. Two main. It's a. It's a little Game of Thrones.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, it's. It's great.

[PFT Commenter]

In Night King, the kid.

[Zach]

Remember?

[Big Cat]

Wait. Big, tall guy and little kid.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

I hope he doesn't get any ice. It is on.

[Hank]

The whole show is on. Tomorrow's part of it.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. No ice in his. The back of his shirt.

[PFT Commenter]

Right?

[Hank]

Remember Master Aimon when he's, when he's like, croaking and he, He's. No, he's like egg.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Cat]

You could say any name, any scene. I remember.

[PFT Commenter]

He's croaking.

[Hank]

No, that's why I stopped watching the egg that he's. No, but this is Game of Thrones. The egg that he's talking about was his brother. So it's like. Remember how old Master Raymond was?

[Big Cat]

No.

[Hank]

Yeah, he was like, 100 years old, so whatever. Yeah, it's good.

[Big Cat]

It's really good. All right, I'm in.

[PFT Commenter]

And they croaked.

[Hank]

It sounds like you're not.

[Big Cat]

Are you fully. You said. You said it's short episodes. I'm in.

[Max]

You're fully caught up.

[PFT Commenter]

How are the dragons?

[Hank]

No dragons.

[PFT Commenter]

I'M out. See ya.

[Max]

Are you fully caught up, Hank?

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I'm out.

[Max]

They said the last episode, the most recent episode, was like the second best episode of television ever.

[Big Cat]

It.

[Hank]

It was.

[PFT Commenter]

I was.

[Max]

And you're telling me these are no drive minute episodes? There's no.

[Hank]

The last one was a little longer. The. But it's set up like it was. It was a. The whole episode before was a set, so it like set. I'm not going to spoil it, but it's set up for a big, you know, battle, if you will. And then the whole episode was just that battle.

[Max]

What's the name of the show again? Knights of the Seven Kingdoms.

[Hank]

A Night of.

[Big Cat]

One Night in Paris. I think it's just accidentally been watching Paris Hilton.

[Zach]

Sex.

[Hank]

A Night of the Seven Kingdoms.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Shortage.

[PFT Commenter]

No. Dragons.

[Big Cat]

Fine. Yeah. It's just the same episode.

[Max]

Over.

[Johnny Fanta]

Over.

[PFT Commenter]

Is there a possibility, Night of the Seven Kingdoms, that the dragons are off somewhere off screen together and they're going to make an appearance later on this season?

[Hank]

No spoilers, because the show hasn't. Season three hasn't come out, but the dragons all die. And of House of Dragon.

[Zach]

Wait, wait, what?

[Big Cat]

Three?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, the dragons all die and then. But it hasn't happened yet.

[Hank]

Daenerys brings them back.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah, yeah, we knew that. Also, George R. Martin's just like, yeah, I don't really feel like finishing this. Yeah, I saw that. He's like, I'm just kind of like, it takes too long.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, dude, how could you do that? I think everybody, everybody knew this is what he was doing like eight years ago. But he finally, finally said, yeah, I don't really feel like writing.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, just half ass it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Gbt.

[PFT Commenter]

Let AI take care.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

Memes goes, yeah, he's a Jets fan. He's probably down in the dumps.

[Big Cat]

So we gotta get the Jets.

[PFT Commenter]

Actually reach out to George R.R.

[Johnny Fanta]

Martin.

[PFT Commenter]

Martin. Just, just to talk about the Jets. Cool.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, reach out to them. Memes.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, done.

[Big Cat]

Okay. Your hot seat culture.

[PFT Commenter]

My hot seat is all girls.

[Big Cat]

All of our girls.

[PFT Commenter]

Just girls. Like if you got a girl hot seat.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Because I've, I've fallen deep into the well of the clavicular cinematic universe and the, the mogging that's been going on. The ASU frat leader getting out, absolutely alpha mogged. Everything goes along with it. It is, it's become like a WWE storyline where now you've got like a twin tall brother, 6 foot 5 giga Chad from Australia who came over to the United States to avenge the mogging of his brother clavicular by the asu. Fracking, who might not even be a frat king. He might be a fake frat king involved in all this. And I. I can't get enough of the recaps of it. It's. Every time I see one, it makes me laugh so hard.

[Big Cat]

What are the recaps?

[PFT Commenter]

The recaps. The recaps are just like, talking about how this guy got mugged by frat king, and then somebody else stole his phone. And then this guy. This kid is now jester maxing. But then there's a goblin Chad that got into a fight with clavicular, and then the goblin Chad stole the phone and then mogged the phone too. So, like, everybody's getting up.

[Max]

I don't. I don't understand, like, any of those words.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I don't understand them either.

[Max]

Yeah, you obviously do.

[PFT Commenter]

No, I don't.

[Big Cat]

No, it's okay.

[PFT Commenter]

What is just maxing Gesture Maxing. Gesture. Maxing is when you do something unproductive.

[Big Cat]

So you do understand the words.

[PFT Commenter]

I know that. I know that one. Yeah.

[Max]

When you do something unproductive.

[Big Cat]

What's mogging?

[PFT Commenter]

My. I don't know what mogging is. I think. I think mogging is.

[Max]

No, I think I know.

[PFT Commenter]

Alpha being alpha.

[Max]

No, no. Mogging is like. Like, if I was standing next to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger. He would be body mogging me.

[Big Cat]

Got it.

[Zach]

I think that's right.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Because he, like, next.

[Johnny Fanta]

It.

[Max]

His body looks better than my body. Some may say. So he would be mogging me.

[PFT Commenter]

Some. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

So Zach is eye mogging you, right?

[Max]

Correct. Zach would be. I. Yeah, I think I have very little knowledge.

[PFT Commenter]

But you're also. You're Max maxing right now.

[Max]

That I don't. That I don't get.

[PFT Commenter]

Because Zach is. Zach is imaxing.

[Max]

I would be Max. Max. You're Max maxing Just because my name is Max.

[Big Cat]

Like the movie theater. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Like, maxing is. You could do anything if you're just doing anything. Like, Hank is not maxing right now.

[Max]

No, he's. No, no. No naps.

[Big Cat]

No naps.

[Zach]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

No naps. But you can max anything. It's just like, whatever you happen to be doing at that given time.

[Max]

So you guys are like, voice mogging Hank right now.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, big time. Hank just got voicemail.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

See?

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Hank got mogged by Sam Darnold.

[Johnny Fanta]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, Sam Darnold Brady.

[Big Cat]

No.

[Max]

But Sam Darnold mogged Drake May, and.

[Zach]

Hank was jester maxing at the super bowl.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

What's the Goblin?

[PFT Commenter]

Well, no. So Drake maybe?

[Big Cat]

No, Goblin's part of the. The show that Hank was talking about.

[Hank]

No Goblins.

[PFT Commenter]

Drake May. At the Super Bowl. Drake May. Nine maxed.

[Max]

Nine.

[PFT Commenter]

He nine maxed like nine.

[Max]

Like J.J. mcCarthy. Yeah, yeah, got it.

[PFT Commenter]

That was.

[Max]

Got it.

[PFT Commenter]

The whole playoffs. You could say pinnocks.

[Zach]

Max.

[Johnny Fanta]

Max.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

But yeah, you can just. You just say whatever you want, but it is like a WWE storyline that these guys have somehow concocted for each other. I don't think they're doing any of it on purpose, but it's just. It's a very funny, weird part of the Internet that I don't. I don't fully understand, but it makes me laugh whenever I look at it.

[Big Cat]

Well, let's get into the maxing.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, yeah, I think we are maxing right now. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Max.

[PFT Commenter]

Maxing. Well, they look Max. They looks Max, too. Which is when you, like, smash your bones to give yourself a better structure.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So like, you can pound your.

[Big Cat]

Your.

[PFT Commenter]

Your cheekbones with like a little hammer and it's supposed to over calcify. Now these guys end up just looking like vampires.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

None of it's healthy, but. Yeah, I'm surprised you haven't paid attention to it.

[Big Cat]

I saw. I've seen it. I've not opted in. Well, it was. It was. A lot of it was on vacation. I was trying not to be online too much, and I just like. It's one of those ones. I was just like, I'll let it pass.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, no, you can't let this pass. This. Because this kid's gonna be president one day.

[Big Cat]

So I have to. I have to pay attention.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. He will be president the United States at some point.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

And I think all our future.

[Big Cat]

All the New York Times wrote about.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah. All our future.

[Big Cat]

I'll read the New York Times. I'll do it.

[Max]

Looks. Aren't everything clavicular?

[Hank]

Begs ketamine.

[Big Cat]

I'm gonna read this article and do it like the real Boomer way of being. Like, I saw this clavicular guy on New York Times.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I have a take about clavicular. I don't think he's that hot.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he looks like a regular dude.

[PFT Commenter]

He's a normal looking guy.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. No, he's not like, stopping.

[PFT Commenter]

If this guy spends 100% of his time trying to look his absolute best, that's very sad for him.

[Max]

This guy or the Bears tailgate guy?

[Big Cat]

There's still okay guy. He was naturally beautiful. People don't know. I saw a really Hot guy at the Bears packers playoff game and then invited him and his friends to the office the next week to judge how hot he was. And he was hot.

[PFT Commenter]

I think we got nine guys walk around the office that look better than clavicular.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, Blake for sure.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Blake. Yeah, Mincy. Once the hair grows back.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Do you think Blake gets bothered by the fact that every time a hawkeye comes up, I'm like, but we got Blake.

[Hank]

That's a compliment.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he's a good looking dude.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

But it feels a little like Michael Scott. Ryan Howard. Ish.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, but that's a funny show, man.

[Johnny Fanta]

You're hot.

[PFT Commenter]

But that's a funny storyline. Can you bring up the the Goblin Chad dance? You gotta see the Goblin Chad. The Goblin Chad is mesmerizing.

