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Ryan Whitney & Paul Bissonnette, Indiana Bears, US Beats Canada + Fyre Fest Of The Week
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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Ryan Whitney & Paul Bissonnette, Indiana Bears, US Beats Canada + Fyre Fest Of The Week", an episode of Pardon My Take published February 20, 2026 (1 h 54 min, about 25,285 words). It mentions 10 people, works and ideas, including Olympics, Canada, U.S.A., Czech Republic, Bing Crosby.
What this episode is about
The episode covers Olympic chatter, the Indiana Bears, and hopes for USA–Canada matchups, plus college basketball, football season anticipation, a Fire Fest update, Zach’s alarm clock issue, a 36-hour stream, and Venmo/Stash rewards as a sponsor. It also teases upcoming combine week and general national sports talk.
Key takeaways
- Indiana Bears chatter blends sports chaos with civics, proving stadium talk is basically local theater and theater loves snacks.
- The ‘Indiana Bears’ saga exposes NFL leverage: billionaires, fans, and a stadium maze that outdwarfs reality TV.
- Stoicism aside, the Bears saga proves some battles aren’t won by reason—only by stubborn patience and memes.
- If Indiana hosts every NFL team, we’ll need a map of which stadium is where—and which buffet.
- 36-hour streams, Venmo promos, and crosstalk aside, the real plot twist is Chris’s alarm clock rebellion.
Who speaks in this episode?
What is discussed, and when
Notable quotes from "Ryan Whitney & Paul Bissonnette, Indiana Bears, US Beats Canada + Fyre Fest Of The Week"
Huh. we have Biz and Whit on to get us pumped for what should be hopefully, knock on wood, USA Canada on Sunday morning. We're going to talk a little college basketball. We got…
about Canada · atJust build a permanent Olympics in Hammond Indiana.
about Olympics · atHalf of North America is going to be asleep.
about U.S.A. · atSorry. Do you think Canada is going to make the argument that Crosby got hurt?
about Bing Crosby · atI wouldn't I wouldn't say they struggled. I think that the checks played the game of their life. they have an incredible goalie. Gudas, Radco Gudas, a guy who Yans was pumping the pod before.
about Czech Republic · atTuned in, there was probably a few people who caught it and that's what ignited it. A few people posted it to Twitter and then Twitter kind of caught on to it and it just…
about Twitter · atDo you think do you guys think the NHL should do threeon three? Skip Baylor.
about NHL · at
Who and what is mentioned in this episode?
People
- Bing Crosby — Person · Referenced athlete (injury storyline) · 8 mentions · first at
Sidney Crosby's injury is discussed as a major factor in Canada's path, including whether Canada might use it as an excuse if they lose. - Radko Gudas — Person · Referenced athlete (physical defense / incident) · 1 mention · first at
Radko Gudas is discussed as a standout for Czechia and is associated with the accidental play that injured Sidney Crosby (stepping on his blade).They got through it without Sydney Crosby, which was a catastrophic injury. It was accidental, so I'm not going to point any fingers to Ratogus.
- Nick Suzuki — Person · Referenced athlete (key play) · 1 mention · first at
Nick Suzuki is credited with a clutch tying goal for Canada after stepping into Sidney Crosby's spot in the lineup.It's just he stepped on his blade. But Nick Suzuki who came into his position, ended up coming up clutch with that tying goal off the tip. So a big one. And then of course Mitchie Marner, the guy who was in Toronto who broke my.
- Mitch Marner — Person · Referenced athlete (game winner) · 1 mention
Mitch Marner is mentioned as scoring the overtime winner for Canada in the discussed game.
Companies & orgs
- NHL — Organization · Referenced league (talent baseline / comparison) · 2 mentions · first at
The NHL is referenced as the top professional context for many players discussed and as a comparison point for rules/OT formats and player participation.
Places & events
- Olympics — Event · Core topic / event context · 20 mentions · first at
The Olympics are the central sports backdrop: scheduling/time-zone complaints, hockey tournament discussion, and a live reaction to the women's gold medal game. - Canada — Place · Core topic / referenced competitor nation · 26 mentions · first at
Canada is discussed as USA's primary rival in Olympic hockey, including Canada's game vs Czechia, injury to Sidney Crosby, and the USA–Canada women's gold medal game outcome. - U.S.A. — Place · Core topic / referenced competitor nation · 2 mentions · first at
The episode repeatedly frames Olympic hockey around USA performance, including hopes for a USA–Canada final and live reaction to USA winning the women's gold medal in overtime. - Czech Republic — Place · Referenced competitor nation (opponent / storyline) · 2 mentions · first at
Czechia is discussed as Canada's tough opponent that executed a strong defensive game plan and was involved in the 'too many men' controversy context.
Media & podcasts
- Twitter — Media · Referenced platform (amplifying controversy) · 2 mentions · first at
Twitter is cited as the place where screenshots and discussion spread about Canada having too many men on the ice, escalating the controversy.
Full transcript with timestamps
On today's part of my take presented by DraftKings, we are going to talk some more Olympics. We have the Indiana Bears. Huh. Huh. Huh. Uh we have Biz and Whit on to get us pumped for what should be hopefully, knock on wood, USA Canada on Sunday morning. We're going to talk a little college basketball. We got general things. National sports podcast. Next week is is combine week. So, football season is back almost.
Very excited. It was a It was a long long off season. A lot of [ __ ] happened, but we're ready to get back in in in pads and shells.
Yeah. Uh and then we're going to finish with Firefest and an update to Zach's alarm clock issues and the meeting that he had with his building on Friday
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Listen, I I think that if you're going to do Indiana Bears, the Wolf Lake Bears sounds like an incredible name.
Well, there's also a Bear Lake right there too. There's Wolf Bear Lake. Yeah. So, uh, if I I actually don't want to talk about this for super long because it is, uh, mind-numbingly annoying.
Do you like terrible? Do you like local government civics conversations? It's local government. It's billionaires not paying for their own [ __ ] stadium. It's the NFL wanting everything, wanting their cake and eating it, too. It's the fans getting screwed over. It's just the world we live in. So yeah, the the Indiana has voted uh to go forward with taking the Bears, having the Bears, holding the Bears in Hammond. Uh while it doesn't actually mean anything because I still think they're going to be in Arlington Heights, it is the closest they've ever been to potentially finding a place. But again, it's not even anything. Like Kevin Warren is an absolute failure in the fact that the last four years, his only job was to find a stadium. And they he has released countless open letters.
picked out chairs. Yeah, we picked out identified furniture for the suites. Yeah, he did that. He He basically did a Nathan for you episode on Hard Knocks where he's like, "Hey, come here cameras. Come watch me pretend to be a president who's picking out chairs for the new stadium that's never going to get built. I don't want them to move to Indiana. Uh partially because I think they should be in Arlington Heights. I think they should stay at Soldier Field. One, and two, it will really piss me off if we lost the horse track for no reason."
Yeah. So, I think that just every NFL team should threaten to move to Indiana. We could be the state that has like we could get the Bengals there if the Bengals want to move there. We could get the Bears there. We could [ __ ] the Titans. If that stadium doesn't go well, bring back the Rams, but just put it in like Southwest Indiana.
The the Yeah, this I like this. Just every team Indiana. It's basically the bubble.
Yeah. Listen, in 49 other states, it's football in Indiana. It's it's it's every football.
It's serious business. It's all the football. Yeah, I've been trying to get into stoicism. Uh the idea that you control what you can control and if you can't control something, you shouldn't give it the energy
that uh in your t in the in your day. Yeah. It'll spike your cortisol, right? There's just no po there's no reason to things that are out of your control, giving it energy and time will just wipe you out. If you can control something, if you can change something, if you can have a direct impact on something, give it your all. This is firmly in the camp of something I cannot control. So, I will not be giving it much time or energy because the whole thing just pisses me off. And it's like, hey, guess what? I can't change anything. I can't do anything. It's it's stupid government officials arguing with each other and people and the Bears playing Indiana vers Illinois and Illinois being like sleeping and being like, "No way will they ever leave." And guess what? They might call the Bears might call their bluff. They might be the Indiana Bears.
You're right. You can't you can't really do anything about it. But I would say that you can do more than 99.99999% of the population. You could lay down on the highway, start a blockade. Don't let don't let any traffic into Indiana
if they if they move to Indiana, but then say, "Hey, Arlington Heights is going to come come. We're going to get the racetrack back." I I I would be at least it would soften the blow cuz he did lose his racetrack for no reason at this point. There were supposed to be shovels in the ground years ago. Does the Mars Cheese Castle, does that have any land in and around it that could be used for a stadium?
I if we moved to Wisconsin, that would be bad. Yeah, that'd be that'd be the funniest.
I mean, Iowa got in the mix for a minute. Move to the cheese castle. Iowa was like, "Hey,
well, Indiana, where it is in Indiana is also not far at all." Oh, yeah. People don't understand it is very very
basically equidistant to Arlington Heights. Correct. I like Hammond, Indiana has the horseshoe casino that I've been to probably too many times. Like we would go we would be out drinking on a Friday or Saturday night and be like let's get in an Uber, go to Hammond. Yeah.
Like that that that was the trip. It wasn't it wasn't a difficult trip to make. Yeah.
So it is very close but it's still the whole thing is annoying. It's more like hey you guys are all incompetent. Someone figure it the [ __ ] out and at the end of the day the fans are going to lose
until there's a shovel in the ground. It's it's all up for negotiation. Correct. And even sometimes when the shovel goes into the ground it's like hey stop stop working with that shovel. Well, we got a better piece of land.
Yeah. And I wish they would just stay at Soldier Field. I know they never will because they don't own the stadium, so they're not going to do that. But I I firmly have have come around to the idea that in 20 years from now, we are all going to regret the fact that we put every single stadium indoors.
What's going to happen with Soldier Field after the Bears move out? I don't know. Hopefully nothing.
It are they going to have trust? Soldier Field sucks. Yeah, it it I just don't want them to do construction. It does. But I I want to have outdoor football still.
Fair. I think that the idea of getting like a final four. Okay. Maybe a little bit. The idea of getting a Super Bowl is the dumbest thing in the world. Having one getting a Super Bowl one time as if that is some type of big prize to have all of the NFL media in the world come to Chicago in February and [ __ ] about how cold it is. I don't need you to [ __ ] about how cold it is. I know how cold it is. I don't want that. Well, there's no if you look at the the long-term like financial impacts of hosting Super Bowl, it's not worth it. It's really not. You just It's same thing with the Olympics or the World Cup, you just bend over backwards for people, right? And then you're like, "This is going to bring so much tourism into my city." And yeah, there'll be like more more tourism for a week, week and a half. But long term, like if you look at what what Qatar did for the World Cup, they've got like
dozens of subway stops that nobody will ever use for in in the entire history of their country.
Oh, yeah. They were showing pictures of uh the the last time the Winter Olympics were in Italy in Torino and it's just a ghost town.
Yeah. No, no city should bend over backwards to try to get a Super Bowl if they're not already capable of handling it. Like like a city like like New Orleans, they're already capable of handling it. Just keep going to New Orleans.
Okay, let's solve Yeah, I agree with your take that it should the Super Bowl should at this point just be
back and forth. New Orleans, Vegas. I'd be fine with that. Yeah, New Orleans, Vegas, back and forth. Um, so let's I I'm hoping the Bears do Arlington Heights. I'm again, my take on all of this is I don't give a [ __ ] until there's a shovel in the ground because I don't believe anything Kevin Warren's going to write an open letter. It's going to mean nothing. But you were saying that like the whole NFL in Northwest Indiana. What if we did the Olympics in Northwest Indiana every single four years?
Now we're talking. It's just the It's just the permanent spot for the Olympics because
the open water kayaking in Gary Harbor. Yeah. I I I said I don't like the Olympics when when it's not in our time zone. And sorry, I mean, that's just a fact. I don't like it. So, and and and every time they do the Olympics, if you look at, you know, Rio and all these places, it just becomes a waste of money.
Just build a permanent Olympics in Hammond Indiana. I I like that. The home facility.
It's not a bad idea. Yeah. or at least the the concept of just having this is where you go for the Olympics. Even listen, if that's like Athens.
Yeah. Wow. No offense, Athens. I I was not a particular big fan of your city. There's some nice places. A lot of history there, including
People drive a little too fast, including the Olympics. Nobody pays taxes. Everyone's all kind of sweaty and screaming at you.
You're talking about Italy. Greece. Greece. Greece. That's right. Yeah, Greece. Uh
Whoops. They should just I was talking about uh Georgia, the state, Athens, Georgia.
Everyone driving too fast. Yeah. Driving too fast. Got it. No in Athens. They should just have the Olympics. That should be like that's what you do is the Olympics are in Athens every every four years.
