Pardon My Take - Blake Griffin, NBA Play In Games, Caps Make The Playoffs, Hot Seat/Cool Throne And The Debut Of Mr Pear
Episode Date: April 17, 2024The Lakers take down the Pelicans after Zion scores 40 but gets a mysterious injury and the Warriors are cooked. We talk Reggie Miller analytics and the Washington Capitals make the playoffs in a wild... night in hockey (00:00:00-00:24:29). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Hank's taxes, LIV trying to do hijinx with Rory and Jerry Reinsdorf being the worst owner in sports (00:24:29-00:55:42). Blake Griffin joins the show after his retirement announcement to talk about his career, favorite teammates and teams, memories, Blake of the Year, and the dumbest rabbit hole of all time based on Blake's teammates names (00:55:42-01:42:34). We finish the show with listener FAQ's and the debut of the one and only Mister Pear our new gambling turtle who makes a pick on the Sixers/Heat game (01:42:34-01:58:30).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake
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On today's part of my take, we have our good, good friend, Blake Griffin. He announced his retirement on Tuesday. We get the first interview with him. And it was beautiful. It was perfect.
Groundbreaking. and it was beautiful. It was perfect. Blake Griffin. Yeah, I mean, he's been part of our show
for a very long time.
Stay till the end when we kidnap him
and ask him the dumbest questions possible,
but really great to catch up with him,
talk about his career.
We're gonna talk about the NBA play-in games.
We're gonna talk about PFT's capitals,
getting into the playoffs and the NHL playoffs coming up.
We've got hot seat cool throne and we also have the debut of our turtle Mr. Pear. Mr. Pear makes
his first pick for Wednesday night's playing game. We haven't picked the Sixers heat game.
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Reggie Miller asked this question tonight and I said to
myself, thank God, because I've been saying this for years. I'd almost rather be up three points
than four points, big cat. The best part about Reggie Miller asking this- Dude, do I know why?
Why? Tell me. Yeah, I don't know because I've got a brain injury. Well, so the best part about
Reggie Miller asking this question, it was the Lakers Pelicans
game which will get to both games playing games. But the best part about him asking
this question, the situation was the Lakers were up two with 2.7 seconds left to get fouled
and he says out loud and you could hear his brain like turning on out loud. He was like,
if you make the first one, you're up three. Do you try to purposely
miss the second one because they don't have any timeouts. So they have to go coast to
coast. And then he finished it with saying, or do you just make them both go up four and
game over? Like at the end, he was like, wait, shit, four points. Yeah, that would be game
over. He tied it together nicely at the end, which was good. But for a second I was with
you. I was like, wait, and I'm going to, I was like wait, and I'm a don't get me wrong
I'm a big you don't need a three here guy
Like that's that's my favorite thing to say at the end of a game if there's one second left if there's half a second
Left if you're down four points, I will be the guy that don't need a three here. Just remind people that I know ball
But yeah in that instance. I was just like what is it?
We can Reggie even be talking about? But I think he just mixed up having
a two versus three point lead and having a three versus four point lead.
Yeah, I don't know what he mixed up, but it was the Lakers survived. They win another
play in, they've won three plans. They've gotten into the playoffs three times via the
plan. We had an all time, all time Zion Williamson, uh, performance 40 points.
He was so, so good. It was like everything that you wanted Zion to be. He was it tonight.
And then he got hurt where we don't really know what he got hurt with. He threw his,
uh, you know, a towel down, went to the locker room. We even had the weird moment where Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller were like,
we're going to go to Allie Laforce. She has an update on Zion. And she's like,
guys, I don't know shit. Like, I don't know what you're talking about.
No one knows. And then afterwards he left, uh,
without a limp and didn't talk to reporters.
So we're left just wondering what the hell happened because I think the Pelicans win that game of Zion stays in the game. They had Brandon Ingram wasn't good. He was he's been coming back from injury. He just looked bad. And Zion was like, I'm putting the whole team on my back. And he almost beat the Lakers by himself. Yeah, the entire game was just a microcosm of his entire career. Really? He's like, oh, he's awesome. He's awesome. He's awesome. Fuck, he's hurt. That's kind of how it goes. And after the play was over, I was trying
to figure out what was wrong. Like I was trying to diagnose it via the video. And it was really
strange because he does that little drive through the hole, makes the shot. And then
he like pumps his fist and turns around. And then he after like two steps, then he realizes,
Oh, I need to start walking slower. And maybe the only
thing I could think of, and they said they're doing like an MRI on his leg, is he might
have felt whatever pain he was in might be familiar to him. Like he knows exactly what
it is. And he knows exactly what it means because he's had it before. And he knows how
long it's going to take to recover from it. Because it wasn't like, it didn't look to
be catastrophic, like, oh, fuck, my Achilles is torn or uh ACL or anything like that it was just like a realization of
god damn it this sucks because I know exactly what it is that's hurt and it sucks that it's
hurt but I can't do anything about it.
It sucks. It sucked because he was having an incredible incredible performance and we're
stuck just being like fuck that was going to be
awesome but the Lakers do
advance. Should we start the
narrative? Is this Lakers team
dangerous PFT? They now play
the Nuggets. Um I like you
know this is going to be the
story that's everyone talking
about like look at the Lakers.
I think they finished the
season like twenty-four and ten
so they've they've played well
a lot of guys who won a bubble championship which we have count except for Caruso. That's a full championship for
him. Are we going to are we going to do the watch out for
the Lakers? They could beat the Nuggets. Oh, I think we have
I think we have to say that. Well, Hank, are you in that
they're going to beat the Nuggets? Are you in that we
have to talk them out? Hank's muted probably for the best.
Yeah, Hank is
muted.
But I think they could be the nuggets. I think they'd be they
could be the nuggets. Yeah. Yeah. Championship experience,
you know, championship DNA. They've got the DNA players of
all time. Anthony Davis, all stars,, all-in-the-eight players.
Why not? Yeah, well, I don't think they're nearly as good as the Nuggets is a thing. Anthony Davis does look healthy. I think that's how we started last year's playoffs.
Anthony Davis looks really, really healthy right now.
And he's an absolute beast when he is healthy. Let me ask you a question, Hank.
This series, how many games is this series?
It's a seven game series.
It's a seven game series.
OK.
So if it were a 15 game series, I would give you the Lakers,
I would say, because the Lakers have beaten the Nuggets
four times over the last 15 times they've played.
So I would give you that.
If they played 15 games and all the Lakers had to do is get to four.
I would say yes, that can happen. Best of 15, but it's
only four when it's the Lakers 15 times in the last three
years they played and the Lakers have won four times. I
just I think we're going to all everyone's going to talk
themselves into it and I I mean the Lakers are not I don't
think the Nuggets wanted to see the Lakers. I would,
I would guess that because they obviously, I mean,
anytime you have to play LeBron in the playoffs, it's scary.
But last year they did sweep them. People said it was the,
the closest sweep that's ever happened in a seven game series.
I think the nuggets are better. Yeah. I mean, we all remember game four,
one of the all time best games in the history of
The NBA that nobody will remember. Yeah, Hank
What are you doing to yourself right now because like PFT and I are putting ourselves in a very
Open situation where if the Lakers somehow win this series this will look terrible for us
But it also would mean LeBron beat the champs and they would be like okay now who else do they have?
They're, you know, they could get to the finals so what are you doing?
I just want someone to beat the Nuggets. I like, oh, take them to seven games, drag out, battle,
really just, really just, big catch. It's against us, early. No, but here's the thing. No, it's not
against you. Here's the thing, I think, I think we, we might have to just go along with Hank because
Hank, he knows ball.
I think Hank's right and the Lakers can do it and the Lakers can actually go all the
way to the NBA finals.
And I think the Lakers could beat the Celtics in the NBA finals and LeBron could get the
title over Hank.
I would be down.
That would be awesome.
So the-
That would be scenes.
The start of the championship
DVD was Zion throwing the towel
and going and and huffing and
puffing into the locker room.
That was the start of the
Celtics. Yeah, the Lakers
Western Conference Finals DVD.
Yeah. Champion DVD. Well, uh
the uh so the Pelicans, I don't
know what is going to happen
with Zion. If he's going to
play on Friday, I don't, I mean, I mean without a limp II would say no because it looked
like he was like he looked like he had a non contact injury and
he knew right away that he was **** Yeah. You know that look
that he had it was it was either he knew immediately was
really really bad or he knew immediately because he's had
that same injury before and he re aggravated it right. So
they're going to play the Pelicans are going to play the
Kings light the play the Kings,
light the beam, the Kings take down the Warriors. Um, is this the end? Is this the end for the
Warriors? Because they, uh, went out pretty sad. It felt like they never, they got like
what to four points at halftime is like, okay, here come the Warriors. They were never like
Steph was never able to get open shots. Clay is washed. I, I so stupidly was like, OK, here come the Warriors. They were never like, Steph was never able to get open shots. Clay is washed.
I so stupidly was like, what if Clay just has a throwback game?
Because I love Clay, but he's washed.
And now you have like a bunch of questions of, are the Warriors,
is that it?
Is that like, is this finally it?
It was probably it last year, but is this finally it?
I think we said last year that that should have been it at the end of their run. They
needed to do something like drastic to retool themselves, but they there's no more frustrating
team to watch when they stink than the Warriors. When they're good, it looks like they broke
basketball and when they stink, it looks like basketball broke them. They were, they're
just so frustrating. You just want to like yell at the TV, like quit being pussies. You just want to scream at them. They were, they're just so frustrating. You just want to like yell at the TV, like quit being pussies. You just scream at him, make some shots. They just couldn't make any
shots and they're, you know, they're, they're trusting on guys that are not playing in the
right positions with trace Jackson Davis. And you know, there was a moment where, uh,
Moses Moody hit a couple threes and you're like, Oh, here come the warriors. And it's
just no, that's it's, it's over. I'm, I'm actually disappointed that, uh, here come the Warriors and it's just no, that's it's it's over. I'm I'm
actually disappointed that
Draymond didn't get ejected.
That felt like an ejection game.
I was very upset about that. I
think he wanted to go. Yeah, what
does this mean for Chris Paul's
legacy? Oh, another playoff loss.
We should probably get Rossello
on. Yeah, we need to talk about
this. Chris Paul blew it. I'm
gonna text him right now. We'll
just see if he can respond in in quick enough time. Yeah, we need to talk about this. Chris Paul blew it. I'm gonna text him right now and we'll just see if he can respond in in in quick enough
time. Yeah, just just a comment really is all that we need. Actually, Hank, you text
him because he doesn't respond to your text. So just ask ask is this another is this another
Chris Paul playoff loss? Just ask him that. Just that? Yeah. And then maybe ask if you
can get the video for your brother's bachelor party.
Yeah. Actually, know what? Big Cat, this is, you should FaceTime him because he FaceTimed you when
the Badgers lost. This is his equivalent of the Badgers losing. Yeah. Yeah. Although I mean, Chris
Ball, this doesn't, he was not, he was a non-factor. I have a question for you, PFT. So the Kings,
not. He was a non factor. Um, I have a question for you, PFT. So the Kings, uh, they kind of like sputter down the stretch. This is a big win for them. Obviously the warriors like have been there,
you know, they've had some great wars with them in the last few years. Uh, so bonus is so much fun to
watch. So bonus, does he, does he just have, uh, has he just had a black eye for five years? I feel
like he's had a black eye constantly.
I think he, he like does the, uh, the smoky eye to himself before every game for intimidation
reasons. Yeah. But he looks, he looks intimidating. You don't want to fuck with a guy like that.
It's like, you see a guy with a black guy, you see a guy with a missing tooth or you
see a guy with cauliflower ear, you steer clear. But I just, I would, is this another,
what is this another Chris, Chris Paul loss? He's
asking us for the playoff loss. Yeah. Asking for comment. Doesn't count as the playoffs,
right? Isn't playing. Oh, true. Shit. So how should we phrase this? Well, let's let Ryan
arrive at that conclusion on his own. I don't want to, I don't want to give him excuses
ahead of time. The fact that Hanks sending this text is great. And also shout out Keegan Murray,
Iowa basketball is on fire right now. We talked a little bit about the WNBA draft during hot sea
cool thrown. He was awesome. He had everything. So yeah, maybe let's light the beam. Let's just
keep lighting the beam. I want the Kings to be good. Yeah. Yeah, I do too. I don't
think that they have a chance against the thunder, but I want
them to be good. Um, I also would like them to maybe
lengthen their nets because I just, I can't stand watching a
game. This is a very sad old guy take, but whenever the nets are
really short, it just bothers me. Yeah. I want to see
swishes. I want to see cool swishes. I want to see them. I want to see the net really sw short. It just bothers me. Yeah,
I want to see swishes. I want
to see cool swishes. I want to
see the I want to see the net
really swish. I would like them
to do the the uh in season
tournament with chain nets so
you get the swish sound with
the chain like playground sound
that would I would like that as
well. Um alright. So, you send
the text Hank. There's no way
he's going to respond in time
for. Yeah. I mean, it's like
honest to me was yeah, no problem. He's probably. Yeah. I mean, it's honest to me was, yeah, no problem. He's probably. Yeah. We should. We should have Hank just be the
designated Rasilla texter because you know that he's just
not going to respond and we can be like, well, we'll chalk it
up to it being Hank. PFT. Other things we got to talk about. Oh,
they're lighting the beam right now. It's a bonus with his with
his black eyes lighting the beam. They fucking killed the Warriors.