[Big Cat]

I don't know if I want to see the Goblin Chad dance.

[PFT Commenter]

Clavicular gets absolutely mogged.

[Big Cat]

What's going through your head right now? Party Hank. What's going through your head?

[Hank]

This is tough. It's tough, it's tough. Listen.

[Big Cat]

Tough.

[Hank]

Listen, Max.

[Zach]

This is.

[Big Cat]

This is. We're basically doing fantasy boys right now.

[Max]

I can't find anything about the Goblin.

[Big Cat]

It's worse than fancy fuck boys.

[Zach]

No, we're currently pod maxing.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we're pod maxing.

[Big Cat]

Zach gets it. I'm having fun.

[Max]

What platform should I be searching? Goblin Chat.

[PFT Commenter]

I actually don't know Twitter.

[Max]

It was nothing. I did Google nothing.

[Big Cat]

Was that your hot seat or cool throne? I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

I think both.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it was everything. Okay. Yeah, that's everything. That's. Because really, that's what I've been paying attention to. That's all you got is Goblin Chad? I found the Goblin Chad video. Bald Max and Goblin Chad. It's crazy. That's what they're saying. This is how I talk now. Oh, all right. Look at this guy. Big cat. Look at this guy. So there he is. He gets jacked up, and then somebody takes his phone. And then look at this.

[Big Cat]

Like a scuffle.

[PFT Commenter]

Look at this mesmerizing guy, though, right? Coming in the screen. He turns the phone around. This guy.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he's a ugly, creepy as, Right?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I love that guy. Okay, all right. So that's my brain melting out of my ear.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, that's true. Brain rot.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Big Cat]

Okay, we're in it. Now that I've gotten a little familiar, I'll have to pay attention. That's. I do that whenever I see something where it's like. It's like a foreign language. If you never Learn what the link, what they're talking about. Then you won't see it everywhere. Once you learn what they're talking about, you're. You're hooked, you're done.

[PFT Commenter]

I opt out of a lot of those things.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

For whatever reason, this caught me at the right time. I. I had time.

[Big Cat]

This one. Gotcha. Okay. My hot seat is. I have two. One is us. Because Bleacher Report did a top 99 QBs of all time ranking and Dak Prescott is on there. So he's at 59.

[PFT Commenter]

59.

[Big Cat]

59. I went through it. I wasn't really going to get that mad about a list. The only, the only issue I had was they had Marino at 10. I feel like he should be higher. He was. Marino was behind Steve Young and Drew Brees. I just feel like Marino deserves more respect.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't understand. You can put Dak at 59.

[Big Cat]

He's at 59. So if you want to get mad about a QB rankings, he's a 59.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm a little mad. Ryan Tannehill, 99.

[Big Cat]

Ryan Tanner's 99. Matthew Stafford's 20. Patrick Mahomes is 4. Russell Wilson was ahead of Lamar Jackson.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, I guess that makes sense.

[Big Cat]

I mean, if they're. Yeah. If you're just going off career Super Bowls. But. Yeah, but you'd rather. I mean, Lamar Jackson's been the better quarterback. He's won two MVPs.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But I would say if you're doing a list of the great. Is this the greatest quarterbacks?

[Big Cat]

I think that's what it is. Top 99 quarterbacks, NFL history.

[PFT Commenter]

I think I would like total career. I think I would put Russell Wilson above Lamar.

[Big Cat]

Lamar's been the best quarterback in the league twice. 77. Derek Carr. Okay. Future Jet.

[PFT Commenter]

Future Jet.

[Big Cat]

Alex Smith. Oh, Jalen Hurts is on there. Let's go. There you go. Max Smith is on there. Yeah. Well, they had to get 99. It's a lot of quarterbacks.

[PFT Commenter]

Kirk Cousins is 71.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Get mad about it.

[PFT Commenter]

Kirk Cousins I would put above Dak Prescott.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. My other hot seat is the MLBPA executive director Tony Clark, who resigned today. And then it came out. His resigning. His resignation was after an internal investigation revealed he had an inappropriate relationship with his sister in law who had been hired by the Union in 2023. Dog.

[PFT Commenter]

Sister in law.

[Big Cat]

Dog sister. He hired his sister in law. And then. And then. Dogged. Dogged.

[PFT Commenter]

This is. This might be the kind of guy you want running your union.

[Big Cat]

That's dog move.

[PFT Commenter]

This is a guy that, like. And keep your friends close and your relatives closer.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I feel like I'm gonna wait for all the facts to come out. I'll put it down. I'm gonna wait for all the facts. Yeah, it could. This could be way worse. It sounds bad, but it also could be way worse.

[Big Cat]

My cool throne is Tiger woods the Masters, because he has said that he has not ruled out playing in the Masters this year.

[Hank]

This year.

[Big Cat]

Wow. This year. It's got to be awesome. The Tiger, he just can play in.

[PFT Commenter]

The Masters whenever he wants.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he should. Why not? It'd be fun. Be fun to have Tiger in the Masters.

[PFT Commenter]

The way that he said it makes me think it's on.

[Big Cat]

It's loading.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

We also had LeBron James. Remember there was a story that he stopped drinking wine because he missed the beginning of the season. He also stopped eating chocolate chip cookies. So just. So we're updating on LeBron's diet. We're getting little pieces that just come out every now and then.

[PFT Commenter]

Did somebody take care so much that.

[Big Cat]

He'S stopped eating cookies?

[Johnny Fanta]

Cookies.

[PFT Commenter]

Did someone take away his cookies?

[Big Cat]

Someone didn't. I don't know if someone took away his cookies. I think he took his way. His cookies himself.

[PFT Commenter]

He took his own cookies away.

[Big Cat]

And then my other cool throne is. Is the Chicago Cubs, because I don't know if you guys are ready for this, but they have the. The team slogan hashtag. The Cubs are going to win the World Series this year. Do you guys want to guess what their team slogan is?

[PFT Commenter]

Cub up.

[Big Cat]

Nope.

[Hank]

W up.

[Big Cat]

Nope. It's club the W fly.

[PFT Commenter]

The Cub.

[Big Cat]

This.

[PFT Commenter]

Cubby hole.

[Big Cat]

I said it. This is.

[PFT Commenter]

This.

[Big Cat]

I don't fucking know, dude. It's the weirdest thing ever. This. This. What is that?

[PFT Commenter]

No, it's this.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, this.

[PFT Commenter]

It's a. It's a who's on first sketch.

[Big Cat]

I. I guess it gets people talking. This. Cubs.

[Johnny Fanta]

This.

[PFT Commenter]

This.

[Big Cat]

I mean. Oh, that was mean. Person said this team is missing the playoffs. This.

[Zach]

What a.

[Big Cat]

How do you run out of slogans that bad? That. It's just this. What is that?

[Zach]

This?

[Hank]

It's like an acronym.

[Big Cat]

No, I don't think so. I think it's just this. Like, what are you so excited about? This.

[PFT Commenter]

Why is the. Why is the avatar for the Cubs a different color?

[Big Cat]

Oh, no, it's probably for spring training. That's probably their spring training hats.

[PFT Commenter]

This.

[Big Cat]

They're doing spring training right now. This. Because they're in the desert. This. Yeah. I don't know. This. All right, Zach, we're Very excited for this.

[Zach]

Oh, no, just. I. This. My Hudsee this week. I'm gonna have to probably put myself in the HUD seat. I've accidentally kind of alarm clocked too close to the sun recently. We. You know, we all went on vacation this last week.

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[Zach]

That was a great time. It was nice. You know, I got home, got to see the parents. I. I thought we. We left on Tuesday. I left on Tuesday. We recorded that Tuesday. I thought I was gonna miss my flight, so I was, like, frantically trying to, like, hustle out the house, get packed, and, like, just get out of there. I didn't do, like, the checklist of things you would do to leave for a couple of days. That's on me. And I. I had left my alarm clock plugged in, unbeknownst to me.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no, you left the bomb in.

[Big Cat]

You left the bombing.

[PFT Commenter]

You left for five days. Bomb unattended.

[Big Cat]

Nope.

[Zach]

So what happened is, like, I'm at home. I. I was at home. I was out walking the lake, trying to get some steps in. You know, we're on the diet challenge, trying to stay active. I got a phone call. I was like, okay, who's calling me from my apartment complex? So I pick it up, and it's a gentleman's voice I never heard before. I was like, what's going on? How are we, man? He's like, you've got. Have you seen any of our emails? And I was like, no, I haven't seen any emails. But, like, what can I. I'm happy. What can I do?

[PFT Commenter]

That guy hits you with a per. My email in real life.

[Big Cat]

Oh, no, Zach.

[Zach]

And he was basically like, hey, I need you to respond to this email that we sent out about alarm clocks because you begin noise complaints. And I was like, well, I'm not home. How am I getting a noise complaint? Because the last noise complaint I got was for playing Xbox too loud. I was like, well, I haven't been on.

[Big Cat]

You got a noise complaint?

[Zach]

That was tough.

[Big Cat]

Aren't you plugged in?

[Zach]

Yeah, but I'm on the mic, so I guess I was like, I could have been getting a little too excited.

[Big Cat]

Got it.

[Zach]

So I was confused at first. He was like, no, your alarm clock is going off, like, today and yesterday. We're gonna have to take, like, a meeting here. But before then, I need you to respond to this email. I was like, okay, I can do that, and I'll respond right now. And I was, like, kind of freaking out. So then I accidentally replied all to all my neighbors. Yeah, sure. You can go into my apartment and unplug the alarm clock. So now they all know it was me. Wednesday, 1 o', clock, we're gonna get together, hopefully just, like, have a talk. There's, like, two guys who one dude messed up. One guy hopefully is understanding.

[Max]

So there's a chance that this alarm clock was going off for two days.

[Zach]

There's a world where it was going. I don't think it was, but there is a world where, like, I'm the worst neighbor of all time and I just left my irrationally loud alarm going.

