NHL Playoffs With Ryan Whitney, NFL Draft Recap, NBA Playoffs, Who’s Back Of The Week + We Get Involved In The Press Off

Summary

Pardon My Take – April 27, 2026: Episode Summary

Episode Overview

On this episode of Pardon My Take, Big Cat, PFT Commenter, and Max recap a hectic sports weekend, diving into the 2026 NFL Draft, NBA and NHL playoff action, and the ongoing saga of the “press off.” The boys welcome recurring guest and hockey aficionado Ryan Whitney for deep-dive Stanley Cup playoff talk and plenty of laughs. The show keeps its irreverent, rapid-fire style, bouncing between segments with friendly banter and absurd tangents, while nailing the key content for fans of virtually every major American sport.

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Key Discussions & Insights

1. NFL Draft 2026 Recap

Segment starts: 02:14

• All hosts dish initial draft grades and reactions. Max jokes about revising his grades, “Every team got an F because they didn’t draft Diego Pavia.” (03:00)
• The NFL Draft in Pittsburgh brings out tons of crowd jokes: “You can’t have kids going to school when the NFL draft’s in town.” (03:47)
• "Pickensburg" press and Pittsburgh draft local radio host Andrew Filipano’s pledge to quit if the Steelers drafted Drew Aller – and then they did (05:00).
• Deep discussion on quarterbacks who fell in the draft – the fall of Drew Aller, Carson Beck, Cade Klubnik, and more (06:00).
  • “The Eagles got Cole Payton…Is there a QB controversy in Philadelphia?” (06:55)
  • Ryan Whitney: “No, he’s Taysom Hill. Next Taysom Hill.” (07:04)

Notable Quote:

• “Every camp’s a mini camp when you’re his size.” – Max (03:01)

Timestamps:
03:00 — Diego Pavia to Ravens minicamp
05:00 — Filipano’s “quit” tweet & local draft lore
06:46 — Todd McShay’s draft bet, missing Mr. Irrelevant

Draft Strategy Banter

• Debate over the Eagles drafting a DT who’d never played football before, with Max and PFT riffing on “body fat” and raw athleticism (08:04).
• Jaguars’ GM James Gladstone’s “reaches” and unique spreadsheets – “The Jaguars are either geniuses or we’ll wonder why we hired that young nerd” (11:45).

2. Host Team Draft Reviews

Segment starts: 16:19

• Each host gives quick grades and spicy fan commentary about their own teams’ drafts.
  • Hank: “I give it a solid B. Oh, that’s not good…” (18:17)
  • Memes: "Jets had a great draft. Outside of trading up for Cade Klubnik…” (18:30)
  • PFT: “I give my team an A plus. Sonny Styles was best value in the entire draft.” (26:39)
  • All recall fun moments and quirks of draft coverage, including past picks being announced during ski runs or NFL dogs.

Notable Quote:

• “You gotta teach them how to play the right way...so maybe someday they’ll be pros and won’t have to worry about unwritten rules.” – PFT (63:02)

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3. NFL & College Football Storylines

Segment starts: 19:33

• Le'Veon Bell's claim that Adam Gase used cocaine while Jets head coach (19:33).

  • “Dude’s rock.” – PFT (19:58)
  • Wild speculation and jokes about NFL coaching on cocaine.

• Wide-ranging talk on franchise philosophies and personnel moves:

  • Browns drafting another "David Boston," blaming AI for draft research mistakes (10:10)
  • Relatable lingo jokes about “spreadsheet” culture among new GMs (12:19)

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4. NBA Playoff Reactions

Segment starts: 36:41

• Celtics vs. 76ers: classic banter between Max and Hank, lamenting and celebrating Philly/Boston playoff moments.
  • “He came back and it was...a waxing.” – Hank on Embiid’s return (37:24)
  • Peyton Pritchard’s hot streaks and NBA broadcaster critiques: “He needed to take, like, 50 more Quaaludes...” (38:45)
• Playoff etiquette and unwritten rules dissected, including flagrant fouls and LeBron-Bronny alley-oop:
  • “LeBron literally made a teammate to throw passes to.” – PFT (40:15)
• Ongoing Kevin Durant legacy debates, with hosts agreeing this is a “sad way” for KD to go out if Suns flame out (41:46).
• Playoff surprises: Magic v. Pistons matchup breakdowns, Timberwolves’ wins and injuries.

Timestamps:
37:24 — Sixers-Celtics “waxing”
40:15 — LeBron-Bronny moment
47:16 — Magic up on Pistons
53:26 — Timberwolves on a run

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5. NHL Playoffs Deep Dive (with Ryan Whitney)

Segment starts: 92:54 (approx. 1:32:54)

• Live, in-game Oilers reactions from Ryan Whitney, with an open, passionate look at McDavid’s apparent injury and Edmonton’s “heroin hockey” style.
  • “It’s the most entertaining team in the league...every game, something ridiculous happens.” – Whitney (96:52)
• Big discussion: Why can’t the Oilers ever keep a goalie? Is the defense to blame?
• Bruins’ playoff misery and “worst game in 100 years”
  • Swayman blowing up on teammates: “At least we had one guy show some fire today…” (107:23)
• Stanley Cup predictions:
  • Whitney: “It’s tough to say Colorado’s not going to win. They look so good.” (130:28)
• Philly Flyers as “scumbags” and love for playoff hockey atmospheres across North America.
  • “They're all scumbags and the fans are scumbags...but I respect it!” – Whitney (111:56)
• Debates about best hockey crowds, childhood hockey lessons, and whether Whitney's own kids are allowed to be goalies (“No. Hard no.”) (128:53)

Notable Quotes:

• “You could be...the biggest sports podcast to lead with hockey. It would help hockey a lot.” – Whitney (99:47)
• “He’s the best, boys. He’s the best. Never seen a player like [McDavid].” – Whitney (137:47)

Timestamps:
92:54 — Whitney’s in-studio NHL playoff live watch
102:54 — On getting predictions wrong & “being in the arena”
128:53 — “No” to his kids being goalies

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6. Sports Culture, Fan Moments, & Unwritten Rules

Segment starts: 61:02, scattered

• Extended unwritten rules debate: “Almost always you’re just pissed because you’re losing.” (60:58)
• Little League GoPro banter, youth sports etiquette, and teaching the “right way” to play.
• “Press off” saga between Icy Vert and Pickensburg, with fan engagement and campaign to send them to games for a live rematch (83:32 onwards)
  • “Getting pressed has got to be one of the worst feelings in the world...” (85:14)

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7. Who’s Back of the Week

Segment starts: 67:50

• Red Sox fire coaches (“they lost 17-1, the Orioles ran out of fireworks…”), Alex Cora discourse, and media ownership culture in sports.
• Papa John returns as Louisville booster for NIL era.
• Anti-Italian discrimination at White Sox games, marathon record chatter, LA Thieves win in CDL Minor league.
• The concept of the “press” dominating internet sports culture.

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8. Notable Quotes & Funniest Moments

• “Dude, you just can’t let another man touch your shoulder.” (85:20)
• “How are you so pro-school during NFL draft?” (04:06)
• “Adam Gase snorted cocaine multiple times as a head coach.” — Le’Veon Bell (19:33)
• “Philly fans are scumbags, but I respect it.” – Ryan Whitney (111:56)
• “They're not going to watch a second of this game. Way too much at stake.” (86:13)

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9. Highlight Timestamps by Topic

| Timestamp | Segment/Topic | |-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 02:14 | NFL Draft recap; Diego Pavia jokes | | 05:00 | Pittsburgh local draft lore; “Pickensburg” press | | 08:04 | Eagles draft discussion (guy never played football) | | 12:19 | Jaguars GM spreadsheet/nerd debate | | 18:17 | Team-by-team rapid draft grades | | 19:33 | Le’Veon Bell’s Adam Gase cocaine allegation | | 26:39 | PFT’s A+ for Commanders draft | | 36:41 | NBA Playoff talk; Sixers/Celtics rivalry | | 40:15 | LeBron/Bronny alley-oop | | 53:26 | Timberwolves playoff surge, injury woes | | 61:02 | Unwritten rules debate | | 67:50 | Who’s Back: Red Sox drama, Papa John, “Press Off” continued | | 83:32 | Extended “Press Off” discussion, planning live rematch | | 92:54 | Ryan Whitney joins for NHL playoffs talk, Oilers live reactions | | 107:17 | Bruins playoff pain, Swayman erupting | | 128:53 | Whitney’s policy on kids as goalies (Hard No) | | 137:47 | On McDavid’s generational skill level |

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Episode Tone & Style

• Fast, irreverent, and packed with banter.
• Hosts flow seamlessly from sharp analysis to pure comedy bits and inside jokes.
• The style is loose, fan-oriented, and intentionally eschews hyper-serious “hot take” debate.
• Inside Barstool and sports internet culture references abound.
• Convos with Whitney are unusually passionate and nostalgic, especially regarding hockey and raising kids in sports.

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For Non-Listeners: Key Takeaways

• The 2026 NFL Draft reactions are taken half-seriously, with plenty of jokes about players falling, wild picks, and the cult of the “spreadsheet nerd” GM.
• Multiple rounds of NBA and NHL playoff talk capture the chaos, the narrative drama, and the absurdities of sports media coverage.
• The “press off” between two fans is playfully elevated to the level of a legitimate sports rivalry, showing the show’s commitment to fan-driven memes.
• Ryan Whitney’s segment is a must-listen for any hockey fan: passionate, knowledgeable, and self-deprecating.
• If you like your sports talk with humor, loose facts, quotable moments, and some offbeat fan culture—this episode is a prime Pardon My Take experience.

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Memorable Quotes:

• “LeBron literally made a teammate to throw passes to.” – PFT Commenter (40:15)
• “Philly was tough...They'll spit on you and stuff like that. Real dirt bags.” - Whitney (113:45)
• “Getting pressed has got to be one of the worst feelings in the world.” – PFT Commenter (85:14)
• “We up the sports we do know.” – Ryan Whitney (100:46)

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Podcast’s Essential Message:
Sports are unpredictable, passionate, and best enjoyed with a sense of humor. PMT delivers that buzz, plus a little chaos—every single week.

Transcript

[PFT Commenter]

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[Ryan Whitney]

Aw.

[Max]

Yeah. Barn at my day.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah morning might take welcome to Part of My take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Monday, April 27th and the NFL draft is complete. Good job boys. Congrats people Drafted and Diego Pavia.

[Max]

We did it. I was going to say I I'd like to update my draft grades that I gave out because on Friday we gave out draft grades. I think every team got an A. The Dolphins got I think a B or a B plus because because they got Proctor and and Gruden didn't like that. I'd like to revise these. Every team got An F. Because they didn't draft Diego Pavia.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

And he's going to make them all pay.

[PFT Commenter]

And he's. He's now going to Ravens mini camp.

[Max]

He's going to minicamp.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

I did see there was a.

[Max]

Every camp's a mini camp when you're his size.

[PFT Commenter]

True. I saw a fake tweet or Instagram story. Diego Pavia being like the NFL. That was not real. That was kind of. That someone made it look like he said that maybe should have had an agent, but probably not.

[Max]

I don't know. I. I don't know that I. If you could play football, you would have gotten drafted.

[PFT Commenter]

First Heisman finalist to not get drafted since. Do you guys know.

[Max]

Oh. Heisman finalist to not get drafted.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know. Jordan Lynch, Northern Illinois action. Okay, legend, but congrats to. To Pittsburgh. They had 805,000 people go to the draft. That is a record. Congratulations.

[Max]

Canceled school on. On Thursday and Friday.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Max]

We like that.

[PFT Commenter]

Made sense.

[Hank]

No, they didn't.

[Max]

Yeah. Yeah, they did. Oh yeah. You can't have kids going to school when the NFL drafts in town. Hank.

[Hank]

That's a. That's a joke.

[Max]

No, that's a good sports town.

[PFT Commenter]

No, it's a great sports town.

[Hank]

That's just not true.

[Max]

Every kid would have had draft fever. There'd be no learning going on in the school.

[PFT Commenter]

They had to do it. What are you talking about? We talked about this. They canceled school.

[Max]

Why are you so Pro school two

[Hank]

days for the NFL draft and at night.

[PFT Commenter]

It's the NFL draft, dude.

[Max]

Yeah. I don't know what you're under.

[PFT Commenter]

It's.

[Max]

It's day one and two of the. It's not day three at night. Day three. You can miss it. It's fine.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that is.

[Hank]

That's wild. Good sports on a guess.

[Max]

Great.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, great sports. Yeah.

[Hank]

But like you could go to school and the draft.

[Max]

No.

[Hank]

Yes. How the draft was that night.

[Max]

Yeah, but no, no. You just be thinking about the draft all day.

[PFT Commenter]

Absolutely not. You have to. You have to let everyone go to the draft. By the way, Max. Well, I had some draft thoughts. So let's. Let's stick with Pittsburgh because we have another. We gave you the Pickensburg pressing last week out of Pittsburgh. This. Now this week we have Andrew Filipano who is a radio host in Pittsburgh who if you remember, had to get his nipples pierced. Had this tweet which was in the middle of the summer and it was 250 days before the NFL draft was in Pittsburgh. He said if the Steelers draft Drew Aller In 250 days, I think I'll quit my job. Turns out the Pittsburgh Steelers did draft Drew Aller. He then got pressed on. I don't know if you guys heard the radio call, but he was on radio after and someone called in and he. The. Andrew Filipano was like, come meet me at the studio. I. My show ends in an hour. Like, let's bow up. So I like this. This is good energy going around Pittsburgh.

[Max]

Yeah, but I mean, that's Andrew Filipano. That's. That's what he does.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. His.

[Max]

His entire economy is based on saying that he'll do stuff.

[PFT Commenter]

This one is, is especially funny though, because at the time of the tweet, Drew Aller was thought to be maybe a potential first rounder. And that was the big story. One of the big stories coming out of this draft was guys going into their final college football season getting guys who decided to stay an extra year. Drew Aller, Carson Beck, Cade Club, Nick, Garrett Nussmeier, all these guys that at one point were being mocked as potential first rounders all fell significantly. Drew Aller went in the third round of the Steelers. Garrett Nussmeier went in the seventh round of the Chiefs, which actually is a great spot because you just beat Patrick Mahomes. Backup Kate Clubnik went to the Jets. Congratulations, memes. That's actually a good take a flyer on a guy in the fourth round. And the Eagles got. Yeah, they got. I was going to get to that. Carson Beck went to the Cardinals in the third round and the Eagles got Cole Payton, which Todd McShay owes us a video. I texted him he might be in transit right now, but we will get that video. I said hopefully add some tears. Because didn't he say he had to be a fourth rounder?

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

In order to. To be satisfied?

[Max]

Yes.

[Ryan Whitney]

He was fifth.

[Max]

He was fifth. So he has to cry. He has to cry real tears during it. And he did not hit on his Mr. Irrelevant picks, did he?

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Max]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

So no. Nil.

[Max]

We don't donate to Richmond Max.

[PFT Commenter]

Knowing what we know now about Cole Payton, and that is essentially everything Todd McShay told us. Is there a QB controversy in Philadelphia?

[Ryan Whitney]

No, he's Taysom Hill. Oh, next. Taste him Hill.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. You're gonna do Taysom Hill on everyone?

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, sure.

[PFT Commenter]

Smart.

[Max]

So just. Yeah. Quarterback by committee.

[Ryan Whitney]

I mean, we just taste him Hill, who's a football player.

[PFT Commenter]

Isn't that weird that when you say next Taysom Hill, it's like. It is kind of an insult because the guy plays quarterback and you're saying we don't trust him to throw. But Taysom Hill is awesome.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, Taysom Hill is great.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. But it is also kind of an insult.

[Ryan Whitney]

Cole Payton started a game at running back for North Dakota State in his career.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, you've done your research. Max speaking. Because we're on the Eagles right now. You guys drafted a guy who's never played football.

[Ryan Whitney]

Not the first time we've done that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Worked out for Jordan. My lot.

[PFT Commenter]

Here's my question.

[Max]

He's a monster.

[PFT Commenter]

He's a monster. Or Bernard, I think I said. I think that was his name. Is an absolute monster. Here's my question, though, Max. He's never played football, but then he got drafted as a defensive tackle. How do you know?

[Ryan Whitney]

They say he projects to be a defensive.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, because I was gonna say, like, what if he's something else? What? He could be anything.

[Max]

I think they just looked at his body size and they said, this guy, like, if you were to put his measurables into another position, it's probably defensive tackle.

[PFT Commenter]

He could be a tight end. Darnell Washington, 64306.

[Max]

6% body fat again. I think we talked about this guy last week, right? That's. He's not fat enough.

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Max]

6% body fat is ridiculous. You need all skin and bones.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you know that he was 11% body fat when he got to America? I think in January to get to, like, start training, and then he just lost 5% body fat like that.

[Max]

He got skinnier while he was in America.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Just body fat.

[Max]

That's kind of crazy.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know if he got skinnier. He probably gained more muscle or. Bernard. Yeah, He's. He's better athlete than Miles Garrett. It's fucking insane. Someone that. I was reading an article about him, and someone said that he is hands down the most explosive athlete I've ever seen in my life. Broad jump, 1010 effortless, 360 pounds. Never seen anything like it. That's pretty cool, man.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, that's project. It's fun.

[Max]

If you look at the. The raw athleticism score, this guy is like, they. He broke the charts.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

They got to give him a shot.

[PFT Commenter]

Did Howie Cook?

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

I mean, you just say that. Howie Cooks. Jonathan Granard. We haven't talked about that.

[Max]

No, that was on Friday. Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

How he cooked there.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, sure.

[PFT Commenter]

Some. Some teams I thought did well. I actually think the Browns. The Browns had a really good draft last year. The Browns, other than, like, everything outside of drafting, they they can't figure out. Right. But the draft, getting two receivers to help. Well, they actually picked another quarterback, didn't they. Didn't they get.

[Max]

Well, the Brown.

[PFT Commenter]

Green.

[Max]

Yeah, but the Browns got. They drafted a Pro Bowler last year, too.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes, yes. So the Browns, though, got Casey Concepcion, Denzel Boston. Boston filled out their offensive line. I like what the Browns.

[Max]

And if you're wondering, does that name sound familiar? Denzel Boston. It should, because he is David Boston's son, the old Arizona Cardinal superstar. Just freak athlete.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you have a comment about that? Listen, because your guy Greeny, my guy

[Max]

Green, some bad information. We all screw up from time to time. I thought that his accountability was awesome. Listen, that's how you apologize for. For really something up.

[PFT Commenter]

Listen, when there's a. A player with the same last name who plays the same position, I think that's. I think that should just be assumed. Who is the player that. Oh, wasn't it. Who's the player that. That we were talked about? Was it Devin Hester Jr. Yeah.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Who wasn't.

[Max]

But not related to. He was related to a Devin Hess.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

And maybe this guy's dad was named David Boston. But Green, he did go out of his way to say, like, yeah, the. The Pro bowl wide receiver from the Cardinals. That was not true. My guess is that Green might have gotten AI'd.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

I'm gonna blame this on AI. Colin Coward. Greenie might have gone to him for his research.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yep.

[Max]

It sounds like an AI mistake. You know, like when you search and like the very first thing that pops up.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

At the top of the screen. That's always wrong. Yeah, it's wrong 100% of the time.

[PFT Commenter]

I. I liked other. Other teams. I like what the Ravens did because they got two more guys that Lamar Jackson can throw to and Jacobe Lane and Elijah Sprott that just anytime the Ravens draft a wide receiver, I'm like, oh, they're paying attention, that they need some guys. I'm trying to think. We. We could all go around and do our teams specifically, but the Jaguars, I feel like James Gladstone is going to be a genius or he's going to crash out very soon. Because the Jaguars and I don't really put a lot of weight into the whole, like, consensus board, but obviously those get talked about. Like, where did you pick them? Could you have had them later? James Gladstone said after the draft, he's like, that was the easiest draft we did. We got everything we wanted. Four out of his five picks, I believe in the. In his first five Picks were all significantly considered reaches based on the consensus board. So he's either a genius and he's like moneyballing this and he's seeing something before everyone else, or we're going to look back and be like, why? Why do we hire that, that, that young nerd? Like, it's, it's the. It's just going to be such a swing for him.

[Max]

Yeah. So his spreadsheets might just be completely different from everybody else's spreadsheet.

[PFT Commenter]

But I. Listen, if you told me, if you tell me that you kind of like that. Yeah. If you tell me you have a spreadsheet, I'm in. Like when. Whenever someone tries to give me a pick and they have a spreadsheet attached to it. Yeah.

[Max]

He's got a system.

[PFT Commenter]

The numbers could mean nothing. They could just throw the numbers in there like Stephen Che and just be like, this is my spreadsheet. I see, I see a spreadsheet, I see Excel. And I'm like, yeah, I trust that

[Max]

he's got the formula that nobody else has. The cells are aligned differently for him. I listen, the Jaguars are good last year.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

They're very big surprise last year. So I guess just like, trust in your nerd until he becomes a dork.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah. And then we had the. The 49ers weirdly take a running back, I believe in the third round. That. That was also reach. And then they were asked about that afterwards, and John lynch and Kyle Shannon were like, you guys just keep reaching. What's up with that?

[Max]

You're reaching to that question.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah. They're like, I think one of them was like, actually, we wanted to take him earlier.

[Max]

Yeah, that.

[PFT Commenter]

Which is actually we wanted to double reach.

[Max]

That's the right answer.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Like immediately reframe the conversation. Be like, we showed a lot of restraint. We had this guy as a first round grade and we're lucky that he. He slipped this late.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

I mean, what I'm seeing a lot of is, is people that are giving draft grades out based on the consensus. Mock drafts of these guys.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Max]

And the thing, the thing about mock drafts is, like, literally anyone can do a mock. Hank could do a mock draft.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

And then Stephen J. Does a mock.

[Hank]

I could do five mock drafts.

[Max]

5.0. You have to say 0.0.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Actually, next year I need a mock draft from you.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I. We will put that. Zach, put it in a calendar. Have that be maybe a month before. We need Hanks 1.0. April 1st. Yep. And then you can every week up until the draft. I want a new mock draft.

[Max]

Yeah. You're not our number one talent evaluator.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. The. So yeah, it is. You're right. Like, it's all.

