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Today is Wednesday, February 28th, Milwaukee. How about it? Ass restaurant host God, did you hear about Robin Williams?
Host No. Me died, he killed himself.
Thought he would cry.
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P Peter King Peter King has retired. One of the best tweets of all time, Yeah.
Yeah, you know where I was going with that. I was thinking about what to lead the show because we're going to talk court story with Jay Billis. But Peter King is hanging up the pen.
So he's hanging up the pen. I don't know how long Peter's going to be able to hang the pen up for. Because I was thinking about what Peter King's job is. And that's basically, he watches football, yep, and then he gets on the phone.
He talks to football coaches, and then he writes things that football coaches tell him and spring well. It's really a coffee column that he writes, sprinkled in with, like, occasional, occasional football anecdotes. Yeah, so I I think that Peter is going to be walking away from doing a weekly column. It wouldn't shock me that he seems like the kind of guy that's become such close friends with enough coaches.
Peter King might just become the next like biographer. Oh yeah, I can see Andy Reed's.
Biography He's probably going to write Andy Reed's biography. He actually, we should, we should study Peter King in his retirement. Because it will probably be not exactly apples when we someday hang it up. But this is like when they release a, you know, a whale into the wild after it's been in captivity in a while. I didn't mean to say whale because of Peter King's weight, but it works in this analogy.
And then the whale, like, immediately dies. Cause, like, I'm not. I was used to just, you know, three square meals a day and sitting in my tank. So let's hope Peter King lives a long life after this and he's confined happiness outside of football. Because that we might just be staring at our future. I'm trying to follow this analogy.
So you're saying that Jim IRSA is going to pay to fly Peter King's body across the country? Peter King's the whale, and then when Peter King hears about that, he'll die. Yes, okay.
Got it? Uh, yeah, I could see that. I could also see Peter King just continuing to write a column. Yeah, and not getting, not getting paid for it.
And he's just like, I'm retired, I don't have to do this every week, and then he just does it every week, he just sends it out. So we've had, we've had our ups and downs of Peter King on this podcast.
Well, he still owes me money for the in-n-out plus interest plus inflation. Peter King, overall, seems like a nice, weird old grandfather. Well, and he's helped a lot of people out in the business, he's he's personally helped me out, uh, throughout the years. I did a column making fun of his column for about seven years.
Yeah, and uh, he's been overall a nice guy. We had a little bit of a falling out a couple of years ago. But um, Peter seems like the game. He's going to miss the game exactly as much as the game will.
Miss him, Yeah, and I I like Peter King for the most part. Uh, he read him, I read his column in SI.
Uh, he will say this about Peter King. He was able to bring SI to the internet better than anyone else like he. He made a column that was perfect for the internet. Where it's like, What do I want to do on Monday morning? I don't want to work. Why not just read 45 minutes of Peter King's thoughts, him emptying his notebook online?
So he was actually like, uh, ahead of his time. In the fact that he was able to basically take the SI mold and then put it on the internet. And it worked on the internet. Yeah, there was some times, I think in the last few years, where Peter King, Maybe I don't want to say the W word. But maybe he got a little woke and decided that he was just going to take sideways shots at barstool for no reason, I'm just going to say, you know?
What, let's take the high road on this one, yeah. He said he would never appear on a barstool show.
Again, not that it would be a pebble in the ocean. And that was right after. Well, no, I was going to say that was right after. I bought him a double double from in and out with fries and I think maybe a milkshake, and he didn't pay me back.
So that's, as a journalist, you are not to accept.
Free meals from people. Let's just say this. And when he drove in the bike lane, and when he drove.
In the bike lane. And also when he said, Darren Sharper, Uh, no, you know, yeah, Darren Sharper.
He would vote for Darren Sharper from the Hall of Fame regardless of what happened off the field, even though nobody was having the Darren Sharper Hall of Fame conversation. But if it happens, he's he is firmly in the condition that, you know, what if Riley Cooper was a better player?
Peter King would put him in the hall. Yeah, listen, I. uh, yeah, Peter King. I think it was an an interesting pivot to get out of paying me $12. But you pulled it off, you pulled it off, being like, barstool, bad, barstool, bar the with the asterisks, yeah.
One thing I always.
Admired about Peter, though, was his ability to write a column about football that was honestly 90, not about football. It would be about like, he W. He was the originator. We can actually trace the skull fucking airline companies thing that Big Cat does online, we can trace that back. In a direct line to Peter King complaining about hotels and airlines and his weekly football column that he would write.
And he had such a hard on for any sort of travel inconsistency, inconvenience that he would turn it into his own personal story. And vendetta against these companies, which then poisoned the use of America to. To think that. The first thing that happens to them when when Marriott doesn't have two towels ready in their hotel room, is to go online.
And complain to Marriott, Correct. And Peter King again. Hopefully lives a long, beautiful life in retirement. But if he wants to, if his family wants to use this as his eulogy, uh, at some point you can clip this, you're, you're free to use it. I would say my final thought on Peter King good for the game of football, even though he still owes me money for the in-n-out burger.
You know what we should do, we should do. An a do haiku, that's how he ended his columns with, with a haiku every week. All right, I don't know how to do haikus.
Five, five, five syllables, all right. Peter King, Peter King, that's three.
Okay, o's, o's cash, cash. Peter King owes cash. I'm sorry. The beer had hops.
And then is it one more thought he would cry.
I thought he would cry. Yeah, yeah, I thought. or died, he died.
He killed himself.
Witnessing Did you hear about Robin? That's the first one, yeah, Williams.
No, no.
He died, he killed himself. Cry so so long, friends.
Memes Can you put our original one that we just put out there? Can you make sure that's a graphic? Thank you. Uh, all right.
So it is combine season. We're going down to Indianapolis tomorrow, we're going to have our annual sit down with Adam Shepherd. Don't, don't do that face, don't do that face.
Uh, Hank did a like this, he went for what he doesn't like, going you don't like Indy, it's.
Cocktail Week You got cocktails and cocktail sauce, you got all the horseradish you could ever, you know what? That's what it is, we do one night, one night.
I think the shrimp cocktail is.
So spicy that Hank is afraid of the entire city. Is that actually the worst porn title ever?
One night in India, I'm excited, Yeah, so we're gonna have our annual, Uh, Adam Schefter interview. Oh, he's shaking his head.
Uh, I also heard we might have. I would say, I won't say she, I'll say he, she. I don't want to give it away. Uh, the number one reporter this year as of late February. If they decided the Pulitzer right now, she would win it. Or he, or he, or her. Reporting on Max Two. Sodas Yeah, you will. Uh, so, actually, that's she's taking the.
Mantle from Peter King about complaining about travel. Yeah, yeah, so it's going to be fun, we're.
Going to go down to the combine, we had a bunch of coaches talk today. Uh, do we see anything? The the combine does feel like it's reached its final iteration of, just like being everything sold out. I saw the No bowl, uh, warmup zone, uh, that has fully branded.
It's pretty, yeah, everyone I. Some players were complaining, they're like, we used to have to run in the.
Hallways of hotels and no bowl. It is crazy to think that, just like 30 years ago, of no bowl there were, there would be nobody at all at the combine. It was like scouts. It was a time in an era when it was necessary. Then, yeah.