[Big Cat]

So has. Have you been given any inkling to, like, what this meeting. What do you say about the meeting?

[Zach]

Oh, it's all about the alarm clock.

[Big Cat]

But he was like, we're gonna have to have a sit.

[Zach]

We're gonna formally talk about this in person. Was the quote.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Bring your playbook.

[Zach]

I don't know what I'm gonna.

[Max]

There's a chance the E word gets thrown. We're not gonna say the E word.

[Big Cat]

But I think Hank should go with you.

[Zach]

You good at meetings?

[Hank]

I wear a suit.

[Zach]

Yeah, you probably look good in a power suit.

[Big Cat]

Hank should go with you, and you should ask if you can. You can bring a video. Yeah, let's see if we can bring a video. Let's do pmtv. This is your meeting.

[PFT Commenter]

This is my narcoleptic cousin, and he needs a medical grade alarm clock to wake up every day.

[Big Cat]

Let's get some. Let's get some behind the scenes.

[Zach]

We can't.

[Max]

We can't get. He's. He's actually gonna get E worded if.

[Big Cat]

We go, but let's just ask. Let's ask. What's the worst they can say no and you're evicted.

[Zach]

That's a. That's the worst. That's what we're not trying to do.

[Max]

That is the worst.

[PFT Commenter]

Pretty bad.

[Zach]

Max was like, like preemptively evicting me earlier.

[Max]

I was searching apartments, looking for alternative apartments for him. I was trying to help him in case something happened.

[Big Cat]

Zach, you can my house if you get evicted.

[Hank]

I.

[Big Cat]

For three nights.

[Zach]

I would hate to be a burden for three days. Hopefully we don't get evicted, but it's very kind of you, big cat.

[Big Cat]

Yes, I got you. Maybe we all just chip in. Three days.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you got, you got what I'll do, I'll give you five.

[Big Cat]

All right, so you got, you got. You got over two weeks.

[Max]

I can give you three days.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you got over two weeks here. If you get evicted but you got.

[Max]

It, you gotta yeah.

[Big Cat]

No alarm clocks in my house.

[Johnny Fanta]

No alarm clocks.

[Big Cat]

I'll wake you up.

[Zach]

Won't happen.

[Big Cat]

Oh, dude.

[PFT Commenter]

You know, what's that?

[Big Cat]

Hey, can Hank go, though? Like, you don't have to video it, but I want. I want Hank or Max or Memes, so that. That way we have. Just say it's your lawyer.

[Max]

I would.

[Zach]

I. I'm down for some rep.

[Big Cat]

Okay. Because then we could have a dual, you know, when we. When we follow up on this on Fire fest, we can have a secondary source of information.

[Zach]

Yeah, it was bad. I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna. Moving forward. I'm gonna make a checklist on, like, things to do before you leave the home. I was in a rush. I was trying to get out of there pretty quick, and it just. Now I'm in a bit.

[PFT Commenter]

It all depends on what kind of alarm clock we're talking about here. Like, the alarm clock. Most of them. They don't just keep going on and on. Like, they'll stop eventually, right?

[Zach]

I think it. I. There's no way for me to know. I think it stopped, like, at some point in each morning, but there's also a world where it didn't. And if it didn't, I'm just like. I feel I'm a bad guy if it just kept going.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

So you. You were fine making the flight, right?

[Zach]

I did make the flight. I did make. I had more time than I thought I had.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Anyone? Anyone help you out?

[Zach]

Hank? All time helped me out.

[Big Cat]

We should. We should tell this part of the story because it's very funny. The sonic bomb alarm clock will stop, but not immediately. Features adjustable. Okay. Last between 1 and 59 minutes. Oh, man, I would be so pissed off if I were your neighbor.

[Hank]

Oh, yeah.

[Zach]

It's not a good accident. It's on me.

[Big Cat]

Okay. So, yeah. Hank, tell us what happened.

[Hank]

So we did the show Tuesday. Hold on.

[Big Cat]

You got this, Hank, Your voice was doing better.

[Zach]

This happened every day.

[Hank]

It's fine when I wake up. And then it just.

[Big Cat]

You lose it with.

[Hank]

There's a way. All right, so we record the show Tuesday. We all had flights. I didn't. Zach. I asked him, like, do you want to go to the airport together? He's like, no, I gotta go home and pack, because he said his flight was at a similar time. I leave from the office. I get to the airport. I see Zach finishing checking his bag in at the. At the bag check, and I walk up to him and, like, I'll do this when we randomly. Like, it doesn't happen that much. But if I see you guys out and we're not together, they go like, big guy, like, how much money do you make? And then just to see, like, Steve. Yeah. Like, what's up, babe? And then pft turns around. It's like, oh, that's a dude.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank's on one right now. This is good. Yeah.

[Hank]

I'm like, zach, like, bush back the bush Zach. And I was basically as close as we are right now, like, five feet. And I did it twice, didn't respond at all. And I was like, zach Bush turns around in a panic. Like, the. The videos we have of Zach coming in when he was late, when he's, like, shaking, he's like, oh, what's up, Hank? And then I was like, oh, my God. Like, you're late. Like, you gotta go. So he sprints past me, and he goes through clear and go through clear. There's a checkpoint one, and then you walk, like, 20 more feet, and there's a checkpoint two in between. That is where the regular people for security go through. Zach sprints through clear checkpoint one, then takes a right back into the regular security line, sprinting. And I'm just laughing. I'm like, he was already, like, 20ft ahead of me. I'm laughing very hard because I'm like, he did not go in the right lane. But he was too. He was so far ahead of me, I couldn't even yell at him. I go into the clear lane. Zach comes sprinting back, like, a couple minutes later because he realized his mistake. I let him go in front of me because I'm like, he's clearly rushed. And I've been in his shoes many times where you're like, get to the airport. The plane's boarding. You're like, I'm already gonna miss this plane. But I have to just sprint and give it everything I have to hopefully make this flight right. Sprints ahead of me again, sprints through security. By the time I even got to, like, putting my stuff in the bins, he was gone. And I was 30 minutes before my flight even started boarding. So I go to the bar. I think I had two beers and a pizza, go to the bathroom, wash my hands, stroll up to the gate as the plane is about to board, and Zach is just standing there.

[Big Cat]

You're on the same flight.

[Hank]

I was like, zach, we. Like, we were.

[Big Cat]

You.

[Hank]

We were. You showed up 40 minutes before the plane boarded, and he was in Group 5. He was like, you never know. I thought the plane, like, what if it came early?

[Zach]

I'M relatively new to travel. They say get there several hours beforehand.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Zach]

And also, as far as the clear line goes, Hank did save me. He let me skip him. That was huge. But there's way too many ropes.

[Big Cat]

Why are there so many ropes?

[PFT Commenter]

It gets confusing. And there's. You got the clear. You got TSA pre check. You've got TSA pre check plus clear. And then if you go into the wrong, sometimes they judge you and they're like, oh, why don't you want to go into the pre check one? Well, I think the clear one's fat. It gets confusing. And also, if you're going to be taking advice on how early to get the flights, Hank is not the best person to take that advice.

[Big Cat]

For sure. Not.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So you're good, Zach.

[Big Cat]

It is. I. I do forget, Zach, that up until like nine months ago, you had never been on a plane past the age of three.

[Zach]

You're not 99 of my travel's been with you guys.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Zach]

But I will also say the. The clear thing is a new experience. It changes the airport.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Zach]

It's completely different.

[Big Cat]

It's so easy.

[Zach]

So I'm factoring that in. I factored that in on the way home. You just need like 30 minutes. Just get in.

[Big Cat]

You're good. Yeah.

[Zach]

But I thought for sure I was getting to the gate. I'd already text my mom, like, hey, don't drive the airport yet, because I'm not. There's no way I'm getting on the plane.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Hank had two. Two beers and a pizza.

[Zach]

And he boarded way before. He boarded way before.

[Hank]

But I. I texted like after I saw him run away again because I didn't know we were on the same flight. I was like, once you get settled, I need to know if you made your flight or not.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

And he responded like, didn't think I was gonna make it, but we're good. Again, this was 30 minutes before the flight even started to like, pre board.

[Big Cat]

You gotta learn these.

[Max]

Hank was like texting us updates.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

As this flight Zach might misses flight.

[Hank]

Maxim was talking about, I was like, I just saw Zach sprinting through the air.

[Max]

Yeah, well, I. My flight was much earlier than your guys flight and we left at the same time. So I actually got there like three. I got to mine like three minutes before boarding. So I was like, actually, I was.

[Hank]

Pressing a little bit and Your flight was 45 minutes.

[Max]

My flight was 45 minutes before. But so Hank was like texting me updates. He's like, I think Zach's got. He's freaking out. He's freaking out. And then when I saw the picture of Zach on Hank's flight, it was just the complete opposite of how two people go about going. Going on a flight.

[Big Cat]

That's amazing. Are your cool throne, Zach?

[Zach]

My cool throne. Roku was just a professional power lifter. Larry Wheels. You guys know Larry Wheels? Big strong guy. He's a professional pilot. Yeah, super strong strong guy. He. He had an all time move defending his wife yesterday in like influencer boxer slash twitch streamer. They were out having a good time with Rampage Jackson. You guys know Rampage? Yeah, they're all hanging out. This guy Dean starts chatting to Larry Wheels, his wife in the most effortless way possible someone could defend their wife. He gives like a 3% smack to this guy and he smacked the absolute fire out of him.

[Big Cat]

Oh, I love that.

[Zach]

He could make a thousand more mistakes in his marriage. And with the power of this smack, I think they'll stay together forever.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Because he defended her to no ends. With one quick, swift wrist move, Larry.

[Big Cat]

Wheels slaps Dean the Great during kick livestream.

[Zach]

They were live because Rampage just like to go live. Oh, kick a lot. I think what happened was he was. He was intoxicated.

