Will Compton, Panthers Win The Cup Plus A Drunk Ending Of The Show Live From Beer Games
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For the beer Games, that's right. So we have surprised the boys we're going to have Will Compton on the show. We actually taped it a week ago.
We talk about everything that fell apart and then came back together. We also are doing a bonus extra concussion test, where we were given some clues in our interview with Will last week. And we're going to tape the end of the show after the beer game so you get some drunk. Pardon my take today.
We're going to talk about the Stanley Cup final, we're going to do some Hot seat, Cool throne. And then we have the Mount Rushmore. Of things you say to your boys drunk, which we will do drunk. So who knows how that's going to go?
I plan on being very drunk for this.
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Get that big fight feel only on draftkings, draftkings. The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, June 26th, and the Florida Panthers are Stanley Cup.
Champions and Conor McDavid cannot win the big one. That part is unfortunately true, unless you.
Count the Con Smythe Trophy as the big one. But the Panthers did it. They stopped what would have been the most embarrassing Stanley Cup final ever because we've had the 3-0.
Teams lose in the hockey playoffs. Obviously it's happened in baseball, but never in the actual.
Final? I think it didn't happen in 1942. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, it was pre-war, and it was the Toronto Maple Leafs that did it. Yeah, your boy Hitler was still alive.
Yeah, he had one good idea, which was to kill Hitler. Yes, that's true, we can agree on that, but yeah, this would have been. They stole history from us. That's kind of how I look at this.
Like, congrats to the Panthers, you earned it, you were the better team over the course of seven games. However, I'm mourning the lack of history that was made last night. It did feel I was rooting for.
The Oilers. I wanted to see Conor McDavid get his big moment, it felt like it was all working perfectly. You have those times in sports where it's like, you know the whole cliche, like, if you gave this script, everyone would throw it out in Hollywood. That's what it felt like if Conor McDavid had a game-winning goal at the end of the third period or in overtime.
But what the Panthers did is they played great defensive hockey and Bob was awesome again and it was an awesome, awesome game. That six-minute stretch, where there was no whistle in the second period, was so much fun to watch, and it ended with a Panthers goal. That was basically the game, that was the game in terms of game-winning goal.
But that was the game in the fact that the Oilers had really good chances, the Panthers had really good chances. There was no whistle, they were going back and forth. And it was essentially, whoever can get a goal out of this period is going to win this game.
And that's what happened. Yeah, that was a crazy six-minute.
Period, and I think that the game overall, I don't think, was that enjoyable for anybody watching.
It because it's so stressful. Oh, I enjoyed it because I had no real like, I had no big bet, I had no rooting interest, I enjoyed the hell out of it. You know what I'm saying, though?
Like?
Game sevens In hockey, it's just all anxiety all the time. Like both teams, Buttholes are puckered up all the fan base. They're just terrified of something bad happening.
And when you watch that, you can even feel that. At least for me as a neutral party that didn't have a bet on either team. That was just. I was kind of rooting for history, and that's pretty much it I was, too. I was still feeling like it was. It was fun because it was sports and it was game seven. It was a big moment, but the entire time you feel uneasy watching that.
Yeah, but I oh.
I enjoyed watching every second of it, I thought it was just awesome, every chance the Oilers that that one chance that McDavid had. Like, maybe six minutes left, where he, where he he got the puck poked from him, it just, yeah, it was great, it was great.
I love Game Sevens and yeah, I know what you're saying, but I just as someone who didn't. I wasn't going to sleep different on, like, if the Oilers won or the Panthers won, it wasn't going to change my life.
I had maximum enjoyment of that game, I liked it because it was Game seven and it meant a lot. And you could tell that every moment on the ice, like it was an entire, like, three hours of big moments, one right after the other. And I think the Panthers fans, if you were to ask them, how did you feel watching Game seven? they probably hated Game Seven.
They probably hated that was probably. You never want to go back and think about any of that again. You're going to watch the final minute and you're going to watch, you know, the celebration afterwards, and you're going to feel great about it. But that entire game could not have been comfortable because the entire time it was like, Are we going to be the biggest choke artist in history?
And not only that, but it felt like the last 10 15 minutes of the game was just the Oilers in the panther zone getting chance after chance after chance. And then they finally ran out of gas. It was kind of crazy actually watching the end when they pulled a goalie and the Oilers like, I think McDavid fell down in the middle of the ice. Uh, someone else had an errant pass. They actually ran out of gas with like a minute left and couldn't even really.
Muster up one final shot. So, as a hockey guy and a sabermetrics guy, I think we can all agree that the goalie should have been pulled with like six minutes left in the period. Yeah, maybe not six, I think they just four and a half. I think you pull the goalie super early, yeah.
I feel like, uh, I don't know it. Just at the end of the game, they didn't get that guy out of there until, like.
A minute, 45, two minutes left. Well, they got screwed by a couple, they lost a face off and then they turned it over. And it was like they just never got the the correct setup to get them off. I do think they should've got them off earlier, I don't know. Six and a half minutes.
Would be a lot. Well, I'm joking about six and a half, but it should, it should definitely be more than one minute, 45 seconds, three and a half, four minutes. Yeah, so I think a lot of teams, they wait and they, like, the clock strikes two and they're like, Okay, now we can pull the goalie because that's what we've seen other teams do. But in that situation, if you don't win right, then what are you doing out there?
You might as well just go for it, right? And you.
Just need as many shots as you can get, and they never really got set up for that last big shot.
Uh, I did not realize how much I liked Paul Maurice until after the game and his interviews that he was doing. And then I went back and I watched a bunch of his press conferences from earlier this season. Yup, that guy, that's, that's central casting hockey coach right there. I appreciate the hell out of that guy, that I love him.
I also love Brody the dog. Did you guys see Brody the dog? Brody the dog was sitting ringside front row, a giant, shaggy ass dog. You got to check out Brody the dog. He's that dude.
I think that's his name, I don't know, but he's, he's an influencer. Brody the dog Dog is the only fans. I think they call him Brody, that dude, okay?
Brody the dog Yeah, uh. Also shout out Evan Rodriguez. What are you laughing about, Hank?
Just, oh, not talking to the mic. We are in a hotel in Nashville, by the way, we're in a secret covert operation, no one knows we're here. Uh, that felt to that in a second.
That felt like a personal shot for me and Mr. Hank. Yeah, you were snickering at him. Yeah, you were you both.
Oh, no, I mean, just blaming Max, he just pointed at Max, I just.
Shane, Just Shane, just sitting in the corner. I didn't say something, I just pointed to Hank.
To talk to the mic, Shane ordered a ribeye for breakfast.
Then he spat on it before he ate it.
He always spits on his ribeyes, Uh, are we Brody the dude? Brody that dude? Brody that dude? I think if you just look up, Brody the dog?
I did look up Brody the dog. I can't find Brody the dog. Uh, what I was going to say is shout out. Evan Rodriguez, Uh, being the first Evan on the Stanley Cup, yeah, so, um, we might know an Evan, but we're not going to say who it is because we don't.
Want to ruin the illusion for anyone, right? We might know a guy that's really good at picking the lottery ball, right? He's not quite as his years. A lot, yeah.
He's not always operating on a hundred, but he's operating really, really close to a hundred. Correct? Brody? I can you pull it?
Up, I'm looking Brody the dog, I mean, Twitter. If you search for Brody the dog on Twitter, you're just going to. You're going to see someone, uh, you know, get hit by a train.
Yeah, so are you looking for a cute dog? Well, here's a Russian soldier getting shot in the head.
Here's an FPV drone attack. Brody, the dog, and then his owner is what is his owner like? a?
