USA Hockey Wins The Gold, Keith Yandle Talking About The Gold Medal Game, Olympic Luger Zach DiGregorio, CBB And Who's Back Of The Week

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Hey, football guy, the team of H.W. Yeah, part of my take. Yeah, part of my take. Yeah, part of my take. Yeah, part of my take. Yeah, part of my take. Welcome to Part of My Take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Monday, February 23rd. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. That was awesome. We did it. We did it. We won the gold. This was a year in the making on this show. We knew it. We knew that last winter that was just a warm-up. We said it was an all-star game. It doesn't matter. We won the gold. We went out and got the gold. What a great game it was, too. What a fantastic way to wake up on a Sunday. Hank's right. Watching sports early in the mornings. Kicks ass. Good job, Hank. It's nice to, you know, it's like America. We've been in training camp for a while now. We're sick of hitting each other. We just want to go out there and hit somebody else. Yeah. And we all united today against Canada. And it was awesome. What a great game. Got off to an early start. It was a nail biter. I mean, it was more than a nail biter. It was a I want to puke in my own mouth biter. I don't even know if that's a thing. I did puke in my own mouth. Yeah, like the fact that we got that first goal, which Boldy, that was so sick. Was that a dangle? He dangles. Yeah, he dangles. Like the puck control that he had was incredible. Go up 1-0 and then spent basically the rest of the game in regulation being like, Connor Hellebuck, please save us. And save us he did. He was out of his mind good. stood on his head, 42 shots faced, 41 saves. The entire second and most of the third period was essentially just playing on tilted ice where Canada had every single shot, including a five on three where I was like, oh, it's over, we're fucked. Because it did feel like the only way we could win that game, halfway through the second, it was like the only way we could win this game is if we get to overtime. Because we're just not, they're just kicking our ass otherwise. and we got to overtime and the three best players in the world on the Canadian line choked. And Nathan McKinnon choked. Big time choked. Choked on an empty net. Wide open net. You could see in real time, I think he thought about it a quarter of a second too long. Pulled it to the left. It was the best way that we could win because, yeah, you're right. And you'll see a lot of people from Canada. There's a lot of cope going around. I have some cope I'd like to read. There's a lot of cope that I would also like to get to. The U.S. was actually the better team today. I just want to get ahead of that. Yeah. People are saying that Canada was the best team today. That's actually not true because the United States won the game. Yeah. We had two goals. They had one. If you win the game, you are the better team that day. Correct. That's pretty much as definitive as it gets. That's why they keep score. Guess what? I think you can make the argument we won the first period. I think you can make the argument Canada won the second period. And then I think you could say that maybe Canada won the third. we won overtime. Yeah. And guess what? Overtime is a tiebreaker. Yeah. So 2-2 plus we had the most important one, which is overtime. We were the better team by far today. Jack Hughes, legend, was literally spitting chiclets in the game, scores the game winner. It was just awesome. It was 1980, last time. I mean, it's crazy. The miracle on ice was the last time we won a gold medal. And you could feel the momentum building, The fact that Four Nations was, even though it was an all-star game, an exhibition game, which credits Canada, they did win the exhibition game. It was, we're getting there, getting there, closer and closer. And you've got to think, too, Jack Hughes saying that he didn't want to end up on Barstool. That's what he was thinking about when he got that penalty late. He said, I picture myself on Barstool Sports being like the guy that America hates because Canada scores on the power play. I was like, oh my God, here it is. So, I think we kind of want it, too. Yeah, he was afraid of Frank going, this motherfucker. But it was awesome. The whole thing was fucking awesome. And, yeah, the Canadian cope. Listen, I said it after. Like, I choose to win with class. I'm winning with class. Yes. Like, does it hurt for Canada? I graciously said the hockey is our fourth, like, the fourth sport we're best at. It's not the fourth most popular sport in America. Okay, the ones that we're best at. Is it not? Football? No. Yeah, I think it would be football. Well, no, if you break up NFL, college football. High school football. High school football. No, we're better at flag football, too. We're football, baseball, basketball. College basketball. I wish we could say golf, but we did get our asses kicked in the Ryder Cup. And then hockey. And I love hockey. But it's our fourth most important sport, and it's Canada. Canada's everything. and we fucking beat you. And we have the gold. And it's awesome. Not only did we beat you, we beat you twice. Yeah. We beat you twice. We swept you, men's and women's. Yeah. We took your sport. We got your sport. This is good for the rivalry. It's great for the rivalry. And it's great for America, too. And we're going to get into it with Yans, but the idea, yes, if you want to go from shots or how the game went, that Canada had the pressure on us the whole time, Yeah, it looked like we weren't going to pull it out. But part of the built of this team was to build a team defense first and a gritty, tough team, and that's what they were. Whiskey drinkers. Yeah. Or the American whiskey drinkers. The Kachuk brothers, Jack Eichel, like all these guys. Austin Matthews is the winner. I love that, by the way. If you didn't see the clip, a reporter asked, like, what are you going to take from this going back to your teams? And it was kind of a loaded question to Austin Matthews because he's going back to the Maple Leafs. He's been getting dogged by the Toronto media. And the Hughes brothers came to his defense. Well, I think Jack Hughes, before he came to his defense, was like, can I get another beer, which was a great clip. And then he came to his defense like, Austin Matthews is a winner. There's nothing else to say. He carried us to a gold medal. He is a winner. The Toronto media should talk about how the fact that he is a winner. Write that up. He's a winner. Put that in your column. Put that in your column, buddy. Eat that. I think the Hughes brothers seem like the coolest guys ever to hang out with right now. It seems like they're just going to be hammered for the next, like, until they touch down the United States. The best. They're going to be drunk as fuck. The interview with Mike Tirico was an all-timer. By the way, the Hughes family had three gold medals. Yeah. Because their mom is part of the women's team. Yeah. Like, the coach stuff. By the way, did you know that the coaches don't get medals? That's bullshit. Bizarre. They get the stuffed animal, though, which is more important. Oh, man. The second place stuffed animal was the best. Watching Marshawn get the stuffed animal. McKinnon was even better. McKinnon was so pissed. He's a stuffed animal and he's just like, the fuck do I do? Sorry, buddy. This is for your tears. Could you imagine being a Canadian and, like, that is your sport. And that is everything. And it's like, when you think Canada, you think hockey. And you go. And America steals your sport. And then afterwards, they're like, hey, here's a LeBouBou. Oh, it's beautiful. It was great. It was such a great day. I was watching everything. I was watching all the highlights, all the replays, everything. It really is. You win the gold. You lose the gold, and then you win the bronze. Like the silver. Silver would suck. Yeah. If you win the bronze, that's a pretty great place to be. You get the stuffed animal. You're happy to have the stuffed animal. Yeah. If you get – I don't think there's anything worse that you can give somebody after losing a gold medal than a stuffed animal. Be like, it's going to be okay. Yeah, here you go. That's like the worst thing you can do. Have a little plus. Yeah, Quinn Hughes is on another planet on his – The interview with Tariqo, these guys, they're the drunkest dudes ever, and I absolutely love it. They're just talking about how much they love the boys, and then one guy gets, I think it was Quinn. It was Larkin. No, but Quinn Hughes got behind and just goes, oh, so shout out the troop. Yeah, yeah, he shouted out the troop. And Larkin just showed up and was like, hey, I'm in this. I want to say, hey, what's up to Mike Tirico? Yeah, that was Larkin. He was like, hey, what's up, Mikey Tirico? It's great, though. It's great. I can't get enough of it. I can't get enough of some of the cope coming from Canada. Tirico, by the way. It's important to have cope. Tirico was awesome. The message about, you know, this is what the next generation dreams about and, like, these are the dreams. You watch the Olympics, and these guys were watching in 2010 and 2014. Now they're playing. That was in how sports bring us all together was awesome. Also, Eddie O is the absolute best. I love Eddie O forever. I mean, he's so good in the big moments. He also had the line of the day when Marshawn was basically trying to take on the entire American team, and he said that Marshawn could talk a stamp off an envelope. Yeah, I like that one. Such a great line. Such a great episode. It was a great broadcast. The whole thing was just, I was on cloud nine, like, all day. Before noon. Yeah. Before noon. I was just walking around with a smile on my face. This was fucking awesome. I think we all knew that once overtime started, it wasn't going to go more than five minutes. I stayed. You had to be around the TV. You had to be locked in because you know the format of three-on-three. Like, something's going to happen. Right away. With these guys. Yeah. You have to watch every second of it. Someone's about to be heartbroken. Someone's about to win. And, yeah, we gritted it out. This is U.S. hockey. This is how we built the team. We built it to frustrate the, you could say, more skilled Canadians. Yeah. But guess what? We're the better team. Yeah. Well, there's a thing that they use in sports called the score, and the score today read U.S. to Canada's story. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah, not according to Nathan McKinnon. Nathan McKinnon wanted it to be a figure skating competition. He said afterwards, you be the judge of who has the better team today. Okay. I will. They should incorporate. It was the U.S. We won 2-1. There's one thing that America loves about sports like boxing and UFC. That's the judges' scorecards. Those are always fair. Should we do our favorite Cope from Canada? Yeah. All right. I think the number one leader, I don't even know who this guy is, J.D. Bunkus. Shout out to him. Yeah, he had a great name. Great name. So J.D. Bunkus said, honestly, if you're an American celebrating that win, you're a casual who doesn't know puck. Totally fine. Grow the game. Now, that in itself, he's on Sportsnet, J.D. Bunkus. That in itself is like, dude, you're a fucking, that's pathetic that you're that upset that you're like, you're a casual if you're an American celebrating this. Okay. He also said in 2023, no greater American hockey tradition than losing to Canada, making excuses, and being poor sports about it. Whoops. Yeah. That's the thing. He wasn't wrong about that one. Yeah. But this is the thing. When we make the jokes about the All-Star game, yes, we lean into it. But we're like, yeah, we're pissed off that we lost. We're not going to pretend that we were pissed. And we leaned into a joke about being an All-Star game. We wanted to win that game. The problem with some of the Canadian writers is that they pretend that they're better than us, and then they do exactly what we're joking about. They do the exact same cope of, well, the better team lost today. Well, I think it's also fair to say that last year during the Four Nations, it was a great tournament, and it got everybody excited about hockey, and there was a lot that we put into it, rooting for the USA. But it's not the Olympics. It's not. So, like, yes, calling it like an exhibition, we were fucking with people a little bit on that one, fucking with our Canadian friends. But it's not the Olympics. Yeah. Like, I did see one graphic that got put up being, like, comparing the two countries and their history of hockey success. and they did count like 1-0 in the Four Nations for Canada. Yeah. As like a real thing that they looked at. Listen, that was an exhibition. It was an important exhibition, but that guy's also right in the fact that there's no better tradition Americans have than like pretending not to be upset when we lose to Canada. Taking our ball and going home. We love doing that. It's so fun. But guess what? We were the better team today. Here's one of my favorites. Okay. The Canadians got much louder cheers than the U.S., which is just getting some polite applause from the crowd in Italy. That's during the ceremony. Yeah. During the medal ceremony. So Canada did get more cheers as they were getting their silver medal than we got. It also was great, just like this type of event. The trolling you can do is just, it's right. There was a tweet at the beginning of the game being like the Americans got booed going out. And I just quote to you, it'd be like, I would never boo in any sporting event. Like it's called the Olympic spirit. and a lot of people took that very seriously. Here's another one that I loved. I can accept the fact that USA won, but what I can't accept is these fair-weather American fans claiming they own the sport now because they won for the first time in almost 50 years, LOL. Well, unfortunately, we won both of the women and men, so I would, listen, if I could go back, if I could make a rule that we don't own the sport, I would do that for you, Anissa. Unfortunately, we do own the sport. Because if you say who has the most recent two gold medals in women's and men's hockey, it's the United States of America. There, in fact, we do own the sport. You can come back. Maybe next time we play in the Olympics, you can try to beat us then. Right. That way, it would be fair, and you would be able to own the sport. It would be like when Rome fell. It would be like, well, Rome is fine. They won so many wars. Well, guess what? It's over. Yeah, and listen. Most recent thing. What have you done for me lately? Anissa? Anissa. Anissa. Anissa. Fielding Inissa. Inissa, check it out. You also have Conor McDavid, who is the best player in the entire world. Yeah, because he got voted for. Conor McDavid is the MVP of the Men's Olympic Tournament, as voted by, I think, the writers and the players. He won the most important award besides the gold medal at these Olympic Games. So you could say like. He basically won a gold. You could say America owns the sport, but that Conor McDavid is the best player in the sport that America owns. He's the best player in America's game. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Here's another one. This is from Taj1944. That was pure domination by Canada. Canada got goalied and U.S. got lucky. Going to happen once in a while when a single game decides everything. Miss multiple empty net tap-ins. Canada wins that game nine times out of ten with the same game script. Ah, man. What happened that one time? Nine times. Nine times. We had a goalie that stood on her head. He stood on his head, okay? Sometimes you run into a hot goalie. It happens. And you just ran into a better team, and that's okay. We're just the hockey country. Maybe you guys can get good football or basketball. Drake needs to spend a lot of money on just building up some teams in IL. Yeah. He could probably buy a Final Four at least if he wanted to. Oh, man. But for now, guess what? Hockey's kind of our thing. It's not kind of. It's our thing. It is our thing. Also, shout out to Meg Keller. She got the game-winning goal. Yeah. That you heard us react to live with Biz and Whit. I had forgotten that me and Billy Football coached her. Oh, yeah. In the Pink Whitney Cup back in like 2020, 2021. She owes all that gold medal. I don't want to say that I get any credit, but I think Billy Football should get a gold medal. Yeah. Yeah, he should. For the training. You know the Onion article that everyone uses, like, worst person you know made a good point? Mm-hmm. I do have to say this. Worst person we know actually had a good tweet. Darren Revell, he did say, For all Canadians saying they were the better team, on George Washington's birthday, let me remind you, the British were the better team, and the Americans still won their independence. That's not really true that the British were the better team. They had a bigger army. They had a bigger army, but we also had... Just dummied them. They were going up against us and France. Mm-hmm. Ciao, France. They were also stupid. They were also very stupid. Yeah. And inbred. We were way less inbred. I just love all this. I think Darren's feeling a little high and mighty because his son had a nice future on the USA to win. On Calci. Yeah. So one team dominates, gets goalied, and loses in a gimmick. $35 million devastated in hand-wraining for the next four years. The other team celebrates it in 24 hours as fans will forget about it for the next four years and get back to the sports that actually matter to them. Hold on. Hold on. It's going to be more like three days. like oh no Kansas does play Big Monday Bill Self Houston's gonna maybe lose three in a row or Bill Self loses his first Big Monday ever so yeah I guess no because the game ended at 10am Big Monday is 6pm so you're wrong dude 36 hours but yeah sorry that we have awesome sports all the time and March Madness is the fucking best also it's Big Monday like normally if this game was played Saturday morning, I think we probably would have gotten through most of the day on Sunday. This is just a cell phone by this guy. Yeah, this is absolutely devastating and crippling for Canada for the next four years, whereas U.S. gets to have March Madness, the