[Big Cat]

Hey, wait a second. I searched Larry Wheels on. On news. The second one is Larry Wheels claims wife uses N word daily at home. Larry Wheels claims his wife, model Sheila Williams, has permission to throw racial slur at him in private daily.

[PFT Commenter]

Like. Like it's showering for.

[Big Cat]

I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, brush your teeth, drop the embom. All right. Come to bed.

[Big Cat]

Oh, my gosh. All right. Larry Wheels was not familiar with Larry Wheels.

[Zach]

I was not familiar with their home game, their home life, but the smack was good.

[Big Cat]

Larry Wheels just smacked the out of Dean the Great.

[PFT Commenter]

I think getting, like really solidly slapped is worse than getting knocked out.

[Big Cat]

Oh, definitely slapped to the point where you're like, I don't want this anymore. That's. That's as embarrassing as it gets.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Okay, we've got all the brain rock covered.

[PFT Commenter]

It's absolutely face maxed right there. Yeah, he mogged him with his hand CTE maxing.

[Big Cat]

Okay, let's get to our interview. We've got Johnny Fanta talking some college basketball.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big Cat]

Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very special guest. It is our guy, Johnny Fanta. You can hear him on the call for Michigan State UCLA tonight. As you're listening to this, some people have been calling him NBA Johnny. That's what Rico says. But he, he is college basketball Johnny in my eyes. He's been dominating college basketball this year. You've been so good on the calls. It's been an incredible season. We wanted to have you on because, you know, football's over. We're gearing up for March. We're gonna have brackets in what, four weeks? Is it four weeks from now?

[Johnny Fanta]

Not even.

[Big Cat]

It's great. It's a great time. So let's start with this Johnny. Let's. Let's start with national title because I think I made the argument the other night. I think there's 10 teams that could win the title. And I don't remember a year where it feels like it is so loaded at the top right now. If you had to say, what's the actual number? Where's the cutoff for teams that you think can win the national title title?

[Johnny Fanta]

Yeah, I really think 10 to 12. And by the way, it's great to be with you guys and buckle up because this could be an all time march. Yeah, it really could be.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

We've got unbelievable freshman class. We've got coaches who have lost their minds in the wildest of ways. Which means you've got, got some tempers, you've got high emotions, you've got crazy finishes to come. And I do think Cinderella's slipper will return. But the top of the country big cat. You're right. I don't think it's ever been better and I don't think it's ever been deeper. Yeah, because when I look at it, I just opened up the analytics. Okay. Whether you follow the numbers or not, Michigan can win it all. Duke can win it all. Arizona can certainly win it all. Houston. Just because they lost Iowa State doesn't mean they can't win at all. They were up by 10 with seven minutes to go in Ames. That was Hilton Magic Florida against them. Have you guys seen Illinois?

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[Johnny Fanta]

And they're chilling on their best day. I'm not going to count Braden Smith and Purdue out. You get to count Dan Hurley out.

[Big Cat]

Nope.

[Johnny Fanta]

Okay. Texas Tech, I haven't even brought up. They've beaten Arizona. They've beaten Duke. That's nine right there.

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[Johnny Fanta]

If Derek Peterson were to play and who knows, you know, could, could Mark few could. Could he put something up? And we haven't even brought up like a dark horse, random team that goes on a run. Oh, we didn't even bring up Tom Izzo and Rick Patino, who are two hall of Fame coaches. And could they find a pathway to Indianapolis? I'm not gonna say no.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

The point is your bracket is going to be hard to fill out. So bring that pencil sharpened and get ready because this is going to be fun. The top of the country is absolutely ridiculous. Ridiculous.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Get ready for an all time march. And you said it like some coaches are losing their minds. Which coaches are the most insane right now?

[Johnny Fanta]

Well, you know, I, I have Michigan State and ucla and some people might look at a Mick Cronin and just think, every week there's a new video. But I would also say this. He knows exactly what he's doing. All right? Like in the world of, you know, any news is good news mix getting noticed. UCLA is getting noticed. You might now be watching them. They're right on the bubble. They're right on that bubble. You might not be watching them a little bit more than you otherwise would have. That that would be one, guys, as I come on with you in terms of the personality of the game, we are one week away, one week away from the rematch between Dan Hurley and Rick Patino.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

And you can sense, you know, old school sports when you could sense the vitriol and the hatred when the first foot steps on the floor or field. That is what this is. That is what this is. And those two are going to only make more headlines with what they say and, and how they say it. And I think that you're only going to see things increase in terms of the intensity of that. It's going to go up 10 times next week. If you look at the Wednesday slate next Wednesday, that game is really the biggest game and there's not much else there that's only going to increase the attention. Those two don't like each other and the emotion's going to be high.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, yeah. And, and if you're talking about the few, like if you're someone who just getting into the college basketball season, just catching up to it, this upcoming weekend is essentially a final Four. Like there we have Michigan and Duke playing against each other and then we have Arizona, Houston, that is the top four teams in the country as of right now playing against each other on Saturday. It's going to be phenomenal. And that's just feels like every single week. And not like even last Saturday when it was, you know, Texas Tech beats Arizona. That was a great game. But it like we had that game, we didn't have much else. It was like what just happened. Like. Well, I'm used to having like four or five incredible games every single Saturday. That's how this season has gone.

[Johnny Fanta]

That's how the season's gone. And credit to the coaches for hearing what we've all been clamoring for make marquee games happen. Now they don't control their conference schedules. But Big Cat, as much as it might be difficult to give some credit to Duke.

[Big Cat]

I got a question about that, but go ahead. I got a quiet. I got a follow up question. Go ahead.

[Johnny Fanta]

Michigan and Duke playing this game is really, really good for the sport because you're talking about a Blue Devils team that comes in 24. 2AMichigan team that we'll see as we're recording what will happen at Mackey Arena. Regardless. Everybody thinks, or the majority of people think. Yeah. They look like on their best day, Michigan's the best team in the country.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

And this is the year for the Big Ten. I know the Big 12 stacked. But if the Big Ten is going to snap this drought of 26 long years without national championship. If Michigan plays their A game, guys, they're going to be no worse, they're going to be no worse than in Indianapolis. So the sport is in great hands. Yes, there's chaos. Yes, there's the Charles Bediaco thing and there's the James Najee thing and there's these players that are trying to make it. You know, guys that left college and now trying to go back. And we could talk all day about that, but I prefer us talking about the product on the court, which is fun and the viewership is strong. And college basketball needed this. I think it had gone through a bit of a lull. I think it needed this. And I think I would keep the February non conference flavor because remember, you guys just said it. Football's done. Give us some big time matchups in the month of February, even if it's five or six. That put the very best against the very best.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I agree. All right, so my follow up is, do we have an update on, do we have an arrest on who got, you know, punched the Duke staffer that John Shire has told us about? Because I saw a clip from, you know, they, they wasted away Syracuse on Monday night. Poor Syracuse. I don't know what's happened to that program. It sucks because I, I, you know, Syracuse being good was, is, is a good thing for the sport. But either way, John Shire said he would like to just talk about Syracuse and he knows what he saw and he knows what he, his staffers felt. But yeah, there has not been any, any update on who, you know, a suspect for who punched a Duke staffer after the UNC game. So what's going on with that, Johnny?

[Johnny Fanta]

Well, I'm not really in the investigative space. I haven't, I haven't dove into the, you know, the Dateline team quite yet to, to look into what exactly went down down there in Chapel Hill. But John Shire is a man of honor and faith and I think, I believe that something happened to one of his staff members. I don't know what it was. I'm gonna say that, that whatever he said, you know, something did happen. But the search continues for whatever happens. Okay, but it's also Duke, Carolina, like what, what did we all expect?

[Big Cat]

Right? But I, why I expected, I expected chaos. But when, when, when a team is accused of, of, you know, punching the, the opponent in a court rush like.

[PFT Commenter]

A mob, a mob land style beatdown.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, we gotta find the guy. I think we should suspend the College basketball season till we find the guy. Like, we gotta find this guy.

[Johnny Fanta]

We're gonna do a search down in the Chapel Hill area and surrounding it to find who did this, is what you're saying.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

I mean, imagine if you're playing UNC and you're like, this rogue puncher is out on the loose, and I could be sucker punched at any point. That's. I. I agree with you, John Shire. We have to believe him, so we have to. To do everything we can. An international manhunt to find the person who punched the Duke staffer that totally for real happened and wasn't just an embellishment after a bad Duke loss, trying to basically get everyone to stop talking about the loss and talk about something else. It wasn't that at all.

[Johnny Fanta]

Would you believe Coach K if he had said this?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, 100%. Yes, of course. Coach K is a man of honor. He's a man of faith. I see no reason why he would lie about either of those things.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I mean, listen, this is the. This is the brilliance of Duke there. It's a very smart, you know, university or. Or college. Is Duke University. No, it's a university.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's a university.

[Big Cat]

It's a very smart university.

[PFT Commenter]

College at Duke University.

[Big Cat]

It's very smart, smart university. They understand what's at stake. They understand that when you win games, it's because you're great. And when you lose games. Let's talk about anything else besides the loss.

[Johnny Fanta]

I mean, hey, that. That worked. Something happened. Someone got punched.

[Big Cat]

No one got punched, Johnny. No one got punched.

[Johnny Fanta]

But wait a minute, wait a minute. Let me, Let me. I was thinking about this here. So do you remember, you know, we've all been in, you know, seventh, eighth, ninth grade, when we would just, you know, go to our buddy's house and then all of a sudden, just a brawl breaks out or something, but all in good fun. Yeah, but you know, if you're in. If. If you're in the middle of something and all of a sudden you get this.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

You don't know. I don't know who threw it. I was turned around the other way.

[Big Cat]

Somebody.

[Johnny Fanta]

Thousands of people there. I. We've all been on the receiving end of a. Of an unmarked punch.