Bodybuilder I don't care about the owner, I just I'm obsessed with Brody the dog. Okay, I like Brody, the dog sitting front row.
Imagine being city, imagine having seats behind.
Brody The dog Do you think so? the dog influencers careful? What? Oh, I like this great.
But do you? How often do you think there is? I'm trying to use my words carefully here? How often do you think there is? Um, how often do you think fucking happens? Between two dog owners or a dog owner with that Instagram, uh handle of their dog? Uses the DMS? Yes, that definitely.
Happens all the time. Yes, yes, like if you're well, not all the time, the dog not all the time.
Is that not weird? Do you not sit back and say, Hey, I just I met this chick, we hooked up, we had a great time, we had sex.
Oh, how did you guys meet? She slid into my golden doodles. DMS I think that definitely happens a lot. Yeah, but is that not? is there? Do you tell that story?
If you get married to this, how did how we met? Story? She thought my dog was cute. I think that's how you say it. It's, I mean, it's no different than going to the dog park, taking your dog out on a walk and someone comes up, Hey, can I pet your dog? yeah.
You want to fuck? Yeah, that's.
Actually, a good point it is. It's the same thing, it's just it's just taking it to the.
New age, it's online, it's it does feel a little scummy. Because you. You're using pictures of your dog and then at some point, she might be sexting with an avatar of your dog back to her.
Do you?
Think you start the sexting off in your dog voice because you have to leave the illusion that the.
Dog is typing, Right, Yeah, you gotta be like, Oh, I got this bone, I got to bury, yeah.
Right?
Oh yeah, so that definitely. Thanks for hitting up Brody, the dog he's got, he's got a red rocket.
He wants to put in your mouth. Yeah, the the, the the the paw emoji, paw emoji. I also think that probably a lot of times, two separate dog influencers, parents, they start talking to each other back and forth. As as the dogs as both play dates, they they, they DM as the dogs, in character as the dogs. And then at some point be like, Uh, are you talking to me?
You're talking.
To dog Right, Yeah, right. And again, this is not, this is not about Ms. Peaches Day, because Dave is famous in his own right.
I'm talking about like the people who have no fame but their.
Dog has insane fame. you definitely use that dog, right? A hundred percent. It's just a regular.
Person Then all of a sudden your dog has 2 million followers, yeah, and we're hitting that up you, you have a thousand. No one knows who you are.
They know who your dog is, and then you.
Start to think that you're famous because people know your dog, right? Wow, yeah, okay.
I never thought about it. I would actually like to have a dog influencer on the show.
Yeah, we should. Uh, by the way, this all counts as Stanley Cup recap. Yeah, anyone who? I mean, it was? It was a great hockey. This all is part of the Stanley Cup recap.
So when you say, Oh, you only talked about the Stanley Cup for two minutes, No, no, no, this counts. It was a great.
Dog with great seats. It was a great time. So you want to have an interesting debate. Yeah, Connor McDavid, kind of a dick move not accepting the trophy.
Oh, I like it, I think it's a dick.
Move to give him the trophy. Yes, you should, just you should be allowed to, like, take yourself out of the conversation, yeah.
You should get I lost, I don't want to preemptively decline it.
Yeah, I, I've. I've seen people having the discourse out there about whether or not he's. Uh, unclassy for not going out on the ice to accept the trophy one, uh, being unclassy to the league to being unclassy to the fans that traveled from Edmonton. I think that at that point, if you're Connor McDavid like, fuck all that, just go go cry in the locker room and do whatever. It's kind of fucked up to expect a guy to go back out there on the ice and be like, Thank you for this prestigious award. Right after the biggest soul crushing moment in my life.
There's that is a true no win situation. Yeah, if he stays and accepts that trophy, everyone will make fun of him and say, what a loser, you won't. You actually, like, you know, held up that trophy after losing the Stanley Cup.
Yeah, I have no problem with him not accepting it. Uh, why would you want to accept it? It's cool that he won it, he was the best player in these playoffs.
He broke all these records, but fuck off on giving me that trophy after I just had my guts ripped out. Uh, and was on the brink of a historical, historical comeback yet. No, I have no problem with it. Um, I, I didn't realize, so obviously I know the Stanley Cup stays in Toronto. um, I didn't realize.
The Conspired does as well. I like the fact that you just don't get any of these trophies in the NHL. Yeah, that's, that's weird, so you don't get a moment with it.
You get a moment with it, but then you have to give it back because you don't get to take it back to trophies. Cause I was joking, like, if I, if it was like the NBA MVP or Super Bowl MVP, they get the actual trophy. If you won that as the losing team. I would sell that in auction so fast and just hope that the cash I got back filled the void of the loss in.
My heart, which it wouldn't, but it would try. You certainly can't be proud of that trophy, you can't display it. No, imagine having that in your house.
No, and they're like.
Conspired winner, congratulations The only way, the only way that that Conspired trophy becomes cool. For Conor McDavid is if he ends up winning like four or five cups. And he wins like any wins. The conspired in all of those cops, and then it becomes a fun little trivia like Conor, McDavid has five Stanley Cups and six Conspired.
That's cool, yeah, I would say other.
Than that, it's not going to be a cool trophy. I would say. It's probably the meanest gift you.
Can give to somebody. Yeah, yeah, Gary Betman, did you see? He tried? He tried so hard to, kind of he knew how awkward the moment was. So he instead of just saying, the conspired trophy goes to Conor McDavid. Uh, he was like, And this player broke all types of records.
These playoffs, he broke Wayne Gretzky's assist record. Like, almost, almost, almost, like a Mount Rushmore pick. Being like, this is why I'm picking it. yeah, this is why it's a good pick.
I you can't give that award to him. No, it feels very mean, it feels very mean, and.
Pointed Just give it to Bob I and look Conor McDavid. The back-to-back four point games were insane. He was not he in. It's a team sport.
Uh, but he did not have his big moment in the last. I don't know, five periods of this series, six periods, six years, I would say, with a puck on.
A stick with empty net, right? Yeah, I would say it would be. It would be better to not give him the trophy than it would be to give him the trophy. Because if you don't give him the trophy, then, you know, everyone's always going to say that was a great series, but you know what?
Conor McDavid should have gotten the conspired trophy. And so it becomes a positive as opposed to like, Yeah, he got it, but he lost the Stanley Cup. Yeah, it sucks, sucks for those.
But great for the Panthers, um, throwing rats on the ice, Uh, I, you know, it's. The Panthers are one of the not most shit on fan bases, but they've got to be at the bottom of, uh, respect. But there are some diehard Panthers fans. It's kind of like when when the Blackhawks played the Kings in 2015, I want to say. And I went out to L.A. and I got, like, mingling with some of the Kings fans, I realized there was some really, really cool, very diehard Kings fans.
And that's a fan base that gets shit on as well. You know, warm weather, climate, all that stuff. I think Florida is probably the similar where it's like, you know, it's probably it's not the most popular sport in in South Florida. But there are definitely some fans that have been along the rut for the ride for the entirety of this franchise existence.
And then through some really shitty days, and this is a really cool, you know? Being able to stop the most embarrassing loss in Stanley Cup final history is both satisfying and probably the most bid, the biggest relief you can possibly.
Yeah, shout out Brooks. Definitely super happy. Yeah. If you're a diehard Panthers fan and you've gone to games over the years where you've stunk, your team has been bad.
You're in South Florida, nobody cares about hockey except for you. You've gone through losing seasons, you're more battle.
