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getting us ready for U.S. men's national team game two against the soccer ruse on Friday. We also have a two-time national champion and soon to be NBA drafty, Alex Cariband in studio. We're going to talk about the nicks parade. We're going to talk about trade young, we're going to talk world cup. We also have our Mount Rushmore team set, firefest, great Friday show.

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We're all strong on this planet. Join today in club online or in the free pf app. Okay, let's go. Hey, football guy with ease of the company. Welcome to part of my take presented by draft kings. The crown is yours. Today is Friday. June 19th and the New York next parade. Ho boy. Ho boy. That was quite a parade. Let me just say that I hope everybody had a really good time. Now that said, I saw the pictures of the subway

“system and the streets and I think there's probably only maybe a handful of places that aren't”

an active war zones that I would rather be less than downtown Manhattan during the next parade. It was just like claustrophobic. Everyone jammed in couldn't move, but that said the next

fans that were there having a great time. That will be a day that you will. I was going to say never

forget. You probably will a lot of them probably will forget it from alcohol, but it's going to be a similar moment in your life and it looked awesome for them. Listen, I get the the idea of the what you're talking about the train station that that part where everyone was stuck underground for like 30 minutes because they couldn't it is just a log jamming humans. Those things, that would suck. I think when you go to a parade like this, you're basically saying, "Fuck it. It's going to suck

at some points getting in and out, but we're going to have the best time ever." And what for what I saw, I saw a torque battle where a woman pushed another woman off of a lamp post and then torqued right in her face. Jalen Brunson had a great quote and a great, he was just walking,

“I think it was down Broadway with the Laryo Bryant trophy, literally the King of New York,”

probably the coolest moment or the coolest anyone's ever looked, just walking being like this is all mine. But his quote, "There are a lot of people have a lot of opinions, but when you prove them wrong, you don't have to say shit to them. Now they don't deserve it. Thank you. I love that. He could have just been like, you know, Philadelphia Eagles parade where it's like calling out all the haters or, you know, sometimes he's parades like all these people didn't believe in us. I think the chiefs did

that they called out Steven Shea a few years ago. He's like, yeah, Becky Hammond, all these people, I don't care. I'm not even going to say your name. I'm not even going to give you a name check, because that just helps you elevate you. I proved you wrong. I have a Laryo Bryant see it, see you later.

Jose Elvarado, Grant theft Alvarado on top of the truck wrapping to 50 cent looked like the best time.

He's from New York and that's like, that that seems like pinnacle New Yorker right there. It cannot get any better. That is final boss. You've conquered him. Congratulations to him. And then Tyler Coleck getting detained by the police because they didn't believe that he was actually on the team. Yep. It was a very funny site, too. He was just like, he was running down a barrier, high-fiving everybody along the edge. We're in a baseball hat. We're in a,

“we're in a baggy t-shirt. Honestly, look kind of like a barsal sports employee. Mm-hmm.”

And the two cops that were there went up to them. They grabbed me and they're like, hey, where are you doing here? You had to be like, no, I really am on the team. Yeah, you say he tweeted

after us and I swear I'm on the team bro. We had Mitchell Robinson's trucks. I love that

they actually got one of his trucks in the process. Yeah, that fucking rock. I'm a kale bridge is dog. Yep. Uh, we got somewhere somewhere Peter Herb Street is like, what the fuck? Why did I get invited? We got a new banner for you. Yes. So the, so the day did, it was not a great start for City Hall and, and the parade because they put up a banner. Who, who was it for? It was Dylan Jones number 33 from the wizard. And you probably are saying yourself number 33 in the New York Nix. Isn't that

Patrick Ewing's number? Yes. It was Patrick Ewing's number. It is retired and they put, guys, we're getting rings. We're on the Nix at some point this year in Dylan Jones 33. Who I did even play, did he play for? Two a contract. Two a contract. Top start. I do want that banner. So Mom Donnie hit us up. Let us know. We'll take that banner. But yeah, it looked, it was you fork. And they, I mean, the, the streets were absolutely packed. I saw the guy trying to

Uber eats delivery guy trying to deliver his Chick-fil-A shout out to that guy. There's two of them. Hero. They had like probably six stacks of Chick-fil-A boxes. But I saw that I was like, that's pretty impressive. Then I realized that Brandon Walker still has his auto order for every day for lunch. Yep. And it was just going to the office. Since you guys see the guy

“who I think he was having some type of medical emergency and a woman saved his life and then he”

immediately went sandlot and tried to make out with her. I did see that and it was, it was funny and then I saw the, the look on the guy's face. I was like, I hope this guy's okay. Yeah. I hope he's all right. But that's his last moment on earth. But it was, it was when I was trying. It was this big of a mess in chaotic as we thought it would be memes was there. Should we call memes real quick? Yes, let's call him. Let's see, let's see if memes looked like he had the best set up. I knew

it was right next to the, javry thing. Everything. He was like front row then he was right next to the stage with the confetti. Did he get a hook up somehow? I don't know. I hope he's so drunk. Oh, now. And also the biggest story, Mr. Brinkbong is, is back after a gay retirement. That's true. Mr. Brinkbong is back, Hank. Is he back? Well, he said Mr. Brinkbong's back. For the parade, you think it was just a, he was back for just a moment. Here's a, yeah. No, he said he's back. He said

the police officer whispered in his head. I mean, he is the biggest flip flop or like if he, he, he gets one comedy flip flops and then he gets another flip flops back. No, he said, here's, he has, here's a quote, absolutely. Jerry, no will power, what's so ever. He's kind of like, what you do with lefty, righty. Oh, no, I'm big. I'm not. I'm not a delet. That's not what Big Cat said. Hmm. Yeah, I saw you hit a shot, righty. Yeah, I took one, but I, every round, I see. He was the

simulator hit a couple of righty. Every round that I play is lefty. Except for the one shot. That wasn't around. Okay. Well, we were playing. I just wanted to fight on behalf of Mr. Brinkbong. Jerry says get on the cuck-boat hanky. Mr. Brinkbong is stronger than ever. Oh, oh, yeah. With a picture of him, industry, something like this. So he's back to RIP, the death of Mr. Brinkbong June 16th, 2026 through June 17th, 2026. He's probably back to dead tomorrow. Are you shaking in your boots?

“You should be. Uh-huh. You shaking in your boots. Are you talking to your touchy shaking? Like,”

yeah, go masses, touchy shaking, go masses has some nice boots. Hank is blue with it. She was devastated by about a, whoa, about losing Mr. Bingbong. Yeah. I can't take max seriously when he wears his advisers. He's just, he's just, he's just on my visor. It's a great visor, but just look at you. You are, it's just very, it's a very funny luck. It's a great visor. Hank, he also hated this visor.

Yeah, he said, he's like, Hank, Hank, Hank, it's soccer. We're, we're going to get to that second.

Yeah. All right. Let me call memes. Let's see real quick. I hope he's just so, so hammered. He's, what do you think? Oh, memes. We're taping the show right now. Give us your quick recap of the parade. We, we haven't braided. I'm fucked up. I'm in the subway right now. I'm here with George. What are you getting? Six inch meatball. Six inch meatball. We're going to rip carry out. You're right

release of keys? Uh, I was thinking about doing some nickel back. Okay. Okay. Better. Yeah. All right.

How far have find a couple great choices for memes right now? Find this American band. What's

“happening now? It was in Washington. I think when he said he was in the subway, I think you took”

that as sandwich. I think he was making that show. Oh, sorry. I thought it was serious. Okay. Just to clarify, it's the subway with the train cars, not the sandwiches, right? Yes, correct. Okay. All right. We're actually confused. All right. So memes. How did you get such great spots everywhere you went? We just knew we just knew guy. Oh, hell, yes. Was this security guard Mike? No, it was different guy. Okay. What would the fact that our channel was soon guy? Screw the

guy. Yeah. Yep. Shout out. So you had the best day ever, memes? All right. All right. Go rip some karaoke. All right. All right. See you. Love you. Oh, man. He sounds like he's having a great time. Max got damn into it. Come on. I'm an I know. That's that. How can you, how can you listen to this show and not understand that? This happens to me every now and again. You just completely mean your visors to tell you. Yeah, circulation your brain. I think it may be maybe had some

brains and your and your belly fat that you lost recently. Oh, that I'll take that. That's a compliment. I would I would love to get rid of some brain cells if it meant to get rid of some fat. So there

“is a skinny and dumb turn into a memory. Incredible scenes. Oh, yeah. I mean, I think that I would”

have preferred if I were there in a Nick fan. I'd prefer to maybe be in a building, be able to watch everything. Yeah, but I'm sitting down, sitting down. But like I said, you know, it's almost like when you when you know you have like a long travel day and you have like a couple layovers or whatever, you say, hey, you know what, this is going to suck. I'm going to put my head down, parts this is going to suck, but we're just going to put our head down, get through it. The

getting on and off the subway getting to and from the parade, that part is going to suck everything else. You just don't care because you're drunk and you're having the best time ever and it looked like

incredible. You fork everything New York showed out. And I think the fact that we're not Nick's fans

is probably a pretty big reason why we wouldn't like to do that. But if you are Nick's fans like every interaction you're having that day is probably a good one. Yeah. Probably like, yes, this is awesome. I'm around the, I'm around my people, right? In fact, I heard one person that's on the ground they're saying that your people are just looking each other in the eye on the street and just saying champion to each other. That's like the New York, the Jeep wave of New Yorkers. Nice. It sounds

like it's a real thing that's happening according to the source that's on the ground. Champion. Did you guys see I think of Moscow or something? Oh wow, saying my favorite part of winning is people just looking at you and saying champion. That must have been a lot happened to all time. We had, I think Carmella Suprano was on a boat, Bobby Bacala. I saw Mike Breen. By the way, Mike Breen. I don't know if you specifically talking about us, but he did confirm to both Jimmy

Trana and I think it was Craig Carton show that he was going to do a triple bang if Bronson had hit that three in game four and I think the quote he used with Craig Carton was something like it became a thing because those two, those two knuckleheads that I talked to. A couple of knuckleheads.

Yeah. Yeah. I, listen, that is an incredible compliment if Mike Breen. He doesn't have to know who

we are. What the show is, but if he's like, yeah, those two knuckleheads, I'm like, thank you, Mike Breen. I love you. The fact that he was going to send out a triple bang to some knuckleheads is that's pretty cool.

“And I believe him. Because he said he, that's why he went triple. It's good. Yep. And then I saw,”

I saw a lot of replays recently of that three pointer that Bronson took that lead to the OG tip in. And it, it looks like when we got a finger tip on it. Yep. Making the shot fall short, making OG be able to run in there and tip it in. The soft land in here is really just, man. There's, this is going to be a, NBA finals that we talked about. I feel like for decades. Yeah. I really do. Hank, what do you think? I agree. So I think you guys are President of the

moment. No. You'll say this next year, too. No. I don't think so. I think this is, this is it. No. I, I have seen some New York next fan saying that this championship for them feels like three or four for another franchise, just because of how much it means to the city and how long they've weighed for it. What do you think about that, Hank? I'm going to good for them. That's fun. It was one championship. But it feels like more definitely feels like it feels like the biggest one out of that run where we've

got like a new champion every year. It probably feels like the biggest one. Max, what do you do to them? Um, I, I don't know how I'm so saying to this question. Okay. He's still suck on the subway thing. It's still got him. No, because I've had championships too. So I, yeah. No, the graphic that shows like the last NBA champions. Oh, you know, how many years has been since we've had a repeat?

comparing the celebrations between Nick's fans, compared to the celebrations between Celtics fans, when they won. I wasn't directly, but now that you're bringing up, I'm inclined to agree. There's probably a little bit of parade fatigue in Boston. Right. I mean, Hank said himself. He was like, I couldn't really get that excited. What, what? You're killing them and you guys, you guys went viral for the worst, you were up. We were up by 40. We had been celebrating the whole game. I, yeah,

“you couldn't even get that excited for the final whistle. Okay. So I think that New York again,”

my guy, this is, we've wipe off the white board. Yeah. We've gone zero days since making this the next championship of the Celtics. New York, I did do that. I'm just saying that New York, they have been thirsty for championship. They've been starving for championship. And they got it. So they're going to celebrate for a while, Boston, on the other hand, it does feel like they, like, it's like every year. Oh, I kind of go to another parade again. Okay. I guess I'll buy my ticket. Okay. I guess we'll

queue the duck boat. Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, he hit you with the bubble, bubble. Should we talk about the other big news in the NBA? Trey Young? Yeah. Max has actually been looking forward to talking about this more than I have. He was mad that we weren't able to talk about. I said save it for the show at like 10 30 this morning. And he's been angry that he hasn't been able to talk about it since. I don't really know. So Trey Young opted out of his deal. Yeah. I declined his, his 48.97

million dollar player option for the 20 26 27 season. He is technically going to become a free

agent on Monday. I would assume this is just him resigning a different deal with the wizards. Rumors of Trey looking elsewhere have been described by sources as nonsense. Okay. I'm just, I'm just reading the reports. I know it's foreign for some people in this room and on this podcast that a player would want to come back to your team after not having your contract. But that's what Trey said. Trey just went on the pivot or whatever that podcast was like three days ago and

talked about how the wizards could be a onesy. No one's talking about it. I'm pretty sure Trey Young is going to leave technically in free. He's going to become a free agent. Then he's going to sign like a three year deal for a lower average annual value than the 8.97. So he wants to stick around and maybe listen, we just saw with the New York next day with Jill and Brunson taking a pay cut. He's going to lower his average annual salary so that we can build around him. So we can develop a

good team around him. Think about that. That's interesting. We all agree though. It would be so funny if he went somewhere else. I don't think he'd be. I don't think we scored too. The wizards are a front runner. I don't think they did not say that the wizards. I don't think he'd be that funny if he went somewhere else. I would disagree with that too. It would be hilarious if he went somewhere else. I disagree. It would be the funny if he went somewhere else after we made an Instagram account called

the wizards about how excited we are for this new core of the wizards step before you you even get to that point. Yeah. The guy is gone. First of all, first of all, Dad, it's TikTok. Not Instagram. Sorry.