It was that so, so. Scouts, coaches, assistant coaches. They would look at this as being like a little midwinter break where we get to just get away from the family for a little bit and get hammered in Indy and go out. And there's no reporters, nobody talking to us. It's our vacation that we take and we tell our families, like, Oh yeah, big work trip coming up. Now it's become like another spectacle that the NFL has, where I'm shocked that the NFL hasn't moved it from Indy yet.
It seems like they've been talking about it. Like Godel has floated a bunch of little trial balloons out there. Being like, Well, we might move it to Vegas, we might move it somewhere else. It's not good as an entertainment event, it's not, though.
Yeah, it's not, it's very, very not a spectacle. They're just trying to make it one. No, it's not a spec. You go to the same restaurants, you sit at the same tables, you drink the same amount of beers, and you have the same conversations with the same people. Once a year, every year, which is fun.
It can be fun, but it's not like fans go there and they're.
Wowed by what they see? Yeah, yeah. So what were the some of the quotes I saw? Sean Payton, he's, he might be online, uh, because he had a quote.
That said, uh, I saw this humorous meme the other day. Where there's a Bronco fan with a shirt on. And there's like eight quarterback names with the cross through it and he's drinking the quarterback kool-aid. Our job is to make sure the next one doesn't have a line through it. So that's, I mean, we already knew Russell Wilson was gone, but that was, He basically was like, There's a line to Russell Wilson, yeah.
Uh, Ryan Poles got in front of the media and did not tip his hand other than saying. If we trade Justin Fields, we'll make sure that he's in a good spot. Like a rehoming.
A rehoming? Yeah, we'll make sure a nice farm upstate where he has plenty of room to run, exactly.
They won't ask him to use his arm that much. I I saw that the UH commanders are aggressively pursuing the number one pick. Oh, I also heard a rumor today, I don't know.
I probably won't say this on the air. Uh, that we're considering a quarterback that might have some history in D.C. Kirk Cousins, which would be fantastic for the show. It would be fantastic. That's all I'm going to say. That's actually the end of that sentence. I wasn't going to say anything at all after that.
That would be fantastic for the show. Also shout out Brandon Beeney had.
One of my favorite quotes today, which was just pure honesty, I just like whenever a guy just gives an honest take, he said about, uh, the Josh Allen pick. He said If he, if he doesn't work out, I'm not going to be here anyway, and if he does work out, nobody's going to give a shit.
Yep, that's how every GM should act. Yes, like seeing, seeing a guy throw in person, you've seen him, you can see him at his pro day, yeah.
You've got a lot of tape on him. I don't think that one one night in Indy isn't going to make that much of a difference one night in Indy. Where are you going with this quarterback? Not my favorite jerk off.
Uh, there was, there was another report. I read this to you guys before we went on the air. Um, Big Dom was interviewed by a reporter. Uh, I don't know if he wants me to name him, but he has. A reputable. Reporter asked Big Dom about our interaction in Vegas when I saw a big Dom, uh, out on the town.
Oh, this isn't public, it's not, it's not public, he said. To me, he said, you were just screaming his name. He was sweaty and drunk and I think high, but he was a cool dude.
That's a big, that's big Dom's recap of the interaction. I got to say, Big Dom should be a.
Because those are facts. Also, we have followed up with Big Dom. Um, read that quote again.
The end of it? Okay, it's let's see, he said regarding his interaction with PFT commenter. He was sweaty and drunk and I think high, but he was a cool dude, okay?
So it turns out that.
Uh, the interview that PFT secured in that moment is not legally binding. Maybe not well.
No, I was under the influence. I may, unless Big Dom was on my show. I think the only big mushrooms he was under would come on a cheesesteak. He was smart enough to be like, Yeah, I'll just say.
I'll go on and then I'll never have to see this guy again. Probably actually. We still will try to get them, but we've made our first attempt and it came back nothing.
Well, so I saw, I saw a big.
DOM Uh, for Mark Davis. Uh, Mark Davis, definitely there's I gotta act quick or else.
He's going to forget, I hope. There's just one person in the Raiders facility who, like every day, just puts it on his to-do list and he just passes right over. It's like, do that interview with those two weird guys that tried to, like, stalk you just put it on the calendar, yeah.
Put it on the calendar, we'll just show up, we will show up, we will go, that's a that's a promise that we will go in person.
If Mark Davis agrees to an interview, we need what you think.
Six hours notice. Yeah, if that, if that secure, uh, a boarding place for Blake, Well, we gotta.
Get also hank only flies first class now, that's true, so we'd have to make sure there's first.
Class ticket. We got to stop by Taco Bell to get Max some stuff before he flies, but we're there six hours. Yeah, there's plenty of tacos on the way.
Give us, Max, you want to tell the story that you told me the other day about your your Taco Bell adventure? Oh, it's a very funny story, Oh.
Yeah, this is, it's a good, it's a good. Max story. Um, this week Saturday was my girlfriend and I. Nice congratulations, yep.
Yep, of one night in Indy, uh, I got. I had a couple of bad last.
Saturday you spent it by watching Villanova, that is correct. Oh, it was Saturday, this is.
The same night, Oh, okay, well again, we've told the story. But your first, your first date with her, was when Jay Wright stepped down. So she's expecting this, yeah.
Yeah, um, so I got home. I facetimed her, and after the Yukon Villanova, the Yukon Villanova, nothing like a nice romantic post Villanova facetime loss. Uh, I ordered Taco Bell, ended up for her No.
Well, I ended up ordering it to her apartment instead of mine, so we were while we were facetiming. I don't necessarily remember this conversation. I had a I had a couple beverages. Um, she was like, couple means two. Yep.
She was like, Yeah, you just played it off like you got me Taco Bell.
And she would probably take offense to that, cause you probably got like, 17..
It was a cheesy, it was a grilled cheese burrito at a cheesy Gordita crunch, good order. So then the first one gets there, and then 20 minutes later, she gets another knock at her door.
I tried to order it for myself after the second, after the first one, so she got the same order twice. That's the most over three Sunday morning, I did end up ordering that order. The fact that she, like, I assume she took that, like, Okay.
Cause she knows you very well. No, she liked, she liked it. She's a keeper. That's a that's ride or die to have double.
Off Taco Bell on your anniversary, it's the most romantic gift you could get a woman.
Well, to be fair, I got her. It was because it was on Uber Eats, almost almost anything.
I was the most recent address on my Uber eats. A true romantic. Yes, yes. Did you get her anything to drink?
Uh, no, she was, but yesterday I was talking to her and she was like, by the way, I threw out one of those grilled cheese burritos. Oh no, were you hurt? how could you throw out a?
Love, a love, a love present like that. There's no worse feeling in the world than than ordering something that you're very excited for. And you wait and you wait, and then it goes to the wrong place. Yeah, that's such a bad, bad feeling, yeah.
I didn't need it, I didn't need it at that.
Moment though, I'm happy I didn't get it. Yeah, you're lighter for it.
That's good, though, you.
Got all the you got all the endorphins of ordering Taco Bell, but you didn't get the calories exactly. It was perfect. That's idea for a new app, yeah.
It just sends your worst, your least healthy orders to the wrong address on purpose that actually did no, or just you.
Order it, but it just never comes. Yeah, that's like my idea for the for a gambling app, where you put in your bet and it just reverses it without telling you you order it. But it goes.