[Max]

But compared to like the average of where everybody had these guys going and like, there's a lot of idiots out there that do mock drafts. Now, all that said, the commanders did get the best value compared to the average. The mock drafts. So I have to actually believe in it this year. You got to go with it for this year. I'm fine with it. There was more content that came out over the weekend about Sean McVeigh and some more behind the scenes stuff.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Max]

During the drafting of Ty Simpson, I thought it was kind of like he didn't seem super excited. Like he gave some looks to. To less need during the press conference that made you think maybe he's not like, fully engaged. And then I saw the phone call to Ty Simpson.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

And I saw a bunch more stuff that came out after the fact. Sean McVeigh was not happy.

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Max]

For whatever reason, he was not in a good mood. Like, Sean McFay is a guy that will he. Everything gets him jacked up about football.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Like just being in a room with names of football players gets him jacked up about football.

[PFT Commenter]

And I get it.

[Max]

He was the least jacked up Sean McFay I've ever seen.

[PFT Commenter]

I do. I. I don't hate the pick in the fact that though, the worst time to get a quarterback is when you need one. Right. Like when you're desperate for a quarterback, that's when things go wrong. If you're getting. If you're trying to get a quarterback and you're like, hey, we have a good plan for him. We don't. We're not going to put the whole franchise on his shoulders right away. That seems like a solid use of a draft pick. But if you're Sean McVeigh, if you're Matthew Stafford, you probably are like, hey, we're one player away. Why didn't we get that one player? Because in the. If the Rams go to the super bowl this year, Ty Simpson will not play any. Any snaps, probably. Yeah. Right.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So you drafted someone in 13 who will not actually impact this iteration of the Rams. Again, I like to pick because I think that again, ready. Getting yourself ready for the future and staying one step ahead of when you need a quarterback is a smart strategy. But yeah, I, it was, it was weird watching the Sean McVeigh after he also said, like, something. He was like, I was mad about Non football stuff. Yeah.

[Max]

Something else was going on.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

I don't know, but you would think that Sean McVeigh. Yeah. What's going on with Sean McVeigh?

[PFT Commenter]

That's some fingers.

[Max]

What's going on with Mr.

[PFT Commenter]

I do not know. I will not be speculating. I will not be in the speculative business.

[Max]

I'm going to withdraw myself from speculation.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes. Do you guys want to talk about your teams? Hank? Sure. You want to start?

[Hank]

I mean, PFT's guy, he's got me excited.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Hank]

De Janeiro.

[Max]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

How Italian. How do you think the draft went for Vrabel on Saturday?

[Hank]

I don't even know if I think. I don't even know if he knows who we got yet.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah, he probably doesn't.

[Hank]

He's probably like, he's probably. He's spend the weekend with family and then he'll probably come to the office Monday and, and, and see, you know, who we got and what they're going to do from there.

[Max]

What about the report that he was in constant communication on.

[Ryan Whitney]

On.

[Hank]

I heard that was fake news.

[Max]

Oh, so I, I've heard one of them's fake news. It's like Schrodinger's cat. Was he in fact in touch with the draft room or not?

[Hank]

I mean, he said he was not going to be involved.

[PFT Commenter]

Was he finger locked with the draft

[Hank]

room day three because he was seeking counseling. So I'm assuming he was. He was seeking that counseling. Maybe. You know, there was some conversations before. I'm sure. But if he was going to be involved minute by minute, why would he not just go?

[Max]

Yeah, well, he's counseling. Yeah. Because he's in counseling.

[Hank]

Everyone knows.

[Max]

Assuming he's.

[Hank]

He was his act.

[PFT Commenter]

Everyone knows you start counseling on a Saturday when you have work obligations. Well, now that's when you got to start your counseling.

[Max]

What if the counselor was Elliot Wolf?

[PFT Commenter]

That's a good point. Pf true.

[Max]

Yeah. What if they were counseling together because

[Hank]

maybe their counseling was at, at like where the Patriots were doing the draft. So like, you know, he maybe just went to go.

[PFT Commenter]

They have a cat. Like they have like the breastfeeding room for the families.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Hank]

And like pops his head in real quick.

[PFT Commenter]

Don't let Frable in the breastfeeding room. Yeah.

[Max]

No, Right.

[PFT Commenter]

But the counseling room. Gotta go.

[Max]

They got confessional there.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

Hasn't really worked out.

[Hank]

It was nice to have some, some draft talk, you know.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. That would have been funny if Frable was like, I'm doing counseling and then he was still there and he's like, yeah, I did my counseling. I said, yeah, you know, 10 Hail Marys and five fathers went to church. I'm good. I got to help my chest, bro.

[Max]

I went to church. I. I do like the de Janeiro pick, though. Hang. That guy is a beast. You're gonna love him. And I loved his reaction, too. He's like, I'm not even happy to be drafted. He's like, talk to me after the roster cuts, then maybe I'll be happy.

[Hank]

Yeah, I'm excited.

[PFT Commenter]

So what do you give the grade?

[Hank]

I give it a B. Solid B. Oh, that's not good.

[PFT Commenter]

What if Rabel had been there on Saturday?

[Hank]

Probably B plus.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, B plus then. That makes sense. Memes. Other jets did well.

[Max]

Jets had a great draft.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Outside of trading up for Kate Clubnik, what do you get to. No, I thought. I thought the picks.

[Max]

Fine. But they just gave up another fourth rounder to go up and get them, which you probably didn't have to do that.

[PFT Commenter]

You know, what you need to do is you need to find when there. There definitely is a point in time where Kate Clubnik was mocked as a top 10 pick. Yeah.

[Max]

That was going into this draft last year.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So find that and just be like, hey, look at the value we got. There actually is one person who had Kate Clubnik as the number one college football prospect going in. There you go.

[Max]

Shout out Brandon Walker.

[PFT Commenter]

There you go.

[Max]

Oh, he's not really that cross.

[PFT Commenter]

20, 25 season. Right.

[Max]

Nailed it. I did that. Like, that's a really powerful thing you can do, though, is look back at like, oh, this guy could be. Yeah. A franchise. I did that with Sam Howell for a year.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

He was mocked, like, one or two overall for a little.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Jets also had a cool moment with d' Angelo Pons. His. His player comp was Aaron Glenn. So in the. In the team video, it was Aaron Glenn watching it.

[Max]

So it was pretty cool.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I got breaking moves, by the way. Might not be breaking to memes on top of this stuff. Did you see this memes from nyj? Matt, what do you say? He said he's aggregating a podcast. He said Leon Bell went on a podcast and said with his own two eyes he saw Adam Gay snort cocaine multiple times as a New York jets head coach.

[Max]

Shut the up.

[PFT Commenter]

Dude's rock.

[Max]

Hyperdrive. Yeah, he's putting his brain into hyperdrive.

[PFT Commenter]

Guys can't sniff a little cocaine before a game. What are we talking about?

[Ryan Whitney]

That.

[Max]

The eyes. Yeah, the eyes make a lot more sense.

[PFT Commenter]

It's Great, too, because Adam Gates got another job. Like, wait, was he Jeff's head coach before? Dolphins head coach? Yeah. Right. No, Dolphins and Jets.

[Max]

You'd think that he would have been better if he was on coke, right?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no, definitely not. You don't think so? No. If you're. If you're. If you're an offensive genius, you're on coke, you come out, you. You sober up, and you look back at your play sheet, you're like, what the was I thinking?

[Max]

I don't know. What? No, I mean, like, for games.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah. But like, when. When you're. You know, everyone's had those late night business meetings right around a coffee table. Right. They don't really make a lot of sense.

[Max]

I think if you're talking about getting coked up for the game planning phase.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Then that's bad news.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

Maybe just like, the execution phase. Like, you go out on the. Out on the field and you take a little toot. You might. You might get jacked up a little bit.

[PFT Commenter]

Can you play the clip?

[Max]

The original smelling soul.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. He also said he might have been the dumbest coach ever. We got practice in 20, 28 minutes. What? Oh, man, he better be right. Le'Veon Bell better be right. I feel like that could be. Oh, it's a long clip.

[Max]

This is also alleged.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, no, there's. Well, it's leaving. We're not saying anything.

[Max]

Olivia on Bell. We should remind people doesn't know how old he is.

[PFT Commenter]

Correct.

[Max]

So I don't know that we can trust his recollection.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that's facts. Okay. Meme so good. Good grade for the Jets. Yeah, I give it an A minus. Okay, Max.

[Ryan Whitney]

A plus.

[PFT Commenter]

A plus.

[Max]

I like it.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. Always an A plus. Everyone should give their. Their draft an A plus.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know. You can't always go A plus right off the rip. Right.

[Ryan Whitney]

I just did A plus.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you're right. You did. You actually. You just proved me wrong.

[Max]

But, like, I believe Hank, you can

[PFT Commenter]

do an A plus.

[Max]

Like, Hank's our personnel guy, and I believe his analysis because he was objective. You sound like just some fan off the street.

[Ryan Whitney]

You don't have Howie.

[Max]

I don't have Howie.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Howie.

[Max]

I. I did.

[Jacob]

You're right.

[Max]

I did say Howie in, like, the bad way, but the good way if you're an Eagles fan. When I heard about that trade with Grinard, I was like, howie, dude. How does Howie do that? How can. He can't keep getting away with this.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, it's Howie.

[Max]

And then it wasn't even. It wasn't even the good pick in the third round. No, it was a comp pick. Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

That was Milton Williams pick.

[Max]

Like how he's just rubbing it in at this point. Yeah. Howie.

[Ryan Whitney]

And then we have another compensatory next year, so we didn't even lose the third round pick.

[PFT Commenter]

Howie, Howie.

[Max]

Howie.

[PFT Commenter]

Did it again.

[Ryan Whitney]

Zach.

[PFT Commenter]

Piece of you like your boys. I feel good about our draft. Yes, sir. Give me the highlights. I mean, Ruben Bane off the back highlight, you know, homegrown guy, born in Florida, went to Miami, can play in the heat.

[Hank]

Good points he had by far the best. Like, walk to the stage.

[PFT Commenter]

Reuben Bane.

[Hank]

Yeah. Like, when he. He just walked up, they had the. The hat. Like, you take your hat off and, like, smile, pose for a camera. He just walked up fast, grabbed the hat, put it on, like, was all business.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

It was like, the most intimidating draft I've ever seen, by the way.

[PFT Commenter]

There's some. There's sometimes when they get to the late rounds where, like, they, you know, Goodell. They let anyone go up and do a draft pick that would kind of suck if you got drafted. Like, I saw there was a guy, like, holding a dog, talking about God knows what, and then he's like. And then here's the pick.

[Max]

And then this is.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he just. Right. A little bit of just, you know, I. I don't know. There's. It would piss me off. I was getting. This is my big moment. I'd be okay with. Yeah. In a clown costume comes up.

[Max]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

He's just like, hey, here's the pick.

[Max]

It depends on what I'd be okay with. Getting drafted by a dog.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, but it wasn't a dog. It was a guy holding a dog. Right. It was just a dog.

[Max]

Like Bill Belichick when his dog. Yeah. If that dog drafted me, I'd be like, that's awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

Didn't Jake Plummer, like, a few years ago come down on. Off of, like, a ski mountain?

[Max]

Did it.

[PFT Commenter]

Am I remembering that correctly, when you

[Max]

said Jake Plummer came down off. I did not think you're gonna say mountain.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I want to say he was like. He was like, skiing, and then he, like. He did a sick move. He's like, in the Broncos select, so

[Max]

that would kick ass. I would actually love that.

[PFT Commenter]

Am I. Is this a Berenstain Bear?

[Hank]

That sounds like Covid.

[PFT Commenter]

Maybe.

[Ryan Whitney]

Have you guys ever been asked to do it A pick?

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Max]

No, I don't think I would want to just for that reason.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Max]

No.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Max]

No.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yes, you would.

[Max]

I know I wouldn't. Hank, you found it for that exact reason.

[PFT Commenter]

He was skiing. Right. That would rock.

[Max]

I would not want to go out there and be like, hey, I'm PFT commenter. And then I make, like, the. The announcement of some young kid's life.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. And also, let's just be honest with our own celebrity, right. If we ever got offered that, we're talking sixth, seventh round. I don't know.

[Max]

Of course.

[PFT Commenter]

That's. That's. That's tough. That's a blow. Like, I'd rather be. Not. I'd rather go undrafted.

[Max]

I would. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Be a seventh rounder.

[Max]

I would actually announce an undrafted. Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes. I'll do that if you want.

[Max]

Yeah. If the Commanders want me to announce, like, a guy from Northwestern has signed with the Commanders, I'll do that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Hank]

That was in 2016.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, a long time ago. God damn. I forgot thinking about it for a long time. That really stuck out for me.

[Max]

One thing I did like about Reuben Bane was when they asked him about, like, you know, the whole pageantry around the situation. He was like, I just like playing football.

[Hank]

Oh, yeah. He also said, what number do you want to say? I don't care.

[Max]

Yeah. He's like, I don't care about anything. I. I like. I don't know about anything. I just like playing football. I'm a football player.

[PFT Commenter]

Did you guys see the Giants pick get asked? Oh, here it is. Pick is in fourth round. 136, Jake Plummer. Skiing down a mountain that rocks. That would be a cool way to get drafted.

[Max]

I actually came away more impressed with the mascot skiing down the mountain.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. He's snowboarding.

[Max]

Yeah. Which I'm not impressed by in a mascot costume.

[PFT Commenter]

Nah, you can't be a snowboarder.

[Max]

You gotta be a skier. That's gotta be tough to do.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. That actually is awesome. Did you see the Giants draft pick that got asked what he plans on doing for, like, the kids in the community?

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. That was tough. Tough to have that as your first, like, introductory press conference. Get that question. But also tough because maybe it's just he just hadn't had the PR training. That's also a layup question to just be like, I just want to. I'm excited to get involved in the community. That's it. That's all you got to say.

[Max]

They asked about the kids. He should have just been like, yeah. I mean, Jackson and Cam are young guys. I'm pumped to work with them.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, so what else? What else from the Bucks draft. Also, we got a wire sphere. I think he's out of, like, Georgia State. He's 6 foot 3. So maybe replace Mike Evans. Getting another weapon for. For the Bucks, you know what I mean?

[Max]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. We got to replace some guys, so.

[Ryan Whitney]

Nice. 4.

[PFT Commenter]

There you go. Even better.

[Max]

6 4.

[PFT Commenter]

That's an extra inch. We'll take that. We need everyone we can get. Yep. Okay. Pft.

[Max]

I give my team A plus.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Max]

A plus. Sonny Styles, I think was best value in the entire draft. I love Sonny Styles. Great linebacker. He seemed. I don't know, there's something about him that I'm like, this is what you want to be the guy that's in the middle of your defense for the next 10 years?

[PFT Commenter]

Every. By the way, every player from the Ohio State defense that won the national title got drafted. Yeah. Between this draft and last year's draft, including Arvel Reese, who wasn't even a starter.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So now.

[Max]

Now the entire linebacking core that we're going to have next year is going to be completely different. We're getting young at a position that we were super old. We're getting fast in a position we were super slow. Plus, I just trust Dan Quinn. If he takes a linebacker that early, I trust him. And then we got Antonio Williams from Clemson. I've heard good things about him. I saw some of his. I saw Baldy do a breakdown on. Here's why I got excited about him, because Baldy did a breakdown on this guy two days before the draft. Oh, so he's one of Baldy's guys. And then I saw the highlights that Baldy was showing. They didn't really look that. He looked wide open for a lot of the catches. But Baldy likes him, so I like him, so that's why. That's an A plus for me. And then we got Joshua Joseph's from Tennessee at edge, by the way. Can we just say I. I put this out there a couple years ago, and the draft, Knicks, they got. They got mad at me. I think I'm done with edge.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah, definitely.

[Max]

I think I'm done edging.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Give me defensive line.

[Max]

Defensive end.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Defensive lineman. Defensive end.

[Max]

What's wrong with saying defensive? What's wrong with saying outside linebacker? Why are we edging?

[PFT Commenter]

Who.

[Max]

Who was? And why do we have to put it in all caps? Yeah. Who started that? I want answers. Zach, could you look up answers for me?

[PFT Commenter]

A lot of edge. Yes, sir.

[Max]

Thank you. But Joshua Joseph's. I think that was, like, the best value in the draft people had him slotted at like 70. We got him at 150, I think, or 147. And then Katron Allen from Penn State, the running back. Kind of a strange pick because we've got a couple good running backs already. But this is why I like the, the pick right here. They asked him about, about his nickname. He said I was a fat baby and everyone in the town called me Fat Man. Hopefully I keep it going. In Washington they call me Fat Man. And you know, when I score, all you're going to hear is people saying fat Man. I love that. I love having a fat man. I like, like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Fat Man. I'm gonna love fat man. Sure, I'm a little boy and I love explosives. And then, yeah, we got explosive. We got offensive lineman, then a quarterback from Rutgers that Tom Frenelli likes. So Tom Fernelli's an expert college football expert, actually.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

So I give, I give the commanders an A plus, no A minus. Because we didn't draft Diego Pavia.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I give the Bears a trust in Ben Johnson because they went into this draft with one glaring hole, defensive line, and we didn't do anything except. Well, actually, no, I shouldn't say that. We did get a South African in the sixth round who can jump out of pools.

[Max]

Yeah, that's cool.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, anytime you get a guy who could jump out of a pool. But yeah, the Bears draft strategy did not seem, I, I, I do think that, like, we don't, I don't know.

[Max]

Shit.

[PFT Commenter]

Last year there were people who thought that, you know, colson Loveland at 10 was a weird pick. And then he ends up being the best tight end in, in, in the draft and also one of the top tight ends in the league. So I trust in Ben Johnson. But we took a center from Iowa who actually Kyle Long was talking about Logan Jones, so I'm excited about that. But then we took a wide receiver in from LSU who's going to be a special teamers, and Xavian Thomas in the third round still hadn't taken a defensive lineman. And then Ryan Polls gave a quote, which I, I think he's just, I think he's just maybe, maybe he listens to his show too much where his spin zones have gotten too good. Okay, so this is the quote by Ryan Polls after drafting a safety who I like a lot in the first round when literally we just, we need pass rush. He said the D line helps the back end more often than not. But in this situation where we have good corners and good safeties. We. We can be in a position where maybe we can have the quarterback hold the ball a little longer. We're going for cover sacks.

[Max]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

That never feels like a good strategy.

[Max]

No. In fact, like, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

He spins on the. Out of that being like, listen, our secondary is gonna be so good that we don't need a pass rush.

[Max]

I've noticed that a lot of teams are doing the exact opposite. Like, teams that have glaring holes in their secondary are like, it. Let's just get. Let's get edge.

[PFT Commenter]

Correct.

[Max]

Let's edge ourselves.

[PFT Commenter]

Correct. But Justin, Ben Johnson, we also took some guys. I think. I think Logan Jones is the vanilla gorilla.

[Max]

That's sweet. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Thinnerman is the White Lightning. So those are good names.

[Max]

You've got your exciting whites lined up.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we got big time exciting.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Max]

You also got the guy that got drafted 57th.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Max]

And so Chicago.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Max]

Got the guy that gets a lifetime supply of ketchup.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Logan Jones, which is the funniest possible combination for a city to get. And he was like, yeah, I love. I love ketchup. Yeah, that's perfect.

[PFT Commenter]

I like the Malik Muhammad pick, though, out of Texas in the fourth round. But, yeah. Confusing draft for the Bears, but a trust in Ben Johnson draft. It's like, hey, we. It will be interesting to see if the pass rush is as bad as it was last year and the run stopping and it continues to be as bad. There will probably be some. We're going to have to have some honest conversations. Sit down. Uncomfortable honest conversations about what. What the strategy has been. Where there's just been. No, there's been nothing that's been put into the defensive line for multiple years in a row in the draft. Okay. So that's their draft talk. Anything else from the draft? It's over. Hank, you happy it's over?

[Hank]

Yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready for football to come back.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, what about the. We did have a fake Browns pick. There's a new movie probably.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Maybe Draft Day two. Did you guys see that?

[Max]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

Roger Goodell came up and announced a fake Browns pick.

[Max]

They boot him.

[PFT Commenter]

So that'll be interesting. I'm excited for that. And we also had the dog that took the seat on the couch. That was cool.

[Max]

Yeah, that's a good dog. Very good dog.

[PFT Commenter]

That's all right. That's basically the. The Saturday of the draft is for two things. It's for dogs being in the. In the draft party at home and counseling with your family.

[Max]

I would also Add.

[Hank]

Let's day three.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Saturday. Saturday. Yeah. I know you get confused because you probably had to do counseling, too, for. About your coach.

[Max]

Hank was with his family.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you were, actually.

[Max]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

How many times did you visit your family?

[Max]

Not Saturday.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, you only visited your family on Sunday.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So did you do some counseling today? What?

[Max]

You shoot Saturday.

[Hank]

Bad. Lefty's bad.

[PFT Commenter]

What would give us a number?

[Hank]

It doesn't matter.

[PFT Commenter]

Come on. Give us a number. Counseling is about being honest.

[Hank]

No one wants to hear about your golf score.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no. We're not talking about golf scores. We're talking about your counseling.

[Hank]

Yeah, I. I keep that between me and the counselor.

[Max]

No, I want to. About your kids.

[PFT Commenter]

Keep it in. Keep it in the family. All right.

[Hank]

We're going. We're going through some stuff on the home front.

[Max]

What do you mean stuff?

[PFT Commenter]

Just. Just.

[Hank]

It's. It's internal matters. All right.

[Max]

Well, I hope it's not internal, what you score. It's.

[Hank]

No one cares.

[Ryan Whitney]

Pft. Do you care? Because I care.

[PFT Commenter]

I care a lot.

[Max]

I care a lot about.

[Hank]

It doesn't matter. It's.

[PFT Commenter]

It's not.

[Hank]

It's not.

[Max]

I want your family to be successful. I want your family to be together. I want to support your family.

[Hank]

I appreciate that. We appreciate that.

[PFT Commenter]

Did you score more or less than the 76ers?

[Hank]

A lot.

[Ryan Whitney]

Way more. Had to be more.

[PFT Commenter]

No, the Sixers. What? They ended up scoring. I think 98.

[Max]

You scored way more than Sixers.

[PFT Commenter]

Way more than the Sixers.

[Hank]

I scored more than Sixers.

[PFT Commenter]

What?

[Hank]

It doesn't matter.

[Max]

Did you score more than the Celtics?