Yeah. Yeah. Uh by the way, the the time zone things have you guys seen? So, we're going to talk about the hockey with Biz and Wit. Uh we're going to talk about what happened on Wednesday. We're going to talk about hopefully what's going to happen on Sunday. Do you guys see what time the game's going to be though? The gold the gold medal game
early. 7:10 a.m. Early. Hey, shaking your head. You're out. Probably. I mean, we'll get We'll get you with my Firefest. My My building doesn't have internet right now, but
Oh [ __ ] It's a It's And you don't have cable? No. Well, that that was also my building. Like
we'll we'll get to it in Firefest. It's It's kind of funny, but it's kind of tragic.
But 710 that's too early. 710. We just what if both teams I feel like if there's two teams in the Olympics or two groups of athletes, it's the US hockey team and the Canadian hockey team that have all the leverage. Right.
Right. This is if it's going to be a destination, a crash course where these two teams play for the gold medal, that's going to be the number one viewed thing in the Olympics.
They have all the power. Why don't you guys just say, "Yeah, [ __ ] that. We're not going on until 10:00 a.m. Central time." Yeah.
So that our fans can watch us back home. Half of North America is going to be asleep.
Half of Yeah. Probably most of the people that are watching are going to be in like Minnesota, Wisconsin. They'll be hung over, not awake at 7:00 a.m.
Mhm. Think of I mean Pacific time, you're [ __ ] Yeah. Half of Canada. Everyone in Vancouver
like 7:10. Like that sucks. You You can technically wake up. No, I will. I'll be
510. 510. I I would not the non-start. I will wake up if we make it. I will wake up at wake up at 7:10. You will?
I will. Promise. We're going to have to do a check-in on the group chat. I don't think you'll be up at 7:10.
I'll be up at 7:10. I promise I'll be up at 7. I will wake up. I will turn the game on. I'll probably fall back asleep and then I'll wake up for the second period.
No, I I will be up. I will be up at 7:10 if we make it to the gold medal. Also, two 2:10 p.m. is a great time for tomorrow.
Oh, yeah. Yes, it is. Afternoon. Everyone should just leave work early and go go watch that game.
Although, aren't we going to Are we We're going to dominate, right? Who are we playing?
I don't know. We were supposed to dominate yesterday. Well, no. Yesterday was only like the puck line was only minus one and a half. So, it wasn't
Yeah, it was we were minus 270. No, no, no, no, no. Yes. Against Sweden. Yes. It was not It was not that.
I had minus 200 in regulation. Yeah. Minus 270 with overtime would have would have made sense.
I feel like that would I think I think it was more. I don't know. I Whatever. That sounds about right.
Yeah, that sounds about right. If Phil Forsber knew how to shoot a puck. All right. Whose line is it anyway?
A lot differently yesterday. DraftKings, whose line is it anyway? What's the money line for uh USA Slovakia tomorrow?
Uh money line - 360US 400 - 800. We're going to [ __ ] smoke them. Okay. Canada. Finland is Canada's only minus 380. Finland's the other is the third best team.
I just want to say that if we lose to Canada in the finals, it's kind of Mickey Mouse cuz it's so early in the day. Like a lot of us probably won't even watch it. I'm gonna when we talk to Bism, I'm going to give a good honest like I'm I'm going to be a disappointed if we we don't win the gold medal and I will I will not I will not skate out of it by saying it wasn't real and all that stuff. I'm going to put my heart into it.
Sorry. Do you think Canada is going to make the argument that Crosby got hurt? It's part of the game. Everyone's got something this time of year.
Yeah. Right. We're using injuries as an excuse. I thought it was hockey tough. I'm I'm just I'm just asking the question.
No. That was the first thing I thought of when when I saw that he got hurt. Listen, there were a lot of Canadian troops at Juno Beach that were a little banged up, too.
And they kept going. Stretch. Yeah. Who's that? Who's the Bob Wy? Uh yeah, Browns off his line coach didn't stretch. They didn't stretch their hammies before going on DDay. Okay. What um what else we got going on? I my my uh I watched a little bit of the Olympics. My my pick for short track was disastrous. Andrew Hugh. Did anyone win anything?
Uh Eileen Goo. She won another silver medal. Okay, that's her name, right? A lot of controversy behind this lady.
Why? So she's kind of Chinese and she's kind of American. I saw this. So she was American. What memes? Was that laugh?
She's kind of Chinese. Well, no, literally Chinese. She's Stephen Shay. No, she
But she's from America. She's from America. She's she's American. She competed for the US national team in skiing until like 2019.
Okay. And then she switched and she said, "I'm now competing for the Chinese team." And I'm not
People do this all the time. Well, yeah. If it's baseball and we don't have any Italians that that can field a team of nine. So they're like, "Yeah, we'll take Mike Piaza."
I think the Chinese I think they pay a lot more. They do pay a lot more. But but she uh
You got the visa. That's That's just the rules. Yeah, I'm fine with that. I don't know. you have the if you if you're a dual citizen, you can't like I don't know about getting dual citizenship, but if you're a true dual citizen, are parents from China?
She definitely Yeah, she's got like Chinese ancestry. That part's not made up. It's just it's weird that she
is it would she have made the US team? Oh, yeah. She's the best one. Okay. All right. Okay.
I think she's decorated freestyle skier female of all time. I'm totally fine with it when you do it to be like, "Hey, I there's no way I make the team this way, but I want to be in the Olympics." The Jake Malison.
Oh, no. She was going to be she was going to be like a star for the US. And listen, I want to be perfectly clear. I don't really care. It's skiing in the Olympics, but sounds like you're upset at her.
I do like how this is a story how this is like the big controversy at the Olympics.
Sounds like you're a little upset at Goo. Listen, if it were me, if it were up to me, I could compete for the United States. But that's just me.
Sounds like you're a little mad at Goo. All right. So, I'll just count. You know what I'll do? I'll count this metal for us. I don't give a [ __ ]
How many more do you need? Too many. How many woods of metal up update? I think I'm I've It's It's over. It's over for your boy. It's It's It's not going to happen. I think we're going to get a loser on for Monday's show, which I really am excited about. We have seven. Yeah, it's over for your boy.
We have seven. We have seven. Seven golds. 25 total. That's a joke. It is a joke. Right, Hank? Did you get any backlash for your slalom? Women's slalom take.
No. I mean, people just don't believe in me, but that's all right. Yeah, I believe in you.
But it's women's slom. That's the part they didn't understand. Yeah. Turn left, turn right.
Yeah. Pretty simple stuff. Stay on your back. Stay on your feet. Pretty pretty easy stuff. You got this, Hank.
Um, Max, where's the next Winter Olympics? Who cares? I'll go. Okay. I'm going to guess uh feels like it's time for Canada to get back in the mix.
Oh, [ __ ] Winter Olympics. What was it? 2020. Um, we got Alps. French Alps. Oh, that round.
Salt Lake City 2034. Isn't that the same thing as this one? No, this is Italy, bro.
Come on, dude. Swiss Alps. Oh, yeah. Swiss. But I actually kind of agree with you. The
Alps. Italy. But Italy and Switzerland share share their Alps, I think. So, but I got Switzerland and France mixed up.
The Alps are one big mountain range. And so it's kind of a funny word that you think about it. Alps.
Yeah, the Alps. Like Alps. That's the name of your mountains. The Alps. Yeah, it sounds actually sounds like a delicious like treat.
All right. Sounds like an old dude's name. Like, hey, this is my this is my great-grandfather Alp.
Mhm. 2030 after Super Bowl, after vacation, I will take a trip to France to try this.
Oh, wow. You do that for us? Content, content, content, content. To the south of France? Holy [ __ ] What a guy. You're the best. You know what? I'll go to Monaco just to keep an eye on things down there, too.
We got to have eyes on What is that name? Basto Arcisio. That's the name of the town.
Bto Artitzio. So, it's There's so many towns on here. I have no idea where you're looking.
Bartio, where Artitzio, you hate that? Artitio that literally translates to titty [ __ ]
Max's least favorite city. Uh, overrated. Yeah. Okay. I'm I'm excited for for uh Should we wait? Are we going to talk about the stream now or we're going to wait till Zack gets back?
We got to wait playing for [ __ ] He's filling in for Crosby. Wait, they called they You can't You can call someone up.
Conor Bard just landed in Italy. Oh, that's so Wait, this might be a parody. Yeah, I was going to say I don't think he could do that. I mean, Bard should be on the team, but
Ross need to be All right. Yeah, fake account. That was a great breaking move. I love it. I didn't I didn't moo it.
Moo it. Let's get Let's get some people who are listening right now. I I only speak in facts and and I have serious takes on the show.
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Yep. Uh, we had Johnny Fanta on for Wednesday's show. In that, we discussed Mick Cronin because he was calling that game. After the game, Mick Cronin,
I [ __ ] love Mick Cron. No one's ever called a shot harder than Johnny Fanta did on part of my take. He was like, "College basketball's back. It's great. We've got some coaches that are losing their minds. We're like, "Well, who's that, Johnny?" Well, Mick Cronin is losing his mind. And then that was before Mick Cronin goes on to eject his own player from the game. Correct.
And then scream at a reporter for raising his voice. Well, the reporter raised his voice. Not only voice, but pitch as well. That was the problem. I was laying in bed.
Everyone can hear you. This is on camera. I was laying in bed last night and I was just repeating it and my wife was like, "What are you saying?" I was just like, "Are you raising your voice at me? Come on, dude. Come on. Come on, dude. It's all on camera. It's great that he's like, "It's all on camera." Not realizing it's all on camera, and that's not gonna look good for Mick, but I think it looks great.
I I also like how Mick Cronin is just only giving him the silhouette during this. He's only like, you know, he's turned away. He won't even
face him with his full body, dude. Because it's just like so alpha of him. He's like, "I won't acknowledge you." Dude, did you just
Are you Did you just Are you raising your voice a bit? You just raise your voice.
Come on, dude. Also, that clip of him being like, "I'd like to give you kudos for
the worst question I've ever been asked." That that is going to be very useful in the future.
I love this clip. I love Mick Cronin. I know there's a lot of people who don't like these guys acting like this. There was there were some big time uh big- time Jay's coming out being like, "Respect the reporter. He's just trying to do a job." One, okay, fine. We all got a job to do. Maybe two, don't raise your [ __ ] voice at Mick Cronin like that and the pitch of your voice. But I we've had this take whether it be with Danny Hurley or any coach that freaks out. This is what college basketball is is the best at is these guys are the most maladjusted adults possible. They lose one game. Think about this. John Shier lost half of his losses this year.
He's done a Jesse Smlet. Think about that. Like he can't take losing that bad. He's lost two games this year and and in one of those two games he was he he was like, "Hey, one of my guys got punched and we can't still can't find video of it."
This is it's great. It's full-on college basketball brain that Mick Cronin has right now. And uh listen, the reporter did in fact raise his voice when reiterating the question to him
and pitch and pitch and this is all fair. I don't think that anything that Mick Cronin said was inaccurate. I also don't blame the reporter for doing his job. I think this is all just like, "All right, great, great game." Yeah,
like GG's. Shake hands afterwards. Go your separate ways. You just raise your Come on, dude. It's all kid.
Yeah, this is a great This is a battle of the wills between Mick Cronin and the First Amendment.
We got to get Mick Cronin back on the show. Yeah, we will not raise our voice. Yeah, we will. No, I will. We'll we'll have to.
I think we got to have a decibel meter. Yeah, we should just actually have We should ask a bunch of questions then just have have Zach scream a question at him. Just see if he's still got it.
I think for you is we we we have a decibel meter. We have a decibel meter for every show.
Oh, yeah. this really look at that the more you know I would like I'd like it just to be we we need to put some more spotlight though because this uh this postgame interview is getting all the press. Mick Cronin ejected his own player which I love. He kicked his own player out of the game.
That is the funniest thing I've ever seen. Mick Cronin, if you haven't been following this year, but he he basically it it's all based on time zones. If he does not play in Pacific time zone, he is he is liable to like get naked and scream at everyone on camera. He's so upset about the Big 10 scheduling.
The Cincinnati gets back in him. Yeah. He Listen, this is a guy we have to remember. Mick Cronin, he he had a brain injury, a brain aneurysm, and the doctors had to tell him that he can't watch his team play basketball, otherwise he might stroke out and die.
He had to drive around Cincinnati listening to it on the radio. This guy's a psycho. And I love it. We need these guys. the Danny when Danny Hurley goes crazy and drinks his his piss on the on the on the sideline and flips out at everyone. That's what I love about college basketball.
The great part of this interaction, too, is how calm he remained. Yeah. Like the the guy the reporter was obviously raising his voice and Mick Cronin was just like, "Dude,
you're just raising your he just called it like it was just like not was not spiking at all. Was just maintaining a firm baseline, not even giving him eye contact or full body contact. Like this is how an alpha male treats a reporter.