To a food bank? Yeah, by accident, yeah, every time.
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Okay, Hank, do you want to give us your number three Patriot? So I watched the first three episodes and I have to agree with you, Hank. Or maybe it was Jerry Thornton's blog that was very bizarre. They they spent all this time on Bill Parcells and drew blood.
So, and they're like, and we got addicted to winning, and then we won two more. I was like, Wait, what?
Yeah, when Teddy, Teddy Brewski is like, you know, the first time somebody mentioned the word, it was like a, it was like a narcotic. Yeah, my eyes got wide. That's the only thing I was focused on.
Then we beat the Panthers and then we won another Superbowl against the Eagles. It all. That was all that you had from that. It also would have been nice. There's so much lore.
Yeah, they also would have been nice if they had gotten maybe a little more into, like the game plan of the Superbowl that they beat the Rams. Cause, like, that was a pretty crazy upset. Um, Mike Bart's looking fat.
Yeah, it makes me happy, it's a bit older, and it's clear it's.
It's slanted, cause even in that day, they brought Mike Bart's on. Just to be like, Well, they're being cheap, like they were doing a little, uh, you know, hold them and foul them.
They're not going to call it, but it is. But you have to know that this, this whole entire documentary, is so that Bob Kraft can get into the Hall of Fame. How would he not get in the Hall of Fame? Well, he's not yet. I don't think. They just let owners in very often.
I mean, Jerry Jones had to wait a while, like he wants to get in the Hall of Fame before he passed six Superbowl. I understand, but Jerry Jones didn't get in the.
Hall of Fame to what? two years ago to me, this, this tells me that. Robert Kraft has acknowledged the fact that the Patriots will not make another Superbowl in the next five years. And his only way to chase that glory is to have this documentary made, get into the Hall of Fame.
The behind the scenes stuff is cool. Seeing young Brady is crazy. He had a just think of him as.
Like, it was such a I love I love his roommate, like the stories when he was just like he was a.
Psycho, Yeah. Also. The best moment in the first three episodes is when he told Brady told the story about after winning the Superbowl. And Belichick got in the car and was like, Yeah.
Pretty good year. Yeah, yeah, that was his way, that was awesome.
Also, what a psycho Brady was to live with as like a rookie when he was playing TECMO TECMO Bowl. And he would just unplug the entire system if he was losing. Genuine psychopath that loves winning. Also, he's got a lot more hair now, that's interesting.
I thought he's better looking. Yeah, it's kind of crazy, yeah.
Um, so Hank with that set number three, number three, uh, you just mentioned him a couple of.
Times, heart and soul of the defense, although there's so so, so many, so many good defensive.
Players we've got Jules at number four, and then your defensive player is going to be Italian.
Inspirational Italian, I think so, oh, come back Player of the year 2005..
I remember thinking like he was never going to play again, uh, when he had his his medical issues and he came back. One player, Come back Player of the Year legend Teddy Brewski, Teddy Brewski. Oh yeah.
He's.
Italian I don't know why. Real perverted, Yeah, Bedonia, Italy, where he's from Italy.
No, his paternal grandparents, oh, his mother is of Filipino ancestry. Oh, interesting, yeah.
Yeah, old time name. I have a lot of people getting mad at me for this. Let's already. I would just like to say, I don't care, this is my list.
It sounds like you might care a little.
If you have to address other people that are getting mad at you, your friends that you debated.
With Are the people getting mad at you? Yeah, are they in this room with you right now? No.
No, it's just people online being like that, this person's not on it. This was like, Well, tune in and you'll find the list is subjective. And it's my favorite Patriots.
It is awesome that that a Patriots player was named Brewski, just like you get all the fans.
Chanting that brew Yeah, yeah, I mean, the. They do it all the time. But I just remember when they beat the dolphins in the snow and he got a pick six and they started throwing the snow, yeah.
All time vibes What about a honorable mention? Oh, you don't have one? This is the easiest task.
Kevin Falk Okay.
Remember when Kevin Falk beat up that kid at LSU? That was awesome, Yeah, Kevin.
Falk another, another, like the Cam Newton thing, another, Hey, maybe don't try to fight.
Professional athletes, I would say, actually Kevin Falk and Cam Newton are are very, very high up on the list of any professional athlete that you don't want to fuck with. Really, really bad idea.
Legend on the team forever Mr. Consistent. Yep, um, okay.
Anything else before we do.
Hot seat, cool throw. Any more white guys you want to shout out?
Kevin Falk not White, Kyle Long.
Shout out Kyle Long, just cuz I, he replied in a weird tweet when they posted the Chris Long quote. What'd he say? It was just like a GIF. I didn't understand it, but shout out to him.
Oh, okay, well, she was a patriot, made you think, yeah, yeah.
He got you thinking, could have been a patriot. Um, okay, let's do hot seat, cool throw. And then we got double interviews.
For the people, uh, no joke. I think I might have a cane sauce problem. I was act raising canes the other day, getting my box combo with extra sauce on the side. Like usual, I have an order.
When I eat my canes, it goes crinkle. Cut fries, chicken fingers, the Texas toast and finish strong with the slaw. So I start eating and before I know it, I'm scraping the bottom of my sauce and I wasn't even done with my fries. Yet this habit is escalating and I'm 100 here for it.
Dip into canes. Get extra sauce for me, please, Hank.
Your hot seat, cool throw, my hot seat is the master's field. Oh, Brooks's teammate on Smash, Uh, Taylor Gooch was interviewed. Because he does not have any exemptions to majors, he has a one one.
So he is, and he didn't get an invite to the Masters. So he was interviewed about it. And he said, there's going to be an asterisk. It's just a reality. Oh, that Taylor Gooch was Taylor Gooch.
We'll always remember it as the masters that didn't have Taylor Gooch, the Goochless Masters.
Okay, so that's is he the only good player like that you would think of? That's not going to be in.
It, there's a couple, but I mean, a lot of, I think there's like 12 or 13 live guys. They had a Joaquin neiman, like, got invited, cause the masters can invite whoever they want.
You just drop a name, uh, real dimple head the masters. The masters can invite whoever they want. yeah, so they can invite you.
Yeah, they can, I could, I could play in the master. They should invite you, so that's where it's. He kind of even has a less of of a hill to stand on cause and.
And then to stand on, I like, that is that high ground. Yeah, he'll die on.
HILL Okay, yeah, soapbox to stand on. less of a point to stand on.
Yeah, I guess he'll.
He'll stand on that. Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I'm not a world-renowned smart person. You can wait till the Jay Billis interview, where he tries to just cut me up with words, I hate that.
Yeah.
I hate words. I felt like you is Charlie. Invited. No, he should be, well, then asterix.
I agree with Taylor Gooch. John Daly, I don't think so. I think his exemptions, but he had. He's not, you know, whatever.
It is top hundred, top 50, and he definitely hasn't won a major in a.
Recent enough time. Asterix Sure, yeah, Taylor Gooch.
Taylor Gooch was there, he would, that's.
A master, Augusta is a poor 67. It's just tough when people then they post his records and majors.
And it's like, didn't show, yeah, but it is kind of like, that's the dream is to just like, have that big of an excuse built in for why you're not there. It's like they're afraid of me.