Masters, NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs. We get it all. World Cup. Baseball season. Yeah. They technically have World Cup, too. Yeah, but that's like a charity. Like a couple of World Cup games we played in Canada. Yeah. We all know, I don't think the Prime Minister of Canada got the FIFA World Peace Prize. No. World Baseball Classic? Yeah. Yeah, sorry, we got a lot of sports, and we love sports, and we fucking dominate a lot of sports. I do feel for the Canadians that are like, you know, what do they have now? Now that they no longer have... Curling! They got curling. And cheating in it. But at what cost? Yeah. At what cost did you get curling? I want to say, by the way, as an aside, I apologize to all curlers everywhere. I curled on Thursday night for six hours. That sport is fucking hard. In what way? Every way. The rocks move so fast. There's skill in there. There's actual physical ability because you're basically just doing lunges all on ice with a kettlebell. Curling rocks. I watched nonstop curling after I curled once. Can't wait for four years. Someone will remind me that I like curling and I will be back in. It's a lot easier if you cheat. Yeah, it is. It is. It's very effective. Actually, it's very easy if you cheat. Now, if you're Canadian, you can celebrate the curling championship, but I feel like that's got to leave a real bad taste in your mouth. If that's the best thing that you have from these Olympics. From an American standpoint, so I'm a little bit biased on this, we won the three most important gold medals, right? We can all agree on that. The Winter Olympics, in order, the importance of gold medals is men's hockey, women's hockey, and women's figure skating. Oh, I thought you were going to say women's form because Hank won that. Hank would have won that. Hank would have won women's swallowing. If he was entered. Yeah. Unfortunately, he did not enter himself. But I think those are the three most important ones. Yeah, by far. Like, nobody cares about, but when he talks about, like, women's figure skating, yeah, I will pretend to care about that for at least 48 hours. Yeah. Well, here's the thing that's beautiful about being us is that if we win, we care, and if we don't win, we just pretend it didn't exist. It's beautiful. We won women's swallowing even without Hank. Oh, let's go. And freestyle skiing. And freestyle skiing. We actually had our best Olympics ever. Winter Olympics. Ever. We smashed our... I think the most goals we had won previously was nine. We won 12. If you look at Norway, man. Norway just... They invented every sport in these Olympics. Okay, let me ask a question, though. If you remove cross-country skiing. Yeah. Norway's like the friend that's like, hey, do you want to come to my house and play all my video games and I'll beat you at all of them? Yeah. That's what Norway does. Here, I'll give you the joystick that doesn't work. Yeah, the Winter Olympics. You hit the Mad Cats one. Is that cool? Yeah. There's this one guy who was on my Instagram feed. He had like seven gold medals. I didn't even know. He just won every cross-country thing. Yeah, I mean, if you look at these stats, if you take out Norway, which you should. We dominated. We dominated these Olympics. Absolutely dominated. Man. Listen, silver shines bright. That was a real tweet from the women's. Silver shines just as bright. Just as bright. Just as bright. Yeah, if you take out cross-country skiing, we had more gold medals. There's a couple of souvenirs that I would like to get my hands on from these Olympic Games. One would be the stuffed animal for the losers. The LaBubu, yeah. I'm sure that there's some trash can in the Canadian locker room that got filled with those stuffed animals. If anybody knows how I can get my hand on one of the losing stuffed animals, I would love that. And then I did say in a request to Jack Hughes, if he doesn't do anything with the teeth, I would like to have those teeth raised up in the rafters here at the Barstow Chicago HQ. Would love that. Right next to Danny Boy King. Right next to all the banners. We'll put that in banner corner. I think that would make a nice addition to the collection. Yeah, I like that a lot. And we're going to get into more of the game with Yans. Talk about the Johnny Goudreau moment, which was awesome. Just everything. Everything about that game was incredible. We also, here's something. Actually, I'll save it for my who's back. the whole thing. I just, I loved it. What would we have talked about if we lost? How would the show start? Duke Michigan? No, probably not Duke Michigan. That's a good question. I probably just would have re-entered a new future on the Celtics. We would have opened the show with that. Probably Nova getting smoked. I will say, and we said this on Friday's show with Yans, sorry, with Witten Biz. I was like, I would have been very upset if we had lost this. Whereas the Four Nations, when we lost it, we could easily be like, ha-ha, that's an exhibition. This would have sucked. This would have sucked. Because we would have gotten so close. Again, we would have eaten some crow. I would have eaten some crow. The Canadians are being mean online, man. They're being mean. They don't handle losing well. They've got to learn some class from us. It's the only thing they've got. We win with class and we lose with class. That's what we do. It's the only thing Canada's got is hockey. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Canada. I hope oldie's doing okay. I might have told Canada to suck our dicks from the back. But that's class. I used hashtag class. What would America's dick be? What would be the great American penis? Dan Dockage. I think Florida. Oh. I think the state of Florida, that's America's dick. Yeah. Yeah, that definitely is. Suck it, Canada. Louisiana's the balls. Oh, yeah. It's swampy there. Big time swampy. Yeah. Suck Florida. That would actually make... Yeah, like Newport News, Virginia Beach will be the naval. Yeah. Take all Florida in. Yeah. Right in your mouth. Man, what a game. Max, how was the bar? Bar was awesome. How drunk did you get? Because you get drunk. I didn't think you were making it. Did you go? No. Oh. I got pretty drunk. What time did you get there? I didn't get there for Puff Drop. It was like 7-12. Okay. Oh, that's going to piss off a Canadian listening to this right now. Whatever. I don't care. I mean, I was there, but there is something different about, like, when you have a beer that early, it hits much differently. You instantly get drunk. Yeah. Yeah. I said that, like, once I started my second beer, I was like, I haven't felt this way after, like, the sip of a second beer, like, ever. It's a life hack, yeah. And it was also the vibes. We were at, the bar is called the Hockey Barn in Chicago. So it was, like, the reservations were packed. We were in, like, the back corner of this, of, like, a golf simulator. But the vibes were just so incredible. It was so packed. Everyone was so fired up, and everyone just loved American hockey. Now, Max, did you go out Saturday? I did, but I went, like, I was home by 9 o'clock. Okay, yeah, because that's another thing. It's like, everyone knows, if you wake up and you have a beer before noon the day after, You get rollover minutes from the night before, even if you don't feel drunk. It kind of kicks you back in. But yeah, it was cool to see all the lines at all the bars. It was awesome. People opening up early. I watched from bed, which was awesome to do too. It's a nice way to start your day. I headbanged so hard to Freebird. I think my neck is permanently damaged. My neck hurts so bad. So after we scored the game-winning goal, I just ran down to my basement just to play Freebird for myself. Love that. That's awesome. I just grabbed the guitar. Just for the love of the game. No cameras, nothing on. I just plugged that shit in, and I was just like, I'm just going to rip it. I'm just going to rip it. The acapella version of the guitar. Like, no backup track. My neighbors were probably walking by, walking their dogs on the street right outside the window. They were like, what the fuck is going on? That sounds terrible. But, yeah, you just had to. Everybody, like, it was such a good release in that moment. It was so good. It was one of those things where it was like the game ended, and I was like, I was with, like, a bunch of my friends. We were like, fuck it. We're going to have an all-time Sunday. And I was like, whatever. I'll figure out part of my take later. And then like an hour went by, and I was like, I'm good to go home and take it. And I just took like a four-hour nap. Yeah. You weren't going to stick around for Memphis, South Florida, what you would be. There was a moment where I was like, what am I doing here? Now, if there was a stronger slate that came on right after that, then that could have been a great day. No, because I bet USA big, and then I was like, okay, nice. And then I was just forced into betting. I can't even remember the game. I think it was Memphis UAB. I was like, all right, Memphis UAB, let's go. But that's the beauty of being us. We got Memphis UAB right after. They got nothing. You would still have to wait another, like, four hours for the golf to come on. Yeah, yeah. You don't think I was betting Rice Tulane? I was. And it was great. It was awesome. We did it. We did it, guys. We fucking did it. We did it. We did it. We really did it. Oh, here's another cope. Ready for this? Yeah. John Cooper, coach. You take four players off the ice. He's talking about three-on-three OT. You take four players off the ice. Now, hockey's not hockey anymore. There's a reason overtime and shootouts are in play. It's all TV-driven to end games, so it's not a long time. There's a reason why it's not in the Stanley Cup final or playoffs. Well, it is in the Stanley Cup regular season. You did know that it was three-on-three before the tournament. I mean, you do have the three best players in the world on one line that were on the ice when you lost. That's just a shame. That's a shame that you've got to go to excuse making. Also, Bouchergras made a great point, and I think it's true. Like, three-on-three is beautiful because you know you're going to get an awesome goal. Yeah. Like, when you have five-on-five, and yes, playoff hockey is incredible. It's probably the best, like, viewing experience. But when you get to overtime and playoff hockey, it could be the bounce off of a stick or, you know, a deflected pass from 40 feet out. Three-on-three hockey, you're going to get, like, a sick, sick goal. And that's what we got. Yeah, it's wide open. It's actually very fun hockey. I know it's not the same. But guess what? You had the rules, too. And you have the better. If you have the better team, win the game. You can also just make a wide-open shot in regulation. You can just do that. That's an easy way to handle it. I will say, I know we dog them. McDavid, incredible tournament, won the MVP. That's what he does. He wins MVPs. I was like, my life flashed before my eyes when he did the thing in overtime where he got all his momentum and entered the zone. You're like, this is a problem. Yeah. He did that, I think, once or twice. You're like, oh, fuck. Having him with the puck on his stick all the time is a wide-open eye. It's terrifying. Yeah. He's nice to everybody. Listen, I don't want to say that Sidney Crosby is like a basketball player playing hockey because he didn't play in the gold medal game. Other people are saying that. I don't think that's fair to basketball players. No, that's not fair. SGA would have played. He would have flopped, but he would have played. I don't think it's fair to Sidney Crosby. He's got a big-time playoff run coming with Pittsburgh Penguins. Yeah. And so he needs to rest up for that. Oh, you got SGA. Yeah, you do have SGA. You have SGA. That's awesome. Yeah. He's hockey tough. Dylan Brooks. He's Canadian, right? you got that yeah that's awesome that's so sick two great guys Andrew Wiggins yeah his birthday today Andrew Wiggins birthday happy birthday Andrew Wiggins let's say some nice things about Canada Anthony Bennett Anthony Bennett yeah number one overall Alanis Morissette yep Celine Dion Celine Dion is she okay John Candy love John Candy Norm Macdonald fucking love John Candy Norm Macdonald with R.I.P. Jim Carrey the GOAT yep Listen, I do love Canada. We are a little, like, yes, we do own your sport, but I love biz. I love oldie. Canada's awesome. I love going, you know, Toronto's one of my favorite cities to visit. Alex Trebek. Alex Trebek. Maple syrup. Like, there's, Canada rocks. Not at hockey. But, like, everything else, Canada's great. Canada's a great, great country. They're just not the best at hockey anymore. And I think that Montreal is one of my favorite cities. Yeah. I stand by what I said about the Bell Center. It's the most incredible place to watch a hockey game that I've ever seen. Maybe even a sporting event. It was like SEC allowed in there. Chase Claypool. There you go. One of our great American football players. He got traded for a haul. Basically a first-round pick. A haul. It was like the 33rd pick. Yeah. That's huge. Wayne Gretzky. He's the great one. He's the man. Yeah, pretty much Chad Kelly now. I think he is kind of Canadian. Yeah, Ryan Reynolds. He's got like a lawsuit or something. Richard McAdams. Oh, the- Wedding Crashers. The people that found the Don't Fuck With Cats guy. Yeah. There were a bunch of Canadians that tracked that guy down. Good for them. Yes. Drake. Trailer Park Boys. Trailer Park Boys. Pamela Anderson. Is she Canadian? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Remember she was found because she was one of the cheerleaders or like she got caught on camera at a CFL game. And they're like, she's hot. Oh, yeah. Rob Ford. Rob Ford, RIP. RIP. Great guy. Eugene Levy. The Hart Brothers, also half RIP. Half RIP for the Hart Brothers. Yep. There's a lot. There's a lot of great Canadians, and we love them. It's just not your sport anymore, and that's okay. You'll find a new sport. Yeah. You guys just, you know what? This curling thing's got legs. Go with it. Yeah, this might be the start of a dynasty. You just go with the curling thing. Stick with curling. Stick with curling and, yeah, I think it's just curling. I don't know. I don't know. What else? Maybe you can, no, I think curling would be a good one for you to just lead into, get a dynasty going. Mm-hmm. Archery. I feel like Canadians could be good at archery. Yep. Being dudes you want to have a beer with. That's a fact. Canadians are dudes you want to have a beer with. You know what? Not dudes you want to have a beer with and watch hockey, because they don't really know the game. It's our game now. But dudes you want to have a beer with without hockey on. I think Canada is one of the strongest lunch countries. I think they've got just great lunches. Okay. They take lunch pretty seriously. Poutine? Yeah, they've got the poutine. They eat a very heavy lunch in general in Canada. You've got the poutine. And that's something to respect. Poutine's big. You've got the moose. Yeah. A lot of moose. A lot of moose. Maybe just go hose down the backyard and look at the moose for a couple days. That always takes this thing off. I used to tell Darlin, I'd say, Darlin, I've got to go hose down the backyard and look at my moose. Oh, man. What else do we got? Anything? I mean, that was awesome. Anything else about the Olympics? Any other last things? No, it just rocks winning all the good sports. Yeah, it really does. I love it. Did you guys catch the Olympic Gala? We had some pretty decent redemption skates at the gala. What's the gala? It's more so just a little bit of a sin-dove. It's not competition. Are you talking about the closing ceremonies? It's before the closing ceremony. There's something before the closing ceremony is called the gala. Yeah, it's an Olympic gala. They've got quite a few athletes who do some skating. So, like, some of those athletes who things didn't really pan out their way in the competition of the game were able to kind of get some closure through the gala skates. Oh. So, like, Elia, you know, like the quad god, he fell a couple times, didn't medal in the free skate. But on his gala skate, he hit the backflip. You know, that was good. He got some closure there. Okay. And then, like, Amber Glenn, you guys saw, she under-rotated that triple loop for the short program. Wait, did they have, they should have just had Nathan McKinnon just shooting on an empty net. That would have been perfect. That could have played too. Just in that angle, just being like, all right, I can do this. Just a redemption. So it's just like a... If you tried to do that Nathan McKinnon shot in a video game, if you set it up and you like try to miss, how many times out of 10 would you be able to miss without the computer making you make that shot? I don't... PFT, I... I don't want to sound crazy. I don't think I'd miss that shot if I'm put on the ice in Nathan McKinnon's spot. I think I'd hit that every time. I think you probably would, too. Right? Even in a video game. You'd hit that every time. In real life. I was thinking about that. I think I could hit that shot. Every time. We're such dicks. It's not that hard. No. It was wide open net. Fucking puck on net, dude. A hell of a bit didn't even know where the ball was. Oh. I love that. I love talking about hockey like halftime. You've got to shoot the ball. It's great. It's, I think, the best trolling sport. It really is. You guys are being very mean in the group chat, though, regarding Tom Wilson. Well, he's a bad guy. Tom Wilson, not a bad guy. He was being a bad guy. He was being a bad guy. Not a bad guy. Tom Wilson, great guy. He was being a bad guy. Great hero. He plays the game in a very American way. It's unfortunate that he's on Canada. No. What did he do that was so wrong today? He's being a bad guy. There was like one late hit. That's what I was like. Yeah, and then he's complained a little. Sorry that he's built like a freight train. You're being Canadian right now, Max, complaining. Complaining about a Canadian? You sound like a Canadian right now. You sound like a Canadian because you're the one defending the Canadian. No, the Canadian plays the game a very American way. And you're upset. Right now you're defending the Canadian and you're calling me the Canadian. Yeah, you're being upset and you sound Canadian because a physical man played a physical sport physically. You're like, oh, no, that's too simple. Just to be clear, you're the one defending the Canadian. Yes, for playing the game of America. So I'm the Canadian. Yes. Even though you're the one defending the Canadian. Correct. Got it. Yeah. This is not complicated, Max. This all makes sense. Makes perfect sense. Oh, man. Wait. All right. I want to see. Oh, my God. I could have made it every time. I would have made it every time. Let's see this. He had a second, too. It wasn't like a true one-timer, you know? That's a lot of net. Wait, play it in real speed. Don't ban us, IOC, from talking about it. They actually probably would. We could tell that they had some video on in the room with them. Yeah, no, I... Yeah, I make it every time. Yeah. I mean, we all do. Guys like us, do you know why? Because it's our sport. It's our sport. We're America. We have tremendous concentration. Yeah. It's our sport. We don't miss those shots. This guy doesn't. Okay, before we get to the rest of the show, DraftKings. Go right now. DraftKings every week. One NBA star rises above the rest. Now, DraftKings Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NBA, is raising the stakes. King of the court just got a major upgrade. $2 million in bonus bets every week. Double the previous prize pool. Opt in, use your token, and make pregame $5 bets or more on the player you think will lead Tuesday night in points, rebounds, and assists. If your pick finishes on top, you'll share a piece of 2 million in bonus bets. Same throne, bigger crown, 2 million reasons to play. Download DraftKings Sportsbook. Use code TAKE for your shot. Add a share of 2 million in bonus bets with code TAKE in partnership with DraftKings Sportsbook. The crown is yours. Gambling problem? 