NHL Playoffs With Keith Yandle, Lakers/Warriors G1 Delivers, Sixers Up 1-0 And Hank Is Down Bad + Guys On Chicks

Hey, Pardon My Take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube Prime. members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music on today's Pardon My Take. We have Keith Yandel on the show, former NHL Ironman. we're still giving him the Ironman, very cool guy.

Seeing is, LeBron might be better as a Robin than he is as a batman. They've got a true number one option finally on the Lakers. And Ad, who looks healthier than we had predicted, Ad is the healthiest man alive right now. I don't think that you can make an argument against that.

He was fantastic. He was like, going into this series, a lot of people smarter than us were basically like, this series kind of goes with Anthony Davis because the Warriors will shoot.

And he did, and also, and also the fact that he's doing these quick heat checks when he has Steph Curry and Klay Thompson on his team, too. He's like, nobody has ever anointed themselves as the third splash brother quicker than Jordan Poole is. He's like, Yeah, the three, the three of us, I think we're probably the three best three-point shooters in the history of the N.BA.

The last possession that the Warriors had, they're down three. There's like 14 seconds left, Steph gets double teamed at half court because they were like, we're not going to let Steph. So he drops the ball off to Jordan Poole, but you have 14 seconds left, so the the idea there is.

I mean, he, he hit a three earlier in the fourth quarter. That was Steph Curry-like, so I think he thought that he had become Steph Curry, the little runner that he did. That looked like a shot that you would put up at the end of a quarter. He absolutely nutted on that one and he started doing his like like little threes out to the side on the way back. So yeah, he was feeling himself.

It also is like, it's funny, too, because Draymond, like, for as he gets calls that are reputation calls where he will get suspended or whatever. He also kind of gets away with a lot because he does yell at the refs constantly and they're like, You know what, we'll? We'll end up probably teeing you up later. Let's just save this. Um, so, not to overreact to game one. My, but I'm going to, uh. My fear of LeBron and the Lakers making a championship run has elevated to another rung. So I do think this is going to be a great series.

That my high school coach would definitely agree with you on that one. But I think also at the same time. The Warriors have been going up against that as long as they've been in this iteration of the Warriors. Correct? Like, that's, that's how the Warriors broke the N.BA. Every team was much bigger than them and they used to have the ability to to use that to their advantage.

But a counterpoint would be they had Kevin Durant, who's a seven footer no. Even before that, before that, before that, before that, Draymond Green was, uh, not an offensive liability. And you know, they were all younger and maybe could play more minutes.

So that's that's the difference, because, like, you're right, because. Draymond had the ball in the fourth quarter several times, where Anthony Davis gave him about 15 feet of room, uh, on the perimeter. And Draymond didn't even turn and face the basket. He just caught the ball and then just started looking to pass immediately. That's that's exactly the difference. But still, if Clay and Steph have a game where they're both games together, they're going to win that game.

State I also don't like I I, I am, I'm a traditionalist here, I'll probably be an old man yelling at clouds. I said it on Monday night, Hank's agreeing with me.

I don't get it, yeah. The Warriors had a flower on their jersey. I want to see a bridge. I want to see a fucking bridge on the Golden State Warriors uniforms.

Many jerseys in the N.BA, it's Nike's fault. It's really actually, you know what? That's also a kind of proves how great these playoffs have been. That the only complaint I have is there's.

Too many jerseys, that's it, cause they've been that great. I just want to know where the miscommunication was because you can't have the fans all wearing yellow while the Lakers are.

Wearing yellow on your home court, that can't happen. Yeah, um, I think it's because I think Nike picks the jerseys for the teams and I'm guessing that the arena is not in full. Like, they don't know necessarily, so they just say we're going to do a yellow out assuming that.

It's going to be normal jerseys. Well, they got to get on the same page for game two because that's a that's a must win for the crowd. You gotta, you gotta have matching uniforms for the players and for the crowd in Game two, or else this whole series is done.

I just they should never deviate from just you got two jerseys, bring two jerseys, that's it for the whole playoffs, that's what I want. But yeah, this, um, I mean, this series is gonna be great, I don't know.

The, uh, the end of this game. When Draymond was getting teed up, cause I wanted to know so badly exactly what he was saying. Cause they showed people in the crowd that were laughing at what Draymond was saying to the refs. I think Draymond should mic himself up, he should do a personal mic up and then just record an entire podcast during the game. Of him running around, talking to people and like, slide it.