“Sorry. Second of all, Brun Winhorse says that he's going to resign. So how about that?”

When he's got sources. Brett Siegel says it's nonsense that he's looking this was completely

expected. I knew this was coming. You guys have apparently never paid attention to an NBA

offseason in your lives if you don't know how this type of thing works. He was always going to opt out. He's always going to come back. He knows the wizards are building something. He wants to be part of a special future with a special franchise with special people and to do that and to make room for more special people. He needs to take a slight pay cut. Come back longer longer, longer. You said you always knew this was going to happen. Oh, is that could you pull up PFT's tweet

of when this first got announced? Yeah, please do, Zach. I would love to see that, Zach. This doesn't seem like a quote of someone who always knew this was going to happen.

“Oh, is this what I think it does keep going. This made it. This made keep going. Right there.”

Go back up. Zach, could you read that? If you love something, set it free. If it comes

back, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was. That actually makes perfect sense. Thank you for

bringing that up, Max. Oh, that is a quote that is like, I want, because I'm on, I'm on teammate would be very funny if Tray on Went to Worlds. I want so badly to agree with the guy who's visor is I think at this point, becoming a medical emergency to what it's doing for his, to his brain. Yeah. Max, that quote makes perfect sense for this situation. Thank you. Thank you. It's it could be. It could be a more perfect quote. What are you doing, dude? Max, we're letting him go.

He's becoming a free agent and then he's going to come back to us. Yes. If it comes back, it's yours.

you, that you've said. He heard that he was something set free. Yeah, but yes, but that is not a,

“that is someone who is preparing for the possibility that he does not come back a hundred”

percent. But if he doesn't, it never was. Max, he's come back. That is not, what he said was,

I always knew this was going to happen. No, it's crazy. This is never a worry. That is not a quote, that is, that is, that is not a worry. Look, look at you, emotional. The wizard's live rent free inside your head. And it's right here. This is it rent for it. I am right in this. It doesn't, it never was. It's not a, I knew that I knew that this was going to happen. I have no worries that that he's going to come back. You know what to honestly pathetic about this whole thing?

It's pathetic that I'm right. You're trying to insist that I'm wrong. When this entire time, you could be bringing up the fact that Alex saw a broke his foot. But you, but you haven't. That's, that's where you should be, if you, if you, if you weren't wearing a tight visor that was cutting off your brain, you would bring that up by now. But you haven't. Trey Young's all you got. Trey Young's mind. He's not going anywhere. Well, not right now. Not right now. Not right now.

Right now. He's not yours. Technically he's not right yours. He is, he's ours. No. No. No. No. He's a free age. I'll right now. He's not yours. I thought he became a free agent on Monday. Okay. I guess,

“right now. Okay. All right. There we go. Oh, you have to. He's right again. What else is no?”

Not going to him down. Get your facts straight. If you want to talk about the wizard's bitch. Do it. I want, I want you to learn to stand back. Learn ball. Learn contracts. He's going to be back. Everything will be fine. We're going to become the next rival to the next. We're probably going to win championship in the next five years. We're going to have a better parade. Hank, you got to get involved here. You're killing me. Hey, it's out. How?

The cool makes purpose in. It's quote does not make perfect sense. If the quote does not make perfect sense for someone who is completely expecting this person to come back. Now you do not say that quote if you're like, oh, this is a, this is a nothing thing. You do not say that quote if you think that he's gone. I, I think, no, but you're opening up the possibility for him to be gone. I think the quote makes perfect sense. If you want to make the argument that PFT maybe didn't

know that he was going to opt out. I could buy that because like he might not be, you might not have known that he's going to opt out. He's been giving quotes this entire offseason about how he's

looking forward to building something for the future in DC. So when in first saw the opt out,

were you a little bit nervous for like a brief second? It's more about like all the tags I was getting in the span of about 15 seconds of a Twitter where it was like, oh, shit, something's going on what happened. And then I saw a big graphic of trade, young on it. And then I had to zoom in and read the dialogue. And then I had to search his name to find out what was actually going on. And then consult with experts with experts in the field before I jumped into conclusions. And yeah,

he'll be back. And it's all good. And my season tickets are going to, if anything, increase in value. So I'm not worried about that either. Okay. So we're officially not worried. Not worried. I am not worried about trade, young. Print it. But it sure sounds like Max's. That might be a little worried about trade. I just want to find it. I just want to find it. I just want to find it. I just want to find it. I just want to find it. I just want to find it. I just want to find it. I just want

just rooting for funny. Sorry. I'm a fan of comedy over here. Yeah. It would actually the funniest would be if Anthony Davis is like, I only wanted to play with Trey on, I also want to trade. That also would be funny. All of these things would be funny. Keep your eye on what the whiz do. Everything's on the table the next week or so. We could make some moves. Could make another

“trade. We don't know. Could make a draft pick. Yeah. Definitely going to make a trade. So I think we”

don't know. Yeah. Anything could happen. In all seriousness, where I think this stems from is the fact that the whizards have been completely irrelevant. And their front office has been a joke for the last 30, 40 years, which is fair. And it's fair to judge them off a lot of stuff that they've done. So they see something like that. And they think, oh, yeah. It's just the whizards. They're just

basically a parking lot for bad contracts. And then as soon as those bad contracts are done,

the whizards will gladly give up their players and whatever assets they have to other teams in the league, just for the greater good of the actual franchises that have good front offices. Where the whizards are just like, yeah, you know what? We'll talk to the whiz. We'll just trade. We'll trade our 15th overall pick for their fourth overall pick. And the whizards will do it because that's the right thing to do. And they only serve to make us better because we're a real team and they're not.

Those days are over. We have a competent front office. We're building something. We've been building something for the last three years. And now it's about to come to fruition. And I'm glad that we spent more time talking about the whizards than the New York champion next in their parade. And I'm glad that we're rent free inside Max's tight little head. He's got to take that thing off. It's fucking a mom. Yeah. It's a good visor. It's a great visor. I hate that I wasn't. It's going to look like

I took it off in this show, but I didn't take it off. Yeah. Because you have it off?

so technically, we've got to take this off. You took it off. Can't be honest with you. It'd be

“pretty funny if. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. Good. And Anthony Davis. We're just like, yeah, we're”

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“I think we should put up to a vote which we should talk about first the world cup or the US open”

mm-hmm. Because Hank's not happy with the current state of of soccer inside this office World Cup was too old cup. No, so you guys open uh shit a cock it's a hell of a champion chips champion championship course yeah because it's got guys we're right now we're taping this the leader is minus two leader in the clubhouse minus two as well uh Roy's minus one it seems like it's a miserable experience and I love it

we've got a couple of amateurs that shot 200 today yeah it's just pretty cool for them um it looks windy as fuck they had to do a fog delay early this morning mm-hmm even though as as Frank he barely pointed out to us earlier that they have the ball spotters that have the flags they go out there and they like mark the drives in case they go into the rougher whatever um apparently the USJ thought those weren't like they weren't capable of doing their job so they had to do a fog delay

and I think there was some high winds they got even windier um and then right off the bat was Harry Higgs that hit that shot to like 12 feet and then it rolled off the green 45 yards away it rolled 45 yards off crazy and this is why we this is why we root for the course the US open the course as they said last year about Oakmont they've lost the course I love it the course is off the chain it's got a mind of its own you can no longer control it I am become death

the story of worlds is what the USJ is saying right now and uh it's out for blood it's awesome to watch uh Bryson by the way is uh 200 through 4 just hit it over like a highway um but yeah the course this course rocks and the wind is is gnarly it's it's great I love I love having one tournament a year where it just truly is like even par winds and everyone's just struggling and it's it's just

“miserable it's just fun to watch and everybody feels like we feel when we play yes that's what's”

that's what's really nice you deserve to feel it too yeah it's a lot of fun to watch um Hank why do you hit the world cup I don't hit the world cup I don't I don't I don't I don't don't don't be afraid to say it don't be don't put more to my mouth again uh can I just do a recap of some of the things that you've said about the world cup over the last the fandom of people and the most confidence thing I've heard from Hank is yeah he said today a lot of fart sounds he's going out of town

this weekend but then and so max invited him to the bar for the games of US men's national team game on Friday today and uh Hank was like well I'm going out of town and max said oh yeah that's

you know hey don't worry hey just so you know it wouldn't have happened regardless I just and and this probably is a little bit hated for me but the amount of fake soccer fans that are coming out of the woodwork and the softest thing I walked into a game of game we have ATVs in the game of the cave four of them were on one soccer game they didn't even have the US open on and it was it was you're mad about to call Switzerland versus Bolivia of hers and go to

whatever like these teams that no one cares about and they're not even watching they're acting like oh this is a huge game what's let's lock in on this on this soccer yeah I get rooting for USA I get watching you know the the Portuguese and the Argentina's sure but to act like every game of the world cup is let's sit down and lock in on these games it's it's it's it's performative

“there's a lot of performative soccer fandom going on and I'm just I'm not doing it I think number”

one we should let people enjoy things and then number two you're a company man thank you appreciate things that make us money here at at Barcel's course would interest you know that there's a live stream going on for that game that was specifically sold to be a branded live stream watch along for as you put it would you say switch that it wasn't I was in the game we gave there was no live stream going on that's just false that is 100% false that wasn't

for that game I was sold that we had a live stream today no we might later but that was that that game happened uh oh wait that's the one score on right now yeah there's no live stream nope sure yeah it was in the cave I was sitting in the cave you sure you weren't live I think so I hope

though you might okay I don't think we were always wrong and either way I listen I'm not the

biggest soccer fan I'm not going to pretend that I'm like the rest of the year as it live oh shit um the rest of the year like I care but such a project what would pivot to you with a project I was for what my second point yeah there's no live stream okay but my first point stands which is let people enjoy things yeah I like watching the world cup I like watching sports

“the middle of the day I think it's uh the the the countries the the reaction videos of of”

small countries just scoring a goal is awesome and then my big my my favorite thing that's happened since we've last taped messy he has always been my goat uh we're going to get into it with Raj we also we're going to get uh the reasoning behind Zach's Ronaldo fandom at the end of the

show in firefest messy breaking out with a hattrick to start the world cup was incredible I love it

so much people have been saying that he's done for you did you see the clip there was a clip from the 2018 world cup where the announcer said it was surely messy's last world cup matching perhaps his last with his country he'll be 35 year olds when the next world cup and cut her arrives oh he won that one by the way yeah this was in 2018 it's 2026 he on on Tuesday night scored a hattrick to open the world cup exactly 20 years since his first world cup game he is now the the tied for the

lead for most world cup goals he is my goat he's so incredible I also love this one guy who said I respect messy's greatness this will this will have to be in the takeies I respect messy's greatness but I'm fully convinced he's going goalless this world cup and Argentina are getting grouped he holds them back bookmark this and come back when it happens now this one was interesting because when he says he holds them back that actually is happening with Portugal and Ronaldo

“yeah it's it was ugly yesterday there was no worse two-day span I think in the history of this debate”

than the last few days so Ronaldo looked awful he looked angry he looked like a diva and if you want to talk about like holding your team back there you can watch the replays of Ronaldo during his team's game he blames his goalie for letting in a goal like directly gets in his face like hey why don't you go out and catch that and then at one point his teammate hits a bicycle kick and then

Ronaldo immediately his first reaction is not to celebrate holy shit what an awesome goal his first reaction

is raising his hand in the air and be like hey that's called you off sides though so let's not celebrate he seems like in the tricky part is like everybody that's on that team with him grew up idolizing and worshiping Ronaldo and so there's nobody in that country that's capable of saying like hey man you suck now please stop playing even though there should be because this exact same thing happened in Qatar in 2022 yep so we should have known that it was happening oh yeah because

he actually hasn't scored a goal in over a thousand international game minutes yep and I think the

getting out of bed for oh this is so great this is one of my favorite takes this is from Paul Watson

“not the prison plan at guy but a different Paul Watson he said I've said it before Portugal need to”

organize a fake world cup for Cristiano Ronaldo during the real thing so he believes he's playing against the Congo when all the players are actually actors genuinely think he'd fall for it not sure he knows who any of his teammates are anyway he's not wrong no he's not wrong hey could you imagine anybody ever saying that about Messi no Zach you have the floor defend your goat you know as Ronaldo fan you really wanted uh there's a thought back your head like he'll kind of he'll see his

new role on the team be able to kind of not take a back seat but kind of let other guys shine do a little bit facilitated not just think everything runs through him he hasn't been able to do that yet there's another game coming up a couple days maybe he'll be able to put that aside and kind of maybe this was sobering moment because you know he's seeing all of it online you know Messi lives run free probably in the back of his soul see a lot of it's all a lot of a lot of ball be played

yeah you hated to see it you really did uh Ronaldo go but better days ahead but no but maybe no maybe not better times go maybe maybe talk about that like better days is I certainly have yeah

this could be he could just do yeah he could never score another World Cup a goal again I'd say that's

probably that's like there's a high chance yeah and what does this was his mean for his legacy

“I think we have to have legacy talk tarnished forever I wouldn't say tarnished forever I don't know”

pick at I I've got my new top five okay you know this is what we talked about in the barber shops which is a five hey pfc which is top five song players I got my top five okay number one Messi unequivocally yep number two meridana he was my number one until Messi won a World Cup now meridana's number two number three paylay the outchanges a game number four Gigi Buffon okay the goalkeeper from Italy for like 20 years one of the greatest ever do it

number five Luis Figo one of the best midfielders of all time Portuguese legend okay so mine is pretty similar we have the exact same top three I go Messi meridana paylay and then my number four soccer player of all time is just gonna be Messi again because he's that good and my number five I am gonna take Ronaldo the Brazilian one yeah because he was way better well then I've got and if he didn't get drugged before the 98 World Cup final they probably would have won that's

actually a different list that I have is my top Ronaldo's of all time yeah number one is Ronaldo from Brazil number two is Ronaldoinho yep from Brazil number three Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal

“I did have a moment by the way that I had I think I'm I'm so transfer portal brained by college”

sports now Columbia has a Luis Suarez yeah that was like what the fuck you can transfer that's like but also the other Luis Torres is like 45 now so yeah I gotta correct that but yeah the World Cup has been awesome Hank I think if I think you're gonna get into it a little bit maybe not on a US open weekend maybe next week it's fun it's not that this is honestly the best times to watch sports is when you don't really care it's for like yeah you just like get to root for

something and if it doesn't work out it's like oh whatever yeah and yeah it's everything around it too like the fans that are at at the stadium right now traveled from all across the world and like they're like the fans up the fans up I I appreciate the true fans passion I'm not knocking you just say international fans yeah you're knocking the it's mostly the people in the song but like the people in the song and just trying or just have a whole box was a joke

oh well you saw me this morning I I don't know if you can see it on camera but my my Pfizer says USA soccer and Hank looked at me he goes what a loser I was like dude it's just a cool visor like in the moment it's fun yeah Hank were you saying that to people that were rude for US hockey no why not do it the same thing but it's also one of those situations like good at hockey but but we're not good at soccer no but hey you haven't watched the game you said you didn't

watch the game we never do it we don't know hey do we even make it to the sweet 16 or whatever

hey we never get to we never get to all be on the same team like we all have our own teams then you know world cup Olympics that's pretty much it yeah it's worse you know when we just bomb everyone they that's it we all that's only time we get to go USA USA I'll be rooting for the US this weekend the US open course wow got us all right well let's uh let's talk some more soccer with real quick I yeah we kind of had we haven't discussed one of the biggest stories

of the entire offices oh Jacob we've resets hold out oh yeah it's still going on yeah it continues we're on Jacob we were saying because we did we did discuss it but that was but early we need to

the he's like what do you think what do you think I mean it doesn't here I don't know me Jacobie per se he spelled it j a k o b i e b e r s e t t you've got and you've got no Jacobie per set news with that spelling I got softball unfortunately it's definitely my friend know it no hits you got all from that names are tricky man you know yeah it's up to the mother at birth she can spot however she like so what what's the uh what's the holdout at where's that I'm just saying

the holdout continues oh okay I'm sure that there's people that say I mean like hey what's going on

“Jacobie per set and is and is contract holdout we got you and for the record you have to page”

Jacobie per set have to they don't they don't grow Jacobie per sets on trees correct and of course in Beck says that he's going to be at the facility 13 hours a day okay using this opportunity love that for him so that's where we're at okay that was our update on Jacobie per set we're gonna talk more soccer we Roger Bennett we also have Alex Cariband who's going to get drafted in the NBA draft on Monday and then firefest before we get to Roger Bennett he's

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gentleman who when we pulled up the zoom was sitting there in your seat and he's like we're like you're not Roger he's like sorry to disappoint can I test the micro quick and then you come swooping in like Ellen DeGeneres I think I saw you slapping across the face yeah it told me get out on that off yeah congratulations we want to interview James Gordon long time ago when he was doing like night time James Gordon and just before you know he's a big football fan

West Ham fan and just before the cameras went on we're chatting little cool and then he just was about to count many goes teeth and the guy just zoomed in to the shot and goes oh clear I was like what was that man what was that and he goes and the guy afterwards said there was one time he was doing an interview it had a salad and there was a big piece of spinach in his teeth

“happened and so I was like is your job just to go around now and just he's like that's what I think”

we shall cheat and that's it so you're not really big telling man until you go until you got the teeth going yeah you don't look you in the eyes no I contact you I believe I heard that yeah all right well Roger it's great to talk to you World Cup we have World Cup fever doing yeah oh yeah we've been watching the games I'm right now we've had every game on now I'll tell you why we have World Cup fever on this show PFT and a guy who we work with who's very

smart is named Sean quickly they came up with a round robin bet which I don't know if you're

familiar with a round robin bet but you basically bet every iteration of something and it's

you bet 20 things and if two of them hit you went a little money three of them hit and it keeps going up and up we did that for the first games of the tournament and we bet all the draws and we had a day where there were four draws and most people would be like this socks socks are they're tying it was the most electric day in this office we won so much money from all draws they don't get it

yeah yeah just like bet you were betting for the worst potential outcome just in case yeah

“then you can that's how football's truly going to catch on in America I mean there's many reasons”

to love this World Cup it is an ultra marathon we're all getting nipple chafing it's a lot for games a day is heavy tonnage we're here in Seattle near where the United States are about to take the field against Australia tomorrow for a little game a knifey spoony it's going to be something but ultimately the whole World Cup at the end of the day is it not just a 39 day romcom where slowly slowly Alexie Lannless is trying to win the love of Zlataneba him of it he'll break him down eventually

I'm sure because it's very funny watching that dynamic too because Zlatan's ego and Alexie's ego are pretty much the same but one of the two and I'll let you figure out which one is more deserved than the other and so there it's like and then God blessed here on Ryu's just up there

making faces whenever Zlatan says anything amazing and now it's rich for a Zlatan's not even

looking at Alexie Lannless anymore there's like I'm not even going to acknowledge your presence yeah but this is just a romcom trope this is just the three out play I actually think they have planned all of this it's all worked out I mean Terry on Ryu is the greatest modern striker in the English Premier League history like every single is the special glue of any show he's on any footballer that comes on is immediately in awe that it is Terry on Ryu as great as he is I actually

do think he's become even greater as a face pull up like he's just like if that was a gold medal event man he'd be folks he'd be the folks of just on camera face pulling but the lot of sluttan thing I'm in Trevor and they were came on our show the other night and went in great depth about this is a romcom trope we've seen it before and at the end of it Zlatan's gonna shake his hair down take off his glasses and just be me it was me all the times

“last time it doesn't end up with them you know it doesn't end up with them kissing and I think it”

will be possibly as beautiful as moving is when the United States when the World Cup against Cape Verde in the final we just have to look forward to be beautiful I got recently rewatched the 2002 World Cup with South Korea advancing through the knockout stage time after time all the calls that they got and I'm thinking hey that was that home for that we we could do that too no I saw that first game and Roger I got to tell you yeah I got to tell you my pants got real tight

yeah when I was watching that yeah that's the best by far I've ever seen this team plan we've had some big wins before but in terms of like a complete game and how enjoyable it was to watch that

style of soccer I've never seen that before at the United States we scored goals we scored goal

score goal and the counter pressing that we were like we turned the ball over and within two seconds just swarming the ball winning it right back it was amazing to watch and I'm at the point now where I've said if we play like that that team is capable of beating any team in the world

“I'm not saying that we're going to or that we're gonna run through because you have to you know”

when what six games in a row yeah in your sense yeah but I think that I think that that team could beat any team in the world am I crazy to think that I don't know what to think anymore it was erotic yeah yeah it was erotic watching this team we have seen this team in good days when we've faced up to say grenadines and Vincent and we've beaten them one nail with a goal off some of these testicle the game was more thrilling than it sounds and we've seen bad days when

we've looked at Trinidad and Tobago and the iron they beat us never played two teams at the same

time and we've got to learn but you know we've always been a good team we've always had collective you know the best we've had like the dog in us you know we've been like a collective fest just guys a lot like they could be hootie in the blowfish rowdies but you know when they pull on that stone wash denim jersey oh they become super heroism become like a mid major this was I mean this was stunning this was like I can't quite understand where it came from I love

these footballers this is the best individual set of footballers we've ever had they've struggled recently to find like coherence they've struggled you know against European teams don't look them in the eyes you said earlier we've lost that is at nine straight to European teams there's like a slight bait in inferiority this though it was I've kind of think it's like Matthew McConaughey like doing romcom romcom romcom yeah I'll do Texas change your massacre yeah I'm kind of like this

level and then suddenly being like no man I'm doing Dallas by his club this is who I am I'm gonna steal Wolf of Wall Street with my cameo I can do whatever I want and I'll do it whenever I want it was that kind of football the goals were ecstatic yeah you know the team play was was transcendent and it was like big cat it was like Caleb Williams was playing yeah and suddenly

the Madden curse the yeah that I mean it found something it does feel it feels like everything is

possible man and it's magnificent it was incredible to watch I had so much fun doing it

are we worried at all about Australia PFT keeps telling me they're fast I trust PFT with the soccer analysis like like I expect us to win every single game in the group stage now we we got so funny I really went my book the 1994 I went down to soldier failed for the first game

“I believe you Germany I was worried no one would show up and they played a video”

correctly video outside the stadium which Tommy Lizorda said they clearly got into make a hype speech and he said something like I don't really understand soccer I don't know what the world cup is but if America are in it I know we're gonna win it I mean here's the issue I'm

going to whisper this because it's a little bit frightening Australia they love being the underdog

they love like they're the big locker room billboard merchants and when we got drawn against them because we were hosts so we were the number one seed everyone went mad in America like yeah God Australia there and one guy on CBS television said just it lent into the micro and goes Australia lay up like you know pizza pit and then I can't remember what it was London Donovan said something so astonishing about the coach that he was I can't remember the

the Australian coach was interviewed he's a very good coach a pop of it and he said yeah we're pleased too that we got America like that's a good that's good we could have got basil we could have

got England we could have whipped we're pleased we're gonna America and London they talked about

him being arrogant and that wasn't the word he used he said something like he's going to get out of here on the next contest flight which was like wow bro and then I'll actually weigh you in and said you know there's not that they're ordinary it's an ordinary team and so the Australian press this is why we're whispering have taken all of this and they've decided that we think we are you know with this with that they're going to destroy us so I want to say to the

people of Australia we fear you you're a very good football team I'm just gasing you up I'm just gasing you up we're just we fear you they are a good team they're kind of us they're organized they're disciplined they're a really good collective it will be a really great game I don't like

“to be hyperbolic it might be the best thing that's happened to Seattle since never mine came out”

in 1991 I'm so excited this city this ended well yeah oh I'm trying to remember a pole Jam Album very quickly the streets are like it's crazy him and it's beautiful I'm finding it I'm finding this so moving there's someone that loves America like Kenny Powers loves America the loves football rising in America the beautiful part of the other night was seeing just streets you know Columbus Ohio thousands of people out there seeing like you know St. Louis

thousands of people out there seeing Americans you know falling in love with this feeling of connectivity and joy and happiness and being together and and and welcoming I mean we can get off on that in a minute I I'm starting to worry what we're going to do when the Scottish fans leave that's what's going on yeah because there's there's certain storylines that popped up the U.S. men's team you know the the booth on Fox but the tartan on army the the the scots

I read someone wrote a story about the tartan army and they had an anecdote in it where essentially they were all in a liquor store and a woman who had nothing to do with the tartan army came in and bought to the hot day on a really hot day bought two water bottles and they booed for buying water did you know that this was like the the scots and the tartan army had it like this because they were capturing the hearts of America by the way PFT knew this when I was in Chicago

and we were walking out the studio and we this is months ago 100 days before the world count my book came out and you were like I was like you were like I'm so excited for the world count and I was like when are you most excited for man and you were like oh the tartan army you knew back then and you right I mean it is I mean the tartan army is beautiful for so many reasons I'm old enough to

“remember when Boston used to be an Irish city and just to see them come in and fall in love with”

Boston and to you know quadruple the beer sales over a weekend that they have on St. Patrick's Day which is throwing down the gourd nut but the overall the joy of the tartan army is really profound what I grew up in Liverpool in the 1980s football fandom was the Hooliganism and you know England was struggling and football was pero kill and you would march all over Europe and every team had they

you go and and it will cups too just pitch battles against police against other fans against

anybody that you could you you you were letting out a profound national anger and I think the thing that's been really beautiful and my god we needed it in America we really did we needed them to come over and revel in our bookies we needed them to come over and be like oh this mother then covered what is this and we needed that they're falling in love with us and we can fall in love with ourselves again but part of the the joy of this is like someone who has lived a lot of football is how welcoming

the the fan bases are it's no longer about like okay let's go and where's the English let's go

“and have them let's go and it's about we're here life is short we're this is joyful everyone can”

participate we had the Diego Luna that actor come on the other day in Mexico and he was laughing about how the Mexicans and the South Koreans are having a love off they're playing today in Guadalajara like the two-fay you see like the Mexican fans don't South Korean fans upside down in huge vats of tequila and they're like their lives are being changed and you say I love it this is

the face of Mexico that we always want to put out but he's also like I kind of miss the old days

where the Mexican fans would spend hours in the middle of the night outside the South Korean hotel fire fireworks at the players windows and just making it hell but it's beautiful we need this kind of love yeah the economy is they're an SEC school yeah it's the biggest company you can give them it's incredible yeah except like a baby they're Alabama they're Georgia like just show

“up to your city drink every single beer yeah have a great time I was gonna ask you about that”

because like what is a legacy of this like playing it forward Boston I'm so sorry you have been the jewel of the planet in terms of warmth hospitality wonder I'm seeing clips in my in my feed

that I'm like all right I've seen that one before three days ago and then you realize holy crap

no this is new yeah still going yeah like Scotland the nation where I mean once had over on the show when I asked him when he when the Stanley company did all that stuff you know where he's in the fountain doing the press ups and then at the nationals game doing all the crazy stuff shirt off the invented tops off of the nationals game we just didn't know at the time and I was like man you did this for five days how did you not get hungover and you just looked at me like I'm

