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

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We all said that we were going to pick a sport and preview something that's happening on Wednesday, the day you're listening to this, to get you excited for the Olympics. We're getting in the Olympic spirit. There's not a lot else going on, but we're going to make a great show. We have Hot Seat Cool Throne. We have, what's the end of the show? Guys on Olympics? Guys on Olympics. Guys on Olympics. Olympic takes. Yeah. I also heard that maybe we might have an all-time Zach moment coming up. We might have an all-time Zach moment, and we also are going to get a big-time apology from a couple people on this show, and it's all brought to you by our friends at GameTime. The GameTime app gives the advantage back to fans. It's the hack for unlocking amazing tickets and experiences in a few taps. It's incredibly easy to use. The GameTime guarantee means you can trust you'll get 100% authentic tickets on time and at the best price, plus fees are always included, so what you see is what you pay. We're looking at tickets for the NBA. I was looking at tickets for the Blackhawks Oh, okay Zach, are you looking at tickets? You could get in to see the Raptors Bulls for just $26 Wow, dunked on them Dunked on them So go right now That's a hell of a deal Take the guests who are buying NBA tickets with GameTime Download the GameTime app, create an account Use code PMT for $20 off your first purchase Terms apply, again, create an account Redeem code PMT for $20 off Okay, let's go Hey, football time for Dean of A.W. Yeah, pardon my take. Yeah, pardon my take. Yeah, pardon my take. Yeah, pardon my take. Yeah, pardon my take. Welcome to Pardon My Take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, February 18th, and we've got Olympic fever because we've got nothing else to talk about. Well, I mean, you teased a massive apology. Oh, yeah. I don't know where we're going with this. Max, specifically, possibly you. I don't think you. Would you guys like to say anything about Michael Jordan and the slander you put on his name? Because I'm ready to sue. I think my entire point was it's weird. That he was getting ice out of a little kid's back? Yeah, that's weird. No, that's not weird. That was being a good friend. Admit, this is like when Hank wouldn't admit that Tom Brady was being weird announcing games even though he's an owner of the Raiders. I don't think getting ice. Admit that it's weird. No, getting ice, you made it weird. Actually, I think you are being more of a pedophile than Michael Jordan could be. I just said it was weird. Yeah, it's pulling ice out of his back. Max, would you like, I'm going to, we're going to sue. So you could apologize if you could drop the lawsuit. You can sue me for saying that it's weird. Well, Michael Jordan's going to sue you. It was weird. It was weird. You have no contact with Michael Jordan. I could contact someone who could contact. Yeah, Keith Yandel is a member of his golf club. So there you go. Fast on my feet right there. Yans is for sure. He's for sure going to follow up. Yans, every month, Yans is like, hey, how do I get paid? He's been working at Barstow for like a year and a half. He hasn't got paid yet? He doesn't check his email. He also is probably fucking with me, but he might not be getting paid. Would you like to apologize, Max? Sure. Thank you. See, that wasn't so hard. There we go. That was easy. That was so easy. All right. So what else do we got besides Olympics? We got Olympics. That's what's going on. There's a lot of Olympics. There's a ton of Olympics. We did miss one thing on Monday's show. Hank was too focused on the live golf because he's a live head. Yeah. Colin Morikawa. Oh, yeah. Colin Morikawa won a tournament, Pebble Beach tournament, and then he used the excuse of the post-match interview, post-round interview, to be like, and also having a baby. Which, that's if you want to win a golf tournament, you have to get your wife pregnant. And then sure enough, either right after you give birth or right after you conceive, you will get an interview right after you win something and you'll announce it. Yep. He also, I think he gained 10 pounds of muscle in the offseason, so he's just... No, no, no. Oh, no, he's fat. Yeah, he said his offseason, he added 10 pounds of fat, and I watched swing videos on YouTube. Love that. One of us. Just like us. So, yeah, that was golf. Colin Morikawa back. Officially back? Super back. Super back. Very back. Super, super, super back. Excellent striker of the ball. That was crazy on that last hole where he had to wait for like 45 minutes for this guy to get his bogey. You see that? No, I missed it. He hit a shot down onto the beach, like underneath a rowboat with ropes and shit. He climbed down onto the beach. Not Morcao, but the other guy. What was his name, Hank? I don't know. Bridgerton, something like that? Chris Bridgerton. Bridgerton. So he goes down there, spends about 20 minutes getting ready for his next shot, hits off the seawall, bounces into the ocean, and then he's like, actually, psych, I'm going to go take my drop from where I should have taken it originally. I got to go all the way back up. like 200 yards out, hit a great shot, and then he had to wait on the green for another 10 minutes because the wind picked up and his ball wouldn't stop moving. So Morikawa had to just sit there waiting to hit his approach shot for it felt like 45 minutes. Like, Jesus, what the hell is going on? Jacob Bridgman. Jacob Bridgman. Bridgman. Did you guys know, since we're talking about other – golf to me starts at the Masters. Like, if there's something close on a Sunday at this time of year, I'll tune in. But in terms of my sports watching, I'm more focused on college basketball on a Saturday than golf. But Morikawa, I like him. Good guest. Did you guys also know that we have a World Baseball Classic this year? That's pretty cool. Oh, Max, you're pumped about it? Yeah, I like World Baseball Classic. There's some roster drama, too. It was great last time. I just always think of the Francesa clip when he's like, if it was in my backyard, I'd close the blinds. They played the World Baseball Classic in my backyard. Yeah. Wasn't there some roster drama that was going down? Team USA roster is stacked. We've got to win it all. Stacked. Let's just read the roster. We've got to win it all. I've got the roster right here. Okay. We've got Bregman, Goldschmidt, Bryce Harper, Bobby Witt. Oh, yeah. Do you want to get a takeoff on Bryce Harper because he's in the news? Bobby Witt. Not being elite. PCA, Aaron Judge, Schwarber. Nice. Cal Raleigh. Anything you want to say about Bryce Harper? No, I mean, Bryce Harper, is he elite? I think most real seam heads would say, like, 2,000 hits. If you get to 2,000 hits, you're probably elite. What's he at right now? You say this like he's not going to get to 2,000 hits. What's he at now? Am I supposed to just know this off the top of my head, his exact number of hits? For me, it's a couple things. One, if you get to 2,000, that's the big number in baseball everyone talks about. You've got to get to 2,000 hits. Or if you... It looks like he had 1,800 hits. If you win a World Series. Mm-hmm. So he's going to get to 2,000 hits most likely. And probably... He will get to 2,000 hits. And will likely win a World Series at some point, too. He might not. Maybe. So, yeah. Baseball's a tough sport to put it on individuals. Like, if you're a quarterback, if you're an NBA player, if you're supposed to be an all-time great, I get it. Baseball's just tough. Barry Bonds never won a World Series. his postseason numbers are also great yeah it's just hard there's so many guys we are such a one on one sport but i still like to i like to hold it over aaron judge yeah the heel well he hasn't earned his pinstripes that's different he could earn his pinstripes and not win a world series right and he hasn't done that oh i think it's one of the same no you could he could still get his pinstripes like saving like a like a boy off the train who's about to get hit by the train then go hit three home runs and the Bronx is burning, yeah, then that's pinstripes. Yeah. That's instant pinstripes. So wait, so you don't think he's elite? Again, I am a man of the numbers. I think baseball is one of those sports that it's very easy to quantify. You can compare them across eras pretty cleanly. The 2000 hit club, that's a big one for being elite. How did this – oh, this was Dabrowski, right? Didn't he – was he the one who started this? After the postseason ended last year, Dave Dombrowski did a stupid, stupid press conference where part of his excuse of why the team didn't win was because Bryce Harper is not elite anymore. Bryce Harper took offense to that, as he should have. Bryce Harper has been nothing but good to the city of Philadelphia. He was the first one, really the first one to choose to sign there when it was really a mediocre part of the team's history. He sparked a good run of competitive teams in Philadelphia. He hasn't won a World Series yet, and fans are upset that he hasn't won a World Series yet, as am I. But Bryce Harper's been nothing but good, and Dave Dombrowski disrespecting him like that. Bryce has every right to be upset about that. Yeah, I mean, Bryce is, he's always been a big-time Umbridge taker. Like, if anything remotely negative is said about him, he will take Umbridge. He'll find that Umbridge. Yeah, he's like a real athlete, and he says what he feels, and that's what we like. Yeah, it's good. And he has the right to be upset when his GM is blaming the postseason last year on him. Right. He had a bad series against the Dodgers. He had a bad series. He had a bad year. but he's hurt too yeah i think he's gonna be a beast he's gonna be a beast this year he's gonna use he's gonna return to being a beast yes get to crack the 2k barrier you are just obsessed with like finding something with other people's favorite players no no listen i i used to love bryce harper i did he was one of my favorite players when he was in the nationals there were things that you know max when you watch bryce harper i hated him on the nationals yeah But you get annoyed with him even when he's like your favorite player sometimes. No. He's got a lot of passion, which is awesome. But he does boneheaded things sometimes because he's so passionate. Bryce Harper is a much more mature baseball player than when he was on the Nationals. He's not the same guy. He basically does everything right now. When he was on the Nationals, he was like 19 years old. He acted like a teenager. He was young. So now he's like a real adult And he plays like a real adult Good for him Speaking of real adults I have nothing but good things to say Now he plays like a real adult He had a few good adult years when he was in Washington too Speaking of adults, did you see the Phillies signed an 11 year old? Whoa You gonna answer for that? I didn't know about this I know that we signed Some guy with the last name Renteria Who is not Edgar Renteria's Let me just make sure I'm pretty sure you signed an 11-year-old Venezuelan kid. Philly's an 11-year-old shortstop reportedly agree on a historic $1.8 million deal. How is this not human trafficking? It's crazy. Every year, yeah, the Philadelphia Phillies have reached a pre-agreement with Venezuelan shortstop David Basabi, a member of the 2031 international class for a $1.8 million bonus. At just 11 years old, Basabi becomes the youngest player in history to secure pre-agreement with a major league organization. This kid is fucking, he's playing in the little league. There's just no chance that that's enforceable, right? Does he have a good swing? Does he have a sick swing? Is this the kid that they had like squaring up at 95 mile per hour fastballs? Oh, he does have a good swing. He's a lefty. I saw that and it was pretty, it's pretty impressive. Max, speak for yourself. Next up. I don't know what you want me to say. Next up. Yeah, he might be too immature, though. You might need to wait for him to become like a grown man. Adult. Yeah, well, we got some time. It's also making a little sense now. You were so, like, you know, you were voicing your opinion and so boisterous on the MJ clip. And meanwhile, in the shadows, you're signing 11-year-old boys. They're baseball players. I don't understand how those relate at all. Well, it made me think the lady doth protest too much. All I said is by signing baseball players. I stand by the weird. All right. So that was that was also and then the Dolphins, the other story. Then we'll get to our Olympics. The Dolphins are cleaning house, which they should have done a while ago. They gone with Tyreek Hill, gone with Bradley Chubb, trying to trade to a which who's going to trade for him. Good luck. Yeah. Good luck. So what do you think Tyreek Hill does now? He can still run. Yeah, he can. confirmed not right this second probably but he will be confirmed fast eventually yeah eventually he will be able to run again i don't know chiefs yeah that's what i'm thinking back to the chief probably just the chiefs yeah raiders raiders classic antonio brown arc raiders for like a month that'd be classic there's a ouija board in the front office right now and tom's talking to to al davis and it's saying tyreek i don't know i mean he i'd take him on the patriots You would? Him and Stephon, that's a lot of... There's only one ball. True. There's only one ball. That would be a lot of personality. Freeble can handle it. He is on the wrong side. He's like 32. But he still is fast. He's still fast. He's still fast. So I don't know where he'll end up, but someone will... It does feel like one of those... A team that's going to trade for him has to have a pretty good locker room to be like, hey, Tyreek, we're happy to have you on the team, knowing everything, the distractions that may come with you. That's why I feel like the Chiefs. Yeah, the Chiefs. They've done it before. They know the plan. There might be a team that thinks that they can handle it that absolutely cannot handle it. You know what? I would kind of like to see him in Buffalo. I don't know about that. Fast. Yeah, I would like to see him in Buffalo. I don't think he would like to see himself in Buffalo. Yeah, he is very fast. And then there was a report that the Seahawks aren't going to franchise tag Kenneth Walker. No duh. He's going to get paid. Yeah, he is. Well, relatively speaking, but yes, he is. They got to do another Zoom conference, all the running backs. I feel like this is a good opportunity for running backs, though. Coming off a Super Bowl MVP. Yeah. This should be a contract that every running back should be proud to be a part of. Yes. It should actually say, like, instead of Kenneth Walker, it should say all running backs. All running backs. Yeah. Lifetime Achievement Award for running backs. Yeah. Okay. We do have our Olympic preview. I'm excited about this. Perfect time to do our Olympic preview, day 10 of 14 in the Olympics. Yep. We've caught it. We're hitting the sweet spot. Before we do that, Chevy. Chevy, our wonderful sponsor. Chevy. Go right now. Football season might be over, but you know how it goes the minute the big game ends. We're already talking about what's next. 