Michael Rubin, Draymond Gets Suspended, NHL Playoffs And PFT Talks About His Dad

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On today's part of my take, we have. Michael Rubin, from formerly of the Philadelphia 76ers, co-owned it with Josh Harris, new owner of The Commanders. We're going to talk some NBA.

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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Wednesday, April 19th. we are on Zoom Today and PFT.

So we're on Zoom right now. I'm down in Virginia. My dad passed away this morning and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do if I wanted to do part of my take today at first. And I know a lot of you guys at home probably use this show as you know, an escape. Or to get you through tough times sometimes and laugh and forget about real issues every now and again. And that's kind of the boat that I found myself in today, where I felt like it would be good. It's, you know, we're recording this late at night, been taking care of family stuff all day and I thought it would be a good escape for me. And maybe be able to laugh a little bit and chop it up and kind of get away from the real-life situation. And you know, I feel the same way that, you know, we've heard from a lot of people over the years. I feel the same way now. So thank you guys for being there for me. I appreciate that. That goes for obviously everybody in the studio on the show, I appreciate you guys being an outlet for this, and also everybody at home listening. And I know I've talked about my dad a few times on this show, but he really is the reason why I grew to love sports. He would, you know, let me miss class and stay home from school in the morning, sometimes to watch Sportscenter. And most of my childhood memories revolve somehow, around, you know, playing sports with him, going to sporting events with him, or having him prank me into going to a sporting event that wasn't real with him. Which it's kind of funny. I was talking with my family today and we were, you know, joking around and laughing about some of the funny things that he did over the years. And that story, the April Fool's story, got brought up, where he got me out of class. And it turns out I didn't even get the real crux of the joke until just today. The real crux of the joke, as I mentioned a couple weeks ago, was there was no game on April 1st that year, April Fool's Day, when he got me out of class to take me to the Orioles game. The real crux of the joke? My brother just told me this today was. The joke was. I should have known that the Orioles didn't have a home opener on April 1st. And I don't know ball because I'm a casual, so that's. That's what he was, that's what he was driving at, but he was busting my balls when he did that. And he was a funny guy. And if anybody knew him, they knew. He was the guy who was usually wearing a track suit and usually taking me or my brother to the sporting events. We had the van that was stocked with every sort of sports equipment you could ever hope for growing up. And he was he, really. He taught me how to love sports, and he was a fan of you guys too. He loved, he loved you guys. And he also loved, like all the awls that he would meet when he'd go out and start chopping up with somebody about sports. If they looked like they were a younger person, he would ask them like, Do you guys listen to part of my take? And then he would, you know, go on to tell them that, Oh, Pft is my son. And he'd make a new friend and he would. Then, you know, he'd always give me a call and let me know who he met that way, and it meant a lot to him. And sports were, you know, like I said, they were a big part of our lives. And I owe so much to him. He was a great dude, so gonna miss him. And yeah, that's pretty much it. The last thing I will say, though, is eye for an eye. Well played John Rahm, a tremendous competitor. I'll make that joke before anybody else does, so, it's okay. I know some people are gonna wonder if it's okay to make that joke, so I'll be the first one to make it. It is okay. He would have thought that was funny, but yeah, so that's where I'm at personally right now. And yeah, I hope you guys will understand. If we'll probably do another Skype show or Zoom show later on this week, some things might change with the formatting, but yeah, I appreciate you guys.

Being there for me, so love you guys, love you. Pft. Yeah, yeah, love you too, man. I mean, it's, you know, I don't. It's a horrible thing that everyone obviously eventually has to go through. But I just, you know, I know your dad. We got to meet him a couple times, I know how proud he was of this show. And like, that was just so cool to see. Because I'm sure, you know, we're very similar. There's probably moments where our parents were like, are they actually going to have a career here? And for him to see it get to the point where it's gotten? And you know, we met him at training camp, he was wearing the track suit. He was proud and it was, yeah, I mean, it was clear that he was so proud of everything you've done. And yeah, yeah, I mean, when you hurt, we hurt, so it's, yeah.

It's real life shit sometimes, but yeah, appreciate you guys. And yeah, he was a big fan of yours and just he was really supportive. There were some times when he didn't really understand what a podcast was and whether or not this was going to be, you know, something that I was going to really take seriously. But he was also like the most supportive person in the world and he was like, go for it if it makes you happy. And I was really, really lucky to have him as a dad. So if you're on the fence about calling your dad today, give him a call, tell him you love him.

Permission to make another lighthearted joke. Yes, we can cut it out. But he did pass away without ever seeing Hank get the lottery ball. It's true, it's true, it's true.

Every day, it's just a fact, every day. Yeah, honestly not cool. Yeah, oh man, but yeah, pft. We love you.

You know, we love you and it's tough because it definitely is like we are. We've been doing this for a long time, so we are family and so whenever you know something like this happens to any of us, it's really, really tough. So, but he, I just remember you telling me how proud he was of this show. And it was very clear that picture of him with the tracksuit was like, I was like.

That's a dad. It was just like my son fucking rocks at the camp, the team you guys rooted for.

