Michigan Wins The National Title, NFL Playoffs With Brian Baldinger, Coach Firings And The Weird Flyers Hockey Story

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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Wednesday, January 10th, and boys, the world has been restored. The Big Ten is back on top. Michigan Wolverines are your 2023-24 national champions in college football, and our close personal friend Jim Harbaugh has finally done it he can sit at.

The big boy table. Now he's done it. You think he popped some celebratory milk last night? Absolutely.

That's before Michigan was playing Doctors and Physicians in 1900 and counting it to their total.

Wins They probably played their freshman team against their seniors, and grad students beat the freshman team. They're like, that's another national title, that's another win, thousand wins.

Solo national title since 1948.

There were, and Pennix had a bad night last night, so we we said some very nice things about Pennix. After the semifinal game, I had to community notes a couple of people online to remind them exactly what we said and what we did not say. Pennix had, like the game of a lifetime in the semifinals.

Their only chance for Washington to win? He was bad, he was, he was not good. He missed the. He missed probably three or four like throws that he should have hit. And it was also just like Michigan.

Washington got back in the game. Yeah, we were in the game to start the second half and then the immediate turnover right after halftime. Then at that point, the game was over.

Washington's defense played great, they gave them shot after shot after shot to try to tie that.

Game Yeah, after the first quarter, it felt like Michigan could just do whatever they wanted. As long as they ran the ball, I think they could have won that game easily without throwing a single pass. They were the Um. The first two runs by the backup running back, Edwards, Um, it looked like Washington didn't have linebackers on the field.

Of the game, right? It was that that's in Michigan, like, that's just they, they play such fundamentally sound football.

Every game, he takes his shoes off and he goes and he meditates underneath the goalpost, it's.

Very liver king, like he's grounding his body. Yeah, it's basically, uh, the verbal meme, the arm shaking. It's Taylor Swift and J.J. McCarthy's mental health.

To say, J.J. McCarthy Taylor swift handshake, wishing I could see their feet on national.

Television all the time, that, too. But yeah, it was, um, it was a true Jim Harbaugh national champion. Like they, they did it his way. And, uh, cause there was that time when it was the the argument was okay.

He's got the big bullies right now and they deserve to win. Credit to Michigan. And I do, like coach Harbaugh, I think he's hilarious, he's a funny guy. College football is better with figures like him in it.

Really good and Hank, you're, you're our number one expert on cheating. What do you think Michigan fans should say when people say, Oh, this is a tainted national title? Uh, they're just mad that.

You know, Michigan was doing well as something that everyone else in college football is doing. People just tried to make us think about Michigan. But, as the facts have proven.

Every other team is doing it as well, and Conor Stallion's Rocks, he is the most.

They're just mad that Conor Stallion was the best at it, yeah, and he also.

Hate us because they ain't really, really good at cheating. Like, and he's funny, he went to.

The Naval Academy to learn how to cheat, he cares so much about. Like Conor Stallion's was the big winner last night because Conor Stallion's manifesto turned out to be true. He wrote a manifesto and saw it through. He did it, yeah.

Ever write a manifesto, accomplish all the goals in their manifesto and not end up in prison.

Right, yeah, or he went from a vacuum cleaner salesman to a manifesto check mark, I would.

Hire Conor Stallion's to do any job in the world. I wish Barstow would hire him, I wish that was.

Still on the table. I would like to just give him an office, black out the glass and just be like, he's our own Ernie Adams. We don't ask him questions. He's just like, Hey, I've done some research.

They are, uh, I mean, cheating and getting away with it. There's nothing more American.

Yeah, you could see in that like locker room, like there was quotes like guys like the haters are crying right now, like that locker room. They. They had it all together because it's like the.

Whole world was against them. We also. I'm thinking real quick about that run that you just mentioned at the end of the year, too. They played great teams going down the stretch. Yeah, Iowa.

Spread they? Yeah, yeah, they did, so they're really. the last time they didn't cover the spread was against Purdue. I don't know why.

12 and oh, national title, it's that's a big number. 15 wins is a lot. And and next year?

It will be 16.

A fun little fact here for you big cat or 17?

Be gracious people here at Barstool Sports, our boss Dave Portnoy, Michigan alum. He went five whole years without winning a title. It was tough and in those five years, I think our friend Nick Turani put it perfectly. In those five years he made like $400 million, so it's been tougher.