Come on, dude. Come on, dude. It is all on camera. You just raised your voice in.
I also would like to think that ISO was just waiting around the corner like, "Dude, that guy raised his voice at you. Way to handle yourself, Mick."
Yeah. That's exactly how you should handle yourself. Well, when I Is watches the clips of this, he thinks like dare but for the grace of God I Yeah.
He's He can see how funny it is when somebody else does it. But Yeah. He's like, "Damn, I didn't know you could eject your own player."
At the same time, he's like, "This is pretty cool. This is pretty awesome." Oh, but yeah, college basketball continues to be incredible. That Alabama uh Arkansas game was awesome.
AUF two two overtimes. Just the shot making was insane. But I do have one question for someone in this room this weekend. We have a loaded slate. We got Michigan Duke. We've got Houston vers Arizona.
We also have Villanova verse Connecticut. And Connecticut lost on Wednesday night to Kraton. Max, are you happy they lost? College basketball is sad they lost so different. College basketball is so different.
So, you want to play them off of a loss or off of a win? Uh, personally very much would have preferred if they did not lose last night.
And why is that? Because Villanova plays them this weekend. I would not like to see them coming off. College basketball is a different sport.
Why? Well, I'm just I'm trying to. So, you said you would rather not play Yukon off of a loss. Why?
In college basketball, yes. Why would you rather not play Yukon off a loss? Dan Hurley's gonna Dan Hurley's a special coach.
So, good coaches will then use that loss as motivation to make their team play better the next night out is what you're saying.
I like how you you guys keep using this as an argument even though the Eagles won that game.
I have a question because they knew that they had a tough opponent. I have a question. Can I ask a question? Wouldn't you be happy that Yukon lost because now you have a chance to win the Big East? That's fair.
It's divisions. I mean, if you look at the Big East standings, you guys have three losses. Has two.
If we win out, we'll get a share. If we win out now, we get a share. Yeah. St. John's, you have to play again. You can
like I'm I'm familiar. That's a huge loss for Yukon. I'm familiar. If they didn't lose to Kraton, you could have beaten Yukon. They could have won out and you wouldn't had any chance to catch them.
Yeah. You know what? I'm happy they lost. Oh, okay. There we go. Happy they lost. Happy they lost.
H You're rooting for them to lose because now you think Yukon stinks because they lost.
No, because now we can win the Big East. But not if Yukon beats you because they're more motivated after loss.
We just got to win on Saturday. Got to win on Saturday. Massive game. Maxive so worked up for this game. I'm excited for it.
I I was I looked at I looked at flights to go home. It's a It's $1,000 round trip before having to buy tickets. So, I decided that I couldn't I couldn't in good faith justify that purchase.
You should go. You want us to We'll pay for it. No. No. No. You know what? Yeah. I'll go half.
Yeah. Yeah. Havsy Max, you want to go? Not that big a game, I guess. No, it's not a big game.
I would love to go to that game. Big game, Max. This might hurt big. I've been this excited for Villainova basketball.
I think you're going. We're paying for your tickets. You're going I could pay for my tickets.
No, I mean the flight. Yeah, we're not paying for your game. I can pay for my flight. I can
He Max is in a tough spot right now because he I I do this all the time where it's like, should I go to this game? I'm not going to go to this game. And then when you make the decision, I'm not going to travel and go to this game. And then you're like, I'm instead going to get to go to the bar and get drunk and watch college basketball day. You're like, that actually sounds awesome. That that has also gone through.
You kind of sound like Shane right now. I've also texted I don't want to go see my favorite team play.
I've texted a bunch of my friends that normally would be going to the game. like h half of them are still going, half of them have conflicts and they can't go. That was another that was another thing.
Oh, well you let us know. But I I now that I've played it out in my head, I would not go cuz this is such a loaded slate.
I think we're going to slate off Saturday. I might go to the bar all day on Saturday.
I just tell my kids I'm going out to get some milk. You're just not that big a fan of Villanova basketball. You just like college basketball and that's fine.
I I'm so so pumped for this. And and we're also being honest, it would really suck if you if if you made that trip that 2400 trip for a loss.
Oh man. And it would maybe hurt your your your guarantee of waking up at 7:10 in the morning.
That would be tough on Sunday. That would be out the out the table. Out the table.
Out the table. Off the table. Are you doing farm to table? Were you trying to Max, I saw that clip, by the way. Can we discuss this for a second? Did you see this clip uh PFT of uh Max on the Big Boy? Did you see this clip? Uh, Max,
listen. Max and I agree with a lot of things when it comes to big boy stuff. We had our tub talk uh last week or two weeks ago.
This is We're locked. I have never done this and it's Why don't you explain to PFT? Did you see this clip?
No. Oh, explain to PFT and Hey, big boy club. The big boys club is a safe space. It's a It's a nice place for big boys to talk about, you know, other big boy things.
And Ella and Ella and Ella. Um I And Kadic also does this for the record. What? He's going to explain it.
Sometimes this is it's actually quite skinny of you really think about it. Tell Tell me the thing that you do.
I can't even look at you while I say this. Say the thing that you do, Max. So sometimes late at night
Uhhuh. If I'm laying in bed and I get and I get a little hungry. Yeah. Instead of going and making myself a snack or making myself food or ordering food,
I'll just like pull up the apps. Uber Eats. Shout out to Uber Eats. Almost almost anything.
Mhm. And I'll just like put together an order of what I would order if I were to get something. And then I And then I And then I And then I clear my cart and I go to bed. But I think about I was like, "Oh, yeah. And I and I go in VR fat boy.
This is like Yeah. Girls do that with shopping, too. I feel like I'm just constantly shopping.
I go in and I customize the like the I do it like the exact Oh, yeah. And then I see it in my cart and I'm like, "Oh, yeah. This should be a good order."
And then you go to bed and then I go to bed. It's like you striking out at the bar and then you're like, "I'm just going to jack off and go TO SLEEP."
THIS IS SO GOOD, DUDE. YEAH. NO, that you're just doing food simulating. Yeah, he's VR VR foodie. It's quite it's it's really good self-control. If the the real kicker is if I didn't have a fiance, I'd probably be smashing
order every time. I mean, that's literally the uh the dodgeball. Yeah. You're playing
You're like you're like you're like teasing yourself. You're doing dinner. No, it actually it's really quite like soothing just looking at it.
It's dinner simulator kind of. I'm going to play dinner simulator. Yeah, you need to get like a Sims where you just eat in the Sims.
I never actually order it, but you look at it. Your fiance is like, "Are you texting someone?"
I'm just ordering. I wonder what he's thinking about. I'm not ordering. I'm just putting together what I would order.
I wonder what he's thinking about. Chalupa Supreme double nachos. He's probably texting other girls.
The idea that he's got like a burger in there and he's customizing it. He's like, "Do I want extra bacon?" He's like, "No, that's naughty. I'm not I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do extra bacon."
I do that sometimes where it's like, "That would be too much. I don't need I wouldn't need
you. But you're not going to eat it. So why don't you just go crazy?" No, because I I need to like genuinely It's like when you're watching porn and it's like the dick is way too big and it's like I
do that does happen. Yeah. I was like I can't I can't justify myself in that situation. Yeah,
I'll do the uh you know what? I'll do the dressing on the side. I'm so happy you guys hadn't heard about this until now. Uh get your genuine reaction. It's I'm with you on like 99% of the things that we do. This one I just
It It is actually not a It's not a fat thing. It's It's not Well, it is. It's You're fantasizing about food.
It's the fattest thing you can do without eating. Yeah. Yeah. Which which is fine. I mean, it's it's it's good self-control.
It is. It's great self-control. You found the fattest thing to do without eating.
It's actually incredible. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. All right. Uh the other the other college basketball sto story is that Darren Peterson is now just trolling us because he is for for people who don't know the freshman phenom for Kansas who has been in and out of games. Uh he's missed like 11 games, some real injuries, some fake flu, some agent. He now is doing it. He's doing the uh will he won't he in the middle of games. He hit a three against Oklahoma State on Wednesday night and he just immediately asked out.
He played 18 minutes. I think he scored 23 points and Bill Self after was like, "Yeah, I thought he was going to have a special night and he just he wanted out."
Yeah. So, I I've seen a lot from Darren Peterson this year and he just seems like he's never engaged on a basketball court.
No. Like I I've most people that are this talented at a sport at times they seem like they've got that passion, that fire, like a competitiveness.
Yeah. And I haven't seen it at all from He might have it. He might just be saving it for the NBA and he's like, I don't want to get hurt playing college basketball. Maybe maybe that's what he's going with, which is not a great sign if you're like a if you're a scout or a GM, you don't want that mentality.
Yeah, but that could be an explanation. This is all leading to Kansas losing in like the Sweet 16 or maybe uh the round of 32 and then everyone on his team taking subtle shots at him being like that sucked. That sucked playing with that dude.
Or Kansas just rallying in spite of him. But him playing just being like bench him.
He's really good. Yeah, but I mean they're a good team without him, too. Yeah, but I think to get to their ceiling, they need him to actually be there and playing well.
I don't know. But sometimes having a guy like that that you're like, we all say, "Fuck this guy."
That could make a good bucket. You're like, "Hey, actually, we don't we didn't mean that, bro."
And then at the very end, like everyone's hurt. And he's like, "Coach, put me in. I can do it." And then his job is to make the game-winning pass. Yeah.
And then everybody claps and hugs. It is. It's a frustrating thing to watch because I want to watch Darren Peterson play basketball. It's frustrating if you're a Kansas fan, probably insanely frustrating if you're a Kansas fan. And the whole experience is what Hank said the other day, the the downside to the NIL. It also though in a weird way, there's the silver lining, and maybe this is the eternal optimist in me. It's it's nice to know that you can't just throw money at like a roster and expect it to be awesome and have every piece fit. You know what I mean? You can't do like an all-star team every year,
right? You got to have guys who actually want to play, who want to buy in. And Kansas still could go very far in the tournament. They could win it all. So, it could all all be wrong. But it is nice to know that like you have to actually like get culture and and build a roster with meaningful meaning behind it, not just who's the best player, let's throw money.
My number one indicator would be like this guy does not seem to like basketball.
Yeah. Like it might just be something he's really good at that he that he doesn't care to do. kind of reminds me of Rudy Gay. Remember Rudy Gay at Yukon when they lost to George Mason
and it was like this team is so good and Rudy Gay was really good at basketball, but it was like does he does he like have that killer instinct? I don't know.
Does Yeah, this is the Josh Rosen conversation. Does he love football? Yeah, this is a what?
I think there's another take that you could have about it. Optimist for Kansas fans.
Yeah, he's going to play more in the tournament. Maybe he will. He's going to play more in the tournament.
I You don't when he's that much closer to the NBA draft. Like if he gets a little ankle tweak, he's done. He's not going to play through anything.
He Bill Self also seems like he's just This was the moment that he Bill Self was like, I this is not fun.
I don't know. Bill Self was really quick to get him out of there as soon as Peterson like
Well, I think he's probably he's like, Jesus, you want to get out of the game? Fine. Get out. I don't want to have to think about this.
I don't know. I think he's gonna play play more in the tournament. And then you just get it's it's like getting a full new player on your on your roster.
I think it's more likely that the team just like rallies in spite of this guy. I he could
I disagree. I just I I I do think he's going to try to play more. I'm just saying if there's any type of speed bump, he's out. You know what I mean? It's not He's not going to play through anything. Yeah. Yeah. Bill Self essentially like gave the absentee parent quote last night. He said, "It's happened off enough that our guys have learned to play without Darren Peterson." Yeah.
It's like, yeah, dad's not home, so we we just we know how to get by. We Yeah, we figured out how to make dinner.
Yeah. Mom's at work. We got it. Dinner. Yeah. I had to teach my little brother algebra.
Mhm. Uh, okay. Any other any other stories? Anything that we missed that we want to talk about? Oh, congrats to Lane Johnson.
Coming back. Yeah. As first recorded by Max. Max was right. Good job, Max. Everyone says that on this show. There's a uh heated rivalry going on right now in women's hockey.
Yeah. Which we'll know more about, I guess, later on in the show. Um but we've got two uh two of the superstars for the US and Canada's women's team.
They broke up. Yeah. They had a relationship, but they broke up before the the game. I think that's fair. I think that even if you're like deeply madly in love, I think you have to break up before the puck drops and then get back together afterwards.
Yeah. It's actually be awesome after. Yeah. Any other any other stories? Oh, do you have any updates for
Clvicular vlogging? So, I've been I just mogging people. I moggedicular today. Oh, you did?
So, I got his number. I texted the man in He's of age, right? Of age for what? How old is he?
What? What do you mean of age for what? Is he Is he How old is he? Are you saying could Could you [ __ ] him?
