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Congrats, Hank. The summer of Hank is upon us. It is nigh. The long, long drought for Boston all the way back to 2018 is finally over.

Five and a half years.

It's really incredible that eternity. You survived this long, maybe the biggest drought of your entire life. As a sports fan, it is. I'm so glad that it's over because you must have been in hell for those five and a half years. But the Celtics, they did in five games. You thought they do it in six.

I bet them to win it under five and a half games. That's just false.

You said on this very.

Yeah, I did say on the show.

Listen, Hank, this would be a Hank wet suck fest. You don't need to come in hot right now.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Congratulations, Hank. You're better than us. As a sports fan. The city of Boston is better than us. As sports fans. I'm very jealous of everything you've gotten to experience. But you had a great team, and Jalen Brown proved all the haters wrong. And he is. He's in that top five now.

He's the best player on the team.

Jason Kidd was 100% correct. Congratulations to Jalen Brown. Very happy for you.

Yeah, thank you.

Tell us. Tell us before, by the way, people who are wondering, we're going to. We're going to tape after the Stanley cup, so you'll hear us talk, react to game five, if there's any. If the Panthers end up winning. And everyone's like, why didn't you say Panthers as well? Yeah.

If they do one more thing real quick about Jalen Brown, you know how I know he's the man and he's Batman on that team. Yeah, he wore the wire. Yeah, he wore the wire. And wendy taught us. That's the man, the man wire.

Yeah.

I do think they kind of switch that person game by game, but that's fine. It was a great night. There's truly nothing better the day after. You know, as fun as it is to win a championship that night, you don't go to sleep until, like, 02:00 a.m. you watch every video, you watch the locker room, you see all the quotes. There's nothing better than the day after winning a championship. As a sports fan, taking it all in, looking at all the old takes, there was a five minute compilation of all of every single sports show saying, jalen Brown and Jason Tatum will never work together. Break them up. And that's just the best stuff. It was an emotional night. It was great to watch. Brad Stevens is, you know, the greatest GM of all time. Danny ains recurring guest.

Well, you think Brad Stevens is the greatest GM of all time?

I think he's got to be in all time conversation.

All time. One title.

He is in the conversation. We are having the conversation.

Yeah. Well, we'll see. Yeah.

I mean, the team is set up for a great, great run, which is the most exciting.

Oh, you're thinking about the next one?

I am thinking. I mean, you have to think about the next one. It's like, why? What? We made it to game seven last year. Jason Tatum rolled his ankle. They almost came back from 30. We've been in the Eastern Conference finals, nothing but success. We win a championship now, and we're set up.

We're set up for the mini dynasty.

Maybe a real one.

Oh, I told. I'm saying already, a mini dynasty.

No, no, no.

I completely agree with Hank that he is laser focused on the next one. He is wearing a shirt that says banner 18 on it.

Well, yeah, you got to celebrate him when you get him.

Shouldn't you wear a shirt? This is banner 19, question mark.

No, I like. The Celtics had a blank banner in their practice facility signifying the next one. Now they get to fill it out.

The well, are they gonna have another blank banner?

Yeah.

Okay. The game was never really in doubt. It was the Celtics coronation. The funniest part of the game, I thought, was the last ten minutes when Tatum was trying very hard to get the MVP.

It turned into a little bit. It was Lucas Stat padding and then Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum just going.

For that trading off ISO. Yeah, you guys. I mean, the Celtics were the best team by far in the NBA this year. It showed in the regular season. It showed in the playoffs. They had an incredible run. They only lost three games. I do think, I don't want it to become a full glaze off of Hank. The story of Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum and, like, everything they've gone through, that is why you watch sports and that is the culmination of, like, both from a fan perspective and from their perspective of putting in the hard work and trying to get up to the top of the mountain. Failing, failing, failing. And then reaching that point is very cool. Jalen Brown is like an all time success story in player development with, you know, when we had a Danny, a john and he was talking about, you know, his game was far from being refined. Same with Jason Tatum. All the growth he's had. It's very cool, Hank. It's very cool. You guys, you guys did it. And it, it does get to shut up all the haters that thought those two guys couldn't coexist. And you're right, Brad Stevens.

I mean, the, the drew holiday and the Christoph sporzing is moves were all time. I I wonder who had a worst Tuesday. Marcus Smart or email doca.

It's got to be Odoka. Marcus Smart is definitely happy. Probably a little bit bittersweet.

Yeah.

Obviously.

But Doka just had to not be horny.

Yeah. Udoka dropped, fumbled the back is smart. It wasn't really his choice, but he does get to say, you know, he helped the culture and Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown, he was instrumental in their, you know, upbringing as players. So he, you know, I'm sure he's happy for them. Obviously. It's, it is, it is sad. Like, it's bittersweet, I'm sure, but it's definitely a doke.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I would probably agree with that. Marcus Smart, though, not a great day either. No, I don't think he was. I don't think it was much bittersweet as a mud, as much as it was bitter for Marcus Smart just because, like, those are the guys that you played with, you probably really wish you were on that team, especially considering how this year went for him, but.

And they needed the guys who they brought in for him.

Yeah.

To get over the hump.

Yeah.

Although holiday was the difference maker.

True. Holiday was incredible. I still Bucks fans will get mad. I still think that, like, I don't understand that.

Yeah, they just gave him away and.

They let the Celtics. I know they didn't directly trade him to the Celtics, but they opened the door for the Celtics to get him.

Yeah. Kind of a head scratching move on that one. But KP, Kris ops Przingas, he did play. Hank was right. They got him in the rotation. A lot of people were questioning whether or not he actually should have been in the rotation. He was a massive liability last night. They were just going after him. They were just like, we're going to take a three, we're going to get spacing, and he's not going to be within 10ft. I'm glad that he got to show how tough he was and get to the game because he's probably in some serious pain today dealing with that. But, yeah, you guys walloped the Mavericks so hard that you didn't even need a fourth guy on defense for a lot of the time. They were just a much better team. Celtics have been the best team all year. The best team all playoffs. Congratulations, Hank. You're better than us.

Question.

Yes.

Well, let's glaze a little bit more. Max, you want to glaze a little? You got to say something.

I can get sentimental to sentimental.

And then I have some. Some follow up questions.

Big cow remembers. He was there when I started at Barcelona. Basically for the first year, two years, I was thinking I was getting fired every step of the step of the way. So I was, like, trying to think of things to do so that I could get some level of job security. At the time, there was no Celtics blogger, so I started blogging the Celtics like, oh, you know, I'm. I'm. I'm blogging the Celtics. I'm doing stuff day to day. That was basically right after the Paul Pierce, Kevin Garden, that trade, when the rebuild happened. And so seeing it go from that team to developing, it was before they even drafted Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown, like a year or two before. And so just seeing it all kind of culminate into, you know, when they, when they won the first championship. I was a freshman in high school. That was kind of the start of my adulthood. And then it's like 16 years later, 31, this whole, you know, eight years of my life in the Celtics, it was just. It was a beautiful, beautiful night.

Some say that you had a process and you trusted it big time.

Yeah. That's where Brad Stevens and Brad Stevens, crazy. He developed them as a coach. Like he knew Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum as a coach, he developed that team. They over performed when he was the coach. They were rebuilding, but they still made the playoffs. They still fought. They went to game seven against LeBron when Jason Tatum. I think that was the. Jason Tatum's 19 or 20 year. And then he became the GM, got in. He had a doka who was a player's coach. He, you know, fumbled the bag. And then they brought in another even better football guy. Like the best coach you could ever have, local guy, Providence players coach, to just make him that much better. Got Porzingis, got you holiday. Danny aims at the foundation, and then Brad Stevens just, yeah, made it happen.

Can you even truly say that? You have a great culture, though, if you do things like not even give Grant Williams a tribute video? You see that he was. He was pissed about that. He said, I was pissed. I was definitely pissed about not getting.

A tribute video of Jalen Brown walking past him. Yeah, I saw there was like, jalen. Jalen Brown and Grant Williams, like, reconnect. He was walking down a hallway just giving people high fives and he gave him a high five like, he was just like a security guard and then talked to, like, a lady with her baby for. For way longer than he acknowledged. Grant Williams then went to Taco fall and goes, I love you, Taco. Like, he didn't say anything to Grant Williams and then Taco, you could tell he was like, you know, yeah, love you, taco. Like, we're boys.

That tribute video needs to happen for Grant.

Yeah.

Do you think he did? Grant Williams, everyone's ragged on that game seven against. Like, he did have a huge, huge game for the Celtics. Game seven against the Bucks. It's. Why would you go to that?

Yeah, I don't know.

Why would you go to that?

I don't know. Do you think Jalen Brown was a deserving MVP?

Yeah, I thought the votes, they put the votes out. I think it was, you know, seven or eight to four or, you know, he had three or four more, which is. Which is fair. He's performed slightly better in the finals.

I also.

Jason Tatum did lead the team in points, rebounding and assist for the playoffs. So it's like. It just shows. And Jason Tatum said it after. I don't. It's a media thing to be like, oh, try and drive a wedge into him. But, like, Kobe didn't. Kobe won two finals. MVP's. Like, Steph Curry, Andre Goodall won, Andrew Wiggins won. Like, it's not that big a deal as people are trying, even though they just won the championship. Even though they've been talking shit about him for so long, they're still trying to be like, there's issues here.

We would never do that.

Yeah.

Yeah. We would never do that.

I do think Kaylin is clearly the better player.

I do think. I don't think Andrew Wiggins ever won a finals mvp.

Oh, Steph Curry won that. I thought he was.

Steph Curry won that. I do think Jalen Brown was deserving MVP winner. Because if you look at this series, which wasn't really competitive, the only time that you could point to it and say, oh, this was the game that I thought the Mavs would win or, you know, be at least up for was game three going back to Dallas, and his second half in that game basically ended the series.

Yeah.

Like, he single handedly ended the series there. So I do think he should have won MVP. Tatum tried hard at the end. I'm very happy for Al Horford. That was cool. I also got a little, like. It was. It was cool watching Jason Tatum throw deuce Tatum up in the air.

That picture.

You can't get emotional about that.

You got a cold heart all time picture.

Max, I would like to hear you maybe compliment Hank.

No, thank you. I would like to pass on that.

Okay. All right. Max is passing.

Max, what were your thoughts?

Celtics won.

Okay, that's a thought.

That thought.

That's that. That's what's going on in this head.

Going on that.

Are you happy for Hank?

No.

As a person?

A little bit now.

Yeah.

Max, come on, man.

Do this.

Max, that's bad karma. But that is Billy scumbaggery billion championships.

I don't.

I'm not, like, happy that you got.

Your one championship one. It's like you've never won.

I mean, you did beat up patriots in the Super bowl.

Couple did.

No, I don't. I don't care. But you, the way you were saying that, you were, like, everyone doubted. Doubted them. Said that they couldn't win a championship together. That'll be great. When that story said about Embiid. Oh, that's what. That's what I was.

Maxi.

Maxi. Yeah.

But, like, I feel like he's had four teammates that he actually has just run out of town.

Well, there's Al Horford. There's true holiday.

Jimmy Butler.

This is your moment, Hank. Why are you doing this? Don't let him drag you down. This is your moment.

Yeah. No, you're right. It is.

And you don't think that'll be a story of everyone being like, oh, yeah, everyone said Embiid couldn't win. Win the big one, and then he wins the big one.

Yeah, you're right. It is. There's not. There's nothing better than that moment. I'm not gonna say I hope it happens for you, because it's probably not, but there is nothing. You're right that there's nothing better than then when people say that.

Yeah.

And you can just be like, send the picture with. With them holding the championship trophy.

So you think in mini dynasty. Loading.

I'm already thinking. I was looking at that picture and I'm like, the best picture ever is gonna be when it's reversed when we win another championship. Jason Tatums to play up the finals mvp.

Oh, so you're. Sounds like you're building a wedge.

So you are.

Jason Tatum needs to win in finals MVP to be on the same level.

I'm just thinking of how, like, how sick that picture will be.

You think Tatum will play well enough in the future finals?

Of course.

Okay.

It's interesting, though, because it's the day after you guys win a championship, you're already thinking in the back of your head, this kind of stinks that Jason didn't get MVP.

Tatum needs to get one to even it up. Yeah, that's kind of what you just said.

Like, there's a rivalry. It's like there's a mini Philly Boston rival.

No, I. I'm just thinking of. Then. Then what? What do they say?

The. The.

Cause it's crazy how quickly people jump to that.

The tension, though, on when they were announcing the finals MVP was the best part of the game.

Oh, yeah.

Like, that was the most thrilling part of the game.

I also think if I could be, like, a little bit serious about basketball here, I think that that does a disservice to the Celtics as a whole, because if you just take Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum and you put those two up against some of the other big twos in the league, I don't necessarily think that they're the best two in the league. I think that there are some other teams that might have. Well, they are right now better duo. No, no. The rest of the Celtics. Yeah. Like, the Celtics were an awesome team.

Yeah.

They were like, Jason and Jalen are very, very good. They're elite basketball players. They both sort of made one of the tiers of first team all NBA.