Dave Maybe we'll finally sell some merch around here. Celtics made it to the finals. Yeah, yeah.

He's had heartbreak, he's had heartbreak, but here he is. But yeah, Michigan, I mean, it's I'm just happy for Jim Harbaugh. I love Jim Harbaugh.

Yeah, Spongebob's a hero, he talks a lot about World War II as well. We're going to get him.

Back on the show, for sure, we actually, so I wanted to mention real quick, I wish the one.

Thing I wish we had was the the we played in his scramble. In the face of disgust, it was me, you pft. Tony Scheffler I this is before I was, you know, taking taking golf seriously as as a side gig. You've much, you've gotten much better, right?

And drove away. Yeah, he, he, he, I think. He said. He's like, you guys, you guys are playing scramble rules, right? Like there's something not computing. Here he was.

He was ready to play last night, too, in the pregame drills when he was catching passes for his quarterback. He was wearing the cleats, he just had his gloves on. He is, he is like.

And he said, It is he's gets to sit at the big boy table, which, you know, like, in a weird way, I think. Obviously winning for Michigan was big. But like, just the fact that he can sit down and be like, all right, you've got a Super Bowl, I got a national title. Yeah, like, it does matter for him.

Air, Yeah, I can, I could taste colors. The universe is connected. That that piece of confetti was once a mighty tree in the in the biggest forest on the Earth.

Uh, this is I guess a new mantra, which I think the team, the team, the team. Shout out Bo Schembechler, cause that really is the greatest mantra to come up with. Yeah, um, which you can tell, like Jim Harbaugh, like Bo Schembe, I know that it sounds cheesy, but Bo Schembechler, what he instilled in Jim Harbaugh. Like, it is a whole Michigan thing, cult thing that they've got going on.

And he was a Michigan. It's also nice to see somebody experiencing their peak and knowing that they're in their peak at the moment. That's that is like a transcendent drug to be like, Well, it's not getting any better than this. This is, I want to be known for this.

Exact thing that I did right now, right? And it's also the Michigan. When there is something that happens in sports fandom, I call it the flip, the big flip. When a team is down and they have a just rubs their face in it for a very long time, it's as bad as it can get. But the reason why you keep coming back is because the flip is always on the horizon.

Years. What they have to do is Ohio State has to flip it back soon, because if you don't flip it back soon, then you have to wait a long time. Because then the expectation, because, like, in the back of everybody's mind. I think there's still kids that are getting recruited right now to go to college. That still remember the dominance of Ohio State. Right? And we're supposed to win this game every single year.

In them already. It is a way to make yourself feel better if you root for a team that doesn't win. Because you can just tell your rival. Like, at some point, the big flip will happen and that should terrify you because there is no worse feeling as an Ohio State fan waking up today where you thought that, like, you obviously knew that. Michigan would eventually probably figure it out, but if you go 10, 15, 20 years where Michigan sucks, you think in your head, the back of your head, you're like, maybe we're just we'll beat them every year.

That had been considered to be long suffering or underdogs. I don't know that I would put Michigan in that pile, no, because it's mostly them in Ohio State that's been their underdog situation. It hasn't been like Michigan's the lovable loser.

Hoke years were very, very bad. I'm more it, but they're not lovable losers. No, Michigan has an unfounded arrogance to them as a fan base. That that is disgusting and makes everyone else want to puke. So yeah, I agree.

They did it. Congrats to coach Harbaugh. I think I think this means he's going to go.

Yeah, talk to Baldy, did you see that one quote? There was one quote that he had with SVP that was a little interesting.

Thinking of the schedule, he's probably planning ahead so that the next coach comes in doesn't get as much practice. I also, so we talked to our friend Sam Schwartzstein, he played for coach Harbaugh, and I brought up the, uh, the sleep thing that Harbaugh had. Where it's like the night before, the night before, that's really your night before sleep that you play on. And Sam was saying that they had a big game on the East Coast against Wake Forest and this is out at Stanford. And so the entire week, coach had them waking up at like three in the morning, practicing at four in the morning.

Uh, quote from Harbaugh Before the game, Uh, a reporter asked him, like, what do you guys do to prepare? And he said that he has the whole team sit down. And they watch nature documentaries about wolves, and his quote was, We allow ourselves to devolve into a pack of wolves. That's what we want to channel, probably nature's greatest fighting unit.