Well, I watch already, because I guess we're watching the YouTube version, it's already released, right? Yeah, new media, yeah.

It 90 is going to be grunts and then Draymond breathing hard. Draymond has to sign a contract.

Before or makes ESPN sign a contract before being like, I cannot be canceled for whatever I say.

Cause I'm going to say some shit or just put it on himself, that's what I'm saying. Like, obviously, they mic up some of the players.

That's what I want to hear. Um, okay, so other game that I mean, this is I'm I. I know that. Like, the games are on at 10 o'clock at night and it sucks how late they start. But I won't miss a second and I don't think anyone should like, if you're a basketball fan, you cannot miss a second of this series. Uh, other game Knicks tie it up one one, thanks to Scott Foster.

Hurt and we still almost won this game. Yeah, no moral victory for the heat. And Jimmy Butler was waving by to the New York fans when he was leaving. Cause? And that's not a move that you do. If you're not going to play in Game three, he knows he's going to play in Game three and it's going to be different.

You had to win this one. Oh, you're ahead of me, go ahead hank, I don't want to crack in one.

Yeah.

Joe Pavelsky from the U No. Wisconsin Badger Dude, What a game for four goals, the cracking or fucking. We've got to get back to the Knicks.

Team I should take seriously. They look awesome. Yeah, it also Ryan Whitney's full of shit for saying crack. And we're going to win one game in the playoffs.

Said that Joe Pavelsky dude, four goals and you can't win. how do you waste that? That's unreal, That's tough, that's brutal.

Just suck. For a decade. The expansion draft is run a little bit different. In hockey, it's designed by its very nature to make the team's competitive right off the bat, which is smart because you want to establish a market. Because it's tough to grow if it's a city that doesn't have an ice hockey team, it's tough to grow that organically through some bad years. At the very beginning, right?

What a fucking, I mean, they're up one, oh, and the in the second round, damn um, all right heat next, yeah, the the. He got screwed.

That's an interesting discussion. Is SPO the best coach in the N.BA right now? I mean, I my. My theory is that that pop has been tanking intentionally to try to get women young.

But he? But that he can't count if he's been tanking, like he's been a good job at it, but he's getting like the heater. Not the most talented team I know, the Knicks aren't either, but like, it's incredible that they're in these games without Jimmy Butler. Let me ask you this.

If you were to replace Steve Kerr with Eric Spolstra, how much better are the Warriors?

Now that's tough because I'm a big believer in NBA coaching. X's and O's very important. Does it better than I think anyone right now? But management of egos is also equally as important. Kerr does a great job with that. Like whenever people would say like, Oh well, Phil Jackson had MJ. and then he had Kobe and Shaq.

Yeah, Phil Jackson was managing Michael Jordan, Scotty Pippen, Shaq Kobe, Dennis Rodman, and he was also Banging the owner of the team, too. I think he's pretty good at managing egos.

So the answer, I guess, might be that Steve Kerr is number two right now. I mean, there are, like, I just think what Spolstra is doing with this heat team. Like they weren't supposed to beat the box they. It feels like every year they're, they're getting farther than what they're expected. And tonight I was watching, being like, I think we all sat down and thought that the Knicks would just kill the heat because heat one, game one, Jimmy Butler's not playing and they were in that game.

They might win that game. I would say, Uh, Quinn Snyder also sneaky X's and O's guy for one of the best ones, and then Brad Stevens, he's a great X's and O's guy. He probably should be coaching the team right now.

Yeah, nice foreshadowing. yeah, nice foreshadow. Um, either way, Knicks are 1-1..

Like Big Head said, don't apologize for winning because you could not lose that game. Uh, much like Kevin Love's, outlet passes were were a fun thing to watch the other night. Sneaky fun part about this Knicks game having signs, tip outs, yes, he's just, he's just a deflection and tip out machine.

Rebounding, that was the other one. He, he was, he was all over the place. There was a there was a play where Josh Hart pushed him over and then they called a foul. Scott Foster called a foul on Bam.

Give me the Mecca Game seven, why not? Yeah, that'd be fun. And and again, Scott Foster is fun when there's one Scott Foster, because he's the guy that you can laugh at and make these jokes about. But when the league has multiple Scott Fosters, then it's just.

Officiating sucks. Yes, yes, um, all right, last thing before we kick it to ourselves, we got a lot to talk about.

No, the video was nice, it, he had obviously meant a lot to him. It was good to see the camaraderie of the team. But, uh, I'm not really looking for personal trophies, I want championships.