They're the Pistons.

Oh, like the mid two thousands pistons.

That's correct.

That.

That's this. They ended star. They ended star power. Would need. Need star power to win finals last night.

Yeah.

Well, if you were to take, like, the starting five, even the. The top six or seven guys in the rotation, the Celtics are, without a doubt, the best team in the NBA. Like, their depth is insane. They're very, very good. So when you boil it down to Jason or Jalen, you know, which one of these guys is going to be the guy that. That single handedly carries? That's never going to happen with this team, right?

No. And that's the beauty. It's a. It's a team sport. Like, I don't root for one of them more than I root for the other. No, I want just for the media, because then it's like, this is what they're gonna run. Run with for the next year.

You are the media.

Yeah. You. You are the me host.

I'm not. I'm not running for it. I'm happy for the Celtics. I'm happy the team it is. Like I said, brad Stevens deserves as much credit as anyone. Like Brad. Steven, I'll play in the game. But Joe Missoula, Derrick white.

Brad's even made the moves to get. Sam Houser was incredible. Hitting threes. The. Do you want to do the reveal?

The shirt reveal?

Yeah. No. Take off your hat and show everyone the shaved head.

I know, but I do have a plan.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Plans are important.

I like to hear this play.

I have volunteered myself.

Oh, you're gonna do charity, you motherfucker.

To go to long enough.

The first home game, banner night, and I'll be in attendance with a fully bald, shaved head.

During football season.

Yeah.

Wow.

It'll be like a week night.

Probably also the opposite of charity.

Yeah.

Yeah. His hair is not long enough for that.

I was nervous he was gonna flip locks.

Lockwood for see big cat. The thing about me is, when I.

Know we actually might get my hair.

Off, I'm going triple charity, because I want people who are less fortunate to have. Have my hair. Hank.

Yeah.

Think about other people that way.

I don't think anyone wants to say so, Hank, you.

You deserve your happiness again. I don't.

I don't know.

Does he know?

He deserves to. He deserves his happiness. The happiness that he has. There's something to back it up.

Yeah.

I'm not wishing for him to be happy, but he deserves that.

Are we saying he deserves it in terms of. He's worked, so actually, yeah.

You know, he deserves to be happy. Right.

Right now because of what happened.

Correct.

I also think five and a half years is a long time. You put in. You put in the grind, so respect.

That's crazy. And. And there is, like. Like I said before, like the Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum. People can do revisionist history, but there was a very big debate of whether those two guys can do it together. And they prove they could.

Did you like Jason Jalen Brown holding up the trophy with his left hand?

Yeah. Like that. Because he can't dribble his left.

He's the finals MVP.

That is true. He's the finals MVP, which is pretty crazy. It's actually the most amazing thing ever. Worth a wire to be the finals MVP without only using one hand. Yeah.

Imagine if he could use to be every MVP.

Can I? Well, let's talk about the maps real quick.

Also the clip. And again, I shouldn't. I shouldn't. It should be positive. Oh, and I got people wait. Mad at me for.

Wait. What are you gonna say?

Did you see the video? And it was. It was a. It was a good move, Kyrie. You know, he lost, but the leadership. But he waited on the court and dapped up every mavericks player as they were walking off. Like he was. He was the first one in line. He stepped back and then was dapping all the players up, waited for the last person, followed him in the tunnel. It was just green and white confetti just falling on his face.

You like that?

I liked it. Yeah, I liked it a lot.

Liked it a lot.

I liked it a lot.

He also kind of.

You sound like you're getting horny right now.

It was. I. And I didn't want to even. You know, I was. I was just tweeting about the Celtics. I didn't want to, like, say. Say it, but it was. I watched it many times.

He gave a little shout out to the fans, too, on the way out.

Yeah.

No, Adam, I feel like the rivalry is over.

It's 100% over. He hasn't won in Boston, and it's like he, you know, one in 13. One in 13. And I think. Oh, and nine or something at.

In.

In Boston.

Yeah.

So.

So what I was gonna say with the Mavs, as bad as that finals was, I feel like you can. I would buy stock in Luca because it feels like he's getting shit on. He's 25 years old. He's made all NBA, I think, four out of his first five years, something like that. And Derek Lively is gonna be really good for a really long time. They probably need to add a couple more pieces. But you hear what he.

But Mavs fans like what his press conference after he did the. I might be a free. Like I got some things to think about.

Oh, I didn't see that was he.

Have to think about that is what.

They say when there might be doing be free agent.

Oh, right.

Is that.

I don't. I don't know.

That's what they are saying when they might be doing free speaker three.

I think Luca just needs to get in better shape. Cause he. This entire finals, every first half, he was the best player on the court. And then he would start to fade. And that is credit to Celtics defense, which is phenomenal. But either way, I would be buying stock in the Mavs because as much as that sucked and you were far away from winning the title because it wasn't really a competitive series, you do have like a young nucleus that feels like it will be competing for a lot of years going forward.

Lively.

Yes.

I I don't know if you're going to get the same kyrie and luca magic at the same time that we had.

I don't think. I think Luca is going to be Lucas. The path that lucas on, he's going to win a title. I would put. I'd. I'd bet it right now. Luca will win a title.

I think he probably will. I just don't know if it's going to be with kyrie.

Yeah, it doesn't matter. I'm just saying, like, luca is. The Mavs can keep Luca. You should be like, if you're a mavs fan, you, as much as today sucks. Usually like, well, we have Lucas, so we have a chance to win a title, essentially, for the next seven to ten years. Yeah.

I mean, the way that your team's constructed, you. You silenced a lot of critics when you beat the Timberwolves. When you beat the Nuggets or no, the Timberwolves beat the Nuggets, you beat the Timberwolves. That was a big series for you guys. It's not a fluke that you're there.

Yeah, you're.

You're that good offensively, and the defense is pretty good. But the problem with the Celtics is they're just too deep.

What are you finding, Hank, you find in this?

Trying to make sure he said that.

I don't think he did.

I don't see, I have one thing that we didn't talk about, actually, memes brought this to my attention.

Okay. Cuz I have another thing that's maybe gonna get a little negative that I don't. Maybe Hank should leave the room.

Okay.

For. But go ahead.

Well, mine is the Jason Tatum. Kevin Garnett.

Yes. So that was it. That was what I was gonna say. Hank, would you like to speak at all about the fact that Jason Tatum has negative aura?

I think we have a real life case of this in our own, own crew, and it's just something with the younger generation, like, everyone, it's just all nostalgia. And today's day and age is, you know, they wear the old jerseys, they just remake the same movies. Everyone's on social media. The memes, he has a little bit of that. Like, he just kind of speaks in memes and thinks in memes.

Oh, you mean with your own shot at me, with our own crew? Who do you mean?

Meme speaks and memes does speak, thinks and memes. Yeah, he thinks. It means.

So you think Jason Tatum speaks and thinks and memes.

It just didn't feel authentic, which, again, this is very nitpicky because they just won the title.

They did do it.

They did do it.

He said, we did it.

They did it. And then he also did the Kanye at the after party.

Oh, that was a. He's just. Yes. Speaks and memes.

Yeah, he speaks to me.

What was the Kanye?

It was like everyone was wondering what would happen if we didn't win the title. I guess he'll never know.

Okay.

For a second, I thought, no, not the other.

You might have, like, thanked his doctor. I'm not gonna say what kind of doctor.

Ah, it was. He.

I don't. Honestly, I don't. I. I do. I don't give a shirt. You doesn't have aura?

No. Nor should you. But it.

And he does.

Would you? Well, I don't know. I don't know if he has or Jalen Brown has or Jalen Brown has.

Or wearing the mask.

Yeah. Something about Jalen Brown. He likes. See, I'm very cool.

Yeah.

What would you say Jalen Brown has more or. Than Jason Tatum?

No. Oh, they have equal aura.

You know, that's.

They know you're not just.

Yeah. How can you have the same aura when Jalen Brown has a finals MVP?

I would say that Jason Tatum.

I feel like you either have aura or you don't.

Right. And Jalen Brown has it and Jason Tatum doesn't.

I think it's a rare thing to have.

Yeah. Almost as rare as winning finals MVP, I'd say.

Exactly. Is as rare.

Yeah.

So when.

So they both have. No. Just be honest with us for a second. It's okay. No, I know.

Not trying to. I'm not trying to shit on either. I'm not trying to say he has no, like, me yet. Jalen Brown has a little more aura, but they have aura trying to drive a wedge.

I think Deuce has aura.

Deuce had the best out of his life.

Deuces way more aura than his dad.

Yeah.

Yeah, there is. I mean, it's like. Yeah, he. That kid got to. He was an NBA champion last night.

Listen, no one cares. Like, Jason Tatum doesn't care that people are making fun of him online right now. He just won the title. Who cares?

It would be funny, but it was.

It was a cr. It was a little bit of.

He's, like, refreshing the timeline, seeing all the memes, and he's immediately, like, put down in the dumps.

Yeah.

With the trophy clowning me. They're saying I'm corny.

What. What did he say when he tried.

To do the KG the best? He said, we did it, we did it, we did it. And. But they did.

Right.

He looked up the same way KG did.

Yeah. It looked like he practiced it. When I want just an authentic moment there. Like, he'd just be authentic and be like, that fucking. That was fucking awesome.

On the flip side, the picture of him throwing deuces, the most authentic.

I agree.

That's one of the best pictures that. In sports history.

That. That had a little aura to it.

Right.

It's more deuce, but that had aura.

Yeah. It wasn't the most natural moment.

Yeah. Okay, there we go. We got.

You don't think texting Kobe and then posting a screenshot, that's not aura?

I don't think so.

No. You think he texted Kobe.

It is cool, though, looking back at the Tatum when he tweeted it. LeBron asking for a follow. That's one of my favorite.

Yeah.

When he let me pull it up.

And they had Jalen. When Jalen Brown, I think it was right after he got drafted or before he got drafted, he went to the finals when the warriors were playing and. And they were following him for, like, NBA tv or some, you know, piece, and he was just like, I'm. This is. I want to get here. I'm gonna get here.

Mm hmm.

Yeah. And, like, the young Al Horford, the picture, you know, cuz I'm very happy. He was on the Celtics with young Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown and left, and somehow the teams let him come back.

Right. And he. What happened when he left?

He signed a huge contract. Got a fat bag. Fat bag from the Philadelphia 76.

They didn't have any other players that they were going to give that bag to.

Yeah, no, I mean, it's a great, I mean, NBA champion. Oh, except college champion. Like it was a good, good, good signing for them. Bad organization. So they didn't work out. But it's just a miracle that he got back basically for nothing. Which again is Brad Stevens.

Yeah. The Jason Tatum tweet to LeBron was when he was 14 years old. He said King James, follow back. It's Larry Hughes, nephew from St. Louis. And Abe and RJ, little cousin and Justin's son, follow back. I love that. I love that.

And the Matthew two. Chuck, what would you say? What is it? Chuck?

Is this spelled learn puck?

Yeah.

If you gave him a shout out afterwards, he's like, get another one for a kid from St. Louis.

Yeah, well, that videos virus.

Yeah, no, it is, it is. Well, and we'll put in.

I love basketball.

Second.

Yeah, but yeah, my guy Matthew to Chuck.

So you're okay with just the allegations of negative aura, but you also literally.

Just said that the picture of him induce was ora.

That's a pill.

It's like, oh yeah, I was also.

Cuz of deuce minus but.

But the aura he's. Or the explorer.

So he's got aura DNA.

He's got.

Or in his DNA.

No, it could come from the mom. No, it could come from the mom.

It's true. Could come from.

You inherit that from mother side. Yeah, yeah. You know who's got Aura is Derek White. Yes, Derek White's got aura.

He's the best.

Smashing the tooth open. What do you say afterwards? Like, I would give up all my teeth for a championship.

I'm pretty sure he was concussed.

Nah. Yeah.

Cuz he did not. He was like deadpan. And we were talking about in the gambling cave. It has to suck. I know that it's obviously incredible to win a title, but you win a title and you're like, this is gonna be the best week of my life. We're gonna go party. And in the back of the head, anyone who's ever had tooth pain, he just keeps running his tongue over his broken tooth being like, God fucking damn it. Yeah, this fucking sucks.

Like you've gone all your life with a great smile.

Yeah.

And then you get ready to take the most important picture of your life holding up the NBA trophy.

He did. No teeth.

That badass though.

Yeah, it is cool. It's a hockey guy move to say like, yeah, I'll give.

And those are the pictures that get like hung up in bars forever. Like it's always like the cool. Like, bloody or, like, whatever. Like, that's. That's a badass picture.

But that does have to suck, though, deep down, where he's just like, God damn it, I wish my teeth weren't broken.

That. I feel like that's, like, after the parade because he's gonna have adrenaline. They went to Miami. They. I like they. I think Windhorse said they wrote on the whiteboard before the game. Flight to Miami at noon.

Oh, wow.

Had it booked. I like that.

That's pretty cool.

Happy six one seven day also.

Yeah.

Six one seven.

Pretty.

And are you guys doing championships every time the cicada. Cicadas come out?