I mean it goes all we do not get to hangover and Scottish people and over you do not get hangovers and I admire it so greatly but they're going on my amy necks which is that's gonna be a humidity of my amy necks are like a match and it's gonna be insane I do want to see the videos that come out of Scotland like the tart army going to 11 oh my god bring them in the kilt there's two things have not been invented in Britain is sunscreen and electricity me that exists there

and they're gonna have that mindset but I'm interested in what you think about how American sports it like English fans were in Dallas Stadium there in Jerry World yesterday and they were blown away by you know there the sports and global swans that's blown away by America both the sporting reality and and we got to get into there we got to get into their buckies European franchise business like I want to open the biggest bloody buckies in

it's resident but the other thing is how will American sports culture be changed by what you guys have seen like which SEC school will be playing freed from desire yeah so you know when they win will you be will you be doing will like will will the Vikings fans be doing the the Norwegian rowing piece yeah yeah who'll be who'll be tidy enough after them so will it be be why you fans will they be like just tidy enough after the game is like the

job it like do you see American sports culture being changed by this crap all it be a circus

“that just goes I mean we need the chance we do I do I do I think the chance and could use a”

little bit of work but that's something that has to be organic so we don't know where that's going to come from I know our boss Dave had a couple bangers that he dropped on the timeline yesterday we'll see if those get picked up or not for the American fund yeah he had won a Yankee doodle Danny very popular song that everybody knows that you just replace some of the words with with music and then you rhyme turny with shit I forget somewhere that doesn't rhyme with turny so

it's got to take some work that we have to do but I think you got to hit nail on the head earlier it's nice to see our own country through other countries eyes sometimes because to paraphrase Kevin Durant a lot of dumb bullshit happens at our country but a lot of great things happened to

the Japanese fans they've I feel like they might even be my favorite fans of the entire tournament then being amazed at barbecue going on all the the local news stations and just being like great ambassadors for the country it's great to see your country through the eyes of another

“it really is that's what I'm here because of that man I'm like I'm genuinely my life is a living”

testament to the soft power of America which felt from Liverpool when I was going up you know I'm watching with the refrigerator period I wanted that man I wanted that you watch public enemy you're like wow god you know nutrient high school John Hughes movies you're like bloody hell and it is right the Japanese fans who wrote that letter about about how free free chips are the and a Mexican restaurant they're just coming and then they've got a pledge to eat them even

they're feeling physically sick yeah because like in Japan you don't get free stuff and they have

this great line like a free gift can never be this honest so like these guys just sit down

they're 87 full of chips and salsa and they just want to vomit but they're just like America as they stuff it down I love that and by the way we've not taught for a second about anything that's happened on the field this is the joy of the world yeah it's just it is just every day it's just

“another fan base the off the field is and this I guess is sports now but it is like just the”

just the joy of the world right now reveling in in the United States it's a very healing moment I guess one thing that that has happened on the field that a lot of people are talking about it is messy has messy got to the point where he's being mean where he's just rubbing it in like it's he's he's won the battle so clearly against Ronaldo we get it met like a hat trick to open up the world cup and then Ronaldo looking like he uh he probably shouldn't even

be in the continent you shouldn't have made the trip over here like it it was it was a tough watch for Portugal and it was a great watch for Argentina what what can you say to if you know Ronaldo fan they're probably going through it right now what can you tell them to make it seem like everything is going to be like I don't think you can I don't think the world's divided

into two kinds of people like there's well you're always sweet and people like sweet people like

savory you know people who like the North people like people like Messi people like Ronaldo and you can't say anything you cannot change it it's not a objective thing it's in American sports too of with like Michael Jordan and LeBron and all you just cannot change that once you're a Ronaldo true sir you're a Ronaldo true sir um I love your idea that Messi this sweet little dominative he walk who can just do just crazy magic it's not even physically truck with walks

most of the game when you watch him is walking you know when we at last came out said he looks like he's just wandered out of your local supercups you're like not afraid of that and then suddenly he'll just like burst into life and do like his part like I'm pretty sure this part ninja action going in there this part like closer magic Ricky Jay kind of a card shuffle crap this stuff I don't even know the thing is it's probably so infuriating to Ronaldo because Ronaldo's stuff is is A-Rod S gets

five tool player stuff it's just like you know six abs is not enough for the perfect you know the perfect shirt reveal you gotta have eight or a good day 10 and so those are diminishing those powers um and you're left with I mean it's like kind of James Hardness kind of catch 22 there's gonna take all the shots he's not gonna play the day you kind of know at this point you're not gonna win with him but it's the bomb fire the vanities for for Portugal I said this a couple of

times they they can win this they can win this tournament that's the agony and they all want a win it for Ronaldo but the thing that's stopping the winning it for Ronaldo there is Ronaldo right fit in from wine vendor yes do you think there's any chance that they do sit him because that from everything I've read and and seen like Portugal has a team that is a true you know I don't know if they're dark horse but they're one of the best teams when he's not playing and yet

they have to just kind of bend the knee to him and say yeah we're gonna let you play and and he's not in American sports who's the Ronaldo ever I mean it's in sports well I don't want to bash him but I mean the ball is better than the Ronaldo right now but there you could make diagonal brunners maybe holding the lakers hostage a little bit for their future

so that's I mean that's ultimately it and they can win I mean they are so bloody talented but

“you got to remember these players all came through with Ronaldo is that I can't so no one wants”

to tell him no one wants to be there they had this loss will cut and they did drop him and the guy that replaced him who's still the number two striker Ramos he's got a hat trick and and then you know and then they you know I mean it's tough it's very psychologically tough

and his legacy is magical but what messy messy must drive and crazy that he's weren't the world cut that he's still delivering that he just wanders on how great was it in Kansas City in

“narrow head stadium PFT whenever I see arrow head stadium I think of you laughing at the school board”

I do what they would do but to see that stadium which is normally just I and he reads the main feel like it you know in a heartland of our nation to see it bouncing and it could have been in Argentina that night the noise the spectacle it could have been Buenos Aires it could have been the

monumental where Argentina normally play I found that really to be sincere for one very fleeting second

I found it really moving that that was America and to see that and to witness that and that day I won more yeah yeah he has more wins at arrowhead than Derrick Carr. Yeah it's pretty crazy Derrick Carr played in the last U.S. for many years all right so what team what team is impressed you the most through the the first games I mean England was great Germany obviously just absolutely spanked whoever they put his cursor the cursor I wasn't fair maybe cursor is

better than we think because they only lost to Germany by the same amount that resulted he's close to himself there were times when one yeah but when they scored that goal low Carrus out this tiny this tiny island the I mean we're seeing Carrus out on that score book yeah okay I can't you it's worth millions of millions of dollars to like the the Carrus have but worth even more to the the Carrus out and diaspora that pride that joy that I mean I find

it all that incredibly moving when they scored Carrus out it's mighty Germany a really good goal on the counter really good I'm dead inside I'm a horrible person but I still though I was

like so glad I've never been to Carrus out I'm not Carrus out it's an incredible achievement

same with Cape Verde we had that goalkeeper on the 40 year old journey man and this is like a man who rattled around like triple a double a baseball forever and then suddenly got not just called up to the majors but almost like in the world series just suddenly came on and pitched there almost a perfect game I can't imagine what that must have felt like for him and you know the joy of it to go from 29,000 Instagram followers he had even no one was saying the word

"Vozinha" what he woke up that morning but by night he had 10 million Instagram followers more than the homes more than Wemby and every kid I said this to him do you know like every kid tonight when they're playing football is throwing themselves around on the tour for the asshole or whatever just screaming I am "Vozinha" and that's ultimately I think whoever wins and we don't know yet to answer your question like a lot of teams that will teach them you know obviously

France a amazing Argentinian amazing England didn't crap the bed at the first hurdle which is a

“big big psychological relief so many of the teams no one has fear that's what's changed like the”

middle middle the African teams are fearless self-component everyone fancies themselves no one wants to capitulate but really the joy is is like the Vozinha joy the names that we do not know can just have transcendent experiences and this a bit sincere for your show so we're gonna bring it to a whole but like that that is it and I just hope more than anything that some of those names will be American names this tournament's gonna be enormous whether or not the US boys

going deep but if they do go deep like if they can win a couple of games if they can make us believe if they can give us these scenes in cities across the nation make us feel alive cheering for the Federation America loves winners America loves dream teams this has been a dream on team forever it could be so profoundly transformative yeah good yeah have you heard anything you you've got sources everywhere Roger if you heard anything about Christian police it's a calf how's that leg

doing he was wearing like a compression sleeve yeah there'd be in very you know what I actually kind of

“I think I like what they're doing it seems almost like Bella check-in the way that they've handled”

this injury there's like no information that they're giving out whatsoever so it might not even be that bad of an injury and they're just letting us all think that it is it might be way worse than we think it is but we're wondering like is he going to play there's a chance he might play I really I kind of respect how they're like keeping it very very close to the vest and letting the narratives get out there but what would it what have you heard about it I've heard it still attached to his leg

go at which is big if true and can either confirm or deny that I mean thank god a couple of things the team has so many talents right now and the group stage is so forgiving the way

all this journey but yeah yeah everyone everyone is in the next round lads and so it's a trade-off of rest in him against Australia we played them in November was it and we beat them to one they were very good they gave him a real kicking and it's a very physical team it's like it's like kind of football Bill Lambeer would really look out and be like now that I could that'm interested in that game they really gave him a kicking yeah yeah it had to come off in that game and was injured

for weeks and weeks and weeks so I think how he's used if he is fit can he play would he play would you flung him into that will be the narrative but it's going to be a magical game and remember I'm guessing up the Australian some sort yeah it's going to be a magical game both teams very good both teams very good Australia very very very good and so I do I just hope for a spectacle Balagad that to see to see an American pull this foot back to strike the ball and

see believe it's going to go in the back of the net that is I didn't think I'd lived to see the

date yeah it's pretty incredible yeah you're right to gas up the Australian and it shouldn't just

“be like gasing him up we should if you've watched the tournament so far you should know that any”

team is capable of beating any other team or at least tying any other team yeah yeah and if they tie good things happen at ball stool head cool to the so everybody wins baby that's fast that is true that's that is that is the point do you have do you have like your top four do you have a amount rush more of all-time soccer players yes but they wouldn't mean much to you most of them are terrible and they just made me laugh with their like tenacity trying to overcome their terrible

ness I love I do I think that's the greatest thing in sport it's like being a bear's fan being a white socks fan you do learn the sports is a pleasure that hurts is it like it's a suffering it's an agony and when something great happens you know it's fleeting that is going to come for us all it is and he's got the celebrating so most of my favorite footballers a human beings at a deep deep my favorite baseball player of all time was Joey Corra okay I have I've signed you I've got

every baseball card of Joey Corra's I've got selling jerseys of Joey Corra's in my office I've got Joey Corra Avenue as somebody made in Chicago I have that street so I like this was a guy who's playing a really good white socks team when I arrived and he just he just took the field every time just like

so happy to be there so I mean never took a second of playing baseball for granted I adore him and

that kind of that kind of it's like ultimately life is short and you've got to make the most of every minute and that's what I love so my favorite footballers I could tell you but they wouldn't mean very much to you they're just hilarious you won't the best great ones of all time yeah yeah yeah tell me who like you would say would be the the four greatest of all time in order lotless okay yeah fair number one just a show was a school of the same yeah Christian for

less than number two probably you do is he's very old for that that's true I don't want that I want you know like there's the messy and there's the messy and the Ronaldo there's the there's the Freddy do three and the Freddy do four up so do this and I don't really when you get into a Twitter wall with them bastard yep I'll get to it's over man Freddy do and I probably put in

“number four I think would probably be smarter the Brazilian icon that's how I'd there it'd be”

low-less it'd be low-less and policy a do respect I love Kyle Beckerman who used to play for the United States play for us forever was just the most tenacious football at work so bloody hard he'd probably be number five but you only wanted four on that rush more so that's how I'd go baby yeah that's good so are there any teams that should be pressing the panic button Brazil I'm mostly asking that Brazil should Brazil be pressing the beginning of being fine they're not

the boss and they they had like 11 guys in playing inside the penalty box for basically fine Spain will be presumably you can't read too much first game man is like these teams the Germans have a word for it I think it's gonna like turn the unmanned shaft they got word for everything and the idea is that the world caps were by the team that plays themselves into the tournament you

“got to remember these men and they are they're just guys they're living together in like weirdly”

monastic conditions for like 40 days it's like love island but without any of the women in the house

and so love like they're all walking around there's some great guys there's always some three

weird ones and it can be like we've had great teams that sound amazing that's just destroyed themselves in the first week of camp just like just self-immulating in there because they can't

of it for a clock in the morning covered in my own vomit I can't do that I can't perform you know

“where's my where's my Lamborghini to smash into us the lamppost and just walk out of and go”

and buy another Lamborghini not even have it towed and this I can play football under those elite conditions I can't do it so ultimately we do not know and so the tourney of Manchester is like sometimes in those sometimes in those conditions just the the the geases come together just the boys kick in you sort of Argentina they bring over like they bring over like 25,000 pounds of meat and all the doing is either playing football training or barbecue is like not those are the

three three times of the day and they loved that and they played them using it and they're like

man it's so amazing and they come to get by the way those boys in Kansas City the first time

they took they taste burnt ends yeah they'll be like don't you think they're gonna be like we've been doing it all wrong all these decades yeah yeah it is true the the Argentinians I mean I I'm a big messy fan so it's been a great week a great week Raj so everyone by the way the book is fantastic go by it on Amazon also just a little little preview I think PFT and I are book to come on your show live after the final group stage game for the U.S. men's national team

in a moment of victory we're gonna have a post-quickal cigarette together so we'll be joining you from this studio and so we're very excited for that we actually will well now we shouldn't let's see we we have our eyes on the whole thing so we're not gonna it's really not a stage Roger we don't celebrate group stage was all right exactly that's beneath we celebrate hardware trophies right yeah I'm by the way it's happening can we just yeah it is and then it's over I

think I think we were texting when you were laughing about what we were saying a week ago but if the world ever lets us win a world cup it's over it's yeah I love you better can you say this

