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We used to be a country, a proper country where men could gather around on the 4th of July and eat 70 hot dogs and have the whole world rejoice. It was a positive force for America. I love the 4th of July, I love the hot dog eating contest. I haven't missed it, going back to the Kobayashi years, when it became an event.

That's crazy.

And I'm pretty. I'm sure that Joey would not want any sort of competitive imbalance that would go along with eating a vegan hot dog.

I so I saw that rumor going around. If Joey Chestnut tried to eat the vegan hot dogs on the 4th of July, I would 100 be on the side of major league eating. Don't ever let him eat another hot dog again in his life. I don't think that ever was on the table. I also, I don't know about impossible meats.

I don't know if there's bugs, I don't think that there's bugs in them. I my knowledge. It's just it's fake meat, it's like soy.

I will not eat the bugs. Here's the thing one Joey Chestnut being not being there is means that, like, 4th of July is basically canceled. Now people who are arguing he should never do an impossible meats uh brand sponsorship, I understand.

Yeah, I'm fine with Joey getting paid, get paid by any means necessary. I can't. I can't imagine that the, uh, the career span of a competitive eater goes into your, like fifties and sixties. I feel like it's a young man's game, so get the bag when you can.

Yes.

We've all eaten every person here, everybody eats. Joey Chestnut is the best person, the best eater of all time in the history of the world. He needs to be rich for that fact. So, yes, get the bag.

And I know people want to take hank, I'll get you a sec. I know people want to take stands and I understand that. Um, and and I get it because my initial reaction was like, how could they ban him? And then when I realized it was impossible. Burgers. And there could potentially be bugs at stake here.

Well, because Joey is a very unique creation of the country that we love, right? Joey Chestnut would not exist in any other country, but because of the good old USA and the stars and stripes. We have the best person to ever eat food that lives within our borders. And we all get to watch them and root for him on TV, and it is. It's actually sad because this is an example of a human greatness. That we're all going to miss out on the 4th of July because of some sort of business dispute. And so we're really the we're the losers here.

And I'm I'm hoping we can get Joey on the show at some point in the next week or so. I would love to maybe figure out a way to see how many barstool employees. Joey thinks he could challenge on the 4th of July, which would be pretty fun. Well, or Kobayashi, but like, Joey, what's the number of people you think that you could beat on the 4th of July? And he just took on, like 15 of us.

And Kobayashi did retire from eating.

He did, but you can always there's, if we've learned anything, everyone's got a price.

I mean, we can cut it big cat. We were talking to them last year like we had them doing their return match.

I know, but Kobayashi retired since then.

Oh, we retired again.

I think he retired again. We were talking about, we were going to do a rough and rowdy Joey Chestnut. Kobayashi Uh, mit mashup, where, like, it would be like, in between fight 10 and 11, they come out and eat a shitload of dogs and then we go right back to fight.

Yeah, it would have been incredible that we we discussed that with Joey when he was on the podcast.

Yeah, yeah, no, then there was serious, there was serious negotiations for months.

Yeah.

I, I'm just sad. I also, uh, I love whenever, uh, a story like this happens. Where, like, from the outside, people be like, Are you guys really leading the podcast? With hotdog eating like losers? No, we're not losers. And I'll I'll show you, uh, how serious this is, in the press release. Uh, for Major League eating, Major League Eating said in a statement. For nearly two decades, we have worked under the same basic hotdog exclusivity provisions.

Mm hmm.

I love that. There were hotdog exclusivity provisions.

I didn't know that.

Yeah, and then Joey issued a statement. Four hours ago, Joey Joey posted this online. I was gutted to learn from the media that after 19 years, I'm banned from the Nathan's July 4th Hotdog Eating contest. I love competing that event.

It's I feel like John Madden died all over again. That's how I feel right now.

Yeah, it's a turducken of sadness.

I'm grieving, I actually have had a I don't know what to say, I just I. You can't have this, you can't have Fourth of July without Joey Chestnut, so we'll try our best to figure out a way to get Joey Chestnut into the Fourth of July. Whether it's through Nathan's or not, but I don't know how, how we can't.