[Hank]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Max]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

No, you scored somewhere in between. Did you score more than the Spurs? They won 114 and 93.

[Hank]

No, barely.

[Max]

Did you score more? You score more than Zach's fever at the Super Bowl?

[Hank]

Probably right around there.

[Max]

I'm just glad your family's good.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, they're not.

[Hank]

It's a. The home front's a disaster. I might abandon my family.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no.

[Ryan Whitney]

Righty Lockwood's coming back.

[PFT Commenter]

Get back to work.

[Hank]

Internal. It's.

[PFT Commenter]

It.

[Hank]

It's internal. All right.

[Ryan Whitney]

This is. This is an external show.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm. I'm going to counseling. We sold. We sold lefty packs. I know.

[Max]

You can't just go back.

[PFT Commenter]

What are you gonna do?

[Max]

I didn't say I was.

[PFT Commenter]

There's.

[Max]

Listen.

[PFT Commenter]

Thousands of lefties that want to hear no one. No.

[Max]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

There are people who care and everyone who cares about this. Please tweet it.

[Ryan Whitney]

Hank.

[PFT Commenter]

Tomorrow.

[Max]

Big cat say.

[PFT Commenter]

Tell us your score.

[Max]

Big Cat Is. Is your overbearing father. I'm your crunchy granola mom. I want you to know that we love you, whatever. Whatever side you choose to be. But I'd like to know some consistency so I can know how to best support.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm just.

[Hank]

I'm having identification issues. I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

What do you mean you're a lefty?

[Hank]

I don't know what I identify as.

[Max]

Are you curious?

[PFT Commenter]

What the fuck do you mean you're lefty? You're righty. Born a righty.

[Hank]

I'm having a lot of thoughts upstairs.

[Max]

Well, it's. Listen, feelings are never wrong, Hank.

[Hank]

I know.

[Max]

I just.

[PFT Commenter]

Snip.

[Hank]

Snap.

[Max]

It doesn't. The draft. You gotta choose one.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, let's choose one lefty.

[Max]

Okay. There we go.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Hank]

For right now.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, man. Problem. It's a problem. Okay, let's.

[Max]

I have no son.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Ryan Whitney]

Nah, I don't think so.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I don't think. I don't think so. I don't think so. And beads back, though.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. He was the only one who showed up.

[PFT Commenter]

Aiden to Drummond's Time.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, sure, Hank.

[PFT Commenter]

Over.

[Hank]

Yeah, it's over. I mean, Friday night was. Was a lot more of a sweat than, you know, it probably should have been. Six Sixers played hard. I think him be coming back actually, like, saved the series for the Celtics.

[Max]

Oh, what do you mean?

[Hank]

I mean, he came back and it was. It was a waxing.

[Max]

I. I don't know that he had a lot to do with the fact that Peyton Pritchard just couldn't miss.

[Hank]

Yeah, it's true. I mean, again, it's. If you live. Live by a three, die by three, I think.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Peyton Pritchard, if. If enough. If NBA quarters were six seconds long, he would be better than Michael Jordan. He would be the best player that's ever played basketball.

[Hank]

Yeah. The other note from Friday night, I know a great, nice guy, and I've talked. I've actually, like. We've talked about his calls on. On the show before. Like, positively with the Hornets.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Eric Collins was.

[PFT Commenter]

Was. Yeah.

[Hank]

Brutal.

[PFT Commenter]

It was brutal.

[Hank]

I didn't. I didn't realize who it was. We were. Me and Max were watching it. I just kept talking about how bad this guy was, and then I looked it up, and it was like, oh, it's just the Hornets guy who usually, like, I've only really seen, like, the highlights and stuff. It's like, oh, these are great. It was bad.

[Max]

What did you think about. Yeah, he.

[PFT Commenter]

I. I don't think that was a situation. Like, I think there should have been a lower third being like, hey, this is the Hornets guy. Yeah. Like, hey, just so everyone knows, this is the guy who does the viral Hornets.

[Hank]

But it's good when it's like your hometown announcer for your hometown team.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Like a neutral broadcast.

[PFT Commenter]

But I was thinking about it, too. We. It's good because we've heard just clips of it, like, the best clips we see, and we're like, this is awesome. And then for a playoff game, you're like, what is this?

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Max]

It's like you hear about players talk about the game being a different speed in the playoffs. He had playoff speed on his voice.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

He needed to just, like, take like, 50 more Quaaludes before announcing. Hank, do you have any comment on the Celtics dirty play hitting Paul George directly in his penis on Friday? Playoff penis?

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Ryan Whitney]

I mean, that didn't even get a flagrant. James Harden once got kicked out of a game for doing that.

[Max]

Wow.

[PFT Commenter]

Wow. And what team was James Harden on when that happened?

[Max]

Wow. And sounds like the world's out to get you again.

[Hank]

I Mean, they reviewed the play and it was ruled a common foul.

[Ryan Whitney]

As honestly as was James Harden.

[Max]

It was kind of perverted how many times they reviewed it like the refs were. They were getting off on it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Common foul happens.

[Max]

I would not say common.

[Hank]

That's basketball.

[PFT Commenter]

You're not a ref. Speaking of Friday night.

[Max]

I am a ref.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Speaking of Friday night, LeBron, what he did on Friday night was pretty insane. That the three to. To take them into overtime. They're playing right now, but the three take him in overtime.

[Max]

I mean, throwing alley oop to your son in the playoffs is. That's cool. Like, there's nothing you can say about that. That's. That's an awesome thing that he got to do.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, there's one thing you could say, but I'm not gonna hate.

[Max]

Bronnie should have dunked it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I was gonna say that's not an alley oop.

[Max]

What?

[PFT Commenter]

That's a pass.

[Max]

I think it's a. I think it's

[PFT Commenter]

an alley o. I get it. But still, it's you. Hey, come see this cool alley oop. You're expecting a dunk.

[Hank]

I mean, if it's father, son, I get it.

[PFT Commenter]

And I'm not hating because it is a very cool moment. It's an unreal moment. All the, like, stats are like, LeBron's first playoff game. And it's just Bronnie as a one year old, the whole thing. He. Someone put it perfectly. He's like, LeBron literally made a. A teammate to throw passes to. He made him, and it's crazy. He's. The fact he's doing it at 41 is just absolutely nuts. The Rockets were favorites in this series, and LeBron with no Luca, it just defies all logic, and he just keeps doing it, and it's. It's nuts. There's nothing you could say other than LeBron is unreal to watch and, like, everyone should actually enjoy it because you don't know if this might be the last.

[Max]

I. I do agree that he should have dunked it, but I still. That's one of the coolest things that ever happened in the NBA.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

I mean, I don't even really, like. I love laughing at LeBron James. He's one of the best basketball players of all time, but I love it when he does his goofy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

And he's funny to laugh at. This was objectively, like, very much, very much so. His son got. He made his son get drafted by his team. That part was a little bit, but you can't say anything. When he's in the playoffs and he's winning games and he's throwing alley oops

[PFT Commenter]

and he also got the steel then the three pointer to take it into overtime and win in overtime. It was just insane.

[Hank]

Yeah, the whole thing all time collapse. I mean the Rockets like the, the IME would just threw like that was one of the most brutal press conferences ever. After he just threw him onto the bus.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it, I like it was like the second time ever that a team had lost when they were up six with 30 seconds left in the NBA. I think the other one was the. Was Halberton last year against the Knicks in the playoffs. Yeah. And what is going on with Kevin Durant?

[Max]

Don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

He just didn't show up to game three. Is he there right now?

[Hank]

He's there right now.

[PFT Commenter]

He is there right now.

[Max]

He's at the.

[Ryan Whitney]

He's on the wood.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean this is. Listen, I, we. We've gone back and forth. We've. We've. We've said some things about Kevin Durant, but I think we've also defended him at times. This is a sad way for him to go out like this Rockets team not showing up for your team when you're, when you're injured in the playoffs. It's just. And has he. Has it. Have. Has a Kevin Durant team won a playoff series since 2021? I don't think so. That, that was obviously when he almost the foot. He almost took the nets to the NBA Finals.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

The footage won since 2019. That would be that, that would be that season. Yeah.

[Max]

And because the next year was the reverse whomping. Right?

[PFT Commenter]

The next year was the reverse whomping. When he was on the Nets then. Yeah, it's been bad. And then the sun's. Kevin Durant was bad. It's not the conversations. Uncomfortable conversations.

[Max]

Will he ever win a ring? He.

[PFT Commenter]

Good thing is he does not care about his legacy and what people online say about it.

[Max]

No. I mean he's got a. Yeah. I'd like to see him win a championship before he retires. I'm not sure that he's going to at this point.

[PFT Commenter]

Good thing is this won't bother Kevin Durant for the next 40 years while he sits online.

[Max]

What do you think he's going to do when he retires?

[PFT Commenter]

Sit online?

[Max]

You think he's just going to. He's going to continue to be as online, like maybe, maybe more, but maybe not. Because I feel like gradually the, the longer he is out of the game, the less People will be talking about Kevin Durant, and so the less reason he'll have to be online to read all the shit people are saying.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But then all it takes is like one top five player to go join a super team and it will just be Kevin Durant discourse again. The bat signal will go off and be like, I have to get to my burners.

[Max]

Right. And then the crazy thing will be like, Kevin Durant will probably root against that guy to win.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

And then if he does, he'll get mad at people for not saying enough that he's ring chasing.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Because Kevin Durant had to do with all that stuff.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Also, they just need Stephen Adams back.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

See, Stephen Adams makes us a much different team.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank, isn't it pretty crazy that when IME Odoka did the thing that he did that we still don't really know what he did, the. The Celtics actually won.

[Max]

Big gun.

[PFT Commenter]

That's crazy. Yeah. Like, that was. That was a coach at the time who was considered the. One of the top, you know, five coaches in the NBA had remade the Celtics, had taken them to the finals. He does the thing that, again, we don't know what he did, but he did something bad, gets fired. Everyone's like, what the hell happened? Joe Missoula, who. No one. You know, people knew who he was, but not like, they're like, oh, this guy isn't very good. And now you would take Joe Missoula a thousand times over. A thousand times. But especially email Doka. Yeah. Because the Rockets are a game away from it. It might be. When you're listening to this, it might have already been eliminated of having decent regular seasons, good regular seasons, even last year, and then being eliminated right away.

[Hank]

And the way he was talking to the press conference was crazy. Like, he. He basically was just like, yeah, young guys couldn't handle the pressure. They're. They weren't ready for it. They're bad. It's like, that's.

[PFT Commenter]

That's your job.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

That is quite literally your job.

[Max]

Speak out. What you're saying is there was a. There was a coach for Boston and he got his team all the way to the finals. They didn't win. And then something happened.

[PFT Commenter]

I did say personally.

[Max]

And then he got fired.

[PFT Commenter]

I did say that.

[Max]

And then the next guy came in, it was much better.

[PFT Commenter]

I did say that.

[Max]

But that's interesting. Just something to think about.

[Hank]

It is something to think about. But yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Are you thinking.

[Hank]

Very happy with things ended up for us.

[PFT Commenter]

Something to think about.

[Max]

Let's give them Something to think about.

[PFT Commenter]

Think about it.

[Hank]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

You're thinking about it right now.

[Hank]

I am.

[Max]

What are your thoughts?

[Hank]

I'm happy that we got it up with Joe Missoula.

[PFT Commenter]

So you could end up with Josh McDaniels.

[Max]

He's a great coach.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Those things aren't those things.

[PFT Commenter]

What are you talking about?

[Max]

He's a guy that's been hired, like, two different franchises. We're like, let's get this guy.

[PFT Commenter]

And almost a third. The Colts.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. He basically has been a head coach three times.

[Max]

If Jim. Jim Ursay didn't take a massive in his house, he would have been the Colts head coach.

[Hank]

I like Joshua Daniels a lot.

[PFT Commenter]

So he's a good coach.

[Max]

Okay. Hank's statement on the Patriots coaching. I like Josh McDaniels a lot. He's a good coach.

[PFT Commenter]

On the current Patriots coaching situation, yes, I like.

[Hank]

But I'll die for variable.

[Max]

Okay. Your what?

[Ryan Whitney]

That part's not going in the quote.

[PFT Commenter]

No, that's not going in. That could actually be a. A different quote card. I'll die for variable. Sure. Because that will look bad for other reasons. Yeah.

[Max]

Depending on how you spell that.

[PFT Commenter]

That's what you said.

[Hank]

I did say that.

[PFT Commenter]

And you know, our guys don't know how to spell.

[Max]

No.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So they might not know to throw an E on there.

[Max]

I would.

[Hank]

Whatever.

[Jacob]

I still would.

[Hank]

I'd die for. Brable, too.

[PFT Commenter]

Just shook his head.

[Max]

He's like, I got it.

[PFT Commenter]

All right.

[Ryan Whitney]

I need. I needed.

[PFT Commenter]

I got it.

[Ryan Whitney]

I would have never got it if you didn't do that.

[Max]

We had to spell it out pretty good.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

That was a new segment. Let's give him something to think about.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Other games, I'm. I can't believe it. But you know what? I think I'm allowed to do this because 10 days ago, the Orlando Magic lost to the G League Celtics with a game that had consequences for them. And now they're sitting here as the eight seed up 2:1 on the Pistons. I think I'm just a believer in the magic now. I don't. I. I know I said I wanted him out. I might. They might win it all.

[Max]

You believe again, they might win it all.

[PFT Commenter]

They got healthy. They never. They weren't healthy all year. Yeah.

[Max]

Very dangerous.

[PFT Commenter]

Desmond Bain did. The reason why you brought in Desmond Bain was for Saturday's game. He went 7 for 9 from 3. They have scoring options. Franz was awesome. And it is just a brutal matchup for the Pistons. Like, this might. This is where I'm at because I'm like, oh, should I put a future on the Magic? I don't think the Magic are going to win the NBA title. I don't think they're going to go to the NBA Finals. I do think they're going to beat the Pistons because the Pistons don't have like the Magic are just bigger and stronger and especially guard like Kate Cunningham doesn't have anyone smaller to pick on. It's just a bad matchup. Jalen Duran is.

[Max]

Is.

[PFT Commenter]

You can't play him right now. Like he just can't do anything. I. Yeah, the Magic. I'm a. I'm a Magic. I'm. I'm all in on the Magic right now.

[Max]

I think that the. I think Pistons are still going to pull it off.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know, dude.

[Max]

It's two to one.

[PFT Commenter]

It's just the matchup is very bad for the Pistons because they just don't have enough scoring and the Magic are a team that can match the Pistons in terms of size and toughness. So I just think matchup wise is just very difficult.

[Max]

I think that's a, that's a very good description of what happened on Saturday. Yeah, that's very good. But I don't think that that's going happen every night.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, like if this was Pistons versus the the Knicks, Kade Cunningham would be roasting Jaylen Brunson and switches and everything. He would just be going after him. But you can't do that against Suggs. You can't do like in Paolo. Like they got. They just got guys.

[Max]

I don't know. I think you could do it against Suggs. Not. They didn't do it on Saturday against good defender. But I do think that you could do it against Suggs.

[PFT Commenter]

The. I did break my vow to the podcast that I was not going to watch any of the Thunder Suns game. I actually did in fact because Saturday was a picture perfect day and I opened up the rooftop in my house so had the TV on and it happened to coincide with when the game was on. So I was like I guess I'm going to watch some of this. I did watch. So I apologies. What I did see SGA was simply lights out, just out of control. Good.

[Ryan Whitney]

Not.

[PFT Commenter]

Not free throw merchant good. I'm talking great. Like MVP best player in the world good. 15 for 18 from the. From the field. Just couldn't miss. And yeah, this series is over. But I did. I actually was happy I tuned in because I got to see SGA be awesome.

[Max]

I. I stood by my vows and did not watch this Game.

[PFT Commenter]

But SGA was awesome.

[Max]

SGA is always awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he's.

[Max]

He is.

[PFT Commenter]

We.

[Max]

We should remind people that he's. He's the best player in the world.

[PFT Commenter]

He missed four shots with the ball, including free throws. Missed four shots. Yeah.

[Max]

Pretty crazy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Memes, congrats. Season saved. Season saved. That's. That's the team I believe in. Yeah, the Knicks were. It was. It was crazy because in a round one game, I don't know if you felt this memes, but I was saying to myself as the game came out, I was like, this is kind of just. The entire iteration of this Knicks team is at stake tonight. Yeah. Like, if they lose this game, they probably lose the series, and then you just got to trade everyone.

[Max]

Yeah, no, absolutely.

[PFT Commenter]

But my guy, Cat. Cat came out there playing Cat remembered. He's the. He's the biggest, most skilled guy out there. It was just like, yeah, I'm bigger than everyone and I'm better than everyone. Yeah, they just triple double.

[Max]

They just got to take care of

[PFT Commenter]

business two more times, and then we're on to. We're on to Boston.

[Max]

So if you lose in the second round, is that a failure of a season?

[PFT Commenter]

No. Boston Celtics are very good team, but you want them.

[Max]

But you beat him last year.

[PFT Commenter]

You're built to beat.

[Max]

Then that would be.

[PFT Commenter]

We are built to beat them, so

[Max]

that would be a regression. We gotta take. We gotta take care of the Hawks. I can't.

[PFT Commenter]

I can't begin.

[Max]

But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about if you don't beat the Celtics and if you lose. You just said if you lose to the. To the Hawks in the first round. Failure. Capital F failure. Right. Capital F failure.

[PFT Commenter]

But winner. Winner of that series is going to the finals.

[Max]

Okay, so if. But then if you don't beat the Celtics, would that be a failure of a season? Because you're built specifically to beat them and you beat them last year.

[PFT Commenter]

There's no failure.

[Max]

And in your words, they're worse.

[PFT Commenter]

No, there's no failure in sports. Hank Lockwood, he said that. Oh, yeah.

[Max]

Giannis said that.

[PFT Commenter]

I thought. Yeah, but then Hank doubled down,

[Max]

so you would not consider that a failure, losing to Hank? I would. No. Sounds a very good team. I think you have to hold yourself to a higher standard.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't like that. I don't like that you're not cocky anymore. I liked when you were Conor for the first. We got to get out. We got to get out of the first round.

[Max]

Got to get out of the first Round.

[Ryan Whitney]

You're coming. You're.

[PFT Commenter]

I want to come so bad, but we.

[Ryan Whitney]

We.

[PFT Commenter]

We got to focus on the Hawks. You got to focus on the Hawks. Do you have anything to say about Ben Stiller tweeting? Got it done after. Ben Stiller just wants to tweet about the Knicks every single time. He just gets ratioed. Yep.

[Max]

Oh, and some of the people that were replying to him were. They were so mad.

[PFT Commenter]

So they were. They were. He tweeted, got it done around the same time that there was the assassination attempt at the White House correspondence dinner. And everyone was like, what do you mean by got it done? Like, he just got all political Twitter. It was so clear he was talking

[Max]

about the Knicks right now. Did John Rothstein have a tweet?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I don't know.

[Max]

We got to go see if he tweet about it. I'm sure I do have. I'm gonna stick to sports. I want to know what the trick was that it was the mentalist was doing at the time also.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, I'm sure.

[Max]

Was that the trick that he was doing?

[PFT Commenter]

But the comments been said. I'm sure. But Oz has to retire.

[Max]

Why?

[PFT Commenter]

How do you not see that coming?

[Max]

But that's what I'm saying. Maybe that was part of the trick.

[PFT Commenter]

But you got to know that there's an assassination attempt coming. The one guy you want next to you when your life is on the line, about to be, you know, threatened, is. Owes the Mentalist.

[Max]

But what if that was part of the illusion?

[PFT Commenter]

I'm just saying, like, he knows everything. He knows, like, the first girl you kissed. He knew my pin number. He knew everything. How do you not be like, hey, dude, there's someone coming down the hallway for you?

[Max]

But can you imagine if, like, at the end of this guy's manifesto, you scroll to the last page and it's the card that Donald Trump thought of.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

The magic trick.

[PFT Commenter]

It's the super bowl winner for next year.

[Max]

Yeah, that's. That's.

[PFT Commenter]

We need.

[Max]

We need to wait for all the facts to come out. So he's either a complete fraud or it's the greatest illusion that he's ever done.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes. Yes.

[Max]

Always come on the program to discuss.

[PFT Commenter]

Congrats, though. Memes. Good job. And then the. The Timberwolves. The. The T Dubs win. The Nuggets are so sad. But what the real story is that the Timberwolves continue to be the most cursed. Minnesota continues to be the most cursed city. The Timberwolves are cursed. Anthony Edwards, hyper extends his knee DiVincenzo tears Achilles. And then it was the I.O. show who was so good.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I.O. scored 43. And I think he missed. I think he missed four shots as well. He was insane special.

[Max]

He couldn't believe it that it was

[PFT Commenter]

5 for 5 from 3, 13 for 17 from the field. And listen, I know there's a lot of people like, hey, I can't believe the Bulls traded them. You got to remember that we got four second round picks for him, which, if I do My math right, Iowa was a second round pick. So we got four aisles.

[Ryan Whitney]

You.

[Max]

You 4x them.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we 4x. So tell me a trade where you can 4x.

[Max]

The guy you got here is. Here's my. My big takeaway from this. Dante DiVincenzo towards Tours Achilles, right?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

So did Jason Tatum. So did Halliburton. So did Dame. Do you know what the common thread between those four guys is?

[PFT Commenter]

I do because I saw the tweet. But I'll let you say they all

[Max]

wear the number zero.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

And it's all happened like the last year and a half, so you gotta watch out. Look out for Maxi.

[Ryan Whitney]

What's on your shirt right now? Pft.

[Max]

Oh, this is the letter Oso.

[PFT Commenter]

Looks like zero. This is Walks carefully.

[Hank]

Dude.

[Max]

This is O for Oso.

[Ryan Whitney]

Kind of. But you're like.

[Max]

But you're making a great point. I was not thinking about that. Fortunately, I'm healthy as a horse.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So 100.

[Max]

So we're good to go.

[PFT Commenter]

Fine.

[Max]

We're doing great over here, guys.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm happy for I.O.

[Max]

i'm happy for I.O.

[PFT Commenter]

too. That was so sick.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

He just needed to get. He needed to get out of the play in and into the playoffs, and he became a killer.

[Max]

But with Dante and. And Ant out, all they got to do is win one more. And right now I think they're fa. They're still favorites to win the series, but like, shockingly low favorites considering it's a 3131 series right now. I think it's minus 145.