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His uncle, number 23. 6 plus 23 equals 29 for Brock Nelson. Three gold medals for three U.S. Olympic hockey teams. Pretty awesome. In that family. Pretty awesome. And we are going to get into Brock. We are going to get into more of the game with Yance. He had a great breakdown, what it means for USA hockey, everything. Do you guys want to talk some college basketball? Huge Saturday slate. Awesome. I came away from Saturday thinking not different than really what I went into Saturday with, which was Duke's really fucking good. Cameron Boozer's awesome, which I still can't get over the fact that I vividly remember watching him as a fat seven-year-old in Carlos Boozer's driveway. It's tough getting old. And I actually walked away being like, I don't think that was that bad of a loss for Michigan in the fact that they shot absolute dog shit. And if they just shoot a little bit better, they'd probably win that game. I thought it was a great loss for Michigan. I thought that they played really... Duke played, I think, as good as they can. Yeah. And they're very good. Duke's capable of beating anybody. Michigan's capable of beating anybody. Yeah, it was a close game. It came down to the last 40 seconds. Came down to some foul shots, some missed wide-open threes. But it's also very strange having these games neutral site this time of year. Yeah. They should not be neutral site this time of year. Yeah. Like, I want to see – Well, no, I disagree just on the fact that I – I hate that I'm saying something nice about Duke, but I like that they do – There's an argument to be made that having big match-ups between out-of-conference teams this time of year is good for the sport in general. I just don't like playing these games off campus. Yeah. There was Wizards, there was a Wizards game there, and the tickets were like $20, and the tickets for that game were $300. I think someone posted that there was, I think if you combined the get-in price for every Wizards game for the rest of the season, it was less than what the get-in price was for Duke-Michigan. They usually pay you to go to Wizards games. What I was going to say is Duke, to their credit, have done this. Actually, I think their second or third year doing this. People forget it happened last year because they beat Illinois by like 50, but they try to schedule a big-time team in this zone. which is smart by Duke to get ready for it. Like, they were playing with the tournament balls. So, Duke, Michigan, I also thought Arizona was so fucking impressive because I thought that was going to be a game that Houston, awful loss, was definitely going to win. And Arizona is just such a problem down low. They're just so efficient. And that was a big one. And then I'm going to be timing the Cougars, by the way. I'm expecting that they lose at Kansas. Well, I don't know. Kansas, dude, that picture of Darren Peterson coming back to the huddle. That's some fake news, though. Why? Did you see the play? Or if you just saw the picture, it looks bad. He was having a word with the referee, and then he came back to meet up with his teammates. I still think it's... It's one of those pictures that will confirm every bad thing that you thought about him. But if you see what happens in the moment without just looking at that one image... Well, maybe he should have been in the huddle with his team. He could have been in the huddle with his team. He could have been in the huddle with his team. I also think he's a little injured because I was watching, not to get too deep into it, I was watching highlights of him in high school, and his leaping ability is not the same right now. So I think something's up with him. He might actually be injured. I think he's injured, but I think that he's, like, when it comes to them saying he had the flu and all this stuff, there's other stuff that goes on around with it. And then Bill Self was like, yeah, there's things that he can do to change the narrative, which is play. Yeah. He needs to play. Are we, Max, you did not go to Philadelphia smart. Thank God. They look terrible. Are you nervous at all about Villanova off of, that was, we were joking about it, but we weren't joking about it. UConn loses to Creighton. They're going to win the next game. Yeah. I mean, I said that last week. Yeah. I said college basketball is different. Wish they didn't lose. And now we play St. John's on Saturday, and then St. John's has to play at UConn on Wednesday, so there's a good chance for it. I'm just doing it all over again. Doing it all over. Also, I don't think you mentioned it, A.J. DeBansa also insane. Yeah, played all 40 minutes. All 40 minutes. That's 29-10-9. Yeah. College game is crazy. What was his final stat line? 29 points, 10 rebounds, 9 assists. That was so – my guy, Boyd, Badgers today, big win against Iowa. He had 27-9-10, which, yeah, it is. Like a triple-double, a near triple-double in college is nuts. It's hard to do. And then Mick Cronin off the hot seat with Ty Sedney coast to coast. That was the first thing I thought of. That defense was just awesome. It looked like Ty Sedney coast to coast. Great defense. Nobody moved. They would just dribble around us. I love it for Mick Cronin, though. I love it. I love how mad he's made people. And they looked dead. They were down like 20. 23. Yeah, like instantly they were down. And just college basketball rocks. and I still, I'll keep banging the drum, there's like a thing going on in my head where, is the SEC overrated this year, or is the SEC bad this year, is the question. I don't think they're bad, they're not as good as last year, but what Florida has been doing, kind of quietly, they've just been wasting teams, absolutely wasting teams, and they feel like everyone's kind of not paying attention because the SEC doesn't have the loaded teams like they did last year. Like Kentucky is, you know. Did you hear Mark Pope after the game against Auburn? Yeah. He was like, he walked off. It was like, credit to me, I didn't talk any shit about how the refs stole that game from us, but it was still on a microphone. It was great. But credit to him. It was great. But credit to him. I don't know if you can find the guy for that. Yeah. Because he did not say it on the mic. Yeah. But I just, I think Florida, like, they have been just awesome. And if you look at their losses, they were all to really good teams early in the season. They lost to Arizona by a couple possessions. They lost to UConn by a couple possessions. They lost to Duke by one. Like, Florida, I think they're still about 13-1 if you want to hop on. Just saying. 12-1. 12-1. I just get mad when I watch Florida because I'm like, you need to play the 7'9 guy. Yeah. They have to play Olivier. I mean, that's what you need if you're going to play against Duke, if you're going to play against Arizona, if you're going to play against Michigan. Like, Michigan's got so much height. Like, you need those guys, and Florida has those guys. Did you hear Wimby say that he's going to compete in the dunk contest? Oh, really? Either that or I got fake quoted, but I think it was real. We've got to find out. When I said it out loud, I was like, this sounds like I might have gotten scintled. That would actually be cool. I don't even think he has to jump. No. He'd be just walking and be like, holy shit, he's tall. Yeah. He would just dunk it, and then everybody would be like, I guess that counts as a dunk. Yeah. No, he said it. He said it. Good. Steph is doing the three-point contest next year, he said, which will be awesome. I love watching. I know it goes viral every six months, but Steph's warm-up where he doesn't miss a shot, and he starts two feet away and goes all the way to half court and then comes back in. It's just like, this is the coolest thing ever. He still is the coolest. Absolute coolest. Okay, any other sports stories before we do who's back and then get to our interviews? We have two great interviews. We do have Combine Week coming up. It's crazy. NFL's back that fast. Combine Week. Back to Indy. Feels good. Any other? Oh, Chris Cignetti got a new contract. Good for him. $13 million a year. Deserved. Deserved. Big time deserved. the tush push is not in danger of being eliminated I don't think really? It sounds like they're not proceeding with any votes to get it out right Max? Yeah because they weren't Eagles weren't good at it this year Oh no! Yeah What do you think about that? Do you think it should be banned now? I don't give a fuck whatever Why do you sound so upset? I'm not upset I just said I don't care Sounds like I don't care It does sound like you don't care. Hank, what happened in golf? Jacob Bridgman won. He was up six going into Sunday. Almost choked. Rory couldn't make a putt. Came in second. What about Liv? No Liv this week. They did get like $250 million from Liv for additional spending. Who did? Liv from the Saudis. Oh, okay. They just went to Dad and they're like, Hey, Dad, I got some extra expenses this month. Yeah, they waited for the best story in sports of the week, and were like, hey, can we get another 250 mil, please? What are they going to do with 250 mil? Live hockey. There you go. Live hockey would be awesome. Yeah. They play in shorts. They put the knives on the feet. I just scrolled past this from Le'Veon Bell. It said it took me 45 years to realize it's hard as hell, not hard as hell. Is that true? Lillian Bell is a serial tweet stealer. Is that true? Yeah, he just copies and pastes for engagement stuff. Hard as what? It's hard as hell. Right. It's hard as hell. Hard as hell. Right. He's saying it's hard as hell. No. I think he might have just heard somebody say it's hard as hell. He's also just reminding people that it's his birthday because I think it was like two days ago. Hard as hell? Yeah, that can't be true. No way. Can't be true. Dude, you're 34 years old. Ha ha. He's 45? That happened fast. No. No. Le'Veon Bell is not 45. There's no way. Oh, okay. He's 34. Yeah, 34 years old. Why did you say he was 45? Because he stole the exact tweet? Even I thought he would have changed his own age. But no, he just copies and pastes tweets. I kind of like that he just did that. He was like, I'm not even going to change the age? Yeah. What? That's just his thing? Oh, yeah. I didn't know that. Hard times for Le'Veon. Yeah. Stealing tweets. Huh. $250 million. But wait. So, but on February 18th, I remember this too. He tweeted, this is also probably a stolen tweet. 45 years around the sun never felt so good I appreciate all the birthday love yeah does he think he's 45 how is that a stolen tweet I think he also he smokes a lot of weed and it was his birthday on February 18th why is he saying he's 45 he smokes a lot of weed multiple times have you seen that can you pull out I see that can you pull up the tweet scroll why is he saying he's 45 multiple times why is he saying he's 45 on his own birthday Go down, I think, February 18th. He also tweeted 19 hours ago, the level of I don't give a fuck you get in your 30s is a beautiful thing. What the hell's going on? 45 years around the sun, never felt so good. I appreciate all the birthday love. At my big age, I still don't cuss in front of my mom. What is going on? So, yeah, he did say the level I don't give a fuck you get in your 30s is beautiful. So he is in it. I think he's in his 30s. So all the 92 babies. He was born in 92. It depends on what time of day you talk to Le'Veon Bell. If you talk to him past 3 p.m., he's probably smoked nine blunts, and he's probably just smoked himself into being older. Because that makes you feel a little better. Because when I saw the 45 years around the sun, I was like, damn, how did I miss that? He's 45. But he also says, at my big age, I still don't cuss in front of my mom. Right. The mystery of Le'Veon Bell. Okay, February 17th. So all the 92 babies were going to be considered mid-30s this year. Okay. So he does know his age. I think so. We think. But he has multiple tweets saying he's 45. Okay. The mystery of Le'Veon Bell's Twitter. But he says, I'm old enough to remember when $5 was good gas money. Yeah. So he might be like 75. Yeah. That was... No. No. No. $5 has never been good gas money. What you're about to say is... I guess when I was in high school, it's like we were, you know, money. Yeah, but that's not like filling up your tank. No, but that's like, you know, if you're getting a ride from someone like $5 covers the ride. But gas wasn't $1 a gallon. Gas wasn't $1 a gallon. It's not saying it's a full tank. If we're taking a trip and I give you $5, that should be $5 is valid. I'm looking up gas prices right now because I'm actually curious. Gas prices were $1 a gallon in 1998. Yep. And, yeah, they haven't been... And if Le'Veon is 34 years old, he doesn't remember that. Yeah, they've been over $2 a gallon since 2005. Stop eating crabs. How would you feel if somebody cracked you open and ate you up? Not good. That's a good point. Away from the back? Yeah, that wouldn't feel fun. Gas is so expensive now. What the fuck, man? There are four girls in a room. Macy is playing chess. Lucy is watching TV. Kayla is sleeping. What is the fourth girl doing? Normalize not knowing what the hell you're doing, but still showing up. I'm retweeting that. Does anybody have a guess? Wait, is that the fourth girl? Is that what you're doing, Hank? Sometimes, yeah. A lot of the time. Normalize it. Just no one has a guess about the fourth girl. Wait, say it again one more time. Four girls in a room. Macy is playing chess. Lucy is watching TV. Kayla is sleeping. What is the fourth girl doing? Videotaping them? I don't think so. What is she doing? I think she's got to be playing chess, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. That would make sense. There's one of them who's playing chess. Oh, you can play chess by yourself. You could. Man, damn. Le'Veon's making me think. I say it is what it is like I don't overanalyze for like six hours. That's a chick tweet, Le'Veon. He does a lot of chick tweets. What was that? What the hell? He's, this is a, we might just have to. Le'Veon Bell was a really good football player. We don't talk about that enough. I like this one. He was awesome. Yeah, he was. And he was wholly unique. And then he was like, I'm going to put out a rap album, and I'm going to make NFL beat writers stay up past midnight. And then I'm going to hold out. To listen to every single line of my rap album to figure out where I'm going to go. How much do you, I just realized, how much do you hate Le'Veon Bell memes? I don't hate them. They didn't use them. Yeah. How excited were you when the Jets got out? I hope the next Super Bowl halftime shows in Chinese. Nice. I retweet that one. People be in the gym doing 1,000 reps of conversation. He might rock. There's a story when he was with the Jets. He had a threesome and then got robbed, and there's a phone call with the police. He's just describing how they robbed him. Can you find that phone call, please, Memes? A lot of these are just the most, like, how can I get paid off of Twitter possible. What's the first error of your body that you wash in the shower, and why is it your left arm? Yeah, he's just like, damn, that's true. How about this one? Trader Joe's is nice for a fling, but that's not a grocery store you marry. I disagree. That's very much true. I feel like you marry. It's your second wife. I think it's your second wife. Yeah, I kind of agree with that one. Yeah, Trader Joe's has some things that you can't get anywhere else. But if you're going like baseline, I want to go get my Cheerios. Yeah. You know. It's like first marriage, you go with like a Kroger or a Food Lion. Mariano's, yeah. Mariano's. And then you get divorced, but you know what you like. And Trader Joe's has all that stuff that you like. Yeah. So then you know more your second time around. Yeah, I mean, Trader Joe's, if you want to get like a frozen enchilada, that actually is pretty good. Yeah, like you realize. It's going to be pretty good. Later on in life, like some dudes just love those ginger snaps, and you're one of those guys. Dude, the Trader Joe's big tub of mini chocolate chip cookies. Oh, my God. The best. Just hammer those. You know what's really good at Trader Joe's? The gummy bears that are covered in chocolate. Chocolate gummy bears. I never knew that that was even a thing. They're so fucking good. Peanut butter pretzels. Yeah. One, one. Oh, here's a good one. So weird how everyone sleeps differently. Like, I sleep on my side, my ex sleeps with anybody, and you all sleep on me. Okay, what about this one? This is actually a great one. Brazilian sounds like a really big number. Think about it. It does. Brazilian. It does. It does. I got my mind blown the other day by one of those stupid facts that in between every number is infinity numbers. Hmm? in between one and two is infinity numbers. Oh, yeah. It's like the arrow thing. It's like, fuck, I never thought about that, and it kind of messed me up. Do you get it, Hank? Nope. Like, you can just go forever on decimals. 