Oh, I love that, I love that shit, just sitting there, that's, that's the Billy football method, just watching nature slaughter each other.

The one thing that I w I would say to coach Harbaugh, cause we do consider him a friend. I would wait on the tattoo, so he's, he said, that he's getting a tattoo. He told the team he's going to get tattoo of 15. And oh, the last time a coach got a tattoo after winning a national title.

Yeah, I don't know, I actually think I was. I was reading some report yesterday. That said, in order to vacate a national title, it has to be. They have to take that away from them before.

The end of the game? But that's not what happened with Louisville at all, I know.

But I, this is college football, but college basketball will be the same. No, I don't, I don't think so. I don't think so. I cause I was reading a report yesterday that had that brought up that.

Exact same scenario. I feel like they could take it away at any time, and it doesn't mean anything. The vacated national title is the dumbest thing in sports. You have to take down the banner, yeah.

I'm going to look this up, cause I'm pretty sure in college football, the rules are different.

I feel like that was you read that from like a a go blue message board person, being like, as long as it hits zero, we're good. No, no, no statue of limitations are over. Let's see I'll pull it up.

It's what's going on around the game, but the storylines are equally as great. I liked your.

Treat because I am. But we're definitely we'll do a box of the year, so so talk to us about the.

Box Yeah, okay, so this box will be one of the nominees. It'll be Michael Jordan. Stephen A.

Him Pft. Yeah, I did, I thought, so, we have that box, I think you, I think it was actually Michael.

Rubin's White Party Was that that box? Yeah, I just assumed that Michael Rubin's presence was.

There, yeah, so that was a good box. We have a Taylor Swift box at Chiefs Games with Travis Kelsey, okay?

Beavers and Coco Goff's box. Okay, now, Jake, Now I'm confused because that's Coco Goff's box, yeah, but Taylor Swift, it's her box when she's at Arrowhead.

Sounds like you just want to bring up Taylor Swift's box? Oh, that's technically my box. We've always thought of it as Travis Kelsey's box, but you're such a pervert, you're like.

How can I say Taylor Swift's box on part of my tape? it meant to be, uh, Travis Kelsey's box? Okay, got it?

In Travis Kelsey's box, Oh, that's freaky. it actually might be Donna Kelsey's box, yeah.

It could be which Travis Kelsey was in at one point, yeah, and and so is Jason Kelsey, right.

Be, Uh, Joe Burrow's box with Jake Browning. Oh yeah, that's a little sneak peek for the 2024 Take you there first category at the Panthers game.

What about Brooks when he didn't sleep? Oh, yeah, that's a great box, I've seen a lot of good boxes.

Over the years, nothing really. Wait. Are we calling it Taylor Swift's box? No, that's Travis.

Kelsey's box That was a mistake on my end. got it, but yeah, stay tuned, it was good boxes this.

Year No, when you, when you followed it up with We're going to have to do Box of the Year. I thought that was a very good idea. Uh, okay, did you find out? If they can vacate it? I'm looking.

It up, I, uh, why Michigan's why Michigan Football's College football national title.

Won't be tainted. That seems like an opinion piece. It does seem like it. I mean, you could be right, I just. It would be weird if it was different rules for college basketball and.

College football cause, it'd be the NCAA taking away places, it's the college football playoff. Oh, maybe.

Right, they could take away the, I guess it could take away the AP votes and the coach's.

Votes, they might do that. Yeah, so I don't know, I don't. The answer is, I don't know.

Of a ribeye, just steak, just just like right on his bicep, you should get the wolf tattoo.

Like the howling wolves across his chest, Yes, yes, that would be great, be a wolf.

Of Harbaugh Cause now we have John going in in the playoffs. So if you were to put truth serum.

In Jim Harbaugh's arm, maybe when he was getting the tattoo. He does not want his brother to get another Super Bowl, right? I mean, his brother was there on the sidelines. It was a wild scene. Before the game, they hugged each other.

He doesn't want his brother to have two. So it's a competing thoughts cause I I my knee jerk reaction is, I agree with you. But then if John wins a Super Bowl, then they get to be like Year of Harbaugh, like Harbaugh's run football.

Harbaugh It's the year of Harbaugh, it's the year of Harbaugh. But then Jim goes to the NFL, maybe, and then now he's got two Super Bowls that he has.