Yeah.

They should be vegan dogs.

They should be both dogs, so what is it? What is the core issue here? Are they afraid that Joey's going to show up wearing an impossible hot dogs hat?

No, I think he just, I think they, they. They said that it would be like if if MJ was like, Oh, now I'm wearing adidas, but I don't know, it's not. He was going to compete in Nathan's, he wasn't going to talk about impossible burgers, he was just doing that on the outside, on the outside of the Fourth of July. Which I think he should be allowed to do, I think he should be allowed to get. I wish he didn't do the bug dogs, but I think he should be allowed to get his money.

I think they're soy boys, I don't think that there's any insects in those dogs.

Okay, well, I'm not going to eat the bugs, I just want that very clear.

How?

What, how rich do you think Joey Chestnut should be in your in your like if we're up to you billionaire?

I'm being honest, Joey Chestnut, What? what is Joey Chestnut? What does Jeff Bezos do better than Joey Chestnut? Not a lot. What does Elon Musk do better than Joey Chestnut?

The amount that he trains is is crazy, too. Like he is, he is literally an athlete, he is as good at his sport as anybody has ever been at their sport. He is, he's Jesse Owens, Michael Jordan, uh, Shohei Otani.

Secretary of Minus the Steroids Secretariat's heart Yep.

All rolled into one, that's what Joey is.

How rich do you think he should be? Hank?

No, I was just curious, you brought that up a couple of times. But he's one event a year.

I don't know how, like, it's not one a year, but it, but it, but it, but.

Then my point is like, he should, he has one event a year, he should be able to go get his money outside of that. I agree, cause the other, the oyster eating competition, isn't paying.

Uh, I did have a flight tonight, um, but I am, I'm back in Chicago and I'm feeling it.

Well, what happened?

Nice, nice drop there. What happened?

Uh, I was going to save it for Fire Fest, cause it it it just. You know, they talk about golf, like, don't compound mistakes, you know, don't let one bad shop become two bad shots, et cetera, et cetera. Um, my real life version of that was at the end of my last trip, which was a couple of months ago. My suitcase, I realized, broke like when I put it down on the handle and I couldn't pull it up. And I had to fucking, like, push my suitcase. Like, basically lean down and and and push it and roll it in the airport all the way to my car, which was a brutal experience. Wow.

Uh, my gun, your full tool set that you try to bring up.

It was more my laptop and Mike.

Wait, this is so much worse than I thought. You had your backpack on and you put it down because my suitcase was broken. They've walked out without your back.

Yeah, cause I was like I was doing it as my elevator was coming up. So like, I finally opened it as my elevator got up. And I just like, I just got right on. And then it was an hour and a half to get back. So I just went to a Rosemont, Illinois, got my haircut in.

You did compound a mistake with the mistake.

Well, I was like, I'm not going to sit and try, I just had to try for an hour and a half. I don't want to sit and travel for two hours now, like, I need to, just like I need to go eat. And. And I needed to get a haircut, which I was going to do tomorrow, which then I obviously don't have time to do tomorrow. Um, so I was like, I need to get a haircut somewhere.

Are you flying out tomorrow?

I'm flying out first thing in the morning.

Oh my god.

Set your alarm.

Well, Hank, so you also had, so that's bad news. also you had bad news with Celtics, which I don't. Should we have? You read the injury and then do you want an apology for Max? What do you want? Max, famously on on Sunday night, said Oh, Chris Stops is hurt again.

Um context.

I spent over up there when I thought I had my backpack. I'm thinking, I'm just getting on the flight. I'm like, we're cursed, we're cursed, we're cursed.

Wait, so what? read that? read the injury report, Hank?

This is trying to make me sound dumb.

No, I just want you to read the injury report and I want Max to apologize to you, Max.

Are you getting a lot of shams, too? So who knows? Uh, Celtics Chris Stapps. Porzingis suffered a torn medial retinaculum, allowing dislocation of the posterior to bioless tendon. That's pretty good.