No. That's way too much time.

No, between.

Yeah, I hope not. This is. And it is, like, the last two.

Championships, what, 20, 616 years?

Yeah, but, yeah, I don't want to. I hope we don't wait this long. It is again, that. That 2008 Celtics team is. Is when I, you know, fell in love with the Celtics and really started following them after that. And front runner. Yeah, a little bit, for sure.

God forbid you root for a team that's good.

Yeah. I mean, I was like. I was 13 years old. It wasn't like.

I was like, max is really hurt right now. He's in. He's just.

Were you just like. Like, a die hard Sixers fan when you were eleven?

When I. Yeah, I was. Of every sport when I.

Well, I was a Celtics fan, but I wasn't. I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like I was, like, watching every game and following it. After that season, I started following it forever and here on out.

So, yeah, you and I are just different. That's fine.

He's hurt. He's a hurt animal.

But it's great that they won one. They're legends forever. It did. You know, it does feel, and they say it. That it. You know, they should have won more. They could have won more. So hopefully that doesn't happen again.

What did Dave say afterwards? Heroes die.

Yeah, he got a little too high from the cigar. What happened with Donnie letting the scar on the wrong end?

That was great. I don't know what he was thinking. I think that's just. Just Donnie being Donnie.

You guys go party.

I know. I played pinball here for, like, an.

Hour and a half. That's beautiful.

Drank some coarse lights.

You also just showed up very early today. Earlier than usual.

No, I go. I showed the same time. I go to the gym eight to nine, and I walk in.

Yeah, you were here pepping your step so much.

I mean, it's the best. I didn't sleep.

You're watching every highlight.

We've done enough of this. We already did this.

Come on. You get any nice text?

Yeah.

Who? Anyone congratulate you here?

I did not.

Jake texted me. Big cat texted me. I think that's it.

Wow.

I verbally congratulate you. The first thing I said when I saw you was. What?

Yeah, you said I needed at halftime.

When you left the office.

Oh, yeah, I did.

So memes and Max did. Not.

Memes and Max and not memes was. Memes was quick to post, you know, the third share. Yeah, but the bald head got rave review, so.

Yeah.

Oh, how about Missoula, by the way? Coaching on a tournament.

I know.

Fucking beast.

Yeah, we'll ask them.

Yeah.

Yeah. So. Okay, let's. We're gonna take.

I mean, we could keep going.

Speaker zero.

I do have one more stat here. So Peyton Pritchard, the king of last second shots in the gambling cave. We called it before it happened.

Yep.

Like put him in. He can close out a quarter like nobody's business statue. Looked this up. He is ten for 37 with less than 1 second left in a quarter. It's pretty good. He's one of the better players of all time. You know who the best is? Pal Gasol. Pal Gasol shot 47%. He went 22 for 47 his career with less than 1 second left in the quarter.

Wow.

That's crazy, isn't it? He's shout out to the kids much?

Yeah.

The slow mo cams without a great. He just takes like ten steps.

Yeah.

Knowing that in and because in real time it doesn't, you're not going to catch that. But when they have the fan NBA phantom cam. It's great to see.

Yeah. Okay, so we'll talk about the Stanley cup and then we're going to do hot sea, cool throne. Okay. Pft. We promised the people that we would update the show before we get to hot seat, Cool Throne and Joe Missoula with Stanley cup final game five. And we thought we would be talking about another championship tonight. Instead, they're dragging their ass back to Alberta.

That was ourselves a series.

That's what they kept on saying. I love that. Like, don't let it. Don't let us drag you back to Edmonton. Don't let us do it. We're going to drag you all the way back. And Conor McDavid was fucking unreal, that goal. I think it was a third goal, fourth goal maybe, where he just diced up the entire Panthers defense and then dished it at the last second to Corey Perry. I'm starting to think this guy could win the big one.

So Conor McDavid should just do that every single time. If he's capable of doing that, just do that more. And I think that's the key to the game. Not to get all technical and in the weeds when it comes to hockey strategy, but just have Conor McDavid go one on four and then make a sick pass at the end. And that's pretty much unstoppable. I don't care. I don't care who Bob thinks he is, but you're not stopping that guy. It was awesome. It was good hockey. Second period period of the week.

Yep. Easy. And actually, even the, even the end when, when the goalie gets pulled and you're like, okay, games over, the Panthers survived, like, multiple times where I thought there was gonna be an empty netter and kept you on the edge of their, your seat. And it was just a great, great hockey game. The NHL is gonna have to step up where the NBA failed us and maybe delivering us a classic final if this one goes seven. Who. I mean, it was just great hockey. Great fucking.

I'm, I'm putting this on the nation of Canada. Our hat, our neighbors to the north, Canada. Do the right thing. Give us seven games. This is a legacy series for Canada. Need to, need to just buy some time before we get into dog days. If the hockey is going to be this good. I want more of it. I want two more games.

I agree. I agree. What a Conor McDavid he had.

Yeah.

What do you.

I think two goals.

Two goals and two assists. Yeah, he was crazy.

The, the save that Kachuk made at the end is going to not be talked about.

Maybe.

You know what? I actually think that now that I'm saying it, just will say nobody's going to talk about the Kachuk save. A lot of people are going to talk about that part of it. But it was awesome hustling at the end, and he should have knocked the net off its mornings. That would have been a smart play, a heads up play. But yeah, it was a, it was great hockey. The Cats are getting dragged back. I saw a lot of gifts of cats just getting dragged across rooms. Kind of concerning that. It's so easy to find a gif of a cat getting dragged. But here we are on the Internet. But, yeah, let's, let's go hockey. Give us more great hockey.

Great fucking hockey. And we got a game six dragging all the way back to Edmonton on Friday. Night before we do. Hot seat. Cool. Throwing back to ourselves. Hank, I know that we talked about aura. Have you seen the video that is now circulating?

No.

Oh, can I send it to you and get a live reaction? Max, I'm sure you have seen this. No, I also.

I can just. I feel a reach.

I know. It's not a reach at all. It's not a reach at all. It's just a mashup. It's a fun mashup, and I want you to watch it. Everything I said stands. That, like, Tatum shouldn't have to apologize any. He's a he fucking. He's a champion. Who cares if he's getting made fun of online? But I saw it, and I had to bring it up. I sent it to everyone. Why don't you narrate it, Max? Why don't you narrate it when you're watching it?

This is after what we talk. We talked about all this.

I know we did. But this is the new mashup that I didn't realize is all of it.

What are they going to say now? Like, Steph Curry is not the only person that said that. There's no, like, it's a. It's a video of what they gonna say now and then Steph Curry saying it. I would have to imagine that's said in, like, a majority of championship locker rooms after win. No, but it's a little bit tougher.

After he's already done it two other times in the same night with other people.

The Kg one, he didn't say anything is possible.

He did.

He said we did it.

He was trying to do.

Yeah, his body language.

Art is interpretation. You're interpreting that way. Like, that's. He didn't copy Kevin Garnett. If you're saying that Steph Curry has trademarked the phrase, what they gonna say now? That's crazy. The Kanye one, that's. That was word for word. He did it on stage in the same way. That was imitation. That was.

What was there. Was there another one in there?

No, it's a.

This is a good video. This is a very interesting video. And it's from hater report. I'm gonna have to give hater report a follow. Sound like they're doing good things there.

Yeah.

It's pictures of him hugging the trophy and then a picture of MJ and Kobe hugging the trophy. Every fucking player.

That part was a reach. That part was a reach. That part was a reach. I could notice how.

You know what?

Hey, now what they're gonna say now.

Hank, you know what he did right after they won? He sprayed champagne.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Just, like.

Just.

I can think of a couple guys that have done that. He's Ron Michael Jordan.

Yeah. I mean, it's. It's probably a reach. I'm just. I just. It was going viral on Twitter, so I thought we would talk about it, but that's fine.

Yeah, no, it's fair.

Do you like the cat?

I don't think Tatum should apologize for anything. I'm on your side, Hank. I'm just pointing this out.

I'm gonna say now is stuff I can't get over that one. Like, that one is. I can't even like.

What they gonna say now. Have you heard it?

What they're gonna say now?

All right, let's. You know what? Google will decide what they see.

What the Google trend on that is.

Probably a book written about it. About, like, the fucking 1st, 19th, 1st.

Hit is Steph Curry.

Wait, Hank.

I'm seeing Jason Tatum.

Hank. What were you gonna say? There's probably a book. Read about it.

Yeah. About, like, the fucking St. John's Chicago men's basketball team from 1990 or something.

Like, what they gonna say now? St. John's Chicago.

Yeah, but the fact that there's so.

Many people that have titled, like, videos. What they gonna say now?

Steph Curry, they're gonna say now? Shane Holloway, head coach.

What did he say? Where are you seeing? What did they say now? Oh, Angel Reese said, what they gonna say now?

Huh?

Steph Curry. What they're gonna say now? He did do a tweet, too. He's.

He's a lot of the top soul retriever on Instagram. What are they gonna say now? With the video of his shoes? 57 likes, two comments.

Sounds like it's pretty.

Sammy Hager. What they gonna say now? 1987.

Wait. Yeah. Hager sang. Sang for Van Halen.

Yeah.

Wills. Al Taurus in 2022 when he made the final putt.

What are they gonna say now?

Like, that one is. That's such a. That's a. Beyond reach. And he didn't copy KG. They're just, like, interpreting that video that way. But he didn't say the same words.

Ron Suno and Zay Muna. What they gonna say?

Yeah.

We'Re debunking this. Yeah, this is good. We've debunked.

Yeah, I agree.

Still.

Bad aura.

That's.

I can't wait for. I can't wait.

It really just shows the true salt and denial that. That the haters are in.

No, but it's good. Like, this is an ongoing narrative.

Now.

We can. We can take every word that he says in public and then cross reference it to see if it's plagiarized. Guys. I like that.

Friends 1994, season six, episode three. You're going to say things now, aren't you? That's basically the same thing, right?

Yeah.

Okay, last two things before we get to hot seat cool throne. Rip Willie Mays, incredible life, incredible baseball player. One of the most iconic catches of all time. I mean, I is he. He's on the Mount Rushmore baseball players, right?

Yeah, he's in the goat. He's in the goat category.

Yeah.

A lot of people, if you're, like, above the age of 50, you think that Willie Mays is the best baseball player to ever live.

Yeah, sir. Yeah. The say, hey, kid. Great.

And that, that catch, the over the shoulder catch. Every time I watch it, I'm always amazed that they actually played baseball on that field.

Yeah.

The polo grounds, like 500ft to straightaway center. It was a rectangle.

Yeah. He's all time. All time legend, 93. Hell of a life. That's a hell of a life. We all would be lucky to live to 93. But how is it? What is the say, hey, kid from.

I think there was a song that they wrote about him called say, hey.

Given his famous mocker moniker. Say, hey, kid. Quick cost in the ball club money with long distance phone calls and join the team. It was also around the time that Mays is getting his famous moniker to say, hey, kid. He. Yeah. Oh, one of the greatest of all time. So rip Willie Mason. Then what happened with Aaron Judge?

He got hit by a pitch and he got x rays. So they were saying that maybe they threw at Aaron Judge intentionally. That might have just been Jason lock in for the old Washington Post guy that was saying, like, good, I'm glad they threw out him because Soho ran into the third basement on the Orioles and I guess knocked him out of the game with a hip injury. And so some people were saying that maybe they went inside on judge as retaliation for Soto. I don't know if that's the case. I don't think that's the case. But I think the x ray, you said Jake was negative, right?

X rays and scans have been negative.

Oh, I found the say, hey, kid. Mays received $6,000 for signing with the Giants after graduating high school in 1950. New York Journal american sports writer Barney Kremenko said that in May's rookie season, the reticent Mays would blurt, say who? Say, what? Say where? Say, hey. What are they going to say now? In my paper, I tabbed him to say, hey, kid. It stuck. That's the last one.

When I turned on MLB network, the cafeteria was the say hey cafe.

Oh. I mean, nothing better than getting a cafeteria named after.

Don't act like you wouldn't be flattered.

By that, big cat.

Duh. Better than an airport. Yeah, absolutely.

Cafeteria is not bad. People are happy in a cafeteria.

Yeah, I would much rather cafeteria than a airport or a highway. Those would suck.

I think my dream is a horse.

Horse would be good horse to say, hey, horse.

What if it loses?

Yeah. True. Hank. Out of him, it was. He's just finishing his race right now at Saratoga. That's how slow he was. And that was he raced ten years ago. Okay, let's kick it to ourselves. Hot sea cool throne. Okay, let's do hot sea cool throne. Hot sea cool throne presented by Coors Light. You don't have to be selling out stadiums to feel like you're chilling backstage. You just need Coors light. Coors Light wants to make your summer more chill with limited edition backstage six packs curated by some of your favorite artists. Because music plus Coors light equals chill amplified. Coors Light is the only choice when you're ready to choose chill. Coors Light is cold lager, cold filtered, and cold packaged for a smoother finish. Hank, want to crack open a Coors light? Yeah. Celebration course light come on when you. What's the. What's the playlist? When. When you win a win a title, Hank, with your Coors light come on.