That would be great if John Harbaugh, like, won a Super Bowl and then Thanksgiving next year. Like, had an extra like a, like, the Phil Jackson pillow that he used to sit on and just be like, No, I don't know, I don't think you understand, I have two. There might be a dad's favorite chair.

And then he gets that, I think that I think that Jim probably doesn't want his brother to have two before he gets one. Yeah, probably because then now he's like, Oh, now I have to win two deep down, but then. But then he knows if he, if he does win two and his brother doesn't have a single. College football natty.

Like, if you add if you hit them with true serum, we we would normally think of a human being with true serum. Would be like, uh, you know, very open and selfish to like what you know. Yes, my brother, but I want to have the moment. I think if you hit Jim Harbaugh with true serum, he would be like, I, my. My goal in life is for the Harbaugh's to run football. I think that, you know what I mean, like, he's like, what, what do you want? Like? If you could have any wish in the world? It's like Harbaugh's.

I don't, I don't even think that there's such a thing as truth serum for him, I think his blood. He just tells the truth all the time. He said. They were innocent. He stood up.

Side Yeah, yeah, exactly. uh, okay. Other news.

The Titans. I was going to say, dumb as shit, but I'll take stupid. And I think anybody in this room would like to have Coach Variable as their coach next year, right? We can say that.

Well, I don't understand, is so I guess you, oh, the last two years haven't gone great. Mike Vrabel has had insane amounts of success with Ryan Tannehill as quarterback. Yeah, find me another coach could get the Orion Tannehill to the AFC Championship game.

Good quarterback, they were the one seed in 2021. Yeah, last year they traded away A.J. Brown and a bunch of dog shit going on. Tannehill had one of the biggest cap hits, I think, in the NFL as the quarterback.

Coaches in the N.FL No, wait, Sean Payton, he got traded, didn't he? Didn't the Saints get a pick for him? Maybe like was. He's not still under contract.

Necessarily, but the point is in the N.FL, you can trade coaches. And, um, the owner of the Titans, Amy Adams Trunk, basically just didn't want to do the paperwork and the legwork and waste time trying to pull off a trade. Which I completely understand that point of view, yes.

I think the, oh no, I think the I think the the Saints had to trade, or the Saints got a couple.

PICKs The Saints will receive the Broncos 23 first round pick and 24 second round pick for Peyton and the Saints 24 third round pick. It's big, yeah, that is big, huge.

Agree, the paperwork is daunting paper, I mean, imagine that you have to probably call 30 other.

Teams you have to talk and also you have to. How would you like if they did a trade? Bill Belichick is the GM of the Patriots. Yeah, do you call Bill Belichick and be like, Hey, we want to trade you? Uh, Mike Vrabel, when you get fired?

Let's do a trade, I will trade you. Bill Belichick for Mike Vrabel, that'd be interesting, and but here's the thing is, you don't. He would not make them, he would not make the Titans pay anything because then he was going to go to Tennessee and he wants all his draft pick.

Right, uh, hank, but he's not GM anymore. Maybe, yeah, my, uh. Mike Vrabel.

Is this open the door? Would love to have Mike Vrabel as a coach of the Patriots. You have a coach, we do have a coach. Never talk about another man's job.

Bill Belichick out of town, after all, he's done you guys, you guys gaslit me into believing that.

I forgot we made you do that. Yeah, you guys gaslit me into believing that there was no, uh, world where Belichick wasn't gonna be the coach. PFT makes photoshops.

Very hard, because that's exactly what you do to them. Correct? Didn't say that, Yeah, I don't.

Make them do anything. I'm the best boss in the world. Oh, maybe you should have made Max push the button that time. Yeah, that was. That was a mistake.

What's today's date? The 8th, 9th? No. What's the what's the day? Sorry, Tuesday, January 9th?

Arthur Smith on Sunday. Uh, Ron Rivera got fired in November, also multiple coaches got fired.

Before Yeah, yeah, so Black Monday is fluid, hank. Try to be fluid for once in your life.

So here here's the thing if Bill Belichick said that he has a meeting with Robert Kraft once a week. They go over what happened last week, plan for the future. They just haven't.

Had that meeting yet? What if it happens by tomorrow morning? That would be Hank should.

Do a solo Oh, you'd have to do a solo pod. I hope he gets fired right before we leave.

You want them, though, you want to keep them, of course. Yeah, he's the greatest coach of all time.