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Hell yeah. We should dominate at that sport. We do not. We have never meddled in this sport. It's disgusting. It is absolutely disgusting that the United States... I think you forgot about the cross-country skiing part. Yeah, but we can... Listen, we should make up. The rifle shooting we got. We should make up. We should. We should. Yeah. People, yeah, I was across my research. I saw that people were upset that the U.S. hasn't won anything that involves a rifle. It's disgusting. I feel like you could take any extra from any of the Yellowstone series and they would dominate at this sport. Agreed. It comes from Nordic military training because in the 18th century, a lot of the military, they needed to be on skis and to travel on skis. And when you're traveling on skis, you have to be at a moment's notice, be able to have your gun ready and, you know, take out take out the target. Yeah. So they they started doing this with their training and it became pretty competitive within the training. And then they started to time it and began and it first debuted in the 1924 Winter Olympics under the name Military Patrol. Oh, yeah. OK. I all I got all this information from a guy on TikTok. I want to shout him out. His name is great guy. Name is untold stories of history. I wanted to make sure I shouted out that guy. He did a good job. That's crazy that that's his name. And he got into telling history stories. There's multiple different race types. My favorite one, which will be happening, I think, the 20th and the 21st of February is mass start. Yeah. Yeah. The top 30 competitors all start at the exact same time. It's not like a – there's other ones where it's like, okay, you have a time, and if you miss your target, you get penalties. Everyone starts at the exact same time, and the first person to finish wins the race. They're all in loops, so it depends which race. Some of them are like five-kilometer loops. Some of them are seven-kilometer loops. but you do a loop and then you shoot five targets and you have eight bullets to shoot five targets. If you don't finish, if you don't hit all five targets within those eight bullets, you've got a penalty loop. So let's say you run out of bullets, you have to do another loop around and then you have to go back to that target. You just got to hit the target once? No, no, no. So there's five targets and you have eight bullets. Got it, got it. So if you run out of bullets to hit all five targets, you have to do a penalty loop. That's a lonely loop. Oh, yeah. Penalty loop would suck. Penalty loop would be off. So I was actually watching it this morning. It's pretty electric. It's kind of like darts in the fact of, like, once they get to the shooting aspect of it, people are real, like, the crowd is fired up every time you hit a target. And if you miss a target, it's like a big, like, ooh. Like, you can hear the crowd really react to missing the target because it's night and day. Watching, like, the cross-country skiing is kind of boring because it's, like, I mean, it's incredibly impressive how fast they are able to like go uphill with these skis. But then once they get to the, the, the gun portion of it, it's make or break. Like if you're quick with the gun, you can make up so much time. Right. And if you fuck up the gun, you're done. You can go from like first to last in a second. I can tell how, how into the sport. Yeah. The same thing happened to me. I was like, I think I'm in. So what you're saying is they, they have the five targets and it was initially done. Like you would be hunting. Was it a hunting thing? No, it was a military thing. Because I was thinking that if you actually just made it, like if you combined hunting with the skiing, so you had to bring back the most amount of meat while also doing the ski competition. That would be cool as well. That would rock. That would be cool as well. Almost like competitive fishing. They're doing all of this skiing with just a huge rifle on their back. When is it? The mass start I believe is February 20th and 21st So that's tomorrow No, it's Friday Yeah, Friday, Saturday Okay, cool We're excited, very excited The US has never medaled We gotta hit it This was also Going into this year, this was our best chance to medal In like forever And we still haven't medaled so well we got one dude who's like who's nasty with it um i don't know i just saw one thing like the guy said that okay all right women's relay is will be 7 45 a.m central time so if you're listening to this early in the morning you can still catch the women's relay and then the math the mass starting the mass thing yeah mass start i believe is keep going i'll make sure i get a final all right i'll do mine i have a short track speed skating which is absolutely electric because i watched a bunch of it last night um like old clips and essentially you people probably remember apollo anton anton ono who was awesome won our only gold in the 500 meter for uh men's i think he won gold in 1500 as well all-time soul patch guy yeah this sport is just a car crash every single time it's just say who who's who's like when is the crash gonna happen and can you avoid the crash it's so fast and so wednesday around one o'clock they have the quarterfinals semifinals and finals for the men's 500 meter i also learned obviously i i think i knew this but i didn't really the the the long track speed skating that's just dominated by the dutch yeah also very attractive women uh and men good and we actually have a guy from uh wisconsin who who won the 500 meter and uh he won the gold so the one that's the long track that's like the long strides yeah it's almost like you glide the short track is like you just you're always you're just fucking going as fast as you can you're and you're in and every turn you're just you wipe people out jordan stoltz is the is the kid from wisconsin who won the gold in the 500 meter long track which was a big deal because the dutch just like dominate i remember the dude that won i think it was one of the years that ono crashed out on that last turn the guy that ended up winning he like a year before had this gash in his leg from a crash where i think he needed like 120 stitches in his leg to close like you can almost die from these crashes crazy yeah i've seen the clip it goes viral a lot yes The woman that she sprinted ahead in the very beginning. I think it was. It could have been a guy, but he sprints ahead in the very beginning. So he's in the back. And then the people just forgot that he had got a lead and he just cruised. Yeah, he cruised to a victory. So that was, I think, a 1,500-meter race, which is a little longer. The one we're going to watch when you're listening to this today, the one we're going to watch this afternoon is 500 meters. It's four and a half laps. It is so fast. It is bang, bang. it's also interesting because the quarterfinal the way the quarterfinals and semifinals work is it's not time so it's not the fastest time like goes to the semifinals it's just the top two so you could have a bad like there could be a crash and you finish top two in your heat you're in the semis now here's where we're going to maybe get a little spicy we got one American left in the competition Eagles fan Bucks County Yep Andrew Heo His dad owns an auto body shop In North Philadelphia We're going to be rooting for Andrew Heo He's 18-1 So he did win The gold medal in the world tournament Like two months ago So he could do it He could do it We might need a crash Or two Or three But we're going to root for him 18-1 Why not? If you can just survive the crashes, that's the key to winning. Top two. Survive the crashes. But yeah, this sport is awesome because they just wipe out so hard. So, so hard. So, I'm in on short track speed skating. And the long track is cool, too. I also learned, I listened to a podcast about speed skating today, which, I don't know, kind of weird. We just came in second in the team speed skating. Okay. I know. I know somebody's brother that was competing that came in second. Nice. There's a podcast about speed skating? I just searched speed skating, and then I listened to two British guys interview a Dutch lady talking about speed skating. It wasn't that interesting other than the fact that there is a race in the Netherlands called the Tour of the 11 Cities, the Tour of the 11 Cities. and it's a 200 kilometer, 125 mile race, ice skating race. And the race only happens when all these 11 cities, it's cold enough that they're all connected via ice. So it hasn't happened since 1997. So it's like a big fucking deal. I'm excited for the next time that race happens. That's pretty cool. That is cool. I like that. So yeah, it's been almost 30 years. They've had this race because they just haven't been able to do it. So next time they do it, it's going to be so sick. What if you were to take an NHL player and put him on speed skates, like Connor McDavid? I don't know. The skates are definitely different. They're not as bulky. I don't know. These guys train so. Do you think Connor McDavid would be more competitive at speed skating or the best speed skater in the world competitive at hockey? Connor McDavid at speed skating for sure. Yeah. But I think it's one of those situations where it's like why. Yeah, I mean, it would be like putting a sprinter to return a punt. I don't think the speed skaters could do much more than just be faster than everyone. But yeah, this sport is awesome. So one o'clock, I believe, Eastern time on Wednesdays. We're going to start the quarterfinals. If you want to bet Andrew Heo with me, 18 to one again, long shot. Get it. but he did win the gold in the world competition a few months ago, and you could just get crashes. We just need crashes, the big ones. Just hang back. Let other people wipe out. Yeah. Okay, Hank, what do you got? I did bobsled. Nice. Some people say, you know, we can't believe. Jamaica, we got our bobsled team. Yeah. Remind me of that tan you had. We got a one. Yeah. Yeah, so there's two-man, four-man. Turns out, so the four-man is a driver, two pushers, and a brake man. Obviously, the two-man is just the driver and the brake man. The brake man, they don't use the brake for most of the ride. They only brake after they finish. So he's just there? So it's basically just all about the guy in the front. Like your job could be a parachute. Yeah, like it's that, and then it's just kind of making sure you turn so that you get the aerodynamics. Germany all-time leader Switzerland uh in second place a lot of history though with bobsled uh I got I got a question Hank real quick about like the four-man bobsled you said the guy up front steers two pushers two pushers in the middle so so those are the guys are gonna be fast right so so you you push you do your little run at the start pushing it and then everybody jumps into the bobsled yep and then those two guys in the middle they just put their heads down and just they just don't do shit the entire time well no you got to turn remember remember the remember the scene in uh cool runnings when they're like practicing the bathtub yeah yeah yeah so they all turn together yeah so they yeah so they just got to make sure that they're turning at the right time okay you got to turn together yeah aerodynamics cool uh 2002 was the first year they did female bobsledding usa uh two two man team two women team Joe Bakken and Veneta Flowers won, which was the first black athlete to win gold at the Olympic Games. A little bit of history. Also, it was the first U.S. Winter Olympic team gold in 1932 in Lake Placid. Nice. Also, one of the only people in all Olympic history to feature a guy that has won a gold medal in Winter and Summer Olympics, Eddie Egan, won a boxing gold medal. 12 years later, he won a gold medal in his first and only bobsled race. That's awesome. So it doesn't really help the like, you know, anyone could probably do this considering he ran one bobsled race in his life and won gold. I think Lolo Jones was trying to do that a couple of years ago, right? She didn't win shit. Yeah. No, in either summer or winter. Yeah. But I was looking. So then that got me thinking of or I was looking, researching like how many other people have won gold medals in different sports Olympics. because obviously some people have done variations of skiing or variations of speed skating or whatever. Tug of War was an Olympic sport. Love that. From 1900 to 1920. Love that. And you could have multiple. In 1904, the U.S. just won all three medals. Do you know what was an Olympic sport in the Winter Olympics? It was the dog racing. Should have had that. It did a ride. That should still be there. I agree. Those are cool. But yeah, tug of war, that's a cool fucking... And the dogs should get the medals. Yeah, absolutely. And everyone talks about, obviously, Cool Runnings 1988 Olympic Jamaican team. But the 1994, same crew, they finished 14th overall. They finished ahead of United States and France. So that Jamaican bobsled team was a wagon. By the way, I had an AWL reach out to me, Knuckle Pucker, said that luge athletes, and I assume bobsled athletes as well, are found in crazy ways. He knew someone who was just approached at the mall. They had a kiosk at the mall and they were like, you have the size to be a luge-er and signed up the two siblings that he knew. You've got great balance. They have baseline metrics. What is the ideal prototype? If you're looking for a quarterback, you're looking at a guy that's 6'3". I think it's like strength, speed, and then you also have to be willing to move to Lake Placid and have a tutor. Like living in upstate New York is probably a pretty big benefit. That's a huge one, yeah. Okay. Didn't Herschel Walker try to be a bobsled guy? Oh, yeah. I don't think, not olympically. I think he tried. I think he tried to. I don't think he competed in the Olympics. That's what I was trying to tell memes the other day. It's like, the University of Georgia has some guys that would be great at just being fast and then just going really fast behind the wheel of something. Do we have bobsled today? I don't know when the bobsled actually is. Okay, find out because we want to tune in. All right, what do you got, PFT? I didn't. Oh, it already happened. Who won? It's happening today at 2 o'clock. Did we win? Did we win? I'm finding out who didn't. I'm going to guess no, we didn't. Did we win? I think the Germans won. There's a lot of German teams in here. We got one. We got two guys. Okay. We won. We won. Then the biathlon is February 20th and 21st, actually. So I was wrong about 19th, 20th, 21st. And my short track is today. That's why I picked it. I wanted everyone to tune in. Andrew Heo, 18 to 1. All right, PFT, what do you have? All right, so I have the only new sport for this Olympics. Every year they add a new one. This year it's called- We won gold in women's. Oh, hell yes. Oh, and bobsled? Breaking moves. Women's monobob. Monobob. So that just that like when you just have one person Yeah Right It when a guy named Bob talks like this I know Bob Okay. What do you have? I have ski mountaineering. Is this one of those sports that like the French, or sorry, the Italians added it? Yeah, exactly. This is a D. Basically, when you look at the Olympics, most of the sports are like DEI for Scandinavia. They're like, oh, we need to have more representation in our sports. So we're going to combine sports that kind of already exist. But the cool thing about ski mountaineering is that for centuries, people have only gone downhill on skis. And then they've taken the lazy way up via ski lift or some sort of mechanized means of getting them to the top of the mountain. In ski mountaineering, you actually have to climb up the mountain before you earn the right to go down the mountain. So this one I respect just because it sucks so much. It sucks. It is the suckiest sport to do. That you get my respect if it's like, holy shit, who would ever want to do this? Yeah, so it combines hiking and downhill skiing. And when people watch the skiers go downhill after they climb up to the top, a lot of people will be watching this and be like, wow, these guys really suck at skiing. They're not that fast. It's because they're exhausted because they just sprinted to the top. All their skill is used going up. All their skill is used going up, and then they just kind of let gravity take them down because they're so tired. But if you watch some of the clips of these guys sprinting up the hill, they look like the Boston Dynamic Robot Dogs running up these giant, giant ice and snow covered mountains. Wait, are