1.1. Oh. So in between each number is infinity numbers. Yeah. Kind of fucks you up a little bit. You remember when we talked about the arrow thing back in the day? Like, if I shot an arrow at Hank, it would never actually hit him. Parallax. Because it has to go half the way there. and then half that's why yeah parallax angle yeah by the way I know we we do fire fest on Fridays but I gotta say I just bought new chapstick yesterday and today it's in my dryer I cannot keep living like this damn it's so relatable it's Olivia on Bell Tweet yeah it's so relatable what is it can we what is going on with him can we play the police phone call did you find it what is the total estimated value of the item Oh, like a million dollars. Since you said that you know the girls who did this, I need to get their description. Are they white, black, or Hispanic? The girls, they're one mixed, and they're both mixed. They're both mixed. Okay, their skin color, if an officer was to drive by, would they look more white, black, or Hispanic? One would look more black, and the other one would look more Hispanic. Okay, the one that looks more black, how old is she? 23. What was she wearing today? I mean, when I left, she was in the bed. She was in the bed, not wearing clothes when she left. So I didn't see her. You know what I'm saying? Okay, and the other one, you said she looked more Hispanic. Is that correct? She looked more like, it seems like white or Hispanic, yes. Okay, how old is she? She's 21 And what was she seen Last year wearing today The same way She was in the dead too Oh okay Oh I love that Good for him That rocks Yeah That He might have also just Staged that phone call Just to like get Word out there That Le'Veon Bell Was fucking two chicks at once Last one Cause this one actually is good It's a banger Even the Grinch has a dog So if you don't like dogs That says a lot about you Good point. Great point. Max. I have a dog. I wasn't talking about you, bro. You said Max. That's the name of the Grinch's dog. It's not always about you. You were looking at me instead of Max. I was, but his name is Max. I know. Max is testing today. Got you there. He's hungover. Yeah, he is. He's hungover from this morning. My neck hurts so bad. I can't stretch it off how bad my neck hurts. He's currently in the throes of a hangover. I don't know. I head-banked way too hard. Good news is you won't be hungover tomorrow. I don't know. You're a beast. Okay, let's see who's back in the week. Then we'll get to Yans, and we'll get to Zach D. Gregorius, who is our luge athlete who might be a sponsored, pardon my, take athlete in the next Winter Olympics. Before we do that, Chevy, 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, free agency, the draft, who's getting paid, who's grinding, because for football guys, there is no offseason, and that's exactly why they roll with the Chevy Silverado. 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Whoa, whoa, whoa. They're putting hands on him. This is crazy. Here's where it gets really sad. It's got like a fake mom that it runs to, a stuffed animal. Oh. And just hugs the fake mom. Baby monkey is separated from his mother's children. Oh, this is, dude, why'd you bring this up? Yeah. It's going viral. It's a big story. I saw the picture. I didn't see the video. I was fine with the picture. Not since Mudang has a. Mudang, shout out Mudang. Mudang got too old. Mudang was. No, but Hank isn't even saying the good part. It got a protector. Oh! Finally got an embrace from another monkey. Oh, let's go! Yes. You got to give us that part. Play the hug. That's a great hug. So Punch has someone watching his back now? Kind of. Oh, he's got a gun? Punch has a gun? He's a real, yeah. Somebody did make a fanfic video about Punch where he just goes around drop-kicking every other monkey that's in the thing. Oh, Punch. Man, this was a bummer. Yeah. All right, but he's got to protect her now. After days of rejection, baby Punch finally felt the warmth of love. Today, an adult monkey on saying, wrapped little Punch in the tightest, most comforting hug. Was that a hug or was he trying to squeeze him to death? That's a good hug. Don't try and ruin this moment for Punch. Okay. I mean, this has got to be like a... Don't trust that hug, Punch. This is just a natural, like, isn't this a thing where, like, an abandoned animal in the wild, like other animals don't trust it. Yeah, this is like if you put, if you made every single species a reality show, you would realize that most animals are assholes. Yeah. All right, good for punch. He's back. He's cute. Very cute. Yeah. Very cute. Okay. My Who's Back of the Week is Graffiti. Graffiti's back. It was discovered at the new Bill's Stadium, and apparently there's a lot of graffiti that was discovered there to the point where they issued a $100,000 bounty on turning in the people that did the graffiti, and they won't say what the graffiti is. But apparently it was really, really bad to the point where it's making national news. Did they halt construction? They stopped construction on the new stadium because of this graffiti. Like a swastika or something? I don't know. They said borderline pornographic in nature. I have a theory. I have a theory of what it could be. Okay. Okay. We've seen a lot of new stadiums and a lot of the construction workers that are laying the cement and the concrete. Yeah. They put stuff in that cement and concrete. Yeah. Like as a little leave behind. You think they're putting dildos in there? And they got caught? The dildoser? That would be pretty awesome. The dildos? I think they might be putting dildos like into the foundation of the stadium. And they got caught. But what is the graffiti? They won't say. They just said pornographic in nature. I don't know if they'd consider that graffiti or if that's just like vandalism. Huh. I can see it being killed, though. But they won't say what it is. So we should put a balance. If you guys tell us. Someone tell us. Someone tell us. Email at PMT Bachelor Party. PMT Bachelor Party. Yeah, remember? Isn't that a new segment? We're going to do it monthly? Your rumors and tits? Tits and rumors? Yeah. Yeah, tips and tits. Tips and tits. All right. So everyone send Zach your tip on what it could have been and also some tits. Mm-hmm. And we will talk about that on Wednesday. I'm sure that there's multiple people that work building this new stadium. Get to the bottom of it, Zach. That list you to show. We'll do some investigative research. Okay. Okay, my who's back of the week is the Huffington Post. I didn't know it still existed. Yeah. No idea. And then they dropped this one right after we won all these gold medals. If waving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off right now, you're not alone. So thanks, Huffington Post. That is true. Like, Canadians, it probably turns them off. Just a fucking fart in the best Olympics we've ever had. I didn't know Huffington Post was still there. Yeah, neither did I. It's okay to enjoy things. I think that a lot of people can take that advice and learn a lot from it. Yeah. Some stuff is good. Yeah. Yeah, some stuff is just enjoying the moment and not think about how shitty the world is in general. I'm willing to actually make that definitive statement. Some stuff is good, and you should enjoy it because it's fun. It's actually basically like the premise of this show is that, you know, hey, there's enough like hardships that people go through. Come hang out with us, and we're not going to talk about anything serious. Wait, I want to see that email. What was that email? Zach, property management expert for Zach. I just listened to Friday's episode and heard you fire, what is it, can you make it a little bigger? You're fire fast about the 10 days you got and everything going on. As someone who's worked in property management, it definitely sounds like your building manager tried to flex some language on you to get you scared. There's a lot more that it takes to kick you out from your place. So if you have any questions, oh, you're good. P.S. Please pick number six for the lottery ball machine. Okay. Pick six today. You're good, Zach. That sounds really reassuring. Yeah, they're just trying to scare you with language. They're muscling me with verbiage? Yeah. They see a guy like you, they're like, we'll just throw some language at him and he won't know what to do. We're not going to stand for grammatical aggression. No, we're not. No, absolutely not. In fact, we're going to fight fire with fire. Syllables with syllables? But sometimes the best words are the ones you don't say. Left unsaid. Yeah. It's like jazz. They also might just be like, hey, we're going to throw some language at you. You're going to go back to your podcast and talk to your idiot coworkers, and they're going to come up with an even dumber idea that will get you kicked out even faster. But that's why we have Jake now in the email. Yep. We have Jake in the email. He's got you. Okay. Zach, finish us off before we get to our interviews. My Who's Back of the Week is some newly found health discoveries. Okay. As a show, we're trying to get right, elongate our lives, get our bodies right, you know? This was your first day doing the Chinese workout today. Did you like it? Chinese workout, way more extensive than I thought it would be. I sweat way more than I ever thought I would going into it. Yeah. But I appreciate the invite. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. You're welcome to do it any day. I'm trying to get 50 days in a row doing it. How many calories do you think you burn in one Chinese workout? Probably like 70. Maybe 100? How long is it? Like a half a bag of chips. 15 minutes. That's enough. It's a lot of air squats. You probably burn like 100. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. 70 to 100. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's about moving your body. That's how hard you go. It's also about getting your body flow. If you do that workout, it's kind of like Max with the beers. What you do right after you wake up, that sets the tone for the rest of your day. So if you work out right after you wake up, you're burning calories all day. If you have two beers after you wake up, you're pretty much drunk all day. Correct. Correct. But you got something else? So this isn't medical advice whatsoever, but through some, like, limited, extensive research, I think that, uh, I think part of my peptides might be the play. What do we know, boys, how we deal about the peptides? Oh, wow, this is now just history repeating itself. Yeah. We have the guy on the sixth mic telling us to do peptides. I'm in favor of peptides. I'm in favor of peptides. We got advances. Are they still called research chemicals? What do they do? I think they're early. He's way early. I think they're good if you tear your Achilles. please. Well, why would you say Jason Tatum? Knock on wood. Jason Tatum's been doing peptides. Oh, yeah, Jason Tatum was at practice? Did you see it in the Zula clip? Yeah, what did he say? It's very funny. He was like, how's Jason Tatum doing? He was like, he was at practice today and he said, did he practice? And he just gave him a death stare of all death stares. And he just didn't break. I don't think it's official he's doing peptides. I'm not going to say that he's doing peptides, but I think should we do peptides? He's doing, I don't know, I think if you like get seriously It helps. What about preventing you? Because he's recovering very quickly. Yes, Max. What are peptides? That's what I'm saying. I don't know. They're research chemicals. Oh, research. Oh, yeah. He did them. Oh, yeah. So the story is like, when I first got fitted for golf clubs, like, how long ago was that, Hank? Three years ago? In New York? Yeah. Four years ago? Four years ago. The guy told me just like swing as hard as I can every swing. And so I did that, and then I swung one time, and I felt a pop. And then my bottom three fingers on my right hand just went numb. And so then I went to a doctor. He was like, yeah, you messed up your UCL and fucked with the nerve. And I was like, yeah, Billy, I don't know what I'm going to do. I might have to get Tommy John surgery. And Billy goes, I tell you what, I'll hook you up with some research chemicals, and it's going to promote healing. Billy brought him into the office. The dumbest thing I've ever done in my entire life was let Billy Football inject me with this chemical, like an experimental chemical, and goddammit if it didn't work. Peptide sounds a lot better than research chemicals. It worked. Yeah, Billy Football was right. Now, do I regret letting Billy inject me with a mystery serum a little bit? Yeah, but also, like, you can't steal second with your foot on first, you know? You got to take a chance. All right, so someone email us at PMT Bachelor Party. Yeah, PMT Bachelor Party. And tell us, one, can you get it for us, and two, should we do it? I've got a game plan of peptides we could take if you're into the game plan. How did you get involved in this? Short, comprehensive research. But what started this? Because all the hot people online are just like, these are what you need to do. Take these peptides. You'll need a bunch of weight. Is this logging? No. Yeah. Am I logging? What's up? Yes, sir. Does this have anything to do with the Barstool Combine on Thursday? Oh, 100%. Yeah, 100%. That's not going to go the best. And I know that's not going to go the best. You need smelling salts for that, Zach. Do you think we're a little... I need a miracle drug for that. I was going to say, do you think we're cramming a little late on the test? Oh, definitely. I'm habitually good at that. Yeah. But... What are you most worried about for Thursday? Bench press. I'll answer for him yeah I'll answer for him we might have PNC and I might have went to the bench rest with him and Zach has never bench pressed yeah but you know what he wasn't that bad he wasn't he's stronger than you think I thought that was a closed practice turns out that was not a closed practice oh was it oh you know we were doing an ad I thought that was a closed practice ad and then it just went straight into the PMTV episode oh it's the ad oh yo we went past the ad where he did the the ad was so good it became content I thought it was safe That's why the people pay a premium For Zach's ads What's the goal for Thursday? The goal is to get Zach to do one run He's got to do one I feel good about that It's a baseline, it's a starting point You gotta get one Otherwise you're Tate That looked like a tough year He's had a very tough year I've gone through some of those comments That might be the most viewed clip of the year Not only that But, like, I love Tate, but, like, if you don't think him not being able to get up one rep and Ohio State not winning the national title this year, like, aren't related, like, I'm telling you right now, they are. He gets one rep, they probably win the title. Those things go hand in hand. I'm 100% sure that this time at the Combine he's going to put up, like, six. He's probably been training all year. He has to. Just thinking about getting his rep up. He has to. If things get dark in those comments on that video, you've got to get one. Yeah, gotta get one. It's like a life-altering thing, you don't get one. Yeah. Alright, you're gonna get one. Life-altering chemicals. Alright, but we need to get the peptides. Can you, I guess you can do this. You guide us. I do have a couple of... Surely history repeats itself. But now we're FDA approved on a lot of them. I would like for Zach not to inject us, though. How do you feel about FDA approved peptides? Yeah, good, good. Get us some peptides. What about like third level chemical trial? Yeah. Third level. But you're not doing the injecting. Oh, no. I don't really like needles, to be honest with you. I would never inject you, BFT. I'm not a big fan of needles as well. Can we get, like, a pill? I think they have some oral GLPs, but they won't apply as well. Okay. I came into the office on Saturday morning because I was fiending some of the Toradol. I finally found it. I hid it so good that I hid it from myself. It was behind this license plate that I had up here. and so I was, I needed it for my back today. I was like, God damn, I'm going to turn the studio inside out. Found the Toradol. Took it about two hours ago. Toradol's awesome. Do you have any left? Yeah, I got three pills left. Oh, I want one. I just don't, I don't feel anything right now. Can that help you bench more? No, but it just like my back feels good. I may need it for my neck. It will probably. This Toradol is going to go so fast. Max needs it for his fucking day of hangover. My understanding with the Toradol is that if I take it, I'll feel so good that I will then injure myself worse for when the Toradol wears off. Max, look at you go. Max, what did my neck do? That was too much headbanging, Max. It was a mistake. Oh, and then you were doing the side, too? You were shaking that booty? I was feeling it in the moment. It was good. Right now, my neck's been hurting bad. Look at his side. Look at his side spot. Oh, oh, oh, he's popping it. Yeah. All right, all right, Zach, I'm in for this. Just you tell us, you do all the research, because I actually trust you in the fact that, like, when the ice cream machine got here and I gave you the task, you've delivered on everything. The ice cream machine has been wonderful. We do have to get people to eat more ice cream. We're running. We're running what? We're just not, we're not hitting our quota. By how much? I don't want to waste ice cream. It's just a lot of people are out there. What does that mean? Like when they clean it out, they're just dumping. Sometimes. Look, it's February, almost March. New Year's resolution is over. We got to get back to eating ice cream. We got to get back to stuff. It's so old. Yeah. What? It's not ice cream. It's not ice cream season. It's a down time. It is cold. What about, Zach, I was thinking about this. Maybe we bring back strawberry for a limited run. We've got it. strawberry chocolate. Strawberry chocolate, yeah. Okay, so vanilla out. You want to keep chocolate where it's at and put strawberry on it? Yeah, yeah. Maybe to push some chocolate on people. Okay. You've got to move some product. Make it half off, yeah. Two for one sale. Alright, let's do our couple ads and then we'll get to our interviews. We've got Yans, we've got a loser, Zach D. Regorius from Milan. AWL. Awesome dude. Back to back. Before we get into it, We're good for the end. It's brought to you by Morgan and Morgan. There's a lot of power moves that have happened on part of my take over the years. When Hank put his name on the line and agreed to go double or nothing on the Super Bowl bet, it's a power move. When Hank leaned into the Mount Rushmore punishment, that's a power move. When LeBron James dunked on Bronny during warm-ups, that was a power move just like hiring Morgan and Morgan is a power move. Morgan and Morgan is America's largest injury law firm. 