He got you in this mess, he can get you out of it. Yeah, he said he was willing to take a lesser role with the team, which I feel like is that would be bizarre.

A coach? Yes, yeah, Vrabel is a big name out there. Would you rather have Vrabel or Belichick Pft?

Many rings, six, but how many of them has he? I mean, some of those are Mike Vrabel's rings. whose rings are they as head coach?

They're ours, it's, it's a it's a collective thing. I just think it's dumb as shit to fire.

Mike Vrabel agreed. It's so stupid. There was another report that came out about Will.

Compton and Taylor Wan both said that it was a politics and like, game of thrones type things.

Happening. I believe that because they, I think they got a new GM last year, right? So he probably is like, I want to, you know, I want to pick my guy, I want to pick my guy. Vrabel was probably too big of an alpha for him.

Yeah, um, did you see the report about Russell Wilson, though, and his contract? No, so there's a chance Russell goes back to the Broncos next year. Oh, that'd be awkward.

Yeah, can you just give me $37 million back? yeah.

JK Yeah, and then, and then wait for the bubbles to come back at you. And then he said that the benching Russell Wilson getting benched was actually unrelated to that. Oh, Sean, Sean benched him. Uh, for because I guess he thought Jared Stidham was the guy.

Would be smart and then maybe trade him after a couple of weeks. Yeah, to who, whoever gets their quarterback injured.

Get to eight, we might, we've got some some post-season guys. Dennis Allen, How have you not been fired? So, um, Shannon Sharpe said that he would have cut Jamis Winston for mutiny. Then you, then you get a real mutant, and you get a serious muni. Because all of his guys have his back, all the players down there have his back. Which actually, if you're the Saints, you probably want a lot of your current players gone.

To get blacklisted, he makes Jamis wear glasses, even though he got lasik. Yeah, the transition lenses. you think Jamis got blacklisted?

He's been blackballed, yeah. They made no mention about how they forced him to plan for cracked vertebrae and a torn perioneal tendon. None of that. I'll say this right now.

Doesn't get another job in the NFL, he has a job for life at Barstool. I don't know how we're going to financially make that work, but I'm going to say it right now. Just to be a dude, yeah.

Let's go eat a dub. Yeah, dude does his workouts with us. Yeah, oh my god.

We could make money off of that, we could, we could, we could pay his salary, for sure. Workouts Just a live stream of his workouts every day.

No, Jamis should not be blackballed. No, he did the right thing, maybe from the wrong formation.

But he did the right thing. I think I think most teams would be like that. That was a great teammate move, but not most coaches, right? But Dennis Allen's a fucking idiot.

And Vrabes teaming up again, that would be good, people are saying it, Yeah, I'd be good with that.

But what do you think? What's the over-under? so we're at six right now, and what do you think if I give you over-under a seven and a half?

I don't know, you tell us, you just you just fired them.

They're going to do a mutual separation. I do not think that Belichick will be the coach in New England next year. I don't think it'll get fired. Okay, I think they will mutually.

Would you rather have Iberflus or Harbaugh as your coach? Would you rather have Iberflus or Mike Vrabel as your coach?

I made free Harbaugh to Chicago Merch. I've tweeted that hype video a billion times. I watched it when I was sitting. This is a sad thing. I'm about to say. Folks, I got home last night at like 11 p.m. In my car, in my my garage, put the garage down, keep the car on, which is not, which wasn't. Smart people probably like, Is he suicidal?

This is like the biggest stack of coaches that we have that teams should be excited about in.

The off season, and it's also like Vrabel would instill man football. I want a culture change, yeah, you got to either trust that the culture is going the right way, or you need a culture change.

You have a coach, yeah, you do, too. Yeah, Max does.

You were in the Super Bowl last year, you can't fucking do this, God damn it, listen.

Big can't spoil If you're favorites right now, you're, you're married, you got to stop. Expiration date is not expired.

Single ready to mingle? I want to go on a nice long walk with with with my, uh, my coach, wife and whoops. She fell off a cliff trial separation. My bad, I was saying, Hey honey, just go take a picture.

I'm single, I'm like, I'm like Casey Anthony. right now, I'm just I'm looking for somebody.

To tame me, yeah, but you're you have, like, the worst, the package. Yeah, that's yes.

CASEY ANTHONY Yes, correct. Oh no, I actually I would say that my package right now is.