No, I'm saying is he over 18 PFT? Oh, yes, he is. He's He is an adult. if that's okay. I didn't know. Yes. Yes. He's an adult. So I I saw
I mean he's 21. He's not that much of an adult. He's an adult. He's an adult. And so that wasn't a crazy question.
So I invited him to Chicago to do the do the rounds. Come on the shows. And he said I'm not going to be in Chicago. And then I was like I have to mo this guy. So I said, "It's actually not that dangerous here. Plus we're all really strong and we'll protect you."
Nice. So kind of mogged him. You did mo him. He responded. Made him made him feel like he needed our help.
He responded. I blocked him. Oh, so he didn't respond. So he silence mogged. No, no, I mogged.
20 years old. I frame frame moggedged him and then I blocked him. Block maxed. He also hates football.
Oh, [ __ ] him then. He said it's your worst self when you watch football. Oh, this guy's a loser.
I I'm more of a Iowa fraternity guy. That That footage was for people who missed it. I what was it a year ago that this happened, Max?
I just assumed it happened yesterday. I think it was a year ago. And there was like a because I think they went to court,
but it's just a clip of um these police officers responding to a fire alarm at an Iowa fraternity uh house and going downstairs and finding all of the pledges with their shirts off blindfolded in the basement in a dark basement. And the cops are like, "Take off your blindfolds like you all are are coming with us." And not a single pledge moved. And those guys are ride or die.
Yeah. Those are the guys you want in your camp. You know that you got a good class.
It was also just a great litmus test of the internet where it's half the internet saying, "How could they be doing this? This is really Listen, there are some hazing that is like you can't do the hazing that is killing people and and making them forcing them to drink liquor and all that stuff." But s dudes with like mustard on them standing in a basement. I don't think it's the worst thing.
No, that's fine. Awesome. And those guys just didn't move. They were ride or die.
Here's the problem is now you're going to see a bunch of other frats try to take this and simulate it. Yeah. To see if their guys are ride or die. And then now you're they're just never going to believe that cops will ever show up to a frat function ever again. Yeah.
Cuz now it's like these are probably just the bros playing a prank on me. Those guys are going to they're going to be laughing about that story 40 years from now. It's been like remember that time we thought that they were they were [ __ ] with us so we didn't even we didn't even flinch. It's a good crew.
Cops were so frustrated. They're like, "They're not listening to us and no one will tell us who's in charge." And not a single person ratted.
They all said that they don't have the president of the fraternity's phone number. They're like, "Sorry, don't have his contact.
I don't know who that is. I don't know who that is. You're going to have to find somewhere someone else."
And I love the white sweatshirt guy just kept slowly moving into the basement and he was like, "Can you They're like They were like, "Can you please get out of there?" And he's like, "Nope. Nope. This is This is my This is my basement.
They're also The guys are like blindfolded there. I know my rights. I know my rights, officer. I don't have to say a word to you.
That guy I did see I don't know. I got to find if it was actually real that the the potentially the the guy in the white sweatshirt was not even a uh he was not even a student at Iowa. He was just there for some hazing.
Oh, that's fun. Yeah. He just showed up for Wait, is he like a ringer? Like a ringer to get haz?
I don't know. I think it's like a pickup game. Yeah. He's like, "Oh, we're gonna Oh, you got fives today. We're gonna we're gonna get some guys with their shirts off." "Yeah, I'll be there. We're going in a basement. I'm in."
Was this guy brought in to get hazed or to do the hazing? Or he was just brought in to to watch over and never snitch cuz he did a good job of that.
He also gave him the idea. He's like, I Yeah, I think it's fake. I think it's fake.
The cop's like, "You think?" That's not really a think. It either is or it isn't.
Are there now? Is there a possibility that this entire video is fake? Uh, no. No, I think it was an actual
It was an actual It came out in a court case. Yeah, this is a court case. It happened like six months ago.
Okay. Yeah. Or it happened in the fall. Oh man, the whole thing that would make sense during rush week.
Yeah, it's just it was it was just such a funny video to hit the timeline. Okay. Should we get to biz and wait? I'm trying to think is if there's uh I'm looking through my notes. Any you want to say anything about the Red Sox uh jerseys?
I mean, Fanatics in general is just a dumpster fire. I don't I don't think the Red Sox are any different than any team that works with Fanatics. They just released a statement cuz Red Sox fans were so mad. They released a statement and then Fanatics probably made him delete it, it seems like.
Wait, so what was the what was the problem with their jerseys? The letters. That's hard to explain without showing like the the stripe down the middle like the kind of lining. There's like the white jerseys and there's red line in the middle and the letters were just like over the line.
It was very sloppy. Huh. And they put out a tweet being like, "Look at our new jerseys." And everyone was like, "These are
terrible." Yeah. Then they put out a statement being like, "We're sorry that the jerseys weren't up to quality. We're going to change them by opening day." And then I think Fanatics got mad at that because then they deleted the tweet apologizing about the
jerseys being [ __ ] Yeah, Fanatics. At least they're not see-through anymore, right? They figured they solved that.
Yeah, we don't see the dicks anymore. The science has progressed to a point where we're not flashing people. So, just kind of take what you got and be happy for it. What's going on with uh the Patriots, Robert Craft, and FIFA?
Foxboro. F the city of Foxboro. City of Foxboro is like not approving uh like FIFA funding basically. Like they're not they have not fully complied to
some things that FIFA needs in order to host the world. The bribes the bribes. Yeah.
Yeah. You have not complied with the suitcase. They haven't sent in their monthly bribes.
The suitcase of cash that we were expecting. You have not checked that off your list. But it was it was I mean it's it was there's like a court case very Boston Foxboro lady being like we're not we're not signing this yet.
I would like to say to FIFA uh Chicago is open for business. Ham I mean they have to Indiana.
Hammond we can do some games in Hammond Indiana. Indiana also LaMelo Ball car accident.
Oh yeah Mill car accident and the seahawk for sale which we already knew. But I I do you think how much money do you think we could raise if the NFL I wish they would do this for for one one of these teams that is being sold just do it lottery
like everybody enters everybody in the country can enter to try to win the Seattle Seahawks and they will not pick a winner until it's $10 billion or something
until the valuation target is hit. Yeah. How sick would that be? Just some random dude gets the Seahawks. That'd be awesome. But then the other owners would have to approve this guy.
Well, they have to Yeah, they'd have to maybe approve it before. Maybe you you cut a little off, you break a little off, be like, "Hey, it's it's we'll do it at 12 billion."
It would actually be funny to see the other owners have to meet this random lottery winner for the first time and like evaluate whether or not he's NFL owner material.
He wouldn't be, you know, according to them. But it would just be sick if we just had there should be one one franchise per sport should be like the regular guy can get somehow.
Put it up for auction or Yeah. or like not auction. No, it's just a straight up lottery. You can buy multiple tickets.
How much are the tickets? Uh five bucks. But you got to put a limit on on how many you can buy cuz otherwise you would just get like a very very rich dude buying.
But that would be hilarious if they bought billions of tickets and didn't get it.
Yeah. That would be such a funny outcome if a guy if a guy spent $2 billion and got absolutely nothing.
I feel like this this sale is going to set a record, especially considering they're coming off a Super Bowl right now. It's going to be crazy how how much money is spent on the Seahawks. I would Yeah, I I would
Yeah, you'd buy tickets. I would buy a shitload of tickets. Yeah. To try to own a team.
Awesome. How How cool would that be that lottery be like televising it, you know? They pull the numbers. the whole country would just be like, "Holy [ __ ] I have a chance to buy the Seahawks."
I would be I would be in on that big time. Yeah. Okay, let's get to uh Biz and Whit. We'll talk some hockey. Before we do that, P, you got a couple ads?
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betterhelp.com/pmt. That's betterhelphp.com/pmt. And now, here's Biz and Whit. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very special guest. It's our guys Biz and Wit. We're going to talk some hockey, some Olympic hockey. We also are watching the overtime of USA Canada in the women's gold medal game. So, you might get us cheering one way or the other. You'll get a live reaction.
Boys, how are we feeling? Um, yeah, go ahead. I just have something very important to say right off the bat. Yeah.
Happy birthday, Whit. Thank you very much. Happy birthday. How are you? Thank you guys. Thank you guys. I'm 43 years old today.
Love that. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's going to hurt if the US women can't get this done in OT, but we're staying positive here and it's another year around the sun. And I appreciate you, PFT. You're you're a good guy.
To be fair, I think that Wit's birthday fart that stunk up this whole room changed the momentum for the United States and that's why they got that late goal. So, uh either way, I just wanted to say aside from the fact that we're battling Canada versus USA, it's probably going to be tonight and Sunday. Um, I love him and there's no one I'd rather do the podcast with on spitting chicks than you, buddy.
Oh, love you too, buddy. That's sweet. Are you guys gonna kiss? Yeah, you should kiss.
No, but later on we might do something that the heated rivalry international edition.
I saw the crop dust. It was a crazy crop dust just farting in everyone's face. Well, there's been farts flying all over the place. Mine's the one that gets posted. These guys that work for us, they're absolute [ __ ] It's my birthday. They posted it. But you know what? What are you going to do?
Still smells better than my upper lip. Uh, all right. So, boys, uh, on Wednesday, on Wednesday, we saw some crazy games. Which game do we want to start with? I guess we could start with the Canada game, which
Okay. Canada struggled, Biz, that looked bad. I wouldn't I wouldn't say they struggled. I think that the checks played the game of their life. Uh, uh, they have they have an incredible goalie. Uh, Gudas, Radco Gudas, a guy who who Yans was pumping the pod before. Uh, cuz you mentioned his names. like if you if you had six of him on your team on the back end, you'd win a gold medal. Well, he played the game of his life. And they did a really good job of shutting down the red line, the blue line, forcing Canada to dump it. And it changed things up a little bit. So, um I thought it it was a great game, but ultimately Canadians prevailed. They they got through it without Sydney Crosby, which was a a catastrophic injury. It was accidental, so I'm not going to point any fingers to Ratogus.
It's just he stepped on his blade. But uh Nick Suzuki who uh came into his position, ended up coming up clutch with that tying goal off the tip. So a big one. And then of course Mitchie Marner, the guy who was in Toronto who broke my heart when he left. He ends up scoring the winner in OT.
Do you think I you know you guys obviously know so much hockey. Is it a good strategy to try to make sure that you have six guys or seven guys on the ice at various points?
Unreal. Yeah. Unreal. How did that happen? It was insane. It wasn't when someone told me that they had six guys on the ice. I was like, "Oh, okay." So, it was a line change, it was six guys on the ice in the defensive zone together.
And what's what's nuts is when that happens um at high levels of hockey, the bench of the opposing team immediately, coaches, players, you're all screaming. You could tell right away. Apparently, although I saw McKinnon said that he knew, I don't think that the Canadian bench was like really that like aware at the time. And it came out after on Twitter of like the images, but Biz made a decent point that the red sounds a little goofy, but the red in the uniforms in the shoulders of Czech, it just kind of I don't know if that created kind of an illusion a little bit.
So they have red pants and red shoulders. So like normally when you're in that skating position, there's just a lot of red, right? So the way that the camera angle was and then the minute it started shifting over, it took one of the defenders that was deeper in the zone out of frame. So, to the naked eye, if you're watching, if you're really tuned in, there was probably a few people who caught it and that's what ignited it. A few people posted it to Twitter and then Twitter kind of caught on to it and it just spiraled where, buddy, they ended up having like seven guys in the goal pile. I think they might have been like just sent out another guy to like make it so ridiculous that there's no way they call it back. Another thing that they do too though at the high levels is the video coach is be behind like normally in the locker room and they have a bunch of the different feeds and they would then
radio the coach but that's not reviewable. It's not reviewable having too many men on the
ice that no like you can't you can't go back. That's just a straight up like ref missed it.
Oh [ __ ] I do like Bis that because I was wondering because this game obviously happened yesterday like what is his spin zone for the fact that Canada can't count to six and the red jerseys is a pretty good one.
[ __ ] You got me there, man. Yeah, I kind of like that's a good I never really learned that either.
That's a good shirt right there. I mean, I kind of liked it. I'm looking at the screenshots. I I see your point. Like when they're hunched over, it kind of looks just like a red jersey. you could.
Yeah, from that from that camera angle once again to the naked eye, but like officials got to pick that up. But that game in the third, it was just picking up so much steam and there was just so much transition and Czech have some pretty fast players like Nate just being one of them. Like he's up and down the ice. He was one of their best players. Uh a guy named Sedlac who actually is playing in like the Czech professional league. He's not even playing in the NHL. He had a pretty uh a pretty good game as well. He actually I played against him in the American League when they beat us in the in the conference finals. He went on to win a a Calder Cup. So, they just played the game of their lives and and Canada hung on and made some big plays when they needed to.