When I was driving home last night. Cause I saw a clip before I left of them playing march madness by future. So I was listening to March Madness by future trophies by Drake. And then, you know, I listened to on this morning.

What?

Back to back.

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My hot seat are the haters.

Oh, the. Any in this room?

Not in this room.

Any in the other room?

No, that not them. They're not. They're not. They're not in the hot seat. They know where they're at. But the Oilers girl.

Yeah.

Came online and just made a video just saying she's sick of the haters and to fuck off, basically.

Good for her. What? She had haters?

Yeah. I'll play. I'll play the clip.

Okay.

She did have some haters.

Can we do the video of the clip?

Actually, wait, no. Max will get long and hard.

I want to watch Max, we want to watch the clip.

The name's Kate. He's got all the info.

Oilers girl. Actually, my name is Kate, but here we are. So I felt long and hard about what I wanted to say to everybody. Anybody who knows me knows that I'm at one of my favorite places right now. Come here to do some thinking. We'll call it.

But I just wanted to say you.

Could be the most perfect, godly fucking person in the world.

You could save kittens from a river.

If they were drowning. Someone's still gonna hate you. So you know what? At the end of the day, I got drunk and whip my tits out at an Oilers game, and they went viral. Fuck you if you don't like it.

Whoo.

Go, Oilers.

She makes a lot of good points.

I was just waiting for her to short like that would have been a great mic drop.

I think. I think she is wise beyond her years.

Mm hmm. Yeah. Agreed.

You could save burning kittens from a river, and they would find something wrong with you.

Yep. The Internet sucks. We can't just get behind. Nice pair of tits. What are we doing? And your cool throne, Hank. Cool throw.

My cool throne is these great shirts.

Right now, I regret. Loot that glaze.

Okay. Lucky queue in the duck boat.

Duck boats. City of champions. Max, we can get one of these for you.

Plug. God.

Yep.

I do. I love. But I hate. At the same time, the title town shirt that has all the banners on there is just. It's obnoxious, but I love it for you.

18 years, look at that. Nothing but success.

Nothing but success. Nothing but success for Jalen Brown.

You're right.

Yeah. Even in the aura department, they have. They know we know. I never claim Jalen Brown didn't have, or he's got fucking or coming out of his ears.

Who? People can't share the aura.

No, no, there's only one.

Or you have the aura in. On this podcast.

You have the aura championship DNA.

Yeah. You have positive aura. All right. Pft, your hot seat. Cool throw.

My hot seat is less. Miles. Les. Miles. Because he is. He's suing LSU because they vacated his wins. They vacated some of his wins as.

A coach and gave him to coach.

K. They did not do that. But the reason why he's suing them is actually kind of interesting. So to get into the College Football hall of Fame, you have to have, I believe, a 60% winning percentage. Right? Yeah.

I'm just looking at Hank because we're not talking about the Celtics. So you just went right to. Okay, keep going. Sorry. All right. So very rude of you, Hank.

So less.

We're gonna do five minutes. Not.

I was scheduling. Sorry.

Okay.

What, are you scheduling a meeting?

No. What?

Always grinding about the production plan for the Internet views.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

So Les Miles had his wins vacated by L. Hank, I'm up here. His wins were vacated by LSU. He had a 65% winning. It's always looking. I'm talking, talking Hank getting spicy. Hey, Max, cut Hank's mic off. Thank you.

We're getting spicy.

All right. So I promise this is interesting.

Okay, I'm listening.

So he had like a 65% career winning percentage. To get into the College Football hall of Fame as a coach, you have to have a 60% winning percentage. The wins that were vacated by LSU drops it down to 59.7%. So Les Miles can no longer get into the hall of fame. Yes, because LSU vacated his wins. So he's suing LSU to try to get back. I don't know if LSU should. Should give in to him, but what I think LSU should do, find something to happen when Nick Saban was there.

Mm hmm.

Because Nick Saban is up for eligibility next year. And if they took away his wins at LSU, that might drop below no chance. You don't think so?

Below what? Total of what?

Cuz I think total what? Wait, do the, do the losses remain?

Yeah, but nobody. Even if the. If they took away all the wins. But you're saying percentage.

If the. If the losses remained, but the wins.

And what's the percentage? You have to be 60.

60? Yeah. Pft if they keep the losses.

Pft. Do you know Alabama's record?

Yeah, I know Alabama's record.

I don't think you do. Yeah. They were really fucking twelve and one every year. That's.

It was a great idea. Great idea that I had.

That's. We got a.

What was his record while he was at LSU?

That was that. I was with you, BFT. Until you said, if we eliminate Dick Saban's LSU. Because if they.

If you want to be a real hater, you could do that to a coach that left you and then came in coach for your rival.

I understand, but Nick Saban's. Hank, where your mics not on. You're not micro.

No, no. Double mute.

How many wins did Nick Saban have at LSU? Let's find that.

Oh, he was only there for five years.

Yeah.

You're right. Okay. And right.

You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right.

I'm wrong. You're right. I'm wrong. You're right.

Nick Saban's 48 and 16. Nick Saban's win percentage rate is 80%.

Yeah, he's very far. 92 and 71.

Yeah.

So he could end the tie well, in theory. What if Michigan State finds something and LSU finds something?

Nick Saban. We. Go ahead. Hank. Hank. Go ahead. Check, check Hank back on.

What if pft they can add his NFL losses?

Well, he's only like one season.

Yeah. What?

Alright, I'm sorry. I'm trying to help you out. My bad.

No, is a dumb idea. I had a dumb idea. I'm sorry. This shows built on dumb.

That's true. If you took away a hundred and if you took away 140 of his losses, I think he'd still be in the hall of fame. He could lose like almost all his losses.

That's.

I mean, all his wins.

Wins.

All his wins.

Yeah.

Okay. Let me save this for you.

I think LSU should, should acquiesce to less.

Miles, let me say this for you. The rule that you have to have 60% to make the college football hall of Fame is bullshit and should be changed because I did see this last week. Mike Leach is like .03% away.

Okay.

They need to let Mike Leach into the hall of Fame. Yeah.

Because who's to say that you weren't a giant contributor to the game if you didn't happen to have you, right. 60.

It's crazy. And he was that close. And he obviously tragically passed when he was going to still coach more. That's crazy. Let Mike Leech in.

Let Mike Leech in and then probably let less miles in.

Yeah.

And also.

But just to be also figure out how Saban can also just be haters.

They should vacate all of Nick Saban's win so it looks worse on him.

Yeah.

You're. If you're real about the rivalry.

Yeah.

Find a way to do that.

I'm doing the math right now. I think it would be. Yeah, they. So if they vacated a Nick Saban's.

Wins, would you do Hank?

Did he spill.

There's. This is something very bad. Breaking news is coming.

Oh, no. All right. Breaking.

Losing.

Max thinks this is bad. You just said, oh, God. Oh, God.

Celtics official account says, and here's what.

I'm going to tell you today. I got the Dallas Mavericks.

I think there's going to be a parade in Dallas.

Who you actually beat, though?

Who'd you really be?

I have Dallas. I think Dallas will win.

So obviously, I'm going with Dallas.

I got Dallas winning.

I think Dallas is deeper.

I don't think Boston is deep at all.

I like Dallas in the series.

It's an easy choice for me.

Dallas. The Boston Celtics have not seen anything closer. Oh, no. The Celtics are not beating Luca.

I like how Max got second billing to the corgi. That knocks basketball stuff.

Yeah. We couldn't even get a clip that much.

Double sting for Max because he hates dogs.

Oh.

That is being like, whoa.

This.

They value my opinion, but, I mean, it's just.

It just further cements me as, like, such a fucking loser.

But the problem is a historic, historic loser. Here's the problem, Max, for you here, the picking Dallas is like, that's. You have to pick the series. Some people pick Dallas. Some people pick the Celtics. I never think. It's like, ooh, gotcha. You picked the wrong side. That's what we do. But typing out the Celtics are not beating Luca.

That was also a game where I bet the timber. It was the game that the Mavs beat the Timberwolves. And I bet the Timberwolves big. And I was so pissed off. I was like, luca is so fucking good. And I'm like, you know what? I'm just gonna spin this into.

The Celtics are not.

The Celtics are not beating Luca. And that was. That was very incorrect.

Damn. Damn.

Sorry that happened to you.

Yeah, I mean, it's whatever, let's finish the video out.

That could get to the finals but won't win it.

But it's no longer what could be.

Or what might be now it just is. That's.

And then watching this past week when Boston sweeps Dallas or something like that, we got to sit here and be.

Like, well, I guess we were wrong. Mmm.

Max also, one thing. We didn't talk scared for that. Yeah. No, that was.

I was like, I thought someone died.

Yeah.

It's just our boy Max falling on his face yet again.

Could be bad.

It's. You really could have just been like, we need to make. Someone needs to remake that. The. The video of the guy just fumbling all the Tupperware and everything. It just. That's Max.

We should just do that video. Yeah, just put a bunch of shit in Max's hands. Have to make that.

Oh, Max pooped his pants again. Yeah, that's not really breaking, moose. You know, the sun comes up, Max does something that makes him be a loser, the sun goes down. There's no breaking moves in that.

Hank's talking about, like, the can't win the big one. When I win the big one, that'll.

Be, oh, what are you gonna do?

It'll never happen.

I actually kind of want to see it.

No, no, no.

What are you gonna do, Max?

You're the producer of the show. It is cool that, like, a team that just won the NBA championship are listeners and fans of yours, right?

No, I mean, it's just.

That's cool thing. That's a real.

That's really cool.

That's what I said. Big guts. Always said, if you're gonna be wrong, be really. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's a good point.

That's a good point. At least I'm known for being very wrong and very much a loser with every sport that I root for.

Right? You got aura.

Yeah, Lou, I have losing aura. Heavy.

I've heavy losing, you know, Laura. Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay. Where were we?

I was being very, very wrong about something.

What was Les Miles hot seat.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

If they took away 182 of Nick Saban's win, he would still have over 60%.

Okay, well, that's probably not gonna happen, but I tried.

But maybe.

But I tried. The other hot seat is Justin Timberlake.

Oh.

Got a DUI in the Hamptons. Oh, yeah. It's pretty bad. Pretty bad stuff. A picture came out of him in handcuffs being led out of the police station, and then a bunch of old clips of him saying, like, don't drink and drive came out. Ooh, old takes exposed on that one. And then he also. He was complaining about Brittany and telling her she needs to stop drinking.

Oh.

All those resurfaced.

Oh.

So it's tough. It's tough for old JT. Don't drink and drive. Also, there's, like. No. Aren't there no roads? There's, like, one road in the Hamptons. Can't he just get. He should get a cab.

He should have a driver get an Uber. He's. Get a driver. I don't know why rich people don't have drivers.

Yeah.

And I don't know why you don't call an Uber.

This is viral marketing for summer House, which, by the way, is an excellent show. I don't know if you've seen that. It's terrible. It's actually the worst show I've ever seen, but it's so bad that it's good.

Okay, check it out.

Yeah. So Justin Timberlake, hot seat, and then my cool throne is notes apps.

Mmm. Because, oh, yeah, I had this as well.

Big day for notes.

Big day. Rory McElroy gave maybe the most important notes app that we've all been waiting for. Everyone was like, he's gonna apologize. He has to apologize. He gave a notes app apology without ever actually apologizing for anything.

For the wheel spinning.

For the wheels. He did not apologize for the wheel spinning. What he said, firstly, I'd like to congratulate Bryson. Yesterday was a tough day, probably the toughest I've had in my nearly 17 years as professional golfer. Bryson is a worthy champion and exactly what professional golf needs right now. I think we can all agree on that. Then he gets to. As I reflect on my week, I will rue a few things over the course of the tournament, mostly to miss putts on 16 and 18, the final day. But as I always do, I'll look back at the positives that far outweigh the negatives. And then he goes on. Doesn't apologize, though. Doesn't apologize talking to the media. Doesn't apologize for almost hitting several spectators in the parking lot. Doesn't apologize for getting on a plane before Bryson got the championship trophy. So it's a no type apology with no apology from Rory.

Damn.

Still, you know, it's serious when he's in dark mode.

I would have liked to see an apology about the wheels spinning, specifically.

Yeah.

In the, in the tournament issued Lexus.

I feel like the dark mode was an intentional choice on his part to convey seriousness.

Yeah.

If you just go normal daytime mode, that's more of a jovial notes app. But, yeah, he was trying to convey being apologetic without apologizing.

Yeah.

So he might need to do a notes app for the notes app and say, I apologize for not apologizing.

Yeah.

Which would still not be an apology. Wouldn't be an apology for the original thing.

Correct.

Any triple apology.

We've all played golf in the last couple days. I feel like he, well, is not.

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Pft. And I got up at seven in the morning to play nine holes with Frankie.

Oh, no. Bigget.

I got up at 530 in the morning. I got up at 530 on Monday.

Pft.

Got up at 530 after the NBA Finals on Tuesday to do nine holes with our good friend Frankie Barrelli coming.