[PFT Commenter]

I might take this.

[Max]

I. I took the Timberwolves.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

I mean, I bet on.

[PFT Commenter]

The Nuggets are a mess, right?

[Max]

Nuggets are a mess. I bet on the Timberwolves last night at minus 145 to win the series. Just. You just got to win one more also.

[PFT Commenter]

This is. What have we not learned anything that the Timberwolves, this is the third year in a row that they get into the playoffs in the first round. They are significant underdogs, and then they Beat the first. Like, soundly. They win the first round. Remember, they did it against the. Who was it last year? Lakers. Last year, Suns. The year before that was the sweep. Katie Sons. This is what the Nuggets do. I mean, the. The Timberwolves do. I don't know what's going on with Jokic. I will say. I don't know how I'm gonna say this.

[Max]

Respectfully.

[Hank]

He looked made.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he was a. That was a move by him. That was a move.

[Hank]

He just didn't do anything.

[PFT Commenter]

Here's. Okay, so for anyone who missed it, the game's over. And Mike Conley. Mike Conley, by the way, very funny. After the game, he's like, I knew right away that I screwed up when I threw him that pass. He's like, you could see me put my head down. Throws a pass to Jade McDaniels with five seconds left. And Jay McDaniels goes and takes a layup, which is unspoken rule, not supposed to do. The Timberwolves were up by 14 at the time. They ended up winning by 16. Yokage sprints down the court, gets in his face. Dude, here's my biggest problem with this. If it's an unspoken rule that you're not supposed to do that. Jamal Murray chucked a three with eight seconds left when he didn't have to when the. When the clock was expiring. If Jamal Murray just does. If he just runs out the clock, then there's no problem. So I don't know why you can say it works one way.

[Max]

Yeah, it's. It's just. He's pissed off. He's mad that they lost. He heard that somebody stole his underwear. He's taken out of the nearest guy to him.

[Hank]

Yeah, he ran down, and then it got to a point where he could have done something and then just kind of just ran down.

[PFT Commenter]

Real dude.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

Kind of got him.

[PFT Commenter]

Jay McDaniels, icy vert. Jokic Pickensburg.

[Max]

Yeah, the press.

[PFT Commenter]

That's what happened.

[Max]

It was a full court press.

[Ryan Whitney]

It looks like there's going to be another press.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, it looks like there's going to be another. All right, save that. We'll use it for who's back. Max, I'm going to go to you for who's back, and I want all the details on the next press. I might go. I might fly in for the next.

[Max]

Rudy Gobert putting himself in the middle of this. And somehow I think Rudy Gobert came off looking like more of a even than Jokic. Let. Let Jade McDaniels handle it. Jaden McDaniels was handling it really well.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But it's just the. The Nuggets look bad, and they. Jokic, like, he. He can't. They're. They're basically trying to make him a shooter, and he's not shooting well. Didn't hit a three again. And the Timberwolves are awesome. Like, they're just fun to watch, and it just sucks that they got. They won this game to go up three. One incredible night in Minnesota. Oh, yeah. But two of your best players get injured, one of them out for a year plus.

[Max]

Yeah. So it sounds like. Well, maybe not a year plus.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Tatum came back.

[PFT Commenter]

True.

[Max]

But so with. With Ant, it looks like he'll be out for a couple weeks minimum.

[PFT Commenter]

That looks so nasty.

[Max]

It did. It was one of those things where you thought, like, pcl, mcl, but they said no ligament damage, just like, a bone bruise from the hyperextension. And then afterwards, I don't know what happened with Jokic in the underwear. Did you see that story? Yeah. So after the game, he said that someone stole his underwear. Then they retracted that report and said that the underwear had been found. It might be like, this is his Jussie Smollett moment.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

I don't know. He might have just been so mad that he misplaced his pants. We've all been there before, and. But then he went to the media first about it before trying to, like, actually locate the under. I. I want to know some more logistics behind that. Like, did they have a full. Like, was there a search party looking for his underwear in the locker room? I don't know, but it was. It was a story that got put out. They knew it would make a big splash and then, like, immediately retracted. What happened?

[PFT Commenter]

I just hate that I have to call Yoko, but we got to call, like, we see it, right?

[Hank]

See what he did.

[PFT Commenter]

That was crazy. I love Jokish. Also, I found out Nuggets fans don't really like the. If you like. Hey, he just. I. I thought. When I initially saw it, I was like, yoko just wants to go home. He wants to get suspended and just go home.

[Max]

Well, if you wanted to get suspended, he could have done that. He could have, like, thrown. Thrown a punch.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

So nobody got suspended. Just fines, which I think is what everybody's looking for. We don't want Sam.

[PFT Commenter]

I fucking hate it. I love Jokic, but, man, he'll figure it out. You just can't. There's really no way to end up, especially in Today's, like, in 2026, you can't. You can't quote un. Unwritten rules and look good. If you get aggressive about an unwritten rule, you're going to pretty much always look like a loser. Because almost all the time you're mad because you're losing. It's just. You can't. There's nothing. Maybe 30 years ago, because then it would have been a real fight and been like, yeah, you don't do that

[Max]

to another man on baseball.

[PFT Commenter]

But today you can't do that.

[Max]

You can handle it. Make a guy wear one of the ribs. Right. But even then. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

When someone, When a pitcher gets mad about a bat.

[Max]

Flip.

[PFT Commenter]

Everyone universally now is like, hey, don't give up a home run.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

We've kind of course corrected on unwritten rules. Being like, you know, who actually is the loser here? The guy who's losing.

[Max]

There's some unwritten rules that I guess kind of makes sense, but it's almost

[PFT Commenter]

always you're losing the game. Yeah. And the other team does something, and then you're like, you can't do that. Well, you can't. Don't lose the game.

[Ryan Whitney]

What if you're up three scores in football and you line up for a Neil and then throw Hail Mary for a fourth score?

[Max]

Who would do that?

[Ryan Whitney]

I'm just saying there are some unwritten rules that are like, that would be.

[PFT Commenter]

Who did that?

[Ryan Whitney]

No one ever did that.

[Max]

I'm just saying, who did that?

[Ryan Whitney]

I'm. That never happened.

[Max]

I'm trying to. I'm trying to figure out. Get myself into it.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. I'm trying to say that.

[PFT Commenter]

You're trying to get us.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, I'm trying to get you. That would piss you off.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, the James Winston, they. They were inside the five. Yeah. Hail Mary.

[Ryan Whitney]

Hail Mary would piss you off. I'm trying to think of an unwritten rule that would piss. That would piss you off.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But still, even after that, you, You, the, the coach would be like, you can't do that.

[Max]

Like, don't lose it pissed me off in traffic. When people don't obey the unwritten rule

[PFT Commenter]

of the zipper system, we mean, like, everyone going alternate.

[Max]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't like it when people try to take advantage of that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. When someone speeds past everyone.

[Max]

Yeah, the shoulder.

[PFT Commenter]

That.

[Ryan Whitney]

No, that is.

[PFT Commenter]

But that, like, that might actually be a real rule. No, I don't think, like, I think that's a real.

[Ryan Whitney]

No, no, the shoulder is. But there's sometimes there's like a long line for an exit. Right. And then someone will Just go.

[PFT Commenter]

But see what I'm saying?

[Ryan Whitney]

But not in the shoulder. Like, they'll go in the left lane, go all the way down.

[PFT Commenter]

I still think you get pulled over for that. No, I think you might be able to.

[Ryan Whitney]

Definitely not cop.

[PFT Commenter]

Could just be like, unwritten rules.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. All right, so now we're back in on a couple unwritten rules.

[PFT Commenter]

A couple. All right, fine. But for the. The most part, most unwritten rules are someone loses and is upset they're losing and then says you're a bad sport. Unwritten rules are for little league baseball, not for professional sports.

[Max]

Oh, there. What I saw. Major, major unwritten rule violation the other day, which I think we should actually correct and write rules. Right. We need to write down some of the unwritten rules.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Max]

The. The little league team where all the guys had GoPros on their. On their helmets.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Max]

And the guy steps up to the plate, crushes a monster dong, smashes the bat on the ground and starts running around the bases and, like, pretty much like, doing cartwheels.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

And like, his teammates have, like, the boombox going. Did you see this? This clip? Watch this guy. So the whole team, they've got GoPros.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. See, this is different, though, because these are kids.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I actually do think unwritten rules in sportsmanship should matter for kids. I think when you're a professional athlete, there is no such thing as sportsmanship.

[Max]

The parents.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah. No, these parents suck.

[Max]

So I. I actually like the Barry

[PFT Commenter]

Bonds, you know, all the gear.

[Max]

Yeah. Then he dunks out.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

So I. I didn't hate this that much until I noticed that they're wearing GoPros on their home.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

This is brutal.

[Max]

That sucks.

[PFT Commenter]

This is.

[Max]

That radicalized me.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. For kids. I. You gotta. You gotta teach them how to play the right way.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So that someday some of them might be pros where they don't have to worry about unwritten rules.

[Max]

You want a GoPro, then don't wear one.

[PFT Commenter]

Facts.

[Max]

That was a great one.

[PFT Commenter]

Strong. Real strong. Wemby's back. So that series is over.

[Max]

We'll be so back.

[PFT Commenter]

So bad.

[Max]

So back. So calm, in control.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep. And then the.

[Max]

How many blocks did he have today? They have. He had maybe eight blocks. I think he was just dominant.

[PFT Commenter]

He had said 27 and 12 and 7 blocks.

[Max]

Dominant performance out of Wimby.

[PFT Commenter]

And then the Cavs. The Cavs. Raptor series is. It's the mid off. It's a total mid off. I think the Raptors won the game shooting 32% from the field also James Harden.

[Ryan Whitney]

It.

[PFT Commenter]

He's. He's done like he doesn't want to do this anymore. He's. He's gone.

[Max]

You think?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, but no, but usually it would take at least till game six.

[Max]

Game. Yeah. Game four, you start to see the cracks.

[PFT Commenter]

No, but it started. The crack started.

[Max]

Game three, game five, he might bounce back a little bit. Then game six, he can truly paint a masterpiece with it. So yeah, but you're right when it comes to the shooting, it was bad. Cleveland missed. Cleveland missed 33 pointers.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Cleveland shot 37%. So that's how you lose a game when the opponent shoots.

[Max]

And Toronto missed 26 three pointers. So that is. Hank, you're the math guy. 30 plus 26, 56. There are 56 missed three pointers in this game.

[PFT Commenter]

But yeah, James Harden went game one, eight, made field goals, four turnovers. Game two, nine made field goals, five turnovers. And then the last two games he has more turnovers and made field goals. Game three, five made field goals, eight turnovers. Game four, six made field goals, seven turnovers. Yeah, it's over. He doesn't want to do this anymore. They're done. But this is such a mid off. I mean the fact that I think it was the, the worst shooting performance in the three point era that has ever won a playoff game.

[Max]

Is it really?

[PFT Commenter]

I think I saw that stat.

[Max]

So Harden now 4 for 30 from 3. Yeah, Harden now has 44 of those games that you talked about. Big cat.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

Where he's got more turnovers than field goals.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Pretty crazy.

[Jacob]

Yeah.

[Max]

And one other thing with the the Blazers spurs series, that's two games in a row where they've blown at least 15 point leads in the second half.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, it's. Oh, the Blazer spurs are saying yeah, yeah, yeah, they were up. The Blazers had a big second quarter and then they just got smoked in the third and fourth. Listen, you need to have T shirts to win.

[Max]

Gotta have the T shirts to win.

[PFT Commenter]

Hawks, I bet the Knicks the minute I saw the Hawks were doing rally towels.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

Got a full shirt for that. I think I saw a lot of people that seem to have coordinated themselves. I like that like wearing their. They like sent out a mass email DIY shirts being like hey guys, just so you know, we're all wearing a rip city T shirts today.

[PFT Commenter]

Love that.

[Max]

And then it was like a noble is a noble effort. But how big can that email thread possibly get? It was probably like 12% of the people that were wearing that same shirt. Yeah, but still, like, I appreciate the organization from.

[PFT Commenter]

They're trying to do it.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank, do you. For who's back of the week, do you have your baseball team?

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, so we can talk about it there. And we're going to talk all hockey with Ryan Whitney in a second. Before we do that, who's back of the week? Twisted teas are refreshing, hard iced tea made with real brewed tea and 5% alcohol. Twisted is the perfect drink to keep the good times going all day and all season long. Whether you're hanging out at a friend's house, catching a game at the stadium or at the bar or day drinking with friends, Twisted tea is there to turn your day up a notch and make a good time, a great time. Grab a refreshing twisted tea today. We love the original, the half and half, the peach twisted tea. Go get it today. Twisted tea, Hank. Who's back of the week?

[Hank]

Yeah, my. Who's back of the week is, I guess, not really the Red Sox. They fired five of their coaches, sent them on a plane home. Alex Cora, hidden coach, third base coach. Jason Veritech, Red Sox legend.

[PFT Commenter]

He wasn't. He wasn't fired. He was. He was kidnapped.

[Hank]

He was kidnapped.

[PFT Commenter]

Did you not see that tweet?

[Hank]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

It seemed like a kidnapping was like, Jason Vertech has not been fired. He's been reassigned. And we will update where, like, you just let him go, dude, what are you doing?

[Max]

Yeah. What is reassignment? That means, like, we're gonna invent a job for him.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Hank]

Reassigned to a new role within the organization.

[Max]

A new role that doesn't exist yet.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Hank]

Which is likely a reflection of his standing as former Red Sox cabinet two time World series champ. Yeah, that just. Yeah, just cut him loose, dude.

[PFT Commenter]

Just let him go.

[Max]

He's the special envoy.

[PFT Commenter]

All his friends just got fired.

[Max]

Special envoy for the ship Shield of the Americas, Jason Veritech.

[Hank]

They're 10 and 7. They're. They're terrible. They're 10 and 17. They lost 17 1. The other day, the Orioles ran out of fireworks, which is, like, embarrassing as. As it gets for a baseball team when they had to put up on the. On the scoreboard, like, no more fireworks after home runs were out of pyro.

[Max]

I would say embarrassing also for the Orioles.

[Hank]

I don't know. You can't really account, like, if you're the pyro department, it's like, what, you know, you got.

[Max]

You always got to have more, I guess.

[Hank]

Yeah, it's a lot of pyro.

[Max]

Like, we make fun of Of Tom Dundon for not getting the T shirts. Like Rubenstein, the owner of the Orioles. He's loaded. He owns the Declaration of Independence. Maybe put a little extra in the budget line for fireworks.

[PFT Commenter]

Dude.

[Hank]

Yeah. They probably have to reassess after that. I did. I like was reading about it and online like the. If you search it's like Liverpool owner because John Henry owns it. They all the like BBC and English outlets made it seem like they fired the Liverpool coaches because it was like Liverpool owner sacks, five coaches and like shocking. Like they were. They were painting it to people. For people to. On John Henry.

[PFT Commenter]

Which I appreciated. I don't. I just can't understand. He's got money, right?

[Hank]

They're cheap. He doesn't care.

[PFT Commenter]

He's got money.

[Hank]

They're. They're spending it on other franchises. Liverpool, that's where like the Liverpool and Boston fan bases, they all hate him too. Like they did. They did like a protester. Like they were all kind of wearing like sell the team shirts because they're raising the prices there. Like he's just. All he cares about is money.

[PFT Commenter]

They. I saw Alex Cora post.

[Hank]

He just buys teams that their fans are super loyal.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Well, I mean the Red Sox like he was. They were in there from the beginning but then once they started buying all the other teams, they just don't care about the Red Sox or winning for any of their teams.

[PFT Commenter]

What else does he own?

[Hank]

Liverpool and like I think a couple other ones. They own a racing team.

[PFT Commenter]

That's gotta hurt. What if the racing team is just awesome? That would hurt.

[Max]

He has the Penguins.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh yeah.

[Max]

He does own the RFK Racing. Run over Baron. You put in the back of your van and take it to Central Park.

[PFT Commenter]

How are they doing? The golf team?

[Hank]

Tgl? I don't know. I think they were. They made it to the playoffs.

[Ryan Whitney]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Max]

Oh, he owns the Boston Globe.

[Hank]

Yeah, he owns everything.

[Max]

So does the Boston Globe report critically on him?

[Hank]

No,

[PFT Commenter]

dumb.

[Max]

That was a dumb question. Yeah, very dumb question.

[PFT Commenter]

Really smart.

[Hank]

Yeah, they're. They're a disaster.

[Max]

That's like super villain where you're like I'm going to buy. I'm going to buy the local paper. So they never say anything bad.

[PFT Commenter]

Not everyone does that now. Yeah.

[Max]

Bezos.

[PFT Commenter]

Bezos. Yeah. The. Do you know the last time that a team had fired their manager after winning a game by 16 plus runs? Because that was a crazy thing. They won 17 to 1. Right. Or something like that. 1887. That's how long it's been when the, when the Mets beat the Spiders. The Cleveland Spiders. You're making history.

[Hank]

Yeah, it's tough. I mean, the. It's like the. The.

[PFT Commenter]

The.

[Hank]

They send him on a plane. They got him like a private plane to go home. Like, just get out of here.

[PFT Commenter]

That was nice of them.

[Max]

Yeah. Did you see that quote from Bradford from an anonymous Red Sox alumni?

[PFT Commenter]

Is he your gm?

[Hank]

What do you say?

[Max]

He said woke up to a text from a former Red Sox player who summed up Saturday's moves. It's like your pants and changing your shirt.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Breslow.

[Hank]

But nothing's going to change. Like, if they're still in charge. Nothing's going to change.

[Max]

That's what he's saying. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Max]

The stain runs deep. But I guess it's something, right?

[Hank]

No, I like, until they're out, like, nothing's going to change.

[Max]

I saw Hogdale right afterwards celebrating. He was like, this is a win.

[PFT Commenter]

But I get a lot of my news from our good friend Jerry Karabas. Isn't he. He said, alex, score is great. He loves Galax core, right?

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Hank]

He was a good, good manager, wasn't he?

[PFT Commenter]

Didn't he come. Did he get fired and then come back?

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no. Do you get suspended for a year?

[Max]

Yeah. From the iPhone?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah. The battery? No, the.

[Hank]

Think he was Astros and Red Sox then.

[PFT Commenter]

No, he got. He was out for a year and then came back.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Because of. Was the apple watch thing.

[Hank]

He was. He coached the Red Sox after that. He was the Texans, like, bench coach, whatever. When that all happened. And then he cast the Red Sox after. Yeah, yeah.

[Max]

The Astros bench coach during that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Okay. You're. Who's back? Pft.

[Max]

My. Who's back of the week is Papa John. Remember the papa? Yeah, he's back. Louisville is bringing him back. They said, sorry, Papa. Sorry to sideline you all these years. We could. We could use your money. And I was kind of a thing for us now, so welcome back. And they kind of apologized to him, which is kind of funny. They just basically said, we recognize the decisions made years ago. We're based on the information available at the time. We have a greater perspective of the facts that have emerged since then. Considering those developments. U of L now acknowledges that the university will approach the situation differently based on our current understanding and believe the best path forward is to unite in our shared commitment to supporting UofL. So Papa John, the mega booster is back because of Nil.

[PFT Commenter]

I love that. Good for him.

[Max]

Good for Papa. He served his time.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

He's one of the weirdest sounding guys that you'll ever hang out with, in my experience. I. I met him at the super bowl about, like, 10 years ago.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I met him with something as well.

[Max]

And I stood next to him, and we took a picture together holding up a jersey, and he. I've never heard a man make the sounds that Papa John makes. He's just, like, standing around.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he's just oily and just wet.

[Max]

I. I can do an impression of him, like, minty if you'd like. Kind of actually.

[PFT Commenter]

Kind of.

[Max]

He. This is what Papa John. This is what it sounds like to stand next to Papa John. Anyways, he makes pretty decent pizza, I guess, so. I'm glad for the University of Louisville. So Papa's back, and then Top Gun's back. They're doing. Top Gun 3 is now officially entered into production, and I am putting on a full court press to try to get, like, one second of screen time in it as an extra. I think I can do it.

[Hank]

What if you had to go on a plane for it?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's a guy who's not. Has nothing to do with planes.

[Max]

It doesn't matter.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Max]

Like, one second of screen time. Maybe a guy, even a guy that, like, doesn't know about planes and gets schooled.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, that. Yeah. You wouldn't have to act for that.

[Max]

I wouldn't have to act. They could actually just, like, film me walking down the Runway, and I'd misidentify something.

[PFT Commenter]

Did you ever figure out that plane that were saying.

[Max]

Yeah, dude, I did. I did. After like, 15 seconds. It was an AC130.

[PFT Commenter]

He was just staring at a plane, getting so angry that he couldn't figure it out.

[Max]

Yeah. On Friday. And then Max asked me what it was, and I couldn't remember what it was because I thought it was a C3 and it was an AC130, and the guy that was working at the airport had to explain to me what it was. And then I was like, oh, yeah. I actually own an entire game that is doing nothing but simulating flying in a. In a C130.

[PFT Commenter]

You did the White Sox Dave Dozen trivia move. I was gonna say that I was.

[Max]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

But I literally had that answer.

[Max]

I wasn't.

[PFT Commenter]

I was about to say that.

[Max]

I didn't. I. I did the opposite of that. I acknowledged how bad of an error it was and how stupid I am for not getting it.

[PFT Commenter]

I just remember.

[Max]

Just.

[PFT Commenter]

I. I watched you just stand there staring at a plane. I just walked away. I was like, this might take a while.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

I was so excited because I could

[PFT Commenter]

tell that you didn't know because I wouldn't. It was like a magic eye poster. Who's crossing his eyes trying to figure it out?

[Ryan Whitney]

Well, normally pft it's his favorite thing of just like a punch plane is around and he'll just go like 247 Raptor right there.

[Max]

None of us, none of us care.

[Ryan Whitney]

None of us asked.

[Max]

247 raptor is not a plane. Idiot.

[Ryan Whitney]

So he was just looking at this one. I'm like, he hasn't said what this is yet. He definitely doesn't know.

[Max]

Yeah. But then later on I, I spot an F18 in your face and you.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, but F18. That's.