And uh let's see where it goes from here. And for Sorry, go ahead. Yeah. No, go ahead.
I was going to say from from the outside looking in too, I don't know if McDavid's ever been this good. Yes. Am I the guy always on here getting ridiculed by YouTube losers about McDavid? Uh it's it's it's incredible. Like I think he gave guys maybe six or seven gradea a scoring chances. He had seven shots on his own. Then the finish coach today said, "Yeah, McDavid's the best player in this tournament by a mile." And when asked how you going to shut him down, he said, "I'm going to call I'm going to call Barkov on Florida." So, a little a little bulletin board material for McDavid going into the semi.
So, in the uh in the US game that we saw yesterday, uh thank god that Philip Forsber forgot that he was allowed to shoot the puck. Oh,
I don't know what what was going on in his Was it was was the moment too big for him because it it felt like he had every opportunity that he kept passing out
three or four times. I think that he wasn't in his flow state because they were having major issues with that coach and the fact that in in game one of the tournament I believe Philipe Forsber played what like yeah 1 minute and 40 seconds or something. He also sat Oliver Ecman Larson and listen they can dress an extra guy um in in the Olympics. So essentially, Oliver Equin Larson, Stanley Cup champion, uh, won it with the Florida Panthers, a great defensive defenseman when he needs to be, can also play a little bit offensively if you need him. He played zero minutes. Zero. He played not even seconds. He played nothing. He sat him there as a grocery stick in the middle of the bench like he was [ __ ] Paul Besonette. And that that created a lot of bad juju. All of a sudden, the media was starting to run with that. I think he got a little bit defensive over those comments. And then even I think in that
game um against the States uh Yesper Brat wasn't really playing much, right? There was some
he was scratched the game before that game prior. So it just it seemed like a lot of like mental warfare where you want to kind of you know you want to elevate these players and pump their tires much like you've seen from all the other nations guys. It's if you go all the way to the dance here it's a six game tournament. So you got to get on the same page and that team camaraderie quicker than anything you've ever seen in your life. And then in overtime when it's three on three, what is the strategy in overtime? It's the most chaotic [ __ ] ever. Yeah.
Like what do you teach the boys? Well, so here's what I'll throw it over to with team USA when they were in overtime. Vinnie Troche isn't like a threeon-ree specialist. Like he shouldn't be out there with that those high caliber of players, but because he's so good at faceoffs, they would put him out there. They started the overtime with him. He'd snap it back and go off and then the neck the the like a Jack Eel would come on. So we call those like repair men and it was it was pretty impressive. He took about three or four of those fac cuz the opening face off threeon three particularly in the NHL was just 5 minutes like if you win that faceoff you can you can basically control the puck certain times the entire time. Um he lost that one then they put him back out offensive zone. I think he took three, won the other two, immediately changed.
And then other than that, it's kind of it's different in this PFT because you're willing to just really run and gun, right? Regular season, you already got the point. Let's try to get a win. But here, like I can't just jump in and make this like a threeon one because what if we we make a save here and all of a sudden it's a twoon back the other way. So I've never I don't love the fact it's threeon three. Um I do like the fact there's no shootouts this year in the Olympics. At least in the gold medal game there won't be. So that's nice. But three on three is it's as a fan too yesterday. It's just a panic, right? It was so nerve-wracking.
It's chaos. Do you think do do you guys think the NHL should do threeon three? Skip Baylor.
Skip. Here we go. I I actually think that they should move to a longer threeon-ree. Even if you added two extra minutes, we did it in the American League to to test it out for the NHL. Even adding that two minutes, I think, would would make a lot more games end in in overtime as opposed to going to a shootout, which brutal. And another component to it is is you're just trying to get those three guys tired. Let's say they're out there for like 35 seconds. If you can turn over your three guys and get fresh bodies, oh, it's [ __ ] it's sharks in the water just circling their prey. I think they should go I think they should go 20 minutes five start five on five every four minutes take a guy off so you could get one-on-one.
Yeah, that would be a little ridiculous. But if you did if you did No, if you did like I don't know 5 minutes five on five and then 10 minutes four on four then five minutes three on three. Three on three for 20 minutes is what the gold medal game would be. I can't see it going longer than 10.
Right. You you said what? Sorry. What's it's 20 minutes three on three game. I think it's 20 minutes five on five, boys.
No, I love I love the two of you sitting on this couch right now. You guys are like the two old guys in the Muppets.
I I think that all the way up until the gold medal game, it's And then it turns over to F. If it's threeon three, I'm going to spike my mic if it's 20 minutes or threeon three in the
I'm going to look it up right now. I mean, there's no way too they're too busy posting my fart right now. They can't even get us the info.
They couldn't go 20 minutes threeon three, right? Like somebody somebody's going to score before that. Yeah, 100% 100%.
Three. Three is the minimum amount of players that you can have on the ice. Even in overtime, threeon three. If you take a penalty, they get to add a player. So, it becomes four on three. So, it never it does never becomes three on two.
What is the answer here, boys? It's a 20 minute three on three. That is [ __ ] crazy.
Spike the mic. [ __ ] That was if that Oh, we got we got OT starting here, guys. We're watching. Okay. So, we're watching.
We're watching too. We got it as well. All right. So, what's your clock say right now? What are you on the clock?
1922. Yeah. Okay. We're the same. Wow. That's not often does that happen. Okay.
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Learn more at microsoft.com/m365copilot today. Okay, now back to biz and wit. All right. So, so if you were to judge Wednesday's games, which team do you think cuz Well, actually, let me ask this first. We think it's going to be USA Canada, right? Like the USA is minus 800 to to win on Friday. Canada, I think, is like - 375. Do like we have to have USA Canada.
I think we're going to get it, but you just simply can't write off a team like Slovakia who a team like Slovakia knows that they're going in there where they upset the United States. That's going to be the biggest win they've ever had in their country's history.
Breakaway. Breakaway for the GOLD MEDAL. WHAT A BACK CHECK. OH MY GOODNESS. OH my goodness. Wow.
It was This should be This should be great listening tomorrow morning. Yeah, Bears. Hey, uh Dan, congrats on the Indiana Bears. That sounds good. You loser.
It's not going to happen. Shut up. Um but uh going to going to those two teams. I I'll talk on on Finland cuz that's who's Canada's got to play. They got some honey badgers in last game. They were down two nothing to the Swiss and they had a uh I believe with 6 minutes remaining and they had some goals from some big players. Sebastian Au plays for the Carolina Hurricanes. Uh Lechinan who ended up having the winner I believe in OT. He plays with the Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup champion and the other one who get one is Miro Hasten and an incredible defenseman you hear not a lot about who uh uh plays in Dallas. He kind of flies under the radar. Easily a top 10 defender in the world. I would probably put him top five. Maybe maybe not now because Winsky's risen his game. Quinn Hughes uh um um who's Mar Cider. So he's he's definitely in the top 10.
Okay. And for for us as the Americans, Slovakia, it's crazy what they're doing with the with their hockey and and their their national team because I think there's 5 million people in Slovakia. They've had a lot more success than the World Juniors lately. And I think it's six or seven NHL players. They won that group. I mean, I don't even know what the DraftKings odds would have been with Sweden, Finland, and Slovakia in that group for them to come out of there the winners, but that got them the buy into into the quarterfinals, right? They spanked Germany pretty easily in the quarterfinals. And now it's like that's not a game where Yeah, US might be minus 800. I don't picture it being an easy game. It just they got this Yuri Levkovski who was the first overall pick a few years back. Montreal Canadian.
He's really coming into his own. He's the leader. He actually played in the Olympics the last one when no NHL players were allowed and had seven goals as like an 18-year-old. He's got a few goals already this year. So, not easy games. I mean, you'd think Czech would have got worked over by Canada and Canada has to score with a couple minutes left. It's just it's the oneame elimination that you just never know what's going to happen. Hot goalie, you're done.
It hockey. Yeah, PFT. You probably know more about this. Maybe even you, Big Cat. the history of the world, but uh Czechos Czechos Slovakia, so Chetchia and Slovakia used to be one team and then for whatever reason it it broke up. So imagine that those two countries are still together. They would probably have the equivalent as far as like uh up there with like Sweden, Finland, they would they would definitely be in like the powerhouse uh uh conversation.
It's like doing Yugoslav Yeah. It's like doing Yugoslavia with basketball. Like Yugoslavia has got like, you know, if it was still Yugoslavia, it' be Luca and
twoonone here. Twoon one for the Canadians. This is bad play. Oh my god. Oh my god. What a save. That was a high stick.
Uh Biz, I got a question for you. What's going on with uh with What are you doing to my guy Tom Wilson? It feels like since he's playing for Canada, he doesn't have that same toughness, that same aggression that he has when he's playing for the Caps. Why not? What What is it about Canada that's kind of taking the the piss out of him? Well, I just What are you referring to?
He got turtleled the other day by a Frenchman. Uh, no. He then was going to murder him, though. I think he No,
no, that's not how it went down. Is he That's how I saw it. That's how I saw it.
Well, he was probably just shocked that this guy just grabbed him and all of a sudden wanted to fight where normally you tap a guy in the [ __ ] pass, you say, "Hey, you want to go, bud?"
But he didn't but he didn't say that. He kind of jumped him. And Wilson's probably surprised at the fact that at the time, I think the score was what 102 and they were spanking him. He's thinking you can't fight in this tournament or you get you get kicked out. If you fight, you get that game and then the following game because it was a bit of a soft fight. They didn't do that. They only ended up giving him the rest of that game and gave him the gate. But actually the the player for France ended up going like this to the crowd.
Uh like kind of being like I can't hear you for whatever reason. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. You got it. You nailed it. Yeah. Hey, are you guys going to be watching on Friday from the golf course?
So, we're getting criticized for that. Um, well, I am. It just so happens that Canada was playing in that time slot. I ended up watching the game last night and then this morning as well, just to go over it. Um, we had this course, Yanza's course booked a month in advance. Um, and we had a a match lined up and, you know, we're obviously here to get some work done. We were we were watching the OT goal on our phone. So if people want to scald me for that for missing a quarterfinal
USA GUYS. ISN'T THIS GREAT WITH KIDS LIVE? THAT'S ONE GUYS. THAT'S ONE GUY. THAT'S ONE. WE NEED ONE MORE. WE NEED TO WIN THE SEMIFINALS. WE NEED ONE MORE SUNDAY. I CAN SIT IN THE SAME SEAT NEXT TO THIS GUY. OH MY GOD.
OH, I'VE NEVER HAD A WIN OVER HIM. I'VE NEVER HAD A win over HIM IN ANYTHING. AND FINALLY, I'M SITTING NEXT TO HIM AND I'M TALKING TO YOU TWO TROLLS and you were trolling him and I was even mad. Even though you were trolling my buddy, I was still mad at you. But now we're ALL TOGETHER AS ONE
USA. OH, Biz man. Uh uh hey uh Big. Wow, boys. Big Cat from Pardon My Take. I got a question for Paul Biset. Uh Biz, how how does that taste, [ __ ]
Wow. Um well, first of all, right now the the American coach is crying. Very emotional.
I love that. Okay. I'm so sorry. OH, YEAH. NO. YEAH, THAT'S CLASSY, GUYS. That's classy.
Listen, come on here. It was an incredible game, an incredible effort. The the US spanked Canada in the round robin and and they looked to be very dominant. I was so proud of the way the Canadians played. I think they were the underdog by like minus at least 500 in this game coming in.
Loser talk. You were just in over [ __ ] You can't be like, "Oh, look. What a great accomplishment it is to even make the Olympic team." Um, but either way, man, it's it's really cool to see where the game has gotten to in in the United States and I'm really I'm happy for him. Congratulations. Then he head
What do you want me What do you want me to say, Big Cat? You want me to just [ __ ] on on the team? Hillary Knight just got engaged the day before and now she ties it up under a few minutes to go with a goalie pulled and then they pull off the victory. So, hey man,
wow, boys. That was great. I'm not going to say that. Um, congratulations. Your guys attitude there is going to help in terms of pompous Americans who can't win with class. But I love
Oh, we can't win with That's just a fact. You show You show me a a a good a good loser and I'll show you a loser.
Yeah, we're not class. Well, hey PFT, today we're winners on my birthday. And there's one more. There's one more we need, boys. One more.
There's one more we need. And you know what? the Olympics I played in or I sat in the bench in in 2010. We lost that gold medal for the ladies and then we lost the gold medal for the men and this year it's going to be different guys. It's going to be different. What a beautiful goal. Backhand five hole.
That was awesome. What a de so sick wow. I feel bad for that defenseman that gets burnt.
No, don't do this wit. Don't be Well, Dan, here's you play up. You guys sound like nothing.