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It is so amazing. The fact that the guys were down here, we were all watching it here at my house all together. And the fact that they came out with that game after getting up early, being on the ropes for basically two periods, they got outplayed. But Connor Helleback just saying, Hey boys, hop on my back. I got this for you is just jump on in and ride me to this fucking gold medal is incredible. The, so proud to be an American, and so proud to have played hockey at any level just to say that I did to see these guys we've been waiting a long time right 1980 long long time I think everybody and their mother was sick of the miracle and talking about it it's a it's a new generation's time that was our generation of watching that movie now it's a different group of guys and those 26 or however many guys went out there went over to Milan on their PJs and absolutely lit it up and had a fucking blast and made us Americans so goddamn proud to be an American and so goddamn proud to watch that game and root them on I swear to God it was one of the most so I said it to my wife like I'm not really like you know I played in the NHL so when you're watching a hockey game you're not that invested I I felt every single emotion I could possibly feel. Wanting to puke, wanting to shit my diaper, wanted to, you know, cry, wanted to laugh. It was the most amazing drug I have ever taken. Watching those guys go out there and give it their all to come back on U.S. soil, the best goddamn country in the motherfucking world, with gold medals around their neck. I am so proud of them, and I can't wait to talk about the game even more. It's awesome watching guys that care as much about the game as you care about it. Like when you're watching. I feel like a lot of times, especially midseason if it's NBA, not necessarily so much NHL, but you watch some sports and you're like, I wish these guys cared as much as I do. They're living, breathing, bleeding, sweating, crying about the game. And with this U.S. team, it felt like they cared even so much more than everybody in America that was rooting them on. And it was a joy to watch. Was there one guy in particular that you thought stepped his game up, a guy that might not have been the superstar, the number one guy going into this? Obviously, they're all really good players, but one guy that elevated what he's doing compared to where he's been in this NHL season. Well, I mean, Hellebuck would be the obvious answer, but he was the MVP of the league last year, I believe. But you just don't hear about him that much in the U.S. because he plays in Winnipeg, poor guy. But it's one of those things where it was such a group effort, you can't really pinpoint. But I will say, like, there was two questions. I want to give a lot of credit to Billy Guerin, the GM of the team, putting this team together, sticking with his guns, not listening to the outside noise, like, you know, dumb people like Biz saying you should take Cole Caulfield, you should take Robinson, you need more goal scoring, blah, blah, blah. He stuck to his guns. He stuck with his guys. And two guys that, you know, kind of probably were on the bubble was Vincent Trocek and J.T. Miller. They're first-line guys on their NHL teams. And when you go to a tournament like this and it's all superstars, you've got to check your ego. You've got to just be willing to play whatever role that the coach gives you. And they did that. They were power play guys during the regular season for the New York Rangers, and they were strictly PK guys. And they didn't let up a goal on the PK the entire tournament, which is unheard of. You're going against the best players in the world, and they did not give up a goal again. So that for me is one of those things that you're going to look back and be like, those guys sacrificed, you know, being heroes, trying to go out and score a goal, be the guy to put the team on their back. And they were like, okay, I'm going to sit here, do my job as best as I can, and let the other guys do the job their best as they can. And Hellebuck showed up and everybody else showed up. Did some guys have a tough tournament? Maybe, but it's like you win the gold and everybody is a part of that team. and Witt said it best on our podcast today. Matthew Kachuk had a quote was, you can tell this is a brotherhood because if you say one wrong thing, there's seven guys down your throat just chirping you, letting you know. So you can tell they came together, and it started last year at the Four Nations, but they came together at this group in Milan. They didn't go stay at the Four Seasons like the Canadians did. They stayed in the village because we're village people. We go in there, and we're amongst the people. We're blue-collar. We just go in there and muck it up. You might not get the best food. You might not have the best bed. You might not get the best sleep, but you're going to have the best plane ride home, smashing beers over your head and kissing your gold medal. So there was a couple quotes after the game that I loved. One was that the Kachuks' doors were always open in the village. They were like, we were just hanging the whole time, just the boys hanging out. the roster construction I want to talk about because I feel like and we can get to the Canadians being just the sorest losers possible but I feel like they're kind of missing a little bit of the point of this roster construction where they like Bill Guerin said they're milk drinkers and whiskey drinkers we got whiskey drinkers they did the grit and grind like we didn't have all of our goal scorers our best goal scorers we wanted to go defense first and grit and grind guys. So when you watch a game like that and they're hanging on for their dear life and they look like they're getting outplayed, that was kind of by design how they were going to try to beat them. Keep the game tight and try to score, whether it be a late third period goal or an OT goal. So that was what his vision worked. 100%. You couldn't be more dead on. You build from the back end out, and we had the best goalie in the world, and our defense is way better than Canada. But then if you look at the forward group, it's not even close. The Canadian team is incredible. They are absolutely stacked. You see it during the game. They dominate at times. They have world, world-class players, probably three of the best players in the world with Makar, McKinnon, and McDavid. But it's one of those things. Like you said, they built the right team. And I had talked to Bill Zito, who was an assistant GM, or I'm not sure what his role on the team was. And he was like, we're building this to beat one team and one team only, and that's Canada. So they went in there knowing they had to do that, and they did it. They went out there and did it. And I remember, I think it was for World Championship or the World Cup. I think it was in like 2020 or something like that, or 2016. I forget what tournament it was. And, you know, USA was like, we're going to bring a bunch of grinders and third line guys that shut down teams. But nowadays, our best grinders are our best players. The Jack Eichels, the Austin Matthews. Like, yeah, those guys are, you know, 40 goal guys or 60 goal guys. But they're also very responsible all over the ice. They don't cheat the game. They don't just look for offense. They're hard on back checks. They're hard on forechecks. So I think we have the luxury now as a country where, you know, you're not just taking guys who are good at their jobs and it's being a checking forward. Your checking forwards are also your studs. So whatever USA hockey is doing, and it starts with the NDTP. A lot of those guys played together growing up. It's, you know, for those of you who don't know, it's like 16 to 18 years old. You know, they take the best American players around the country, and they play together all year. like a team and it's a three-year program I believe and they just work out go to school and play hockey and they travel around and a lot of those guys came from that as basically grassroots players and you know you see what it's done for the league and I can imagine Canada's going to copy that they're going to try to do something like that because it's working now you're seeing the work that's been put in for the last 20 years of of this program and now it's taken over you win the women's, you win the men's, I think World Juniors, we didn't win this year, but we won the last two. It's just one of those things as a fan and a proud American to see what they're doing is just incredible. You mentioned, by the way, the three guys. That was the other part that I love, the complaints about the three-on-three deciding gold. When you have McDavid, McKinnon, and McCarr as your three-on-three who are on the ice when you lost, you should never lose with those three guys. Those are the best three. They're built for three-on-three hockey. It's like a cheat code. And so to complain afterwards, you should like your chances in three-on-three. Yeah, it's one of those things, I think, either country, whether you win or lose, you would say, if you win, you love the three-on-three. If you lose, you hate it. No, not us. No, we would have lost the class. Yeah, yeah. We said going into this tournament that it doesn't matter. Three-on-three? Yeah. Guess what, Yance? When you have enough time to prepare for this tournament, you have to account for three-on-three possibilities. That's part of creating the roster. That's part of hiring your coach and figuring out the strategy. The fact that we were more prepared than Canada was, that's a point for us. If you don't like it, then just get better at it. Yeah, or maybe score when it's five-on-three. Or maybe just don't miss a wide-open net if you're Nathan McKinnon. How about that? There's a lot of that. Or how about don't cheat in curling and then put a curse on your hockey team? Facts. How's that, though? And McKinnon, like, he's obviously going to get a lot of shit. He also kind of fucked up in overtime, too, not playing the puck. Is that right? Yeah, there was a couple things. The back check wasn't great. I can't remember who it was, and, you know, obviously you don't want to call guys out. But on the goal in overtime, it was Zach Rowenski, who's a defenseman, an offensive guy who's a great skater. But, you know, he's in his own end, and he ends up winning the race to the puck and gets the puck to Jack Hughes, who Jack Hughes beat two guys up the ice. But it's one of those things where if that's them and we aren't back-checking, we're going to be pissed at our play. So I'm sure guys are going to be pissed about guys not back-checking and stuff. But at the end of the day, the three-on-three in PFT, you made a great point. Great point. You know it's going to be three-on-three. Whether you're going to change your roster or change how you play the game or who you bring, it doesn't matter. You do know, and that's one of those things that Billy Guerin, again, he deserves all the credit in the world. Did you see the clip of Mike Sullivan saying before Jack Hughes went on the ice, he was like, he's going to score us this goal, and he knew it. He took that penalty late. If that's an NHL season, a guy takes a penalty late, puts your team down when you're up a man, you might not get another shift for the rest of the game. But he had faith in him. He had faith that Jack would show up, and man, did he ever. How good is that? Did you see his quote? He didn't want to end up on Barstool Sports. Yeah, that's what he said after. He was thinking about ending up on Barstool Sports when he was in the penalty box. My question for you is who specifically do you think he was worried about talking about him on Barstool Sports? Probably Biz. Yeah, probably Biz or Dave or you guys. I mean, basically Mincy, anyone. Any of the big hitters. I thought it was probably Frank the Tank. Yeah. He's got a lot of experience dealing with Frank the Tank. Frank the Tank might be rent-free in his head. That's true. Wow, good point. Holy shit. Yeah, no, but I mean, that's a legitimate fear in any athlete's mind. When you do mess up and you're sitting in the penalty, but there's no lonelier feeling than sitting in that penalty box when your team is down and you've got to kill a penalty. But how about that five-on-three kill? Yeah, incredible. Like you said, I think it was 18-for-18 on penalty kills in the tournament. It was insane because you felt like that entire second period, then parts of the third period, you're like, the ice is so tilted. This is just like any moment it feels like it could be a three-goal game, and they just toughed it out. Hellebuck was unbelievable. I mean, that was just the saves he made were just, he was just nails all game. Yeah, and, you know, some people, probably Canadians, will say some of the saves were lucky, but at the end of the day, he made them. And Whit made a good point when we were watching the game. Before the game started, he said, I just want to see USA score first to see how it goes. Because usually we're chasing in those games. And when you're chasing a team like that, it can get out of hand. Because then you're not playing your systems. You're not playing the way the coach tells you to. You're trying to score a goal. But they got up a goal. And I think what you said, Big Cat, is the way that their roster was constructed was to win a game when they were up 1-0 or going into overtime, and they just felt that way that they could win that way, and they did. And it's, you know, man, it's unbelievable. Yeah, it's great because it really was. They never were going to beat Canada by four goals, but if you could just get them into, like, basically drag them into the deep waters and be like, hey, let's get it so that it's, you know, one late goal wins this thing. You got a chance. The one thing I wanted to bring up, and this is kind of all class on me and PFT's side, and I think you'd agree, did not say anything to Witt afterwards about his boy winning MVP of the entire Olympics in another losing effort. That's just what he does now. Do we have? Yeah. Yeah, he voted on it after the first period. I just issued a congratulatory tweet. I didn't say that. I think I said congrats well-deserved. Yeah. Because Conor McDavid, he was the MVP of the Men's Olympic Tournament, which is a big deal. That is the biggest. That's the most prestigious award that you can have outside of winning the gold. So I wanted to acknowledge it. How did Whit feel after the game? I know he's rooting hard for the U.S. I don't want to accuse him of having split elitism. No, he's not. But he definitely feels for McDavid. So I imagine it's something like he's going to wake up tomorrow and kind of reassess and be like, oh, fuck, everyone's going to be able to make fun of me for that. Even though this, you know, obviously 100% rooting for U.S., but it is funny that this is now twice McDavid has won MVP in a losing effort. That's his thing. That is officially his thing. It also just goes to show you how good he was. Obviously, it was voted on in between the first period because Connor Hellebuck should have won that. I don't care if he gave up 50 goals before that game. The way he played that game, he should have MVP. But, yeah, it is also, like, Connor McDavid, he's got to play a meaningful game not against Matthew Kachuk because, like, anytime it means something, if Matthew's out there as a fan of if you're rooting for the team that Matthew's on, you've got to think that you've got a chance to win. Yeah, honestly, you've got to feel bad for him a little bit, and I'm sure he's going to hear it a lot. but he's still young. No, we're not going to say anything. We're classy guys. No, I mean, listen, he ate our lunch in that exhibition last year. Yeah. They won the Four Nations All-Star Game fair and square, and so we can't really say anything to us. If we try to bring something up to McDavid, he could just be like, hey, point to the banner on the wall, Four Nations champion, also the Olympic MVP of the entire tournament. And that's going to shut us up, so I wouldn't dare say anything. Anytime I play in a big game, I'm going to be the best player. Not that I'm going to win it, but. The best player out there. Yeah, he's the best player out there. He's the best player out there. What's great about this is Austin Matthews, like Biz was kind of right. It's kind of like the opposite. Biz was rooting for Canada, obviously, and he roots for the Maple Leafs. He cheers on Austin Matthews. Austin Matthews can win the big one, big time. I guess credit to Biz. He was right this whole time. No, no, no. He just had to get away from Biz to win the big one. Oh, yeah. Okay, that's a good point, too. That makes sense. It has nothing to do with, yeah. But honestly, we were talking about it as well. It's like a lot of these guys, realistically, you know, some guys know whether you're later in your career, if you're not on a team that's a cup contender, like you might not have a chance to win a Stanley Cup. So this is it, right? Like this can cement your name in legacy. And a guy like Austin