[Big Cat]

Wait, so you're saying. But with all the cameras and everything that we have, all the technology, we just. That unmarked punch just never made it on video?

[Johnny Fanta]

Not sure. I don't know. Okay, it's one. It's now one of the mysteries of the world of, of who landed that.

[PFT Commenter]

That yeah, it is. And I think that, I mean, you have a great name for a private investigator, let's be honest. Like Johnny Fanta, PI I could see you getting to the bottom of this.

[Johnny Fanta]

Case coming up tonight at 11.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Apple Hill, if you're Clemson, if you're. Who else does, Does Unc if you're Louisville if you're Virginia Tech if you're Clemson. I, I would not feel safe traveling to Chapel Hill until this madman is arrested.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

So I'd like to see you get on, on the case, Johnny.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, figure it out.

[PFT Commenter]

Get on the case. I, I got a question for you, though.

[Johnny Fanta]

The rematch is at Cameron Indoor. What if we found his way in there?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, my God. Can you imagine?

[Big Cat]

Oh, God.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. That's actually probably the most likely spot for him.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And it'll probably be dressed up as a, as a Duke fan to make it look like it was a Duke fan that did it, not a Unc. The plot thickens. Johnny, I got a question for you because like so many others, watched a little basketball last night, watched the Cougars. I was, I came away impressed with Houston. But my question for you is, when should I get in bed with the Cougars? Because I feel like after a loss after loss, not the worst time to maybe take a look at that future line. What are they, like 8 to 1? Something like that somewhere on there?

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

They do play Arizona on Saturday, which is, you know, that's gonna be a tough game. And then after that, on Monday, they have to go to Kansas. So it's like this is, this is a crazy stretch for the Cougars. Should I now get in bed with the Cougars thinking that they're about to beat Arizona, or should I wait until after this stretches over and then bet on them?

[Johnny Fanta]

I'm already in bed.

[PFT Commenter]

Nice.

[Johnny Fanta]

I'm all over them. I, I, I believe that Houston can win it all. I believe that one of these three teams will win it all here.

[Big Cat]

Ready? Okay.

[Johnny Fanta]

Michigan.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Florida.

[PFT Commenter]

Florida.

[Big Cat]

That's my. Listen, I took Florida 19 to 1, because I honestly think Florida is, is in that spot where if they can just, if they can find a way to hit a little bit more consistently, three point, you know, get more consistent from three, three in the tournament. They are the scariest team in the tournament.

[Johnny Fanta]

Yes, but Houston is right there in terms of scariness because. And I thought Hilton magic really did play a role. And Iowa State hit some incredible shot. The Corner 3 by Nate Heisey was just, just phenomenal. Bateman hit a huge shot for them. I mean, those are Lipsey Missed free throws. Iowa State was dreadful from the free throw line and still found a way to win that game. That building is good for. You're up 10 nothing as the home team in that building. Coliseum is real. I am still very much in on Houston. So pft, I would say you should be in the bed with the Cougars and you shouldn't look back because this team is tough as hell. Kingston Flemings is a top 10, if not top five. He might be a top five pick in the draft. Five or six.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. He's fun.

[Johnny Fanta]

Yeah. Sharp and usanne are supplemental shot makers. Jojo Tugler, like, if there's a tougher guy in college basketball, I mean it might be the guy in Chapel Hill. And that's about it. You know, it's Joe. Jojo Tugler is mean. He's a mean machine. He gets after you defensively every possession. And Chris Cenac is now finding his way and only getting better. Kelvin is so due I. And the only thing is that I have one concern. When there's five or six minutes left to go in a close tournament game, I don't want what happened last night.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

To happen in that game where what were they doing in the half court? What are they doing offensively? Like you gotta run, you gotta get better looks.

[Big Cat]

That, that is the, the one. If I, if I. Because I think Houston's phenomenal, but they're not a traditional best defense by far in the country. Houston, like their defense is obviously very elite, but it's not at that, that Houston level that we've, we've come to expect where they just suffocate you and their offense can be inefficient where they're not getting, you know, a ton of, you know, they're not a great three point shooting team and then they're not getting a ton of rim look looks. But you're right, like I, I think Houston is definitely in that category of battle tested teams that could win it all. Everyone's got at least one wart. Everyone's got. I just mentioned with Florida. Florida can't shoot the three like I hope they can because I bet on them. But they can't shoot the three. Every, every, every team has something. Maybe the only team that doesn't is Michigan and that, yeah, that. I mean they've just been that good all year.

[Johnny Fanta]

Well, they're, they're war. Michigan doesn't really have a ward. But the way that you compete with them and hang in with them is if you have mobile bigs who can shoot it Because Morez Johnson and Adai Mara are down there and they're just going to funnel everything to them and they have the best two point defense in America. So whoever plays Michigan has got to have a stretch four or a stretch five. Yeah, and, and if you do, you know, that's the unique thing. Guys like Arizona doesn't really possess that Houston Florida plays huge themselves. You're right on three point shooting. That's kind of where Dan Hurley comes into this equation because Caravan and Braylon Mullen solo ball can bury threes like that. That's, that would be your argument there with the Huskies. But like yeah, it's, it's. Here's the thing. You could say that somebody doesn't have warts or somebody does this time of year, but in three and a half weeks it's not going to matter. The ball's going to be tipped. And we also could see a world where I as good as the 10 to 12 are guys with, with, with national championship chances. I do think I alluded to it earlier. I do think we're going to see the return of Cinderella's carriage. Oh, I think the four or five and six seeds are all, all have more warts than, than last year's 4, 5 and 16. I think you're going to see Cinderella's carriage step up and we're going to get 2, at least 2, 12, 13, 14 to win a game.

[Big Cat]

Because I was just saying that that, that is the one downside I thought of going into this tournament is that there are so many good teams at the top and it's so deep at the top that it could be another situation like last year where we don't see a lot of upsets. But you're saying it's actually going to be reversed where that, that middle pack is very susceptible because that would be the perfect tournament. I think we all agree the, the a couple good Cinderella stories, a few upsets in the first round and then really quality great teams in the sweet 16 and on.

[Johnny Fanta]

Yeah, I really do think. And I'll put that slipper on because I think a lot of people are as wondering like, like who. Who could it be? I like the Liberty Flames as a potential 12 seed that could do something. I like Stephen F. Austin. I think that they're an interesting team that could pull something off in the NCAA Tournament. Don't sleep on the Ivy League champion. Like never go to sleep if you're going to go into bed with the Houston Cougars. Bft.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Johnny Fanta]

Make sure that you don't fall Asleep when the Ivy League champion gets a 13 seed. And that could be Yale again. Remember Yale a couple years ago beating Auburn in the tournament, shocking everybody. UNC Wilmington's another really feel good story. And Big Cat and pft. I know you're going to get behind this. You know who's got a good ball club? Let's go. P. Austin. P. 13 or 14. Pull something off in the big dance.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, I like it. So which of these, which of these teams would you put on upset alerts? It's obviously way too early to talk about what the bracket looks like, but if you were to say, you know, a team that's somewhere in the 12 to 20 ranked area, which team would you circle right now and say, I don't really trust what they've been selling.

[Johnny Fanta]

Well, I'm going to get some heat for this. But. But I really want to see them win because they've never won a tournament game.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

Fred Hoiberg in Nebraska. The pressure riding on that singular game team. Now I love their team. I think they're incredibly balanced. I. I've thought the world of rink mast and Sanford and Jamarcus Lawrence who provides like he's gonna have to be important in that game because he just makes things happen for them offensively. But it's the sweat of that game. It's the prep. When you've never won a tournament game as a program, everything's riding on that. The fan base is going to travel big time. So if they go up against one of these frisky teams that I've just mentioned, A Yale, a UNCW, you never know what can happen in a 40 minute game if there's a surprise. So that would be one team, you know, that I look at and say, okay, I get a little bit concerned there. Look, Carolina could be a five or a six. Carolina's best looks damn good. But there's times when they get a little out of control, they fall into some turnovers and you don't know what could happen if you're on the other end and you're facing a Santa Clara, you know, that's balanced, efficient, doesn't turn the ball over. I trust for the most part Vanderbilt, but their best came early.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

So you wonder are they going to start peaking again or how's that going to go down. I'm very curious to see what happens there. So those would be three teams that I look at. Like Tom Izzo is probably going to get a four seed. He's not losing a first round game and he's probably not losing a second round game. But those would be three teams I look at and I say, all right, like, you got to be careful here with how you go about things or else you could get picked off in the dance.

[PFT Commenter]

What about a, a team like Alabama and Nate Oats?

[Johnny Fanta]

Great question.

[PFT Commenter]

Thanks.

[Johnny Fanta]

And, and, and they were a team that I looked at when you asked this question, but I just trust lebaron Phylon too much. I know their defense is susceptible, but they just have so much offensive pop that it gets very hard for a, you know, a mid major to be able to score. But here's, here's where your point is, gets amplified. They are not a very good defensive team. And so you've got to slow the game down against them. And that's really hard to do. Like, they're, they're number one in the country in adjusted tempo. So you guys got to think about it. When you are a mid major and you don't have the speed or the athletes, I, that's the only thing I would say about facing Alabama is would a team be able to get Alabama into the, the quicksand? Can I say one thing to you both, though?

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

And you always say yes. So I appreciate that. Miami, Ohio.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

Better get into the NCAA tournament even if they have one loss.

[Big Cat]

I agree. We said this, we said this on Monday. I was like, there's a scenario that's brewing that if they lose a game, then they don't win the tournament. It's going to be, but that, that, that could potentially happen.

[PFT Commenter]

Love and honor, Johnny.

[Johnny Fanta]

Committee, they're meeting this week at Indianapolis. Let me give you a message. Selection committee.