[Max]

I mean that's the easiest one I this one up. But anyways, Top Gun 3 is happening. Jerry O' Connell was in a movie with Jerry Bruckheimer. Jerry Bruckheimer's producing it. I need to ask Jerry to get me set up with something in Top Gun 3. Something. Please, Jerry, we can do this together.

[PFT Commenter]

All right. My who's back is Fernando Mendoza because he has been on the Raiders for one day and he dropped a so he code switched to the Raiders. I, I was shocked. He said raiders, let's fucking go. Spends one day with Max Crosby. He's just swearing everywhere.

[Max]

That sounds like Tom Brady got to him.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I, I, I mean was he was he put was he was the flipping thing just to get drafted one overall.

[Max]

I, I don't know.

[Ryan Whitney]

Me.

[Max]

You just want to hang out with Kirk Cousins.

[PFT Commenter]

It's yeah, it was shocking to hear him say that. Also, who's back is anti Italian discrimination because I, I tagged Max in this. But there's a, a gentleman. I, I don't know if it's this gentleman, but Chorizi tweeted this. A guy got banned or was told at the White Sox game that he is not allowed to hold up the Italian flag during the game.

[Max]

No way.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. When was that? We got to do something about this.

[Max]

I don't know.

[Ryan Whitney]

I like this guy.

[PFT Commenter]

I do too. Max took one. I showed it to Max. Max just goes, that's a good looking Italian man.

[Max]

When was that?

[Ryan Whitney]

He's a strong Italian.

[PFT Commenter]

He is a strong Italian.

[Ryan Whitney]

The tweet was today?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I think it was today.

[Max]

Yeah. Disgusting.

[PFT Commenter]

Disgusting.

[Max]

What would the Pope say about that? That's what I'd like to know.

[Ryan Whitney]

Great question.

[PFT Commenter]

Great question.

[Max]

Really great question. I'd like to know what the Pope would say. Come on. Part of my take to discuss Pope

[PFT Commenter]

Zach My who's back of the week this week is going to be people who think speed's more impressive than figure skating because we did get the two fastest marathon times of all time today.

[Max]

What's this I hear about the shoes?

[PFT Commenter]

The shoes faster than you could run 100. We talking carbon plates in the shoes?

[Max]

Yeah, exactly. The carbon plate super shoe. Yeah, I'm hearing is the thing.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Max]

So like what is that?

[PFT Commenter]

It just the, the, the carbon plate just returns so much energy on the bounce to like a lot of these shoes are getting banned and then they make someone make them into races then immediately get taken out. So two guys in the same race. Yeah, same race today. One of the gentlemen. 4:34 mile pace for 26 miles is so fucking insane.

[Max]

It's not that impressive.

[PFT Commenter]

That's insane.

[Max]

Wait, so how.

[PFT Commenter]

That's insane.

[Max]

How many miles per hour is that?

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know.

[Max]

Like what's the address?

[PFT Commenter]

Those type of questions.

[Max]

Why not?

[PFT Commenter]

Well if it's. It's right at two hours and it's 26 miles, probably right at 13 miles an hour.

[Max]

13 miles an hour. So that's like. That's a full on sprint. Yes, that's what I'm saying. It's a full on sprint for two hours.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that's a m. I mean they're, they're pacing at a minute and eight second hundred meter dashes or 400 meter dashes.

[Max]

That's too much math.

[PFT Commenter]

That's crazy though. If you do a four, if you go all the way around the track like that's going to take you more than a minute, eight seconds.

[Max]

So first sub and they're doing that

[PFT Commenter]

hour marathon over and over and over. We couldn't do, we couldn't do one 400 meter dash faster than they are doing an entire marathon.

[Max]

When was the first like modern marathon. I'm not talking about the one that happened at the battle. Like when did we first start running competitive marathons as a like for fun?

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know. But this just made me think is there anyone who like records are meant to be break broken But Roger Bannister really gets a lot of credit for a guy who probably would have gotten beaten if we had just recorded like I mean how did, how did a English guy have the fastest mile in the world? Yeah, that's just not. Come on. And we all fucking sucked his dick forever. Yeah. Like oh, you got the mile under four minutes. I feel like we could have gone a lot of other places in the world and found faster miles. Yeah, it's like, oh, but he just gets taught. I mean, we all know his name. We all know Roger Bannister's name. That guy got lucky as.

[Max]

It's like Bob Cousy was the best basketball player ever.

[PFT Commenter]

Every time. It's crazy. Roger Bannister, but he didn't even. Bob Cousy at least won NBA titles, like, could dribble and do cool stuff. Roger Bannister was just. Could run fast, but it really was just the fastest guy in England.

[Max]

His. His claim to fame is that he, like, broke the mental barrier that everyone just thought that it was impossible in England.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Max]

They had like a global. A mass delusion across the entire continent. And they were like, yeah, it's impossible to break four or four hours. And he was like, impossible, chaps. I think not. But then the second they open that guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Look at that guy right now.

[Max]

The second they open it up. Yeah, his gets crushed.

[PFT Commenter]

He got killed.

[Hank]

Imagine how fast he would have ran if he had the shoes.

[Max]

Yeah, the carbon plates.

[PFT Commenter]

Good point.

[Max]

The super shoes. We should get some carbon plate super shoes.

[PFT Commenter]

It will make us.

[Max]

How much does that cost?

[PFT Commenter]

About the same speed. Still slow, Probably.

[Hank]

I think it makes you a little taller. Pft.

[Max]

I don't need that.

[PFT Commenter]

What else you got, Zach? Another who's back could be the LA thieves because they did win the CDL minor today. Oh, okay, cool. So first they got like, two more online tournaments until major three this week. So is that. Is Bush. Did Bush compete? No, this is CDL. So it's the professional league today. Got it. So NATO's team took it home. It'd be the challengers league.

[Ryan Whitney]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

Right beneath. Right underneath the cdl. Got it. Got it.

[Hank]

Brotherhood's back. Family.

[PFT Commenter]

What if it's Patrick's?

[Max]

Oh, yeah, Well, I thought you meant Duke.

[Hank]

They're always back. They won. They won a PGA Tour tournament. Matt Patrick's obviously on the PGA Tour. His brother's on the DP World Tour in the Race to Dubai.

[PFT Commenter]

Double penetration.

[Hank]

It's like. It's a. It's a team event, so you don't need to be on the PGA Tour. There's like, you know, there's. As long as one of your guys is, there's other ways to get in.

[Max]

Could you.

[Hank]

I don't think I could get in. But since they won, it counts as like a regular PGA Tour win. So his brother automatically gets his PGA Tour card and all the signature events next year.

[PFT Commenter]

What was the setup for this? It was a scramble. It's alternate shot.

[Hank]

One day. Four ball. Which Is like best. Best. Best ball score between the two of you? One day alternate shot. One day best ball. Alternate or alternate shot. Best ball. Alternate shot. Best ball.

[PFT Commenter]

So they're alternating alternate shot days.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Got it. Max, give it to us. What's going on?

[Ryan Whitney]

It's just that the. The Penguins didn't get swept, so the series is going back to Pittsburgh. So Pickensburg is now saying if Icy

[PFT Commenter]

Vert goes to the game, he will press him again.

[Ryan Whitney]

We'll press him again.

[Max]

Oh my God.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I need it.

[Max]

So second press has just occurred.

[PFT Commenter]

Did you see the shirts field outside Pittsburgh? Speaking of shirts. You see the shirts The Flyers are going to or putting the puck. Everybody. Everybody.

[Max]

I like this. That's good.

[PFT Commenter]

Wow.

[Ryan Whitney]

Higginsburg also.

[Max]

Just.

[PFT Commenter]

What do you say?

[Ryan Whitney]

32 minutes ago. I think I won the Icy lip.

[Max]

Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't care though.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he's not thinking about it.

[Max]

He DM me to be like. Be honest. Who do you think won?

[PFT Commenter]

The press.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Which I like. Respect. Yeah. He wants to know. He just like doing a poll.

[PFT Commenter]

He's obsessed with whether he won this press. How do you. He didn't. What? I liked it. He's so obsessed with it.

[Ryan Whitney]

If Icy Lip doesn't go to the game tomorrow.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes. Pickensburg won the press means Pickensburg won the press. Yes, absolutely. But what if Icy Lib does go? Pickensburg will try to press and hopefully not stutter. Yeah, well, it's cold. It's cold in the arena. Don't say that, Max. It was cold in the arena. It's a hockey game, bro.

[Ryan Whitney]

It's true. It's a good point.

[Max]

I feel like Pickensburg's definitely written down his next press.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Like this is.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, he has kids again though.

[Max]

It's going to be memorized.

[PFT Commenter]

Got to do something different. He's got. You know what he has to do. He has to press him about the first press. Be like, show up. People are saying I didn't win the first press. What do you think about that?

[Max]

You could ask him.

[Ryan Whitney]

Do you. Who do you think won?

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Do you think I won that press?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, but make sure you put your hand on his shoulder.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Impress him about it.

[Max]

I noticed that you haven't been asking people who won the first press. Unconfident much?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I did a seven hour spaces about this pressing. I need more pressing. I love it so much. It's so stupid when depressing pressing.

[Max]

I feel like it started like three years ago.

[PFT Commenter]

Eli Whitney.

[Max]

Yeah, the gin. Like dudes didn't Dudes didn't used to press each other back in the day.

[PFT Commenter]

No. Now, guys, dudes are getting pressed all the time.

[Max]

It's socially acceptable for a man to press.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

On another man.

[PFT Commenter]

And you don't want to get caught

[Max]

in a pressing, but you have to be ready.

[PFT Commenter]

Getting pressed got to be one of the worst feelings in the world. You're just minding your own business. Boom. Next thing you know, press.

[Max]

Well, you can get pressed, but you got to win the press if it does happen.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. And if you go. Yeah, right.

[Max]

Protect yourself at all times.

[PFT Commenter]

But you. But actually, it goes even more so if you press, you got to make sure that you're confident you're going to win it.

[Max]

I got pressed on Saturday.

[PFT Commenter]

Someone getting pre. If you get pressed and you lose. Depressing. Well, you didn't expect to get pressed, so there could be a little bit of, like, hey, I wasn't ready. You pressed me out of nowhere.

[Max]

Right.

[PFT Commenter]

But if you go up and press some guy and you don't win it, bro, what are you doing? Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

And now I see Libs gonna be prepared for the press.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah, I see Lip should go press Pickensburg. That would be. Oh, man. That would. If he went and pressed him. Find. Find Pickensburg before he can find you. This is gonna be a captain. Neither of these guys are gonna watch a second of this game.

[Max]

No. This is art of worship.

[PFT Commenter]

This is.

[Max]

This is Sun Tzu. This is pressure. Enemy before he has a chance to press you.

[PFT Commenter]

But they're buying. There's way too much dollars of tickets, and they're not gonna see a second of this.

[Ryan Whitney]

There's way too much at stake.

[PFT Commenter]

Way too much. I really hope Icy vert. I should. I should DM be like, dude, you have to go. I might buy him a ticket. What if I bought Icy.

[Ryan Whitney]

What if you bought both of them tickets?

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Max]

In the same section.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Press off. Oh, man.

[Max]

I think the way you should do is buy them. Buy them tickets close to each other. Don't tell them that the other guy's gonna be in that same section. It's like the Parent Trap.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm getting involved. Yeah. Hopefully I get a. Hopefully I get a response. I'm gonna ask him, are you going? All right, what should I say? You going to game five?

[Max]

Dude, can't wait to see what you do with this press.

[PFT Commenter]

To see another press.

[Ryan Whitney]

Are you saying that to Pickensburg or I should.

[PFT Commenter]

Icy vert.

[Max]

Oh, no, I. I don't know that. Icy vertical. No, I'm wants to do the press.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I'm saying, are you going to game five?

[Ryan Whitney]

Are you ready for the press?

[PFT Commenter]

Are you heading?

[Ryan Whitney]

Are you prepared for the press?

[PFT Commenter]

Head on a swivel for a repress. Call him Big player Repress. Big player repress. No, that's. Is that you're mentioned.

[Max]

Press round two for a press Round two.

[Ryan Whitney]

Big player, you got to get ready for the press.

[PFT Commenter]

Break, continuance Press round two.

[Max]

I feel like we got to talk Icy live into. Into attending.

[PFT Commenter]

I think now you got to talk Pickensburg.

[Max]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

You gotta DM him.

[Max]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

And just be like, bro, I'm hearing reports that Icy vert might be there.

[Max]

Okay, I'll be like.

[PFT Commenter]

And he's calling himself Big Player.

[Max]

Okay.

[Ryan Whitney]

What's up, big player?

[Max]

Just saw this.

[PFT Commenter]

Guys are gonna end up meeting up and being like those losers On. Pardon my take. We've given him a common enemy.

[Max]

My bad. I missed this message.

[PFT Commenter]

Nah, you no be like, my bad. I missed this message. I honestly think I can't make a decision until I see round two.

[Max]

It was just so good. Like, both sides handled themselves so well.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, I see verse typing.

[Max]

Okay, here we go. Okay, who won the press? Be honest. My bad.

[PFT Commenter]

This is. We're losers, but I love it. I don't care about being this big of losers. We're actually losing the press off now. No, we spent so much time talking about.

[Ryan Whitney]

No, we're winning the press off because we're. We're the one who are just benefiting from the press.

[PFT Commenter]

Right, but also, spending this much of our. I think more of our press off makes you a loser. Of the press off. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Max]

Okay, my bad. I thought you did a great job, big player.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, he said he's not gonna be there.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, then he lost. Then he lost. He lost the press.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no.

[Ryan Whitney]

He lost the press. Let's tell him he lost.

[PFT Commenter]

If you don't show, you lose the press off.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, 100%.

[PFT Commenter]

I'd be willing to purchase tickets for you. Just so you don't lose. Okay.

[Ryan Whitney]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

I said people are saying if you don't show, you lose the press off. I'd be willing to purchase tickets for you just so you don't lose on a technicality.

[Ryan Whitney]

We can't have him lose on a technicality.

[PFT Commenter]

We can't have. We can't.

[Ryan Whitney]

Flyers will probably lose a series.

[PFT Commenter]

We can't.

[Max]

That's a good point.

[PFT Commenter]

Also, actually, you know what, though? Pickensburg should actually have to go to Philly.

[Max]

That's the press.

[Ryan Whitney]

That's a fair point. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Now that. I'm thinking about it. If you want to double press a man, you got to go to his home.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. Ah, that's a good point.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. You might not survive that Press series

[Max]

doesn't start until the home team loses a press.

[Ryan Whitney]

But he did lose the. But. But he did lose a press at home. That was laws of press at home.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no, no, no, no, no. We don't know if he lost.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, that's true.

[Max]

Yeah, we don't.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's fit.

[Max]

If Hickensburg wants to win this.

[PFT Commenter]

This.

[Max]

This press series, he's got to do it on the road. He's got to steal home ice.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. We got to get a conclusion.

[Max]

I feel like you're. You're not being objective when it comes to this, Max.

[Ryan Whitney]

I'm super objective.

[Max]

No, I don't think you are.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yes, I am.

[Max]

As a Philly guy, I'm.

[Ryan Whitney]

I. I said right off the bat,

[Max]

why are you making the kids trans, bro?

[Ryan Whitney]

We're not. You're really going to talk about politics on a sports podcast? You're really going to talk about politics.

[Max]

There you go.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

All right.

[Max]

No one knows who won that. It's impossible to say.

[Ryan Whitney]

All right.

[PFT Commenter]

I left it with Icy Bird. I said I'd buy him a ticket. And then I said, we'll also try to get Pickensburg to show face in Philly for press round two. I need it. I'm like Rick Patino. I'm addicted to the press. I am. I need.

[Max]

I need it. He says. He says, let's go. Hand on the shoulder was the dagger, dude.

[PFT Commenter]

That's it. All he keeps going back to.

[Max]

He's like, yeah, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I. If you're a man, you never let another man put your hands. His hand on your shoulder. Yeah, the dagger.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, so it actually was over before they even said anything?

[Max]

Big time is what I'm saying.

[Ryan Whitney]

So Pickensburg thinks so. He doesn't even. He doesn't even need to repress. No mind.

[PFT Commenter]

No, he won with the hand. He could just show up to Philly, put his hand on Icy Vert's shoulder, and that would be it.

[Max]

You touch another man's shoulder, you win.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

That's how they're just gonna go.

[PFT Commenter]

What if Pickensburg just shows up to Philly and they just play a game of tag throughout the entire arena?

[Ryan Whitney]

This is way too long of a segment we're doing on the press.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, let's get to our interview with Ryan Whitney. I need a press round two before we get to.

[Max]

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[PFT Commenter]

Why?

[Max]

Because half of them are called cups. Stanley World Ryder. Just like Reese's. Luckily, scoring a Reese's cup is way easier than winning a championship. It's almost like you were destined to get one right now. Because everything happens for Reese's. Reese's, the official candy partner of Barcelona Sports. Everything happens for Reese's. Get [e-mail] Reese's hersheyland.com/reese's. And now, here's Ryan Whitney.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very special guest. It is our good friend Ryan Whitney here to talk some hockey. By the way, Whit, thank you for your chapter in the book.

[Ryan Whitney]

You're welcome. That was. That was a. An honor to be a part of that book. I can't wait to read it. Now I got to apologize. I will not be looking at you guys. You haven't told the. The world listening yet that there's 7 minutes and 43 seconds left in the Oilers Anaheim game. So you guys wanted some live reactions from me so I won't be looking at you.

[Max]

Well, this is the second period in hockey. They've got three of them. So it's not like that doesn't mean

[Ryan Whitney]

half every minute matters. Okay, Every minute matters because if you can go up 3:1 with seven minutes left in the second period. Yes, that, that, that sets you up pretty nicely for the third.

[PFT Commenter]

But so. So Whit did write a chapter.

[Ryan Whitney]

He's.

[PFT Commenter]

He's the number one in terms of appearances.

[Ryan Whitney]

Guess that's pretty big time.

[PFT Commenter]

It is insane.

[Ryan Whitney]

I'm not gonna be that guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that.

[Ryan Whitney]

But you guys are monsters. You've been monsters forever. And now looking back, it's like, holy Like I'm number one. Most appearances on this show.

[Max]

Yeah, you should get some royals.

[PFT Commenter]

You can't tell the history of the story apart. My take without Ryan Whitney, I don't

[Ryan Whitney]

know if that's necessarily.

[PFT Commenter]

What do you mean?

[Ryan Whitney]

But I'll take that. I'll take that. I didn't even think that was a troll either. I, I. But I'm. I'm not allowing you to say that. But wait, I'm just a small cog in the wheel.

[Max]

If you. If you write this chap, you wrote a chapter in the book. It's a really nice chapter. If it does become a New York Times bestseller, you are, in fact, a New York Times bestselling author.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And.

[Ryan Whitney]

And that would lead to some royalties, Right?

[PFT Commenter]

From one of you guys, by the way, I. Because we didn't mention the regular show. We should have done that. We are also taking five awls who submit what part of my take means

[Ryan Whitney]

to them to Max's bachelor party.

[PFT Commenter]

No, that would be funny.

[Max]

You want to come?

[PFT Commenter]

You are invited.

[Ryan Whitney]

I do not want to come.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, but you're invited. Five people. All they have to do is pre order the book, and then we're gonna post. We've posted the submission, but we'll repost it, submit what it means to you, and we're gonna pick five people and put them in the book. So five aws.

[Ryan Whitney]

They're gonna get chapters.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, exactly.

[Ryan Whitney]

Okay. I thought, pretty cool they were gonna get to play golf with Hank.

[PFT Commenter]

No, they can do that as well.

[Max]

I'm sure Hank will. Yeah, he'll.

[Ryan Whitney]

He'll add that awl for, like, a lesson on the second tee.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah. What? So why aren't you coming to Max special? Perfect.

[Ryan Whitney]

Vegas isn't really in my game anymore, man. I. We were there for the draft after the Panthers first cup, and I remember leaving. I. I think Biz and I were sitting in the airport. I was like, I don't think I'll ever come back here. Yeah, no offense to you guys. I'm sure you'll have fun.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, you wouldn't go to barstool spring break?

[Ryan Whitney]

No, I probably wouldn't take part. Barstool spring break. Not really my scene. I loved Vegas back in the day, but at this point, it's just kind of like I'm not. I'm looking for a bar stool, you know, no pun intended. And a game on tv. And thinking of you guys at the club Friday night. That's.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, I won't be.

[Max]

Yeah, I'm not gonna go to the Club. We were offered to go to the club. I'm with you.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Like bottle service in the last.

[PFT Commenter]

No, we won't be at that portion. That's for the young guys.

[Ryan Whitney]

I went in when Vegas won the Cup. We went to a club after that. The cup was going to eight minutes. And I was like, all right. I like, I can't believe I did this for like 13 years. Every Saturday night.

[PFT Commenter]

We should try to convince Dave to do like a barstool spring break. But it's just all the old guys and we just. We golf, we watch some games, and we go to bed at nightburn. Yeah. And we go to bed at 9:00pm yeah. Tate Sweeting, like, oh, breaking news. Big cat has gone to the bathroom again to take a.

[Ryan Whitney]

Big cat pissed himself.

[PFT Commenter]

Breaking news. Ryan Whitney is starting to doze off on the Recliner. It's only 8:30pm yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

The late game. It hasn't even started yet.

[PFT Commenter]

Dude, these Oilers games. So let's talk some hockey.

[Ryan Whitney]

It's crack.

[PFT Commenter]

It's so. It's so late. I've watched two out of the three of them. The other one, I woke up and I. Whatever game. It was like seven to five.

[Ryan Whitney]

That was game three.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

It was just like, what the.

[Ryan Whitney]

Like, it's. It's heroin hockey. I. I don't. It. I'll say this like it's the most entertaining team in the league by a mile. Because every single game, something ridiculous happens. And usually more than one thing. One ridiculous things happen. There's lead changes back and forth. Now the elephant in the room. The real problem is McDavid's hurt and it just sucks how bad he's not. So it's weird. Keith. Keith Yance was saying, like, it's like he lost his superpower. So he skates like no one I've ever seen before. And it's. He's faster with the puck than without. I mean, I've been on this show how many times I've been on number one. Most appeared guest. But I've probably talked about him for most of them and his skating and with the pocket, what he's able to do this cutback stops and starts. I've never seen anything like it. And now he doesn't have that. He still has the straightaway speed. I've noticed, like tonight in the last game. But the little cutbacks where he's beaten D out of the corner and just embarrassing people. It's like ninja mode. He doesn't have it and it just sucks as an Oilers fan. But hey, we're up two one. Three minutes, 30 seconds left. We're on three. On two. It just is a bummer knowing that. I don't know if they can go long if he's. Yeah, it's like now, if they keep going, maybe it gets better and better. But at this point, how. How do injuries improve in this match?