Out soon, which I'm happy to do.

Hank, you golfed for all of Monday.

I was here Monday. We streamed last night.

I was here for all last person.

In this building last night. What time were you here till last night, big cat?

What time did you get to golf? What time did you wake up to go golf? And did you.

30.

You only played nine holes?

No, I played 80.

Participated.

Classic.

I played. So was that.

Was that for content?

Yeah, I posted, literally were entertaining clients.

Oh, I posted a video. Everyone made fun of me.

How'd you play?

I played not greatest.

Nice trying. Lumber guard.

No, see, that's where it's, like, inconsequential, because all I was saying and because you guys also maybe felt this is. If I was Rory, I don't think I would golf for, like, a month. Like, looking at a putt that's shorter than 4ft is actual PTSD for.

Well, yeah. He said in the no cap. He's taking off until they go to Europe.

Shout out smiley for calling that. He's gonna pull out, by the way.

Like, did you guys have a put where you're like, I k. If I was Rory, like, I would. I would be Hank.

Like, yeah, I don't think. I don't think a putt exists on planet Earth that you could miss and then take three months off from golfing afterwards.

If I lost the US Open because of two, three footers, I my hand up, I would take three months off.

Wow. By the way, we've been doing the show for so long. Did you know this, Hank? I fucked up on Sunday night. We had smiley Kaufman on. Great interview. We've had him on before.

I told you that.

I forgot. Yeah, I forgot.

Yeah.

It was like 2018, maybe 17 earlier than that.

Yeah, 17. That's my fault. He's gonna be on again.

Him and Ricky.

Ricky.

Ricky gets no respect as one of the better interviews we had early on in this podcast.

Yeah, he was great. All right. My hot seat is Landon Donovan.

Mmm.

Landon Donovan's hair at the euros. Holy shit. So I think he got a hair transplant, and it didn't take well, I think it's process.

Recent one. Yeah. So it looks like his shoulders are eating the back of his head. And he was told before he did it that he would not have that part of his head on tv. But then he turned to the side, and immediately everybody was like, holy shit. What is wrong with Landon Donovan?

I it's so bad. This is how bad. If you missed the picture, you can go look it up, but I'll explain it to you if you're listening and not watching. It is so bad that I posted it, and then about an hour later, I went back to it and said to myself, wait, did he just have, like, brain surgery for a tumor or something? Did I fuck up because that's how bad his hair looks?

Yeah, just wear a hat. Landed. It's, uh. It's. It's the reverse mullet.

It's. It's horrendous. It looks like he. He went through, like, a medical emergency.

It looks like he had said that he would shave his head if the Mavericks won the NBA Finals. And then after they won that game, he's like, okay, let's do this in steps.

Yeah. I don't know how you come back from that.

Hopefully. Hopefully with a full head of hair that would rot.

Now everyone knows too.

But still, I mean, in this day and age.

Yeah, just wear toupee. I don't understand what happened to toupees? Toupees. And just daring people to say, oh, you're wearing a toupee would be so much fun. Just rocking a terrible toupee if you're.

Open about the toupee.

Right.

Yeah. If you're.

If I ever have male pattern baldness, I will rock a toupee, and it will be horrendous. And I dare you to say something.

Yeah, it's a. It's a really, really bad.

If you're.

You know, you're gonna be on tv. Just deal with one more week of.

Right.

Of having the shitty hair.

Right. Or just shave your head and do schedule. You knew the euros were coming.

Yeah.

Schedule your hair transplant after. Yeah. All right. My cool throne is our guy. Joc, he released a great video. Can you play it for us, Max? Congratulating Hank on his big win. He also was, I think, about to drown in the ocean when he posted this, but this is a congrats Hank video from Jerry O'Connell.

Hanky Luku's back.

Mister Bing bun.

Congrats on your cell pics. Worst finals ever.

Sleepy finals. Sleepy Hank. Bing bong. Time to get back. Outside in the waves, in the sun, with the birds. I'm a birder, just like your high school science teacher. Bing bong.

Tweet, tweet.

Speaking of birds, Tiffany Gomez, who's flying.

The bird, she's a pilot.

You could have been a co pilot, but you blew it. You blow it. Even Belichick's got a girlfriend.

Does her homework.

Bing bong, your back swing sucks right now.

Your back swing sucks. That felt unnecessary.

That was the only part of that. I was like, what the. What the hell, Jerry?

Even Belichick has a girlfriend is so good.

So Jerry went to the beach to get away from his wife so she wouldn't know that he was recording this video.

Yeah.

That's what I love about this.

Yeah. No, I think he was at the beach. He went in the water to get.

Away from a supermodel wife.

Yes. They probably were at the beach as a family. And he's like, I gotta. I'm gonna go in the water real quick just to do this video.

Scream at my phone for 15 seconds.

Oh, he's the best. We need it. We need a Celtics Knicks series next year. Just fly him in for the whole thing.

Great.

Yeah. It's so funny to think about Jerry like, he's a real person who has a real job, like, on tv. And just half his day is like, what is Tiffany Gomez saying? And what's. Let me listen to PMT. I love them.

This shows on CB's. Yeah, it's on national television.

His show is so funny, too. Yeah, so funny.

All right, Jake, finish off. Hot sequel.

Throne my hot seat. Sorry. Pft. Is Alex Ovechkin.

No, he looks good.

Yeah. So there's a picture going around of OV playing the sport called Padell, which is gonna be this future game that I take on. You guys make fun of me for playing. It's basically a mix of paddle.

Paddle.

It's paddle.

I've heard it's Paddell. It.

Jake is right.

It's Paddell.

There's Paddell and there's paddle.

Yeah, different l and paddle.

I think so.

Yeah.

No, same sport. Same sport.

Oh, no. This is the one with the glass walls.

No.

Yeah, not chain walls. I played the sport, and it was the glass walls. It was a chain. It was like a really tightly wound chain that it would bounce off of.

Padilla's a doubles game only in which it. Yeah.

Oh, that's a really mean tweet. Says breaking. Alex Ovechkin is expected to replace Joey Chestnut in this year's hot dog eating contest. He looks like.

Anyways, people are roasting for looking big.

Is there a chance that maybe he just didn't take off his pads after the last game?

There is a chance that that happened. There's also a chance that he's trying to get out of shape so he doesn't get drafted by Putin.

Yep.

Trying to stay out of Ukraine. I respect that.

He does look large.

He looks powerful. That's. That's a man. That is. That's old man strength, though, for the speaker.

And that was taken before they started playing.

I don't know.

I would say after all, four of them look pretty sweaty.

Okay. All right. Okay.

And my cool throne. Think of the first time this is ever on the cool throne. The New York Mets.

Yes.

Their season might have been saved by a hero no one saw coming. And it's grimace, the McDonald's mascot. He threw out the first pitch last week. Since then, they're 60, and they are dominating on the field.

The picture of grimace is awesome.

Grimace, it was a decent first pitch for. For a mascot.

Yeah, it was. We did the. I should have seen this coming, but I had to do the rundown today because the Celtics won. So Dave, Texas, Kevin and I run down at eleven, like, first thing this morning, and the rundown ended, and Kevin and I were just talking about how the Cubs suck, and he's like, well, at least I have grimace. And it was maybe the saddest conversation that's ever.

Yeah, I mean, the Mets are only a game out of the wild card.

I have a take real quick. The major league baseball completely fucked up the playoffs with this wild card.

Now everyone's alive. Is he stink?

The Cubs are a bad baseball team.

And there's two games out.

And they're two games out there in last place in the NL Central, and they're two games out. You shouldn't. There should not be a playoff spot for, like, you have to be. There has to be a limit. There has to be. You have there.

If they didn't add the third, they would only be three behind the Cardinals for the second wild card.

It's just crazy. I don't know. They're just not a good team. And I look and I'm like, oh, you can delude yourself. I don't know. I don't like that they did this in the NBA either. It's my biggest gripe about the play in that you let owners get off on basically saying, well, we're putting together a playoff team, when, no, if you're a playing team, you're not like, it's just bullshit.

I think there should be a rule where if you're beneath 500, you should even be listed in the wild card possibilities.

But you could just. Owners get to. To sell their fan base on being competitive when they're not competitive.

Speaker zero. Here's the thing, though. In baseball, if you get into the playoffs, you do have a chance to win.

Anything could happen yeah, anything could happen. Okay, let's get to our interview with Joe Missoula.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. Less than 24 hours after becoming a world champion, it is Boston Celtics head coach Joe Missoula. Coach. Oh, Hank's clapping for you. Hanks clapping for you in the room, coach. Let's start. I mean, just how are you feeling right now? I know that's the lamest question, but I have to imagine it's just the best feeling in the absolute world.

No, I definitely expected more from you for the first question. You know, I just really like gratitude. I mean, it's a lame answer, but for me, it hasn't really set in yet. I think because everything just happened so fast and you gotta go to a bunch of stuff. But I would say the first word is just being grateful, you know. Never thought I would ever be in this position. And just great. Like, the type of players that we get to coach every day, the type of people we get to be around, it's just an awesome experience.

Yeah, I would imagine. How is the knee feeling? Because I didn't know this. I don't know if it was public or not. I didn't realize you were coaching on a tournament meniscus. How is it feeling, number one and then number two? How did having a tournament meniscus impact your coaching at all?

Well, listen, that's what happens when you lose games in the regular season. Like, you're just not allowed to lose. So after we lost to Atlanta at home, I went on the mats, punished myself, and just, just pounded my body until it couldn't take anymore and ended up just tearing my knee. So ended up being a great experience for me. I had to do, like, 6 hours of treatment in order to coach the next game without too much of a limp because I could not walk. But I tell you what, it almost. It was one of the best things that happened to me for the rest of the season because it put me in like, this fight or flight mentality to where, like, I could just not relax. Like, I had to constantly train to keep it pain free, had to constantly get, you know, physical therapy. My physical therapist has been great, and it was just. It was awesome. I've been thinking about maybe getting hurt every, like, all star break.

Hold on a second. So. So you could make the argument then the fact that you guys only lost three games in the entire playoffs, that that saved your life, because if you had gone to, like, a seven game series, you would have had to go to the mat after all of those times. Like, you. You could have died.

Yeah, absolutely. I think the injury. The injury probably did save my life because I was getting carried away.

So, yeah, it's. I mean, your intensity is insane.

It was cool, though. Like, it just brought a different level of focus that I had to have because, like, it's like, it's a, like, a bucket handle tear, and, like, it would lock and, like, click from time to time. So, like, I had to walk slower. I couldn't move certain ways, so it really forced me to focus more. And so it was actually. I'm really grateful that it happened.

Yeah.

So that definitely.

I missed the mask, though.

Yeah.

It impacted your shot blocking ability then, right. You're not able to go out on the court and swat anything away.

Yeah.

I've always been a two foot block or jumper, not a 1ft jumper. And so I need, you know, that power from both of my quads to kind of, you know, explode out. And so now that I can only jump off my left, I wasn't able to elevate the way I needed to to get those. Those deflections and blocks.

Yeah. So it's good to see you smiling. I saw a Twitter thread last night of all the guys taking pictures with the Larry O'Brien trophy. And the two pictures I saw of you, you are just not smiling. What was. What was that? Is it, like, jobs not finished?

I was really pissed because I feel like all the other, like, teams have gotten a head start on getting better for next season, and, like, you know, it's middle of June and we're still focused on last season, so I had to get over that for a second, but once I was able to enjoy it, it was a great moment. That thing's heavy, man. Yeah.

Yeah. We're talking with the torn meniscus.

Yeah, we were talking to Hank earlier about the. The banner situation, how you guys have a blank banner for the next one that hangs up. When you guys do the banner ceremony, are you just going to unveil a brand new blank banner for next year.

Should. I mean, we should never. We should act like it just didn't happen. Just don't even put anything up.

Yeah, yeah.

It's got to be a great feeling. So walk us through what happened after the game.

What.

What do you do night after winning an NBA championship? This is, like, a lifelong accomplishment. Did you take time to celebrate, or were you just busy with other. Other commitments till now?

So what happens? So the corn goes off. You, obviously, they gather everybody around and find my wife and kids and, like, spend that time with them. And both my kids got to go on stage, and it was awesome to see them. I got a couple pictures of, like, their reactions, and then you go in the back, and then, like, the locker room turns into, like, a college 21, like, an 18 and over nightclub. I was like. I felt like I was back in college again, so that was. That was cool. Had to shower because I was drenched, and then I had to go to some media stuff. And then you go to, like, an afterparty type thing, which we hung around, and then my wife and I stuck around and kind of just walked around the garden to just take in the confetti on the floor, visualizing the new banner being up, visualizing the old banner. There was, like, this blank. There's this blank place in the rafters that I would. Every national anthem that I would visualize the 2024 one going. And that started in the preseason, and so we were able to just kind of pinpoint that.

And you just take in, you know, what. What the city brings, what the arena brings, everything that comes with, you know, being a Celtic. And last night was, like, the culmination of, like, you see the shirt I'm wearing with, like, red and Bill Russell, like, culmination of history. The culmination of, like, greatness that you get to be a part of now.