You're skip a [ __ ] team, buddy. You're [ __ ] skip. You're skip failless, guys. You guys [ __ ] dog poor girl who got walked. I'm proud of the American women. I'm just happy to be with Biz as this happened because and and listen, I I I I know he would have gone he would have gone crazy, rightfully so. But I would have done like he did and I would have been classing. I said, "Congratulations. You two guys are real lowass bunks. You're American. So, I love you today. I love you today, guys. Listen, we we got to celebrate our wins. This USA hockey, we don't win that much. And when you win, you got to take it. I don't know when I'm going to feel that emotion anymore.
So, I'm not You know what? I'm not going to apologize. I'm not going to apologize for being excited about a win. That's a gold [ __ ] medal. I just got a gold [ __ ] medal, babe.
Same. Wait. Also, the Canadians don't win with class when they beat us. They pat us on the head. They You know what they do? They don't win with class. They do the They do We're winning with class and then they'll be like, "Oh, good job, guys. You tried really hard. You almost got
not today, boys. Not today. They're not. Today they're losers. But you know that wit. They they pretend to win with class, but they do not win with class. Do you not agree?
I don't think anyone wins with class. Exactly. Thank you. BUT BUT BUT I I I'll be honest. There's a difference between tweets and sitting in your basement compared to literally right in the guy's face as we come on a show for you. But like I said, I don't really care if you're not I don't You're trolls, but you're not trolling me right now. So I don't mind. I don't mind when I'm not the one getting trolled. Indiana Bears.
I got a question. Are you guys doing a stream if it's Canada US and is oldie? Canadian oldie getting the phone call.
No, because I thought you guys were streaming. We are. We are. We're not going to stream against you guys.
I would [ __ ] go toe-to-toe with you all [ __ ] day, buddy. NHL's going toe-to-toe with Gadell soon. You think I'm [ __ ] scared of the EMF podcast?
Wait, what about that? What are you saying about Gadell? Because we're going to [ __ ] kick your ass. Say a lot. Say it to my face.
Oh, they must be interviewing him soon. They must be interviewing. You think we're interviewing Roger Goodell?
I don't know. Why are you defending him all of a sudden? Why is we're defending the NFL? Like you're actually saying you're going to go toe-to-toe with the NFL.
I know. I We now know you don't listen to our show. Biz for two years now. Three years been saying he wants more Sunday NHL games. He wants to go right AT THE NFL.
THAT IS THE dumbest thing you've ever said. You're a You've said a lot of dumb [ __ ]
bro. We got [ __ ] NFL teams not even know what states they're going to play in. You think we're [ __ ] scared of the NFL? Like, come on here. The Indiana Bears.
Oh, man. Like, give me a break. I wish this press conference would happen on Friday, not today.
Oh, I saw that and I said, "This is perfect. I This guy doesn't even team isn't even in his state anymore.
It's not even going to happen. It's not going to happen." All right, so wait, I actually have a real question. Back to to real real hockey talk. Uh Whit, you played in a gold medal game against Canada.
Sort of. Yes. What was the vibe like before? Well, no, but you were on the team. What was the You're on the [ __ ] team. That's insane.
Front row seats. What was the vibe like though like in the locker room before the game like in terms of like nerves and just like focus and everything?
He couldn't even fill up the water bottles properly. His hands were shaking so much.
The nerve. Hey, take your L. Yeah. and sit over there and be quiet. Suck your suck on your thumb or I'm going to send these two goons after you again. That that game it was at noon in Vancouver. Uh so not a lot of time for I think if that's a 7:00 p.m. game, you're you're sitting around all day and there just wasn't really time to like panic beforehand. And that was a great group, amazing team, awesome people. And before the game, confidence. Yeah, definitely some nerves, but more the excitement and the chance of like every guy at 9 years old was thinking like dreaming of playing in a gold medal game against Canada to for in the Olympics. So, it was it was amazing. Great experience.
And I I think that the tying goal Paresi scored was the I blacked out. I I was on the bench and jumping up and down and did one of those like had to sit down. Couldn't really go tell what was going on going into that intermission. Thought there's no way we're losing this thing now. and Sydney freaking Crosby, man. So, it was uh it was an incredible experience and just even the bench stayed so positive when we were down. Like there was no panic and there was no sort of like oh my god like we're running out of time. It was just a lot of guys with tons of confidence and and no give up and turned into one of the all-time best hockey games. It was crazy.
Yeah, it was. I mean, and I think if they play each other this year, it's going to be I I the ratings I just can't imagine. 8 8 a.m. stinks, but
it stinks. I don't know. Half of North America is going to be asleep. Like, I don't know why.
Not if you're not if you're a real American and a true patriot and you want to watch some great hockey.
I'm going to be up. My kids are going to wake me up at 6:30 like they do every day. But I'm just saying like in the Pacific, like if you're on the West Coast, if you're in Vancouver, it's at 5 in the morning. Like, why do they can they not move it? This is going to be the biggest [ __ ] thing.
I know. So the the men's gold medal hockey game is always the last event of the Winter Olympics right before the closing ceremonies. So just being, you know, being over in in Italy, it's just it's 8:00 a.m. I think I think it could have been even earlier, right? If they did it at noon like usual, but they did 2, so it's 8:00 a.m. Eastern. And that's the thing about Canada that every single Canadian will be up at 5 in the morning in Vancouver watching it. So
yeah. Yeah, they're they are definitely going to care about it. Um, what's going on with Siden Crosby? What's the latest on him?
But it What's Okay, so people hate when you speculate injuries, but we've played the game before and we've been in these certain situations where you see things move a certain way and you're like, "Ah, that's happened to me." What happened was is he was going up the ice and Radco Gutas closed on him. He was trying to go stick on puck and he missed the puck and it went underneath the skate blade of Sydney Crosby's left skate. So his left skate kind of slid out cuz it had nothing to grab, right? it couldn't catch the ice in order to stabilize. So, he was trying to stabilize on his right leg and it just it opened up, which to me speaks MCL sprain. So, you can have a a first degree, you can have a second degree or a third degree, which is obviously the third degree is the worst.
I've done a second and a third where you're you could probably be out like a month, maybe you tape it up and you and you survive one game um to to play through it. Well, in this case, he'd have to play two if he plays both to the gold medal game. Uh, but the problem is though is when the MCL opens up way too much, it could end up getting into ACL. So, ACL is the Oh, [ __ ] you don't want that one. Like, by the time I ended up getting surgery on my left knee, my MCL was so opened
that it tore my my MCL and ACL, and I had to get them both repaired. Typically, you don't get surgery on repairing an MCL, but because mine was so bad, that was the case. So, speaking from experience, I'm hoping it's not too bad and it's just a grain one, grade one, if maybe two MCL sprain. So, who knows, man. I mean, Captain Crosby, the golden goal. Like, nothing he does surprises me. So, I wouldn't be shocked if he he's back playing and and who knows. [ __ ] we need him.
Hank reported that uh Bedard was on a flight overseas right now. That's from Frank Saravelli. That was a burn a burner account. This is the guy that you're defending and being like, "They're so mean to Hank." He literally was sitting on the number one sports podcast. He's like, "Oh, Baddard's going to going to the Olympics." Like,
you're better than that. You're better than that. I love you. I love you, Hank.
You're better than that, Hank. Uh, Bis, would you like get mad? Bis, would you like to apologize for the uh the curling cheating?
Yeah. You know what, buddy? I think a tough day for I I I think I think you do you think [ __ ] Jordan ever [ __ ] you know apologized for elbowing a guy in the face in a pile? You think you think Tom Brady ever down the guy's shirt? That's
You think You think Tom Brady ever apologized for deflating the footballs a little bit in Indiana? The Colts? You think you ever [ __ ] apologize for the
Bears? What do you mean? You said Indiana. It's called reversing it. It's called It's called accepting my sad fate and reversing it on you.
Time out. I I I I thought that when they got Yeah, it was it was you said you just joking at the
You said Indiana and I said that's the Bears. It was a joke cuz you were busting my balls.
I questioned Biz on playing checkers and you're PLAYING 3D CHECK. THIS GUY IS JUST
I uh I was questioning Biz on this and he went with the size. No, he went with the if you ain't cheating you ain't trying which I was like oh cuz it's a game of honor. I guess it's like golf almost in curling. And
yeah, because of that, just to say, "Yeah, we cheated and and [ __ ] [ __ ] you." I'm like "Oh okay."
I mean, I can't I can't really like be a hypocrite because when I play shuffle board, that's what I do. I keep a finger on it a little.
He brings his own sand. I call it the I call it the French tickler. I give a little little tickle to the stone on the way goodbye. Hey, baby. Hope you had a great time.
Um, all right. I got one last question. We love you boys and thank you for joining. I know you guys are doing a shitload of stuff. Uh, by the way, new sandbaggers, one with the M. U, uh, who'd you play with? The Blue Jays. You played with Gruden.
And then, uh, Gruden was with Pat Maroon and Ryan Mcdana. So, that's six rings between the the three of them. Uh, Pat Maroon, obviously, everybody's aware of him winning in a Stanley Cup with his hometown St. Louis Blues. Then he ends up going off to St. to Tampa Bay and won backto back with them. So, three time Stanley Cup champion. and Ryan McDonald won two with the Tampa Bay Lightning. So, they had good chemistry and of course uh John Gruden, a Super Bowl winner with with the Buccaneers and he was electric and there was a lot of [ __ ] talking going on and I got to ride in a cart with him just just like at the Internet Invitational and it was an incredible incredible afternoon with those guys and then we finished it off with the Bob Doboy. So, we got three in the bank.
Yeah, three in the bank. When are we going to do PMT chicklet sandbagger? We I would [ __ ] do it right now, [ __ ]
Oh, I Wow, that was mean. I I think I think we could beat them on the 13th hole.
I think it would be too easy where we we should do that and then we should also do frisbee golf.
Oh, I'd [ __ ] you up in frisbee golf. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's called Fro, just so you know.
Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. So, tune into I get laid, bro. I got three kids. You got zero. We don't know if you get laid. Is the implication that you can't play golf and also have sex? Cuz if you've seen some of these frisbee golf guys, they [ __ ]
No, listen, Biz, you're fair. You're right. There's nothing cooler than a 40-year-old dude talking about his sex life. Uh, all right. So,
I'm going to go check in on Baddard's flight to Italy, guys. Uh, rhk.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. QZips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Robback.com promo code take. No, like just honest opinions. What is the final going to be and who's going to win? No jinxing. Whit and I I my friendship our friendship was on the on the ropes on Wednesday because I I prematurely called Biz to rub it in his face cuz I was going on the yak. And then
you you saved Canada. You saved the Olympics. Big time. Dave saved USA today. He texted Whit and uh Yan saying, "Nice job embarrassing the country today, fellas." He's texting.
Well, all I know is that the craziest excuse I've ever heard. Yeah, man. I had to call you before the yak. I'm like, "Yeah, you guys never call people live on the yak."
It was a It was an error, but I'm not There's no jinxing like actual predictions of what you think's going to happen.
I'll I'll say that the way that the Olympics have gone so far as far as the hockey, I think it's going to overtime. I think it's going to be Canada, US. I I would love like a Yeah, I would I would just love to see OT
3-2 either either team. Yeah, I feel like a I feel like a I feel like if if if the Americans are involved, it'd be fun to have a 4-3 hockey game. A little bit more offense than normal and uh just a barn burner.
Where where because you're just going to answer USA? That was a boring answer, Biz. No offense. Uh where do where does US have the advantage over Canada?
Um defense. So yeah, the DRD is better overall. I believe their forwards are significantly better than ours. Just I mean well Crosby being out scary and if he's out that's a big difference but I like Hella Buck I think is a better goalie than Bennington but in terms of like what Bennington's accomplished it's not even really close cuz Bennington has won the cup and he's got the four nations. So on D, our D is better. Uh their forwards are better and and in terms of big games, Bennington's had a better career than Hellob, but we just need Hellbuck to have the game of his life. And and I also want to stress, I am not
not counting out Slovakia right now. I am not considered stress. No, we're not. And by the way, I want to say something to you, Whit. I because we've had this discussion before. We are maybe a little bit of trolls. I am full go in this game. If it doesn't go our way, I'm going to be very disappointed. I'm not going to say it didn't matter. Four Nations was different. That was an exhibition. This is the gold [ __ ] medal. So I gold medal.
It's You got to win this, boys. This is the first time it's been best on best in eight, no, 12 years, boys. 12 years. And so this is a big game. If we can both get there, Biz, if you can get there and I can get there, it's it's something I'll never forget. And probably our biggest stream we've ever done. So, um,
happy. They're shaking. They're shaking hands. Congratulations on the gold medal for the women's.
I hope we can get the split. I hope we can get both. And I hope that these two never ask us to come on their show again.
It's a beautiful moment. Why would you say that? Actually, one of you's got to come on on Sunday night.
So, actually, maybe we'll have Yans. We'll have Yans. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yans. Yans.