They killed the Warriors. There's the beam. It's lit.
The beam is very cool.
PFT, congratulations to your capitals clinching the ace spot in
the NHL playoffs, Stanley Cup playoffs.
That was a crazy like 10 minutes of hockey.
I was actually watching the Red Wings game. So that was kind of
wanting Patrick Kane to get in the playoffs. The Red Wings scored with three seconds left.
Yeah. And then the flyers knowing that they needed to win in regulation pulled their goalie and then
lost in regulation. And people are big mad at you PFT in the capitals. That's fine. That's
I understand why they're mad. They should be mad at torts. They should be mad at
the coats of the flyers because what happened was you're right,
the flyers needed to win in regulation to have any shot at
it. And nobody told torts that the Red Wings had scored to tie
it up at the end of regulation. So torts was operating under
the assumption that they could still get into the playoffs with
a regular regular time win. So they pull their goalie and nobody told them that the goal happened until
after the Capitals went down scored, which is about a minute and a half of real
time. Like after the goal happened in the Detroit
game to win the capital score. It was about one minute 20 seconds and in that
time, nobody let towards know. Okay, you can put the goalie back out there.
But I don't know like if that was the plan along to have some guy on
the bench with like an iPad checking the scores every 30 seconds and, and
keeping him informed, but for whatever reason, he didn't do it.
It ended up working out pretty good for me.
So I'm not going to complain.
Uh, but this is the, this Caps team is the weirdest fucking team ever.
Nobody thought they were going to make the playoffs.
Their goal differential is unbelievably bad.
Last time I checked, I don't know what it is now.
I think it was like 36.
Ended up minus 36 on the season, I think,
in goal differential.
The last team to make the playoffs
with a goal differential of minus 30 or worse
was the 1994, 1995 San Jose Sharks.
Whoa.
So, yeah, we've had- I had rooting for you guys because there's nothing
better than when a team makes the playoffs and everyone's like, no one wanted to see
this. Fuck this. This is bullshit. That's the team you got to worry about because everyone
was so mad and was like, fuck this. The capitals are boring. They're going to get killed by
the Rangers. I'm going to have to bet them against the Rangers. Fuck it. Well, here's
the good news is the caps made the playoffs. Bad news is they have to play the Rangers, I'm gonna have to bet them against the Rangers. Fuck it. Well, here's the good news is the caps made the playoffs. Bad news is they have to play
the Rangers who won the president's trophy, which is basically impossible to lose in the
playoffs if you're that good of a team that you win the president's trophy. So there's
like no chance that we can beat the Rangers, but I'm just glad to be there. It's very happy
to be there. We got a hot goalie too. Don't forget about that. Our goalie standing on
his head. I think the last two months he might be, I think he's first in goals or goals against average.
He's got a bunch of shutouts. He's playing really, really well. The thing about the Caps is they
get the shit kicked out of them all the time. That's why it's been such a frustrating season.
They've lost 13 games by four or more goals this year. 13 games, but they're tied.
I think their top five for most one goal wins this season.
So they, they can win the close ones.
So, I mean, really all I wanted, I said this to you guys before we left for the
day is all my teams stink right now.
I just, I want to have one team that I can root for in a playoff situation.
And the capitals are that team and actually tip the
cap to the Capitals because every everything else in DC by
and large has sucked for the last like 2025 years. The the
Nats had that one World Series run which was incredible but
the Capitals are just they're always there for me. They're my
main **** Yeah. I love them. Yeah. Um well, you got a
response. Oh, you got a response. So, that's mean. Yeah. Um well, you got a response. Oh, you got a
response. So, that's mean. Oh,
no. He can't actually care
about the the Chris Paul at
this point. Like it's he's not
even he's playing off the
bench. That wasn't a Chris Paul
loss. I'm going to say right
now, that wasn't a Chris Paul
loss. That's a Klay Thompson
loss. I'm excited for you. I think it's partially Chris Paul too. Yeah, partially.
I'm excited for you. PFT about the Capitals. I really do. I do love whenever a team makes
a playoffs and it's like you like everyone. That was all I saw. Everyone's like, fuck
this. We'd rather see this team or that team. Nah, capitals got in. And they did it in the last three seconds or two minutes
of the season.
Yeah, I asked Vikings fans how I can prepare to respond
to all the haters out there that will be like,
but the gold differential is so bad.
You know, their team that made the playoffs,
not this past season, but two seasons ago.
And the majority of responses were just like, it'll be fine.
Just try not
to lose to a team from New York and humiliating fashion in the first round. So I'm going to
try to take that to heart. And then they also told me just like, anytime somebody says the
capital shouldn't be in the playoffs, just tell them to suck my dick. So that's what
I'm going to do.
I have also one last advanced analytics I'd like to share with you guys. So I'm going
to read, I'm going to read something and then I'm going to tell you the advanced analytics I'd like to share with you guys. So I'm going to read something and
then I'm going to tell you the advanced analytics behind it. So this is from March 26th. About
to tune into my first Flyers game of the year. Apologies in advance to all the diehards out
there. At this point, the Philadelphia Flyers had 36 wins on the season. This is March 26. They finished with 38 wins.
They went two and eight after that tweet and they missed some playoffs by a point. They
went two and eight and that was from our very own Max. I can't believe that. I, I remember
when you said you were going to watch your first flyers game and then I just went and looked at the schedule and it's just L's just everywhere. How did you do that? He was flired up big cat. I don't
know if you heard the news. L's everywhere. Two and eight to finish the season after Max decided to
tune in. That's actually one point. What? One single point. I think they lost. I think they ended
up losing by there was a bunch of tiebreakers for the last spot. But yeah, the Flyers ended
up with 87 points. Capitals ended up with 91, but that was also including tonight's
game where they lost in regulation. That's even for you, Max. That's impressive. I don't
give a fuck. It's Sixers. It's all about Sixers. But there's definitely a bunch of people from
Philly that are listening to this and they're pissed off at you. What do you say to them?
I do apologize to them, but also that was the only game I watched and that was
You drive by stunk them
Here's my sink. I'm gonna I'm out of here guys
Yes, I don't know. I don't think this counts. I don't care like I like I know like two players on the flyers
I would have if they made the playoffs, I would have got fired up.
You would have been, you would have been in the fucking Flyer zone.
Yeah, sorry.
Sorry to Philly.
Yeah, I was, I was going to be really mad at you, Max, if you had beaten the Capitals
tonight and you would have gone into your like little Flyer zone in the playoffs and
then I would just be sitting here sad about everything and-
No, I'm happy, I'm very happy that you made it over me.
Thanks, Max.
It means a lot.
I just need one.
I don't ask for a lot in sports.
I just want to have one team that I
can put my heart and soul into for at least a week
during the playoffs over the course of a calendar year.
I don't think that's too much to ask from the sports gods.
We're just, we're right in the, I mean,
I expect the Bulls to maybe win on Wednesday night,
but then lose to the heater, the Sixers. And so we're back in the spot where Hank's just
sitting with two teams. Everyone else just, you know, you're you got in at the last game.
I'm going to play in Max's in a plan. Try trying to get in.
You've had, you've had like a banner year in drafts though.
That's true.
That's all your draft success.
It's true.
Your draft success this year has been worth like one playoff series for sure in terms
of enjoyment.
That's true.
Um, we, we also, I completely forgot and we'll get to it later with Mr. Pear who's owned
by our one and only memes, but we get crazy memes coming up soon with the Islanders cause the the
the
the
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the the the force behind me. Yes, he absolutely does. Um okay. Let's kick it to ourselves. We have
uh Hot Seat Cool Throne. We have
a great Blake Griffin interview
and then we have Mr. Pear.
Awesome show. Awesome awesome
show. Uh let's kick it back to
ourselves in studio. Okay,
before we get to Hot Seat Cool
Throne, Topgolf. It's golf.
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or night. We went in Arizona. We had a great time, great food by the way. The wings were
phenomenal. The flatbread pepperoni honey pizza.
So good.
Incredible.
And the golf was also incredible from PFT and myself.
Yeah, I think I got a win.
Big Cat, you got a win.
I got a couple wins.
It was great.
Yeah, it was a fun time for the whole squad.
You had to order a second round of appetizers.
Yeah.
Because Max ate everything.
Yeah.
Oh, that's mean.
Oh, that's mean.
That's mean. But yeah, go watch the PMTV. We had a great time at Topgolf. Hank lost everything. So with spring and summer on the horizon, if you're looking to add some more play to your life, Topgolf is the place to be since they want everyone to play. They just launched half off golf Monday through Wednesday. When you book in the app, all you have to do is book a Monday through Wednesday in their app and you'll get half off the golf. Of course, even they have some rules. Half off golf Monday
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slash PMT that's topgolf.com forward slash P M T Henry hot seat, cool throne. Did you
file your taxes?
My hot seat is a CBS. Oh, okay.
Did they not file their taxes?
I don't know about that.
But they did air a live televised concert of Billy Joel at MSG.
Yes.
And they cut it off with two minutes ago in the middle of piano man, but basically before
it started.
The Masters ran too long.
Also not great.
Not great ratings for the Masters.
Oh really?
So we didn't like it. Didn't like it
Doesn't help that Scottie had won by the by 10 or 11 is Caitlin Clark bad for men's golf
I would say so everyone's gearing up. They're saving their watching for the WNBA draft
So CBS did pay their taxes CBS probably did pay their taxes. Although, you know networks corporations
It's a little like a little shady with with that stuff So they cut off after Friday
Or Saturday when is when is the Billy Joel song when does it take place?
What's Saturday Saturday is it's five o'clock on a Saturday? Yeah, nine o'clock on a Saturday. Yeah people were pissed
There's a lot of commercials. They're
Re-airing the entire thing damn Damn. Because people are so mad.
Billy Joel lives the best life.
He just takes a helicopter from his house.
I think that's court mandated.
Yeah, that's true.
He can't fly the helicopter.
Can't drive.
He takes a helicopter from his house, goes to MSG,
sells it out.
20 minutes, he's home.
Yeah, glenny balls in the front row every time.
Yeah.
Great life.
It's incredible. Yeah, I feel like I should have gone to one of those at one point. Yeah, glenny balls in the front row every time. Yeah, great life. It's incredible
Yeah, I feel like we should I should have gone to one of those at one point
Yeah, I feel the same way cuz you go to MSG and you see the big they invited me no less than five
I know I think he invited me to the one on Sunday
The banner they have a dedicated banner next so I think it's bigger than the Ranger Stanley Cup banners actually alright
So next time we have to go to New York City. let's just say we can't go unless Billy Joel's playing
Yep, and we'll do that. Is this a good he just has hits after hits after hits you forget all of them
Yeah, top three Billy Joel songs, uh
Vienna, okay
Italian restaurant. Yep. That's a good one. Yeah, and I will go
Down East or Alexa rocket man. Those are rocket man
Yep, goodbye yellowbrook road
The one they did for Princess Diana, I thought was really touching here candle in the wind a candle in the wind is number one
Number two. I'm gonna say the bitch is back. Yep, bitch is back rocks and then Saturday night. So right for fighting. Yeah
Saturday Saturday Saturday Billy Joel Ross. The song's pretty good, too
Cool, okay. Did she do her taxes have to do with a I don't know why you keep bringing the taxes my cool throw
You did your taxes. Oh, of course. I'm an American
My cool throne is the WNBA because ratings talk. The ratings
came in for the WNBA draft. Stunning, stunning, stunning numbers. 2.4 million viewers with
WNBA draft. Last year was 572,000. The NBA draft did 3.7 million on ABC. The MLB draft had 744,000, NHL 681,000.
I didn't even know that MLB draft was televised.
Yeah.
No idea.
MLB network, they do it in Studio 42 with the baseball field.
Where do you guys took VP?
That should be a punishment at some point.
Somebody should have to sit and watch the entire MLB draft.
Do you think we could talk MLB GM?
I don't know if we know
any, but like if we, if we actively started being like, all right, what front office is
listening to part of my take? There's so many rounds. I think we could maybe get drafted.