Growing up, that's where that was. Yeah, yeah, we. That was very, a very cool moment, a little behind the scenes. When we went to the I guess it was the football team, it was a Washington football team. At the time, we went to the training camp and interviewed Ron Rivera and Ryan Fitzpatrick. I got my dad in and got to introduce him to Fitzy and some of the guys behind the scenes. And that's where we used to go every summer when I was a kid.

Works. You probably thought of it like, 9 30 this morning? You're like, Ah, no, no, no, I actually.

I when we were talking before the show about something else related to John Rahm, I was like, Oh, fuck yeah, okay, all right, we'll have something to talk about, if, if we ever.

If we ever meet the guy, yeah, um, okay, so let's try to make you laugh, let's try to have some fun.

Okay, so I I like and hate that. He was suspended at the same time, I don't think he should have been suspended for it. Because he got, he got his foot grabbed, and it wasn't even that hard of a stop, yeah.

Did Shams say exactly why? Jake? Cause, like, if you're, if you're Adam Silver? That felt more out of line of what they're trying to preach on. Like the you know, player fan interaction, then the actual stomp that credits is a bonus. I thought he, like, broke his sternum the way he was acting and then he got up and he was fine. Well, you're going to say.

Basically acted like he got the like, the whatever you call it, the EMT thrown into.

Thrown into his heart, Yeah, yeah, Demar Hamlin was watching like hell.

To make sure that he can revive the cat's point. It might've been the moment when they were zooming in on Dream on, looking at the crowd, and just him going at at the guy that was flipping them off.

But at the same time, Draymond looked like he was having the time of his life when he was screaming at the crowd. Like he. I think that's good for N.B.A. fan interaction, it's it's not good when you have Russell Westbrook. Just finding somebody backstage. And a poor little kid who's eating a slice of ham with his, with his teeth. And then going up to his dad and calling his dad a motherfucker. That's bad, that's bad for the league.

Fan interaction that you want. He Draymond is like, he has like, joker energy, where he just not not joke of it, or, uh, uh, what's what the fuck? It's late, not Yoka, but joker, like the actual heath ledger. Like, he just wants to see every like the chaos, because that was. There was a moment there where it was like, this is how the mouse, the Palace kind of started. If someone, if a fan throws something here, this could get bad.

Yeah, he's gone method, he's always in character, he's gotten method in terms of acting like.

DRAymond Green all the time. Yeah, Jake, Well, you say. Press release says the suspension was based in part of Green's history of unsportsmanlike acts. So it seems like, Oh, yeah.

Think he should have been suspended for for either one of the acts, for the antagonizing or for the stopping? But I am a little bit happy that he got suspended. Because that means that when he comes back in Game four, we're going to get full dream on. He's going to just be going nuts on the court, so I'm happy about that. Uh, you make a good point, though.

Because it will, Warriors fans will. I think most Warriors fans won't do this. But you know, there'll be the trolls being like, Yeah, they, you know, Raptor series, everyone got hurt. Uh, you know. The the Calves in 2016 Dream on got suspended. They never lost with those three guys. The craziest part, the craziest stat I saw. This breaks the streak. The Warriors have not been down two.

Play on the road. Also, we should have paid more attention to the beam this year, cause the beam is intense, lighting the beam, it's it's an X factor.

They're young, they're young, they're fun. Billy, What are you going to say?

Just last thing on the Sabonis thing, that's a total, uh, like soccer move. Yeah, yeah, no, but you're grabbing at the legs on the ground.

Like, that's totally European. The the uh, beam pft, I read an article about the beam, uh. The owner of the Kings did it. I thought it was going to be some really cool story.

You know that it's just a relaxing flight from start to finish. It's, yeah, I okay, I wish I didn't know that. It was a focus group, but I still love the beam, that's how good it is.

Yeah, and the beam? The first time the beam ever was lit, it was during the day, so it didn't really work, and then the first time it was lit at night. They had like a bunch of calls to, like the police and like the radio stations, being like, what is going on in the sky right now? There's a huge purple beam.

Life, Yeah. The best compliment you can get as a team is that people with absolutely no horse in the race are watching every single game that you play. And you're like, I fucking wish I was a Kings fan. It'd be so cool to be Kings fan right now.

He's going to be fully joker-fied by that point. One last thing about this game, uh, that should be cause, you know, Malik Monk and Darren Fox get a lot of talk. And Sabonis Davion. Mitchell is an awesome defender. He was like, doing a very, I mean, Steph, you, you'll. Steph will always get, you know, his points, but he was awesome and I when I looked it up. He has an incredible nickname.

Yet, but they're, what's what's the JV version? No, I don't know. Yeah, they're probably not.

Going to hear this team of fun, here's, here's, here's what's going to unfortunately happen.

This is where, well, no, no, no, hey, you know, Hank's right, I am getting caught up in the beam.

I'm I'm trapped in the beam right now. Here's what's going to happen. And this is, if you're a Kings fans, skip a minute down the podcast cause you don't want to hear this. They're going to beat the Warriors in the series.

Moment in King's history. And then just do it again. No, yeah, I think we. I think. We even called that shot when we had Kirk on the on the podcast the other day. Where, like, Scott Foster comes in and just hands game six and seven to the Lakers, yeah.