It would rock, but also 13 live players. It would rock if Max won the Masters this year.
Yeah, I don't think he won the match, he didn't. oh, he didn't win the match. What did he play?
Rory Rory, Lexi Thompson and Rose Zhang. However, Max got closest to the pin on one of the part threes, which means $100,000 to charity. Oh, nice, good guy, Max.
Uh, that we should get credit for.
That as well, yeah, just that a hundred thousand is coming from Max and us. Okay, we have donated.
A hundred thousand dollars to charity. Yeah, cool truck cinema. Oh, cinema is back.
Oh.
Uh, an American saga. Kevin Costner apparently funded this movie himself. He couldn't, you know, get to get backing for it, so he took the money, made it the movie himself. I saw reports, you know, months ago or almost longer ago, that he was putting it out.
It's going to be four movies, which seems excessive. That's homework. They put the trailer out. Are they coming out all at once? No, it's smart.
It's, it's, I think it's end of June, end of August. Oh, I'm kind of into that, so we can binge it kind of.
Looks so good, I watched the trailer. An American saga, Kevin.
Costner Horizon Maybe I just watched the trailer, Hank had me look it up.
It's a it. It follows the theme of Kevin Costner Oh, it's Horizon American Saga, where Kevin Costner has just turned his entire life into making movies. Where he gets to ride horses. And so he's. He's just lived, like in Wyoming, Utah, uh, Montana, and he just only does films that are.
Based in those locations. But like Yellowstone, Yellowstone's got a little bit of like the the drama and kind of like the. This looks like just a straight, straight western. Okay, I'm in, I like, I like a good western, yeah.
I mean, I've watched a show like six times, it looks amazing, Whoa Cinema's back, and apparently Dune 2 is good, but I don't know.
What I know?
But for people at home, what is Dune? It is a science fiction movie, what is it about? It's?
A sequel of a remake? Was it a video game? I think they did make a video game at some point about it.
Okay, that's one of those ones that I just have missed every single piece of it, so when I see.
Dune 2. I'm like, they're still doing it. I always thought that they're saying Doom 2, which I'm all in for. Doom was a video game. Doom was a great video game, yeah.
All right.
That's where the confusion is. Uh-huh, doom the BFG 9000. Okay, that makes sense.
Dune is back.
Again, I'll see it soon. How many are there? This is the second one, I think it's the last one.
Oh, okay, good. Am I going to be lost if I watch Dune 2 and have not seen Dune the original or?
Dune the new one You should watch the new one. I think I'm sure everyone already remembers this, but Dune was the reason I blew my back out originally. Oh, that's right, yeah.
I remember.
That I don't. This is the one. Oh yeah, this is the movie with Baby Yoda, right?
No, yeah.
Roku, Yeah, Roku, Roku, Roku, The Baby Yoda. Will I be lost if I never watch any of the Dunes?
No, I think you'll be fine, okay, so I'm going to. You haven't even seen Star Wars, correct?
So I think there's lots of walking in dune. Oh what, I'll just watch Frank Walks, by the way. watch Frank Walks today.
Very special guest. Very special guest. Frank Walks. You guys, no better.
Bleep it out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going to be an awesome walk next up.
Well, bleep that out, too, because that will give away the first one.
Okay, good job, hot seat, cool throne. thanks. good job hank.
Thanks, my hot seat is Wendy's customers, Wendy's fast food customers. This is crazy. Wendy's is toying with the idea of surge pricing on their menu.
Actually, they're not toying with it. They are going to implement surge pricing in an experiment to see if they can get away with charging people more money during heavy usage hours. So, in other words, Max would be, I kind of like this lunch and dinner, why would you like this?
Okay, I have a question, because.
Will it work both ways, or can it only go up? So if it goes down at weird times, that's cool.
That's so. It should just be their normal menu prices and then they dip correct in the off times, but no, they're going to raise the prices during heavy usage.
In Madison State, Street, brats used to do stock market night, where if everyone's buying a Coors light, the price goes up for a Coors light. If no one's buying a Rumpelmint's, the price goes down. It was awesome. You just watch the big board and you're like, Oh shit, Rumpelmint shots are 50 cents right now, go up and buy it and then it goes back up.
But if that's what they're doing, I'm in because then you can get some great deals. I think it's just about how many-.
It's just going up, how many people are going to be there. Yeah, then that's bullshit, they're not going to drop it down.
This stinks. They're just going to charge more money and I don't think they're going to have it be. Like, Oh, the Baconator is reduced in price at this time. The spicy chicken sandwich. But you agree that would rule? I think it'd be cool if they just kept the prices and dropped them at like three o'clock in the afternoon.
But just keep them. Just like at the dinner time rush hour, the prices go up. But if you're like Max, and you're thinking about getting a lovely present for your girlfriend. And it's 2am and Villanova just got the shit kicked out of them by Yukon Boom. A Baconator is $1.25..
Yeah, I'm just not on board with this because it feels like there's a slippery slope. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Wendy's hasn't been killing it recently, right?
Have you ever seen Wendy?
The person.
Yeah.
Like the ginger.
Yeah, the logo, oh, who? is like the derivative, because it's Dave Thomas's granddaughter.
Yeah, are you talking about the actual Wendy? Yeah, yeah, I have seen her.
Very handsome. Yeah, very handsome young lady she is.
Tough, good thing they did the cartoon.
My cool throne-.
Bonkless.
No, that's not. no, no, no, that's anti-Bonk hank, it's a fucking child. And she was-.
Oh man.
Tough to look at.
She'd be a great rugby player.
She grew up to be fine looking. But they did the cartoon well.
He's like, my daughter loves hamburgers so much, I'm going to put her as the logo of the hamburger place.
She's like a softball catcher.
A lot of power, real life, Wendy.
Well, no, I'm talking about, yeah, yeah, there you go, that's not the bonkless hank. Please take me off her right now.
I think they screwed up the pantone.
I think they took some liberties, Yeah, they took a lot of liberties.
My cool throne is Uganda. Yes, because Last chance Uganda the football portion is premiering tonight Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern. You can find it on the Wonton Don's YouTube page. This is Billy and Donnie coaching the Uganda National Football team.
Sponsored by part of My Cheese Steak.
Sponsored by part of My Cheese Steak. In their upcoming bout at the time against Kenya, who knows what happened? I think we all forgot by this time, but they have a game against Kenya. So this is Billy and Donnie meeting the team, meeting the administrators of the Uganda Football Federation, and installing whatever semblance of offense they tried to install.
I'm excited.
I saw Donnie tweet because we had the combine yesterday and Billy was doing billy things across the board.
Yeah, it was a banner day for Billy.
And he replied to one of the clips and said, Seems like Billy's turned himself into the villain of the barstool combine. However, I'm trying to make him the hero of Last Chance Uganda and this is not helping.
The Billy tweet So the combine was yesterday. If you didn't watch, we have it all. you can watch it anywhere on the Barstool Sports main channels. I'm very sore from it, Billy tweeted afterwards. Or today, realizing? Working yourself up into a stimulant-driven manic state in order to shave milliseconds off a 35-yard dash and get extra reps of 135 pounds on the bench.
Press was really not worth it. Because you come off as an absolute asshole to everyone around you and you become a person you kind of really don't want to be. There was no punctuation in that, so I did read that correctly. Um, and then I just saw, one person replied What about paintball?