Tested than most fan bases out there, and it's, it's, it's specific to, I think hockey, more than anything like the warm weather hockey, uh, fan bases are always going to be up against it. You know, there's nothing that they can really do to convince the rest of the hockey community that they are actually diehards. Just by the fact that they're warm weather climates.
Um, you have to go to games wearing sweaters in the 99 degree weather, right?
Right, that's hardcore shit, right? And and they're, they're, uh, arenas in a mall, I think. Sunrise versus Sunrise, Florida. The UM and and Jake Jake missed it by two shows. To be to be on the list of, uh, people who have championships and it would have left only.
Max We can give this to Jake. Yeah, no, Jake was on part of my take for the Stanley Cup finals.
Just not the last couple of days. So Jake finishes it off that everyone, uh, who's been on part of my take has won some type of championship. Yeah, that's pretty cool, so there's a there's a lot.
Of people in my DM saying that I have to leave part of my tape to ever want to change, Oh.
Unfortunately, you can't legally ever leave. Um, look at your contract. You're an indentured servitude to me and PFT for the rest of your life. Good, so, um, yeah, that's non-negotiable, but guess what?
You might win one at some point. Phillies look pretty good. Yeah, Phillies look good, we'll get to that.
Okay, we'll get to that, we'll get to that. Yeah, uh, Corey Perry.
Yeah, unfortunately for Corey Perry, the right winger on the Oilers. He, uh, he lost the Stanley Cup for his fourth time in five years on four different teams. So he was on, he was on the stars, the Canadians, uh, the, uh, Tampa Bay Lightning and Edmonton Oilers. Oh, I'm so sad for Corey Perry, tough for him.
Corey Perry is a fucking scumbag. Why did you not like Corey Perry? I?
Don't know anything about him. Well, I mean, he was on the Black Hawks this year, then there was all rumors, but I hate him from, Uh, when he was on the Ducks. Oh, that's right, I remember.
He's that guy from the Black Hawks, yes, he's a real, but I hated him before he was on the Black.
Hawks in this shit, he's a real motherfucker. I hated him on the Ducks though, cause the ducks in the in the Hawks went after each other a bunch. Also, how about this in the Jake files for?
Whoa, that's wild. Jason Tatum Yeah, Chuck, yeah.
Went to high school together. Yeah, pretty wild.
I don't think that's wild because we've heard about it so much. It's wild. It's like one of the it's, it's lost its wild meter, it's the Stafford, yeah.
But they've been playing that video for like five years, so it's like the wild meters gone. That picture was everywhere last night. Yeah, wouldn't you agree, though?
The wild meter goes down once it to be wild, it has to be one of those things that people didn't really expect or didn't really realize. But they've hit us over the head with it so much that it's Kershaw staff. Yeah, right, yeah, it's not even wild anymore.
I still think Kershaw Stafford's wild. Yeah, I mean, it's not, it's just it's wild.
It's wild. Um, who do you think is the bigger star between those two at their high school? Cause? Chuck, because it's St. Louis, right? Yeah.
Big Hockey Town.
Do you think Chuck's Batman, Tatum's? Or to wear a t-shirt with your own picture on it?
No, yeah, I mean, you guys have. I could find like hundreds of them. Yeah, I have no war.
Perfect is it great? I have no aura. It's a fair point, yeah.
I have no aura.
You didn't. When? did you know what the word or meant? Like, a fucking week ago? No.
No, but now I do, and it's awesome because it triggers you. Yeah, I just know that it makes.
Heck mad.
It's just it's whatever you guys are grasping like as hard as you possibly can for.
Anything, you even said it in your caption that, uh, Jalen Brown went all the way to France and came back for a Red Sox game. You're like, that's maximum aura. Wow, Jason Tatum was in that.
Picture with him. I did not say that. Yeah, you did. no. what did you say?
I did not. What did you say? I said. Jalen went from Boston to Paris, and then Paris back to Boston. That's dedication. Oh, okay.
Huh? Interesting? Under a picture of Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown that the red Sox.
Caption But you didn't, you didn't. You didn't mention Jason Tatum in that picture because you couldn't even see him, because he has no aura. No, my point was just that.
Jalen Brown is dedicated. You can't, you can't even see him. Well, don't worry, Jalen Brown might be running you out of business. We'll get to that.
What? Oh, look at that necklace, we'll get to it. Hot seat, cool Durham, what is it?
Get to it, hot seat, cool Durham, what is it, Hank tell.
Me tell me what it is, I don't know. Hot seat, cool Durham, Okay.
All right, let's just do hot seat cool Durham then. Um, by the way, we are just to set the table we're going to have Will Compton on that we taped last week.
And then at the end of the show, we're going to do, uh, our Mount Rushmore drunk after beer game. So you're seeing the whole evolution of today's, uh, you're basically going on an entire day with us. Because this is, we're taking this eight in the morning in our hotel room. And then we're going to, uh, be taping the end after beer games in Taylor Wands House. So you're going to get to see it all. Uh, hot seat, cool Durham brought to you by our friends at Coors Light. We're gonna drink some Coors light today, that's a fact.
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My hot seat's coffee, mmm, why? Yeah, I do have new Stella Blue flavors. Oh, you just took. you don't have a hot seat, cool throne, so you took.
No, no, no, no, all right I was. I was going to try and plug before I told you how Jalen Brown's going to run. But wait, why? Why wouldn't you put coffee on the cool throne? because it's on the hot seat?
So look up the you see the necklace Jalen Brown's been wearing. Wait, are you going to?
Actually, plug Jalen Brown's coffee company. Does he have one? Well, No, because that's the thing.
It's not coffee, oh, what is it? It's cocaine, it's caffeine in a necklace, what?
Yeah, it's cocaine. That necklace ready? this is, this is the website. I Dave said. Like, when they were walking, I was like, What is that necklace? I was like, I guarantee it's something crazy. Then I looked it up.
It's thousands of dollars. Oh, okay, so we're good.
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Uh, yeah, so basically, you can just wear a necklace and get it caffeine, just that I am going to purchase one of these. This seems like the best idea ever, so it's a necklace that digitally puts caffeine into your bloodstream and melatonin, if you want it. Is it either?
Can you control which is which? Yeah, I would assume, yeah. 25 blends are available to help imitate the natural magnetic.
There's no way you taste them, so why would there be different blends? All right, yeah, it's a fair hot seat. You're right, Hank.
I'm kind of screwed. The best part is that as soon as.
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Someone came up with this. It was like, Well, we'll get at least one guy to buy this, one pro athlete to buy this. All we need that. That probably was the business model. They're like, let's let's create a necklace and say that it digitally inserts caffeine into your body.
And then they said, Well, how are we going to make money? and they're like, Uh, well, did you see? The the new max in the N.B.A. is 300 million. All we need is one guy and they're just kidding him, he's got Jalen Brown.
Good for Jalen Brown.
What's the point of having $300 million if you don't spend it on junk science?
Right, I agree, I agree. It can't hurt, right?
Actually probably could absolutely hurt. yeah, I could destroy your career. 100 hurt, yeah.
I'm in, though, I'm in.
I'm done answering this question. I think if you wear this chain, you have aura.
So I'll just say the word, or you just hate it so much, I don't hate it because Tatum doesn't have.
Any, it's just Max. Yeah, it wouldn't bother him so much if he didn't know that Jason Tatum had.
No, no, like big cat doesn't, even literally doesn't know what the definition of aura is.
If you see it, you can tell you can. You don't have to know the definition, right?
Yeah, that's a fact, is it not? It's subjective, and you're never going to accept the fact that they both have it.
No, I mean, I'm going to continue saying Aura.
He has checked out until he, until he finds out where he got it. I got to buy this necklace.
What if they make a cock ring?