they using what kind of ski? Do they switch skis? So yeah, what you do is you have skis, but then your skis are inside of a sheath that gives you more traction when you're going up the mountain. It's like cross country skis versus downhill. So you go up the mountain and then you have to like very quickly rip those off, like rip the covers off your skis. Got it. you go down the hill so there's a couple different ways that you can do this there's um there's the type that's just like mixed relay which is uh going to be on february 21st there's gonna be guy girl guy girl i think competing and then they just keep going up down up down up down so my idea to actually make this a better sport just like last person going like there's no there's no finish line there's no time it's just the last person who's still moving oh okay so it's just it's like a actual death sport it's like a death sport it's like you know you can stop you can stop without dying like if you're just like this sucks yeah i'm tired i'd like to i'd like to go home now you can do that but then it's just like the the epitome of endurance yeah just have the last person moving wins the gold medal i think that's a good idea okay also i learned a fun fact did you know that skis predate the wheel i did not yeah how crazy is that that is crazy that seems pretty stupid actually skis predate the wheel yeah how much people invented skis before they invented the wheel this could also just be like skier propaganda that they've put out there that could also yeah or just be a random guy slipped on a couple logs on the ice right like oh i got skis Like my drunk uncle, Ol, he was preparing for the harvest, and he fell down, tumbled down the mountain. Yeah. Yeah. We also have some Americans that are competing in the finals. There's this one dude who's like a beast. I think he's from Illinois as well. So he might- We got to root for him? We got to root for this Illinois guy. Give me one second. I'll tell you what his name is. Where does he train? Around here. Yeah, not a lot. not a lot. He may not currently live in Illinois. Yeah, where's this guy at? There's a trash heap. Wilmot. This does look fun. It looks so hard watching these guys run up this hill. It looks like the most annoying sport to participate in. That was just porn? Just watching porn? Yeah, that was just porn. I looked up Schemo So, and now I guess some things aren't. Use your imagination of what Max just found. Cameron Smith. Cameron Smith? Cameron Smith. It's 99% skiing. Cameron Smith. Cameron Smith, that's who we're rooting for. All right. We need to win this. I still need like 15 more. I need a shitload more gold medals for my bet for the Super Bowl. Okay, that's a good sport. I'm in. I respect this sport because it does. I think if I tried to do this, I would probably quit within maybe 10 seconds. This guy currently lives in Colorado. Yeah, he's from Rockford, and he moved to Colorado to go up and down mountains. Okay, Zach, what sport do you have for us? So I had figure skating pairs to free skate. Are you guys familiar with the pairs figure skating? Yeah, I think so. So the way they break it down is there's 16 teams who qualify through the short program the day before. So it's like a two-minute program. Then they qualify to go into like the long-form free skate, which is about four minutes. And there's like eight or nine elements that have to be incorporated in the program or in their sequence, which are you got to have three lifts, one twist, two throws, one side-by-side solo jump, a side-by-side jump combination, one pair spin, a choreographed sequence, and, of course, the death spin all go into one routine. Of course, the death spin. Yes, it's a mandatory element in the pairs. You have to do the death spin. You've got to do the death spin. Everybody's got a death spin. Okay. And the way they do the points is, like, there's a base point system, and then your score is based higher or lower on those base points via, like, the execution of each element. And then the Russian judge is always like, the U.S. sucks. France wins. Yeah, Russia is – Russia exiled right now. They're banned. That's right. Yeah, yeah. They got some stuff going on. Are we going to win this or no? We did not win pairs yesterday, but we have some promising skaters coming up. They're doing the single women's short program today to qualify for free skate tomorrow. But there was a little bit of drama in the pairs free skate yesterday. And? So the German team was supposed to be a lock, and they got caught kind of playing defense instead of kind of like they went out there to skate to defend still being at first up by seven points. They kind of got caught sleeping. They did pre-event defense. Yeah, they went pre-event. They should have went all out to secure the win. Yeah, got it. They let the Japanese team sneak in and set a world record. Wow. You can't let the Japanese hang around. They hung around so quick. Wow. So they won. They did. The Japanese won. I feel like maybe some sort of alliance between the Germans and the Japanese to just let them go ahead and do that. Raikou and Raichi had no business, and they had all the business with a world record. Are all the pairs they're dating, right? There's some chemistry out on the ice. Yeah, because I feel like it's a very sensual sport to be... You have the other person, their lives are in your hands, you're twirling them, you're spinning them, you're dipping them. I think even if you don't align sexually with the interest of your partner, you have to try it at least once, right? Yeah. There was a lot of chemistry between the Japanese team and the team from Hungary. The German team kind of skates more clinical. They're very precise, but there's no emotion evoking from the Germans skating. It's just cut and dry with solid execution. Got it. Isn't there a lot of corrupt judges in this sport? Yeah, good question. His voice is gone. Good question, Hank. By the way, we stopped recording earlier today. That's why PFT has a costume change, and Hank just lost his voice. It's not costume. It's a different shirt. Yeah, I know, but you call it a costume change. I guess it's a costume change. Yeah. What? I just wish we had a full body pick of PFT, right? All right, fine. Get your jokes in now. No, he's doing his Olympics. Those are Olympic pants. Get your jokes in now. They're called flags. Your computer's blocking it anyway. Those are Olympic pants. Yeah, I know. It looks good. That's what I was saying. The people should be able to see the full. That's a costume change. It looks good. Great costume change. What does that look good for? Costume change. For PFT. Yeah. That looks great. All right. So I worked out a little bit on the lunch break. I thought that I had a normal pair of pants to put on. I went into my gym bag. Turns out I did not have a normal pair of pants to change into. All I had was my Flags of the World pajama pants. Which is great. Perfect for this episode. I don't know why you're defending yourself. It's the Olympic preview. Because I can see I'm looking at Hank's dead eyes right now. I'm like, well, it looks great. It's like RFK Jr. I did cocaine off a toilet seat when I was younger. But I kind of, listen, I caught a glimpse of myself and I thought it's a little bit much even for me. Like this is a accidental four-year-old kind of day that I pulled off. Four-year-old who got dressed in the dark. It's fine. It happens. A day that ends in Y. Yes. Yes. I like the pants are sick for the Olympic preview. Yeah, that's why I wore them. They're perfect. All right, so do we have any more pairs? So another fun fact, though, yesterday the team that came in second, Georgia, they had never medaled in any Winter Olympic sport until yesterday with that silver. Oh, good for them. And they were hitting speed. They're a fast team. And they're married. They are together. Yeah. And that guy's name is Gleb Smokin. Mm-hmm. They're hitting speeds of 16 miles an hour on the ice yesterday. Oh, they're a good-looking couple. Yeah. Okay. Good for them. All right, Memes, you got the last sport. What did you do? I'll keep mine tight. Okay. I did Nordic Combined Ski Jumping. Yeah. Nordic Combined is a Winter Olympic sport that merges ski jumping and cross-country skiing. And shooting. No, no shooting. That's a biathlon. Oh, it was like steeplechase? No. It's a ski jump. So they do the jump, and then whoever has the longest jump gets put in first for the cross-country skiing. Okay. And then they go out one at a time, and you're essentially just chasing the guy in front of you. So it's steeplechase if they did a long jump first. Yes. Got it. And then there's guns. There's no guns. Shit. And are we, I'd have to imagine, we suck at this? Norway just dominates? Yeah, we do suck at this. the only time the U.S. has medaled in this was 2010 where they won four medals. They won one gold, one silver, and no, four silvers. Okay. And that was just one time. Sport's been around for 100 years. This is definitely, it's slanted against the United States. Yeah. This is how they get around there. Yeah, Norway. This is how they commute to work. I mean, the Dutch, the speed skating sport I talked about, that Dutch, that's just what they did. Yeah. Yeah, but similar to Max's, this was developed in Norway to train soldiers in both endurance and explosive technical power, and it was developed to forge super soldiers. Oh, that's badass. Interesting. Capable of navigating steep terrain and traversing snowy landscapes. It remains a premier high-intensity test of athleticism. See, this is why we always tell people, like, don't make your kids specialize in one thing. have them be athletes all around, which is why we keep getting blown out at the combine, at the Nordic, or at the biathlon. Yeah. We got kids growing up specializing in guns. They need to be more well-rounded with skis, too. This is also the only winter Olympic sport that doesn't have women in it. Oh, guys only. Hell yeah, sport for guys. Why not? they just jump and then they so it's like a split event they'll do that like the biathlon or whatever yeah they do the jump at 3 a.m so this is on the 19th they'll do the jump at 3 a.m and then they do the cross country at 7 a.m that day but if you're good at the long jump you can get a nice head start you get a nice head start but most of the time if you're good at the long jump you're not good at the cross country skiing this sounds like the dudes just want to make up an event just to kind of get away and just have like dudes only time. Yeah. And it also seems like a made up event for like the good cross country skiers just want to win a different event. Right. Because it seems like that's it's slanted towards the cross country skiing portion. How long do they ski for? 10 minutes. Oh, I put this as a I think that's an official Olympic distance. 10 minutes. Yeah. I wouldn't recommend watching. Go on for 10 minutes. We'll see where you end up. Looks like 10K. 10K. You wouldn't recommend watching. Wouldn't recommend watching. Just catch the highlights. Okay. There's no point. Ski jump is pretty cool. It's awesome. I'm in on that. I'm definitely in on ski jump. It's terrifying, but it looks awesome. Yeah, those guys fly. Who is that guy that was, I think his name was Eddie the Eagle, right? He was from the United States, and he sucked at ski jumping, but he represented us in the Olympics. I'm not familiar with this story. That dude kind of rocked. If I remember, he was just not very good, but for whatever reason, he got an automatic bid. Maybe when it was in Lake Placid. Yeah. And so, yeah, they're like, go Eddie the Eagle. And we all cheered for him. He jumped like 10 feet. And he was a hero. Dude, the endurance that it takes for these cross-country skiers has got to be insane. Like, when you go skiing for like a little bit and you run out of speed and you just have to go from like one side of the lodge to the other side of the lodge, it takes up everything I have. They do have better skis for it, but still. But doesn't matter. Yeah, they have skinny skis. But yeah, it's insane how these guys are just insane athletes. Never been skiing. That's right. Never been snowboarding. You should just cross-country ski. So when people ask if you're going skiing today. Yeah, you should ask. You should do some cross-country skiing. So when people are like, do you ski? Be like, yeah. Cross-country. Cross-country. I'm at Schemo. Yeah. Mountaineer ski. Okay, good job, boys. Good Olympic preview. I forget if you said this when you were talking about curling the other day. Did you cover the fact that all the stones come from the same island? I did not. So if you have a curling stone, they're all taken from granite from this one tiny island. I like that. Because that's where the granite grows the specific way to be the right density. It's like the one family that makes all the footballs? Yeah, exactly. Or the family that gets the mud to rub down a baseball. The baseballs, yeah. Yeah, no, it's like, I want to say $5,000 for a set of curling stones because you have to get them from this one place. Damn, that seems ridiculous. Yeah. Barrier to entry. I think there was more cheating for Canada, by the way. I saw Finger on Stone again. Finger on Stone. They just can't stop cheating. Absolute bullshit. Okay. Good Olympics preview. Andrew Hill. Let's root for him. 18 to 1. Bucks County. Philadelphia. Bucks County. He's ready to go. Shut up, Bucks County. Yeah. Okay. Before we get to Hutsey Cool Throne, we're brought to you by Venmo. Get in the game with college-branded Venmo debit cards and earn up to 5% cash back at some of your favorite brands with Venmo stash rewards. 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You know, tough, tough to hear for Wendy's, but I guess they'll, they're going to be back better than ever. Maybe they've got a plan. They right now they're in cap. Also interim. Just the fact that it's an interim CEO. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds like an interim coach. Yeah. That's not great. We're McDonald's guys. Anyway, we are. Yeah. Can I, can I take Wendy's maybe off the hot seat real quick? Sure. Like in an effort to maybe try to rescue it. Cause I think iron sharpens iron in the fast food game. Right. Yeah. Right. So here's the thing. I read an article the other day about this dude that made a bet, and because he lost his bet, he had to eat Wendy's chili for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day for 30 days. Okay. He did it. He got through 17 days at the time this article was written. He lost 17 pounds. Oh. So it might just be a great diet. Maybe it's just Wendy's for health. Or he's just shitting every time he eats. That is probably a more likely explanation, but we're trying to look on the bright side here. What could be the downside of having someone become a celebrity endorser for a fast food restaurant saying they lost a ton of weight? I don't see a problem with that. No problem here. That's never gone wrong. It worked for you when you did a gumbo every day, too. Yeah. Yeah. Kidney stones. Yeah. Okay. Good hot seat. My cool throne is Game of Thrones. Isn't Jared getting out of prison soon? I think so. I think, well, no, we looked it up. It was like maybe five years from now. Oh, I thought the supersized guy, he was also super problematic. Well, the supersized guy, the Morgan Spurlock. Yeah. He also, wasn't he? Canceled himself. No, but wasn't he an alcoholic? A severe alcohol. And he went and did the supersized me, and the doctor was like, you have liver failure because you've been eating McDonald's. He was like, no, dude, it's because you stopped drinking. No, he's like, I have the shakes. Like, yeah, dude, you stop drinking vodka every day. He's like, it's probably that arch deluxe that I had. Yeah. Yeah, that was false. That gave me hepatitis. When is he getting out? I think Jared. A little too soon. He's got to do the gauntlet when he gets out. He does. 2029. 