Yeah, the. So, so I saw, too, on the whiteboard before the game. You guys had flight at noon to Miami was. I feel like you're a superstitious guy, and. Oh, that wasn't before the game. Okay. All right. Cause I was like, when I saw that, I was like, no way to coach Missoula. Let them do this before a closeout game. All right, so you were still. Before the game, it was still jobs, you know, you guys better get ready. Let's go.

No, absolutely. Yeah, no, that came on right after the game.

Okay. All right. That's. That's fair. That's fair. What, so you did. You're down in Miami. Now, what movie did you watch on the way down to Miami?

We didn't watch one. We had. We had the beach pill going and just had all the music. So just one of the things in our, in the back locker room before games, all the coaches sit in the same room and each coach picks a different playlist and we just bump music back there the whole time, play a little soccer, listen to music. And so every player has got his. I mean, every coach has his favorite song or favorite playlist. So we were in the coaches section, just kind of going back and forth on all the songs that we listen to throughout the year.

All right, so you haven't been able to watch the town as a world champion yet?

Not yet.

Okay. That's got to be. Are you going to cry? Maybe. Like, that's got to be different.

So I actually watched the departed the night before game five. And the quotes from that, like, you can't really say those that much anymore, but quotes from the departed, like, it says every other line is something that you wish you could say out loud again. That movie is. I love that movie. So I watched that one before game five, getting ready, you know, for. For it. And I haven't watched the town, but someone asked me, and my new favorite scene is when, like, they're about getting ready to Rob Fenway. And he's like, he's like, you know, this is going to be hard, right? And he's like, so easy, kid. Everybody would do it.

Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. How. How was it for the team and for you after Friday night? After that, you know, game four, which was. I mean, it was ass kicking, but you guys still had control of the series and you're going back home. Like, did you. Was there. I would assume there's no panic, but that. That had to be at least a little shocking in the manner it happened.

Not really. I mean, we had had a couple of those throughout the year. I think sometimes you lose perspective, and, like, that loss allowed us to. To keep perspective. Like, we had won ten games a row in the playoffs, which, like, doesn't happen. We had only lost two playoff games up until that point. And, you know, I had really trusted our team because, like, they. We bounced back from, like, small adversities and small times of not playing our best. Like, we did it. We had a game like that at Milwaukee. We had a game like that home against New York. I think we had two games. Like, I think both games against Milwaukee were like that. So, you know, it wasn't no room for. For panic. Or anything like that. It was more kind of like, okay, like, you know, why did this happen and then really trust the guys? Because we've been able to bounce back before, but also just keeping perspective, like, what we've been able to do throughout the playoffs up to that point was really, really hard, and you just got to know that it's never going to be that easy, you know?

Yeah. Yeah.

So would you almost rather get your ass kicked like that or lose a close one?

No, I'd rather get my ass kicked. And lose a close one? Yeah, yeah, you lose a close one, guys play 40, 42 minutes, they're tired. You know, you got to travel back. Like, you know, you get, get blown out, take the guys out, they play 25 minutes, get the boys some rest, and, you know, and kind of regroup the next day. That couldn't have worked out better for us.

Yeah.

You were talking about soccer a second ago. I read that you had Pep Guardiola in the stands and that you two have been, you've been talking right now.

Yeah, we've, we've been friends for, you know, two years now. He's a beast, isn't he?

Yeah, he is. So did he help you with anything?

He did. So I think the way he. So if you don't, his story, he, he was the Barcelona's, you know, lack of a better phrase, like JB coach. And when they fired their first team coach, they promoted him from within and he got the Barcelona job when it was at its prime. They had just come off a Champions League, and instead of going out to get a bigger name, they got a guy like, they got him someone from the inside. And so I had always studied his career because, you know, that that happened. And if someone hires from within of a company like that, you know, they're obviously a special guy. So, and they had so much success so fast. I think they won five trophies in their first year. They won twelve in the four years that they were there. And so a lot of our conversations were really built upon how he handled that first year, like, how he handled success at such a young age as a coach, how he handled coaching Messi at such a young age, and the other superstars that he had, how they gelled, and then how he's built long term success at, you know, Manchester City.

And so he was just able to give, like, great perspective on greatness, how to, like, start it, how to sustain it, and then how to handle, like, the ebbs and flows of it when it doesn't go your way, and then, like, the way he, the way he coaches his teams, the tactical stuff. Very, very similar.

Yeah. Yeah. So the loudest moment last night, other than the final buzzer, was when Peyton Prichard hit the half court shot. At what point in the last couple of years did you realize that this is like a secret weapon that you can unleash on the other team? Because it was so funny watching from our perspective, you see Peyton get checked in and we're like, well, he's going to hit this because that's what he's been doing. What it, like, tell me how. When, when did that light bulb go off? Like, oh, this is our end of half guy who can do this.

So there's a stat around, like, when you don't shoot the ball at the end of the quarter, your percentage of winning goes down. And our player development coach, who works with Peyton and Sam and some of the other guys, they study those type of stats because a lot of the bench guys, you have, your second unit lineups are in at the end of quarters. Your star is usually aren't in at the end of the quarter. And so we were able to find those stats and our player development staff and Peyton and Sam and those guys take great pride in those little details, and we were able to take advantage of that throughout the season. It's a credit to Peyton because, like, it's the ultimate competitiveness, the ultimate humility to take that shot. And I promise you, and I said this to Peyton during the series, there's never a shot that he shoots that I don't think is going in because of his work ethic and because of his confidence. Like, every shot he takes, I think, is going in, whether it's a layup, three pointer, or from half court.

That's. Yeah, and a lot of guys, I think, don't like to take those shots because they're, you know, low percentage shots for the most part, might impact the shooting percentage. And Peyton's just like, give me the ball. Give me the rock. I'll do it.

Yeah, this is what I do. Yeah, I make these.

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Settle a debate for us. Game four, if you guys were winning. Yeah, here's the debate. So game four, if you guys are winning, would you have maybe put Christops in just to let him be on the court for a clinching game? Because Hank here thought you were using Christops as a human victory cigar and that was the only way he was getting it back in the series.

We would have used him in, like, one of four or five different situations. Like, so if. If there was a critical jump ball like that, we needed to win. Like, there was a jump ball in our offensive possession, we would have put him in. If there was an end of game situation where he had to guard the rim or, like, be over the ball to try to get a deflection and, yeah, like, if we were winning, I would have put him in the game for a minute or two. And just because he sacrificed his whole.

Career, Hank was right.

Sacrificed his whole career to get to this point and to not be a part of it would have just devastated him. And, like, he had a serious, serious injury and, like, he worked his ass off to get back and, like, what he brought for us in game five was, like, unbelievable and really led to winning. And so we have a guy in his career that's been through a lot and sacrificed a lot. Like, you want them to be a part of it. So, yeah, I would have used kp and game four under those circumstances.

So it's nothing new for this show. But Hank was right. And Max, our producer, the Sixers fan who got upset at Hank for saying that was wrong. So another loss for Max. That's another loss for Max.

I mean, Hank knows ball. What can I say? How bad was the injury? Was he. Were the trainer saying, like, you can't play on this? And he was like, no, I'm going to play.

Yeah, I mean, that's kind of how it was. But it was like, we don't know how long the series is gonna go on for? Like, let's try to save him from himself because he was trying to play. So let's see if we can get through a game or two. And then, like, when it was game five at home, it was like, hey, like, you know, this might be it. Like, I gotta be out there. And so, you know, he was like, I'm playing. And so he overrode the medical team. There was just like, I'm playing. And credit to him, tough guy.

So this might be a really dumb question. So I'm saying that in advance. Is there a small part of you that wishes that you had lost more games in the NBA Finals?

No.

Not even. Not even a little bit. Not even a little bit. Where you're like, man, that would have been sick if we had gone down, if we had lost the first game and then we fought back.

I mean, I do wish for things to be a lot harder, but now, once we got to the finals, I was like, man, I'll take the easy way if we can.

All right. Smart answer.

Yeah.

Yeah. You're getting soft. So is there. Was there. I doubt last night you gave a speech. But. But after the parade on Friday. Is it Fridays? The parade after the parade on Friday, will you get the team together and be like, hey, guys, fun's over. Time to get back to work.

Well, some of our guys will play in the Olympics. Yeah, but, no, I won't do that.

Okay, so you have gotten soft. You've gotten soft.

I would love to. I mean, I was joking around in the locker room after yesterday. I said, guys, we're behind here. Like, you know, every other team's been. They started workouts, individual workouts. We're still worried about last season. You know, we're like, sounds good, but, you know, nobody cares. A week from now, zero and zero.

Yeah.

Who, if you were to put odds on it, who do you think from the team is going to make the biggest splash at the victory parade? Who's going to be the one that we're going to get all the videos of and be like, holy shit, this person's having the time of their life.

Got to be kp, right?

Yeah. Yeah.

I was thinking Cornette.

Oh, yeah.

Luke Cornett or wild card there.

Okay, Hank, do you have any questions for Coach Hank? Hank is just.

He's on cloud nine.

He's a winner.

Yeah.

I mean, that's a pretty arrogant stance right there. He's leaning back at his.

Listen, I was taking it all in. I was taking it all in.

Listen, he can't exist.

Coach.

Coach. The earliest Hanks ever gotten into this office was this morning, just so that people would ask him about the game. He was wearing head to toe Celtics gear, just walking around hoping people would bring it up.

Hey, how long you been a ceeze fan?

I grew up in Massachusetts, so all my life, specifically after 2008.

I mean, people. You can't explain to people what it's like being a subject fan.

No, I loved your quote when you were talking to the media saying, you know, it's when they were talking about people, you know, coming at you and the Jays, and you said, it's boss, and I won't want it any other way. I grew up here. I know what it's like when you obviously, you know, wanted to be a head coach. I think your, your old LinkedIn page is still active. I don't know if you saw that, but it had, like, your kind of up where it's like, I want to help players, personal training and eventually be a head coach. Was your dream to be a Celtics head coach, or was that something that, you know, was, was unfathomable at the time?

So we had a, like a prayer board that my wife and I put up, and it was only like, it was the Celtics. It was like, be a head coach for the Celtics. We were very, very, very specific. I actually have this vision board that a friend of mine worked on. And the three things on there were the Larry O'Brien trophy, the Celtics logo, and then a picture of Brad. Because I wanted to work for Brad. I wanted to work for the Celtics, and I wanted to win a championship with the, you know, tutelage of Brad and for the Celtics. And those three things have been on there for, like, ten years.

What was the, what was the biggest thing that helped you break through into, like, getting to Brad Stevens? Like, how, how did you make that happen? What was the biggest part of that that led to you even getting in the, in the door?

So he's actually a funny story. We played against, well, we played in the same final four. And the point guard at, for Butler at the time was Ron Norad. And he had just left the Celtics to go be an assistant at northern Kentucky. And northern Kentucky and, like, Fairmont were relatively close, and they were both d two. So we were kind of recruiting the same type of guys, even though they were getting ready to go d one. And I kind of knew of him, and he just left the Celtics to go to NKU. And I walk under the basket and I'm like, you just did the dumbest thing I've ever seen in coach. Just left the Celtics to go to wherever it was that you were, and we kind of struck a relationship from there. And long story short, he tried to hire me in Brooklyn when he got the g league head job. Didn't work out, and then he kind of made a call for me, and so that's kind of how I ended up in Maine. Was a door closed in Brooklyn. He made a couple calls with some people, and then I was able to get in in Maine and get under the Celtics kind of franchise from there.

Yeah, I mean, your story is incredible. And the, like, they were showing it last night that you were coaching high school and then the main red claws a few years ago. Like, when do you think this will kind of set in that you are a NBA champion head coach? Like, that's just. It's awesome.

Yeah, I mean, it's funny. Like, people say, enjoy it and break. I don't really like that it's different for different people. So I don't really know yet. I think the biggest thing is making sure you don't change. Like, you don't, like, become too much of an asshole more than I already am. So you try to just stay consistent, I think is important. You try not to skip steps in the process. So, like, you gotta coach the same way. And I think maybe more like how you treat people. Like, I think if, um. I really want to make sure that I just continue to try to treat people the right way and not like. Because it's like, just because you win, this doesn't mean you're better than other people. You know what I mean? Like, there's plenty of great people and coaches that have done great things, and they haven't won. So just because you win doesn't mean you're better. And so I think the important thing is, like, recognizing that and kind of staying in your lane, you know?

Well, it does mean that you were better this year for one year. Yeah. Yeah. You were literally better.

But, I mean, over the course of, like, you know, you're not better than other people. Like.

Right, right.

As a human, but you should at.

Least acknowledge that you were better this year.

Yeah, we were. We were a better team.

Yes. Yes.

We were talking about the Boston media. So one of the scenes me and Tatum kind of watch because we both like the Dark Knight and the Dark Knight rises. So, like, when we were working on, like, okay, you know, this is how we're gonna handle, like, expectations, pressure. Like, this is what this is what we need to do. So we're watching the scene where Batman goes into the interrogation room with joker, and, like, they're talking, and Batman's like, why do you want to kill me? And, like, the Joker starts laughing at him. He's like, I don't want to kill you. He's like, I. I need you. He's like, you complete me. And it was like the coolest moment of, like, you, like, good and evil has to coexist. Differences have to coexist in order to bring the best out of each other and the people around you. So, like, dark knight, great movie.