Good point.
No. Billy's excuse list so far has included the fact that he took too many stimulants beforehand, which I will defend Billy on. He did absolutely take way too many stimulants before and during the combine. The other excuse that was my favorite, maybe my favorite Billy excuse of all time. And God knows we've heard a lot of them. After the bench press. How many did Billy put up? Like 40, which is a pretty impressive 40 on the dot?
He said he was gonna do 50 or he died.
50 or die, he said. If I don't get 50, shoot me. Yeah, um, so he did 40, and then after he got done, he was so mad. His excuse was it was too light.
Too light, it was too light. If the weight had been heavier, he would have been able to demonstrate his strength more because other people would not have been able to lift as much. Correct? And so then he would have gotten more reps than Will Compton.
He also in the vertical when you have to test your vertical and you get it set to a certain height by raising your arm over your head. He said he couldn't raise his arm all the way because of his shoulder, and then continued to do the vertical and raise his arm as high as he possibly could. And then, before the QB portion was like doing windmills with his shoulder.
Well, we saw the impact that the shoulder had on his throwing accuracy. Yeah, that's true, which is true, yeah. My second favorite Billy clip from the combine yesterday was when he was attempting to do the vertical. And he was mad. For I don't, because we tried to tell him you have to lift your hand all the way up.
Straighten your arm, which everyone did.
And so then he jumped up in the air and he knocked the entire device over the measuring device, and then it hit the ground. And then he blamed Francis for not catching it. Yeah, that it was a....
It was a banner day.
It was a tremendous day for Billy football content. But I do think that last chance Uganda is going to be awesome. It's a great storyline that they have going over there, teaching Uganda football players how to play football and all the stuff behind the scenes and anything. Donnie does auto-click for me, yep.
My favorite graphic we've ever made? Yep, I will post it again today, it's...
It's very, very good.
It's just so funny.
I'm excited and the fact that we've got....
Bringing cheesesteaks to Africa.
Yeah, yeah.
That's why we started the cheesesteak business.
We should have just taken all the footage and then done our own interviews, like, We're Bob Kraft to make us look good. Oh, that's what we should have done. Yeah, we should have, but yeah, very excited to watch Last Chance Uganda.
All right, my hot seat is ice cream, but not really ice cream. it's clay Travis, so Joe Biden likes ice cream. And this is not to get political because....
Is that a code name like pizza?
No, it's not. I guess he was eating ice cream while talking about the Middle East, which, yeah, probably not like the appropriate time, but whatever, he's eating ice cream. I like this because Clay has. Obviously he's very heavy into politics, and whenever someone who's heavy into politics they can make one little mistake. Where they're like, show that they're so out of touch with Regular America.
They get high on their own supply sometimes.
Right, it's, you know, what was it whenever someone was it? Ted Cruz at the basketball goal. Yeah, something like that.
Basketball ring, maybe.
Ring Yeah, so clay, tweeted. Joe Biden eating ice cream while answering reporter questions about serious issues isn't charming. It's super weird. Do you know grown men who go get ice cream by themselves? I don't.
It's very strange.
Yeah, I do all the time, I do quite a bit.
Literally all the time I get ice cream, I'm going to do that as a protest tonight, I'm going to get ice cream by myself.
I get it twice a week when I'm on vacation, I get it every day, that's my rule.
Ice cream by yourself is actually great.
Ice cream stores.
Yeah, if I see an ice cream store, just pop it.
Pint guys.
Dude, I used to go when we lived in New York and I was in dumbo in Brooklyn. There was like, probably four ice cream trucks that would just sit on various corners. And I'd be like, Oh, I got to go take stell out, go get a fucking cone by myself.
Yeah, ice cream rocks, there is a place called the Ice Cream Store, too. Yeah, I hit that up quite a bit.
But this is like-.
I thought it was going to be-.
Stay out of the ice cream takes okay, because grown men do like to eat ice cream by themselves.
Was it one of those things where it's like a cone, so it's phallic? It's like, why are you, as a man, sucking down a cone of ice cream?
I love ice cream cones. He also wasn't by himself, he was with a bunch of people, because I don't think Joe Biden can go anywhere by himself.
Well, he might wander off.
Legally, he's not allowed to, and then Clay Travis had to. Basically, everyone was like, Dude, what's wrong with ice cream? why are you going after ice cream? And he, on his radio show later or today, started the sentence I'm not claiming that I'm anti-ice cream.
That's it, dude, if you have to say that you're anti-ice cream.
Yeah, no, if you said that, you're on the losing side of an argument.
Yeah, if you have to start a political radio show with I'm not claiming to be anti-ice cream, you're anti-ice cream.
So it was as gripe that he was eating ice cream at the wrong time. Because, if so, I can't imagine a president talking about some sort of Middle East foreign policy. While doing a leisurely activity and then ending it with something like, Now, watch this drive. Yeah, yeah, I mean, the fact of the matter is, when you're president, you just get asked questions.
And you just do it, yeah, you do the regular things.
I'm sure that there have been some presidents, LBJ probably that have done press conferences or phone calls while taking a shit. Yeah, like, you're just you're always on the-.
Oh, LBJ was a notorious shit guy.
Big, big shit, guy.
Yeah, no, it's not. I don't again not getting into politics. I didn't even play the clip to see what President Biden was talking about. I am just focusing solely on the do you know, grown men who get ice cream by themselves? I don't. It's very strange. No, you're strange.
Yeah, that is strange, you're strange. William Howard Taft used to eat ice cream during every single state of the Union address.
Was he the guy that got stuck in the tub?
He is, Yeah, because it was filled with ice cream.
How about that? How about being a president of the United States? And everyone just remembers you as stuck in the tub guy.
I'd much rather be known as the guy that died in, like, 28 days.
Yeah, or the guy who got his brains blown out in Dallas.
Yeah, easily.
Imagine if that happened now?
That was like Hank's ravel would tweet out a clip of the he would own a piece of the tub, yeah.
Dude getting stuck in a. But like, think about how well known that story has to be that it survived. What? How long ago was he president, like a hundred years ago?
You know what? yeah, it's.-.
Stuck in a fucking tub?
It survived so much that-.
How'd they get him out of the tub?
That I almost think it might not be true.
Your little penis is there because you got, you know, tub water, and he's, Oh man, someone's got to come just fucking suck you out of the tub.
All right, so I'm looking this up right now because it seems like a story that's been talked about so much that it might be fake.
No, don't do that if it is fake. if you find out it's fake, do not tell me it's fake.
I'll just say that if it happens to be fake, whoever started that rumor, great job. Yeah. Like, if that's your rival and you get elected president and then you're like, how do I ruin this guy's legacy? You crack the code.
He's stuck in tub, guy.
You figured out how to do it. I thought you were going to say with Joe Biden that he was like eating an ice cream cone in a weird way. Because when it's primary season, the like aids for every single person that is running for president. They've got like two rules, which are like, don't eat a corn dog, yeah, don't eat ice cream. Because people just photoshop penises on them, yeah.
Stay away from state fairs I know Hunter seems to really like the funnel cake powder quite a bit, but stay out of state fairs.