Happen, by the way, uh, people haven't picked up the Grizzlies, or, sorry. The Nuggets, uh. Timberwolves series will probably be the series we just never talk about because it's going to be like, weird, uh, timing off nights, that stuff. But the the shout out, the Nuggets, they killed the timberwolves, timberwolves, I think what they score like 85 points.

My take of playoff James Harden is dead. Died last night cause he was so, so bad and I was just Saturday and then last night. I mean, he'd like, didn't even belong on the court.

But thank God, Coward, yeah, Coward called him a role player with a shoe deal. Yeah, he was bad.

He was, he was so bad, it was tough. Yeah, no, you're going to win the series. Yeah, no, the Nets are like, not, they're just like not a good team.

Team in the playoffs, they lose by 30.

Cancels charges, cause the my college basketball team is built, the whole house is built on charges. So, uh, people get really mad when I say that, but yeah, cancel charges, fuck charges. But yeah, the um, the Sixers did look bad, but a wins, a win. Um, quick B ball, Paul update.

Is funny.

Team this is. These are all his thoughts. Yeah, yeah, I mean, we will get them.

Spell. That's why I always just say, pasta, that's that's honestly pretty good. And he was 13 years.

Old and spelled spaghetti correctly. He did so. Um, yeah, we're going to hopefully do a merch deal with B-ball Paul. I did buy a sweatshirt from him today, um, which means I literally venmoed him a hundred dollars and sent him my address.

Sweatshirts, so I love that. Can we just say that he's selling them out of the back of his car? Pretty much, yeah.

A win, a playoff win, like or like a day off that he's just he's filling orders on a day off.

I don't know, maybe no, I. I respect, I respect the hell out of that. You've got to make money. He's a what's his contract?

Three, No, it's, it's like three years, 4 million total, it's not that much total.

Not that much when James Horn's your teammate and he's taking out to strip clubs every night.

B-ball Paul Like, if, if b-ball, Paul probably wishes he could treat right now like that feeling. When you're, when you're $200 million teammate keeps making you drop drop racks at the strip.

Club on a Wednesday. James Horn's like, I'll cover half the room in money. B-ball Paul, you cover the other half, and he's like, Uh, one's okay.

You're Celtics, that's that's serious. Yeah, so I was officially, obviously, you know, I was talking to folks on the Hawks, folks on the Hawks tonight. I was really just starting to do some, uh, thinking.

All right, so that's, that's a compelling point that Hank just made. Like, we're if. If we're going to be B-ball Paul guys, we we have to be prepared for the fact that he's going to be going.

One-on-one against our guy Blake. But I've, I've thought about this. I this is sick that, like, it popped in my head while I was just, I don't even know what I was doing. I was saying, I was driving somewhere and it popped in my head and I was like, How do we get around this Blake Griffin issue?

Him Yeah, well, I'm rooting for Josh Harris, I don't really care about the 76ers, but um, I can't. I don't think I can root against Blake if Blake's getting, if he's getting over. What's the cutoff? I have to have, like a minute's limit.

Gonna root for Blake and I'm gonna root for people all Paul, cause I I watched the whole Sixers game last night, I became People Paul tracker on online. I did not care if the Sixers won or lost.

Here's a question, big cat question. Wait, we should, I'm trying to make money for you, Hank, we should do a B ball. Paul and Blake Griffin combined total points over. Oh, I thought you.

Were going to say, like a t-shirt where it's like, it's like Godzilla versus a T, or what is it? Yeah, King Kong versus Godzilla, it's people. Paul Blake Griffin, The Battle for the East.

No, we'll definitely make those shirts. Yes, I wouldn't fucking rock the killer bees, yeah.

Yeah, they're just like on the Yeah, it's like both of them are just so big. They're on the East Coast, and they're just they're basically like trying to dunk over each other.

Yeah, they're both trying to dunk at the same time. Yeah, uh, yeah. Question Big Cat Game Seven TD Garden.

Yeah, I'm rooting for Blake, I'm rooting for Blake in that. That's a no brainer, all right?

Broad broadens and Robert Williams is playing like he's healthy, like he was playing healthy, active. It's always scary with him, cause it's like, you really, when you see him play healthy, it's so exciting and you're like, if he's healthy, we will win the championship.

With my six or Celtics, I just want maximum pain, no matter what, and it's most likely going to happen to Max, cause I just want the show.

I want to drink your milkshake. I've also thought about I spent, you know, some significant time night thinking again. Like, I've moved on from the series, I'm thinking about the Sixers, I'm ready to talk about the bet, and I've I've come to my, uh, my terms.

Okay, so this is sick, this is you versus Max Six or Celtics. What are your full beard? No mustache?

Would probably look decent with the mustache. No, I you don't understand how bad my chins are going to look like. The fact that you think that this is going to be for you is disgusting, that's.

My point, I think, you know how it is, big head.

Little patch right below your low. Yeah, I'm fine with that, but yeah, no, the conclusion I came to is no mustache. Okay, it should be so bad.

We could talk about it when it when we actually get here, but it should be like an escalator agreement. Like if if one team gets swept, you have to shave your face for three months.

Like, that should absolutely be part of it. No, no, no.