Just kind of throw away those last picks. Like they'll draft someone who's playing college
football being like, maybe maybe if he says yes to us, right? Yeah. Yeah. That would be
awesome. You're right. somebody always takes a pick they
use it on like Russell Wilson yeah quarterback who's definitely going to let's get max drafted
because he actually has you could be like well we have tape I have a baseball reference
we have a baseball reference so let's get max drafted I don't know who we can do like
someone please listening who works in some organization, please reach out Just all we're asking for is 40th. You know what we'll even will pay you
Will give you a signing to devil rookie wage scale
No, I mean that could be an issue max
What if you got drafted then you refuse to sign I'm actually sort of words scale and shook his head
That's alright. Come on. I'm getting too many straight. Come on guy. Hey started it
I haven't taken one straight shot at you and the top couple in a stray that was just not about you being well
I I mean that was also I mean you were getting made fun of so you were just like oh, yeah, let me deflate
Camera one-handed 17 piece well, I mean I was yeah, you're acting like you weren't even chewing started to lose
You just like Max just won't yeah, yeah, just turn the vacuum button on and
He's like Kirby. Yeah, they cut the draft in half. There's only 20 rounds. Oh
There are 40 rounds. Oh, no, we might not get max
14 picks last year. Let's also drafted speaking of baseball
Larry, lequino and John Henry all-time scumbags what I mean layer John Henry Didn't layer look at Tom Werner. Yes. Yes bag died like not attending Larry lequino's funeral
Oh was two days after opening day, which they were at that is crazy all-time scumbags all-time scumbags all-time
Probably send some nice flowers all-time scumbags definitely don't pay their taxes lock them up. Yeah
You would all right, right, right, right, right, we don't want to do the tax
Is then if they turn they'll lock them up like lock them up for what for what reason?
Not paying their tax being all time scumbags. Okay, but not for the tax thing
Yeah, that should be part of it, but not you can't judge a book by just someone that doesn't pay taxes
Okay, Don't stop. Stop spreading this. This is a satire podcast.
The WNBA draft, all the rookie wages getting tweeted out and everyone's like, what the
fuck? It's like, well, this is what Caitlin Clark might be able to fix.
She might be able to improve things a little bit.
Like if people watch and then it starts making more money, then they get to pay more. But it was funny for
people to be like, Oh, that you can't even live in New York city on that. Or number one,
she was number one. Like they got excited because her Iowa teammate got drafted later
on to the same team. What does she make? Yeah. Like 50 unrelated. I I'm a big Indiana fever
fan always have been. Yeah. Well, well, unrelated, we should probably get the boys
some Chicago Sky season tickets
because we're bringing back Bully Ball.
Where do they play?
Win Trust.
Angel Reese is, she's really fucking good.
Angel Reese and Cardoza, my friend Ricky O'Donnell
threw out a tweet because he covers all Chicago basketball.
I think he said that in the last year,
the two of them have shot five total three-pointers. Yeah, bully ball
Just read we're going just bully ball. Everyone's shooting the three
We're just gonna fucking pack the paint and just have some beasts down there rebounds all day
Do you think I could get a rebound over Cardoza? No
Yeah, she would dominate me in the paint. Hopefully I would love to have both of them come in and we'll have
I'm on the show. Yeah, Would love it. But yeah, the contracts getting tweeted out were tough to look at, but it will
get changed. Also, endorsements?
I mean, Caitlin Clark, that's the thing Ravel keeps talking about how she's taking a pay cut
from Iowa, but now she get a shoe deal. I would imagine her shoe deal is going to be
huge. 10 million, 15 million dollars.
It's going to be massive. She's's gonna get a ton of endorsements.
And she couldn't do a shoe deal at Iowa
because they're a Nike school.
Yeah, she'll make a ton of money.
Yeah.
Okay, good job, hot seat, cool throne Hank.
Nothing to do with taxes.
Nothing.
I don't know why I keep bringing it up,
other than the tax they just passed.
My hot seat is Hank,
because he didn't do his taxes.
Shut up.
Well, he's yet.
I didn't say it was you.
I didn't say it was you, Hank.
You can pick any Hank. Yet. Let me finish. Yet didn't say it was you, Hank. It was any Hank.
Yet.
Let me finish.
Yet.
My hot seat is Trump who's on trial in New York for a tax issue.
I've always done my taxes except for that one year when, but I would have got money
back.
No, my hot seat is Gordon Ramsay.
Gordon Ramsay because his restaurant got taken over.
He had a pub in central London and it's up for sale for 13 million quid, which I think
is their way of
saying dollars.
Okay.
And then six people, squatters, have taken over the building and they're occupying it
and saying, we own this place now.
Oh no.
And so now we can't sell it because you got squatters just living in there.
Who, I mean not to get political, but the squatting thing is...
It blows my mind.
Who set it up?
How is that political?
Why can't they just arrest them?
So squatters...
Someone in politics, it's someone in politics' fault.
Which is crazy.
So this is in London, so I don't know what their law is over there.
True.
But remember back in like 2008, 2009 when the housing market crashed?
There were a ton of people that were just moving into foreclosed homes and putting up
these like legal notices.
They're like the same people that would go to court
and then complain to the judge about it not being the proper type of court because the tassels on
the flag weren't right. Like those, they know like the letter of the law. And nowadays there's a bunch
of people that are doing it that are taking advantage of like renter's rights in New York
that are doing it. But this just squatting has gone back, I think back since like the 1800s.
You can't like kick someone out. It's crazy
The thing is whenever I see these videos of like a guy's like I just started living in this house and nothing
Anyone could do nothing at all because I'm like wait how I don't do like what would you do?
You just go home and you fucking lose my mind. Yeah, if somebody was in my house when I went home
I would be like dude. You probably don't pay taxes
Yeah house when I went home. I would be like, dude, you probably don't pay taxes. Yeah. Yeah, they definitely don't. Yeah. I would just be a bad, bad group to be
in. Yeah. Like, cool. I guess you're paying rent. I would just charge them
rent. Probably file a mean extension. Yeah. Mean extension. I'm dealing with
some issues. What's the mean? What's the difference between an extension and a
mean? It's just a really good one. Yeah. Maybe after the date. No, no, no.
My cool throne is the American judicial system. So I alluded to it a second ago, but the Trump
trial is starting in Manhattan right now. And they're doing jury selection for it.
And in the jury selection, one of the questions they're asking the prospective jurors is, do you
listen to podcasts? And then they're asking them, what podcasts do you listen to?
So juror number B354 from Nomad was in seat number 10.
And the podcast question, do you listen to podcasts?
He says, yeah, if I get bored every once in a while,
I'll listen to Barstool Sports.
Yes!
Might be in the Trump jury pool.
Later on, there was an Upper East Side
resident, a native New Yorker, an investment banker at KPMG, lives with his fiance, works at a
nonprofit. He's another sports podcast guy. He listens to Pardon My Take. Yes! Which got a nice
from a reporter that was sitting in the courtroom. Holy shit! We might we might get some some fellas installed on the Trump jury right now
That rocks. Yeah, they just basically were asking this question for anyone who answers the daily. Yeah, the daily
They're like you're out of here. Hey, you're gone. See ya. You're gone. See ya. That's awesome
Yeah, so we might that guy shout out those guys that are in the pool
I hope you guys get selected really scary thing to think of anyone who's listening to this right now
Deciding anyone's fate in the jury. Yeah, well will the former president go to jail?
Well, his fate is in the hands of a guy that listens to us pretend to know what we're talking about and just bought a turtle
To gamble on yes a guy who basically was like clear my schedule. Mr. Pairs about to be unveiled
Yeah, I can't I can't make jury this morning. I got to see who he's got in the play-in game.
I love it.
I love it.
Yeah.
We might have some friends in very high places right now.
Yes.
Like it.
All right.
My hot seat is the Chicago White Sox.
So we have a strategy of betting against the A's.
It's been mixed reviews.
They did lose by two runs the other night, Monday night. I am a fucking idiot because this weekend I tried to bet against the Athletics.
I put the bet in for the next day's game, for the following day's game, which was also listed on the
odds that I could put down on. They ended up losing that game by a lot. That would have been a rare
win for us in the past week. I missed out on that money. And then yesterday, I don't want to blame Stephen
Che. Yes, we can. I don't want to blame Stephen Che. He's in charge of telling us.
But it's Stephen Che's fault. And he didn't tell us to bet against the
athletics. And I didn't get the bet in and the athletics ended up losing by two
runs. Yes. That's another, I guess it's a total of,
units that you need back. Yeah. Units that I need. That's the exact way. It's, it's multiple units that I need back. And so I'm over two on the last games that we
should have won. Yeah. The system. So the, the thing is with the, uh, betting against the A's,
it was because of that fuck face, John Fisher, fuck him. Uh, and also we thought they'd be really
bad. we should have
picked the White Sox because the White Sox are so so bad and Jerry Reinsdorf also a fuckface
he's gonna be if the Bulls win on Wednesday night gonna be like look see we got to the
second level of the playing game another year in a row but the White Sox I have some stats
from you this is from Jay Kuda who's great Twitter follower he also is a White Sox, I have some stats from you. This is from Jay Kuda, who's a great Twitter follower.
He also is a White Sox fan.
Number of times the Braves have been shut out in the last 430 days?
Two.
Number of times the White Sox have been shut out in the last 430 hours?
Six.
In baseball history, two teams have been shut out at least six times in their first 16 games,
the 1907 Brooklyn Super Bazz.
They were the Dodgers and the 2024 Chicago White Sox.
We also have this stat that, hold on, games one since opening day, UConn men's huskies for Chicago White
Sox 2. It's just bad, it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse. They
are on pace for the 2003 Tigers that ended up winning 43 games. And here's the last one.
Number of days, Pedro Grafal has been manager
of the White Sox, if you remember,
we talked about it last week that Jerry Reinsorf
didn't want to fire him because he wanted to let his contract
run out a little more.
So number of days he has been the manager of the White Sox,
531.
Number of days he has had a winning record,
one, opening day last year yeah
it's bad things are bad on the south side they don't know where they're gonna
play in the future too right they're looking for a new stadium Jerry Riser
doing the John Fisher thing yeah being a fucking dickhead somehow and this is
shocking the the story of the lady that snuck a gun into the guaranteed rate
field and accidentally shot herself in the stomach because she was too fat to
be holding a gun in her belly.
That's not the saddest, weirdest story to happen with the White Sox in the last two
years.
Yeah, and listen, I'm not a White Sox fan, but I have a lot of friends, people in my
life that root for the White Sox and I feel bad for them.
I'm going to do something for them that will hurt me, but I'm going to do it.
I always say honestly, the Chicago White Sox and where they play guaranteed
Rafe field has some of the best food in all of sports
Major League Baseball everything food beverage everything beers
Everything s'mores milkshake way better than Wrigley like world's better than Wrigley
So whenever I tell people like oh go to whites up like dude
It is they just do a top class job of it. I'm no longer going to say that because
that's what Jerry Reinsworth wants you to say. That is so you guys, it doesn't matter
what happens on the field. We got great food. We got great beer. It's great atmosphere.
I can no longer say that I'm going to stand with white Sox fans. I will no longer plug
the fact that going to a game there is actually
fun and a great experience. So no more dog shit food.
They get nothing out of you.
Nothing. Cause I would, I would, people would ask and be like, dude, I do want that not
have even close to the same food as the white side.
That milkshake though. I would let that milkshake do unspeakable things to me. Yeah. It's so
good looking.
Yeah. So, uh So White Sox are really
down bad. And then my cool throne is golf because golf, they did have a bad masters
ratings but it was fun to watch the masters nonetheless. Golf has Rory maybe going to
the live. So way to go golf. He denied it. Yeah, I know. It was it was such a classic
golf, like live being like, Oh, the Masters just happened. This is cool.
Everyone's talking about the Masters. Let's just float out that Rory's thinking about
$850 million. Didn't we talk? Was it with Whitney? Or was it with Riggs? I forget one
of those guys we said, How much would it rock if Rory just decided to go to live after like
talking all that shit, but it's just impossible. He was Mr. PGA Tour for it seemed like forever.
He was the spokesperson.
But this is all Liv's entire strategy is this now,
where it's like, oh, some big PGA event happens.
Let's just say, oh, Tiger Woods is thinking
about taking $1.5 billion.
Also, did you read the story about Greg Norman
at the Masters?
Yeah, his hand is sore.
Yeah.
Because he shook too many hands during the Masters. So he got denied credentials, which there's every time this happens, people
are like, we don't even know if he actually tried to get credentials. He bought a ticket
from, uh, he just bought a ticket online, showed up, uh, said that there were so many
people that came up to him and said, thank you so much for what you're doing for golf.
And then he also, he he tried to stare down Rory
for a couple holes.
Basically tried to get in his eyesight
and Rory just never acknowledged him.
But weird dude.
I did hear some people saying,
the microphones picked up that said,
thank you for everything you do online.
Thanks for all the content.
Content, yeah.
Now we do stand with Brooks and his live team, Smash.
Smash.
We can separate the art from the artist.
Also, Golf's back because Scottie Shaffler went
to Hole in the Wall Dive Bar when he landed in Dallas.