2029. All right. Okay. Five years. He's got to do it again. Three years. Holy shit. Should. Okay. It's 2026. There's no such press as bad press. No, Jared's got bad press. Okay. All right. Then I won't say it. Bad guy. I just had a marketing idea. Just had a marketing idea. I don't want to get in business with Jared. Part of my cheesesteak. Nope. Nope. Nope. But what if he gets fat? What if the whole thing is like, now I got so disgustingly fat, and then he dies? Okay, yeah. Yeah, if it kills him. Yeah, if he eats himself to death. Yeah, that could work. That's good press. Yeah. Yeah, we could poison him. Yeah, we could. We'd be heroes. Yeah, we would be heroes. All right, that was your cool turn? My cool turn's Game of Thrones. Oh, Game of Thrones, yeah. Back, all the way back. How many episodes are we into this? Because I was not familiar. it was back i believe the fifth or sixth episode they're short episodes all right so i can get into it it's like 20 25 40 minutes okay i'm in it's it's slower at first but i i i liked it from the beginning and it's the season has i don't know if it's over now but it's it's gotten very very very good how does this fit into the game of thrones universe it happens after house of dragon before Game of Thrones. But House of Dragon is still going on. House of Dragon is, season three is coming out, maybe never. It's gotten delayed. It seems like it's going to be bad. Did I watch season two of that? I don't think so. I stopped after season one. The crab feasters? I did the same. Yeah, the crab feasters. I have a question, Hank. Can I ask a question? Please. Do I need to know anything about Game of Thrones to watch this? Like, do I need... No, it's similar houses. There's Targaryens, Baratheons. Stark? not Starks in the show, but... Is there a billion different characters that are going to make it hard for me to... No, it's too many. It's a big, tall guy and a little kid. It's great. And Night King? The kid, remember... Wait, big, tall guy and little kid? Yeah. On Tomorrow's Part of My Take. I hope he doesn't get any icing. The whole show is on Tomorrow's Part of My Take. No icing is the back of his shirt, right? Remember Master Eamon when he's croaking? and he's like egg. Yeah, yeah. You could say any name, any scene. I remember he was croaking. No. That's why I stopped watch. The egg that he's, no, but this is Game of Thrones. The egg that he's talking about was his brother. So it's like, remember how old Master Eamon was? No. Yeah. He was like 100 years old. Super old. So whatever. It's good. It's really good. All right, I'm in. And they croaked. It sounds like you're not. Are you fully? You said it's short episodes. I'm in. You're fully caught up? How are the dragons? No dragons. Dragons. I'm out. I'm out. See ya Are you fully caught up Hank? Yeah I'm out They said the last episode The most recent episode Was like the second best episode Of television ever It was I was And you're telling me These are 25 minute episodes There's no way The last one was a little longer But it set up Like it was The whole episode before Was a set up So it like I'm not gonna spoil it But it set up for a big You know Battle if you will And then the whole episode Was just that battle What's the name of the show again? Knights of the Seven Kingdoms? A night of One night in Paris? I think it's called I think it's just accidentally been watching Paris Hilton's sex tape. A Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Yeah, it's short. No dragons. It's fine. Yeah. It's just the same episode over. Is there a possibility Night of the Seven Kingdoms. That the dragons are off somewhere, off screen together, and they're going to make an appearance later on this season. No spoilers because the show hasn't, season three hasn't come out, but the dragons all die at the end of House of Dragon. Wait, Wait, what? Season three? Yeah. The dragons all die? And then- But it hasn't happened yet. Daenerys brings them back. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We knew that. Also, George R.R. Martin's just like, yeah, I don't really feel like finishing this. Yeah, that's just- I saw that. He's like, I'm just kind of like, it takes too long. I mean- Dude, how could you do that? I think everybody knew this is what he was doing like eight years ago. But just fucking do it, dude. And he finally said, yeah, I don't really feel like writing. Yeah. Just half-ass it. Chat GBT. Let AI take care of it. Memes goes, yeah, he's a Jets fan. He's probably down in the dumps. So we got to get the Jets. Actually, reach out to George R.R. Martin just to talk about the Jets. Cool. Yeah, reach out to him, Memes. Yeah. Done. Okay, your hot seat, Coltrone? My hot seat is all girls. All of our girls? Just girls. If you got a girl, hot seat. Okay. Because I've fallen deep into the well of the clavicular cinematic universe and the mogging that's been going on, the ASU frat leader getting out absolutely alpha-mogged. everything goes along with it yeah it is it's become like a wwe storyline where now you've got like a twin tall brother six foot five giga chad from australia who came over to the united states to avenge the mogging of his brother clavicular by the asu fracking who might not even be a frat king he might be a fake frat king involved in all this and i i can't get enough of the recaps of it it's every time i see one it makes me laugh so hard what are the recaps the recaps the recaps are just like talking about how this guy got mugged by a frat king and then somebody else stole his phone and then this guy this kid is now uh jester maxing but then there's a goblin chad that got into a fight with clavicular and then the goblin chad stole the phone and then mugged the phone too so like everybody's getting fucked up i don't i don't understand like any of those words yeah i don't understand them either yeah you obviously do you know i don't did it no i bet it's okay what is gesture maxing gesture maxing gesture maxing is when you do something unproductive so you do understand the words i know that i know that one yeah do you do something unproductive what's mogging my i don't know what mogging is you know what i think i think mogging is no I think I know being alpha no no mogging is like like if I was standing next to Arnold Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger he would be body mogging me got it I think that's right yeah because he like next to his body looks better than my body some may say so he would be mogging me some got it so Zach is eye mogging you right now correct Zach would be eye I think I have very little knowledge on this but you're also you're max max right now that i don't that i don't get because zach is zach is imaxing i would be max max you're max maxing just because my name is max like the movie theater yeah yeah like maxing is you could do anything if you're just doing anything like hank is nap maxing right now no he's no no no naps no no naps but you can max anything it's just like whatever you happen to be doing at that given time. So you guys are like voice-mogging Hank right now. Oh, big time. Hank just got voice-mogged. Yeah. See? Yeah. Hank got mogged by Sam Darnold? No. Oh. Sam Darnold, Brady Max. No. But Sam Darnold mogged Drake May. And Hank was jester-maxing at the Super Bowl. Yeah. What's the Goblin? Well, no, so Drake May... No, Goblin's part of the show that Hank was talking about. No Goblins. Drake May, at the Super Bowl, Drake May nine maxed. Nine? He nine maxed at the Super Bowl. Like nine, like J.J. McCarthy? Yeah, yeah. Got it. Got it, got it, got it. The whole playoffs, you could say, Penix maxed. Penix maxed. Yeah. Penix. Okay. But yeah, you can just say whatever you want. But it is like a WWE storyline that these guys have somehow concocted for each other. I don't think they're doing any of it on purpose. but it's just it's a very funny weird part of the internet that i don't i don't fully understand but it makes me laugh whenever i look at it let's get into the maxing well yeah i think we are maxing right now yeah max maxing well they look max they looks max too which is when you like smash your bones to give yourself a better structure yeah so like you can pound your your your cheekbones with like a little hammer and it's supposed to over calcify now these guys end up just looking like vampires yeah none of it's healthy um but yeah i'm surprised you haven't paid attention to it i saw i've seen it this i've not opted in well it was a lot of it was on vacation i was trying not to be online too much and i just like it's one of those ones i was just like i'll let it pass yeah no you can't let this pass this because this kid's gonna be president one day so i have to i have to pay attention yeah he will be president the united states at some point okay and i think all our future the new york times wrote about yeah yeah all our future i'll read the new york Times. Looks aren't everything. Clavicular begs us. Freebase ketamine. I'm going to read this article and do it like the real boomer way of being like, I saw this clavicular guy on New York Times. I have a take about clavicular. I don't think he's that hot. Yeah, I mean, he looks like a regular dude. He's a normal looking guy. Yeah. No, he's not like stopping the street. If this guy spends 100% of his time trying to look his absolute best, that's very sad for this guy or the bears tailgate guy still get guy he's naturally beautiful people don't know i saw a really hot guy at the bears packers playoff game and then invited him and his friends to the office the next week to judge how hot he was and he was hot i think we got nine guys walking around the office that look better than clavicular yeah blake for sure yeah blake yeah mincey once the hair grows back yeah do you think blake gets bothered by the fact that every time a hot guy comes up i'm like but we got blake that's a compliment yeah he's a good-looking dude yeah but it feels a little like michael scott uh uh ryan uh howard ish yeah but that's a funny show man you're hot but that's a funny storyline can you bring up the uh the goblin chad dance you gotta see the goblin chad the goblin chad is mesmerizing i don't know if i want to see the Now this is what chad met and dance. Clavicular gets absolutely mogged at some party. Hank, what's going through your head right now? This is tough. It's tough. It's a tough lesson. Tough lesson, Max. We're basically doing Fantasy Fuck Boys right now? I can't find anything about the Goblin chat. It's worse than Fantasy Fuck Boys. No, we're currently Podmaxing. Yeah, we're Podmaxing. Zach gets it. I'm having fun. what platform should i be searching goblin chad i actually don't know if it's twitter it was nothing i did google nothing was that your hot seat or cool throat i don't know i think both okay i think it was everything um yeah that's everything that's because really that's what i've been paying attention to that's all you got is goblin chad i found the goblin chad video bald max and goblin chad it's crazy that's what they're saying this is how i talk now all right look at this guy big cat look at this guy so there he is he gets jacked up and then somebody takes his phone and then look at this like a scuff look at this mesmerizing guy though right coming to the screen he turns the phone around this guy yeah he's a ugly creepy as fuck right yeah i love that guy okay all right so that's my brain melting out of my ear yeah that's true brain rot yep okay we're in it now that i've gotten a little familiar i'll have to pay attention that's it i i do that whenever i see something where it's like it's it's like a foreign language if you never learn what the link what they're talking about then you won't see it everywhere yeah once you learn what they're talking about you're you're hooked you're done i opt out of a lot of those things yeah for whatever reason this caught me at the right time i i had time this one got you okay my hot seat is I have two one is us because Bleacher Report did a top 99 QBs of all time ranking and Dak Prescott is on there so he's at 59 59 59 I went through it I wasn't really gonna get that mad about a list the only the only issue I had was they had Marino at 10. I feel like he should be higher. Marino was behind Steve Young and Drew Brees. I feel like Marino deserves more respect. I don't understand how you can put Dak at 59. He's at 59. So if you want to get mad about QB rankings, he's at 59. I'm a little mad. Ryan Tannehill, 99. Ryan Tannehill's 99. Matthew Stafford's 20. Patrick Mahomes is 4. Russell Wilson was ahead of Lamar Jackson. Okay. I guess that makes sense. I mean, if they're Yeah, if you're just going off Super Bowls. But yeah. But you'd rather... I mean, Lamar Jackson's been the better quarterback. He's won two MVPs. Yeah, but I would say if you're doing a list of the greatest... Is this the greatest quarterbacks? I think that's what it is. Top 99 quarterbacks NFL history. I think I would... Like, total career, I think I would put Russell Wilson above Lamar. I don't know. Lamar's been the best quarterback in the league twice. That's true. 77, Derek Carr. Okay. Future Jet. Future Jet. Alex Smith. Oh, Jalen Hurts is on there. Let's go. There you go, Max. Doug Smith is on there. Yeah. Well, they had to get 99. That's a lot of quarterbacks. Kirk Cousins is 71. Yeah. Get mad about it. Kirk Cousins I would put above Dak Prescott. Yeah. My other hot seat is the MLBPA executive director, Tony Clark, who resigned today. And then it came out, his resignation was after an internal investigation revealed he had an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law, who had been hired by the union in 2023. Dog. Sister-in-law. Dog. Sister-in-law. He hired his sister-in-law and then dogged. Dogged. This might be the kind of guy you want running your union. That's dog move. This is a guy that, like, keep your friends close and your relatives closer. Yeah. I feel like I'm going to wait for all the facts to come out. I'll put it that way. Let's wait for all the facts. I'm going to wait for all the facts. Yeah. This could be way worse. It sounds bad, but it also could be way worse. My cool throne is Tiger Woods in the Masters because he has said that he has not ruled out playing in the Masters this year. This year. Wow. This year. It's got to be awesome if Tiger, he just can play in the Masters forever. Whenever he wants, yeah. He should. Why not? It'd be fun. It'd be fun to have Tiger in the Masters. The way that he said it makes me think it's on. It's on. He's loading. Yeah. We also had LeBron James. Remember there was a story that he stopped drinking wine because he missed the beginning of the season. He also stopped eating chocolate chip cookies. So just so we're updating on LeBron's diet. We're getting little pieces that just come out every now and then. He cares so much that he stopped eating cookies. Did someone take away his cookies? Someone didn't. I don't know if someone took away his cookies. I think he took away his cookies himself. He took his own cookies away. And then my other cool throne is the Chicago Cubs, because I don't know if you guys are ready for this, but they have the team slogan hashtag. Cubs are going to win the World Series this year. Do you guys want to guess what their team slogan is? Cub up. Nope. W up. Nope. It's the W. Fly the Cub. This. Cubby hole. I said it this is this I don fucking know dude it the weirdest thing ever This This What is that No it this Yeah This It's a who's on first sketch. I guess it gets people talking. This. Cubs. This. This. I mean. Oh, that was mean. The person said this team is missing the playoffs. This. How do you run out of slogans that bad that it's just, This. What is that? This. It's like an acronym? No, I don't think so. I think it's just this. What are you so excited about? This. Why is the avatar for the Cubs a different color? It's like yellow and red right now. Oh, no, it's probably for spring training. That's probably their