No, he wasn't eating it. Weird, you know? Joe Biden does have. Like, every time he eats an ice cream cone, I feel like right before he starts eating it. He's got to decide, he's got to remind himself, like, is this a child's hair? I'm going to sniff.
Or an ice cream cone? But other than that, it was normal.
Yeah, it's also funny that Clay wakes up every morning and he just sees what Joe Biden's doing. He's like, Okay, I know what I'm going to talk about.
Yeah, he ate ice cream.
It's like, skip Bayless with LeBron, right?
This guy's eating ice cream.
I can't believe it.
By himself, ice cream rocks. No one should be shamed at any point for eating ice cream ever. That's a fact.
I agree, maybe Joe Biden can't digest solid foods, that, too.
Well, he had a cone, I don't know did he finish it? We never saw it.
We didn't see it, no.
All right, my cool throne is the Knicks and Tom Thibodeau getting the Knicks to the point of they're like the 90s Knicks again. Did you see that clip last night? Dante Divincenzo just doing a full form tackle, it was great.
It was like Sean Taylor and the Pro Bowl. Yeah, it was fantastic.
The Knicks are, I mean, it will be fun to see the Knicks in the playoffs. I think the Knicks are one of those teams that they should be. Like, maybe it's just 90s basketball in my head. They should try to just foul people really hard instead of playing good basketball, and they do play good basketball.
Isaiah Thomas is like, I wouldn't go in the paint if I were you. That should be their motto, for sure. The refs did apologize to Monty Williams after the game. They said, Yeah, we blew that call, we screwed it up.
Which is that, if you're a fan and the refs say we screwed up this call, sorry to me, that's almost worse. It's like, I don't want to hear that. I want you to double down on being a shithead so I can be mad at you. Just never saw it.
Now I'm like, Oh, you're apologizing to me, but that still doesn't affect anything, right, right?
I'd agree, all right, Jake. Finish this off Hot seat Cool Toronto.
My hot seat is Jon Rahm. He is reportedly being ghosted by Tiger Woods as Rahm is trying to reach out to him to explain his live decision.
Oh, what do you mean? Why doesn't he just text Tiger Woods? A bunch of like, dollar bill signs? Boom, he explained it.
So he says that Rory's been supportive publicly of my decision, and he was privately as well.
But he said, I mean, Tiger, I texted him and the people that try to reach out, you know the process. When I signed it, just let him know. Hey, you know, this is a personal decision. I have nothing against anybody. But apparently he has not heard back from Tiger.
I feel like you should just text him some nudes.
Yeah, I feel like Tiger's a changes phone number a lot, guy.
Yeah, but he's probably Tiger's probably like a five or six cell phone guy. Yeah, if that makes sense.
Yeah, that has to be tough, just texting Tiger.
Why does John Rahm care? I mean, I know I get it, Tiger, but like, dude, you did it for the money like you shouldn't.
He's trying to not burn the bridges, I guess.
Yeah, but if you're going to make a decision like that, you can't go into it being like, hope, everyone likes it.
Yeah, so if you're, if you're John Rahm, how many millions of dollars is Tiger responding to your text messages worth?
Well, how much did he sign for? 500 million?
I heard it's way more, I heard it might have been more than that, I don't know.
So I think it's OK. If you lost texting privileges with Tiger Woods for 500 million dollars, sign me up.
Yeah, there's been some lawsuits out there where the exact opposite scenario is, yes.
Yes, all right, and your cool throne?
My cool throne is maction. We're getting more maction because UMASS is getting added, which means more games.
Back.
Back in it, yeah, we were in the Mac. Yeah, sorry.
Yes, but that means more weeknight football. Yeah, actually.
I think it's everything except for lacrosse, right? I saw all sports, I heard it was men's and women's lacrosse staying behind, but that's good.
Either way, big deal.
If you got to pick a conference to go into, the Sun Belt and the Mac are the two ones you want to be in right now.
Mac is the only conference that doesn't like they stay steady.
Yeah.
They're not getting picked off left and right, steady, Eddie.
If you're not a Power conference school, why wouldn't you want to be in the Mac with the way they get the standalone spots every year?
Yeah, if you're not a Power Conference school, I'd want to be in the MAC or the Mountain West.
I saw somebody tweet out the graphic, we talk about it every year, or every time, was it? Uconn plays against UMAss, where the graphic shows like, Just come, come-ass, c-u-m come-ass. Now it's Central Michigan.
Oh, nice, when that matchup happens, that's the come-ass game, nice.
Okay.
Excited about that?
That is exciting, we get to keep the come-ass game.
Mark your calendars, yeah.
It's come-ass, come-ass.
It's come-ass.
Yeah, it's come-ass. It's not exactly the same because Connecticut's C-U central Michigan is.
It's just C. the logo is just C. Oh yeah, it is. yeah, it's come-ass.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah, that's right. C just c. Connecticut's just c.
Yeah, yeah, that's fun, that's good to keep it okay.
Let's get to our interviews. We got Biz Great interview with Biz, Great interview with Jay Billis, two for the People.
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Okay, we now welcome on Uh, one of our best friends, recurring guest. He did cancel on us last week. We want to know why it is Paul Bissonnette.
Biz Why'd you cancel on us last week?
I was just so gassed and I just wasn't feeling good. You know, when you, like, have been going so hard, you're just your body just needs to sleep for a few days.
Yeah.
I think I think for three days in a row, I was doing 12 hours of sleep. I just kind of needed it. Sometimes I crash and I was actually watching a YouTube interview. Who's the guy who was an Oppenheimer?
Cillian Murphy Yeah.
He said I just, I just need to sleep. Sometimes I just kind of crashed and I was like, You know what, that's me.
Wait, wait, wait.
You were out with being tired.
Wait, hold on, you needed Cillian Murphy to tell you that sleep is good.
No, but I'm saying that it's just got to a point where, like, I think I was going too hard and traveling a lot different time zones to where I'm. Like, Ah, I remember when I got up, I'm like, I'll be shit, if I go on like, I can't, my brain can't even function, I'd be useless. And you guys got Yans on and he played with Yager, Yager just had his jersey retirement.
I feel like the stars align, so who gives a shit?
That's true, I know I didn't take it personal, I just was, you know, the AWs love you, they love you.
So they were like, where's biz? We were promised biz.
Well, I, I tell you what I. I was a healthy scratch plenty of times in my days and Yans would always step up as a teammate. And here you go, he did once, once again. And you guys got some incredible Yager stories and a fresh new voice on the PMT podcast. Unless has he, has he been on.
Yeah, he's been on, okay.
He's a reoccurring guest now. Yeah, he deserves it, yeah, cause he's the man.
He's a he's a great guy. But so why were you so gassed? What did you do?
You worked.
Just a lot of traveling, a lot of games, a lot of double headers, like our double headers on TNT. Sometimes go to like two in the morning, and then you're just you're, you know, it's just a lot. I don't know, fuck.
I'm human, you know?
Yeah, you are human, all right, so want to talk a little hockey? Also just wanted to catch up with you, cause we miss you.
I love you guys.
First question, I was accused. Hank said that on Sunday night show, Uh, that the Black Hawks are. Or Chicago is a bad sports town. Because there was some cheering for Patrick Kane's overtime winner. I in the moment, I wish I had brought up the fact that he was the biggest Bucs fan ever when Tom Brady was on the Bucs.