Yeah, I, I read this. I don't know if he has a sprained ankle or he's never going to walk again.

All right.

So I, I got a report like 12 people in the last 150 years to get this injury.

Yeah, it's not good, it's not good when the Twitter doctors are putting like parentheses, very rare on the injury report. And when there's parts of the body that you didn't even know existed, not usually good.

Um, our friend Sam Decker said, I didn't even know you could tear the whatever, hey, say it again, hank.

Torn medial retinaculum.

Yeah, he said. I didn't even know you could tear that.

Retinaculum.

So, uh, I reached out directly to Pro Football Doc. Cause I wanted to get the report to. To pass the news along to Max because Max really wanted an update on this, he said. Uh, Porzingis, no bueno, you can quote me on. this? is what he said. No bueno, out for finals.

That's a good, that's good.

Curt Schilling won a world series that year.

Yeah, and he won the game.

I have a doctor shout out Dr. Dan Uh, who told me that the closest thing that he could find. Uh. That is a little more common was when Von Miller dislocated his peroneal tendons on the other side of your ankle. In training camp in 2020, he missed the entire season, but that's how rare it is the rest of the game.

I literally don't know what to think. They already did the injury report for tomorrow. He's listed as questionable. My gut tells me he's not going to play tomorrow.

Uh.

How seriously do you take that? The Hippocratic Oath.

Well, yeah, I was like, are, are, are, yeah, like, are they dogs? It's going to be like, let's fucking go win a championship. Are they going to?

He looked like he couldn't move after he heard it.

I know.

Like, we watched it and we're like, this looks weird, he's not moving well.

And it's such a rare injury, I don't know if there's a book on this injury. That's what I'm saying, like, it's it would be such a rare blackjack hand that there's no book on it.

But he's walking around fine, he's moved, he doesn't have a brace on. Like, tape exists. They got shit for that, like, I, you know, it's scary.

I think you guys can win this series without him.

I do too, but like, I don't, like even I just don't, I don't like it.

Porzingis, you guys have won 76 of your games. without Porzingis, you've won 86%.

No other way around do you think, right?

Yeah, no.

With Porzingis 76.

They've won 76 of their games with Kristaps Porzingis. they've won 86 of their games without Porzingis.

Is that true?

Yeah.

You looking at the stat.

I'm looking at the set, that's that's the regular season and the playoffs this year.

So there you go, you're fine.

And Curt Schilling?

And Curt Schilling?

I think you're fine.

Max You, uh, how's it going online for you? Because you wish this into existence?

I did not wish this into existence.

You celebrated it.

I did not sell, I did not celebrate the injury, I celebrated the circumstance of the situation.

And why'd you go run up a fucking tree like a cat?

I was scared and I was hiding, cause I didn't want to speak with you, Henry.

That's why I tried to climb up on the roof is because I was afraid, okay?

I climbed up the ladder and then I realized and started crying.

Cause it was too high.

I was, I'm scared of ladders, okay?

That's where you went, we what? what did you say? You're, you're the you celebrated this? What was that circumstance?

Not the injury, the circumstance of this situation, the circumstance of me forgetting to update the hurt or injured board. And it became relevant again when it was, when it would have been irrelevant. Got it, but I didn't actually want him to get hurt.

That's all right.

That's what I'm going to get hurt, or he was injured quite literally.

That's what you thought, which? He celebrated the circumstance of the situation. I think you want to put him in jail for that, put him in jail for that.

I think Max kind of, I kind of agree with him. I don't think that he celebrated the injury. I think he celebrated the hurt, but the question is, what did he?

Deep down, he celebrated the injury.

No, Matt. Max just shook his head. Max agreed. He said. Yeah, he celebrated the hurt and it turned it turned into an injury. And then that that explains Max is running away in shame. Trying to climb up a tree to get away from Hank is because he knew deep down that he might have had something to do with it.

The optics are bad, the optics are bad. I'm willing to to agree to that.