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[Johnny Fanta]

The optics of keeping a team that has started the season with this mark and that plays the right way with leadership, efficiency, and everything in between. They are a tournament team that can win a game, if not two, if they have one bad day. Even in the regular season. Even in the regular season, if they have one bad day. Committee, why would you keep a team like this out? You've got to, you've got to put them in to the dance. Put the Red Hawks in. Let them fly.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Love that, Johnny. We took our guns out, put it to their head. Don't worry about it. We got you. We're standing behind you. It's finger guns. Don't worry. I got the safety on too. Don't. It's, it's cool. They, they practice finger gun safety here.

[PFT Commenter]

They absolutely should be in. They should be in, Johnny. I, I, I'm a little bit worried the more I hear people talk about it, saying like, don't you dare do it.

[Zach]

It.

[Big Cat]

They're gonna.

[PFT Commenter]

They're gonna do it. Like, it's almost like the more we tell them, you better not do this.

[Hank]

It.

[PFT Commenter]

It just might happen.

[Big Cat]

Just win the Mac tournament.

[PFT Commenter]

Just win the Mac.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, Just win the Mac. Johnny, can we talk about my badgers?

[Johnny Fanta]

I saw you two doing that. I thought Rico had walked into the.

[Big Cat]

Oh, no, no. We. We were just backing you up. We're standing behind you looking tough.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big Cat]

Johnny, can we talk about my badgers real quick?

[PFT Commenter]

They're.

[Big Cat]

They're in the tournament, right? I don't have to worry about that because they do have two of the best wins in the country. I think that's fair to say, even though I'm very biased.

[Johnny Fanta]

They do. And they have two wins away from home that if you stack them with any other team that has two wins away from home, it would be. Their wins are better than that.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

So they're in. And not only are they in, but now they're comfortably into a point that I'd give them a single digit seed you can't collect. Not to mention, what do you do on. On Friday night. You take Michigan State out back and beat the hell out of them.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

Wisconsin, they are a team that if you get stuck in a 7, 10, or 8, 9 game with them. Oh boy. Because. And I don't want to be the one. Like, think about it. Michigan will tell you. And it wouldn't be Michigan, Wisconsin in the second round, but Michigan would tell the other one seed. Hey, man, we lost to them. We lost to them. Nice gift in the second round. Wouldn't be the first time the Badgers have pulled something off. You know, an upset in the first weekend. Right. Over the years when we've seen their team pull something off, what, you know, what was it? Villanova?

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

Yeah. I mean, Xavier the one year. Right.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

You know, but they, They've been able to. To do it in different ways. So I. Wisconsin is frisky. You can't. When you have players the caliber of John Blackwell and Nick Boyd.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, the guard play.

[Johnny Fanta]

This is a duo that. They're one of only three high major duos scoring at least 18 points per game. The other two were Richie Saunders and Debons at BYU. So now Saunders is done and the other one is J.T. toppin and Christian Anderson over at Texas Tech. But Boyd and Blackwell, like Wisconsin, hasn't had a score at the rate that Boyd is scoring at since Michael Finley. Statistically, that was over 30 years ago. So the Badgers offense is really tough. When Rap knocks down some shots for them, he's a next factor for them. And I think Nolan Winter, like Greg Guard said last week, Nolan Winter doesn't even know how good he could be. Nolan, if you keep rising, this Wisconsin team's going to be in the second weekend of the NCAA tournament. They're not just going to make it, they're going to make a run in the NCAA tournament. They're dangerous, man.

[Big Cat]

I'm officially in that, like, I'm ready to get hurt mode because I was going into the week, you with Indiana, Illinois, Michigan State coming up. I was like, if we can win one game, I'll be happy. We end up winning two and probably should have won the third if we didn't get screwed. But now I'm in like, hey, I think they can make a run, which we know always ends up in disaster for me. What about the other team that we're worried about getting in Villanova? Are they a lock in?

[Johnny Fanta]

They're a lock in.

[Big Cat]

All right, good.

[Johnny Fanta]

Yeah, Max, you can breathe easily. You know, you might have been a little off on Alex Cariban a few years back, but. But you are so. You were so on here. Kevin Willer was the right hire.

[PFT Commenter]

The.

[Johnny Fanta]

The Cats are back. I mean, they are. They've got UConn this weekend.

[Big Cat]

Wait.

[Johnny Fanta]

And if you want to fully show your back, you. You come out and win that game. But they're top. Their top 35 in offense and defense. They play balanced basketball. Tyler Perkins is a. He is a stud of a player who has stepped up a Kaden Lewis average over five assists per game. Villanova is a. Is a tough out, guys, because they can bury threes. They've got a stretch guy in Matt Hodge and Duke Brennan's the Double double Machine. The Wildcats have a white out Saturday. Time to announce your fully back. If you're going to do that, you got to seize the opportunity against Yukon.

[Big Cat]

They almost beat Yukon the first time. They kind of got screwed. I thought there was a foul at the end of that regulation, but the. We should just say Kevin Willard, right. Hire also attended your wedding.

[Johnny Fanta]

Yes. He did it.

[Big Cat]

Okay, all right. Just. We just.

[Max]

Listen, we're just don't try and take away from that.

[Big Cat]

You have to. Have to put that in there just so that we know. Yeah, you do. Wait, did you. Did you attend his wedding as well?

[Johnny Fanta]

No. Okay.

[Big Cat]

All right.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, if we did this every time Schrager was on, that's all we'd be. It would just be a episode of disclaimers.

[Big Cat]

So you would just be shuffling a deck of wedding invites.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Blackjack.

[PFT Commenter]

Also, Fanta. You are invited on Max's bachelor party, so you need to disappear. You have a disclaimer for that, too?

[Big Cat]

Yes, you're invited on the bachelor party.

[Johnny Fanta]

Where's it at?

[Big Cat]

Vegas. So right now we have. Friday night. We're going. We have a suite for. For fish at the Sphere. You have to eat mushrooms with us. Saturday cabana, Kentucky Derby day, Sunday golf. Everything's paid for. All you need to do is buy a flight. And you're. You're more than welcome.

[Johnny Fanta]

Yeah. So the. Is the. Is the fish thing with the.

[Big Cat]

The mushrooms? Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

Is that mandatory thing?

[PFT Commenter]

If you don't want to finish your mushrooms, I. I can. I can take care of that for you.

[Big Cat]

Well, also, if you don't want to willingly take the mushrooms, we could do a wink wink, and we'll just. We'll just slip them into some food for you.

[Johnny Fanta]

I just, you know, like, Max. Every time. Max, you can hear me, right?

[Big Cat]

Is that the sphere would be electric.

[Johnny Fanta]

Yeah. Not gonna put that vision.

[Big Cat]

I actually think you could do your own show at the Sphere on shrooms.

[Johnny Fanta]

Like, just ranting something. I took the dare program in grade school. We had that duck mascot.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

And I was not. I was not going down that path, but, man, it would probably be an interesting visual. But, Max, why does there have to be an asterisk next to Kevin Willard every time we talk about it?

[Big Cat]

That's.

[Max]

I mean, that's Big Cat.

[PFT Commenter]

He's.

[Max]

He's a bad guy. Every time we say something good about Kevin Willard.

[PFT Commenter]

He just likes Kevin Willard in the way that he treated the University of Maryland. We had a lot of we had a lot of Terp fans out there.

[Max]

Year one.

[PFT Commenter]

Year one.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. But he also, like, spurred. The way he left Maryland was disgusting. And. And. And Johnny Fanta would be like, I would never say anything because he. He gave me a nice card at my wedding.

[Max]

And, you know, incorrect.

[Johnny Fanta]

I said I would have probably handled that differently, but he was dancing to McFadden and Whitehead. Ain't no stopping us now.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you said you probably have handled it differently. You would have been even more ruthless to Maryland, I think was your exact quote. Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

They have great fans, passionate fans. They're into it. No, I have no enemies in College Park.

[PFT Commenter]

This guy goes to so many weddings. He should probably read more Corinthians and figure out how to handle things like. Like this. You're a man of faith, Johnny. You understand?

[Big Cat]

Yes, you are, John. Johnny, listen, I want to. I want to go back to the bachelor party. You do not have to do the mushrooms. You are invited, though. Officially invited. Bosco will be in attendance.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, forgot.

[Big Cat]

I don't know how that relationship is right now, but.

[Johnny Fanta]

Well, actually, it's up this time of year. It always heats up this time of year, but, you know, I don't know. Is he on the lawyer team, you know, over at. At with. With Coach Tang and everything, by the way?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

Kansas State pay him his money. You. You fired him because he lost games. Get out of here with that rationale of, you know, that he made a comment about his team. What? He's not allowed to talk about his players and his team? Do you know? Are you watching coaches press conferences weekly Kansas State, it's more. You're going to spend more money Kansas State by going through this process than you would by just paying him his money and give Bosco some cash as well.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

The Bosco search firm is fired up right now. I haven't heard from Rico in a while, but this time of year, now it all starts to. To get the flames start going.

[PFT Commenter]

You're gassing up Phylon enough. I think he's gonna be happy about that. So we're now on good terms. Yeah, now we're on good terms with that. But I don't know. Like, Tang, he got fired for cause because he said bad things about his team. Right. Can you name a single. Can you name a time that one of the greats, Rick Patino, has he ever said anything bad about his team to the press, to the media to fire them up? It does seem ridiculous if this is the reason why they're trying to claw back the money that they owe him, I feel like that's going to lose on its face.

[Johnny Fanta]

It's going to lose on its face and they're going to owe 25 million combined in legal fees and all that. Get out of here, man. Like, it's just. And I think Kansas State is a, is actually a solid job. Could be a top half of the Big 12 job with the nil that they have and the fans that they have. But you draw more negative attention to yourself when you now go through this process. What they don't realize is they're hurting themselves for their next search.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. 100. I have a question for you about. About Arizona. So is Arizona. Are they going to start shooting threes ever? They don't really. They don't really have to.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

They're dominant.