Uh.
Yeah, no, hank, he doesn't. I'm sorry, I'm just being realistic. It doesn't. You're going to keep doing it.
Like, you've already run into the ground and.
No, I'm not running into the ground, it's just eating fat. No, we're shooting it to.
The moon, we have it. No, you definitely won't, and a good thing it doesn't bother you.
No, right, good. Okay, let me ask you this. So it doesn't bother you when Jason Tatum gets to a microphone when he's about to give a speech, are you worried?
Like, Oh, I don't say anything, dumb. No, I would be. This is like the biggest cope I've ever heard. Don't say anything. You guys are like, we can't accept the fact that the Sellers has won the championship.
How do we try and tear them down, how do we try and create division?
It's not tearing them down, it's just stating a fact. I think this way. With Nick Sirianni. Yeah, true, every time.
Every time, no aura, no aura. But if you had a N.BA championship?
You'd be like, kiss the ring bitch, and that's what I'm going to say, Yeah, but that's fine.
But you can. Both of those things can be true, but you can't say kiss the ring, no, but you.
Can't say kiss the ring bitch well at the same time, thinking I wish they would stop talking about it's aura. I don't think that. No, yeah, you do.
I don't care you're thinking that right now, no, I think it's just like, I hate these guys so much. Hank I would love it if my team won a championship. And the biggest gripe was that their star didn't have aura, correct?
That's a great thing, that's a great position to be now, a better position, a better in your mind.
Yeah, a better position to be PFT would be no. I'm saying, in your mind, the gripe is that your favorite player doesn't have aura. I would love that. Who said He's my favorite player?
A better position to be, though, PFT, would be winning a championship and having all your guys.
Have aura that would be great. yeah, it'd be better than having your main guy that you love.
So much not have aura, define aura. I said. If you have to ask, you can't afford it, that's a fact you probably don't know what it means.
Oh, it looks like I gotcha, No, I don't. I don't go ahead and explain it, I don't know, I don't know.
That's the problem, so he, that's the problem, he.
Doesn't know what it looks like he gets his Tom Brady have aura. Uh, no, you, if that's the way you're trying to say it now, yeah, no, he does.
No, no, he definitely, he definitely does have aura. So it's not an anti hank thing. This is just we're calling it. As we see it, we're journalists.
KG has a shitload. Yes, painting your nails Aura? yes.
Good thing you're not upset. Wait, wait, I know what you're doing, Hank. But like, as a. As an innocent bystander, you can't say that. Caleb Williams doesn't have aura. He has so much he's got. if anything, he's got too much aura, right?
You could, you could say that. Would you rather have Aura or a championship? I'd rather.
Have both.
Good answer You didn't see that coming. I'd rather have both, um, all right, that was today's, or I'd rather have it on Friday, where we somehow trick Hank into talking about.
This again, it's not trick. I'm going to, I'm going to speak, I'm going to be like, Hey, today, you know, I woke up and you're like, I'd like to have Championship aura, that's what I'd like.
You say that he doesn't bother you. The biggest lie ever? No, it's just like there's one.
One of those things where it's like, this conversation is going to happen in circles forever, and it's going to. It's just a note. It's like, it is annoying, not that I don't care about you guys acting like Jason Dave doesn't have aura. I just know that every time I speak for the next six months, it's going to be like, Yeah, but just just do the world.
Last week, you've sounded exactly like a guy who doesn't.
You've had a two week suck off on this show. Can we not punch your balls once? Absolutely.
You had better vibes, I need better vibes. We didn't even say that you're competing in the.
Beer Olympics? I'm honored. Uh, speaking of that, people, people need us to bring you back.
Down a little bit. Otherwise, they're going to unsubscribe from the show. Oh, that's already.
Happened? I'm sorry, big cat sidebar. Yeah, I'm just going to think Hank doesn't have aura.
Max, Max Max has big time. It's not great aura, but it's got, he's got it.
Yeah, it's like the kid from fucking peanuts. What are you talking about? Pig pen? Yeah.
The.
Dirty Kid.
No, I think he's talking about Charlie Brown. He misses the Charlie Brown. No, he's.
Talking about Pig pen, yeah, Charlie Brown would have been a better comparison. Kicking the field, Charlie Brown has aura.
He, Uh, no, no, this is, this is like what? It's a classic Twitter meme. It's like there's always people on here trying to claim something that's just not true. Like Charlie Brown had hose low key. No, he did not, yeah.
I think we found more than anything that Hank has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to Aura. Can you send me? Can you send me the link to this necklace? I can't find it anymore.
I'm going to order one though. Okay, um, my cool thrown three beers. Yeah, do you guys see this yesterday?
No, Nick Beans, Yeah, golfer, he's never played a PGA Tour sanctioned event.
He's never played an event bigger than a state Open. So no corn fairies, no, you know, professional nothing. Uh, he was in like a qualifier, just a regular Monday qualifier to get into the rocket mortgage open. He finished his round, I think he was, you know, in contention, but still needed some things to happen.
Drank three beers and then the round ended and he ended up in a playoff and won the playoff. I love that, he said. He said he was like, they're like, how do you think this is going to affect? You know, you had three beers before the playoff? And because it's not an official event, because his round was over, like it's allowed, because like he finishes round, he can do whatever he wants. He drank three beers. They asked him how he felt.
He's like, three beers are going to make me play perfectly. Yes, it's the perfect amount it is.
Forget it. So three beers is like for the people that say, like, I need, you know. You hit a bad shot or you have a couple of bad holes. You're like, I need to drink three beers, which happens to me every round, basically.
It's true the the the four beer rule is what I've always gone by. If you go, if you go to the fourth beer, you basically have to go to 10. Or you like, because four beers, if you have four beers, you're you're signing up for. Maybe not a hangover, but at least feeling a little off in the morning. Anything under four, you can survive and feel fine and still get a.
Little buzz I think three beers is the perfect amount for golfing, especially where it's like, you get the buzz going. You're having a good time, but you don't get that crash afterwards. And I don't think it affects your game, if anything, it makes you more relaxed. Golf, in general, is all about finding the golden ratio of alcohol to nicotine, to whatever other substances you're ingesting on the course. To get to that perfect balance and then just stay at the balance.
Now you never stay at that balance. Because it's actually perfect for a playoff hole because you get one hole to hit that exact right ratio. But if you have to play like a back nine and you hit that three beer level on hole number 11, then you're tinkering with it, then you tinker with it, you experiment with the level three. I forget about zillion beers.
Like three beers.
Should be a brand. Yeah, three beers is great, three beers and a phantom. Actually, we have to drink three beers to start the Beer Games today.
Three beers, perfect out of a boot each of us. That's going to suck, yeah.
I'm going tortoise in the pair mode. Yeah, tortoise in the pair.
They're both tortoises.
So Max, Yeah, we'll go tortoise in the pair mode, who's the tortoise and who's pair? I'm going to go, I'm going to go hair your hair.
You go hair, but he loses his.
Race Yeah, I should read the tortoise in the hair and say, I don't know, man, I still think.
The hair is going to win, I'm going hair in the pair. Yeah, wait, Max, what place did the hair finish in second?
Yeah.
Okay, pft, my hot seat is going to be Hank took one of mine. Okay, my hot seat is going to be Croatia because Croatia lost in the eighth minute of stoppage time.
Wait, which one? I just lied about that tortoise in the pair. I was going to say, because you didn't know about the necklace, and there's no way you knew about the three beers, yeah.
Good catch. Hank Yeah, I was totally, I was totally going with it. I was just like, Yeah, yeah, after I said that, and I remember what Hank's hot seat cool thrown was. And I was like, Which one am I going to lie about having?