The optics, Were you stuck in the tunnel, on a ladder, being like, help.

I knew that it was going to look look that way. But deep down that I know in my in my head that I was not truly celebrating his injury.

I was celebrating the circumstance that you're talking about Sunday night, but now you also know deep down in your head that you're happy that he's injured. That's where, like you and Roan, piss me off because you're both scumbags, and you know your scumbags, and we know your scumbags. But when push comes to shove, you'd be like, No, no, no, it's great.

Well, let's see what I mean, let's see what happens in Game three.

That's okay.

How's that? How's it online for you right now, Max?

I don't give a shit, I mean, Celtics fans are always going to be up my ass. I mean, it's Boston. Boston's a fucking trash ass town, trash ass people and can't fucking make flights and get shitty haircuts.

He keeps looking and doing the move where he's just like, you can tell if you're watching this right now. Hank has checked himself out about 17 times.

I mean, it's a big day tomorrow and I had to go to a fucking 50 year old woman giving me a fade and I did it.

Did you get? Did you get your haircut to impress Tom?

Duh.

What duh?

So, wait, talk to me about your decision-making, about where you got your haircut. You just picked a random stop and got off and then looked for a woman to cut your hair.

Well, also, my phone was dying.

Um, you're 30, you're about to be 31.

I wasn't trying to compound a mistake with another mistake.

You're going to be 31 in two tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, uh, tomorrow.

Yeah, tomorrow eve.

Yeah.

No, it all worked out. Um, it's all good, but yeah, I just. I just googled haircuts nearby and I went to one, uh, that was close, and it was. It was a 50 year old woman. She cut my hair in 20 minutes, so my phone charged like 5%.

Yeah, it's fine, all right. Last thing. So wait, Hank, are you? You think Chris sobs is not going to play tomorrow or today?

My gut says no.

Okay, and Max, what? What kind of celebration do you have planned for when he doesn't play?

Uh, zero. I want him to play, uh. And karma also may have already gotten me, cause I could have broken part of my hand and saw that.

Why would it be karma if you were just celebrating the circumstances of the situation?

Well, the optics, the optics of the karma got it.

Wait, but so wouldn't then the optics? Wouldn't the karma retribution just be like a superficial injury, not an actual injury?

Well, it could be like it hurts right now, but it might not be a real injury.

Okay, so I think that if it's not a real injury, then you actually are innocent, but if it's a real injury, then you're guilty.

That I'm willing to accept that, okay?

That, um, I had one last thing for us. Uh, I I teased it to you guys on the text chain, Our guy pug, our guy pug beast. Um, is he, though?

I think so.

He might be a pussy. This is my text exchange with Pug. earlier today. I was laughing so hard pug texts me.

There's more to this story that you don't know about. What has been asking us about your tickets all week? And I have told him so many times, just ask. He has told us that if he's not, he's going on vacation, he's not going to be here. All you have to do is ask him if the tickets are available, and he's like, Yeah, but like, I don't know.

Wait, so now you can't, because I sent them to you, pug, did you get them?

Yes, I sent you the Saturday tickets.

So now what are you going to do? You have I sent you? I have two tickets. He's like, I'll figure it out.

I'll figure it out. I'm very appreciative of the tickets.

How many tickets did you think I had? Pug?

I, I don't know, I was just trying to put feelers out.

You just try to collect as many tickets as you can get.

The initial text was like, I was just hoping deep down, you would say like, Oh, I have tickets.

Yeah, no, I have three here you go.

You wait, but pug, this is crazy because, like, I'm happy to give you tickets, like Max says, I tell you guys all the time. Like, it just asks. Like, there's days that I am using them, or, or the or my friend who I call on with is using them. But pug, you now have two tickets that are like good tickets and you have three people, what are you going to do?

Are you going to sell my tickets?

And then, No, no, no, I would never do that.

I think I could get another ticket in that section and just try to be close.

That's expensive pug.

Yeah, or this is now a thing we can probably do, a game time thing.