No, no, no PFT is going to the bar. He's putting on the spanx, he's got a lot of makeup on. He's like, I'm hoping that someone gets drunk enough to take me home.

Me three years ago, when I had Dan Snyder and I had I had all this shit going on. The worst stadium in the NFL now. I just came into some money. I'm like, I'm, I'm an older woman. My maybe my parents just died, left me a shitload of money, I got a really nice house.

A little bit of time for that house to get to put all the furniture in that house, like Big cat and.

I got houses that are ready to go. No, my house is spectacular. No, it's a brand new house. I just got a new house. it's a brand new house.

It's about divorce. I feel like, though, if you, if you went to your brand new house and you did an inspection, you'd be like, Wait, they didn't build this house correctly. But guess what?

I'm having my new house built in an even better part of town and it's going to be awesome, yeah.

But we can also see the new house. Uh, you didn't have a last name. The person who built the new house also has a house down the street, and that house isn't doing much better than it was well.

My house will be fine once it gets built, and I also have. We're going to change her name entirely, so if you don't like the name, it's gone. My, I really feel like I should be. I got a tremendous.

Package to offer also cap I got, I got like, so much cap. The owner of your house. You'd be like, Hey, good one hank, the owner of your house, you'd be like, Wait, has he ever built a house before? He's like, Oh, yeah.

I knew I thought you were going that way. He's built two houses before, he's got two houses, and.

We've Are you talking about the are you talking about the mother mother? Fun Dev Devils? Yeah.

I'm talking about the devils Jack Hughes ever heard of them. And we broke his neck and we and we processed it, we did the process. Some Canadian website said that it'll be fantastic.

Uh, should we transition to Max? What do you got for us? All? Right? Ready? yeah?

Business wit there. I love it, I love it when they get in there a big J game and just start.

Attacking journalists. And did they make a mistake this time? No, I think they I. The only tweet I saw was Wit said, Someone was someone's dad, but it's not his dad. I saw that was a while ago. Oh.

Okay, they were using that as credibility for him, talking, Oh, that's bullshit we stand with.

Wit and biz, obviously. But I just saw that one tweet where it was like, Turns out he's not his dad. I was like, Wait, what is what is went into? Right now? This is attacking people's haircuts.

Fuck yeah, that's so funny. Also, RA got involved too for a little bit. That's the secret weapon.

That's how, that's how, you know, Ra is the dude from. He's the Irish dude from Braveheart, where he just shows up. He's like, It's my island, my fucking island, yeah.

2002 Flyers drafted 2022. Let's take this back to the Big Bang Max. Not off to a hot start, not off to a hot start.

Bird like, that's like, Oh, you know that they can also guys who play a full college hockey season.

Can then just go right there. Yeah, I learned that in this. Yes, very, very cool.

In juniors, they were asking, Uh, all their players, their favorite teams growing up? And he was like, I'm cutter. Played for the flyers. Don't know how that's going to work out.

Oh, he grew up a huge syndicated penguins. So like in his like, draft day, like, you know, they all wear like that jerseys and the hats as soon as they get drafted. They're like, Who's your biggest like idol growing up? And it was Sidney Crosby, and everyone in Philly was like, Eh, this is a little weird, like, why would you say Sidney Crosby?

Okay, there's no admission over there. He had a job to do.

Yes, um, and then it turns out that, like he, just the rumor is that he just doesn't want to play for.

Just boil down strictly to two words, John, and that's what it's looking like. And then?

Torts was asked about it last night. Great quote, I don't know. Cut her from a hole in the wall, awesome. He's like, I'm worried about, I'm worried about this team and Drysdale, who the guy they got back is coming in towards MBS.

Full Philly. You have to understand, like, when we talk to you, this is us talking to Philadelphia.

But not this Philadelphia, would the represent representative from Philadelphia.

Please stand up, that's you. Okay, that would be me. So you guys went full philly on them.

Okay, the delegation of Philadelphia fans. So there's a Philly, there's a Flyers uh reporter. I can tell Matt this is right where Max is getting confused. No, there's a Flyers reporter. But the first word, this is where it really got confusing.

Well, this is where the chicklets guys are. So after you threatened his life, what happened? No, after you threw batteries at his mom. We haven't even got to the to the threatening of lives. Or just like, Oh, that's coming, okay?

Where did Kevin Hayes go to college? Max Uh, don't know, Boston College. Oh, same place, that makes sense.