Oh, shit, I can't do either one, I guess I'll just fess up to it. You can do, you can do math. No, I actually have some. It was just on the on the wrong tab that I opened up.
So my hot seat is going to be a gay perry. Oh, Paris for the Olympics, did you see about the plan that a bunch of Parisians had to fuck with their government? No, I actually respect this out of the French. So, um, the the president Emmanuel Macron, and I think the Mayor Hidalgo or whatever of Paris. They they were going to jump into the river in Paris to show how clean it was and to promote the Paris Olympics.
So then thousands of French people said, You know what? On this day we're going to do a flash mob down at the river, we're all going to go into the river. And we're going to shit in it. So that the shit gets onto our president and the mayor of the city, which is, which is awesome, I don't. I have no idea what the politics are behind all this. I just think that it rocks to say, we're going to take a shit on a president, yes.
I think that's a very fun thing to do. But then, uh, Macron said that he's not going to get in the river after all, citing like a political concern. So he just didn't want to get shit on him, kind of a pussy move. Oh, to not jump in the river.
Uh, but I stand with the French, I do too, that's awesome.
That's an awesome move to get trying to just, you know, do a quick prank on your.
On your president, take a shit on him, why not we? One day a year, we should all get the shit on the president?
At least throw stones at him. Yeah, do the lottery, yeah, but it's always the president.
Yeah, no, there should be like 10 people that get to slap the president. And you enter a lottery at the end of every year and then they they draw out of the millions of participants, they draw 10 numbers. And then you just get to walk into a room and just power, slap the fuck out of whoever the president is. Yeah, I honestly think, though, that if you.
Smacked Biden It would be like, that show, Uh, is it cake? or? or what? is it cake? or not? Yeah, is it cake?
Yeah, is it cake? yeah, will it cake? You just slap him and it'd just be like.
Wait, why do I have cake all on my hand? And he just melts. Or his head might spin 360 degrees around, like like in the exorcist, and just open his mouth and scream at you, Yeah, uh, my cool is going to be focusing.
Focusing is on the cool throne because J.J. Reddick, new coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. He said that he is no longer in the content game, he's not doing any podcast anymore. He turned his back on the podcast community that built him up to the point that he's at right now. Um, big time, big time backstabbing.
Move on JJ's part, and I would just like to say I think we should ban him from part of my take, JJ's band for part of my day. No, no longer invited on the show, I'd still like him on it.
Unless he decides, if he decides that he can do podcasts again, then he can come back on the show. But until that moment, he's banned from part of my track. Okay, that's fair.
That's fair. Yeah. Um, I mean, I would. Personally, I would never take an N.B.A. head coaching job that banned me from podcasting. Nope, but that's just me.
I guess it shows you where the priorities are once and for all. They're exactly right, exactly. And then in his introductory press conference, he used the f word, he used bad language.
He swore.
And people are angry about that, people are really angry, angry about that. I saw Peter Vesey saying he was upset about it, Frank Isola said. Enough already, with the bleeping profanity in public and the what?
The bleeping excuse me in public and during press conferences, politician, athletes, coaches over the top, disgusting. And JJ would say, I don't really give a fuck. Yeah, um, I did kind of appreciate it.
I liked it also. Rob had one of the worst haircuts ever, which I think was intentional. I'm not Rob Lowe, yeah.
And also everyone talked about my haircut, not talk about the fact that J.J. Reddick's coaching experience is fourth grade.
Yeah, that was a bad graphic that they showed. that was a tough graphic. Fourth grade volunteer.
Fourth grade volunteer. Um, I think JJ will do a good job, I just wish they were a little bit more honest about it and especially LeBron. Um, cause he said that he had, uh, no interaction or discussion, uh, with, uh, JJ during the coaching decisions. He did a four month interview on a.
Podcast with them, they never talked. four month interview, they never talked about getting together. They never talked about basketball philosophy. No, they never talked.
That conversation was all between the proper channels, J.J. Reddick and Rob Polenko. Only how stupid does he think that was a literal interview? Well, what's weird is that it's not tampering. No, it was genius, yeah.
But just say what it was, Yeah, LeBron. You can have conversations with people and be like, I think this guy would be a good coach, right? And then you can make a recommendation during your team's coaching search.
That would be a normal, expected thing to do. I don't understand why he's lying about this, right? Just say, yeah, we decided.
We realized that podcasting is the greatest loophole ever, and we did a podcast about the our philosophies of basketball while doing it. Yeah, it was essentially interviewing.
Him for the job, and then we hired him. Yeah, and it's awesome. I just think that it's sad that, you know, he would know. He was a dad. And also he was a podcaster, and then now he's trying to act like he's not a podcaster anymore. He turned his back on the family.
He used podcasting, Yeah, that's what he used by. It's a stepping stone job. Yes, exactly.
Sad, Uh, it is sad. Um, okay.
My hot seat is Max, Max is on the hot seat. I know why, because Dave Portnoy, our boss, has, uh, decided to make a bet on MLB futures and he put $200,000 on the Philadelphia Phillies. They're a team.
Max Well, let's talk about this for a second. Because I have bet on the Eagles and the Phillies and Nova, and I have. I have jumped in your hole on different sports. There is a big difference between me and Dave in this respect. Yeah, no, because I always will love you, no matter what.
I like, at the end of the day, I like jumping in your hole and being there side by side, like, I genuinely love you. Dave hates you, he detests you as a human being.
Yeah, yeah, I'm aware, so I don't, I'm not I my. When Hank said this before the show started, my heart like sunk, yes.
It is like, the last thing that I want to be worried about, so what's?
Going to happen when you're in your overalls and pigtails screaming at us, it's that I think the.
Is going to be much different. Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, the thing about Max, though, is you cannot control yourself when it comes to Philly sports. Like, you can go into it with a strategy of how you're going to play it, but Max is going to come out no matter what.
Yeah, I guess it's good, it's just going to be weird because I'm already picturing. Dave has that look like when he looks at someone, when he wants to blame them for something with sports that he's just going to be looking at me. If, like, the Philly strike out a big spot and it's just going to be like that little side eye and I'm and I'm not going to be able to. It's. I'm going to be worried about the Phillies winning the World Series, and then I'm also going to be worried about the owner of this company. Like firing me at any point.
He's not.
Going to fire you, he's not going to fire you, he might, he might threaten to fire you, he might threaten to fire you. And also like, belittle you and blame you for everything. But he's not going to fire you because he can't fire you. When Max heard the news, he tells me that I should fire.
You, I might have to fire you, but okay, yeah. When Max heard the news, you saw his future flash in front of his eyes. Max immediately put himself. Like, looking into, Uh, early October and seeing all these things Dave was going to be saying to him and doing to him.
And Max just, he just melted.
A tiny bit, and the and the and the funniest part, not the funniest part. But the Phillies would have to really fuck up, not to be in at least the NLCS, cause the NL is trash.
Yeah, like they will be in big playoff games, what are the chances that there's no way that they're not going to be in big playoff games? They are bet they are better.
It's a lock. They are better than than a lot of these teams. Like the wild cards are joke, the teams are going to get in, are going to be a joke. The Phillies will be in the N.L.CS.
It would be, I don't know if they'll win the NLCS, that's going to be a tough series. I mean, the Dodgers are amazing. I know the Dodgers would be who they play in the NLCS most likely, but they like the way the NL is set up, I think.
They will be in the NLCS. I don't know, baseball is so weird. Anything like that's true, it's a.
Good attitude, Max, Good, that was your first test, but I'm just like, what are the chances?