[Johnny Fanta]

They took 16. They took 16 against Texas Tech, but they only made four of them. So it's a problem. Like EFT. Your. Your question there is exactly why they could get tripped up in the dance.

[PFT Commenter]

But.

[Johnny Fanta]

And why ultimately why I didn't put them in that group of three that I think love that I love their players because like Braden Burries and co op guys, watching them at Peach Jam and in high school, at the, at the, you know, lower levels, they would own games. So those winning instincts have. Have carried over. It's kind of why I'm like genuinely why I'm afraid to go against Duke when I'm picking my three teams. Because all Cam Boozer's ever done in any tournament is win. Like the guy's never, he's never lost a postseason event in his life. Arizona, Pete and Burry's are winners. Karchinkov does a lot of good things for them. And Jaden Bradley. Bradley is as good of a point guard as you're going to find. He sets people up. He makes the right plays. But I get concerned. You're exactly right. They don't have. If they're down three, who is taking and making the shot consistently? It is a. It is one big question mark. And when in this day and age of college basketball, if you're on the receiving end of a team. Hot shooting day.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

Like Iowa State got hot in the last seven minutes and just they found a way to. To beat Houston. As a result, at some point you can only defend, rebound and attack the rim so well, you've got to be able to knock down the perimeter shot or you're going to get bounced early. Ask last year's St. John's team about that. They couldn't shoot and it doomed them.

[PFT Commenter]

Because I just, and maybe this is just me having watched really paid attention to the sport for the last like two and a half weeks. But, but I, I've watched a lot of Arizona. I dove a little bit into numbers. So maybe you tell me if I'm wrong about this because it doesn't seem like they're a terrible three point shooting team. They just don't take them.

[Johnny Fanta]

It's not a part of their DNA. They're one of the lower volume teams in the country if you, if you look at the numbers in terms of three point attempts.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Johnny Fanta]

So it's a, it is a big problem for them now. Like, like we, we look at it and we also have to look at the, the percentages. Like Bradley shoots it 40% from deep. Okay. But he's also being relied upon to initiate the offense. And he's also a guy that, when you, when you look at him, he's. He's barely averaging a made three a game. Right?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

So he's shooting it at a high percentage, but it's not in volume buries. You know, there's, there's. Yeah, yeah, he could shoot it. He's made 41 on the year.

[PFT Commenter]

I feel like I'm a hockey fan at the game just being like, shoot the three.

[Johnny Fanta]

Just take it.

[PFT Commenter]

Just take more threes.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[Johnny Fanta]

But, but, but when it's not part of who you are.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

It's not in your DNA. You could take more, but based on what their personnel looks like, I don't know if they're, I don't think that they're making them necessarily so Buries has to continue to get better in that column and then they've got to figure it out here because you're exactly right. Like it doomed them ultimately against Texas Tech. Now they only lost the game by three, but it opens you up to losing regardless of where it is. It is very difficult.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

To do what they did against Texas Tech, they got outscored by 21 from beyond the arc. Against a team that good, you're going to lose the game. So you're right. It is Arizona's concerns is not being able to, to knock down that shot. I'm not concerned as much as they're, you know. Okay, so they don't take as many. But when you don't have the shooters, I don't blame you for not taking as many.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Memes]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Yeah. And they also have an like, absolutely dominant interior offense. So like why, you know, that's. That, that is the, the DNA of their team and they dominate teams.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, they're really, really good team. It's just that one thing.

[Johnny Fanta]

But the three point shot changes everything. The as long as basketball's been around, it is the great equalizer and it's no different here.

[Big Cat]

That's why, that's why I like I'm higher on Florida just because I do think Florida can start making threes. Like I think it's going to start happening.

[Johnny Fanta]

Yeah, they can. And, and boogie Flan, he still has even better like he's a great player and I, I think he could, he could be the guy that authors a terrific march run. Like the Xavian Lee thing.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, it's been bad out.

[Johnny Fanta]

It hasn't worked out. But, but you could twist it and say look how good they've been in spite of that.

[Big Cat]

Correct, Correct.

[Johnny Fanta]

There's just so Thomas H. Is just a winner, guys. He plays so hard. He gets after it on both ends. He rebounds the hell out of the ball. So you have him, you have Chinu and you have Condon and they're just gonna say get in the boxing ring and, and we're just gonna chomp. We're gonna chomp. And that's what Florida does. They have met. Dusty May told me a story about a month ago and he said that when he was working with Mike White that they determined going big was going to win in college basketball. You know, the NBA is, is about three point shooting and we're seeing, we're seeing more traditional bigs now because it's ebbs and flows of a sport. But in the college game, which has inconsistencies in the shot making department, it's gotten a lot better. The offense has never been better in college basketball than it is now. It's great to watch, but the bigger teams are the ones who can win it all. Michigan, Florida, you know, you ask, ask a UConn right now what their concern is. It's that they don't have a Donovan clinging Adama Sanogo type duo. The big teams get it done.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I mean we saw Clingan versus Edie. You know, that was a, that was a real thing. Yeah. All right, Johnny, I got one last question for you. It's a robot question. R, H O b a c k.com promo code. Take 20% off your first purchase. Q, zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com promo code. Take. One of my favorite things you do is the Big east spaces. And I have a question off of that. What's going on with Providence right now, because I think you and I both agree. We love Providence. Twitter, they're very passionate fan base. It's been a little embarrassing. Not. Not the fans, but the play. Kim English It's. It seems like it's. It's kind of ending here, but the fact that they've had these moments where it's, like, all been all about revenge, and it's not been about winning basketball games, it's been tough for them. And I want Providence to be good. I want that fan base to have a good product on the court. And that scene on Saturday was kind of a joke.

[Johnny Fanta]

That scene on Saturday was embarrassing, and it was a moment there where Duncan Powell does something that's egregious and, you know, for as mad as people can be about. About Bryce Hopkins, and I'm not saying that you can't be angry. What you never want your emotion to do is keep you from fighting to win a game. And I think what was hardest about that was Providence was winning.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

At the time, it's almost like that became more important than winning. And that's not the Friar town that. That I know, because the Friar town I know is as passionate a fan base. They have terrific resources, awesome facility, and what they need right now is they need some leadership and accountability for what they're putting on the court. Like the Hopkins thing aside, they're not winning. That. That. That. That is, at its core, you're. You are asked to win basketball games and for what they spent on their roster, which is at least $9 million, that the product has not been good enough. And defensively, they haven't been there. Saturday, though, was. Was sort of the culmination of where they're at right now emotionally. And here's. Here's my thing, guys. Duncan Powell never played a game with Bryce Hopping Hopkins.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Johnny Fanta]

He never played a game with him. He. I don't even know if he knows the guy.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

But where does the vitriol and the hatred. How does that start, and how does that come into what happened on Saturday? Well, that starts with leadership. So clearly he's being told about how much he's supposed to dislike this guy, and then he does something that ruined their chances of. Of winning the game. If you don't like what a player did it. Good. Glad you don't like it. Sports is better when there's dislike. Not saying you should like it, but you know how you. You know how you answer him? You win the freaking game.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I agree. They were up. It's crazy. It's it the. Like. Having a good team on the court should matter more than anything else.

[Johnny Fanta]

And you know what, Big Cat? It's not like. Like you guys, we all get into this doomsday, you know, death, you know, it's. Everything's done, everything's over. Guys, in this day and age of college basketball, even for a Kansas State, you make a change, you got the right amount of money, you're gonna be fine.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Johnny Fanta]

You get off the mat if you hire the right person. You know, for Providence, they have some very difficult decisions to make here in the coming weeks. But those difficult decisions got made a lot easier with a scene like Saturday.

[Zach]

Agreed.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, Johnny, my last, last question for you. If I were to ask you. Gun to your head, double double barrel at your head, make sure fingers off the trigger. The safety is off, but my finger is not on the trigger.

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

What conference is the national championship coming from this year?

[Big Cat]

It's tough.

[Johnny Fanta]

The Big Ten.

[Big Cat]

Okay. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

All right.

[Big Cat]

Finally gonna happen. Badgers, 150 to 1.

[Johnny Fanta]

Didn't ask me who.

[PFT Commenter]

Nebraska.

[Johnny Fanta]

Awesome. I think I'm gonna predict a. A Big Ten, Big 12 title game would be a cinema because those two leagues have the most candidates for it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

What if. What if Nebraska went from never winning a game to just winning the championship this year?

[Johnny Fanta]

Then Signetti or Hoiberg.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Right.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, exactly. All right, well, Johnny, you're the best. We love you. Have fun. On the call, everyone should tune in. UCLA versus Michigan State, and we'll talk to you. Come in a couple weeks when we get brackets.

[Johnny Fanta]

See you guys real soon. And get ready, because we're in for a hell of a ride.

[PFT Commenter]

Love it, love it, love it.

[Big Cat]

And you're coming to Masters bachelor party.

[Johnny Fanta]

And I will be at the Sphere, rocking the fish.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. And Kevin Willard was at your wedding.

[Johnny Fanta]

And he's coming to the bachelor party.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he's invited, actually. That would be how you get us too. Yeah. Because now we're complicit. Every time we compliment him, we have to say, yeah, he went to Max's bachelor party.

[Johnny Fanta]

Asterisk. We were with him at the same batch party.

[Big Cat]

Done. All right, let's do it. All right. Thanks, Johnny.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big Cat]

Let'S finish up the show. We got guys on Olympics. Hank, get us through this with your voice. You got this.

[Hank]

What sport would become the most watched if they allowed trash talk during competition? Instant thought would be biaflo on maybe a physical aspect as well.

[Big Cat]

Figure skating would be sick if you let the other teams basically stand on the boards and talk during their routine.

[PFT Commenter]

Or if they were on the ice at the same time.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Like dancing at the same time.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. And you could fight doing euros on them.

[PFT Commenter]

And Tom Wilson was on one of the teams.