All right, if you get the I gotta be able to talk to chicks. Yeah, like, I'm down for a sweet clause. And we're definitely in the favors there. But also, like, I can't. Worst case scenario, that can't happen.

No, I am not down for a sweep, maybe a tattoo? a tattoo for the sweep. Full bald head.

Just pick everything. No see, like this is more things that are going against me as an.

Impartial bystander Max is coming off. Yeah, he is, he's coming off. Real scared. Why wouldn't I?

Those are the best best to make. You got to feel between Sell Celtics and Sixers, like, what, where, where would I have? What do you mean to ask in the year?

Joel and beat it like 60 points. One MVP is sick, right?

Oh man, all right, we'll, we'll, we'll table it till it is official, and then we'll, we'll get the whole thing. Either way, the Celtics, I mean, are so much better than the Hawks.

Defense is really good. I mean, they just got to stay healthy, they got to stay healthy. It's that we're in, we're in Celtics and bruins are like, just stay healthy.

Trey Young I There was a few possessions where he just basically spent the entire shot clock trying to get the correct pick and roll. And the Celtics were just switching perfectly or pre-sweet, like they were just doing everything, and Trey Young was in a blender.

What to do? So, you know, that's going to be next week. Oh, James Harden.

Just so, you know, the Celtics won by 13 tonight and the Sixers won by 12 last night. And we're, and we're crowning the Celtic, Celtic says, like the fucking champions of the world.

Well, not all wins are created equal. Max I mean, I w, but like, let's.

Let's call a spade a spade here, and why don't you agree?

Acknowledge what's going on? No, this is what Max does. Max, Max gets scared. And then he, he retreats into his little hole, and then, and then he, he thinks to himself, Oh fuck, they got me good, they got me down in my hole so bad right now.

That I'm not retreating my cubby right now. He got to, he got to. He just goes and it goes home and just looks at his mirror and he's like, don't let them do that to you again, you're.

You're fucking philly tough. And he's like, I'll show them, I'll show them, and then he's like.

You guys are pussies.

Okay, so make the bet I can't wait for this series, this is going to be so awesome, all right?

That game I completely memory hold Sean Camp on the calves. Had no idea and also I do know that Sean Kemp is not dead, but he did get it. They they arrested Sean Kemp. Or the Rain.

Man's in Prison. Also, Quinn Snyder was dressed like an absolute bum on the sidelines tonight. They cut to him. I was like, Oh, that's the coach.

He's realizing he made like the dumbest decision ever because he joined the Hawks mid season, when he probably could have had any job he wanted this off season. So, but yeah, the Um. The only reason I remember the Sean Kemp Calves is I love those jerseys, you know, the the the weird jersey they like. They were the late Nineties. Like, remember, the Pistons did it, so yeah.

Aged kind of, well, uh, grizzlies, we're not one of those teams. Grizzlies love, love the Vancouver.

Big time, big time. Um, okay, so yeah, this game. I, I have two, two thoughts on this game. One is it was nice to see the calves make an adjustment. Where they were. Like, Hey, Donovan Mitchell, you don't have to shoot every time. And Darius Garland went off instead.

I mean, that Tibbs is who he is, he's not, he's not going to change ever. I don't want him to change because Tibbs is. He's the perfect coach for, like some team that is like middling, like teetering on the edge of being a solid, good team. If you get Tom Thibodeau on your on coaching your team, then you know that. You're going to be like, you're going to be great going into the playoffs, and you're going to be like, Yes, we can do this.

He's just a very solid coach, yeah, but it's he's a very, very solid coach. But the the playing of players late and blowouts, and also, I mean, he, he runs, the he runs every player in the ground. But it was just nuts like Julius Randall, I think he took a very hard fall off a block of an attempted block on a breakaway.

In the second quarter and then the entire second half, yeah, this was. This was a a legacy matchup between Chris Paul and Scott Foster. And all the stats were going out there. We may have passed around some fake stats about Scott Foster last year, but um, ever. All the signs were pointing to, like the the fixes in this is going to be Clippers game and credit to credit to the sons.

Kawhi was great, Kawhi is literally. If they had a. If they did a trial trying to prosecute load management, the defense would call Kawhi Leonard as their lead witness or their their their lead like testimony. Cause he is, he is the re like what load management works for Kawhi Leonard.

Well, yeah, but he was also like finals MVP, like, he's just that guy.

Nobody he was doing, he was doing load management before he was a Finals MVP. That's the whole thing. Like his load, he doesn't get load management. Kawhi Leonard gets system updates, he just he upgrades the new operating system.

If you, if you were trying to say, what is load management, why would you do load management? You would just point to Kawhi? And be like, this guy who barely plays the regular season, then when he plays the playoffs is incredible.

Thoughts on the box score Uh, just my thoughts on the box score is looking at it real quick. And, uh, I see that. Um, Chris Paul actually didn't play that well tonight, so I retract that. Washed um DeAndre Ayton's back.

And Torrey Craig is also, for some reason, like he. He was awesome in Game one, He's awesome.

Tonight again, as far as as far as Westbrook goes, we we did say like, Oh my God, he's by far the worst player on the court. With about what? Five minutes left in game one, when he was demanding the ball and his teammates just wouldn't pass the ball to him, something happened to Westbrook, I think.