“very good it is so funny to me because the only thing that's keeping the world together is”

them laughing at us we're so bad at men's football yeah we know that that's why they laugh at soccer by the way yeah but in this people call it soccer the biggest show on Saturday on the English television is called soccer Saturday they wake up to a show called soccer rm they use it it means association football it's like so they use it all the time but they also know when they're like hey hey mate you you know they even prepare you call it so good you know bad the way like oh my god we're inferior

that they know that we know that they know that we know that they're laughing at us makes us feel it but your point is what when we win it well it's just over it's over you have nothing left the world has nothing left I got into it with the guy the other night news like all typical american only cares about soccer at once every four years and I said hey buddy sorry that we have other sports that are awesome and we and we have March Madness and the NFL and college football my

bad dude yeah and so if we win this it's a wrap like just forget it better be coming the next

day we'll never be able to deal with us getting that be the greatest irony the after all these

decades trying to make football soccer happen in the united states yeah we would win it and then the rest of the world would be the equivalent of a kid knocking the game board over the rest of the world would just be like it's over yeah so if you thought if you thought it was bad what we did to Canada when you stole hockey oh my god you're giving it up you're not you're not playing any sport that resembles soccer anymore like no more ball sports and just we're gonna swim

every the rest of the world we're gonna swim from now on and if it happens if it's 12 month time span we win the world cup we win the gold medal in hockey at the Olympics and we get the pope

“yeah and now now the pope is from Chicago honestly the only the only move that the world would have”

is put Yugoslavia back together and hope you can win a gold medal in basketball that's it like that would be your only move we got we got a poochang going at the world we've got the pooh we've got the pope there's only one pooh yeah by the way we might have time to talk about and I know this is the longest edition of Pond might hate in all of history and everyone wants you to

talk about the next god man it's so amazing what I am I'm like a ball's fan I grew up with like

watching John Starks but beat the crap out of Tony Coococh four times a year I have a nightmare called Swenheimer thinking of John Starks pubing a stash life in me like the Shesher cat and so I'm not next but I'm not next like forward but man that's the kind of ecstasy that I think we look insane today yeah I just think everyone has it but we don't even have the chance to talk about you you've done it you've won football already you've made us have full courses

year before the hydration break like it's a good thing we got it and also it's a good thing

“that they go to commercial during the hydration break and that's why it's going to be in every”

in England where they play and it's like pissing down and it's like minus 20 and they're going to be in that we're going to the hydration break because everybody wants to come on this one I think it was our game in LA it was like 74 degrees in terms of perfect weather indoors though like hydration

American you've always won or anything yeah all right we I got one last question for you Raj you're

the best we're going to have you back on before before the world cup final this tournament is best and it also tuned in for us on Raj's show on after the American gonna lose and you're going to get it I'm just I don't show it we won't show it I feel it would be so funny to have on when we just like do it and you've said it's like gonna be the end of full wet things in the funeral we'll see your placement let me tell you what's going to happen if we lose we're going to

do an NFL preview yeah on your show we're going to we're going to hope you're right about down

“the NFC south yep we're going to get deep into it that's what we care about”

it's happening but all right my last question wrote back question are you show BACK dot com promo code take 20 percent off your first purchase queues and pull those hoodies joggers shorts a row back dot com promo code take here's a little preview if we do lose Zach is going to give you the last question Zach go for it how are you into your brother exact kind of like gorgeous what's going on my man I had a quick question was kind of curious on your thoughts that uh England didn't bring

cold palm into the world cup if you had any any took take away from that that's a deep cup

row back dot com 20 percent off um and so cold palm is for those who don't know he's like a virtual

so natural maverick words are not his thing he's a very funny kind of very memorable football player but what he can do is utterly transcendent to give you a very serious answer like ultimately all of everyone every coach is grappling with the same ishink with this world cup is that you have 26 human beings they're going to live in like reality TV conditions and you you don't want I mean it was on the was it on the miracle in ice that movie Kurt Russell gave us a beautiful view of

wisdom that he doesn't want what the he doesn't want the best guys he wants the what what's the rest of that quote he wants the the best collective the best squad the best unit and cold palm at has had a very poor season and ultimately this was a signal by the coach we have a German coach we didn't even get into this can you imagine number two things I want to leave you with if England win the world cup in America in the 250th anniversary of America it might just be

the darkest timeline where rocker I said this to you last hours on like America will just be an agony watching so many English fans firing bottle rockets out their enesis out of our offices we didn't even know you could do bottle rockets and that's our gift to you America but it's also you know the English will have to know they have a German manager they couldn't win with an English manager they got very close but like well we need that German winner

they have a German manager running the team now which it's like being agony in many ways for it they need it a German to lead us to victory in whatever anniversary of day it just was his also an agony and so he kind of like is saying I don't need the big names I just need the right

“names together and that's what's going to lead us to victory and we will see God I can't wait”

for the best season to come on well we'll have you back on for a period of time okay for that baby that's got excited yes I see my stick is falling off which means it's time for me to get yeah Roger the best we'll see you in a week and you you're the absolute best and everyone check out men and blazers and by Rogers book and and here's the world cup

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NBA Alex Cariband Alex thanks for joining us first question is how you feel you got two weeks

to the draft how are you feeling are you like nervous how what goes through your head when you're this close to the draft you just want the draft to be here that's really how it is like your work and now every single day get away for the combat now you're traveling a bunch working out for NBA teams and it's a long process is exhausting it's also fun at the same time stressful really just makes a so many emotions and really just look forward to the draft now and just seeing

where I go and what my name will be called so you know just excited for that yeah you've been playing basketball to a really high level for a long time now and then to get prep for the draft I'm

“sure you have to work on things that maybe you haven't worked on a ton in the past or like focus”

on certain parts of your game like what has been different about getting ready for the draft as opposed to just like what you've been doing which has translated into you being a really good basketball player yeah I think it's really just mastering what I was good at and just making sure I'm like solid at it so I becoming an elite shooter and really just really just doing the things that will help me make an impact on a team really just helping NBA team win so trying to create

everything super simple not anything that's outside of my box and really just whatever the team needs me to do to win and just sharpen what I'm going to be a lead at the next level just working on that every single day again a big question for you have you thought about your draft night outfit do you have that ready I have been working on it actually I've been working on it I'm going to almost likely going to do it at home so I'm doing like a whole draft party in Massachusetts and really

just I'll probably rock like a suit like something with a suit but I also want like on the inside to have like everything that's like led me to the draft night you'll be kind of crazy is made what if on the inside of your suit it was that last play against Duke yeah I'll give it up the past

to break yeah then Braille and so I'm pretty incredible I might include that I mean I will invite

Braille into the draft party so he he could orchestrate all that have you made the suit yet I have

“not made it so can we be in the suit absolutely I mean that the shot I should thank you it was I think”

I the exact tweet was like I just came I seen that yeah I came multiple times that was one of the best tournament games like ever like after that gamer you guys just what even do you say in the locker room just like holy shit that just happened yeah it's just like complete shock it's just like we really came back and we really won it's like you're like trying to remember like oh shit we made so the final four and like you're just too caught up in Braille and shot they come back just

everything that happened you're going on social media after you're seeing coach head but the rough everything so really oh yeah also not a headbutt not a headbutt that was his friend that was the nozzle and they were leaning close to have a conversation into me you're scottling yeah quick no no you're not a dog you have a dog I do have three dogs so what you've knuzzled with your dog before I have you know what's crazy too one of my dogs is named Duke to

oh my god that's awesome my sister named him okay so we got we have three I have a younger sister younger brother and we each got to name a dog and I named my Luca my sister named the other one Duke okay that is very funny though that you can be like sorry I gotta go put some water some more

“water and Duke's bowl that's what I'm saying so it's like if we lost that game like”

I don't know what I would done with the dog Duke so we named you'd have to rename him after it's yeah but no you you like put Duke on a leash and then take it for a while that's great that's actually very fluid yeah we maxed you find it scroll down I said so wet and credible but I think I said I think I think I think I think I said I came I can't remember the exact phrasing I remember saying oh yeah I just came in my pants that was the greatest thing ever yeah I did

that was the greatest thing ever it was it really was and it also like was there a party is like yeah that's what we do we just went because you won so much that you're like yeah I don't know how it's gonna work out like in half time we're like I don't know guys we'll just figured out where I'm out scared random that you can we win yeah no absolutely I knew we had a chance

no matter what just we didn't play the first half the way we wanted to but we knew over time

we just keep playing the way we want to play shots are gonna fall and really just we've made combat before we've really just but then such a good team the entire year that we we had so much belief in ourselves and in that locker room to where we knew we can win that game so yeah definitely we

you see the reenactment that we did of the final shot no it was the office yeah we did we did like a full on reenact we were just everybody in this office was just buzzing for the next like 12 hours

it was so incredible I gotta see that right after us yeah we it's not great we're not

not basketball players at all but um looking back over the years at ucon you played on some incredible teams you've played in some incredible games is there one game where you're like that's when we were at peak ucon where just everything every possible thing that we did worked and nobody could have beaten us um i mean besides the national championships it's got to be that Illinois game myself where you were on that that 30 oh run like yeah was insane just

nothing could have gone wrong for us that that run and just make we got to stop a score stop score and just in and Boston too so it was like 90% ucon fans too so it was incredible yeah yeah here's the reenactment it's on the screen right there it's really bad it's thought it's really really bad basketball play it took us like 10 shots too like a big steal from big cat to me back

“to big cat bang I love it yeah and we made it we Hank is a Duke fan so that's it that's why”

he kicked me up to you there start kicking the other players yeah that 20-20-14 I know that like coach early we and we know him fairly well he's been a guest many times we love rooting for him but like was there a part of that 20-20-14 where he was trying to give you guys motivation or being like we haven't won anything yet and you guys are like come on we're so much

better than everyone because you guys were it was just the whole tournament it was never a sweat

hmm no definitely I mean he made his work every single day in practice and it was like he was like this team hadn't done anything you got you got stuff you got cam who haven't won before you got all these new guys to that haven't experienced what we experienced as returners from the previous years so um he was making us he was making us earnin like when we would lose games too that's like when he catalyzed on we're not good we got to get better at this and like

every single day just pushing us so um he was never satisfied for any moment and really he saw the potential of our team is just he wanted us to see how far we could go and really just never being satisfied yeah when you would watch him before the game drinking his piss would that be like a little intimidating like oh shit he's he's gonna be on one of the things like he's able to just slug this piece of the mushroom coffee all those drinks that he had

so like my freshman year I never knew what that drink was so I probably thought it was piss too

it is he's confirmed he's confirmed it's just like that I'd never knew what that was so then obviously he came out but um did he mellow out because he said he claims he mellowed out a little did he mellow out a little bit in your four years I couldn't tell to be honest okay so yeah he did a good job at telling everyone he made a good job and he made a good job if I didn't

“it to himself but no he was he was the same every single day that's just I think that's what”

makes him so special but no I never could tell yeah what was his recruiting pitch to you like it was crazy because we were um we were holding national championship trophies from the previous years um taking photos together and I'm like coach I'll be honest with you like this feels weird and he goes I hate this too like I don't want to hold the trophies together and he goes you know I truly believe that you can make an impact on us and mind you I live an hour away from campus too

so it's kind of like a local school for me as well and when he brought the championships and just the history and all that it just maybe want to be a part of it and just really help you come bring you come back to the level that it should be at and seeing his reactions when I held the previous trophies and he was just like let's go get our own I think that's what really just sold it for me you think he was testing you like here touch this trophy like this he might have been he might have been

good that's the right answer exactly because that is a weird thing to ask you to do it it's like hey

“celebrate our like a team that we had 12 years ago that's what I'm saying like we both weren't”

a part of it we had nothing to do with that yeah why am I holding a trophy that we had nothing to do with so yeah I think that was that was like really the moment when we were able to like I guess bond and really just you know maybe want to play from yeah what what other schools you decided between those between Yukon and Northwestern so my mom she's big on academics so that's like what are you gonna do when the ball stops bouncing go get a degree Northwestern's obviously

a great academic school so really she wanted me to go there and I took a visit before Yukon to Northwestern and we went to dinner and she was like you better commit you better commit to this dinner otherwise like I'm gonna be pissed at you the way I was like mom will be honest we got you con next week like we see Yukon here both sides and like I was begging her so she was like I should give me the grace to go to Yukon and then I took my visit to Yukon and coach early

they didn't talk about academics once coach calls me when I get back to my room after the visit what do we what do we got to do to get you I said look you just got to do a visit of straight academic from my mom once my mom gets the green light for me to commit I could commit a week later they bring a black SUV to my front from my front door get in it from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. we visit every academic building with every professor the the current president at Yukon actually

gave us the tour of campus no man her and my mom are best friends now so oh my god that's perfect certificate did your mom ever know that you told them that yes she knows she knows that you were

“like hey you have to you have to set this up you have to do more academic yeah I love to use just”

chill and he was watching me I was basically suffering because I'm sitting in academic meetings all day talking about the same things yes it was good did you get a degree I did yes so okay so she said you like a lot of like what was your degree I started with computer science so I look at computer science when that that became too much so I just I just I just grabbed you in economics okay okay that's still pretty good yeah yeah but so she's happy with how the academic side turned out

oh she's very happy and then I'm sure once you get that first and be a paycheck she's going to be okay yeah okay this is a career move for your heart this isn't too bad actually or this is not hell hey and I owe money pretty good and I owe too definitely yeah so did you grow up a fan of red socks patriots

all Boston teams and you con basketball you just you just never stopped winning you've just wanted

“much when there's last time you didn't win something and you're like as a fan or as a player I”

guess this past year with the the national chapter game but other than that yeah um I mean what Tom Brady did his did his job um Jason Tatum and Jayum Brown recently um Bruin's red socks so really going to a bunch of championship parades event experience and some myself as well so what happens if you get drafted on a team that wins like 10 games it's going to be an adjustment yeah is your winner adjustment yeah it's a beauty adjustment but yeah I've been telling teams like

if we're not winning I just want there to be like a good culture if like culture is said and like we're able to build on it for years to come and really eventually reach the point of winning then I'll be cool like some of the best teams in the NBA are actually a pretty decent position to turn things around pretty quick you see how fast it happens in the NBA like if you just look at the East this past