spring training hats. This. They're doing spring training right now. This. Because they're in the desert. This. yeah i don't know this all right zach we're very excited for this oh no just i uh this my hud seat this weekend i had to probably put myself in the hud seat i've accidentally uh kind of alarm clocked too close to the sun recently we uh you know we all went on vacation this last week yep that was a great time it was nice you know i got home got to see the parents i uh i thought we we left on tuesday i left on tuesday we recorded that tuesday i thought i was going to miss my flight so i was like frantically trying to like hustle out the house get packed and like just get out of there i didn't do like the checklist of things you would do to leave for a couple of days that's on me and i i had left my alarm clock plugged in unbeknownst to me oh no you left the bomb in you left the bomb in you left for five days bomb unintended nope so what happened is like i'm at home i i was at home i was out walking the lake trying to get some steps in We're on the diet challenge, trying to stay active. I got a phone call. I was like, okay, who's calling me from my apartment complex? So I pick it up, and it's a gentleman's voice I never heard before. I was like, what's going on? How are we, man? He's like, have you seen any of our emails? And I was like, no, I haven't seen any emails, but what can I do? That guy hits you with a per my email in real life? Oh, no, Zach. And he was basically like, hey, I need you to respond to this email that we sent out about alarm clocks because you begin noise complaints. And I was like, well, I'm not home. how am I getting a noise complaint? Because the last noise complaint I got was for playing Xbox too loud. I was like, well, I haven't been on the game. Wait, you got a noise complaint for playing? That was tough. Aren't you plugged in? Yeah, but I'm on the mic, so I guess I was like, I could have been getting a little too excited. Got it. So I was confused at first. I was like, no, your alarm clock is going off like today and yesterday. We're going to have to take like a meeting here. But before then, I need you to respond to this email. I was like, okay, I can do that. And I'll respond right now. And I was like, kind of freaking out. So then I accidentally replied all to all my neighbors. Oh, no. Yeah, sure. You can go into my apartment and unplug the alarm clock. So now they all know it was me. Wednesday, one o'clock, we're going to get together. Hopefully just like have a talk. There's like two guys who one dude messed up. One guy hopefully is understanding. So there's a chance that this alarm clock was going off for two days. There is a world where it was going. I don't think it was, but there is a world where like, I'm the worst neighbor of all time, and I just left my irrationally loud alarm clock going. So have you been given any inkling to what this meeting, what did he say about the meeting? Oh, it's all about the alarm clock. But he was like, we're going to have to have a sit-down meeting. We're going to formally talk about this in person, was the quote. Yeah. Bring your playbook. I don't know what I'm going to. There's a chance the E-word gets thrown. We're not going to say the E-word, but. I think Hank should go with you. you good at meetings I'll wear a suit yeah you probably look good in a power suit Hank should go with you and you should ask if you can you can bring a video yeah let's see if we can bring a video let's do PMTV this is my narcoleptic cousin and he needs a medical grade alarm clock to wake up every day let's get some behind the scenes we can't get he's actually going to get e-worded if we go but let's just ask Let's ask. What's the worst they can say? No? And you're evicted? That's the worst. That's what we're not trying to do. That is the worst. Pretty bad. Max was preemptively evicting me earlier. I was just searching apartments. I was looking for alternative apartments for him. I was trying to help him in case something happened. Zach, you can stay at my house if you get evicted for three nights. I would hate to be a burden for three days. Hopefully we don't get evicted, but that's very kind of you, Big Cat. Yes, I got you. Maybe we all just chip in three days. Yeah? Yeah. Okay, you got... I'll give you five. All right, so you got over two weeks. I can give you three days. Yeah, well, you got over two weeks here if you get evicted. But you got to... Yeah. No alarm clocks in my house. No alarm clocks. I'll wake you up. What happens? This poor... Oh, dude. You know what's that? Hank, can Hank go, though? Like, you don't have to video it, but I want Hank or Max or memes so that that way we have... Just say it's your lawyer. I'm down for some representation. Okay, because then we can have a dual, you know, when we follow up on this on FireFest, we can have a secondary source of information. Yeah, it was bad. I'm going to have to, moving forward, I'm going to make a checklist on like things to do before you leave the home. I was in a rush. I was trying to get out of there pretty quick, and it just now, I'm in a bad spot. So, it all depends on what kind of alarm clock we're talking about here. Like the alarm clock, most of them, they don't just keep going on and on. Like they'll stop eventually, right? I think it, there's no way for me to know. I think it stopped at some point in each morning, but there's also a world where it didn't, and if it didn't, I'm just like, I feel I'm a bad guy if it just kept going. Yeah. So you were fine making the flight, right? I did make the flight. I did make the flight. I had more time than I thought I had. Yeah, anyone help you out? Hank Alltime helped me out. We should tell this part of the story because it is very funny. The sonic bomb alarm clock will stop but not immediately features adjustable. Okay. last between 1 and 59 minutes. Oh, man. I would be so pissed off if I were your neighbor. Oh, yeah. It's not a good accident. It's on me. Okay, so yeah, Hank, tell us what happened. So we did the show Tuesday. Hold on. You got this, Hank. Your voice was doing better. This happened every day. It's fine when I wake up, and then it just... You lose it. Withers away. All right, so we record the show Tuesday. We all had flights. I didn't... Zach, I asked him, like, do you want to go to the airport together? He's like, no, I got to go home and pack. Because he said his flight was at a similar time. I leave from the office. I get to the airport. I see Zach finishing checking his bag in at the bag check. And I walk up to him. And, like, I'll do this when we randomly. Like, it doesn't happen that much. But if I see you guys out and we're not together, they go, like, big guy. Like, how much money do you make? And then just to see, like, see you around. They're like, what's up, babe? And then PFT turns around. It's like, oh, that's a dude. Hank's on one right now. This is good. Yeah. I'm like, Zach, like Bush, back to Bush, Zach. And I was basically as close as we are right now, like five feet. And I did it twice. Didn't respond at all. And I was like, Zach, Bush turns around in a panic. Like the videos we have of Zach coming in when he was late, when he was like shaking. He's like, oh, what's up, Hank? And then I was like, oh, my God, like you're late. Like you got to go. so he sprints past me and he goes through clear and to go through clear there's a checkpoint one and then you walk like 20 more feet and there's a checkpoint two in between that is where the regular people for security go through zach sprints through clear checkpoint one then takes a right back into the regular security line sprinting and i'm just laughing i'm like he was already like 20 feet ahead of me i'm laughing very hard because i'm like he did not go in the right line lane but he was too he was so far ahead of me i couldn't even yell at him i go to the clear lane zach comes sprinting back like a couple minutes later because he realized his mistake i let him go in front of me because i'm like he's clearly rushed and i've been in his shoes many times where you're like get to the airport the plane's boarding you're like i'm already gonna miss this plane but i have to just sprint and give it everything i have to hopefully make this flight right sprints ahead of me again sprints through security by the time i even got to like putting myself in the bins he was gone and i was 30 minutes before my flight even started boarding so i go to the bar i think i had two beers and a pizza go to the bathroom wash my hands stroll up to the gate as the plane is about to board and zach is just standing there you're on the same flight i was like zach we like we were you should we were You showed up 40 minutes before the plane boarded, and he was in group five. He was like, you never know. I thought the plane, like, what if it came early? I'm relatively new to travel. They say get there several hours beforehand. And also, as far as the clear line goes, Hank did save me. He let me skip him. That was huge. But there's way too many ropes. Why are there so many ropes? It gets confusing. And you've got the clear. You've got TSA pre-check. You've got TSA pre-check plus clear. and then if you go into the wrong, sometimes they judge you and they're like, oh, why don't you want to go into the pre-check one? Well, I think the clear one is fast. It gets confusing. And also, if you're going to be taking advice on how early to get to flights, Hank is not the best person to take that advice from. For sure not. Yeah. So you're good, Zach. It is. I do forget, Zach, that up until like nine months ago, you had never been on a plane past the age of three. 99% of my travel has been with you guys. Yeah. But I will also say the clear thing is a new experience. It changes the airport. Yeah. It's completely different. It's so easy. So I'm factoring that in. I factored that in on the way home. You just need like 30 minutes. Just get in, you're good. Yeah. But I thought for sure I was getting to the gate. I'd already text my mom like, hey, don't drive to the airport yet because there's no way I'm getting on the plane. Yeah. They had two beers and a pizza. And he boarded way before me. but I texted like after I saw him run away again because I didn't know we were on the same flight I was like once you get settled I need to know if you made your flight or not yeah and he responded like didn't think I was gonna make it but we're good again this was 30 minutes before the flight even started to like pre-board Hank was like texting his updates yeah as this was going on Zach might miss his flight I was texting Max was talking about I was like I just saw Zach sprinting through the air yeah well i my flight was much earlier than your guys flight and we left at the same time so i actually got there like three i got to mine like three minutes before boarding so i was like actually i was pressing a little bit and your flight was 45 minutes my flight was 45 minutes before but so hank was like texting me updates he's like i think zach's gonna he's freaking out he's freaking out and then when i saw the picture of zach on hank's flight it was just the complete opposite of how two people go about going on a flight. That's amazing. Are you a cool thrown, Zach? My cool thrown, real quick, was just a professional power lifter, Larry Wheels. You guys know Larry Wheels? No. Big strong guy. He's a professional power lifter. Yeah. Super strong, strong guy. He had an all-time move defending his wife yesterday. Influencer boxer slash Twitch streamer. They were out having a good time with Rampage Jackson. You guys know Rampage? Yeah. They were all hanging out. this guy dean starts starts chatting to larry wheels his wife and in the most effortlessly way possible someone could defend their wife he gives like a three percent smack to this guy and he smacked the absolute fire out of him oh i love that i he could make a thousand more mistakes in his marriage and with the power of this smack i think they'll stay together forever yeah because he he defended her to no ends with one quick swift wrist move larry wheels slaps dean the great during kick live stream. They were live because Rampage just like to go live. I'll kick a lot. I think what happened was he was intoxicated. Wait, wait a second. I searched Larry Wheels on news. The second one is Larry Wheels claims wife uses N-word daily at home. Larry Wheels claims his wife model Sheila Williams has permission to throw racial slur at him in private. Daily? Like it's showering for i don't fucking know all right brush your teeth drop the embalm all right come to bed oh my gosh all right larry wheels was not familiar with larry wheels i was unfamiliar with their home game their home life but the smack was good larry wheels just smacked the shit out of dean the great i think getting like really solidly slapped is worse than getting knocked out oh definitely slapped to the point where you're like i don't want this anymore that's that's as embarrassing as it gets yeah okay we've got all the brain rock covered it's absolutely face maxed right there yeah He mogged him with his hands. CTE maxing. 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Some people have been calling him NBA Johnny. That's what Rico says. But he is college basketball, Johnny, in my eyes. He's been dominating college basketball this year. You've been so good on the calls. It's been an incredible season. We wanted to have you on because, you know, football's over. We're gearing up for March. We're going to have brackets in, what, four weeks? Is it four weeks from now? Not even. Not even. It's great. It's a great time. So let's start with this, Johnny. Let's start with national title because I think – I made the argument the other night. I think there's 10 teams that could win the title, and I don't remember a year where it feels like it is so loaded at the top. Right now, if you had to say, what's the actual number? Where's the cutoff for teams that you think can win the national title? Yeah, I really think 10 to 12. And by the way, it's great to be with you guys. And buckle up, because this could be an all-time march. It really could be. Yeah. We've got unbelievable freshman class. We've got coaches who have lost their minds in the wildest of ways, which means you've got some tempers. You've got high emotions. You've got crazy finishes to come. And I do think Cinderella's slipper will return. But the top of the country, Big Cat, you're right. I don't think it's ever been better. And I don't think it's ever been deeper. Yeah, because when I look at it, I just open up the analytics. whether you follow the numbers or not, Michigan can win it all. Duke can win it all. Arizona can certainly win it all. Houston, just because they lost to Iowa State doesn't mean they can't win it all. They were up by 10 with seven minutes to go in Ames. That was Hilton magic. Florida, you go against them? Have you guys seen Illinois? Yep. And they're telling on their best day? I'm not going to count Braden Smith and Purdue out. You going to count Dan Hurley out? Nope. Okay. Texas Tech, I haven't even brought up. They've beaten. Arizona. They've beaten Duke. That's nine right there. If Darren Peterson were to play, and who knows, could Mark Few, could he put something up? And we haven't even brought up a dark horse random team that goes on a run. Oh, we didn't even bring up Tom Izzo and Rick Pitino, who are two Hall of Fame coaches, and could they find a pathway to Indianapolis? I'm not going to say no. The point is, your bracket is going to be hard to fill out. So bring that pencil sharpened and get ready because this is going to be fun. The top of the country is absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, get ready for an all-time march. And you said it like some coaches are losing their minds. Which coaches are the most insane right now? Well, you know, I have Michigan State and UCLA, and some people might look at a