Jersey back on, coming out of the locker room, I guess, apparently that was a Covid cut through. So when there weren't fans, it's like 20 seconds to go from the visiting locker room to the court. Wind Horse had the whole breakdown, and if you go the long way, it's like two minutes.

Yeah, it was. It was a very, very funny video and that dude looked, that dude looked like he was ready to fight, too. He was about it, he didn't back down at all. Like, I can recognize a guy that's been in a few scraps of his life.

And Westbrook, I mean, game one, he was three for 19, but he was making a shitload of defensive plays, rebounds. And there is something that he said for a guy who's like, I'm just going to keep trying to force it and like, make things happen. And he, he hit those free throws at the end too, like, he just makes things happen, even if he's going to shoot three for 19,.

I'm sure he's going to be very consistent with us throughout the rest of this playoff series, too. He's back, okay, officially by this, by the stat sheet. Russ Russell Westbrook officially back.

I want to throw one last thing at you PFT. And then we can talk a little hockey and then do hot sea cool thrown.

Let's see mellow always. I have some good ones that people like people responded with, too, but yeah, go ahead.

It's basically the guy who you didn't, you don't really remember retiring, because he never, really, you know what I mean, like someone, someone throughout. Rondo, Rondo. If Rondo was in a playoff series right now, you would not blink, you'd be like, Yeah, of course. The other ones, uh, there was a couple of football ones. Torrey Smith was a good football one.

My carries Yeah, I mean, there are a bunch of guys in the NFL that are like, Oh, I thought that guy retired like five seasons ago. Yeah, like every every year. Uh, Matt Moore.

Yeah, Mercedes Lewis, but it's the reverse. The guys who you, you think like Boris DL and Leandro Barbosa were two that were thrown out there. And I think those two, like, if you saw board, if you saw Boris Deals, fat ass just running down the court in this son's Clippers series. On either team, you wouldn't, you wouldn't be like, Hey, what's going on here? yeah.

Fucking suck, you know what? The leafs are on my list now? they're, they've made, they've made the Chargers list.

Market Times U.S. We don't. Yeah, I feel similar about what happened with the Oilers on a late Monday night into Tuesday. Cause they were up three one, then they were up three two with like 20 seconds left.

Atmosphere going over time, like it seemed like it was over for a second, like I called back.

I don't know if you saw that. Yeah, the whole thing, it's just like, I, I can't do this with the Oilers, they they have to win game two.

After game, after game, it is great. I. You do get a little bit of FoMo when your team's not in playoff hockey, but also there's something magical about overtime playoff hockey. When you don't have a dog in the fight, when it's somebody else that's living and dying. With every single pass, every single turnover, every single, uh, like, close offsides it. That sucks if you overtime hockey is the absolute best.

Big time, big time. Um, yeah, I mean, it was a great first two nights of playoff hockey because they had two overtime games on Monday. Hank, how's your overtime? Hank? bet every over, every game to go into overtime basketball and hockey. Yeah, a little.

I guess we'll, we'll give the hot tip out to the people, too. I'm going to do this every single night of the first round until both first rounds are over. Well, and here's where I fucked up. I applied it to basketball and hockey, but in basketball, they don't have an offering of like the game to go into overtime. I did fourth quarter draw, but that just means that means I just scored the same amount of points in the fourth quarter.

You guys, I'm, I'm not a numbers guy. Hank, I know you're, uh, you've become a numbers guy recently. Maybe you can help me with this math here. How many minutes were played in the Kings Oilers game? Because there's there's 60, 60 minutes in the first three periods.

Conor McDavid is playing the same amount amount of minutes as I'm going to just find an analogy. Yeah, maybe a little less. I didn't want to throw him under the bus there. Um, Danny Green, who is part of that list of guys that you can't believe are still playing?

Or will be topping for the Knicks? Oh, uh, Jeff Green, I assumed, has retired. No. He's every off season for the last five years, but he's playing, he's on the nuggets, right, my nuggets.

He'll be playing until he's 65.

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Patrick Reed and the guy so confirmed, confirmed. Justine, Right, wow.

Just the it's, it's a it's, it's probably the last. I don't know if burners, I don't know if they're going to be a thing forever. I guess people are always doing them, but it's one of.

The last great, one of the last great burners, it really is. It is like it's a Hall of Fame, first ballot, Hall of Fame burner. Cause she got exposed years ago and keeps using it.

It's awesome, I love it.

Yeah, burners are awesome, burner life is the shit. I was just replying to tweets left and right, nobody knew it was me.

Yeah, I had a burner person. Youngstown Bob. It is fun to just pop on and just like, stir some shit up and then just walk away. I get it what Kevin Durant does.

Uh, my cool throne. I guess it's AI. I probably should put this on the hot seat, but I watched the 60 minutes AI thing and I'm fully convinced. I figured I should just get it on record that probably within like a month, AI is going to build robots, take over the world. And we're all going to die like, I'm, I'm not to be like, overly dramatic or anything but.

Yeah, well, what did I say? like? like, Yeah, no, I'm now. Um, yeah, oh, Billy called this. Billy was the first person to predict that AI was going to take over technology and then dominate the world.