But uh, what, you, you watch? That night I was there, it was incredible. What did you think?
I mean, like Patrick Kane's one that we, he's, he's showtime, he's incredible.
I think it was one of the best nights in hockey history, well, at least from, like, since I've been alive. Like, you know, Chris Chalios played 27 years pro. And just the whole ceremony, him coming out in that classic car with his mom, all of the legends and celebrities he bought brought into that building. The energy must've been insane. I mean, you were live attendance, and you know, we, we. You guys often joke, well, Compton, all the football guys joke about how the N.FL scripted. it almost feels like it will scripted.
Yeah, yeah, that's another thing he came up with.
Oh, he invented it.
He came up with that, it went super viral.
He's a smart guy.
Fucking rights, man, good for. He's on a heater lately, especially with the all black and all white football team. We don't need to go into that, nor are you going to cancel today. Uh, but the fact that it ended up being against Detroit, where Patrick Kane has landed. And what he and that core group of guys meant to that city during that dynasty. And for them to be there.
And then for Shelly to acknowledge them during his speech to, like, Chalios is all clash and class. Excuse me, and you know, he's a guy's guy through and through. I just thought that that ending was just so fitting. And for me, from from a Hockey Day in America perspective, to it being Hockey Day in America, it just was the perfect storybook ending. And he said it Patrick Kane's going to go down when he retires as the best American born player of all time.
I still think that there's potential room for Matthews to maybe overtake that throne because I see him on the trajectory. He's on having the most goals all time. But for now, let's give Patrick Kane his flowers. And I don't give a fuck if you know, if you're rooting for the for the Red Wings. What he did for the city, city of Chicago, he deserves for you to give him a tire pump. After burying you guys, and all she's doing is giving you guys another first overall pick.
Yeah, that's the thing. If the Black Hawks were in like a race for the playoffs, it would be different, but they they're the worst team in the NHL. And yeah, it was. It was a special night, like the the The Cane double ovation.
Like he, he had to come back out on the ice because no one would sit down. I got a little misty eyed, cause he's just it's just that tight, I was explaining on Sunday. Like, when you have a guy who always comes through in the clutch, there's just something special about it that you'll just always root for him.
I'm obviously not a Black Hawks fan or or, and wasn't a Patrick Kane fan when I was playing. From a sense of like, the competition perspective, but the respect was there. But the amount of times in in key moments that he was able to step up and score, but not only just score. But then, like, go down the ice, get on his knees, make the heart and then punch a fucking hole through it. The heartbreaker celebration and even the one the other night. Like being like, show time, baby show time. And how he's able to move his hands really fast, like kind of doing like the, you know, he does with his hands.
He's like, come on, baby, come on.
Yeah.
He's just he's a. he's a legend through and through, and it was such a cool moment. And he is a, he's all time man, he's a. he's a first ballot Hall of Famer.
It was cool seeing all the players that were out there, all the stars that came out for it. A little birdie told me that, Uh, your good friend, your dear friend, Wayne Gretzky, he had a hell of a time there. Um, I heard he may have been kicked out of the box. Have you heard anything about that?
No, why? What are you talking about?
I heard that I heard Wayne was asked to leave because he wouldn't stop smoking cigars.
This was not for me, by the way, not for me, but I heard, Yeah, this is not for me.
I heard they asked him to leave and that Wayne Gretzky left. And he was like, Well, I guess I'm just going to hit the bar now. Like, can you know, are you allowed to kick Wayne Gretzky out of a box at a hockey game?
There's, there's not a chance that happened.
I'm going to say, there's a rumor, there's not rumor, boys.
I like you fitting into your role as Wayne's enforcer, like his goon. Be like, Nope, didn't happen.
Yeah, him and DJ Collins now.
Yeah, I know it didn't happen because I saw Wayne again. They had like a post party at the United Center in the Atrium area and he was there. So he definitely didn't get kicked out none of the arena, but he's having a good time.
Apparently, he got kicked out of the suite.
He was having a very good time.
So, um, pft. Speaking of Wayne, though, when Chelios said the greatest American born player of all time, you know, the first person to start that over a standing ovation was. Wayne was the first guy to get out of his seat. So that's when you know there's truth behind it. Yeah, so Patrick Kane officially the greatest American born player in hockey history, as of right?
Now, uh, with Chelios, I remember I was in, uh, I was in Austin, Texas, at the time, and the, uh. The Texas stars were playing against the Chicago Wolves. The minor league team, and Chelios was like, 47 years old, 48 years old, playing for a minor league hockey team. Came out there, scored a goal. Why did? Why did he keep playing so long?
Is it because he just loved hockey that much?
Well, that, um, he kept an incredible shape. So Chelios, Uh, I don't know if Yanz is talking about him. Um, in length, but just a guy who could go out and drink 24 pops. But then yet he'd be at the rink the next day at 5 a.m. riding the bike in the sauna. So his ability to stay in shape and be such a freak for as long as as he played, that's why he was able to have that longevity. Now, from what I understand, um, I want to say his son, I think his name's Jake.
I played against him when he was playing for the Carolina Hurricanes Farm team in Charlotte, I actually fought him, he wanted. Chris wanted to keep playing long enough to the possibility that he was able to play in the NHL, either with or against his son. That's my understanding of why he ended up playing so long and kind of dragging along. But in his last year, he was playing in the minors and then was also, uh, called up. Because Atlanta thrasher Chicago Wolves was the farm team.
He got called up to Atlanta to basically be Zach Bogosian's, um, like, take him under his wing. And that was their first rounder that year. I want to say he went fifth overall and then that was kind of the end of it all. But to play 27 years in in, especially in the eras that he played three Norris trophies he won, it was just a hell of a career.
I don't know how he played that long because at 32 years old, both my ACLs just exploded in my last season of playing. Yeah, and I want to say he retired at the age of like 47 longer than Tom Brady. So just a remarkable, remarkable longevity. And he was butt chugging from the fountain of youth his whole career.
It was pretty crazy how long he played. Uh, so biz back to to Wayne Gretzky real quick. So I was able to get a picture of my son with Wayne Gretzky, which, like, it was bigger for me than my my son's four and a half.
Did he know who you were?
He, I, he was having fun. I was lucky because his son is a barstool fan, so his son came up and was like, big cat, what's up? That saved me? Like, perfect timing.
Oh, nice, it was just like, Thank God he's here, so that Wayne doesn't think I'm just some fucking weirdo stalker pigeon.
Yeah, right.
So that was huge, but, uh, so I walk out of the arena with my son. I'm like, you just got a picture with the greatest hockey player of all time, and he and my son's like, Well, how is he the greatest? I was like, Well, he scored the most goals.
And then my son asked me, How many goals did you score? I was thinking about it, You scored seven goals in the NHL. Can I get a couple? Can I just take a couple and just tell my son that I scored a couple?
I think that the Chicago Blackhawks should shine. You put you on Bedard's line just for the viral content, to revive the fan base and get sick at ticket sales up. Yeah, and I think that if they put you net front on a power play for even a full season, I bet you. He put 15 off your ass and in the net, especially for how wide yours is, you basically have a full backboard.
If you stand on the far side of the net, which I mean Zach, Zach. Hyman gets 40 playing with McDavid, I'm pretty sure you can get 20 playing with Connor Bedard.