Like the Phillies make it to the World Series, Dave's like, you can't watch this game.
He wouldn't say that he might say that you can't, but like, what if he's like?
You're such bad vibes like you, you're stinking around. No, because it's content.
Yes, you're good for the for content, so having you on a stream watching the games is he's going.
To probably not going to even stream it, that's that's true, so you're fine, that's a good point.
That's a good point. Oh wait, is it surviving barstools right around?
Playoffs, so maybe maybe he'll watch it, that's a good point, Hank, it's going to be.
In front of Smitty, Well, no, Smitty will be his punch, like he. as much as he dislikes me. Yeah, he dislikes Smitty.
Right, 10 x, 10 x of me, Roan's the real winner out of all this.
Yeah, he wins everything, but also Max, think about the positives. What if they win it all? He might give you, he might rip you off a fucking check.
I don't think I think that.
He, it'll all be like, I am the only one to get that. That's that city, that's that city.
That's stinky loser. Yeah, Max needed Dave to save him. Yeah, yeah.
That's the only way you can win is when I, when I step in front. And then he's also going to say, I'm the only one that believes in Nick Foles. I'm the only one that believes in his Phillies team, I'm the biggest.
Phillies fan here, Correct? And so if they lose, it'll all be my fault. if they win, it'll only be because of, Yeah, true, yeah.
It's, yeah, it's not a great situation to be in.
You'll find your way. Yeah, yeah, it'll be fun, you've got good instincts.
All right, my.
My cool throne is, uh, stow blue coffee, cause we have new, two new flavors. Do you have necklaces? We don't, but we can actually work on that. I'll try to get you a necklace.
Blueberry Muffin Delicious Cold brew, New flavor, Two new flavors Blueberry muffin. This one. If you put a little milk in, it unlocks the entire flavor. And then we have cinnamon sugar donut, uh, cold brew. Super easy to make. Throw two patches in a pitcher.
I'm going to send some at the booger. Yes, oh, good call, cause he, he, he loves coffee, so he can't resist.
I'm like, you're eating donuts, dude, so the cinnamon sugar dough is very good. Uh, you put them, put them in your pitcher, you have it for the whole week. Uh, go buy right now, help some dogs as well.
Uh, all right, do we have anything else before we get into Will? And then we will see everyone drunk out of our minds?
In the other end, congrats to Tennessee. Tennessee Baseball won the College World Series. That's a.
Team too. They they I feel like the last few years have been climbing the hill, climbing the mountain where they've stumbled. They've had some pretty sad, uh, you know, losses. I think they didn't. Even did they not make Omaha like a year ago or two years ago when they were one of the best teams, either way, they were dominant all year.
They were the number one team, they even lost the first game, just to make it a little interesting, five consecutive national championships.
For the SEC Yeah, big time you saw the conference fans come out last night, yes.
SEC We did it.
Again, yes, um, that's just, I mean, there's like, half the country doesn't, a lot of the country doesn't have baseball. But yeah, but sec, yeah.
But SeC, Uh, but yeah, congrats Tennessee ball for life, Peyton said. This is just the start, he said. We're we're going to start winning in.
Everything, I mean, football may. They might be pretty good in football, they've got a great quarterback, but in basketball, I felt like this was the year.
Yeah, yeah, but it's okay you want.
A national championship, you want a national title? Flags fly forever. Uh, okay, so we have Will Compton.
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Okay, we now welcome on a guest.
I'm so excited for this pod, No?
He's a guest, it's a guest. Well, we'll see if you can get back to very, uh, very special guests.
I think right now you're a guest. I think you're a very special human being. Yeah, even more. Compton, Uh, he was a guest, on part of my take, even better human being.
Yeah.
He's a Yeah, you're right. when you see him, you're like, there's our special boy. Yeah, as of right now, as of right now, all right.
So you're special, but you're not a special guest. So so so let's set the stage. So this is, this is being done in secret. You're here for the dozen trip, yeah?
Yes, uh, at. When people listen to this, they will know that. We are back into beer games. Yeah, the Beer Olympics, the beer games. Now what would happen if we said Beer Olympics, the entire beer games? Would you guys get sued?
I don't think so, I think, I think, I think it's.
More, I think it's more of like, titling, like we can't title it that because it's the year.
What if I titled all of my tweets and everything? I think you're okay to do that. What if we wore?
Shirts during the Beer Olympics that just had the Olympic logo, except it was just beer mugs.
I still think that that's okay. I don't know how crazy they are. Like, you know what I mean? I don't know if it's like, you can't even tweet Super Bowl.
What if I paid JP one, two or three to title the video Beer Olympics?
They wouldn't do that, everyone's got a price they do, but I would, I would think that they would say, Hey, we're getting offered this amount of money, right?
Change the title Well, what if I offer and you match it? What if I offered?
Them so much money. I was like, the only condition is you can't tell them.
They'd probably do it okay, all right, what if we just?
These are just shames that we're saying, yeah, that would be a shame, that would be a shame.
Do you guys have a meme guy? Yeah, what if we hired your meme guy?
I mean, he probably, he probably be like I, I. My dream was to work for part of my take.
What if I was going to say, like, I don't think they would think about it, but I would assume my heart of hearts tells me that they would not leave busing to go to part of my take.
How much would you tell, like, for our memes guy, for your memes guy, what would the trade?
Look like there, I don't know, I don't know what all the memes guy does, is he?
Is he a five tool athlete? Our memes guy Yeah, lacrosse, college lacrosse player. okay.
He is on a pip, though. what else can he do outside of the memes? Not a whole lot, really.
Take care of a turtle, does he? What does he do, structurally or operationally for you guys?
He gets very mad at Italian reporters. Okay, yeah, is he a good vibe? good vibes.
Oh no, definitely not the opposite of good vibes you'd probably have to offer.
You'd have to offer memes and money to go with this package to get, yeah, we'd have to throw.
In a pick, yeah, cause our guys are good vibes, guys can do their good hangs, yeah.
We, we don't.
Max is our only good vibes guy. Hank and Memes are both just bad vibes all the time, and they hate each other, they make each other worse.
They're oil and water and and just just bring all of our vibes down constantly. I'm great by now. Oh yeah, oh, this is eight hours after you.
Won a title weird. How that works will knows. I think I think, uh, you have moments of being a good vibes guy.
Yeah, a lot of time from the outside, looking in, it seems like you're just like, all right, another fucking day.
Another fucking day around these boys when Hank wins.
A championship? He's a great vibes guy, um, and it does happen frequently enough to him that he, you know, that's like, once every five years, we get a great day of Hank happening, Hank skipped.
Into work today at like eight 30 in the morning. I saw him in the parking lot. I was like, What is?
Going on right now, you know how Mincy gets here, like early, and he just walks around, hoping that, you know, someone will have a conversation with him. Yeah, Hank did that this morning. Hank was part Mincy this morning, just wandering around the office, being like, you guys want to talk to?
Me or anything want to talk about the Celtics, want to say anything to me, all right, so so to set, set the stage of what we're doing here.
So, like I said, when people listen to this, they'll already know that we're in beer games. Uh, we can go through. There was a lot of, a lot of, a lot of history back and forth, but, uh, at the end of the day, we're happy that we're going to be competing in beer games. We also are going to do at the end of this EP or interview. Max has a concussion test for us that he's going to administer to us after Beer Games, that we're going to run on Wednesday's episodes. The end of the show after this interview will be us drunk after beer games, okay?
But we are happy that we're back in. Um, it, man, did it. Was it a road? And it's a surprise. Like no one else besides you and Taylor know that we're back in, right? We're excited.