[Big Cat]

I do love the curling, like, talk because you could tell it's not supposed to happen, but I. I would. I think it would be awesome if curling, because you're right next to each other and they're not out of breath. So it's like the perfect.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Spot for some true talk.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, so this would be awesome if you had luge, but you win at the same time.

[Big Cat]

Yes. Like race cars.

[PFT Commenter]

Like race cars.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Yeah, that would.

[PFT Commenter]

Or, like, bobsled. You go at the same time. Tokyo drift. You do the pit maneuver, send somebody over the edge.

[Big Cat]

It also. I'd also like to see, you know, the step off challenge in, like, the golf tee boxes. Having that for the ski jump would be good.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Like, as he's standing there ready to just go down the hill.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Just a bunch of dudes just busting them up bad, you know?

[PFT Commenter]

Rock. If they did ski jumping, like, the dunk contest where you had, like, shaq standing, like, 90 yards down the hill. He had to clear, and you had to just clear Shaq's head. Just barely.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Over Shaq.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Just.

[Big Cat]

Or just a bunch of cars. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Cars. 100 cars. Cars would be awesome.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Here's a short one. Hank couldn't meddle in a single woman's event.

[Big Cat]

I agree with that. What. What could you meddle in?

[Hank]

Slalom? Ski? Sloan?

[Big Cat]

No chance. You went with.

[PFT Commenter]

That's, like, the last one.

[Hank]

Not in men's, but women's.

[Big Cat]

No way.

[Johnny Fanta]

Like, the.

[Big Cat]

The only thing you. You. You'd have a chance in is you'd have to do, like, a luge or a bobsled where you. Your weight is an Advantage slum. Your knees would explode.

[PFT Commenter]

No, I think hand can men.

[Hank]

Sloan.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Men's slo.

[Big Cat]

Oh, okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Men slum. You'd have no shot competing against men, but competing against women and their. Their little knees like you got man knees.

[Big Cat]

I wonder if lose you would be competitive. Just purely weight.

[Hank]

Yeah, the skeleton I could do.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, but. Yeah, no, no.

[Hank]

Although I'm not that fast.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, you're not running. You'd be laying down. You're.

[Hank]

Isn't the whole thing the push? Do you not listen to him?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I guess you do some push pushes, like everything. What about mo are you about to say?

[Big Cat]

Did you not listen to yourself? You're the one who said bob.

[Max]

How could you possibly think that you.

[Big Cat]

Could, you know, slalom? You would slalom.

[Max]

How could you? Are you, like, a good skier?

[Big Cat]

Yeah. No.

[PFT Commenter]

Pretty good ski.

[Big Cat]

No, he's not.

[PFT Commenter]

Max, you're not understanding.

[Big Cat]

It's not men's.

[Max]

Yeah, it's women.

[PFT Commenter]

So Hank would dominate.

[Max]

There's just. There's just no possible way.

[PFT Commenter]

You don't get it.

[Big Cat]

I would love to see this dude that looks like men's slum that you're showing.

[Hank]

Yeah, you don't even have to go around the poles.

[PFT Commenter]

Show a woman.

[Big Cat]

Show you. This is men's law.

[PFT Commenter]

Bring up a video of a woman. Max.

[Big Cat]

Hank. Hank concedes that men just straight into.

[Hank]

The polls and you're good.

[Big Cat]

The Olympics sucks. They just don't give any highlights for anything. It's so stupid.

[Max]

So hard.

[Big Cat]

Why do they do that? Why not make it something that people want to watch and go, oh, I sell that event. Like, let me go check it out. Oh, here we go.

[PFT Commenter]

The men's. Wait, the women's giant slalom. Hank.

[Big Cat]

Oh, I wonder if you could win women's ski jump. You probably dominate that, too, too, because she goes so fast.

[PFT Commenter]

I actually think Hank could be, like, the Jesse Owens of women's Olympic sports. Yeah, I feel like he would. There's probably, like, 12 or 13 events. Yeah. Yeah.

[Max]

Women.

[Johnny Fanta]

How did you go to this first?

[Big Cat]

This is women's, dude, look how slow they're going.

[PFT Commenter]

Max, these are chicks, okay?

[Big Cat]

I don't think you get it. Max.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank would dominate.

[Hank]

Dude, you just turn. It's a little left, a little right.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Oh, man.

[PFT Commenter]

You ever seen a woman try to drive? Max. Hank. Hank would dominate.

[Big Cat]

Oh, Hank would cut those corners so much better.

[Hank]

Again, I'm not, like, being cocky. Men.

[Big Cat]

Men saw him. He would get wasted. But women sl. The turns are not that hard.

[PFT Commenter]

That's nice and easy.

[Big Cat]

Yep. You would eat so much. I would. I kind of want to see you slo.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, Lindsay von.

[Big Cat]

I want to see you slow. Yeah.

[Hank]

Lindsey Vaughn did it with no acl.

[Big Cat]

What about moguls? Because.

[Johnny Fanta]

No, she didn't.

[Big Cat]

She crashed.

[PFT Commenter]

She.

[Johnny Fanta]

Her.

[PFT Commenter]

Her leg bone broke through the side of her knee.

[Big Cat]

Could you, could you do moguls?

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Easy, dude.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank is a women's mogul. You kidding me?

[Big Cat]

You just show up, you don't have to compete.

[PFT Commenter]

They're like, oh yeah, mogul, mogul's here.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Hank]

The Winter Olympics suck because though there are very few head to head sports, everything is a time trial.

[Big Cat]

I agree with you.

[Hank]

Yeah. If you had downhill skiing with eight people lined up, it would be one of the top events. Similarly, if you had sprinting or swimming in the summer as time trials instead of head to head, no one would watch.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

That's why lose it. You go head to head and lose. You go head to head and bobsled.

[Big Cat]

That's correct. That's a great take.

[PFT Commenter]

I've been thinking more about it. Basketball should be a winter Olympic sport.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I guess it's 100. Technically all the events have to have snow or ice. That's why.

[PFT Commenter]

And the woke NBA won't go for that. Got it.

[Hank]

My Olympic take. Everyone always brings up putting an average Joe in an event to see how good the athletes really are. Instead I propose putting athletes in a different sport and same discipline. I want to see the Tachuk brothers figure skating pairs throw McDavid on some short track speed skating. Let's see if Ilya Malinin can rip a slap shot. Give Michaela Schiffrin some cross country skis and a gun.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Hank]

I don't know what the curlers could do. Maybe chuck them in a bobsled.

[Big Cat]

I like this. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

I like that too. I also think that they should take one. Every team, every hockey team should have to have one figure skater on their squad. And they have to play like six minutes or speed skater. I know. I think figures just to see guys get like jacked up.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Just like the most brutal collisions you've ever seen.

[Big Cat]

Or they triple Lindy or triple lutz.

[PFT Commenter]

They do something crazy.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Yeah. I like that rule.

[Hank]

All right, last one part of my Olympic take. They should actually remove the condoms as a whole to encourage the athletes to continue to create world class athletes.

[PFT Commenter]

Agreed.

[Hank]

This way. Ensuring another generation of incredible sports entertainment. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

A little, little lightweight eugenics. I like it.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. I mean just get some. Some really athletic babies that when I was looking up up the speed skating The Dutch women are attractive. I'll just say that. And there are great athletes. Great athletes. First, attractive.

[Max]

Second, shout out Jake Paul.

[Big Cat]

Shout Jake Paul.

[PFT Commenter]

Who's Jake Paul?

[Big Cat]

Who's dating or married to one of them.

[PFT Commenter]

Also, something weird happened to his Twitter. He wanted to apologize to that.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he's no idea what he stands with. He loves Bad Bunny. Loves him.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Big Cat]

Okay. Good show, boys.

[Max]

Oh, also looks like we're gonna play Sweden. Sweden's up 3:1 right now.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Thursday.

[Memes]

Wednesday.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, bring it.

[Big Cat]

Wednesday.

[Max]

It's Wednesday.

[Big Cat]

Wait, Tomorrow.

[Memes]

Wait.

[Max]

Oh, nice.

[Johnny Fanta]

Right?

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

Wednesday.

[Memes]

Yeah, it's Wednesday. Friday, Sunday.

[Max]

They got back to backs.

[Big Cat]

All right, so we're gonna. We're gonna probably have a. Hopefully have a preview of the final four, if from biz or witness it on Friday show.

[Max]

Oh, the women's gold medal games Thursday.

[Memes]

Women haven't let up a goal.

[Big Cat]

That one. That one's. I saw the graphic the UW Madison posted. It was there's 11 badgers on both side, like, combined on both sides. Gonna win no matter what. I love that. There's like six and five.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank would dominate women's hockey.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah. They don't check.

[Johnny Fanta]

No.

[Hank]

I'm not a great ski skater.

[Big Cat]

That's really humble. You are right. Numbers two, 23. Go quick, go quick.

[PFT Commenter]

69, 71, 17, 86, 72, 86 for.

[Johnny Fanta]

Shane, 72 for Jack, 10 for Colton.

[Big Cat]

26, 26.

[Max]

Close to 56.

[PFT Commenter]

Love you guys.

[Memes]

Not even close. Shane's a Looking like he got. He didn't get.

[Max]

Any birthdays.

[PFT Commenter]

Any birthdays at the women's birthday?

[Johnny Fanta]

Any birthdays?

[Big Cat]

Any birthdays? They're asking, any birthdays?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, any birthdays? No. Nobody was born.

[Big Cat]

Happy birthday, Michael Jordan.

[PFT Commenter]

Today. Nobody was born today.

[Max]

Nobody was born today.

[Big Cat]

Today's his birthday.

[PFT Commenter]

Michael Jordan was born today.

[Big Cat]

Jerry o'. Connell.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. And Jerry o'. Connell. It was also his birthday today. Yeah, but we already wish Jerry Happy birthday. Jerry, your birthday present is in the mail. I got the last one sent back to me. Love you guys.

[Zach]

It.