Yeah, we can do a game. Pug, I'm going to give you right now, I'm going to tell you right now you are. You are free and clear to sell my tickets, to buy three more tickets.

Now I feel bad again. No, you don't.

I'm telling you you're free and clear to do it if you would like to do that, or I'll just buy you three tickets or just buy.

So yeah, so the three tickets. What are you afraid of?

Why? why? were you scared to ask?

I felt like it would be very like, I thought it'd be rude. Just be like, Hey, you got tickets. can I have them? Like, I just felt like that was I actually can.

Understand that, I can understand that.

It probably would have been better if you, yeah.

If you had just seen me, yeah, if you'd seen me this morning, you were just like, Hey, um, I got some buddies in town because then that actually would have been an easier conversation. You're like, I have buddies in town, I'd be like, how many?

Yeah, I think that was the plan and I just the timeline never lined up. I probably could have done it. It was all week.

I offer the tickets all the time.

I know I don't know you, you over so much. He thought that it didn't, he thought that that didn't apply to him. It was why he was like, Do you think that applies to me, too?

We plug, we eat. I mean, we now have to figure out this ticket situation because you have two tickets and three people and they're in a nice section, so it's like, you can't, I'll buy you another seat.

It's also cubs cardinals.

Like, I'm appreciative of Saturday Cubs, Cardinals game is a very expensive ticket.

I'm a pussy.

I love you, fuck you guys, believe this.

No, I believe it.

But I everyone here has asked for tickets, except Pug. There's been like, Hey, can I use the tickets?

I'm like, Yeah, no problem. yeah, it's, it's a learning lesson. Next time I'm just going direct, direct to you.

Next time I want you to come up to me and say, Hey, fuck face, give me your tickets, I'll respect that.

Will do, will do also this whole, this whole show, while you guys are doing the rest of the show. Probably just look over me. He's like, this is going to be bad.

It's just funny to get a text from him being like, Hey, I'm a pussy. I actually was wondering if I could have your ticket.

Yeah, I overthought it.

Oh, I love you all, right?

I need you to, I need you to just be brutally honest from now on, cause I feel like you're holding back on us.

All right, that's fine.

What is holding back on us? And he's just a fucking monster.

Yeah, he's just a real asshole. This could be his, his jokerfication.

Yeah.

He just starts shoving us around, just being like, Listen, assholes, I'm pug, get the fuck out of my way.

Fuck you guys actually.

Yeah, there you go.

Pug.

All right, pug, I'm going to buy you another seat. game time. shout out, game time. We're going to buy you a seat and we'll get. We'll get all three boys in there.

Sorry.

Okay, I think I let's let's kick it to ourselves. We've got Dan Hurley talk, we got Michael Collins.

All is right with the world. Great job by Dan Hurley getting paid so much money. Yes, they're upping his contract right now. It's smart move on his part, not signing a contract after Kentucky.

Dan Hurley might be, um, so back-to-back national titles, obviously, the new face of college basketball coaching. And then to turn down Kentucky and the Lakers in the same three months span, that's on, that's a historic run.

It's great.

He's that's a historic run to turn down those two entities in that amount of time for that much money. He's just flexing on everyone. And it might just simply be that his wife does not want to leave. Uh, the Northeast.

Yeah, she's, she's a ride or die. She's like, Los Angeles. Dan, you know, you can't even get a good cup of piss out there. Yeah, you're not gonna be able to find your drinks.

LeBron does kind of get like the Lakers, get embarrassed here a little bit. This is when coach K did it, uh, 20 years ago, but you don't turn down the Lakers.

The Lakers in trouble.

The Lakers might be in trouble.

Oh, they're getting brawny.

I also always say, it's actually the head.

Yeah, but Ronnie's not going to be able to be developed. Yeah, I think J.J. Raddick is going to be able to develop Ronnie.

Someone needs to develop this boy, they need to get him, they need to get their hands on him and figure out how to develop him.

They need to hire a special coach just for Bronnie.

Just for development.