A quick question Big cat, uh, do you know anything about the recent history of, uh, of people who win the MVP and that translating to playoff success?

So let me see off the top of my head. Yoke just won the last two and the Nuggets gone far not have any titles. Nope, that's true, they do not have any titles.

Would think, interesting, Okay, I just didn't know, so I know that you're a historian of the game.

So I figured I'd ask you that question. Yeah, yeah, good question. I will say the uh.

He had Kobe, what third? I think it was him, then LeBron, then Kobe.

The top replies in 2014 was like, Kobe's not going to be breathing. Then everyone today was like, What the fuck, dude, Oh, it's crazy. It was like the it was like the top reply from 2014..

Is that laker, Dan?

You had your hand raised. Yeah, going back to heat culture, I had to throw it in there, I have a heat culture stat of the day.

Caleb Martin, Max Struess Who else is undrafted? Um Killed Martin?

Yeah, Haywood Highsmith, Maybe that's crazy, that is a crazy stat.

Caleb Martin was undrafted and then also the Panthers won. Oh yeah, congrats to the Panthers.

Panthers look fucking sick 1-0 over the Leafs. Yeah, long series, long series.

First, the Rangers first game one victory since 1997..

Pre-game one crazy Titletown, Titletown, who knew?

The show, the Sixers-Celtics series, might as well be the N.B.A. finals. Yeah, that's true. Good point.

Jake, it's ours, it's our NBA finals. You also said you're going to have all the popcorn, kettle corn.

Let you know, you're absolutely correct, you're absolutely correct. Did you eat? Did you eat? a?

Bag last night. Yeah, you can see the picture. No, I missed it, I can't.

Did you eat? Did you eat the full bag? because you distinctly said that your prediction for this this series was all of the popcorn, kettle, corn? Yeah, did you eat the whole bag?

Disappointed? Yeah, because it's kettle corn, you couldn't finish it exactly exactly.

Yeah, Max, what was your favorite part about beating the Celtics last night? um.

No, last night was it was, it was. It was a night. It was nice to win one as a as Kevin Malone would say, Um, James Harden was a player that I've always wanted to see since he's been on the Sixers and he really came through that step. Back. Three. Was I really blacked out? I kind of lost all control of my mind and just let my body just kind of freak out?

You're getting your finger finger, your butthole fingered. Yeah, and I actually got banned from.

Tick-tock cause it was sexual, sexual exploitation.

I couldn't have cared less, that's how happy I was to see that shot go down. That sounds like it.

Was an awesome time for you, Max. Oh, it was fun. it was fun now, Max, I would also like to say.

Congrats on beating the Celtics and advancing to the Easter. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I.

Mean, Oh, but I mean, you won without him being like we won without him being in that series.

Oh, this is a sweep. Yeah, can you see, I was going to get to this? I will not apologize.

No, no one's asking you to apologize, We're asking you to show more faith. Yeah, we're.

Asking you to accept the the the victor. No, no, no, no, no, I will not apologize you just.

Said, It's nice to win one like Kevin Malone, you got. It was nice. I won a game, I won a big. I mean, that was a very emotional.

You're not getting no wind this series. No, we're not getting I'm not getting swept.

And I mean, that dictated the series. Yeah, if we losing, winning that game without him being kind of sets it up for, okay. This is going to be a battle. Because if you lose that, if you get smoked last night, then all of it's lost. Sweeps it, sweeps in, play hard, and probably if he doesn't play a good game, it's like, all right. Here we go again. It's a Celtic Sixers once again, but now it's, there's a different feeling in the air.

Know, I'm thinking, it's like, it's hard for get words out. Yup, it's just I'm ready for, like, a.

Battle rather than if we got smoked last night, I would have just been down in the dumps, it's like.

Same old Six or South Philly, would you want to say? For those at home, what's the implications?

Of this to the Soul Patch bet, it means it's still possible. It means that. Max Hank, Yeah.

No, I just want to see him come out with the craziest outfits for every, for every game. Yeah, I did say that that was another thing that Big Cat and I were arguing before the game.

You said prime James Harden. I said, prime James Harden, you don't. you don't want Prime James Harden, you want the James Harden you've never seen before.

No prime James Harden is still like, you can still be in your prime in the regular season, like I'm talking about. Like, he was coming out and playing the best James Harden game that James Harden could play. You wanted Michael Jordan Harden.