I mean, Yens is the best of the three of you. Wait. So, do you guys have a do you guys have a Mars bet in case it gets to that? I know you don't want to jinx it ahead time, but if it's if it's USA, you should do your foreskin biz and then not do it.
Are you Wit, you should have to take Biz's foreskin and put it on your own dick.
Hey, PFP, how about you shut the [ __ ] up and stop talking about my buddy's foreskin and then me actually touching it at some point.
Passing the torch. Hey, I don't like how much buddy buddy you are. There's nothing there's nothing
you should have to [ __ ] put his foreskin on your head if Canada. There's nothing about that. It looked just like that mullet you got on there.
Yeah. There's nothing cooler than your co-workers talking about your foreskin. Yeah. Busy.
LIKE YOU DIDN'T MAKE A BET about it. You talk about your foreskin like nine times a day.
I'll make you. Hey, my name's Paul Bisset. I got a sweater on my pecker. I'll You guys ever hear of a piss bomb?
I'll sprinkle my ferando cheese on your Greek salad, [ __ ] You don't even know what cheese is, do you?
Um, I don't really have much else other than we appreciate you guys having us on. We love you guys. And uh the game signing off.
This is Bet signing off. Let's go this day. The guy with the foreskin signing off.
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Uh, he he didn't know that we were talking about on the show. We have everything he has everything written down on his laptop. So, he's bringing his laptop.
Ah, yeah. He had he had a uh he had a panic look on his It was a nice notes app that he had pulled up on his laptop. So, I'm sure it's organized. It's thought through. He'll be ready to go.
So, the stream is going to be next Friday, correct? The stream is going to be Friday the Let me pull up a calendar.
I believe it's the 28th. Next Friday. Friday the 27th. 7th. Starting at what time?
So, next Friday. Yeah, next Friday the 27th. I want to get starting at what time.
Who knows when someone's listening to the 10th the 10th anniversary of part of my take.
Yeah. Is it? Yeah. That weekend 27th, 28th, 29th. It's birthday right there. All right. Cool. We love anniversaries so much we don't know the actual date. We've we've kind of it's like when you when you look up a celebrity it's like from you know who's like 90 years old and their birthday is like March 6th or 7th.
I think in this case it was the 29th which is leap day. So we don't we don't have the first episode I think came out on March 1st but we recorded it February 29th.
Right. So what time is it starting? So Zach has 36 hours to do. I have 18. And what date is this?
This is Friday the 27th of February. We will be starting at 8:00 a.m. Friday the 27th of February.
I will be going until Central Eastern Central. For the people listening, it's Friday the 27th. 8 a.m. Central.
Central start time. I will be going until 2:00 a.m. That's 18 hours. Zach will be going until Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Wow. Long stream. Yeah. Now, is Zach allowed to sleep? Yes. So, we we're we're banking in four hours for Zach. His We're going to get him We're going to get him a um
air mattress. Air mattress in the booth. Couldn't think of that word. Tough word sometimes. Sometimes speaking is tough.
Alarm clock. Oh, yeah. So, there's the thing. We're also We have a wheel that every x amount of hours we have to spin this wheel. There's four punishments, four rewards, four challenges that are part of this wheel. And as soon as that hits, we have to complete whatever that is. All of the punishments are the four punishments are just two and a halfk in the in the booth.
Okay. So, those are the four those are the four punishments cuz that'll equal the 10k that we spoke about.
Are we doing itchy golf? We are doing itchy golf. I've come up with a good a a fun way for itchy golf. That's one of the challenges on the wheel. Me and Zach have Me and Zach are very bad golfers. Hank, can you attest? I haven't seen Zack golf. He might be good.
I'm gonna say no. I'm gonna say no. So, you're not bad either, Mac. Don't sell yourself. I am horrendous.
Can't confirm not a golfer. Um, so Zach and I will be in the golf simulator and we have to stay in the golf simulator until one of us gets a birdie and every time one of us gets a
what? No, I I keep going. Can you Can we help? Can like Hank show up and help? Maybe.
Cuz I We're going to come We're going to come by the stream. We're going to be part of the stream.
So, that's the thing. Like we're we're doing these wheels y every every couple hours, but
like there's going to be a lot of in between stuff as well. Chinese workout at 9:00 a.m.
We could do the Chinese workout. We could do the Chinese workout. Is there a uh gimme range on the itchy golf?
Oh, we're going to have to put a gimme range on there. So they could get But regardless, so that does mean what Hank did. Hank was like, we scoffed.
You guys get a birdie. Okay, we Well, me and Max have talked about doing this for par.
Well, no. He just made it way way harder. I could get a birdie. We can get a But here's the here's where the itchy gets it gets involved. And people may be like, every time you get a snowman, we're there's going to be a golf glove that we have itchy powder. Oh no.
And we're going to pour it powder in the golf glove. So every time one of us gets a snowman, the following hole, you have to wear
you have to wear the itchy the itchy hand for that hole. And then if you get less better than a snowman, you can take the itchy glove off.
PFT, are we getting tattoos? Uh, yeah. I'm down to do it. Did you text our guy?
Uh, no. I don't think anybody responded to that text, but I am down. Oh, yes. All right, we'll do that to set that up.
Maybe Friday afternoon. Mitch does tats. He's the best. Yeah, I think I'm going to get Vanny.
[ __ ] yeah. Yeah. Um, there's I mean, we're definitely going to do the sass the sassy Legos.
Yeah. Yep. Good. That's definitely on the table. Um, we have like a basketball challenge that we're going to do. Um, rainbow. We have some fun. We have We have We have some fun rewards that we're going to do. Zach's going to try Caviar for the first time.
Oh, wow. I think me and Max writing the children's book could be good. Oh, yeah. We're going to write uh what's it called?
Sleep tight. Sleep tight. Sleep tight Saquon. We'll de we'll do that right before you go to sleep. That'll be the last thing that we do before
your your sleep time happens. Sleep tight. Sleep tight. Seaquan's going to rock. And if you have any other ideas, like we have we have a list of challenges and rewards and fun things that we're going to do.
But 36 hours is a lot of time. Like a lot of video games probably. There's going to be video games in between. But if you if you know, we're going to be interacting with the chat. If the chat has good ideas while we're doing it, like
we have a we have a like a list of of things that we like, but we're we're open to more ideas.
Okay, great. I'm excited. We're all excited on YouTube. We'll we'll definitely be playing some Call of Duty.
Marvel Rivals. We'll We'll definitely be playing some Rivals. Arc Raiders. We'll definitely be playing some Raiders. We're going to be playing
flight simulator. Uh sure. If Yeah. If we can figure that out. We We would Does anybody here have a flight simulator that they could bring in?
Oh, I do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We could bring that in. That'd be fun. We can get up in the F-15C. Yeah.
So, yeah, we'll have the flight simulator going. Um, oh, so here's the Zach brought up chain together. We're going to do the chain together. Chain together. That will be a thing. But we are going to put a cap on that because whenever Zach said that, every single person replied be like 36 hours isn't enough time for you to do this. And we have a lot of fun ideas that we want to do.
Remind me what the chain together chain together was again. So it's a it's a game essentially where like I'm a player, Max is a player. We're in the game. We are physically bound together. We're tethered and we're just going up a structure that's pretty high up, right?
Apparently, it's extremely difficult to complete. So, if we started that, it would that would just be the entire stream.
So, we are going to do that, but we're going to put a cap on it. Say for like the next two hours, we're going to we're going to be chained together. Chained together.
So, if you have ideas, send them. If you have ideas, send them. It's going to be fun. It's going to be it's going to it's going to suck. It's going to be fun.
Okay. People are going to like it. And this is also we've we've teased this a lot. This is the beginning of Zach streams. So the the last 18 hours is going to be all Zach and week we are going to be putting out weekly streams on part of my take channel Zach streams. So going forward, it's going to be the the schedule of it may be a little off because of we don't want to compete with like March Madness and other streams that are that are here,
but I can guarantee to the people we will be doing weekly streams going forward after this.
Let's go, Zach. We were thinking maybe start one day a week and then see if we can build on that.
Yes. And see where it goes. I think uh PM streams could be good. Yeah. I love it. Great job, Zach. Excited.
I'm excited, too. I I appreciate the opportunity to to get in there. I can I make one request for a stream?
Yes, sir. I think there should just be a stream where uh we just set up a camera in your in your apartment and we go live when you go to bed and it's just a stream. Will he get up?
No alarm clock and just like we can maybe maybe bet on it. Love this. Everyone predict the time alarm clock. No alarm clock. Everyone predict the time that Zach is going to wake up and we'll give away something for whoever gets it right. If there's no alarm clock, take the over. House on the over if we don't have an alarm clock.
How electric could that be? At like 9:30 in the morning, everyone's tuning in just being like, "Is he Oh, he's moving." Oh, no. He's not up.
We're going to get like Rain Bolt in the chat and he's going to figure out exactly where Zach is and like order food to his door to wake him up.
Oh, you down for that, Zach? We might have to get like a maybe heavier comforter just in case of boners.
I'll just go double sweatpants. I was thinking. Yeah. Wear a cup. I Cup's actually probably a great idea.
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Hank, the internet is cuz my I live in a building that has like the building runs the internet basically. You just pay the building uh for the internet. You don't have to do it individually.
And the internet has been out since last week. I saw a couple emails. kind of laughed at him because I'm like by the time I get back it'll be
having fun in Orlando. I feel bad honestly for the people that are running my building because I can tell from the way these emails are written that they have the pressure of the world being put down on them from the residents cuz there's a lot of old people that live there. Probably a lot of people that just sit in the house all day and watch the news and stuff. And it has sucked cuz I've just been watching like TV and stuff on my hotspot and it's like buffers and and pauses and glitches out and stuff, but could be worse. But I just feel bad honestly for
like every day the updates are like so we're in conflict with the provider. They said they're it's going to be fixed, but it hasn't been fixed. We're now actively seeking out other solutions with other companies. This sounds like the whole like YouTube, TV, NFL thing. Like all
once the contract gets signed, it's going to take like they're they're coming up with solutions for temporary internet, but they're like once the contract for that gets signed, it's still going to take a week for the temporary internet to get set up. And it's it's it's I mean, it's sucked. It's not ideal, but like the way these emails are written, it's made me not feel as bad and just feel bad for the people that work in my building cuz
Yeah. Yeah. So, what are you doing? Just phone hotspot. Yeah. No, I I set up a hotspot and then signed in on my TV to the hotspot, but it like it's
it's rough. You watching live TV is not ideal. You can kind of watch like like Netflix or whatever cuz you can pause it, let it load up, and then play, but
damn, [ __ ] It might not be fixed for like another week. God saves his toughest battles for his strongest soldiers.
I think you might need to go on vacation. Well, so this is actually an idea. It could have happened. two weeks ago would have been great.
If you if somebody came up with the idea for an apartment complex like this, it's like we don't have internet. I bet you there would be some people that would opt into that voluntarily. Like this is a good like detox place.
Yeah. Digital detox. Yeah, that would be cool. So, you're just getting like a vacation, Hank.
Yeah. Think of that. Embrace it. I mean, it's a good week for it. There's like no I mean
start reading books. Perfect time. Back tonight. I did I flip open Don Coyote and then I went to sleep. Uh, no.
Just the I just flipping a page will put you out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Celtics, man.
No internet this week. Hank, I'm I'm on board with the Celtics. Is Jason. Don't do this again.
Listen, Jaylen Brown, NBA Finals MVP. No. Hey, that's got to be the worst sentence you've ever heard in your life.
I don't like I I I did put a bet on the Celtics. Your You talking about your C's? myself. Yeah, Celts. Celtic pride.
Bean town. Come on. Jason Tatum's going to be back. Huh? Seems like it. Yeah. I'm not going to talk about my my bet on the Celtics. But I just want Hank to know
that I have a bet on the Celtics, but I won't mention it ever again. But there there'll just be looks.
Remember when Hank got mad at me when I was like, "Oh yeah, Jason Tatum practiced today."
Yeah, he did. That was crazy. He got really mad at you. And you were right. But we don't need him. Jaylen Brown. This is This is bad. Hank, again,
it's not bad. I feel bad for PFD. It's just alien. Like people have like I'm sure the collective audience just rolled their eyes when he said that. Like it's it's so like I'm not going to bring
It used to be so funny and now you just resort to just like this this little bit you're doing. You tried to do it to Max the other day.
What What' I do? What was he talking about? Jaylen Herz or Bryce Harper? Bryce Harper.
No, that was just guys having a conversation. That was just guys talking about Bryce Harper,
right? And the bet's not a bet either, right? I I'm not going to bring it up ever again.
If Can you bring it up to me? No, I'm not. What if if you do 40,000? I'm not going to bring
What if you do bet? Nobody gives a [ __ ] about my bet, Hank. I'm not going to bring it up.