When I saw, I robot, but I didn't say it out loud, so Billy gets credit. Well, you remember?

You remember the old movies and now it's like, that's, it's like, actually happening, yeah, but.

I mean, all movies end up being true. Same private Ryan.

Uh, it was, um, you remember that thought experiment that we talked about in this show, Rocco's Basilisk, which is that, uh? At some point, AI is going to take over human civilization. And it'll become so smart that it'll be able to go back in time and figure out which human beings helped AI get developed and which ones were anti AI back in time. And punish you, Yeah, so for the record, I fuck I I for one, welcome our new software overlords.

I have a poster of AI in in in my bedroom always. Yeah, when I was, when I was 13, it was.

Play basketball, go outside, come inside, Jack off to AI, go outside, that's what boys do.

I hate AI, so if I look bad on the internet, it's because they went back in time and made me look, Oh man, yeah, that's, that's what Ai. Wow, this thing's really good.

This is actually we recorded this 20 years ago. AI is just producing the podcast.

So my theory is that that Elon Musk, he's got the neuralink implant in his brain right now, so he's part AI. I think that so many people distrust Elon Musk that he's purposely going on the record. Warning people about AI. So people would be like, Oh, if Elon cares about, it's probably not that big of a problem. And then making AI actually exist, because so many people are like, Fuck you.

Jake remind us to do a takey for two online Person of the Year because Elon's definitely in the running, he. He said in an interview. He did in the past, he's doing interviews everywhere. But he said that something about, uh, if he saw what? Come on the show, open on the show. Elon, Uh, he. Yeah, yes, absolutely. We'll interview Elon Musk, he and we'll just basically be like, why aren't you on a sports team? Dude? Why'd you take away my check mark?

That Elon doesn't know, yeah, but I mean, he, he should. He really needs some friends, like some actual, some friends that that are real solid dudes. That'll bust his balls, give him the packers and just give him, give him.

Money on all the fun? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Um, all right, your hot seat pft, uh, my hot seat is.

Popcorn, yes, but popcorn on the hot seat. I figured somebody was going to talk about this, so, um, took over the internet.

Okay, so I have I. I've already said this take, so if I'm going to get crucified, I'll get crucified. I. I. I live with a pregnant woman.

With this was that, he said, 22 weeks, and then I had to sit down and break down how pregnant that was my brain by doing math. That's what pissed me off, just say, months.

If he tweeted four and a half months, he would have, I mean, he already got roasted. Like the guy, there's so many layers to how stupid he is. One is you're never going to win tweeting that, two, you have a seven 11 era. You just open the floodgate.

Deck that also we. The other part of the equation is the actual conversation that happened between the flight attendant and the wife. We're hearing this from Anthony Bass, but I don't know if the flight attendant was like yelling at his wife. Like, get on your hands and knees and pick that shit up before you get off this fucking plane. Or if she was just like, Hey, uh, can you pick up this popcorn that my child spilled? The floods? It was like, No, I can't you pick it up.

Bean dad came on, his cats did not come, he was never near his cats with come.

Uh, but it was a good, it was a good. Like, innocent enough internet scrap where people were just weighing in and getting their jokes off. It was kind of nice, I enjoyed it, it just.

It shocks me that he when he sent that tweet, being like, this will go well.

Well, he, he, I think he sent it just being like trying to try to tell him the flight attendant and get the flight, which is a there's no other reason to do it. Or maybe he was just saying, like, United, this is bad, hoping that he was going to get like, I don't know. A couple of free tickets, but dude, you, you play professional baseball, you fly for free all the time. I don't think that you need free tickets. Um, so, either way, he doesn't look good.

The um, yeah, it's, uh, I'm actually in a holding pattern right now to skull fuck, I'm gonna have the skull fuck of my lifetime with, Uh. Air France. If they don't fix what's happening with SVP, so people probably listen to SVPS podcast. When? If you remember when he was on with us The Master's Sunday from the airport. And he got a call and he was like, I got something I got to deal with. I'll deal with it after his house is burning down. So, uh, really like, sad, like it sucks really bad for him.

Fucking in French, someone looked that up? find that up, Jake. can you look that up? you can cuss in French?

Well done you son. I mean, we hope it doesn't happen. But it would be. You would have fun, the heel turn and just defending him and just going like, all in on it, it would be fun.

A full-time MBS stand I can do. You've got to get paid, though. Oh, that's the thing. Yeah, I. well, my payment would be just, uh, remaining alive.

That is wild. I mean, he probably will get a little more money out of Josh Harris.

He's, I think I might've said this before, but Khashoggi is the only guy in the world that probably hates the Washington Post more than Dan Snyder. Absolutely. Um, all right, my.

Uh, hot seat is our guy Steven Adams. So they did a anonymous poll. Uh, the athletic did it. Uh, of N.B.A. players, and they did like a bunch of different things. Like most, uh, overrated player tree on one that, uh, which that's gotta hurt so bad. To just have that be like every all my peers think I'm overrated. Um, but it, that's a fucked up. Uh, there was a category.