Yeah, and you got them, you got them. There's prime James Harden, then there's prime ribbed James Harden.

I think B-ball Paul might've like, either done like, like, done something at one of James Harden's favorite strip clubs, or something. Cause he was icing them out to start the game.

Just no pass but b-ball. Paul, what a game, I mean. And then you kept saying that, and then when the game was on the line, who did James Harden go to? who did James Harden go to?

He did, he did. I'd like to award. These were all great performances from all these players, no doubt about it.

To hit a three and he touched a penis, and he touched a penis too, which we have a penis touching problem. In the N.BA. P.J. Tucker, by the way. The Philadelphia 76ers are 17 and six this year when he scores zero points.

He is, he's very vital, he is really, really good at setting screens. He had maybe the maybe the best screen game that I've ever seen at the NBA level. Last night, yeah.

Let's go to your side. Congrats again Max on winning the series. Won a game. Okay, thank you for the game.

And Harden, Next game, they're going to lose by 20, next game. Yeah, Harden's all I said, like.

That watching Harden like he was fantastic because he has a history of not showing up in big moments. That was a like, true. James Harden willed that team to victory 45 points. All I was saying after Max going to test this, we were walking out of the gambling cave.

Before we kick it to Hank, cause I know we want to get his thoughts. I just sidebar big cat. Yeah, Hank's got his phone on, I think he has a statement.

I'm right here, you could just let me speak and find out if I did or not, and we found out I.

Well, you were looking at your phone like you were great. I mean, I just have some stats.

All right, yeah, and then I have, Yeah, give us stats. I mean, again, I can't even speak.

For like, one sentence, I would like to, I have some thoughts.

I think their last points were in late with like 11 minutes left or maybe not, but it was it. It felt like they were like only shot a couple of times down the street.

It was the same as Game Five of the Hawk series, where they weren't up 20.

He needs to go, he needs to get choked out again in the day off, he needs to work on his.

His throat game, yeah, jiu jitsu, so Jason Tatum, I just looked up. His last field goal was 11 minutes left.

It was the end of the game, they rounded a two, it was it was passive, they were playing super.

Super passively, that would be what I'm saying, that's exactly what I'm saying, but that might.

Have been a coaching strategy? I don't, I don't know what, I don't know. They play the same way they did it at Atlanta game five. Hopefully going forward when they get leads, they'll just. It's like they changed their game plan. Jimmy Butler's heart in Jason Tatum's body is the.

Best player in the N.B.A. I was about to say, let's have a dog off real quick. Jason Tatum.

What did I just say? I said? Jimmy Butler's heart in Jason Tatum's body. What happened at the end?

Of that, he came to catch. Jason Tatum was a fucking monster when they tried to draw up a.

Play that was not going to Jimmy Butler, and Jimmy Butler said to his coach. No, I'm a dog, I'm a.

They need to have a dog transplant. I don't think so. I think I think that's an overreaction.

Skip Bayless. No, I'm just I'm simply asking questions, I'm not even making a take. I asked, Do you think Jason Tatum has enough dog in him? Yeah.

Been to, like, Eastern Conference finals in the finals. He's 24 years old. No, I'm just saying, like, loser talk, wow.

So did he not have that dog in him? He played in in college, he won a champion. actually, No, he was 18, cause he won a championship in college.

Okay, but that would be dog. Jason Tatum went and went to go to college again, so he must've.

Won a championship? No, he didn't. Oh, I think they lost to South Carolina in the second round.

That year.

No, Marcus Smart has like an unleashed pit bull in him again, is like, but. But Jason Tatum is a better, better dog. You guys are, you guys are trying to cause controversy. No, the fact that.

You're the fact that you're, you're so like, Listen, I was asking a simple question, and I.

Answered the dog? You didn't really answer you, just you answered by accusing us of being.

Say Jimmy Butler's been than Jason Tatum, yeah, or Jayden Tatum better than Jimmy Butler, okay.

But does he have the dog they had? They played head to head recently in the playoffs, Uh, this season, no, what about last year?

Yeah, what? Who won the Celtics? So that was Jason. I'm just asking a question, don't like?

Listen, I believe, if I remember correctly, it was the end of the game. I think it was, uh, Jimmy Butler was guarding. Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum was a one-on-one, had a step back jumper in.

His face to ice the game. Okay, that's dog. Listen, Jason Tatum. like, that was a game, though, or it's like, Where's Jason Tatum in this fourth quarter?