[Max]

Right. Do you know what the injury is?

[Ryan Whitney]

It. No. Playing doctor, it looked like. Like a sprained ankle. Like, it just echo fell on him, and it's like, ankle kind of bent in, and it looked innocent. It was just totally fluky. And then he was. He was wounded. Like, he came back into that game, threw a pizza. They scored. They ended up winning that game. It was just. Oh, that's a penalty. There we go. Awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

What?

[Max]

Cause Joel Embiid, he's playing in the NBA playoffs.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, he's a warrior. Yeah. I saw that patch he had on his. On his abdomen before the game.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Wow. Give him a medal. What I've told you guys, and I think the last time I was on, I mentioned that I think my first appearance was the ripping on the NBA thing.

[PFT Commenter]

Yes.

[Ryan Whitney]

And do you ever watch stuff that you did and said when you're younger and you're like, oh, it's kind of, like, painful? Like, yeah, that was me.

[PFT Commenter]

I do that. Oh. Like, I'll look at it from a week ago and be like, what the. You loser.

[Ryan Whitney]

So I am like, oh, it's kind of painful. I. I believe all that, but it's just like, wow, I was kind of ridiculous and. And being kind of a hard. Oh, But I texted you today. Yeah, the product's never been worse. The NBA and I don't watch it. So you can say, how do you know the product? It's. It's terrible. And if you're not somebody. I've asked you guys, and I think in the book, my chapter I mentioned, you could be, as the number one podcast host, the people who change the game and lead off your show with hockey when football season's not going. But no, you guys stick to basketball, and it's horrible.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, talk a lot of hockey?

[Ryan Whitney]

No, you don't.

[PFT Commenter]

Compared to other.

[Ryan Whitney]

When I'm on. So the 47 times I've been on. Yeah, you guys talk.

[PFT Commenter]

There are other sports podcasts, though, that are like. Like all sports podcasts do not talk hockey.

[Ryan Whitney]

True.

[PFT Commenter]

There's hockey podcasts, but then there's sports podcasts.

[Ryan Whitney]

But if you guys became the biggest sports podcast that also led with hockey in the winter after football season, I just think it would help hockey a lot. That's all I'm saying.

[PFT Commenter]

Are you.

[Ryan Whitney]

So it's on you guys, you.

[PFT Commenter]

Are you a little nervous though, with what you just said? And then it just becomes us talking about Connor McDavid not being able to win the big one first five months.

[Ryan Whitney]

I'm trying to think if I'm willing to deal with that if then some of your listeners would traffic over to Chiclets to get some real hockey.

[PFT Commenter]

They stop talking about this.

[Ryan Whitney]

When I say real hockey talk. I, I've got, I think five or six things completely wrong and we're not even halfway through the first round, but right.

[PFT Commenter]

Dude, getting things wrong is better.

[Max]

That's the thing.

[Ryan Whitney]

It's like they don't boo nobody's guys.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

I don't know. I don't know that you would you say that you want us to lead off with hockey, but the amount of stuff that we would up up if we actually let off with hockey.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, but then it's all right, let's go over download chicklets or go on Netflix. Check. Yeah, check out chicklets. And we'll get, we'll get what really happened.

[PFT Commenter]

But we up the sports. We do know.

[Ryan Whitney]

I know. And I can. I got one sport and I it up.

[Max]

Why don't you guys start doing some NFL?

[Ryan Whitney]

We do like, we'll do like a, like a quick NFL recap Monday sometimes after like a awesome 4:30 Sunday game.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

But I, but I do love hearing biz during those.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Like hearing them find out players for the first time and like rules and stuff.

[Hank]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

And like positions.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I am though, at a point where I, I, I used to like, care a lot more about my ups. Now I'm just like, we up things every.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, I kind of love being wrong.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Just let it go because you're like, oh, man. Like, it just shows that like, man, in the arena, guys, you know, you're in there giving takes left and right. Like. Yeah, you ain't getting all of them right. You ain't even getting half of them right most time. But you're still giving them.

[PFT Commenter]

That's what I'm saying. 30 gets you in the hall of Fame.

[Max]

Last week I said I think about like 3, 350, which would be awesome in baseball, but if you're 350, I think so. Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

I was gonna give you 450 maybe like.

[Max]

Yeah, maybe on base.

[Ryan Whitney]

Dan's like 275. I feel like he's really throwing to the wind.

[Max]

No, I'll Get, I'll get on base. I'll have a take that's wrong. But then like big cat will clean it up.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

And like slightly improve it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Just there's like a colonel truth.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

I'm like technique. Yeah. I'll take that as like a walk. I just, yeah, I'll take first space.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, we, we polish the takes well.

[Ryan Whitney]

So, so you'll like this one. I, I talking about the Carolina Hurricanes, Ottawa Senators first round series. I picked Ottawa to win in seven. They got swept. They never had a lead for one second. And, and not only that.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

I, I, I was talking about Carolina's like centers. I was like, oh man, look at their third line center coked in a yami guy. Sucks. I forgot it was actually Jordan Stahl who I played with in Pittsburgh and he's played about 16 years. So that was one where it's like, man, I, I think you are like semi losing your mind.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Getting a little seat out all start there because I have some questions about the first round. Are we just the Hurricanes? I said this the other day. You tell me grade this take what a. The Hurricanes sweep. But every year I was like, the Hurricanes just get to the Eastern Conference final, then they'll play a real team, then they're going to lose.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Is that a fair take? Oh, yeah. Okay.

[Ryan Whitney]

And I've had that take now the Panthers aren't in this year and the Panthers just smash them. They would just dummy them and like bully them and now they're, they're not there. And there's no team like the Panthers in the east where they're just nasty. And you know, I, I think Carolina actually, if there's any year that they could get to the cup final, it would be this year.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, that would be perfect because that's, it's the year I made the take.

[Ryan Whitney]

Exactly.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. Right.

[Ryan Whitney]

So you might have got them into the.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, they're going, they're going. I might bet final.

[Ryan Whitney]

I know now. Yeah, they, they have, they have like two different goalies. But Anderson's been their guy. But like, like bust this. Brandon Bussey was their guy. All year it's been. No, you're ahead of me.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm ahead of you.

[Max]

So brutal.

[Ryan Whitney]

This is so brutal. You set this up.

[Max]

No, it's Thai game.

[PFT Commenter]

I was thinking and I made a goal horn with my water in my mouth and you. I didn't, we did not set this up. I swear to God. I forgot that, that tv.

[Max]

I didn't even know that we were

[PFT Commenter]

ahead Turn off this tv.

[Max]

I was looking at.

[Ryan Whitney]

Why had.

[PFT Commenter]

Turn off this tv.

[Ryan Whitney]

Why hadn't you said you were ahead prior to the goal?

[PFT Commenter]

Because I didn't notice. I wasn't looking at that tv. I was looking at this tv.

[Max]

It's about seven seconds ahead. Six seconds ahead.

[PFT Commenter]

I for it. Turn this TV off. What are you doing? Are you tweeting something? Tell us what you're live tweeting.

[Ryan Whitney]

I'm recording. Pardon my take with these two dummies right now and I'm about to walk out. If they score another goal and they're not our fault. It is. It is your fault.

[PFT Commenter]

The tv. The TV we're watching is ahead.

[Ryan Whitney]

Sorry. Now two. Two. This is. Is a disaster.

[Max]

It's Max's fault.

[PFT Commenter]

Did you like the goal horn, though? That was good.

[Ryan Whitney]

No, it was like a.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, cuz I was. It was actually more like a. Oh, but I had a mouthful of water.

[Ryan Whitney]

This sucks.

[PFT Commenter]

That sucked.

[Ryan Whitney]

It was two nothing.

[PFT Commenter]

I bet the Oilers tonight it's three.

[Max]

It's three to one a death sentence.

[PFT Commenter]

What?

[Max]

How bad is that?

[PFT Commenter]

Why don't you guys.

[Ryan Whitney]

I don't call three to one a death sentence. McDavid being injured, it's close to the firing squad they might bring back. I read. Yeah, but it's not a death sentence yet.

[PFT Commenter]

Why don't. This is not a troll question. Not a troll question. Why don't the Oilers ever have a goalie?

[Ryan Whitney]

It's crazy, I think to. To the. To the non. Big hockey fans. You know, the. The. The playoff fans.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, us.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, you guys. And guys like you. They're sitting around, they'll throw in the playoffs. They're probably like. I don't get. Why do they always have bad gold?

[PFT Commenter]

They always do.

[Ryan Whitney]

I.

[PFT Commenter]

That.

[Ryan Whitney]

It's crazy. And Wallstadt, this awesome goal in Minnesota, they had like the 20th overall pick a few years ago and traded it. And. And then the Wild took them. They. It's just like. I don't know. And then they traded Skinner.

[PFT Commenter]

Who.

[Ryan Whitney]

I mean, they lost last two with him, but he gets him to the finals for Jari. He's looked good tonight. Now it's two. Two. I don't know. I don't know. There's been a lot of ups in Edmonton in the roster and it's just depressing.

[PFT Commenter]

And so is it defense too.

[Ryan Whitney]

Their D's pretty good. Their teeth. They. They have Evan Bouchard who gets kind of. He's unreal, but he makes like really bad turnovers once in a while. So people like this guy's a goon. He can't make plays when it counts, but he has the second best points per game in the playoffs in the history of hockey for a defenseman, so. I don't know, man.

[Max]

When McDavid signed the extension, it did appear like there was an out if it didn't work out. Yeah, but why didn't that light a fire under Edmonton to do some of these things that you want him to.

[Ryan Whitney]

I think that was the point of like the. Just the two year extension, like. All right, let's. Let's see what you could do here. And they, they, they got, they got Tristan Jari and they traded Kulak and Skinner. Kulak's good. Like stay at home defenseman. I don't know, man. I don't. It's crazy. And there's so many goalies out there, it seems like. And, and goalie's a weird position. You know, you get a guy who's unreal one year and the next year he struggles. But the Oilers, I don't want to blame this on the goaltending though. Like, Ingram gave up seven go six goals the other night, but he wasn't even that bad. I don't. I know that sounds crazy.

[PFT Commenter]

That does sound crazy. That sounds very crazy.

[Ryan Whitney]

Defense is like their, their team. Defense is brutal. They turn the puck over. This is, this is. I can't believe you. You were ahead of me.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm sorry. We're now on purpose.

[Max]

I want to ask you about, about the Beat Bees. About the Bruins. Hanks. Bruins.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, man.

[Max]

What happened today? It feels like. What did. What happened with Swayman?

[PFT Commenter]

It's.

[Max]

It looked like he screamed at his bench. I don't know if that was as directed towards his teammates or his coach.

[Ryan Whitney]

No, that was at the team.

[Max]

Bad vibes.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. Actually, the coach asked. Sturm was asked about it after and he said at least we had one guy show some fire today, so.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, that's never good.

[Ryan Whitney]

That's not good. Now Swayman's been the best player for them in the series. They're down three one they all year. I didn't. I think I picked Boston to be a possible lottery team before the year. So that's another good take. And then all year I was like, how are they? So how are they? Good. I don't really get it. Postronock's incredible. He takes a lot of heat for the playoffs and his performance in the playoffs. But they, they just kept kind of proving people wrong. But now I'm like, all right, they're playing Buffalo. Who's high flying, fast paced and they can't, they can't hang with them. Swayman, he gets pulled or whatever and he's basically screaming at the team who I was reading it was the worst game the Bruins have ever played at home in the playoffs. Now I don't know if that's like, accurate considering they've been around 100 years, but it was pathetic. No shows from everyone and, and I don't think guys are upset that Swayman, who's been awesome, is like, what the fuck, Wake up. Whatever he yelled to them.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, who?

[Ryan Whitney]

Who?

[PFT Commenter]

So the Sabres have like, I was actually going to ask, like, who has shocked you so far through the first three, four games of the playoffs? Are the Sabers up there?

[Ryan Whitney]

The Sabers are up there, but I knew they, they've been so good for, since this mid December, so it wasn't like that surprising. I thought maybe first playoffs in so long for a lot of these guys that they might struggle, but they look good. Anaheim's awesome. Yeah, Anaheim set up like, like to be really good for like eight for a long time.

[PFT Commenter]

And also Quinnville's an awesome coach and

[Ryan Whitney]

they got Quinnville this summer. Then they got some stud, like young guys that are just nasty. They got great young defensemen. They're. I, I thought the Oilers would, would make easy work of them. I don't know why I, I thought that. I just thought McDavid and Leon would just take over, but it hasn't happened. Colorado, they're no surprise. They swept. They're nasty. They're, they're the favorites for, for a good reason other than that. Flyers fires for sure. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

What's going on in that series? Because I don't, I, I went into that series being like it's going to be a war, but probably the Penguins are going to win.

[Ryan Whitney]

I picked the Penguins. Same thing with the Bruins. Like, oh, maybe a lottery team. They're brutal. Everyone's like, Crosby's gonna get traded. He doesn't want to be around for this. Another like fantastic regular season. Thought they'd lead into that, that the Flyers just, they got. Have you heard of this Porter Martone?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Oh yeah, he's great. Heard a lot about him. For the Phillies, for the Philly accent. It's perfect.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

Martone, he's the only guy Max talks about.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, Max.

[PFT Commenter]

So he's fired up, Max fired up.

[Ryan Whitney]

I could tell. I could tell. I mean, he was watching the 76ers when I walked in this office, like,

[PFT Commenter]

well, the Flyers aren't playing tonight.

[Ryan Whitney]

What do you want me to do? Yeah, but you look, you know, you're just down in the dumps. They were down by 30. All you have is Flyers down.

[PFT Commenter]

He's fired up.

[Ryan Whitney]

Fired up. So we went to a Penn State, Michigan State game. They played outdoors. And Porter Martone played all year at Michigan State. He was unreal. Like, definitely good enough, where you're like, oh, this kid's leaving after his freshman year. He's gonna be in the NHL at the time. Flyers, way out of the playoffs. And it'd be one of those guys who comes in, gets games, and then the next year, plays. His rookie year, they started playing better. Then he came, and he changed the entire team. He looks unreal. I think he's at a point per game, he's dominant. He's huge. High pick. They've needed, like, a young stud. They thought it was gonna be Mechkov. He's now scratched for the game tonight, which is game five. He's just, like, not ready yet. He's not there yet. But Rick Talkett, he went to Vancouver, took over a bad team there. They went to game seven, second round, against Edmonton a few years ago. He's a great coach, and Flyers fans were all over him. The team wasn't doing well. Mitch Coffee wasn't playing him enough. Flyers fans have this weird thing with Mechkov. If you say a bad word about him, they snap. They've just been banking on this guy being a superstar. Max, do you want to snap on me?

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

It's Mechkov, not fat. What's his first name?

[PFT Commenter]

Matt Faye.

[Ryan Whitney]

Okay. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Here we go.

[Ryan Whitney]

Wow. Over it. Fly it up.

[PFT Commenter]

But everyone's always fat.

[Ryan Whitney]

He was not fat. Either way, they're playing just scumbag Philadelphia hockey. Now, I've been calling. I've been calling the city of Philadelphia scumbags. It's dirt bags, but I respect it, you know, And Biz brought it into tnt. I. I think he caught some heat for that. Like, it's a little different saying on Chiclets than TNT calling the entire city scumbags.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Now he went on the next TNT night, and he's like, this is a compliment. This is playoff hockey. You want to be a scumbag. But they're all scumbags, and the fans are scumbags. And I believe yesterday for game four.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

The shirt said puck. Everybody. Everybody with the flies, you know, everybody. Scumbag city. They're. They're hard to play against. They got a great story there. And I don't like Philly I don't like the Flyers, but seeing them back in the playoffs with that orange crowd, it's. It is a great. I got to play them in the playoffs once with Pittsburgh. It's amazing atmosphere.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Guys, what's the. What's the toughest place to play?

[Ryan Whitney]

Montreal's tough. So back in the day, San Jose was hard to play in. That crowd was sick. They'd come out to a Metallica song. Yeah, it was unreal. I can't think of the name of

[Max]

it because I feel like they get a lot of. For not being like a traditional hockey town. But if you're in San Jose and you're a Sharks fan, like you really give a about. They have a solid group of people that like, they don't care about anything.

[Ryan Whitney]

But the Sharks, they had a, I want to say 15 year, 12 to 15 year run of like President's trophies and never could get over the hump. And it was like the best crowd in, in hockey.

[PFT Commenter]

Pawski and Joe.

[Ryan Whitney]

Joe Thornton, Marlon.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Ryan Clow. They had all these guys and now Celebrini is kind of bringing them back. I bet you they're in the playoffs next year. And you could tell last year when I said that if they were playing in my backyard rink, I would have shut the shades and not watched. This year I was watching every game and nobody was at the games last year. And then this year was packed. So there that. That city's coming back. Montreal is a great atmosphere. Tough place to play. Philly was tough. Philly was tough. They'll. They'll. Yeah, they're scumbags. They'll spit on you and stuff like that. Real dirt bags like Max in the playoffs everywhere is hard to play, though.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

You know, like, it's always great atmospheres in every building.

[PFT Commenter]

That Lightning Canadiens series that tied 2, 2 after tonight, that's been a war

[Ryan Whitney]

that's been kind of exactly what I thought it would be.

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Ryan Whitney]

They're. They're killing each other. So this Brandon Hagel, you heard of him?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

So he's. He was drafted by Buffalo. They didn't sign him. He went to Montreal, like rookie camp. They were like, no, we're all set. Ends up with Chicago, they trade him. Like, I don't know what they were thinking. They did get a big return, but since he's got to Tampa, I mean, he has a 90 point season. He was on Team Canada. He had the fight with Matthew Tkachuk in the four nations face off. They won that. He has six goals through four games. In this, he's thrown some enormous hits. He fought Slavkovsky, knocked him out. He's become just. He's like a Matthew Kachuk, Brad Marchand type player. He's unreal. So that series has been a war. It was actually overtime the first three games. Then tonight, three, two. It's.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Basically overtime. And it was. Yeah. The Lightning score with like five minutes left.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. Kucherov is sick. That's a great series. I think the Canadians are like the Ducks where they're set up for the next while here with a lot of young studs. And it's. That's another city, man. Like, they're in the playoffs. That rank. Like, you guys would love to go to a playoff.

[PFT Commenter]

Pft did.

[Max]

Yeah, I did last year.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Max]

Where the entire penalty box filled up with dudes and Tom Wilson was like, trying to fight his way out of the.

[Ryan Whitney]

That one. Wilson killed Carrier. Yeah.

[Max]

Well, no, no, that was the next game.

[Ryan Whitney]

Okay.

[Max]

Where he. He turned the series around on that one hit.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

In the open ice.

[Ryan Whitney]

How sick is that place, though?

[Max]

It's actually incredible. I was. I don't want to say I was scared because I wasn't, like, afraid, but it's the most intimidating, loud, building.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

To be in, like, if you're an opposing fan, it's like, it. You feel like you should not be there. It's a compliment.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Oldie was there. And Oldie was actually the best person to be with in a situation like that because he was rocking, like, all the Caps gear too. And people would, like, come up to him and they'd be angry, and then Oldie would talk to him for about, I don't know, two seconds. And now they're, like, hugging, chugging beers

[Ryan Whitney]

together in the summer.

[Max]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

Yeah. So it's.

[PFT Commenter]

It's.

[Max]

He's a great guy to defuse any situation, but that building is insane. Yeah, it is.

[Ryan Whitney]

And it's just the stands.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

I think I've said this in the show. I don't know how they got away with, like, the building code up in Montreal there. I don't know if there was one, but it is just straight down now. Another crowd. And this. This matters for me. Buffalo not being in for so long. I mean, we saw the road, we saw the Rollerblade gang.

[Max]

Are you going to join them?

[PFT Commenter]

Unbelievable.

[Ryan Whitney]

I. Tuesday morning, I'm flying to Buffalo.

[PFT Commenter]

Are you?

[Max]

Let's go.

[Ryan Whitney]

And I'm. I'm going to game five.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, are you gonna.

[Ryan Whitney]

Are you gonna blade up so our memes. I texted him or tweeted him. I said, you gotta bring me rollerblades and hockey gear. I want to get with those guys. I gotta see my billboards in person.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Ryan Whitney]

My 0.000 chance billboards of making playoffs. And I think that I've had a couple tweets like, don't show your face. But overall, I think the crowd. No, they know I've just eaten it. And that I. That. That I led into that clip saying, I hope the Sabers get in and that fans don't deserve this. So I'm fired up to see a game.

[PFT Commenter]

Also, they're up 3:1. Like, if they were down 3:1, I'd be like, maybe don't go.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

But they're up 3:1.

[Ryan Whitney]

Now here's the thing. It's me and Merle's, so I don't know if they're gonna be able to win with us in the building. No, we will eat it.

[PFT Commenter]

No. You guys. Such mushes.

[Ryan Whitney]

But Merles is a huge Sabers fan, so he'll be. He'll be rattled.

[PFT Commenter]

So both of you are going to bleed up. I want to see.

[Ryan Whitney]

I told him. I think he's obviously driving. He's in the. He's in Troy. So you got to bring your blades and I have to get memes to bring me blades.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, so what? Like, obviously do whatever you want, but I think the funniest thing to do would for you and Merles to not tweet any of the videos and let them just come out naturally. And people be like, the fuck?

[Ryan Whitney]

I think memes is coming.

[PFT Commenter]

You know, you do the video like. But I'm saying, like, the actual first. Like the first clip that goes out of the. Of the Blade gang.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Needs to just have you in it and just be like, wait a second.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Is Whitney in the Blade game?

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. I don't want. Now, I guess giving it away on this because a lot of people listen to your show. That might have been a mistake.

[PFT Commenter]

No, people look for it.

[Ryan Whitney]

But I already tweeted. I mean, I tweeted out my ticket and I didn't crop it to take my seat. No, no. Because I. I did that on purpose. It's like belly of the beast. Like, I want. I want to. I want people to know where I am in that building.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, also, the Sabers are probably gonna hit you up and be like, yeah,

[Ryan Whitney]

get on the game.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, get on the Zamboni. Come up to, you know, the.