Matthew, although he's young and will have chances to win the Stanley Cup, Like, if he looked back and they lost this game and whatever happens in his career, like, that would be bad. But he has this now that he went out there and, you know, captained the United States to a gold medal. So unbelievable for him. And, you know, now he has to go back to Canada. I don't know how that will all be. But how about during the Four Nations when USA beat Canada in the round robin or whatever. and then all the Canadians are saying, oh, this is just an exhibition game. And then they win, and they're like, oh, this is a big deal. We'll take credit for this. Yeah. But no, no, no. It was an exhibition for this tournament that happened today. Yeah, and then after today, it was all three-on-three. Like, I mean, McKinnon even said it was probably the saddest quote of all time when he was just like, you guys can be the judge of who is the better team today. Well, I will. USA won two-to-one. What are you talking about? He wants it to be a figure skating? where there's judges after? Like, that's what he's basically asking for. He's waiting for the Russian judge to come in and be like, yeah, actually, yeah, I'll give that one to France. Yeah, more shots. It's like a boxing match. They get the CompuBox. Oh, well, Canada had more shots, so we've got to give them the win. I thought an interesting stat, if you look at the rivalry between our two great countries, you know, we're neighbors. Sometimes it's just, you know, you want to beat up on your neighbor more so than anyone else. And between the U.S. and Canada this year, Canada lost the Stanley Cup to us. I'm counting that as a win for USA. And I believe that was six games, right? We won the World Series, too. Our women's hockey team beat Canada. In Canada, by the way. That's true, yeah. We went on the road to Canada and won a World Series. Our women's hockey team beat Canada for the gold medal. I don't know who won the MVP, so they might be able to clap back pretty hard if it was Canada. Okay. And then, obviously, our men's hockey team beat them. This is a bad year for Canada. They're like, what can Canada do to get back off the map? Because I want a healthy rivalry. I think they have to win the SEC. Right now, it's just like we've been stopping them out. I almost feel bad for them. Yeah. I think they've got to win the SEC football championship. That's pretty much it. Have McGill College in Quebec, in Montreal, come down and play. That's pretty much it. That would be the only way to really, yeah, like, fuck with us. is like, yeah, McGill College just whooped Georgia in Athens. And that would never happen. And that was their whole thing. It's like, yeah, you guys have your stupid little football and your stupid little basketball. You can have that. We got our hockey. But no, no, no. We got it now, baby. What do you think that's like for the Canadian players? Because you were around back in 2010, right, when the two teams get back together, the locker room comes back together. Like, how much shit talking is going to go down once these guys get back in their professional team's locker room? None, really, to be honest. Everyone's kind of, you know, I think hockey players are really good at, you know, kind of leaving the past, being the past. I mean, these guys are flying on a plane back together after this game. Like, I talked to Matthew Kachuk before the tournament, and he was like, yeah, like, we have to fly back. If we're in the finals and Canada's in the finals, we're going to be on the same plane together coming back. Like, I cannot be on a plane with Canada if we lose. So I am going to do everything in my possibility to win this game so I can have the best plane. It's going to be like soul plane on there just in the first. They should have played for first-class tickets and roach-class tickets. Yeah. I saw they're going to Miami because New York's got a bunch of snow. I mean, they have to go to 11, right? Oh, yeah. You got to go, Yance. You think? Go meet up with him. Yeah, of course. If they come here, I already sent out the text to the guys that they're here. I will be there, and Blutman will be flying back. Oh, wow. That's a gracious move by you to text the guys being like, hey, just so you know, if you're going to 11, I'll come. Yeah, I'll pay. I'll pay. I think it was one of the interviews. I think it was Matthew Kachuk talking about Connor Hellebuck saying and he should never pay for another drink in the U.S. That's not just Hellebuck. All these guys, if you ever see them at the bar, grab them a beer, and I'm sure they'll offer to pay for it, but just as a proud American, buy them one beer, one glass of wine. They deserve it to the utmost. Can we play a quick what if for Canada, for our Canadian listeners? What if Sidney Crosby plays in this game? Healthy. That's a big thing, man. And just the experience, seeing him on the ice, him being able to calm down his teams as such a veteran and a guy that everyone looks to, I'm glad he wasn't. I feel bad that he wasn't out there. I feel horrible for him because I love the man and he's such a good player. And what he's done for this league is amazing. But as an American, I'm glad he wasn't out there to play against us just because it could have been completely different. And, like, on that five-on-three, like, he could be a guy that gets a huge goal. In overtime, he could be a guy that gets a huge goal. He's known for scoring golden goals. So I think it could have been a different game. But guess what, Big Cat? Yeah. It wasn't. All right, another what if. What if Conor Bedard's on the team and not Celebrini? Well, Celebrini was incredible. He was. The whole tournament. But there was, like, obviously I have Blackhawks Twitter, and people were, like, pointing out that Celebrini has not won gold in any of, like, the juniors and like under 18 and connor bedard has so yeah but yeah because i mean uh celebrini has been having to play against the u.s and the world juniors and you can't beat them so um yeah i don't i don't think anyone would take celebrini off that team uh even before the tournament started just because of how good of a year he's having in bedard obviously if he didn't get hurt probably could have been on that team um it's crazy how loaded they are that was also like a trick question to be like, hey, remember they have a bunch of guys they could have put on the team that would have been on our team, and we still beat them. That line that they had with Marshawn Bennett and Tom Wilson all playing together, that's crazy. That's some wild boy shit. When I saw that's the line that they were rolling out there, I was like, they're just going to beat the fuck out of everybody. And that's got to be, like, that's a big feather in the cap for the U.S. to be able to, like, outgrit and outgrind that line, who is, like, just designed to get under your skin and beat you up. Well, that started last year at Four Nations. And honestly, that's how Canada used to beat the U.S. And Canada used to, you know, they obviously had the high-end talent, but, you know, they had guys like, you know, the Jerome McGillness of the world, the, you know, Vinny LeCaballiers, the guys that would fight and play hard and you were scared to be on the ice against. And I remember, I think it was the last Italy Olympics, like Todd Bertuzzi, like guys who are just tough guys to play against and pains in the asses. But then USA did that. They built their roster for that four nations to have a little bit more grit, to have the Kachuk brothers, to have the JT Millers. And I honestly kind of saw Canada almost copycatting USA by the way that they picked their roster by bringing guys like Tom Wilson and Sam Bennett and Hagel's a rat out there and Marchand's a rat out there. And for those of you who don't know, a rat is a compliment if you're a hockey player and play the way that those guys play. So I honestly think Canada kind of looked at the U.S. where usually they kind of just worried about themselves and picked their team. But I think they looked over at the U.S. team and said, okay, they got some grit, they got some grind, and they had to match it a little bit, but our guys just did it a little bit better. Yeah. Yeah. So, back to, I wanted to ask you about this, because the three-on-three, by the way, I like the three-on-three, because my kids are little, and they were kind of like, my oldest, for the first period, he was kind of watching with me, but, you know, kids, like a six-year-old's attention span's gonna go, but then when we got to overtime, I had the whole family come up, and I was like, hey, this is gonna end soon, so let's all sit and watch, and they all, like, watch, I was like, it's gonna be soon, so I was like, I could actually enjoy that moment with them, but... But are you guys going nuts in the living room? Nuts. Absolutely nuts. I was fucking losing my mind. I mean, it was such an awesome, awesome game. And it was just like, I was just like buzzing the whole day. I don't know. I'm sure you obviously feel it more than us. But like the whole day, I was just kind of smiling and walking around being like, yeah, we're the fucking best. Like, we're the best. But after the game, the Johnny Goudreau, and you have the Johnny Hockey shirt behind you. I got a little teary-eyed. I'll be honest. Like, I was kind of tearing up in my living room. It's an incredible story. He would have been, for people who don't know, he would have been on the team. He and his brother tragically were killed by a drunk driver last summer. The weekend their sister was getting married. And to have his whole family out there, and it was his son's second birthday. Like, you knew him. You guys had him on checklets. Like, it's got to be awesome to see that. Like, all these guys that played with him and have this moment and share this moment with his family. Yeah, and I think, you know, no matter who you are, if you don't think that, you know, there's something else out in this world where a guy like Johnny was looking over them and – Sorry, I'm getting a little emotional. Yeah. He would have been on that team, man, and he was looking over them, and they won it for him. Like, he meant something to that team. He played with those guys, and to see his family up there and Meredith and the kids, it was amazing. And it brings back memories of him and, you know, watching him and hanging out with him, but especially watching him on the ice and doing what he loves. And, you know, the fact that he wasn't able to play in that is brutal, but he was looking over the boys, man, And he found them a way to win that game. And credit to the guys, keeping him in their spirits and having him in that locker room. And credit to USA Hockey and whoever brought them, his family over, and Meredith and the kids and Mr. and Mrs. Goudreau. Just first class out of them by doing that. He's up there right now having a beer, smiling. Him and his brother, Matt. Matt and Johnny are up there, man. They're having a good time right now. I can tell you that for free. Yeah, it's just one of those moments. It was a special moment, especially for, like, you win the gold. The team wins the gold, and it was just almost instant that Johnny's jersey was out there. And you could tell right away, like, how much he means to all these guys. And it's just, like, sports mean a lot. Like, sports are important for all of us. And I think it's like one of those days where you can take a step back and be like, yeah, we can say it's a silly game. We can say, you know, oh, this or that or the other. Like, sports mean a lot to people, families, relationships, friendships, everything. So it was really special. I mean, it was a special day all around. It really was. One of the best commercials I saw, it was in the beginning of the Olympics. And, you know, say it's a Chicago Bears fan and a Washington Commanders fan sitting down and, you know, looking at each other wanting to fight and then they take off their hats or their jerseys and they put on a USA jersey. And, you know, for two weeks, we're all fans together, right? We're all on the same team. Everyone's, you know, counting the medals. And, you know, did you watch the curling? Did you watch the figure skating? Did you watch the bobsled? And then to finish it off with this hockey and, you know, getting that gold medal, it truly does mean, it shows you how much sports means to, you know, obviously for us, where we're a bunch of idiots talking about the game but you know even just for happiness and enjoyment like after the game me and my buddies the couple buddies picked me up in the golf cart and we drove down to the bar and you know the fire trucks are going around with the usa flags and and people going nuts and this is just a little small town in florida it's not like you're in minnesota michigan or massachusetts so it meant a lot to the the whole uh country and man is it good to be bleeding red, white, and blue. It really is. It really is. It's going to be very interesting to see how this impacts the future of hockey in America, too, because you get the ramifications. Like, there's a bunch of kids out there that, you know, 8 to 12 years old watching this that might not have ever focused on hockey, that now want to play hockey, want to make that their sport. And then those are going to be the same kids that in, you know, 15, 20 years we're going to see in the Olympics, and it can only get better from here. Like seeing this as a possibility to win the gold medal, I feel like that's going to be massive for the future of U.S. hockey. 100%, because before 1980s, you know, there wasn't a lot of Americans in the NHL, if any. You could probably fact check that, but I don't think Americans started being, not accepted, but, you know, more looked at to be playing in the NHL. So that 1980s Olympic gold medal meant so much for guys like me as an American hockey player to be able to live out your dream and play in the NHL. And this game right now, what it meant to the world, and, you know, it's one of those things, too, where, you know, you're going to get kids from, you know, different cultures, different backgrounds, different neighborhoods playing hockey that never did. And, you know, I thought it was cool. It was 12 states were represented. You got Alaska, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Colorado, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Missouri, and Montana. So some of those are not traditional hockey markets. Like the 1980 teams was probably strictly, you know, Michigan, Minnesota, and Massachusetts, right? So to have states like that that have guys representing is incredible. And you're seeing that effect from the 1980s. And I cannot wait to see where this takes us because there's going to be a lot of parents who, you know, either their kids are young right now that bring their kid down to the local rink and sign them up or, you know, 15-year-old kids who never played hockey in five years, ten years, get married. They are like, I'm putting my kid in hockey because I watched that game. So it's going to mean, you know, you look back and, you know, people say, oh, it means more than it's more than just the game or whatever. But things like this, I truly believe are more than a game for what it can mean for a sport. Yeah. If you're Jack Hughes, do you consider not fixing the teeth at all? I would consider just having that be my look for forever. Like, that is the best badge of honor you can ever have. Like, yeah, I shattered my teeth. I sliced them diagonally. But right before I scored the game-winning goal in the gold medal game for the Olympics. I would call the Olympics and say, can you send me the phone number of the guy that you guys use to make the gold medals? And I would just have a gold grill. You would never see it. I would only have gold teeth in. And, yeah, that's about it. Yeah, but, I mean, obviously the nerves hanging out are probably bothering him right now, and he wants to get them fixed quick. But that is an unbelievable photo that is going to live forever. of just, you know, it just truly talks about how hockey players, you know, what it means, you know, you think of hockey players, you think missing teeth, whatever, and that truly is it right there. Like, you sacrifice everything. Like, those guys don't care. If he lost every single one of his teeth, believe me, he would not give a shit. Like, the amount of time he's going to spend in the dentist's chair doesn't compare to the joy that he had a couple hours ago. Yeah. Alright, Yans, everyone tuned in to Spitting Chicklets, if you want to get more on this game, because I do. I know I certainly do, and I want to listen to Biz cry, which would be great. I got one last question, Roback question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com, promo code TAKE. 20% off your first purchase. Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, Roback.com, promo code TAKE. Do you feel at all bad about the torture chamber you put me in on Thursday night? No, not at all. Okay, so for people who don't know, no one knows actually in this room. No. We had Biz and Wit on, and I texted Grinnell, and he's like, do you want to do Yans too? And I was like, it's probably going to be a lot on Zoom. I mean, you heard with Biz and Wit, it was probably hard to listen to just everyone talking at once. I was like, and we'd like to save him for Sunday. And in the interview, I said, Yans is our favorite, and he's the one who's actually in AWL who listens the most. Yann's texted me after we interviewed him. He's like, you just interviewed those two guys in my house, the disrespect. And then spent the entire night basically being like, I'm so upset at you. Like, I don't, I'm not listening anymore. And meanwhile, I'm curling for seven hours, like, physically dying. And I just, like, go, I'll, like, throw, like, 15 rocks in a row. They'll go back to my phone, and Yann's will just be like, the fact that you did this to me is so disgusting and i was just like i don't know if you're mad or not you're dead you were doing fuck with me the whole time oh yeah i had i had to go pick up my kids from school anyway so it worked out perfectly i wouldn't have been able to do it anyway so it was uh no i mean you gotta yeah you like you out of all people of course i would have picked up i think i would have picked up on it if i wasn't at this fucking curling rink because i was literally in and out of communication and I tried to call you and you kept on screening my call and not picking up and I was like, oh god damn it. I kept on saying sorry over and over. Do you want the card? We can give you a card. Like good for one free appearance on part of my take. At a time of your choosing. Yeah. You get to call that in. Alright, I'll take that. Is this the first ever? I think we talked about giving it to somebody else, right? I think you're the first one to ever actually get it. We'll send it to you. I should say the mistake was not Witt, because Witt is an AWL. I know that for a fact. I think he also has the record for most appearances, so we owe a lot to Witt. Biz, we could have just thrown in the trash. That one, one of your texts was, do you think Biz never listened to your stupid podcast? He's like, I've been listening every day for six years. The disrespect. But I also get it. You want an American and a Canadian on it. Yeah. I had to give it to you. I mean, you torture people all day long. It was fair. It was fair. You tortured my poor boy, Hank, after the Super Bowl. That's not true. That's not true. We're going to torture him. Hank, how did we torture him? Listen, he doesn't, you know, championships don't come around every year. He needed this. He did this. Like every other year. He needed this. He needed this. But what we did to Hank was no different from what we've done to Max in the past when he loses. When any of us lose, you've got to face the music. Yeah, it's not fun. I thought we were very nice to Hank, actually. We are nice to Hank. Hank has a good thing. Is Max Canadian? Good question. What was that mean? Oh, no. I meant Italian. Okay. If it was Italy versus U.S., well, who would you be? U.S., U.S., for sure. Oh. We got World Baseball Classic coming up. We got more American pride. You might make the Italy team. There was a point in time in my day where I was like I think I could actually play on this There was a kid in my That played for Italy That I played with in college I played for Italy I mean he was better than me It was the same caliber guy Hey, I wish if they had open tryouts and you guys sent Max, that would be the best. Let me see the roster here. It would be. It would be a bunch of dudes with vowels, their last name. My buddy's name that played for Italy was Vito Friscia. Vito Friscia? Shout out Vito. Yeah, Max, we can get you on that team. Wait, Yans, last question, because I had to, once I woke up on Friday morning and realized you had been fucking with me after being curling all night, did you for any second buy that I canceled Blutman coming to Florida? No, because I was talking to him while he was like going on to his plan. So, yeah, no, I know you wouldn't. I like figured it out late. Yeah. That would have been funny. I can get him back by saying I'm canceling this. Budman is the absolute best. You've got to let him into the celebration next time, though. The celly has to be more inclusive. It felt like you guys were discriminating against gingers. It was like, yeah, keep your germs over there. Listen, you guys know more than anyone, that guy can blend into a couch, and we might not have seen him. He looks like a pillow, basically. It's unbelievable how comfortable that guy can look on a couch. It truly, truly is. I was showing he came to grab some beers with me and my buddies after the game, and I was showing them his rap song. Yeah. Which, PFT, you did some of that, right? Yeah, I produced it for him, yeah. Yeah, incredible song. So mad that I just found out about this. Made my kids listen to it all day the other day. It's an incredible, incredible track. If you've never heard it, it's called I'm Watching Ball by Liam Blutman. It's on Spotify. It's amazing. But to my buddies, the cover of the thing is just him sitting on a couch, just so comfortable. And they were like, so what do you do all day? He's like, I just watch ball. Yeah, that's it. He's in the gambling cave with the lights off. Wait, what did Blutman drink? Did he have like a milk or something? No. So fun fact about him, he's never had a sip of alcohol, never had any drugs. I asked him, I'm like, you want a soda? He told me he gave up soda because I guess he put out a tweet. He said, I'm not having a soda until the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. He goes, looks like I'm never having a soda again. But no, he had a couple glasses of water. That's it. The guy is just pure, pure class. He is. He is. He is the best. I appreciate that he tried to get involved in the Sully because I think that's a big step. Usually, he's not a big fan of being touched or touching people. Yeah. But even him, in a moment like that, he was like, I've got to jump around with the boys for a second before he got kind of backtracked back into the house. And now he's like, I'll never do that again. I'm never going to start bringing it again. But that was as animated as the man will ever get. And it was nice to watch. Hey, speaking of animation, busy boy, I think he wanted to bring Oldie into my house. And after his antics the other day of wearing a banana hammock around my backyard, I called the front gate and I said, if anyone by the name of Oldie shows up, he's not allowed in. As much as I love Oldie and would do anything for him, I did not need his good vibes for Canada in my house. So I'm pretty sure Biz had that up his sleeve of trying to bring Oldie in because Oldie is in Florida right now. And I put a kibosh to that real quick because that could have been the turning point for Canada. if he came in. And also, yeah, you had Biz walking around with a boner, and then if you had Oldie with his side flaps, it's like you're going to get some questions from your wife and kids being like, Dad, what are you doing? They're probably when it's just starting fucking. That's fair. That's completely fair. When Biz, credit to Biz, when he did pull out the mankini, and that turned Canada's game around the other day strictly because of that. But I told him, because that was on Friday, the kids were in school, and I said, hey, listen, on Sunday we can't do that. Like, my family's going to be home. He's like, no, no, no, I would never. But little did he know, my family wasn't home. They were away. I love it. So I still haven't even told him that. So I think he might have pulled it off after, like, the second, if it was tied up or going into overtime. I think he would have done it. So I had to keep that one to myself. And, you know, we just didn't need any good Canada juju going around my house. No, and it's a really tough day for Biz because he's, like, it's good and bad. And Canada lost, but Bonnie Blue is pregnant, so he's going to be a father. Like, it's a crazy day for him. Congrats, busy boy. Busy Blue. Some guys know how to finish in the crease. Nathan McKinnon can learn a lot from Biz. You're the best, man. Congrats. Awesome, awesome, awesome day, and thank you for coming on, man. 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Learn more at Microsoft.com slash M365 Copilot. That's Microsoft.com slash M365 Copilot. But check it out today. Now, here is Zach DiGregorio. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. He is a U.S. Olympian. He's in Italy right now. It is Zach DiGregorio's. He is Italian, a great Italian name. And he's an Olympian for the Team USA in the luge. Double luge? Double luge, yeah. We get all the jokes for it. But, yeah. Okay, can you explain to me how you got into luge and how anyone gets into luge? Because that's the part that we can't really understand is, like, one day you wake up and you're like, hey, I'm a loser. Yeah, it's pretty random. Not many people know what luge is in the U.S. So we have recruitment weekends in different cities around the country throughout the summer where it's, like, same thing, luge sled. But it has roller blade wheels on the bottom of it. So then you just go down, like, a little hill. They set up, like, cones for a little course, and that's how they find, like, I think it's, like, 95% of the U.S. national team for Luge. Wait, so they basically were like, hey, here's, like, a free ride for kids, and then you're like, that was fucking fun. How old were you when you first did it? I was 10, and I did the trial with my brother, and he was 12. So we, like, did it. It was next to, like, an ice cream place and stuff. We just did it because it looked fun, and it took me a lot further than I thought it was going to. I love that. That makes perfect sense now. Now I understand why some of you, you're a 10-year-old kid getting ice cream with your brother, and they're like, hey, want to go fast down this hill? It's basically parents that are looking to, like, get their kids off their hands for about, like, 15 minutes. And they're like, actually, you were really good at that, yeah. So what do you look for in a loser? Like, if you're designing a loser in a lab, like, what are the skill sets that this person has to have? What are the strengths they have to have? Yeah, there is a size component to it, but, like, when you're recruiting nine-year-olds, who knows what they're going to look like in 10 years, 15 years. But you want someone taller that is heavier. And, yeah, for the base, it's, like, just how coachable a kid is because if you've got, like, a bunch of little shits on our development team, it's going to be pretty hard to deal with that. So, yeah, I don't know fully what goes into all of it, But we have normally about 100 kids a weekend, and they'll pick like two or three from that to invite them back up to Lake Placid. So you want somebody that's tall and heavy. That seems counterintuitive. Why is that? It's because it's a gravity sport, so it's all just about, you know, weight but also aerodynamics. So those are like two of the bigger things. And then once you get to the higher levels, it matters more for the technical side of it. What are your measurables? I'm 6'1 and 210 pounds. Oh, okay, yeah. So that's a good build. That's a strong man. Do you have to train? Like, are you fast too? Not like I don't have to sprint, but we lift. So, like, the whole summer we're based in Lake Blossett, and it's five days a week in the weight room and stuff like that. So you have to work out and stuff. I mean, it's a lot of core because where you steer on your legs, you're holding them up the whole time. So it's not that easy on the body as it looks. You're not just laying there as it seems for most. Yeah. So, all right. So then single luge, double luge, like what is that process? You're like, hey, you know what would be more fun if I was lying on another guy? Pretty much, yeah. We got bored during COVID, had to experiment, and started doubles. But, no, most people started in singles, and then doubles felt like an extra challenge with COVID. and it was two years out from the Beijing games and we were like, fuck it, let's go for it, change up the direction and it worked out. Okay. Is there a difference in how you do doubles luge as opposed to singles, like difference in technique? Yeah, I mean, it's the same track, but you have to basically do half the job without knowing what the other half is going to do. So I'm on top. I need to know what the guy below me is going to do. And if things go wrong, I basically have to guess what he's going to do and kind of vice versa for him, too. So it's this weird teammate aspect of it. How did you figure out who was going to be on top and who was going to be on bottom? Yeah, were you like, I'm just a top? No, it's about height. So it's just for aerodynamics. Big spoon, little spoon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, wait. So now I kind of understand. This is fascinating. I understand how we find our luge athletes in America. In the rest of the world, is it like a super popular sport that kids are just doing it all the time? And, like, what countries are dominating? Yeah, Germany, it's, like, wild. They have, like, clubs everywhere. And from kids, like, five years old to people who are, like, 60 still doing luge for their, like, club teams. So the U.S. is pretty sparse on that. But then Italy does natural luge, which you've got to look that up if you haven't seen that. It's pretty wild. It's like real sledding, but they go on ice as well, and it's like through the woods. Oh, that's sick. Yeah, and that's how they recruit. And then Austria is pretty big for it too, so all the kind of places you would expect to be way too into sledding. Okay, and then like, wait, did you go to college, or did you just really like I'm committed to being a loser? I do online college now. I kind of had to commit in like eighth grade or so. it was like you're either going to go spend your winters in europe or go to college so big spending my winters in europe that's cool so did you go did you get like uh homeschooled and stuff because you were like i'm committing to losing no i did public school up until i graduated um but then like my junior year of high school i missed 110 out of the 180 days and they're I'm pretty done with me and trying to get me to switch to online, and then COVID happened my senior year. By the way, I'm watching. I just pulled up the natural luge. This is the coolest sport ever. This is just sweating. Yeah, yeah. It's sweating. And we're kind of happy that people haven't realized how cool natural luge is in that sense because, like, spectator standpoint, we know luge looks pretty similar to an untrained eye. So natural luge, there's a little bit bigger of crashes. Yeah. It's like F1 on a mountain. It's pretty cool. So when you're competing in natural luge like this, actually, you know what? We were talking about why don't they do two losers at the same time or, like, multiple people on the track at the same time. I feel like watching that, it would be more similar to, like, a horse race. People get into that as opposed to just, like, you're competing against the clock. Have they ever tried to do that? They haven't done that. I think just safety-wise, like, you're going 90 miles per hour, So if you hit into someone going that fast, it gets pretty ugly pretty quick. That's pretty fast. Yeah. Team Relay, if you guys haven't seen the Team Relay, that's like our bread and butter for Luge. That's what I'd recommend, like, anyone who wants to watch, especially because it's, like, U.S. versus Canada versus Germany versus Austria. It's not, like, one person goes down four times. It's one go. Yeah. Who's the goat in terms of Luge? Like, who's the one guy that we can look at and be like, Like, nobody will ever touch what that guy did. Armin Zogler from Italy was pretty up there. He, like, every Olympics he went to, he won. Or he didn't win, but he won a medal. And, yeah, I think it was four or five Olympics in a row. So that was pretty nuts. But, yeah, and then just the Germans in general, like, any of their top teams. The Tobys for doubles. The Tobys? Yeah, both their first names are Toby. That's perfect. Yeah. And they went, before this Olympics, they went six for six on gold medals. And then this Olympics, they did bronze and gold. So, they did go. And what, like, tell me, because I was watching some of the luge and some of the bobsled, and it feels like every single time is within, like, milliseconds of each other. What is the difference between winning and, like, is it a move they made, or is it an angle they took? Like, what is it? How do you get better at luge when you've been doing it for so long? Like, what are the tweaks you're making? Yeah, it comes into more than just sliding, like how you slide down the track. So you can lose a race real easy with making a big mistake or something like that. But when you're looking at that top five, everyone's so experienced and so well-trained that they're not going to make any big mistake. But instead, it's going to be, you know, how much can you push your setup? So we don't go on like razor. It's not like a hockey blade where it's like a sharp, sharp angle into the ice. It's almost like the side of the table, like that sharpness going into the ice. So the less, you know, grip you have, the faster you're going to go. So whoever kind of risks it the most and then also makes it down clean is going to be the winner. Yeah. Have there been any big cheating scandals in luge? Not like any specific. It's just like little things. It's kind of like any racing series where someone will kind of alter the rules, find the gray zone, and go from there. We're not like ski jumping where we have a big one nowadays. Yeah. You're not injecting your penis with, like, silicone to make the suit a little bit bigger. No. But we're not doing the little double touch from the Canadians. From the Canadians. Yeah. And they're cheating. Yeah. What's the worst crash you've been in? I went in at the last Olympics, like, when we were in China. I had a pretty gnarly, like, full blackout concussion. Holy shit. I thought I was back in Massachusetts and didn't know the date by, like, three weeks. So that one was pretty rough, but I haven't broken a bone yet, so that's good. Just broke the brain for a little bit. Is it, like, is it super dangerous where you're, like, when you're going down, you're like, hey, this could be the one that could, like, fuck me up really bad? You don't think about it too much for that, but it's dangerous for untrained people to come in. Starting 10, you grow up with it, but when other nations will come in and look at it as, I can make the Olympics in four years, that's when you see some pretty bad crashes. Yeah. I also saw you're an OnlyFans athlete. What is that? Do they reload your wallet or something? What happens there? Yeah, so, I mean, loser isn't a big sport, so we're not going to get any Nike deals or anything like that. If Barstool wants to bring back, you know, having athletes, let me know. Listen, if you make the next Olympics, I think you being the part of my take loser would be awesome. Yeah, we'll sponsor you for sure. We will absolutely sponsor you. Perfect. You don't have to sell feet pics anymore. Yeah. They're behind you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm still too mad at you. So what happens with, like, you're just like, hey, I'm an OnlyFans athlete. Like, go jerk off, guys. No, I mean, I post, like, all the random shit that we do, you know, in the village or what it takes to get into the