That was cool.
That is cool.
Yeah.
Just like us.
And people were like, well, he wanted to be with his wife.
His wife's probably sleeping.
Yeah.
Oh, they also clowned Tony O'Brown.
The PGA Tour did.
He woke up in the morning because obviously his wife's pregnant
She's sleeping in and he made himself his own breakfast and the Instagram caption was chef Scheffler. Oh
Big time Clown Tonio Brown nice nice. It's literally in his last name
He was wearing the same outfit that he won the Masters in at this bar, which is very cool
I also was looking back and I'm going to retract something with Scotty. I
was like, I need this baby to come soon so that he doesn't get all this credit for being
this awesome dude that I'm going to leave. I think that he was forced into saying that
he was going to leave. He just said his wife was pregnant and then media members asked
if he would leave if she went into labor. He never was like, she's imminent for labor.
He didn't have that plan?
Right, he wasn't like, oh, she could have a baby at any time.
The reporters kept on saying, if hypothetically
she had a baby, so Scottie's off the hook.
Great dude.
All right, good, yeah.
I stand with Scottie.
We like Scottie.
You know how that can happen where he gets duped
where people are like, well, his wife could be
three months pregnant and reporters would say that,
what if she has a baby? He's gotta answer it one way was he didn't have that discussion with his wife before talking about it, right?
He was boxed into a corner where it's like she's probably not gonna have the baby. Why are you bringing this up?
Okay, if you ask me this question directly, I guess I have to say I'd leave
Yeah, by the way, I did just look it up Charlotte the pregnant stingray
Yeah, by the pregnant air quotes in North Carolina
Still has not given birth.
Now they're doing a bait and switch news story.
Now the story is she's regrowing her drop tail barb that she lost.
Isn't she crazy?
So now it's just, oh, we're supposed to forget about the pregnancy
because she's apparently re sprouting limbs.
This this stinks to high heaven.
I don't think I don't think this bitch is pregnant
Okay, and and guy who's listening who's about to walk back into the Trump trial you can now go now that you have this Charlotte
Yeah, the Charlotte that that bitch ain't pregnant. I just love the idea of that guy. Just yeah
There well this high stakes moment and we're just updating on Charlotte
And Scotty Scheffler to dive out of Scheffler drank beers drank beers news news story
That looked actually like a lot of fun like imagine being at that
Dive bar and just sitting there on a Sunday night and the Masters champ walks in yeah
I mean if I was Scotty I would I would just live in dive bars for the rest of my life so awesome
I would just wear the green jacket everywhere. Yeah, I think you probably get a phone call from Augusta if you're wearing it in like an establishment
they don't approve of. You only get to keep it for a year. Yeah, you only get to keep
it for a year. And then they keep it at Augusta. Yeah. Sergio or John Rahm talked about that,
how he had it in his closet and he was saying he kind of wishes he wore it more because
he has to give it back. Yeah. Yeah. But Scotty off the hook. Hopefully we get Scotty on
sometime we stand with Scotty that was he was duped by the media. My apologies for falling for
their tricks. No, my apologies as a member of the media. Yeah. The media will do all
the media makes us look bad as members of the media. Like the media right now has been
saying that Hank didn't do his taxes. Bullshit is fake bullshit bullshit. They're saying
Max stuffed his face with food. Bullshit. That did happen They're saying Max stuffed his face with food.
Mm-hmm.
Bullshit.
That did happen.
Did Tom Frinelli do his taxes?
Hank?
Probably.
Probably.
Probably.
Okay.
Jerry Ross.
All right.
Jake.
My hot seat is international basketball teams.
We talked about it with Blake Griffin coming up, but the USA announced its Olympic roster for 2024 in Paris and it is stacked. They're looking to win every game by 50.
I am predicting that the United States will win a gold medal in basketball this year.
Steph, LeBron, Candy, Tatum, Embiid, Booker, Halliburton, Edwards, Holliday, Atabayo, AD
and one open spot. There's just one ball. Maybe for a guy Blake Griffin who's coming up. Yeah, I
we have squashed the beef with Zach Eadie because he didn't make any NIL money and
He was an all-time college basketball player. I
Really want to play Canada. Just fucking yeah, just dunk on him. He am on him. Canada's got a good team
Is that kitty is he on Canada?
Yeah, okay. It's like she she gilded us Andrew Wiggins
Lou R. J. Barrett Lou Dort, maybe what are you gonna say Max? We we were Edie
No, I just know positive but and bead wait I'm trying to garden bead is going to be so yeah
Yeah, yeah, say like we're Edie positive. It sounds like we've got it. You can't get it up. Yeah
We're a sweet for yourself. We're I guess saying positive ed doesn't really help we have ed
Yeah, we have ed. Yeah, that's what I was Canadian. Yeah Canadians have ed. Yes, correct. Wait is
Where is in be playing the Olympics? Yeah, he's on the list for the US which is weird but
Really?
Yes
Ring Chaser
Cause he knows he's never gonna win one in the NBA
Yeah here we go it's actually a pretty good team
SGA, Jamal Murray, RJ Barrett, Dillon Brooks, Lou Dort, Kelly Olynyk, Zach Eady
Decent team
Yeah And then a guy named Thomas Scrub, that sucks Kelly Olynyk, Zach Eady. Decent team. Yeah.
And then a guy named Thomas Scrub.
That sucks.
Yeah, that's awful.
That sucks to be the last listed.
That's brutal, dude.
Old Tom Scrub.
Old Tom Scrub.
We got to throw him out there.
Yeah, so they've kind of put themselves in a position
where if they don't blow every team out.
So why do we have an open spot?
I don't blow every team out. So why do we have an open spot? I don't know.
Oh man, who could it be?
Yeah, who are they saving it for?
So the potential list I'm looking at from Regz's blog
is Jared Allen, Paolo, Desmond Baines, Scotty Barnes,
Bridges, Jalen Brown, Brunson, Jimmy Butler, Alex Caruso.
Caruso, it's gotta be Caruso, gotta be Caruso.
Darren Fox, Paul George. Needs to be Caruso, so for sure. We gotta get Caruso. Ah Caruso, it's gotta be Caruso. Gotta be Caruso.
Darren Fox, Paul George.
Needs to be Caruso.
Caruso for sure.
We gotta get Caruso on this team.
Brunson snubbed.
Oh Brunson snubbed.
Oh yeah, people are gonna have to snub that.
You can't be doing pro Brunson stuff until we find out who you're playing in the first
round.
Now it sucks.
Max having to-
Alright McAlbridge is snubbed.
Max having to go against the New York Wildcats.
The Nova Knicks. Yeah. The Nova Knicks. I hate that they all play for the Knicks.
If they were any other team, they'd be my second favorite team in the NBA, but just brutal.
Jake, your cool throne. Two cool thrones, one of them quickly, plug God, first responders.
We have a huge event this weekend on Long Island, FDNY, NYPD 50th annual hockey game on Barstool.tv
on long island fdny and my pd fiftieth annual hockey game on barstool.tv saturday uh... believe our coverage starts at four p.m eastern can't wait for that plus ruffin reality friday
night so who's gonna be on the call with you so unfortunately biz isn't able to make it
because we have a nhl playoff conflict so be me and colby armstrong who does great things
on spitting chiclets he calls games for the penguins, so he's great
Wit will be in between the benches. I believe and then Jeff I think Dave will be there part of the pregame and intermission big how you did that last year
Yes, it's an awesome awesome event always fights in that game too, which is great. Oh, yeah, I can't wait to call him
It's gonna be awesome. Yeah any rumors to the truth that that Biz was afraid because he can't spell NYPD?
I believe that's false.
OK.
I read that online.
But that's the media.
Any truth to the rumor that Biz is missing because Will Compton
scheduled this for him?
I don't think that's true either.
No, Biz has the hockey playoffs are starting.
Yeah.
So it's understandable.
TNT.
So that is a cool thrown with Ruffin Rowdy. Big guy will be there. And then my's understandable. Yeah. TNT. Yes. So that is a cool throne with rough and rowdy big guy.
It'll be there. And then my other cool throne is John Sterling.
Yeah. Retired. Tired out of the blue. That's a weird time to retire, right?
I think he just like, was like, all right, I got it one more time.
And then two weeks and he's like, I guess not. He said, I re I read a, um,
interview he did with Jimmy Tran of where he was basically like,
I really wanted to retire to start the season.
I kind of convinced myself I could keep doing it and I can't,
um, goes out on top.
Yeah.
No, Jake.
On his own terms.
No, Jake.
He's, I mean-
He did this for 64 years.
I mean, legend, but-
Legend.
In my, I mean the Stantonian
This is a great career
They say like that's way out of here and that is gone the stancho and then he just said wait what happened?
What did I do wrong?
He is a legend though. I mean the legend radio baseball and radio is just the best so whenever you lose a baseball
the best. So whenever you lose a baseball announcer for a radio, it does hurt. Yeah. Those voices become part of your childhood growing up.
And it's the summer. The boys' summer.
Right. I've seen a lot of guys say it. And girls, a big reason why you get into the
business is because you like what you see from the guys and girls you listen to.
What? Is he doing one last game?
No, that's it. He pulled the plug. They're honoring him Saturday
Oh, wow, his last home run was a Stantonian Grand Slam. Oh, wow. It's fitting at the stadium Susan Waldman staying
She's around. Yeah, okay good
Jake what voice really spoke to you?
What voice was like, I need to have that voice?
I mean, in terms of like people or their actual voice?
No, just a voice.
Huh.
Kevin Harland's got a great voice.
But he's just got like an all time.
You can't try to fake a Kevin Harland voice
if it sounds very fake.
Yeah.
It's gotta be yourself. Well you say, Hank, do you have something to say? You can't try to fake a Kevin Harland voice if it sounds very fake. Yeah.
You just gotta be yourself.
Uh, were you gonna say, Hank, do you have something to say?
You had something to say?
You wanna say something?
I wanna say something.
Yeah.
Hank, did you do a sax?
Hank, were you falling asleep during Hot Seat Cool Throne?
No.
Was it a couple times?
No.
Did I see a night off?
Do you have a sleep problem?
Are you addicted to sleep?
I think you've been working out too well.
You got sleep problem?
I'm getting up early.
Yeah.
You got sleep addiction?
I was trying to get Max's attention to put the camera on you during Hot Seat Cool Throne.
Did he?
No, he didn't see me.
Yeah, I wasn't asleep.
Are these things recording even when it's not on them?
Do you know getting up?
They are?
So we can review the tape?
Yeah.
Okay, yeah, we'll review the...
Yes.
Please make a brief clip of Hank falling asleep during hot seat cool through why you guys coming at me so
hard I just had a question what is it if you fell asleep no I heard the whole
thing Hank has been coming in early since the time he was up till 1130
that's a fact I've seen you here very early he's training to dunk yes sleep
room you did just sleep no I haven't been getting any sleep
Yeah
Cuz you've been thinking about dunking and getting up early Hank did put a camera in my face about five seconds ago
And he was like do you think I'll be able to dunk by the end of the year? Yeah for the documentary
Oh
Fuck yes that I mean you have to watch a documentary. Mm-hmm
Okay, let's get to speaking of documentaries. Let's get to Blake Griffin.
He retired from the NBA today. He's been a big part of our show and we have an awesome
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Okay, here he is, Blake Griffin.
Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very,
very special guest.
One of our oldest dearest friends on Pardon My Take.
He is a six time All-star, Rookie of the Year,
but bigger than all of that, he's a two time Blake of the Year.
Three time, right? Three time Blake of the Year. Whew. It is Blake
Griffin who has announced his retirement from the game of basketball. Let's start there.
You retired. Did you want to throw in a mention to us in the retirement
note?
I did. I actually, you know, in like a week I'm going to start putting out my previous
drafts that didn't make the cut. So just be on the lookout for those. They'll be probably
in the form of a video or something.
So were we ever like, were you ever like, oh let me sneak in right after my parents and brother? Like hey, if we're talking about people that mean
the most to me in my career, what made me break?
It was like, you guys are my agent and I've had the same agent the whole time and he was
in a mess about it so I was like, you know what, the guys will understand.
Yeah, yeah, we don't. Yeah, definitely don't.
Like we're holding this against you.
I don't know you guys, I guess, apparently.
I'm sorry.
No, it's OK.
Next time I retire from something, you're in there.
OK.
I'd like to retire from my career potentially being
in the NBA right now.
I'd like to thank Blake Griffin for showing me
that I could play in the NBA, even though I can't dunk.
I, too, would like, I would also actually for showing me that I could play in the NBA even though I can't dunk. I too would
like I would also actually like to announce that I'm retiring from not
dunking. I will be dunking men's leagues, smaller hoops on my you know friends
whoever it is so I'm unretired I'm retiring from not dunking. Okay wait. I
would like to thank PFT and Big Cat.
Yes, okay, I like that.