Great movie.

You were. So you're watching Batman with Jason Tatum. That's interesting.

Just the scene. That's one of his favorite sort of clip.

Okay, got it. Interesting.

Got it.

Between Jason Tatum and. And Jalen Brown. Who's Batman? Who's the Joker?

I want to be the Joker.

Ok. The Joker.

Ok, so wait, is there any other options?

No, just Batman and Joker. I think they're the only two ones.

Yeah, we have two batmans and I'm the Joker.

Two.

Batman's over. So Batman's win easy if two Batman's against the Joker.

I don't know. The Joker's willing to, like, the issue with Batman is like, he's not willing to do whatever it takes. Like, he. There's like, that's the scene where he has a chance to throw him off the cliff at the end of the second one, and he doesn't do it. He saves his life. And so, like, the scary thing about Batman is, like, is he willing to go the extra mile to do what's necessary for the greater good.

Yeah, that sounds like some summer motivation for. For both your guys.

And, like, that's the danger part of Joker is, like, he's willing to go the extra mile to get his point across, whether it's, like, healthy or not, which, you know, it's not, but, like, Batman's not willing to go the extra mile.

Yeah, that's a good point. You are the joker in that.

Yeah, sure. Yeah.

So.

So Jalen and Jason will listen to this and be like, wow, so we have to.

We have to kill that.

We have to go the extra mile.

You'd probably like that. You sick Derek White.

Motivation heading in the next season. We got to kill Joe to win.

Derek White and, and his teeth. I thought it was, it was an all time, like, almost a hockey guy moment on the basketball court. The smile after the game was, was very funny. Did he, is he getting his teeth fixed before the parade or is he just going to enjoy this time?

Hopefully has time. I mean, we got to Miami here, so he's not going to have time today. I mean, that's his fault. You shouldn't have gotten hurt. He knows that. He knows that.

Yeah.

The floor is right there. It's a big floor. Watch out for it.

Yeah.

Don't have time to get hurt in the game. Five NBA Finals.

Yeah. Oh, man. So we had a couple last questions. Thank you so much for joining us. I know that you got a million.

I was dying to do it during the playoffs, but I'll do this when I'm done. I was going to come hang out with you guys.

Yeah, well, that was the last time we talked was right before the Bulls played in their play in game, and we were making plans for you to come and tap us out if the Bulls had gotten into the playoffs. So I hope that still stands, that when you're back in Chicago, you can. You can.

I'll be there.

Yeah, we can get the mat out, Hank. We had Derek and Peyton Pritchard on in February, I believe. And Hank said that he was going to shave his head if you guys win the title.

Said when they win the title.

So how long do you think Hank has to make good on this?

24 hours.

Oh, wow. And that's from coach Joe Missoula.

Well, I was thinking, because I want to.

I want to commemorate.

What? To commemorate the bet. I'm going to do it banner night. I'll be.

No, because then we're on the next season now.

You're. People like you. Hank will be the reason why we struggle next year. We're trying to get ready for the next season.

I mean, this is coming straight from. Coach just won you a title, and you're gonna. And you're gonna go against what he wants here.

Like you.

24 hours.

24 hours.

What do you say that.

Come on, Hank.

You can do both.

Well, you know what? I think let's. Let's give him a little leeway here. Let's say until the parade is over.

Okay. That's fair.

All right, so you have till Friday.

Afternoon, because after the parade's over.

Right. We turn the pace.

It's next season already. Yeah.

Yeah.

So we don't. Yeah. We don't need Hank, you know, putting out things about last year during that banner night. Like next season, looking back.

Yeah. You're still celebrating what happened already.

Summer. Summer. Hank just took a twist. Oh, he's bad.

No, you're the one guy who can.

Tell him what to do.

Hey, Hank, whatever it takes, however long it takes.

Yeah. I guess I'll be at the parade with the shaved head.

Oh, Hank is so. You're so angry right now, Hank, it would be an honor for me to shave my head if any of my teams won a championship.

Yeah.

I mean, Hank, I think this is a huge moment for us because you're going to lead the charge on, like, okay, we won. Now it's like, the next. We got to get ready for the next thing. I think, like, you shaving your head is the beginning of us turning the page to get ready.

Yeah.

Play that. The longer we're living in the past.

The 24 25 celtic season basically hangs in the balance with Hank's head.

Yes.

Yeah.

All that.

Your ability to stay present and not focus on the past.

All right.

All that hair that's grown out of your head, Hank, that's last season's hair.

Yeah, that's gotta.

You gotta do all new hair.

All right.

Yeah.

We'll see you Friday, coach, you bring.

One of those videos for me? I like those.

Yeah, I'll hand deliver them.

Are you going to the fridge?

I am now. I mean, I.

Maybe we get Hank. Maybe we get Hank to an after party with the shaved head. We figure that out. Go. Okay. That's a good. That's a good deal, Hank.

Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, what if that's what. Yeah, I'm in. I'm ready for. I'm ready for 19. I'm ready for 19.

Yes. Yes.

This is a great twist. I love this. Because he was trying to weasel his way out of it, but he can't.

Oh, when? The minute. Right, the minute that the coach said he could. Come on. I was like, this is the one guy that I know. If he says it to Hank.

Yeah.

He. Hank cannot go against.

He just put the alpha male challenge on you.

Yeah.

And I'm going to answer the bell.

He put you in the box.

That's what it's all about, coach.

What you should do is you were talking about having to, like, maintain the same guy that you were before you won the championship moving forward, you were talking about how nice your house is and how you were thinking maybe you had to destroy it. You got to destroy part of your house.

Write it down.

All right, so, last question. This has been so much fun. Thank you so much, coach, for joining us. It's a rowback question. Promo code, take 20% off your first purchase. Qzips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com. promo code take. Are you going to allow yourself to maybe buy something or go on a vacation. Like, you got to give yourself something. Right?

Um, so, I mean, I'm gonna take my. My youngest to Disney World.

Okay.

You know that he's at. He's seven, so he's at the age where, I mean, that's gonna be fun.

Yep.

Ronnie Olympics to see some of our guys.

Okay.

And then this is our ten year wedding anniversary, so we're gonna plan a trip for my wife. You know, I like to consider myself the more romantic type. As she laughs in the background.

Yeah, yeah. What's more romantic than a little Olympic basketball?

Who you telling. What's more romantic?

Yeah.

I mean, you're.

Well, you should give her the choice, Olympic basketball or Disney World.

On the way up here, I was holding the trophy, and I was like, can we sleep with this one night?

Yeah.

So what is protocol with a trophy? Do you get. Do you get, like, alone time with the trophy? Does it get passed around like the Stanley Cup?

I mean, some of the guys have been hogging a little bit, which they should be. So, I mean, I had my time. I got a couple pictures with it. I gave it a kiss, but it just kind of passes itself around.

Yeah. I would. I would just. I would be a hog of that trophy.

Yeah.

Well, then the other. The other one, I was supposed to. I am. I got to figure out when I'm going to go to Jerusalem.

Mm hmm.

Yeah. All right, so my last, last question. Al Horford, we're talking about him. Did you have any moments with him after where, like, you know, I mean, he's been in the league forever, and this is just an unbelievable moment for him.

There's not a guy. I don't think there's a better guy in the league. He's awesome. So the moment I got to be on stage, it was me and my son. Him and his son and his wife and just all the work. You could just see, like, he's more of a guy where he doesn't say as much. You could just see it on his body, see on his face. You could see it by his energy. It was just a really cool moment, you know, for him to sacrifice everything that he has to be on stage there and get that. That was awesome.

Yeah, yeah.

There's.

I'm forever grateful for him.

Yeah, yeah.

You guys were a very easy team to root for. I do think that there was a part of you deep down inside that was like, one more loss would have been nice. Just if you give us two games to overcome adversity, just. Yeah, 42.

That's.

That's all you know. Well, congratulations, coach. Yes, congratulations. You made a lot of people very happy, and we're very happy for you.

And you made us very happy for making Hank shave his head.

Yep.

Yeah. And, Hank, thank you for setting the example for, you know, what it means to be all in on winning and staying process oriented, not focused on the past, but just kind of worrying about, you know, what's next. So I really appreciate you doing that for us.

Thank you, coach. I die for you. I'll see you Friday. I'll bring some gear for you.

I can't wait.

Right.

All right. Thanks so much, coach.

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Okay, we're gonna wrap up the show. We've got a show announcement. Jake, you're sitting on the couch.

I am.

Welcome back to the couch.

Thank you. It's not green. I don't have a fellow Billy football by my side or snuggling partner or a professional cuddler.

Yeah, the cuddler was great. That was a great moment.

Yeah.

But, yes, you're here.

I'm here to make an announcement. It's an announcement. That is, I think what we all would have agreed was inevitable at some point. And I think after talking with you guys now makes the most sense. And the fact of the matter is, this is going to be my last episode on part of my take.

What. Why didn't you tell us?

So right now, we've actually been talking about this for, like, four months.

Yeah.

So it's.

It's been an ongoing discussion. We loved having you on the show, Jake. You're a big part of the. Part of my take story. It feel. It does not feel like. How many years is five years? I feel like it's been five years.

Which is what I would call wild.

It is wild. So more than half the show.

Yeah.

It's crazy to think about, and we're very glad that you're part of the story and you're going to continue to be. And we, me and big cat have always said, like, one day you're going to go try to, you know, do live broadcasts, and we're going to wish you the best, and we're going to be firmly in your corner, and. And that's very, very true to this day. Like, I wish you the best career possible. I hope one day you're calling a super bowl that we're watching and losing bets on.

Yeah, that would be the best case scenario. And then you guys are winning and.

Then blaming you for losing our bets.

Yeah.

So we can get into the details so there's no speculation. I know a lot of people might be surprised, of people might not be, just based on how closely they follow me, my career in the show. But basically, one of the biggest dominoes for this happening right now is that the direction that Barstool is going in live broadcasting rights are no longer a priority for this company. And that's not a secret. You've talked about it, they've talked about it, and obviously that was my bread and butter here. That's where I thrive the most. I mean, I'm so fortunate that I got the chance to call multiple bowl games on national television, college basketball, hockey, professional golf. That led to those PGA Tour events. From the connections I made there. When you guys hired me as an intern five years ago to mock Darren Revell, I never thought any of that was remotely possible. I was just here to say yes to whatever you guys wanted to prove that I was a hard worker and had this great opportunity on this massive platform, but might get emotional. It's okay. Yeah. The fact that.

Here, I'll help lighten the mood. Yeah.

Remember.

Remember how bad your handshake was?

Yeah. Clammy hands.

Yeah.

I watched it back the other day, and something that stuck out is one of you guys asked me, where do I see myself in five to ten years? And without hesitation, I said, I want to be a national network, play by play broadcaster. And that brings us to now. And that is where I'm going all in. I've been on, all in on it for a while. There's a reason why I don't curse on the air. There's a reason why I'm not going to do the right Allen tweets. Because when I was making this inevitable jump, it's so that I have no regrets. I have nothing to hide. And I am so proud of what I've done here in the five years. I've accomplished a lot, thanks to you guys. And it has been an incredible ride. But doing it right now, making this jump, we all agree it makes the most sense because it's the beginning of the summer. It's kind of like the off season in sports and broadcasting. Right. So if I make myself publicly fully available right now, best case scenario, I'm in the booth calling college football this fall. Is that gonna happen?

Is that reality? I don't know, but the odds are going to increase.

Yeah.

By making this jump right now.

Right. And we did start having these conversations back in February and March, so it's not a sudden thing. I was joking when I said, wait, what? Yeah, tell us right now. And we. Back in February, March, we basically were like, what is the best way for you to make this jump? And this was always, hey, the NBA Finals is a good spot where you can have the summer and you can try to hopefully get something in broadcasting. And, you know. So I'll say this right now. Anyone who wants to hire Jake, you're going to hire someone who works his absolute ass off. Sorry for swearing, okay. Who's committed, and he does everything the right way. And I. You know, you will always. If anyone hires Jake, that, like, you will have our support. Jake, you will have the AwL support. We don't want to. We want to see you have all the success in the world, and it's. It's one of those bittersweet moments where it's like having you on the show for five years, which is more than half of the history of this show, has been awesome. I. Watching you grow into what you are and, like, you know, adapt and have to go with the flow more, has been very funny and enjoyable.

And I know you've grown as a person, and I do think that you will be a better broadcaster for everything you did here. I also think that you added a lot to everything we've done in the last five years, and I'm excited for you because I do think that, you know, it's scary.

It's very scary.

It's scary.

I'm not gonna lie. I'm scared. There is no clear cut plan for what's next.

Right?