We have a big we're we, people have seen it by now, but we have a big body armor truck. We're coming in. We wanted to, we want to come in. Like Stone Cold Steve Austin, It's.
An incredible idea. It's going to be great to bring it all back because it was we had. We personally had probably the toughest moment of our relationship. Yes, yes, yes.
Because, uh.
I mean, how would you? how would you describe the beer games? Uh, scheduling?
The scheduling, yes, from which angle? cause there there's, there's multiple angles, okay?
And what I need to be cautious of is walking myself down to certain angles. And then I get you guys, divide and conquer me, and then I can't talk about one soul thing because a lot of things.
Happened. I have no ulterior motive here. It sounds like you're worried? No, no, I'm just.
Saying, you guys are really good, I just gotta be on my, I gotta be on my stuff, your word, we're.
Going to divide and conquer yourself? Yeah, yeah, it's only you here right now, I know.
But it's it's an intimidating factor. I'm sitting here, the couch is lower than your guys's desk, you guys are kind of two on one, talking down to me, okay?
So so, let's start.
With you said that, there's multiple angles, let's start with one that is that makes you look the best. Okay, how did the scheduling make us look the best? yeah.
Yeah, even even this isn't going.
To be good? yeah, no, it's not going to be good because I'm only able to talk about it from my, from my lens and my angle. Yeah, the scheduling element was very unfortunate to start there. So last year, the the couple of years we've done the beer games, we've had them on the the week that mini camp gets over after tight end you.
Yeah, because George does tight end you right after mini camp. Is George going to be competing in beer games? No, he'll be a referee now that this is coming out, now, that this is coming out on Wednesday.
No, like the the boy he's, he's. He's nursing a lot, He's nursing some, uh, I don't want to say all this stuff.
Okay, this is phase me, it's after, after mini camp is phase me, then you report to off season, you report to the training camp later. Yeah, yeah.
Did you ever come close to getting arrested?
During Phase me, I don't even know what you're referring to. phase me is what happens after the.
OTAS And then all the players are kind of left to themselves. Yeah, the jets call it phase me, where you work on yourself and then you come back for training camp, it's when all the.
It's like, the only thing that can happen in this period of time between mini camp and training camp is bad. Never got arrested. There's no in between phase.
Anything close? No, okay, it was always, you know, I had to make the team every year. Yeah, that's true.
So it's not like I can go on any trips, miss any days. So Phase me wasn't even fun for you? Yeah, Phase me wasn't fun for me, It was more like anxiety.
Like, damn, it's coming, it's coming. Yeah, how are you going about this year? If you have an injury, if you're or whatever?
I don't know what kid was dealing with, but if you're recovering from something, probably not the best look to be. Just like chugging beers, right? And and like, when you make the club in.
The pub. When you're that committed to ball, which George is like, you just think of it. As you put alcohol on your body, inflammation like, would this be good for me? I need to start dialing.
In you start that anxieties like there, Yeah, okay, so so back to the scheduling part.
So.
The scheduling part, having at the times that we we that we've had it in June. Going into this year, during the Super Bowl week. I'm starting to learn that it's on the exact same time as the.
When you say I'm starting to learn, what you're actually saying is you told me the date and I said that is already scheduled. Correct, correct, cause you kind of went. That was a gloss over of.
I'm starting to learn, okay, I learned at the Super Bowl week that the Dozen Trivia tournament happened was happening at the exact same time. Yeah, which is the whole, which is the whole company starting to learn.
I'm starting to Jeff and I get on the phone and he's like, I can schedule your games. Like it was like Sunday, um, it was basically like the Tuesday, Wednesday, that's open. Like, how I'm going back for tight in you at this point. We would love tomorrow.
Yeah, I know you would love to because we were invited to tight end you, but we can't because.
Of the dozen, right? But you could have went on Wednesday. No, we could, we can't play on.
Hank has a game. yeah, a game. What do you mean? We're playing in Trivia?
Right, I was, you, listen, listen, hang on, this is it, this is it.
This is what I'm saying you.
Start getting ripped apart here. Yeah, you moved beer games to the week that the dozen was the.
Dozen then move timeout week, that's that is, that is where it's all. I. We didn't move the Beer Games, so the week of the dozen Beer Olympics, sorry, the Beer Olympics, we didn't move it.
We just learned Super Bowl week that they were getting planned for the same. Okay, okay, okay, I'm on the phone with Jeff.
We're figuring out, Hey, I can play you on Sunday, Monday, let's say you go out to do a beer games Tuesday. If you guys win, you'll have to be back for the final four. Like, we're working it out just between us too. And um, so that it was step one as we're starting to capture some, some from, like, Hey, you're scheduling the same day?
Yeah, and uh.
Started six months, that's where it started. There's also there's other people that would be competing in the Beer Olympics that also had to do the dozen. No, right, that's the thing.
Correct, so they they could schedule the booze ponies. Myself, I was thinking like, after we had the success that we had with the Beer Olympics last year, you guys wanted to participate. And we're kind of sitting back, like, yeah, we need to get, we need to welcome the cats that want to. I want to play cause.
The first year we did it, it was just alignment, it was the Titans o-line. We had a good time. We're like, how can we make it bigger this year? And it just like Bert and Shane were in and it kind of all worked out.
And then you saw the you saw the reaction on social media. Dan wanted to be in the boys on to be in. It's like, Yeah, how do we make this thing even bigger? And um, at that point. During Superbowl week, we also sat down with Jason Kelsey and we sat down and had breakfast to figure out what day we could do it on that week. Cause at that point, it was on Wednesday. And he was like, And for everybody to learn, too. When their beer bowl came out, it kind of seemed like they were cucking us or making that thing up, but they've been doing it for years. But Jason was like, Hey, we have the beer bowl.
That we do, and we do those for two days, we do that on Wednesday, Thursday. If you guys moved it to Tuesday up a day, we can make it all work. Cause Travis really wants to do this.
I can't leave him hanging. Like, where we want to do the, uh, the Beer Olympics, so we build the whole beer, so we build the whole Yes, Bert, Shane Kelsey's. And then obviously you want to get the returning champs, George.
And at that point, George was he was down to do it, but he was like, I just kind of got to see how the off.
Yeah, at this point in this story, Will is thinking, and I've heard this from multiple reports. So the Beer Olympics are scheduled, we've moved the dozen the Kelsey's are in.
There was a point and this is going to shock people because whatever, everything has transpired since, with all the dropouts and all the drama and everything. I've heard from multiple reports that will said. There was a 30 chance that Taylor Swift was going to come to the Beer Olympics. He thought there was a 30 chance Taylor Swift was going to attend the beer. You never know.
I think there's still a chance she might show up. That's where we came from.
That was where that was the height. Well, the 30 chance of Taylor Swift. Like when Dave was now, Dave, Dave was down to do the beer games like a 10. Cause. We're going to have him be your partner, and he was on board at first until he wasn't.
And then when he really wasn't on board, he was like, you could get me back if you get Taylor Swift, right? Okay? So we're like, Okay, there's a shot on a diva, Dave.
Yeah, yeah, there's a shot in the dark.
That we can get DP at the game, you could always just get, uh, well, who would Dave play with if not Taylor Swift? Miss Peaches Yeah, get Miss Peaches to compete in the Beer Olympics.
That would get some fucking, that would get some traction. Than Taylor Swift, so.
All right, so so so you're set and then you got all these guys and then one by one.
They just start dropping out. Yes, so so that week, that week when the the antennas really started to go up, was the fact that we did want barstool personalities to do it. Yeah, and that way it was collab.