“year it's like nobody really expected this to be like the you know the final four teams from the East”

and then you know if you get a good staff in place a couple good draft picks maybe free agency pick up like things turn around quickly in the NBA absolutely you just got a sign of right guys the right guys that fit and have the right mindset to what the organization like what they want to do for the team then you know you see things turn around quickly have there been uh teams that you've been meeting with more than others um I mean I met with a bunch of teams at the combat and then

taking a couple more visits um so like a couple teams a lot of contenders a couple teams rebuilding so really just trying to find the right fit for me but also like teams that are within my draft range did you get any weird questions to the combat? yeah so one team was like we heard your smart guy like a high IQ player so before I was able to shake their hands they rocked right in the door

and they go how many pennies aren't a million dollars and if you get a right you can sit down

at interview with us what's the answer it was so it's like a hundred pennies in a dollar hundred times a million so a hundred million pennies all right yeah smart yeah it can obviously all right let's try another one let's see a couple of weird ones um how do you describe the color blue how do you describe the color blue? yeah it's tough one so this is weird to me if he's like I mean you could say sky but then someone could be like I would be good you could say the sky

or the like the ocean water yeah people could be like is that really blue or yeah yeah yeah yeah you don't want to talk if somebody calls you out and they don't don't talk to that person yeah yeah what about how many ping pong balls in a 747? 747 I'm gonna see if I can find the actual answer ping pong balls in 747 ping pong balls I mean you could put them anywhere yeah you got to fill up the whole plane the whole plane you could put them into you know a different

cabinets too what's your guess oh my goodness got to be like 20 million oh that's actually not

bad guess it says 15 million on a million that's pretty good that's a really good guess that's a good guess I would have said like I don't know like a couple hundred thousand infinity infinity yeah I kind of said I play basketball man let's talk about basketball please when you're doing these interviews how many people are in the room with you it varies so like one of them I have four

circle so it's like everyone's seeing you everyone's seeing your reactions like you say something you like you see someone write something down so you're like what you just write yeah it's like high-freshers scenarios and a little bit but I mean they're good you just gotta be yourself I mean they've done your research they know who you are just just be who you are yeah yeah uh

how fun has been to watch castle it's been insane it's he's so incredible yeah and he was obviously

“awesome in college he was a great player there's no secret that he was gonna be good in the NBA”

but he seems like a lot of times we say or I'll say something like this and it will be kind of a back-handed compliment I don't mean a back-handed this time that I'm saying it he plays basketball like the best football player who plays basketball that you've ever seen like not in terms of like you know clumsy bricks for hands that sort of thing that you hear sometimes when we talk about guys but like he is so physical he's he's a dog he's in your face and he's like an intimidating dude for his

position too but he's been so fun to watch did you know that he had like this next level in him I knew he had it I didn't know to this level like he's definitely gone to a whole different level that I probably didn't expect either like in the summer you see him like he's doing all the moves he's scoring with ease and like he's been in the lead defender since college but he really took it up a notch and really just the way he's guarding guys right now in the playoffs and then also

“drop in twenty a night too like it's incredible so yeah he's awesome have you ever seen him smile”

rarely yeah it's gonna say like it's I love watching because he's just angry all the time he's angry pissed and then he'll celebrate after a win and then the next day just move on and do what he's got to do so coach early must have loved him because he basically is just a coach early on the floor of just being pissed off all the time he loved him he's he's also super humble so it's like coach coach early and coachy younger yelling in every single day and he's just looking them dead in the

eyes and just not in his head every single time like super robotic with what he's doing like they could say whatever they need to say to Steph he's just saying yes coach yes coach yeah

goes out in kills so he's incredible that's awesome the uh so at the end of your career at

Yukon was there was there like moments where coach early kind of like pulled you so I was like dude like thank you so much or like this is you know like did he soften a little on you or was it just

“the same pedal to the metal the whole time same pedal to the metal really we lost to St. John's”

in the biggest championship and the next day and film like he's cussing everyone now and he goes Alex you really want to end like a soft mother fucker like this is how you're gonna end your career like are you serious right now like everything you've done and you're gonna go out like this you're gonna go shit on the court I was like oh he's right yeah kind of like lit a fire inside me for the March madness front and it's like the more games we won the more like he was just like

enjoying the moment not really talking about it to then when when the season ended like we have player exit meetings and he invited my whole family over to the exit meeting we just like talk for a couple hours just about the entire run the entire career just our entire relationship everything that we've done at Yukon so that was the soft moment but other than that like

he's never gonna let off the foot never let off the gas yeah did you ever um did you ever tell him

like like like your son shoot when he gets into nothing to the games we wanted to we told him not a couple times actually so when when Andrew would get in we'd say like run a play for him like yeah and he would have a couple times but not um like in the March madness games I know coach wanted him just to hold the ball and do the spike yeah like that was the superstition of his but we wanted him to shoot and we would tell him and he just he just never drew up the place yeah

there were some looks that I saw at the end of those games where he like you could tell you just thinking about it and you guys were like look at him like do it and then he look over at his daddy but you better not you better not shoot it but yeah the whole time we're just yelling out like let let him shoot let Andrew get it get a couple shots of him we wanted him he would have made him we know that like at the moment like that when you played so you played what years did you

play IMG was it just your senior year or it's my senior year who was on your team I had AJ store okay Wisconsin yeah well everything everything everything yeah yeah I meant so how was on the post grad team to start with so I had AJ quadier Justin Taylor then I broke my hand and then the national team wanted me to be with them so that was with like he onto George Jaros Walker jet Howard and would you guys just kill people we would scream at you guys each other they were really

good team yeah they were a good team but I broke my hand and they were like do you want to come play for us yeah I was like I'd rather just go into college right now so I just came back

I mean you're class from like eight to eleven and then you're just an athlete the rest of the

“day what what's that decision like when you're like so you play your first three years that”

your hometown high school and then you decided to go to IMG was that tough like to be like hey I'm you know like these guys have been playing with my probably your best friends yeah now you're gonna go somewhere you're gonna go to Florida for your senior year was that was that weird oh it's

extremely weird I mean I never left the New England region ever in my life so really just making

that transition to Florida was a tough decision for me but then also leaving my hometown leaving everyone behind I mean I loved it and really is just you know you want to go out your senior year and just you know one last run with the boys but you know I wanted to do what was best for my career at the end of the day and that's just playing against better players just being uncomfortable pushed every single day and IMG they had the facilities to do that so what was your best high school

game when you're at your regular high school in my regular high school that's one of my

“freshman years I had like forty forty and twenty five so you were what like 15 years old”

yeah probably 16 yeah that's crazy just and then I was like I was like a super shy kid too it's all like all the like all the people coming to watch me and like the team that we the team that we had was really good so like first couple games I'm going up to dunk I'm falling on my back like missing all the don'ts just from the nerves of it all and yeah then just really going out to drop forty and twenty pretty much every night and I'll go on going yeah when did you

first dunk late seventh grade early eighth grade that's awesome there's no school dunking on people that's kind of weird no I swear there were so like hometown middle school games were playing different towns just dunking on people just those it was cheating did you feel bad do you feel bad for dunking on a seventh grade kid I do feel bad but then when I see these kids grow up and like you know just talking to them like past the middle school days they loved it yeah like oh yeah

Alex Kirbin don't know exactly so they love every second you shock yourself when you dunked the first time yeah you're like holy fuck yeah I didn't expect it it's like you want your dad to videotape you doing it like you watch and slow motion then you post on the Instagram story growing up and try to get some height around it yeah that's got to be like what am I doing up here how no actually and also the the guys that you used to dunk on in like seventh eighth grade

just reminds like they grew up and they probably get mad at you if their parlay doesn't hit

“oh absolutely you need to you need to get those dunks and well you can just to remind them yeah”

okay I'm on a slightly different level absolutely and they definitely have bet on me before probably so yeah what's the what's the most shots that you've made in a row in practice in practice all three pointers yeah it was during like live play like like during like five on five action or just no like a workout the most degrees you made in a row yeah what have been 72 maybe that's so many shots that's so many shots so I got a question about one of your

the assistants Luke Murray who's now in the Boston College it was he just would he draw stuff up for you guys offensively because it felt like the one thing that you guys did better than anyone

is like you always had different actions that other teams weren't expecting and weren't ready for

and you'd see it like in the biggie schedule would be a slog but then the minute I would say the stat all the time but like year four years like you guys barely ever lost out of conference would he just have things ready to go that's just like we just know it's gonna work yeah he would have he had a bunch of plays drawn up and like he'd always do it out of like the same set where like a formation and really just you think one actions have me but he has

a count or like a different play out of that formation so really he had a whole bunch of plays and like we would do install before every practice and it's like an install the new play so like and you could see coach and coach Murray just like talking about and like talking us through at all and there were a bunch of times too during my career was like coach Murray's calling me upstairs and like he's drawn up plays for me and just trying to see my thoughts or if we want

to draw something up like try to get ideas for me too so he was non-stop thinking about new new sets and really just trying to give us an advantage yeah was there a team that in conference

play you felt like okay this is like some actual bad blood Providence was always chirping on

us I mean they hated us they hated coaches he was at Rhode Island, Krayton, Krayton would get that yeah so we just got some massive things and all my heart happens, St. John's recently just with their success as well so I kind of say those three so you won't even worry about filling over

wait what happened there I missed two free throws for the win against filling over

“and that was bad Nova team too but like what am I I think I'm like eight and one seven”

and one against Nova so like I'm not I'm not necessarily where yeah and the one that you lost didn't matter it was in my control so yeah I missed those free throws yeah yeah what a clinch the game perfect record would have been nice it would have been nice yeah wait where were you committed to you con when coach really gave the speech like you better get us now yeah that was um I was committed a couple years after that okay that's still is an all-time fact that he

called the shot like that absolutely is the same absolutely like we'd played in like high videos too so like before game like if we're playing Nova like we'll do a high video like getting ready for the Nova game the night before and it's like that clips there every single time and so yeah that's that's you can't beat that that's fair clip yeah it was air coming back around yeah when can you tell like this team's coming together this team's actually going to be a real

problem I think what to ours yeah you got I think it was my freshman year we went 14 and no in the non-conference and like we played some really good teams too like start off undefeated of then we had a bad month but then we really regrouped and really just found our way in March man is I think but really that first stretch of games like we played like top teams doing the country I think that's when like we knew that we we had something special and then you guys were

you guys were such a problem in the tournament it was like it was almost boring to watch but in terms of how great you were it was it was did ever get boring like winning those games but so

much so it was like I'd like to see some good basketball occasionally that I'm just never born

you love you love to kill the teams I think it really really things like the offense like the schemes that we run and just how we've so many different plays and actions against

“every defense imaginable so I think that's what gave other teams a challenge of then the big”

East teams they were so familiar with us that that obviously made it harder harder for us to be in conference and non-conference. Do you have a favorite blob that you've ever run? I always like the ones where like we do like backscreens for our centers to get dunks like we had what like Samson Johnson our team like we'd run like a backscreen play for him and like it worked every single time because he just threw it up there and he'd dunk it or really just they're

like ones where we get shooters open. You said that you don't look at any of the mock drafts I don't believe you. I swear I don't. I would look at every mock draft. I swear I don't. All right so I just looked at it for mock drafts do you want to know where they have you landing? I won't say number I'll say team. All right you can say teams. So one of them is the next. Okay. And then three out of four of them that I just looked at is the spurs. That'd be nice. That'd be pretty

fun to say. That'd be nice. You could probably piece up Wendy. She'll call him out right now.

If I give you a step for good. Yeah. That'd be a dream to be awesome. That'd be pretty incredible

just just looking at these mock. Which ultimately they don't mean anything but nothing. I mean if you go to one like your two choice or teams that are playing the finals right now that's pretty good spot. That's a winner to in college. I mean it'd be perfect dream. Yeah and this mock draft says floor spacing passing in a championship DNA that's pretty good. That's pretty tall I got to

“do it the next way. What goes into your championship DNA? I think the preparation just being”

so disciplined with what I do every single day and just really relying on the work that I put it in really just trying to work my ass off every single day on the court in the weight room in academics really just trying to be trying to maximize every single day. Then if I do have a bad game just leave my preparation of then eventually all the days add up to where you'll see success and reach your angle. What is the preparation like how many hours a day we spend? You can. It was

I'd get shots up in the morning so without take a good 45 minutes or an hour you'd do a practice with coach which should that could be three hours, three hour practice, you do film so that's like an hour, an hour after a loss, good two and a half three hours and then you got to do a recovery too so just like another hour rehab recovery academics however long that takes and then really just you know just chilling after that in relax and so it's a lot of work. It is a lot of work

it is and I I read that that your vertical leap got what a half of foot better in the last year.

Oh hell yeah that's that's a lot six inches a lot. Trust me. She could never imagine that. It's

massive but that's to to do that after you again you've been like training and working specifically at basketball it was soon like a lot of drills that would involve getting stronger at jumping and then you do that in one year what was it that like you're the most athletic that you've ever been

intention and the weight room of the nutrition too just being on nutrition just trying to change my

whole diet with that so I think I never recovery too. I mean I work a lot and then it's like

I wouldn't really give my time myself time to whereas I think learning throughout my career just the importance of recovery too. You should just put the word out there that you're still growing. Technically it's probably true. Technically it is. If you if you draft me I'm probably going to keep growing. I'll be on taller next year. Get a foot taller than increase my vertical even more and yeah yeah. Who else knows? Well this has been awesome and we really appreciate you coming by.

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“You're not hitting him with the sir? I think I did. I said yes or how are you to get to me?”