But we've been talking. You guys have been amazing with your help in trying to make that a reality. So the plan is, I'm gonna leave Chicago. I'm gonna go back home to South Florida. As I try to figure out the next step, I think we all agreed that I don't regret. I'm so happy I gave Chicago a shot, but I moved here mostly because I wanted to be part of the team, part of you guys. So I feel like still being in the mix here.

Yeah.

It might just get a little weird. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I really do. I think it's the right time in your life, in the move. It's just like, I want to see you fulfill your dreams. And we had this conversation that it's like, as much as we love having you on the show, there's always going to be a foot in, foot out that makes it difficult for you to go all the way in and be available all the time, where someone can be like, oh, we want to hire Jake to do this. You always were. Testament to you. You always thinking the show first. Now, you should be a little more selfish and think Jake first. And I'm excited, and I truly love you, and you always have a home here, and you always have our backing 100%.

Whenever you're on tv, whatever events you're doing, I know your. You're doing some pll stuff.

Yeah.

I have a few PlL assignments this summer. Hopefully, there's some more PGA on the table, as well. And like I said, perfect world. The fall comes around. There's a million college football teams and games out there and networks, hopefully. You know, you guys gave me the shot of a lifetime, no pun intended. Five years ago. You really did. This is such an impossible business. It is so hard and so competitive, and you have to think of ways to get really creative, to stand out. And you guys gave me that opportunity. And like I said, I'm proud of what I did with this opportunity. I have zero regrets. And now I'm just looking for someone else to give me my next shot in the booth, the same way you guys.

And you'll get one. You'll get one. And you're very good at what you do, and you put a lot of work into it. And like big cat said, whoever is out there, if you're listening this show and you're thinking, well, I've got, you know, I've got this one open spot for a game. We don't have anybody lined up just yet. Or if there's a bigger. Whatever the case may be, if you're listening to this, Jake Morris will be the best worker that you'll ever hire.

Yeah.

And you won't do the Ray Allen tweet?

I won't do the Ray Allen tweet. And again, bullshit. I could have caved just to make you guys happy, but now that on your resume, there is nothing I regret.

Did ever do Ray Allen during the day.

Okay, what if. Hold on, hold on.

Yeah.

What if. What if CB's calls you is like, hey, we want you to be part of college football this fall. Okay, but we need to do the Ray Allen tweet.

But I have the job.

Yeah.

And I, like, that's for life.

Well, not for life.

I mean, as long as it wouldn't.

I'd be ready for this. Jake, they might throw this out at you.

Then I'll do it.

You do?

That's the reason I'm not doing it. It's not because, like, I'm against what it says.

Yeah. Oh, you. Yeah, yeah.

Let's go.

That's the only reason I'm not doing it.

You're multiple positions.

You're also getting a guy that can lay the pipe.

No, but in all seriousness, like, I know my role on this show. I know I'm a very small part of it, but it's been a major part of my life, and I owe you guys forever. And this is not.

Stop.

No, I really mean that.

Like.

No, but you gave us stuff too, so it's not. It's a. We all won with our relationship, and our relationship isn't over. Like I said, you're always a friend of the show and always have a home here, and then we'll always be rooting for you, so. And spotlighting whatever you're doing next. So that's. That's never gonna change. Yeah.

And it is worth mentioning for the next few months, you two. Dave, Hank. We've come to the agreement that I'm still gonna be employed by the company. And I'm really fortunate for that opportunity. I'm still gonna be active on social media, writing blogs for the website, still making golf videos. Hopefully hit another hole in one on camera. 1st 1 second one. So I'll still be around the next few months, but it's all systems go. I'm looking for a full time broadcasting job. And hopefully it happens sooner rather than later.

I think you'll get there.

Yeah.

And when you're on tv, we will. We will make sure to let people know so they can follow you or also just follow Jake on social media.

Yeah.

You guys are letting me keep that Twitter account, too, which is huge, because.

If you do the reality. No, I'm just kidding.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just. They'll know where you're at.

Yeah.

We will also remind people once you're on t because you will be on tv.

Yeah.

Calling a game. And we'll say with great pride, there's Jake Marsh.

And.

And I'm gonna. I'm gonna root so hard for. Score. Gummy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Only when Jake's on origami. I'll facetime you this year.

That would be cool. Yeah, I'm calling on a fellow.

All right, 20 years.

Yeah. What? I will be, I will be mad at you. If you like, do a call on a game that I'm gambling. You'll hear.

Text me your best.

Oh, no, you're for me.

I know it's over. That's your system.

What?

Oh, if I'm watching.

Yeah, yeah. One of my system. What are you gonna say?

Hey, have you given any thought to the. The at name change?

So, PfTn, I talked about this beforehand. I'm down to keep it indefinitely. Maybe. There's probably a time where it will be appropriate to change it.

I think at some point you should change. You don't need to change it just yet, but yeah, some point you should.

Yeah, I think that would be a cool little thing for the aw els.

You might want to change it for yourself.

Yeah.

But you can also just put, you know, that you were the PMT sports. I mean, that. That's up to you.

I might change, put in my alum. Like, I might buy a part of my take alum.

Right, right, exactly. Because you might want to be like, hey, I would like. Because that's to be there.

That's what we talked about too, is I'm not technically, I am technically leaving the show, but I'm kind of graduating.

Yeah.

And I still have the ties permanently to part of my take, which I'm so proud of.

And you're like the safest bet that you won't do anything bad that will make us be like, wait, we're not associated with you. I don't think we would give that to anyone else.

Yeah, I would keep the handle for now if you want.

Yeah.

But then, yeah, change it because you gotta, you gotta go out there on your own and this is something that you're doing. And it's gonna be, this is gonna be Jake Marsh on tv. It's not gonna be part of my take on tv because on the other end of it, there are certain networks that might not want. Pardon my take.

That's right.

As the host of whatever show.

Yes.

Yeah, but, yeah, you got it. Yes. Spread your wings at some point. But there's no, like, no rush on that.

What are you last thing. Who's gonna do some of the tasks you did? Should we, should we give it like, who's gonna nerd nugget?

Oh, my God.

Well, nerd, I think you can take nerd nugget.

No.

Yeah, you could tell you the. But, like, reminders.

I still have funny reminders. I can still tweet you guys when they pop up.

Yeah. Or you could. I would like to see someone fail at this. Maybe pug. Maybe Pug has to do the reminders, because he'll just be like, I'm such a bitch. I was supposed to remind you this a month ago, and I forgot.

Whatever.

I have a few, I think.

Can you. Can you just tell pug right now it's, give us.

Give us two. Give us two that you got off the top.

Yeah, I'm looking.

Quick reminders. This is what we can say. Max, do you have anything to say?

Yeah.

No.

It's a sad day. I know I was only joined with you in this booth for a couple months, but, you know, if it always hurts to lose a member of the team, and we're gonna miss you back here.

Yeah.

And again, I thanked you guys, but the two of you and Hank, you gave me break that I never saw coming. I never saw my career going in this direction, but I'm so happy and glad it did. And I learned so much about myself in this building the first day you guys told me, you have to grow thick skin. It's the only way to survive here because of the massive platform. And I can say I've certainly done that.

Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I think you've gotten. It's crazy to think about the changes, and. Yeah, they're all been great.

Yeah. So thank you, guys. The four guys behind the glass are with no doubt, the hardest working crew in sports media.

Well, guys, Hank is behind the glass.

Forget Hank was there.

Hold on. You didn't mean.

Hey, if Jake.

If you were in Shane. You mean Shane, pug, Max, and memes hang sitting right there.

What I was gonna say is, be careful.

He's got golf coming up.

Not a lot of people know this. These guys are pulling nearly all nighters.

Day nights a week.

Yeah.

That's insane. We finish recording at two or 03:00 a.m. and we wake up. We go home at midnight. They're here till four in the morning. We wake up 3 hours after they go to sleep, and all the clips are done. The YouTube is up.

It's just you actually should. You need to text us in the fall and be and tell us what it's like getting your some days back.

Oh, my.

That. That is gonna be interesting. That's the one thing where I'm like, oh, my God.

Be like, every weekend feels like.

Yeah, I don't I actually think about that, like, the day that I retire, where it's like, oh, wait, I can watch football on my couch and then go to sleep after Sunday Night Football. That's crazy.

Yeah. But yeah. Thank you to you guys. Thank you to the producers, and thank you to the awls, you guys. Every single in person interaction I've had with you guys has been remarkable. You're the most loyal, passionate fan base in the world, really, more than any other sports team, I think, because these guys live and die by everything we say. They know every little detail about us, what we talk about on the show, and it's just so cool.

I think Oilers fan base is pretty good too, though I have a limited amount of interaction, but from what I remember, they're pretty strong.

Yeah.

But I heart a lot of big, big hearts.

Yeah. The same way. My relationship with you guys in this room is not going to change. I hope to continue making relationships with awls around town and seeing all them and talking about PMT and talking about sports. I just think it's such a cool dynamic and connection that you really can't find anywhere else, you know?

Very funny twist. If Jake wrote a tell all book about PMT.

Oh, there's really nothing.

Yeah, that would be like, order for dinner on Sunday.

Yeah.

Rising.

But Jake, we love you and best of luck, and I look forward to seeing you do great things. Yes.

Thank you, guys. Yeah.

Flourishing.

It's a scary time. It's an exciting time.

I told you from day one, it's. It's. It's the good will hunting. Then one day, I hope you're just like, hey, I got it. I'm going out and I'm like, that's great. Leave us fucking idiots to hear.

You guys are not idiots.

You're sitting here being idiots and losing our money.

Geniuses. When it comes to sports media success.

Word is not correct. Yeah, but you want you take back the Hank. Hard working.

Hank's hard working. For my first, he was pulling all nighters. I'd walk in on Monday morning, he's sleeping on the green couch.

That's just cuz he was tired.

Yeah. From staying up all night editing the podcast.

Yeah.

But then he was very cool.

He was the first of our group to retire. He's in retirement?

No, basically.

But proud of myself for not crying, cuz I. Yeah, no, that was big. I was gonna cry.

That was huge. You didn't.

I didn't.

You want to know?

Okay, time to cry later.

Yeah. I think I'm like, Sunday nights gonna be weird.

Yeah, but I feel like you might.

You do?

I be like, this is kind of going for brunch.

Yeah.

Yeah, because it was college, and then I had one year in between, and then.

Yeah.

So, like, my post grad life, all but one year has been here.

Yeah.

Sundays. Sundays are a big part of that, but I wouldn't change a thing, and it's awesome.

Yeah. Well, we love you, Jake. We always will. Love you.

Best in the office.

Yeah.

Best one here.

Yeah.

That was a great handshake.

That was a great memory. Yeah.

Yeah.

Good handshake.

The best. And, yeah, we will always be team Jake. And like I said, you'll always be a part of this. And whenever you're back in town, you come by and say hello. And I guess we got to do numbers, huh? Are you gonna get this? This would be an all time walk off. Yeah, an all time walk. What?

I feel weird. Like, what if someone else wins? It feels weird.

This be awesome. Max won this.

I want to give Jake my number.

I already have a will.

Jake our number.

Wait, why?

I already have a win. Because this will feel so weird if I want.

Right.

Max, you just said you give Jake your number, like your numbers gonna win.

That's true.

Like, come on. No, we gotta be men about it. And. And if anyone steals Jake moment, be a man about it. Okay.

I think we should. I think we should retire number 18.

No, no, that kid. No, he's trying to chances retire a.

Team, but throw in a one on one. Oh, so it's still 118.

Could just be 101.

When 18 hits, it's 101.

We'll put 18 up in the rafters.

Shake.

When 18 hits, it's 101.

Great.

Yeah. All right, numbers. 823-5681 you already said 56.

Whatever.

96.

All right, I'll say 56.

What would you pick?

A 99. Poke.

96.

Shane. What was it? 21. Shane tried to give me a bacon wrap plantain off his fucking gross ass plate and was so confused why no one was eating it. Weirdo. Shane. See, this is what you're leaving us with, Jake. You're leaving us with weirdos like Shane. I would get more shame.

Shane's never eaten a banana till today.

Yeah, he actually told me the other day that the first grape that he had was last month.

That's wild.

One grape. One single grape he ate.

That's crazy. 99.

Pug.

You motherfucker.

Pug.

You stole his moment.

Pug, God damn it.

How could you?

Now I'm definitely not sharing those reminders.

Oh, what a fucking moment.

Pug use this is for Jake.

To this for all of us.

Son of a bitch.

The whole squad numbers on fire.

No sense of the moment, Pug.

Yeah. Goddamn puzzles. This is. This is Jake's 99. No, no, it's your 99, Pug. It's mine.

But.

How many? How many?

That's like four. Is that four?

Damn, Pug.

All right, I think we should. I think we should let Jake's.

No, this is. No, no, no.

I don't want it.

I don't want it. Jake, I'm passing the rock to you.

I love on Jake.

Love you, Jake.

Love you, too. Love you guys.

Switching back and forth from my day tomorrow I'm getting there.

When you think about my tongue o your clit and switching back and forth.

Switching back and forth from my day to my tongue stick to my tongue.

Day to my tongue stick to my.

Tongue switching back, back and forth the magic to my tongue.