You guys are being prisoners of the moment right now. Because, yeah, obviously, because that's what.

We are, we're dumb, yeah, so we saw that game. I think the Celts are going to kill them.

So now everything that we saw from that game last night means the world to us right now, until the next game happens, where we'll overreact the other way.

You think they're worse with Embiid?

I think that Embiid coming back at not a hundred percent will discombobulate them. I think it helps. I think similar thing with, Uh, Murray was out for the Hawks. Trey Young It's like he knows he has to be the guy.

When you don't know who's the alpha.

When one? But if Jay, if Jaylen Brown has 35 points and Jason Tatum only has 20. Like, you probably should be running it through him. But it gets weird at the end of games. I think if Embiid comes back, it's going to discombobulate them enough for the Celtics to win.

So Max, what's your take on that? Are the Sixers better off without Joel Embiid?

They are 15 and six this year without Joel Embiid.

They also had a million. The fact that they didn't win that game last night was disgusting. They had a hundred layups, the Sixers didn't play defense.

No, the first, the first half was a layup line.

The Celtics is not like, they are a worse team than last year and the only difference is the coach.

The Celtics didn't play bad last night.

They did not play good defense.

No, Hank had insult stats to himself.

Yeah, they did not play good, the Sixers just played bad defense.

And James Harden was the best player on the court.

We should mention Tyrese Maxey was awesome. That, you know, I know that Brogdon threw him the ball, which was like crazy, but that was a shot clock violation. Like they were playing great defense.

Maxey stole the ball, it was a great call.

Yeah, it was Kevin. Was it Kevin Harlan?

Yeah, I believe so, yeah, Maxey, Maxey does take a lot of shots, a lot of threes off the dribble. Where it seems like his momentum just carries him. As he's shooting and he hits, he misses back iron a lot when he's also coming around the edge.

He's also always smiling, he always, like, has like an inside joke in his head. Yeah, I kind of liked that out of a player. So Hank, how are you feeling for Wednesday night?

I alluded to this on Sunday, but the Bruins losing has has really ruined my entire just vibe, like I don't feel I am. We're down in the series, let's just tie it up and then we'll go game three and then we'll go game four.

You actually, like, you took the Bruins loss harder than I thought, because I someone was like, why didn't you? I wanted you to make him cry. I was like, No, no, you can't make him cry about the Bruins. You got to wait for the Celtics, then he'll cry, yeah.

You know Boston and the City as a whole. And just being the best team in NHL history. And losing in the first round is something that's never going to go away. And that sucks. And that being the probably the last season of Bergeron, like Bergeron again. I'm not a Diehard Bruins fan, but I am in the playoffs, every playoffs. The last 20 years, Bergeron has been the guy.

Seven when they're up, three, one also your bruins. The loss around them had to do with the fact that you also see that loss as just being, oh shit, now I only have the Celtics, that's all.

That's left right, but maybe it's not going to be watching the Bruins tonight, we should be.

That's, that's what I'm saying. It's just sad, it's sad. In the group chats, my my, my group chats are mostly hockey fans and less basketball fans. So it's like, that's things have gotten.

So let's play, whose line is it anyway? Game Two, 8.00 p.m. Celtics Sixers, Celtics at home again.

I want to say Celtics minus, well, we don't know if it beats playing again. I'd say 10 again, nine and a half, nine and a half, yeah, would you say it's must win?

Yeah, go ahead, hank, no, you go down to, oh, two, oh my god. no, I yeah.

You guys have lost what three straight home games, I think it's four or straight home I want?

To say that only lost two Hawks, but the Bruins lost. Oh okay, Bruins lost Celtics. Oh, I didn't.

Know, when you said that to me, I thought you were talking about the Celtics, I didn't know.

You were doing cross, Oh the garden, and TD Garden is cursed. That's not on four, yeah.

It's not good. No, what do you say, Max? Uh? Saying that Joellen Bead not playing is better is absolutely insane when you saw the amount of wide open layups that we always.

Because there is, we always know, but James Harden, not a room. You shot 90 of the first half.

Because there was nobody at the rim and you still lost. Like that. Or fiction. We usually win when Embiid plays, that doesn't mean anything.

So you want, you want embiid, or want to be, uh, yeah, you guys both want it, you guys both want to be equally as bad. Someone's very wrong right now, yeah.

To look like an idiot. Everything I've ever wanted in a series where I have nothing to like. I have no real interest. I could, just. I was saying it to PFT earlier, like whoever loses, we can just make fun of.