Was looking at this in real time, so that I saw that podcast, like, as it was going on and going down on Twitter. At first, I saw the podcast clip of Cutter being like, Kevin Hayes is my only friend on the flyers, Kevin Hayes leaves all that, whatever. And then this guy says, I talked to somebody within the organization, it's Kevin Hayes. He, like, tries to confirm what people are saying on Twitter.

Raul Raul Whizinet Yeah, whiz, tweets I just, I just.

Can we do a mock-up of what Raul Whizinet looks like? Okay, big ears, big nose, okay mustache.

Probably I need to say, I need to say the tweet, I'm I'm on a roll, I just talked to him, you're on a roll.

Wanting my family dead. Okay, so this Ant San Filippo guy, correct that guy, he's a reporter in Philadelphia.

Yeah, cause? oh, is this cause? Yes, so wait, which side do you keep going? And that well?

That's basically it. So apparently, like people also are saying they're happy that.

Cutter. His brother was dead. Like, Yeah, no, so that's like, the fan want my family dead.

CHRIST Philly That's not great, not good, not good, not disavow.

You're you're against weeks or not weeks? Hayes, No, Hayes had nothing to do with it. No, but you're saying that the flyers are in the right there, in the right, that he got talked out of the team.

The team of the flyers are in the right for trading, right? but are you team like flyers?

That's misinformation that Kevin Hayes had something to do with it. Kevin Hayes had nothing to do with it. Okay, and that cutter go go go to a is a like malcontent.

You're anti cutter, right? anti cutter. Okay, I think we're pro cutter. No, he, he's anti.

Cause he's friends with Kevin Hayes, but Kevin, he said, he had nothing to do with it. I'm pro, I'm pro Kevin Hayes, we're anti, we're pro Kevin Hayes.

They're best friends. Yeah, no, Kevin, he said. He had nothing to do with it. Yeah, no, I agree.

Pro Hayes, Pro cutter I'm pro Hayes, pro cutter and pro flyers. All right. Well, I'm going to.

Call it, I think everybody's in the right. Yeah, I'm going to call it is whiz. This picture's unbelievable.

It's like, all you've been talking about the last two days, you cut out, but I don't have good.

Service at my house. Okay, I will pay your wifi bill, you'd think you'd be able to afford that, maybe less calls.

That is the perfect, okay?

Okay, so I think we cleared up the people from Philly that listens to checkups, okay.

Those guys are cool, and the awls who are from Philly, and producers that are from Philly, No.

We don't care about you. Max. All right, thank you. Wit also, Uh, jersey. Jerry was practicing his first hockey skills challenge.

Fuck the flyers, I don't have a problem with the flyers, I think that everybody.

Sounds like they're doing misinformation on this poor kid. I'm anti. The person that made up the story, Yes, that that is, but the story came from someone in the Flyers organization, No.

It wasn't in the organization. He was like, a he's a blogger, no, but he got the sources.

Ant just made it up, I think he made it up. No, yeah, I actually agree.

Ant got the scoop from the flyers. I'm pro flyers, trading him, that makes sense, but it sounds like the flyers are maybe doing a little damage control here and sourcing stuff, this guy said.

He's made Hayes himself said that that guy was making shit up you don't think he talked to?

Anyone in the flyers didn't? he say, according to a source. Yeah, so I think, yeah, but I think.

That that was bullshit. There's probably some guy on the flyers that's pissed off that cutter doesn't want to play for them. And then he does some dot connecting, and then he calls his boy Ant. He's like, Ant, you're never going to believe the scoop, and then Ant runs with it.

Could be pro flyers, but anti the guy who's putting out misinformation, which might be Mr. Flyer himself. Is there a Mr. Flyer? Danny Breyer, GM of the Flyers?

Flyers are such a shit organization that he doesn't want to play for them. Max, That's a good.

Question This type of thing would never happen in D.C. No. Flyers are doing pretty good this year.

And they shouldn't be good. That was other information that I got, Oh.

But it is kind of embarrassing for you. Like the Blackhawks, Blackhawks have never had a scandal. Uh, it means laugh too quickly at that, not with any of their prospects. Um, so you, you, you're not good.

This year they're good, this year they're better than they should be they were supposed to be.

Max Memes back me up at one point, at one point. Metropolitan Division.

Names I was looking at the roster last night, I think I had, there was like three that were.