Olympics and all that stuff because, yeah, it's a weird niche sport that, yeah, trying to show off the other side of it, and OnlyFans has helped me out on that side. All right, well, let's help you out right now. So Zach is an OnlyFans athlete. Go sign up for OnlyFans or go, you know, and use promo code Zach. Perfect. Do you have a promo code? You should get a promo code. Well, I got my account, so they just need a sub to me. Oh, okay. So, Zach. Oh, I like that. And will you do, like, reviews if somebody sends you, like, them losing? Will you rate their form? Yeah, I'll rate their form. Okay. That's the only rating I'll do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't have too much going in there. No, that's good. Actually, our theory is that when it comes to the Olympics, like, there's always a story that there's not enough condoms in the Olympic Village. And we think that they do that on purpose every year just so that people will talk about how there's not enough condoms. Is it just filled with hot people walking around all the time? There's some good-looking people here for sure. But, yeah, I don't know. The condom thing, like, so many people sent me that when it was like, oh, in three days. But in Beijing, anywhere you walked, there was just, like, a basket of condoms. You walk by and you're like, yep, grabbing some of those. And, like, it's not even that everyone's having sex everywhere, but it's more just like if you have a condom that says, you know, Milan Cortino Olympics, that's pretty funny. Yeah, it's like getting a pin or something from a game. I have condoms from six different Olympic games. Collect all the rings. Although that's kind of like a cell phone being like, I have all these condoms that aren't used. Unused, yeah. So in terms of the Olympic Village, is there a specific country that you found yourself hanging out with more that's the chillest country or anything? I mean, my best friend's on the Italian team, and it's pretty good to have a best friend at the home Olympics. Yeah. We kind of ran show for a couple days there where it was just like, all right, what events are we going to? And it was a good party right after we finished up racing. So that was the best, I think. Are you in the Olympic dorm right now? Yeah, you want to see it? Yeah, well, can we see it? Okay. So everyone gets this? It's kind of nice because I'm packing right now, but here's like what the room looks like. Oh, so it's literally like a dorm room. Yeah, yeah. That's kind of not bad at all. Yeah, it's not bad. Yeah, and they all talk about the cardboard beds, too. That's not a thing. I don't know. I think Paris, maybe, but not here. Yeah. How do you determine if some guy is going to be a loser or doing the skeleton? Like, are some guys just that guy goes face down? Yeah. Skeleton normally starts later, and you have to be able to sprint for skeleton. So I can't sprint well, so I do luge. Okay. Is there a rivalry between luge and bobsled? um kind of just in the sense of like bobsled i feel like everyone knows bobsled especially because like jamaican bobsled team right yeah um not as many know luge but then we're like technically the fastest sport on ice is like our like claim to fame so then but now since whistler uh olympics they lowered like our start height there because there was like the crash the bad crash there yeah yeah um so now they technically probably go faster like overall because they still go from the top of that track what um so how competitive is it to make the u.s olympic team so you've made it two years or two olympics in a row are you like are you in the prime how long can you do this for i'm gonna try to do it for eight more with salt lake coming up yeah um but we'll see like this year was pretty tough because like doubles you think is probably the smallest and stuff like that but you know for the qualification period we have seven or five races and you needed to be like pretty much you had to have at least one result in the top five or actually better than a top two to make it into to our team um some years there's off years where The team's, like, not as stacked. But this year was a pretty good year for the U.S. team, and it was pretty tough. How many double losers do we send? Two. Oh, so it's just you and your partner? No, like two teams. Oh, it's four. Four. Okay, yeah. And how, like, are you, like, best friends with your partner? How long have you been double losing with him? So I started doing doubles with him in 2020 with COVID. And then I've known him since probably 2013. We used to race against each other. Okay. Okay, so you're like, oh, our powers combined. That's got to be like you have his life in your hands. He has your life in it. It's got to be like a pretty close relationship. Yeah, very. Yeah, we've spent a lot of time together. Yeah. Do you have any messages for all the youth out there that are listening that think maybe one day I could be on the Olympic team as a loser? Like what should they start practicing right now? Cool. I don't know if they should really start practicing. Just go find Luz and try it. Come up to Lake Blaston. we'll let anyone try it and yeah share the sport how much does it suck to to to do a sport that if you say it fast enough it sounds like we're calling you a loser um the worst was like probably once i just started and every single like middle school teacher thought that was the best joke in the world other than that it's been pretty mellow since yeah because like that's that's got to be like at least i i assume every loser has had that experience of being like oh all right, fuck you, dude. Like, I get it. It's a loser. Yeah, it sounds like lose. I got it. Cool. Every loser probably has had that exact same experience. Yeah, we get, like, probably the same four jokes just repeated to us the entire time. So you get used to them. But, yeah, we want some creativity on it. I mean, if you're an Olympic athlete, you can just fucking flex on them and be like, we joke around, but I did curling last night, and I have a new respect for curling. I think other than – in this room, other than Hank probably dominating women's swallum, I don't think any of us could even come close to being an Olympic athlete. No, definitely not. You guys got to come up to Lake Placid, though. You can try to lose Skeleton and Bobsled. We'll get you guys on sled. That would be actually a great time. I would love to do that. Can you do it in the summer? Not as much, but we can, like, kind of pretend it, you know? Like, we have an indoor facility where we, like, train and stuff, but you're only going to go like 15 miles per hour. But in the winter, we can get you going like, you know, 40, 50. I kind of want to try this now next winter. Yeah, I got to go winter grit week. I got to do it. Double luge. Double luge. Max and Hank. Oh, yeah. It sucks that we like kind of started liking the Olympics right after they're done. This is what happens every time. We do. We do remind ourselves that we can like it. Did you get that tattoo? Yeah, I got the. Oh, hell yeah. I love that. Dude, you have to get it. Like, you can't, that's basically why you go to the Olympics, so you can get that tattoo. What do you think about journalists? It's like an Iron Man. Yeah. If a journalist goes to cover the Olympics and they get the Olympic rings tattooed, is that inbounds? Yeah, you can't do that one. But the funniest was when I was getting the tattoo, the guy was like, oh, are you a big fan of the Olympics? Wait, all right, so along those same lines, what if, hypothetically speaking, one of the idiots that works at Barstool is on a box lacrosse team for Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic? Yeah, the Corsair. One of those three, Slovakia, one of those three, and I have funded their team with some money for jerseys and stuff, and they're probably not going to make the Olympics, but they're going to try to qualify for the Olympics in L.A. if they make the Olympics and I keep funding the team, can I get the tattoo? I think you've got to coach them for like a quarter of the game, and then I'd say yeah. Also, if it's not America, I mean, yeah, if you want to be a trader, you can get them. I don't give a fuck, dude. Listen, if you told me that I could walk out in the opening ceremonies, I don't care who it is for. That would be the coolest thing ever. North Korea cat. Yeah, fine. Done. Done. That would be the coolest experience ever. Is the walkout, is the opening ceremony just, like, awesome? Yeah, it's pretty nails. Like, especially, I mean, this one was cool because it was through Cortina for us. So it was, like, small town vibe and, like, high-fiving everyone. But Beijing was a massive stadium, and it's, like, it's big American flag waving underneath the Olympic rings. And, like, I was always a big Sean White fan, so I was, like, right behind him walking through it. And that was a cool one. How much free time do you have on your hands during the actual Olympics? I'm sure it varies sport by sport, but you always see some of the people, like, showing up to support the other teams. A good bit for us because we compete in the first, like, few days. So once I finished up on the 11th, I've just kind of been bouncing around and going to different events. So I just actually got back from that women's curling game. I don't know if you guys saw that. It was sick. Yeah. The Swiss lost, but a sick, sick game. The Swiss ladies, they're just assassins. They were just waiting the entire time. And they're like, okay, that's cute. We'll go and throw the perfect stone now. Yeah. See ya. It was like full cold face. I don't know what her name is, but their older lady on the Swiss team there, she was a killer. Yeah. She was not messing around. Not to bring up a bad thought, but what is it like after the Olympics? Is there a little bit of a, well, damn, I can't believe that's over. Because it's such a big buildup. And every four years, I wish they did the Olympics every two years. It would be awesome if it was just we always just had an Olympics going on. But is it what happens when you get back and, like, what happens in the next few months? Are you training right away or are you just like, all right, I can chill out for a little bit? Yeah, there's, like, that one week of where you're just like, what do I do, like, for all of it. But then normally I go on vacation and drink enough to not worry about that. And then by the time I get back, I'm back into it. So I'll start training again somewhere in April or so and, yeah, get back into it. Are there any sick, like, video games that kids can get into to play, like, Winter Olympic sports? They used to have the one on Wii. It was, like, the Sonic and Mario or something Olympic games. We need to make another one. Yeah, we do. There used to be one on, like, I'm dating myself, but, like, Super Nintendo. And I think Nintendo 64 back in the day. But we need to upgrade that to the new generation consoles. I feel like if you had an awesome Olympic video game, like in VR, kids would love that shit. VR would be sick. They should get a VR thing. I mean, we even trained a little bit VR stuff getting ready because they built this venue just for the Olympics. So you never tried it before. And every other track you try for eight years in a row. And then this one is brand new. How many times do you think you've gone down a lose track in your life? Well, I mean, it's normally like 300 runs probably on average every year. So 300 times 14, I'm not too good at math. Neither are we. Yeah, that's a lot. The answer's a lot. We'll get that answer to you like, I don't know, in a week and a half. Maybe next Olympics. Hold on. I took out my calculator. 4,200. Damn. That's a lot of runs. Have you ever been in the zone? In the zone? Yeah, like everything's going perfect on the track for you. Yeah, once. And we won that race. So I've been chasing that high. But it's like golf. When you're having a good round in golf where it just feels so easy, it's the very same vibe. Yeah. What was that run like when you were in the zone? I thought like pulled off, laid down, and then was almost like thinking not at all about luge, and that seemed to work. It was just letting the body do what it needed to. I love that. It's almost like surfing, like a spiritual experience a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's some weird flow to luge where if it's going good, it feels very good. But once it goes bad, you find out quick. It snaps you out of it, yeah. Have they ever tried triple luge? No, but once you guys come up, we can try it if you want. Okay. We can try to take enough slabs. Dude, imagine if we – What about quad? Triple quad. Get the whole podcast on the luge? I feel like this is how they invented – Dixman luge. Like the evolution of like shaving razors. Let's do two blades. You know what? Let's do three. Oh, man. What if we get four? That would be so sick. Yeah. It's just maybe a little top-heavy. That's our only problem. I think the start and how top-heavy it is, we might flip pretty quick. Yeah. So you just need somebody with, like, giant legs, like fat-ass legs to be the last guy on top. Well, no. You need someone on the bottom, like, massive. Okay. The biggest cat is the bottom for that way. So then it's like a little pyramid coming up. Like the little, like, cat in a hat. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. I think we go, yeah, like Mir Max, Memes, Zach, Hank, PFT on top. We're ready to go. That sounds good. Then we get Zah. Yeah, then we get Zah. We finished it all. It's ready to go. I have one last question, Roback question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com. Promo code TAKE. 20% off your first purchase. Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com. Promo code TAKE. Joe, we talked about the tattoo. too. I'd imagine, like, when you're on vacation and tattoos out, like, it's gotta help, right? Yeah, I mean, I was 20 when I got it, and now being only four years older, I'm like, why did I get it so big? And so, in an open place, because, yeah, anytime I have a t-shirt on... You know why, because people can see... Yeah, yeah. That's why I did it to at first, but now I'm like, alright, like, I don't need to be in a bar in Southie, and someone come up to me and be like, oh, were you in Olympics and we'd be like, I don't want to talk about luge for another hour. Yeah, but dude, listen, I gotta say, like, if you put all the tattoos out there in the world, I think the Olympic rings is like the number one tattoo. If you went to the Olympics, you have to get it and you have to have it prominently featured. Every single person would do exactly what you did. That's fair. I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah. Well, Zach, this has been awesome, man. We really appreciate you coming on. If you're ever in Chicago, come by the office and we might take you up on that Lake Placid. That would be It sounds incredible. And we want you to be a part of my Take Athlete because it's like a cool sport. Again, apologies for disrespecting the Winter Olympics in the last two weeks. We do this pretty much, yeah, I think every single time the Olympics come around. By the end of the Olympics, we're like, dude, that was awesome. I wish we still had the Olympics. Yeah, I miss looking at all the flags. I miss just chanting USA over and over again. We're going to set a reminder next time for the French Alps being like, hey, respect the Olympics before they come around. What we'll do is we'll start talking about the Olympics like two weeks before the Olympics. Yeah. And we'll get all of our hate out. And by the time the Olympics start, we'll be like, this is awesome. And we'll enjoy the entire run of it. Yeah. Exactly. All right. Yeah. Well, thanks, Zach. We really appreciate it, man. Thank you, guys. Nice talking to you. Thanks, dude. 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Get excited. We might be getting on peptides. So excited for this twist. So excited for this twist. What's the twist again? We can't say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And reminder, on Friday, 8 a.m., the punishment stream is going to begin. Zach and Max will be streaming on the PMT YouTube and will be 8 a.m. Friday. 8 a.m. on Friday. And I'm in for a solid, like, four hours on Friday afternoon. Yeah, I'll put a shift in for sure. And then I also might do a stop by on Saturday, Zach. Get the tats going. Yeah, we're going to get new tattoos. Get the tats. Yeah, it's going to be right on the, like we said, the 10-year anniversary of Part of My Take. Yeah. Piazza and I are going to get some PMT tattoos because we love the show. Hank is not. Hank, to be fair to Hank, he already got the first Part of My Take tattoo. And then got it off. He got it removed. I still can't believe you got the dead layer. Yeah, in Hank's defense, it was a tattoo of a picture of a dead fish. Yeah, I don't know. I think we probably did talk about it on the show. but that was in the comedy special. But yeah, all time, one of the biggest fuck-ups. I had to get it off my leg because I hated... It was a mistake that I said to look at every night. Get a corpse on your body. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, oh, you got a picture of this fish? I was like, let me go take one. He's a great fish. He's a great fish. Okay, numbers. Six. Fifty-six. Four. I might get a light-up. I don't know. Eighty-six. Let me go two. I might. Deuce. Forty-three. One. 29 That hurts so bad Someone's got to get this soon Got to get it going Might just be a cold machine This thing makes so much noise But then it stops making noise I can't wait for the twist of the combine The twist of the combine is incredible You're going to fucking freak 45. Didn't he have 45? 45, yeah. Yeah, he had 45. Hot. Hot number. Hot number. All right, happy birthday to George Frederick Handel, Andrew Wiggins. Who the fuck is that? He's a composer. Come on, dude. Andrew Wiggins and Hope Solo. Why did he compose? Why did you keep stealing Hope Solo's mom? Music. He wrote music, dude. Classical music. Awesome music. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. I think that's the Olympic theme. Yeah. He probably wrote that. But yes, Hope Solo's birthday. Happy birthday. Dinner. Dinner. Dinner. Oh, oh, oh. That was Mozart. Oh, oh, oh. Weakness. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.