So wait, are you actually gonna play men's league?
Because that is, whenever I talk to someone who retires,
it's like the coolest thing you could do
is just show up to like pick up games or men's league games
and just fucking dominate.
I don't know, I mean, you never say never, you know, Justin Bieber, I, I'll probably,
there's a chance I slip into a men's league game here or there. Yes. Yes. All right. So
maybe I come to the Chicago, the new, the new dome and play a little, we play a little
pickup basketball. It would be awesome to see you do one of those videos. I always love
it when athletes pretend to go undercover for some sort of like marketing stunt and they're like, oh shit, that was Kyrie Irving. I had no idea. If you did it, you're like 6'10 going undercover. You could act like you were like an old man on crutches and then you just go out there and start yamming on people. That would rock. Yeah. It doesn't work as well when you're playing the sport that you are professionally undercover. Yeah. But you know.
But you had a great career, obviously.
A lot of highs.
You've done a lot of cool shit.
A lot of cool shit.
So congratulations.
I think we truly mean that.
That this is a good moment for you.
And I hope that a lot of people are telling you
all the good memories they have and thanking you
for whatever you've done for them.
I want to know what your favorite part of your NBA
career is, because I have one. And I'm just curious if we had the same one. and thanking you for whatever you've done for them. I want to know what your favorite part of your NBA career
is, because I have one.
And I'm just curious if we had the same one.
I can almost guarantee you it's probably not
going to be the same one.
Mine might be the same one.
Mine might be the same one as yours.
Man, favorite part.
Probably the tunnel debacle. Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
With the Rockets, they dug deep, they popped up into our locker room.
There was a Looney Tunes situation.
Yeah.
It popped up and we were there to meet him.
We held our ground.
Yeah.
I appreciate it.
What's your favorite?
Cause I have a favorite as well.
Mine was going to be when you, when you dumped that glass of water on the fan and you were
pretending to like say, Oh, what's going on in the video board?
And you just doused them with water.
That rocked.
What do you mean pretending?
When you were pretending to be like, Oh, what's going on?
And then you threw the water on them.
Yeah, that was unfortunate, man.
It's unfortunately the fan.
He, he was having to be a warrior's fan, but I actually, the water on him. Yeah, that was unfortunate, man. Unfortunately,
the fan he was having to be a Warriors fan. I actually, I actually know him. He's a nice
guy and we've, we've, we've reminisced about it. Yeah. My favorite moment from your NBA
career is when you made $258 million. Oh man. Was that it? That's a pretty cool moment,
right? Yeah, it's pretty cool, I guess.
You know, growing up, I didn't ever imagine that would be a possibility.
So that was pretty cool.
Yeah.
So all right.
So what's today like though?
Because it is, we were talking before, I mean, I'm sure you're just getting texts from everyone
and it probably was like, oh, I didn't want to get this many text messages today.
But is it like, have you had a moment
to be like, this is pretty cool that this many people are reaching out and like, uh,
care about me and, and appreciate my career?
Um, yeah, I mean, definitely. I, you know, it's been three hours. I kind of just like,
I responded to some, you know, people that I know, but, um, it's been pretty cool, man.
It's cool to see teammates, older old teammates, guys that are still playing, all my friends
and family.
I mean, when you play this long and it's been a career, a lot of people are affected by
that.
Your friends, your family, you can't go to stuff.
I've missed weddings.
I've missed a whole bunch of stuff.
So it's cool to sort of put that in the past.
Actually, I didn't know how it was going to feel sort of put that, put that in the past, you know, actually, you
know, I didn't know how it was going to feel, but it is nice, man. It's, um, I was, I was
ready to be done.
Yeah. So wait, so there, was there any, cause when we had Peyton Pritchard and Derek White
in here, they said they begged you to come back. Was there any part of you this year
where you were like, maybe I can just get on a team for the playoffs, be, you know, give some give a couple minutes here, like, or were you just I'm done?
I kind of left it open for a while. I did did have sort of a, I guess, a standing offer
to go back to Boston. And I remember, like December, like in the December hit, and I
called Brad Stevens, and I was like, man, I really appreciate it. I'd had communication
with him the whole time. I just, I wasn't, I wasn't there, man. I just, I don't know,
something changed and I knew like when something changed like that, like it was time to be
done. And I told him, you know, like, I think it was like into December. Um, and then I
kind of like waited around, honestly, I just kind of was enjoying life a little bit and,
and uh, you know, finally decided
to put it out there. But yeah, I mean, if I got, if I, if I had gone anywhere, I would
have gone back to Boston. I love those guys and I'm pulling for them and they got a great
shot, but it was just time for me to be done. I don't think that I would have been like,
I wouldn't have been able to give what I should give to a team, you know, if my heart like
truly wasn't in it, you know,
that's gotta be awesome though, to know that you retired while someone was still
wanting you to be on the team. Like that's a good way to go.
Yeah, I was, I mean, yeah, it's nice to sort of retire someone on your own terms,
you know, and, and not, uh, you know, not like be begging the whole season,
but, um, super appreciative of Boston and those guys, Brad and all those guys.
But it was
time.
Yeah.
So what is actually next for you?
Because you, we have, we have a feeling that you're coming after our job in some shape
or form.
Well, you're coming after our job in podcasting.
You're probably coming after Hank's job in golfing.
Yeah.
I'm, I'm, I'm pretty serious about my golf game.
Uh, hopefully big strides this summer.
Uh, I think I'm going to be gonna feel like playing that Tahoe tournament. So, you know, didn't get a
championship in basketball. So hopefully I get a, get a, get a meaningless
championship at a celebrity golf tournament. Yeah. Yeah. It does count. Um,
I don't know, man, you know, podcasting, maybe only fans, maybe, uh, you know,
maybe, maybe you start coaching a, you know, maybe, maybe
start coaching a G League team, get into a fight, get fired, try
to become a GM, get fired. I like that. Start a podcast, get
fired. Yeah, I don't know.
That sounds like Blake Griffin gets fired would be a great
reality. Oh, so many jobs you can from canned from. Yeah. Wait, I know what does
wake up mincy? Yeah, fired. What's your what's your what's your handicap right now? It's
about 10 something right now 1111 one I think right now but you know, we're working on it.
You still suck. Yeah, I'm not good at all. It's been like two, you know, almost three
years now and I was like, I
think it was a 15 beginning of last summer and I've just been grinding. I don't want
to admit how much I practice golf now, but I love it. It's a huge stress reliever.
Yeah, but that's actually good that you're a 10 handicap because if you retired and
you were a scratch, it's like, what do you have to do now?
Yeah, I mean, I feel like all the scratch govers,
most of the scratch govers I know are miserable.
Yeah.
Because they're just like, unless you shoot under par,
you didn't do well.
Yeah.
I can go out there and I can shoot 95.
Still had a great day.
Yeah.
If you see somebody that tells you that they're scratched,
and you're right, if they don't shoot par,
then you're like, that guy's bullshitting me.
He's not really scratch.
They don't understand how the system works.
Also, I think we said this to Brooks Kepka
when he was on the show one time.
I think we have more fun playing golf than Brooks Kepka
or somebody at that level does.
Because when you hit a good shot out of nowhere,
you're like, holy shit, golf is awesome.
That was great.
And for them, they hit one bad shot around,
and they're like, I fucking suck. So we're actually, we're doing it the right way.
I mean, you saw guys like every, every tournament and the guys are coming down the stretch and
they like put one in the water. Danny McCarthy the other day or the two tournaments ago had
an unbelievable bag nine record breaking bag nine. Sorry. Don't mean to pile on here, but
and then puts one in the water and everybody's like, Oh, that sucks. I put one
in the water. I'm like, got one in my pocket.
You're like, I didn't see that go in. Yeah, didn't that bounce
out? Yeah, yeah. Oh, Berg, when when Oh, Berg was playing so
well. And yeah, Scotty beats the shit out of him. And then he's
like, Damn it. I just lost a Masters potentially. It's like,
dude, you played you you hit like a hundred great shots this week
And that would be enough for my entire lifetime. Yeah
Yeah, I can't wait to hit a hundred good ones. Yeah, you played Augusta
No, oh you got to play it before Hank shouldn't be hard
All right, that's my new goal. Yeah. Yeah, do you have a do you have like a list of things you want to do?
I feel like when everybody retires they're like, okay, here's five goals that I have for myself.
Yeah. It's mostly like travel stuff. Like there's just like a lot, not a lot of places
I've been able to go, you know, just cause our off season was so short. I want to do
do Australia, but in their summer, you know, all the places that are summer during our
winter, yeah. I got to go to, I checked the box off on skiing, skied first time.
That's that had to look weird.
Yeah, I mean, also, you know, I don't know if you guys know this, but my knee history hasn't been great. So that was a huge
concern. I was like, literally, I took a lesson, I'm just I get
on the bunny slope, and they're legitimately like six, five
year olds getting lessons. And it's just me just like,
just going so much slower than them.
But we gotta hang out, we gotta hang out.
The tallest man on skis.
What about visiting beautiful Chicago
and hanging out with us here?
That's gotta be on the list.
Yeah, that's on the list as well.
I hear it's beautiful this time of year,
or maybe in a month or two.
So, you know, I'll let you guys know when I pop by it'll be fun. I want you to dunk on max so bad
Yeah. Yeah, there's um, there's a there's a few things I want to do
That's that's one of them. That's close to the top. Oh, sorry, man
No, you have to dunk on him. Yes. Yeah, just any Philly fan. Yeah, right
You might not be able to jump over a Kia anymore, but max how tall are you six foot six foot?
We'll say six one six flat. He's six feet. Yeah, could you jump over max?
Yeah, I think so. It's like a midsize up midsize sedan. Yeah
That works. Yeah, just come to Chicago teabag max. Yeah
All right, so your retirement letter.
Yeah, well, no, it wasn't a letter.
Well, it was kind of a letter.
It was a non-letter.
It was a non-letter letter.
It was a non-letter letter.
What part of it are you going to look back in like two days
and be like, man, I wish I hadn't written that. I mean hopefully none of it. I don't
know was it bad? No it was good but you it felt like you didn't want to write it and you were
forced to write it because it's like that's what guys got to do they got to write it like you're
you know you even said it in it you're like I never envisioned myself as the guy who had to
write one of these. Yeah well I just I just felt like I would do it a different way
I don't I don't I don't think I'll regret any part of it
I think I my message that I just wanted to get across was like I am thankful even for like this shitty moment
That's like what make the ups and downs of like the season the ups and downs of a career the ups and downs of life
That's like what makes it all worth it. Yeah, I was trying trying to be sincere
with like a little bit of a little bit of levity, but, um, I don't know. I, I felt pretty
good about it. I honestly, I just wanted to just get it out there and be done with it.
Yeah. I mean, the correct answer was the part that you didn't mention us, but, um, oh yeah.
But I remember I said I was going to, I was going to, there's, there's like a part two
to the retirement that would have turned it into a letter being part
Yeah, being part two of a letter is actually cooler than being part one of a letter. Yeah
Yeah
Because it's like the PS part is like the part that everybody remembers because it's just like the last thing they read
True I'll put some together real nice for you. Have you have you spent any time online today?
Looking what people are saying about you?
No, I have not.
You should do that.
I sincerely mean that because all the things
that people are saying, I searched for Blake Griffin
on Twitter and I just get to watch highlight reels
of your best dunks.
You should do that.
You should treat yourself and just be like,
yeah, I was pretty fucking awesome at dunking the ball.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah, maybe I will it's fun to fun to relive it from a different perspective
I guess who's who's who are you teabagging in this Knicks dunk? Oh, man. Oh Timothy Mozgov. Oh, man
Oh, yeah, that was rather. Yeah, you have do you have a favorite dunk over the entire course of your career?
That was one of them I remember like the Nick, that Nick's game, I had like three dunks that I felt
like were, were like, I don't know after that game, I've said this before, but
like after that game, like I think I went home and I woke up the next morning and
I feel like my life like never changed after that game.
So like it holds like a, like a special moment, you know,
to me that it was just like,
everything just kind of just like, just took off.
Yeah.
Are you gonna, are you gonna be an actor?
Cause I feel like you would be an awesome actor.
I've got a couple things lined up
that I can't really talk about yet, but not, not like,
not as maybe a little bit.
Yeah.
I got a couple of things that I'm pretty excited about kind of at the intersection of sports
and comedy, I guess a little bit.
Well, I mean, like we've known you for a long time.
I think like there are athlete funny where a guy can like do a quote and it's like, oh,
he's funny because we don't see an athlete do those.
You're legitimately funny.
And I would love to see you.
I even saw you in that commercial.
You fucking crushed that commercial.
Was it a Super Bowl commercial?
I don't know.
It's the ones where you were doing
a bunch of stuff in the kitchen.
Oh, the Daily Harvest one?
Yeah.
I was like, this is great.
I want to watch more Blake.