Yeah, I just need one or two, cause that was a tough question. When my son was like, how many goals did you score in the NHL? And I was just like, Ah, well, this is not going to be.
And then I tried to change the subject, but yeah, maybe I'll do that. I did see Hosa too, and he didn't think it was very funny. But I was like, Hey, big cat. Like, we've met a bunch of times. And I was like, Yeah, we won a couple of cups together, 13 and 15, and he was just like, What?
That didn't go so well. I'll be thinking in his head, like, maybe this guy was like a black ace that got a couple of games or something and got his name on a cup. And he's like, Oh, it's been that long. I mean, Rafi Torres did hit him pretty hard.
So maybe he forgot.
Yeah, that's true. Uh, so biz what you? You are doing a great job on TV. We love seeing you on TV. Uh, it's. It's like the perfect role for you. You get to watch. You watch probably more hockey than anyone in the country right now.
What's the big story? Getting close to the playoffs? What's your? What's the number one thing you're thinking about when you're watching every night? And like storyline that everyone can be attached to?
Uh, well, I mean, like, just going back to what we recorded today. Obviously the Chelios is jersey. Retirement was number one. Just to give him his flowers. Um, I would probably say the hottest topic was this Matt Rempe kid who's in, uh, in with the Rangers. He's a six seven mutant like young young guy on his entry-level contract, and he's came any. His first game was at the outdoor Games at the Metlife, and his first shift of the game he ended up fighting Matt Martin.
So that was pretty cool in front of 80,000 people and in the NHL. What they do with the rookie lap. Your first game is is the guys kind of hold up at the door. So you just kind of start warm up where you do a couple of loser laps by yourself. So getting to do that in front of 80,000 people pretty cool. I ended up meeting his, his, uh, his mom and two sisters, and they were just so amped up for his first game.
And then Matt Martin, for the Islanders, was kind enough to drop him with them. But then since then, he's fought like two more times. He's been trucking guys and he's just kind of been this, uh, almost like a Jeremy Lynn type situation, where he's like a household name around. At least New York City right now, after only playing a handful of games, that was probably the one one story. And, uh, I mean, the Rangers in general, man, they've, I think they've won, what?
11 games in a row, they're just on an absolute heater right now. Uh, she's circling back to plan. So anytime the Rangers are in the mix, that's usually a big story. And, uh, I would probably say they take the cake, Florida being the wagon that they are.
They're probably the probably the. The number one favorite in the East is a big story. I would say that the even Detroit being back in the mix, Motown, the eyes are plants. Steve Eisenman took over as GM What? Probably four years ago now, and he had an uphill battle to make them relevant again. And now they're probably looking at a playoff spot.
So the thing about the NHL, it's like there's so much parody and it's such a good league. And I would say probably the most, um, competitive regular season. It's not like one team is a headline hog, it just gets snapped around to where there's just so many amazing stories. Uh, the Western Conference, probably the strongest it's been in a while, where I think that there's probably six teams that could realistically come out of the Western Conference.
Rick Talk it, who was my coworker at TNT? He took over as head coach last year. It was, um, how do I probably like? Not issues in the locker room, but definitely chemistry problems. And he was able to go in there and fix all that. And now they're the top team in the league going into the last 20 games of the season.
So they're for sure going to make playoffs. Um, that that, to me, was one of the biggest stories. And where a guy who wasn't even a coach halfway through the year last year is probably the front runner to win the Jack Adams this year. Um, but outside of that, man, I mean, I can keep rifling off stuff. But the NHL is thriving and overall the growth of the league and where it's at. I just think it's a. If you're not a hardcore hockey fan and you're kind of sick of maybe the sport that you're following, jump on the hockey bandwagon, man, because it's a it's an amazing league.
Yeah, it is, yeah. You were talking earlier about fighting the guy and then meeting up with him later and being boys. What percentage of, like, the fights you've gotten in? Um, do you end up being friends with the person like immediately afterwards? Versus like the ones where there's actual bad blood? Where you're like, I don't like that dude.
So I never really had any rivalries where I I hated guys that much. Um, you always usually give the the pat on the ass after, and I mean, you wouldn't be playing tummy sticks per se. Where you're like, Hey man, how the wife and kids like yelling over on the other side of the box, uh. But now when I see guys that I fought, yeah, we just laugh and chuckle about it. And we, we did it to survive.
We did it so we could earn a paycheck. And I know for me, it wasn't that deep rooted unless a guy like, took a cheap shot at a teammate. And maybe that's why I would have bad blood. But ultimately, there was no scumbags that I truly hated and still carry any type of grudge against.
I like to hear that, the uh biz. This is actually the first time we've had you on in a while, so you were a breaking news guy a few months ago. How's, how's that gone? uh, since you broke that entire was it? was it? with Uh, Babcock in, Uh, Columbus? How, how? What is the? Is the? Is the National Hockey League media giving you a little more respect that you deserve?
Cause you were, like, dead on with that entire story.
I mean, I don't really give a fuck about that stuff like respect in that, like, you know, journalistic integrity. Like. I tell rumors about trades coming up all the time, like, I just I'm like a casual fan when it comes to that stuff. Um, it was a pretty wild time, uh, because obviously they were denying it right away.
And I don't know how many people listening know the backstory. Long story short is Mike Babcock was a coach in the National Hockey League, a successful one. Um, you know. He coached the Detroit Red Wings for a while. Uh, won a Stanley Cup there with the roster they had probably should have won more. But he had a history of of maybe abusing his power too much. Now there's this, there's this maybe mindset of some people listening being like, Oh well, like, you know, today guys are too soft and it's like this, like cushy society now, where no. Man. I I think that establishing accountability and being hard on players if they're making mistakes over and over. And how, you know, sitting them out and bag skating them.
Yeah, that's all normal stuff that I had to go through. But there was like the the, the verbal barrages that he would give, uh, uh, uh. Franz. And who was a player for the Detroit Red Wings? Where it caused them? Like mental issues. Where, even since he's been retired, he spoke out on it and he said it destroyed his confidence in his career. And he fucking hates Babcock. Um, at the time, he was in Detroit, probably at the time of era where it could be gotten away with.
And given that Babcock had a good reputation from a coaching standpoint, Coach Team Canada won gold there. It wasn't something that was going to get them fired. Move on to Toronto, where he ended up getting the next job, where he was the highest paid coach of the league. Uh, Mitch Marner. The story came out where when he was a rookie, he called in, he called them in and he said, I want you to rank the guys laziest to hardworking. So he was basically forced to do it right.
Then Babcock took that list, goes into the locker room and basically tells the first guy on the list, Yeah, Marner thinks you're lazy. So just sewering this guy with his team and abusing his power right now. A story that. So there was a few other things that happened in Toronto to the venture, the point where they weren't having success.
And I think that he overstayed his welcome and they moved on. One of the things that happened in Toronto that hadn't come out was one of the power dynamics was. He would have guys come in and he would say, What type of person are you? Give me your phone, let me see your phone, and he would start looking through the player's photos on their phone.
Like, that's just, I mean, any job you work in America, if you're a boss and you do that, you're done right. Are you getting canned?
Yeah, I, I do that to Hank after every weekend. I'm just like, let me see, let me see what you got.
You're, you're, you're definitely on the clock.
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