Mick Cronin and just think every week there's a new video. But I would also say this. He knows exactly what he's doing. All right? Like in the world of, you know, any news is good news. Mick's getting noticed. UCLA's getting noticed. You might now be watching them. They're right on the bubble. They're right on that bubble. You might not be watching them a little bit more than you otherwise would have. That would be one. Guys, as I come on with you in terms of the personality of the game, we are one week away, one week away from the rematch. between Dan Hurley and Rick Pitino. And you can sense, you know, old school sports, when you could sense the vitriol and the hatred, when the first foot steps on the floor or field, that is what this is. That is what this is. And those two are going to only make more headlines with what they say and how they say it. And I think that you're only going to see things increase in terms of the intensity of that. It's going to go up 10 times next week. If you look at the Wednesday slate next Wednesday, that game is really the biggest game, and there's not much else there. That's only going to increase the attention. Those two don't like each other, and the emotion's going to be high. Yeah, and if you're someone who's just getting into the college basketball season, just catching up to it, this upcoming weekend is essentially a Final Four. We have Michigan and Duke playing against each other, and then we have Arizona and Houston. That is the top four teams in the country as of right now playing against each other on Saturday. It's going to be phenomenal. And that just feels like every single week. And like even last Saturday when it was, you know, Texas Tech beats Arizona. That was a great game. But like we had that game. We didn't have much else. It was like, what just happened? Like, well, I'm used to having like four or five incredible games every single Saturday. That's how this season has gone. That's how this season's gone. and credit to the coaches for hearing what we've all been clamoring for. Make marquee games happen. Now, they don't control their conference schedules, but Big Cat, as much as it might be difficult to give some credit to Duke. I got a question about that, but go ahead. I got a follow-up question. Go ahead. Michigan and Duke playing this game is really, really good for the sport because you're talking about a Blue Devils team that comes in 24-2, a Michigan team that we'll see as we're recording what will happen at Mackey Arena. Regardless, everybody thinks, or the majority of people think, yeah, they look like on their best day, Michigan's the best team in the country. Yeah. And this is the year for the Big Ten. I know the Big 12's stacked, but if the Big Ten's going to snap this drought of 26 long years without a national championship, if Michigan plays their A game, guys, they're going to be no worse. They're going to be no worse than in Indianapolis. So the sport is in great hands. Yes, there's chaos. Yes, there's the Charles Bediaco thing. And there's the James Nagy thing. And there's these players that are trying to make it, you know, guys that left college and now trying to go back. And we could talk all day about that. But I prefer us talking about the product on the court, which is fun. And the viewership is strong. And college basketball needed this. I think it had gone through a bit of a lull. I think it needed this. And I think I would keep the February non-conference flavor. Because remember, you guys just said it. Football's done. Give us some big-time matchups in the month of February, even if it's five or six, that put the very best against the very best. Yeah, I agree. All right, so my follow-up is, do we have an update on – do we have an arrest on who punched the Duke staffer that John Shire has told us about? because I saw a clip from, you know, they wasted away Syracuse on Monday night. Poor Syracuse. I don't know what's happened to that program. It sucks because, you know, Syracuse being good is a good thing for the sport. But either way, John Shire said he would like to just talk about Syracuse and he knows what he saw and he knows what his staffers felt. But, yeah, there has not been any update on, you know, a suspect for who punched a Duke staffer after the UNC game. So what's going on with that, Johnny? Well, I'm not really in the investigative space. I haven't dove into the Dateline team quite yet to look into what exactly went down there in Chapel Hill. but John Shire is a man of honor and faith. And I think, I believe that something happened to one of his staff members. I don't know what it was. I'm going to say that, that whatever he said, you know, something did happen, but the search continues for whatever happened. But it's also Duke Carolina. Like what, what did we all expect? Right. But I, well, I expected, I expected chaos, but when, when, when a team is accused of, of uh you know punching the the opponent in a court rushing like a mob a mob land style beat down yeah what we got to find the guy i think we should suspend the college basketball season until we find the guy like we got to find this guy we're gonna do a search down in the chapel hill area and surrounding it to find who did this is what you're saying yeah i mean imagine if you're playing unc and you're like this rogue puncher is out on the loose and i could be sucker punched at any point that's I I agree with you John Shire we have to believe him so we have to to do everything we can an international manhunt to find the person who punched the Duke staffer that totally for real happened and uh wasn't just an embellishment after a bad Duke loss uh trying to basically get everyone to stop talking about the loss and talk about something else it wasn't that at all would you believe Coach K if he had said this? Oh, 100%, yes. Yeah, of course. Coach K is a man of honor. He's a man of faith. I see no reason why he would lie about either of those things. Yeah, I mean, listen, this is the brilliance of Duke. It's a very smart university or college. Is Duke University? No, it's a university. Yeah, it's a university. It's a very smart university. Trinity College at Duke University. Yeah, it's a very smart university. They understand what's at stake. They understand that when you win games, it's because you're great, And when you lose games, let's talk about anything else besides the loss. I mean, hey, that worked. Something happened. Someone got punched. No one got punched, Johnny. No one got punched. But wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let me – I was thinking about this here. So do you remember – we've all been in seventh, eighth, ninth grade when we would just go to our buddy's house, and then all of a sudden just a brawl breaks out or something. But all in good fun. Yeah. But, you know, if you're in the middle of something, and all of a sudden you get this. Yeah. You don't know. I don't know who threw it. I was turned around the other way. And there were thousands of people there. We've all been on the receiving end of an unmarked punch. Wait. So you're saying, but with all the cameras and everything that we have, all the technology, we just, that unmarked punch just never made it on video? Not sure. I don't know. It's now one of the mysteries of the world of who landed that. Yeah, it is. I mean, you have a great name for a private investigator, let's be honest, like Johnny Fanta PI. I could see you getting to the bottom of this case. Coming up tonight at 11. Yeah. We're down to Chapel Hill. If you're Clemson, if you're, who else does UNC, if you're Louisville, if you're Virginia Tech, if you're Clemson, I would not feel safe traveling to Chapel Hill until this madman is arrested. Right. So I'd like to see you get on the case, Johnny. Yeah, figure it out, Johnny. Get on the case. I got a question for you, though. The rematch is at Cameron Indoor. What if he found his way in there? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Can you imagine? Oh, God. Yeah. That's actually probably the most likely spot for him. Yeah. And he'll probably be dressed up as a Duke fan to make it look like it was a Duke fan that did it, not a UNC. The plot thickens. Johnny, I got a question for you. Because, like so many others, watched a little basketball last night. watch the Cougars I was I came away impressed with Houston um yes but my question for you is when should I get in bed with the Cougars because I feel like after a loss after loss not the worst time to maybe take a look at that future line what are they like eight to one something like that somewhere on there um they do play Arizona on Saturday uh which is you know that's gonna be tough game and then after that on Monday they have to go to Kansas so it's like this is this is a crazy stretch for the Cougars should I now get in bed with the Cougars thinking that they're about to beat Arizona or should I wait until after this stretch is over and then bet on them I'm already in bed nice I'm all over them I I believe that Houston can win it all. I believe that one of these three teams will win it all here. Ready? Okay. Michigan? Yeah. Florida. Florida. That's my – listen, I took Florida 19-1 because I honestly think Florida is in that spot where if they can just – if they can find a way to hit a little bit more consistently three-point – you know, get more consistent from three in the tournament, They are the scariest team in the tournament. Yes, but Houston is right there in terms of scariness because, and I thought Hilton Magic really did play a role, and Iowa State hit some incredible shot. The corner three by Nate Heise was just phenomenal. Bateman hit a huge shot for them. I mean, those are, Lipsy missed free throws. Iowa State was dreadful from the free throw line and still found a way to win that game. That building is good for – you're up 10-0 as the home team in that building. The open policy is real. I am still very much in on Houston. So, BFT, I would say you should be in the bed with the Cougars and you shouldn't look back because this team is tough as hell. Kingston Flemings is a top 10, if not top five. He might be a top five pick in the draft, five or six. Yeah, he's fun. Yeah, Sharp and Usain are supplemental shot makers. JoJo Tugler, like, if there's a tougher guy in college basketball, I mean, it might be the guy in Chapel Hill, and that's about it. You know, JoJo Tugler is mean. He's a mean machine. He gets after you defensively every possession. And Chris Senak is now finding his way and only getting better. Kelvin is so due. The only thing is that I have one concern. When there's five or six minutes left to go in a close tournament game, I don't want what happened last night to happen in that game where, what were they doing in the half court? What were they doing offensively? Like, you got to run – you got to get better looks. That is the one – because I think Houston's phenomenal, but they're not a traditional best defense by far in the country, Houston. Like, their defense is obviously very elite, but it's not at that Houston level that we've come to expect where they just suffocate you. And their offense can be inefficient, where they're not getting a ton of – they're not a great three-point shooting team, and then they're not getting a ton of rim looks. But you're right. I think Houston is definitely in that category of battle-tested teams that could win it all. Everyone's got at least one wart. Everyone's got – I just mentioned with Florida. Florida can't shoot the three. I hope they can because I bet on them, but they can't shoot the three. Every team has something. Maybe the only team that doesn't is Michigan. Right. And, yeah, I mean, they've just been that good all year. Well, they're wart. Michigan doesn't really have a wart, but the way that you compete with them and hang in with them is if you have mobile bigs who can shoot it. Because Moraes Johnson and Adai Mara are down there, and they're just going to funnel everything to them. And they have the best two-point defense in America. So whoever plays Michigan has got to have a stretch four or a stretch five. And if you do, you know, that's the unique thing, guys. Like, Arizona doesn't really possess that. Houston, Florida plays huge themselves. You're right on three-point shooting. That's kind of where Dan Hurley comes into this equation because Caravan and Braylon Mullen's solo ball can bury threes. Like, that would be your argument there with the Huskies. But, like, yeah, it's – here's the thing. You could say that somebody doesn't have warts or somebody does this time of year. but in three and a half weeks it's not going to matter the ball's going to be tipped and we also could see a world where i as good as the 10 to 12 are guys with with with national championship chances i do think i alluded to it earlier i do think we're going to see the return of cinderella's carriage oh i think the four five and six seeds are all all have more warts than last year's 4, 5, and 16. I think you're going to see Cinderella's carriage step up and we're going to get two, at least two 12, 13, 14s to win a game. Because I was just saying that that is the one downside I thought of going into this tournament is that there are so many good teams at the top and it's so deep at the top that it could be another situation like last year where we don't see a lot of upsets. But you're saying it's actually going to be reversed where that middle pack is very susceptible because that would be the perfect tournament. I think we all agree. A couple good Cinderella stories, a few upsets in the first round, and then really quality, great teams in the Sweet 16 and on. Yeah, I really do. And I'll put that slipper on because I think a lot of people are wondering, like, who could it be? I like the Liberty Flames as a potential 12th seed that could do something. I like Stephen F. Austin. I think that they're an interesting team that could pull something off in the NCAA tournament. Don't sleep on the Ivy League champion. Like, never go to sleep. If you're going to go into bed with the Houston Cougars, PFT, make sure that you don't fall asleep when the Ivy League champion gets a 13 seed. And that could be Yale. Again, remember Yale a couple years ago beating Auburn in the tournament and shocking everybody? UNC Wilmington's another really feel-good story. And Big Cat and PFT, I know you're going to get behind this. You know who's got a good ball club? Let's go pee. Austin Peay could do 13 or 14. I pull something off in the big dance. I love that. So which of these teams would you put on upset alerts? It's obviously way too early to talk about what the bracket looks like. But if you were to say, you know, a team that's somewhere in the 12 to 20 ranked area, which team would you circle right now and say, I don't really trust what they've been selling? Well, I'm going to get some heat for this. but but i really want to see them win because they've never won a tournament game oh yeah red hoiberg in nebraska the pressure riding on that singular game now i love their team i think they're incredibly balanced i i've thought the world of rink mast and sanford and jamarcus lords who provides like he's gonna have to be important in that game because he just makes things happen for them offensively but it's the sweat of that game it's the prep when you've never won a tournament game as a program everything's riding on that the fan base is going to travel big time so if they go up against one of these frisky teams that i've just mentioned a yale a uncw you never know what can happen in a 40 minute game if there's a surprise so that would be one team you know that i look at and say okay i get a little bit concerned there look Carolina could be a five or a six. Carolina's best looks damn good. But there's times when they get a little out of control. They fall into some turnovers. And you don't know what could happen if you're on the other end and you're facing a Santa