I only, when I started doing endorsement deals and like how to do
commercials, I asked like early on, I was like,
I only want to do something fun.
I only want to do like a comedy commercial, you know,
like something that's funny. And then over the course of time,
like it just worked out because you know,
I think brands and people like enjoyed that a little bit more than like the
typical, like, you know, every day I wake up and train.
Yeah.
And, you know, what I put into the game, I get out of the game.
I know nothing wrong with those, but like, I just like never wanted to do that.
It's so fun to like try to think of funny things and execute.
So that's kind of what I'll be doing from here on out.
It would rock.
It would also rock if you ended up like Shaq where your face is on every
product known to man. Like you're selling printers and
Best Buy. Yeah, that'd be funny. Just but just like everything
Shaq does, but just like the competitor like been gay.
Whatever the competitor general insurance is. Yeah. Hewlett
Packard printers. Yeah, go one on one with Shaq. Yeah.
Who's your favorite teammate that we wouldn't know either?
You can maybe don't do like us, like someone that's like a perennial all star, someone
famous, but like someone, some guy that's like give him his flowers.
Like yeah, no one knows this guy was the best.
I love like I've said, I mean, I mean, Jamal Crawford is the name.
Everybody knows that name, right? But he's the best. I love like I've said I mean I mean Jamal Crawford's a name. Yeah. Everybody
knows that name right. But he's the best yeah. One of my young boys I love Bruce Brown man
awesome dude. Yep. Love Lamar Odom was awesome. Like an awesome dude awesome teammate just
like so caring. So kind. I, I could name so many guys.
I've had, I've had some awesome teammates. I don't want to leave anybody off the list, but
those guys are great. Yeah. And then what, uh, are you going to miss? Are you going to miss
the guys in the locker room? You got to say that. Yeah. You know what I think I'm going to miss the
most is those little times in the locker room, the bus rides, the camaraderie. No, I really will.
I mean, everybody, like every teammate, I remember like,
guys retire and I talk to them and everybody mentions like,
that's what they miss.
I will miss like playing basketball a little bit.
Sometimes I'll watch games and I'll be like,
I mean, it'd be fun to be out there.
But also like, you know, end of my career,
I was only out there half the time, not that many minutes.
So, you know, it's when like your favorite thing to do is play basketball and like you're you're not doing that all the time
You're not doing it at a level you're used to it's like guys probably time. Yeah, you know
yeah, but I will miss I will miss like those those conversations like the I
Told some of the guys on Boston to is like I'm not just gonna sign before the playoffs cuz like part of like
growing together as a team like through a, is like, I'm not just going to sign before the playoffs. Cause like part of like growing together as a team, like through a
season is like you go through all like training camp, you go through all that
shit of like road trips that are miserable, losing streaks, like bad games,
whatever it is. And like, you sort of like grow together and you have that
kindred spirits. So like for me, it was like, I don't want to just jump on a
roster and like at the end of the season Try to win a championship like part of the joy is like being there from the beginning
Yeah, that makes sense. You could get that same kind of locker room environment if you were to do like the
NBA show on TNT. Mmm
Have they talked to you about that?
I feel like you would you would be the one guy that I feel like would fit in with Shaq, Kenny,
Charles, the whole crew.
I don't know, man.
I've had some conversations about doing some what's it, studio stuff, some broadcasting
stuff.
It's just like, I don't know, talking basketball is fun and something I know, but I don't know,
I just kind of want to do something a little bit more broad than that.
So never say never again, but those guys are great.
I think they have a good formula,
and I think I want to try to forge my own path a little bit.
All right.
Yeah, I respect that.
I noticed, actually, let me ask you too this way.
Who is your favorite owner that you've played for
who had to sell the team?
Oh, man, favorite owner that had to sell the team.
Got to be D. Sturr.
Got a bad rap.
Got a really bad rap.
But Jesus, was he a sweetheart.
Once you got past the racism and the bigotry.
Dude, talk about misunderstood. Yeah, I noticed he wasn't included in the thank you.
Yeah.
Part three, baby.
Part three.
Part three.
Yeah, whatever you do, if you do a part two, we don't want to be on the same thank you
as Donald Sterling.
Yeah.
Why not?
Actually, no, we can.
You can throw us in there.
That's fine.
He did have the best testimony of all time.
Yeah. Yeah
All right, so who's your favorite owner that made all his money in a software company? Oh man, I think
Yeah, there was a minority owner for the Pistons who had a tech startup. Love that.
Yeah, he was great. I don't want to say his name, but he was great.
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What was the was the best team you ever played on?
Man dude
Boston last year like we that's what's crazy about Boston this year's Boston's better this year than we were last year
I would I would have said Boston last year or obviously one of the Lob City teams
I mean then our nets team, we were super talented, but there was just something missing.
Obviously, I think if we had beat Milwaukee Game 7, we had a great chance to win a championship.
But I don't know. I mean, I was super fortunate, man.
Some of those Clipper teams, man, we had we won like 20 straight games one year
and just felt like we were just like on a roll.
And then, you know, for whatever reason, we just always injuries
or just just mental lapses that didn't get us there.
But I was at that game, the game seven against Milwaukee, the KD foot on the line.
You that series, you were just fucking all over the
place. You were just like, you were the energy, everything just fucking guarding everyone.
You know, sometimes the old dogs got to learn a few new tricks. Yeah. I just remember because
you guys had so many injuries and it was just like Blake is just doing literally anything
that's asked for him and it's everything. Yeah. It was like Katie was just like scoring
50 and then we were just trying to put like plug gaps of like there's just like a new leak and we're
like, no, go get that, go get that. It was a fun series and sucks that we lost, but it
was a, it was, it was fun. Cause like on every team of my career, I just, I sort of played
like a very different role. Yeah. Um, which was kind of fun. It just kind of brings your career,
kind of gives you that full spectrum. Yeah. And the Pistons have not been the same since
you left. That's a fact. You know, they got some good young talent. Yeah. They got some
good young talent. Getting a new president soon and you know, things are looking up.
I remember that Pistons year where you took them
to the playoffs and you had like before one of the games,
I've never seen anyone have their knees wrapped more
and you just still went out.
Yeah, I had the offensive lineman brace.
Yeah, and you were like even before the game,
you had all the towels and everything
and you just went out there and just gave everything
and just was a warrior for them.
Yeah, that was fun.
And then, you know, I do I get I get some I get some some some nice
love from Pistons fans. I think maybe the majority probably hate me. But I tell you
what, I gave it a quite literally almost try to give it my all.
Yeah. Well, Hank, Hank just stepped in here. Hank, do you have any Celtics questions? He
said the one of the best teams he played on was last's Celtics and they're better this year. Not because
Blake's not on it.
Maybe.
No.
No. That's all I needed to hear.
That's all you needed to hear? Hank's very nervous about this.
I'm not nervous. I'm excited.
I mean, dude, they've got to stay healthy, but like, I mean, Joe, M, Missoula is a year and under.
I think he's more comfortable now.
JT, it just feels like they just have pieces that all work.
And they're so good.
They're so good.
Yeah.
Hank's nodding.
He's poured his entire self-worth
into this Celtics postseason.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, sounds like just like a die-hard sports
fan. Yeah. Die-hard sports fan. Has like just like a diehard sports fan. Yeah. I heard sports fan.
Has anybody started the Blake Griffin for Hall of Fame conversation?
Oh, can we be the first? We'll do it. Yeah. If you guys want to.
I'm sure I think it's no brainer. I think it's first ballot.
Thanks, man. I appreciate it. I don't know, though. You never know.
I sometimes you you you see guys like, Oh, they got not like,
uh, who was it this year? Chauncey. I mean, that's a hall of famer right there.
Vince Carter, hall of famer. And then you look, you try to go look and see like
what guys accomplished, what like awards, obviously winning a championship helps,
but I don't know. I honestly, I'm not going to spend too much time thinking
about it. I have one, I have one question, Blake. Yeah.
One mulligan for your career, one shot,
if you could have one single shot back and take it again,
what would that shot be?
Like an actual shot?
Yeah.
Man.
There was moments with the Clippers, I don't know, I mean, there was like, uh, moments like with the Clippers.
I don't know.
I mean, there was, there was, there was, uh, that's a great question.
Probably the series against, uh, the series against when we went, went up three,
one on Houston, they came back and won.
There was a point in game six at home where we were up and then they came back.
There was moments where I had a missed shot that you never know.
With four minutes left, a made shot could just completely deflate them.
So it was probably in that series somewhere.
I don't know exactly a shot, but not necessarily a game winner.
Do you think that you retiring at this time can take your name officially off the list for the
Olympic team for that open roster spot that they're
keeping? I mean, you know, I said I was retiring from the
NBA, not the Olympics. Yeah. So, let's get Blakey gold medal.
Ooh. Yeah. No, I mean, listen, I uh, I don't know. Never say
never. Yeah. Kind of the theme for me today today. Did David Duke reach out to you today?
Junior the one that the basketball player the basketball player. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah
Reach out to you. I don't know when I first met him. I walked up and go hey man big fan. I don't know if he got it. Yeah, it was a joke.
Yes, very much joke.
Joe, there's maybe a message message here from somewhere.
Yeah, your David you, David Jr. The financier.
What? Jeffrey?
Who's your favorite point guard you played with? Oh man, gotta be CP.
Yeah.
Gotta be CP.
Yeah, yeah.
He's like, you know, kind of, he, like,
as a young player came, he was there my second year,
taught me, he like taught me how to, taught us as a team,
like how to, how to like will a victory. Like that was his thing right. Wait, I have, I have another basketball question for you. Um,
Kyrie Irving is beloved in the NBA by all the players. Is it just because he's so
goddamn good at basketball? Like, or when you, when you play with them or practice with them,
you're just like, he does things that we all wish we could do.
Yeah. I mean, like the perfect example is the left handed running,
pushing floater that he hit over a Yocage in the game.
It's like, it's just like a shot where he does that and you're not like,
oh, like lucky. It's just like he shoots it and you just expect to go in.
Also like the way he like hangs it I got the things he can do
Are like I think he's
The most talented
Basketball player in the NBA maybe still yeah
It's a weird thing to say because like you know there's so many talented guys
But the things he does that his like stature and like he's not like crazy athletic He's athletic, but he's not crazy athletic. It's it's like it's pretty mind-blowing things he does and his like stature and like he's not like crazy athletic. He's
athletic but he's not crazy athletic. It's like it's pretty mind blowing what he does.
Yeah, because it's always so funny whenever he's in the news for whatever reason. But
then all his teammates always have his back and you just you realize like they probably
just watch him and they're like that guy can do all these things that help us win and are
so incredible that like no one else in the
world could do that stuff.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, he makes shots. I've seen him make even in practice, I've seen him make
shots that you're just, it just like leaves you just kind of like scratching your head
and like an NBA practice, like you're playing five on five, like guys are hitting crazy
shots. It's not quite the game, like a game setting. So guys are trying stuff like guys are hitting crazy shots. It's not quite the game like a game setting
So guys are trying stuff guys are doing stuff
So you see some crazy stuff and he probably has like three of the top five things that craziest things
I've seen in practice at all time
Yeah
Yeah
Just the way that he he puts the exact right amount of spin on the ball as he's coming down from the peak of his jump
Like in the pain and getting a layup around somebody that's like seven feet tall and he's a ball off the backboard and then yeah and also
he's going the opposite way or like he's facing the opposite way and still spins
and still like it's like it's pretty nuts to be like that talented at
controlling a basketball. Yeah one of the craziest like in-person basketball
performance that I ever saw was remember remember we went to that game?
It was Cavs-Celtics in what, 2016?
And he scored 18 straight, and it was just like,
every type of shot, and you're just like,
what is going on here?
No one can even come close to touching him.
He's a great player, and I think he's misunderstood.
He's a great he's a great player and I think I do think he's misunderstood he's definitely he's definitely misunderstood yeah but you
know what not to it is your retirement so not to make it about us but do you
think we'll ever get Kevin Duran on this podcast? Yeah.
Another guy who's misunderstood yeah I don't know I don know. I don't know how many podcasts he does.
Does he do a lot of podcasts?
I think he probably listens to a lot of podcasts.
Yeah.
He leaves me on a scene on Instagram all the time.
Always hurts my feelings.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, never say never.
Never say never.
Never say never.
Solid maybe.
We never, you know, you never, there was probably a day when you were like, you know, growing
up you're like, will I ever make $258 million?
Like never say never.
No.
Never say never.
Yeah, never say never.
That's what I said as a kid.
I said never say never.
To 258 exactly.
Yeah, it's weird that I worked.
I've written down actually.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of kids say never.
You'd be surprised.
Yeah. So I want to talk real say never. You'd be surprised.
Yeah.
So want to talk real quick about Mizula because we're fascinated with him as a coach and especially
his love of the movie, The Town.
You know that he loves the town, right?
Like would he always bring it up like constantly?