I think it's going to be a great series, like I don't like the Celtics are very good at losing.

I love Smarmy pissed off Hank. Right now, we're like, he's throwing everything back in our faces and he's just being a sour puss. But then I also love when Max loses because he just he gets, he ties himself up into a little red knot, yeah.

Everything's fine, everything's fine. Yeah, obviously I wish that we had had better cleats. No, no, no, no.

Stop Jokic, they, and when they try to single, when they put just Aiden on him. He can get around him in so many different ways, and I feel like Jokic has taken over. Um, you remember Dirk Nowitzki used to score the most unathletic looking baskets of all time, like he'd be falling down.

Yeah, like if he's shooting close, he won't jump and it will, and his touch is so good. Where it's just you get it on the rim, it will roll in. I just. The Nuggets are just very much, they're so much better than the Suns, and I know that. Again, this could all turn because it's playoff basketball. Recency buys everything but just watching the game and watching the Suns. They have to basically have Kevin Durant and Devin Booker both have, like, career nights.

Could do they could. I think that they'll get a couple, I still, I'm staying my prediction, Nugs and six. I think that Katie and Booker are going to have a couple of those games where they just go nuclear on everybody.

They don't just watching the game, like the Nuggets have so many more answers, and the Suns just they, they can't. They have to play perfect and they, they. They haven't played even close to this game for the majority of the game. And then Chris Paul again, like we said, I mean, we. I do kind of feel bad because you'd want to see guys play. But it's also like, this is his age.

This is his, this is his history. Yeah, you see, Rosillo's kind of. He's starting to step off the Chris Paul bandwagon, but he's doing it in a very smart way of being. Like, you know what if the Nuggets win this series? It just means that people that don't pay attention to basketball as much as I do. We'll finally start to realize how great Jokic is at the sport. So it's like he's turning the game of basketball by having Chris Paul losing the series. So correct to.

A little bit off of the take, yeah, and he keeps saying he also was like, Yeah, well, when he was.

Good, he knows, he knows it's over. Yeah, he knows it's over. I do think, Hank, you might be able to help out on this. But given your your deep ties to Taco Bell, I think that Taco Bell should bring back the Quesarito. If Jokic wins, the chip agreed.

That's the funniest jockey ever. Jockey's supposed to be short. Uh, yeah, they are.

Not supposed to they are. Yeah, he used to be a jockey, which that that poor horse, um, but then he had to stop being a jockey. Because obviously he's a. He's a giant. But that horse must've been just sick of his life having Jokic try to ride him.

Like, this is easy. Yeah, this is, I can go a million miles an hour. Um, yeah, I, I. The Nuggets have impressed me greatly. They're fucking really, really good.

Watch Um, N.B.A. playoffs in general have been awesome. Yeah, it's been so much fun. And uh the uh, there was a stat.

Probably the best second round series basketball history. Yeah, yeah, yeah, um.

All across the board. Series Yeah, uh okay, let's do hot sequel thrown. Then we got Keith Yandel on the show.

Is television? I thought it was going to be you. I hank. I had TV on the hot seat, too, it was my cool throne. Oh, embrace debate.

Unbelievable. I think the same thing happened with Friday night lights, right Friday night lights.

Office season four was shorter. Lost. Uh, that all fell apart, I guess, during the writer's strike, uh, James Bond movie, basically. Daniel Craig. They have people that rewrite, and, you know, write the like, work on the script, on set and and, and you know, touch it up and make it good. They had a rough draft of a script before the writer's strike.

In a breaking bad, yeah, that's true. Um, also the script writers for the N.FL that year. That's when they might've turned in their best storyline, though, cause that was a 16 and 0. Patriots, yeah.

The next year, I don't want to see you down this bad. The thing is crazy is is like, you're right. That the hockey has stuck with me more than even I thought it would, even watching other hockey like, I don't, you just can't. The flowers don't smell as sweet, no?

Sad I agree with Hank. It is tough being a Boston sports fan. Yeah, people like.

It's been over a thousand days since we've won a championship. What, how many?

How long has it been since you had a parade over a Thousand Days 2019? Oh my God, that's.

Forever pre-Covid, basically a new world. Covid ruined Boston Sports, some people are saying.

Tonight, my backpack is just filled with shorts right now. Yeah, I'm not going to eat dinner, I'm worried.