Yeah, that category was was basically made, right? I, I'm. I'm shocked that I didn't know about James Johnson. I would have said, maybe the Celtics coach, he's got, he's got the experience.

Getting choked out. But yeah, the um, yeah, the most overrated player, that's the good thing for. Trey Young is, uh. He had 14.8 of the votes and other one with 31 of the votes. So oh yeah, so he didn't even want their one. Um, and then my cool throne is, uh, me, because I'm an unverified bad boy.

Yeah, you did, Billy. By the time this is being recorded, my blue check mark will be gone.

Changing it right now, I can hear the I can hear the keyboard, he's clicking it right now.

But I mean, everyone's is going to be gone on the 20th. Yeah, the last time I won't be. Because I paid for Twitter Blue, cause this motherfucker paid for it, I might end up paying for it.

But I'm going to live, I'm going to live as an unverified guy. It's been, I don't know. I've been probably eight years since I've been unverified. So yeah, it's fun, is this?

Is this even the real big cat talking to us right now? Who knows, I've. I've not decided, I don't think I'm going to buy it. But the long videos, why? why would I? Why would I ever? Why would you say it in the first place?

I tweeted a clip from Monday show and then I shared it from the part of my take account over.

Two, 20.

Who the fuck is watching a two minute and 32nd video on Twitter? Part of my take clips.

Obviously, but those are way too long.

We got that email from the social team, being like it helps engagement, so I, I'm undecided.

So we'll see.

Going to buy something? Oh, I, uh, I forgot. I guess it is. Everything's a political statement now, because it's just triggered in my mind, Uh, tomorrow Hamlin's clear to play football.

I never actually thought he died. Okay, all right, it was a bit. it was a bit okay.

Okay, I'll play the part, you play the part. But also like, how can he raise his hands above his head? And do you see how fuzzy the camera was? He's wearing goggles.

But it, like, reminded me how much Twitter does suck now, because I tweeted that. And then people were like, isn't it crazy that we never found out what happened to him? It's like, Yeah, we did, we know what happened to him. Uh, Jake, you're no Billy.

Ewers Arch Manning quarterback battle at the University of Texas. Not only is it over, it really wasn't much of a battle at all. And in reality, in the UT quarterback competition, there was a big dark horse sleeper that no one saw coming in. MalIk Murphy And, uh, they had their Uh, spring game over the weekend. And honestly, the most astounding guy was Malik Murphy. Uh, who I think has the best arm out of any of the quarterbacks on the team.

By the way, yeah, yeah, he should have started as a freshman, that would have.

Yeah, that would have been a lot, I mean, plus, just watching Arch manning in this setting. Like he's only had 15 college practices under his belt and really, like, you know, he's got. He's a high school senior, he has senioritis right now.

But he's kind of doing well for it. He's got senioritis. I like that, I like that. Take that arch Manning Billy, you have, you have chronic senioritis.

His senior spring like skipping class, like taking senior school, but he's in college. No, he's technically he graduated early and went to college early, but like, right, he's in college.

Right, he didn't get to experience the seniorize, he didn't get to go on his rum springer.

Yeah, okay, I like that. Billy. We're like, Yeah, this is, it's actually getting around the time of year where Billy's like, guys, if I had continued college and done like a master's degree, like, I'd probably be drinking.

A lot right now, so I need a month off. I'd be playing football probably still, if I'd gone to a different school. Uh, I like, I like Arch, I like the idea of him, kind of like lurking. Because there's going to be some great sideline shots of arch manning every time Quinn throws interception.

Is, uh, me, because I put a lot of. I didn't know if I was going to get done by the time this podcast was going to happen. But my 2023 QB draft class rankings will be out by the end of.

The day on Wednesday, Okay, wait, we got to do it on the show. Okay, let's do it on Friday show.

But who won it last year? it was Malik Willis. Oh, okay, and then the year before was.

Was that Chad Kelly's year? Is that Sam Ellinger Sam Ellinger's year? He won, that he was Billy's.

Number one right? QB Trevor Lawrence in the finals. It was huge upset, yeah.

Like, you basically can follow along and be like, who's definitely not going to work out?

They all haven't paid out yet. We like, there's a lot more, you know, career left, Billy. We are 15, Oh Air 15..

Media does it and then you'll see it. I love it. Billy, I'm excited for Friday show, all right.

That is where he gets trapped. It's it's you got to have a good guy with an AR 15, not a bad guy.

Yes, exactly, yeah, I know that was Josh Dobbs who started for the playoff. Yeah, yeah.

That's just a great to grind, yeah, but yeah, Wendy, they work Wendy to the bone he's doing.

You remember when Wendy would fall asleep on the job because he was working so hard? They just he was. I think he did, like, 36 hours of television. Yeah, he, he is where we actually. Well.

This would be a tease, but I've been in contact with Wendy's going to come on the show for the N.B.A. playoffs at some point, very excited. But he, he's a dog, he's got, that dog in him was.

There somebody in his room that was trying to sleep, or no, next door neighbor, next door neighbor.

Like, I feel bad I have my roommate right across the wall here, I'm not whispering.

Like, what's his name? Blake? yell it, you wait, what?

Is he cool? Yeah, you want him. Should I be part of Blake of the year? He's an awl.

Down.