No, that wasn't even really one.
I think he did.
He definitely did bring it up once.
All the coaches last year had shirts that said, whose car are we going to take?
So that was definitely their thing.
I did know he loved the town.
I don't remember him mentioning it multiple times,
maybe once.
But that's just who he is, man.
He's like, were you seeing press conferences,
and you see him trying to block a guy's shot.
Like that's how he thinks.
Like that's not like a, he's not putting on a, like a character.
Yeah.
You know, he's not like playing that up.
Like that's who he is.
So like, and I think that's one of the most important things about head coaches is authenticity.
Like guys can sniff through it immediately.
You know, even if it's not your style, like guys can sniff through, you
know, somebody who's in an authentic. Um, and that's just who he is. So I think that's
why he's, he's going to be a great coach. Did you know that he was getting choked out
that he would have his, uh, his jujitsu guy come over and just make him pass out for a
little bit? I didn't, I, we didn't, we didn't touch on that, but I have seen him in his, was it Gee? No.
Maybe, it might be Gee.
Gee, yeah.
It might be Gee.
I've seen him do that, and then him and Grant, I think Grant Williams, him and Grant, they
would try to play Spar.
I mean, that guy, there's no quitting that guy.
Can you name all the
Williams you played with oh boy Robert Williams yes right there there's a guy
named Jamal Williams who was on the Clippers that I played with let me
think Williams let's go to Detroit. There was no Williams
on the trail. There was a. Okay, this guys. Come on. What
are we doing? Robert, Robert, Mo, Lou, Grant, CJ. That's a lot
of them. That's a lot of Williams. CJ Williams. Yeah.
Great. A lot of Williams. It's a ton of Williams. That's a lot
of Williams. Do you play? Yeah, I mean, listen for I Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah little sentimental for a second and say thank you to you Blake. You are a very important part of this podcast and you can't
tell the history of Pardon My Take without Blake Griffin. I really do sincerely mean
it like you coming on you know whatever it was six seven years ago having fun with us
knowing that we're idiots like playing with the Blake of the year, like that's what made it cool was that you were like, you took
it seriously and I just want to thank you. Like you are, you, our success is,
there's a, there's a piece of it is because of you. I greatly appreciate
that and yeah man, I've always, I've always had fun. This is like the podcast
that you look forward to doing. Um, cause you never know what's going to happen. But,
um, it's, uh, it's awesome. I love you guys. And, uh, yeah, man. Yeah. When we retire,
you will be in our retirement letter with, with Donald, we'll thank Donald, we're going
to thank Donald Sterling for giving us so much material and also Blake Griffin.
Yeah, we'll put you right back to back.
I appreciate that man.
Like the good old times, me and Donald Sterling.
MVP's.
I gotta call him man, I gotta call him.
Yeah you should, just see what he's doing.
Oh, a little tip if you do decide to get into the podcasting game. Here's a great question
You can ask your guests. So this will be my last question
Blake if you were to interview yourself on the day that you retired what question would you ask yourself? Good question. Thank you. Oh
Man, I guess I mean I would have asked the Williams thing. Yeah
Talk about hard-hitting
Just just a pretzel we're gonna have to ask every player that comes on the show how many Williams
Man what would I so what would I ask myself? Yeah. The day that I was, yes.
I'm basically getting you to do our interview with you for us.
Um, I would ask, uh, the Williams answer was good.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess we could just leave it.
We can cut it out.
Yeah.
You actually, you forgot Willie green, Willie Warren.
Well, no, no.
Will you read?
You guys said Williams.
Was that an apostrophe S or just?
No, how many Williams?
I think you said Williams-es.
Oh.
Yeah.
Williams-es.
So you forgot a bunch of Williams.
I did forget a bunch, man.
I'm sorry.
Sorry to all the Willies and Williams.
Well, so if anyone asks you this, if you do another show,
you just got to simply go, I think I'd ask myself, was it all worth it? And then I'd say yes.
And then I'd say, and then you repeat it. And then I'd say, yeah, then I'd say, yeah,
I love what everyone any professional athlete says that like, was it all worth it? Yeah.
I mean, I think so. You so. No got to play the professional sports
What would I change anything if I had to do it all over again?
No, no
I would answer that differently. I'd be like I'd try to play with a few more Williams just yeah
Yeah, just collect a few more Williams along the way
Yeah, I mean I could be up there all time. Oh,
yeah. But you have to go up against guys like Robert Ori guys that like bounced around. Yeah.
Oh, let's look. You know what? Let's look right now. Robert Ori's teammates. Yeah. This is why
I tuned into this podcast. Robert Ori. I'm going to guess, I I'm gonna guess 13 Williams's. Okay. So Blake-
I mean, he may have rings, but-
Is there a website where you can just type in how many Williams?
No, you can just- we should make it.
Yeah. So Blake-
Actually, yeah. Yeah.
Blake had one, two, three, four, five Williams, if we're not counting Willys,
but he had three Willys as well.
Yeah, we're only talking Williams' last name.
Okay. So Robert Ory had, oh, he had Hot talking Williams last name. Okay, so Robert Ori had,
ooh, he had Hot Rod Williams, Eric Williams, that's two. Robert Ori only had three Williams.
Holy shit. Good job, Blake. Who else could have a lot of Williams? We're going to trap you into the basically the lottery
ball again. The ping pong ball again. Let's just see Kobe Bryant.
No, I think maybe we just end it there.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I treated him like everybody else. You know what I mean? I didn't put him on that list. I bet you J. Crowder's. All right, all right. Let's see K. Crowder real tight.
No, no, no, no.
You know who is Isch Smith or Jeff Green?
Okay.
Oh, Jeff Green.
Jeff Green's a good one.
Jeff Green, all right, all right.
He might be the all-time go.
Jeff Green real quick.
Man, shout out to Isch and Jeff Green.
All right, this is big.
All right, Jeff Green, Terrence Williams, Nate Williams.
Only two Williams! Look look up Jay Crowder
that we gotta find somebody that can be you might have the record what about Lou
Williams but include you Williams attract Williams no I don't think so you
just play for so many teams but yeah because how many times did you see L
Williams on the back of his jersey never another Williams then he'd have to be L
Williams and he was always just Williams on the back yeah his jersey. Never. If there was another Williams, then he'd have to be L Williams. And he was always just Williams on the back.
Yeah.
Jay Crowder, you ready for this?
Uh-huh.
Oh, god.
Jay Crowder.
Can't just let me have this on my day.
Has never played with a Williams.
What?
That's got to be the biggest statistic anomaly in the history
of sports.
Holy shit!
Feels pretty good, boys!
Jake Crowder has never played with a Williams!
How is that possible?
Did you guys just have...
Let's keep this in mind next time we do Blake of the Year, you know?
I got to the old resume.
Lou Williams only played with one Williams.
No.
No, he played with two Williams.
And himself.
And himself a lot.
He probably played with himself a lot.
I mean, what's his name?
Marvin Williams in Atlanta.
This is a whole subset of category
which Williams has played with the most Williams.
This is a perfect way to have your retirement
PMT interview go.
Where we just, see how long can we-
Mostly just you guys typing stuff out stuff. Yeah. Well, you just
sit there and your phone blows up with like a button. Well, actually did any Williams
text you? Uh, uh, does Instagram messaging count? Yeah. Then no, no, I did. I'd have to, I'd have to scroll back.
You know, I'm getting so many messages, guys.
It's just, it's hard to keep track right now.
So yeah, let's just put, put me down for two Williams messages.
Yeah.
I found one guy who has five as well, but I'm not going to, well, you know what I could
say?
Cause he's one of your favorite teammates.
Jamal Crawford also played with five Williams.
Yeah.
So that's, that's cool.
You get to share it with Jamal.
That's great. You know what? That's an Williams. Yeah. So that's that's cool. You get to share it with Jamal.
That's great. You know what? That's an honor. Yeah. And Jamal will have Jamal on when he
retires in 10 years from now. Yeah. You know, didn't he officially? I think he did. I think
he officially. Yeah, no, of course. I remember. Yeah. Also credit to you for retiring when
it wasn't like, oh, I thought he retired a while ago. Cause you know, your namesake Blake Bortles did do that on
this show where he just accidentally retired on this show. So you did a good job with that. Cause
you never want to be the guy who's like retiring and everyone's like, oh shit, didn't he retire
like 10 years ago? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You always leave people one more. Yeah Yeah, you gotta know gotta know when to exit although. I'm sure people are like
Retired ten years ago. No those people are lazy. Yeah, that's a that's a lazy comment lazy sports fan
I like you said get gotta know when to exit as we look for the tenth person who has the most Williams
As teammates all right, Blake
Yeah, you you are the best Blake. I don't want to call it Blake. You are the best, though.
We can't thank you enough.
We do want you to come out to Chicago and dunk on Max.
It would be awesome.
One last dunk, we could call it.
One last dunk, yeah.
Maybe make a whole documentary about it.
Oh, I love it.
Last dunk?
Yeah.
One last dunk.
We could actually do like, we could have it be like,
you start with with you know,
We can have you dunk over our turtle mr.
Pear and then like go up from there would have you dunk over a dog and then it's just and then it's max is
The one last knock and just balls in his face
God, can you imagine if I like slip and kick the turtle or the dog? Oh, you can kick me. That's fine
Yeah turtle or the dog. Oh, you can kick me. That's fine. Yeah. You can actually, can I have, I mean, you're a tough guy. You'll be fine. Yeah. Uh, all right, Blake. Thank you as always. Congratulations on incredible career. We
love you. You're always a part of this show and, uh, look forward to Blake of
the year coming up. Thanks boys. I appreciate it as always. Thank you,
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For record.
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OK.
It is time. We're going to do listener FAQs,
but we also have the newest member of pardon my take ready to be unveiled.
He's adorable.
It's Mr. Mr. Perot. No, Mr. Pear. We got to take Mr. Pear.
Now for long time listeners, you know that we had a gambling goldfish.
We had a listener FAQ a few weeks ago that sparked the idea in our head to get another
goldfish.
And we're like, you know what?
We've done goldfish.
They die really quickly and everyone blames us.
Let's get something that's gonna outlive all of us.
A turtle.
Also shout out Marcus Paul, AWLL who found the tape of when we were
actually getting Larry the second in 2017 we were talking about getting
turtles. Yeah. So for anyone who says that we took an idea or Jack we've had
this idea for six years seven years. Yeah it's been a long time. Long time in the
making. Turtle racing.
First bet I ever won a turtle race in Key West, Florida.
100 bucks.
So turtles.
Oh, here he comes.
So it appears that this is a Russian tortoise.
Uh-oh.
Is what it is.
Psy-op.
This Russian.
Mr. Pear.
You're adorable.
Look how cute he is.
Hank, get in.
This was your idea to name him Mr. Pear.
Hi, Mr. Pear.
Mr. Pear.
He's a good boy. Oh, he's so cute. Can he fall off this, Max? No, he's fine. Hank get in this is your idea to name mr. Pear
Fall off this max no he's fine. He's got a shell
But the cool thing is this is the the first type of matter further on the table wait we say memes Oh me by the way memes it is memes is turtle
Memes world already well we're all poppers, but memes is the number one Papa memes is tasked with keeping mr. Pear alive
memes is also
Madly in love with mr. Pear after 24 hours. He's very cute. He's territorial of mr. Pear
That's my boy. He likes your batches sell show a little bit. Can he bite? No, he's too sweet to bite max
Yeah, no, it's it memes. I got it
What I was gonna say this type of tortoise
is actually the only type of tortoise
to ever go to the moon.
Oh.
We're going to go to the moon.
Mr. Pear, you're an astronaut.
You're so cute.
Oh, no, Mr. Pear, did you forget to unlock the door
in the Apollo mission, Mr. Pear?
Mr. Pear.
Mr. Pear already pooped on Max.
Oh.
And came on Max.
And came on Max.
He came on Max.
Mr. Pear, why'd you chew on the NOS? He's very cute, isn't he? He's so cute. He came on Max. Mr. Pear, why'd you chew on the NOS?
He's very cute, isn't he?
He's so cute.
He's adorable.
So Mr. Pear's going to pick the Sixers versus Heat playing
game.
This is his first pick.
You know he's going to live to be like 40.
Yeah, Memes was really nice to us when he came out
and he just goes, he's going to outlive all of us.
And I was like, what?
He's like, yeah, he's gonna live to 50.
And so, I mean, for me and PFT, I understand,
but memes is putting a cap on your life, Hank, at 80.
You, Max, at 77 or whatever you are.
Pug, I don't know how old you are.
You have to factor in dog years.
Pug, whoa, whoa, whoa, pick him up, pick him up,
pick him up, pick him up.
The memes is very nervous.
He's got him down.
He's got him down.
Memes is totally safe.
And put the camera on.
First pick.
Put the camera on so we can see where he goes.
Mr. Pear.