Inside the Met Gala, I asked this on the stream last night PFT, Do you think that there was one single person in the Met Gala that had the Rangers game or Celtics Sixers game on their phone?

Watching Yeah, I think Jared Leto, I think he's a massive cat. He had it on the like on the front of where his eyes would be.

He was, Is he a sports guy or does he just go to sports games? Oh wow, casual calling him out.

Cause it sucks every other time, and then you don't even like Yankees games anymore, cause it's.

Too short? Well, I still go. The Met Gala is just a great reminder of how old you get every single year. Like I think I was at, I was batting about 10 of celebrities that I recognized on the timeline. It's like, Oh, this woman is in episode three of this new cable TV show that I have never heard of.

She did, she looked great and a cockroach broke in. Yeah, yeah.

What is that? I thought that was Pete Davidson. Yeah, cockroach, um, my cool throne.

Belichick's back Yeah, Belichick is all the way back, by the way. Uh, speaking of trading up and down, I saw a stat.

Belichick did that move and and sent a great offensive lineman to a rival AFC team. Because.

That's how much he hates the jets. Yeah, uh, here's the stat. Dating back to 2007, the Saints have traded up 24 times without ever trading down. That doesn't make sense.

I mean, he, on any circumstances, I would never say never, and you know what I'm now? I'm hoping for some like Nightmare scenario where they have to bring Dylan Brooks back.

That's a crazy statement under any circumstances. I mean, you know, no one's really had a way. I really do think he might've played himself like out of the N.B.A. he talked himself out of the N.BA.

He's Canadian, right? I believe so. Is he the biggest asshole Canadian of all time? Cause there's not a lot to choose from. He's from Canada.

Canada Geese Easy number one, easy number one, and then.

I'm going to go. Dylan Brooks, number two biggest assholes from Canada.

Yeah, I mean, he's gotta be, I don't. Canadians are always nice. Yep, I just looked up. Top 10 Canadians Avril Lavigne Nickelback, William Shatner, Robin Thicke, Sinead Grimes, Justin Bieber, Rob Ford. I mean, Justin Bieber, I get Justin Bieber for a moment.

That list, it's disgusting. No, no top 10 Canadians. Oh, 10 top 10 like best Canadians.

Just the best. Okay, yeah, okay, good.

Old I actually think he's adjusted pretty well. Yeah, we're actually the assholes in this.

Situation right? Um, my cool throne was going to be the Met Gala, so I will pass my cool Throne's nice shorts.

So, uh, he owned an AFL team, the Albany Empire, and he had 95 ownership, and since he owned it, none of the players or coaches had been paid. He's definitely just forgot, so yeah, yeah.

Own teams, right? because you get paid team owners. No, you, you own teams because you make a fuckload of money. Because you get to sell jerseys and you get to sell tickets. Well, no.

And you're missing the big one. You get to sell the team. Yeah, later you get to sell the team.

Even if you run it into the ground and take a leak all over its ashes, then you get like.

700 of what you paid for it. Yeah, okay, so Antonio Brown? If you're listening to this right now, I noted Awl, please remember to open your mail and also come on the podcast, Yeah.

My cool throne is Black Mirror. Not only it's coming back, but if you guys watch the episode Metal Head, uh, that's actually happening in real life. Which one's that? Uh, the one where they have the Boston dynamics, dog chasing people because they just put a chat GBT AI into a Boston.

Robot Chad GBT, Cheap PT, cheap PT Yes, three, cheap PT chat.

Boston Dynamics, robots, brains. And now they can do whatever they want and think for themselves. They gave them AI. I still think that we got less than a year left. Yeah, yeah.

Cooked? It's all going to go south. I think actually the writers strike like there's a clause in there about future AI scripts. Yeah, I want to defend against.

That's coming to the Boston Dynamics thing and we've definitely talked about on the show, and it's definitely a little bit sensationalist to me. But since Boston Dynamics has existed, every time they put out a video, everyone's like, This is a bad idea, This is a bad idea. Yeah, this is a bad idea.

Like, that was a bad idea, that was a bad idea. Yeah, they also, uh, they, they'll do, like the random ones. Remember that dog that slipped on a banana peel to be like, Hey, look?

Banana peel can take down a robot well. Did you see the NYPD one? No, Yeah, they had NYPD.

Boston Dynamics Robot dog Yep, well, the good news is, maybe Boston Dynamics is off like everyone expects them to just take over and run the table and everybody. Maybe Boston Dynamics will choke right now and they won't be able to take over and dominate as his recent history.