Tom Kreen.

Coach K Yeah, already in the building.

Tom Kreen did a great job. Anthony Edwards Yeah, just get him, just have him hang out.

Yeah, um, it's. It's actually the headline right now on ESPN. It says Lakers are embarrassed now, but they can they recover after Hurley's rejection? And it just bears repeating. But Rob Plinkett just is Rob Lowe. Every single time I see a picture, Rob Lowe, just like, I don't understand, and those aren't the same guy.

They have the show about the Clippers, like they've got to do it, they did the, you know, the Showtime Lakers. They have to be doing something with Rob Lowe as plinkett.

That's what would they do? Just punked Fab five, he was on the Fab Five team, but he wasn't.

Yeah, but it wasn't around for Kobe and Shaq.

Yeah, actually, the bubble, you know, it would. it would rock boring series ever. he had the Bubble series, that'd be that'd be trash.

And we gotcha.

We gotcha, we gotcha.

But also you're going to get hired, cause we don't have any other options.

Yeah, but still, yeah, this was our idea for punk. But now it turns out that nobody else can coach this team. It's a big day for. Uh, they're supposed to be the Lakers guys, right? supposed to be the Lakers.

Yeah, you should be able to, just essentially. I mean, it's the Lakers and the Yankees.

Yeah.

Every, every player, coach, successful person is just a future. Laker or Yankee. They don't know it yet. If they will, if if the Lakers or Yankees decided that, then it is done.

You will be mine one day. Yeah, right, oh yes.

You don't have a say in it, it's not non-consensual. They just and. And now Dan Hurley has bucked the trend and he's having, he's having a hell of a run. And did you see? Also, he is getting a free wings for life from Jay Timothy's tavern. Uh, somewhere in Connecticut, they offered free wings for life if he stays.

That's great, that's a great deal, that's a you don't even need to do the contract anymore.

It would be funny if he just stopped coaching and just got fat and just ate free wings every single day.

This is that's my job. Yeah, if anybody offers me free wings for life, I might just quit, I might retire. You don't have to worry about buying food anymore.

Free wings for life.

Yeah, that's the best retirement plan.

Uh, so I'm happy for college basketball, though. this is good for college basketball, this is good for, uh, having like this, the the hard nosed old school throwback coach. One person in this room, though, it really sucks for, and that would be our guy, Maxwell.

Well, he's not in this room.

Uh, yeah, I guess he's not in this room.

I knew he wasn't leaving, you knew it. I never. I never got my hopes up for him to leave once. Yeah, even when he took even.

Playing golfing yesterday.

Yep, on a work day, yep.

Billy Kill it still can't believe it.

By the way, you either die a max or you live long enough to become a hank, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, he's now become a hank.

Uh, do you have a good day?

Great day, Great Monday.

I had a question, too, uh, so you, I agree with you, that you, uh, never fully believed it. You were kind of consistent with that. You're like, he's going to stay. This is, uh, I don't want to get my hopes up.

Well, yeah, he came back.

What? no, you told me he was going to the NBA.

No, you told us he came back, you, you actually sent us the tweet that saying he was testing the waters for the NBA, and you said Max was right. Looking for credit is wrong here.

There you go, oh wow.

And I said, while maintaining his college eligibility, and you said, No, he's gone, you can't write a letter like he wrote and come back, but he's back, whatever.

So I guess congrats to Yukon on winning another championship, probably waltzing through the Big East.

It is, I mean, to go three in a row would be hasn't been done since, John wouldn't. it would never be done again.

It'd be incredible, especially in this era, yeah.

Uh, okay, so yeah, you guys, that that sucks for you, Max you, even though you never got your hopes up. It also sucks for Billy. We can't really trust him as a reporter anymore.

Well, I'm not. I'm not ready to write Billy's report off just yet. Okay, because Billy told us that well. He told the world that Dan Hurley was going to go to the Lakers. He confirmed that by getting stressed by Dan Hurley's son, Yeah.

Billy has to talk to Andrew and see if he gets shushed again.