Oh that was that was a sur to the room. I could circle that back we can go individual. I quick question for you that's cool. Yeah. If me or another traveler in route to Belarus is there a top three dishes I'd have to try before I made a backstate side? You'd have to ask my dad that he's I think all the dishes are bad. So I won't be completely honest with you like my grandparents, my parents they would make like

different dishes from like you know Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, whatever it is. I try them. I don't think I liked any of them. So like now we get to the point where it's like we have family gatherings. They'll bring the foods that they like and then me and my siblings will order like pizza or Chinese food like really just bounce it all out. I respect the honesty there. Good questions actually. Do you have a follow up? Yeah quick follow up with with possibly you know

NBA contracting in your near future. Have you given a thought to like maybe something fun or like quirky you might maybe wouldn't have spent some earnings on but like hey put yourself in this

“position you worked as hard maybe like get some fun. You get any thoughts to that?”

I always wanted a jet ski like I want to get my own ski. It was like from Massachusetts

like I'll go to the cape a lot. It's a Cape Cod and really just buy a jet ski out there and just you know kick it on it for a couple hours and just really just go wherever I need to go. So I think a jet ski is up there for me. That's good. In terms of things like waste money on that's a pretty, I think it's a great thing. It's a great thing. I think it's a great thing. I think it's a great one. Yeah. Yeah. Great answer. Well that's the luck of the draft man we're rooting for you.

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that, let's pick some Mount Rushmore teams. Shall we? You guys ready? Yep. Yep. So here's what I was thinking.

Hank, do you think it's rigged? No. Okay. Here's what I was thinking. Wait, wait, wait, don't let him get away. He just said no and then you started to talk and he goes, well, why haven't heard you're thinking? Okay. Do you preface something before you said what you're doing? I'll say right now, I don't think it is rigged. But there is a part of my idea

okay, don't know if it hurts. All right. So there's six of us. There's a hundred numbers and you're going

“to put a couple, a couple numbers in there for Hank first of all. Hank first of all. So I think so”

everyone, so if you go six times 16, that's 96 numbers. So we go, everyone has, you know, like PFT's one through 16, then Zach is 17 through, I'm going to need some help with the math here, 17 through

whatever that is. 32. Yeah. And then keep going up and then if it's 97, 98 or 99, it's Hank first of

the world. I don't think that math does that math. And by Hank first of the world, you mean that it's teams of it's it's the booth versus being you versus one solo. Are you okay with, I mean, the odds are in your favor that that's not going to happen. I think one, it should be one number for the three of us first of the world. Okay. Okay. That's fair. Or should we do that? That's it. No, I agree, but I'm saying what we should do is maybe one through 15, so then they all have numbers

too. So everyone has a verse the world number. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. What about this? So what if we did, I don't know if this is what you're thinking, but we draw the number and let's say it's big cat that's 11 through 16 and the number 14 pops up. So that's a big cat. Then big cat

gets first pick in the draft. And you know, it gets a pick somebody. I was going to do it. It was

going to be random. So it's going to be draw a number. So if it's like, if you're one through 15, it's number 10 and I'm 16 through 30. If the first number is 10, the second number is 20,

“you and I are 10. Okay. Yeah. I think that makes sense. So all right. I'm writing it out right now.”

I think has 46 through 60. We're not math guys. So I just want to say that just everyone, everyone chill out on the math and if we get this wrong. So 15, that would get us to 90, though. So there would be 10 numbers. Yeah. So everyone, everyone gets to, or everyone gets one. Yeah. Everyone gets one and we'll throw, we'll throw a couple out. Oh, yeah. Okay. So we throw out. Yeah. All right. So PFT has 91. I think I think all the left

over should be maybe two teams this amount of rush more season. It's literally everybody against Hank. Six. We could do 3v3. I got it. I got it. I got it. All right. I trust you. It's 100 in there. Yes. Okay. 100s in there. Okay. So it's going to be. So PFT's number one through 15. I'm 16 through 30. Means 31 through 45. Hank 46 through 60. Zach 61 through 75. Max 76 through 90. Everyone's got 15 numbers. If the number 91 comes up, PFT versus World 92. And actually it's 91 in 97. PFT or

you're two numbers. 92. 98 or my two numbers. Meams 90 or Hank 93.99. Max 94. 100. And then Zach

and memes will be 95 and also 11. Both of them get 11. So if the first 11 happens, it's memes.

If it's second 11 happens, it's Zach. I don't know how we'd decide the different 11s. So wait. What if it picks like if we've I've gotten myself confused. Yeah. Yeah. Because what if it's two 11s? What if it's not. What if it's not numbers? And then what if it's be the 11? Meams will be the 11. We're saying that whenever any of the 11 is also. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Is it saying that if any of the us first the world pops up? That then wipes out everything else. It wipes out everything else. Okay. So that's the

game break. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly right. Is there is doubles here on there? No. Zero's in there. Perfect. Wait. Zero's also zero's in there. Yeah. Zero's in there. All right. So we're good. So we all have numbers. So yeah. So 11 wipes everything out. Yes. Yeah. Zach will just not have a second number. You're going to get zero through 15. 11 doesn't count for you. Okay. Okay. So I've 94 and 100.

“Yeah. My verse the world. Yeah. 90. You. Sorry. You have 96 and 99. Yeah. All right. I think we got it.”

I got it. Okay. All right. I got it. I wrote it all down. Zach, you don't have a second number for Zach verse the world. So let's say in fairness, take if the same number comes up twice then it's Zach verse the world. Okay. Okay. So at any point if the same number comes up. That's that. Yeah. That works. Yeah. Okay. You sure. All right. So we're ready to go? The word verse the world will be something. Now are we also guessing numbers? No. Okay. All right. So just a recap. PFT has number zero

through 15 for his regular like team and 90 set for 11. He except for 11. 91 and 97 couldn't be more clear. You want to 97 is his verse the world. I have 16 through 30 92 and 98 are my verse the world. memes has 31 through 45 93 and 11 are his verse the world. Hank has 46 and 60 94 and 100 are his

90 96 and 99 are your verse the world. Yeah. Okay. I'm just gonna rely on you because I got it.

So whatever number comes up first will be the first person who is that they will be up and then whoever

second obviously it's them on team. This is also I just realize we're gonna get a verse the world. We're all he's gonna be. I also just realize we're gonna have to just keep hitting the lottery ball machine because once someone's up then it's gonna keep coming up to their numbers. Whatever. Listen we're not the odds have now come down to like we're definitely gonna get a verse the world. I'm now remembering why we decided not to do it this way last year. Yeah. Yeah. But it could

“the numbers are there's way to I think it's more of a chance we do verse the world. That's just not true.”

Yes because we're gonna no it's one out of fifty seven. So that is Hank. Hank you are the first

person up. Whoever comes up next that will be your teammate. What if it's a verse the world? Then that's the game breaker. No beat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got a max. I'm like pretty confident. It makes more sense. No this is gonna work I think. I think the odds of it being verse the world are very well because it wipes out. And then we just stop what at least we stop the drawing with that happens. Hank is teamed up with Zach. Let's go. Let's go. Hey. Hank and Zach.

Hank and Zach. Our team chemistry has been great the last two days. Couldn't have started off hotter. Yeah. I mean none of this matters. It's gonna be a verse the world. You don't say that. You don't know that's not true there's 90 options and it's not verse the last. No because yeah. So many games because now wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Stop. No. No. No. Don't say that. One, PFT year off. Okay. We're not just stopping. Stop like time zone three. You just can't feel it. No. I'm right. But just now there's back so many more options.

You stop. You stop. You stop. You stop. You stop. Literally if this next number is one of our numbers we're done. Then said. Yeah. We have the tea. Oh. Yeah. You see the hit. Oh. Oh shit. I don't know. PFT goes to the world. Bring it on. I love it. So I think should it be. Zach and Hank should stay as a team. Yep.

And the max of memes and first PFT. Yeah. 15. That world can't wait. I love it. Man. I love it.

PFT. Yeah. It's the world is. Yeah. I'm used to it. I'm used to it. I'm used to it. I'm used to it. Bring it. Oh, wait. Can't wait to see Zach and his Zach and Hank just eat each other alive. I don't know if team could have two divas on it at the same time. You guys are going to destroy each other. Bad chemistry memes is just going to wreck your team because he thinks that you're you guys are both losers. I'm all I got. Yeah. That's a problem. Yeah. That is a problem. PFT versus the world is so good.

Okay. The only question I have is because it kind of sucks if it's the team. The three kind of sucks

“because it's like, well, I guess it doesn't matter. No. I was going to say if you want to if you want to go”

one other person versus world two with like four teams this year could be interesting. So we pair up the me Max and memes figure out who the two of us are paired and then the third is just also versus the world. One other person against the world. Yes, go. Maybe the next the next number of your three numbers that comes up. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The next number of we're making this show. But now it's not versus the world. Four teams. All right. Four teams tough. All right. I was just thinking that you right.

Was 44. What do that means? You would have hated that. What have been memes? Okay. All right. Bring it. I can't wait. Can't wait. If there's one thing, I'm really good at it. It's not rush more season. You're really good at my own. Finally, I don't have Hank to weigh me down as a team. And then we'll on Monday when we do our first Mount Rushmore, we will also

“declare our punishment. Yep. Okay. Sounds good. Sounds great. That happened. All right. Hank, you ready?”

Can you imagine if there was a duel? Like if there's a one verse three duel at the end of the summer? That's a dream. That's the dream. Me, Max, it means you're not going to lose. It will be it could be a duel versus you. Yeah, I might just ask. Yeah, I might just ask. We're already. I will get Zach. I would argue the three of us are the three best play. Hank, it's Zach for sure. Could be. That's a, I mean, Hank's terrible. That feels like an early Sally from you guys. Yeah.

It does. Yeah, it does. Yeah, it does. You guys are the three like dream team.

I'm actually not, I'm probably third. I think Max and memes are the best. Let's not forget Queen Latifa. Queen Latifa was a tough pick. Max is the best. Jerome Bettish is the best. I'm not a lost. No rush. We're seeing. Yeah. We wrote that. It's Queen Latifa. The list goes on.

Max is the Matt is always matched to stay away from meatballs. He's pretty good. You know, he balls was, that was my hot streak. Yeah, that's true. You've had some terrible picks in your day to.

Did he fucking, yeah, that was all right. I take it back. I take it back. This is going to be a good one. Awesome pick. Take it back. Take what colors, cheese. It's also correct. Pick. Take it back. Okay. Fire's even a pick. That was just a fight. Hank, firefest. I did good week. This week is one of those weeks every day kind of felt like Thursday, which is good. I felt like, you know, right before the weekend. I almost killed someone in the golf course today. It's like a week. It's like a week and a half. So yeah, every day was Tuesday. That's interesting because Hank used to say that Friday night was not a weekend.

Yeah. But you just said, like, it feels like it's about to be the weekend. Every day feels like Thursday. This is Loki the longest week ever.

“Different surf. Both. Yeah. That's why he's funny. Yeah.”

So yeah, no real firefest. I did almost kill someone in the golf course today. That was almost. It wasn't firefest out today. They survived. He hit it five feet in front of a guy walking on the path along Lake Shore and the guy put up his arms. We Hank yelled for the guy put up his arms after the ball had gone by. No, no. Yeah. He wasn't even playing golf, which was, which was the, he's just walking. Yeah. Yeah. There's a path. Yeah. He was just an innocent bystander that like happened to be walking by golf course.

The show almost dead. He would be dead. He would be dead. He would be dead. He had one swivel. So you got no firefast. Yeah. My car is leaking. I've pugs got canceled. The world. You're the cool ass car. My cool ass car. It's, it might be downford for an upgrade. Damn dude, why don't you fix your car every time it rains. Every time it rains, it just leaks water.

What do you mean leaks water? Close the windows, idiot. No, with that's not, it's, the windows are closed. It's from like, the sun top, the sun roof, the sun roof. It's a sun roof. It's totally, you've got a gasket issue and also his trunk is broken,

“which I think is all related back to the water. You think the water got into the trunk?”

I think it messes with the mechanics of the car. But everything else works except for the trunk.

That's classic water. Always going after the trunk for, yeah. I don't know.

You try to take that to a mechanic. See what's going on? I know I brought it to the shop. I brought my car to shop so many times or I'm just, I'm sick of it. I need to upgrade. That's tough, man. Some people can maintain cars, some people can't. Yeah. I guess I can't. Okay, good fire for us. Thanks. Hi, PFT. My firefest of the week is about a new invention that just came out. I don't know if you guys saw this. We talked about like the AI robot. So far we've seen like the robotic dogs that serve to like

guard your house. We've seen the AI bartenders, but there's a new invention that I got debuted this week that I'm I'm concerned about. The AI powered autonomous robot toilets. They just got debuted at

“some trade show over in China and Shanghai. Okay. And apparently you like snap your fingers”

and you're in bed and this toilet just wheels itself into your room pulls up next to the bed as I come on, sit on me, big daddy and then you just sit on it, do your business and then it goes away and like takes care of whatever you just put into it. Which sounds it sounds super convenient, especially if you're at a place like I don't know parade where you can't have a toilet anywhere. You just bring your like little R2D2 shitter with you. But then I start to think about it

if they ever get self-aware. Yeah. These are the robots that are going to kill us first. Yes. Is the ones that we've been shitting in their mouths for the last 20 years? Yeah. And being like snapping our fingers, come over here so I can piss down your throat robot. These are the ones that I would I would be more fearful of than like the sky nets or those robot dogs. Here's getting abused. Yeah. Like yeah. This room's toilets. Yeah. As you maxes toilet being able to talk,

maxes going to die first and the robot in the robot uprising. God, man. Too many meatballs. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks to most reason. Thanks to the FARC guy now. He is the FARC guy. Well,

Hank's also got the most tummy issues on our podcast by FARC. I've always had tummy issues.

Yeah, I know. But it's literally like we'll have just a regular meal. You're like never again. Tell me. That's a place down the street. I've had I have had issues with that since we moved here. And I've sworn it off and then we had it at the office. I was like, oh, I'll have a chicken breast. Still not tell me. It's just with the tummy. These. These got something issues. I'm not going to tell you. I'm very, right? A big difference. It's a pooper. I got healthy,

healthy poop that comes at the same time. That's when it comes out. I mean, some, some dudes like puke before every, Josh Allen throws up before every football game. Me,

missed your producer on macro dosings birthday. I'm, we don't have to get into that. I did. So

“here's the thing on Thursday's episode. I wish you a happy birthday. We taped on Wednesday.”