Are you cool, though? That was your culture.

Himself to win by like 50.

To be fingering Buttholes after one win, but but hank you if you win by one point tonight.

You're going to be happy. Yeah. It's the reason why Hank is down so bad, too, is he's never, in his brain, even envisioned a scenario where the Sixers could win this series. That's a fact.

As much as like, I just fucking hate Philly fans so much. They're so insufferable. I cannot let them have this over me and they will really have it. Oh, I mean, my, I'd like, you know, you can't even read your DMS right now.

Being Tiger's caddy, he and his caddy, Joe Lacava, have split on to Patrick Cantlay. So that's not retiring, Tiger's not retiring. But well, yeah, I mean, he caddies twice a year, I would assume.

To bring back fluff, Yeah, remember Fluff, he's the best caddy of all time. He used to smoke cigarettes on the course, and he would use the smoke to determine which way the wind was blowing.

Yeah, this does mean Tiger's basically done, he's not retiring. Yeah, but if you say you're Caddy, you're basically like, Hey, Caddy, I can't pay you.

We're not going to play right. Go caddy, someone else. Yeah, I mean, like, having your caddy leave.

To Are you a cool throne? My cool throne is football fans, so all of us, uh. College Football playoff announced today. 2024 and 2025 college football playoff semifinals will be played on Thursday and Friday at Super Wild Card Weekend. I love that.

That, that's awesome. But starting 2024 playoff game on a Thursday rules five straight days of.

Playoffs and we still have the Bowl games, that's awesome, so they're not going to be back to back.

Anymore. It's going to have one one game that's awesome you're going to when we get to that.

Moment put a note in When January 2024? When he's like, Holy shit, this is the fucking best five.

Remember that time you said, No, oh, no, no, no, what I'm talking about? Like for me? For us, this is going to be incredible. It's going to be amazing, but a lot of people have to wake up and go to work on Friday.

Awesome, that is good. On Saturday, there's games on Sunday and Monday, all playoffs, a lot of.

People are going to be upset about it, everyone loves it, everyone on Twitter loves it. What?

About the championship, It's still Monday night. Uh, okay, let's get to an awesome interview with.

We're going to get to Keith Yandel in a second, but before we do, he's brought to you by ZIP. RECRUITer When it comes to scoring great hires for your business, you might be up against some obstacles. Maybe there's lots of applicants, but difficulty finding the right ones for your job. Or you're finding time to hire while running your business, plus you're trying to ensure workplace safety. That's why you need ZIP Recruiter on your team.

Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He's hockey's Ironman. I think we can still call you Ironman, right? Like, even though, well, let's get into it, but it is. Keith Yandle, a longtime NHL pro great guy, retired on Spittin Chicklets last year.

Ironman, why can't we call you that?

I think we should still call you Ironman. It's like being president, you're still called Mr. President even after you're out of office. If you hold a title at one point, you are the Ironman.

No, I never played overseas.

Well, you answered my question because I was going to say who would be the better roommate to stay with if you were going on a road trip. It sounds like Biz then, by a mile.

Yeah, not even close, because the last thing you want is your toilet clogged on the road, like a four-day road trip. Biz was never my roommate, but we used to have late nights in my room and Biz would come in. He might take a sleeping pill or two and fall asleep at the edge of my bed. We would roll him up in a cocoon and bring him out into the hallway, he'd be butt naked and be three in the morning.

He did that on this couch one time, actually, and just passed out.

He's a narcoleptic.

I think he did two streams over the course of four days and a podcast, so you can imagine that that takes it out of you.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, I love calling someone a crumpler, that's a great-.

When it's actually two-ply, but in the true sense of the term.

He's a crumpler. Go ahead.

I was going to say, my family. Growing up, we were a one-ply family. We couldn't afford the good stuff and he was still clogging it with that.

That's hard to do, that takes a lot of work. That's a real crumpler. Speaking of those guys and you yourself, we always have found interviewing hockey guys for some reason, they are probably the best on the mic, best in interviews. Compared to other sports. Not that other sports aren't great, but what is it about hockey, guys?

Yeah, I think the big thing about hockey players is none of us, I'd say 98 of us don't take ourselves too serious. You can shit on each other, you can take it. Because one of the best advice I got early in my career was, if you can't take a joke, you become a joke.

I think you guys should get paid more. I'm just saying it is like, like, we have baseball players, sometimes they're not the best interviews, they get paid. It's like, I don't know what it is.