[Ryan Whitney]

I'd love to ride the Zambon bamboni.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Section 117, row 22, seat 13.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. I mean, I don't know if you didn't have to say that on. I don't know how many people see my Twitter opposed to listening to it now.

[Max]

I mean, it's one. You can describe a tweet, but I think our audience wants to wait. Was it just audio podcast

[PFT Commenter]

2x speed? What was it?

[Max]

Okay, if you're listening to 2x speed, I'll slow down. Section 117, row 22, seat 13. Ticket type adult, enter aisle 19.

[Ryan Whitney]

I know where to enter. If they close it out, though. Like, Merle says that if they win tonight, you know, see how I did that professional podcast. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

That was smart.

[Ryan Whitney]

That, like, the city will act like they won the cup. Like, that's how. That's how legitimate these people are about to say.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah.

[Max]

They're all. They need something. They need some good news.

[PFT Commenter]

Have you pissed at my trough yet? That.

[Ryan Whitney]

No. Where is that?

[PFT Commenter]

It's over there.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, I gotta piss in the truck.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

I have a. A urinal in my basement.

[PFT Commenter]

You do?

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. I mean, that was one of the things.

[PFT Commenter]

How did you never tell me that? Did you put ice in it?

[Ryan Whitney]

No, it's not that big. That's a good move, though.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. The ice in the trough is the best.

[Ryan Whitney]

The urinal is just. You just feel like a man.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Hell yeah.

[Max]

Ryan Whitney's being brought to you by Jose Cuervo. When Cuervo enters, every moment just gets better. You find yourself in the center of the dance floor. You can't help but stand up and high five those around you at the game. The room reacts like it just got the same text at the same time, and you stop checking the time. Suddenly, small talk escalates to laughing so hard you can barely catch your breath. That's the Cuervo effect. A signal everybody understands. A moment that anyone can join and a good time that just grows. And all you have to do is keep it Cuervo. And now back to more Ryan Whitney.

[PFT Commenter]

Speaking of Zamboni's, are, I actually have. I'm riding the Zameth next year.

[Ryan Whitney]

Are you?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So Jordan Schmaltz and I made a bet on the North Dakota. Wisconsin semifinal game because he went North Dakota, and I was like, you got to get me on the Zammons because his brother plays obviously, for the Mammoth. And so I won because the Badgers beat him. So he's like, yeah, get. Get you on there. I get a. I get a Plus one, too.

[Ryan Whitney]

That's baseball.

[PFT Commenter]

That's bait now. That's baseball. Shout out, Dana, beers now.

[Ryan Whitney]

But that could be like, hey, I'll get you on. I'll have my brother get you on. And then he tells his brother, his brother's. I ain't getting no.

[PFT Commenter]

He's got to get me. Yeah. I mean, his reputation's online. I'm taking. That's porn.

[Ryan Whitney]

If he doesn't get me on. I know, small T. A little bit. I would almost.

[PFT Commenter]

No, he's a, he's a stand up guy. Yeah. I mean, the original, original bet was I wanted the Zameth. He couldn't deliver that. Like, I wanted to own it.

[Ryan Whitney]

I feel like you could get your own Zameth built.

[PFT Commenter]

We should get a mini Zamboni here. Just sweep the corner.

[Ryan Whitney]

Mincy riding that thing around.

[PFT Commenter]

He would, I would never allow, have

[Max]

it be a desk that travels around. Where? Mincy. That's his workstation.

[PFT Commenter]

By the way.

[Max]

Why are you, why are you so, like a Roomba?

[PFT Commenter]

Why are you so negative about Mincy?

[Ryan Whitney]

God, everyone.

[PFT Commenter]

You got so much hate in your heart.

[Ryan Whitney]

You're taking everything so serious.

[PFT Commenter]

He's a piece of.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Bad guy. Really bad guy. Terrible guy. Worst guy we got.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, my God.

[PFT Commenter]

I just love that he picked you out and being like that. Ryan Whitney.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. So much hate in my heart.

[PFT Commenter]

He's just so, he's so hateful all the time.

[Ryan Whitney]

He's carrying four bags. Yeah, pick up a bag, buddy.

[Max]

He sees you being grumpy and he's like, he's a bad guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

I don't think good guys can be great. I don't think people get, like, the grumpiness. Yeah, I guess I come off as

[PFT Commenter]

grumpy as a grumpy guy. To me.

[Max]

Doesn't mean bad guy at all. Grumpy doesn't mean, like, to me, not negative connotations, like. Yeah, some, some of my best friends are grumpy all the time. It's like just.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, but I'm not even like, grumpy. I, I, I, I, I guess I've

[PFT Commenter]

never thought you were grumpy. I've known you for a long time now.

[Ryan Whitney]

I've never been like, think it's like the sense of humor around Boston with people. I don't, I don't know. Everyone's kind of like, you're just. I love life, boys.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, you're right.

[Max]

Ray Sunshine.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Thank you.

[Max]

Wait, tell me something. What's the best thing that's happened to you this week?

[PFT Commenter]

Week?

[Ryan Whitney]

I think You're. You're teeing me up with something right now?

[Max]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

Is your son still playing in a hockey tournament?

[Max]

We're just trying to prove that you're not. Not a grump.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, oh, oh, we're going.

[Ryan Whitney]

Okay. I thought you had. I thought you were going somewhere else.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah. No, just be happy.

[Ryan Whitney]

Hey, Just waking up this morning.

[PFT Commenter]

There you go.

[Max]

Every day, Every day. Every day you wake up above ground. That's a good day.

[Ryan Whitney]

Hey, you wake up. Breath in your lungs. Beautiful family. Yeah, buddy. I'm living life. I'm loving life. Showed up minty right now. Thank you for making me appreciate my life and getting out of the doom and gloom that I live in.

[Max]

So I think you got to go to a panic show with him. I think that should. That is the solution to this.

[PFT Commenter]

Burn the place down. I got a question about. Because you. Are you coaching your son?

[Ryan Whitney]

I coach.

[Max]

Yeah. My out.

[Ryan Whitney]

My middle guy, Wyatt, he'll start next year, and then Ryder be a first year squirt. Next year I coach them and then I'll help coach, coach. Why? I. I'm assistant coach, though, because I travel right. Be the head coach.

[PFT Commenter]

But I got a question about that. So, like, my kids play sports, but, you know, I'm like, hey, listen, as long as you learn how to, like, throw a ball and not look like a doofus. Yes. That's the height of what I'm looking for. We're not. We're not going pro in anything. Like, we're. We're a podcasting family. That's what we do.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, exactly.

[PFT Commenter]

Is there part of you, though, that, like, is watching him? Like, this is what I was when I was his age or like, no, no, you can't do that. No, no, no. Because there are parents who probably.

[Ryan Whitney]

Listen, I. So this is funny because we talk about this a lot. Like, there's completely psychotic sports parents. Right. I'm not there. But if you're, like, doing it a lot, like, you're a little crazy.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Like with. And hockey is now. I keep hearing baseball down south and every sport is a little ridiculous. There's club sports. It's all so broken. We could talk for hours. But I'm, like, putting in a lot of time with the kids, and I love it. But I'm also like, bud, you gotta just try hard and be a good teammate. Like, and if I see you not trying hard, like, I'm gonna be upset.

[PFT Commenter]

Right?

[Ryan Whitney]

Like, it. It. I'm not trying to be like, it's

[PFT Commenter]

not wins and losses. It's like, no.

[Ryan Whitney]

And it's. And. And there's time now. Ryder, he's 8. He turns 9 in November. It's like he comes to the bench sometimes crying when he makes mistake. I'm like, bud, like, you, you can't.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

And then, like, he does it, like, three games in a row. And then I'm like, getting mad at him on the bench. And then after, I'm like, what am I doing? But I need to teach him not to cry while he's playing hockey. I mean, it's. It's a great experience. It brings back a lot of memories. But it's hard because I was so obsessed with hockey. It was, it was. There was nothing else that mattered to me ever.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah. Like school.

[Ryan Whitney]

Ever in my life. And my oldest guy isn't like that. And it's like, like, oh. It's just I, I think I'm starting to realize, or I am starting to realize, like, I was not the norm.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. You know, but it's got to be weird being like, you know what? You, you hit the ceiling. You went. Played in the NHL. That is his genes. So, like, yeah, like I said, like, when I'm watching my kids, like, hey, listen, you could, you could try your absolute hardest. We're not going pro.

[Ryan Whitney]

You know, I, I, the jeans thing is like, I don't know. Yeah. Obviously you see a lot of former professional athletes whose kids play, you know, pro sports, but how many guys kids play that you don't? It's.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, true, true.

[Ryan Whitney]

It's still so. The odds are just so ridiculous. I just am like, learn how to be a good teammate. Right. I know that from my friends. I talk to a couple guys, own their own businesses. The kids they hire are all former athletes. Like, not even necessarily, like, college athletes, but, but it's just like being on a team and knowing what it takes to work together with people and, like, I don't know. That's why I love sports.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, no, the teamwork. That's why I said, like, I just tell. Being part of a team as a kid is very important. People will on some people on sports be like, you know, it doesn't really matter if they play. No. Being part of a team, winning and losing, learning how to deal with that shit, learning to be there for your teammates.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

Those are life lessons. Does he have a good hockey birthday?

[Ryan Whitney]

My oldest two bad hockey birds.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Because it wasn't that, that Malcolm Gladwell

[Ryan Whitney]

thing where he did the whole, I have a great hockey birthday, February.

[PFT Commenter]

What's the so It's February because that's when.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. So, like, people who don't know, like, you play with your. Your age group. So the funniest thing is hockey people. It's so bizarre. You're talking to other parents. You're like, do you have a 2016? Do you have a 2019? That's how you just talk about the kids, right? Oh, you have a 2014. And it's just based on the fact that that's who you play with. So the January Februarys of the year

[PFT Commenter]

are all, like, the sickest players.

[Ryan Whitney]

And at 8, 9, 10 years old, like, a December is a. You know, it's a year younger than a January matters. So the hockey birthday thing's hilarious. So then our third is a May. So I'm like, okay. I'm like, may's a little closer to first. That's. Yeah, it's in the first half. Oh, Oilers.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah. Connor McDavid. January 13th.

[Ryan Whitney]

But I love coaching because you just. To seek a kid, like, improve and to see them like hockey or any sport more at the end of the year than they do at the beginning, big time. It's the best feeling. Like, it's like. Because I just know how much I love the game. If this kid ends up loving the game and just always being a hockey fan for life after he's done playing high school, college, whatever, then it's like. It's just.

[Jacob]

Just.

[Ryan Whitney]

It's cool.

[Max]

Did you have a coach that made you love the game, or was it, like you always just loved it? You were.

[Ryan Whitney]

I always loved it, but that was because of my dad, so my dad made me love it. And he played in high school, but he never. And he just loved it. And then I just. I was obsessed. I was. I was obsessed. I just remember, like, being so fired up on the bus ride home to go home and go put on my rollerblades and then be in my street for, like, two hours alone.

[PFT Commenter]

That's awesome.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

And then I'm like, ryder, why don't you go out, shoot some pucks? He's like, I'm all set.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Yeah. Do you. Do you freeze a pond in your backyard?

[Ryan Whitney]

I built a rink.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

So how.

[Max]

What's the steps on that? Because I saw. I saw a rink, and I thought about getting a ring. Just. It'd be funny to have a tiny. So it's a sporting rank here.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, it's a pickleball court in the summer. And then, you know, you. You. You soak it down with the water. You flood it and Then it freezes in the winter. Then the boards are up. So that's actually the most fun thing the kids do and, like, their buddies come over. You get a fireplace out there. Now, we had about 15ft of snow this winter, so I'm out there shoveling, shoveling. Now. I had a lot of help with the shovel. I'm not gonna lie, guys. But there were a couple days somebody couldn't come over and shovel, and I was out there. So, yeah, I mean, it's. It's. It's pretty cool. My wife was disgusted. She's like, look at this. They got rink in our backyard. It looks so stupid.

[Max]

It looks awesome.

[Ryan Whitney]

And I was like, no, it looks great.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, carnival.

[Ryan Whitney]

We got the pool, we get the rink. I got a little bocce ball, mini bocce ball court. It's like a straight up, like, circus in my backyard.

[Max]

What is perfect? What if you had a kid that was like, I want to be a goalie, Dad.

[Ryan Whitney]

I say no. My middle guy has said it a bunch of times. No.

[PFT Commenter]

Why?

[Ryan Whitney]

No, I don't. I don't want anything to do with that. I don't know. Most goalies are pretty weird dudes.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

And. And I don't know anything about the position, which is probably a good thing because I wouldn't. I wouldn't be able to tell him any nonsense. You've. We've talked about my. Takes it. No, no, no.

[PFT Commenter]

How wrong that no is for the game. We're in the third period now. Anaheim's on a power play.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, no. Goaltending is. Is just a weird, weird position. And watching the game as your kid's a goalie, that's got to be just.

[Max]

It's gotta be terrible. Yeah, terrible. So that's a hard no, do you think?

[Ryan Whitney]

Hard.

[PFT Commenter]

But what about.

[Max]

Okay, so it sounds.

[Ryan Whitney]

So my dad.

[Max]

Sorry, but you're making your kids scared to, like, come out to you as being a goalie. They might be, like, going over their friend's house and playing goalie because they're

[Ryan Whitney]

like, no, they've grown out of it already. Okay, they've grown out of it. But when. When you're younger, you pass the pads around, so every kid plays goal. So my dad made sure I played against the best team. I gave up, like, 17 and was like, I'm never doing that again. That was the play.

[Max]

The worst day of your life.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, so through the first four games, what was your. What was your finals?

[Ryan Whitney]

Two on one. Come on.

[PFT Commenter]

Here we go.

[Ryan Whitney]

Come on. Maybe Dickinson has Been money, not a score. I mean, that wasn't, that wasn't great. No, that wasn't great.

[PFT Commenter]

That was not great at all.

[Ryan Whitney]

They're going back the other way. Two on one.

[PFT Commenter]

By the way, we got the TVs set, so we're not, we're not ahead anymore.

[Ryan Whitney]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, my God.

[Ryan Whitney]

This is crazy, guys. I mean, this might be some of the worst podcasting of all time.

[PFT Commenter]

We do this all the time. It's great.

[Ryan Whitney]

Clear it. All right. We can go back to our combo.

[PFT Commenter]

Who's gonna win the cup?

[Ryan Whitney]

It's tough to say Colorado's not gonna win.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. They look so good.

[Ryan Whitney]

They're so nasty. I, I, I think it'd be incredible, right? Like, obviously, I want the Oilers if the Wild. I want the Wild to get by Dallas. I picked Dallas.

[PFT Commenter]

That's been an unbelievable series.

[Ryan Whitney]

And did you. Do you know the Wild have Never held a 20 series leave in the, in the history of their franchise? And they haven't got out of the first round in a long 1112 years, maybe.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Minnesota sports.

[Ryan Whitney]

Minnesota sports. They're just straight up curse. But they got that win the other day. I feel like that was, that was the biggest game in the Minnesota Wilds franchise history. I said, because, yes, they've been to a conference final, but this year, like Quinn Hughes, all in. It's their time. Caprisoft makes 17 million a year starting next year. It's like if they went down three

[PFT Commenter]

one again after winning game one, after

[Ryan Whitney]

winning six to one.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

That. It just would have been such a disaster. But now we got a series, so it's, it's great. I, I like, like Quinn Hughes. I don't know if you guys have watched that. Yeah, this guy is. I don't get it. I don't get how he.

[PFT Commenter]

No, he's canceled, so we don't watch.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah, he's canceled. He was with Cash.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. He took a phone call in the

[Ryan Whitney]

locker room called Laughed, and so he's done. And Cash, shotgun to beer in his face.

[PFT Commenter]

It's over. It's over.

[Max]

Do you think Cash probably listens to your podcast? Have you thought.

[PFT Commenter]

I was wondering that definitely does.

[Ryan Whitney]

I was wondering that. Yeah. I wonder if you ever stay away from all that. I mean, I don't.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, but what if you got a little trouble with the law and you're like, hey, I need to get out of jail free.

[Max]

Like, all right, could. Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

You think, you think he'd help us?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

So I just Got off the phone.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. Doesn't he right now?

[Max]

Is he off the phone with the president?

[Ryan Whitney]

You could say that all time right there. I was on the phone with President 100.

[Max]

It's awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, also, that's. That's Schmaltz's co host, Gucci. He's tweeted it about a thousand times, and I've laughed every time. Every time he tweets it, I laugh.

[Ryan Whitney]

When the heat Daddy writes with the

[PFT Commenter]

President or just talking to the president.

[Ryan Whitney]

Ace here. I laugh every time.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I was just talking to the president. Oh, man, it's so good. All right, here we go. Power play. Yes.

[Max]

Oh, God. Oh, you're ahead of us.

[PFT Commenter]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Ryan Whitney]

That's what I'm talking about.

[PFT Commenter]

That was.

[Ryan Whitney]

What did I tell you about Evan Bouchard?

[PFT Commenter]

You did.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Put your head down. McTavish. Feel shame in the penalty box. Evan good podcasting over 90 points this year, superstar. He's been called out. First play in the series. We got the lead. Oh, my God. We. That's our second power play goal of the game. Power play was called out early. Look at McDavid. Another point. Look at that shot, boys. This guy, he shoots at 100. Three miles an hour is one time or that's a snipe.

[PFT Commenter]

Hey, what'd you do with all your duck swag they sent you? Was it nice? Was any old school? Mighty Ducks?

[Ryan Whitney]

No, it's all the new colors. I wish they'd go back.

[PFT Commenter]

I know these colors. Sock the orange socks.

[Max]

It's like hunting, Right? It's like hunting color. When you go. Go duck hunting.

[Ryan Whitney]

Exactly. You're right. Which I'm doing right now.

[PFT Commenter]

Right, right.

[Ryan Whitney]

Killing ducks.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep.

[Ryan Whitney]

The. The mask, though, is a big time giveaway. They did that one night. The. The Duck mask. That's a solid one that I tweeted out. That's.

[PFT Commenter]

Why don't they go to the throwbacks? Would.

[Ryan Whitney]

I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

The best jerseys ever.

[Ryan Whitney]

These jerseys are horrible. Horrible, I think.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, also, it's like we were talking about the Flyers. The Flyers are orange. You can't also be orange.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, I know.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah. There we go. We.

[Ryan Whitney]

What's that?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no, wait. Pft. But grab that. Grab next to you.

[Ryan Whitney]

No, no, don't do that.

[PFT Commenter]

Grab the thing next to you.

[Ryan Whitney]

Why are you doing that?

[PFT Commenter]

I forgot we have a signed.

[Ryan Whitney]

Anaheim scores. I'm out of here. I'm telling you, for you putting that jacket on, we have a sign. So. So you're putting that jacket on. We went over this. We had the episode. I'm out of this room.

[PFT Commenter]

Did you see this? We have a signed Emilio Estevez.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, sick.

[Max]

Dude, it's freezing.

[PFT Commenter]

That didn't sound like you were. Thought it was.

[Ryan Whitney]

I mean, I don't. It's like, it's not signed. Like, I don't know. Gordon Bombay. Yeah, I get it. It's just. I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

You know what? Forget it.

[Ryan Whitney]

I think that jersey be better without

[PFT Commenter]

the signature, because that jersey you don't want.

[Ryan Whitney]

I like just the Bombay. Like, you don't need his actual name. He should have signed it Gordon Bombay, not Emilio Estevez.

[PFT Commenter]

So people don't.

[Max]

That's kind of true. I agree with that.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, guy gets a dui, and they're like, hey, go coach K. And then drive.

[Ryan Whitney]

Drive the limo on the ice.

[PFT Commenter]

That's crazy.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, yeah, that's old school DUI. That movie came out in, like, 93. I think that was.

[PFT Commenter]

It was everything.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Awesome. All right, let's finish up. Roback question. RHOB A, C, K.com promo code, take 20 off, first purchase. Q, zips, polos, hoodies, jogger shorts. Roback.com promo code, take. Zach, I'm gonna give you the Roback question.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, yes. Z was not prepared.

[PFT Commenter]

What's going on? How are you doing today, man?

[Ryan Whitney]

What's up, Zach? How you doing, buddy?

[PFT Commenter]

Doing well. Quick question for you today. I was just curious. Where do you see this game going

[Max]

down to the wire?

[PFT Commenter]

No, he was not prepared. He was not prepared.

[Max]

Good question, Zach.

[Ryan Whitney]

That's a great question. Thank you, sir. I think we finished this thing off 42 with an empty netter.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, serious question. Where do you think the Canadiens Lightning series goes?

[Max]

Towards the end of it, I think

[Ryan Whitney]

we go game seven, overtime.

[PFT Commenter]

And who takes that?

[Ryan Whitney]

I think that that would be in Tampa. I picked Tampa, so I got to stick with them. But I'm rooting for Montreal. Is that okay, Zach? Completely understand what you want to root for. I know you're a Tampa guy, so

[PFT Commenter]

you're rooting for them, but we both think Tampa will win. Is that what you're saying? Did I miss you?

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, I did. I picked Tampa before the series.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Ryan Whitney]

I still think they'll win, but I'm not as confident as I was before the series. You get it?

[PFT Commenter]

I do. Let's get confident.

[Ryan Whitney]

I like that. How sick was that Reuben Bain draft thing when he grabbed the hat?

[Max]

It was pretty cool, right? Yeah, very cool. I got a question with the draft lottery that's coming up On Saturday. Right.

[Ryan Whitney]

Rigged.

[Max]

It's rigged.

[Ryan Whitney]

Well, I just say that. I just. Look, I'm gonna say if Vancouver or Calgary doesn't get first overall pick this year, it's rigged.

[Max]

Okay.

[Ryan Whitney]

Rangers get it. There's going to be a problem.

[Max]

That would be a big problem.

[PFT Commenter]

Seven of a rebuild.

[Ryan Whitney]

Now, by the way, I'm an Oilers fan. They had. They've had like seven of them in the past.

[Max]

Like it doesn't.

[PFT Commenter]

It doesn't equal success.

[Max]

But wait, so Vancouver, they have the highest odds.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

And then I think Chicago's number two. No, Calgary is four. So two of the guys that. You said. The Rangers.