I wish you a happy birthday. And she goes, thank you. What? Oh, we taped on Wednesday for Thursday's episode comes out Tuesday Thursday. And then when I said that to her, she goes, thank you. My birthday was yesterday on Tuesday. So I was even, I was even a day late after forgetting on Monday's show. So happy birthday to McKinsey. Sorry about that. But no, that's not my firefit. My firefest is that I truly believe that these are the robot toilets that will one day

stand up and kill us. I need a, I toilets. That's what I'm saying. Like it seems like we're running up the score on the robots at this point. They're going to be like, dude, you didn't need just go to the bathroom. You already had a toilet seems like you just took a sick pleasure in defecating on on the robots. Yeah. And all my brethren. So I feel like that's, I don't know, we're, we're putting a lot of bulletin board material up for the robots at this point if we're taking dumps on them.

Agreed. Did I tell you guys that I've recently become a bed day guy? But days are nice. I feel like

“you should have always been a bed day guy. I should have been right up your house. I know I was”

always a little nervous because it's like, it's a little sauce. I'd rather just, you know,

cram my fingers up my ass than have I don't water going up there? I don't really understand how a bed day like I've seen bed days. I've sat on the days. I don't trust myself to operate a bed day correctly. Well, mine's a toilet bed day. So it's not like the, you know, how there's the bed days that you like go and sit on after? No, you're up. No, I've seen, I've sat on the toilet bed days. Yeah. The, the Europe ones don't make sense at all. Yeah. You just kind of have

to hover. They're not like comfortable with a sit on. See, you don't sit on those. I don't say, I think you got a hover on them. Maybe you can't sit on them. Like that, that thing, I look at that thing. I'm like, that's a urinal. I don't like, I agree. Or like a drinking, like, yeah. Yeah. It, it, it does. It looks like I just take a big lap out of it, like I just, a big dog. I don't trust the ones that don't have like the built in dryer. They've built in dryer. Yeah. So mine has,

mine has, I have heated seats, which is incredible. My, my, my bathroom, my toilet seat is just

always warm. And then the toilet opens up when I stand in front of it. So I don't have to open the

toilet seat. That's so sick and right. Yeah. That's the richest thing that you then you got. It's just scared off the fuck out of my three-year-old. He started crying because he walked by the toilet and it opened up and he was just like, what the fuck? He walked in your bathroom, your toilet's like, come on, give it to me. Yeah. It's crazy. It's crazy. Okay. My fire fast. I had a pretty good week too. I'm trying to think. Oh, I mean, listen, this is, this is, this is, to any parents out there.

I'm finally, my son's seventh birthday. My oldest is seventh birthday is today Friday. And so I have all my kids are within like six weeks of each other. And parents probably know this. The, the birthday stretches is the worst because it's just, there's so much talk about birthdays in my house and it's just been presents and birthdays and like the week comes and like count downs and all that stuff. So I'm

finally cleared that. Gonna go see toy story five. He's gonna have a party watch toy story five. I'm

excited for that. But yeah, birthday stretch. And I, I don't do, like, it's really my wife has to do. She, she plans a birthday party. It's, it's stressful. You don't realize it, but birthday sock. Laser tag? No, I, I just said we're going to toy story. We, we, we want to know about the other two. Oh, the other two one was slime factory, which was probably the grossest place I've ever been in my life. It's literally just buckets of slime that the kids go in touch. And then three year old, we don't do,

we, we, we, we, we don't, two birthdays till birthday parties until four in my house. So we, we had a cake in a family birthday party, but we didn't, three year old's not going to remember. You don't have friends. You got one friend. They get, they have like a fight club. It's fucking hilarious. Yeah, how do you, how do you manage? It's fun for school, though. How do you manage? Like, being, being when they're older. Yeah. Having having June birthday is awesome. Yeah. How do you manage

when it's, it's not their, it's their brother or sister's birthday. It's a problem. That's also they put also my birthdays soon, too. Right. But he can't, we say it's my birthday also. And then they get upset that like someone else has presents since like, but you just had your birthday. Mm-hmm. You and my three year old, yeah, he's in a, he came home with like scratches all over his face. And I was like, what, what happened? Like, how do you get scratched? And he was like, yeah,

my, my friend Teddy scratched me. I was like, what happened? Like, what, what, why do you scratch you? He's like, oh, I was hitting him. It's like, oh, okay. Well, I guess that's, that's mutual.

“Yeah, mutual agreed combat. We, I guess we, what do we learn today?”

Nothing. Yeah. He even bought a crazy contact. Uh, okay, Zach, but it's off. My purpose this week is just that, uh, it's a tough week for guys who just, who pick one side of the, uh, messer and all the argument. Yeah. This week was really, really hard to defend.

premise of your fire, but you said it's a tough week for guys that pick one side or another of the

“mess you were an old thing. I don't think that's true. No, I think it's tough for guys that pick one side.”

The wrong side. We've had a great week over here. It's been incredible. That, that's a fair

point on the 50 side picking. Yes. Why? Like, I know we, we talked about Ronaldo messy at the start of the show and with Roger Bennett, but like, what, what, what's your deal? You like pound to kicks? I, I think the free kick is like the most electric way to score. Messy does that too. I know, but not, not like Ronaldo. Pedal, you guys can all that. I have to do the little, like, little stutter step when you got, gets up to the ball. It's unbecoming. Look, I'm really sad. I'm open enough

to come to you guys and say this is the worst part of my week in, in saying so I understand where the, the pitfalls are in the argument picking one side as opposed to picking another side. Also, it's like one of the guys is, is a good dude. And the other is like a world-class asshole. Here's the crazy stat I just saw. Christian Ronaldo has 65 career free kick goals. That is a lot. Strong, but it's a strong 65. Oh, Messy has 71. This isn't what I mean, there's

new ones in it. There's new ones in it. There's the free kick goal because there's new ones in this. Oh, okay. It's not black and white. Okay, but you said Ronaldo's, there's something about the free kick. Yeah, there is. There's something about the free kick and Messy's done it more time.

I think maybe the one argument you can make against Messy is that he is never scored a goal

in a knockout game in the world cup. And that's a fair, I would say that's a fair argument

“that you should make against Messy. Wait, no, I'm sorry that Ronaldo has actually scored a”

no. I got my name as mixed up. Messy scored a shitload of goals. He's one of worlds. He's one like almost single handedly. Yeah, that's right. It's also true. Mm-hmm. Okay, which one would your other hang out with Zach? I mean, Messy seems to be a little more likable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is really nothing that you have on your side other than abs. Speed. Ways fast. I chose speed. No, I'm talking about it. I'm talking about acceleration on the pitch.

I was talking about actual speed. Who does I show speed like better? Is it Ronaldo, are you are you attracted to Ronaldo? No, no, no, this is a deep, because that actually would this is I show speed. I don't know. I show speed is famously and passionately team Ronaldo, but that matters the whole, that's the whole I show, that's his whole thing is Ronaldo. So you're a sheep. So that, so the, so the purpose of my argument does come back something a little bit deeper if

we're going to get into it. My entire, my entire childhood growing up, I got one brother. We're getting on FIFA 2011 and on. He's playing with Messy. I'm playing with it on all of it. So I can't can see this argument ever in my life. So you're probably actually there's a lot that's actually I've been trying to tell you that for a while. Yeah. So I can't can see this argument, but I see the great points you guys are making, but there's one guy who is better. I would think that you would

play on the same team as your brother and you'd only play Goli based on your tattoo. No, we played, we used fight a lot growing up. We'd play on different teams. Just play to play the same team. Literally, my brother's keeper. I'd hop in that for me. Yeah. I would. All right, that actually makes more sense. Yeah, for sure. So it's not that you're physically attracted. It's actually attracted to Ronaldo. No, no, no, we'll sexual tension when it comes to Ronaldo. But if you had to pick

“one of the other to hang out with. No, sexually should be in boys sexually. I mean, I think I think”

Messi might want to die me a little bit better. Oh, so you're like Messi for everything except for I show speed in your brother. Just no, we're not Ronaldo. If we're picking a side on this argument, but I feel like if somebody's taking you out to a day, I feel like Messi might. He might have better resume. Yeah. Yeah, like reservations. Yeah, he take me to dinner with drinks and wine, maybe first. He's absolutely right. I think we're not as a sneaky link guy. I think he's just shooting attacks

and expecting you show up. I think Ronaldo's hook up a resume leaves a little bit to be desired, too.

Fair points for both camps. Yeah. Can I say five. There's never been a more clear winner

of a sports debate. Yeah. It's not even LeBron versus Jordan. No. Like it's not in the same strategy. No. I saw somebody tweet that like I'm closer to Ronaldo than Ronaldo is to Messi at this point. Yeah. And it's like Messi just running up the score on. Honestly, I'm reaching the point where I feel bad. Like he's like an old dog that you see out on the field. It's like you're just just call it a day. Yeah. I just wanted to get ahead on my I can't concede, but I

so you guys seem to have great points there. Okay. The max was your firefast. You guys aren't going to like this one. And I because it's been it's been it's been a long time common. Oh, God. You got married. The wedding planning is hit is hit in the stride now and it's it's a wrap. How how is it hitting the stride? You're getting married and we can have shouldn't be planned. Well, you got to you got to think this is sort of guy that I am. Is that I put a lot of

things off until right now and now and now I got to do a lot of things. So I'm going home every single day this week and it's just and it's just wedding stuff. I was putting together the seating

of pieces that don't fit. So it's like you don't have the right pieces, but you have to put this

puzzle together. One of the guy, one of my friends just wasn't on the list. I thought I finished it and then by the end of it, I was going through all the names. He wasn't on the list. That stress me the fuck out because then you got to start from scratch and just restart the entire the entire

“fucking thing and then it makes me worry. Is there anybody else that I missed? Am I going to show up?”

Am I going to show up to this wedding? I'm going to be like, I don't have a place for you. I got to figure out where you're going to sit. Wedding it sucks. It was way better when I just did like my family and that was it and I didn't have to worry about anything. Now there's people coming. It's a lot. Wedding planning. That's super stressful. I've like stayed up at night this week. Just way stressing about wedding planning. In the next couple of weeks, they're probably going to get a

couple of people to hate you up there like, hey man, sorry for got to RSVP. Can you put me in?

No, yeah. I've already got had a couple of that, but that's a lot. Yeah, and then you're like, yeah, yeah, sure can. Max. Max, you have a binder. Is there a wedding binder at home? No, no. It's just a lot of Excel sheets that I don't really know how to work Excel. Max, what have I told you? And listen, I love your fiance. She's great. But now it's over. Like, let's just fucking get the fuck outta here, dude. You get in the car. Let's get in Hank's shitty car with his with his broken

“trunk and his loose leak. And let's just hit the road. We could do it, dude.”

Fuck 'em all. Just froze for life. We'd have to come back for the show on Sunday. Yeah, that would be fine. No, it could be like, we could just hit the road as bro was forever. Yeah. Just the buddies that never came back. Come on, Max. I don't front again. I married recently, who just said, "Fuck it to the, uh, seeming chart." I just said, "I'd see yourself." Do you know what I was showing that? It was insane.

I was so close to doing that. But it was funny. Kind of. The seating chart. Everyone's, everyone's sat. Yeah. It's, it's the worst part. It's the worst part of planning. It's it. Because now, I, I, I, I got it in a spot that I'm, I'm like, mostly good about, but I'm also a people pleaser. And now all I'm thinking about is the people that are, that I know aren't in their most desirable seat. And I'm just thinking about how they're going to be

motherfucking me while they're sitting at, while they're sitting at this table. They're going to

come, that I just spent a billion dollars on. Yep. It's never going to be good enough for me. No, it's not.

It's, it's somebody's going to be motherfucking me. Yep. And, and my wife just keeps saying, like, whatever you'll never hear about it. But it's like, I need to know who I need to know who I'm saying. If you don't hear from me, but then you think it could be everybody. Like, I, I want to suspect. I keep saying, like, I'm going to get ahead of it and like, tell the people that they're not in the best spot. There's going to be drunk. I know, but it's no one gives a fuck. They're going to be drunk.

This is, it's, it's, it's just a destiny. I mean, I'm waiting. You're fine. Everyone's going to be having the time of their life. Max is right. Everyone's going to hate you. No, it's way back, they're going to sit down on the, at the paradise island. And they're going to be like, Max, it's such a fucking dick for making me sit here. All right, numbers. 50. 95.

Six. That's zero. 90. 27. 45.

45. 17. Regular zero, my bad. Regular zero.

“Can you okay now that you're not the two of us, who got any more?”

Yeah, I'm fine. Is it right? Exactly. Regular zero for the number of goals. Can all of those score? Besides playing with kicks in the last two or three times. 10 for messy. And every other good player. Yeah. No, that was tough. Yeah, that was tough. That was tough. There's a lot of quality tens out there. Wait, what, Christian, he's, what, seven? Oh, he's actually not. So 10 is the number that you get in soccer when you're

really good. Yeah. Maradana. You guys really blew the medicine. That's messy. That's messy. Number right there. If only one of you guys would have taken it. Yeah. Okay. Good show. Love you guys. Also, sorry about missing your birthday McKinsey. That one's on me. Big weekend of birthdays coming up. So happy birthday. Enjoy your weekend to the following people. Leonard Williams, Derek Stingley, Trial Prior, Matt Flynn, Deren Sprolls, Fab Mellow,

Darko Milichich, Rampage Jackson, Dirk Lewinsky, Lou Garig, Quentin Jammer, Jake DeGrom, Macklemore, and Anthony Cam from the four answers. Nice. Hurry up. Love you guys.

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