So, what if you bring it up? What What do I get? Why are you so pressed about this bet?
What odds did you get? What odds did you get? Uh 15 to1. Oh, nice. That's huge. He's just it's it's just every time you turn around his PFT is just there.
He's seen ghosts. Yeah. This is actually not about Hank. This is about making money and making a good bet and getting good value.
Yeah. It's like when you know there was foot footsteps in the sand when there was only two footsteps in the sand. It was just PFT trying to catch up being like, "Hey, my bet on your team." That was him.
I'm not going to bring this. This is buming Hank out. Celtics are now 15 to1 on the draft sports book.
Oh, so you just made the bet? Yeah. Oh, a couple hours ago. It's a good bet. It is a good bet.
I swear to God, I wasn't even thinking about bringing it up. That's good. Cuz I knew Hank would try to turn into a little bit.
Credit to you. Yeah. No, Hank will turn it into a bit. You know, he will. But everyone's sick of that little bit.
He always does that. He's going to make a bit out of this whole thing. Yeah. Okay. P your Firefest.
I've had a pretty good week. Um, my Firefest is really I discovered uh cuz I needed a new computer, right? I my uh my gaming
You lost five of them. What? Did you lose another one? No, I know where every one of my computers I think.
I had one that I thought was stolen. Turns out I misplaced it. It was stolen by me by accident.
Um, no. My my PC, my gaming PC at home. So, I needed a new one. Needed because I I had to update one of the combat simulators that I like to run in the offseason. And so that's when I realized that all my technology [ __ ] is massive shortcomings. I only find out after NFL season's over. Uh so I tried to run the flight sim, not enough space on it. Went out up.
That's a lie, by the way. Every time I sign into my computer, you can see like PFT and you're just active on Flight Simulator.
That's true. No. Oh yeah, that's that's not true. Oh, wow. I You've reversed it on him when he remember he tracked you on uh on 18 birdies. Hank's just making stuff up because I haven't used
PFT also golfed yesterday. How'd you play? I told you that I did. And we already had this conversation off air.
I like this. Yeah, I like this. Not bad. I hurt my back, so that sucks. I guess that's the firefest. Um, but no, Hank Hank, you're a liar. I have not been on Flight Simulator. I did it one time to do the flyover for Jack McCarthy, which he ended up not even using, and that was like late January.
What about your phone? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's different, though. It's totally different.
That's a completely different That's So maybe that's what I'm seeing. Yes, that's what you're saying. Um, no. So I I need to upgrade my gaming PC, right? So I talked to Zack. I was like, "Zack, give me the specs that I need."
I go to the computer store. No free ads, so I don't I don't know if I want to say the name of the computer store. Computer stores are awesome. You go in there,
I haven't been to a computer store in a while. You got to check it out cuz you go in there, everyone's like super helpful. people. It's like a little bit of nostalgia because most places, like most industries, you would just buy all the stuff online and then you'd wait for it to show up at your house like a week later. Yeah. This you got people like walking around trying stuff out, people like showing you where the different accessories are, how you can match stuff up.
It was like a a breath of fresh air going to a computer store. That's sick. It was surprisingly like one of the most social uh stores that I've been in in a long time. So, I got I I got a new PC and then one thing kind of led to another and I got uh new joystick, new uh throttle, I got rudder pedals for the first time and it's becoming like a it's a it's a lot. It's a lot that I have now set up in my bedroom. I basically have a a cockpit in the basement of my house, like a full full airplane cockpit.
It rocks. I set it up yesterday and I put the VR headset on and I I went up into the clouds for a while. I got lost over the skies of Syria. I felt like a bird. It was great. So, I'm I guess my firefest is I'm I'm in a little bit too deep right now uh in the flight sim life.
But that's okay. That's what that's what the start of the NFL offseason is for.
Yeah. Is overdoing it on stuff that you weren't able to do. Yeah. During football season,
I've been beasting hard. But do you beast, Zack? I dabble on the beast, but not beast games.
Oh, they did. The last episode was just all voting. I hated that. That's too much downtime. We got to get to I need We got to see Elims. We got to see people turn on each other for the prize money.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. My Firefest. Um it's pretty quick one. The uh So, at home I play a game with my kids called Monster where I they LIKE I PRETEND TO
What happened? USA just scored. Wow. All right. 1-1. Yes. USA. Oh, Hank's ahead. Hank isn't. That never happens. Hank's usually behind.
You're in the future, Hank. [ __ ] yeah. That was sick. Hell yes. That was sick. Guess win this game, girls.
Borine. Uh, so I Oh, it's like we're behind all over the office. Someone else just cheered. Uh, the So I play this game called monster where I pretend to be a monster and then if they hit me with a ball, I go back to dad. And the way they know if I'm dad or monster is monster is fat hat forward. Dad is hat backwards. So now I just can't wear my hat forward at all in my house. Like at seven in the morning when I go to get my kids like up and and and try to get them like clothed to go to school, I'm wearing my hat and they're like, "Are you the monster?" I'm like "No fuck."
Wait, so when you wear your hat forward, you're I'm the monster hat backward is is dad. So I switch back and forth.
That's very confusing for Yeah. So now I'm screwed. I should have done anything else but the hat. So I just can't like I'll just be walking like I'll come back from walking Stella with my hat forward and they'll just I'll walk in and they'll just start screaming and giggling and running away from me and be like the monster's here. I'm like oh [ __ ] it happened again.
So wearing your hat completely normal is the way to to designate that you're evil.
Yeah that's confusing for switch it up. They're going to see random people on the street be like that's a monster.
Yeah. Yeah. It's fun game though. They [ __ ] love it. Just chasing them around. Uh so yeah I got to figure that out. I got to maybe rebrand monster. I was thinking maybe hood up, hood down. That's a different kind of monster.
Yeah, that's a real bad one. One leg up. Yeah. No, that's I don't think I also I'm just so sore from our Chinese workout. Hank did it this morning. I'm doing a new viral uh workout where it's like 15 body movements and it's uh it's pathetic how sore I am from 15 body movement moves. 15 minutes.
Where where did this go viral? Uh all over Instagram. Just dudes doing it being like, "Hey, I saw this one dude who lost like 20 pounds in the last month and a half doing it." I'm sure he's probably eating well, too. He's
probably eating Wendy's chili. That's fine. I'm I'm I'm just going to assume that all I need to do is my 15 movements a day and I'll be good.
Yeah, it's going to work. Hank, do you feel sore? It was a good workout. I liked it. I
It's kind of more of a warm up up than a workout, but it counts as a workout for me.
Just move your body for 15 minutes. We just do it every day. It'll be We'll be in a better spot than we were.
Facts. Not doing it. facts. Uh, all right, Zach, your firefest. Uh, my firefest this week, I guess. To preface a little bit, had a really constructive meeting with my building. Little update. Did not get evicted the other day.
Oh, that was huge. That was awesome. But he introduced a new term I was not familiar with, a 10-day termination.
Uh, which I thought initially was like he got they they can give me 10 days to then let me know I got 30 days. So, I'd have like 40 days stacked. That could not be the case with like the writing of the lease. So now I'm just paranoid in my apartment to make any noise.
So So he said that 10 is the 10day being threatened the it was the next step is 10day termination which
he said he's like you got you're close to a 10day. We do this meeting so that we don't 10day you but next time it's like
legal 10day. Wow. I didn't know 10day was a thing. That that was news to me. Wow. All right. So you might be 10day. I'm I'm close to 10day, but it's like
pretend. You You got to pretend the other other guys who get tended, it's like if they remedy the situation, they're good. But with the noise stuff, it's like I can't take the noise back.
But couldn't you just say like, "Hey, I I was out of town. I messed up." That part went well, but it's like this this is your only good mess up. Now it's like, "I'm afraid to make any noise or take any phone calls or watch TV in my home now."
All right. So, um, what about giving them like permission to just go into your apartment if they ever hear it going on too long?
Oh, just give them open access. Yeah, I think you might have to be an open access guy.
I I I'd have to get to know the staff a little bit more before open access, right? Or just or do I just risk it?
I feel like you might have to go open access. I could risk it. Could you install like a kill switch in your apartment so like they have remote access to turn off your electricity? Oh, like an external breaker box by the door.
Yeah, like if the alarm's going off, they've got the like the Zack button. I could find like probably a Task Rabbit that could reroute.
What was the tone? What was the tone of the meeting? Was it Was it combative on their side?
It was It was the meeting tone was friendly, but it almost felt like like force friendly like they could go back to it and be like, "See how willing we were to work with you now that psych."
And did they say like, "Hey, your alarm went off for this amount of days." I luckily I think it didn't. He did say it was the two days, but I don't think it went off the entire time.
Okay. I think it was like a couple hours up top off up off top of the day, couple hours off top the next day.
Any chance, any vibe you got from him that he might be an AWL? No, none of that. I didn't get any like uh maybe he's into the show. Maybe like we could build rapport through sport.
Maybe you dropped like a do you know who I am? Well, I'm not Zach dropping a do you know who I am to his landlord.
I don't have that my bag. I'm the six mic. You know what I mean? I'm just happy to be a part of the program. We also will be incorporating the the bomb alarm during the stream.
Oh, nice. Okay. For a multitude of different ways. All right. So, let's stay away from the 10day. But even if it's a 10day, you get 40 days. And then you also technically if you get a 10day, you have uh what? Uh 40 65 days.
No. How many days do we say we give them? 15. So, so you you'd have you'd have 55 days. That's a lot of time to find a new lease.
That's tons of days. That's so many. Promising. I just like him. I don't know if I should make any more noise in my
Isn't your lease up soon anyway? May. All right. So, you're out. Yeah, you're gonna find a new place.
But this one I will say this one is so it's like you can do better. Yeah, you can do better. So close.
Yeah, but you don't want to have to. If you sign I guess actually you can resign, but I think if you resign I would like to be there because I would like to negotiate a clean slate resigning.
Oh, fresh start. Fresh start. The only way you resign this lease is if you get the fresh start.
Do you think there's a world on a re a fresh I get the fresh start, but they try to bang me on the on the on the rent.
They try to bang you on like up it on me. Well, we'll negotiate. Squeeze them out.
Yeah, we'll negotiate. Like I think that there's a chance that they're that upon resign they're like,
"Thanks for no." No, we're going to you can come back here, but we just raised your rent x amount. So, it's like
pushing them out without forcing them out. Or it might be or their worst case scenario, they're like, "Oh, now this kid's just overpaying a [ __ ] ton for this apartment."
Or it might just be like, "We've decided to go in a different direction." Like they might break up with you, which would be fine.
Yeah. It I mean it hasn't been a perfect relationship. Like it might just be time for you guys to go your separate ways.
Like we that we've spent enough time in each other's lives. We the path is complete.
Yeah. We're two different people. We're not the same we were when we met. Yeah. You want to see them be happy. They want to see you be happy.
I don't I also feel like we could find Zach a much better apartment for his life.
Easily. Easily. I've told him this easily. Maybe we soundproof it next time. He's paying a lot of money for a lot of things that he doesn't use.
I think I'm going to do the soundproof panels. PFT. Yeah, I like that. I was looking on Amazon. You can actually like doubleside tape the entire wall.
Yeah. I'll tell you this. It doesn't do [ __ ] I did it for my dog when I first got my dog and she was crying a lot.
It makes you feel better. Yeah. But it doesn't Makes you feel like you're doing something.
There's like an effort factor there maybe. Yeah. Okay. Good show, boys. Good show. Go USA.
We don't know the Actually, no. So, uh we'll just break glass here. So, people don't Whitton and and Biz want to tape during uh the intermission in overtime. So, you'll actually hear you heard you just timeraveled. You heard us say 1-1 and then you'll hear in the middle of the interview what happens to the the game.
There's a lot on the line right now. Yeah, that's going to be a conf. We're basically doing momento.
Yeah. All right. Numbers, 56 3 15 78. I can do 42. Is is 15 for how much? Jack tips.
No, it's 15 to1 is the future that I have tips. Um Jack tips 15%. 15%. Jack tips 15%.
Is this about the [ __ ] tip? Yeah. PFT picked 15. And I asked if it was for how much you tip.
I tip 25. All right. I'll do 25. I'll do 21. That's how much you tip. No, I tip 25.
Okay. All right. Everyone say their numbers. Say them again real quick. 15. Uh 56.
25. 42. Jack 21. 78. Zach 78. 86. Jane 86. Colton 22. 45. 45. I also thought big cats had 45, but he was 25. Love you guys.
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The episode covers Olympic chatter, the Indiana Bears, and hopes for USA–Canada matchups, plus college basketball, football season anticipation, a Fire Fest update, Zach’s alarm clock issue, a 36-hour stream, and Venmo/Stash rewards as a sponsor. It also teases upcoming combine week and general national sports talk.
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