That was where it was like, you know, you're kind of, you're kind of hitting heads, because they're you guys are, you know, first and foremost with the dozen. And so I was like, Damn, how are we going to pivot from this? The next week is. When we had, we basically got on the phone with Barstool, like the sales team, you demanded 40 people timeout there. There's a lot of BS in that, okay?
We got on the phone and you know how it works. Like, they're they're starting to pitch the idea for sponsors on the event and everything else. As we were talking about the idea and the vision that we had for the beer games. With Vegas. Because over the last year, we've built a good reputation or a good relationship with Red Rocks, yeah, Taylor brought up the, uh, the Vegas idea.
And it was kind of like, you know, Red Rocks, having the hotel and casino. You have everything in house, you don't have to worry about guys, uh, like, uh, uh. You don't have to worry about transportation. Food, drink. Everything is right there, nobody has to leave chaos, yeah.
Tunnel of Chaos Vegas kind of hosts itself. You don't have to worry about getting everybody there, like, Hey, make sure you don't drive. Yeah, it's going to be a movie.
It's going to be a movie like all of that, with the talent that we had committed at the time, it felt like.
It made more sense because last year we got a bubble like the NBA bubble in red, so this was.
The peak we had, we had Vegas Games, we had the venue, we had Shane Gillis, we had Bert, we had the Kelsey Brothers.
We had 40 people demanded from Barstool. Doing a movie. Yeah, this was at this point. This was the biggest thing that's basically ever been created, correct?
And then that year, as the year unfolded, McGregor Chandler gets announced for, Oh my God. So he probably would've come by Jelly roll, Yeah, jelly roll, he was throwing it.
He was doing a concert. Yeah, so it's all perfect, and then it's all perfect. So I do want to go to the part where all resource, like this budget resources get poured into busting with the ball.
That's not, we don't need that. That is important, that is important, that is important.
Um, because we said this the the vision of it all. And then they're like, all right, we're going to take this to sales. It seems like we need to sell this bigger than we did last year, so we're fired up. The next phone call is when we get told, Hey, this could be, uh, this is an awesome deal.
This could be an, uh, a tentpole event barstool. We want to get behind this more. So what do you? What do you guys think about the idea of Rob? because we brought up Rob in the first one? Like, it would be sick to have a high level production team because to get cams on different teams and to tell different stories throughout the games. Like, it could be really cool for the audience to kind of see the perspective from Shane's team, from your guys, his team. Like, kind of see all the different in season. Hard knocks for the kind of bring like a reality element to it.
That kind of gives us different perspectives and they're like, what would you think? uh, are, uh, they're like, we can have. We can put Rob's team on this.
Love it. Rob's one of the guys here is production guy. Yeah, he's a stud.
He does a plus commercials.
That we do, yeah, yeah, surviving that, uh, that barstool put together last year, and my first question was, what about, uh, the dozen and Jeff?
And the response was, Jeff's going to have to move the dozen and box them out, and I literally said, Can I please?
Call him because this sucks, so this is a nice so so you did call him cause you didn't call us.
When you kicked us out of the beer games, okay, yeah, yes, which we'll, we'll get to that.
How they didn't, they were like, you can't tell him yet, we will tell him when he needs to know. And I was like, I did. I truly felt like this sucks, like this is not this, but doesn't. Everything's going to have to get moved.
And then, and then, we also get told that there's going to be a $300,000 budget put behind this. So we're, we're like, we're obviously fired up that that Barstool wants to buy into this because years past it's like we're doing the contractors. We kind of operate solo Barstool Sale does all the sales. Like, we kind of have to figure out our own way and make it sick. And when Barstool buys in like that, we're like, Oh, this is awesome.
Like, this is really becoming like what we wanted it to be, and all the unfolding of it gets moved for dozen. You kind of take those jokes and have fun with it and embrace it, cause it does suck, but it's like, What do you do? what do you do?
And then, unfortunately, what a shame, Travis backs out. Oh no, we get the call. Oh no, we built the whole thing around.
That was like, God damn it, do like this is going to start looking like even more shitty. Cause we've already taken, we've already had the move that the dozen which sucked and then Bert drops out.
Then Shane's kind of playing the up in the air game, or he's kind of like, joking on you that he's not doing it. But I kind of had to call him. I was like, Bro, I, we have to know if you're going to do this because we got to lock in. What names are on like this is getting sold at a higher level, like this is. There's more going into this this year to where they need to know names beforehand. Like it's, it's beyond us.
It's bigger than us. And he was like, Yeah, I'm going to go blah, blah, blah. We go to a show. He's like, I'll be there. Then he gets a an awesome deal with Bud Light, where he's got to shoot a commercial.
So he's like, got to do it, you have to understand that he has. If you isolate the, uh, if you isolate the situation, you're like, we get it, but collectively, it's like, this is going to be an avalanche on us.
It's like you almost made it too big, right? It got beyond your control. You're like Oppenheimer.
Yeah, we couldn't control it, which it was like Taylor and I. It's the first time we've actually tried intentionally planning it way out in advance. Shouldn't do that, and it bit us in the ass.
So all four of those, the four biggest teams. George is like, Hey, I can't swing it. Uh, CMC's also has a wedding that week that he's like, I'm going to go. It's just hard to swing everything.
If Travis drops out, Jason is still huge, right? Jason's going to be there, which I'm pumped about. Because that guy would. He's not going to skip to do, like, what's he going to do like, he's?
Drinking beer that weekend? right? Yeah, he's drinking beer the entire week, I believe, right, so, all right.
So so all of that falls through. Yep, what part of the story were you at now?
We're at Dave Point. We missed it, we missed one, one little piece, which piece, you know, a piece.
Okay, now, as each person falls out, I'm on the yak. As this stuff is happening, we're embracing it the best way we can, but there's never any conversation about like, pivoting. It was like, Hey, if there are cameras that are on certain teams that you don't need them on, you know, who could we take them off of?
And we're kind of naming those teams, and then we're kind of thinking, let's not try to build it back to 16 teams, let's keep it at 12. So we don't stress ourselves out because this is already becoming a big time stressor for the effort and everything going into it. And Dave is a hard out.
He's shitting on it every week, it's on the unnamed show every week. You guys are running your your bits on on part of my take. But at that point.
It wasn't a bit. We said it would be a shame, it would be a shame if this happened.
But it's not part of that. Doesn't would it not have been a shit yet? Yeah, we're all having fun.
Jokes That's not a joke. It would have been a shame. Yeah, here's the thing.
I don't want.
You to take any of that personally. Because I was always here. Here's what my thought was the whole time. I was always pumped about the actual beer games, correct I? I was looking so forward to it.
I love drinking beers with the boys. I love beers. I'd still like beers. I'm like, I'm like, Cavanaugh, I like beer, sir.
I enjoy beer. Um, the travel part was always tough, and then also it's just so fun to cancel plans, right? It's so fun.
You know, it is right, like, have you ever canceled a good plan? And then you're like, this feels great. PFT also.
You're right, and and here's where I. here's where I'll. I'll. I'll throw you something, cause you're missing one. You were. You were also being like, Hey.
Why don't you guys move it well? Well, you're still missing. The one thing I would like to address. So here, here was in PFT is right. I always wanted to compete.
Yeah, and I do. The actual beer games was awesome. The one piece that you're missing. Taylor went to Mexico.
Will and I had a conversation, Will told me the beer games were on Monday.
No, that was Wednesday, I said the 26th, No, you said Monday, we, I have the clip we had.
This conversation, he said, it was Monday, the the whatever it is, what's that, the 23rd or no, the 24th? Easily said 26, All right.
So he told me it was Monday or 25.
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