Blake, What's? what does he keep in the fridge, Jake?

Healthier or less healthy than you? Probably around the same, but he cooks a lot, I don't.

Really cook, okay?

I don't know what he benches, what teams does he root for, South Florida teams?

Oh, that's good, can we get? Maybe just a quick, you don't have to, you know, docs or anything, but maybe just a quick one sheet of all the stats that you could. We'll have him with the Blake committee and just try to figure out if he qualifies. Yeah, I'll get it for you and give it to the committee.

Though he's out, he's out, he's out now. Yeah, uh, then I want him even more.

In I want to fuck this Blake if he. if he says, no, I'm going to fucking give this guy Blake of.

The year. I'm going to move into your fucking room, Jake, just so I can follow him around. Yeah, I'm going to watch him sleep, yeah.

The defending Champion Water Dogs Lacrosse Club, Please credit me and Billy. The schedule is here. Some of the highlights. Defending champion the Water Dogs in a Championship rematch against the Chaos in week one, which is opening weekend first weekend of June.

Is the chaos third and fourth in Albany? Are the chaos going to have a ring ceremony?

For their second place finish. I don't know the chaos, the chaos or a team of Canadians. And what's really funny is they all run funny because they're all Canadians, and Canadians all run funny because they all played hockey. So you see them trotting around.

Dogs because they're Canadians. This is exactly why I wanted to do the show today. So I can. I can hear things like, Billy, do anthropological analysis from skating from such a young age, and.

They don't run right? This is true. I've never seen hockey players like play, pickup, basketball or even any other type of sport. They're the most elite. That, like, it's like they're only good in skates at what they do.

Sick at basketball?

Schedule should be released this week, but similar to like when Schefter teams up with like Jeff Darlington. You got to credit me and Billy if when you see the schedule drop, so look online.

Who's name first? Uh, I'll let Billy do it. No, no, Jake, but when it's when you're there's citing two Canadians run, right? No, you can cite me.

Good, that's important. Yeah, all right, I'm excited.

To suck, probably have a championship hangover. We signed a lot of great free agents the off season. Is that going to mess up the chemistry, though?

Two, Yeah, so also, rumor is that they're bringing back the beer garden for the regular season. So if you want to challenge Billy, come to PLL Games, Billy. Should we be concerned that the uh, that?

The guys that we signed, the free agent guys, they're, uh, they're just ring chasing right now.

But you know, if those guys want to work with the team and if they put in a great off season. I think, I think we're set for a dynasty if they want to humble themselves, I mean.

Why did they ask us for ring sizes? Did they ask you guys? Yeah, yeah, I think.

I think we just made it up, we ended the whip snakes, I did just make up.

Rabel text me and I, he texted me during March madness, so like everything was going on, they texted me a week later. He was like, Hey, about this? And I was just like, Uh, Pft is a 12..

A 14.

I don't know why they could be nowhere near. I was like, if it's the wrong size, let's put it on a necklace, fuck it. So yeah, we're getting rings. Um, all right.

Thing I don't think anybody brought up. Jalen hurts. Maxian bring up Jalen hurts. New contract?

Today broke the bank. I was holding a sweatshirt during the entire, uh, hot sequel throw and hoping that somebody would say it, Yeah, I mean, I this is. I was wondering what you were doing.

When you see these numbers, I I think to myself like, how come the Eagles have the only good general manager in football to put together the cap numbers? That that Howie and I love Howie because he's got the perfect name for Philadelphians to either be really excited about or really fucking despised. Cause you can say, Howie, like, you're about to slit the guy's throat, or Howie, like, let's fucking go Howie. And uh, and he, he knocked out of the party.

Understand how how it works, I don't, I don't understand how it's like, physically possible. It's like 8 million for for the cap. Yeah, we need a capologist on this show.

It's crazy and also I think my Home's Now is the seventh highest paid quarterback.

Which is pretty crazy. Yeah, it's how fast it goes. Josh Allen Not not at the top anymore. Um, Russell, Russell Wilson's like two, right?

Um, okay, so we have a great interview with Michael Rubin that we taped last week and then we'll finish with FAQs and a lottery ball. Uh, like I said, PFT was not in studio for that. There's only like 15 minutes, um, and then, yeah, we'll. We'll see everyone on Friday.

Joel and Bead wins the MVP. It's facts like, I mean, I said, the second I sold, I went out and said, the Sixers are winning the championship this year. I fully believe that's happening. I think it was my sale of the ownership that motivated everybody to play that much harder, that much better.

In Philadelphia, so that would, if they do, win a title with that. I know you're Sixers fan, but would that hurt a little bit? it would have to hurt a little bit. No, no, no, listen.

These guys are still my family. I mean, look, you know, I mean, Joel is like a brother to me, James is a brother to me. I mean, he's got guys that people are really tight with. Josh Harris splits are a family to me.

To move on from the Sixers was because Fanatics was getting into sports. Gambling. And is there like a hard and fast rule in the N.B.A. where if you're involved in owning a gambling company?

You can't also own a team. Yeah, there were like 10 hard and fast rules that I think that didn't work for us anymore. So, you know, the reality is, when I bought my stake in the Sixers in 2011,.