Yeah, yeah. So he said, Um, he said, I don't believe it. The son was nodding his head while shushing.

They were having mimosas.

Yeah, he said. If you drink a mimosa at 10 a.m. That's the man who doesn't have a hard decision to make. Billy also said, Right?

But wouldn't that he? Staying in Yukon was the not hard decision?

Is that also true?

Like, you know what it sounds like to me?

Mimosas can be a like, a great time, or like the worst time ever. You need a mimosa. Yeah, there's no true someone drinking a mimosa could be in any state of mind.

I think it's pretty obvious what happened. Dan Hurley drinking a mimosa probably the morning of his interview. He just got a great vacation with his family in Los Angeles. And he was like, Oh, fuck it, I'm going to, I'm going to hit the bottomless mimosa bar before this interview with the Lakers.

And paid more, regardless.

Yeah.

So what's the champagne and orange juice?

Champagne, orange juice, yeah.

Not a mimosa guy, screwdriver, screwdriver over all the bloody Mary, all that shit.

Let me put you on some game, big cat. Yeah, do a screwdriver with some champagne in it.

No, I don't like champagne, that's the whole reason I don't like mimosa.

Good carbonation, yeah.

Carbonated bubbles.

I don't like champagne, but a little taste. you know, it's no, I. I'm telling you, I do not like champagne. not a little taste, okay?

Watermelon, mimosa pretty good, too.

Oh, that sounds good.

Yeah.

So, yellow watermelon.

What about a watermelon screwdriver?

Yeah, you can do that, okay, and then add some champagne, too.

No, I don't like the champagne.

You know, there's yellow water watermelons PFT.

Yes.

Yellow watermelons. Um, not for me, we had that on the golf course yesterday, not for me.

It was a little weird, Hank. Also when we got there, cause we were doing, uh, for Pause, Chicago, we were doing their golf outing. I wasn't golfing cause I had to work, but I went for the first hour or so.

And we represented in Europe.

Hank showed up an hour late and then and then was was like, where the hell's the food? And it looked like he was the pied piper. There was about 10 of us following him around the entire private club while he was looking for the food. He's like, Where are the food you got? burgers?

Teatown was at 1130 and Big Cat told everyone to get there.

No, I did not, I did not say anything, I, I followed direction.

We showed up at nine 30.

I followed direction.

Did you get food?

Yeah, we had lunch, we played, we hit the range for an hour, like we had all the time in the world.

Great spread.

But you got food.

Got food?

Okay, that's good.

We were the first ones to eat and the first on the range.

We should tell people just in case there there might be some people listening like, Hey, maybe this shows a little bit different right now. You might notice a change in our voice, or it aches. It is nine 41 on Tuesday morning, which is early. Uh, Hank, does your brain work this early? Are you fully awake yet?

No, I already worked out this morning. Oh shit.

Did you eat?

I haven't ate.

Oh god.

You gotta eat, I know it's taco Tuesday down the street, damn.

Yeah, I'm going on, I'm going on a mini three day vacation. So we'll zoom, Zoom show on Thursday, although we've already done the interview. Uh, appreciate the boys letting me do a Zoom show.

Yeah, it's completely fair. Yeah, you forget that kids get out of school and then that's like the worst time for parents. When you're a kid. Summer vacation was the best.

They just flex, they're just like, I don't got school today.

What would happen if you just like, let them stay at home, like, Okay, don't, don't break anything by themselves, yeah?

Very big problem.

If you came home like three hours, let them at home for three hours.

I mean, they probably would just be crying at the door, being like, we got scared, where'd you go?

Yeah, I did. They got to learn something.

A five and a three year old. They play well together, but we like it's just pre-fighting. When they're playing well together, it's pre-fight.

Yeah.

It's the pre-fight dance, it always leads to a fight.

Yeah.

So, uh, but wait, what were we talking about with the Billy?

Oh, Billy. Yeah, so so Billy's report. He saw him drinking mimosas. To me, that's that, screams, guy.