Forget cutter, go go to his name. Well, that guy was never on the team. Where'd he get traded to?

Uh, the ducks, Oh, that's nice life quack. Yeah, he didn't. I mean, that guy's cutters a pussy.

I'm anti cutter, no, cause he's friends with Kevin Hayes, who's friends with us.

No, but I I think I can be pro. Kevin Hayes anti cutter Why? Why are you against this guy?

Wanting to play for Philadelphia, like it seems like he, but he told Philly that he wanted to.

Play for Philly and then change his mind two months later, did a cliche answer I'd never heard that. No, but what'd you want to draft prep? I want to play here.

Bam, okay, well, this this guy, this guy just said like, Yeah, I'll play for whoever drafts me, you drafted him and then I. I actually, I understand his point of view.

Why not just be like, Hey, please? And if one of your close friends tells you this?

This organization sucks, or maybe doesn't even tell you that somebody makes that up.

Danny Breyer is the one who said this that he was told by him on draft day. I am built to be a flyer. I want to be a flyer before they drafted him.

This is a quote from WHO from Danny Danny Breyer. The GM said that he really wanted to.

Be a flyer because he's going to about to draft this kid and he wants everyone to think that.

It's okay, no, he said. That, what? Yeah, we're saying.

I wish I knew more about this, but cause this guy's bad, cutter pussy, okay, for sure, Philly's coming back out.

I would also like Max saying cutter pussy on the soundboard. Thank you, thanks, all right.

That was good, Max, I'm proud of you, thanks. I did a lot of research, I know it was taxing.

I know, Whiz, sometimes you get behind your words, and I said, 2002, I whiz in 2002..

Were my two slip ups, for sure, would you almost rather the, uh, the flyers be inconsequential?

So you don't have to worry about them. Uh, no, it was kind of fun. I was like, excited to read about the drama and like, kind of get some Philly for for like, an hour and a half. But I'm talking about the Kevin Hayes shit started. I was like, Yeah, I don't, I don't.

Want to be looped in with that in your real life? Do you want to expend any emotional energy on the flyers when it's six or season? Uh, no, yeah.

Credit for having a very unique color in Pro sports orange black. Yeah, you don't really see that that hue of orange in pro sports kind of the bangles.

Hot seat, cool throne. Um, the hot seat is the NBA. Yeah, they're doing some some funky shit with the Celtics only team. Uh, without double digit losses last night against the Pacers. As I'm sure most of you were watching during the National Championship game. Uh, Jalen Brown had a game tying shot attempt that they call the foul.

When Hank, I saw him quote tweet LeBron saying facts, yeah, and when LeBron's dropping the gorilla emoji and then the poop emoji, Yeah, ape shit.

Very questionable, very very question. Also consider makes no sense. LeBron got.

He got fouled on that one plate, remember, was that Tatum that got him on the arm on that layup, and Pat Bev took the camera. Yeah, that was hilarious, that was very funny.

But it's one thing, yeah, I said. That was one of the funniest things of all time. I've popped out for sure, but it's one thing to knock off out that that happens, you know, even like last night with the the Michigan holding and stuff like that. If you, if you call it or don't call it, whatever. If you go to the tape, look at a clear foul and then reverse it.

Fact or fiction? Fact would do we ever find out how long Tyrese Halburn's out for? That was, Oh, did you see him get like, carried off? He did the splits? Yeah, Lord, carry him now. Maybe he pooped himself like Paul Pierce.

And then my cool throne is movies that are catered directly to me. Uh, in the past couple of days, I've got a Whale movie coming out. There was no that would really, that'd be the trifecta. Apple TV is coming out with a documentary called The Dynasty of the New England Patriots. Belichick's in it.

Uh, I don't know February. I think there was a working theory someone had online. I can't remember who it was, so I apologize.

Actually, when I saw this, this came out today Tuesday, the trailer that made me think that it was over. For some reason. It was just like Belichick's in it, Brady's in it.

Yeah, it'd be, you know what Taylor Swift did? She then re-released the movie with bonus features on it. Later, Maybe they released the movie.

Yeah, yeah, I'm excited for that and then on Sunday, yeah, although I might've got caught on this one.

That looks like it was a movie, yeah, so that would suck, but they I was so excited for the.

Movie I saw people being like, No one wants this. Who wants a 21 Savage movie? I do 21 Savage, Donald Glover.