And let's do some listener FAQs while Mr. Pear makes a pick.
Oh, he's going.
Oh, he's going.
He's going to the Sixers.
He smells the pear.
He did it so fast.
Yeah, he did that with some balls.
He's a filly guy.
He did it.
Mr. Pear. You did that with some silly guy
You did it mr. Pear you picked a sixer
Philadelphia mr. Pear did you know that in Philadelphia they max's dad will put you in a soup and eat you no
We can never bring them. Yeah, no max's dad is not allowed anywhere near this turtle alright, so I'm gonna put a responsibly large wager on the
Sixers right now. Let's go. Oh they're five and a half? That's fine they got that. They're
basically the best team in the league right now. Mr. Pear, let's say five. Five is minus
115. We'll go five. Mr. Pear's pick is Sixers minus five. Responsibly large wager has been put on Mr. Pairs first ever pick. Let's go 76ers.
Come on Max. This is now big time pressure for you. Mr. Pairs first pick.
First question, valid question. What steps will be taken to prevent Billy from fucking
Mr. Pair?
Oh wait, by the way, if you're everyone who's watching, watch it. We obviously have Mr.
Pair out right now. You can see him. He's making his picks live on cameras
He made his pick live on camera, so well how Billy can't fuck mr.. Pair. I
Wouldn't put it pass Billy to try
But I think he's more of a frog guy. Yeah, he's not a frog mr.. Pairs not a frog. He's very much turtle
We should get a frog though. Yeah, and just dress it up all slutty just to taunt Billy. Yeah
Who is the most active in the PMT group chat who has the funniest messages?
most active
Memes is surprisingly active for how much he talks. Yeah, I'd say the
Text per word that memes actually says is a very high ratio
Can't you see depending on the how big the bubble is?
Is that what that means? I think that is recent. Yes. So what I'm looking at right now, it's Hank and Max
Or is that memes
Hankin Hank and Max and memes are most active
Max has some good one-liners on there
Yeah, I usually am only if I'm if I'm popping in it's usually just a stir the pot.
Yeah.
Shane is easily Shane and pug.
They stay off.
Yeah, they don't.
They send the drop box.
They don't even like a message.
Yeah.
Yeah, they don't even like it.
Yeah, I'd say the person who likes messages the most is Jake.
Oh, by far.
Jake will just hammer the like
Everyone and I wish you guys luck when you're talking about bets
Yeah, you actually that's true anytime anything remotely good happens to us Jake is in there with her congrats
Yeah, I hate sometimes we do the like someone's to congratulate and you have to I hate it
Congrats, but I actually don't feel correct. I agree with rats
We got to just stop doing that. I'll stop. No, you can keep doing it Jake, but Hank you and I
Like yeah, I just don't want to come in and be like you will everyone else so congrats
Alright, so you and I will do it an alliance. No congrats. Yes, unless it's a championship
I'll congrats on a championship but like winning like a playing game
No, congrats Jake. You should keep being you cuz that's you. Yeah, that's me. Yeah, that is you
How long would you have done the podcast at the start with no success before quitting? Oh good. Yeah, I don't know
It was fun
Like I think our goal from the start was always just to entertain ourselves
So it probably would have lasted for a little bit with no success. Yeah we didn't really know the success there was no I guess the charts.
Yeah and we also did have that when we when when they couldn't really tell actual analytics
and I think it was the first Harbaugh interview and they're like 10 million people listening
were like that's not possible.
Yeah.
But I think I said this maybe a couple months ago when PFT and I were we got to drive back from the Arizona Bowl together
and it was just two of us and we had a moment where like
Imagine if this didn't work out like our lives are awesome because of this
Yeah, like it's directly obviously Barstool and everything before that and everything after that
But this has been the catalyst for everything else. Yeah, it is. It's it's real. We do remind ourselves of that from time to time. I remind
myself pretty much every day that whenever I get down, I'm like, but I get to do the
best job ever. Yeah. When I use my sauna, I'm like, this is this is the sauna that hot
takes built. Yeah, because these days when I get down on myself and like, but dude, you
fucking have an awesome job.
Actually, the real answer is probably if we had gotten fired from ESPN and we didn't have a successful podcast,
we probably wouldn't have gone back to our unsuccessful podcast after that.
Yeah, although we wouldn't have got ESPN if the podcast wasn't successful.
That's true, which would have been a great success.
Yeah, I would say a year. It seems right if we had just been doing a year and like they're like yeah
10,000 people are listening. That probably would have been okay we gotta
do something different. I know you guys give each other a lot of shit that's all
in good fun but has there ever been a legitimate beef between anyone involved
with PMT? Legitimate beef? I don't I don't think so.
Nothing's come to mind.
I'm trying to think if
Hank and I have ever had
legitimate beef.
I've never had legitimate beef
with PFT.
I've had no beef with anyone.
Hank's just drama free.
That's what we always say about
him.
No, there's tense moments, but
they're never they never last.
Yeah, we get in catfights.
Yeah, right.
Which is it would be crazy if we didn't yeah that would be fucking weird
if we just never got into little like Tiff's yeah I the only time that it's
not beef but there are moments when we're on the road and like breakfast
yeah breakfast now that breakfast is a perfect like if you call that yeah you
didn't let me if you call that yeah you didn't
let me if you call that a fight then yeah of course you fight but that wasn't a real fight
oh dip spit dip spit oh yeah because you yeah i but that also was but we also we also still don't know
who's so could never know who who had a dip spit next to your seat in the mountain dew container
yeah you also because we're all drinking mountain dew So we don't know um, there'll be moments like when we're on the road where we just like sit silently together in like an uber
Where it's just like we're just tired. That's usually the end of a trip. Yeah, but that's not that's not beef
Yeah, no, we've we've been lucky to never have like an actual I was mad at max for about for about a minute actually mad
When he was watching the Phillies last year and
he spat on me. But that was an accident. He didn't mean to spit on me. He was just too
excited. And then I was just, you ever been in a situation where you're just mad at
what happened but you're not actually like, you don't know what to do about it
because you understand that Max is just gonna yell and scream and he's got very
moist lips. And so when sometimes it gets a little out of hand, you said
the splash zone, you get gallaghered the front row. And then I just had to calm myself down and
be like, he didn't mean to do it. Max would never intentionally spit on you. He's just
a messy guy. Yeah, we've been very lucky because it is there have been a lot of successful
podcasts that broken up. And we've never had we've I don't think there's ever been something
that's lasted like over a like a couple minutes like through a night
Yeah, right never go to bed angry. We've never gone to bed angry and also we've got lucky because our beef guy isn't here anymore
Yeah, there is there was a guy
Did beef we all had legitimate beef with at some point. There's a guy who just he basically was cooking beef
Yeah, but not seasoning
Last one It's mr. Pairs venture. Uh, it's Mr. Pear's adventure.
Oh, dude, Mr. Pear's on the move.
Shell yeah.
Mr. Pear.
That's what they're saying to all the kids.
Don't let him go under the couch.
Don't let him go under the couch.
Oh no, Mr. Pear, we're never gonna find you.
Memes, how nervous are you about Mr. Pear rolling around here?
Uh, not that nervous. It's very funny.
Max just keeps putting him back in the hole. He's like, what the fuck?
Mr. Pear's technically moving faster than Max.
I love Mr. Pear.
I love you, Mr. Pear.
I love you, Mr. Pear.
Who's a very good boy.
Is it?
Can I boop him, Max?
Can you bring the boop?
Confirmed, boy?
Sure, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a dude.
Memes?
Yep, confirmed.
Can I boop? He goes in when you boop him. Boop can't poop. Okay, he goes in when you poop him
Oh, yeah, he goes in. It's so cute. You want it. You want to move him? Yeah
He loves you. Mr. Bear. He loves you
Give him a kiss loves you. There's one of your papa's
One of your papa's mr. Bear
Let's kiss him. Oh, let me give him a tummy
tummy tags tummy tags
I'm circling back to the fact that you said you wanted to record an episode in AWL's wedding in Thursday during
NFL week six recap
I'm having a wedding at the end of August on a Thursday which Pugs invited to and hopefully comes and it would be pretty Chill if you guys came to
Pugs actually knows the person and recorded an episode at the wedding
I cleared it with the fiance who believes peruse string screen and Avril Lavigne will also be attending if invited no shot that happens
So thought I would shoot my shot with the PMT boys. Love you guys. Is it a light pug? Are you aware of this?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know who wrote this. Is it a flight pug?
Yeah, it's in it's in Jersey. Okay. No, no, I'm out. It know who wrote this is it a flight pug yeah
it's in it's in Jersey okay no no I'm out it's at the end of August yeah what
day Thursday just a Thursday at the end of I'm gonna say something that's gonna
make Hank even more mad I think the only way we can do this is we just have to
host a wedding here don't say that I mean the worst idea that we've ever done there's you know what the entire history this podcast when we married
You we married I don't know. Yeah, we've probably told the story
We said we wanted PFT wanted to marry someone so we've not would not get married to someone
I was an ordained minister still in you want yeah, you want to marry more day. That's that's the correct verbiage
But you could also it also sound
I'm just clarifying. Is it marry someone? That's what you said
I want to marry someone if you really want to marry someone that's not what I saw we found two people for PFT to marry
Got them in the back of a van in a in a parking lot in Ralph's LA in Ralph's with like 150 people outside the van
Pft. Officiated the wedding most awkward thing of all time. I think I left the van in the middle of it.
Ever. Ever.
I can't do this.
Like I'm out.
I wanna crawl out of my skin.
This is so awkward.
Thinking they were actually getting married.
Then it ended and it was the kid's sister.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was actually my sister.
I just really convinced her to do it
because I thought it'd be cool.
Worst idea ever.
Very bad idea.
So yes, I would say that this is also a terrible idea.
There was a Zoom one that we did for real over COVID.
The Zoom one for real, yeah.
That was two people just getting married.
Yeah.
Married, married.
If...
Yeah, it's just a bad idea.
It's just a bad idea to...
There's a hundred fiancés listening to this right now that have already turned the podcast
off because they don't want their fian fiance to have any ideas from this.
I'm not going to I'm not going to say no to this dream.
Eventually we will do it.
No, no.
I'm not.
No, I'm not giving up.
No, we're not going to even.
I'm just that tweet to me.
Desi.
I'm just at parcel.
Listen, eventually someone's going to invite us to a wedding that's like down the block on a Thursday and we can just pop in
Just record
Ten minutes during the electric slide and then be it nope nope, okay?
I'm not giving up on the AWL cat really wants to go to one of your weddings you guys know
I'm just saying it would be a funny idea
I'd pause what's mr.. Pair doing we could we could wedding next year. He said that we could do in a pugs wedding next year
Okay, yeah, okay that works. Is it a plug is the flight? Yeah, it's also a flight. Yeah
I'm out. It's also
It's a really nice gift bug
Look at mr. Here's numbers
Pug. Look at Mr. Piers. Numbers. Mr. Piers little tail. 48. 18. Someone just. 99. He's trying to escape because he's so happy. I just did the dumbest Google ever. I'm going
to do 76 in honor of Piers first pick. What number is Turtle?
What does it say?
6112, I'll take 61.
Okay.
I'll do 3.
Anyone want 12?
I'm sick with 8.
Okay.
What number is Turtle?
Wait, wait, you said 12?
Let me just...
It says 61, the 4 digit number for Turtle is 6112.
Is Turtle, is 12 is 12 turtle no 61 I know but I'm
verifying if 12 is turtle I'm not seeing anything that 12 turtle I'm sticking
with eight okay all right everyone say their numbers 76 the rare If it's 40 I will maybe kill Mr. Pear. What?
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
Oh.
72.
72.
Undefeated Dolphin.
Mr. Pear undefeated.
Love you guys.
Love you guys. I'm the one I'm to say I'm saved anyway
Days are not days to find you shy
I'm coming for the love of you
I'm coming for the love of you
Don't want me, take me on
I'll be gone, but you won't be
I don't need words to say, I'll just say it
But please don't let it away
Learn to learn that life is okay
Say after me, it's for better to be safe than sorry
It's for better to be safe than sorry
It's for better to be safe and sorry. It's better to be safe and sorry. Take on me.
Take me on.
I'll be gone.
But after all, too.
Things that you say, yeah, these are the last ones.
Just lay my love away.
You always make me sad, but I can't do it enough.
You shine away. I'll be coming for you anyway. I'll be coming for you anyway. I'll be coming for you anyway. Take on me. Take me on.
I'll be gone.
You're dead.
I'll be gone.
You're dead.
I'll be gone.
You're dead.
I'll be gone.
You're dead.
I'll be gone.
You're dead.
I'll be gone.
You're dead.
I'll be gone.
You're dead.
I'll be gone.
You're dead.
I'll be gone.
You're dead.
I'll be gone.
You're dead. I'll be gone. You're dead. I'll be gone. I'll be gone. I'm your thief