[PFT Commenter]

No, the Blackhawks suck.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

All right.

[Ryan Whitney]

Vancouver's never had the first overall pick.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

And Calgary's never had a top three pick.

[Max]

I don't think that's crazy.

[PFT Commenter]

So.

[Ryan Whitney]

I don't know. All right, so let's say if Vancouver doesn't get it rigged, straight numbers.

[PFT Commenter]

Is there a stud?

[Ryan Whitney]

So Gavin McKenna.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah. Now just keep him out of bars.

[Ryan Whitney]

He's not as.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, did he do. Did he get a bar fight?

[Ryan Whitney]

He knocked a guy out who was chirping his mum.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, okay, then that's. It's just.

[Ryan Whitney]

It's pretty legendary. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Don't. Don't shirt, guys.

[Ryan Whitney]

17 year old freshman.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Some loose.

[PFT Commenter]

That reminds me of Icy Burt Pickensburg.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

So that actually puts you to the top.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. It's a pr. It was a press.

[PFT Commenter]

It was a press.

[Max]

Well, he was getting pressed, but then he won the press.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Impressed.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

And he pressed the. Out of that other guy with the fist.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Okay.

[Ryan Whitney]

Now, McKenna was gonna be. He was guaranteed first overall. I think he's still going to go first overall. But it's. I think some people now who were saying like McDavid type player, that maybe they're thinking like he's gonna be very good, but not McDavid. You know what I'm saying?

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Ryan Whitney]

Kind of.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, McTavid's the best.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. He's the best, boys. He's the best.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Never seen a player like him in my life. I don't know if I ever will again either. Do you ever think in sports how weird it is when you see somebody that's so much better than everyone else, but then, you know, 20 years later there'll be somebody better than him?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

But maybe not with McDavid. But this might be as good as it gets.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Does that make you depressed?

[Ryan Whitney]

It always.

[PFT Commenter]

That makes me sad because I love

[Max]

McDavid so much that I don't think that anyone's going to be trolling you right now.

[Ryan Whitney]

Always is in every sport.

[PFT Commenter]

But let me ask you a question.

[Max]

Not McDavid.

[PFT Commenter]

Is there a comp. Don't try to do that because I think I, I know exactly what you're saying. But there's also guys who like you. Like, I'm never going to see a guy exactly like this, like, in terms of his skill set and what he does. You know what I mean?

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. I more think of, like, dominating the game. I don't know. Like, I think they'll, I think they'll probably be somebody that's like, faster and better than there will be. Yeah, there has to be.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

That's the craziest thing.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, I don't think we'll ever see someone exactly like Steph Curry again.

[Ryan Whitney]

Really?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, exactly. Like, I just don't, I just think,

[Ryan Whitney]

well, that's a, I don't know, product. So that, that league could be, not even exist in 20 years.

[Max]

The thing with Steph Curry is we've had, we've had millions of people over the years just grow up shooting basketballs. No one's ever been able to shoot.

[PFT Commenter]

Right. And whoever becomes, whoever comes after him will just be like, oh, he's like Steph Curry. Steph Curry was the original in that.

[Max]

But also, no one's going to be the same way as Steph Curry where

[PFT Commenter]

it's like, you'll never see exactly that type of skill set.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, no, I see what you're saying, but they'll, There will still be a player in every league in 20 years that you're just like, like, he's the best. I can't believe this guy's this good.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

So, I don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

I, I, these are deep thoughts, I think. Way to go, Zach. You got us on a deep stack.

[Max]

As good as it's ever gonna get. I think the NHL is in trouble after McDavid retires.

[Ryan Whitney]

McDavid's got years just so special. Years and years and cups and he's

[PFT Commenter]

got another team he's gonna go to.

[Max]

All right.

[Ryan Whitney]

I got some heat for that one. I said maybe he'd be on Detroit someday. And then I decided to go on the witness protection program.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no.

[Ryan Whitney]

But, yeah, I don't know. I, I, I would love to see him win with the Oilers, man, I would, too. The guy signed two year extension, 12 and a half million, which is basically him. You know, he could have got 22 million.

[Max]

What would be the worst teams for McDavid to go to? And then win multiple Stanley Cups.

[Ryan Whitney]

The Panthers.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

If he joined a super team. Oh, the fun that would have with you on that. That would be the best. If he did that. We would never.

[Max]

Never. You would.

[PFT Commenter]

You would have to quit.

[Ryan Whitney]

He would never.

[PFT Commenter]

If he won. If he went to a super team and just rattled off some wins and we were just like, dude, sick league.

[Max]

I think if he went, oh, buddy.

[Ryan Whitney]

If. If. If NHL started forming super teams, oh, my God, it would. I would no longer be the. The most appearances on. Pardon My Take. I'd never be on the show.

[Max]

What would be worse? If he went to. If he went to the Panthers, joined a super team, or if he went to the Kings and then just did the Gretzky pass.

[PFT Commenter]

How many Cups, like, if he was

[Ryan Whitney]

ever on the Panthers with, like, the guy, like, their core and they won. This is just never gonna happen. So we're kind of talking real crazy now. I mean, let's get crazy to LA or Dallas or Tampa or something.

[Max]

If we went to Pittsburgh, would that be a super team?

[Ryan Whitney]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Crosby's like. Crosby's turning 39 in August 7th. You know, 8, 7. That's his birthday. Do you know that?

[Max]

I know that.

[PFT Commenter]

Hockey birthday.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Eight, seven, eight, seven.

[PFT Commenter]

Not a hockey.

[Max]

That's probably what made him so good, though, because he had to play against, like, bigger guys growing up, huh?

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, he was a prodigy. That's what they call prodigy. I think he was playing, like, two, three years up.

[PFT Commenter]

Does that.

[Ryan Whitney]

So, like, hey, you got an 87. Then Troy Cross is like, yeah, I got an 87, but he's playing with the 84s.

[PFT Commenter]

Wait, you're. Are you still. Do you still talk to Sid?

[Ryan Whitney]

The last time I talked to sid, Kevin Hayes, FaceTime me, and he was eating pregame meal with Sid. And then Sid's like, do you still have restless leg syndrome? I'm like, yeah. He's like, no, that was good.

[PFT Commenter]

But did Sidney Crosby. Is he like, hey, Whit, you were my guy. You were my teammate, and all you do is suck off McDavid and say he's better than me.

[Ryan Whitney]

I. I actually have never said he's better than. Ah. So I've said he's the best hockey player I've ever seen. Oh, no. But. But I'm like, Crosby's like, the best ever. Do you guys does that?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, no, that's. That's a good.

[Ryan Whitney]

That sounds so weird.

[PFT Commenter]

No, it's good takemanship, where you just

[Max]

don't want the actual skills of the

[Ryan Whitney]

Game, but, like, Crosby's like, no, it's

[PFT Commenter]

like a Brady Mahomes.

[Max]

Yeah. You can do, like, best and then great.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Max]

Best and greatest is different.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, where, like, people tries, you know, the. Aaron Rodgers. Did people say Aaron Rodgers the best football player, like, quarterback they've ever seen, but he hasn't won the most.

[Max]

Tom Brady is the greatest.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah.

[Max]

Aaron Rodgers.

[PFT Commenter]

There you go. Yeah, right.

[Ryan Whitney]

There you go. But, I mean, you know, McDavid needs to get, like, one to be then.

[PFT Commenter]

To be in the conversation.

[Ryan Whitney]

But then here's Rogers got one.

[PFT Commenter]

I just.

[Max]

I want to just prepare you for something with that. Not that we'd ever do such a thing, but if he's really, really good and he just wins one, then later on we'll be like, he really isn't the best ever if you only eat one.

[Ryan Whitney]

That's interesting coming from an OV guy.

[Max]

No, I'm sad. Well, I'm not here making the claim that he's the best.

[PFT Commenter]

Best ever.

[Ryan Whitney]

You've never said Obi's the best ever.

[Max]

I've said he's the best goal scorer ever.

[Ryan Whitney]

Oh, okay. Well, he's only got one cup.

[Max]

Okay. I didn't say best goal saying.

[Ryan Whitney]

I mean, I don't think. Yes. Crosby's got three, Gretzky's got four, Messi's got six. Like, if you get one, you got. You got it.

[PFT Commenter]

You gotta have your name on the.

[Ryan Whitney]

You gotta get the one.

[PFT Commenter]

You gotta get like, I like for

[Ryan Whitney]

Joe thorton and Jerome McGinla Lundquist. Like, there's no way it doesn't eat it him a little bit. You know, it always will. It's like, you got to get one. And for him, for McDavid.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

If he. If he ever finished without one, I would feel. I would feel really bad for him.

[Max]

I really should have brought up the one cup thing. That was a big misstep.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah. I don't think you were thinking about our guy over. We were talking about it beforehand. Farm animal. You walked right into that one.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, wait. You're the best. We'll. We'll have you back on closer to cup final. And thank you. Good luck.

[Ryan Whitney]

Anytime. I appreciate it. I can't wait to read the book. Who of these goons had the best chapter?

[PFT Commenter]

Zach, because Zach. Zach, I. I can't stress this enough. Zach has the most misspelled words per word count. He. He wrote a paragraph for the end of the book, a paragraph wit. And I counted, like, 17 words spelled

[Ryan Whitney]

in a paragraph, so they should leave them misspelled oh, yeah. No, no, we told them.

[PFT Commenter]

No, no, it was like, actually not. Not contentious. But we told the. The people were putting together the book were like, listen, I know this goes against everything you think a book should be, but you have to tell the copy editor to not touch.

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Like Hank's chapter, Zach's chapter. Like, you can't do anything, so it's getting. You're getting as pure Zach as you want on the book.

[Ryan Whitney]

What did Hank say?

[Max]

Hank had good stuff. Yeah. Good stuff to say. I think that memes, his chat. That's going to read more like a manifesto.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Yeah. They'll pull that up in a court document. So that might be his memes back there. Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

So I get kids.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah. Oh, no, he's not bad.

[Ryan Whitney]

He went to go take a, like, 45 minutes ago. So I texted Dan the other night, and I was like, man, is memes like a sociopath? Like, yes. He, like, scares me a little bit. I love him, but he. He's his sports teams and everything, and just. He's just. I think he's gonna kill Hank.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Like, it's like, not even joking.

[PFT Commenter]

It's good, though. We need the edge. He's the edge.

[Ryan Whitney]

You need the edge.

[PFT Commenter]

That's a grumpy guy.

[Max]

Guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, if you're looking for a grumpy guy.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, but look at his teams.

[PFT Commenter]

I know, right?

[Max]

He kind of.

[PFT Commenter]

You.

[Max]

You can see how he developed that. But there was a moment on. On Thursday where if the. The jets had moved up and drafted Carson Beck, I saw some of those

[Ryan Whitney]

clips where he was like, I'm gonna burn this.

[Max]

He meant it. That was. He was 100 series.

[PFT Commenter]

No, I thought. There's been multiple times I thought memes was gonna swing on me.

[Ryan Whitney]

Really?

[Max]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah. Like, he'll. He'll ball his face.

[Ryan Whitney]

I know.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Just be like, dude, are you about to punch me?

[Ryan Whitney]

He. I. He's. He's an amazing follow that guy. He's just. What was I just gonna ask you guys? I had one more thing. Oh, it's funny. When does your book come out?

[Max]

August.

[PFT Commenter]

August.

[Ryan Whitney]

And when does Dave's come out?

[PFT Commenter]

July.

[Ryan Whitney]

So more sales. That is gonna be. I mean, if you guys sell more books than he does, that's a nice leg up to have on.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, he's got. He's probably got some more salacious stuff. We do. I will say our book came together very well. And we also got like. Like, you wrote a chapter. J.J. watt, like, Blake Griffin, all these guys who've met a lot. So Joe Buck, svp like they all Rosillo. So it's cool.

[Ryan Whitney]

That's cool to hear a chapter.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

I'm a big SVP fan that guys. He just seems salt of the earth.

[PFT Commenter]

Highest approval rating of anyone in media.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, I think I know nobody doesn't like him.

[PFT Commenter]

No. I'd say if you don't like him, you're just. You're like brain dead.

[Max]

Him and Barclays. Yeah, probably. Probably 1A. Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

Barkley, by the way, speaking of the NBA argument, him being on the halftime show and saying, thank God for hockey, this game is so bad. Yeah, that right there is enough.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Ryan Whitney]

So he's the best. All right, boys.

[PFT Commenter]

Thank you.

[Ryan Whitney]

Anytime.

[Max]

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[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Good show, boys. By the way, I. I'm talking to Icy Vert now. I. I think he's got. I think Pickensburg's got to go to Philly. I think that's really what it is. He said the Icy Vert made a good point. He's like the. The league scheduling two, you know, back to back road games for him was, you can't have that.

[Max]

Pickensburg got back to me. He said, I never got word if they're planning to come back to Pitt, but I'm going for sure. The Pens need me in the arena.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, you know what I'm gonna say? Icy Vert might be there. So Pickensburg, you have to look out for him, because he said, maybe.

[Max]

So do you want to buy him a ticket?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I said I'd buy him a ticket. So, yeah, he probably would be there. And then what if Pickensburg.

[Max]

If you.

[PFT Commenter]

If Icy Verts not there for game five and the Penguins win, you have to go to Philly for the second press off. You have to.

[Max]

So my buying. Are we sending Pickensburg?

[PFT Commenter]

We'll take that part offline.

[Max]

He says he's going for sure.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. So he's already set.

[Max]

Okay. So the pins need him.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Ask him where he's sitting. And then we'll just put.

[Ryan Whitney]

We'll.

[PFT Commenter]

We'll put Icy Vert in the same section if we can.

[Max]

Sick. Where are you sitting?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I mean, you just. You can't have another man touch your shoulder. That's just a fact. I got a. I got a Monday reading. Do you guys want to do a quick Monday reading? Okay, here's the Monday reading.

[Ryan Whitney]

Hold on.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, Monday reading. This is a 4:48 a today memes. What are you guys thinking for food? I replied, something good. Pizza, wings, sushi. And then at 5:12. And then Jacob replied, at 5:13. There's a good chance I'm a little late tonight. I am in the hospital. I got hit by a car door opening into the bike lane while I was on my scooter. I'm okay. Just don't know when they'll let me out. And then Hank replied, sushi sounds good.

[Jacob]

All time bar from Hank laughed so hard.

[PFT Commenter]

Reneg said that Jacob, I'm in the hospital. Yeah, sushi sounds good. I.

[Hank]

It was borderline. I was like this.

[PFT Commenter]

I was.

[Hank]

I had typed out sushi sounds. And then you got Jacob's text came through. I read them and was like, I. I kind of started deleted. And I was like, Nah, this is.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that was so funny. So funny.

[Hank]

Yeah, that. That chat thinks you being so funny.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Chad thinks you're being really funny right now.

[Hank]

I laughed, felt bad, started deleting that.

[PFT Commenter]

I was like, fuck it. No, it was good. It played.

[Jacob]

No hard feelings. It was funny.

[PFT Commenter]

Jacob, can we find this woman who hit you with the car door?

[Jacob]

It would be great if there's any good scooter verse. Car lawyers in the Chicago area.

[Max]

Morgan and Morgan.

[Jacob]

Morgan and Morgan. I will be contacting them tomorrow.

[PFT Commenter]

So what. What happened? You just got smoked?

[Jacob]

Yeah, smoked. I had no reaction time whatsoever. I was going about 15 to 18 miles an hour down Chicago Avenue in Chicago, and then surprise, surprise, and then someone Uber passenger opened her back rear door into like the rightest, most lane, the only area where I could ride a bike or a scooter. I hit the edge of the door full speed into my hip. I have the biggest bruise I've ever had. And then that threw me into the car. Parked car on the right. And then I went onto the ground. So really hurt. And then the lady got out of the car, asked if I was okay, but kind of more in like a lawyer manner, like, are you okay? I was like, yeah, well, I was writhing in pain. And then she was like, okay, you're okay. And then she started arguing with the Uber driver as to why she didn't need to give her information because the driver already had her information in the app. And then she walked away.

[Max]

Sounds like she pressed you.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Never let a car door touch you.

[Jacob]

No.

[Max]

But you're okay. So you went to the hospital? I went to the hospitals.

[Jacob]

X rays, CT scans, which was a little scary. I've never had a CT scan, but made my penis very warm.

[PFT Commenter]

What?

[Max]

Yeah, dude.

[Jacob]

It was the strangest feeling ever. They were like, all right, you're gonna feel a urinating sensation. I was like, what, is this gonna make me pee? But it didn't. It was just. It was really strange. I didn't really like it.

[PFT Commenter]

And also we should just. For anyone out there who doesn't know, Jacob. Jacob is a former Division one football tryout almost guy. So he's got good reaction time.

[Jacob]

Yeah, they left me with absolutely none.

[PFT Commenter]

He tried out to almost be an elite athlete.

[Max]

SEC football, almost D1.

[Jacob]

Tried out for the Florida Gators four times at the position of running back, fullback, or special teams. I've never played football before. My life.

[PFT Commenter]

Hey, you are Bernard. You are Bernard. Yeah.

[Jacob]

Yeah. So I figured I'd give it a shot.

[PFT Commenter]

I did.

[Jacob]

And they didn't take me. It's Billy Napier's biggest what if at the University of Florida.

[Max]

People say that's why he's at JMU now, because he didn't. He didn't get you at Florida.

[Jacob]

Exactly.

[PFT Commenter]

Was Billy Napier there for the tryout?

[Jacob]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Ryan Whitney]

Never.

[Jacob]

Never saw him at any four of the tryouts. But the quality control staff got to know me pretty good.

[Max]

But now you're laying out car doors.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, well, you took the hit. No, but you took the hit.

[Jacob]

That was my argument was I could show up and be a tackling dummy if needed. And the car door was kind of the. Made me the tackling dummy today.

[Max]

Proof of concept.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. We gotta find this chick.

[Jacob]

Yeah, let's find and Morgan. And Morgan, I'll be hitting you up tomorrow.

[PFT Commenter]

And you did eat some of the sushi. Sushi.

[Jacob]

I did. I did get some sushi.

[PFT Commenter]

So. So Hank was right.

[Jacob]

Thank you, Hank.

[Ryan Whitney]

Yeah, Hank.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank always sounds good.

[Jacob]

So you did sound good.

[Max]

All right.

[PFT Commenter]

Good show, boys. Numbers Kyle Schwerber on Wednesday. Awesome. In studio 4. 85, 77, 56, 91, 24. Anyone else gonna get this?

[Jacob]

87.

[Max]

Cuz I have 69.

[Ryan Whitney]

34.

[PFT Commenter]

Anyone got 34?

[Ryan Whitney]

Nope. No. 34. 34.

[PFT Commenter]

One more, one more, one more. Same numbers, everyone. 77.

[Ryan Whitney]

You had 24, Shane.

[PFT Commenter]

So not 34.

[Ryan Whitney]

Problem is it's not 34. Yeah, this could be 24 though. It could be 24 right here.

[PFT Commenter]

24.

[Ryan Whitney]

24 for Shane. Is it 24?

[PFT Commenter]

87? 87. Wait, who said that? Jacob.

[Max]

What a day.

[PFT Commenter]

What a day.

[Max]

The ups and downs.

[PFT Commenter]

Welcome.

[Jacob]

Never a dull day.

[PFT Commenter]

Welcome.

[Max]

Jacob, you want to give a speech, Jacob?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, give a speech.

[Ryan Whitney]

Speech.

[Max]

Quick speech.

[Jacob]

I would like to thank first and foremost my family, the academy.

[PFT Commenter]

The fuck?

[Jacob]

Dude, this podcast, part of my take. Thank you. And my least of all thanks goes to the B word. Who hit me. But thank you to this podcast.

[PFT Commenter]

Throw a C word on her name.

[Jacob]

What?

[Ryan Whitney]

Don't say C word, cocksucker.

[Jacob]

You can say any word you want and I'll agree.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Okay. That was a great speech.

[Jacob]

That's exciting.

[Ryan Whitney]

Into the mic.

[PFT Commenter]

Keep going, keep going. Speech. Thanks some more people. Thanks more people.

[Jacob]

Thank you. Shane. Zach, Max, Colton, Pug memes. Big cat. Pft. Hank. Thanks to all you guys.

[Max]

Girlfriend.

[Jacob]

Oh, my girlfriend.

[Max]

Oh yeah. Who I don't want to dox. Yeah.

[Jacob]

But the doctors at Northwestern Medicine.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Jacob]

Who are very good with giving me my scans and taking my blood and everything.

[Max]

Your penis.

[PFT Commenter]

Your penis for not peeing.

[Max]

Thank. Your penis provided great care.

[PFT Commenter]

Your penis for not peeing your penis.

[Max]

That got hot.

[Jacob]

Yeah, that was a weird part, but everything else was pretty cool.

[PFT Commenter]

Great job, Jacob. Proud of you, dude. Welcome to the club. Me and you. Anyone else going to get in?

[Max]

Memes?

[PFT Commenter]

Kind of.

[Hank]

You're not in.

[PFT Commenter]

You're coming.

[Hank]

Coming.

[PFT Commenter]

You're coming.

[Ryan Whitney]

Whose birthday is it?

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, that would suck. It's all just happening again.

[Max]

Happy birthday to Keenan Allen Charger. Also, happy birthday. I forgot my dog's birthday on Saturday, so happy birthday to Blake. A little bit late. And then on Tuesday, happy birthday to Blake Bortles. Blake of the year. Two time. Blake of the year. Blake Bortles. Also happy birthday to Lizzo. There you go. No one else has anything to say to Blake.

[PFT Commenter]

Happy birthday.

[Max]

Whisper. Blake, Happy birthday.

[Ryan Whitney]

What about your dog, Blake?

[Max]

Well, it's. His birthday was yesterday.

[Ryan Whitney]

Happy belated.

[Max]

He says thank you. I gave him a bunch of hot dogs.

[PFT Commenter]

I. Blake Portals doesn't strike me as a birthday guy. You might actually be breaking the news to him. Yeah.

[Max]

Tuesday is his birth. It's your birthday tomorrow, Blake. Just be ready. You're going to get a lot of texts from people. Love you guys. Happy birthday, Arch Manning. Oh, no, Arch Manning. Yeah, Great friend, Arch Manning. Oh, we did it again. PFT and Patrick Stump, the guy who looks like pft. Who's that?

[PFT Commenter]

You know that band. Sa. It.