Clara. You know, a team that's balanced, efficient, doesn't turn the ball over. I trust, for the most part, Vanderbilt. But their best came early. So you wonder, are they going to start peaking again? Or how's that going to go down? I'm very curious to see what happens there. So those would be three teams that I look at. Like Tom Miso is probably going to get a four seed. He's not losing a first round game. And he's probably not losing a second round game. But those would be three teams I look at and I say, all right, like you got to be careful here with how you go about things or else you could get picked off in the dance. What about a team like Alabama and Nate Oates? Great question Great question And they were a team that I looked at when you asked this question but I just trust LeBaron Phylon too much I know their defense is susceptible but they just have so much offensive pop that it gets very hard for a mid to be able to score But here's where your point gets amplified. They are not a very good defensive team. And so you've got to slow the game down against them, and that's really hard to do. They're number one in the country in adjusted tempo. So you guys got to think about it. When you are a mid-major and you don't have the speed or the athletes, that's the only thing I would say about facing Alabama is, would a team be able to get Alabama into the quicksand? Can I say one thing to you both, though? Sure. and you always say yes, so I appreciate that. Miami, Ohio. Yeah. Better get into the NCAA tournament even if they have one loss. I agree. We said this on Monday. I was like, there's a scenario that's brewing that if they lose a game and then don't win the tournament, it's going to be bullshit, but that could potentially happen. Love and honor, Johnny. Committee, they're meeting this week at Indianapolis. Let me give you a message, selection committee. Yep. the optics of keeping a team that has started the season with this mark and that plays the right way with leadership, efficiency, and everything in between. They are a tournament team that can win a game if not two. If they have one bad day, even in the regular season, even in the regular season, if they have one bad day, committee, why would you keep a team like this out? You've got to put them into the dance. put the Red Hawks in, let them fly yeah, love that Johnny we took our guns out and put it to their head don't worry about it, we got you we're standing behind you, it's finger guns, don't worry I got the safety on too it's cool, we practice finger gun safety here, they absolutely should be in they should be in Johnny I'm a little bit worried the more I hear people talk about it, saying like don't you dare do it they're gonna do it it's almost like the more we tell them you better fucking not do this it just might happen Just win the MAAC tournament. Just win the MAAC, yeah. Just win the MAAC. Johnny, can we talk about my Badgers? I saw you two doing that. I thought Rico had walked into that. Oh, no. No, we were just backing you up. We're standing behind you looking tough. This episode of Part of My Take is brought to you by McDonald's and their hot honey sauce. The hot honey sauce is at McDonald's for a limited time. 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I like putting the hot honey on some of the breakfast stuff. you put a little hot honey maybe on a mcgriddle put a little hot honey on a sausage egg and cheese biscuit that's good eating i love hot honey hot honey is a delicious condiment i'm so glad that mcdonald's is now officially in the hot honey game i'm gonna put on the snack wrap right here make it delicious new hot honey sauce now at mcdonald's for a limited time only johnny can we talk about my badgers real quick uh they're they're in the tournament right i don't have to worry about that because they do have two of the best wins in the country I think that's fair to say even though I'm very biased uh they do and they have two wins away from home that if you stack them with any other team that has two wins away from home uh it would be their wins are better than that yeah so they're in and not only are they in but now they're comfortably into a point that I'd give them a single digit seed you can't collect but not to mention what do you do on on friday night you take michigan state out back and beat the hell out of them yeah wisconsin they are a team that if you get stuck in a 7 10 or 8 9 game with them oh boy because and i don't want to be the one like think about it michigan will tell you and it wouldn't be michigan wisconsin in the second round but Michigan would tell the other one seed hey man we lost to them we lost to them nice gift in the second round wouldn't be the first time the Badgers have pulled something off you know an upset in the first weekend right over the years when we've seen their teams pull something off uh what you know what was it Villanova the one year yeah yeah I mean Xavier the one year right yeah you know but they they've been able to to do it in different ways so I Wisconsin is frisky you can't when you have players the caliber of John Blackwell and Nick Boyd. Yeah, the guard play. This is a duo that they're one of only three high major duos scoring at least 18 points per game. The other two were Richie Saunders and DeBonsa at BYU, so now Saunders is done. And the other one is JT Toppin and Christian Anderson over at Texas Tech. But Boyd and Blackwell, like Wisconsin hasn't had a score at the rate that Boyd is scoring at since Michael Finley, statistically. That was over 30 years ago. So the Badgers offense is really tough. When Rapp knocks down some shots for them, he's a next factor for them. And I think Nolan Winter, like Greg Gard said last week, Nolan Winter doesn't even know how good he could be. Nolan, if you keep rising, this Wisconsin team is going to be in the second weekend of the NCAA tournament. They're not just going to make it. They're going to make a run in the NCAA tournament. They're dangerous, man. I'm officially in that, like, I'm ready to get hurt mode because I was going into the week, you know, with Indiana, Illinois, Michigan State coming up, I was like, if we can win one game, I'll be happy. We end up winning two and probably should have won the third if we didn't get screwed. But now I'm in like, hey, I think they can make a run, which we know always ends up in disaster for me. What about the other team that we're worried about getting in? Villanova, are they a lock-in? They're a lock-in. All right, good. Yeah, Max, you can breathe easily. You know, you might have been a little off on Alex Caravan a few years back. But you are so on here. Kevin Willer was the right hire. The Cats are back. I mean, they've got UConn this weekend. And if you want to fully show your back, you come out and win that game. But they're top 35 in offense and defense. They play balanced basketball. Tyler Perkins is on it. He is a stud of a player who has stepped up. A Caden Lewis averages over five assists per game. Villanova is a tough out, guys, because they can bury threes. They've got a stretch guy in Matt Hodge, and Duke Brennan's the double-double machine. The Wildcats have a whiteout Saturday. Time to announce you're fully back. If you're going to do that, you've got to seize the opportunity against UConn. They almost beat UConn the first time. They kind of got screwed. I thought there was a foul at the end of that regulation. But we should just say Kevin Willard, right higher, also attended your wedding. Yes, he did attend. Okay, all right. Listen, we're journalists here. It's still the right hire. Don't try to take away from that. You have to put that in there just so that we know. No, you don't. Yeah, you do. Wait, did you attend his wedding as well? No. We got married years ago. Okay, all right. I mean, if we did this every time Schrager was on, it would just be an episode of disclaimers. So you would just be shuffling a deck of wedding invites. Yeah. Like a blackjack dealer. Also, Fanta, you are invited on Max's bachelor party, so you need to have a disclaimer for that, too. Yes. You're invited on the bachelor party. Where is it at? Vegas. So right now we have Friday night we have a suite for fish at the Sphere. You have to eat mushrooms with us. Saturday, Cabana, Kentucky Derby Day, Sunday golf. Everything's paid for. All you need to do is buy a flight, and you're more than welcome. Yeah. So is the fish thing With the mushrooms Is that a mandatory thing If you don't want to finish your mushrooms I can take care of that for you Also if you don't want to Willingly take the mushrooms we can do a wink wink And we'll just slip them Into some food for you I just You know like Max Every time Max you can hear me right Dude phantom shrooms in the sphere would be electric yeah not gonna put that vision i actually think you could do your own show at the sphere on shrooms like just phantom ranting let me tell you something i took the dare program in grade school they had that duck mascot yeah and i was not i was not going down that but man it would probably be an interesting visual but max why does there have to be an asterisk next to kevin willard every time we talk about it that's i mean that's big cat he's he's a bad guy every time we say something good about kevin willard he just likes kevin willard in the way that he treated the university of maryland we had a lot of we had a lot of terp fans out there and they're not happy year one year one yeah but he also like spurt the way he left maryland was disgusting and and and johnny fanta would be like i would never say anything because he he gave me a nice card at my wedding and you You know, incorrect. I said I would have probably handled that differently, but he was dancing to McFadden and Whitehead. Ain't no stopping us now. Yeah. You said you probably have handled it differently. You would have been even more ruthless to Maryland, I think was your exact quote. Yeah. People at College Park. Great fans. Passionate fans. They're into it. No, I have no enemies in College Park. This guy goes to so many weddings. he should probably read more Corinthians and figure out how to handle things like this. You're a man of faith, Johnny. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Johnny, listen, I want to go back to the bachelor party. You do not have to do the mushrooms. You are invited, though. Officially invited. Bosco will be in attendance. Oh, I forgot about that. I don't know how that relationship is right now. Well, it always heats up this time of year. It always heats up this time of year. But, you know, I don't know. Is he on the lawyer team, you know, over at, with, with coach Tang and everything. By the way, Kansas state, pay him his money. You, you fired him cause he lost games. Get out of here with that rationale of, you know, that he made a comment about his team. What he's not allowed to talk about his players and his teams. You know, are you watching coaches press conferences weekly? Kansas state, it's more, you're going to spend more money, Kansas state by going through this process. Then you would by just paying him his money and give Bosco some cash as well. Rico, the Bosco search firm is fired up right now. I haven't heard from Rico in a while, but this time of year now, it all starts to get the flames start going. You're gassing up Phylon enough. I think he's going to be happy about that. So we're now on good terms. Yeah, now we're on good terms with that. But I don't know. Tang, he got fired for cause because he said bad things about his team, right? Can you name a time that one of the greats, Rick Pitino, has he ever said anything bad about his team to the press, to the media, to fire them up? It does seem ridiculous. If this is the reason why they're trying to claw back the money that they owe him, I feel like that's going to lose on its face. It's going to lose on its face, and they're going to owe $25 million combined in legal fees and all that. Get out of here, man. And I think Kansas State is actually a solid job, could be a top half of the Big 12 job with the NIL that they have and the fans that they have. But you draw more negative attention to yourself when you now go through this process. What you don't realize is they're hurting themselves for their next search. Yeah, 100%. I have a question for you about Arizona. So is Arizona, are they going to start shooting threes ever? They don't really have to, right? They're dominant. They took 16. They took 16 against Texas Tech, but they only made four of them. So it's a problem. Like, PFT, your question there is exactly why they could get tripped up in the dance and why ultimately I didn't put them in that group of three that I think could win. I love their players. because like Brayden Burry's and Co-A-Pete guys, watching them at Pete's Jam and at high school, at the lower levels, they would own games. So those winning instincts have carried over. It's kind of why I'm like genuinely, why I'm afraid to go against Duke when I'm picking my three teams because all Cam Booster's ever done in any tournament is win. Like the guy's never, he's never lost. a postseason event in his life. Arizona, Pete and Burrys are winners. Karchinkov does a lot of good things for them. And Jaden Bradley, Bradley is as good of a point guard as you're going to find. He sets people up. He makes the right plays. But I get concerned. You're exactly right. They don't have, if they're down three, who is taking and making the shot consistently, it is one big question mark. And when in this day and age of college basketball, if you're on the receiving end of a team hot shooting day, like Iowa State got hot in the last seven minutes and just they found a way to beat Houston as a result. At some point, you can only defend, rebound, and attack the rim so well. You've got to be able to knock down the perimeter shot or you're going to get bounced early. Ask last year's St. John's team about that. They couldn't shoot and it doomed them. and maybe this is just me having watched really paid attention to the sport for the last two and a half weeks but I've watched a lot of Arizona I dove a little bit into numbers so maybe you tell me if I'm wrong about this because it doesn't seem like they're a terrible three point shooting team they just don't take them it's not a part of their DNA they're one of the lower volume teams in the country if you look at the numbers in terms of three point attempts Right. So it's a it is a big problem for them. Now, like we look at it and we also have to look at the percentages like Bradley shoots at 40 percent from deep. OK, but he's also being relied upon to initiate the offense. And he's also a guy that when you when you look at him, he's he's barely averaging a made three a game. Right. Yeah. So he's shooting it at a high percentage, but it's not in volume. buries you know there's there's similarities yeah yeah he could shoot it he's made 41 on the year i feel like i'm a hockey fan at the game just being like shoot the three just take it just take more threes right but but but when it's not part of who you are yeah it's not in your dna you could take more but based on what their personnel looks like i don't know if they're i don't think that they're making them necessarily so buries has to continue to get better in that column and then they they've got to figure it out here because you're exactly right like it doomed them ultimately against texas tech now they only lost the game by three but it opens you up to to losing regardless of where it is it is very difficult yeah to do what they did against texas tech they got outscored by 21 from beyond the arc against a team that good you're going to lose the game so you're right it is arizona's concern is not being able to to knock down that shot i'm not concerned as much as they're, you know, okay, so they don't take as many. But when you don't have the shooters, I don't blame you for not taking as many. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they also have an absolutely dominant interior offense. So, like, why, you know, that is the DNA of their team, and they dominate teams. Yeah, they're a really, really good team. It's just that one thing. They are, but the three-point shot changes everything. As long as basketball's been around, it is the great equalizer, and it's no different here. that's why that's why I like I'm higher on Florida just because I do think Florida can start making threes like I think it's going to start happening yeah they can and and Boogie Flann he still has even better like he's a great player and I think he could he could be the guy that authors a terrific March run like the Xavier and Lee thing yeah it's been bad yeah it hasn't worked out but but you could twist it and say look how good they've been in spite of that Correct. Correct. And there's just so, Thomas Houck is just a winner, guys. He plays so hard. He gets after it on both ends. He rebounds the hell out of the ball. So you have him, you have Chinielu, and you have Condon, and they're just going to say, get in the boxing ring, and we're just going to chomp. We're going to chomp and chomp and chomp, and that's what Florida does. Dusty May told me a story about a month ago. Ooh, I like this. And he said that when he was working with Mike White, that they determined going big was going to win in college basketball. You know, the NBA is about three-point shooting. And we're seeing more traditional bigs now because it's ebbs and flows of a sport. But in the college game, which has inconsistencies in the shot-making department, it's gotten a lot better. The offense has never been better in college basketball than it is now. It's great to watch. But the bigger teams are the ones who can win it all. Michigan, Florida. You know, you ask a UConn right now what their concern is. It's that they don't have a Donovan, Clingon, Adama, Sonogo type duo. The big teams get it done. Yeah. I mean, we saw Clingon versus Edie. You know, that was a real thing. Yeah. All right, Johnny, I got one last question for you. It's a rollback question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com. Promo code TAKE. 20% off your first purchase. Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. It's Roback.com, promo code TAKE. One of my favorite things you do is the Big East spaces, and I have a question off of that. What's going on with Providence right now? Because I think you and I both agree we love Providence Twitter. They're a very passionate fan base. It's been a little embarrassing, not the fans, but the play. Kim English, it seems like it's kind of ending here, but the fact that they've had these moments where it's been all about revenge and it's not been about winning basketball games, It's been tough for them, and I want Providence to be good. I want that fan base to have a good product on the court, and that scene on Saturday was kind of a joke. That scene on Saturday was embarrassing, and it was a moment there where Duncan Powell does something that's egregious, and, you know, for as mad as people can be about Bryce Hopkins, and I'm not saying that you can't be angry, What you never want your emotion to do is keep you from fighting to win a game. And I think what was hardest about that was Providence was winning at the time. It's almost like that became more important than winning. And that's not the Friartown that I know. Because the Friartown I know is as passionate a fan base. They have terrific resources, awesome facility. And what they need right now is they need some leadership and accountability for what they're putting on the court. Like the Hopkins thing aside, they're not winning. That is at its core. You are asked to win basketball games. And for what they spent on their roster, which is at least $9 million, the product has not been good enough. And defensively, they haven't been there. Saturday, though, was sort of the culmination of where they're at right now emotionally. And here's my thing, guys. Duncan Powell never played a game with Bryce Hopkins. Right. He never played a game with him. I don't even know if he knows the guy. Yeah. But where does the vitriol and the hatred, how does that start? And how does that come into what happened on Saturday? Well, that starts with leadership. So clearly he's being told about how much he's supposed to dislike this guy. and then he does something that ruined their chances of winning the game. If you don't like what a player did, good. Glad you don't like it. Sports is better when there's dislike. Not saying you should like it. But you know how you answer him? You win the freaking game. Yeah, I agree. They were up. It's crazy. Having a good team on the court should matter more than anything else. And you know what, Big Cat? It's not like you guys, we all get into this. doomsday you know death you know it's everything's done everything's over guys in this day and age of college basketball even for a kansas state you make a change you got the right amount of money you're gonna be fine yeah you get off the mat if you hire the right person you know for providence they have some very difficult decisions to make here in the coming weeks but those difficult decisions got made a lot easier with a scene like Saturday. Agreed. All right, Johnny, my last question for you. If I were to ask you, gun to your head, double barrel out your head, fingers off the trigger. The safety's off, but my finger is not on the trigger. Yep. What conference is the national championship coming from this year? It's tough. the Big Ten oh okay finally gonna happen Badgers 150 to 1 didn't ask me who Nebraska ball I love the Big Ten I think I'm gonna predict a Big Ten Big 12 title game would be cinema because those two leagues have the most candidates for it what if Nebraska went from never winning a game to just winning the championship this year and Signetti or Hoiberg yeah right yeah exactly alright well Johnny you're the best we love you have fun on the call everyone should tune in UCLA vs Michigan State and we'll talk to you come in a couple weeks when we get brackets see you guys real soon and get ready because we're in for a hell of a ride love it and you're coming to Max's bachelor party and I will be at the sphere rocking the fish. Yeah, and Kevin Willard was at your wedding. And he's coming to the bachelor party. Yeah, he's invited. Actually, that would be how you get us, too, because now we're complicit. Every time we compliment him, we have to say yeah, he went to the bachelor party. Asterisk, we were with him at the same bachelor party. Done. All right, let's do it. All right, thanks, Johnny. Before we get back in today's chaos, we've got to tell you about something that helps people focus on what's most important. That's Microsoft 365 Copilot. The world moves fast. Your workday moves even faster. You're pitching products, drafting reports, analyzing data. Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant for work built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft 365 apps that you use, helping you quickly write, analyze, create, and summarize so you can cut through clutter and clear path to all your best work. Learn more at Microsoft.com slash M365 Copilot. That's Microsoft.com slash M365 Copilot. Okay, let's finish up the show. We got guys on Olympics. Hank, get us through this with your voice. You got this. I found a short one. You're so long. What sport would become the most watched if they allowed trash talk during competition? Instant thought would be biathlon, maybe a physical aspect as well. figure skating would be sick if you let the other teams basically stand on the boards and talk shit during their routine or they were on the ice at the same time yeah like dancing at the same time yeah and then you could fight doing euros on them and tom wilson was on one of the teams i do love the curling like shit talk because you could tell it's not supposed to happen but i i would i think it would be awesome if curling because you're right next to each other and they're not out of breath so it's like the perfect yeah spot for some true shit talk all right so this would be awesome if you had luge but you win at the same time yes like race like race cars yeah yeah that would or like bobsled you go at the same time tokyo drift you do the pit maneuver send somebody over the edge it also i'd also like to see you know the uh step off challenge and like the golf tee boxes having that for the ski jump would be good yeah like as he's standing there ready to just go down the hill yeah just a bunch of dudes just busting them up bad you know what rock if they did ski jumping like the dunk contest where you had like shack standing like 90 yards down the hill you had to clear and you had to just clear shack's head yeah just barely yeah over shack yeah just or just a bunch of cars yeah cars a hundred cars cars would be awesome yeah here's a short one hank couldn't meddle in a single woman's event i agree with that what what could you meddle in slalom ski slalom no chance you went with that's like the last one not in men's but women's no way like the the only thing you you you'd have a chance in is you'd have to do like a luge or a bobsled where your weight is an advantage slalom your knees would explode No, I think Hank can do it. Men's slum. Yeah, men's slum. Oh, okay. Men's slum, you'd have no shot competing against men, but competing against women and their little knees. Like, you got man knees. I wonder if lose you would be competitive just purely weight. Yeah, a skeleton I could do. Yeah. No problem. Yeah, no, no. Although I'm not that fast. Well, you're not running. You're laying down. You are to start, right? You'd be laying down. Isn't the whole thing the push? Did you not listen to him? Yeah, I guess you do some push. Pushers like everything. What about... Were you about to say, did you not listen to yourself? You're the one who said Bob Slough. How could you possibly think that you could... You know, Slough him, he was... Slough him, how could you... Are you like a good skier? Yeah, Hank's not. Pretty good skier. No, he's not. Max, you're not understanding. It's women's sport. It's not men's Slough. Yeah, it's women's song. Hank would dominate. There's just no possible way. You don't get it, Max. I would love to see this. Dude. That looks like men's slalom that you're showing. Yeah, you don't even have to go around the poles. Show a woman. This is men's slalom. Bring up a video of a woman, Max. Hank concedes that men's slalom. You just skis straight into the poles and you're good. The Olympics sucks. They just don't give any highlights for anything. It's so stupid. So hard. Why do they do that? Why not make it something that people want to watch and go, oh, I saw that event. Let me go check it out. oh here we go the men's wait the women's giant slalom hank oh i wonder if you could win uh women's ski jump you probably dominate that too because you go so fast i actually think hank could be like the jesse owens of women's olympic sports yeah i feel like he would there's probably like 12 or 13 events yeah yeah women how did you go to this first this is women's look how slow they're going max these are chicks okay i don't think you get it max hank would dominate you just turn it's a little left a little right yeah oh man you ever seen a woman try to drive max hank hank would dominate oh hank would cut those corners so much better again i'm not like being cocky men's no men saw him you get to waste it but women saw him the turns are not that hard that's nice and easy yep you would eat so much shit i would i kind of want to see you slow oh lindsey vaughn i want to see you slow yeah lindsey vaughn did it with no acl what about moguls because she dominate no she didn't she crashed she her her leg bone broke through the side of her knee. Could you do moguls? Yeah. Yeah, easy. Dude, Hank is a mogul. Women's moguls. You kidding me? You just show up. You don't have to compete. They're like, oh, you won. Yeah, mogul. Mogul's here. Okay. The Winter Olympics suck because there are very few head-to-head sports. Everything is a time trial. I agree with that. Yeah. If you had downhill skiing with eight people lined up, it would be one of the top events. Similarly, if you had sprinting or swimming in the summer, it's time trials instead of head-to-head. No one would watch. Agreed. Yeah. That's why you go head-to-head and lose. you go head to head and bobsled that's correct that's a great take I've been thinking more about it basketball should be a winter Olympic sport yeah I guess it's technically all the events have to have snow or ice that's why it's not and the woke NBA won't go for that got it my Olympic take everyone always brings up putting an average Joe in an event to see how good the athletes really are instead I propose putting athletes in a different sport and same discipline. I want to see the Tuchuk brothers figure skating pairs, throw McDavid on some short track speed skating. Let's see if Ilya Malinin can rip a slap shot, give Michaela Schifrin some cross-country skis and a gun. I don't know what the curlers could do. Maybe chuck them in a bobsled. I like this. I like that too. I also think that they should take one. Every team, every hockey team should have to have one figure skater on their squad, and they have to play like six minutes. Or speed skater. I know. I think figures just to see guys get jacked up. Yeah. Just like the most brutal collisions you've ever seen. Or they triple Lindy or triple Lutz. Or they do something crazy. Yeah. I like that rule. All right. Last one. Part of my Olympic take, they should actually remove the condoms as a whole to encourage the athletes to continue to create world-class athletes. Agreed. This way, ensuring another generation of incredible sports entertainment. Yeah, a little lightweight eugenics. I like it. Yeah, I mean, just get some really athletic babies. When I was looking up the speed skating, the Dutch women are attractive. I'll just say that. And they're great athletes. Great athletes first, attractive second. Shout out Jake Paul. Shout out Jake Paul. Shout out Jake Paul. Who's dating or married to one of them? Also, something weird happened to his Twitter. He wanted to apologize for that. Yeah, he has no idea what happened. He stands with hands. He loves Bad Bunny. Loves him. Yep. Okay. Good show, boys. Also, it looks like we're going to play Sweden. Sweden's up 3-1 right now. Okay. When's that game? Thursday? Wednesday. Oh, bring it. Wednesday. It's Wednesday? Wait, it's tomorrow? Wait. Oh, nice. Right? Yeah, Wednesday. Yeah, it's Wednesday, Friday, Sunday. They got back-to-backs. All right, so we're going to probably have a preview of the Final Four. If from biz or wit on Friday show. Oh, the women's gold medal game Thursday. Women haven't let up a goal. That one. That one's I saw the graphic that UW Madison posted. It was there's 11 Badgers on both sides, like combined on both sides. I love that. Going to win no matter what. I love that. There's like six and five. Hank would dominate women's hockey. Oh, yeah. They don't check. No, I'm not a great skater. That's really humble Alright, numbers 23 Go quick, go quick 69 71 17 86 72 86 for Shane 72 for Jack 10 for Colton 26 26 Close to 56 Close to 56 Love you guys Not even close Shane's looking like he got eating his shit Any birthdays? Any birthdays? At the women's law. Birthday? Any birthdays? Any birthdays they're asking? Any birthdays? Oh, any birthdays? No, nobody was born today. Happy birthday, Michael Jordan, today. Nobody was born today. Nobody was born today. Today's his birthday. Michael Jordan was born today. And Jerry O'Connell, yeah. And Jerry O'Connell, it was also his birthday today. Yeah. But we already wish Jerry a happy birthday. Jerry, your birthday present is in the mail. I got the last one sent back to me. Love you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.