He basically, I'm going to take the I'm going to take the visit so I can get the steak and and get to see the facilities and then I'm done.

We like being mimosas and dined, correct? everybody likes that, uh, Billy said to Big Cats. Question So we think maybe still lakers?

So Billy's essentially saying, I don't agree, I hear that you're staying at Yukon, I don't agree with you.

Yes, I don't agree that that Dan Hurley is staying at Yukon, even though the reports out there it could happen. I'm just saying it hasn't been confirmed yet by Billy.

I don't agree with your decision.

Yeah.

My interpretation is correct, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Billy got a mimosa. It turns out you must be going.

It turns out getting shushed shushed is not confirmation of your report.

Also, God. We didn't report it, cause he told us not to.

Yeah, yeah.

It turns out a Saturday morning with your family in Venice Beach, you're probably going to be drinking, or Santa Monica. You're probably going to be having a mimosa. That's like one of the top mimosa spots in the world.

It's wonderful for mimosas, and we don't know Billy might've been having mimosas, too.

He probably had a lot of them.

Yeah.

Yeah, uh, yeah, so that was that was a big news story. Then we obviously had, um, the Panthers, up to nothing on the Oilers we have.

I think I think they're all must wins. Okay, I I think that the Panthers, they have so many ways to beat you. It got a little chippy, which I think could be good for the for the oilers.

Oh, I think it was desperate, by the way. It was like, we're going to play your level, your, your style. And the Panthers were like, Okay, fine, go ahead.

The nut shot at the end was that was desperation right there, that was frustration. Uh, but it got a little chippy. There were some elbows to jaws, uh, the the leg hit on lusterinan.

They need the tits.

They need the tits.

They need the tits, cause cause. The panthers have the little kid, the little kid behind the glass flexing, brave baby Gronk's cousin.

Is that really Baby Gronk's cousin?

Sure.

It feels like it.

They at some point, we're all related.

Yeah, that's true, going way back, uh, I. The Panthers do look like a machine.

They're a machine.

They have an answer for everybody, except for McDavid, who sometimes looks like he has to do it all himself. When he's doing his little like. Back and forth spins, getting the entire defense to chase him and then finding a guy in front of the net who misses a shot. Uh, I was thinking about this last night. If you're McDavid and you're so good at hockey, do you get frustrated with your teammates for not being as good as you?

Definitely.

I think you would, right, definitely. I played with a couple of guys like that back in the day that just they were so mad at the rest of their team. Like, why can't you just do the things that I do?

And you're just everyone's. When he's moving the way he moves and you make a perfect pass, and and you know someone's not able to bury it, that would be frustrating.

It would be like, just be me.

Just be as good as me.

Why can't? Why can't you be like me? It's not that hard to do, I do it every day.

Bro, yeah, be brilliant with this.

Uh, they did get a goal on Bob, though.

They got one goal.

He kind of shot it through him, yeah, Bob saved it, and then the puck just kind of made its way through his body somehow.

Bob's really good too, and always getting his like his mask off. Or the goal, uh, comes, comes off and they have to stop the play.

Yeah.

Anytime it feels like the Oilers have a little bit of momentum.

Yeah.

Which is a savvy move by Bob.

It definitely is, yeah, he tells his defense, like, just run into the goal, please, yeah.

Uh, Whitney and the Spittin Chicklets boys will be there on What is It? Thursday night?

Yeah, Thursday night.

Thursday night extra day travel.

For the long travel.

Yeah, the pod is in the building.

Pod is in the building. Longest travel in the history of the Stanley Cup.

I saw that, yeah.

Very cool.

The poor, poor journalists.

Oh my god, think about the journalists. imagine being a journal.

Yeah, they get the extra day off, though, so.

Yeah, but you, the flight is just insane, you got to go through custom.

And then they got to go back.

And you got to come back, maybe, and then come back again.

Might not have to. The Panthers keep playing the way they are.

You get the mileage, though, yeah, the frequent flyers, yeah.

That's true, but do you get to keep those?